“Oh your boss threatening to fire you is ‘like communism’”
“I listen to guys who are forced to work on weekends say that it’s like communism”
“Is your giant multinational company communist?”
[audience laughs]
“Does your CEO have a portrait of Stalin in his office? Do your kids read Karl Marx in school”
[laughter]
“I mean, really, are we [pause] not living in a capitalist country?”
“People keep pointing out child poverty here and say it’s like North Korea. Have you been to the DPRK? Can you really say that the stuff you see daily is going on in the competing social system you know nothing about?”
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During the height of the pandemic, I heard a coworker complaining about the mask mandates. She said (to a security guard, no less);
“You know what they’re doing? They’re trying to take away our human rights! Like they do in Russia! Or wherever it is The Communists are these days.”
She was our union steward.
Grim.
I’m a contractor, but I worked heavily with a Union Steward at my last place (unrelated to union affairs) and she was heavy into Q-anon stuff. Adrenochrome and the whole 9 yards, all day was just constant commentary from her various telegram groups. She retired during the covid layoffs, the whole warehouse breathed a sigh of relief.
I’ve been looking for an opportunity to post this old screenshot.
Ya Seinfeld is a gross human being, and I’m happy when people get reminders that the rich are soulless scum. Post on.
Also he’s never been funny. I have seen posts from younger people that thought his Seinfeld bits in the show were parodies of bad 90s comedy.
I should add that a lot of Seinfeld is funny, but that’s due to people who aren’t Seinfeld.
Honestly the brains behind the most of the comedy in Seinfeld is Larry David, who either wrote about his own personal experiences getting into absurd situations he finds himself in, as an extremely wealthy and privileged guy that I’m 99% certain is an undiagnosed autistic - hence the constant social faux pas, or he’s exaggerating those experiences and writing about what he would do in hypothetical situations and the fallout from his inevitable gaffes.
If you’ve ever watched Curb Your Enthusiasm, starring David himself, it’s like a more mature version of Seinfeld except that he’s a combination of the Seinfeld and George characters.
W-what? The Seinfeld bits weren’t parodies?
It’s humour for the ultra privileged, where a dude pressing the lift button twice or having to make random small talk is the worst thing imaginable.
This is just a shot in the dark, but I’m getting Woody Allen “OMG it’s hard to be rich and creepy in NY” vibes from the show.
I admittedly haven’t watched it in a very long time.
In the grand scheme, it almost doesn’t register. Dude was at least seriously dating her, rather than just perving on teenagers working at a strip club or outright raping them on some private airplane.
Its almost quaint to imagine this as scandalous given the bar for celebrities.
what’s the deal with the bourgeoisie?
They don’t make anything. Why do they own everything?
it seems that anything bad = communism/socialism
i remember a conversation last year about relocating to canada, and someone said, “no don’t move there. the wages are bad because it’s a socialist country”
uh ok
employers taking advantage of workers is definitely socialism and not because the capitalist system is working as intendedNo, see. When a capitalist country does something shitty, and it’s something that nearly all capitalist countries do poorly, it’s socialism. For example: low wages, hunger, mass depression and suicide, environmental devastation, these are all clear examples of Karl Marx’s grand design. But when it’s something that your country does sorta well but socialist states do way better, that is capitalism. I’m thinking of state hospitals, schooling, scientific research, protection of minority peoples, and women’s rights. These are things that are so capitalist that they would make Stalin shake with rage.
Lmao were basically 4 capitalist monopolies in a trench coat
People love to say “democratic socialist” but we have way to many far right provinces and plutocrats in power
Because it is easy comedy for an American audience. I knew the second that the Washington Redactedskins changed their name to the Washington Commanders there would be a million ‘Commie’ jokes, and I was not disappointed. The worst part about them is that they aren’t even good, just the same joke over and over and over again.
The worst part about them is that they aren’t even good, just the same joke over and over and over again.
A huge % of Americans are basically NPCs who haven’t had an independent thought since childhood. The education system, media, culture is all designed around getting people to think as little as possible.
A huge % of Americans are basically NPCs who haven’t had an independent thought since childhood. The education system, media, culture is all designed around getting people to think as little as possible.
Top tier reddit moment [gone wrong]
cut to Newman and Kramer in Ushankas
“That’s right. We’ve been reading theory. And before long the petite bourgeoisie will tremble at our footsteps, Jerry. For he who controls the post, controls the cosmos!”
What was it about those jokes that made you want to put [laughter] after them
OP is leaning into the Seinfeld opening format
People say those things because they don’t understand what’s happening around them. They see [bad thing] = [communism] and don’t think any further than that. Why would they think about why [bad thing] happens when they can point at something and feel better about themselves?
