Ben Shapiro is mad that kids like a cartoon dog, so his company The Daily Wire is debuting a right-wing alternative.
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.
In case didn’t already hate Ben Shapiro by now, the dude hates Bluey
BLUEY
It really doesn’t get any sadder than this
I think the biggest thing is these people feel threatened. Blueys parents are better parents than they ever will be. All i can think k about is the episode Flatpack where bandit says, “I’m not taking advice from a cartoon dog”.
His parents are definitely better than me. There’s no way I can devote that much energy to parenting while holding a full time job. I wish I could, but that’s not the world we live in.
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.
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?
Opening the link in Chromium with no ad blockers, I get a “you’re using an ad blocker” popup that prevents me from seeing the article and can’t be closed (and, ironically, an ad loads behind the ad blocker message). Opening the link in Firefox with an ad blocker, I get no messages and I can read the article without ads. Genius.
E:
" “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.”
Huh… It’s exactly the same argument I heard from a left winger about the right wing. I’m wondering if it’s all bs and everyone is wrong and we should all just love one another and respect each other. Huh…
E: I just watched a couple minutes on YouTube. This show [the knock off one] has THE worst voice acting I think I’ve ever seen (even on children’s shows). The writing is also crap, which doesn’t help. Maybe it was just the clip and not the whole show, but I don’t think so. The makers of this show should be ashamed of themselves for publishing this. Cocomelon looks like Shakespeare when compared to chinchilla. Wth
E: this was the couple-minute clip I watched, if anyone’s interested.
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.
I never heard that before. Very cool!
It’s one of those fake TikTok “facts” that’s only kind of true. The Heelers are blue/orange, which does work decently well with Deuteranopia (red-green color blindness), and is closest to what dogs’ vision is like. But it’s mostly just a coincidence, and there’s plenty of cases where scenes really don’t work well if you run them through a Deuteranopia filter, and Chili/Bingo really blend into the background a lot of the time.
