I’d rather not speak Ill of the dead… So I’ll be quiet.

  • JelloBrains@piefed.zip
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    12 days ago

    I don’t necessarily mourn the person, I do mourn the character, I mourn what that character meant for professional wrestling, Hulkamania catapulted wrestling into what we know today, helped bring about Mania, the nWo leads and the Monday Night Wars, that gets us the Attitude Era, which leads to wrestling being a cultural phenomenon we’ll likely never see again. I mourn that, I truly do.

    Yet… Hogan made a career out of telling people to be moral All-American people, behind the scenes he was a union buster, complicit in a steroid scandal, held up others for his own gain, helped destroy a company he knew nothing about, turned out to be a racist and when he was finally allowed to return it’s reported he was telling people not he was sorry just don’t get caught on camera, his daughter quit talking to him because he only wanted a relationship on his terms, he went full Trump, all around he was not upholding the principles of Hulkamania. As a human I mostly find him distasteful, but not to go full on like some did today, Holy Beelzebub I dislike a some of you today even if I understand the sentiment.

    • ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      12 days ago

      Nah, fuck him. In truth, he helped to create the hellscape we all live in now, first through his wrestling career, then through the Gawker lawsuit, and then from helping Donald Trump get elected (by speaking at the RNC, among other things). He deserves every ounce of vile and venom this community can give to him.

      It’s fair to mourn your childhood hero and all, but that Hogan was dead for a long time already, in the graveyard of the myths we outgrow next to Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

    • Neon_Carnivore@lemmy.zipM
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      12 days ago

      Look at it this way:

      Terry Bollea, the racist, fascist, union-busting, habitual liar, is dead.

      Hulkamania, being a real American, fighting for what’s right for every man, saying your prayers and taking your vitamins, never dies.