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Another Explanation for Why the Left Can't Meme.

Discussion in 'Political Opinions & Beliefs' started by Ming the Merciless, May 10, 2019.

  1. Ming the Merciless

    Ming the Merciless Newly Registered

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    When someone makes a joke, especially if it's at your expense, you have two choices: you can either find the comedy in it and laugh or you can get offended. We also know that the more we do something, the better we get at it. As such, if you are looking for the comedy in things you will get better at looking for the comedy in things and by extension you might also get better at making jokes. Similarly, if you are looking for reasons to get offended, particularly when it comes to a complex and occasionally contradictory ideology, you will actually get better at being offended.

    That's right: being offended is a skill. A skill that some people go to great lengths to develop. And since most memes are also jokes, this explains why the left can't meme. The art of being offended has grown to such a degree of specialization that those who are masters in it often seem to have no room in their brains for contradictory skillsets; you can't normally see the comedy in something, laugh at it and be offended at the same time because they are polar opposite emotional and social responses. The more you laugh, the less serious you being offended appears to be and therefore no one really does that. It's one or the other.

    We all know which kinds of people have been gravitating towards which ends of the political spectrum. It's true that teams of writers with a lot of time on their hands can still make the late night clowns seem funny even though they are leftists but the average western liberal today is about as humorous as a medieval nun, with none of the good qualities. Sad!
     
    Ming the Merciless, May 10, 2019
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  2. Frank

    Frank Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Wow, Ming...something we can agree on. We are 5 x 5 on this.

    Oh, well...with a minor change. Where you used "left"...I'm sure you meant "right."

    Yeah...the American right has no sense of humor at all.

    Fact is, a guy wearing a MAGA hat asked me, "Do you know the left has no sense of humor?"...

    ...and I responded, "No, but if you hum a few bars, I probably can fake it."

    The guy never even smiled.

    NO SENSE OF HUMOR AT ALL.
     
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