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Ben Shapiro is mad that kids like a cartoon dog, so his company The Daily Wire is debuting a right-wing alternative.

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Someone saw how amazing and loving the Heeler family was and decided "this makes me mad, I'm going to make an intolerant version of this that fits my world view!". Not to mention I can't remember politics ever even coming up in bluey when I watch it with my kids.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ben Shapiro is a cancerous colon wart.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's not fair to cancer.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Everyone knows the dad is supposed to come home angry about what he's listened to all day about the left, beat his wife and kids mercilessly to show them who's really in charge, and not engage in any meaningful way with them at all before passing out drunk.

It's as American as apple pie!

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Whenever they say “woke” I filter it in my mind to “being a reasonable person.”

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago

whenever they say "woke" it's generally in the context of accepting that a black person or woman is currently speaking.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Sharing cookies is beta male wokeness!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

It is hard not to be to the left of Republican Media groups since 2016 and everything that followed.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Self-justified assholery, or at least not caring if you're being an asshole, would be an improvement, at least it's a consistent world view based on self interest (see: Max Stirner and egoism). They'd still be assholes, but I can at least respect the owning up to it.

When you think you're justified in being an asshole because you're not actually an asshole you're great actually it's those scary people who are coming here to attack you and your sacred way of life, that is definitely not made up and you're entitled to, who are wrong, you're just defending yourself and your people (you're a hero actually), that's when you start buying alpha male supplements and yelling at cartoon dogs.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They are trying to ruin Bluey? Australia's second greatest cultural export? Is nothing sacred any more?

It's pathetic how they are not making shows out of love, but out of spite.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

What's the greatest cultural export in your opinion?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Esteemed Academy Award nominated character actor Hugh Jackman, of course!

That man can sing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd say it's a tie between Steve Irwin and the bloomin' onion.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

... the bloomin' onion isn't Australian. Americans made it up.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Next you’re gonna tell me fortune cookies aren’t Chinese.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Um, no. It was brought over by poor Australian immigrant outback steak chefs in the 1980s. You can tell it's legit because all thier menu items have authentic Australian words in them.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Have you ever seen a line which is immediately apparent as pure, distilled truth? homeschooling being a common tactic among conservatives to indoctrinate their children into Christian nationalism fits the bill.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Can confirm. Was Christian homeschooled. Learned nothing useful outside of the Bible and a weirdly curated list of other topics. Physics, but not biology. And exclusively America/Christian centric history.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Can also confirm, was 'homeschooled' which meant those terrible books the homeschool book companies would send you all about how Noah's ark was on mount Arrerrat (sp?) And how supply side Jesus was the best. Did read the Bible cover to cover 3 times for something to do, lotta weird shit in there...

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

As an Australian I can confirm I have nfi what the daily wire's bluey knock off is

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

As an American, from the Daily Wire's home country, neither do I. And I don't have a young child, but I know who Bluey is.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

As another Australian, I think Disney needs to beat the living shit out of them with a DMCA hammer.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I just found another, more detailed article about the show. Rob Schneider is starring in it, so you know it's good.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/oct/17/is-new-kids-show-chip-chilla-a-blatant-bluey-knock-off-for-conservatives

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

In the first picture in this article they’re clearly cooking on an electric stove. Weren’t electric stoves supposed to be woke?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Rob Schneider

Ewww. I remembered he exists.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Rob Schneider, the guy who starred in an entire movie with the plot being him having swapped minds with a woman and being stuck in her body? That Rob Schneider?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, and many other terrible films. Often with Adam Sandler.

By the way, he also wrote The Hot Chick.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

"This summer, Rob Schneider is...A Stapler!”

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

In case didn’t already hate Ben Shapiro by now, the dude hates Bluey

BLUEY

It really doesn’t get any sadder than this

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

Not only does he hate Bluey, he hates Bluey so much that he decided to spend a substantial amount of money to make Not-Bluey.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder how successful these counter mainstream efforts will be. There's a market for crazy Christian movies etc, I imagine there will be a similar one for parents terrified of reality.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, but Bluey? That's like being terrified of Mr. Rogers. This is a failure for the same reason it would be a failure if you decided Mr. Rogers wasn't mean enough so you made your own show with a similar guy but mean.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Oh if Mr Rogers was current he would have been seen as incredibly "woke". This is the man who during the civil rights discourse decided that kids needed to see black people as less scary and capable of authority so they implemented the character of Officer Clemmons. There is a famous clip of him offering Officer Clemmons a chance to cool his feet in the same wading pool he's using because out in the world there was a massive push to keep public pools segregate and conservative nutjobs were throwing caustics into pools that didn't comply and telling their kids that black people were dirty.

They would have been screaming for an end to Rogers " woke SJW tyranny".

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

...and this is very likely the last time you'll ever hear about Chip Chilla.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't hold hands with the gerbils chilli, they'll make you dirty.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Anything Republicans make will be cringe propaganda

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bluey is the shit! How can anyone not love Bluey?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not enough propoganda, id imagine

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

I understand the Australians.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can someone sue on behalf of all chinchillas for the show being derogatory to all chinchillas?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The sheer audacity of the chinchillas lacking hispanic accents. Did no-one working for the show look up where chinchillas are from?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which is more offensive: that none of the chinchillas have Latin accents, or that the father is voiced by Rob Fucking Schneider?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You know what's wild? We all thought Rob Schneider was gonna be the sellout making weird movies forever about being random things.

Well Adam Sandler is now the class iguana that solves all the kids problems in his new movie and Schneider is just a sad loser schilling for conservatives. Somehow the future ended up a full step even sadder than imagined.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One presumes the breed of the family will be German Shepherds.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

this reminds me of when my parents got us mail order vhs tapes from feature films for families and came across a movie called the buttercream gang and was supposed to hate the kid pete who joined a gang in chicago (lol not too obvious, especially since he was latino) and basically thought he was the coolest and i wanted to be his friend so much :P

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

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.

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