Australians Are Not Loving The Daily Wire’s ‘Bluey’ Knock-Off
Australians Are Not Loving The Daily Wire’s ‘Bluey’ Knock-Off
Ben Shapiro is mad that kids like a cartoon dog, so his company The Daily Wire is debuting a right-wing alternative.
Ben Shapiro is mad that kids like a cartoon dog, so his company The Daily Wire is debuting a right-wing alternative.
Someone saw how amazing and loving the Heeler family was and decided "this makes me mad, I'm going to make an intolerant version of this that fits my world view!". Not to mention I can't remember politics ever even coming up in bluey when I watch it with my kids.
Like every work of art, it’s full of politics:
- an equal-rights relationship, where both parents take responsibility for their children and housework
- children who are accepted like they are
- inclusive schools/kindergartens
- themes that touch on preserving nature, helping the disadvantaged and more
No wonder it triggers right-wingers.
Everyone knows the dad is supposed to come home angry about what he's listened to all day about the left, beat his wife and kids mercilessly to show them who's really in charge, and not engage in any meaningful way with them at all before passing out drunk.
It's as American as apple pie!
Politics came up. Politics is just a name for any way a group makes decisions. Families are groups and they need to make decisions. Any time a TV show explores the question of "how can a family get along with each other", it's textbook politics.
At this point, anything they call "the left" just seems like normal, rational, human-being stuff. Did nobody share their cookie with them in kindergarten? Are they still angry about that?
Whenever they say “woke” I filter it in my mind to “being a reasonable person.”
whenever they say "woke" it's generally in the context of accepting that a black person or woman is currently speaking.
Leftists are woke and reactionaries are sleepy.
Sharing cookies is beta male wokeness!
It is hard not to be to the left of Republican Media groups since 2016 and everything that followed.
This is what happens once conservative politics has degenerated to literally “I’m an asshole, and there’s nothing you can do about it”, to crude dominance displays, performative cruelty and rolling coal. Not that it was much better, but at least the assholery used to need some sort of high-minded, principled rationalisation, rather than being self-justifying.
Self-justified assholery, or at least not caring if you're being an asshole, would be an improvement, at least it's a consistent world view based on self interest (see: Max Stirner and egoism). They'd still be assholes, but I can at least respect the owning up to it.
When you think you're justified in being an asshole because you're not actually an asshole you're great actually it's those scary people who are coming here to attack you and your sacred way of life, that is definitely not made up and you're entitled to, who are wrong, you're just defending yourself and your people (you're a hero actually), that's when you start buying alpha male supplements and yelling at cartoon dogs.
They are trying to ruin Bluey? Australia's second greatest cultural export? Is nothing sacred any more?
It's pathetic how they are not making shows out of love, but out of spite.
What's the greatest cultural export in your opinion?
Steve Irwin.
Yahoo Serious
knifey spoony was the greatest cultural export
Have you ever seen a line which is immediately apparent as pure, distilled truth? homeschooling being a common tactic among conservatives to indoctrinate their children into Christian nationalism fits the bill.
Can confirm. Was Christian homeschooled. Learned nothing useful outside of the Bible and a weirdly curated list of other topics. Physics, but not biology. And exclusively America/Christian centric history.
Amazing self-own admitting that the internet and public schools are your ideological enemies:
According to Boreing: “Kids go to school for 40 hours a week and then they engage in pop culture for 40 more hours every week. That means for 80 hours of a child’s week, you are turning them over to the left. A good parent might spend 15 minutes a day in meaningful conversation with their kids … A great parent might take their kid to church for one hour, or two hours, or three hours a week. The other 80, they’re watching Disney … they’re online … they’re in public schools.”
Even their non-political statements are political. I hate that some people don’t see through this shit:
In a video statement on Monday marking Bentkey’s launch, Boreing said: “Bentkey isn’t about teaching kids politics, it’s about childhood and wonder and adventure. It’s about values and all of the things on which politics are built later.”
Amazing self-own admitting that the internet and public schools are your ideological enemies
I mean, it's totally a self own. The thing is though, republicans as a whole are putting forth a decades long concentrated effort to villify schools and schooling. They know that public exposure and education leads to left leaning opinions, even for kids raised in strictly right households, and even through the young adult phase into college.
The conversation has been so warped for republicans and their conservative base that what sounds like a self own to a regular person is just another truth. It doesn't even sound strange to them.
So while it is a self own to anyone with a shred of sense, it's also a terrifying sign of the times and a serious foundational threat for our young generation.
As an Australian I can confirm I have nfi what the daily wire's blue knock off is
In case didn’t already hate Ben Shapiro by now, the dude hates Bluey
BLUEY
It really doesn’t get any sadder than this
Not only does he hate Bluey, he hates Bluey so much that he decided to spend a substantial amount of money to make Not-Bluey.
I just found another, more detailed article about the show. Rob Schneider is starring in it, so you know it's good.
In the first picture in this article they’re clearly cooking on an electric stove. Weren’t electric stoves supposed to be woke?
Rob Schneider
Ewww. I remembered he exists.
He sure put in a performance... of some sort... in Norm of the North.
I wonder how successful these counter mainstream efforts will be. There's a market for crazy Christian movies etc, I imagine there will be a similar one for parents terrified of reality.
Yeah, but Bluey? That's like being terrified of Mr. Rogers. This is a failure for the same reason it would be a failure if you decided Mr. Rogers wasn't mean enough so you made your own show with a similar guy but mean.
Oh if Mr Rogers was current he would have been seen as incredibly "woke". This is the man who during the civil rights discourse decided that kids needed to see black people as less scary and capable of authority so they implemented the character of Officer Clemmons. There is a famous clip of him offering Officer Clemmons a chance to cool his feet in the same wading pool he's using because out in the world there was a massive push to keep public pools segregate and conservative nutjobs were throwing caustics into pools that didn't comply and telling their kids that black people were dirty.
They would have been screaming for an end to Rogers " woke SJW tyranny".
...and this is very likely the last time you'll ever hear about Chip Chilla.
Lessons from chilli.
Don't hold hands with the gerbils chilli, they'll make you dirty.
No, you see chilli, your friend goes to school hungry because their father doesn't work hard enough, they deserve it.
If you're good, daddy will take you the range where we can take turns playing with his brand new gun!
I think the biggest thing is these people feel threatened. Blueys parents are better parents than they ever will be. All i can think k about is the episode Flatpack where bandit says, “I’m not taking advice from a cartoon dog”.
His parents are definitely better than me. There's no way I can devote that much energy to parenting while holding a full time job. I wish I could, but that's not the world we live in.
Anything Republicans make will be cringe propaganda
I understand the Australians.
One presumes the breed of the family will be German Shepherds.
Literally says in the articles thats its chinchillas but I get you meant it as a joke.
Heres a (crappy) video that shows a bit of the art, looks super similar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL4F1Yg9hBg
Can someone sue on behalf of all chinchillas for the show being derogatory to all chinchillas?
this reminds me of when my parents got us mail order vhs tapes from feature films for families and came across a movie called the buttercream gang and was supposed to hate the kid pete who joined a gang in chicago (lol not too obvious, especially since he was latino) and basically thought he was the coolest and i wanted to be his friend so much :P
Here's what I would like to see. Have Bluey do the same thing to the rip-off that Gumball did with its own copycat.
At this point, anything they call "the left" just seems like normal, rational, human-being stuff. Did nobody share their cookie with them in kindergarten? Are they still angry about that?
Bluey is fantastic, but I'd hardly call it left wing. If it is, I'd say it's only in a couple of subtle things:
- the dad isn't a shithead and is involved with his kids
- the mum has a job
- the girls make friends with boys and rarely if ever make references to any sort of boy/girl feud
- it's non-religious?
Opening the link in Chromium with no ad blockers, I get a "you're using an ad blocker" popup that prevents me from seeing the article and can't be closed (and, ironically, an ad loads behind the ad blocker message). Opening the link in Firefox with an ad blocker, I get no messages and I can read the article without ads. Genius.
E:
" “kids go to school for 40 hours a week and then they engage in pop culture for 40 more hours every week. That means for 80 hours of a child’s week, you are turning them over to the left.”
Huh... It's exactly the same argument I heard from a left winger about the right wing. I'm wondering if it's all bs and everyone is wrong and we should all just love one another and respect each other. Huh...
E: I just watched a couple minutes on YouTube. This show [the knock off one] has THE worst voice acting I think I've ever seen (even on children's shows). The writing is also crap, which doesn't help. Maybe it was just the clip and not the whole show, but I don't think so. The makers of this show should be ashamed of themselves for publishing this. Cocomelon looks like Shakespeare when compared to chinchilla. Wth
E: this was the couple-minute clip I watched, if anyone's interested.
we should all just love one another
Where have I heard this before?
Both sides, actually. Kinda my point haha It's all stupid.
E: I just watched a couple minutes on YouTube. This show has THE worst voice acting I think I've ever seen (even on children's shows).
Are you talking about Bluey or the rip off show?
I was talking about the rip off. Bluey's voice acting and writing are next level.