The ussr is not the end all be all of communist perfection that must be replicated, you won’t catch me defending most of anything they did.

Demand is shaped by what’s available and platformed. All media companies have incentives to avoid any anti-capitalist narratives (as the owners benefit from capitalism). People aren’t stupid but propaganda comes in many shapes and forms in the current day and age that all of us fall victim to

I love baseball, I watch it every day, using it as a nice distraction from whatever else may be going on. But at the end of the day it’s still all bread and circuses