If these comments are any indicator, it’s working perfectly.
Yep. Hard to admit our reactions are their manipulations. Everyone things everyone but them is the puppet.
Just because it’s a manipulation doesn’t mean it’s always avoidable, though. Like Lex Luthor manipulates Superman by putting Lois Lane’s life in danger. Letting Lois die isn’t typically a real option. He’s got no choice but to play the game because he’s a moral person.
Are we supposed to just let LGBTQ people die so we can make inroads on the class war? I don’t like it, but that’s not a real option either.
If we win the culture war, then we can focus all our efforts on the class war. If we abandon the culture war, we lose our allies and betray our principles and become weaker in the class war.
Ok, but one of those people will assault you if they think you’re using the wrong bathroom.
Only because they are a puppet, look at whose pulling the strings. (The right wing progaganda networks)
this cartoon implies that liberal and progressive citizens are equally responsible for the lack of attention to the owner class, when they’re the only ones criticizing and trying to rein in the 1% while at the same time trying to defend against incessant attacks on pretty much every part of their identity from the bleating moron maga lemmings
liberal
trying to rein in the 1%
Choose only one. Liberals are those that subscribe to capitalism. You cannot be against the bourgeois while being for capitalism. It is contradictory.
You cannot ever get folks on our side using words like ‘bourgeois’.
How about “owning class”?
It’s a good start, but I’d go with ‘owners’ and occasionally stress, ‘all owners.’
People respect plain speaking, and suspect convoluted speaking. If we want to win folks over, plain speaking is the way.
Drag owns a toothbrush. Drag isn’t a member of the owning class, but drag is in the most literal sense an “owner”. Drag recognises you’re using a technical definition of a common term, but drag doesn’t think liberals will understand. They’ll see your language as convoluted.
Reminder: No one gave the slightest fuck about women’s sports until the masses realized transpeople weren’t just a “funny joke” in a 80’s sex comedy.
Women’s basketball has exploded in the last few years, in large part because the NBA is finally seeing it as a money-maker on par with the men’s pro-League. Same with women’s soccer.
A lot of this has to do with sports, as a broad category of entertainment, still producing the kind of returns that legacy media - movies, tv serials, live music - struggle to replicate. A lot more has to do with women as an “untapped” demographic for the sports media industry. And then the pivot to Streaming means you get extra value from a continuous fresh series of live events with relatively low production costs (just like with reality TV).
I might argue that the trans-panic around women’s sports is a direct consequence of this huge new effort to commodify the franchise. Trans-rights runs up against the specter of performance enhancing drugs in athletics, giving both state officials and league owners an excuse to aggressively regulate and censor their athletes.
Wait… “Performance enhancing drugs” was a sham?
The concern-trolling over it was. Abuse continues to be rampant in professional (and amateur) athletics. Reporting tends to either fixate on the Bad Countries Cheating or explode into a “Last year’s players cheated! This won’t happen again!” moral panic after too many high profile athletes start succumbing to symptoms of chronic misuse.
Trans-athletes (and maliciously accused cis-athletes) get swept up in both. You’re either “cheating” by having the wrong set of chromosomes or you’re accused of cheating because you don’t look Trad enough.
I know that they found Lance Armstrong was cheating simply because everyone else in the Tour De France was too and they knew it wasn’t possible for him to have won fairly if they cheated and still lost. So they mass-reported him for dosing, testing him to “prove” he wasn’t, and found he was.
I hate people with no self-awareness. Like if you’re cheating too, don’t say shit.
I know that they found Lance Armstrong was cheating simply because everyone else in the Tour De France was too and they knew it wasn’t possible for him to have won fairly if they cheated and still lost.
I believe he was able to disguise some of his performance enhancement behind his chemotherapy, which is why he so drastically improved after coming back from testicular cancer.
I hate people with no self-awareness. Like if you’re cheating too, don’t say shit.
No point in staying silent if you still lose. Time to throw the front-runner under the bus and make way for the rest of the cheats.
