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will they do a sketch about US prison labor? or one mentioning the actual genocide happening right now, being perpetrated with bombs and guns? will they do a sketch talking about Nike or american companies using forced labor? nope.

death to AmeriKKKa

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[-] Crowtee_Robot@hexbear.net 88 points 1 month ago

SNL have been good little genocide enablers, but a couple weeks ago on Weekend Update, during a joke about Biden saying he wouldn't send in National Guard troops to clear university encampments, Michael Che quipped, "I'm just glad to see him not send military aid somewhere."

Complete crickets in the studio.

I'm not a huge fan of Che as a comedian, but his shocked reaction to the absolute silence in the studio made it one of the funniest moments I've seen on the show in years.

joker-troll

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago
[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 month ago

Or maybe the studio laughed but they edited it out

[-] Crowtee_Robot@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't doubt it for a second. The video JoeByeThen shared has some scattered laughs that I didn't remember from the version I saw. It could be one was from dress and the other from the live show, but editing out laughs is just as likely for sure.

[-] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 80 points 1 month ago

Not gonna watch that but if the “joke” is that the “Uyghur genocide” is enabled by fast fashion… the actual reality is that fast fashion is 110% pure capitalism that depends on workers in places like Bangladesh living in conditions similar to what Engels described in The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844.

[-] KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net 65 points 1 month ago

I can guarantee you that nobody who still watches Saturday Night Live has read a non-young-adult-fiction book in the past 10 years.

[-] AcidLeaves@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I side-eye tf out of socialists who still watch shit like SNL cause like there's infinite amounts of content on the internet and you choose this?

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 month ago

What about Americas funniest home videos. I'll never understand how that's still watched.

[-] KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

I liked it better when it was called Tosh.0

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[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

cause like there's infinite amounts of content on the internet and you choose this?

Every time I admit I like some YT comedian on here I get 20 people calling me a Lib for it.

[-] KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

Socialism means no comedy. The only laughter allowed is when you make a witty dunk on a right-winger. This will continue until all jokes are punching up.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Someone needs to keep an eye on wretched Lib shit.

[-] fart@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

wrong. my parents. their parents.

[-] Juiceyb@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago

We don't even have to see outside of the US. The DoD uses prison labor to make uniforms which are made at a surplus to sell to the public. You'd be surprised by the stuff the prison system makes in your life.

[-] HexBroke@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

Literally the US Constitution

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

Ok but just because we constitutionally allow slavery doesn’t mean we’re Chinese which makes anything we do 100% times worse.

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[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 70 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To claim that fast fashion is harmful to workers and then perpetuate the myth that those workers are unskilled is ridiculous. China is home to some of the most skilled clothing artisans in the world and it’s indeed very possible to buy affordable clothes from there where the workers having a higher purchasing power parity than the median American.

To claim that fast fashion is part of overconsumption and then perpetuate the myth that all cheap clothes fall apart after a single use is ridiculous. The rag houses are fucking overflowing and most second hand shops are inundated with clothes they will never sell. These clothes are lasting long enough to reach the landfills and then some.

Meanwhile, LA is notorious for its clothing sweat shops full of human trafficking victims. I’m not saying exploitative labor doesn’t exist in China. But this shit is such a racist double standard.

Anyone who is able should be buying most of their clothes second hand, anyway.

[-] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 month ago

To claim that fast fashion is part of overconsumption and then perpetuate the myth that all cheap clothes fall apart after a single use is ridiculous.

Fast fashion is part of overconsumption. The garments could last millennia of use, it doesn't matter the quality, it's still true. You don't need to buy a new outfit every week. If you think you do, you've been propagandized.

Buy new clothes when your clothes are ratty and no more, few exceptions. Anyone who says otherwise is promoting consumerism.

[-] robinnn@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

They're saying fast fashion is part of overconsumption but that SNL undermines this point by making it seem like cheap clothes immediately fall apart.

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[-] Poison_Ivy@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Meanwhile, LA is notorious for its clothing sweat shops full of human trafficking victims.

The garment district is…something else.

[-] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 64 points 1 month ago

"even ones with wrong religion" wtf do the SNL writers think the right religion is for the CPC?

[-] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 55 points 1 month ago

"if it were would you stop buying it?" What are the odds someone in the writers' room has a sodastream?

[-] edge@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago

Pure projection. Western society forces Christianity on others, so obviously the bad guys do it too.

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[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 64 points 1 month ago

Yeah the timing on this is super sus. The Uyghur allegations are stale news at this point, trying to run interference for the genocide being signed off on by the western “rules-based international order.”

[-] abc@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago

wasn't even the most egregious sketch of the night - to be honest with you. my roommate watches it religiously so inevitably every saturday night I will happen to catch parts of various sketches as I'm in the kitchen.

the one that really got under my skin was the bike trail one where the entire joke is....people who bike on public trails are annoying?? was just sitting in the kitchen doing the dishes and hearing the sketch, waiting for the eventual punchline or subversion of expectations, but no...four minutes of "don't you hate when you're walking 2 abreast on a public trail, partially in the designated bike lane, & someone rides up and gives you a "on your left" to warn you they're approaching and that you should get out of their way? yeah we hate them too"

SNL being SNL I was struck with the thought that whoever wrote the sketch (Colin Jost I know it was your insufferable ass) must have been walking in a bike lane somewhere in Manhattan and gotten bowled the fuck over by a cyclist who is tired of telling people to get out of the way.

[-] RollaD20@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

I mean probably didn't even have something that interesting happen to them. A lot of SNL these days is just social media (twitter) interactions/"jokes". Whoever wrote it likely just came across dumb bike discourse and regurgitated it.

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

SNL always was and is garbage

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[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago

Why do Americans keep talking about Uyghurs as if they’re not proudly and openly supporting Israeli genocide against Palestinians lol

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

Also, most American chuds and many libs don't consider Muslims to be human. It's just concern trolling.

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 43 points 1 month ago

Do they realise how lost a battle this is?

[-] YoungSheldonAdelson@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago

The US uses incarcerated people to fight wildfires. These workers can be paid as little as $2.90 A DAY and experience injuries four times greater than professional firefighters and smoke inhalation injuries at an eight times greater rate. They are also typically ineligible for civilian firefighting jobs when released due to their criminal records.

https://www.vera.org/news/from-fighting-wildfires-to-digging-graves-incarcerated-workers-face-danger-on-the-job

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago

Liberals pretending to care about Muslims while supporting a party currently engaged in the genocide of Muslims, that's all that needs to be said about this filth

[-] azanra4@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 1 month ago

This is some disgustingly racist, classist slop. False Western narratives on China are at least good in the sense that such delusional thinking will lead the west to repeatedly make predictable mistakes that China can easily use to their advantage. At this point I'm just going to egg on the racist, narrow-minded liberals so they don't get wise that their hegemony is long gone lmao.

[-] Roonerino@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

Give the decrepit old empire the "sure grandpa, let's get you to bed" treatment.

[-] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

I unironically love that DC think tanks are stuffed with the most ignorant and worthless people. The enemy depriving itself of reliable info is a huge advantage to China

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago

Making this now is the most tonedeaf thing these spineless libs could do

[-] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago

This was one of the first things I saw on the path to becoming an actual communist that supports AES and understands how completely I was lied to as a westerner, so it's a subject close to my heart.

Unlimited genocide on imperial propagandists maybe-later-honey qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

[-] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

how they are transported in groups

ITS A FUCKING BUS.

The western mind cannot comprehend something so esoteric as a bus

accompanied by security guards

It's a conductor, checking tickets. Maybe it's b-roll and they are talking about something else? Ah, that's giving them too much credit. Nope, I'm going with bus and conductor.

[-] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

yeonmi-park

They bus-driver have total control over the buss. You are forced to sit still until he decide when to stop. You can not leave the bus and you can not open the doors yourself while he's driving. The drivers are handpicked after going through a test designed to see if you are loyal and following the rules that are decided by the communist government.

[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

This is a minor point but I love how the BBC report starts with "the BBC has found evidence" and then the whole report is just a scary voiceover using footage from the positive news story. Like yeah you found that evidence just like Columbus found America didn't ya.

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

That was a good watch, thanks for sharing. When Zenz came on I was like leo-point

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[-] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

Saturday Night Liberalism kelly

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

China abolished prison labour recently, but in the USA it's been law for 200 years.

Really makes you think

[-] RaisedFistJoker@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

ever snl "actor" a criminal

[-] Maoo@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

Believe it or not I have yet to hear a liberal talk about Uyghurs irl. And I interact with truly insufferable liberals regularly.

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