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Not looking to discuss politics. I'm just trying to find the humour in left-wing mainstream comedy.

I've tried watching at least 30 movies and as far as I can tell it's the same two tropes. Someone who is usually smart does something obviously stupid or they are uninformd about something and everyone is shocked that they just don't get it with a "seriously bro" type of comment. Or the other trope when someone who is super serious becomes upset because someone shocked them with their progressive views with a "yeah that's how it's done" type of comment.

What's funny about that?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Sure. The Marvel movies for example like Deadpool and Spider man. There will be a break in the action because someone did something silly and other people in the scene have to comment on it with the "seriously bro" type of comment.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

Even ignoring that Marvel isn't leftist, I don't even think leftists think Marvel humor is good. OP's premise is broken on so many levels

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

I think OP might have a skewed opinion of the centre.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh honey, what dark corners of the Internet have you gotten mired in?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Gab, according to his post history

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Protecting status quo with violence is usually not left wing. Super heroes are reactionary. They don’t create anything. They just react to some villains plan to change things. That’s right wing conservatism. Beat up anyone who want to do things differently.

https://thenewinquiry.com/super-position/

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think comedic breaks in action films are exclusive to any particular political group. You might be conflating the two because certain slang terms often appear in those breaks, and those terms might be more prevalent in communities you think of as leftist.

Let me give you a counter-example. In Star Trek Beyond, Spock realizes the crew can locate an away team by the radiation given off by a jewel he gave Uhura. McCoy asks him incredulously "you gave your girlfriend a tracking device?" and Spock responds "that was not my intent." This is a classic "bruh" moment, but it uses traditional wording, not slang. So if you think of this phenomenon as being intrinsically linked with leftist slang, I can assure you it isn't.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We came to this thread brother, we should not be surprised lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

All too true lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Come on, buddy lol.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There will be a break in the action because someone did something silly and other people in the scene have to comment on it with the "seriously bro" type of comment.

I can't figure out how this is even remotely "leftist." It has absolutely nothing to do with any political leaning, left or otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

leftists often engage in shaming of their friends for not being with the times

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You think fucking Marvel movies are leftist? What do you think a leftist is?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

What do you think a leftist is?

Any film where the entire cast aren’t straight white men fighting over a prize woman is “radical left” and simply watching it will turn you into a disabled trans lesbian in the name of forced diversity.

Obviously.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a normal person

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bathos. That's Bathos. Interrupting something serious to ridicule it. It's been a trope since the 18th century, and it's definitely not just a "leftist" trope. It's also NOT the only type of joke in left-wing media, or the only types of jokes in those specific movies. Most of Deadpool is pop culture references, for example.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Those are really the only jokes you took away from those movies?

Maybe comedy and jokes aren't for you?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Marvel movies aren't leftist, and their comedy isn't leftist either. That's not even political really. You're describing a Flanderization of Joss Whedon comedy tropes

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Marvel movies are action movies with quips, not comedies.

They’re also not “leftist:” they’re movies for the masses, and are about as apolitical as you can get. The politics that do get in are fictional ones that are focused group to hell to not resemble any real world politics.

The Boys is the only leftist superhero comedy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The Avengers are heroic, care about others, and aren't the cartoon villains they fight, which Republicans fucking literally are. That is why Marvel films are Leftist.

Plus...to be fair, Tony is all about science, and helping the community, stopping war, and all that gay woke crap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, I forgot that Hydra are literally NAZIS, so of course that makes Captain America a woke liberal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

J Jonah Jameson is basically Alex Jones in the Disney movies.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The comic character was around before Jones was even alive, and J. K. Simmons started his portrayal before Jones even got big. It’s not Disney’s fault that Jones turned into his own caricature.