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[–] 176 points 2 years ago (16 children)

The Boys has a lot of super creepy right-wingers who idolize the fascist characters in the show, totally oblivious that the show is making fun of them and those characters.

It's super weird that they're that dumb, but combined with that is just how weird and disturbing they are as people because of that.

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    That's actually incredible. It was extremely obvious they were taking the piss out of the right... Kind of alarming if that wasn't picked up on by some

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    These are the same folk who think the Colbert Report wasn't satire or get upset that wolfenstein's Twitter account promoted a new game about killing Nazis (all the wolfenstein games are about killing nazis).

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago

    Being oblivious to reality is a feature of Republicanism.

    Take rights away from 50% of the population, be surprised that the vast majority of women don't like rights being taken away.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    As a matter of fact, satire does not work. Fascists will idolize the fascists in satire, always. It feels like satire only works with people who already have an education about the dangers of fascism.

    In the broken mind of a fascist, satire is actually a kind of utopia. It's how the world is supposed to be in their twisted ideals.

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    [–] 113 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Without reading the article, they wanted her breast milk, didn't they.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Holy fucking lol what

    ^i have never watched this show and have no context at all for this information^

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    the whole shows premise is to make you go "Holy fucking lol what" pretty much when they push new extremes every episods

    but despite that its actually very good

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It is very good, but they crossed the line for me, and I stopped watching. I'm not sure when it was crossed. I think it was s03e01 when they were running around inside of a human asshole, and then turned a person into little meaty bits all over the room. But I finished the season somehow. When another season was announced, I decided not to watch it. I do enjoy the show, but I don't enjoy feeling like my eyes and brain have been violated every other episode.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I only ever saw the first episode and hated the guy whose girlfriend is run over. The whole character rubbed me the wrong way and I couldn't care for him at all despite the show trying to make me care. The star light lady that was the only thing that got me, where I was like I hope she will be fine. But it wasn't enough for me to commit to watching more.

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    [–] 96 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    “I know people saw a character that I played do some really extreme things on The Boys and I don’t care if you’re in costume, I don’t care if you’re in character – it’s not OK and it’s not funny to demand those things from me in person at my booth. It’s not OK.”

    “Frankly, to the person who did that repeatedly today, I made it pretty clear that it wasn’t OK and that only seemed to make this person and their friend angry. I didn’t think this needed to be explained but I was deeply uncomfortable – it was quite clear I was uncomfortable.”

    Homelander cosplayers, huh? Who would've thought about that...

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Feels like this sort of behavior is the kind of thing that should get you instantly booted from the con, and have your badge revoked, and have you flagged to never be allowed to return to the con, and hell let's just go ahead and give your information to all the other cons that keep such records so they know not to issue you a badge ever again, either. Cons are supposed to be safe and joyful places. If you violate that compact, there should be no compromise.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Quick note that I see the article is from PinkNews, who have recently had a large number of former staff come out against their leadership for transphobia, ableism, racism, misogyny, and an incredibly toxic workplace culture. This includes recordings of Cohen saying stuff that frankly promotes this sort of fan behaviour.

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