• dustbunnies [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    22 days ago

    “oh look, hot things hurt them, just like me” ???

    really???

    💀🙃

    you know what else hurts them? bullets and assault and thorough denigration, just like every-fuckin-body else

    it is incomprehensible to me that this is a thing

    how do celebrities feel about paper cuts?!?! check out my new YouTube show to find out

    • mbt2402 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      22 days ago

      people don’t watch celebrities for intellectual reasons as your comment would seem to expect. Its for the spectacle / parasocial relations / interpassivity. To marx, the substitution of actual social life with the commodity. As such, the value of the commodity is the illusion of realness, and yes seeing them in pain does enhance this via our brains wiring toward empathy.