The difference is when Stone Cold gave HBK the stunner to get the pin it was for the belt, not medicare.
But AEW and WWE are entertaining…there’s nothing really entertaining in current politics or media.
Oh, I remember those times. People did NOT keep watching, as I recall it.
Most felt betrayed and stupid and would never talk about it again.
Did Americans actually think they were for real? I feel like folks everywhere else understood it but evidently enjoyed the entertaining acrobatics! I guess voting for a rich reality TV star charlatan was definitely in the cards for the US, lol, they can’t tell reality from fiction anyway!
if you ever take a glance at the IWC on twitter (Internet Wrestling Community - yes I do watch pro wrestling) you’ll find that most still think it’s real.
I 100% believed it was real. But then i turned 10 or so and me and my friends were wondering how this real man called the undertaker just got resurrected
Except I can’t be deported when shit goes sideways in wrestling. Politics affects you even if you don’t care or try to ignore it. Not so much with wrestling.
Deported straight out of the ring! That’s gotta hurt!
Well, with the mcmahon’s in trumps inner circle maybe this could change?
Politics is show-business for ugly people.
Electoral ones, yeah.
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
Fascism is aesthetics as politics
Penn and Teller do a bit with a nail gun where Penn does a monologue about how they are magicians so there is obviously a trick, and that’s the point - they want the audience to come along and enjoy the show and watch them do things that seem dangerous, while knowing that even if something goes wrong they aren’t going to be complicit in someone getting hurt or killed by encouraging them to take those risks.
Idk, not really relevant to what you said, but I think about that a lot
Reality TV and Wrestling are there to make people accept scripted realities. The whole point of wrestling is to fuck up politics.
Slight difference. When Trish Stratus Betrayed Chris Jericho, it didn’t cause me to lose health insurance.
But it did make me lose my mind as a kid. Fuck Christian.
he’s obviously talking about the russia, russia, hoax
this meme makes no sense but everyone is gonna laugh at me for arguing with it
Ignorance is bliss.
No it’s just not being able to articulate or communicate your suffering
If ignorance is bliss, why the shit do we keep getting fascism?
Kayfabe Presidency is a fucking fantastic punk band name.
I’ve got five words for you: Punk. Rock. Pro. Wrestling. Musical.
Americans were culturally primed to nonchalantly accept the charade of their democratic processes.*
Pressured to not throw away their vote maybe.
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???
It’s the same as watching a news source that for years swears to you that something is true and then quietly comes back and tells you that in fact it was not true. There is a long list of mainstream media “sorry we were only joking” incidents over the years. Yet people continue to watch never questioning whether or not they are being lied to .
I think it’s either Americans who feel angry and betrayed because they actually thought Rey Mysterio was getting choked by Kane, and the other group of Americans who, because they had more than two working brain cells, understood it was just TV but is still annoyed by the first group’s antics.
I do
When people talk in ‘all-star-wrestling’ terminology, I stop listening. politics/news same.
Never has this meme held such relevance.
