• RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        19·
        7 months ago

        99% of conservative satire is just stating something they already believe in. Like an Onion joke would be “AOC pauses child-eating circuit to vote ‘No’ on military aid,” but the same headline will be posted by conservatives and then they get genuinely angry at it because they believe it to be the truth.

        Essentially, just imagine the type of guy who think stand up comedy is easy because it’s just ranting in front of an audience. That’s conservative comedy

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
        15·
        7 months ago

        For right-wingers 90% of any Chicago joke is already done because it’s about Chicago. It’s already implied in their mind that black people have guns, are criminals, are violent, and they shoot people.

        I bet a “Are ya triggered?” Netflix comedian could riff for at least 10 minutes making Chicago a slur like this…

        “Chicago. Right? Chicago. Why is it that we talk 'bout Chicago all the time? Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, Chicago. Who’s from Chicago that was in the White House that we hat— Oh, I don’t want anybody to misunderstand. I’m not talking about race. People just hate stuff like broccoli. You just hate it. I just mean the guy in the White House that we didn’t care for was from Chicago. We didn’t like the guy. The Chicago guy. And ya know - I was just reading about a different guy - a good guy in Chicago. A white cop in Chicago. He’s a white cop. He just is. Anybody triggered already? Are ya triggered by that? Why? That’s what he is! This good white cop got shot in Chicago by… you know…”

          • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
            6·
            7 months ago

            I once made a joke at reddit about Kwame Kilpatrick. I had never seen such a Wikipedia page for a politican before. My mouth was agape. Most of the page was a list of crimes - one crime after another. It was quite something.

            Kwame Kilpatrick

            Kwame Malik Kilpatrick (born June 8, 1970) is an American politician, convicted fraudster and racketeer, who previously served as the 72nd mayor of Detroit – from 2002 to 2008.

            I only posted because I couldn’t believe how brazen he was and how much crime he committed. But later I realized racists would think I was likely a kindred spirit because he was the black mayor of Detroit.

        • kleeon [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          5·
          7 months ago

          I knew that “chicago” is just a dog whistle for black people, but you could at least TRY to make a joke out of it. It’s like that observation about conservative comedy where they get mad halfway through telling a joke and then forget to be funny

          • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
            4·
            7 months ago

            they get mad halfway through

            Man, I missed a chance to keep it simple. He just rants for 10+ minutes after starting with this…

            “Chicago. Right? Chicago… You know what. I’m already mad. Just that word makes me mad. Chicago. Everybody’s mad. All of you are already mad, right?.. Chicago…”

        • Sephitard9001 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          5·
          7 months ago

          Don’t southern 2nd Amendment haven states experience drastically more gun violence than most places including New York/California and shit? I remember reading that gun death stats are just the exact opposite of the deeply engrained Republican assertion that more gun control = more gun violence that everyone believes for some reason

          • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
            7·
            7 months ago

            Having a gun in the house can be dangerous because it increases the chances of suicide and male violence/murder on the women in their life. The Wikipedia page on the Dickey Amendment seems to be total shit. As I understand it for 20+ years (up to now?) the GOP blocked the CDC from doing much research on anything related to death or injury by gun.

            Dickey Amendment

            The Dickey Amendment is a provision first inserted as a rider into the 1997 omnibus spending bill of the United States federal government that mandated that “none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may be used to advocate or promote gun control.”

      • SkingradGuard [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        The joke is “haha look at that liberal run city it has crime! Conservatives never have crime in their cities”

        Everything to these people is some silly culture war nonsense.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      15·
      7 months ago

      Imagine being friends with a billionaire and still being poor enough to live in a neighborhood where gun violence happens. Guess he wasn’t born with the grifting gene

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
        13·
        7 months ago

        What is this in reference to? I am out of the loop.

        There’s no loop. I really wanted to make a Elon/Bibi joke but there were only a few photos to work with. I cropped the photo and I realized their expressions seemed perfectly creepy and a great match to the headline I already wrote.

        Also, wtf is this lunatic talking about?

        I have no idea but my wild hunch it’s nothing in particular. He saw a chance to jump into a Elon tweet-related thread about the typical use of Chicago as a racist euphemism for black people. People like him want to be racist but they also desperately want likes and mainstream engagement too.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      The words “Israel can’t help it” popped into my head and that was immediately followed by - don’t ask me why - a song by Journey.

      [Chorus]
      Is’rael can’t help it, it needs more
      It hasn’t found what it’s looking for
      It’s still killing in Gaza
      It can’t help it, and it’s just that way

      Girl Can’t Help It

  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    19·
    7 months ago

    I watched a few different videos from the scene to try to figure out what they are standing in front of. The audio is messed up on all the different video angles and it’s raining. Fox News and Dailymail say that the object is a baby crib.

    https://youtu.be/J-Dt2hJ5TBs?t=30
    https://youtu.be/H7EYyiIwlxQ?t=29
    https://youtu.be/wwN9C6y4Y4g?t=26

    I found a transcript here : https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-tours-attacked-kibbutz-123203470.html

    The bald IDF guy on the left while describing what they are looking at, says “It’s a symbol in kibbutz. We have kids inside. The mothers and the fathers went around this way. But it’s holding shells-- specifically of a Negev-- that was used here in order to protect the people.” Negev is an IDF machine gun.

    For weeks now the IDF has been showing us manufactured videos of military equipment placed inside the bedrooms of children in Gaza. Making claims that this is evidence that Hamas is putting children in danger.

    Today we have a video of the IDF displaying the crib of an Israeli child and inside the crib is Israeli bullet shells from an Israeli weapon. The IDF tells us that this is a symbol of mothers and fathers protecting their children. This is new levels of IDF propaganda.

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