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...Because they're the only group that's actually good at it? 
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Mar 7, 2018 11:32
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But the Right is engaging in it all the time though? Mostly unintentionally but still
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Mar 7, 2018 12:19
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I heard a Ted Cruz political ad on an NPR segment this morning and whoo boy. https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/ted-cruz-pockets-primary-win-trolls-dem-catchy-new-campaign-ad/ It got me to thinking about how conservatives are anti big government except when it comes to things like sanctuary cities. There's no bigger Gestapo than ICE right now but they're totally into it. What happened to "State's Rights"?
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Mar 7, 2018 13:00
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BiggerBoat posted:What happened to "State's Rights"? "States rights" from the beginning was always about preserving slavery and then Jim Crow. From the Fugitive Slave Act (northern states forced to return escaped slaves) and it being illegal for any state in the Confederacy to ban slavery, it was never really about giving states more autonomy, except when it aligned with their political goals (usually upholding white supremacy).
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Mar 7, 2018 14:27
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That should be clear from the Confederate Constitution more or less being the same as the old one but saying that member states couldn't outlaw slavery.
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Mar 7, 2018 14:28
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"How come blacks get to walk around with their pants so low? If I let my pants fall to my knees, I get arrested! Do the blacks just like showing off their asses? Is that it? Maybe that's why they're such good friends with the gays! What, I'm just asking questions!" *wacky expression, shrug, racist homphobic applause* Edit: actually I think I accidentally used a Trevor Noah stand-up bit by mistake, sorry
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Mar 7, 2018 14:39
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Because the Conservative idea of comedy is Larry the Cable Guy.
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Mar 7, 2018 14:55
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Because you suck at it and the only jokes you say are repeated punching down on non-whites, women, the young, the old and everyone that currently isn't you. Conservative humor is widespread and thus worthless.
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Mar 7, 2018 15:03
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Like seriously I get enough boorish riffs on Democrats at work, I don't want to hear about that poo poo at a comedy club. The Right is really good at calling things out, but really bad at understanding why their position is dumb.
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Mar 7, 2018 15:05
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Vargatron posted:Because the Conservative idea of comedy is Larry the Cable Guy. Also he makes a fine dill pickle chip.
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Mar 7, 2018 15:25
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It's capitalism at work. When there's more money in conservative comedy it will get it's own talk shows. They sure bitch a lot when the invisible hand actually does it's job.
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Mar 7, 2018 16:53
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The only good conservative comedian/comic personality I can think of is Michael J. Nelson (MST3K/Rifftrax) and that probably is only because he's one of those "nice" Upper Midwest conservatives who doesn't spend every waking hour of the day visibly hating on people who aren't exactly like him.
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Mar 7, 2018 16:59
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Laura, did you ask your network heads why their attempt at a conservative daily show failed so hard??
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Mar 7, 2018 17:02
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I thought this was conservative comedy. I mean, I'm laughing.
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Mar 7, 2018 17:06
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Angry_Ed posted:The only good conservative comedian/comic personality I can think of is Michael J. Nelson (MST3K/Rifftrax) and that probably is only because he's one of those "nice" Upper Midwest conservatives who doesn't spend every waking hour of the day visibly hating on people who aren't exactly like him. It's probably helped him quite a bit that from every indication his friends and coworkers have always been a mix of the political spectrum, where conservatives really drove themselves crazy was curling up into their own rear end in lovely echo chambers.
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Mar 7, 2018 17:19
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I’ve read a couple P.J. O’Rourke books from the 80s and early 90s. They were pretty funny; that guy can write some colorful similes. I’ve heard he’s devolved into a conventional right-wing shithead these days, though...
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Mar 7, 2018 17:43
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Let's see how FOX is finally spinning Nunberg:quote:Sam Nunberg -- The very sad story of an instant media darling: Hannity: quote:Hannity: Mainstream Media Exploited Sam Nunberg's 'Meltdown' to Attack Trump hahahaha. also, an ethics lesson of all things from FOX NEws: quote:MSNBC, CNN blur journalism ethics lines with ‘irresponsible’ Sam Nunberg ‘scandal porn’ interviews
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Mar 7, 2018 17:44
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It's about ethics in scandal porn journalism.
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Mar 7, 2018 17:51
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Really, the most successful "conservative" comedy is South Park, that teaches you that making the world a better place is gayer than a gay orgy.
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Mar 7, 2018 17:57
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https://twitter.com/amconmag/status/971430279515537408?s=21 I remember when she was sent to a gulag for writing a lovely article
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Mar 7, 2018 18:04
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seiferguy posted:Really, the most successful "conservative" comedy is South Park, that teaches you that making the world a better place is gayer than a gay orgy. I mean my metric here was "good" and not "successful". Jeff Dunham is probably successful but he's not good. And South Park's only good episodes are the ones where they don't disappear up their own Libertarian assholes telling us that both sides are the same and global warming is not real etc.
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Mar 7, 2018 18:11
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Angry_Ed posted:The only good conservative comedian/comic personality I can think of is Michael J. Nelson (MST3K/Rifftrax) and that probably is only because he's one of those "nice" Upper Midwest conservatives who doesn't spend every waking hour of the day visibly hating on people who aren't exactly like him. mike nelson isn't a conservative comedian, he is a comedian first who has conservative politics
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Mar 7, 2018 18:18
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Angry_Ed posted:I mean my metric here was "good" and not "successful". Jeff Dunham is probably successful but he's not good. And South Park's only good episodes are the ones where they don't disappear up their own Libertarian assholes telling us that both sides are the same and global warming is not real etc. I dunno that I would characterize Jeff Dunham as conservative, at least not intentionally. He's more like incidentally conservative via being a white guy from the suburbs, and then he became more bitter and dickish when he got divorced.
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Mar 7, 2018 18:19
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Angry_Ed posted:I mean my metric here was "good" and not "successful". Jeff Dunham is probably successful but he's not good. And South Park's only good episodes are the ones where they don't disappear up their own Libertarian assholes telling us that both sides are the same and global warming is not real etc. "Mecha Streisand" was the best episode and got me to look into The Cure. That's the kind of South Park that I miss.
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Mar 7, 2018 18:23
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Dennis Leary's stand up is the closest to good conservative humor I can imagine, because his bit was being an unrepentant rear end in a top hat (he's an asshoooole) you were supposed to hate and possibly live vicariously through while understanding he wasn't to be taken as a role model.
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Mar 7, 2018 18:26
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The older I get (I'm only 23) the less bad I feel about not liking South Park when I was in Middle to High School like most of the people who I talked to. At this point all I know about any episodes is some weird poo poo with Mr. Garrison, the oh my god they killed Kenny gag, Cartman constantly giving Kyle poo poo about being 'a Jew', Randy saying friend of the family on Wheel of Fortune, smug because of using energy efficient cars, the safe space song, and Cartman shooting Token because he stepped over a circle he drew or something. So, nothing that really drew me in, despite having low enough standards to enjoy Family Guy for years.
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Mar 7, 2018 18:31
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RareAcumen posted:The older I get (I'm only 23) the less bad I feel about not liking South Park when I was in Middle to High School by the time you were in middle school south park was already a cliche. i'm a decade+ older than you and south park was hot stuff when i was in middle school
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Mar 7, 2018 18:33
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RareAcumen posted:The older I get (I'm only 23) the less bad I feel about not liking South Park when I was in Middle to High School like most of the people who I talked to. At this point all I know about any episodes is some weird poo poo with Mr. Garrison, the oh my god they killed Kenny gag, Cartman constantly giving Kyle poo poo about being 'a Jew', Randy saying friend of the family on Wheel of Fortune, smug because of using energy efficient cars, the safe space song, and Cartman shooting Token because he stepped over a circle he drew or something. I pretty much feel the same way as you. I found the "you killed Kenny!" type humor of South Park amusing, but the shock value "gently caress people who we don't deem normal" stuff never really appealed to me. There were individual episodes I thought were pretty ok but the show as a whole never grabbed me.
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Mar 7, 2018 18:36
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BiggerBoat posted:Let's see how FOX is finally spinning Nunberg: How long did they run the Seth Rich conspiracy on their headline editorial show after the source story had been debunked?
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Mar 7, 2018 18:37
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there are some hilarious episodes but they're all non-political ones. usually cartman-centric. the butters show one is great too.
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Mar 7, 2018 18:39
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Here's a "conservative comedian who may or may not be clinically insane: https://twitter.com/owenbenjamin http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/news/local-news/2018/03/comedian-rants-for-a-week-about-negative-reaction-to-racial-joke/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jk0-Oyssuc Corb3t fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Mar 7, 2018 |
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Mar 7, 2018 18:47
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There may not be a lot of "conservative" comedians but there are plenty of libertarian ones, which is basically the same thing but worse.
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Mar 7, 2018 18:50
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Bag of Sun Chips posted:Here's a "conservative comedian who may or may not be clinically insane: Isn't "N* stole my bike" a joke from like 10 years ago? Make an original joke.
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Mar 7, 2018 19:07
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Isn't "N* stole my bike" a joke from like 10 years ago? Make an original joke. Pretty much. He's pissed his lovely joke offended people while Chris Rock and Louis CK get away with saying the N-word all the time. You're just not that funny, Owen.
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Mar 7, 2018 19:13
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Chilichimp posted:How long did they run the Seth Rich conspiracy on their headline editorial show after the source story had been debunked? I don't know and neither does their audience but I'd say 2 weeks. Rush was in total projection and "accuse your enemy of what you're doing" Karl Rove mode today, for the 5 minutes I could tolerate listening to him. If you read a transcript of it and substituted "FOX" or "Hannity" for every "CNN", "MSNBC" it sounded like he was looking in a loving mirror. The "liberal news anchors" are unhinged, predictable, flailing, desperate, have an agenda, are working together and totally lacking in credibility to the point that Rush knows what they're going to do and say before they do it. The entire lot of them. The only difference between them and Nunberg is that "Nunberg was drunk". "CNN and MSNBC are comprised entirely of 'Nunbergs'". - an actual quote. Fitting all that bullshit into the short span I listened to it was admittedly impressive, but the entire time I was doing my "rebut this in the car" schtick and was all "but enough about Sean Hannity, your show and FOX News" every time he uttered a sentence. Hannity ought to be a hoot tonight now that they've had 24 hours to work out the spin and the discrediting.
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Mar 7, 2018 19:20
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I'd call Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Cosby "conservative comedians " in as much as they're all about "naughty words are bad" but, beyond that, I'm hard pressed to think of anyone "right wing" who is funny. And why does this thread have a comedian derail every 2 or 3 months? Cue a Bill Maher take in 4, 3, 2, 1....
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Mar 7, 2018 19:24
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Because conservatives keep asking the same dumb question about why they can't be funny too  Which they'll never understand until they face the cold hard fact that conservatives are a dying breed and the only people who think it's funny to dunk on poor minorities are loving assholes.
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Mar 7, 2018 19:52
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Isn't "N* stole my bike" a joke from like 10 years ago? Make an original joke. it's way older than that
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Conservative humor exists, but it's usually mean-spirited and rude, which is why it then has to be wrapped in another layer of humor where we get to also laugh at the comedian. The reason why conservative humor doesn't work is because even if the joke works you feel bad for laughing at it and people don't watch a funny to feel bad. But if it changes from "lol, why can't we use racial slurs" to "lol, this idiot wants to use racial slurs" you don't feel bad even though the underlying joke was still about some slur doing a thing.
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