Kind of a false equivalence, since you’re not educating yourself on memes exclusively (and if you are, god help you lol). Even in your own reference, you can absolutely make dirty jokes after sex ed, especially if it helps you remember the topics. Good jokes will both reinforce the right narrative, make it more approachable, and help people remember what matters on a topic. Still has to be a good joke though, and humor is subjective so hard to gauge.

I mostly draw the line when it targets a vulnerable person or persons (like, let’s not joke about rape), or makes someone in the room uncomfortable out of respect for that person (like a dirty joke in front of grandma). I suppose one could say any joke about the assholes in charge fall under that first category, but they harm vulnerable people, but they themselves are perfect targets.

That seems like the ideal approach. I sometimes WANT a survey of what Lemmy is talking about and sometimes I don’t. I’ve got massive tolerance for bullshit given my difficult upbringing but even I’m hitting limits and needing a break. It’s madness.

Counterpoint, comedy is often a coping mechanism for people dealing with difficult things, be it politics or something else. I’ll agree that it’s not how everyone wants to deal with it, though, and I also agree that not everyone does it in a way that’s constructive (but I think that’s in execution, not everyone is funny and a bad joke without proper comedy is certainly just elevating a bad message)

But I think if I didn’t have political comedy, I’m not sure how I could deal with how absolute shit things have been for decades. For me that’s not memes though, it’s stuff like Last Week Tonight or something that actually is done with professional writers and researchers.

I know in the US that bottom surgery generally doesn’t happen under 18, and the same is true in Canada, no? It’s always just for show, although I guess we can’t assume anyone in the government actually pays attention to statistics.

I usually give them the head shake if disapproval, but today I felt like going OG with the bird. Gotta change it up.

I also hocked up a big glob of green crap from my throat when I was sick last week and spat on a parked one while walking around USC. Although gotta be careful, dudebros just naturally exist around that school (plus Trump cosplayers, ugh).