comedy

comedy speaks truth to power

comedy speaks truth period

it's not something one wants if you're totalitarian

dictators detest the sound of laughter

It's why the left can't meme.

Because comedy is funny when it's true.

what you do as a tyrant is you take those elements

point is im not justifying my theory on fiction, im justifying the relevance of the fiction based on real events

"SO UH HOW ABOUT THAT WAGE GAP?!"

and turn them to propaganda

this only works

When you know that there isn't a wage gap, any joke about it falls flat.

if you're the sole one making jokes and making art

And plenty of people made those jokes.

if there's someone else doing them without being part of your rule

Bill Burr. Stephen Merchant, more that I can't remember offhand.

they will objectively be better

But so many comedians believed in, and repeated the wage gap myth.

And the jokes tended to suck.

yes

Because there was something missing, even though they believed it.

the left can meme trust me

Logic was missing.

im not following anymore

or at least it could

it used to

too many different talking points going on at the same time lol

the right can barely meme either

IIRC, those are explicitly Frankfurt School tactics

Memes are anti-corruption and the left is corruption incarnate.

They **cannot** meme.

liberals can

left authoritarians can't

I dunno; I remember a lot of pro-left means on the internet for a long time

just as libertarians can

and moderates

"C'mon you icecubes. Warm my skin. WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU, WARM MY SKIN GODDAMMIT"

hardcore right wingers can't

Not sure where they went, TBH

they all went to meme the current left