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Shindo66@lemmy.world · 208 pts · 35d (6 replies)

3 socialist walk into a bar and ask "how much is the actual cost of the drinks? How much are you getting paid? Where is the money going? What's a fair way to distribute this money?"

Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus · 106 pts · 35d (2 replies)

Very much more socialist, thank you. Socialists wouldn't let the bartender cover their tab, they would ask how the bartender might get more of the tab than the scraps he gets thrown by the owner.

Rooskie91@discuss.online · 18 pts · 34d (1 reply)

So much work has been done to propagandize Americans into thinking that socials is when people who do nothing take things from people who work. It's to the point that when you describe it as a fair distribution of goods, people just think that's capitalism.

emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 33d

Fair distribution is when the guys who inherited all their money, never had an original idea, continually tank all their companies and default on loans, and only know how to compete via monopolies and total market capture get all the proceeds and decide how every decision is made. Obviously. How else would they have all that money if they didn't deserve it?

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 41 pts · 35d

And "how would you like to be able to afford college?"

TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 35d

Them sounds like smartin words. Better watch ur ass round here with that shit.

skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 34d

“Do you have a say or vote in how this bar is run?”

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 157 pts · 35d (21 replies)

God, they're so fucking bad at humor

Rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 35d (6 replies)

They've been told punching at things that scare them makes it funny. They've also been taught hate and fear make for good comedy. It's like they watch all the legendary comics - Carlin, Williams, Pryor, Martin, I could go on - and completely miss the point.

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 23 pts · 35d (3 replies)

Just like they've misunderstood or didn't bother to look at song lyrics they claimed they were fans of.

pivot_root@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 34d (1 reply)

No, no. Fuck the Police is ahktually about the libs. When NWA says "the police", they're talking about "the police state" created by libruls that silences speech because it can hurt snowflake fee fees. They are "coming straight from the underground" as the suppressed fighters for American values and freedoms. /s

BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 34d

Well funny thing is liberals, or in the case of modern politics neo-liberals are a police state creator as well. So they're not wrong, but the liberals aren't doing ENOUGH to create a police state THEY want.

bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 34d

Rage Against The Fucking Washing Machine

Katana314@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 34d

I’m attuning to this idea that Nazis and other hateful people were raised on the image of tough people, but never understood the well-meaning elements of those champions of masculinity - the why of their fights.

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 35d

They need to be taught that a joke without laughter is pathetic. Maybe they already know and that's why they're so mad at everyone.

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 35d (13 replies)

it's insane, because growing up there were conservatives who were funny.

now they are so deranged and out of touch with basic humanity they cannot make jokes.

BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 34d (6 replies)

I dunno, a lot of conservative humor has been punching down.

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 34d (5 replies)

It is, no doubt.

But grew up with Tim Allen, and hes conservative, but was funny. No one can deny that Galaxy quest is funny.

Modern conservatives are just. not funny.

BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 34d (2 replies)

My understanding is he was abusive as well which tracks still.

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 34d (1 reply)

I am in no way defending him as a person.

My point is that conservatives have gotten so much worse, they have lost touch with basic humanity, they are incapable of making jokes because that involves some level of humanity to connect to the audience.

Similar things with art, Lion King is a really conservative movie (literally pro apartheid), but god dammit, it is an amazing movie. compare now with conservative movies that are trash.

BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 34d

Well I was more pointing that the usage of power and accruing it is an example of conservative mindsets and why their modern comedy sucks. As you said, it requires empathy and they see that as a weakness, a flaw than what it's needed.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 34d (1 reply)

Tim Allen wasn't always a conservative, I think that started around George W. Bush era.

Dude was literally a cocaine dealer. Not that conservatives cannot be drug dealers...

I imagine the stuff you're thinking of (Home Improvement) was years before he ever said anything publicly to suggest he was a conservative.

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 34d

I'll give you a maybe, was under the impression that he was always conservative and has gotten worse.

not a hill i really care about.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 34d (5 replies)

Ehh... I remember thinking Dennis Miller was funny for a brief moment before realizing that was just a feeling of superiority for actually getting one of his references. While the joke itself wasn't very funny.

I'd love to hear some examples of funny conservatives.

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 34d (4 replies)

galaxy quest is funny, Tim Allen is conservative and was funny back then.

not sure of other examples.

to be a conservative now it's all Identity politics no humanity and the jokes are just references to things they hate. not even a joke. just dark "blue haired liberal barista, with white guy saying he wants coffee"

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 34d (1 reply)

Galaxy Quest is funny in spite of Tim Allen imo

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 33d

I'll have to rewatch to confirm, but I don't want to rewatch Tim Allen so I'll take your word for it

bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 34d (1 reply)

blue haired liberal barista

Yes, please. 🤤

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d

i like my blue haired baristas to be at least socialists and unionised, not liberal.

Virtvirt588@lemmy.world · 84 pts · 34d (3 replies)

That doesn't even relate to socialism. What an idiot.

blattrules@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 34d

They have always maintained a willfully ignorant stance on everything they don’t think they like.

OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 34d

They can’t scare their base if they tell the truth.

MrKoyun@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 34d

No but you dont understand. Socialism is when lazy people dont pay for stuff. So they aren't paying for stuff. But we all know that you can't just not pay for stuff, someone has to pay for stuff! So the bartender is paying it. Like taxes when someone wants to go to the hospital! Lazy people want to go to the hospital and hand you, a good patriotic hard-working American the bill. And that's bad. Tsk tsk.

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 78 pts · 35d

Okay but these three seem like they’d be nice to the waitstaff, leave a tip, and generally have a fun vibe.

Furbag@pawb.social · 60 pts · 34d

A socialist walks into a bar. He says that everyone who is able to pay for their own drink should, but those that cannot afford one can have one on the house and then the more wealthy patrons will reimburse the bar. Everybody has a good time.

A very specific Republican walks into a bar. He says that he is fabulously wealthy and that drinks are on him tonight. Everybody drinks to excess. The Republican refuses to pay his tab and leaves with his wealthy friends without saying a word. The bar tries to go after him, but he threatens to take them to court. The other patrons are either unable or unwilling to pay, having drank their fill on the promise that they would not have to. The bar cannot afford to fight a long legal battle, and cannot afford to pay their workers without reimbursement. The bar closes. The republican writes an op-ed in the local newspaper complaining about how homeless and minorities skipping out on their tabs is what killed his favorite bar.

homes@piefed.world · 53 pts · 34d

AOC legit got me drunk on margaritas between classes back when I was an undergrad at Parsons and she was a bartender at some Mexican spot off Union Square. We talked about Bernie for a couple of hours, and she was super-cool.

I missed my class, lol

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 46 pts · 34d (4 replies)

First rule of political comedy: always punch up

First rule of conservatism: if something scares and/or confuses you, that's oppression.

Thus, the first rule of conservative comedy: always wildly flail at what you don't understand.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

Joseph Heller, Catch-22

skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 34d (1 reply)

I’d even argue it’s the first rule of any comedy: don’t punch down / only punch up

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 34d

I mostly agree, except some forms of comedy don't necessarily require punching at all, so only the first half of "don't punch down, do punch up" ever applies.

Political comedy with no punches, though, is the equivalent of a gritty action movie starring Chuck Schumer as himself.

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 34d (1 reply)

Oh damn that quote hits hard

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 34d

Yeah, Joey Hell was a real one ✊🏼

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 34d (3 replies)

A capitalist walks into a bar and says "Bartender", but there is no reply because the bartender died of a treatable form of cancer he couldn't afford to treat.

Since this is a particularly wealthy and well known capitalist that oversees a very profitable health insurance company, the patrons of the small bar take notice.

This is the last time the capitalist is heard or seen. Nobody knows what happened to him.

warbond@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 34d (2 replies)

Each of the bar's 120 patrons claim to have been asleep at the time.

bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d (1 reply)
warbond@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d

Exactly what I was thinking of, thank you!

mavu@discuss.tchncs.de · 41 pts · 34d

"three socialists walk into a bar, and the Bartender says 'yo guys, drinks on me, thanks to your free healthcare my brother is still alive, and my mom can afford retirement without a job'"

Zephyr@sh.itjust.works · 40 pts · 35d (3 replies)

And then vote to take money from everyone to subsidize the drinks of the richest man in the bar because it'll trickle down or some shit.

pivot_root@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 35d (2 replies)

"I can feel the wealth trickling down. It's warm... and smells like asparagus!"

Zephyr@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 34d

Hey wanna come over to my place later? I'm like very hydrated.

Jerb322@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d

"I can taste the bubbles!"

Xerxos@lemmy.ml · 39 pts · 34d

Let me try: Three capitalists enter a bar. The first one pays for his drink and doesn't tip, leaving the bartender with less than minimum wage for the transaction.

The second capitalist leaves without paying since his wealth is in stocks and he can't be asked to pay for anything.

The third capitalist says: "I just bought the bar, fired half the staff, and sold off most of the furniture. Your bar is now very profitable, and I just sold it for double. Try not to declare bankruptcy before I leave - it bums me out."

luthis@lemmy.nz · 35 pts · 35d (6 replies)

The first one is so cringe. The guy has absolutely no idea.

ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip · 14 pts · 35d (1 reply)

That is par for the course with right wing "humor". This is actually pre high brow for them. No racism or sexism in this one.

Sidhean@piefed.social · 8 pts · 34d

Its simple: If the richest person man at the bar gets his drinks at our expense, he'll have more money to buy drinks for us!

(/s)

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 35d (2 replies)

Yeah, I thought about posting a comment that corrects the analogy, but quickly realized that it wasn't worth it.

waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 35d (1 reply)

Yes bartender the customer does pay for drinks at this establishment and every other establishment.

whosepoopisonmybuttocks@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 35d

While also trying to get the bartender a raise, healthcare, childcare, and affordable housing.

dudeface@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d

He knows what he is doing, nobody is this loud and incorrect without a motive

Diplomjodler@feddit.org · 30 pts · 35d (2 replies)

A conservative walks into a bar and exposes himself in the ladies' restroom. Then he sues the bar for discrimination because a black person was there. He wins the case because the judge is a racist old white guy. The bar goes out of business. His followers celebrate the win in the "war on woke".

dudeface@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 34d (1 reply)

And he was gay the whole time

bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 34d

They already said he was a conservative.

Asafum@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 35d

The conservative unregulated market economy utopia.

A conservative walks into a bar and says I'm not a dirty socialist I'm paying market rate for a drink, make me a screwdriver. The bartender hands him a glass containing 1/3 liquor 2/3 liquid heavy metals and charges $25

Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 34d (1 reply)

3 conservatives walk into a bar. They see that the bar serves Bud Light and has at least 1 minority working there so they turn around and leave because the bar is too woke. They then spend the next 5 days whining about it on social media which leads to the bar getting bombed with 1-star fake-rage reviews, and 1 thing the long-time owner did 15 years ago which was barely a misdemeanor. Some people stop working there because of constant harassment.

A month later one of those 3 conservatives is pulled over for a DUI, in the passenger seat is the lady he's having an extra-marital affair with. On his social media he complains about asking people to respect his privacy.

Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 34d

While simultaneously begging for socialism to act via gofundme for his legal defense because they still have no clue what irony is

W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 33d

Three socialists walk into a bar and get an extra bottle of water to give to the elderly man sitting outside in the extreme heat.

We take care of each other.

pyre@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 34d (1 reply)

yeah because that's who socialists are going after; laborers, not capital owners. please believe this to be true otherwise they'd start becoming more and more popular.

whoops too late

pachrist@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d

That bartender's name? Anheuser-Busch InBev.

HailSeitan@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 34d

Or, you know, the bartenders could own the bar

AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 34d

When I misrepresent you, it's comedy.

When you misrepresent me, it's a tragedy.

shweddy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 35d (1 reply)

If I were a bartender and the 3 of them walked in I'd give a round drinks on the house for the whole bar

rumba@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 34d

Checks the Star Trek socialism playbook. Ohh check that, the drinks are already free.

altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 34d

Mfw it's not a joke about conquering bread sticks/bread plate.

FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d

The wild part is, socialists are actually strongly against using "other people's money." They're very anti using loans to do things unlike the democrats and republicans that have no problem infinitely borrowing. Socialist are against taking a loan because it gives the bank some sort of control over the government and it is hard to track the money when you have it coming and going from so many sources, that invites corruption.

IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · -1 pts · 34d (2 replies)

Three capitalists walk into a bar

one slaps the bartender another kicks him in the chest and the last one gives him 5 dollars and leaves

Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 6 pts · 34d (1 reply)

Too unrealistic, why didn't they took 10 dollars first?

IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 34d

they were drunk