1901 upvotes, 45 direct replies (showing 25)
View submission: [deleted by user]
Imagine having your burgeoning labor movement get to the cusp of mainstream media attention only to be effortlessly destroyed by a smirking rutabaga like jesse watters, it’s like dying in the tutorial portion of a video game
Comment by [deleted] at 26/01/2022 at 21:56 UTC
480 upvotes, 6 direct replies
[deleted]
Comment by Saint_Judas at 26/01/2022 at 21:01 UTC
265 upvotes, 1 direct replies
this comparison is cracking me the fuck up
Comment by djheat at 26/01/2022 at 20:57 UTC
68 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Press A to present a coherent argument.
You died.
Comment by Nemisis_the_2nd at 26/01/2022 at 22:40 UTC*
131 upvotes, 6 direct replies
Honestly, this is a masterclass in assassinating a movement by fox news. I'm not even annoyed, I'm impressed.
Someone pointed out that the mod in question has a patreon where they are somewhat public about their personal life, with more than enough detail for someone at fox to tell how they'd present on camera. All they needed was to offer the interview and the rest would just fall into place.
Edit: I'm buying the paid off theory now[1] this is the same person.
1: https://omny.fm/shows/st-louis-talks/dory-from-abolishwork-com
Comment by [deleted] at 26/01/2022 at 23:44 UTC
45 upvotes, 2 direct replies
That's the hardest part for some folks, myself included. I wasn't a huge participant over there, but it was nice to watch the "movement" gain some strength, and show some real promise. I talked with a kid about organizing a march, I tried to caution people about not becoming Occupy Wall Street. I tried to, in my little ways, push the "fair pay and better treatment" angle, and was denigrated for it fairly regularly.
Then this idiot opens their mouth for 15 minutes of infamy and reinforces *everything* that the media has been saying to this point.
God fucking dammit.
Comment by anonareyouokay at 26/01/2022 at 21:29 UTC
81 upvotes, 4 direct replies
If one interview can take down a whole movement, there's not much of a movement. The interview was cringe, tho
Comment by coffeesippingbastard at 26/01/2022 at 23:48 UTC
16 upvotes, 2 direct replies
honestly- this may have non trivial repercussions in the labor movement...
it is fucking effortless to repeat this on blast and portray every socialist type as basically this mod.
This is now the face of labor reform.
Comment by MongolianMango at 26/01/2022 at 22:41 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Imagining Jesse Watters as a video game boss is hilarious to me
Comment by [deleted] at 27/01/2022 at 00:09 UTC
10 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Movement, lol. A bunch of kids posting fantasies on Reddit doesn't exactly constitute a movement.
Comment by GovernmentOpening254 at 27/01/2022 at 03:25 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Dying in the Tutorial 😂
Comment by Micalas at 27/01/2022 at 04:30 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
You have a way with words, my friend. Ever thought of giving an interview on Fox?
Comment by jessers1991 at 26/01/2022 at 21:28 UTC
12 upvotes, 2 direct replies
A few days ago they were mememing about being featured on fox news. It was all a joke to them. They thought they were the new r/wallstreetbets, except without making any real dent in anyones wallets but their own. They got caught up in their own hype and self destructed.
Comment by El_Rey_de_Spices at 26/01/2022 at 23:36 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I'm having flashbacks to that one reviewer who couldn't figure out the Cuphead tutorial, as the instructions were literally on-screen.
Comment by [deleted] at 27/01/2022 at 00:34 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Movement? Any evidence that they’ve accomplished anything besides attracting negative media attention as a circus act?
Comment by GletscherEis at 27/01/2022 at 05:39 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This is one of those times you can absolutely fail during character creation.
Comment by plynthy at 26/01/2022 at 23:07 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
you're hilarious
Comment by AirsoftCarrier at 26/01/2022 at 23:26 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Maybe they will stream Cuphead later. Ü
Comment by puppyboy26 at 27/01/2022 at 00:52 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
this was never gonna be a serious movement if this was the average person behind it
Comment by Legitimate-Focus9870 at 27/01/2022 at 01:46 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
but Iudex Gundyr was scary hard
Comment by happyscrappy at 27/01/2022 at 02:02 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It mostly feels like occupy all over again.
A group of people with strong ideas but who spend sufficient time being anti- things that are happening and not enough creating a coherent message about what they are really trying to do and how they will get there.
Certainly Fox News is credited with an assist on this own goal.
Comment by shitposts_over_9000 at 27/01/2022 at 02:30 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
If there was a viable movement somewhere in the disjointed mess of pipe dreams and the rare post about actually trying to push for something that might conceivably happen that was this sub then the end of this sub might be the best thing for it.
99% of the time it was like reading the ramblings of a grade-schooler & the few posts that had an actionable point were usually filled with comments ripping the OP to shreds for asking for something concrete and possibly reasonable.
Movements, particularly young movements are defined by who they exclude as much as anything and that sub excluded nobody other than people that were happy with their lives.
Comment by Jerry_from_Japan at 27/01/2022 at 04:11 UTC*
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
lol what movement? Seriously, people keep saying that. I want to know what was so close to happening. Because the ideas behind it the last few times a new "cause" started in that sub......were batshit insane. The last one on Black Friday and the upcoming one on with MayDay included EVERY WORKER in EVERY INDUSTRY striking for TWO WEEKS in order to "send a message". You think if that got out there instead of that mod doing that interview that their "movement" would be looked upon MORE favorably? It was a ticking time bomb of cringe no matter what.
Comment by crazy6611 at 27/01/2022 at 04:52 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The interview itself wasn’t really the problem here that killed the subreddit though. Frankly speaking, almost no one who watches Fox News was gonna up and join the labor movement working on that subreddit, and even that horrifically bad interview doesn’t change much to a normal person because they don’t watch Fox News.
The *response* to criticism of the mod team however is 100% the culprit. Any time a mod team starts taking shit personally and acting dictatorial with impunity is gonna end in a way similar to this.
If the mod team noticed a bunch of transphobic shit, they probably should have talked to Doreen and said “hey, there’s a lot of hate going around, we’re gonna shoulder the load here, maybe take a week and let this blow over while we deal with this.” Or they could have, yknow, done anything proactively to try and curtail criticism by having some posts addressing the interview and tried to rebuild momentum. Instead the mod team got offended and started mass destruction of dissenting opinions.
So sad to see a very cool and important sub kill itself because of people being too proud to admit their faults.
Comment by hotpajamas at 26/01/2022 at 22:49 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The interview means absolutely nothing. It won't change anything about labor or expectations on either side of the job. Also, Fox was only ever going to allow a bad interview on the air so it really doesn't matter that they got this mod.
Comment by [deleted] at 26/01/2022 at 22:11 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
r/antiworknointerviews just started up.