Ben Shapiro is mad that kids like a cartoon dog, so his company The Daily Wire is debuting a right-wing alternative.
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.
Like every work of art, it’s full of politics:
- an equal-rights relationship, where both parents take responsibility for their children and housework
- children who are accepted like they are
- inclusive schools/kindergartens
- themes that touch on preserving nature, helping the disadvantaged and more
No wonder it triggers right-wingers.
Not to mention, it even caters to actual dogs! The colour scheme used was designed to only use colours that dogs can see.
Are you sure you’re not thinking of sounds? IIRC, dogs see in monochrome.
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!
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?
Whenever they say “woke” I filter it in my mind to “being a reasonable person.”
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.
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.
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.
Esteemed Academy Award nominated character actor Hugh Jackman, of course!
That man can sing.
All these people forgetting about the Wiggles.
The Wiggles at one point were the highest-grossing Australian band of all time, beating out AC/DC. (I don’t think that’s true anymore though.)
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.
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.
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…
