• NotLemming@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    It’s called gallows humour… Lately with a side order of slapstick. What can you do but laugh? I’m in hysterics several times a day, but yeah I’m worried.

    I’m not sure if I could laugh if I was in the US but its insane there at the best of times, maybe a tolerance builds?

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      10 days ago

      I sometimes worry that political comedy (while healthy at an individual level) prevents action as it alieviates some of the pent up anger and frustration at the problems and injustices of the world today. The same frustration that might otherwise be directed toward action.