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lemmy.world

"Looks like you hate free speech because you think I'm an asshole" -conservatives, 100% of the time.

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I couldn't say I didn't watch the new Chappelle specials for MONTHS because there's no world where I just didn't give a crap about some old comedian whose been holed up for 20 years - it could only be because I hate free speech and personally killed comedy.

I can not FUCKING STAND this new conservative take that even not paying them attention is hurrdurr woke evil commie shit.

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They then put it back on contin, which helps with the pain. Initially

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lemmy.beru.co

Conservatives: "Hey want to hear a joke?" Transphobia

Followed by hur hur hur.

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lemmy.world

There were, and are, funny conservative comedians. Norm McDonald is the first one who comes to mind, but there have been others.

Examples would be P. J. O'Rourke, Rodney Dangerfield, Joan Rivers, Jeff Foxworthy, Louie Anderson, and my personal favorite, Mike Nelson of Rifftrax and MST3K.

The thing is, none of those comedians were especially political with their humor, or if they were, they hit everyone's politics, and none of them punched down. They aren't really conservative comedians, they're comedians who happen to be conservative.

It's not that conservative comedians aren't funny, it's that what a conservative audience now considers comedy is just someone being mean.

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lemmy.world

Norm McDonald is the first one who comes to mind

Was he conservative? I know conservatives latched on to him. But they also latched on to Steven Colbert in his early years, because they couldn't detect sarcasm.

The thing is, none of those comedians were especially political with their humor,

PJ and Jeff Foxworthy were heavily political. Tim Allen, too. What generally worked for them as comedians was the absurdity (or, perceived absurdity) of a shifting culture.

The observational "I'm just a normal guy and look at all these freaks!" act isn't conservative on it's face. It just doesn't age well, as views change.

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lemmy.world

Remember when douche bags were as shitty as humanly possible to everyone until they were called out just for them to say i WaS jUsT jOkInG?!

Now they preemptively call anything a joke.

Life eh…finds a way.

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lemmy.world

The problem is that humor is often baded upon the subversive of expectations, so if a right wing person want to be funny they have to make a joke that the world is somehow different than the idiotic view they have of it. Often this ends up just describing reality cruelly. For example, a man dressing up as a woman is instantly funny, because as everyone knows there are only two genders and they have roles.

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In a safe place, so she could use them to extort favors out from the other survivors.

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midwest.social

The other 10% is "atheists pray to the nothing, amiright?" Not so much offensive as completely misunderstanding on a deliberate level.

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"You are a horrible person based not on the merits of what you do, but because you exist at all!" taps microphone "Wait, why didn't you laugh? That was the joke!"

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transgenital

Come on, it was right there. Dangling.

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"Ha ha, people who don't fit my extremely narrow worldview of being acceptable suck so much and people like me are so awesome!"

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lemmy.world

Nope. They're all just so unfathomably, insanely stupid that it actually infuriates me

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lemmy.world

I don't know what the appeal is of being a conservative. It's like being a degen on Letterkenny.

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sh.itjust.works

Maybe you're beliefs aren't grounded in sound logic? Or are built on untrue axioms?

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When the "facts over feelings" crowd uses "logic" they're talking about their feelings. If the scientific consensus is against you, you can't "common sense" your way out of it.

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I know anti right-wing humor exists (E.g making fun of right-wing hypocrisy), but does left wing humor exist?

What are some good left wing jokes?

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lemmy.world

Lol, maybe “We don’t change light bulbs. We make you switch back to kerosene lamps.”

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I think now its "we don't change the light bulbs but go back to using magic" because history is also something conservatives don't like

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Joe many republicans does it take to change a log by bulb?

None! Their too busy ????? there dementia!

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q: How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb?

a: pointing at a burned-out bulb: "We already changed it, can't you see it's working perfectly? Nothing's good enough for you people. What do you want us to change it to now, a gas-light?"

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lemm.ee

We've seen different sort of right-wing humour

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4chan is filled to the brim with it and it doesn't really fit with the description in the photo. The "triggering snowflakes" stuff seems a bit old, maybe a bit more Facebook/boomer oriented

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lemmy.world

both left wing and right wing are nutjobs.

misgendering someone is the same as assulting someone???

george floyd would have differed on that.

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awful.systems

yeah keep arguing against shit no one ever says, top tier discourse my dude

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lemmy.world

arguing??

nah my dude,just calling horseshit as i saw it.

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awful.systems

if Lemmy had a tagging system, you'd be "doesn't know the definition of argument."

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i just wish lemmy hadn't attracted those snowflakes from reddit. too left leaning.

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lemmy.world

Someone telling you that you aren't who you are is a really bad thing. It is not dying at the hands of a murderous cop, but it's literally insulting your very being.

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you misgender people for a whole list of reasons,especially so when you present yourself the opposite of what you identified with.

it's an insult to associate misgendering someone as assult when a whole group of people who were once persecuted/assulted/ostracized based on their race,skin color, belief and sexual orientation.

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lemmy.world

You sound like a triggered leftist. You find things offensive, Republicans don't. That's why they're happier than you.

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awful.systems

were you trying to be an example on purpose?

* checks post history * oh.

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Oh hahahahaha you're the person who posts all the anti Trudeau stuff on here everyone downvotes into oblivion. It's the absolute saddest shit you post. You sure fit this meme because not one thing you post is remotely funny.

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