Right wingers angry at culture war nonsense and make it their entire personality.

UMIN?

Oh I agree, I am still on the side of FOSS and decentralization, still that comparison to the Protestant Reformation just twinged something in me.

Why aren’t you doing anything to stop the further degradation of our constitution then?

That… doesnt bode well for decentralized networks considering how Proteatantism became a force of political power just like the Catholic Church.

Do you have any evidence that thats the case?

How so?

If you’re dealing with pain and trauma, therapy might be a good idea. Making dark self depreciating jokes online probably isnt going to actually help you deal with it.

I’ve found self deprecating humor or telling stories about fucked up shit happening to you is rarely funny and usually elicits more of a awkward fake laugh and/or pity vibe than a belly laugh vibe.

Lmao it kinda does.

Exactly this too! Try to drown out the assholes with a chorus of positivity.

My actual response depends on the situation and how i’m feeling at any given moment. Usually its just ignore and move on, sometimes I’m feeling in a “be snarky online” mood.

What does it change? Eh maybe someone somewhere will see the pushback on the -ism/-phobia and rethink. I’m not saying it does, it probably doesn’t most of the time, but I’m forever realistically optimistic and recognize I need to put in the work to make real that optimism.

I already described my litmus test. You explained who your punchline is hitting. Punching up at the jerks is fine by me.

My litmus test is i ask “what is the joke?” If theres a clever turn of phrase or twist to expectations I chuckle to myself and move on. If I cant figure out what the clever turn of phrase or twist in expectation is, or the punchline being some kind of -ism or -phobia then yeah I’m gonna take it seriously. Unfortunately making jokes where the punchline is racism, sexism, homophoboa, transphobia, or any other kind of punching down gets a lot of engagement and responses.

There was that one recreation episode they did on live TV with Woody Harleson from a few years ago I think?

Edit: did some more reading, have more to say

So after checking out the Wikipedia page apparently Cartman from South Park was heavily inspired by Archie. So do with that what you will.

Exactly, word for word? No not really but a lot of the politically relevant themes the shows had are disappointingly still relevant today, Archie uses the same gotchas as an excuse to be a racist pos and his son uses the same appeals to humanity and doing the right thing progressives have been using. Its like going back and watching West Wing, we’re still dealing with the same ineffectual liberals who get moral victories while losing the mandates of power and bible thumping conservatives making the lives of everyone who isnt a straight white dude a living hell.

No. You need to freeze in in an insulated container with only one side exposed so it all freezes in 1 direction. Impurities get pushed to the opposite side and you are left with clear ice.

Specifically a genus 5-7 torus, (depending on lacrimal ducts) and assuming no piercings or other hole creating body modifications

Huh, today I learned. Appreciated!

I mean, we do know at this point that /pol/ and Q on 4chan wre an actual psyop by Bannon and Epstein to spread half nonsense conspiracy theories. So much of the bs spread through Q had just enough “if you squint hard enough they’re just telling you what they are doing” to make all the conspiracy theory shit work as well as it did. Like how there are so many references in the ao far released files to “pizza parties” as their codewords for raping children coincides in theming with Q directing psychos toward the basement of a random 1 story pizza parlor as the epicenter of a Clinton sex trafficking ring.

I also do believe in some extent to the “every conspiracy theory is a psyop to distract from the real conspiracy.” Sort of like dead internet theory, there’s still live human beings online, just that there are also a ton of bots out there and its difficult to tell the difference between the bots and the genuine people.