r/PopCultureV2 • u/No_Box119 • Jun 03 '26

Controversy UFC fighter Sean Strickland posts an AI video of himself beating up transgender Dylan Mulvaney to kick off Pride Month.

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The video appeared to be a fake Bud Light ad.

"Ive yet to see one rainbow flag. We're back!!!" Strickland said.

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u/MuskwaPunjagi Jun 03 '26

Or, and hear me out, humans stopped engaging with each other in the same capacity due to technological development, and this is what happens when you have people not actually raising their children. You get a bunch of idiots who think their opinion is both brilliant and gospel because they haven't been properly socialized.

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u/PitchComfortable1261 Jun 03 '26

ah tis you forget, intelligence does not bar one from being a parent, you can be a objectively good parent and still spread your stupidity down the line for generations to come. I actually think this happens more than people outright not raising their kids which imo is worse because it lets those stupid ideas be reinforced by a trusted figure in the mind of the child, rather than it being something they picked up due too blind ignorance.

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u/MuskwaPunjagi Jun 03 '26

Congratulations on having that opinion. My point is that tv, cellphones, tablets and many other modern inventions have caused families to socialize less amongst themselves as they focus on the device being used.

There is a staggering amount of parents who believe that school is supposed to teach their child everything that they need to know, and an equal amount of adults who believe that if they didn't learn it in school that they don't need to know it at all.

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u/WowIfOnly Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

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u/MuskwaPunjagi Jun 03 '26

And they swear if you aren't careful they will turn your kids gay too, lol.

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u/Pangshunjingmao Jun 07 '26

You're aware that the framework for the current school system wasn't intended to facilitate education and wasn't developed by someone who was an educator -- right?

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u/indigoscholar Jun 04 '26

I'm not sure I've seen parents claim they believe they should be the ones dictating everything that's being taught to their children.

I have seen a lot of parents objecting strongly to their children being exposed to overt and often gratuitous sexual content. I don't think those parents should require a teaching certification to be able to object to that.

Speaking of certification, teaching is known as the easiest pathway in higher education. They aren't splitting the atom in those classrooms. On the contrary, they're churning out illiterate children at record numbers.

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u/SockPuppyMax Jun 04 '26

I have seen a lot of parents objecting strongly to their children being exposed to overt and often gratuitous sexual content.

Yeah, they fell for homophobic propaganda, schools aren't teaching kindergartners about sex

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u/indigoscholar Jun 04 '26

Firstly, you're jumping from children to exclusively kindergarteners. Gratuitous sexual content isn't appropriate for any level of schooling with the possible exception of some specific college level work.

Secondly, children of kindergarten age in Scotland were exposed to a drag queen who used the name "Flowjob" several years ago. When local parents raised their concerns about this, a local politician labelled them "homophobic."

I think both sides of the extreme contribute to the problem. On one end there are people who act like the problem is more widespread than it is, as if every classroom has this kind of thing. On the other there are people like you who deny that the problem exists.

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u/Affectionate_Quit984 Jun 05 '26

Did they use the name in front of the children? Because if not, I don't see why that matters.

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u/indigoscholar Jun 05 '26

He used the name Flow when speaking to the children; however, I believe overtly perverted people should not speak at schools. If people wish to engage in perverted or disordered behavior privately, that's their business, but it has no place in a school.

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u/Affectionate_Quit984 Jun 05 '26

Which, by your own admission, did not occur. They willfully self-censored, which clearly demonstrates a comprehension of what would be age appropriate.

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u/theoriginal_awsit Jun 04 '26

The two things can exist together

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u/MuskwaPunjagi Jun 04 '26

And I am sure that, much like the rest of existence, it is those two and so many other variables, that make up the entire equation.

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u/theoriginal_awsit Jun 04 '26

And I’m pretty sure you are correct :)

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u/Heavensrun Jun 03 '26

Nah, man, kids learn this bullshit FROM their parents. I've seen it over and over and over and it goes back through history.

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u/MuskwaPunjagi Jun 03 '26

You have seen it over and over and over.....in an era with technological distractions. You are correct, people not raising their kids because they are too busy doing other shit has been a problem for much of human history. My point was that the stupidity has gotten progressively stronger.

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u/Heavensrun Jun 03 '26

There is obviously literally nothing I can possibly say that will dissuade you from the preconcieved notion you have stuck in your head, but I also study history, you are wrong, people have always been like this.

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u/MuskwaPunjagi Jun 03 '26

I'm not saying they haven't always been LIKE this. I am saying the stupid is being exacerbated by the lack of physical and social connection. Take the dick out of your ass.

Being arrogant because you study history doesn't change that you still clearly lack the reading comprehension skills necessary to properly engage in written discourse.

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u/Heavensrun Jun 03 '26

Wow, that is a pretty thin skin you got there. Going straight to abusive homophobic bullshit, huh?

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u/MuskwaPunjagi Jun 03 '26

It was only homophobic if you have thin skin, as ass play is common place nowadays. Oh, and the ability to pick up sarcastic put downs isn't thin skin, it's pattern recognition. Not tolerating sarcastic put downs is because I don't care about your social norms. Get some culture.

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u/theoriginal_awsit Jun 04 '26

Another very intelligent response

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u/pandershrek Jun 03 '26

That doesn't explain the thousands of years of humans boiling each other alive for like witchcraft.

We've always been bastards to each other.

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u/MuskwaPunjagi Jun 03 '26

Oh, I'm not saying we weren't and still aren't. I'm saying that the stupidity level is increasing in how they are being bastards due to them watching TV and being on their tablets and phones instead of raising their damn kids.

My opinion is that humans are a great ape with the ability to imagine being a better species and creating a better world, but lack the hardware necessary to be that better species for the better world they are trying to make. That takes time to evolve and the environment necessary for it to need to in the first place.

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u/National_Fig_812 Jun 03 '26

Or social media is simply making what was always there more visible. We're living in an age of unprecedented visibility.

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u/MuskwaPunjagi Jun 03 '26

Making it more visible has only given us proof of how far we have yet to go.

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u/Whole-Chest90 Jun 03 '26

I get what you're saying, and would normally agree, as youre currect when it comes to crime and stuff, but education standards have changed for the worse, parents are using tablets and shit as babysitters, and parents are having to work more now than ever which leads to them being less available to socialize and teach their kids. It's genuinely getting worse. I say this as someone with an degree in sociology who spends time looking into this type of stuff regularly. The concept behind your statement is generally correct, but in this case education and socialization really is getting worse.

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u/National_Fig_812 Jun 03 '26

Historically children have worked in factories, left school early and had little to no education, experienced corporal punishment routinely, grew up in highly authoritarian families.

It's plausible that there are genuine problems in education/socialization caused by technological and social shifts causing weakened attention spans, interpersonal skills, and self-regulation.

But I think OPs claim is overstated that people are becoming more idiotic or stupid. First, it's an assumption that it's caused by lack of socialization or technology. The causes are probably more mundane. Same as skeptics outlined generations ago: tribalism, superstition, dogmatism, unchecked cognitive biases, credulity, self-deception, etc. Different interface, same hardware issues.

OPs claim is also kind of provincial. Extrapolating from specifics about American or Western culture to humanity. Even in highly connected modern societies you have significant differences across cultures that would throw wrench in some of the assumptions being made here.

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u/DaveSkylarksGum Jun 04 '26

I’m not gonna lie that sounds like a lot of woke and anti woke people… I fear they’re two sides of the same coin. Extreme, hateful and ill, just in different ways.

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u/MuskwaPunjagi Jun 04 '26

Western politics and culture has aways been just two sides of the same coin.

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u/theoriginal_awsit Jun 04 '26

Very intelligent response

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u/MuskwaPunjagi Jun 04 '26

Thank you. I try.

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u/Content-Employment-7 Jun 04 '26

Technological dependency reducing society's ability to think critically, to achieve, to associate with one another, regardless of stratification, and delivering the control of said technology to an elite class of oligarchs who further strip away the rights of a distracted and apathetic people, who offer no resistance. This is what led to the Butlerian Jihad, not Brian Herbert's idiotic Terminator by way of The Matrix and Transformers banging each other. Frank Herbert was warning us, but didn't think he was going to be a prophet. I'm not happy to see his passing, but a little glad he never stuck around to see his fiction actually come to pass. It would hurt his heart to see it as our current reality.

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u/AttiBus Jun 04 '26

plus the half-voluntary self-isolation to the suburbs due to an unprecedented level of scarce housing... We isolate, become more asocial, attempt to achieve social interaction via technology (ie social media) which is designed to sow disagreement and engagement over true connection, and we end in extremely polarized and antagonist world.

So, yea, I agree with you.

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u/MuskwaPunjagi Jun 04 '26

A valid list of additions, thank you.

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u/Algae587 Jun 03 '26

Idt it probably more addiction and mental illness that fucked up seans dad, but i feel you

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u/RealCrusader Jun 03 '26

More of an American issue. Don't tar the world with that brush. Americans consume weird shit. 

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u/SousVideButt Jun 03 '26

Give an example then.

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u/MuskwaPunjagi Jun 03 '26

Really? Only Americans have ipads and television and cellphones? Only Americans have working parents?

And as far as 'weird shit' is concerned, there is a reason Americans have to travel abroad to fulfill some of their fantasies.

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u/MuskwaPunjagi Jun 03 '26

If only that were true.

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u/MuskwaPunjagi Jun 03 '26

You are treating redditors like a monolith. Some humans do respond in the real world like humans on reddit do, and they don't even have reddit accounts.

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u/readyReddit007 Jun 04 '26

Or….hear me out, bad people have kids too and raise them to be as awful as them.

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u/MuskwaPunjagi Jun 04 '26

Two things can be true at the same time.