Nov 10, 2021 • 1 min read
Comedy and Intent
This topic is way over done, and this video is way too long. But despite that, I’ve never felt so educated by such low brow comedy. This video made me feel more enlightened about comedy, and the conservative mindset, and after only a couple repititions I couldn’t help but laugh at the embarrarssingly juvinile example jokes.
I don’t have faith many people will give this feature length rant the time of day, so luckily they have some nicely laid out chapters were you might be able to picke out something that interests you. I was personally piqued by the examination of the Babylon Bee, which actually starts at the conservatives would rather chapter, then concludes in its dedicated one.
- 1:39 - Why Isn’t Gutfeld Funny?
- 11:33 - Dave Chapelle, Gender and Sex
- 16:33 - Why Isn’t Dennis Miller Funny, Babe?
- 21:54 - Conservatives Would Rather ’Trigger The Libs’ Than Be Funny
- 31:03 - How Steven Crowder and Conservatives Use “Trolling” To Avoid Criticism
- 43:90 - Cruelty Is The Punchline And Also Pretty Boring
- 47:35 - It’s Not Hard To Make Fun Of Liberals, You Guys
- 49:34 - Conservative Are Funny
- 56:13 - How Trump Changed Comedy
- 01:01:48 - The Babylon Bee Identifies As Not Funny
- 01:05:56 - Conservatives Have Been Trying To Weaponize Comedy For Years
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Nov 4, 2021 • 2 min read
purgey
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the series has an approval rating of 42% based on 38 reviews, with an average rating of 5.51/10. The website’s critical consensus reads, “Bloated and boring, The Purge kills its own fleetingly fun premise and proves that not all stories work better on the small screen.” Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 44 out of 100 based on 13 critics, indicating “mixed or average reviews”.
^ WTF is this shish? ^
I’ve watched through both seasons of the Purge and I’m pertty confident… like, sure it’s not for everyone, but “bloated and boring” Oh no no no no.
Sure, there’s a fair amount of talking heads in season 2, but I’ve sat through boring never-intended-to-end netflix shows. I’ve given up on series that clearly were not going anywhere. I stopped mid story Scream and I know what you did last summer because this show was more interesting.
Nearly every scene has development and twists. What pushed me over the edge to check it out was she fact that the series creator stepped out of the way to make space for minority writers, now every beat of the series seems to hit home.
The two series are different stories. Each has a cast of characters that have independent struggles, then backstories, then they all converge in some contrived way. But the action and twists along the way are constantly invigorarating. Yes, some are predictable, but in a believable way… imo… that’s definitely subjective. But I was pulled in…. The ratings for this show makes it seem like few peoiple could be pulled in. I don’t think so. It’s realisticly not for everyone, but I love the misdirections, and how the plot went from inane action action slock to year long addiction, decentiztion, and balance of personal vs societal justice…. to action slock… the show was cancelled. They worked with what they had. Man, what a blast. I can imagine where season 3 might have went with the attemps of recovery from violent addictions in a world were violence was encouraged within provacative, hypocritcal bounds. Great show. I wish there was more.
… oh wait, I’ve only seen 2 of the films. Ka-ching!
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Nov 2, 2021 • 3 min read
Covid Conundrum
My boss often jokes that he’ll end up in a covid concentration camp for not being vaccinated, but it’s pretty clear that he thinks that is a real possibility. He’s definitely not the only one I know to consider vaccines and passports comparable to the holocaust, but lets be real: the absolute worst the vaccinated can do to the unvaccinated is vaccinate them. There’s no point rounding up, capturing, or murdering the unvaccinated. The most dystopian thing that could happen is police restraint, then a shot in the arm. I’m not condoning that, but that’s the worst that can happen to the unvaccinated. Then they’re back in the same boat as the rest of us.
“Oh, but it’s about government control. They’re hiding the facts of natural immunity so that global heath industries get rich off us being sick.” … Okay. I wish we wouldn’t waste breathe on vaccine talk when that’s the real issue. Being suspicious of authority isn’t a bad thing, but this talk has some very hard to swallow points. It would require secretive, inside-job, double agent type work in competing private companies, congruent public firms and universities across the globe to come up with vaccines that aren’t actually supposed to be effective and false journals that all support the same narrative. The independent organizations would need to coordinate their discoveries with each other, while keeping their workers, students, researchers, and subjects in the dark about any evidence that doesn’t align with their goal, while making personal sacrifices to keep up the facade so that a few people at the top can reap the supposed benefits… of which also are not very clear. Power. Money. Oooo. Enough said, I guess?
People have always loved to talk about these types carefully crafted tyrannies. Whether it’s your jerk-ass boss at work, or the parents of a rebellious teen. If we don’t get our way, it’s easy to think that the people in charge want to harm us. But we know what major oppression, segregation, and genocide all look like in the real world. Especially these days. They all involve outsider groups who can’t change who they are, and typically shouldn’t need to. Visible minorities, the sexually and neurologically diverse, the poor… anyone who doesn’t fit into our economic system. Incidentally, these are the groups who will be least likely to access the resources needed for natural immunity techniques to supposedly be effective.
Did you get that, you oppressed unvaccinated? Your definition of oppression is being in the same situation as everybody else, while your solution automatically disadvantages the groups of people who are actually already oppressed.
Otherwise, natural immunity is literally what we’ve been doing without vaccines, and its killed 5 million people in less than two years.
Where I live, we’re kind of at the point where it’s like, yeah, enough of us have been vaccinated that I don’t believe we can reasonably do better. I can totally get behind the fact that our society isn’t nearly nuanced enough to handle this situation in a satisfying manner, and I do think we need to keep looking for other options, but don’t be the tool who actively fights to push us all backwards. It’s exhausting and makes no sense.
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