One man with courage is a majority
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Old Soviet joke:
Stalin was giving an address to the Plenipotentiary when someone in the crowd sneezed. He paused, glanced up from the podium and demanded, "Who was that?"
Silence.
Stalin said, "All those seated in the first row, stand up!" They all stood, and he had his guards shoot them all. "Now, comrades, who sneezed?"
Still silence. "Second row, stand up!" They are shot as well.
Stalin asked a third time, "Who was that who sneezed?" and finally, a shaking, timid hand raised up in the back of the crowd. Stalin looked right at him and said, "Bless you Comrade!" Then went back to his speech.
Russian political humor is always dark.
An old lady goes into a bakery and says, "Do you have any meat?"
The baker replies, "No, you have the wrong shop. This is a bakery: we don't have any bread. You want the butcher across the street: That's where they don't have any meat."
Dark humor is the best humor. If you can make a joke about any topic, you can help to overcome dark realities and make important issues stick in people's minds.
There's an old saying that I love: "Nothing captures human interests more than human tragedy."
People remember dark humor because it leaves an impact. It doesn't have to make people laugh but they'll definitely react. That's more than will happen if you just tell them something.
Let's give it a try.
Recently, the US had a failed drone strike in Afghanistan.
Where did the children go who were in the area when the bomb hit?
Everywhere.