Discussion 2024 General AFL Discussion

[Dard Ball Get]

Polarisation and an addiction to outrage is the legacy of internet culture. People form tribal positions on things and are fed a stream of dopamine hits in the form of things that rile their beliefs.

Pink haired trannies wanting to make kids into muslims at Christmas or Trumpists wanting to force kids into christian boot camps while forcing them to have babies to their preachers because they hate abortion stuff gets them going every time. People like Kane Cornes know how to stoke the fires real well too.

Plus you lead-poisoned boomers having no frontal cortex left and need to direct your rage somewhere after the kids have stopped talking to ya.

Humour is one thing we have left and even that wants to be taken away ffs

 

[phantom13]

I'm honestly torn, I don't think people should be campaignery but then I don't think people should be automatically offended for the sake of it. A dude dressing up as a 9-11 terrorist is probably a bit tasteless but really it's decades ago and a long way from here.

Probably need to just ignore shit and not get outraged and let people do whatever the **** they want as long as it's not hurting others. If an exploitative media didn't make it a huge thing it probably wouldn't have raised an eyebrow.

To be clear, im not offended by any of the costumes or skits. The Jarryd Hayne thing was in very poor taste IMO but outside of that, i couldnt really care. My point is less about whether im offended or even if anyone is offended. Its more that this umpire (in particular) watched what happened with GWS and still decided to do his dress up anyway. Its like the Nazi salute guy, youve JUST walked out of court and you do that. Its idiotic. The precedence is SLAPPING YOU IN THE FACE.

If he did this as a political statement to make the point your making, id still think it was dumb but id get it, but he didnt.

This dude looked at those sanctions, did it anyway, then took his suspensions and issued a limp wristed apology.

What on Earth was the point?

I am TRULY hopeful our leadership group learns from it and just says "Bassat is putting his beach house up, no costumes, no skits, no strippers, phones in a lockbox at the start of mad Monday".