Comedy somehow both effectively enrages T***p and dangerously normalizes him at the same time.
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it's called trying to survive a nightmare
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I hope you get into the fact that 1) humor a big part of Trump rallies, 2) big part of Milo's appeal 3) PC left is humorless
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Emily Nussbaum piece I linked to in tweet #2 goes into all that, very shrewdly.
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@emilynussbaum on how "jokes won the election" http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/23/how-jokes-won-the-election … -
3. I'd suggest that humor is not so much a tool of persuasion as a psychological mechanism for finding comfort in uncomfortable situation.
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"Most jokes are grievances" (hidden ground of all comedy is grievance. laughter is agreement with said grievance) Marshall McLuhan
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Can we mix that with evolutionary thinking that laughter evolved as a sign of safety?
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Yeah, tweeting "I'm only joking" after a catastrophe is fascinating...
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but they both THINK they are which means...what?
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