For a week, it was worth a giggle. A flustered trackside nascar reporter attempting to avoid cursing on the news? That’s hilarious. Like every joke and/or horse, it was rapidly beaten past death. The body still receives unironic thwacks to this day.
Then it was revived as satire and resumed being funny for a fresh week or two. This was over a year ago. The horse is not just dead, it is not even a paste or powder, it has been completely aerosolized in a closed crimson room where people fan it back and forth in remembrance of beating its corpse.
Biden’s the best chance for continued democracy in the US, but I’ve been breathing in Brandon particulate since 2021 and I’m afraid it will give me lung cancer.
It’s not really about the humor. It’s always about the cruelty or, in this case, cruelty’s sibling: mockery. To their twisted mindset, cruelty towards their perceived enemies is always funny and/or righteous.
Once I realized most Republicans only care about making the ‘libtards’ suffer, everything they do finally started to make sense.
They consistently vote against their own interests. They elect obvious cartoonish scumbags. They get outraged about nonexistent wars on Christmas. They think Democrats are cunning and powerful overlords controlling everything, but…Democrats are also (simultaneously, somehow) incompetent fools and suckers.
The cognitive dissonance is drowned out by their blind hatred. That’s why they post social media replies like “seethe” because that’s what they do, 24x7. They’re seething crazy-angry all of the time. They can’t go five minutes without thinking about politics or putting their right wing spin on every anodyne topic of conversation. They ban wholesome children’s books. They actively strip away basic human rights while claiming to be victims of the same. They steal elections and break the rules of congress and the courts while calling the other side cheaters.
They are quite willing to see the planet’s environment burn to the point of mass extinctions…as long as the ‘libtards’ suffer more.
Once you understand their “cruelty first” philosophy, and see them through this lens, their behavior becomes sadly predictable.
That’s right wing humor in a nutshell, find a joke that’s kinda funny or witty and drive it into the ground for the foreseeable future. I thought it was pretty funny too at first, but it’s years past its expiration date
At least it gave them a second joke after years of beating the “attack helicopter” thing to death again and again.
It was funny live, in the moment. The next day it was a dead meme.
The problem it was never a joke, it was always barely conscious retards saying “Let’s go Brandon” thinking it was some kind of clever inside joke and that no one knew what they were actually saying
I never thought it was funny and idiot Republicans using the phrase are basically working against themselves by confusing anyone who doesn’t know what it actually means.
Anyone not in on the joke would wonder who is Brandon and do they want him to succeed or leave? Some people would correctly interpret Brandon as Biden and let’s go as “Keep up the good work.”
Without it, we wouldn’t have Dark Brandon, which is hilarious
Dark Brandon managed 2 nonconsecutive weeks of giggles. The second being when Biden’s staff picked up the meme and ran with it. It’s very stale unless used provocatively.
Edit: you’re welcome to use a years old joke on the internet. Just don’t lie to yourself about it still being funny.
I was worried no one would hit what I teed up. Good show.
“For a week, it was worth a giggle.”
humor is subjective. it was telling, to me, the people who got that giggle, and the ones that kept running with it even after it lost it’s… giggle worthiness.
As if, when someone tells you a joke, and then says, GET IT? GET IT? no? oh shit, now they have to explain the joke’s mechanics because obviously you haven’t gotten it, otherwise you’d be herniating with laughter… except, it was never funny in the first place.
Ironically, they’ll never get it: dems say fuck joe biden all the time, and don’t feel the need for childish self censorship when we say it, BECAUSE WE’RE NOT 5 YEAR OLDS. Or members of a deranged cult. I get pissed at people all the time but don’t waste my days coming up with clever homonyms to insult them.
But I get that it plays to Trump’s base, they act like children in a cult.
If you want to get a fresh giggle, check out the comments on the original video on YouTube or your alternative front end of choice. Delusions aplenty, but my favorite is something to the effect of “this is when history was made,” posted some months ago. It’s a reporter unintentionally continuing to host cursing for a minute; a cheeky little snafu to be sure, but calling it historic really encapsulates the podunk conservative multitude’s attitude.
Great thing about it is come back to it in ten years and they’ll tell you to shut up. Ala Jake the plumber.
Til he was an actual guy
The senile man controlled like a puppet by a shadowy cabal is the best chance for democracy. The party with the word democracy in their name is hellbent on appointing them instead of allowing their constituents to choose someone better. They want to force a man who represents a significant chunk of the electorate to be removed from ballots. This is the future of democracy.
You don’t know what “let’s go Brandon” is. It’s not funny because some reporter wanted to avoid cursing on TV. It’s funny because some reporter was trying to hide the utter disdain america has for Joe biden and thought she could think fast and hide it and thought that the audience was too stupid to get it. It’s facetious and has layers. It’s alluding to the idea you can’t candidly speak truth in the US. Its laughing at the media’s attempt to whitewash our politics. And lastly, it means “fuck Joe biden” which at this point almost everyone in the US agrees.
The right doesn’t like him, the left doesn’t like him, the neolibs don’t like him, nobody likes him, but people will vote for him because the elites that rule over us take our options away. “Best chance for democracy” lol Joe biden is proof that democracy is dead in america, he is emblematic of that fact.
Lol wow delusionality to the extreme
Alright what’s your clear headed, correct take?
His clear-headed response was pointing out how delusional your original statements were.
Im aware this is a bit of a futile response since you failed to read the same thing the first time.
You people are all full of shit and everyone can see it.
Remember when Trump thought ingesting bleach was a good pitch on national TV lmao.
You write great fan fiction.
I mean sure, but there’s nothing you can do about it in the short term besides philosophizing a binary decision. Who’re you voting for?
I get the argument, and it would be disconnected from reality to disagree. “Yeah, the democrats are taking our options away, but what choice do we have?” In the US, it always comes down to 2 people and you pick one even if you don’t like them.
I’m not going to vote. I vote on principle, I believe that voting is giving legitimacy to a democratic system. And this system does not have legitimacy anymore, and probably hasn’t in quite some time. Democracy is dead in america and it’s just a veneer, a show, and I don’t want to grant legitimacy in my mind and heart to a Potemkin democracy. I will not put one ounce of effort legitimizing the lie that I have any representation in this country.
That’s most definitely an option, but it does little good. If you’d like to see yourself represented, I recommend local elections. National elections are only good for stemming the bleeding whereas local can offer a surprisingly vast allotment of improvements. The pacifist’s prayer is worth infinitely less than the chud’s vote.
When there are two options, and you choose not to decide, you are declaring that you approve of both options equally. If all but one person abstained out of principle it wouldn’t expose the flaws in the system, it would just leave the decision in that one person’s hands. When all the people who don’t want to legitimize the broken system choose not to vote, then it’s decided by the people who do want to legitimize the broken system.
This is a prisoners dilemma, yes I understand it. But there’s a factor you’re not considering: when all the people who don’t legitimize it withdraw, it loses it’s power over everyone by a little bit. If we all withdrew our support the system we live under might very well change to get our support back.
No it doesn’t though?
If all but one person abstained out of principle it wouldn’t expose the flaws in the system, it would just leave the decision in that one person’s hands.
That’s what you said, yeah. Doesn’t make it true.
The system we live under doesn’t exist in a vacuum, it doesn’t have power on its own, it’s not a temple we worship in. It’s one we maintain. Without us it doesn’t exist.
That is the mechanism by which the system works, functionally. Deviating from that system requires some concerted action, passive abstinence is not positive action. Simply not participating does not change the system. Simply not participating yields the result I outlined above.
“Us” is not you and the people who agree with you, it is the sum total of everyone who actively participates. If you subtract yourself and the people who agree with you from that sum total, the “us” that perpetuates the system becomes those who continue to actively participate. You do not speak for everyone, so choosing to be silent merely erases your voice from “us”. Do you want everyone else to speak for you?
Trump supporters think it’s an MLM and you can recruit your way out of the shit tiers, when in fact it’s a cult and you’re just being farmed for money. How much you in for bud, tens of thousands of Trump Cash and Unlimited Debit Cards?
Who said I’m a trump supporter? Why is it always you’re either us or them to you people?
you’re the one who typed 3 paragraphs of trumpian logic bro, I call them like I see them.
It’s deader than all those people in tiananmen square
if not funny why do i laugh hmm 🧐
But the real question is why would you want continued democracy as it currently exists? Choice between bad or mediocre. No parliamentary representation proportional to the people. No votes of no-confidence. Infinite corporate money in lobbying and SPACs.
Why are you trying to save that?
Let it fail. Replace with better. Use your time and energy post revolution to shape a real country or countries going forward.
Anybody who is aware of what happens during the collapse of democracy would be desperate to save it.
Or smart enough to leave it before hand. It’s not about collapsing democracy. That’s red herring. It’s about collapsing governments of any kind. A falling democracy, theocracy, or cult leader commune all have the same hallmarks.
I once caught a foreign influence campaign this big. If the options are ok or hellfuck, I choose ok. You’re better off locating the addresses of lobbyists if you’re already considering things post-collapse.
