stroopwafel said:
As someone who identifies as neither Right nor Left I have to say the Right definitely has a sense of humor the Left sorely lacks.
I have to say though, you have to be really wel versed into meme culture as I don't even get these obtuse references before someone explains it.
Oh yeah, have you even seen these right wing memes? They're off the fucking chain.
I mean, "free helicopter rides". Fucking hilarious right. Who doesn't like helicopters, they're just inherently funny because they're like planes with no wings. Also, the Pinochet regime used to kill its political opponents by throwing them out of helicopters over the sea so their bodies wouldn't be found, and that's funny because what if that but people I don't like.
Genius humour. Just genius. Noone on the left could match this kind of intense multi-layered satirical masterpiece. It's like they're playing chess on so many dimensions we can't even count them, but the chess is comedy and the pieces are murdering people who you politically disagree with or think are inferior for some reason. Just. How? How could a human mind produce such perfection. It's incredible, it's like poetry, but not shit and boring like poetry.
Meanwhile, what have we on the left got? What comedy material could we possibly have? I mean, shit, we're inherently disadvantaged because the right wing
literally never produces cringe. It gives us nothing. Fucking hell, have you
seen gamergate propaganda images? That shit is classy. Just so damn classy. Also, the right is mostly heterosexual white dudes, and those guys are simultaneously incredibly thick skinned and self-depreciating and also famed for their good humour and
joie de vivre.
I mean fuck. How do we compete with that? I'm honestly surprised we can even manage basic sarcasm..
Still, "I identify as an attack helicopter" is pretty good. I prefer it when we laugh at it for being a bad yet unfortunately accurate stereotype of crap right wing attempts at "humour" though.