Holy shit they're cooking

I will be so pissed if, somehow, communism becomes a commodified identity in lifestyle branding like rich LGBTQ communities were sold back to the rest of us.

Not entirely on topic but it was my first thought reading the image.

Edit: I'm realizing you all have found the commie identity slop and I just somehow missed it. So, as promised, I am pissed.

lol are you kidding

Go take a look around the Haymarket books offices sometime. Leftism has been a trendy commodified lifestyle already, it's just more relegated to certain geographic areas. And it's been like this since at least 2008.

Although I should point out it's defanged, liberal, academic style leftism that's commodified. Actually endorsing revolution or saying nice things about the USSR? That's still taboo.
- I hate how The Last of Us TV show had left baiting where they have a communist small town, but then people carrying out revolution in a city against the military junta are labeled bad guys who do bad things for reasons.
  
  Shouldn't have surprised me considering one of the show runners also directed Chernobyl. While it was a good show from a storytelling and acting standpoint, it was absolutely filled with brainworms about the Soviet Union.
  
  This type of commodified leftism goes back decades. It's just more upfront about the leftism, rather than whitewashing leftwing figures.
Something something Mark Fisher
- I love lo much how this experience (I won't call it a game) has infused itself so perfectly into the zeitgeist. The racist lorry driver concerned about a 'cultural victory ' lol, YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT MOTHER FUCKER WE WIN
It already is, but it's the watered down version of communism of course. But there's a reason video essayists are getting traditional media gigs now, and there's a reason shows like Succession and Severance are made.
Yeah damn, next we'll see Che guevara t-shirts
I will be so pissed if, somehow, communism becomes a commodified identity in lifestyle branding
You're probably on to something. It would definitely removed the movement towards socialism. In the short term, that is. The seeds however, the seeds have been planted.

This is the white people spicy of "cooking" about Batman lol.

Lol right? they busted out a 15yo (at least) criticism of the premise of Batman like it's fresh. But i'll actually take it anyway. It's a deep thought for someone and if say 10,000 people make the leap that 'crime is driven by poverty and propagated by the rich' thats lucky for the cause.
- I in general agree with this critic of Batman (and superheroes at large) as a comic fan, but this sort of headline is the exact type of "dork making fun of another dork and by doing so become a lame-ass dork and a big fuckin' loser" type of writing I hate. Mostly because it's usually disingenuous and it just drips with a smugness that doesn't seem to be interested in anything. Like a Fan of ABC nerdy thing saying XYZ nerdy thing is childish and stupid or whatever. The type of dork you'd push into a locker as a dork for being a lame-o .
  
  Yes there are a LOT of critiques of comic books and superheroes, and they should be talked about. This one may be accurate even correct it seems so fuckin' lame.
Tim Walz making fun of white people tacos gave them permission to have the mildest takes.

This is the first I've heard of this game. Checked out the trailer and closed it when I saw it's a VR game developed by Facebook. What the hell

Same thing happened to me I’m so disappointed

oh man, I remember the freeze-gamer outrage because Harley got to kill the Bats in that one online co op shooter live service game that released recently that I dont remember the name of

I'm sure those 800 comments are completely reasonable and not at all filled with frothingfash

that doesn't even remotely look like latex gear, it's not shiny, it's not stretchy, it doesn't make me think of squeaky sounds and slippery textures and muted tactile sensations, but why do i expect that people who resort to kinkshaming understand these things in the first place?