re: Why are right wing memes so much better?

There are category jokes about everything from Aggies to Polish people. There are no Klingon jokes. That's because Aggies and Polish people actually exist and Klingons don't. The best humor has some basis in reality. Nothing the left believes has any basis in reality. That's why left wing memes fall flat.

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I look at it as the jocks vs the nerds to be honest. Every leftie I’ve ever met was a huge loser/nerd.

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Actually this is incorrect. The current situation as it stands is this:

Hipsters, artists, creative types, etc. on the left.

Jocks, nerds, and outcast badboys on the right.

It's a misnomer to label the left as nerds because very very few of them are involved in any technical or STEM field. The overwhelming majority of people I know who are involved with tech (programmers) or engineering outside of academia have been at a minimum libertarian to many being far right conservative.

The reason the left is labeled nerds is because they are all small souled bugmen who consume pop culture at an outsized rate. These are the types who larp as nerds in cosplay without actually knowing anything about the source material. That is, it's all a facade for them and extremely shallow. None of these people do anything technical and don't know anything about science or mathematics, which is required to be a nerd. An actual nerd who is into something scifi is going to be someone who is vastly into technical details about the source material and could give you numbers about the explosive yield of specific weapons or the capabilities of certain ships.

The other interesting thing that has happened is that the jocks, nerds, and outcasts are all aligned politically now. Why is this interesting? Because historically these groups have generally been antagonistic to each other. What brought them together? The fact that all of their interests have been labeled as infested with "toxic masculinity". Now that this has happened, it's been rather interesting at places like /pol/, the manosphere, alt right places, etc. as these disparate groups have begun to figure out how to co-exist. This is part of why self improvement, lifting weights, improving yourself, reading philosophy, etc. are now all things many on the right do. The jocks brought physical fitness, the nerds brough knowledge and philosophy, and the outcasts brought charisma and trolling.

Are you really trying to argue that jokes about the other team are objectively funnier than jokes about your team? Come on man.

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you wanna see pathetic memes, go to the neo-liberal reddit page and see what Losh and his friends produce. It's sad.

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When you have to focus your parody on a very specific subject and you go after everyone that doesn't follow suit, it's going to get drowned out. Chappelle hit it on the head. It's hard to get a fresh take in that kind of atmosphere.

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Are you really trying to argue that jokes about the other team are objectively funnier than jokes about your team? Come on man.

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As someone who is on neither "team", the ones from the "alt-right" tend to be pretty damn funny.

Not so much from the proggy left. But like my original statement said, they have no sense of humor because politics is their religion, and politics is very serious.

Just like you won't find a fundy christian or muslim with a sense of humor.

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These are the types who larp as nerds in cosplay without actually knowing anything about the source material.

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bingo.

A question for the group -

Where does that leave the Christian Conservatives in all of this? Traditionally a goup seeking the moral high ground, stoic and unfunny, however voting in alignment with those we've discussed in this thread.

Odd bedfellows, to be sure.

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bingo.

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Being an actual nerd and trying to talk to these people about scifi or fantasy is infuriating. You see someone dressed as some character or hear someone talking about how they love so and so series, yet when you try to engage them about anything more in depth than the general storyline you get met with blank faces or a look of smugness and "whoa man don't take it so seriously." As soon as the next "popular thing" comes about they move on and promptly forget the other previous thing ever existed.

This is why. You're on your own to interpret right wing memes

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Being an actual nerd and trying to talk to these people about scifi or fantasy is infuriating. You see someone dressed as some character or hear someone talking about how they love so and so series, yet when you try to engage them about anything more in depth than the general storyline you get met with blank faces or a look of smugness and "whoa man don't take it so seriously." As soon as the next "popular thing" comes about they move on and promptly forget the other previous thing ever existed.

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Anecdotal evidence (progressives on my FB feed) certainly backs this up. Completely superficial pop culture immersion, with zero depth in any particular topic.