Srs
About halfway through Vol III of Capital, Marx drops the secret of always being funny but you have to read literally everything that comes before that point to get it
I believe it's called "gallows humor"
Unfortunately it requires you to be, well... fucked. Fucked hard and aware of it.
Actually something the guys at the 'Bad Hasbara' podcast have observed is the history of Jews in comedy, much of that humor resulting from sort of a self-deprecating humor style meant to disarm those who were doing harm to Jewish communities, and the total LACK of humor from Jewish Israelis, shown most clearly in their social media posts. Once the group (speaking broadly of course) went from oppressed to oppressor they lost something special that enabled them make fun of themselves and in doing so make fun of society and make fun of those doing the oppression. They still view themselves as oppressed (laughable, obviously, when the IOF can fly uncontested fighter jets anywhere in the surrounding states) but the humor doesn't work when your people are the ones doing the ethnic based murdering and the genocide.
Probably poorly explained there, but the gist is people coping with a total lack of power witnessing the mass oppression, including murder, of people of their similar group whether it's a deeply held ideological conviction or something like an ethnicity or religion develop dark and twisted (from the outside perspective) humor to express the inexpressible.
Not to be too melodramatic, etc.
It's a secret method practiced by the great masters through the ages, like Jim Carrey and Robin Williams, called crushing depression.
Both of them had three older siblings, growing up trying to make your siblings laugh seems to be a conducive environment as well.
I don't think anyone said it yet but I think the real answer is that we don't punch down. So much humor is just making fun of someone different or less fortunate than you, and we basically totally avoid that by...just not doing it. It leads to a different brand of more absurdist and or observational humor but (at least to me) it's more funny because it's something that pretty much everyone could laugh at. Comedy is a social thing and when comedy isn't leaving anyone out of the joke it's funnier. I think at least.
Also
I don't know about anything funny. But 9/11 was a national tragedy.
But 9/11 was a national tragedy.
National tragedy, international comedy.
bigotry
the opposite of this is the same fucking joke about trans people for the last ten years
We have the distinct advantage of not getting so mad at our own premises we just start screaming slurs which is a real leg up.
idk I just like wordplay.
Also coming up with funny bits based on the absurdity of hellworld informed by the immortal science of marxist leninism and coming up with the most plausible but irony poisoned predictions possible and yet they keep turning out to be true.
Never. But I respect it and find it a useful framework for analysis, I'm not anything really anymore but I certainly still have anarchist sympathies.
Also state and revolution is a banger, I just don't really expect a vanguard party to emerge within the imperial core and wouldn't really want to follow one unless it was the explicitly decolonial variety. In absence of that I make use of anarchist praxis to do as much harm reduction as possible as the empire continues it's long fall.
If a new red army emerges out of indigenous organizations like CLN then I would join it in a heartbeat though.
I firmly believe that there is no reason why we must repeat the same conflicts of the early and mid twentieth century and that something new if not necessarily total left unity synthesis is possible.
I've just started my forays into the Mexican Luchador culture.
It's the spirit of pigpoopballs, it gives us strength
