• loathesome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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      Even besides the plastic aspect I don’t get why people like it so much. Even if you like the IP that the figurines are of they look like shit.

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        The “gamer” identity is purely based on mindless consumption regardless of the product’s use value.

        You can buy overpriced chairs labeled for gamers. Powdered sugar, called G-fuel. Gamer shades, gamer branded clothes, fucking blue dyed mac and cheese with a picture of fucking Sonic the Hedgehog.

        A Gamer will drop his cash on the most random shit as long as it’s marketed for gamers.

        You could literally slap a gaming label on a bucket of dogshit and some hyperconsumerist gamerbrained troglodyte will squeal and fork over his lifesavings so he can validate his fake identity as a “gamer.”

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        Using the same labour and materials they could produce normal looking figures instead of those deformed abominations, which would be actually pretty fine, having so many different ones in the same scale and series.

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        It’s crazy how they found a way to sell toys little useless plastic things to adults. Capitalism is all about expanding the markets and finding new consumers, like how they found a way to market cigarettes to children.

        Edited toys out because actual toys one can play with can be cool.

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    You prefer having plastic toys (that actually don’t do anything) over having humans live decently and be happy and free. Nothing else to add

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      you prefer having plastic toys over having humans live decently and be happy and free

      why do you think they hate socialism? you can’t hoard plastic crap in communism!

      • SadArtemis🏳️‍⚧️@lemmygrad.ml
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        Funny thing is 99% of the “plastic crap” is literally built in a communist country, which outcompetes the west, and is increasingly doing so in all fields, and produces more ethically (though that is also a matter of the world system we live in), efficiently, and environmentally than the west.

        The Chinese proles are increasingly eating better, living better, having better stuff at cheaper prices, having better homes (in contrast to the west where home ownership is out of sight for an increasingly large share of the population), and it’s all thanks to communism, to the dictatorship of the proletariat being upheld, and delivering such wondrous results for its people.

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          Gamers : “I am being exploited by Chinese capitalism!” (Buys another Funko Pop to keep on the shelf still in original packaging)

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    I follow Pamphlets and they are so weird. Like, sometimes I can like their posts no problem but other times i just have to scroll because… yeah.

  • I worked at Amazon over a decade ago, when these were new, it was the first time I saw these things and all I could think was how ugly they were and why would anyone buy them. I’m still thinking that but stricken with the fact that they still exist against all rational thought

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    I think that account is affiliated with or a member of the “PatSoc”/MAGA-Communism “movement”

    That being said, and I realize the humor in this meme, but funko pops are literally made and sold in China