hey, just a suggestion, but maybe don't support this company? even if they're "on a hot streak" or whatever the fuck excuse internet wrestling fans are making this week? - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

sgoa.st • 10 days ago

hey, just a suggestion, but maybe don't support this company? even if they're "on a hot streak" or whatever the fuck excuse internet wrestling fans are making this week?

Reposted from Jordan Uhl

Paul Levesque, aka Triple H, is seated right behind Linda McMahon at her confirmation hearing for Secretary of Education

Comments

mhughes.bsky.social•10 days ago

I stopped watching when they made the deal with Saudi Arabia. I admit I still watch the royal rumble every year, but that’s it. There’s plenty of other wrestling out there to enjoy.

sgoa.st•10 days ago

that was my point of no return as well.

orimarpot.bsky.social•10 days ago

never liked wwe, it was always sexist and corrupt

iankumohara.bsky.social•10 days ago

ugh. yeah. i'm having a lot of feelings about *everything* now, especially with all charges against Vince Jr getting dropped.

sgoa.st•10 days ago

i get that there are a lot of actually good people are employed by that company and i want nothing but the best for them, but i can't ignore that for every worker that's just getting a paycheck, there's a ghoul in hq empowering the destruction of the social safety net off of yeet shirt profits.

sgoa.st•10 days ago

like, this isn't even tribalism. watch njpw. watch sendai girls. watch your local shindie. watch wxw. watch old tapes of the territories. watch mlw for all i fucking care. just stop willingly pouring money and social capital into one of the key contributors to the hellscape we found ourselves in.

segadelorean.bsky.social•10 days ago

I can't decide what is worse - the people who knowingly keep supporting this corrupt hellhole despite everything or the clowns who gladly work there and help them whitewash all of their corruption.

phoenixjustice.is.tired.fyi•10 days ago

their constant excuses are "I have to support the wrestlers I like!"

...the wrestlers that are knowingly working for people like that???

then try and act like YOU'RE somehow wrong in the discussion.

Make it make sense.

sgoa.st•10 days ago

i think that it's important to consider that unless you're self employed, there's a very good chance you also work for someone who you ethically don't align with. the workers aren't to blame here, but also there are ways to support the wrestlers you care about without giving their boss a damn cent.

sgoa.st•10 days ago

fan art, sharing their independent work, supporting causes they promote in the case of sami zayn, basically building their value so they'll have better options come contract time.

phoenixjustice.is.tired.fyi•10 days ago

obviously no place is perfect, but there's still a scale of corruption and the lack of accountability and people wanting to see it fixed.

they pretty much just shrug and say 'well what can you do?'

Uh...more than just letting it continue to happen???

truther-dare.bsky.social•10 days ago

Sami has to speak in riddles to oppose genocide but then we get this shit. I stopped watching after Logan Paul and mcafee were being transphobic during the Olympics and got no pushback. Never watching that shit again. I’m good with AEW

fiend-slayer24.bsky.social•10 days ago

I personally gave hunter the benefit of the doubt until now. Was really happy with him taking over, didn’t think he was this bad

sgoa.st•10 days ago

corporate america pro-tip: unless the company issues a full throated denouncement of it's previous actions AND a timed roadmap on how it's going to correct it's wrongs, assume that any changes to leadership are a shuffling of chairs in order to calm activist investors. the ship still sails the same.

fiend-slayer24.bsky.social•10 days ago

It didn’t help the successor is his son in law lmao they didn’t look very far. I also wanted to think maybe him and Stephanie might’ve been on the outs with Vince too tho

truther-dare.bsky.social•10 days ago

The booking was better than Vince. The man? Still the same.

fiend-slayer24.bsky.social•10 days ago

Wish I knew sooner. And even the bookings been mostly meh lol

chuckgrape.bsky.social•10 days ago

Trips has been an amazing booker from what I hear, but he's surrounded by too many chuds for me to give him the benefit of the doubt.

batsdingersatk.bsky.social•10 days ago

He’s been around Vince and his crew too long for me to trust him

crumbledcolumns.bsky.social•10 days ago

But wait there is this funny man who says yeet, you see, so maybe we shouldn’t be too hasty

darthburkie.bsky.social•10 days ago

Fuck the WWE

grudgingsignup.bsky.social•9 days ago

he's just there in case someone runs in with a folding chair, ha ha ha

but no seriously fuck these people

paddys.bsky.social•10 days ago

WWE has always been dogshit (replies: muted)

monokne.bsky.social•10 days ago

A lot of people aren’t interested in politics.

If people made their entertainment decisions based on bad people in management, they’d never watch a TV show or film again.

sgoa.st•10 days ago

this argument rings real fuckin' hollow when you're framing this "aw shucks, everyone makes questionable decisions" narrative around one of trumps' top ten donors and a literal 2x cabinet pick.

monokne.bsky.social•10 days ago

I’m not doing that.

chuckgrape.bsky.social•10 days ago

I quit the night they paraded the Susan Komen ladies around the ring. It's a dodgy company exploiting breast cancer and my grandmother had breast cancer. It was the last straw and I don't regret it a bit. There's tons of other good wrestling out there. I don't need them. Fuck the fed!

fiend-slayer24.bsky.social•10 days ago

Disgusting. I knew he had one foot in but this actually surprised me and I totally agree with you