“Oh your boss threatening to fire you is ‘like communism’”
“I listen to guys who are forced to work on weekends say that it’s like communism”
“Is your giant multinational company communist?”
[audience laughs]
“Does your CEO have a portrait of Stalin in his office? Do your kids read Karl Marx in school”
[laughter]
“I mean, really, are we [pause] not living in a capitalist country?”
“People keep pointing out child poverty here and say it’s like North Korea. Have you been to the DPRK? Can you really say that the stuff you see daily is going on in the competing social system you know nothing about?”
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During the height of the pandemic, I heard a coworker complaining about the mask mandates. She said (to a security guard, no less);
“You know what they’re doing? They’re trying to take away our human rights! Like they do in Russia! Or wherever it is The Communists are these days.”
She was our union steward.
I’m a contractor, but I worked heavily with a Union Steward at my last place (unrelated to union affairs) and she was heavy into Q-anon stuff. Adrenochrome and the whole 9 yards, all day was just constant commentary from her various telegram groups. She retired during the covid layoffs, the whole warehouse breathed a sigh of relief.
Ya Seinfeld is a gross human being, and I’m happy when people get reminders that the rich are soulless scum. Post on.
Honestly the brains behind the most of the comedy in Seinfeld is Larry David, who either wrote about his own personal experiences getting into absurd situations he finds himself in, as an extremely wealthy and privileged guy that I’m 99% certain is an undiagnosed autistic - hence the constant social faux pas, or he’s exaggerating those experiences and writing about what he would do in hypothetical situations and the fallout from his inevitable gaffes.
If you’ve ever watched Curb Your Enthusiasm, starring David himself, it’s like a more mature version of Seinfeld except that he’s a combination of the Seinfeld and George characters.
I would say that Julia Louis-Dreyfus was probably ahead of her time as an actress on that show in a lot of ways. I grew up with Sienfield in some capacity or another, never really got it as a show until I watched it stoned and then it was kind of funny but I was stoned. The fact that none of the characters are meant to be likeable, I can see where it could be seen as being a parody show or maybe a meta-sitcom, so to speak, since it was “a show about nothing”.
It’s humour for the ultra privileged, where a dude pressing the lift button twice or having to make random small talk is the worst thing imaginable.
This is just a shot in the dark, but I’m getting Woody Allen “OMG it’s hard to be rich and creepy in NY” vibes from the show.
In the grand scheme, it almost doesn’t register. Dude was at least seriously dating her, rather than just perving on teenagers working at a strip club or outright raping them on some private airplane.
Its almost quaint to imagine this as scandalous given the bar for celebrities.
Motherfucker I literally heard some idiot small business tyrant say something is ‘like communism’ in the last hour.
And this isn’t the first time this happened for me on hexbear! I think of something or something happens to me, then boom it’s on hexbear.
Have you fuckers bugged my phone? :owl-pissed:
@Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net broke into my apt and shit on the carpet last night too.
No, see. When a capitalist country does something shitty, and it’s something that nearly all capitalist countries do poorly, it’s socialism. For example: low wages, hunger, mass depression and suicide, environmental devastation, these are all clear examples of Karl Marx’s grand design. But when it’s something that your country does sorta well but socialist states do way better, that is capitalism. I’m thinking of state hospitals, schooling, scientific research, protection of minority peoples, and women’s rights. These are things that are so capitalist that they would make Stalin shake with rage.
