Nope. They're all just so unfathomably, insanely stupid that it actually infuriates me
this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
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Maybe you're beliefs aren't grounded in sound logic? Or are built on untrue axioms?
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.
I don't know what the appeal is of being a conservative. It's like being a degen on Letterkenny.
That is shockingly correct
"What do degens like? Hanging bedsheets in windows. Putting gasoline on fires"
Conservative "humor" is always dumb, blunt and obvious.
conservatives: edgy humor
liberals: conservatives are nazis
conservatives: WHAT NO YOU CAN'T SAY THAT
Your boos mean nothing! I've seen what makes you cheer.
Oh no, comedy has gone woke.
don't tell George Carlin
I can't wait to hear what his AI Force Ghost has to say
such tragedy!
some flavour of rotten asshole
"Ha ha, people who don't fit my extremely narrow worldview of being acceptable suck so much and people like me are so awesome!"
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?
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?"
The Onion is chock-a-block full of them.
George Carlin has entered the chat.
Lol, maybe “We don’t change light bulbs. We make you switch back to kerosene lamps.”
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
"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!"
We've seen different sort of right-wing humour
Like what?
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
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.
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.
Norm was definitely conservative.
Although he is not a U.S. citizen, he has publicly stated his support for Republican politicians George W. Bush and John McCain and has said that he considers Ronald Reagan to be the best President in U.S. history.
Very funny joke. I laughed uncontrollably for an hour
The other 10% is "atheists pray to the nothing, amiright?" Not so much offensive as completely misunderstanding on a deliberate level.
The misunderstanding is deliberate. That way they have something additional to attack.
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.
After all, where would a woman put the coconuts?
In a safe place, so she could use them to extort favors out from the other survivors.
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