Has anyone ever witnessed a right winger laugh or even smile? Just asking, ya know.

[Augiedog]

[meow2u3]

1. Right wingers only laugh at someone else's expense

They're a miserable bunch of pathetic losers. They can't live unless they drag everyone and everything else down to their level.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. Exactly. They only find humor in the suffering of others.

[Carlitos Brigante]

2. Plenty. Joe Rogan, Stephen Crowder.... Saw McConnell make some weird jowl movements once. Not

sure if that counts as a smile. Bush Jr. when talking about the death penalty. Donald Trump, when Carly Fiorina fell off a stage. I've watched some clips of Tucker Swanson making a weird noise. Which I think was him trying to imitate laughter. But that could've been convulsions. But I digress. It's what they're usually smiling and laughing about that is the problem.

[2naSalit]

38. Saw McConnell make some weird jowl movements once.

He always does that when "passing wind"... not sure from which end but that seems to be the MO.

[Carlitos Brigante]

40. I'm not super knowledgeable about turtle biology. But he does seem to have a direct line

connecting his rectum and mouth.....

[2naSalit]

41. Aha!

So that's how he does it!

[LuvLoogie]

3. Sure. Of course.

There are things that make them genuinely happy and things they find funny.

[lpbk2713]

4. OxyRush thought it was hilarious when he was mocking Michael J Fox.

And I'm sure he could provide many more examples of RW humor.

[Beakybird]

5. Yes. They have children, family, and friends.

They might be deranged, lacking in empathy except for those in their in group, but yes, they laugh.
I perform music and provide comedy for senior citizens. I did a show at an assisted living facility, and a woman asked me if I was related to right wing TV and radio host Mark Levin. Same last name. She started telling me while I was setting up how much she loved Mark Levin. Anyway, she laughed her head off at my show.
In short, some are monsters. Most are just garden variety jerks, nuts, and idiots.

[frazzled]

17. The attribution of lack of humor is a common way of

dehumanizing people you don’t like. If you remember the vitriol widely dispensed against Second Wave feminists back in the 70s, the most common accusation was that women were humorless.

This is ridiculous. I despise conservative ideas, and especially the politicians and media personalities who espouse those ideas for money and/or power. But I would never stoop to depriving all conservative people of basic human attributes such as the ability to laugh. That is an old trope that hits way, way below the belt, and lacks any relevance to the problem. It’s just a playground-level aspersion.

[Beakybird]

19. So eloquent and true! Are you a professional writer?

[frazzled]

21. Oh, heck no.

Just a humorless woman. 😂

[Beakybird]

22. Lol

[Ilsa]

33. Just like Mrs. Maisel! (I'm at Season 2)

[Victory at Yorktown]

6. This is so true!

All their so-called humor is tied in to humiliating someone or dominating. So twisted.

[lagomorph777]

7. Yes, when they are hurting innocent people.

[marmar]

8. They SUCK at humor.

One of my FB "friends" (a guy a went to college with) posts right wing memes and they're not even objectively funny.

[Doc_Technical]

12. The half hour news hour

[Bettie]

10. If someone they deem a "lib" is sick or gets hurt

or killed, they think it is hilarious.

[Dial H For Hero]

15. Mind you, that sort of thing never happens here when a con is sick or gets hurt or dies.

Just sayin'.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

11. They laugh at cruel things. They laugh at victims.

Hunter S Thompson on Richard Nixon (paraphrasing): “The Nixon I knew was utterly humorless; I couldn’t imagine him laughing at anything, except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote democratic but couldn’t quite reach the voting lever.”

He wrote that over thirty years ago. It’s only gotten worse; now they laugh at assault and murder.

Cruelty is the backbone of fascism.

[mitch96]

13. Yup, my buddy I grew up with (met when we were 5) and I laugh all the time when we meet up

He is a conservative libertarian and well.... I'm not. We just don't talk politics. We laugh all the time... Many other things to talk about then politics.
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[LakeArenal]

14. I don't find it true at all. I find many Repugs nice.

It is an oxymoron. Although one I know, when finding out I am as strong a Dem, made a face like...😠 Like she smelled something bad.


Another, sitting next to a trans friend said out loud, “I don’t believe in that stuff!!”

“Stuff”..... my trans friend isn’t “out” in the sense that he tells few people and let’s them spout their shit.

[nolabear]

16. Sure. Lots.

Right wingers, believe it or not, are people. They laugh, cry, love, rage, do all the things people do.

I despise their philosophy and what a whole lot of them do to try to realize it. And I despise a lot of them. But dehumanization is a bad road. I’d love to see them completely unable to carry out their agenda but yes, they do all those things.

[Hortensis]

32. Run! Get out of town while you can!

?

[Dial H For Hero]

18. Absolutely. I have an acquaintence who's quite conservative, and he's become helpless with laughter

while listening to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" or while watching "The Princess Bride" (just for a couple of examples).

[XanaDUer2]

20. Sure

A Trump voter and I used to laugh at the truly toxic work environment we were in.

[Kaleva]

23. My FIL is laughing right now as he is telling jokes

About bingo at the Legion.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

24. Yes. With genuine warmth. They're human, too.

[Kaleva]

25. There are posts here making fun of the overweight, those who live in trailers,

,those who are missing teeth, don't have a college education and so on.

Laughing at cruel things, as some in this thread have stated, isn't just restricted to the RW.

[Dial H For Hero]

28. Well said.

[Hortensis]

34. These threads are mirror images of RW posts about Democrats. But

with fewer of the caveats such as yours that suggest their disease hasn't taken over completely.

[Kaleva]

35. I find it interesting how both sides accuse each other of engaging in the same behavior

[Hortensis]

42. And engage in the same behavior, at least on social media.

No one I know personally talks this way.

My own experience is that the trumpist types laugh and smile all too much, not among each other about normal things -- which they do like anyone else, but when thinking politically because they're pleased with themselves. It's part of what's so appalling that they think they're good people prevailing as good people should.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

26. Only when smirking snidely at LGBT+

Fuck them, Nazi pr***s

[Duncan Grant]

31. I was just going to post this.

Since the AIDS crisis, they’ve been nothing but sadistic fanatics when it comes to LGBT+ lives. You can almost hear their delighted cackles as they demonize trans kids and their parents. I hate them.

[PufPuf23]

27. Have long thought the basic difference between most Democrats and the GOP

is the degree of empathy, not just for humans but for life in general.

Right wingers are not about reciprocal good will.

Conservative Christians are a threat to us all as well as life on the planet.

[GoCubsGo]

29. Other than when it involved mocking someone?

Or, watching joking over someone's suffering? Nope.

[LexVegas]

30. No, never ever. nt

[johnp3907]

36. All the time.

[fishwax]

37. sure, of course

[Torchlight]

39. Mostly when someone is getting hurt.

That seems to elicit a chuckle out of 'em every damn time.