You’re
STILL Wrong
Aug 2018
or
That’s Not Funny
That’s Not Funny
Q.
How
many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A.
That’s not funny
--old
joke
Q.
How
many….
A.
You’re defending nazis and racists, how could you do that?
--new
joke
If
an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long
enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to
Adolf Hitler or his deeds. When a Hitler comparison is made, the
thread is finished and whoever made the comparison loses whatever
debate is in progress.
--old
Godwin’s law
I’m
sorry, I was being a nazi when I made my law. Of course, you can
compare anything to a nazi and you’ll be right. Excuse my former
fascistness. Yes, they're all nazis. Don't hurt me now, okay?
--Godwin’s
law, revised by Godwin 2018
It’s
funnier than a priest with a woody. Internet cartoons showing Trump
and Putin kissing… the Russian bear fucking Donny T up the wazoo…
more
homo imagery than gaytube.com… How about Trump holding hands with a
shirtless Putin?
The
hidden meaning behind it? Trump and Putin are bad guys doing the
nasty… How disgusting, right?.... But funny, right?
So
far, I haven’t seen any objection… They love it… even the
homos! Ironic that these images-- all reflecting negatively on
homotude… are embraced by the same people who champion “gay
rights.” I guess everybody knows doing homo things is funny when
people you don’t like do them.
Steven
Colbert can talk on TV about Trump sucking Putin’s cock… like
that’s a bad thing! Oy… maybe it’s the cheese smell... maybe it
tastes like caviar... I don’t know… It doesn't make ME laugh. But
I AM enjoying the irony, given that Steven Colbert is Mr. Liberal.
Unfortunately,
there’s not much more to enjoy. The cliché is that truth
is the first casualty of war.
Actually, humor
and irony
are the first casualties of Internet wars.
Humor
and irony used to be good. They were two of the key ingredients in
making punkrock… well… punkrock.
Beat
on the brat… beat on the brat… beat on the brat with a baseball
bat...” --Ramones
Oh
no! Advocating child abuse. Lock ‘em up. They couldn’t get away
with that in 2018!
The
sun beams down on a brand new day, no more welfare tax to
pay
Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light
Jobless millions whisked away, at last we have more room to play
All systems go to kill the poor tonight
Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light
Jobless millions whisked away, at last we have more room to play
All systems go to kill the poor tonight
Gonna
kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor tonight
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor tonight
-Dead
Kennedys
Kill
the poor? How awful! The poor need our help… our compassion… we
should be killing the rich! What’s the matter with you? And Dead
Kennedys???
How could you call yourself that? The Kennedys were DEMOCRATS!
Back
to the Internet:
From
my experience, average facebook users are between 40 and 60 years
old... mostly with college degrees. The split is pretty even between
men and women. Facebook is also where humor is most lost… and irony
just about disappears. (Actually, irony is more present than ever...
examples to come. It is the perception
and
appreciation
of
irony that has disappeared… rather than the irony itself.) Lately,
censorship has incredibly increased on the platform with most of my
friends spending time in facebook
jail...
for facebook crimes and misdemeanors.
The
twitter®
community has a bit wider age spread, though no less censorship than
facebook. Similar irondectomies are performed there... though in
shorter messages.
Is
it that the middle-agers have lost their sense of humor or that the
millenials never had it to start with? The answer is:
YES!
Someone
complains on facebook that Mykel
Board supports racists and white supremacists... and he’s a gay
Jew! (I’m
glad, at least, that the guy knew that racists and white supremacists
were not the same.)
I
reply, “I am a Jew, but I’m not gay.” “However,” I joke,
“most of the guys I’ve had sex with are gay.”
Do
I even get a laughing emoji in reply? You bet your Antifa I don’t.
The answer comes. “Tell that to them when they come for you to take
you to the camps, Mykel. To them, you’re just a gay Jew. They don’t
get the fine distinctions on the way to the ovens.”
(The
old) Godwin would be giggling in his grave... if he were dead.
Bad
enough… but the guy who writes this used to write for Maximum
Rock’n’Roll!
I shit you not. I won’t give you his name because I don’t want to
cause him any problems…. and I like him. But I can’t resist the
irony in someone who’s known me for 30+ years missing the humor and
talking about concentration camps instead.
But
wait, there’s more. The irony doesn’t end there.
Donny
Trump says he doesn’t trust the CIA to tell him the truth about
Russia. Millennials and baby boomers answer by calling Trump a
traitor.
Some of these are people who-- during the Vietnam War-- were shouting
Ho
Ho Ho Chi Minh, the NLF is gonna win.
And now they’re shouting traitor?
In
the 60s and 70s, they rightly hated the murderous lying CIA, FBI and
War Department. But now they’re complaining that Trump doesn’t
trust those SAME sources of fake information. That’s stand-up
comedy material! Too bad they’ll never get the joke. But the irony
doesn’t end there.
In
a very perceptive facebook post, the poster writes:
The
demonization of Putin and the unquestioning acceptance of what is
said about him in the Western media resemble a kind of mass hysteria.
Under closer inspection he will be seen to have brought Chechnya back
from the Islamist abyss (where else has this been accomplished?),
restored integrity to public services in Russia (with a concomitant
rise in life expectancy after the Yeltsin horror years), taught the
Georgian psychopath Saakashvili
a lesson when he attacked his northern neighbor (yet without
shattering the Georgian state in the process as he could have), and
helped the government of Syria stave off a jihadist uprising designed
to eliminate its multi-confessional nature and reduce it to chaos.
And all the while he has had to lead the resistance to the NATO
encirclement of Russia that began in the Clinton years and then
gathered steam under successive American presidencies, culminating in
Obama's coup d'etat in Kiev. It's no wonder that Putin is popular
with his people, despite the hardships they have had to endure
because of the American sanctions (which the Eurodrones have
dutifully followed).
Okay,
you can agree or disagree with that, but where’s the humor… or
the irony? Well, the writer of that passage is
Thomas
Yohannon… yep, the brother of Tim Yohannon (RIP) original editor of
(you guessed it) Maximum
Rock’n’Roll. Here
he is, fighting the regressive mainstream left, with some of the same
players from 30+ years ago-- but now THOSE PLAYERS are on the same
side as the CIA!
But
wait, there’s more…
In
a discussion of Trump and the Russians vs the CIA, someone asks
Where’s
Lee Harvey Oswald when we need him?
“It
wasn’t Oswald,” I joke. “It was the CIA.”
I’m
sure you’ve guessed there was no laughing emoji in response.
“Conspiracy theory, Mykel. Completely bogus stuff, planted to
discredit the CIA.”
Discredit
the CIA?????? Hahahahahahahahaha
The
sad part is that the only laughter I hear these days is little kids
teasing one another or adults laughing without irony… at “jokes”
that
aren't funny but, they
politically agree with. Trump
sucks Putin’s cock.
Hahaha, “Trump and Putin… it’s a bromance made in hell.”
Hahahaha. “Q. How many Trumps does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. Vlad Putin” Hahahahahahahaha.
Jezus fuckin’ Christ! Kill me now!
Jezus fuckin’ Christ! Kill me now!
No.
Don’t! Really. I was only kidding. Honestly, it was a joke. Please
don’t kill me.
-end-
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Moron
Russia Dept:
Among the current (2017) Darwin Award winners are a Russian
couple.
In a tale of Russian intelligence--or lack of it—a millennial
pair kicked the bucket while screwing in the back seat of their SUV.
With the car located near a beautiful lake, the couple moved to the
back seat to… er… make themselves more comfortable. "Located"
rather than "parked" because the vehicle transmission was
in neutral. The rocking motions of the passengers caused the small
SUV to roll into the lake and below the waterline. The 22-year-old
man and woman drowned.
For
those unfamiliar with the
Darwin Awards…
they are given annually to people who help clean the gene pool by
accidentally killing themselves doing something really
stupid.
→
Future
Darwin Award Winner? dept:
In Teesside, England, 22-year-old Jordan Easton of Thornaby was at
the home of a friend, hanging out in the kitchen. He boasted that his
vest was "stab-proof." To prove it, he "took hold a
knife to demonstrate," testified Karin Welsh, Teesside assistant
coroner, "and sadly realized it wasn't the case."
Easton
was rushed to the hospital, but did not survive the ordeal. Police
found no evidence Easton “intended to harm himself” and only died
after "a boisterous act." The official cause of death was
recorded as a "misadventure."
→More
sad irony dept:
During the Vietnam war, Daniel Ellsberg was treated as a hero by
those of us who opposed the war. What did he do? He stole the
Pentagon
Papers,
which proved a US Army/CIA conspiracy to cover up US actions in
Southeast Asia.
Now,
we have Julian Assange… a new Daniel Ellsberg. His Wikileaks have
exposed the rigged Democratic primary, how the CIA and Apple
colluded, and how the US Army targeted civilians during the Iraqi
war. He, too, is a hero.
By
the time you read this, he’ll be in jail, extradited from an
Ecuador embass His incarceration will likely be cheered by the same
people who called Ellsberg a hero. I guess Assange is a traitor. (Oh,
the irony!)
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LINK
TRADE DEPARTMENT:
I
read that the search engines like lots of links... and it's also nice
to support my friends... and enemies... in their blogs. So facebook
me or email
me
if you have a blog, webpage or something else to connect to. I add
you. You add me.
Here's
a start:
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David Goldberg's Busy Microbes Blog
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And another Goldberg: goldberg.wordpress.com
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I post a blog for Kyle Nonnemon, in prison for a ton of shit. He's a smart guy, with a passion for industrial metal and a general detestation of humankind. You can read his blog at: apothelema.blogspot.com
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Poetry and humor fans will like Justin Martin in The Latency
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And my friend Mike R has a nice site with recipe hits from the past! (He cooked for me once... great stuff.) Check out Yesterday's Recipes.
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Savage Hippie is a guy who has been YouTubing for a long time. Our opinions largely overlap... but he complains that I'm a Communist. I'm not! I'm a communist.
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Chris Stecher publishes a zine called PRECIS. You can see the back issue links there... and he promises a new issue soon.
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And my long-term pal Sid Yiddish contributes with his Mishegas Master Blog.
CONTACT
REDUX: You can contact me on facebook
or by email at god@mykelboard.com.
Through the post office: send those... er... private DVDs..or music
or zines... or anything else (legal only!) to: Mykel Board, POB 137,
New York, NY 10012-0003. If you like my writing, you can be notified
when anything new is available. Subscribe to the MYKEL'S READERS
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