• F/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
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    Don’t give the Pauls any attention, their brand hinges upon being highly visible heels, so any attention is a net positive. They got their start by hiring a PR firm to spread the idea that they are pieces of shit. Now they’re making millions off of society’s collected hate.

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    Jon Stewart called the US the Jake Paul of countries after trying to pick fights with Greenland and Canada.

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        Yes, but she’s quoting it, which suggests that the weirdo said it, but that’s not in the screenshot.

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          Not only is it quoted, but the added context also suggests someone said they weren’t American, perhaps. My guess is it’s a reply to a self-reply since that whole site is still stupidly designed.

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      I have the same question, I don’t see it anywhere except where she put it in quotes.

      I don’t doubt one bit that smooth brain chud jake would say it but quoting something thats not actually in the tweet being responded to is just confusing.

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    It’s so crazy to see the fucking Super Bowl Half-Time Show end up on the liberal’s side of the culture war.

    The event that’s historically been book-ended by ads to sell bitcoins to your pension panicked parents and marine enlistment to your chud failkids is sending MAGA-World into a tailspin?

    What’s next? Will professional wrestling go woke?

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      Not so confusing when you define liberal in its original political terms. Technically there’s nothing more liberal than engaging in ethically ruthless free market trading while also engaging in cultural virtue signaling.

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        Not so confusing when you define liberal in its original political terms.

        I would go so far as to call the NFL reactionary, rather than just liberal.

        Technically there’s nothing more liberal than engaging in ethically ruthless free market trading while also engaging in cultural virtue signaling.

        I don’t think belting out “Lo Que Le Paso a Hawaii” is an expression of support for ruthless free market trading, though.

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          call the NFL reactionary, rather than just liberal.

          I don’t know, I mean there really is no previous state of political system that would really benefit the NFL moreso than the modern day liberal government. You can have all the benefits of having a simulacrum of a slave market without all the hassle of needing to run a slave state.

          don’t think belting out “Lo Que Le Paso a Hawaii” is an expression of support for ruthless free market trading, though.

          No, the liberal aspect is paying someone to belt out “Lo Que Le Paso a Hawaii” while vicariously partaking in the economic colonization of a state like Hawaii.

          The benefit of engaging in political liberalism is that you can do both. Coca-Cola can make advertisements that sell the virtues of Latin culture, gleefully gobbling up the market shares in Mexico. While also paying mercenaries to kill union leaders in Colombia.

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            I mean there really is no previous state of political system that would really benefit the NFL moreso than the modern day liberal government.

            Economically, sure. But you could say the same thing about golf. Hasn’t stopped the Saudis from gobbling up the PGA.

            The ownership model for the NFL is borderline aristocratic. The management of the franchises is a barely-regulated monopoly. The players themselves are well compensated serfs. I would not call the operation of the league “liberal” in the economic sense.

            No, the liberal aspect is paying someone to belt out “Lo Que Le Paso a Hawaii” while vicariously partaking in the economic colonization of a state like Hawaii.

            We’re getting dangerously close to

            The benefit of engaging in political liberalism is that you can do both.

            The benefits of political liberalism accrue to the capital class, not the labor class. This performance was an expression of, by, and for the labor class. Specifically, the colonized people of Puerto Rico.

            I guess you can argue everything on broadcast TV is just liberalism, because broadcast TV is a privatized commodity. But then you’re arguing propaganda doesn’t influence the public. At which point, you have to wonder why anyone is paying so much for the Superbowl ad space.

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              Economically, sure. But you could say the same thing about golf. Hasn’t stopped the Saudis from gobbling up the PGA.

              Economically was what I was specifying. Liberalism as a political ideology is inseparable from free market capitalism.

              The ownership model for the NFL is borderline aristocratic. The management of the franchises is a barely-regulated monopoly.

              Again, that’s pretty much in line with virtually all liberal governments. There’s a reason the founding fathers created a bicameral Congress with the Senate serving as an aristocratic guiding hand.

              I would not call the operation of the league “liberal” in the economic sense.

              I think we are still conflating the political definition of Liberal (the political idea first put forth by John Locke), with the word liberal (open minded).

              The benefits of political liberalism accrue to the capital class, not the labor class. This performance was an expression of, by, and for the labor class. Specifically, the colonized people of Puerto Rico.

              The performance was allowed because the capital class who own and operates the NFL benefit from “woke washing” their business. If this didn’t ultimately benefit the NFL, they wouldn’t have hired him to play the show. Ultimately it serves to protect their image and helps taps into a vastly growing demographic.

              guess you can argue everything on broadcast TV is just liberalism, because broadcast TV is a privatized commodity.

              Yes.

              But then you’re arguing propaganda doesn’t influence the public. At which point, you have to wonder why anyone is paying so much for the Superbowl ad space.

              I never argued that propaganda doesn’t influence the public, quite the opposite. My argument was that corporations don’t really care how moral the system they promote is so long as it doesn’t negatively impact their bottom line. They are more than willing to mouth that they care about imperialism, or throw support imperialism depending on how they think it will moderate their profits.

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      Will professional wrestling go woke?

      considering how welcoming professional wrestling’s audience is toward people with special needs, they already are.

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    Listen, I’m not saying that this guy deserves to be hit with a hockey stick every day. However anyone does do it will they be my hero.

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    He just pulled the “my account was hached” excuse. Conservatives are such cowards. Everybody knows you’re a bunch of racist losers guys. I’ll give a 1% respect bump ( going from O% to 1%) to the ones that won’t be hypocrite about it.