I find this happens any time I engage with anything anyone on the right also likes watching, like a gun channel, or a non-political video from a right leaning channel. I think the algorithm is just saying "I saw a republican watch this once so if you watched it there's still some chance you'll engage with this right wing content."
I think it pushes it so heavily because it's a gold mine (to the algorithm) since content by those channels is so heavily consumed.
Yeah I think it's just some people are not trying to "communicate" rather they're just doing it because it's fun for them (and some others). Sort of the "talking because they like to talk." I used to also be pretty annoyed by it but I had a friend use them all the time and sort of just got used to it. Even if it did still annoy me I don't like to ruin someone's fun, so I'll just be a bit mad and carry on (and then complain to other people it annoys)
The point of the emoji at the end was to "add some more feeling/fun to text content," like if I ended a comment with "I couldn't stop smiling while writing this." It's irrelevant but it changes the flavor of the text.
Besides that, many lemmy users are on the spectrum and will read "Donald Trump is known for his great border policies" in a comment that it's clear they're joking, and they will still have -5 score and comments arguing with them until the poster says "it was a joke." Compare that to "Donald Trump is known for his great border policies 🤡" or 🙄 or 💀 depending on how obvious you want to be. It's just a tool that can be misused or annoying like anything else.
well yeah if the person writes 😪😔🤥 it's not clear what they mean, but this poster gave an example sentence that's pretty unambiguous, and is using the emoji as a tool to make it even more unambiguous, are they not? 🤔
Just feels unfair to lump 🗨💣💨🤳 style emoji usage with "let me put 😆 to make it more clear this is a joke" 🥺 (also sometimes it's just what the writer is feeling, rather than trying to be clear communication)
I can think of a couple situations, one being if you live in a place where abortion is illegal and you're talking to someone else/someone who knows someone who wants to get one. Doesn't matter if you did nothing illegal but now you've likely gotten them in hot water. Another is if you've loaded a website that hosted something illegal unintentionally, now you have to explain why that's in your cache/history/whatever (lemmy had a big problem with CSAM being spammed on some instances). Innocent people get put on trial/sent to prison for weak evidence, and your phone is an immense amount of information for the cops to look through and see if they can make anything fit.
I think the reason I didn't see booth as conservative-coded, is because he seemed to be portrayed (or maybe just regarded by bones) as foolish and outdated (and usually also wrong) for basically every reason you said, but he was a good guy who always showed up and did the right thing. Though I definitely remember some times where he was doing some "hard working man protects the woman" stuff and that was seen as "good" which I thought was very out of place, especially bones reacting to it positively.. Maybe the times he looked foolish were meant to be serious and they just couldn't make it not sound ridiculous lol
Hearing this makes me really want to re-watch it as I wasn't thinking about any of this... hmm....
https://bones.fandom.com/wiki/The_Proof_in_the_Pudding here's the episode, Angela is pregnant (thinks she is pregnant) with Wendell, but is dating (?) hodgins, who tells her to keep it. I guess maybe this is still a bit conservative coded? Hard to say maybe it's pretty neutral
Hmm I may actually re-watch it and keep an eye out for these but you are more correct than I remember. I would say Bones does seem a little bit autistic, and some of the people in power are women, but it's in a little bit of a hamfisted way (look at these badass women!).
I think the episode where one woman got pregnant with someone else's kid she was thinking of not keeping it but got convinced to keep it by her husband (fiance?), the message still being "them keeping it obviously good."
Seems like the writing was mostly fine but sometimes very conservative-coded when the director wanted to insert some spiel about life values. I appreciate the examples, I think I immediately forgot about those episodes specifically because of the weird messaging.
Wait really Bones did this? I thought I remember an episode where Bones says "you just need to work hard, my life was hard too but I didn't end up like that" and learned by the end that wasn't a fair judgment. Maybe I'm misremembering?
Especially when saying "no cheese" 8 times means you will definitely be getting cheese
I would've agreed with this a few years ago, but when you realize things can have subtle effects on our body that aren't easy to measure or readily apparent, you shouldn't fully trust something just because studies say it's safe. A study can't really show that "50 years of repeated exposure caused slightly more exhaustion," for example.
However, we DO know tooth decay is a major health risk for our whole bodies. Avoiding a maybe possibly slightly harmful chemical isn't stupid, but avoiding something that prevents known and documented dental harm and the effects that has on your entire body, that's just letting fear override rational thinking.
It takes a "special" kind of person to take something so ingrained in culture and still say "I'm not gonna do that," usually a slightly crazy and/or neurodivergent person. I think this is partly why there are so many "insane" vegans, because it's self selecting for people who are outside the norm.
I don't even mention to most people I'm vegan, usually just an excuse like "meat makes me feel sick" because the average person will think I'm going to give them a 20 minute lecture.
To anyone who is the vegan who will give the 20 minute lecture, please consider if your goal is actually animal welfare, you can hardly ever debate someone out of something they like. Instead, just show people easy dishes you made that they actually enjoy (pasta with spaghetti sauce, French fries, vegetable stir fry, roasted veggies with olive oil) and you'll often find they start cooking more vegan food (or at least less meat), and also talk more positively about veganism
Sorry this ended up a lot longer than I intended lol
I went back and watched through most of the first season, and I really do find it strange, it's like overtly left leaning text pretty often, but consistent conservative subtext. By that I mean they will have hodgins and bones saying "tax cuts to the rich instead of giving that money to poor neighborhoods like this so they stay poor, and minimum wage hasn't budged in 8 years, and it's even worse if you're an illegal immigrant." They'll talk about people being gay and just treat it as normal but don't ever show it on screen(I would say this is neutral/a little positive?). Bones likes rap music, they're constantly asking "are you threatened by working with a woman?" and she knows martial arts and self defense and shows it off very regularly. Angela is very independent as well.
But at the same time, bones is consistently showing needing support from booth and angela (hardly ever the other way around), women are usually dressed in pretty revealing ways (angela and bones pretty consistently wear low vnecks), one episode someone plants a carbomb and they think it's a muslim, then pretend "how dare we think it was a muslim" and then it turns out it's his brother who is also muslim and says he did it for his god? Every time Booth mentions christianity it's seen as positive and heartwarming for him or people he meets, and bones even becomes the damsel in distress and Booth has to rescue her, which makes all her punching and fighting seem irrelevant.
It's very weird it feels like it's all plausable deniability where they could say that's just what we wanted to write an episode about (other than the Booth is a strong man who cares about real american values) I didn't even realize they explained away brennan's autistic coding by saying it was her upbringing, like that's the only way someone could be like that (or with the autistic kid being autistic only because he's >160 iq, otherwise he'd be normal).
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I think the only things I would disagree with is, Bones didn't become rich by pulling herself up, it was just because she worked as an escape, and then I think the writers just wanted to show that she is successful in everything she tries because she's just awesome that awesome (possibly conservative coding?)
I would also say Bones feels in charge half the time, even more in charge than the administrator really. She'll ignore Booth and all the laws and all the rules and do what she thinks is right, and then Booth usually ends up following after her (to protect her of course). The Administrator started off as above everyone but later in the season it feels like he's their colleague who deals with the press and tells bones that she has to go with Booth sometimes. I think if you replaced him with a woman no one would really notice unless it was in the first few episodes. I also think Booth isn't quite a perfect conservative American, maybe a perfect soldier, specifically because he will lie to people, do the wrong thing, etc, but it's what his boss told him to do. At least that's what it seems like, the writing for him and Bones are probably the most inconsistent in the whole show. Also the autistic kid, I think it literally was just the writers wanted to kill off a main character, and so they just decided on him because it was easy. To be honest if I was the writer I would've done the same thing, most episodes it feels like he doesn't add anything unique or interesting, just a "look I'm smart." Lots of interesting stories to tell with an autistic character, but if they don't know how to tell them and it makes the character unpopular, time to get rid of him I guess.
Other than that I think you pretty much nailed it, I just wanted to say that I found pretty often the show is surprisingly progressive, just maybe not in the subtext of the show. It's just such a weird mash-up of "look how progressive we are, we have a badass woman, the guy is getting bossed around" that somehow turns into "the strong man learned to do the right thing and also saved the woman." I think since Booth is always in focus and always showing he's a strong conservative man, they can get away with saying whatever they want, because the progressive words don't matter, what matters is how it feels. (Note this is all based off season 1, later seasons they definitely lean in to what the fans want and a lot of conservatives were definitely watching)