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April 12, 2024 - Minion Death Cult

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#610 Marge Forms A Union w/Talking Simpsons (preview)

TODAY: We discuss the recent Simpsons episode, “Night of the Living Wage,” in which the class warfare is laid on thick and a billionaire gets crushed by a non-union bulldozer operator. The show hits on numerous miserable realities for modern workers as Marge is forced to get a job at a ghost kitchen, enduring myriad dystopian Silicon-Valley abuses and finally joining with her coworkers to form a union. Subscribe to our youtube channel at http://youtube.com/miniondeathcult Sign up at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult for $5/month and get 2 bonus episodes a week

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	I was slightly worried when the episode began because I had heard good things about it and then it starts with like what almost seems like a reactionary framing of complaining about emotional support, like everybody needs their emotional support animal now.
	Uh-oh, but... Yeah, absolutely.
	No, no, no, you're totally right.
	But it's a classic conservative Simpsons joke, where it might be coded as culturally conservative, but it's still funny.
	And it still makes sense.
	You know, like, everybody knows, even the people who have the emotional support animals know that there's a bunch of people with fake emotional support animals out there, right?
	It's like kind of a universal...
	uh thing another like culture war but but like to that point when Lisa goes in there one of the like hippie you know whatever liberal coded girls who has an emotional support chicken uh starts berating she tells you know Lisa how inclusive they are and how they're accepting all animals except if they don't have a vest and like So this is again like seems like it could be liberal intolerance sort of thing or like liberal bureaucracy.
	It feels like a classic like anti-PETA joke or like I don't know like early 2000s Schwartzwelder could have written this part.
	I really liked it though because like they are doing this whole kind of soft society type thing, right?
	But what's smart is because we know what this episode is going to be about.
	We know this is a pro-union episode.
	So what they're doing is they're kind of saying like, hey guys, hey listen.
	I know that even you think this is funny because people are soft.
	They're not trying to scare anybody away.
	Get on board, come on down, and now we'll talk about how unions, you know, about unions.
	Like, now that we've got you to feel safe because we've made fun of people who have something going on with them that you don't agree with, now that you feel safe, let's bring on the union stuff and let's bring it pretty heavy.
	They should have just had all the characters that were voiced by white people, like all the characters of color that were voiced by white people do like one last cameo the first top five minutes of this episode or something.
	And then you talk about, you know, just do a little racism and then you can get your classic war in there.
	Give up who is first speaking line in years to get people in.

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I was slightly worried when the episode began because I had heard good things about it and then it starts with like what almost seems like a reactionary framing of complaining about emotional support, like everybody needs their emotional support animal now.

Uh-oh, but... Yeah, absolutely.

No, no, no, you're totally right.

But it's a classic conservative Simpsons joke, where it might be coded as culturally conservative, but it's still funny.

And it still makes sense.

You know, like, everybody knows, even the people who have the emotional support animals know that there's a bunch of people with fake emotional support animals out there, right?

It's like kind of a universal...

uh thing another like culture war but but like to that point when Lisa goes in there one of the like hippie you know whatever liberal coded girls who has an emotional support chicken uh starts berating she tells you know Lisa how inclusive they are and how they're accepting all animals except if they don't have a vest and like So this is again like seems like it could be liberal intolerance sort of thing or like liberal bureaucracy.

It feels like a classic like anti-PETA joke or like I don't know like early 2000s Schwartzwelder could have written this part.

I really liked it though because like they are doing this whole kind of soft society type thing, right?

But what's smart is because we know what this episode is going to be about.

We know this is a pro-union episode.

So what they're doing is they're kind of saying like, hey guys, hey listen.

I know that even you think this is funny because people are soft.

They're not trying to scare anybody away.

Get on board, come on down, and now we'll talk about how unions, you know, about unions.

Like, now that we've got you to feel safe because we've made fun of people who have something going on with them that you don't agree with, now that you feel safe, let's bring on the union stuff and let's bring it pretty heavy.

They should have just had all the characters that were voiced by white people, like all the characters of color that were voiced by white people do like one last cameo the first top five minutes of this episode or something.

And then you talk about, you know, just do a little racism and then you can get your classic war in there.

Give up who is first speaking line in years to get people in.