Cardiac Arrest

  • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    19 days ago

    You know you’re in the right communities when Hulk Hogan dies and everyone says “fuck that guy”.

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      It’s almost like if you want to be remembered fondly, you have to not be a piece of shit while you’re alive.

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        I don’t really know all too much about ozzy to be honest. His movie was a big part of my life and i saw him live 3 times. From his private life i only known from what i saw in the handful of episodes of his reality show i saw back in the day and some snippets and fun facts.

        But it’s so funny to me that ozzy osbourne, the king of darkness, the person that uptight americans feared like the anti christ himself turned put to be the nice wholesome guy that people are really bummed out that he died.

        Meanwhile, mr. Say your prayers eat your vegetables, truth justice and the american way of life. Loved by every flag wearing brainwashed idiot, turned out to be a massive piece of shit, racist asshole and people just don’t care and piss on his grave.

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      19 days ago

      I never understood wrestling. Even as a child I couldn’t wrap my head around it. I didn’t get what was so fucking amazing to my friends about watching people put on a stageplay and pretend to hit each other in a ring while wearing tights. It seemed cheesy, boring and unexciting.

      My friends ate it up, they were screaming at the TV. I tried to tell them it was fake and they got mad. I was boggled how people couldn’t tell it was fake. There was a Hulk Hogan cartoon in the 80’s, I loved cartoons but I was still boggled what was going on with wrestlers being so popular. The cartoon was boring and substandard, even to a child.

      Fast-forward a buncha decades and here we are, a whole world of people shouting at the TV and getting exciting over theatrical bullshit presented in overtly fake ways for people to mindlessly cheer or jeer at their favorite heroes and villains… except now it’s the goddamn federal government.

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        I used to say all the same until, likely related, the relatively recent growth of John Cena’s film career. We know wrestling is fake. We know Twoicide Squad is fake. That doesn’t stop me from talking about the cool things Peacemaker does, so why should I police other people talking about wrestling events? Plus, after seeing live wrestling, it’s genuinely entertaining to watch as a sports/dance event. Note: I have zero interest in mma/boxing/etc and really don’t watch sports anyway.

        People watch plays. People watch concerts. People watch sports. People watch wrestling. It’s just entertainment

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          It’s just entertainment

          Until the people who profit off making fake things seem real use the same tactics to shape policy and undermine democracy. For that matter, some of the very same people who produced the cognitive dissonance of wrestling went on to produce political campaigns, blurring that line in uneducated viewers’ minds further.

          I’m not saying you can’t enjoy wrestling or whatever media you like, as long as you understand how entertainment works and that it’s not even a reflection of reality, much less an actual narrative. That’s the difference I’m talking about here, if you know that difference, you need not worry, go have fun.

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            I’m not talking about what the individuals go on to say from their personal capacities. I’m talking about a reality TV show where men pretend to beat each other up. Or am I out of the loop and wrestlemania is now part of the campaign trail?

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              Not saying its the same, or that your wrong. I just couldn’t help but think how that’s how Fox News can do what it does and is (at least was from what I remember) the highest rated channel in the US because its clearly not the news, it’s an entertainment program.

              Sorry if my brief comment lead you to believe otherwise.

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          Our species thrives on narratives, if you could fashion a narrative that pulls in enough people you can literally change the world.

          I am pulling my face off here wondering where our better stories are, where the master storytellers for progress and equality are hiding.

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    The only Hulk I’ll mourn is who I thought he was when I was a kid. I already lost that Hulk years ago though.

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      I hear ya buddy. I idolised the ground he walked on when I knew nothing about the world except pizza, wrestling and school.

      It’s a real world heel turn young me never would have thought possible.

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    19 days ago

    “Funny how the actors who play villains are often the nicest people in real life—it’s the ones who play the heroes you have to watch out for.”

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    19 days ago

    The world lost a legendary entertainer, someone who played an integral part of my childhood and helped develop my taste in the arts.

    God bless you, Ozzy Osbourne.

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      18 days ago

      It’s hours til lunchtime here, but I’m meeting an old friend for brunch. I’ve been having to watch my cholesterol recently, but I’ve decided that eating out doesn’t count - I am very much looking forward to it, sausages, bacon, and eggs will be involved.

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      Oh shit, I missed this one. This is so sad. Seems he died trying to keep his daughter afloat after a rip current dragged them out to sea.