Ben Shapiro is mad that kids like a cartoon dog, so his company The Daily Wire is debuting a right-wing alternative.
At this point, anything they call “the left” just seems like normal, rational, human-being stuff. Did nobody share their cookie with them in kindergarten? Are they still angry about that?
Opening the link in Chromium with no ad blockers, I get a “you’re using an ad blocker” popup that prevents me from seeing the article and can’t be closed (and, ironically, an ad loads behind the ad blocker message). Opening the link in Firefox with an ad blocker, I get no messages and I can read the article without ads. Genius.
E:
" “kids go to school for 40 hours a week and then they engage in pop culture for 40 more hours every week. That means for 80 hours of a child’s week, you are turning them over to the left.”
Huh… It’s exactly the same argument I heard from a left winger about the right wing. I’m wondering if it’s all bs and everyone is wrong and we should all just love one another and respect each other. Huh…
E: I just watched a couple minutes on YouTube. This show [the knock off one] has THE worst voice acting I think I’ve ever seen (even on children’s shows). The writing is also crap, which doesn’t help. Maybe it was just the clip and not the whole show, but I don’t think so. The makers of this show should be ashamed of themselves for publishing this. Cocomelon looks like Shakespeare when compared to chinchilla. Wth
E: this was the couple-minute clip I watched, if anyone’s interested.
I think the biggest thing is these people feel threatened. Blueys parents are better parents than they ever will be. All i can think k about is the episode Flatpack where bandit says, “I’m not taking advice from a cartoon dog”.
His parents are definitely better than me. There’s no way I can devote that much energy to parenting while holding a full time job. I wish I could, but that’s not the world we live in.
Here’s what I would like to see. Have Bluey do the same thing to the rip-off that Gumball did with its own copycat.
Amazing self-own admitting that the internet and public schools are your ideological enemies:
According to Boreing: “Kids go to school for 40 hours a week and then they engage in pop culture for 40 more hours every week. That means for 80 hours of a child’s week, you are turning them over to the left. A good parent might spend 15 minutes a day in meaningful conversation with their kids … A great parent might take their kid to church for one hour, or two hours, or three hours a week. The other 80, they’re watching Disney … they’re online … they’re in public schools.”
Even their non-political statements are political. I hate that some people don’t see through this shit:
In a video statement on Monday marking Bentkey’s launch, Boreing said: “Bentkey isn’t about teaching kids politics, it’s about childhood and wonder and adventure. It’s about values and all of the things on which politics are built later.”
Amazing self-own admitting that the internet and public schools are your ideological enemies
I mean, it’s totally a self own. The thing is though, republicans as a whole are putting forth a decades long concentrated effort to villify schools and schooling. They know that public exposure and education leads to left leaning opinions, even for kids raised in strictly right households, and even through the young adult phase into college.
The conversation has been so warped for republicans and their conservative base that what sounds like a self own to a regular person is just another truth. It doesn’t even sound strange to them.
So while it is a self own to anyone with a shred of sense, it’s also a terrifying sign of the times and a serious foundational threat for our young generation.
In case didn’t already hate Ben Shapiro by now, the dude hates Bluey
BLUEY
It really doesn’t get any sadder than this
This is what happens once conservative politics has degenerated to literally “I’m an asshole, and there’s nothing you can do about it”, to crude dominance displays, performative cruelty and rolling coal. Not that it was much better, but at least the assholery used to need some sort of high-minded, principled rationalisation, rather than being self-justifying.
