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Thanatosian posted:The whole show is a relentless indictment of capitalism. It's a loving polemic. The "relentless" indictment of capitalism in The Boys is all the tired superficial, obvious criticisms of superhero crap and capitalist mass culture in general that literally everybody has heard repeated thousand times over to the point that it has become so totally toothless that the capitalists have no problem coopting it and now monetize it into a safe, conformist package as yet another cultural commodity divorced from its political meaning.
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Len posted:Crocs sell charms to put in your clogs and allow you to finance them financing a four dollar pin
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steinrokkan posted:The "relentless" indictment of capitalism in The Boys is all the tired superficial, obvious criticisms of superhero crap and capitalist mass culture in general that literally everybody has heard repeated thousand times over to the point that it has become so totally toothless that the capitalists have no problem coopting it and now monetize it into a safe, conformist package as yet another cultural commodity divorced from its political meaning. I mean to be fair isn’t that all TV criticism of anything. you can be critical if anything on a tv show or music but in the end it doesn’t do anything
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CharlestheHammer posted:I mean to be fair isn’t that all TV criticism of anything. Yes, in other words it sucks.
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If this TV show doesn't literally change the world right now it sucks
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Shame Boy posted:LSD was the only drug that never ever gave me a bad trip or left me with awful side effects and it's like the only one I still wish I could do again now as a Responsible Adult but I don't know any cool kids with connections and I sure as hell am not gonna buy A Bitcoin your reasoning is weird, lsd is too awesome to quit because you want to keep your bitcoin virginity
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The Boys is more a parody of commercialism and commodification than of capitalism as a system
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Mechafunkzilla posted:The Boys is more a parody of commercialism and commodification than of capitalism as a system yeah it’s more about how in the real world superheroes would be cash cows. it’s a fun idea but ultimately frivolous. which is fine you shouldnt invest to hard in the idea your entertainment is world changing. you can’t consume your way to a better world
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CharlestheHammer posted:you can’t consume your way to a better world
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It normalizes the idea of 'the rot behind the facade.' If, for some reason, you want to judge a TV show as a form of activism then I think that's the angle. We keep hiring career criminals to elected offices then acting surprised at the results.
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Only saw the first episode of the second season of the boys. But they went heavy on product placement that I don’t remember from season 1. Dude gets offered a can of fresco, the camera cut to a tight frame of the can before the guy takes it. Not sure how anti-capitalist it can be when it’s shilling Coca Cola products in a way so blatant it reminded me of the Pepsi product placement gag from Wayne’s World.
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i mean it's associating fresca with a cult, but product placement operates mostly on "all advertising is good advertising" principles so you may have a point there
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typically product placement is just it exists clearly in frame. a lot of the time it doesn’t actually have anything to do with what’s happening. and that’s subtle product placement
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CharlestheHammer posted:typically product placement is just it exists clearly in frame. this explains my sudden urge to check out Ben Shapiro's podcast (I'm assuming he has a podcast)
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Failed Imagineer posted:this explains my sudden urge to check out Ben Shapiro's podcast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ben_Shapiro_Show
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lol the boys shills a loving soft drink! what a subversive show produced by BezosCorp
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its a comic book movie lmao
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Schools in England told not to use anti-capitalist material in teaching DfE categorises idea as ‘extreme political stance’ equating to endorsing illegal activity
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it's too bad that regular people without super powers can't be heroes
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Shifty Nipples posted:it's too bad that regular people without super powers can't be heroes they can if they're capitalists
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Whats the comic where batman winks at a fireman and a pig and says you too are superheroes E: might have been superman I'm not into that nerd poo poo 
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<cspamposter> comic books are Bourgeoisie propaganda enjoyed only by the scions of the powerful or those most pathetic of the proles, those that worship wealth. no superhero comic will survive the Revolution comrades </cspamposter>
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i'm still mad they did love sausage dirty anyway, sometimes it's ok to enjoy things and not expect everything to be advancing the cause vOv
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The Fresca thing is overtly there to lampoon sobriety cults. In universe the church probably has a brand deal with Fresca.
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my boss sent me an email from his iphone and included this sentence "There are several itme sI would kike for ust ot discuss" how many millions of dollars am i entitled to? i am jewish
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Fresca is the minivan of sodas.
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The Nastier Nate posted:my boss sent me an email from his iphone and included this sentence unfortunately it looks like he could clearly employ the I Am Actually Literally Stupid defense in court, sorry
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Been developing my legal defense online for years. Officer, this woman is clearly incapable of anything but posting and so did not in fact steal the golden gate bridge and ransom it.
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If you arrest me you have to acknowledge that you've been false advertising this whole time because it's neither made of gold nor an actual gate. Your move, government  ... WHY AM I BEING DETAINED
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https://twitter.com/codehawkfalcon/status/1310662531531194368?s=19
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T-man posted:Been developing my legal defense online for years. Officer, this woman is clearly incapable of anything but posting and so did not in fact steal the golden gate bridge and ransom it. are you carmen sandiego?
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Sgt. Fred Colon is my mortal enemy
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It's scummy that you are using Uber at all if you have basically any other option than "rideshare"
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The Bloop posted:It's scummy that you are using Uber at all if you have basically any other option than "rideshare" bad news
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lol amazing nature has it online accessible for free that is some prime rent seeking
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it isn't a viable option to carry out research but if there's a single article you're interested in just email the author directly and ask them to send it to you
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Academic publishing is some scummy poo poo in general. Universities have their researchers do all the research, whereupon other researchers use their time to verify them. Then the publisher prints it out puts it online. For this universities pay the publishers, and we're not talking pennies. It looks like there is a change coming, but for now we have a couple of large publishing companies basically sucking money out of research, with the added benefit of making it less available.
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T-man posted:
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