• TemutheeChallahmet [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    A secret trick that dumb liberals who performatively denounce “mud-slinging” overlook is that if your insult to your opponent is undeniably funny or resonant, they cannot repeat it to shame you because it will get more people to laugh at them than to be outraged on their behalf.

    The RNC recently tried to attack Kamala by showing a clip of her laughing at Trump being called the r-slur, but too many people get why Trump would be called that, and the “how dare she” responses were overpowered by responses saying “based.”

    This is also why the Vance couch cushions bit is effective, there is no way to condemn that insult by name without humiliating yourself more than you shame your insulters.

  • dannoffs [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    The “woke guest” in question is comedian Larry Wilmore. I wonder why he doesn’t mention it was another black person who called him that?

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      4 months ago

      I had to look him up.

      If he didn’t want to suffer such comparisons he wouldn’t be a Tea Party Republican congressman.

      Also, Larry Whilmore is a black comedian who wrote for The Daily Show, not a leftist. Also also, his comment about black Republicans is entirely accurate.