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dbentley666 — 5 years ago(June 24, 2020 10:51 PM)
It wasn't funny at all. Rather sad, if anything. I think Gameboy has a point when he suggests that it's weak political commentary, but a lot of comedy is. I think he thinks it's weak because it's not idealistic enough. But you can always get Americans to laugh at idealism.
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Ⲥⲏⳕⲥⲕⲁⲃⲟⲟⲙ — 5 years ago(June 24, 2020 11:00 PM)
I'll tag him in, so he can further expand on his opinion.
@Platonic_Caveman
But you can always get Americans to laugh at idealism.
That's because most Americans are cynics and consider themselves to be realists. Idealists are seen as dreamers with unrealistic goals of a utopian society. The average American views such notions as impractical and unattainable, so they laugh at the probability of it.
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My Red Dead Online Guy is NOT Mongo — 5 years ago(June 24, 2020 11:11 PM)
will you be there for me miss Jones? will you run alongside the bed and Tell me every things gunna be ok while they rush me down to the birthing room? perhaps get all angry when they ask all non family members to leave? I need this, Chickaboom.
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Ⲥⲏⳕⲥⲕⲁⲃⲟⲟⲙ — 5 years ago(June 24, 2020 11:14 PM)
LOL, no.
Shouldn't your significant other or mother be there with you?
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Ⲥⲏⳕⲥⲕⲁⲃⲟⲟⲙ — 5 years ago(June 24, 2020 11:23 PM)
I thought you said your water broke? Not that you had suffered brain damage in the process.
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dbentley666 — 5 years ago(June 24, 2020 11:36 PM)
It's pragmatism (William James, Dewey, Pierce, Rorty). Transcendentalism never really caught on in academic philosophy departments, though it was influential in literature departments. So even in academic philosophy, Americans value pragmatism and realism!