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When everything is fake and we continue to believe it

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Submitted ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Mickey7@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Slight difference. When Trish Stratus Betrayed Chris Jericho, it didn’t cause me to lose health insurance.

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    • Theprogressivist@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But it did make me lose my mind as a kid. Fuck Christian.

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  • KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean, with wrestling that’s the whole point.

    You watch wrestling for the spectacle, the acrobatics, the drama. It’s literally entertainment, people don’t go to the theatre and feel disappointed because “it was scripted”. Besides, none of the stunts they pull are “fake”. They risk their body integrity and sometimes even their lives for entertainment.

    With politics, yeah, that’s fucked up

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    • RegalPotoo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Penn and Teller do a bit with a nail gun where Penn does a monologue about how they are magicians so there is obviously a trick, and that’s the point - they want the audience to come along and enjoy the show and watch them do things that seem dangerous, while knowing that even if something goes wrong they aren’t going to be complicit in someone getting hurt or killed by encouraging them to take those risks.

      Idk, not really relevant to what you said, but I think about that a lot

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    • plyth@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Reality TV and Wrestling are there to make people accept scripted realities. The whole point of wrestling is to fuck up politics.

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  • HerrVorragend@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh, I remember those times. People did NOT keep watching, as I recall it.

    Most felt betrayed and stupid and would never talk about it again.

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    • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Did Americans actually think they were for real? I feel like folks everywhere else understood it but evidently enjoyed the entertaining acrobatics! I guess voting for a rich reality TV star charlatan was definitely in the cards for the US, lol, they can’t tell reality from fiction anyway!

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  • Zexks@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Except I can’t be deported when shit goes sideways in wrestling. Politics affects you even if you don’t care or try to ignore it. Not so much with wrestling.

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well, with the mcmahon’s in trumps inner circle maybe this could change?

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Politics is show-business for ugly people.

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Electoral ones, yeah.

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  • DrDystopia@lemy.lol ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ignorance is bliss.

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No it’s just not being able to articulate or communicate your suffering

      If ignorance is bliss, why the shit do we keep getting fascism.

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  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Americans were culturally primed to nonchalantly accept the charade of their democratic processes.*

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Pressured to not throw away their vote maybe.

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  • burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    this meme makes no sense but everyone is gonna laugh at me for arguing with it

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  • trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Kayfabe Presidency is a fucking fantastic punk band name.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve got five words for you: Punk. Rock. Pro. Wrestling. Musical.

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  • jjmoldy@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When will the “erm, don’t you know wrestling is fake” people get it through their damn heads that it’s not fake it’s fictional! You don’t go up to someone watching a TV drama and start lecturing them about how it’s not real, do you???

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      It’s the same as watching a news source that for years swears to you that something is true and then quietly comes back and tells you that in fact it was not true. There is a long list of mainstream media “sorry we were only joking” incidents over the years. Yet people continue to watch never questioning whether or not they are being lied to .

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    • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think it’s either Americans who feel angry and betrayed because they actually thought Rey Mysterio was getting choked by Kane, and the other group of Americans who, because they had more than two working brain cells, understood it was just TV but is still annoyed by the first group’s antics.

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I do

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  • m3t00@piefed.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When people talk in 'all-star-wrestling' terminology, I stop listening. politics/news same.

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  • don@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When you’re invested in the kayfabe to such an extent that it completely defines the nature of your very identity and existence, the lie is made real, and the odds of you being successfully extracted and deprogrammed go ever distant with each passing moment.

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And then other get so disgusted by this that they say “oh I hate politics, don’t make this political” and disengage, demobilize And you end up with most of the population either kayfabe-dazzle of full demobilized and these two groups weigh more than anyone else in the raw number of voting bodies so that anyone trying to “do a democracy” is completely lost in the noise.

      And that’s how democracy dies, or rather how it died sometime in the time of Nixon and isn’t going to undie, it’s undead democracy, we have a “zombie democracy”, it’s still twitching, it still says

      “Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years, Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support any more!”

      And then it says

      “Ouf! Ouch! Owie! My bone spurs are giving me veinous insufficiency, I need a little time out”

      And just in time for Iron Man to come out and save the day with his “America Party”

      Funny how that works out.

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  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    Never has this meme held such relevance.

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  • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve been there since Clinton ruined Arsenio. Y’all have some reality checking to do.

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  • Nay@feddit.nl ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If we believe it’s fake then it is. The only way it would be real would be if more people would treat it as such.

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      The sad thing is that a percentage of people continue to believe nonsense as if they were part of a religion. That group is thankfully dwindling in numbers and more and more people are just tired of being lied to.

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  • WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We are there.

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  • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    3rd order simulation

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Anyone following this account's posts shouldn't be surprised to see these kind of posts mixed in especially with Trump's Epstein connections being at the forefront of American's minds right now.

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