kodomo
Remember Reddit pre-2016?
User ID: 4389
kodomo
5d ago
On the left, it's a kind of utopic socialism that can't ever actually work. On the right it's a very vibes based "RETVRN" ethos with some nihilstic streaks.
The overlap between these two in practice is the necessity of talking and connecting with the people who immediately surround you.
Which may include getting to know why your wife considers it a chore to have conversations with you, why a member of the HOA doesn't want you to have a dirtbike circuit in your front yard, and why one may feel aspirationally sympathetic towards native americans.
The culture war is well-representative of the karmic tangle that the US currently finds itself in.
The most practical advice I have is, to echo Nietszche, "Never trust a thought that occurs to you indoors"
kodomo
9d ago
The only credential in comedy is whether you know how to make people laugh.
All of these words you post and you don't even tell us if you actually found his monologue/joke funny.
As someone who finds him usually quite funny, I found his monologue to be noticably half-assed and unfunny. I'm more amused by the fallout than the actual jokes.
Fact-checking as in when one personally checks the facts and investigates a topic or "fact-checking®" where an institution Larps as the ministry of truth with a poorly-disguised political bias?
The former, yes, all the time.
The latter... mostly offers smug-confirmation for people who project authority onto institutions like the New York Times.
More options
Context Copy link