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      1 day ago

      That’s when I stopped watching. It was so stupid that it just turned me off.

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        The joke was that there was no joke, Rick is just being an asshole and disappointing everyone around him. But between that and the shezuan sauce incident, I realized the fandom has literally zero media literacy, they’re just clapping at shapes and colors.

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          Everyone’s media literacy, reading comprehension, ability to appreciate nuance or capacity to consider multiple non-mutually-exclusive ideas in their head at once is vanishing.

          It’s actually so fucking depressing to see how many people who I agree with politically and ethically are also kind of stupid and seem to have peaked intellectually.

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            I don’t know if its gotten worse, we should expect it to have gotten better now that people consume more media than ever.

            If judging from my trump-supporting, boomer extended family playing Jimmy Hendrix’s Star Spangeled Banner at a 4th of July cookout, it was always terrible.

            These include people who are still mad at Jane Fonda and blame the vietnamese for defending themselves.