will they do a sketch about US prison labor? or one mentioning the actual genocide happening right now, being perpetrated with bombs and guns? will they do a sketch talking about Nike or american companies using forced labor? nope.

death to AmeriKKKa

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SNL have been good little genocide enablers, but a couple weeks ago on Weekend Update, during a joke about Biden saying he wouldn’t send in National Guard troops to clear university encampments, Michael Che quipped, “I’m just glad to see him not send military aid somewhere.”

Complete crickets in the studio.

I’m not a huge fan of Che as a comedian, but his shocked reaction to the absolute silence in the studio made it one of the funniest moments I’ve seen on the show in years.

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Found it, about 1:50

https://youtu.be/1vU5EajhfBU?

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31 points

Or maybe the studio laughed but they edited it out

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I wouldn’t doubt it for a second. The video JoeByeThen shared has some scattered laughs that I didn’t remember from the version I saw. It could be one was from dress and the other from the live show, but editing out laughs is just as likely for sure.

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Not gonna watch that but if the “joke” is that the “Uyghur genocide” is enabled by fast fashion… the actual reality is that fast fashion is 110% pure capitalism that depends on workers in places like Bangladesh living in conditions similar to what Engels described in The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844.

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I can guarantee you that nobody who still watches Saturday Night Live has read a non-young-adult-fiction book in the past 10 years.

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I side-eye tf out of socialists who still watch shit like SNL cause like there’s infinite amounts of content on the internet and you choose this?

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What about Americas funniest home videos. I’ll never understand how that’s still watched.

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cause like there’s infinite amounts of content on the internet and you choose this?

Every time I admit I like some YT comedian on here I get 20 people calling me a Lib for it.

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Someone needs to keep an eye on wretched Lib shit.

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wrong. my parents. their parents.

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We don’t even have to see outside of the US. The DoD uses prison labor to make uniforms which are made at a surplus to sell to the public. You’d be surprised by the stuff the prison system makes in your life.

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Ok but just because we constitutionally allow slavery doesn’t mean we’re Chinese which makes anything we do 100% times worse.

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To claim that fast fashion is harmful to workers and then perpetuate the myth that those workers are unskilled is ridiculous. China is home to some of the most skilled clothing artisans in the world and it’s indeed very possible to buy affordable clothes from there where the workers having a higher purchasing power parity than the median American.

To claim that fast fashion is part of overconsumption and then perpetuate the myth that all cheap clothes fall apart after a single use is ridiculous. The rag houses are fucking overflowing and most second hand shops are inundated with clothes they will never sell. These clothes are lasting long enough to reach the landfills and then some.

Meanwhile, LA is notorious for its clothing sweat shops full of human trafficking victims. I’m not saying exploitative labor doesn’t exist in China. But this shit is such a racist double standard.

Anyone who is able should be buying most of their clothes second hand, anyway.

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To claim that fast fashion is part of overconsumption and then perpetuate the myth that all cheap clothes fall apart after a single use is ridiculous.

Fast fashion is part of overconsumption. The garments could last millennia of use, it doesn’t matter the quality, it’s still true. You don’t need to buy a new outfit every week. If you think you do, you’ve been propagandized.

Buy new clothes when your clothes are ratty and no more, few exceptions. Anyone who says otherwise is promoting consumerism.

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They’re saying fast fashion is part of overconsumption but that SNL undermines this point by making it seem like cheap clothes immediately fall apart.

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Yeah, they really missed the point if they thought I was promoting fast fashion

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Meanwhile, LA is notorious for its clothing sweat shops full of human trafficking victims.

The garment district is…something else.

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Yeah the timing on this is super sus. The Uyghur allegations are stale news at this point, trying to run interference for the genocide being signed off on by the western “rules-based international order.”

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“even ones with wrong religion” wtf do the SNL writers think the right religion is for the CPC?

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“if it were would you stop buying it?” What are the odds someone in the writers’ room has a sodastream?

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100%

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This episode is brought to you by pepsi, a Yum! Brands subsidiary, yummers!

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Pure projection. Western society forces Christianity on others, so obviously the bad guys do it too.

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Same with that Han supremacy nonsense

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