Dark humor - my bread & butter, my sanity pill and security blanket - has become tough to leverage in The Age of Trump™, the age of crisis.
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We use jokes to speak truth to power,regain power parity w/those who seek to take ours. But now - there's a risk of trivializing crisis.
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I personally feel that Election Day is when that line between satire & (insensitivity? poor taste? bad judgement?) cracked wide open.
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hend amry Retweeted The Hangriest Librarian
I've been trying to figure out why. I think it has to do w/proximity of danger satire targets. It's..too close now.https://twitter.com/halpernalex/status/803619825931063296 …
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Even more worrying-I've found myself...watching what I tweet...in the event of a Muslim registry,Trump lawsuit, FBI investigation-u name it.
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This is the first time in my life I've ever self-censored out of fear of the US government. I have lost sleep thinking about this.
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But back to joke misfires-if (when) they happen, don't be hard on yourself-just delete,& if warranted,tweet a quick apology. No shame in it.
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I know we think the Internet never forgets (lol it's true,it doesn't,ur screwed,JK) but the right people forgive. The rest are trolls.
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But don't worry-I assure you that this feed will continue bringing Fozzie bear-quality jokes for as long as I've got an Internet connection.
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