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[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

lol she’s a BLUE-HAIRED SJW 🤣🤣🤣 I bet she also posts on TUMBLR about ATTACK HELICOPTER being a GENDER and TRIGGER WARNINGS in her SNOWFLAKE SAFE SPACES 🤣🤣 🤣

That’ll be a few million dollars for that fresh right-wing comedy, please.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

smuglord I'll let you know there's an actual member of congress who identifies as an attack helicopter. Is that too WOKE for you? obama-drone capitalist-woke

https://ballotpedia.org/John_James_(Michigan)

(Seriously his attack helicopter boom boom bang bang blow people up bloodlust is his persona and campaign identity.) CW imperalism, death

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Two first names mf

[–] LeZero@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

John James

Sounds like a euphemism for a prostitute's client

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

LeJohn James

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

And a black Republican to boot. Maybe the face eating leopards won’t notice him as an attack helicopter.

[–] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

Tumblr SJWs were right the whole time, and the only thing they did wrong was eventually back down when they got dunked on.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Conservatives humor is basically "omg can you believe that person is different than me?" 🤯

They can't understand a world full of different people let alone a world where people WANT to be different

[–] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Then they throw the biggest pity party when people make fun of them back. Velma may have been shit, but the main reason why it got so much attention and bad reviews is that white people were knocked down a peg in the show. Something that does NOT sit well with society. They don't believe in bad tactics, only bad targets. At least the whole point of making fun of white people is to show how wrong prejudiced humor is because NO ONE stands for it when white people are the subject of ridicule.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

It's too bad the writer is a terf

[–] star_wraith@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Going back to like the late 90s/early 00s, white people I knew got so mad that Chris Rock would make jokes about “white people be like” and they could make racist jokes about black people in response.

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The unintended punchline of this skit is in the opening scene: a conservative parent actually taking their children to the library to get them some books to read.

The writers even admit it in the set-up - it's the first time that those kids have ever set foot in a library.

[–] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh God, that makes me realize....

Did all the 90's 'tude about being too cool for school eventually ferment into modern fascism?

[–] manuallybreathing@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago

anti-intellectualism is a fucking scurge, tell your mates to read a fucking book

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's tiring after a while, like yeah haha, they have only one joke.

After the n-th time you just get hit by a kind of despair... like they really do have just one joke and they do find it funny.

To be amused by something so lacking, so shallow, unoriginal and indefinitely... is horrifying.

Surely they must get bored of it someday? Like they should act like a human being and yearn for creativity?

But no. They substitute creativity with more of the same, just more potent, more explicit, more controversial and more "politically incorrect". I've seen to that myself.

It really is horrifying.

[–] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Right-wing "humor": "When the FREAK hates us normals for being BETTER THAN IT AND PROUD! We should kill them all for teh lulz! Epic trollz!"

Verdict by society: Not smug

Liberal humor: "When the redneck is in the bread!"

Verdict by society: Fuck you, smug elitist!

Leftist humor: "Ok, imagine a pig that defecated on its enlarged testes."

Verdict by society: IHATEYOUIHATEYOUDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE YOU ARE WORSE THAN THE END OF THE WORLD BECAUSE FOX NEWS SAID SO! DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE!

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t remember who said this, but conservatives can’t do comedy because they already believe in their hyperboles. Like “AOC has a meeting with a demonic baby eater after refusing to condemn Biden” is an onion headline, but the same headline is unironically what conservatives believe in, so the article itself is news and validation to them.

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

i think someone on chapo said that chuds cant tell proper jokes because they just turn into incoherent frothingfash halfway done

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This title could make for a decent skit if it were about what a bunch of sicko freaks homeschoolers are

[–] cryptymythy@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

just freaking out about beverly cleary books

[–] NecroParagon@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

My condolences to you and condemnation to your parents

[–] axont@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

i was headed over to my local Robert E. Lee Library to pick up a copy of Camp of the Saints for my children after listening to our daily Baby Jesus Flag Code affirmation tapes (we only listen to cassette tapes because CDs are made in godless china). Before heading inside I spy the "Whites Only" sign and so I pull out my calipers to ensure the tap water isn't morphing my kids into a different race. I give a thumbs up and confirm my children are still 99% Euro-American skull shape (1% cherokee of course)

you know, normal day. We head over to the library's Race Science section and wouldn't you know it, a blue haired caricature appears to inform us Christianity is illegal and all meat is now estrogen pills

we gather around and scream "Begone woke beast" and the foul transgender turns into steam like that one scene from Serial Experiments Lain. Praise Reagan and vote for tort reform

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

all meat is now estrogen pills

b-but im-vegan badeline-anxious

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago

Fuck Reagan. He was way too woke. We need to murder people to get back on top. Haven't you been paying attention?

[–] buh@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago (6 children)

we all know the right has Only One Joke, but has anyone investigated why that one joke is about gender? 🤔

[–] axont@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

because transphobia is still a borderline acceptable bigotry to hold in day to day American society. The etiquette around how to talk about gender still hasn't found its way into broader, cis normative culture. Believe me, this is a weird thing to say and it's weird to acknowledge, but about half of cis, straight people in the US have absolutely no idea what a transgender person is, and most of them have never even encountered a trans person. I doubt most Americans could define what a trans woman is without conflating trans women with drag queens.

I remember a statistic from like 5 years ago that more Americans claim to regularly talk to angels than Americans who talk to trans people. But because it's a borderline acceptable bigotry, it's going to take precedence. Believe me they would probably rather make jokes about Latinos, disabled people, black people, whatever. They definitely want to make jokes about gay people, but homophobia is slightly on the unacceptable bigotry side of normal culture at the moment, but it's swinging back to the acceptable side.

That's also another reason why a fictional blue haired transgender person is the target of ridicule for right wingers, because trans people aren't real people to them. Trans people are a statistic to them, or something a politician mentions, or the subject of a meme. Trans people aren't actual live humans for them to interact with. Most of their experience mocking trans people probably won't get pushback and when it does, it'll probably be another cis person because that's their social circle. trans people are just a kneejerk reaction of "that person looks weird and weird is bad." The blue hair is thrown in to conflate any sort of young person within a subculture as trans. That must be part of it too, like an angle of "Look at these dumb smug young people, they're so dumb they don't even know what gender they are"

in any case, death to transphobes. They're not even worth wasting bullets on. Throw them in a volcano or kill them with a shovel.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Probably because they were raised to uncritically believe that MAN IS WHEN PENIS AND WOMAN IS WHEN VAGINA is some sort of One Universal Truth™ so they are terminally stuck in their 1950's understanding of the world, and anything that challenges that One Universal Truth™ must be derided as some kind of "mental illness" because clearly our understandings of biology or sociology or any other anthropological field are incapable of being updated over time, because that would mean they would have to actually learn something new, and god forbid they try to learn anything new beyond grade school.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

they were raised

Worth remembering that the overwhelming fanatical obsession with trans people is only a few years old. Before that it was gay people, before that it was "Urban youth", and so on and so forth. They can be re-trained to switch to a new target in less than a year.

[–] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Trans bad 40%" is the Amerikkkan equivalent of "Well at loist our bloody skewls dun look loike Call uv Du'ee!"

[–] NecroParagon@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

I heard that so clearly in my head lol

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

to give the devil his due they also have racist jokes

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

It used to be about non-believers but then we killed god.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

It used to be about non-believers but then we killed god.

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

I'm feeling generous, so here's a second joke for them:

How can you tell a library has gone woke?

spoilerThere are books besides the Bible, Mein Kampf, and The Art of the Deal that haven't been burnt yet

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

Conservatives don't have jokes.

They start by attempting to parody something they don't like, but get so worked up by a character they made up that they can never reach the punchline before they've blown their load listing everyone they hate.

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Why yes, libraries do tend to be "woke". That said, my local branch is lacking in some commie/anarchist classics. Like, they didn't have the Bread book, but they had Kropotkin's autobiography and book on the French revolution. One of those copies was so old it didn't even have a barcode.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You should be able to get the missing titles through inter-library loans

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Damn, I always forget about that. I'm generally guilty of just wandering into the library and collecting five or so books with varying help of the search engines and librarians.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Librarians need to stop being woke and start being ruthless and heavily armed smdh marx-guns-blazing

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Librarians need to stop being woke and start being ruthless and heavily armed smdh marx-guns-blazing

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

ahem

The rules say you have to link the content.

https://youtu.be/xcybIRS2W8s

Your punishment is that you must watch it, entirely.

Edit: holy fuck that was torture.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

"Mommy mommy! This woke virtue signalling liberal communofascist islam shakira moon landing soy text book says that god didn't create America for the glory of the eternal white race! Silly liberals!"

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Just reading the title and seeing who made it tells me the entire plot of the sketch. If I were to engage in the self-harm of actually watching the thing I would get absolutely zero surprises.