New Reality TV Show That Sees immigrants Compete for US Citizenship Has Backing of Trump Administration: Report (www.yahoo.com)

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago

I wonder if John Brown had any idea how much blood wouldn't even come close to being enough

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

The amount of blood needed turned into a calculus problem where when you calculate it, you get a fancy form of infinity

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

taking the limit as blood tends toward infinity

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago

I have an alternate idea for a reality TV show: each season has twelve US billionaires and politicians starting a journey in Guatemala and their goal is to successfully cross the Mexican border with the US. But it's Running Man rules, so it's all live-fire and contestants can die. Surely their power and wealth comes from a great resourcefulness and capability, so I'm sure they'll be fine.

absolute-cinema

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

Can we get Jesse Ventura to host.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago

This is just proof to me that the big talent show creators know what they're doing. The goal has always been to demoralize workers, blame them for their poverty, and reward subservience. I really think rich people have class consciousness. Looking at the world from that height, like a dragon with a hoard, just makes it all click into place for them. Kinda like how domestic abusers don't need to be trained by experts to psychologically manipulate people, it just comes naturally to them.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

In their discussion of what the media theorist Nick Couldry calls its ‘theatre of cruelty’, Henry Giroux and Philip Mirowski, among many others, have have written extensively on neoliberalism’s sadistic culture, the increasingly open vilification of ‘losers’ and the crowing of and over ‘winners’. Swathes of mass entertainment celebrate physical agony (‘torture porn’), metaphorical ‘eviction’ (reality TV) and the punitive gaze at the desperate – leavened with the schmaltz that is its obverse. As Mirowski points out, in Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, it is not, of course, that ‘spectacles of cruelty’ are new, but that the theatre is ‘unabashed’, ‘has been made to seem so unexceptional’; and that in the context of neoliberalism it is doing something distinct. It serves, he says, ‘more targeted purposes [than distraction], such as teaching techniques optimised to reinforce the neoliberal self’.

(CW for SA, colonial atrocity, and war crime descriptions in the linked article)

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Great essay, the psychological side of neoliberalism needs a bigger spotlight.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A very good essay in terms of the ideas it conveys but unfortunately poorly written, very inaccessible on account of its overly pretentious language. Even most academically educated leftists are going to struggle to read a piece like this. This is the exactly the kind of language that we should not be using if we want to write for a broad audience. It comes across as the author trying to show off how many complex words they know and how many references to history and philosophy they can pack in without explaining any of them. It comes off elitist and off-putting. 9/10 for content, 1/10 for style.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

when our turn comes...

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

We may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

We're running out of excuses for the lack of terror

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

According to the pitch doc, proposed challenges include mining for gold in San Francisco, balancing logs in Wisconsin, rafting down a river in Colorado,

OK these sound like pretty stupid Survivor-style challenges...

and building a rocket for NASA in Florida.

What the fuck dude.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

We really do be living in the clown hell reality tv shoot your puppy for misbehaving timeline.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

always finding new ways to be complete monsters

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Ripping off the Mr. Beast classic "I'll give this poor person 10k if they can win this contest"