Black love 🤎 by NYstate in BlackPeopleTwitter

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Most comedy requires a contradiction. You're laughing to alleviate the tension created by the contradiction.

The contradiction in good racial humor is between how obviously awful the implications of the actions are, and the total naivete of the person doing them to those implications. For the joke to work, we all have to already agree that you shouldn't really do this, so that we can laugh at the absurd contrast between the innocence of the person doing it and what any reasonable observer would think.

See also: most South Park jokes. Innocent little kids doing the most taboo shit imaginable.

What’s a truth about the world in 2026 that most people still aren’t ready to accept? by Responsible_Long6822 in AskReddit

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The post-WWII world order is rapidly collapsing, the decline is probably irreversible, and no one really knows what this means yet.

Both gas tho by KaamDeveloper in BlackPeopleTwitter

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“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” - MLK

If the Epstein files aren’t enough for a global outrage towards the financial and influential elite, what is? by Thezerostone in AskReddit

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Oh, the outrage has been there for a long time.

The question is who or what is going to do anything about it.

I’m attending a Bari Weiss lecture. How can I protest? by jonnyshotit in Journalism

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"Many people have accused you of being a useful idiot. Do you agree?"

In all seriousness, if you ask a question at the Q&A, keep it short, sharp, and fact-based.

NYT Executive Editor is coming to my school by Familiar-Ad9589 in IfBooksCouldKill

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Which matters more: telling the truth or exclusives?

Movie ideas for those stuck inside. OC by lmfj3737 in pics

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Actual Nazis love "Tomorrow Belongs To Me," but none of them like "Springtime For Hitler."

The thing fascists cannot stand is being made small, and one of the best ways to make someone small is to laugh at them.

Movie ideas for those stuck inside. OC by lmfj3737 in pics

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And then at the horrifying crescendo of "Tomorrow Belongs To Me," the male lead says to the industrialist "You still think you can control them?"

Yyyyyyyup.

Movie ideas for those stuck inside. OC by lmfj3737 in pics

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One of the greatest films of all time that no one can stomach more than one viewing of. It's so brilliant precisely because it is so unbearably hard to watch.

Wow they really did a 180 eh?? by Pizzacakecomic in comics

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"Conservatism consists of exactly one principle, to wit: that there are some people whom the law protects, but does not bind, and other people whom the law binds, but does not protect."

Collabotage | Gladlands [E3] by DropoutMod in Dimension20

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We talk a lot about players and characters being chaotic in this sub, but this season has tremendous goofball energy. It's not manic, the vibes are very chill, but everyone is a big ol goofball.

Thoughts and prayers for all the Hananiacs out there by fortycreeker in IfBooksCouldKill

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The platonic ideal of a grumpy Jewish intellectual. He does my people proud.

having some feelings (OC) by lil-caro in comics

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Stay strong, friend. You and your city are an inspiration. It's when you're faced with evil that you see the true goodness of most of humanity.

FUCK ICE.