I have seen comments to the effect, "don't make fun of the madman, we are fighting evil. " No, no, laugh!
"It turns out high spirits and humor are essential to combating autocracy. Adam Gallagher and Anthony Navone wrote that humor “disrupts dominant discourses and challenges power ‘by disrupting the language and symbols used by those in power to represent reality in a particular way and providing alternative interpretations of that reality." - Wapo
@gemswinc anyone remember Laugh-In? it proved laughing at the current social paradigms breaks them down.
Smothers Brothers as well. push that envelope with laughter. make fun of social bullshit, but don't be mean about it (look at right wing memes. they aren't funny, they're mean)
Cannot think of the Smothers Brothers without thinking of Pat Paulsen.
He wasn't taken seriously by the Right because he was an actor *cough, Reagan* who played a character on a television show *cough, Trump* ...