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Entity13 posted...

Yeah, Roseanne being brought back in the first place was the only (minor) surprise in the whole thing. Then they tried to make her a satirical talking head for the hardcore Conservative mindset, because, as we all know, that has never backfired and led those same people they're making fun of to actually relate or believe what they're seeing/hearing.

To be fair, that's (allegedly) not why they did it at all.

Supposedly, Roseanne the actress has gone more conservative in her own life, so she wanted that to be reflected in how her character was presented, so she basically dictated terms to the writers and asked that the character's views were more in-line with the actress' views. The upshot of which being that the character's worldview seemed to be radically opposed to how it was presented in the old series (where she was fairly liberal), to the point of people suggesting that the new episodes basically had to represent some sort of alternate reality (in the same way the last season of the original show apparently did).

Admittedly, I have no idea whether or not any of that's actually true though. A lot of people have been openly gunning for her because she sort of admitted to supporting Trump even before the latest blow-up, so it's possible they fell into a Poe's Law trap and interpreted what was SUPPOSED to be a joke/satire for her actual views (and, to be honest, the same could theoretically be true of her tweets as well), simply because they want to assume she's "THE ENEMY", and punish her for it without bothering to think about any alternatives.

Though I find it hard to fault her for supporting Trump (at least during the election itself), since as far as I can tell, her (stated) motivation seemed to be relative similar to my outlook at the time - she picked what she thought was the lesser evil, because Hillary was, is, and has always been a repugnant human being. When you're handed a ballot and asked to choose between two large piles of shit, it's kind of hard to say that ANYONE made the right choice (and honestly, most of my condemnation goes to both parties for winding up in that position in the first place - neither of them should have wound up anywhere near the final ballot).

It's also possibly worth noting that Roseanne was joking (or not joking) about running as part of the Green Party as recently as six years ago, implying she still skewed fairly Left relatively recently. And she's made tweets even more recently than that that most would interpret as being fairly Left.

I could probably do more in-depth research and get a better grasp on the precise details, and get a better feel for whether she was serious or just trying to be an offensive comedienne (which has literally been the point of her entire career) who misjudged the socio-political climate and got crucified for it, but I won't. Because I didn't give much of a shit about her back when her original show was actually popular, and I can't motivate myself to give anything resembling more of a shit now.

So ultimately, I'm going to treat this story the same way I treat most stories I pick up via social media osmosis. I will ignore it. In a few days, I will completely forget about it. And for the rest of my natural life, I will not give a single solitary fuck about the non-story, while assuming that most of the people who do care on either side of the issue are idiots.


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