Leopards Ate My Face

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Timestamps:
0:00 Michelle's viral moment
2:51 'Mr Birchum' is not a good show
7:43 Context and PR
11:54 Leopards ate my face
15:52 Afterlife, irony and schadenfreude
20:05 End
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[@PillarofGarbage]

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[@gamedude412]

Rohm was Killed because Himmler conducted a power Coup for the SS to get security leadership vs the SA. The SS were the "proper German Protective force" not the SA "street thugs" Which both were. Rohm was little like a dumber stalin. The Street thug the early regime need to come to power but not the thugs need to rule..

[@yololthepikminenjoyer]

is this like dlc

[@PillarofGarbage]

@@yololthepikminenjoyer yes buy my horse armour

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

@@PillarofGarbage Is it Monkey Island preorder bonus horse armour or Skyrim horse armour?

[@SStarry_Days]

9:20 she says 1960s but the subtitles say 1950s Literally unwatchable. Edit: he fixed it lol

[@pikariocraftf2802]

Family Guy would do the vegan wolf joke by having a wolf stalking a potted plant.

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

Immediately funnier

[@weik-2936]

@@itcouldbelupus2842 and to top it off the potted plant would act like a Buffalo or something, fighting back like hell and maybe taking out a wolf or two

[@larissabrglum3856]

That got me to chuckle

[@SpottedHares]

@@weik-2936yea this is 100% a family guy skit right their.

[@FelisImpurrator]

That's actually a good bit.

[@samfilmkid]

A show so obsessed with being Anti-Woke that it forgot to be Pro-Funny

[@Finckelstein]

That describes all conservative "humour".

[@atrckr-bf7de]

@@Finckelstein that's dumb hatred for the other side. I have heard and seen the edit: similar things but with all liberal "humour"

[@sebastianlavallee706]

@@atrckr-bf7de You... have heard that liberals are too busy being Anti-Woke? Ok I guess.

[@Ulubai]

"A group of people so obsessed with being Anti-Woke that they forgot to be funny"

[@IjwPetersen]

@@atrckr-bf7deah since liberalism is conservative too, that makes sense

[@noahhager1187]

this makes me remember a conversation between a pair of Neo nazis. "What happens when there are no more jews" "then we start on those who don't have blue eyes" there will always be an out group, no matter what we do, and when we don't have one, people are ousted from the in-group to create one

[@Levyathyn]

It's like how Texas Republicans always run on a platform of fixing what the liberals did to Texas. It's you know pretty standard makes sense, at least from a conservative viewpoint, but it falls apart the minute you have an outside perspective and remembering that Texas has been in control of the GOP for like 20 years or more. So the problems they're 'fixing' are built-in to the conservative system. But they can keep blaming outsiders over and over again to grab power and hold on to it. The Nazi ideology will turn out the same, because it's just going to perpetuate the same problems; the people on top are going to have all of the power, all of the freedom, all of the control, all of the money, and they're not going to spend any of those fixing things for everyone else. And it's just going to be easier to blame an out group then to actually do their jobs.

[@alexcat6685]

It's almost like they never cared about who they hated and more just wanted something to hate, just happens Jews were the target. I guess that is why Nazi are the execeptions to the Tolerance rule, while I still consider them a tragedy of a person rather than subhuman, they are a tragedy a mistake of flaws becoming so bad kidness no longer or barely effects it. because they are too incompetently narracistic or Sciopathic to care, that is why you can't tolarate them as is close to impossible for it to be mutual, atleast with a Racist theres a similar degree of humanity, of doing something because you believe in it, they only thing they believe in is who gets to be on the Lonely Rotting Throne.(Spoiler: noone)

[@bensmith8682]

That never happened. You never heard that and the conversation never occurred. You’re just making shit up.

[@bettynoirgirl3981]

@@bensmith8682 Here’s a better version of the top comment (credit to Pastor Martin Niemöller) First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me

[@noahhager1187]

@@bensmith8682 I didn't hear it, I saw it on the internet. the second person was joking but it is kinda dark and accurate. I think it was from a pop culture detective video

[@yvaincallipso84]

There's two gender identities: men and political. Two races: white and political. Two orientations: straight and political. Two body types: thin and political. And on and on it goes, they should have really kept that in mind when making their characters

[@SOBEKCrocodileGod]

Naw being thin is woke now because it means you’re “soy” and weak. Conservatives love overanalyzing men’s physical features to point out how they’re “low-t” or “beta” or whatever. If a man isn’t muscular or athletic than he is woke or whatever….or even if he is, cause these troglodytes think everything is “woke” Also, listen here, LIBERAL. There are only THREE genders: Ford, Chevy, and Dodge 😤💯🔥

[@nihilisticpancake308]

Does this joke really make sense when anyone who isn't straight and white gets lumped into these labels like POC/BIPOC and Queer? With the understanding that straight white yadda yadda labes are "the bad guys" so to speak?

[@PlebNC]

And old and political. And a job from before the year 2000 and political. And survived a world war or political.

[@quantumperception]

Lol, I guess I am a man, white, political, and political, lol. But honestly, I'm not invested in gay culture or causes, and I am fat, but I don't think it's a good thing that should be glorified. That said, I am 2 minutes in to the video, and I am already bored, lol

[@nihilisticpancake308]

Okay I made a replied a while back and even though I can't see my comment I still get notified for replies. What is up with that?

[@TSDTalks22]

“But I didn’t know they would cancel MY gay character!” Sobs shapiro who voted for the gay cancellation party

[@daelen.cclark]

He’s trying to bring his own gay best friend trope to life.

[@Lovefortea448]

​@@daelen.cclarkand that gay best friend is Dave rubin (who he didn't even attend his wedding or anniversary)

[@minestar2247]

Doesn't that jerk support anti Semites despite having ,Like, some semetics ancesstory? It's totally on brand

[@daviddiggens8841]

Which party is the "gay cancellation" party exactly? I'm slightly confused Every conservative I know thinks that EVERYONE deserves equal rights but that no group deserves special rights. That's about it. Please don't strawman the majority of Americans. I'm traditional Catholic and I have no issues whatsoever with the equal distribution of rights but I do think giving special privilege is inherently wrong even if it was America suddenly giving Catholics special rights. On the inverse it seems that the left is pretending to offer special status over some perceived grievance to whoever will keep them in power as if people are useful idiots who only have a single collective trait that can be exploited for power even if it sets us back decades Which is Marxism 101. Hooray for Saul alinsky I guess. Point is the daily wire is controlled opposition and I can't stand them and they don't represent the right the same way I hope Velma doesn't represent the left. I think we agree more than disagree because we are all unique humans with our own experience and can't be lumped into left vs right. But if you want to imagine the right is "evil" because you were told to think so, then there's no reconciliation. It makes me sad but there it is

[@christiantabares6713]

​@@Lovefortea448nitnto mention Shapiro explicitly told Rubin TO HIS FACE MULTIPLE TIMES that he would not attend Rubin's wedding because Shapiro's Judaism views homosexuality is a sin. The whole "don't hate the sinner hate the sin" talking point that still discriminates against gay people.

[@rachelwindsor850]

Funny enough, wolves are opportunists and will eat fruit vegetables to survive.

[@PillarofGarbage]

that sounds like woke propaganda, sorry

[@daelen.cclark]

That feels apt.

[@SpottedHares]

@@PillarofGarbage fun fact there seems to be an indication of the domestication of wolves to dogs did have an effect with them eating more plant-based material that they begin to scavenge from humans

[@hiigguys7395]

@@SpottedHares It's why the fad of "grain free" dog food is so bad. Dogs bodies are made to also consume plants as well as meat. Having a dog with chicken allergies, this has dramatically decreased my options for kibble. I have only found one brand of kibble that doesn't have any chicken, and also isn't a fad pho-healthy brand that removes grains.

[@miguelpadeiro762]

There's bloody fruits that have evolved to rely on animals like wolves to eat them and shit the seeds elsewhere (thus giving fertilizer too)

[@Ryanime1986]

There is a short story called "the lottery" that was published in the new yorker in 1948. Its about a small rural town that everyone is living very comfortably. (gonna summarize here) But, once a year, the town draws a name from a bowl and the town stones that person to death. The book focuses on a women who in the beginning of the book, is carrying on like everything is great (gossiping, making plans, ect), but then her name is drawn (keep in mind, she showed up to the rally to stone whoever name got drawn herself), and NOW she start pointing out how barbaric it is and questioning why they do it. The elders all say "its always been this way", her peers shame her for risking their prosperity if they didn't murder her (its never clear to anyone how murdering someone once a year makes them prosperous). I think back to it often when i see modern conservative pushes.

[@aralornwolf3140]

It was reprinted multiple times since then. I read it in school in.. 1999 or 2000. But, yeah... It also has religious undertones to it too... with the way children are also involved and taught this is perfectly acceptable... and the towns which stopped doing it are in the wrong... *Shrugs*

[@julietfischer5056]

It was her husband who drew the marked slip of paper. She objected, so they held the drawing again---and _she_ had the marked paper. Then they stoned her for a good harvest.

[@Ryanime1986]

@@julietfischer5056 its been almost 20 years since ive read it lol. lots lost in the haze.

[@aralornwolf3140]

@@julietfischer5056, She wasn't married. There was a single drawing. Who ever receives the black dot, gets stoned. Infant, or adult, mattered not.

[@NeverUseAnApostrophe]

Woman, not women, and etc, not "ect."

[@naomiorogun647]

At this point it's not "leopards eating my face" it feels like "I'm gonna eat my own face to own the libs! Why is everyone booing me??"

[@fcon2123]

They're willing covering themselves in honey and salmon before leaping into a bear exhibit.

[@doefarris2189]

These people don't do anything out of love or compassion, only spite and hatred.

[@CthulhusBFF2]

only good thing to come out of Mr. Birchum was all the gay fanart made out of spite for the creators

[@prophecybydefault4708]

Pretty weird way to protest but if it works it works I guess.

[@saucymongoose7246]

Yeah, I saw a KZbinr rank all the Mr. Birchum yaoi art. It's an interesting video, to say the least 😅

[@CthulhusBFF2]

@@saucymongoose7246 was it Queen Coke Francis? I love that bitch 💜

[@ArDeeMee]

Ok, now I‘m curious. Channel name & video title, please. 😁

[@arbitarious]

@@ArDeeMeethe thumbnail is shown in this video when he shows other KZbinrs already rated it.

[@dromedarycamus2]

You know a show's rough when it gets called out for being less subtle, clever, and original than Family Guy, like the bar doesn't go much lower

[@Nemo12417]

And inexplicably, Seth McFarlane manages to continuously impress me by not being terrible personally.

[@robrotron2084]

Say what you will, but I lost it when the fire truck started bonking the antelope with its ladder.

[@Targetstrike]

@@robrotron2084I was absolutely hysterical at how funny it was

[@dromedarycamus2]

@@robrotron2084 honestly was a banger cutaway

[@Houtont]

The first two seasons are genuinely good.

[@TehPiemaygor]

The thing about the vegan wolf joke is that it sucks because the vegan wolf didn't die or suffer due to its veganism. It was murdered by the other wolves for being annoying. Which is like... is the show trying to say veganism is bad purely because it annoys people?

[@deen7530]

Seems like the kind of show to think that

[@Ignite_GT]

The joke is that none of the wolves asked nor cared. Then decided to eat the wolf because funny. It's not that deep

[@TehPiemaygor]

@@Ignite_GT I mean if they ate him because he annoyed them then they sort of definitely cared. And it wasn't a very good joke, because lots of things are annoying. It would have been a good joke if it was something like the wolf was hunting a massive cube of tofu out in the wild for example. The joke writes itself.

[@arthas640]

pretty much yeah. Just look at the vegan teacher: she's actually pretty healthy for an old woman but everyone hates her for being annoying.

[@kirabad-artist6532]

So the message is basically: “don’t be different or you’ll get mauled”

[@Boomer04888]

Every cutaway in this show is essentially: "Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the othe side!" Then a clip is shown of a chicken walking across a road

[@Levyathyn]

Well that joke actually has a deep history and a second layer of meaning. It kind of stopped making sense because of the way language has changed over the generations, but there is still a subtle meaning to it and I don't know if it applies to most people but at least for me, there came a time in my life where I realized the nuance to the 'other side' part, and it gave me a trouble and maybe realized that not everything is just how it looks on the surface. I get what you're going for, but I think it's pretty entertaining that even your example bad joke comparison has more layers and meaning than anything in this show.

[@Ignite_GT]

that's like, the definition of a cutaway?

[@arthas640]

It's basically just Family Guy only they stripped away the thin veneer of liberalism on that show and applied an overt right wing coating instead.

[@Random-sk6hm]

@@Ignite_GT Except this cutaway repeats the joke rather than adds to it

[@radiofrog]

Yeah even setting the mountain of political stuff aside, the jokes are just plain awful. The vegan wolf punchline is the wolf says “I’m vegan” and gets eaten? Anyone with even a mild humorous knack could come up with a far better bit than that. Lol it’s just plain shit

[@Sim-sq2hu]

One thing that always gets me, is people who say the DMV is bad, which like, it is, but that's because there's literally never enough employees for the even small cities. But, like, could you imagine the DMV being run by Comcast? Your license getting suspended because of technical glitches, having every fee double every couple years, lowering how long a license lasts, and also, still not having enough employees, and the ones they do have are trying to sell you cell phone plans.

[@bestaround3323]

DMVs suck because of logistics, comcast sucks because they don't care

[@Skywatcher16]

@@bestaround3323 and even then, its not even sucky everywhere. i live on a river that over 2 counties runs through or along 7 towns/villages and one small city. while the city is the worst among them, ive dealt with the DMV at 5 of them over the years. as long as i did my homework on what i needed the night before, it was never more than a 30 minute, mostly hassle free affair.

[@bestaround3323]

@Skywatcher16 honestly it only really sucks if you don't know what you need to do.

[@Skywatcher16]

@@bestaround3323 precisely

[@TheEvilCheesecake]

The conservative playbook: Complain that services suck Get elected to lower taxes Demolish services Lose election Complain that services suck, but harder. Repeat

[@FIRE_BOMB1]

Remember when media wasn’t political. Like Fallout and Bioshock

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

Or gta and call of duty

[@saucymongoose7246]

This is why I go to anime. Free from political messages. Oh, what are my favorite anime. Gundam, One Piece, AOT, FMA, Ghost in the Shell.

[@Ironcorgi2]

Don’t forget Star Trek and Star Wars totally not political!

[@elplaceholder]

Im loving deltarune so far, cant wait for chapter 3!!!

[@patnewbie2177]

I remember an argument I had last year with some rando telling me Fallout wasn't political. Their rationale? It's not 1-to-1 with our real world therefore it's not political. Someone tell them about Animal Farm, or 1984.

[@SWEGTA]

>votes for conservative >conservative does conservative stuff "WAIT WHAT?!!?!?! HOW?! WHYYY?!?!"

[@EC-qz2kw]

What is a conservative thing?

[@EC-qz2kw]

a neoconservative way? a defense of the old regime? the new right? political Catholics?

[@deadhookerproductions1068]

@@EC-qz2kw ...cutting social safety nets. it was said it in the video.

[@pkmcburroughs]

I like the arc conservative characters have. They go from being right about everything, and then, very slowly, over the course of the season, they end up being right about everything.

[@nomisunrider6472]

The problem with surrounding yourself with horrible people and encouraging them to be more horrible is that, eventually, they will be horrible to you too.

[@monoduck]

They always remind me of those KZbinrs that treat their old friends like garbage because they're popular now, just to end up alone the moment they're not relevant anymore

[@eyuin5716]

@monoduck Like what happened with Mini Ladd?

[@TheKrossRoads]

@@eyuin5716 Mini Ladd may not be the best example, because what he did to make himself irrelevant probably would not have been well received by his friends either way. Can't blame them either, it's hard to keep your own brand intact by staying friends with a child predator.

[@matti.8465]

Exactly, there's no loyalty with them. You built this narrative where anyone who doesn't abide by a specific set of standards is the enemy, so if you do anything that puts you even a little close to that, they'll turn on you like a pack of rabid dogs.

[@NocheTenebri]

The rabbit throws his friends to the wolves and they protect him- but as soon as the last rabbit goes, the wolves eat him without hesitation.

[@Cyynapse]

i love that the biggest portion of the fanbase of this show is trans people watching it ironically

[@RoonMian]

I mean, if right wingers understood irony, they wouldn't have made a show based on Ron "I'M AN OBVIOUS CARICATURE OF YOU PEOPLE!!" Swanson in the first place.

[@charlesb.phillips5337]

And the other portion is people drawing gay fanarts of Mr Birchum and the woke teacher.

[@onearmedbandit84]

Hopefully streaming sites that are not the Daily Wire.

[@Knight-Bishop]

It's like the inverse of how the top number of searches for trans "corn" are in the most conservative states.

[@BBWahoo]

It's like the opposite of right winger watching calarts shows

[@Rose_Castle]

Futurama did this with a lion. The people said they got a lion to eat tofu, and it pans to their emaciated lion that just coughs wheezily. That was funny.

[@weik-2936]

and it works beyond being funny because its an actual criticism of veganism, of how vegans often try to force others to conform to their lifestyle, of how their attempts to do this with animals (yes, there are vegans who have actually done this) cause harm the only way it could have worked better is if it included the classism often present in vegans

[@ndep4867]

I mean the british have an endemic problem regarding voting for stuff they don't want. "But I didn't want my country to leave the EU!" said woman who voted for her country to leave the EU.

[@marlyd]

I'm from Belgium and an English friend of mine living here told me he was going to vote to leave the EU. And I was like 'you live and work in Belgium what exactly are you voting for?' and he said 'they made good points'. He regretted his decision afterwards.

[@ConfusedOctopus]

​@@marlyd😅wth

[@spongecakes1986]

​@@marlydI want to know what those points were now

[@arthas640]

thats what sucks about a 2 party system which they effectively have similar to the US. Like in the US if you want gun rights that means giving up healthcare and border security, but if you want to reform the justice system that means supporting Palestine and supporting the Tax and Spend model.

[@spongecakes1986]

@@arthas640 you say that like supporting Palestine is a bad thing

[@BatAmerica]

The worst part is that, in most cases, Karponzi is reasonable. Mr. Birchum regularly abuses his power and the children in his care. Usually, in comedies, the antagonist is meant to be an overreacting buzzkill, or the main character is intended to be portrayed as wrong. Yet, Karponzi is bringing up good points here, such as not forcing random children to build their teacher's deck or not personally enjoying alcohol. Why is the audience meant to hate this guy again?

[@SpoopySquid]

Because something something woke

[@HelloHuman1]

The man dreams about dancing with Mr. Karponzi as well. He literally has mugs saying I love wood. He also hates most of his family.

[@PillarofGarbage]

the children yearn for the workshops

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

Conservative logic is that no matter what the message actually is it needs to be delivered in a way that makes them comfortable and pandered to, you can pretty much call for genocide as long as you use the right words

[@ChadDenton0712]

Also they have one episode where he's working a second job in retail and if I understand correctly it is presented as a bad thing, but...how do Republicans and pundits on the Daily Wire typically react to the idea of increasing public school teachers' pay and public school budgets, again?

[@basicsimp8798]

If Comedy is free again, why aren't they doing it?

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

They are conservatives they hate free stuff

[@dreamfletcher779]

wait a second... doesn't that phenomenon suggest... having free house and health care and food WOULDN'T make people just take it and settle and never do anything again... 😳

[@JM-pk2nv]

Too hard.

[@bouel2709]

The Right cant meme And the political Right only have 2-4 "jokes", and one of them is "I am an helicopter weeeeee"

[@autobotstarscream765]

They're trying their best.

[@Somajsibere]

jeremy boring as the CEO of a media company sounds like a joke in a tv show itself

[@Random-sk6hm]

Like something out of The Boys

[@paulhammond6978]

"To his credit, Ben is not a neo-yahtzi" really feels like such an incredibly low bar. It's like that one gay conservative they have (Dave Rubin?) who presumably himself is not homophobic... but all the rest of them are

[@theflyingspaget]

14:31

[@talkgoodenglish7500]

The vegan wolf joke doesn't make sense. The joke shouldn't be that the other wolves would attack them, it's that they would starve. There's a Futurama joke about a vegan lion to this effect

[@LadyDoomsinger]

I guess the joke was meant to be that "vegans are weak, and society will eat them because they can't defend themselves" or something along those lines? Or maybe I'm putting more thought into it, than the people who wrote that episode.

[@cyanthrope]

@@LadyDoomsinger I'm reasonably sure the full depth of the joke is "violence against people we don't like is funny"

[@Levyathyn]

That's the problem... There's two jokes right on the cusp of being implemented; One is about how much people hate vegans, and the other one is about vegan being impractical and unnatural (for carnivores). The show just doesn't do either joke; It's basically saying that there is a joke they could make, and then pointing to a hastily written document outlining things about veganism, instead of actually doing the comedy. Which is pretty much what this show does.

[@neoqwerty]

@@Levyathyn It also muddles itself by making the wolf look like a HIPSTER stereotype (manbun, snooty attitude, wolfbro looks like a wolf version of an afghan hound), not a VEGAN one (thin to the point of skeletal frailty, scruffy and mangy, lecturing the other wolves about how they're uncivilized beasts or the health benefits of eating salad). They couldn't even hate the stereotype correctly when all they had to do was expy ThatVeganTeacher as a wolf and they'd have managed ONE joke.

[@Levyathyn]

@@neoqwerty well to be specifically targeted, they would actually have to know anything about the stereotypes they're mocking. They don't.

[@odstarmor557]

Its so funny that their core audience got mad at the mere presence of a gay character whose sole purpose was to be mocked, yet the people who this show was supposed to be mocked went nuts with gay fan art because they genuinely like the character.

[@Creepsandwicheater]

Geniunely like the character seems strong. I figure it's more geniunely like spiting daily wire lol.

[@Ineedgames]

@@Creepsandwicheater Yeah we just did it because it was funny.

[@shadowldrago]

@@IneedgamesI respect the commitment to the bit.

[@andylindsaytunes]

To them, if a gay character doesn't exist simply to be vanquished (or killed) it's woke representation. It's like most media pre-80s: gay characters or people who indulge in vices, for example, had to pay a big price (frequently death) for those transgressions, in the storyline. They want everyone to think of those people as deviant and deserving of punishment, like most did in the 50s.

[@neoqwerty]

@@andylindsaytunes Of all the 50s things they keep trying to drag out, it had to be the shitty parts and not the cool retrofuturist architecture, reliable tech supposed to be built to last for three decades without getting obsoleted, safe nuclear energy and self-sustaining communities with easy access to free entertainment spaces?

[@CalikoiCat]

"how can you feel happy watching someone get their face eaten by a leaperd" i mean as a queer woman, i think people who vote against their own interests and then suffer from it while im also suffering from it kinda deserve to gert laughed at i literally do not care. thats like saying not to laugh at someone who hurt themselves after you told them "dont do that youll hurt yourself" like if you touch an electric fence and get huirt even after you read the sign, im gonna laugh

[@doefarris2189]

"Okay, leopards, go eat the degenerate faces of-OW, NO, NOT MY FACE!!" cartoon villain joke

[@jasonclements9022]

There’s a saying in police accountability circles in America: “back the blue til it happens to you” for when pro-police people are sadly victimized by their heroes and experience first hand the very thing they scoffed at before

[@HunterAnsorge-ok9jk]

socialism isn't the answer

[@starkstruckus]

​​@@HunterAnsorge-ok9jkholy whataboutism Batman!

[@actualgoblin]

​@@HunterAnsorge-ok9jk "everything fox news disapproves of is socialism"

[@TelletubiedeFormosa_XD]

​@@HunterAnsorge-ok9jkwrong

[@HunterAnsorge-ok9jk]

@@TelletubiedeFormosa_XD you can’t defund the police and then only allow them to “protect” civilians my guy 😭🤧

[@scoutscoodles]

Conversative audiences being extremely sensitive to even the utterance of homosexuality is really really funny.

[@Some1inFNQ]

it is indeed very woke and snowflakey of them. Imagine being threatened by the mere existence of gay, queer and trans kids but still fronting like you're the big tough macho guys.

[@yoyosworld2773]

The true snowflakes.

[@animeotaku307]

@@Some1inFNQLike those old cartoons of elephants shrieking and scrambling up a chair at the sight of a mouse.

[@joshuasadler5304]

Not as funny as watching liberals go out of their way to watch something they know will make them offended and then being offended by it.

[@voidghost8360]

Real. I got secondhand embarrassment of that clip of that woman crying and shaking at the thought of a gay person being in her TV show. How sensitive can you be.

[@magicjuulbus7140]

I always go back to thinking about Dave Rubin when it comes to the Leopards Ate My Face phenomenon. For a few years he was everywhere, hyped by right wing media as the token gay conservative in a pathetic attempt to argue that conservativism should be the ideology that the queer community embraces. Then when he had outlived his usefulness they discarded him and called him a unholy degenerate for having a husband and kids.

[@HobGungan]

Yup, it's "last hired first fired" when it comes to fas-errr-conservatives appealing to the groups they marginalize. Often quite literally...

[@uselesspocketwatch]

When Ted Cruz sat there and told him to his face that his family shouldn't exist and Dave had to just sit there and suck it down for the grift, that was when I knew that I could start living my life authentically, knowing that I could never be that cringe.

[@anangoons]

Thats the problem with trying to be a pick me of any marginalized group You sell your soul to be allowed into the club by the bouncer as a special favor, an exception (because you're "one of the good ones") but that's the thing--youre always gonna be there only by their tenuous allowance,by how far you can distance yourself from the marginalized group while still serving the role of a token. But, as said in the video, the "in-group shrinks." And that same bouncer is kicking you to the curb the minute the higher-ups change the club rules. The problem with being a pick me is, at the end of the day, they're never going to pick you. No matter how much you throw other queer folks or folks of color or people in poverty under the bus, nothing permanently can guarantee you wont share the same fate.

[@vidmuncher]

@@anangoons And the thing that is so insidious about it is that those most likely to be pick me's are the ones who think they aren't "like those other ones" - those already isolated by some friction with their own demographics. The club can't do anything with those they've already directly abused and/or are wise to their crap so they have to opportunistically manipulate the ones looking to belong. It's almost like the pick me's pick have to pick themselves. Sadly, no one truly picks the pick me's - not even themselves......

[@koichidignitythief7429]

What about Milo Yinnopolis?

[@spaghetti0356]

Conservative jokes always run along the line of "Woman but doing man thing?! she'll regret it when husband!" or "trans women but deep voice?! peak comedy!" then always cry "Wokeness!" when they get called boring or unfunny.

[@lobete]

All too often, the person who had their face eaten isn't simply fooled into voting for more, they know their face is gone and happy about it. That's because they saw someone they dislike more getting their face eaten too. It becomes less about who learned their lesson and more about the cruelty of the people who vote for it.

[@lilstevechan8427]

Yep. Peep any right-wing message board and you'll see them celebrating the supreme court for granting the president near unlimited power just because they want Trump to use it to go after his enemies, despite the fact that Biden has that power now too. They will literally eat shit if a left-leaning person has to smell their breath. Pure spite... because they hate thinking about LGBT or brown people.

[@juliusbossman7280]

Between this and Velma, maybe taking a therapist session should be a requirement before making a adult 'comedy' cartoon cause a lot of these adult animated shows is just self hatred.

[@tristanband4003]

Velma even comes out of ahead of Birchum. As in, in terms of being less crappy.

[@basedeltazero714]

Men will literally make an animated television show instead of going to therapy. (And Mindy Kaling but shh that's not how the joke goes)

[@tristanband4003]

@@basedeltazero714 I think Mindy Kaling is getting more therapy out of the show than Adam Carolla is.

[@thevioletskull8158]

Yeah

[@animeotaku307]

@@tristanband4003Velma has decent animation, at least.

[@leeswift7883]

It's really telling about one's mindset that the UNITY on the one character's shirt is supposed to be a negative thing for people to believe in

[@daelen.cclark]

What they want is not subtle.

[@leeswift7883]

@@daelen.cclark over time they've been allowed to become more emboldened and don't care as much

[@Zwickerly2]

They're literally pro genocide. There's a scary amount of otherwise normal sounding people that are completely content, if not happy, that Israel might just wipe out Palestinians.

[@ProbablyOnLSD6669]

@@leeswift7883yes. So what do we do about this shit?

[@leeswift7883]

@@ProbablyOnLSD6669 I guess if good people aren't silent or timid and spread knowledge and empathy that might have some effect - I really don't know

[@emexdizzy]

Birchum is wrong about thumbs sweating, but what baffles me is that it's even stated as a line. Why did the writers make a joke about thumbs not sweating, that's just... it's a factoid that is not just flatly wrong to an absurd degree as the palms and fingertips have some of the highest density of sweat glands, but I've also never heard anyone say that. Ever. Just... how did the writers think to make a joke based on a fact that's not only incorrect, but isn't a thing anyone believes or says?

[@starkstruckus]

I guess when you deny reality constantly, even basic facts start to get distorted

[@MatecaCorp]

It’s “alternative facts” lol

[@WilliametcCook]

The vegan wolf isn't even visibly starving. Maybe the joke was that vegans are annoying but they didn't even do that either! Imagine the new guy walks into your workplace, says "My name is Dan", and in response everybody starts beating him to death

[@galeforce3192]

"Guys, guys, his last name is _Schroeder,_ not _Schneider!"_

[@updownbanana]

i think the joke was that vegans are annoying, they just shortcutted it by giving him an annoying voice and a man bun and letting cultural context do the rest. the issue is that it's unfunny as fuck to make fun of vegans at this point

[@CouncilofGeeks]

But… Katy Perry didn’t even sing “Fight Song.” I know this is nowhere near the point of anything but… that’s such a fucking basic thing for this show to get wrong.

[@SpaceManRD]

We all know that no one involved in writing this thing gave one iota of a shit about being funny, so why start when it comes to fact-checking? Right-wingers think that term is a _slur._

[@thatoneguy9582]

to be fair i cant think of a single other rachel platten song so it might as well be katy but _still_

[@jacehackworth6413]

That was actually kind of funny if it was on purpose or not. Completely ruined by the Nancy Pelosi bikini pics bit. It’s SUCH a reach it sucks all comedy out of the room.

[@asparagus420]

​@@SpaceManRD"I'M NOT EATING ONE IOTA OF SHIT"

[@austinfletchermusic]

Let's presume it was intentional (because the more obvious scenario is far more boring). In this reality, the joke is about how Liberal McGayman doesn't actually have his ear to the ground of elements of culture - even the things that are supposed to be of his own! The official song of the Hillary Clinton campaign and you don't even know Rachel Platten wrote it? Pathetic. On paper, this is actually a solid setup for a quick but pointed joke about the superficiality of liberals. However, the joke falls apart when they select the artist who he mistakes it for. Katy Perry is ... FAR too believable as the author of the song. Maybe they didn't even mean to reference Fight Song, but instead the nothingburger car-commercial-bait song she did for the 2016 Olympics, "Rise"? In which case the joke would be about how milquetoast and insipid those on the left are. That reference would probably fly over the heads of most viewers, though, so probably not. The correct artist to put here, I feel, would have been Lady Gaga. "Born This Way" isn't exactly a fight song, but it's the kind of thing that makes you think. "Fight Song" would be a very non-weird song from the weirdest major artist of the 2010s, but ... eh, it's conceivable. Plus, it's relevant to the character specifically! While Katy's relationship with the queer community was decidedly positive, it was also a bit tenuous overall. Gaga was a gay icon through and through. I'm thinking way too hard about a 3-second joke made by The Daily Wire lol. Just. It feels like an obvious fix!!

[@Rheinhard]

Excellent essay! “Show has gay character therefore woke!” is a brilliant distillation of the childlike thought process of these people. As a history nerd I have just one teeny nitpick, though… when you do the zoom-in to the leaders of the Beer Hall Putsch at 15:17 explaining of Hitler and Röhm that, “They were buddies!”, the guy you zoomed on to the left of Hitler in the picture, the guy wearing the big Picklhaube, ISN’T Röhm! That’s Erich Ludendorff, one of Germany’s leading generals, second only to Paul von Hindenburg, from the First World War. Röhm is the guy just on the OTHER side of Hitler!

[@PillarofGarbage]

@@Rheinhard goddamn, guess I’m nazi-face-blind, huh appreciate the correction though!

[@marocat4749]

Fair but he was pretty much hitlers best friend apearently.. And was sold out because the military wasnt on board with dolp if a dirty commoner military was there, the SA, the natsee mob force it started as.

[@francesca234]

I don't know you but I adore you random history nerd.

[@Rheinhard]

@@francesca234 Aw, shucks! 🥰

[@Aster_Risk]

​@@francesca234Probably because they're passionate and corrected someone kindly. It's very endearing. 😄

[@redfin382]

Gay and trans people exist. Acknowledging that isn't pushing an agenda.

[@dutchdykefinger]

no, pushing it is pushing an agenda fuck you and your mischaracterization of everything

[@spongecakes1986]

But it has to be! It's not natural! No get those gay penguins and lions out of here! Who let them out of their cages? No put away the ancient Greeks and that one trans Egyptian tomb!

[@deadhookerproductions1068]

it is to conservatives.

[@matti.8465]

So it turns out that when you teach your audience to buy into a nebulous idea of "WOKE" then train them to obsessively search for that in every piece of media they watch, they'll do that even to your own show...who could have thought? That's the thing with the right-wing audiences these grifters cultivate. It doesn't matter how cult-like their devotion is, if you fail to live up to the absurd standards you promote then they WILL turn on you, because that's what you taught them.

[@AlfurAldric2211]

Not related to the topic at hand at all, but that Flowey pfp alone gives this comment a whole different vibe. 👍

[@Stop_The_Car]

"The ambulances will have to wait their turn" is a quote that lives rent free in my head.

[@DataLal]

I'd never seen that whole bit before. I ROARED with laughter! It's possibly the best side-joke Family Guy ever made.

[@laurinmuller132]

It's really empowering to be seen by the Daily Wire show. The greatest lgbtq advocates of our time🏳️‍🌈

[@nicreven]

god that's so fucking funny

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

It is indeed quite amusing

[@heavensgate2245]

​@@nicreven Especially when you consider the fact that it's current audience is almost exclusively *trans people* watching it out of morbid curiosity or to make fun of it

[@pinkducklett1051]

The fact that this show is too far to the left for their voting base is HILARIOUS. They just have to keep running to catch up to the hatefulness of their constituency.

[@moonknight2865]

And they’re the ones who groomed them too.

[@blackm4niac]

So conservative comedy is still just "look at this person representing ideologies I reject and how pathetic we made them sound. Please laugh!"

[@headphonesaxolotl]

"It's over, (insert opposing social/political/economic ideology here)! I have portrayed you as the soyjak and me as the Chad! *(evil laughter)* -Overly political comedy in a nutshell

[@charlesb.phillips5337]

It's very funny how the closest thing to a positive reception this show garner was people drawing gay fanarts of Mr. Bearcum and Mr. Woke.

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

Wait, is that his name or is it a joke?

[@animeotaku307]

@@Duchess_Van_HoofJoke. His name is Carponzi.

[@dizzylilthing]

"I voted for conservatives and they did the conservative thing and now I want a conservative to fix it wah wah" conservatives invent a large amount of their problems.

[@vapx0075]

This comment goes DEEP.

[@Pyreleaf]

*ALL of their problems

[@timothymclean]

To be fair, conservatives are pretty good at convincing people that their plans are the solution to the problems people face. They show up to a burning building with a flamethrower and make arguments about fighting fire with fire...and maybe a few lies to grease the wheels. That's what politicians with marketing degrees can accomplish.

[@daviddiggens8841]

And the left creates the real ones. I guess your point is party politics are their own worst enemies. America consists of far left and not quite that far left. The moment there's a party that exists to limit government and promote individual liberty versus state over-reach and collectivism then perhaps that will change but it is not this day. Sad... I mean TRULY sad Trump is the closest we can get. Unless you like big government in which case hooray for that I guess. We live in dark times.

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

​@@daviddiggens8841the left doesn't create any of the real problems, they're the only side with common sense solutions to real problems. You don't know what you are talking about

[@metronicmagician1816]

Something that’s interesting about this show, especially when talking about the “leopards ate my face” aspect, is that the use of a gay character in this show is the exact use of a gay/minority character that conservatives hate. There’s the concept within modern media of inclusivity through quick one shot or one line spectacle character that can be completely removed if needed (and usually this does happen). Think the joke about Disney revealing their first ever gay character for the fifth time. It is a style of spectacle that is pretty loud and in your face yet also equally nothing, and something that can be cut out without any effort so the movie can be shown in countries far more homophobic than America. Now conservatives generally hate any queer/minority representation in media, but the way that this spectacle character works is so in your face and blatant since it’s trying to make sure you know it deserves your brownie points makes conservatives incredibly angry because it has to be so in their face. To be fair even left leaning people dislike this kind of representation since at best it’s a nothing character that is so inconsequential you could cut them out of the movie, and at worse it’s a literal trophy meant to be put on a shelf and ogled at while the people that put it up there pat themselves on the back for being good. It’s completely objectifying, and not actually representation. Now for this show, since its goal is to basically get more viewers to their platform while also propagandizing the daily wire’s ideology, it’s actively trying to appeal to a larger audience than just conservatives. Thus we get diversity so that everyone can at least find some character to grab onto. In this need to be perceived by everyone they must play the game of spectacle character since that is what these conservative board members and head producers view diversity as. Sadly all that’s going to do is enrage conservatives beyond all belief while not actually grabbing any non conservative viewer.

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

If the daily wire thought any gay people were going to watch their shows then they really are insane.

[@user-zz3sn8ky7z]

@@itcouldbelupus2842 ironically enough plenty do, it's somewhat popular in the trans community, ironically of course

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

@@user-zz3sn8ky7z how do you know this?

[@tinfoilslacks3750]

It's funny, them having to make their cast more diverse to gain more viewership flies in the face of their pundits' talking points in multiple ways. One, "woke hollywood" isn't brainwashing people with diversity, they're responding to market forces demanding more diversity. Two, their artistic vision/beliefs are being compromised by profit motives under capitalism.

[@SaberSin-mu4kt]

We get it you think black and gay people are gonna suck your toes if you keep talking on their behalf about diversity.

[@crassiewassie8354]

The firetruck family guy joke is pretty clever for having the ambulances play the role of hyennas The Friretruck will leave the leftovers as fire fighters deal with the actual threats and EMTs basically mop up.

[@jamie1602]

It takes comparing Family Guy to a bad show to realized they're really smart writers. That's a joke with a few layers. They're good.

[@kikiretzorg1467]

I was not expecting to see EMTs catching a stray in this comment section

[@doefarris2189]

​@@jamie1602Family Guy makes a lot more sense when you realize that they're in their, "we've got carte blanche to do whatever, let's see how far we can go before the studio/fcc tells us no" performance art Era.

[@habeashumor9814]

Everyone who votes conservative in the US or the UK wants things to be taken away from other people but not from them.

[@StarOutlaw9]

When you see every aspect of life as a competition, you start demanding everyone be categorized as a winner or a loser, with winners getting all the spoils. They assume they're always a winner, so therefore everyone else is a loser, so why the hell are they getting the same shit I'm getting? That's not fair. Not in their eyes.

[@joshuasadler5304]

Everyone who votes Democratic wants to force their ideologies on someone else, until somone forces their idealogies on them. Now I know that isn't true, but this is what happens when you paint with a broad brush.

[@globe0147]

That’s like every political group ever

[@unknownuser5895]

@@globe0147 I dunno man I just want everyone to be treated equally and have a decent standard of living.

[@globe0147]

@@unknownuser5895 you think anyone can offer that nowadays? Left or Right?

[@vietimports]

conservative media sphere is funny. daily wire made a gina carano movie where she played a strong, independent woman who defended her land. and the audience HATED it with the usual reasons of wokeness, powerful woman, etc... it probably affected her so much, and despite promises of riches from billionaire oligarch funded daily wire, she is threatening disney to give her her old job back. she couldnt even stick out the grfit for that long

[@OneEyeShadow]

That's just pathetic.

[@MistyDusker]

I can't see the appeal of conservative media for women unless they have hatred for themselves and other women. Reminds me of Contrapoints' video on Blaire White. You can try to be "one of the good ones" yet still be dehumanized and hated.

[@JezzaIsKing]

Lmao

[@ExpiditionWild]

This didn’t happen lmfao

[@rustomkanishka]

That woman made her bed, she just refuses to lie in it.

[@bouel2709]

19:06 I miss the days when conservationist, solcialists, centrists etc agreed in the simple statetement: "Nazis are not really good people" too Like I do not last a day without seeing a nazi post or someone sayinf that "Franco was not that bad" and/or that "we need another Civil War" (I am from Spain, we are in the pahse where our national Ben Shapiro (but the cheapest version) had created a political party and he can have a possibility of having sits in the Parlement, so... not that good)

[@theEumenides]

Regarding the savageness of the Tory tax cuts in the 2010s, from 2012-19 there were 300,000 "excess" deaths related to those austerity measures.

[@jamesrobbins1243]

Mr. Birchum is so bad, no one could possibly get a chuckle out of it. But one clip of Family Guy with the fire truck hitting the antelope with the ladder and I'm losing it! It keeps hitting with the ladder 😅

[@PillarofGarbage]

early family guy is overhated & I’ll die on that hill

[@chinclucker]

@@PillarofGarbage I haven't heard as much hate for early Family Guy as I have for an overabundance of cutaway gags or the newer stuff

[@WoobooRidesAgain]

@@PillarofGarbage I still think the Benjamin Disraeli gag was one of the funniest they ever did and also one of the funniest jokes I've ever seen on an animated show. "You don't even know who I _am._ "

[@HobGungan]

I hate to say it, but getting un-canceled was sort of the worst thing to happen to Family Guy? I think it would still be remembered overwhelmingly fondly as a cult classic, even if not all of it aged great. But since they came back a lot of it became way meaner and focusing on the wrong kinds of "popular" gags. Any time I catch it now I'm reminded both of why I used to love it and why I ultimately stopped watching.

[@onearmedbandit84]

@@PillarofGarbage I really have grown a new appreciation for the first four seasons in recent years, they've aged surprisingly gracefully. They don't really have the same issue as South Park in which pumping episodes out like a factory production on a weekly basis dates the episodes quite quickly. Imagine watching it alongside a person born after the year 2000 and trying to explain who Snookie is during the Jersey Shore episode.

[@wariodedede]

The whole anti woke crowd truly is pathetic. Everyone of them is so eagle eyed as to spot a poc or gay person because they think it'll ruin a show. Even in a show ostensibly made for their type, they aren't satisfied.

[@cyanthrope]

even when that show is actively making fun of the gay person! It's not enough for them, because the gay person existed in the show at all

[@Lazy-Lizard]

My father got mad at The Office because of Oscar lmao

[@SaberSin-mu4kt]

Yeah like how you spend every waking day of your life constantly obsessing over the existence of "POC" and "Gay" people and eyeballing every conceivable idea known to man and judging whether or not it's inclusive to progressives or if it's just literal fascism.

[@Boconnor401.]

I don’t think that’s what they try to say. I think it’s more like they don’t need unnecessary political messaging in your face or to change characters for whatever reason I think I don’t know

[@blank4227]

they're really good at spotting what they don't like and they aren't satisfied unless it's exactly what they want? what a criticism, yeah that's soooooo pathetic

[@zanehaythorn4140]

Great video that really hits the specific political anxiety I've developed as a queer person in the American South. Things get worse, particular for the lower class, but the response is always just to pick a new target. I'm not just worried because there's currently legislation specifically on the books targeting me, I'm worried doubly because I know it won't stop after that. Executions will continue until morale improves, as they say

[@spongecakes1986]

I'm not even in the south and I'm terrified

[@bunnerkins]

"Turkey's voting for Christmas" is nicely concise; imma use that.

[@BlueBeetle1939]

I knew this show was gonna be *WOKE* as soon as they canceled my favorite character Candy Owens!!1!

[@BlackTestament]

I desperately want this comment pinned immediately XD Edit: The Garbage himself liked his comment lol nice

[@Sim-sq2hu]

Owen Benjamin and Candice Owens should really have gotten married, just so he could take her name and be Owen Owens.

[@ArDeeMee]

Ah, yes, Candy Owens. Your friendly neighbor who always has some candy for the kids.

[@bleachboys3623]

I wish they brought in Our Girl Pearl to replace her. Maybe even A Guy Named Piers

[@lifeisadrag7705]

Candy Owens 😭

[@compareandcontrast9833]

In the words of Joker, "I'd laugh if it wasn't so pathetic.... Oh, what the heck I'll laugh anyway hahaha."

[@wisdommanari6701]

Return of the joker is Art

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

I love this. Thank you.

[@ArDeeMee]

Laugh or cry, your choice.

[@undead_corsair]

Conservatives saw the embarrassment of Velma and were like, "hold my bullshit."

[@arthas640]

If i didnt know better I'd swear they were made by some of the same people

[@SZvenM]

Good video. Instead of the obvious "hey guys, look! this unfunny show isn't funny", you actually said something meaningful here. Thank you.

[@obiwancanoli621]

Its funny to see them losing the culture war and failing to see WHY theyre losing

[@jamesonrosen1773]

Also they are the ones that started it, coined the term, and blasted it at their audience for over a decade now. They perpetuate it, antagonize it, and provoke it. They crave it. Love to hate it. They need it. Otherwise, they'd have to look at actual problems and that's hard.

[@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868]

the problem is that they're not losing. yes, their attempts at comedy, media, television, and social commentary/critique fall flat on their face but that's not actually a problem for them. for all intents and purposes, there is almost no difference between a show that succeeds that promotes their propaganda and a show that fails that does, both are equally useful from a narrative standpoint. not to mention the fact that their talking points take a second to say and longer to debunk. they say something short, quippy and wrong and then you have to give a detailed rebuttal, giving you the illusion of playing defense. classic strategy laid out in the now-classic alt-right playbook by Ian danskin

[@DoctorBiobrain]

The Culture War started in the 60’s and ended in the early 90’s with a resounding victory for Political Correctness. Everything since then has just been them gumming up the works for profit and political power, not winning. The last thing they want is a win. They just want to keep their suckers perpetually outraged. All the Daily Wire people under 55 are liberals who cosplay as rightwing Boomers because they hate other liberals and confuse contrarianism for edginess. That’s why Birchem has a black best friend as well as other nonwhite friends and a gay friend. And his wife is a career woman, his son is a gamer, and his stepdaughter wants to be like Birchem. And he never actually says anything offensive, it’s just lame gripes about how things have changed. I remember the 80’s when we routinely said things that would get this comment deleted if I posted them. Then we learned it was wrong and moved on with our lives. But rightwing millennials were children when the shift happened and don’t even know how “woke” they really are because it was part of their upbringing.

[@daviddiggens8841]

Sorry but which side is losing according to you. By every metric the left is losing but judging by this comment section you'd never know it

[@wyattmiller9539]

​@@daviddiggens8841Oh so there's metrics, now? Show them to me.

[@BestgirlJordanfish]

“Conservative comedy” is kinda just hate speech or trying to pick on people who care about anything. It’s like if south park had zero self awareness or comedy experience.

[@mattmorehouse9685]

And the difference is?

[@Targetstrike]

South Park makes fun of anyone doing anything stupid Mr. Birchum insults liberals when they do anything

[@vapx0075]

@@Targetstrike You have raised my appreciation for that potty mouth show.

[@Yelloweyedrobo]

That’s the main reason I can’t watch much South Park. South Park tries to play both sides but it does that by making fun of anyone who cares about anything, and it gets to a point where I wonder whether the show itself is worth caring about, but that’s just a personal response and I don’t hold anything against people who do like the show. Mr birchum takes what doesn’t work about South Park and runs with it, ending up with some deeply contradictory and confused line of logic. The show thinks that caring about things is stupid, but then makes exceptions for all the arbitrary things the writers care about. It’s not even subjectively questionable, it’s just an incredibly stupid stance to take all around

[@BestgirlJordanfish]

@@Yelloweyedrobo honestly yeah same. I was into it more when I was a stupid teenager, but as I get older I realize how kinda toothless its stances are now. South Park has political messaging, but milquetoast spineless “both sides” rhetoric and “if you care about people or things you’re stupid” storytelling

[@porgiwankenobi5668]

I think King of the Hill is a great example of what could be “conservative comedy”. But these days republicans would call Hank Hill a woke leftist because he’s not extremist enough for their modern politics.

[@HunterAnsorge-ok9jk]

that's because he says shit like "Guns are dangerous" when he has a dad like cotton.

[@liammcconnell9322]

@@HunterAnsorge-ok9jkproving the point but ok

[@HunterAnsorge-ok9jk]

@@liammcconnell9322 I wasn’t refuting the point

[@larissabrglum3856]

Wolves aren't even strictly carnivores, they'll eat any number of things that are available

[@dragonslair951167]

Ben Shapiro is learning what it means to push for the farthest-right politics possible and to be surrounded by people who usually desire those same politics- Nazis.

[@daraghokane4236]

He learned that Jedo Christians think Jews should go to hell for not being Christian so the team up with them is stupid

[@Some1inFNQ]

yeah ben, the anti semite's least hated semite.

[@tinfoilslacks3750]

Ben's ENTIRE grift is trying to cultivate non-antisemetic nazis, why do you think he's always throwing around nonsense terms like judeochristian trying to equate christians and jews?

[@joshuasadler5304]

Imagine that, almost as silly as democrats pushing as hard left as possible, and then being surprised that they are surrounded by communists. All the political parties have a certain extremism these days.

[@dreamfletcher779]

Is he though? Because I'm pretty sure if the time came that they bust down his door and dumped him in a camp, he'd be completely blindsighted. utterly astounded, baffled, dumbfounded, confused, disoriented

[@whypothetical]

5:33 this is also just a borderline 1:1 copy of a Futurama bit with a lion that eats tofu and that Futurama episode does a way better job at poking fun at liberal hippies than this abomination ever does.

[@bayardkyyako7427]

Because that show was written by people who actually know what they're talking about when it comes to science.

[@bestaround3323]

I mean you shouldn't have a vegan dog but it is technically possible to give them a vegan diet so long as it meets all the nutritional requirements. Definitely something you should talk with your vet about first though and not something you should try on your own. It is definitely more possible to have a vegan diet for a dog then a cat at least.

[@stm7810]

@@bestaround3323 yes, this is the actual reason for lab grown meat, humans should learn to love other foods, but cloned disease free painless muscle tissue is perfect for so many obligate carnivores.

[@vapx0075]

@@bestaround3323 Dogs are omnivores. Cats are obligate carnivores. The vegetable matter cats eat is from the stomachs of their victims and grass as a dinner mint.

[@bestaround3323]

@@vapx0075 Wolves are still carnivores just to be clear. I am only talking about domesticated dogs. I'm pretty sure it is because dogs were given grain and other plant products while they were actively domesticated. While cats were passively domesticated from hunting mice and other animals going after the stored grain.

[@rickrand8041]

I've never been so desperate to win an argument in the shower that I thought making a cartoon series out of me doing it was a good idea.

[@CaptainPrincess]

I have but then Im massively insecure so

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

"I have ZERO tolerance for the LGBTQ stuff!" Ma'am, we heard your accent, you don't have to repeat yourself...

[@ashrog82]

If you want to watch this show, but good, it's called King of the Hill. Hank, and much of the main cast, has small town, conservative values. But they don't hate "the wokes" or "the left", they just don't always understand them.

[@dillydraws]

Funny enough right wing people call that show woke.

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

​@@dillydrawseverything good is woke

[@ashrog82]

@@dillydraws Sure, because it's about right-wing people being forced to confront their biases instead of just having them confirmed.

[@Maelstromme]

That show represents a conservatism that’s long dead.

[@hadesedits1501]

​@@dillydrawswhy? For what?

[@SomethingWellesian]

Huh I didn’t know Leopards Ate My Face was posted in reference to a specific event.

[@FuzzballStudios]

Can I just point out that wolves are omnivores? Like, they shouldn’t be vegans, obviously. But they technically don’t qualify as carnivores; they’ll eat anything.

[@Doc_Fun]

"Tax-raising elitist" is one of those phrases that just makes you sit down in shock for a bit

[@lulairenoroub3869]

"They're not neo nazis" yes they are. I don't care that they reject the label. They are. That's what they are doing

[@LadyDoomsinger]

How does the old saying go? "If you are at a table with 8 Nazis - there are 9 Nazis at the table."

[@daraghokane4236]

@@LadyDoomsinger Listne Jack bipartanship we have to compermise with these people, If we let them invade Poland they will stop and not invade Russia that is my red line But ill never give up on Germany

[@PillarofGarbage]

I'm not saying they're not akin to neo-nazis in many ways - I just think, especially in a video like this, it's important to be precise & keep in mind the (largely anti-semitic) specifics of nazism beyond the broader 'genocidal fascism'.

[@brook_angel]

​​@@PillarofGarbageyou don't need to be antisimetic to be a neo nazi if you check most if not all of the other boxes. That's the bit with the leopards. You can be one AND Jewish if you believe the leopards will spare your face.

[@alyssa7867]

Thet are the Association of German National Jews.c

[@burgerpocalypse5310]

im so anti woke, im writing this while asleep zzz

[@dreamfletcher779]

so THAT'S why their comedy is so tired and boring

[@Malidictus]

What baffles me is the people who staunchly believe they are being apolitical while constantly talking politics. Like deliberately excluding from fiction people and ideas whose politics you don't like is apolitical. "I don't have a problem with gay people existing, as long as they're only allowed to exist where I can't see them." That's not apolitical. That's what homophobia looks like.

[@alexhautot3142]

That's because they view anything that deviates from what they believe to be "political" without understanding that their own view point, is in fact also political. They lack the self reflection to understand what is normal to them might not be normal to other people.

[@iliakatster]

The joke is "this thing is annoying to me, therefore violence" haha

[@EtruskenRaider]

God, the vegan carnivore gag was done 20 years ago by Futurama when they taught a lion to eat tofu. That show got more laughs out of a single cough that the entirety of the Daily Wire.

[@Vapourwear]

*dry cough*

[@fabdragon2071]

Remember when we were discussing how to afford universal healthcare 8 years ago.

[@garrettmetting6938]

The fight for universal healthcare is a much older fight my friend

[@LadyDoomsinger]

I don't remember a time when people weren't pretending to discuss universal healthcare and doing nothing about it.

[@fabdragon2071]

@@LadyDoomsinger yeah and yet unlike any other debate, it wasn't even a conversation.

[@garrettmetting6938]

@@LadyDoomsinger if the dems dont have 60 senators Republicans will just filibuster and block the vote like how they have been grid locking congress for 20 years

[@bensmith8682]

More like “how much more can we force the government to intervene into people’s lives”

[@angryretailbanker5103]

7:13 Really? BEN SHAPIRO-the failed Hollywood scriptwriter responsible for Run, Hide, Fight and that prairie movie that only made $700 globally-is going to lecture about the reasons why he thinks the Agatha Christie-inspired murder mystery Glass Onion is poorly written? Here, I’ll spoil his reasonings for you without ever watching his video: The main character is gay, Edward Norton’s character is a take-that against Elon Musk, a black woman comes out on top and is portrayed as intelligent, and there aren’t enough jokes making fun of trans people.

[@Fragenzeichenplatte]

Well, that mother may be poor and being lied to but she voted based on being self-centered. She didn't care what happens to the country, she wanted to save money. She claims to want to help her children but did she? No, she made the life of her children worse. She voted conservative all this time and she didn't care what they did and who they harmed because she wasn't affected. I feel empathy because she is clearly struggling but it's hard to feel sympathy when how she voted harmed her.

[@tristanband4003]

The sad thing? Adam Carolla created the character for Crank Yankers to make fun of the political right. Now he's playing the character straight. So it's not really funny.

[@saliv88]

What IS funny is him thinking it’d be funny.

[@MrNed269]

Carolla was doing the Mr. Birchum character on local radio years before Crank Yankers went on the air. It was originally just a comedic persona and had nothing to do with politics.

[@fcon2123]

Adam Carolla has been a dick for over 20 years. I honestly never understood how anyone ever found him funny.

[@blixer8384]

This isn't even the first time this has happened to the Daily Wire; back when they made Terror on the Prairie that too was decried as "woke" for having a female protagonists.

[@LadyDoomsinger]

To be fair, when you decide everything is woke, it gets rather hard to make non-woke content. The term lost all meaning years ago.

[@MistyDusker]

DailyWire knows diversity casts are good for marketing yet still criticize it and utilize it themselves. Their nonsensical ideology has trapped them in a corner with their audience.

[@HotDogTimeMachine385]

Remember that their CHILDREN'S programme "bentkey" is named after a nsfw joke, admitted to by Jeremy Boring himself.

[@Dooley13]

“the point of hard work is that it’s WORK and it’s HARD” has GOT to be satire and i fucking refuse to accept otherwise

[@HelloHuman1]

It’s honestly terrifying to see so many people use other people a catalyst for their discontent. They are held together by hate and when their is no one left to hate they turn inward on themselves to survive. It’s an easy excuse to justify why the feel wronged by the world rather then better adapting to the world they live in.

[@HelloHuman1]

The leopards eat their own faces when they are done eating others

[@carolineholland5841]

Exactly!

[@daelen.cclark]

@@HelloHuman1 Stupid leopards don’t know how to look into themselves…

[@vapx0075]

The skillset to take the mountain isn't the same skillset to hold that mountain. Makes me think of Napoleon. This the same reason entrepreneurs end up selling their business after the start up phase. It's not good to be freaking out as a Mode of Being.

[@RedCaio]

This is why they don't like any movie. Any praise is just meant to bash another movie they're pitting it against.

[@tonoornottono]

the vegan wolf in family guy would either try to eat meat and fail because he’s so morally disturbed by it, or he’d have a conversation with the deer, or he’d eat a plant and throw up everywhere and another wolf would say “that’s poison ivy” and he’d say “i’m not a human nobody taught me plants!” and he’d start crying. i know that doesn’t sound funny on paper but i think it would be.

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

It would be funny if the last one became a recurring character.

[@yoursonisold8743]

No problem, Family Guy isn't funny either.

[@undeadfrak]

Or they would have the joke be about a pack of wolves hunting soy lattes (or something like that) through the forest. It could have worked because of the absurdity of it, but it still wouldn't have been a good joke.

[@tonoornottono]

@@yoursonisold8743 it has its moments. the cutaway of the guy watching madagascar in his jeep is one of the funniest clips of any show i can think of.

[@animeotaku307]

@@undeadfrakStill funnier than what Birchum did

[@AzarathMetreon]

12:20 “They have every tv show, why can’t they give us just one??” Oh honey, you mean like the last century of popular media? Poor thing 🥲

[@scotrick3072]

This times a thousand. - It's like how giving a woman breast implants so that she can feel more hetero isn't seen as anyway being trans, how the 'hetero' program, um, I dunno even what to call it, as I'm a fish and the ocean surrounds me... anyway, how kids are awash in the hetero princess pink army boy world, and how that world is shoved down everyone's existence, and still? Some people manage to not be that. Almost as if media doesn't control our souls, no matter how much it would be convenient for marketers if that were true.

[@davidplantz2112]

Anti-woke entertainment feels like taking the strategy and motives behind Christian rock and applying it to… uhh… everything.

[@van-hieuvo8208]

I swear anyone identifying with conservative ideology has never had to suffer its ramifications and just want to fuck over people who have.

[@EmmaLaBunn]

Or they're people who think "I suffered through bad stuff, so everybody else should as well."

[@ldcg106]

That applies to both conservatives and liberals; frankly, both parties are pretty 💩

[@sid1gen]

@@ldcg106 Ah, yes, bothsidism, because of course they are both bad: one takes away women's bodily autonomy and makes them legally inferior to men; the other wants universal health care. See? Equally bad!

[@hyperx72]

@@ldcg106 I'd say not being shot or enslaved for being a different color is a pretty big win for liberal ideology...

[@ldcg106]

@@hyperx72 That's a big win for morality in general, not some petty ideology. On a similar note, may I refer you to the Dahomey or the slaves on Africa’s Barbary Coast?

[@lazyhammerwieldingpenguin2247]

I actually think this show is really well done, In the way a burger or a steak is well done. It's an absolute waste of effort, and it needs to be thrown out.

[@saucymongoose7246]

😂

[@cosmicspacething3474]

That's an insult to well done Burgers!

[@TheHumanPurpleTape]

@@cosmicspacething3474 I thnk the call's coming from inside the house on that one.

[@TheHumanPurpleTape]

This is funnier than most of the "comedy" writing I've been assaulted by for the past few years. 10/10

[@TheHumanPurpleTape]

@@SorowFame I meant the burger comment, not the show. Get your comprehension up.

[@PauLtus_B]

I wish the "leopards ate my face" joke didn't hold truth to it. But in the Netherlands I see people increasingly vote right wing blaming the left on problems (while the left hasn't had political power in ages) and then when you ask what they hope to gain from it it's very often some left wing point. It'd be a relative utopia if people actually voted for the parties whose agenda would actually contain what they want, but they just seem to vote on some vague anti-elitist aesthetic.

[@yannickgrignon2473]

I always find it really funny how there's this brand of mainstream conservative who really really wants to make right-wing politics more appealing through stuff like this, and try to distance themselves from the "fringe minority" of right-wingers - they don't or at least don't publicly hate minorities and the LGBTQ community, they claim to espouse universally-positive ideas like hard work and dedication, try to make fiscally conservative politics seem reasonable and logical, etc - and they are universally hated by their own fellow right-wingers, who are far, far more far gone on average then the mainstream would like to admit.

[@EK24z]

If I were doing a Vegan Wolf cutaway, it'd probably be a lot more similar to the Fire Truck cutaway with the beats of: - Narrator discusses the might of the Vegan Wolf before cutting to a starved-to-death wolf carcass on the forest floor. - Treats a piece of fruit falling from a nearby tree as "prey," ramping up the intensity of the music like you'd see with a predator on a hunt. - Something else either eats the fruit or knocks it so it rolls downhill, and the narration/music plays a sad sting and talks about how the wolf will need to "try again later." - Throughout, lots of cinematic camera angles and closeups of the (in)action. Play into what the joke is parodying and the expand upon the absurdity of the premise rather than treating the premise itself as the punchline.

[@cyanthrope]

mmh, premise as punchline does seem to be the right's entire playbook

[@kami_in_the_skye]

Congratulations. You are officially funnier than every conservative in existence.

[@Vesperitis]

I didn’t know the Leopard Face Eating Party thing had an origin in the recent past. I thought it’d be older, but then again I’m not even that surprised, which is doubly tragic.

[@mellowthm566]

Yeah I'm getting hit with the Mandela effect cuz i remember it in 2011 said by multiple friends. But it could also be more of a Shakespeare thing where that tweet was the first person to use a already used phrase in an iconic public way. Lots of the words Shakespeare supposedly invented were more along these lines than his strictly original invention. Entomology is a scary rabbit hole 😅 so I'm just gonna stick with the tweet rather than hunt down 2010s web comics and forum posts.

[@vapx0075]

The 'concept' isn't new, just the exact term 'leopards' wasn't in the lexicon when I was a kid.

[@frocco7125]

@@vapx0075 Leopards weren't invented yet?

[@homotheticwren]

@@mellowthm566 Insects can certainly be terrifying, but in this case, the word you’re probably looking for is etymology. Easy mistake to make.

[@mellowthm566]

@@homotheticwren didn't even notice with my autofill on. Considering the meaning of the word that's kinda funny to misspell, I'll leave it unless I/someone can make it into a pun.

[@Galdenberry_Lamphuck]

If a "everything is woke now" person saw casablanca id think theyd lose their brainworms

[@lunarumbreon7699]

I gotta love how Mr.Birchum’s Navy friends exist solely so conservatives could point at them and go “see I’m not racist/homophobic, I like this black/asian/hispanic/gay character” and then conservatives completely turned on it and proved that they actually ARE just racist/homophobic

[@mrmoment6061]

the daily wire really went "i never expected.." about their pandering to phobic people and not having them show up and hate those same people their afraid and disgusted by

[@jasonguarnieri4127]

Mr. Birchum is the gay icon the right deserves.

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

Poor Matt Walsh...

[@TheSpeep]

"Well they havent eaten my face yet"

[@sperglord3825]

Politics all aside, I’m genuinely confused about what we’re supposed to like about the main character. One of the things that stands out the most is how he casually mocks and belittles his son in front of others, in an attempt to help him “man up”. Yes this behavior is seen in other adult cartoons, such as Bojack Horseman and F is for Family, but it’s depicted in a much more negative light, as it should. Good writing has characters with flaws, but it feels like the writers are about as misguided as Birchum himself.