The lyncherdom of the Social Justice Racket requires absolute obedience at all times in order to avoid stepping on the wrong eggshell and being targeted with enormous social pressure (like your family telling you kill yourself because of tweet that got interpreted wrong). You can't effectively make jokes in any real sense when you are scared of abuse.
Simultaneously, the humor on the left is nothing but clapter, rather than laughter. This is because it is an extension of the lyncherdom: a purely virtue signaling act to the people around you that agree with what is good. The reason the left can laugh at completely unfunny jokes that target their specified outgroup is because it is a pressure relief, like normal comedy, but for entirely different reasons.
For normal comedy, it can function as a pressure relief valve for tense situations that could be publicly taboo. There's more to it than that, but that's one aspect. For the Social Justice Racket's culture of lyncherdom, it's a pressure relief valve for people knowing that they won't get hurt if they target the right people with the right rhetoric.
You can see this at work in audiences who look around shiftily to see if anyone else is laughing.
Imagine the sound of a woke crowd "laughing," the hissing through a hundred noses, the spastic jazz-hands flapping . . . sort of like a wake where nobody's sorry about the asshole in the box.
If any of you have been able to stomach watching any mainstream/lefty "comedy" the last several years, you'll notice that the punchlines are no longer meant to elicit laughter, they're meant to elicit applause. Comedy for them is no longer about humor. This is most obvious in late night shows. It's just another medium coopted by globalists to push their narratives and brainwashing. Applause is simply a way for the woke audience to virtue signal, and affirm their adherence to the message, and to brainwash the viewer on what the authorities (comedians) and majority (audience) think. "Yes, comedian and audience think A, I also think A, I'm a good person and right because everyone else thinks that way." It's just another form of mind control, using well known globalist logical fallacies, like appeals to authority and appeals to popularity. Inherent to this brainwashing is the threat: "repeat and believe the message, or you'll be cast out and become our enemy."
This reminds me of how in Hamilton Miranda added a pause to Yorktown after the line "Immigrants we get the job done" for the audience to clap and this is presented without shame as a good thing (not to mention neither Hamilton or Lafayette were actually immigrants; Hamilton was an internal migrant and Lafayette wasn't any type of migrant at all).
100%. If you can suffer through a "Real Time" episode, you see this all the time. Maher pandering for applause breaks totally fucks up the coherence of the routine.
Despite his rational response to the Troon epidemic, he's still a class A douchebag.
I think Elon’s account is run by another writer or team like most are because I know folks that work directly with him and I can’t fathom how he’d have the time to even Tweet much considering how demanding he is of everyone and how much he works and with such odd hours. Then again, he is basically the best autistic 4Channer.
Still, I’m glad he’s deciding to do all this. One of the most powerful and influential people in human history is standing against leftism and I fully support that.
I actually heard a joke involving this, which went along the lines of:
Rightie: "A man goes into a bar..."
Leftie: "Hey, that's sexist against women."
Rightie: "Alright, so a woman walks into a bar..."
Leftie: "Hey, that's sexist against trans people."
Rightie: "Alright, so a trans person walks into a bar..."
Leftie: "Hey, that could infringe against their religion if they don't drink"
-discussion goes on for 6hrs-
Rightie: "Alright, so someone or some thing goes into some space..."
-Leftie thinks it over for about 20mins- "Yeah, that's not funny. You suck at comedy."
The lyncherdom of the Social Justice Racket requires absolute obedience at all times in order to avoid stepping on the wrong eggshell and being targeted with enormous social pressure (like your family telling you kill yourself because of tweet that got interpreted wrong). You can't effectively make jokes in any real sense when you are scared of abuse.
Simultaneously, the humor on the left is nothing but clapter, rather than laughter. This is because it is an extension of the lyncherdom: a purely virtue signaling act to the people around you that agree with what is good. The reason the left can laugh at completely unfunny jokes that target their specified outgroup is because it is a pressure relief, like normal comedy, but for entirely different reasons.
For normal comedy, it can function as a pressure relief valve for tense situations that could be publicly taboo. There's more to it than that, but that's one aspect. For the Social Justice Racket's culture of lyncherdom, it's a pressure relief valve for people knowing that they won't get hurt if they target the right people with the right rhetoric.
You can see this at work in audiences who look around shiftily to see if anyone else is laughing.
Imagine the sound of a woke crowd "laughing," the hissing through a hundred noses, the spastic jazz-hands flapping . . . sort of like a wake where nobody's sorry about the asshole in the box.
If any of you have been able to stomach watching any mainstream/lefty "comedy" the last several years, you'll notice that the punchlines are no longer meant to elicit laughter, they're meant to elicit applause. Comedy for them is no longer about humor. This is most obvious in late night shows. It's just another medium coopted by globalists to push their narratives and brainwashing. Applause is simply a way for the woke audience to virtue signal, and affirm their adherence to the message, and to brainwash the viewer on what the authorities (comedians) and majority (audience) think. "Yes, comedian and audience think A, I also think A, I'm a good person and right because everyone else thinks that way." It's just another form of mind control, using well known globalist logical fallacies, like appeals to authority and appeals to popularity. Inherent to this brainwashing is the threat: "repeat and believe the message, or you'll be cast out and become our enemy."
This reminds me of how in Hamilton Miranda added a pause to Yorktown after the line "Immigrants we get the job done" for the audience to clap and this is presented without shame as a good thing (not to mention neither Hamilton or Lafayette were actually immigrants; Hamilton was an internal migrant and Lafayette wasn't any type of migrant at all).
100%. If you can suffer through a "Real Time" episode, you see this all the time. Maher pandering for applause breaks totally fucks up the coherence of the routine.
Despite his rational response to the Troon epidemic, he's still a class A douchebag.
Do you have a link to the original tweet? (even nitter)
I'm kinda curious what Hard Drive's comeback was.
Edit: Here is their article. It's not terrible but not that great either.
Wew, Hard drive's writers should stick to video games.
Nah, their videogame-humor isn't funny either.
They lack any understanding of videogames, so their takes are only bad faith and not funny.
Are you implying they're a game journalist actually worth reading?
I'm not necessarily doubting you I'm just surprised such a thing exists.
They're not game journalists, they're satirists.
not those, either.
I think Elon’s account is run by another writer or team like most are because I know folks that work directly with him and I can’t fathom how he’d have the time to even Tweet much considering how demanding he is of everyone and how much he works and with such odd hours. Then again, he is basically the best autistic 4Channer.
Still, I’m glad he’s deciding to do all this. One of the most powerful and influential people in human history is standing against leftism and I fully support that.
Not really, they are anti-gamergate. They want to make fun of gamers. Babylonbee is pretty funny most of the time, even with their clear agenda
That's because The Babylon Bee is actually willing to poke fun at everyone, including Christians.
Is this a new development?
they're not funny. they're painfully unfunny fake geeks.
They had a few good stories in the past. This was my favorite.
Though the humor came from it being true more than anything else.
Eh, they've been tryharding after the success of the Bee. That Musk article they replied with is proof of that.