• m3t00@piefed.world
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    1 hour ago

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

  • KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol
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    4 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

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

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

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    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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      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.

  • jjmoldy@lemmy.world
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    5 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???

  • Nay@feddit.nl
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    5 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.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world
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    6 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.