• backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
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      5 days ago

      The humor is in the irony of a guy famous for accepting that access to guns means society must have a tolerance for people getting killed by gun violence getting his throat blown out while discussing gun violence. The darkness is having no sympathy when you know you should be concerned another person was struck down by gun violence, but just laugh and say “fuck you Chuck, you reap what you sow”.

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          5 days ago

          Okay, so here’s a random joke: A gas station owner asks me whether I’d like leaded or unleaded, and instead of either, I call him a “N%%%ER”, because he’s black, and tell him he should go back to Africa. And say I claim it’s funny, because it’s unexpected and extreme! But also just a joke to be edgy - I’m not “actually racist”!

          Would you agree, and find that to be dark humor, or just offensive? Though exaggerated, that’s pretty much what many people deal with in terms of conservative “humor”. Aside from being offensive by any normal view, the secondary crime is they’re not even funny; just baiting for “offense”.

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              4 days ago

              While I agree with cutting down on “Rtard” as a flippant insult, I haven’t even seen significant uptick on that preference in the left. It’s more likely to me it was seen once, and demonized by the right because it’s easier to hate on some phantom censorship-adjacent concept than it is to have a genuine opinion on something.

              The trend of hallucinatory demonization, like “Trans kids are terrorists” or “There’s rampant voter fraud from immigrants” or “You can’t say Christmas anymore” certainly tracks with the rest of the right’s viewpoints.

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                4 days ago

                it’s definitely not cool, plenty of people banned on lemmy for ‘ableism’