badposting
badposting is a comm where you post badly
This is not a !the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net alternative. This is not a !memes@hexbear.net alternative. This is a place for you to post your bad posts.
Ever had a really shitty bit idea? Joke you want to take way past the point of where it was funny? Want to feel like a stand-up comedy guy who's been bombing a set for the past 30 minutes straight and at this point is just saying shit to see if people react to it? Really bad pun? A homemade cringe concoction? A cognitohazard that you have birthed into this world and have an urge to spread like chain mail?
Rules:
- Do not post good posts.
- Unauthorized goodposting is to be punished in the manner of commenting the phrase "GOOD post" followed by an emoji that has not yet been used in the thread
- Use an emoticon/kaomoji/rule-three-abiding ASCII art if the rations run out
- This is not a comm where you direct people to other people's bad posts. This is a comm where you post badly.
- This rule intentionally left blank.
- If you're struck for rule 3, skill issue, not allowed to complain about it.
Code of Conduct applies just as much here as it does everywhere else. Technically, CoC violations are bad posts. On the other hand: L + ratio + get ~~better~~ worse material bozo
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This is a closed book test
Truthfully it is impossible if for no other reason than that you can't easily say what counts as "imperialist propaganda" or an "American movie or TV show" to begin with.
Like if Cats 101 puts stock Vaguely Middle Eastern flute music for 15 seconds in its Egyptian mau segment, does that count as imperialist propaganda? It exoticizes Ancient Egypt, playing into orientalist tropes that form part of the ideology of imperialism. Or does it not count as imperialist propaganda, because you're still learning about a country in the Global South, which could inspire further curiosity? Or do these things cancel each other out? Or does it depend on the viewer's personal interpretation as guided by their personality and circumstances? Does the depiction of domesticated carnivores and cat shows promote classism and speciesism and lay the seeds of white supremacy blood quantum shit, more cornerstones of the ideology of imperialism?
How about The Mythbusters? Does that count as imperialist propaganda because they don't do land acknowledgements for the Alameda Bomb Range? They made use of Miwok land without the permission of the Miwok people and present this as normal and fine. Hell, because that bomb range is located right next to a jail and the crew had to cooperate with the sheriff's office to use it, does that mean it's copaganda too? Another component of imperialist ideology? Or is there some revolutionary use for a TV show that gets young minds interested in ballistics and science in general? Or do these things cancel each other out, or does it depend on the individual viewer's interpretation as guided by their personality and circumstances?
There is imperialist propaganda everywhere for those with eyes to see. At the same time, you can never fully account for the dialectical relationship between the text and the audience.
Some of it can be easy to slide but watching tv often feels like an infuriating experience because a lot of it appears in plain sight and barely hidden at least for the casual tv-show/movie