Except I can’t be deported when shit goes sideways in wrestling. Politics affects you even if you don’t care or try to ignore it. Not so much with wrestling.
Well, with the mcmahon’s in trumps inner circle maybe this could change?
Deported straight out of the ring! That’s gotta hurt!
Ignorance is bliss.
No it’s just not being able to articulate or communicate your suffering
If ignorance is bliss, why the shit do we keep getting fascism?
When will the “erm, don’t you know wrestling is fake” people get it through their damn heads that it’s not fake it’s fictional! You don’t go up to someone watching a TV drama and start lecturing them about how it’s not real, do you???
It’s the same as watching a news source that for years swears to you that something is true and then quietly comes back and tells you that in fact it was not true. There is a long list of mainstream media “sorry we were only joking” incidents over the years. Yet people continue to watch never questioning whether or not they are being lied to .
I do
I think it’s either Americans who feel angry and betrayed because they actually thought Rey Mysterio was getting choked by Kane, and the other group of Americans who, because they had more than two working brain cells, understood it was just TV but is still annoyed by the first group’s antics.
Americans were culturally primed to nonchalantly accept the charade of their democratic processes.*
Pressured to not throw away their vote maybe.
I hope people will understand that two dude breaking chairs on each other’s back while doing ballet is slightly different than senile clowns pushing half the population of a country into a grinder.
When you’re invested in the kayfabe to such an extent that it completely defines the nature of your very identity and existence, the lie is made real, and the odds of you being successfully extracted and deprogrammed go ever distant with each passing moment.
And then other get so disgusted by this that they say “oh I hate politics, don’t make this political” and disengage, demobilize And you end up with most of the population either kayfabe-dazzle of full demobilized and these two groups weigh more than anyone else in the raw number of voting bodies so that anyone trying to “do a democracy” is completely lost in the noise.
And that’s how democracy dies, or rather how it died sometime in the time of Nixon and isn’t going to undie, it’s undead democracy, we have a “zombie democracy”, it’s still twitching, it still says
“Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years, Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support any more!”
And then it says
“Ouf! Ouch! Owie! My bone spurs are giving me veinous insufficiency, I need a little time out”
And just in time for Iron Man to come out and save the day with his “America Party”
Funny how that works out.
Wonder how many people remember the decade of the real cults. They would prey on young adults and basically turn them into slaves to support the “dear leader” of the group. And once indoctrinated, no one including their close friends and family could ever convince them that they were being used by charlatans. The only way to free them was to actually hire a “deprogrammer” which was a guy who knew how to finally show them reality. We have too much of the same charlatans today and those who promote them. And the result is zombie like behavior where even if something is good for you personally you reject it because that’s what the cult tells you to do.
Wow I need to learn to be a deprogrammer.
Never has this meme held such relevance.
Slight difference. When Trish Stratus Betrayed Chris Jericho, it didn’t cause me to lose health insurance.
But it did make me lose my mind as a kid. Fuck Christian.
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When people talk in ‘all-star-wrestling’ terminology, I stop listening. politics/news same.
If we believe it’s fake then it is. The only way it would be real would be if more people would treat it as such.
The sad thing is that a percentage of people continue to believe nonsense as if they were part of a religion. That group is thankfully dwindling in numbers and more and more people are just tired of being lied to.
I’ve been there since Clinton ruined Arsenio. Y’all have some reality checking to do.
As far as I could find, the origin of this quote seems to be David Sutcliffe who posted it to Old Twitter on April 8, 2020.
But AEW and WWE are entertaining…there’s nothing really entertaining in current politics or media.
Anger is worth more than mere entertainment in the attention economy…
But there is! Infotainment. It’s way more engaging than regular news or just dramas. It’s just not the good touch.
“Entertaining” doesn’t apply exclusively to pleasant things. Politics and media are extremely entertaining right now. They used to be very boring.
Being boring didn’t make them any less harmful to those not of the chosen few.
Sure, but we weren’t assessing harm.
