A number of comments have pointed out that the "drinking milk" joke is a reference to a 4chan meme that was a ruse to make it appear that white nationalists were using it as a meme, only for it to then be adopted by white nationalists earnestly. And then conservatives got angry at the left for pointing this out. Apologies to the Babylon Bee for accusing them for being pointlessly random on that one. They were actually providing cover for a racist dog whistle. And to everyone pointing out the dead democrat voter conspiracy theory thing, that joke I did get, hence the little text pop-up at 18:30. I'm making a broader point about the partisan nature of book, and the chapter on religion, using it as an example.
I remember the "haha it's racist to have white object"/"black object should be called African-American object" was the One Joke™ back in 2007-2008, was wondering why they'd dig up an antique like that
@@ASolidSnack At the time (of the milk thing, I mean), I think it was because there's a scene where the villain in Get Out (the "girlfriend", specifically) drinks milk and also looks sinister. That got combined with beliefs about relative rates of lactose tolerance into the idea that drinking milk was a statement in support of white supremacy. Which ... there's definitely humor there, but not if the Nazis actually manage to attach their ideology to the action of drinking milk.
@jshowa o I think there's a little more nuance to that phenomenon, because there's some crossover of people in different parts of the radicalization pipeline. Like, the people who killed Pepe were principally edgelord teenagers who were really upset that "their thing" was going mainstream, so they made it a Nazi thing to keep it niche, which let pre-existing Nazis use the symbol to signal to each other and radicalize the edgelords. Then mainstream people recognized what had happened and that ossified the meaning of the symbol. But it spread to the ok symbol and then to milk because the edgelords thought it would be funny if they could do it again with something that was already culturally ubiquitous, not just a popular thing that had come out of spaces they already dominated. And the scary thing about that phase of the phenomenon is that they kinda half succeeded with the ok symbol and consolidated Nazi ownership of Pepe, and people didn't really pick up on what was going on until they tried it with fucking lactose tolerance.
Well, that author is insulting my intelligence, so it would be normal for me to have the intention of pissing in his coffee (maybe after eating rice with asparagi, so as to make it even worse)
It's Schrodinger's bigotry. When someone laughs at it, you meant it to the hilt. When someone calls you out on it, it's just a joke man, what's up with you?
I remember the days of REAL CANCEL CULTURE, when white and black relationships were banned on TV, men and women had to be seen in separate beds on television. Rod Sterling TWILIGHT ZONE episodes were seen as ‘controversial’. Women were always in the kitchen and anything resembling real life speech was always ‘sanitised’. Liberals were communists ( well that hasn’t changed), I’m a real baby boomer, and I approve your message.
The "edgy" jokes in this book are so soft I could pack my kitchenware with them. The key tenant of edgy humor is understanding that the "humor" part is what's most important. If all you've set out to do with your jokes is to offend people, you aren't telling "edgy" jokes, you're just being an a-hole.
That's because the book is a parody of conservatives. They aren't hardcore edgy about it because they're not conservatives. They're making fun of them. The Babelon Bee is satire.
Nah fam. If the joke isn't even offensive but it's main goal is to offend people and it still offends people, that's pretty funny ngl. The joke itself? Probably not. But the outcome would be fucking hilarious.
I love how 99% of being a Republican is just trolling everyone to make their lives as least fun as possible in the least funny way. Goodbye planet, rights, expression, healthcare, transportation, community, culture, art, peace, all to just be an asshole!!!! Like dude, I just wanna be able to walk to my free college, walk to a local place to eat with my friends who are trans/gay/minority etc and not get harassed or looked at weird, in a clean neighbourhood fuelled by renewable energy with a lack of waste, without homeless as they are paid for and getting back on their feet, no offensive war… what about ANY of that is evil?!?! Like the ideas socialists have are just genuinely utopian and would help so many places in society from helping animal populations and biodiversity rise, less economic struggle, better culture! It sucks dude, like one kid in class sucks and now everyone has to suffer. Their entire ideology is just wanting people to fucking die cause they’re racist, sexist, transphobic, no regular person thinks that homelessness is a thing that should exist to spite others, or think people should not be able to pay their medical bills, or be able to afford food. We’re playing against the house.
"I think the Holocaust was justified. Nice joke isn't it?" "What is the joke?" "Oh, WOW! Chill out commie I was just making a joke! You are just too woke to understand it! HAHAHAHA!"
These jokes have the same vibe and value as writing the N-Word next to a picture of the troll Face, waving it in front of a black guys face and screaming "problem? problem? problem?"
Right wing comedy is just an acceptable way of packaging and excusing every pathological human characteristic. It's like having a good cross burning without burning the cross or wearing a white hood.
All humour is sadism, but not all sadism is humour. Sociopaths, especially low-functioning sundowning boomers and/or inbred rednecks, have trouble with the difference.
It's a parody website meant to mock conservatives for being hyperbolic. It's all satire. Everything they do is satire. This RUclipsr is just trying to get outrage clicks just like the right does.
This is why I stopped watching Joe Rogan after he interviewed Chuck Palahniuk who wrote fight club, so one of the best dark humour writers around and all Joe wanted him to talk about was censorship, but Chuck knows it's no worse now than 2 decades ago and personnally for him as a ga y writer it was actually harder back then. At one point Chuck was telling a story of how he offended someone in an improv class he was at and Joe was like she should get over herself and Chuck a human being with emotions was like no I felt really bad, I tell jokes for people to laugh at, if people get upset especially the people you are telling the joke too, it's not a joke. Chuck was just too intelligent and empathetic for Rogan.
Agree with preety mucy everything till the end where you completely fumbled it. Jokes aren't inherently meant to be non-offensive and using that as the litmus test for a joke is just plain stupid. If someone is offended at your joke it doesn't mean you did anything wrong. I'm not sure why you would even say this when alot of leftist comedy triggers the right wing and offends them. Does that not make it a joke then?
@@Big1nz where in the world did I say humour is inherently non-offensive, some of my favourite comedy is Brass Eye, Day today and Inbetwerners. I'll reiterate he was telling a joke to a room of people, nobody laughed and one person got upset. That's not comedy is it, that's the point, if nobody finds it funny you haven't made a joke. I praised Chuck a dark humour writter yet somehow you think I was saying don't be offensive?
If a Conservative tried to write a joke about a chicken crossing the road, they'd have to shoehorn in someway that somewhere a chicken will be offended and that's why it's funny.
@@riotgrrrl8807 i hate generalizing folks by our dum modern political philosophies but my god if it isn’t basically the exact same humor as bullying the disabled kid in middle school
Liberals in 2016 - yell at the sky Conservatives in 2020 - lie for months about election fraud and spread conspiracies, storm the US Capitol in a riot to attempt to stop the confirmation of a new president
Its funny, I had a former friend who said Trump supporters would act completly normal if Trump lost That or I'm misremembering and he said that most trump supporters didnt do the rioting and killing and Capitol destroying while "most" liberals got a little upset and screamed a little
To be fair it’s literally the degradation of American politics. In 2017 Democrats and the far left screamed into the sky at Trump’s victory In 2020 Republicans and the right screamed into the sky at Trump’s loss American politics is a circus on fire and both sides are becoming more polarised
It's because the entire thing is satire meant to mock conservatives. It's not meant to be taken seriously. Or more accurately, double satire. Leftists parodying rightists attempting to portray leftists.
One thing to realise is that the Big Vague Conspiracy is simultaneously powerful enough to control every government and media outlet, but it's utterly helpless and unable to crack down on books being published, social media conspiracists posting under their own name with all their personal info clearly visible, or a guy posting videos from his bedroom on RUclips.
I love how conservatives have just boiled down the entirety of MLK's existence into a single sentence that they repeat ad nauseum, while actively being against 99% of the things he fought for.
"Why can't BLM be more like MLK?" "The same MLK who was an avowed socialist?" "Uhh..." "The same MLK who said riots are the language of the unheard?" "Umm..." "The same MLK who said reparations are a necessity to repair race relations?" "Wait..."
To be honest: If they would understand that this sentence was aspirational and not a description of the current situation I would be relatively happy. Then they might see the point of BLM is to make reality a little bit closer to MLK's dream. But they only have a problem with police violence if it is targeted at right wing extremists.
@@joachimschoder By burning cites and committing murder? The same BLM who's founders are self proclaimed "trained Marxists." The Same group that has stared riots across the country for nearly a year and has only furthered the racial divide. Forgive me if I see them as nothing but violent thugs who only steal and destroy.
@@gaiusjuliuspleaser I never believed for a second that he was a socialist. Socialism didn't help Africa when it took root there, it only made things worse for them. So why would he think it would be any different here?
Their insistence that "The Left" is going mad over their comedy reminds of the Tim Whatley episode on Seinfeld, where this exchange happens: "And this offends you as a Jewish person? -No, it offends me as a comedian!"
Truer words were never said. Those "politically incorrect" so-called "comedians" don't offend people because "people are too sensitive". They offend people because they are shitty comedians with no skill or talent. That's why they resort to cheap shock "humor".
@@joshridinger3407 Not just "comedians". EVERY single right winger blames EVERYTHING on the left. On problems that they don't even know ANYTHING they're talking about! Seriously! If a car falls out of the sky, right wingers blame it on the left. If a guy robs a grave to steal jewelry, they blame the left. If aliens appear and start kidnapping people, they blame the left. If King Kong appears and starts destroying buildings, they blame the left. It's ridiculous! When they don't have any arguments, they default to scapegoating the left. Broken record is putting it MILDLY!
@@joshridinger3407 I've laughed before at a FEW bigoted jokes. But never at the "triggerer" crowd. The problem with the "triggers" is that the goal of their "jokes" is to bring misery, not laughs. It's a matter of intention. The "triggerers" aren't trying to bring laughs. They're trying to bring misery. And they succeed. Those "conservative comedians" aren't comedians at all. They're bullies. There's a big difference between comedy and bullying. And they don't understand that.
There's something supremely ironic about the Babylon Bee's use of C.S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters. In one of its chapters, Lewis points out that there's a big difference between actually making a joke and what he calls "flippancy", discussing a serious subject in a smarmy tone which implies that it is inherently ridiculous. Whereas making a real joke actually requires some effort and thought, flippancy can be used to get cheap laughs all while diminishing the intellectual and spiritual capacity of everyone who participates. And the Babylon Bee's Guide to Wokeness is 100% flippancy.
Conservative Evangelicals like to use C.S. Lewis as a mascot, and I guess he was kinda conservative in some ways, but he wrote more than The Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity. My favorite books of his are "The Great Divorce", "Perelandra" and "Till We Have Faces". That last one even helped me come out as trans to myself.
Once again, THE BABELON BEE IS A PARODY WEBSITE MAKING FUN OF CONSERVATIVES. They're intentionally making stupid arguments because THATS THE ENTIRE POINT.
That quote from the writer saying "we're the only ones in on the joke," owns so much. Imagine a comedian bombing on stage as he makes jokes appealing to Boomer Humor, just dead silence in the club, and he thinks to himself, "actually this is going great. These buffoons don't realize _Im_ the only one in on the joke! I'm the greatest comedian of them all!"
The re-appropriation of this MLK quote by conservatives is actually pretty classical for conservatism : pretending the problems belongs to the past, the system now is perfect and nothing needs to change. Of course, let's forget that the "all men are created equal" sentence was in the Declaration of Independence for a century before the 13th Amendment was signed, and two centuries before the Equal Rights Movement (and let's not talk about the Equal Rights Amendment). MLK wanted to live in a better society where people were no longer judged by the color of their skin, while conservatives pretend we already live in that better society.
He also towards the end of his life admitted the dream speech was purely aspirational and it was going to take major changes to make it actually happen
Particularly irritating when you think about how these conservative states have spent the past year pulling back all the voting rights he fought for until some states are even worse off.
"God, being conservative Himself, hates liberalism at least as much as you do" Matthew 19:24: "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” James 5:1-6: "Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter." Luke 12:33: "Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys." Mark 12:41-44: "And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny. And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.” Luke 6:20: "And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God." Sounds like a conservative to me!
As a former conservative, conservatives have a very strange relationship with MLK. They accept him as a nearly universally loved figure in American history and politics, so they claim to also love him on a superficial level, but their love is limited almost completely to a handful of cherry-picked quotations, rather than any kind of agreement with his actual political positions or more nuanced extended writings or speeches. I actually hadn't heard his entire "I have a Dream" speech until I attended a secular community College. In many conservative minds, there is a weird assumption that MLK would side with them over the modern day left wing, and that's mostly based on the statements of his Republican niece, Alveda, rather than anything MLK said or did during his life.
Republicans hated MLK when he was alive, but loved using his socialist words for vaguely capitalistic purposes. Jesus Christ was executed by the state. They put Che Guevara on a T Shirt. Capitalists will train your corpse to dance to their tune.
It's much like their relationship with Jesus. They reconfigure him into someone who doesn't require them to challenge themselves in any way whatsoever.
@luthientinuviel3883 interestingly, while I was still a conservative, I happened to read a lengthy excerpt from Letters from a Birmingham jail while looking for an off-meta MLK quote to incorporate into a Poli-Sci project, and I believe it was one of the first significant cracks in the foundation of my sheltered, misinformed/underinformed political worldview.
They like using MLK as a way to tell black people to sit down and shut up. It's the reason why they don't talk about any of his other speeches or expand on his I have a dream speech. They know very well they would be the same ones calling him a communist and hating him like they did in the 1960s.
Not that long ago, I was watching a clip from the Late Show with Stephen Colbert and a few conservative commenters were pissy about how much Colbert sold out and was an example of a comedian who "changed" their politics the bigger and richer they got. They seriously thought Colbert of the "Colbert Report" was an actual conservative who "became" liberal. It goes to show not only are conservatives bad at making adequate satire, they are also bad at truly understanding it.
I definitely think his material's much safer and "cleaner" now, but I think it's a symptom of being tied to a corporate network, not because his politics drastically shifted.
I went to high school in a very rural community and every single guy in my class was obsessed with the Colbert report because they thought he was like Bill O’Reilly, not mocking him.
See I think his problem is that he went from a Democrat comedian who criticized his own party when they acted like republicans to shilling for Hillary as soon as he got on a late show
We do live in a weird age where "Conservative" comedians will tell you they have been cancelled on their netflix special and that if you don't laugh it's your fault and not their poor writing and stale comedy.
It is a fascinating phenomenon. The level of entitlement of an entertainer who, once having found success, now blames their audience for no longer having the same tastes as it did when they found their success (or at least, not being in the same places they used to be and are still trying to find that audience in that place, since a lot of them seem specifically annoyed that they can't get gigs at college campuses any more because young people have a different sense of humour to their parents), instead of just figuring out how to write material that works for what the audience is currently looking for.
"How dare you not laugh at my jokes and make me #1 on Netflix Top 10. The _Radical Left_ is just too triggered and they're trying to cancel me because I speak the truth and say what people want to hear."
It reminds me of that wonderful clip of that women talking to Ben Shapiro about his new book and how he failed to make a comedy and it's Hollywood's fault. But then she says how right wingers inherently can't make good comedy due to them not having transferable humour to everyday living and he stutters and stumbles and can't name one good Conservative comedian.
@@goartist Now, let’s say, hypothetically, that one out of maybe 25 jokes made by someone like Greg Gutfeld actually land. Would that not, theoretically, make him an objectively awful comedian?
When I was a 13yo edgelord, I made the one joke with the phrase "I sexually identify as a Dialga." Turns out I played myself because 6 years later, I'm agender and describe how I use the label for myself by comparing it to how legendary Pokemon are genderless.
Pretty much, complain that they're trying to cancel you or how woke you aren't and you'll never have to write any new jokes again. I remember I was watching one comedian who spent like twenty minutes making a big deal about how he doesn't care if he offends people and then went on to tell the weakest set of jokes I've ever heard. Keep in min the performance was tagged a dark comedy. I got one laugh before I gave up and it was him reading a youtube comment under one of his videos and he doesn't get credit for that because someone else wrote it.
The guy that wrote and directed Joker said that people are too “easily triggered”, which is why he doesn’t do comedies anymore. The truth is he just isn’t funny and people are only now realizing that.
Dave Chappelle lost his mind, fled the country for over a decade, naturally taking his finger off the pulse of what is true and/or funny, and then tried to come back like nothing happened with lazy, unfunny material and blamed his audience for not liking it.
The old "Hitler was a socialist, checkmate!" gem presented as actual advice on how to win an argument against liberals as if it's some trump Trump card is one of the funniest things i've seen in a while, actually. Though it does actually offend me, a bit. On behalf of the people who paid money for that book. They deserve better.
The important word in National Socialist Workers (Nazi) Party was not Socialist, but National. They were fascist nationalists, substituting power of the state for all other institutions (the church, the press, academia, the banks, etc.). They just threw the word socialism in there because socialism was very popular.
hitler was the most conservative conservative that ever conservatived. He literally made a system where women would get medals based off how many children she would have. He was also very passionate about the country Germany, a hypocrite, hated communists and enforced the ideas of "men should work in the army while the women make sandwiches and pump out children. Sounds like a lot of American Conservatives nowadays...
Yeah. Before the buy-out, it didn't have a strong political bent. Sure, it made fun of liberals more than conservatives - but conservatives were by no means off limits. Nor were Republican politicians. And mega-church figures were targets for a special level of scorn. The writers did not take well to people they saw as perverting the holy word of God to make money or manipulate voters. Today, though? Completely different. Under the new owner it's become /very/ politically inclined. Every Democrat is a target for mockery, but every Republican has immunity. Trump is revered. Worse, it's gone into conspiracy theory territory, running many articles mocking vaccination while implying ('satirically,' naturally) that vaccination is dangerous. They are even running articles sponsored by a company called 'UnMask' that makes fake face masks - they look like facemasks from a distance, but the fabric is really a very loose mesh that provides absolutely no barrier to either breathing or microbes. And, worst of all? It stopped being funny. All they do now is run endless variations on 'Aren't the woke mob all stupid and violent lol?'
That’s the sense I got. My brother use to hang out in some Christian circles online, and would laugh at some of the Babylon Bee articles they shared with him. He enjoyed the articles poking fun at the silly things we Christians do. Recently, he’s left a lot of those circles after many of them made a right-wing turn a few years ago. It was pretty clear to him that liberal and left-leaning Christians were no longer welcomed in those groups. He also noticed Babylon Bee’s focus shift to the conservative culture war.
woke and canceled did unimaginable amounts of damage to peoples vocabulary you slap them onto anything and people act like The Liberals (dont ask who its just The Liberals) are executing people on the streets or something
Because the entire point of their website is that conservatives are stupid. The site is SATIRE. PARODY. Everything they say is hyperbolic nonsense because THATS THE ENTIRE POINT.
@@JamesPreus You don't know the context of that meme, do you? It started when Judge Brown joined the Supreme Court, and the Trumplicans asked her to define a woman, for no particular reason other than digging for quotes they could throw out of context to their base. She correctly answered that she would leave that messy and intricate question up to medical professionals. If you disagree, please offer your definition. Remember to account for trans men, trans women, women who have all uniquely female organs removed and the roughly 1 in 5000 people born with some degree of hermaphroditic or intersex characteristics. Remember that your definition will be rigorously examined by legal and medical professionals, and it may lead to a trans woman being harrassed and murdered in a men's jail, or someone suffering a lifetime of agonising gender dysphoria after being born intersex and getting assigned the wrong gender at birth. Gosh, it's not as easy as the sexist old white guys made it sound, is it? Stop being such an NPC.
Is it possible to have a negative response to right-wing jokes that ISN'T considered angry? If so, what would such a response look like? If not, why do they act like it's such an accomplishment?
Well I know from experience that: No reaction, A confused frown, Rolling your eyes, Thumbs up and saying "good job little buddy!", Pretending to get a phone call from the burn unit saying that your appointment has been cancelled, All apparently count as being "triggered"
Mine was mostly confusion on what they were talking about. But they probably would celebrate this as a statement about my intelligence and not their inability to make an actual joke that doesn't depend on being a member of their echo chamber.
I love how the term Redpilled was co-opted from a movie that’s a trans allegory written and directed by two trans women it’s like if the confederacy started calling getting captured by the union “going to uncle tom’s cabin”
@@isobelmiller7464to add to that, the red pill itself is a reference to the pills used for hormone therapy for trans women at the time, as they were red pills.
What I mostly remember is this one article where they were making fun of "west coast liberals" for eating sushi without fish in it, implying it wasn't sushi because apparently the author didn't bother to look up what sushi was before writing it and I dunno I feel like that encapsulates the whole thing. For those curious sushi actually refers to the rice and how its prepared, there's plenty of authentic sushi without fish.
Conservative comedy is saying something outrageous, calling everyone over-sensitive when they don't like it, and then getting very over sensitive over the fact that people didn't like your edgy humor.
“when they don’t like it” last time i checked dave chappelle’s latest hit was very popular with many not with ALL but with many still so your point isn’t right still
also why are y’all obsessed with conservative comedy? as if leftist “comedy” is such a masterpiece last time i saw “Christmas inc” it was bad leftist propaganda lol you’re more unfunny
@@donnieraczynski572 The fact that you felt the need to respond three different times rant over my comment proves literally all of my points correct at once. Good on you.
The One Joke has been one of the main banes of my existence since first starting high school at a Southern all boys rich conservative Catholic school. An inundation of attack helicopter comments for four years in a time when I was considering my own gender identity was not healthy, and neither was constantly exposing myself to it when I jumped on the anti-SJW bandwagon during the early Trump years. Then I finally realized at 22 that I was enby, told my aesthetically liberal dad, and the next time I saw him, he was grumbling about they/them pronouns and people wanting to "identify as toasters and force others to accept it." Edit: aaaaand there's the screaming at sky person, yet another joke I constantly had to deal with due to being one of the only vocally anti-Trump people at a school where even the teachers were hoping Trump would win to stop the evils of abortion.
The one joke isn't referring to trans, it's referring to those nutcases who don't identify as anything or some actual person who thinks they're a dog or whatever
@@Wolfpaw754 Okay, but do these people actually exist in real life? I'm in a left-wing area, all my friends are at least liberals, and I've never seen it.
The funniest thing I saw in this book was that they included a quote where C.S. Lewis explicitly says that God demands social justice in a book mocking social justice. I'm not saying it's actually that funny, just funnier than anything else.
@@dudestep It comes from their binary thinking. They can't understand that someone can defend a person from unwarranted attacks from the right while still not exactly liking them. For them, if you defend someone, regardless of why, it *must* be because you like them. I've had this conversation with a conservative before. He somehow mistook my "your reasons why Hillary Clinton is bad are dumb" with "I love Hillary Clinton".
It's kind of like how "Big Bang Theory," just strings together a bunch of word salad that references what people think is nerdy, out of any context, and then play a laugh track so you know that this is when we are supposed to point and laugh at the nerd, you know, because they are nerds. So funny!!!
@@mr.x2567 Big Bang Theory has made me chuckle at least a handful of times. And its characters are likeable after the fact when your brain has successfully repressed the pervert stuff
@@dddmmi BBT: Step 1, Never make a joke, just reference things that sound nerdy but written by people that don't know what they are referencing. Step 2, Adorkable misogyny. Result, most popular show in America and it makes perfect sense.
@@dddmmi And of course they are pervs, because they are nerds and we all know nerds don't date, because they are nerds. So of course they will be repressed and awkward pervs. I don't know, unfortunately I was in the cool crowd in HS and it seemed like the nerds always had dates and were always more decent to each other. I would have rather hung out with them. That doesn't say much about me in HS either. So maybe that is why I don't like this show at all.
Conservatives seem to assume if you don't laugh at their joke it's exclusively because you're offended and not because the joke was bad. And you can't defend yourself or critique the comedy because they can't distinguish between you finding a joke morally reprehensible and just not finding it funny. I laugh at "offensive" dark humour all the time.
@@somik-i3x if conservatives could learn from other people's perspectives they wouldn't be conservatives. Taking criticism requires a bare minimum amount of self awareness.
There's a lot of dark humor that isn't conservative. Always Sunny is arguably a satire about a bunch of horrible conservatives doing terrible things and it's hilarious. The problem is actual conservatives watch and think Dennis is cool and relatable.
@@nukiradio "The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak." - Umberto Eco
They’re literally just writing fanfiction in their heads about blue-haired Emily who identifies as a blade of grass and cries during snowstorms because snow is white.
I think that is an interesting insight. I agree that it is funny, and since it is not openly political, it somewhat shows that if they were not trying to cater to a very obvious political bias, they could be funny.
I grew up evangelical, still am Christian, and I liked the Bee when it started as an "Onion" for Christian culture. Some articles would be really pushy about Reformed theology or political conservatism, but most were just in-jokes lovingly poking fun at hipster pastors and fixations on worship styles. Very niche and cheesy but for somebody like me made me go "HA they're actually pointing out that thing I grew up with!" They went full political and I initially followed them to avoid being a "triggered lib" when I was insecure about that, but then they put out an article mocking police brutality victims and I couldn't do it anymore. From the looks of things they've only gotten worse.
Dang that makes me feel so much better! I have the same background, and I remember laughing at some Babylon Bee articles many years ago, and I didn’t remember it being very political. This video had me worried I was even more brainwashed than I’d realized 😅😮💨
Honestly the one about "There's only a 15% chance I'll pray for you, brother" got a genuine laugh. That's actual satire- lampooning a common sentiment by overtly honestly stating a lies desirable sentiment. Not...whatever this book is.
I didn't understand that one at all . . . Until you indicated that it wasn't political. Then I realized that I understood it and that it is very funny. The funniest joke presented here, actually.
The CS Lewis quote was never about “the left” co-opting Christianity for their own gains, it’s about Christians who lose focus on the spiritual aspect of Christianity in favor of worldly goals, and how even an admirable goal can become all-consuming. The Screwtape Letters are fundamentally about the individual’s journey toward religion, not about politics, and trying to shove the quote in for a cheap shot at the left shows a complete misunderstanding of their own theology. They’re literally the guy Lewis is talking about, using Christian theology as means to a political end.
I gotta say that the list provided at the start is unintentionally hilarious. So much insight provided into the Conservative mindset. It's practically a Colbert Report bit.
@@warlordofbritannia -Me too. Not a big fan of Late Night format in general (outside of say old Letterman and maybe some Conan). I don't think the format fits what Colbert does best, which is mostly a solo act. He was brilliant on the Colbert Report, for sure.
@@warlordofbritannia -And to be fair, he's had some decent moments on his late night show. His Hunger Games inspired satire of the GOP Primary back in the run-up to the 2016 elections was really funny. You can pull up those bits on You Tube. Worth a look. Probably the best coverage of the GOP Clown Car other than the Vic Berger stuff.
The central problem with conservatives reaction to liberals is this: what upsets us is not their politics or ideas, but rather the real harm their policies and beliefs have on real people. They can never admit that harm is real, they must lionize themselves as heroic for being intolerant, and will rationalize it any way they can. They simply want to be as intolerant of change as they always have been, but they also want to not be socially vilified for it by the literal rest of the world who are more accepting of that change. And then they have the nerve to complain about others wanting special treatment.
@@SuperYoshiMan Good is an indefined quantity. My good for society might not fit your idea of good for society. Better to be tolerant of everyone since no one is provably right.
@@fusionspace175 I didn't really mean good for society, I meant morally right in general, and if we cant agree that an objective truth exists than theres not much point to a conversation
@@SuperYoshiMan An objective truth of a moral good? Sounds like you've got delusions you're in contact with a cosmic being who arbitrates that sort of thing. Because there is no objective moral good. Morals are, by their very nature, subjective.
gotta love how most of the jokes boil down to "haha look, this person is discriminated against for THREE REASONS? They're just attention seeking, something like that can't exist"
"Its jokes only work if you're completely ignorant of the subjects they're talking about about" is a perfect summation and a bangin' dust jacket quote.
Personally there was a point at which I found it funny, but that was several years ago when it was, atleast in my mind, in reference to the people who WERE identifying as inanimate objects or completely different species, but that was when it was just an internet thing and hadn't been picked up by mainstream conservatives. it's honestly kind of frustrating how difficult it is to mock or critique the more extreme or misguided parts of the left without it being coopted by the right to paint the entire left with.
@@chichi2000fgh I hope you realise that the last half of your comment can be perfectly reversed, just swap the directions and you are currently consuming content that is painting an entire spectrum of political beliefs as having a certain ideology.
Back in my day, wokeism was questioning authority, wondering if aliens truly exist and why only two parties run the USA. Idk why people needed to change that words meaning
I think it's defensive. They got sick of us making fun of them getting mad everytime someone said happy holidays instead of merry Christmas (as an example), so they weaponized it
I think a lot of Conservatives out themselves when they start complaining about Wokeism. Like them getting upset when there is a brand change to get rid of something socially insensitive. My question would be "Why do you care so much about it? Only a racist would find that worth protecting"
Putting comedy aside... yes. That 'Wokeism' is annoying because it is constantly pointing out things that many would rather not see. It's that person who points to your beloved new SUV and suggests that your lack of concern for sustainability in favor of your own comfort is selfish. Or the person who complains that the movie you were laughing at is mocking a community who are the subject of real discrimination, and the type of attitude that comedy promotes is only making their situation worse. It's the annoying person who constantly nags that you are doing a bad thing and that makes you a bad person - and the worst part about it is that they are right. But, damnit, you love that SUV!
@@vylbird8014 Pointing out an uncomfortable truth isn't really bad if you know how to deliver the comedic effect. Court Jesters for example were often skilled at critiquing royalty and society without upsetting their audience. That is what makes comedy such an art form.
10:29 "How to fight fascism with violence" Is that not how you're supposed to fight fascism? We fought a world war with these bastards, it's only fair we keep going.
@@sarahr3076 kk im from toronto, born and raised, what do you mean most people? how many people do you think live in toronto, and how many people do you think that youve met in toronto? and then again i ask, what do you mean most people
@@Loots1 Linguists have done studies on the usage of "zee" versus "zed" specifically in Southern Ontario, so I didn't actually have to have met every person in Toronto to know which was the more common pronunciation among adults. Look it up. If most people in your age group say "zee" and you didn't even realize that "zed" is the more common pronunciation in Canada, you're probably pretty young. There's been a pattern for multiple generation of kids picking up the "zee" pronunciation from US TV shows like Sesame Street and the rhyming alphabet song but most switching to "zed" as adults. As someone raised in the US, I quickly learned to say "zed" instead of "zee" because there was a bit of a stigma around saying "zee." At any rate, I know that it's definitely not true that Canadians don't say "zed," considering all the Canadians I heard say "zed" with my own ears.
Thats genuinely what happened iirc. Idk if the video touches on this but the babylon bee was bought by conservstive christisn company who just didnt get the joke
You can't help but feel like the phrase "You seem to know a lot about this" seemed to be being used in an attempt to deligitimse the expert it was leveled at. Which I guess is funny in a kind of you've got to laugh or cry kinda way.
Its a truly miserable and bleak picture of the right today. An intelligent man trying his damn hardest and doing his fucking best to intellectually and honestly weave around all the bullshit talking points but the fact that his response requires so many 5 dollar words means its fucking useless to the people who actually need to hear it.
@@reallyhertv4566 they're funny sure, but saying they're not left wing seems like a straight up lie having read their articles. They absolutely do take a political stance.
@@RosieUV you now have two genders. combine them in the most absurd way you can. ironically, this would involve more creativity than the entire contents of the book.
I keep searching for the Conservative Bible but haven't found it yet. From what I've seen it doesn't match anything in my Bible, but being a Quaker I suppose I have that woke, SJW Bible.
Exactly. As someone with 3/4 of her ancestors old line Pennsylvania Friends ( thee and thou, etc) who was raised going every Sunday to a Unitarian church, the whole takeover by the neo-fascist right of Christianity in the popular imagination makes me very annoyed.
Fortunately for all those Conservatives who are tired of ignoring the content of the canonical Bible, a project to create a Conservative bible did get underway in 2009. The project was being helmed by Andrew Schlafly, founder and near sole remaining contributor to Conservapedia. Anyone who has looked at Conservapedia will know what this portends for the eventual quality of the Conservative bible.
I'm a (lapsed) Catholic and in my Bible, Jesus is a pretty radical dude who didn't seem to have any love for the wealthy and little love for the state, so I don't get the whole "God is an conservative" thing either.
The ol' Schrodinger's Douchebag bit. If the reaction is neutral or positive, the conversation continues as normal. If the reaction is negative, then they're all "God I was only joking!" But until the reaction, you don't know which you're going to get.
@@SPDYellow also, a true jokesman knows that there's the possibility their jokes won't get got, and in fact could make em angry. These are people adopting the looks of comedians to shield their actual beliefs from criticism.
@@allnaturalfigjam310 Not a bad idea, but that might be taken the wrong way. Rage Against the Machine has become taken up by conservative talking-heads, despite being hard-line leftists.
Yeah, and what point are they even trying to make by calling liberals hypocrites? That liberals should move further left and apply their philosophy of egalitarianism more consistently? But no, then they'll say "Don't do that, that's communist".
The problem is conservatives constantly present jokes as satirical exagerations or hyperbolic characeture but then actually believe more liberal or progressive people are actually literally like that
@@shadenox8164 Well the president of the diversity club has repeatedly started conversations by saying “I need attention so talk to me, Only Vaccinated people are welcome in my house.” and tried to start a harem because her boyfriend didn’t pay enough attention to her. She also complained because quote “My mom expects me to help her at home AND get a job.”
I have been a Christian for most of my life, and honestly following in the footsteps of Jesus has led me towards compassion. It has led me away from needing to prove myself right and towards prioritizing the needs of the people around me, being especially sensitive to the needs of the most vulnerable people in society. Following Christ’s imperative not to judge, but to love God and others, has freed me to walk in love. “Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.” I try to vote accordingly. This may not be everyone’s journey, but it has been mine.
Damn, that’s actually really cool, I always had issues with christian’s, primarily because of how homophobic and transphobic the ones around me as a kid were, but I’m meeting more accepting and loving christians and it’s made me change my worldview a bit.
I’m in the same boat. Following the teaching of Jesus about loving others and not judging them is actually what led me further left politically after seeing how many of my fellow Christians say all those things then condemn others so often
At least that joke makes an observation about the state of the world, something that a lot of the other jokes just do not. That's why this line is moderately more funny than the surrounding sludge.
That book you open with should have been called "Welcome to My Glass House. Would you like a stone?" And, as unfunny as that joke is, I bet it's better than every single (alleged) joke in that book.
I like that while the writer was going for a mix of realistic and funny sounding disabilities, they added "bipedal," presumably because the only place they've heard the term is in creationist screeds and assume it means knuckle-dragging.
The sad thing is that “Theres a fifteen, maybe 20 percent chance I’ll remember to pray for you” is actually a teensy bit funny (comparatively speaking)
Conservative "humor" is just the Right being upset that they can't be cruel for cruelty sake. Cruelty is the point in Conservative policy, ideology and philosophy.
Yup, I keep comparing it to kindergarteners who think calling the kid with glasses "4-eyes" is brilliant and helarious and getting mad at people not laughing. A (slightly) larger vocabulary and a shift of targets is really the only difference. Even saying they're telling jokes is an insult to comedy.
Whaaaat, it's funny. We're just. Asking. Questions. This week, the question was "I wonder what Jubiden would look like if he had a few extra...male private parts...growing out of his head." Then Twitter said " 'I wonder...' isn't actually a question." We're calling Mike Lindell. And gearing up for a slideshow for the Supreme Court. And the other 3 activist commutards. See? I'm hilarious.
@@ZemanTheMighty so "as a Conservative, when deciding if I'll accept something, I care more about it being cruel so I can feel tough (and escape even for a moment my awareness of my own weakness) than it being true" ...yeah, we know. That's kinda our point. I'm facepalming with how close you are to achieving actual self-awareness and then veering off into your usual BS. That's why your party is focused on attacking trans kids, pregnant women, asylum seakers, people with compromised immune systems, etc while the left is actually trying to do things worth doing dispite opposition from the most powerful people and institutions in the world. Spoiler alert for life, though: being cruel to childern and other vulnerable people doesn't make you strong. It reveals how pathetic you are to every mature adult in the room.
According to the oppression identifier thing I'd be a bipedal gender-neutral Armenian on their death bed. Ironically, as a cane user with enough gender(tm) for me to share like im the goddamn Rainbow Fish, literally none of that actually describes me. Bonus points for me trying this with other names I've gone by in recent years and still coming up with nothing that applies to me.
I'd be a "Obese (no middle name, so no gender I guess?) Armenian in a body cast". That sounds... kinda weird, and kinda bad (considering Armenia's history).
I'd be a "Deaf Bipolar Cisgendered (two middle names) Simpson from Space". Honestly, that is coincidentally much closer than what I expected to get, what with me having hearing impairment and being cis.
Well, I'd be a kneeless graygender quaker with nine kids according to my legal name; for my chosen name itd be double amputee gender-apathetic quaker from space
“Look up actual statistics.” So what about the statistic that shows right wingers are more likely to believe satire then left wingers? “That one is biased don’t look into it.”
I'm an Axnious Omnigender Eskimo who can't spell for crap The only funny thing in that book was the name generator, but only because those things are fun by default
I don't know, I think Christian Walkers tiktoks in which he screams about how the liberals are responsible for his Starbucks drinks not being prepared right are pretty funny
I mean there's always someone who isn't going to find a joke or a bit funny. It just happens that the line is drawn on the political divide nowadays. Since everyone wants to be an ideologue they don't actually have their own opinions and just agree with the "correct" opinion. It leads to me having a wonderful time with both sides as they're beyond stupid in how they act towards me. According to the planet I'm everything from the most disgusting communist to the most die hard ancap, depending on how people see those who disagree with their "righteous" opinions. There are plenty of unfunny conservatives, just like with feminists, with nazis, with communists, with liberals, with MRAs. There's also people who are funny in each group. It just happens that you can only see certain things as funny because you've blinded yourself to all other alternatives. Also in general when you restrict your jokes content to stupidly small areas yeah it is very hard for someone to find it as funny.
@@kattkatt6961 unfunny leftist humor tends to be unfunny for the same reasons conservative humor is unfunny: all it does is hatefully lash out at some identity group with no real wit or substance ('lol male tears' and so on). but it's a smaller proportion of leftist vs. conservative humor.
@@joshridinger3407 I'd have to disagree with your bias there. Political humor is literally just stupid people doing stupid stuff. I've also seen more mislabeling from the left than the right where some people will go after any comedian that isn't specifically super left wing. It also shows that a lot of feminist comedians only jokes are about how awful men are and that's it. Nothing of substance. There's also a lot of cases I've heard for the left of "it would have been funny if xyz person said the joke instead of ABC person". Both sides of political comedy are stupid but trying to claim that the other side does it more is stupid. If you want me to list the right wing examples of bad comedy then I'll try but I tend to only watch actually comedy that isn't political and just get to deal with people attacking the comedian because they weren't the right person to say the joke. Again you're free to hold any beliefs you want but I've gotta ask you to reconsider defend either side of psychopaths as "better".
I think the ultimate joke is that conservative humor is laughably bad. It's like watching a Neal Breen movie and realizing he's unaware of how bad his movie is.
Except Neal Breen movies make me laugh till I cry with how bad there are Babylon Bee just makes me sigh and shake my head BTW,read some of the trivia on Breen movies on IMBD Its hilarious!
Breen movies are at least funny as he's so wholeheartedly committed to the craft yet so bad at it yet also thinks he's nailing it. It's like a teenager dunking on a Fisher Price basketball hoop and asserting they're NBA material, you know they're not but it's funny to watch them think they did something.
Speaking of that, I always feel like leftists could offend conservatives if they really tried, but it'd get to the point of showing things that are obscene. Or if I show a picture if some part of scripture or purity getting desecrated, that'd get them so mad they might resort to violence.
@@MayorOfEarth79 Yeah. I offend them all the time. I offend them by _existing._ Some of them want to fix that. But seriously, these are the people who got offended over the gender of a plastic potato toy and the green m&m being dressed less sexy. They're very invested in finding ways to feel they're being persecuted ™.
Wow, I knew exactly what you meant by "the one joke" before you even explained it. The sounds of helicopter blades were echoing through my brain before you even said the next word after.
7:15 liberals when they lose the election: *scream* conservatives when they lose the election: *attack the U.S. capitol* conservatives: "liberals are so immature about losing!"
The main failing of conservative attempts at humor - things like Gutfeld or the Babylon Bee - is that their first and foremost goal is not to be funny, but to "own the libs". And, usually, to make sure everyone gets the joke they make things on-the-nose as much as possible. It's interesting, also, that one can look at this BB book and see it as a much better insight into the conservative mindset than anything else. Their base premise of painting all non-conservative issues as illogical and backwards is intellectually dishonest and so it undercuts any attempts at humor. However, I do find "Grey Jedis" as an oppressed religion and the "banjo player/mutton chops" Venn diagram funny. But those had to be accidental. The Onion is funny (mostly) because they extrapolate reality to an absurd level to make a point, or just to make something so absurd it's funny. Or how they frame headlines. One of their best was after Obama was elected: "Black man asks America for change". The point of this BB book isn't humor, it's pure political propaganda and any humor is incidental. What most conservatives miss is that more liberal outlets - whether humorous or serious news - address issues on the left as much as on the right. The right has no self-awareness and no sense of humor about itself.
I'm starting to think it's projection since nearly anything not upholding being only Christian, Straight and White triggers them they probably think we operate the same way. Like they think we see "too many" Christian families existing and get mad the same way they see "too many" Muslim families existing and -commit a hate crime- get mad.
The problem with conservative humor, from what I've seen, is that it seems to be based mostly on simply pointing out things they think are absurd, or in other words things they don't agree with. The humor is supposed to come from laughing at the "absurdity" of the thing, and not any actual humorous observation about the thing. This probably, therefore, does actually get some laughs out of people who agree with the viewpoint and who don't realize it isn't actually a joke. They're just laughing at a thing they don't like. I wonder, then, why they would need to buy a book just to do that.
Its 100% that, its why they HAVE to always conflate gender and sex because if they ever understood they're different 90% of the jokes would no longer make sense to them either now. I see so many Conservatives on Twitter doing the 'make it make sense' thing on very basic concepts but they actually don't care to know or seek the information because then they'd have to actually challenge their views. So instead they go, 'hah, yea, they're the crazy ones, not me.'
@@Nsinger998 Well, as you know there are people who disagree .. And as we know after watching the video, you probably think it's a great joke if somebody just states that it's obvious that you are right. And just as the commenter said... We think that's lane and lazy humor at best. ☺ Because it's basically just saying to you that you're right. Appreciation of one's viewpoint should make you smile, not laugh. ☺
I think it has to do with being in a bubble. I use to live in a small town and didn't have internet often so any news I got was from Fox because I often watched the animation power hour back in the late 2000s and early 10s. So if it wasn't shock humor I didn't know much about it. It wasn't until 2018 when I became a progressive did I expand my sense of humor and found that many jokes about America to be funny rather than offensive but also sad because we can do better as a country.
Pointing at a person and laughing because they’re upset….reminds me of the kids in school who’d laugh at me when I cried or got angry…I guess some people just keep doing that into adulthood instead of applying empathy…
Conservatives get pretty triggered when people don’t think their bigotry qualifies as comedy. They also need safe spaces to shield themselves from historical accuracy and science. Who are the snowflakes again?
Exactly. Every year they lose another battle when the research comes out. From race having no solid barriers, to sexuality not being a choice, to gender being disconnected from sex, They always try the "ev-vry-one knoewwws" tactic, but their circular logic always gets stomped. We should call ourselves The Eft, because the right keeps taking all the L's
@@kamijk what's funny is that they're basically looking into mirrors of each other, pointing and laughing, then thinking they won the argument despite the fact they functionally support the same positions. It's like calling your identical twin ugly even though he's wearing the exact same thing as you except his shirts blue.
"People can't even make jokes anymore. You say one thing wrong, suddenly your life is ruined, you can't make any money, the woke mob goes after you." -White dude talking about his new Netflix special, where he makes racist jokes onstage for an hour while crying about how you're not allowed to make racist jokes anymore
It's still crazy how the rich people that put out their ideas of "personal responsibility" towards poorer people than them, don't really like to take personal responsibility for their words or actions.
I love this niche you’ve found of being a slightly more flamboyant Shaun and also sitcom retrospectives. Shouldn’t work but it really does. I think because your purpose when looking back at those sitcoms is to use them as a sort of time machine to how society was when the show aired. I’m loving it
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A number of comments have pointed out that the "drinking milk" joke is a reference to a 4chan meme that was a ruse to make it appear that white nationalists were using it as a meme, only for it to then be adopted by white nationalists earnestly. And then conservatives got angry at the left for pointing this out.
Apologies to the Babylon Bee for accusing them for being pointlessly random on that one. They were actually providing cover for a racist dog whistle.
And to everyone pointing out the dead democrat voter conspiracy theory thing, that joke I did get, hence the little text pop-up at 18:30. I'm making a broader point about the partisan nature of book, and the chapter on religion, using it as an example.
similar thing happened with the "ok" sign
The problem is fundamental. "Conservative" and "comedy" are mutually exclusive.
I remember the "haha it's racist to have white object"/"black object should be called African-American object" was the One Joke™ back in 2007-2008, was wondering why they'd dig up an antique like that
@@ASolidSnack At the time (of the milk thing, I mean), I think it was because there's a scene where the villain in Get Out (the "girlfriend", specifically) drinks milk and also looks sinister. That got combined with beliefs about relative rates of lactose tolerance into the idea that drinking milk was a statement in support of white supremacy. Which ... there's definitely humor there, but not if the Nazis actually manage to attach their ideology to the action of drinking milk.
@jshowa o I think there's a little more nuance to that phenomenon, because there's some crossover of people in different parts of the radicalization pipeline. Like, the people who killed Pepe were principally edgelord teenagers who were really upset that "their thing" was going mainstream, so they made it a Nazi thing to keep it niche, which let pre-existing Nazis use the symbol to signal to each other and radicalize the edgelords. Then mainstream people recognized what had happened and that ossified the meaning of the symbol.
But it spread to the ok symbol and then to milk because the edgelords thought it would be funny if they could do it again with something that was already culturally ubiquitous, not just a popular thing that had come out of spaces they already dominated. And the scary thing about that phase of the phenomenon is that they kinda half succeeded with the ok symbol and consolidated Nazi ownership of Pepe, and people didn't really pick up on what was going on until they tried it with fucking lactose tolerance.
How dare they affiliate themselves with bees.
Do you play Fortnite?
I needed a good bee to fight back against their lies.
The only way to stop a bad guy with a bee is a good guy with a bee.
@@JoseBird I will be your bee.
@@JoseBird I’m creating a resistance to save entertainment from the conservative
When the middle school bully grows up and decides he wants to be an author. There's only so many ways you can repackage "You mad? You gonna cry?"
id buy a book that consists of only "you mad? you gonna cry?"
Oh, boo, hoo, hoo....is the author hurting your widdle feel-feels.....let's all call him a big bad bully. You mad? You gonna cry?
@@hellogoodbye4061 Is this sarcasm?
Well, that author is insulting my intelligence, so it would be normal for me to have the intention of pissing in his coffee (maybe after eating rice with asparagi, so as to make it even worse)
@@hellogoodbye4061 lolll it’s funny your brain sees “big bad” as a fitting substitute for “middle school”. freudian slip? i wouldnt be surprised.
Step 1: Tell a bad low effort joke
Step 2: Wait until someone says it's not funny
Step 3: You have achieved comedy gold
You can even skip step 2 If you want.
The Babelon Bee is satire. The whole thing is supposed to be a hyperbolic parody of conservatives. 5 seconds of research will tell you this.
@@KrimsonKattYTWell they are very good at it, so good infact that I can't tell the difference.
It's Schrodinger's bigotry. When someone laughs at it, you meant it to the hilt. When someone calls you out on it, it's just a joke man, what's up with you?
@@KrimsonKattYT After a certain point of being a horrible person "ironically", it's time to face facts and admit you're just being a horrible person.
I'm told that the Babylon bee identifies as funny.
That's gold, I'm stealing that.
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I remember the days of REAL CANCEL CULTURE, when white and black relationships were banned on TV, men and women had to be seen in separate beds on television. Rod Sterling TWILIGHT ZONE episodes were seen as ‘controversial’. Women were always in the kitchen and anything resembling real life speech was always ‘sanitised’. Liberals were communists ( well that hasn’t changed), I’m a real baby boomer, and I approve your message.
You remember the truth about the past instead of pretending it was "better".
If EVERYONE were like you, the world would be a MUCH better place.
You are epic, good sir
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Don't forget when conservatives tried to cancel D&D by claiming it was satanic 💀
@@TheMan-wx3ye didn't they also do that with Pokemon?
The "edgy" jokes in this book are so soft I could pack my kitchenware with them. The key tenant of edgy humor is understanding that the "humor" part is what's most important. If all you've set out to do with your jokes is to offend people, you aren't telling "edgy" jokes, you're just being an a-hole.
see also, 99% of jokes about dead babies that 13 year olds tell the instant they discover edginess
That's because the book is a parody of conservatives. They aren't hardcore edgy about it because they're not conservatives. They're making fun of them. The Babelon Bee is satire.
@@KrimsonKattYTSomeone doing a great job parodying a conservative doing a bad job parodying a leftist, is still just not very funny.
Nah fam. If the joke isn't even offensive but it's main goal is to offend people and it still offends people, that's pretty funny ngl. The joke itself? Probably not. But the outcome would be fucking hilarious.
I love how 99% of being a Republican is just trolling everyone to make their lives as least fun as possible in the least funny way. Goodbye planet, rights, expression, healthcare, transportation, community, culture, art, peace, all to just be an asshole!!!! Like dude, I just wanna be able to walk to my free college, walk to a local place to eat with my friends who are trans/gay/minority etc and not get harassed or looked at weird, in a clean neighbourhood fuelled by renewable energy with a lack of waste, without homeless as they are paid for and getting back on their feet, no offensive war… what about ANY of that is evil?!?! Like the ideas socialists have are just genuinely utopian and would help so many places in society from helping animal populations and biodiversity rise, less economic struggle, better culture! It sucks dude, like one kid in class sucks and now everyone has to suffer. Their entire ideology is just wanting people to fucking die cause they’re racist, sexist, transphobic, no regular person thinks that homelessness is a thing that should exist to spite others, or think people should not be able to pay their medical bills, or be able to afford food. We’re playing against the house.
Normal People - "Boo! Get off the stage! You stink!"
The Babylon Bee - "Heh, heh, they're jeering cause it's funny; nailed it."
Or better: "I'm just saying what you all are thinking." Nope. I was thinking "booooo", like a little ghost.
Slevin Channel is a bot so please report them
*Excitedly shouting avoiding the mic entirely* “HEY DID YOU SEE THAT? I TOTALLY OWNED THE LIBS!! ARE YOU PROUD OF ME DAD???”
"I think the Holocaust was justified. Nice joke isn't it?"
"What is the joke?"
"Oh, WOW! Chill out commie I was just making a joke! You are just too woke to understand it! HAHAHAHA!"
@@kholeka8475 There are two times that a man is telling the truth, when he's drunk, or when he is joking.
These jokes have the same vibe and value as writing the N-Word next to a picture of the troll Face, waving it in front of a black guys face and screaming "problem? problem? problem?"
I'm sorry, I have to steal this!
Right wing comedy is just an acceptable way of packaging and excusing every pathological human characteristic. It's like having a good cross burning without burning the cross or wearing a white hood.
All humour is sadism, but not all sadism is humour.
Sociopaths, especially low-functioning sundowning boomers and/or inbred rednecks, have trouble with the difference.
Epic troll(?)
It's a parody website meant to mock conservatives for being hyperbolic. It's all satire. Everything they do is satire. This RUclipsr is just trying to get outrage clicks just like the right does.
This is why I stopped watching Joe Rogan after he interviewed Chuck Palahniuk who wrote fight club, so one of the best dark humour writers around and all Joe wanted him to talk about was censorship, but Chuck knows it's no worse now than 2 decades ago and personnally for him as a ga y writer it was actually harder back then. At one point Chuck was telling a story of how he offended someone in an improv class he was at and Joe was like she should get over herself and Chuck a human being with emotions was like no I felt really bad, I tell jokes for people to laugh at, if people get upset especially the people you are telling the joke too, it's not a joke. Chuck was just too intelligent and empathetic for Rogan.
Agree with preety mucy everything till the end where you completely fumbled it. Jokes aren't inherently meant to be non-offensive and using that as the litmus test for a joke is just plain stupid. If someone is offended at your joke it doesn't mean you did anything wrong.
I'm not sure why you would even say this when alot of leftist comedy triggers the right wing and offends them. Does that not make it a joke then?
@@Big1nz where in the world did I say humour is inherently non-offensive, some of my favourite comedy is Brass Eye, Day today and Inbetwerners. I'll reiterate he was telling a joke to a room of people, nobody laughed and one person got upset. That's not comedy is it, that's the point, if nobody finds it funny you haven't made a joke. I praised Chuck a dark humour writter yet somehow you think I was saying don't be offensive?
@@Big1nz they said Chuck said that
@@kreyperez9842 also I never said offensive jokes aren't jokes, the person just didn't read.
@@Big1nz where did the other person say jokes are inherently non offensive?
If a Conservative tried to write a joke about a chicken crossing the road, they'd have to shoehorn in someway that somewhere a chicken will be offended and that's why it's funny.
That's their only joke this decade.
"Triggered much, Wokeflake!?"
None, their too busy ???? Their gender 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Nah, the punch line would be that the chicken identifies as being on the other side.
Who would've thought that the group with the low outgroup empathy loves hurting people for the sake of hurting them.
@@riotgrrrl8807 i hate generalizing folks by our dum modern political philosophies but my god if it isn’t basically the exact same humor as bullying the disabled kid in middle school
The scream at the sky thing is hilarious to me considering how so many people reacted to trump losing in 2020
Liberals in 2016 - yell at the sky
Conservatives in 2020 - lie for months about election fraud and spread conspiracies, storm the US Capitol in a riot to attempt to stop the confirmation of a new president
Its funny, I had a former friend who said Trump supporters would act completly normal if Trump lost
That or I'm misremembering and he said that most trump supporters didnt do the rioting and killing and Capitol destroying while "most" liberals got a little upset and screamed a little
Maybe both
To be fair it’s literally the degradation of American politics.
In 2017 Democrats and the far left screamed into the sky at Trump’s victory
In 2020 Republicans and the right screamed into the sky at Trump’s loss
American politics is a circus on fire and both sides are becoming more polarised
@@1HuntingShark "both sides" what a stale statement
also they did a lot worse than that
It's weird how they can claim they are the ones being opressed and persecuted and still proudly put a "National bestseller" tag on their book.
Also r/dadjokes is much better comedy.
It's because the entire thing is satire meant to mock conservatives. It's not meant to be taken seriously. Or more accurately, double satire. Leftists parodying rightists attempting to portray leftists.
One thing to realise is that the Big Vague Conspiracy is simultaneously powerful enough to control every government and media outlet, but it's utterly helpless and unable to crack down on books being published, social media conspiracists posting under their own name with all their personal info clearly visible, or a guy posting videos from his bedroom on RUclips.
The enemy of fascism is both strong and weak.
I remember a quote from another RUclipsr: "for people who claim to be silenced, they never stfu"
I love how conservatives have just boiled down the entirety of MLK's existence into a single sentence that they repeat ad nauseum, while actively being against 99% of the things he fought for.
"Why can't BLM be more like MLK?"
"The same MLK who was an avowed socialist?"
"Uhh..."
"The same MLK who said riots are the language of the unheard?"
"Umm..."
"The same MLK who said reparations are a necessity to repair race relations?"
"Wait..."
Shit... 99% of the same speech that sentence came from, let alone anything else about the man.
To be honest: If they would understand that this sentence was aspirational and not a description of the current situation I would be relatively happy. Then they might see the point of BLM is to make reality a little bit closer to MLK's dream. But they only have a problem with police violence if it is targeted at right wing extremists.
@@joachimschoder By burning cites and committing murder? The same BLM who's founders are self proclaimed "trained Marxists." The Same group that has stared riots across the country for nearly a year and has only furthered the racial divide. Forgive me if I see them as nothing but violent thugs who only steal and destroy.
@@gaiusjuliuspleaser I never believed for a second that he was a socialist. Socialism didn't help Africa when it took root there, it only made things worse for them. So why would he think it would be any different here?
Their insistence that "The Left" is going mad over their comedy reminds of the Tim Whatley episode on Seinfeld, where this exchange happens:
"And this offends you as a Jewish person?
-No, it offends me as a comedian!"
Truer words were never said.
Those "politically incorrect" so-called "comedians" don't offend people because "people are too sensitive". They offend people because they are shitty comedians with no skill or talent. That's why they resort to cheap shock "humor".
@@eymed2023 indeed. in theory, bigoted comedy could actually be funny. the fact that it almost never is raises questions as to its real purpose.
@@joshridinger3407 Not just "comedians".
EVERY single right winger blames EVERYTHING on the left.
On problems that they don't even know ANYTHING they're talking about!
Seriously!
If a car falls out of the sky, right wingers blame it on the left.
If a guy robs a grave to steal jewelry, they blame the left.
If aliens appear and start kidnapping people, they blame the left.
If King Kong appears and starts destroying buildings, they blame the left.
It's ridiculous! When they don't have any arguments, they default to scapegoating the left. Broken record is putting it MILDLY!
@@joshridinger3407 I've laughed before at a FEW bigoted jokes. But never at the "triggerer" crowd.
The problem with the "triggers" is that the goal of their "jokes" is to bring misery, not laughs.
It's a matter of intention. The "triggerers" aren't trying to bring laughs. They're trying to bring misery. And they succeed.
Those "conservative comedians" aren't comedians at all. They're bullies.
There's a big difference between comedy and bullying. And they don't understand that.
@@eymed2023 yeah it's just witless tribal signalling: outgroup disgusting and pathetic, ingroup tough and virtuous.
There's something supremely ironic about the Babylon Bee's use of C.S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters. In one of its chapters, Lewis points out that there's a big difference between actually making a joke and what he calls "flippancy", discussing a serious subject in a smarmy tone which implies that it is inherently ridiculous. Whereas making a real joke actually requires some effort and thought, flippancy can be used to get cheap laughs all while diminishing the intellectual and spiritual capacity of everyone who participates. And the Babylon Bee's Guide to Wokeness is 100% flippancy.
Conservative Evangelicals like to use C.S. Lewis as a mascot, and I guess he was kinda conservative in some ways, but he wrote more than The Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity. My favorite books of his are "The Great Divorce", "Perelandra" and "Till We Have Faces". That last one even helped me come out as trans to myself.
Once again, THE BABELON BEE IS A PARODY WEBSITE MAKING FUN OF CONSERVATIVES. They're intentionally making stupid arguments because THATS THE ENTIRE POINT.
Let's be honest, do you actually think the lazy idiots bothered to read the book instead of just using the one quote?
That quote from the writer saying "we're the only ones in on the joke," owns so much. Imagine a comedian bombing on stage as he makes jokes appealing to Boomer Humor, just dead silence in the club, and he thinks to himself, "actually this is going great. These buffoons don't realize _Im_ the only one in on the joke! I'm the greatest comedian of them all!"
“Joke’s on them I’m just pretending”
The re-appropriation of this MLK quote by conservatives is actually pretty classical for conservatism : pretending the problems belongs to the past, the system now is perfect and nothing needs to change.
Of course, let's forget that the "all men are created equal" sentence was in the Declaration of Independence for a century before the 13th Amendment was signed, and two centuries before the Equal Rights Movement (and let's not talk about the Equal Rights Amendment).
MLK wanted to live in a better society where people were no longer judged by the color of their skin, while conservatives pretend we already live in that better society.
But then a good chunk of them say "but look how they act" right afterwards
He also towards the end of his life admitted the dream speech was purely aspirational and it was going to take major changes to make it actually happen
Particularly irritating when you think about how these conservative states have spent the past year pulling back all the voting rights he fought for until some states are even worse off.
but the left totally doesnt judge people by the color of their skin?
@@al959 "pulling back voting rights"
if youre talking about voter id, you are racist
"God, being conservative Himself, hates liberalism at least as much as you do"
Matthew 19:24: "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
James 5:1-6: "Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter."
Luke 12:33: "Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys."
Mark 12:41-44: "And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny. And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”
Luke 6:20: "And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God."
Sounds like a conservative to me!
Conservative feelings don't care about facts
These people sounds like the worst fake Christians with that comment about liberals
Yeah, you have to read those verses in the proper context, which is "but I don't wanna".
Wow. I know the Bible has some really reprehensible stuff in it but this part literally sounds like it was written by a leftist
I agree with this statement. God bless you.
Being triggered by other people being triggered is such a weird moral high ground, ngl
It’s like... (being offended)^2
truly
I call it "metaffended."
"I said things that would make you angry, and then you were angry! This means I win!"
Everyone does this to some extent, most people get over it tho.
As a former conservative, conservatives have a very strange relationship with MLK. They accept him as a nearly universally loved figure in American history and politics, so they claim to also love him on a superficial level, but their love is limited almost completely to a handful of cherry-picked quotations, rather than any kind of agreement with his actual political positions or more nuanced extended writings or speeches. I actually hadn't heard his entire "I have a Dream" speech until I attended a secular community College. In many conservative minds, there is a weird assumption that MLK would side with them over the modern day left wing, and that's mostly based on the statements of his Republican niece, Alveda, rather than anything MLK said or did during his life.
Republicans hated MLK when he was alive, but loved using his socialist words for vaguely capitalistic purposes. Jesus Christ was executed by the state. They put Che Guevara on a T Shirt. Capitalists will train your corpse to dance to their tune.
I think these conservatives would combust if they actually sat down and read "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
It's much like their relationship with Jesus. They reconfigure him into someone who doesn't require them to challenge themselves in any way whatsoever.
@luthientinuviel3883 interestingly, while I was still a conservative, I happened to read a lengthy excerpt from Letters from a Birmingham jail while looking for an off-meta MLK quote to incorporate into a Poli-Sci project, and I believe it was one of the first significant cracks in the foundation of my sheltered, misinformed/underinformed political worldview.
They like using MLK as a way to tell black people to sit down and shut up. It's the reason why they don't talk about any of his other speeches or expand on his I have a dream speech.
They know very well they would be the same ones calling him a communist and hating him like they did in the 1960s.
Not that long ago, I was watching a clip from the Late Show with Stephen Colbert and a few conservative commenters were pissy about how much Colbert sold out and was an example of a comedian who "changed" their politics the bigger and richer they got.
They seriously thought Colbert of the "Colbert Report" was an actual conservative who "became" liberal. It goes to show not only are conservatives bad at making adequate satire, they are also bad at truly understanding it.
I definitely think his material's much safer and "cleaner" now, but I think it's a symptom of being tied to a corporate network, not because his politics drastically shifted.
Ive seen those types of people-funniest shit ever!
…owait. Are THEEEEEY the joke? 🤔
I went to high school in a very rural community and every single guy in my class was obsessed with the Colbert report because they thought he was like Bill O’Reilly, not mocking him.
See I think his problem is that he went from a Democrat comedian who criticized his own party when they acted like republicans to shilling for Hillary as soon as he got on a late show
No way they though his persona was real....
We do live in a weird age where "Conservative" comedians will tell you they have been cancelled on their netflix special and that if you don't laugh it's your fault and not their poor writing and stale comedy.
i swear if I see one more person call themselves canceled because they got some backlash on twitter I will drive my head thru a wall
I CANT CALL THAT GUY A N***ER?? LIBTARDS ARE TAKING MY FREE SPEECH!!!
It is a fascinating phenomenon. The level of entitlement of an entertainer who, once having found success, now blames their audience for no longer having the same tastes as it did when they found their success (or at least, not being in the same places they used to be and are still trying to find that audience in that place, since a lot of them seem specifically annoyed that they can't get gigs at college campuses any more because young people have a different sense of humour to their parents), instead of just figuring out how to write material that works for what the audience is currently looking for.
@@akorn9943 That's stupid, it would be a lot more constructive to drive their head thru a wall :p
"How dare you not laugh at my jokes and make me #1 on Netflix Top 10. The _Radical Left_ is just too triggered and they're trying to cancel me because I speak the truth and say what people want to hear."
It reminds me of that wonderful clip of that women talking to Ben Shapiro about his new book and how he failed to make a comedy and it's Hollywood's fault. But then she says how right wingers inherently can't make good comedy due to them not having transferable humour to everyday living and he stutters and stumbles and can't name one good Conservative comedian.
"Bill Cosby is fairly conservative" -Ben Shapiro
if he had answered "greg gutfeld" he'd have made a actual good joke. but nnnnope
@@goartist
Now, let’s say, hypothetically, that one out of maybe 25 jokes made by someone like Greg Gutfeld actually land.
Would that not, theoretically, make him an objectively awful comedian?
Tim Allen at least is not outright terrible.
Ben Shapiro and Andrew Neil are quite a comical duo.
When I was a 13yo edgelord, I made the one joke with the phrase "I sexually identify as a Dialga." Turns out I played myself because 6 years later, I'm agender and describe how I use the label for myself by comparing it to how legendary Pokemon are genderless.
Foreshadowing
The prophecy has come to pass
Off topic but is a dialga a Pokémon or am I just dumb
@@galacticcow38 Yes, a legendary Pokemon iirc
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I feel like maybe woke culture, like cancel culture, is an excuse washed up comedians use when they've lost their edge and aren't funny anymore.
Pretty much, complain that they're trying to cancel you or how woke you aren't and you'll never have to write any new jokes again. I remember I was watching one comedian who spent like twenty minutes making a big deal about how he doesn't care if he offends people and then went on to tell the weakest set of jokes I've ever heard. Keep in min the performance was tagged a dark comedy. I got one laugh before I gave up and it was him reading a youtube comment under one of his videos and he doesn't get credit for that because someone else wrote it.
The guy that wrote and directed Joker said that people are too “easily triggered”, which is why he doesn’t do comedies anymore. The truth is he just isn’t funny and people are only now realizing that.
Dave Chappelle lost his mind, fled the country for over a decade, naturally taking his finger off the pulse of what is true and/or funny, and then tried to come back like nothing happened with lazy, unfunny material and blamed his audience for not liking it.
conservative comedians have no angle, and their jokes are like wet paper hitting a floor.
@@lmlimpoism worthless people, I mean conservatives are only keeping Chappelle and comedians of his likes alive.
The old "Hitler was a socialist, checkmate!" gem presented as actual advice on how to win an argument against liberals as if it's some trump Trump card is one of the funniest things i've seen in a while, actually. Though it does actually offend me, a bit. On behalf of the people who paid money for that book. They deserve better.
Anyone conned into paying for that swill is likely already predetermined not to learn better.
The important word in National Socialist Workers (Nazi) Party was not Socialist, but National. They were fascist nationalists, substituting power of the state for all other institutions (the church, the press, academia, the banks, etc.). They just threw the word socialism in there because socialism was very popular.
Hehe
'trump' card
hitler was the most conservative conservative that ever conservatived. He literally made a system where women would get medals based off how many children she would have. He was also very passionate about the country Germany, a hypocrite, hated communists and enforced the ideas of "men should work in the army while the women make sandwiches and pump out children.
Sounds like a lot of American Conservatives nowadays...
I just hit them with the "and north korea is a democratic republic so u must be pro north korea"
The Babylon Bee was originally started as a Christian version of the Onion. The buyout is what made it more far right and go for the same 3 jokes
Thank you
It's so pinfully obvious that the are trying to be The Onion. They even stole the layout of their webpage, more or less.
Yeah. Before the buy-out, it didn't have a strong political bent. Sure, it made fun of liberals more than conservatives - but conservatives were by no means off limits. Nor were Republican politicians. And mega-church figures were targets for a special level of scorn. The writers did not take well to people they saw as perverting the holy word of God to make money or manipulate voters.
Today, though? Completely different. Under the new owner it's become /very/ politically inclined. Every Democrat is a target for mockery, but every Republican has immunity. Trump is revered. Worse, it's gone into conspiracy theory territory, running many articles mocking vaccination while implying ('satirically,' naturally) that vaccination is dangerous. They are even running articles sponsored by a company called 'UnMask' that makes fake face masks - they look like facemasks from a distance, but the fabric is really a very loose mesh that provides absolutely no barrier to either breathing or microbes.
And, worst of all? It stopped being funny. All they do now is run endless variations on 'Aren't the woke mob all stupid and violent lol?'
What same 3 jokes?
That’s the sense I got. My brother use to hang out in some Christian circles online, and would laugh at some of the Babylon Bee articles they shared with him. He enjoyed the articles poking fun at the silly things we Christians do. Recently, he’s left a lot of those circles after many of them made a right-wing turn a few years ago. It was pretty clear to him that liberal and left-leaning Christians were no longer welcomed in those groups. He also noticed Babylon Bee’s focus shift to the conservative culture war.
And yet, they still can't define woke.
Yeah many say it doesn't have a specific meaning. I see it as "anything new that goes against conservatism"
woke and canceled did unimaginable amounts of damage to peoples vocabulary you slap them onto anything and people act like The Liberals (dont ask who its just The Liberals) are executing people on the streets or something
Because the entire point of their website is that conservatives are stupid. The site is SATIRE. PARODY. Everything they say is hyperbolic nonsense because THATS THE ENTIRE POINT.
Easy, it means "things I dislike"!
@@JamesPreus You don't know the context of that meme, do you? It started when Judge Brown joined the Supreme Court, and the Trumplicans asked her to define a woman, for no particular reason other than digging for quotes they could throw out of context to their base. She correctly answered that she would leave that messy and intricate question up to medical professionals.
If you disagree, please offer your definition. Remember to account for trans men, trans women, women who have all uniquely female organs removed and the roughly 1 in 5000 people born with some degree of hermaphroditic or intersex characteristics. Remember that your definition will be rigorously examined by legal and medical professionals, and it may lead to a trans woman being harrassed and murdered in a men's jail, or someone suffering a lifetime of agonising gender dysphoria after being born intersex and getting assigned the wrong gender at birth.
Gosh, it's not as easy as the sexist old white guys made it sound, is it? Stop being such an NPC.
Is it possible to have a negative response to right-wing jokes that ISN'T considered angry? If so, what would such a response look like? If not, why do they act like it's such an accomplishment?
Well I know from experience that:
No reaction,
A confused frown,
Rolling your eyes,
Thumbs up and saying "good job little buddy!",
Pretending to get a phone call from the burn unit saying that your appointment has been cancelled,
All apparently count as being "triggered"
Laughing in an agreeable way?
Mine would be disappointment and pity.
"Up up down down left right left right B A start" makes you take no damage.
Mine was mostly confusion on what they were talking about. But they probably would celebrate this as a statement about my intelligence and not their inability to make an actual joke that doesn't depend on being a member of their echo chamber.
Always a good day when a new Jose vid pops up in my feed
Yeah and your videos too! Heartwarming to see you like Jose, too. I love you both and your content gives me hope for humanity.
@@lunaholo8740 now I gotta check out their content!
Yesss!!!
I love how the term Redpilled was co-opted from a movie that’s a trans allegory written and directed by two trans women it’s like if the confederacy started calling getting captured by the union “going to uncle tom’s cabin”
I...thought it was from The Matrix. Is there something I'm missing?
@@isobelmiller7464 yeah the matrix is a trans allegory and directed by the Wachowski sisters both of whom are trans
@@LinearAztec Oh. I didn't know that.
@@isobelmiller7464to add to that, the red pill itself is a reference to the pills used for hormone therapy for trans women at the time, as they were red pills.
@@LinearAztec The Matrix was never a trans allegory. That narrative is retrofitted onto the story and doesn't really work when you think about it.
What I mostly remember is this one article where they were making fun of "west coast liberals" for eating sushi without fish in it, implying it wasn't sushi because apparently the author didn't bother to look up what sushi was before writing it and I dunno I feel like that encapsulates the whole thing. For those curious sushi actually refers to the rice and how its prepared, there's plenty of authentic sushi without fish.
And the fish is called Sashimi! Completely separate from the "Sushi"
Thank you, I didn't know that!
Huh. Neat. Learn something new ig
It's meant to be stupid because conservatives are stupid. The conservative writer not knowing what Sushi is WAS THE JOKE.
For sure. Like, one of the most popular kinds of sushi is rolled egg sushi.
Conservative comedy is saying something outrageous, calling everyone over-sensitive when they don't like it, and then getting very over sensitive over the fact that people didn't like your edgy humor.
“when they don’t like it”
last time i checked dave chappelle’s latest hit was very popular with many
not with ALL but with many still
so your point isn’t right still
also nowadays almost every joke offends the woke crowd
so what?
they’ll always complain about simple jokes don’t take them seriously lol
also why are y’all obsessed with conservative comedy?
as if leftist “comedy” is such a masterpiece
last time i saw “Christmas inc” it was bad leftist propaganda lol
you’re more unfunny
@@donnieraczynski572 The fact that you felt the need to respond three different times rant over my comment proves literally all of my points correct at once. Good on you.
@@donnieraczynski572 LMAO YOU LIKES YOUR OWN COMMENT IM CRYING HAHA
The One Joke has been one of the main banes of my existence since first starting high school at a Southern all boys rich conservative Catholic school. An inundation of attack helicopter comments for four years in a time when I was considering my own gender identity was not healthy, and neither was constantly exposing myself to it when I jumped on the anti-SJW bandwagon during the early Trump years. Then I finally realized at 22 that I was enby, told my aesthetically liberal dad, and the next time I saw him, he was grumbling about they/them pronouns and people wanting to "identify as toasters and force others to accept it."
Edit: aaaaand there's the screaming at sky person, yet another joke I constantly had to deal with due to being one of the only vocally anti-Trump people at a school where even the teachers were hoping Trump would win to stop the evils of abortion.
The first attack helicopters were retrofitted, meaning they transitioned roles. The One Joke validates trans people after all 🤣
@@sluttyMapleSyrup Ok, that's actually pretty funny.
The one joke isn't referring to trans, it's referring to those nutcases who don't identify as anything or some actual person who thinks they're a dog or whatever
@@Wolfpaw754 aren't you that pick-me gay from the Jenny Nicholson Vampire Diaries comment section?
@@Wolfpaw754 Okay, but do these people actually exist in real life? I'm in a left-wing area, all my friends are at least liberals, and I've never seen it.
Conservative “humor” boils down to racist jokes, whining about being “canceled” and “I identify as X.”
I also identify as twitter
t*itt*er
The funniest thing I saw in this book was that they included a quote where C.S. Lewis explicitly says that God demands social justice in a book mocking social justice.
I'm not saying it's actually that funny, just funnier than anything else.
@@MrSophire Trump did not help the poor or education systems either wtf are you talking about. also nice transphobia and capitalist bootlicking
Not to be antagonistic in any way, but wasn't that quote from the pov of a high ranking devil?
I love how right wingers call elon a wroke communist when he is the most right wing capitalist 😂
He's for saving the environment. Therefore, he's a woke communist.
Conservatives think we love Nancy Pelosi. It's a lost cause trying to get them to understand anything.
@@dudestep It comes from their binary thinking. They can't understand that someone can defend a person from unwarranted attacks from the right while still not exactly liking them. For them, if you defend someone, regardless of why, it *must* be because you like them.
I've had this conversation with a conservative before. He somehow mistook my "your reasons why Hillary Clinton is bad are dumb" with "I love Hillary Clinton".
@@GeneralBolas i wish
I haven't seen any right wingers say this, don't they mostly love Elon actually?
It's kind of like how "Big Bang Theory," just strings together a bunch of word salad that references what people think is nerdy, out of any context, and then play a laugh track so you know that this is when we are supposed to point and laugh at the nerd, you know, because they are nerds. So funny!!!
That show is literally better than this
@@mr.x2567 Big Bang Theory has made me chuckle at least a handful of times. And its characters are likeable after the fact when your brain has successfully repressed the pervert stuff
@@dddmmi BBT: Step 1, Never make a joke, just reference things that sound nerdy but written by people that don't know what they are referencing. Step 2, Adorkable misogyny.
Result, most popular show in America and it makes perfect sense.
@@dddmmi And of course they are pervs, because they are nerds and we all know nerds don't date, because they are nerds. So of course they will be repressed and awkward pervs.
I don't know, unfortunately I was in the cool crowd in HS and it seemed like the nerds always had dates and were always more decent to each other. I would have rather hung out with them.
That doesn't say much about me in HS either. So maybe that is why I don't like this show at all.
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I love that conservative humour is often a self-own, or looks like leftists mocking conservatives.
That line is too permeable for comfort
Its kind of like jewish humor
"forced misunderstanding" is the best way to describe all of this.
Conservatives seem to assume if you don't laugh at their joke it's exclusively because you're offended and not because the joke was bad. And you can't defend yourself or critique the comedy because they can't distinguish between you finding a joke morally reprehensible and just not finding it funny. I laugh at "offensive" dark humour all the time.
Depends on what you mean by offensive. A joke about pedophilia or murder is a little different from ethnic jokes
I feel conservative can't take criticism and they need a way to explain their failure without working better.
@@somik-i3x Well yeah that's always been the case
@@somik-i3x if conservatives could learn from other people's perspectives they wouldn't be conservatives. Taking criticism requires a bare minimum amount of self awareness.
There's a lot of dark humor that isn't conservative. Always Sunny is arguably a satire about a bunch of horrible conservatives doing terrible things and it's hilarious. The problem is actual conservatives watch and think Dennis is cool and relatable.
As someone who had to endure a lot of Fox News around family I can confirm that not even conservatives laugh at Greg Gutfeld.
He has a permanent ANGER line between his eyes.
Haha! Telling, indeed......
I bet his family hates his visits
“2+2=4” is pretty much the “literally 1984” meme but stated completely unironically.
The funniest thing is that, a fantasy leftwinger lives rent free in these comedians head.
"A rainbow communist renegade of both unimaginable strength and preposterous weakness."
These fascists get less subtle with their fears every time
Sounds like a tight living space. I’d have more room living in a wet box.
What's even funnier is that the leftist in their head is right about irony
@@nukiradio "The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak."
- Umberto Eco
They’re literally just writing fanfiction in their heads about blue-haired Emily who identifies as a blade of grass and cries during snowstorms because snow is white.
ok but listing Grey Jedi under Oppressed Religions is actually pretty funny.
huzzah! they created _one_ funny joke! that must be a new world record for them
It's the punchline to a joke we never got to hear :'(
Centrist are the most oppressed group of people
@Johnson now THAT is a funny joke!
I think that is an interesting insight. I agree that it is funny, and since it is not openly political, it somewhat shows that if they were not trying to cater to a very obvious political bias, they could be funny.
I grew up evangelical, still am Christian, and I liked the Bee when it started as an "Onion" for Christian culture. Some articles would be really pushy about Reformed theology or political conservatism, but most were just in-jokes lovingly poking fun at hipster pastors and fixations on worship styles. Very niche and cheesy but for somebody like me made me go "HA they're actually pointing out that thing I grew up with!"
They went full political and I initially followed them to avoid being a "triggered lib" when I was insecure about that, but then they put out an article mocking police brutality victims and I couldn't do it anymore. From the looks of things they've only gotten worse.
Dang that makes me feel so much better! I have the same background, and I remember laughing at some Babylon Bee articles many years ago, and I didn’t remember it being very political. This video had me worried I was even more brainwashed than I’d realized 😅😮💨
Honestly the one about "There's only a 15% chance I'll pray for you, brother" got a genuine laugh. That's actual satire- lampooning a common sentiment by overtly honestly stating a lies desirable sentiment. Not...whatever this book is.
@@hmnhntr Yeah, that one was funny!
@@hmnhntr ok that one joke does sound pretty funny
I didn't understand that one at all . . . Until you indicated that it wasn't political. Then I realized that I understood it and that it is very funny. The funniest joke presented here, actually.
The CS Lewis quote was never about “the left” co-opting Christianity for their own gains, it’s about Christians who lose focus on the spiritual aspect of Christianity in favor of worldly goals, and how even an admirable goal can become all-consuming. The Screwtape Letters are fundamentally about the individual’s journey toward religion, not about politics, and trying to shove the quote in for a cheap shot at the left shows a complete misunderstanding of their own theology. They’re literally the guy Lewis is talking about, using Christian theology as means to a political end.
I gotta say that the list provided at the start is unintentionally hilarious. So much insight provided into the Conservative mindset. It's practically a Colbert Report bit.
*sigh*
I miss the Colbert Report, he’s been insufferable as a late night host (basically a slightly less obnoxious Jimmy Kimmel)
@@warlordofbritannia -Me too. Not a big fan of Late Night format in general (outside of say old Letterman and maybe some Conan). I don't think the format fits what Colbert does best, which is mostly a solo act.
He was brilliant on the Colbert Report, for sure.
@@warlordofbritannia -And to be fair, he's had some decent moments on his late night show. His Hunger Games inspired satire of the GOP Primary back in the run-up to the 2016 elections was really funny.
You can pull up those bits on You Tube. Worth a look. Probably the best coverage of the GOP Clown Car other than the Vic Berger stuff.
@@manholeeunuchsbane6197 anything more recent than 2016? Late night show writers have it rough, having to come up with jokes that often for that long
Your tone is hilarious, but your thinking is the joke
“We got the boomer humour market locked down” is absolutely not something a comedian should ever boast about.
It's a joke. Everything the Babelon Bee says is a joke. It's a parody website making fun of conservatives by being as crazy and radical as possible.
Certain not a comedian who wants a career that lasts longer than 15 minutes.
“There ARE your grandpa’s jokes”
The central problem with conservatives reaction to liberals is this: what upsets us is not their politics or ideas, but rather the real harm their policies and beliefs have on real people. They can never admit that harm is real, they must lionize themselves as heroic for being intolerant, and will rationalize it any way they can. They simply want to be as intolerant of change as they always have been, but they also want to not be socially vilified for it by the literal rest of the world who are more accepting of that change. And then they have the nerve to complain about others wanting special treatment.
Or just maybe, this change that is happening isn't all that good
@@SuperYoshiMan Good is an indefined quantity. My good for society might not fit your idea of good for society. Better to be tolerant of everyone since no one is provably right.
@@fusionspace175 I didn't really mean good for society, I meant morally right in general, and if we cant agree that an objective truth exists than theres not much point to a conversation
@@SuperYoshiMan An objective truth of a moral good? Sounds like you've got delusions you're in contact with a cosmic being who arbitrates that sort of thing. Because there is no objective moral good. Morals are, by their very nature, subjective.
@@fusionspace175 there is absolutely no shot we get anything productive with this conversation
gotta love how most of the jokes boil down to "haha look, this person is discriminated against for THREE REASONS? They're just attention seeking, something like that can't exist"
"Its jokes only work if you're completely ignorant of the subjects they're talking about about" is a perfect summation and a bangin' dust jacket quote.
When an adult makes the one joke, I seriously question their intelligence.
That’s why I don’t listen to Twitter.
I take it as an admission of bad faith.
One Joke to rule them all,
One Joke to find them,
One Joke to bring them in,
And in the darkness bind them,
In the Land of Babylon where comedy dies.
Personally there was a point at which I found it funny, but that was several years ago when it was, atleast in my mind, in reference to the people who WERE identifying as inanimate objects or completely different species, but that was when it was just an internet thing and hadn't been picked up by mainstream conservatives. it's honestly kind of frustrating how difficult it is to mock or critique the more extreme or misguided parts of the left without it being coopted by the right to paint the entire left with.
@@chichi2000fgh I hope you realise that the last half of your comment can be perfectly reversed, just swap the directions and you are currently consuming content that is painting an entire spectrum of political beliefs as having a certain ideology.
Wokeism is when conservatives can’t be bigoted 🤬
Back in my day, wokeism was questioning authority, wondering if aliens truly exist and why only two parties run the USA. Idk why people needed to change that words meaning
I think it's defensive. They got sick of us making fun of them getting mad everytime someone said happy holidays instead of merry Christmas (as an example), so they weaponized it
I think a lot of Conservatives out themselves when they start complaining about Wokeism. Like them getting upset when there is a brand change to get rid of something socially insensitive. My question would be "Why do you care so much about it? Only a racist would find that worth protecting"
Putting comedy aside... yes. That 'Wokeism' is annoying because it is constantly pointing out things that many would rather not see. It's that person who points to your beloved new SUV and suggests that your lack of concern for sustainability in favor of your own comfort is selfish. Or the person who complains that the movie you were laughing at is mocking a community who are the subject of real discrimination, and the type of attitude that comedy promotes is only making their situation worse. It's the annoying person who constantly nags that you are doing a bad thing and that makes you a bad person - and the worst part about it is that they are right. But, damnit, you love that SUV!
@@vylbird8014 Pointing out an uncomfortable truth isn't really bad if you know how to deliver the comedic effect. Court Jesters for example were often skilled at critiquing royalty and society without upsetting their audience. That is what makes comedy such an art form.
10:29 "How to fight fascism with violence" Is that not how you're supposed to fight fascism? We fought a world war with these bastards, it's only fair we keep going.
Yeah, but we started it. Theres no reason to attack us when we dont do anything.
@@Nooy_That's pretty funny, but it's sad that I didn't think you were joking at first.
Great breakdown! Just realized I outed myself as a Canadian by reading that line "Generation Zed", whoops
Canadians say zee not zed, am i missing something 🥺
B r i t i s h h o m e c o m p u t e r s
@@Loots1When I lived in Toronto in the 2010s, most people there said "zed."
@@sarahr3076 kk im from toronto, born and raised, what do you mean most people? how many people do you think live in toronto, and how many people do you think that youve met in toronto? and then again i ask, what do you mean most people
@@Loots1 Linguists have done studies on the usage of "zee" versus "zed" specifically in Southern Ontario, so I didn't actually have to have met every person in Toronto to know which was the more common pronunciation among adults. Look it up. If most people in your age group say "zee" and you didn't even realize that "zed" is the more common pronunciation in Canada, you're probably pretty young. There's been a pattern for multiple generation of kids picking up the "zee" pronunciation from US TV shows like Sesame Street and the rhyming alphabet song but most switching to "zed" as adults. As someone raised in the US, I quickly learned to say "zed" instead of "zee" because there was a bit of a stigma around saying "zee." At any rate, I know that it's definitely not true that Canadians don't say "zed," considering all the Canadians I heard say "zed" with my own ears.
I’m an “obese gender-nonconforming, Pacific Islander who can’t spell for crap.”
…sooooo funny….
That's not even a ridiculous charicature, that's just an ignorant fat guy from Hawaii.
I'm a "boneless, tree sexual, elf who can't spell with crap"....... I don't get it so it's clearly not funny
@@nathanspradlin8570 I’m fairly certain they were being sarcastic
@@nathanspradlin8570 "Treesexual" and "Elf" are redundant. 😂
According to Babylon Bee, I'm a one-legged, omnisexual, Calvinist who sucks at harmonies.
Ooooh, I'm sooooo offended.
To make someone left wing, let them read the best right wing "jokes".
Works every time
Muh two genders lol
I often find that a lot of right wing humor can be found in mid to late 2000s Comedy Central Stand up. Its really dated.
Joe many liberals dose it take to change a log by bulb?
None! Their to busy? Their gender 😂😂😂
@@djjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj hate my wife, love my life, love grilling
*sips beer*
its amazing how it feels like the babylon bee was killed and substituted by some sort of evil clone somewhere between 2019 and 2020
amogus
@@taMeska trully
Thats genuinely what happened iirc. Idk if the video touches on this but the babylon bee was bought by conservstive christisn company who just didnt get the joke
You can't help but feel like the phrase "You seem to know a lot about this" seemed to be being used in an attempt to deligitimse the expert it was leveled at. Which I guess is funny in a kind of you've got to laugh or cry kinda way.
"oh, you came prepared for the interview, NERD! ha ha gottem, I still win. right team?"
I honestly thought that was an "oh fuck" kinda moment.
Its a truly miserable and bleak picture of the right today. An intelligent man trying his damn hardest and doing his fucking best to intellectually and honestly weave around all the bullshit talking points but the fact that his response requires so many 5 dollar words means its fucking useless to the people who actually need to hear it.
virgin “strong political world view” Babylon Bee vs chad “make fun of everything” The Onion
If you make fun of everything then everyone gets offended equally!
idk onion seems pretty left wing
@@Cube-xm6vt just because they don't flood the media with transphobia doesn't make them left wing. They're just actually funny
@@reallyhertv4566 they're funny sure, but saying they're not left wing seems like a straight up lie having read their articles. They absolutely do take a political stance.
@D.R well I mean there’s a lot of jokes to make about them
I gotta say "we're the only ones who get the joke" is an unintentionally really funny thing for him to say
"all artists deserve to be paid. this artist deserves to be paid with a free copy of this book." is an S tier burn.
A free ebook copy so no trees have to be felled to create another copy of a collection of unfunny, poorly written jokes.
Man I wish I had invested in the strawman industry when I had the chance
Easy pick'ns
you can still do it but you need to be extra with playing the victim
"Gender; third letter of your middle name"
My middle name only has two letters. Gender disproven.
We did it guys, gender is no more
If we went by that rule I would be the same gender
I have 2 middle names tho, what do i do then?
@@RosieUV you now have two genders. combine them in the most absurd way you can. ironically, this would involve more creativity than the entire contents of the book.
proof that this book is utter bullshit
I keep searching for the Conservative Bible but haven't found it yet. From what I've seen it doesn't match anything in my Bible, but being a Quaker I suppose I have that woke, SJW Bible.
Exactly. As someone with 3/4 of her ancestors old line Pennsylvania Friends ( thee and thou, etc) who was raised going every Sunday to a Unitarian church, the whole takeover by the neo-fascist right of Christianity in the popular imagination makes me very annoyed.
Fortunately for all those Conservatives who are tired of ignoring the content of the canonical Bible, a project to create a Conservative bible did get underway in 2009. The project was being helmed by Andrew Schlafly, founder and near sole remaining contributor to Conservapedia. Anyone who has looked at Conservapedia will know what this portends for the eventual quality of the Conservative bible.
I'm a (lapsed) Catholic and in my Bible, Jesus is a pretty radical dude who didn't seem to have any love for the wealthy and little love for the state, so I don't get the whole "God is an conservative" thing either.
@@thecthuloser876 He doesn't even seem to like organized religion very much, either!
“boneless pansexual eskimo on top of old smoky” if i ever make the mistake of getting more social medias, this would be someone id follow
When we criticize Bee's horrible "joke", they be like "It's just satire! You don't understand satire???"
Sounds like they got triggered
The ol' Schrodinger's Douchebag bit. If the reaction is neutral or positive, the conversation continues as normal. If the reaction is negative, then they're all "God I was only joking!" But until the reaction, you don't know which you're going to get.
@@SPDYellow also, a true jokesman knows that there's the possibility their jokes won't get got, and in fact could make em angry. These are people adopting the looks of comedians to shield their actual beliefs from criticism.
The Cinemasins excuse.
Correct - so what's your point?
Right-wing humor is more being cruel and laughing at someone because the target of said cruelty gets angry or hurt. It is sadism dressed up as comedy.
Sadism as comedy can be done well, these guys just don't understand HOW to do it.
Conservative-comedy is raging on behalf of the machine.
This couldn't be truer!! 😄
This would make a rad punk song.
@@allnaturalfigjam310 Not a bad idea, but that might be taken the wrong way. Rage Against the Machine has become taken up by conservative talking-heads, despite being hard-line leftists.
@@afterdinnercreations936 Yeah... but it would still be rad. It's impossible to account for all the ways right-wingers are going to misinterpret you.
Fuck yeah i will do what you tell me
I find the rebel flag wavers often use “snowflake” and “offended” but i can’t play Marching Through Georgia because they get mad
"Liberals are hypocrites"
I'd say he's right, but this would neglect the fact that conservatives are also hypocrites.
Yeah, and what point are they even trying to make by calling liberals hypocrites? That liberals should move further left and apply their philosophy of egalitarianism more consistently? But no, then they'll say "Don't do that, that's communist".
I don't think any political party is a hypocrite at all, it's just that some people in both sides can be hypocrites
The problem is conservatives constantly present jokes as satirical exagerations or hyperbolic characeture but then actually believe more liberal or progressive people are actually literally like that
That's irony
I’ve met people at my campus that that extreme.
@@ianpage2509 Yes I'm sure its not you assuming things about them.
@@shadenox8164 Well the president of the diversity club has repeatedly started conversations by saying “I need attention so talk to me, Only Vaccinated people are welcome in my house.” and tried to start a harem because her boyfriend didn’t pay enough attention to her. She also complained because quote “My mom expects me to help her at home AND get a job.”
@@ianpage2509 no one asked lol
I have been a Christian for most of my life, and honestly following in the footsteps of Jesus has led me towards compassion. It has led me away from needing to prove myself right and towards prioritizing the needs of the people around me, being especially sensitive to the needs of the most vulnerable people in society. Following Christ’s imperative not to judge, but to love God and others, has freed me to walk in love. “Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.” I try to vote accordingly. This may not be everyone’s journey, but it has been mine.
If only everyone could have compassion like this ❤️
Damn, that’s actually really cool, I always had issues with christian’s, primarily because of how homophobic and transphobic the ones around me as a kid were, but I’m meeting more accepting and loving christians and it’s made me change my worldview a bit.
I’m glad not everybody on the left is an edge lord know it all atheist. I was beginning to feel a little lonely.
I’m in the same boat. Following the teaching of Jesus about loving others and not judging them is actually what led me further left politically after seeing how many of my fellow Christians say all those things then condemn others so often
So, what about the other christians? What happened? Did they stop taking their meds?
17:31 Is it bad that I find "Biden announces he will move to unfollow Putin on Twitter" legitimately funny
Nah, If you throw enough shit at the wall something will eventually stick. They were bound to say something funny at least once.
At least that joke makes an observation about the state of the world, something that a lot of the other jokes just do not. That's why this line is moderately more funny than the surrounding sludge.
That book you open with should have been called "Welcome to My Glass House. Would you like a stone?" And, as unfunny as that joke is, I bet it's better than every single (alleged) joke in that book.
(ALLEGED) JOKE
I like your glass house joke. It’s not belly laugh funny, but it is witty and works as a comedic critique.
Getting Zoe Bee to voice something for the Babylon Bee episode is funnier than 99% of conservatives jokes
🅱️ee 🐝
I like that while the writer was going for a mix of realistic and funny sounding disabilities, they added "bipedal," presumably because the only place they've heard the term is in creationist screeds and assume it means knuckle-dragging.
Also fun fact, even if you cannot walk or lack one or both legs, you are still a biped by categorization
The sad thing is that “Theres a fifteen, maybe 20 percent chance I’ll remember to pray for you” is actually a teensy bit funny (comparatively speaking)
Conservative "humor" is just the Right being upset that they can't be cruel for cruelty sake. Cruelty is the point in Conservative policy, ideology and philosophy.
Yup, I keep comparing it to kindergarteners who think calling the kid with glasses "4-eyes" is brilliant and helarious and getting mad at people not laughing.
A (slightly) larger vocabulary and a shift of targets is really the only difference.
Even saying they're telling jokes is an insult to comedy.
Cruelty in Conservatism? Based
Whaaaat, it's funny. We're just. Asking. Questions.
This week, the question was "I wonder what Jubiden would look like if he had a few extra...male private parts...growing out of his head."
Then Twitter said " 'I wonder...' isn't actually a question."
We're calling Mike Lindell. And gearing up for a slideshow for the Supreme Court. And the other 3 activist commutards. See? I'm hilarious.
@@ZemanTheMighty so "as a Conservative, when deciding if I'll accept something, I care more about it being cruel so I can feel tough (and escape even for a moment my awareness of my own weakness) than it being true"
...yeah, we know. That's kinda our point.
I'm facepalming with how close you are to achieving actual self-awareness and then veering off into your usual BS.
That's why your party is focused on attacking trans kids, pregnant women, asylum seakers, people with compromised immune systems, etc while the left is actually trying to do things worth doing dispite opposition from the most powerful people and institutions in the world.
Spoiler alert for life, though: being cruel to childern and other vulnerable people doesn't make you strong. It reveals how pathetic you are to every mature adult in the room.
So right wingers are sadists? Stop the presses!
According to the oppression identifier thing I'd be a bipedal gender-neutral Armenian on their death bed. Ironically, as a cane user with enough gender(tm) for me to share like im the goddamn Rainbow Fish, literally none of that actually describes me.
Bonus points for me trying this with other names I've gone by in recent years and still coming up with nothing that applies to me.
Cade Timothy thurlow?
I'd be a "Obese (no middle name, so no gender I guess?) Armenian in a body cast". That sounds... kinda weird, and kinda bad (considering Armenia's history).
I'd be a "Deaf Bipolar Cisgendered (two middle names) Simpson from Space". Honestly, that is coincidentally much closer than what I expected to get, what with me having hearing impairment and being cis.
That metaphor is really creative
Well, I'd be a kneeless graygender quaker with nine kids according to my legal name; for my chosen name itd be double amputee gender-apathetic quaker from space
“Look up actual statistics.”
So what about the statistic that shows right wingers are more likely to believe satire then left wingers?
“That one is biased don’t look into it.”
probably because reality has become no different from satire
Wh
I'm an Axnious Omnigender Eskimo who can't spell for crap
The only funny thing in that book was the name generator, but only because those things are fun by default
Yeah, apparently I’m a One-Legged Trigender Pacific Islander who died years ago.
Only the last part got me tbh
I'm (according to the generator) a Double amputee omnigender pacific islander by mad scientists
Not gonna lie that last bit is kinda cool actually
I might be wrong, but I was raised to believe jokes were meant to be funny. I guess no one taught conservatives
I don't know, I think Christian Walkers tiktoks in which he screams about how the liberals are responsible for his Starbucks drinks not being prepared right are pretty funny
I mean there's always someone who isn't going to find a joke or a bit funny. It just happens that the line is drawn on the political divide nowadays. Since everyone wants to be an ideologue they don't actually have their own opinions and just agree with the "correct" opinion. It leads to me having a wonderful time with both sides as they're beyond stupid in how they act towards me. According to the planet I'm everything from the most disgusting communist to the most die hard ancap, depending on how people see those who disagree with their "righteous" opinions.
There are plenty of unfunny conservatives, just like with feminists, with nazis, with communists, with liberals, with MRAs. There's also people who are funny in each group. It just happens that you can only see certain things as funny because you've blinded yourself to all other alternatives. Also in general when you restrict your jokes content to stupidly small areas yeah it is very hard for someone to find it as funny.
In order for a joke to be funny, there has to be truth to it. As the saying goes, "It's funny because it's true".
@@kattkatt6961 unfunny leftist humor tends to be unfunny for the same reasons conservative humor is unfunny: all it does is hatefully lash out at some identity group with no real wit or substance ('lol male tears' and so on). but it's a smaller proportion of leftist vs. conservative humor.
@@joshridinger3407 I'd have to disagree with your bias there. Political humor is literally just stupid people doing stupid stuff. I've also seen more mislabeling from the left than the right where some people will go after any comedian that isn't specifically super left wing.
It also shows that a lot of feminist comedians only jokes are about how awful men are and that's it. Nothing of substance. There's also a lot of cases I've heard for the left of "it would have been funny if xyz person said the joke instead of ABC person". Both sides of political comedy are stupid but trying to claim that the other side does it more is stupid.
If you want me to list the right wing examples of bad comedy then I'll try but I tend to only watch actually comedy that isn't political and just get to deal with people attacking the comedian because they weren't the right person to say the joke. Again you're free to hold any beliefs you want but I've gotta ask you to reconsider defend either side of psychopaths as "better".
I’m floored that that dude seems to obliviously admit that creating a joke where the teller is the only one in on it is competent comedy writing.
I think the ultimate joke is that conservative humor is laughably bad. It's like watching a Neal Breen movie and realizing he's unaware of how bad his movie is.
But… but the left can’t meme tho
Except Neal Breen movies make me laugh till I cry with how bad there are
Babylon Bee just makes me sigh and shake my head
BTW,read some of the trivia on Breen movies on IMBD
Its hilarious!
Breen movies are at least funny as he's so wholeheartedly committed to the craft yet so bad at it yet also thinks he's nailing it. It's like a teenager dunking on a Fisher Price basketball hoop and asserting they're NBA material, you know they're not but it's funny to watch them think they did something.
@@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 can confirm as a leftist. Political memes in general aren’t really
How dare you mock the masterpiece that is Neil Breen's filmography?
I kinda love the name generator bit not because haha woke, but because every person it generates sounds way more interesting and cool than this book
With conservative humor, the cruelty is usually the point.
It used to be different. Tool Time was a genuinely good conservative sitcom. Not RWNJ-conservative but conservative enough.
And usually the whole joke.
Speaking of that, I always feel like leftists could offend conservatives if they really tried, but it'd get to the point of showing things that are obscene. Or if I show a picture if some part of scripture or purity getting desecrated, that'd get them so mad they might resort to violence.
@@MayorOfEarth79
Yeah. I offend them all the time. I offend them by _existing._ Some of them want to fix that.
But seriously, these are the people who got offended over the gender of a plastic potato toy and the green m&m being dressed less sexy. They're very invested in finding ways to feel they're being persecuted ™.
@@grmpEqweer If they got offended by seeing a Starbucks cup then imagined how they'd feel seeing Jesus burn an American flag
6:20 ''Brave man chooses to self-identify as man''
Okay, but this is a quality shitpost I would make
Wow, I knew exactly what you meant by "the one joke" before you even explained it. The sounds of helicopter blades were echoing through my brain before you even said the next word after.
7:15
liberals when they lose the election: *scream*
conservatives when they lose the election: *attack the U.S. capitol*
conservatives: "liberals are so immature about losing!"
The main failing of conservative attempts at humor - things like Gutfeld or the Babylon Bee - is that their first and foremost goal is not to be funny, but to "own the libs". And, usually, to make sure everyone gets the joke they make things on-the-nose as much as possible. It's interesting, also, that one can look at this BB book and see it as a much better insight into the conservative mindset than anything else. Their base premise of painting all non-conservative issues as illogical and backwards is intellectually dishonest and so it undercuts any attempts at humor.
However, I do find "Grey Jedis" as an oppressed religion and the "banjo player/mutton chops" Venn diagram funny. But those had to be accidental.
The Onion is funny (mostly) because they extrapolate reality to an absurd level to make a point, or just to make something so absurd it's funny. Or how they frame headlines. One of their best was after Obama was elected: "Black man asks America for change".
The point of this BB book isn't humor, it's pure political propaganda and any humor is incidental. What most conservatives miss is that more liberal outlets - whether humorous or serious news - address issues on the left as much as on the right. The right has no self-awareness and no sense of humor about itself.
Conservative- and I use this term very loosely- comedy has never offended me.The worst reaction you'll get out of me is a sigh and an eye roll.
Same, it's just, not funny.
They get so mad when you don’t laugh at their- and I use this term very loosely- jokes. Buncha’ snowflakes
I hate how lazy their "jokes" are. If you're going to insult me through "humor" put in some effort in it.
The "Let's Go Brandon" stuff was pretty much just this in a nutshell. Nobody in the world was actually offended by that.
I'm starting to think it's projection since nearly anything not upholding being only Christian, Straight and White triggers them they probably think we operate the same way.
Like they think we see "too many" Christian families existing and get mad the same way they see "too many" Muslim families existing and -commit a hate crime- get mad.
The problem with conservative humor, from what I've seen, is that it seems to be based mostly on simply pointing out things they think are absurd, or in other words things they don't agree with. The humor is supposed to come from laughing at the "absurdity" of the thing, and not any actual humorous observation about the thing. This probably, therefore, does actually get some laughs out of people who agree with the viewpoint and who don't realize it isn't actually a joke. They're just laughing at a thing they don't like. I wonder, then, why they would need to buy a book just to do that.
Its 100% that, its why they HAVE to always conflate gender and sex because if they ever understood they're different 90% of the jokes would no longer make sense to them either now. I see so many Conservatives on Twitter doing the 'make it make sense' thing on very basic concepts but they actually don't care to know or seek the information because then they'd have to actually challenge their views. So instead they go, 'hah, yea, they're the crazy ones, not me.'
@@Nsinger998 Well, as you know there are people who disagree .. And as we know after watching the video, you probably think it's a great joke if somebody just states that it's obvious that you are right.
And just as the commenter said... We think that's lane and lazy humor at best. ☺
Because it's basically just saying to you that you're right. Appreciation of one's viewpoint should make you smile, not laugh. ☺
I think it has to do with being in a bubble. I use to live in a small town and didn't have internet often so any news I got was from Fox because I often watched the animation power hour back in the late 2000s and early 10s. So if it wasn't shock humor I didn't know much about it. It wasn't until 2018 when I became a progressive did I expand my sense of humor and found that many jokes about America to be funny rather than offensive but also sad because we can do better as a country.
@@Nsinger998 lmao so a buck is a man and a doe is a woman 😂 interesting developments in conservative post-humanism
@@Nsinger998 They're literally not but OK.
Pointing at a person and laughing because they’re upset….reminds me of the kids in school who’d laugh at me when I cried or got angry…I guess some people just keep doing that into adulthood instead of applying empathy…
Conservatives get pretty triggered when people don’t think their bigotry qualifies as comedy. They also need safe spaces to shield themselves from historical accuracy and science. Who are the snowflakes again?
Exactly. Every year they lose another battle when the research comes out. From race having no solid barriers, to sexuality not being a choice, to gender being disconnected from sex,
They always try the "ev-vry-one knoewwws" tactic, but their circular logic always gets stomped.
We should call ourselves The Eft, because the right keeps taking all the L's
Every conservative I’ve ever met is a snowflake. But also some liberals are snowflakes. So to a conservative this means liberals are snowflakes.
@@kamijk what's funny is that they're basically looking into mirrors of each other, pointing and laughing, then thinking they won the argument despite the fact they functionally support the same positions. It's like calling your identical twin ugly even though he's wearing the exact same thing as you except his shirts blue.
"People can't even make jokes anymore. You say one thing wrong, suddenly your life is ruined, you can't make any money, the woke mob goes after you."
-White dude talking about his new Netflix special, where he makes racist jokes onstage for an hour while crying about how you're not allowed to make racist jokes anymore
Truly amazing how they've adopted "facts don't care about your feelings" as a rallying cry.
It's still crazy how the rich people that put out their ideas of "personal responsibility" towards poorer people than them, don't really like to take personal responsibility for their words or actions.
Exactly!
"Accountability" is one of the MANY things conservatives boast about without actually understanding.
It's depressing to remember at time when Babylon Bee used to be legitimately clever and amusing sometimes.
I love this niche you’ve found of being a slightly more flamboyant Shaun and also sitcom retrospectives. Shouldn’t work but it really does. I think because your purpose when looking back at those sitcoms is to use them as a sort of time machine to how society was when the show aired. I’m loving it