Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "Is the AI Left-Bias Real?" video.

Oddly enough, conservatives dominate humour right now. Centre right is way funnier than the left these days. That's a very recent phenomenon though. Just look at the Babylon bee is a good example. And it's because woke comedy. Straight up isn't funny because it's anti-comedy because it doesn't dare tread certain places, and it gets up on its moral high horse
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@Rocstar2930 "”Woke” comedy is usually just comedy that avoids punching down. " You know the expression "To learn who rules over you, learn who you cannot criticize"? The left needs to understand this. Who exactly is up and who is down, when referring to "punching down"? These days the only people open to mockery are white men. And conservative white men? You can literally call them any name in the book. The protected classes are the ones claiming to be victims these days. It's gaslighting on an extraordinary scale. Also, it's ironic that a liberal would say that conservatives are angry for a couple of reasons. One, conservatives by temperament are happier. They like to keep things more or less as they are. You only want to preserve things if you like them. Liberals want to change more or less everything. You only want to change things when you are unhappy. That means one is inherently more satisfied than the other at any given time. And going back forever, poll after poll show conservatives as people with a generally higher sense of happiness. And the Babylon Bee is hilarious. What's interesting is that 20 years ago, conservative comedy was absolutely terrible. Liberals dominated comedy and now it's the opposite. Do you know why? Because a 2024 conservative is basically a 2004 Liberal, just without such a desire to change things. The sides have flipped. I'm not sure how old you are, but if you're old enough to remember things from 20 years ago, it was the opposite. It used to be conservatives that wanted to censor people and control morality. It used to be the conservatives who were on the side of giant corporations (think: big tech etc) and things like big Pharma. It used to be the conservatives who wanted to go to war all the time.
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@arawilson "But the far right will never really be funny." Correct. They are extremists. Extremists are never funny. That's because in order to be funny, you have to have perspective, and extremes certainly do not.
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upvotte for 5:18
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Which is why her first supposition is dead on. It's absolutely an arguable that most of the Internet is written by the left, especially since they've captured the institutions that control the money, so whether or not people believe it, they tow the party line.
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