The Darkness | ContraPoints 

This is a big mood.

*yes*

Both are pretty good at getting your feelings out

she’s RIGHT though

shirt plz

I hate to tell you this, but we _all_ have a rope around our necks, and Time is the one that pulls the lever.

That's it!

@@vaylonkenadell Congrats on AllLivesMatter'ing comedy.

I hadn't heard that one before. I like it.

@@vaylonkenadell Opression is not a competition. The horrors that native people faced does not erase the suffering of trans people.

Your grandpa is the exact type of man I hope I am remembered as

omg, total f’ing legend, i love it.

mad lad

My great grandmother was dying of complications from type one diabetes and I was going to do the Macarena for my elementary school’s talent show. She wanted to see me dance and I remember crying my eyes out while dancing the Macarena. I haven’t been able to come up with a joke about that yet but it’s in there somewhere.

@@elenas3571 im so sorry but thats so funny

Thank you for making me laugh! :D

@@cacamilis8477 happy too

Brilliant!! I shall equip myself with this. Thank you

That actually made me bust out laughing.

Fuck, that got me. I ugly laughed at that, thank you

I have a close friend who only voted for Trump so he could "watch the world burn". He's an asshole.

Not if you're willing to start with yourself. Destroy the world but makes sure you go with it

@@arlostein1000 If you're willing to start with yourself then you'd be dead before your fire spreads, so you wouldn't be able to watch it. Ironically you have to be selfless to burn the world.

Ampz14 that's why it's dumb nihilism not the useful intriguing Ligotti sense of nihilistic philosophy

@@arlostein1000 Isn't Ligotti's point that life is pain and is therefore not worth existing?

My friend had his leg amputated due to cancer. I was very close with him during the time he was going through that. Never before or after, have I heard that much dark humor about something so genuinely scary. I understand it better thanks to this video. He still likes to mess with people, though not as darkly. When asked what happened to his leg, he says things like "I didn't eat my veggies."

That is the most dad thing to say

That is one of the most best dad jokes lmao

Remembers man a man I met at a beach that was playing soccer despite having one leg, I took that as a learning opportunity, we started talking and he just said: " I can do whatever anyone with two legs does.....except riding a scooter “ He then proceeded to laughing at my face for 10 minutes...and that was the actual learning opportunity.

I love your dad.

This

God all I want is the right to achieve the same level of disappointment and misery as all the cis people in this society. :(

I always answer, "You can have surgery to change your sex from one to another, but you can't have surgery to become military aircraft. Our medical science hasn't quite reached that level of cyberpunk, yet! You'd need full body cyborgization, like Robocop or Inspector Gadget+ Transforming Mecha technology, like the Transformers cast, lol! Now, that'd be awesome!! I'd be a post-op cyborg transwoman, who turns into a robot helicopter. I'd go from a Janet Jackson lookalike to Blue Thunder, in a a jiffy!

@@darlalathan6143 this is fubking hilarious and is the only correct response lmao

@@imaginarypluto6719 thanks projector

Sometimes i think about a darker version of this where a song starts of cute and innocent and then takes a really dark turn

that's very friggin interesting 😲 I'll have to look that up

huh ive done something kinda like this to get me out of annoying moods-- like if im being irrationally angry at something ill put metal on for a bit until shuffle serves me up some lighter fare and i end up in a better mood at the end of it!

that's super cool! is it like, an already existing music or it's created for that purpose?

HEY this is very specific, could I hear any thoughts you have on Dave Malloy's Octet? It's about a support group for internet addiction and is very raw about presenting the patients as they are, expressing what's going on in their heads rather than where they "should be"

I uh, I prefer grape juice honestly. It's sweet and tastes like purple

Mmm purple! One of my favourite flavours.

@@thebigpicture2032 Hell yeah! Purple flavor is probably what it tastes like when God bleeds

ok but which grape juice, kedem is ok but welches is much better

I think a better analogy is edgy=boonze farm

Still, I think Christopher Nolan's joker would be able to do both at the same time. The internet's edgy people, probably not.

My favorite part comes right after, "the darkness is being able to laugh about being on fire".

it's such a great quote

Amen

Because in the 2020s we know life is not just "kinda" bad.

@NoLaJoe Everything that's happened thus far is going to lag over into 2021; the pandemic will still be at large, the economy will still likely be in recession, political tensions are not likely to cool down for a while, and of course, people will likely still be suffering from the collective trauma of 2020. But it'll hopefully bring a step in the right direction.

Those times were not to last unfortunately. Not necessarily accusing you of this, but a lot of people feel 2020 was some sort of aberration or result of serious misfortune and so dearly wish for things to return to "normal". But it is that "normal" which got us here. With the arrangement of our global society, our current zeitgeist under late-stage capitalism & neoliberal economics. We've been heading down this road for a long time.

@@MrOzzification Too true! It's just that after so much ickiness leading up to 2020, when shit really started to hit the fan we SAW and FELT everything that had been building up for a loooooong time. It wasn't just a theory, or something behind the scenes. It was more visceral. A shared group experience or trauma. In fact, as much as it sucked and still sucks... It could end up leading to some good. (Note: I am in NO way saying covid-19 is a good thing. I'm not happy about people suffering and dying.) Sometimes things have to get really bad to inspire people to change and get that pendulum swinging in the opposite direction. Maybe Donald Trump would have won again had we not all suffered so much and desperately wanted change. Maybe if 2019 was as bad, more people would have been ready for Grandaddy Bernie! Or maybe this is just what I tell myself in some deaperate Pollyanna-type of delusion that all this garbage better have happened for some kind of reason, some kind of change, something that will eventually be good and better than it was before. Here's hoping!

2019: life is "kinda bad." 2020/21 HELL IS EMPTY AND ALL THE DEMONS ARE HERE.

That’s funny

That's Genius

I might have seen a cis person make a good joke (because I assume it was a cis person, but they might have been trans…) and it was “mtf bottom surgery could be called ‘ding-dong ditch’”.

​@@phastinemoonbwuahahaha omfg

I wish D-day wasn't taken by the awful historical date but I'm pretty sure someone much funnier can make that history context work 😂

I love Stewart Lee's facetious anti-Islamic standup routine: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wOb2KQHr7V0.html

Also a fan of Dara, so it's nice to see the overlap of audiences here.

„Neither do you.“ How would he know?

@@worraz9687 Maybe because he looket into the room, saw 99% pasty white people and just assumed that they still spell it Shakira Law?

Stewart Lee: "Did you know that one in two spokespeople for the Islamic community in Britain is in fact the leader of a special interest community group given ideas above its station by misguided new Labour policies?" *silence* "[...] That's the best joke about Islam anyone's ever done. It was even-handed, it was well-researched, it's what you *say* you want. 'Not like that Stu. We meant, make fun of their hats.'"

While I loved the whole video, "Get your own darkness" was the one line that actually caused me to laugh outwardly. Which, I mean, laughter is for sharing, so to elicit an audible response when I'm the only awake person in the house...

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You know it's all written (scripted) for her, right? 🍃

@@rabbits.plinketty-plink.1276 Yes, so what? She does it by herself.

@@lux6058 Okaay, lol. Defensive much!?! Read her credits at the end of most, if not all of her vids. You're acting like I had a go at her, yet I was just stating facts.

@@rabbits.plinketty-plink.1276 It's just a unnecessary comment.

Raped and now he's gay

Occasionally my kid and I will get into a public conversation about something potentially triggering, and they say "Let's stop, you can't TW a conversation."

@@kidlitfanful they, thank mutant mother.

yes! i feel bad because i am a survivor and my r*pe jokes do not punch down, and that's why i think they're funny.

I think this is a very important message that everybody should keep in mind

That's a great quote, I'll have to remember that.

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Awesome comment, agree 100%.

As an ~~ autistic ~~ I can relate to the point Nanette raises about humiliation being a necessary evil just to be allowed to speak in public. I had a bad experience recently where I revealed my autism in discourse and was reminded of how painfully easy the mainstream will dismiss you if you approach them in an indigestible format. I had been trying to sort my feelings on the matter and it felt cathartic to be reminded by other marginalized people that the problem wasn't with me, nor even how I approached the conversation, but with how my syndrome is institutionally stigmatized.

Right with you on the disability shit. Just today I made a couple friends uncomfortable by simultaneously calling myself a cripple and wedging the conversation into a point where the only possible replies were problematic. Honestly it's kind of been my mood lately.

​@@BlargleRagequit If you don't mind, I have serious question which you may be able to answer: Since when is the word "cripple" a slur? Because as far as I'm aware, throughout at least a thousand years of english language, that word was the normal and even formal way to designate someone who lost part of their bodily functions. "That man was crippled during the Vietnam war." is a sentence a doctor would say. The word can also be applied to concepts instead of humans, like for example, staying in a military context:"If this ambush is succesful, that will cripple their offense and ensure our victory". Cripple is the word that says: "the subject we're talking about is no longer at 100% of their capacity." Now, I get that the phrase "persons in need of assistance" fits better, because some people can be in need of assistance, not because their capabilities are reduced, but because they already have a lot on their plate (ex: pregnant women), I'm only questioning the idea that the word cripple is a slur. When did that happen? Who decided that?

@@Arkalidor not the person you asked but as a "super-ultra-mega-disabled+" person don't find the word "cripple" a slur or offensive. It is however potentially misleading or incorrect in the context brought up here. When you think of a cripple you often think of someone like me who is missing parts of their body (in my case i was born with my right arm ending just below the elbow) and not necessarily someone with a "metal disorder". While it might not be incorrect to say someone with Autism (hello again) is "crippled" you could probably see why some people might take offense to it here. Cripple, or handicapped, is (for me) the proper way to designate someone who lost part of their "outer" bodily functions but things related to the brain might not gall under here. Ultimately it comes down to semantics for me but i'd love to here what other people have to say. Hopefully i answered your question but should something still feel unclear please ask and i'll do my best to answer! And don't feel like a question is in ill taste or whatever - i rather you ask so you can be informed than carry on uninformed just because you didn't want to offend C:

@@Arkalidor Bruh, it's pretty simple. There's being crippled And there's being a cripple. There's being black And there's being a black. Basically anything can be a legitimate slur with intent and context. Calling someone a cripple is derogatory to their existence being different (possibly interpreted as 'inferior' from the person saying it's point of view). Saying someone is crippled is describing their situation, likely in a neutral and descriptive way.

I don't really like throwing around "narcissism" the way it's being used. There are people who suffer from narcissistic personality disorder who are affected by the way "narcissist" is used.

That's really interesting to think about but I don't think that really resolves the questions in this video. The point that everyone has unique experiences that can never really he understood relates to the question of dark humor how? Saying that you shouldn't joke about things outside of your single individual experience doesn't resolve it

@@katatat2030 The original point still stands. You can understand and sympathise with the plight of others, through empathy. And that may mean you can make comedy (even dark comedy) that is not offensive. It's not the standard though. The standard is to make dark comedy about topics comics like Gervais do not understand, and portray the people he's making fun of as delusional and overly sensitive. It's not the same thing, and this brand of bad humour really stems from a total lack of understanding about the subject being joked about

Leaving a reply so I can find this again later.

@@chrisstoltz3648 it works the other way around for me sometimes... after cumming during a depressive episode i feel really empty and after a good crying session lol i feel kinda fine like you can't physically cry for a really long time and there is some point where you stop and relax

Especially if you take certain meds. lol I was on meds since I was 15 until recently (around 25) and man, I never knew what it actually felt like all that time. Lol

"Crying is like an orgasm" Hard to get to, and easier alone

@@mothboy9137 Spot the fuck on

the same can't be said about his own gender definition

You're funny

*laugh* "Hyphenated" was my take on it. And there's a Lesbian comedian here in Germany who calls it "ver-stempelt", in English roughly "be-stamped" as in an official rubber stamp put on something. Very funny.

Most gay people I've been around are fine with a little self deprecating humour. It does bother some people in the community though so I try to keep it among friends who I know won't be offended or take it seriously.

Where's the darkness? Getting gay married is amazing!

@@MyKeyMoonShine It`s funny how some communities can be different from others. I live in Scotland and i found the gay scene a little difficult to navigate when i first went out to a gay community centre 20 years ago through a befriending service. I felt really scared and lonely at first and it took me a while to get used to the humour, some of which would probably make some folks toes curl! I developed a thick skin though and i met some of my best friends too. I really miss the old GLC (that was the bar we all used to drink in) god....i feel old now lol

kentuckyisnotafriedstate sssshhhh, don’t tell him. It’ll make him really sad and then in two years he’ll have to do another Netflix special. That’s no good for anyone.

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Nah you should be able to joke about any topic whatsoever in my opinion.

@@stevenborg102 nobody is saying you can't. Of course you can, but don't expect people to laugh or find it funny when you're just cringe

@@Hipsael Cringe is funny; hence the entire mockumentary genre, such as The Office

@@stevenborg102 you know what's not funny steven,jokes that are rooted in bigotry and oppresion coming from a mouth that was not oppressed for the subject matter(you can make joke with transgender people in it without bigotry but lets be honest thats not what cis people want to do and are hurt of being seen as offensive),if you want to joke about trans people so bad help us reach the same level of equality as cis people where we are on the same level,fighting!

@@letmein8075 You are projecting the bigotry. A joke is just a joke. You create things that aren't there.

And similarly, “More weight.”

Badass af.

"Gallows humor is only such when done by the hanged; if done by the hanger or observer, it's apart of the execution."

​@@lilacrain3283 The Crucible? Or is it a real quote?

@@Raquel_Incorporated I think the exact words of the quote are from The Crucible, but it's based off a real event.

That's why he transitioned.

Yeah, not one of the shining stars of the Atheist movement. He, like a few others really don't help secular humanism or those of us considered "evil" or "without morals" because we do not adhere to a specific belief system and do not believe in a god.

He's a shit comic. I hated The Office. But that's my opinion.

bu-dum-bump! That's a good one.

Pre-op

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Damn that's pretty sad

gundamcollector77 sadder than making bitchy replies to comments from 2 weeks ago?....yikes

Same.

Word! A massive chunk of my, er, "media consumption" is ContraPoints, Folding Ideas, Lindsay Ellis, Philosophy Tube, Thought Slime, and Jenny Nicholson. Which is a lot of superb content!

YES AND THE SOUND EFFECT OMG

The Geneva Convention was a bunch of PC cucks who just couldn't take a joke! Those SJWs!

Rip

Ironic that you completely ignored the thesis of the video

​@@liftistswoletariat7184 quoting an author with a different perspective on the subject is the same as completely ignore the thesis of the video? even if that's true, i dont really see the irony in that.

Well she literally adressed how that definition is insufficient, it would reduce comedy to speaking truth to power, which are distinct things and in my opinion should not be reduced to each other

@@liftistswoletariat7184 The quote only deals with only satire, not the whole of comedy itself.

Sadly, the alt-right have oppression envy and conspiracy-theorist worldviews and imagine minority groups as evil overlords, so that distinction would be lost on them.

I actually disagree on both points, but I still really enjoyed the video and I'm dropping your comment a like anyway.

@@Kraigon42 So basically there's something even less funny than deconstructing humor and the person to do it is someone other than our beloved Contrapoints. 🤔

@@tarumakela5075 Yes to the first, and... I'm not sure what my original second point was, but knowing me, it had something to do with the romantic implications of saying "you're The One." I, for one, find deconstructing humor to be extremely enjoyable, and there's been very few times when "explaining the joke" made something less funny for me.

Yeah go on Cumtown

her and john mulaney.... the only comedians I'll stan

Hey, I'm going to assume the op of this comment has long moved on from this event, but for anyone who finds themself in the same boat: It is notoriously hard to rise in the ranks and become a manager for people you used to work for, because there is a period of adjustment and people are very reluctant to have a boss be someone who was in the same position as them yesterday. And simultaneously, it is very difficult to transition to start being in a management position and communicate and delegate with others efficiently and respectfully, while maintaining authority. Finally, middle management roles in retail (think supervisor/team leader) are also difficult because you've got very little autonomy but expected to do a lot. If you're reading this and you're ever in this new position, give yourself and your colleagues some grace and some time to adjust. And don't be an asshole to people obviously. Too many assholes in those kinds of positions and too many good people burn out. Sorry this comment is very random X)

I know this is weird but thank you for sharing this. You are very strong, and I wish you the best for your future.

A strange thing to share, but my best friend committed suicide too and we played „Sound of Silence“ at her memorial. The meme did the same for me, taking away the heavy grief and honestly being scared of hearing the song again. And then it showed up in this video again! And turned it into something beautiful and hopeful too! And then I read your comment and I had this realization that there‘s at least one other person who has that strange, specific relationship with that song.

What a pile of word salad bull.

@@mooocowcowcowmooo maybe understandimg what the words meant would help

That statement is like the workings of a master crafted Swiss watch. Every concept worked and polished to nanometre precision and then meticulously arranged into a form that is aesthetically pleasing, perfectly efficient and fullfills it’s function sublimely.

@@mooocowcowcowmooo Maybe if you weren't subscribed to a bunch of fascists you would have some braincells left to comprehend the "word salad".

@@PSspecialist Why do you think I like Hitler? Please properly qualify the answer.

Ewww....oh, I initially read that as "self-defecating humor". (Because, you know, I'm American and we don't use that "u".)

Amen

@@scockery Encopresis is no laughing matter! Just ask Jordan Owen...

pretty good

I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure. X3

Plus, those jokes have been told sooo much times on the internet already and now they're just repetitive and annoying

You should tell South Park that

To be fair, the Trans-Racial joke on Atlanta is actually really funny since the punchline is just the extreme dissonance of white stereotypes being carried out by a large black man and it has an additional payoff later in the episode where it plays off the absurd contradictory nature of social justice dynamics between other marginalized groups.

yeah, alright jason you identify as an ikea chair why aren't you a comedian yet?

Honestly, they're in the same level of: "Nobody: Me: Whatever the fuck" Like if you want to joke about trans people, fine whatever, but don't act like you did something by saying the same 2 jokes that almost every edgy teenager has done.

I wasn’t expecting to see you here

Oh, hey! I'd like to think I have good taste in youtubers, haha

"You're not dealing with the average darkness anymore. I am super darkness!"

@@riley8385 And now to go even further beyond! I call this one... Super Darkness 3! *HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!* **Breaks down into tears**

Omg. Thank you for that.

If you want your fill of darkness, look up how many times “darkness” is said in the Kingdom Hearts series

Ok but now I wanna watch that

Emperor Tigerstar??? What are you doing connecting the two disperate ends of my RU-vid feed?!?

Fuck me too!

Holy shit, The Darkness was early 2000's? That's like nearly 20 years ago! Thanks for making me feel old, Your Imperial Majesty (yes, I did have to google the correct way to address an Emperor. I'm old but I'm not *that* old school).

I, as well, still believe in a thing called love.

Oh gosh ikr

Neurotypicals... Good lord that's some snowflakery right there. I can guarantee you that being autistic does not make you special. I swear you people think you're the x men or something XD

@@EmmaDilemma039 they never said being autistic makes them special but it does make them "neurodivergent", which is literally a medical term meaning "having an atypical neurological configuration." so people who are not "neurodivergent" are naturally "neurotypical". How is that SnOwFLaKeRy, it's literally a medical term and the most concise thing to say

@@EmmaDilemma039 neurotypical is just a medical term it's not "snowflakery" or whatever. Just because you don't understand what it means doesn't make it a word made up on tumblr. Also point out where anyone here said anything about how being autistic makes them special, you just formed that out of thin air.

@@EmmaDilemma039 Wishing you luck with...whatever the fuck is going on there.

Yes! That's really succinct. Nuance in humor is important!!

Gallows humour isn't funny is you're not the one being hanged

nothing around it but I was the 666th like

"Girls just want to be hedonistic bourgeois decadants" I'd buy the merch for that.

I was about to say the same thing❤ love her

God damn, cis?

@@randomasspirate3630 he is referring to his sister therefore sis Edit I know its a play on words (cis and sis). This only exist to prove that i know before someone Attempts to corrects me

@@slalehc5194 what was the point of this whole ass comment then?

That's hysterical. But genuinely, I loved her voice back then. There was a distinctive quality to it that's just missing now. And it's not my job to mourn the changes that she chose to make cause it's her life and her joy to seek but I sometimes go back to old videos just for the auditory stim. It's really enjoyable. I was recently talking to a friend abt how all trans women seem to go through a period of sounding the same as each other in a very specific way, and I could see someone finding that hurtful, but it's genuinely my favorite part of trans culture. It's so endearing, it's like how all baby owls go through the same awkward phase and you look at one and you're like damn, you might look like a pair of eyes on stilts right now but you're going to be Majestic in six months

And your Conan avatar is mine.

It was a beautiful finish on the piano with voice.

was pretty nice honestly

Natalie in goth get up is the only worthwhile aesthetic

I've been waiting for something to quote when trying to explain "punching down" to my friends.

I laughed Lol .

I laughed too

Can someone get offended on your behalf when you're making fun of yourself?

@@KelniusTV yes. Happens to me sometimes when I joke about being an orphan.

People who have experienced trauma "aren't supposed to" make black jokes about it. Normal people want to hear the sad story and see the sad face so they can 1) feel better that it didn't happen to them, and 2) feel inspired that you "rose above it". Once they've heard the story, they've acknowledged your pain, now be normal like them. Making jokes about it makes them uncomfortable, they get a glimpse of the absurdity of life and they don't have the ability to deal with it; and they are reminded about your trauma, which annoys them because they heard the story, they offered their condolences, now move on and stop letting it affect you

god we all have the brain cell don't we...top surgery is teetus deletus

@@sketchreemead6353 lets call abortion fetus deletus plz

trans masc ver = pp hello

@@nadineehab8834 a hysterectomy is a uterus deletus

@@jadeblades baby room deletus

He didn't know what offense really does: Internet trolls cause suicidal depression in 12-year-old girls.

Listen that is big girl dick energy right there.

It's over 9000

Salokin there’s a place we can get this daily?! WHERE

I'd liken Contra to our timeline's Madame Psychosis.

"Daily"? What amazing universe are you living in?

postmodern neomarxist metanoic transgender art

Hyper Light Drifter out in the wild

I'm just gonna steal it.

kevin: Yea, but it's sad because I used to find him quite funny. He seems to have lost his, um, edge and is not just doing lazy, path of least resistance humor now.

for me as well

By Sunday morning this will be a hashtag. #YouCanOnlyWatchTheWorld BurnWheYouHaveThePrivilidgeOfNotBeingOnFire

Kameshwari Kate sunday already where i am. and let me tell you, it's hot as fuck there

You mean wall, not table.

Gigi already found it

Better than lay away I suppose :)

Lol congratulations! I haven’t gotten nearly as far in my transition, but I did get a packer recently and told everyone that I was getting my dick in the mail

Welp, now I am imagining warehouses full of vaginas to be delivered ahahah

@@JoeyDragonWhisperer Yeah, here you have to do a lot of waiting to transition medically (the NHS has a massive shortage of gender specialists, apparently) here (it already took 18 months to see a gender specialist and another 7 or so months on top of that to start HRT). Hope yours stays on course!

Bisected Brioche is an oddly fitting name for bottom surgery

not that i would want to anyway 😉

@@e_N_n there's the reference i was expecting ^-^

ill just never pass period

I'm sorry to hear about your husband. (And I think your joke was pretty funny)

@@paradoxacres1063 It was Alan Tudyk's joke to be fair, but thanks!

As someone with a morbid sense of humor (bring an orphan will do that to you) I can relate. Also, I laughed.

I save the jokes about Mom's ashes for those boring clowns who are always bragging about how they fucked somebody's mom. If they want to brag about mine, I rather enjoy telling them exactly how dusty her old vajay really is, now :D

(Not a particularly hilarious joke, but) My dad died of a heart attack in my late teens. He collapsed while he was out for his nightly run which he did primarily to support his cardiovascular health. My dad died in the middle of doing a thing that was supposed to help keep him from dying. When I pointed this little curiosity out to my family, I got FLAMED. How dare I?? Eulogies ONLY from here on out!! I take a good deal of solace in knowing my dad would've chuckled. He and I were the family weirdos. Also, your joke *is* funny, and my mom agrees that widow support groups are basically the Pain Olympics and she stopped going after a few times. Keep up the Darkness!

The Order of Rainbow Knights will protect Queen Contra at all costs.

Nuclear weapons are still not off the table...

@@mothereric8774 Penguin with a gun trumps nukes

What Linkin Park song is that again?

@@herrgdiduoo2692 edit: keys to the kingdom (my mistake)

it's a reference to pink flamingos

In desperate need for you to do a 17th-century execution beat btw....

How effective are those hormones? I don't mean to be rude, but I know with a lot of trans people, you can still sort of tell they're trans based on their voice or their facial structure. Would the hormones be enough to make you grow a beard? That would be awesome.

Jerrod Shack hey just a word of advice for the future, replying to a trans person’s excitement for their future with “do you think you’ll ACTUALLY look like a man?” isn’t the best look. i know it wasn’t ill meaning or anything so ill cut you a break, but there aren’t a whole lot of trans people who will reply to that happily. you might not have meant it, but it kind of looks like “you will probably never pass and everyone can tell your birth gender forever, because i can tell a few other trans ppls birth genders.” again, not a good look, even if it’s not what you mean. also replying to the second part of your comment, i guess i meant more stubble than “beard”, i know i’m not going to get a viking beard or anything. however hormones can and do cause drastic changes, but usually slowly. there’s also facial feminization and masculinization surgery, etc. and basing your ideas on trans people off of “being able to tell” also isn’t... the best way to be a good friend to the trans ppl in your life. i hope that clears things up. don’t go running around on trans ppls comments with statements like that btw, even if your inentions are good, you’ll get a lot of (honestly rightfully) angry replies from trans people who are used to people having bad intentions. if you’re curious, i can reccommend some trans youtubers that talk about the process so you don’t have to come up to us and ask random questions. k? k.

@@jerrodshack7610 its a good idea to try to unlearn the process of assuming someone is trans because they don't match your preconceptions of what makes someone one gender or another. sklort's response to you was really merciful and really generous, and i suggest you take that advice to heart

I'm sad no one else liked this comment @Criminal Saint.

Criminal Saint the topic of the video was dark humor at ones own expense, and had a section mentioning trans jokes by trans people. i made a comment responding to that part of the video. person replies in a way that wasn’t really called for, i reply to them respectfully and let them know others might not be lenient so they can avoid later conflict and leave the conversation with new info abt trans people. what exactly am i missing here? if you’re trying to assume the video is about Not Getting Offended, then the video r/wooshed over your head, and i wasn’t even offended in the first place. i gave the person the benefit of the doubt and gave my insight, and considering they were responding to something i said about my personal life and experience, i have the right to reply as i like. go play somewhere else.

I feel like his whole career is based around telling everyone he's cool and counting how many people agree each and every day.

@@DoveAlexa He's a very needy individual.

edzeppelin1984 the only good stuff he has done is The Office and that series with Karl Pilkington imo

Its actually kinda sad

So, he dishes it out, but he can't take it, eh? That's the trouble with ethnic, "dead baby" and insult humor: nobody can take it!

quick tip: cis isn't an acronym, it's Latin, so you don't need to capitalize it (unless you want to, in which case feel free)

She probably has Shaggy tied up off-screen

yes

@@TheJadedJames To be fair, that's probably their typical Sunday.

@@TheJadedJames Someone write fan fiction about this and have Matthew Lillard act it out with Contra in a video. Now.

You mean His!

The Joker has no problems with being on fire though, and he does do something like self-deprecating humor.

@@tarvoc746 Anyone who upholds The Joker as a personal inspiration is, by my experience, extremely obnoxious.

@@saxa-uta Anyone who genuinely upholds the Joker as personal inspiration is probably criminally insane.

@@tarvoc746 Or 12.

@@saxa-uta 12 year olds are rarely genuine about these kinds of things. Not because they're dishonest, but because they usually don't have the cognitive and emotional maturity to really understand the full implications of what they're saying. (Exceptions notwithstanding.)

Honey, that occurred when I was cut out of my mother in a C-section.

Ha! Good one!

I’ve been laughing at this for two minutes straight. I can’t believe I haven’t thought of this before. My favorite jokes to make about myself are trans jokes and bottom jokes, how the FUCK didn’t I think of this one.

Did u see the grinder thing where a dude literally thought that top surgery was to become a top

@@MazHem yeah i did, that's actually where i got the joke from lmao

"Gawrsh, Sora! It looks like Organization XIII is rejecting the use of tasteful comedy in favor of shock value!" "What?! We can't let that happen!" "I think there are some ingredients around here!"

The darkness and light and the darkness and light. Xenahort. The darkness and light and the darkness and light.

I mean I'd be fine being norted by Contra

darkness within darkness awaits all

Okay I believe you

I'm keeping this comeback.

Fuck, this is pretty good

Folding Ideas legends supporting legends huh

I love that my favorite youtubers are friends!! This makes me so happy

​@@gabrielfraser2109 Ehh, I don't know if I really buy that. To use an example that was in the video, that's kind of like saying "I don't really find that Richard Pryor joke funny because I've never run down the street in flames during a coke-fueled psychosis. But I'm sure it's funnier for people who _have_ run down the street in flames during a coke-fueled psychosis." Delivery plays a role. To be fair, I've never heard that Richard Pryor joke, so just hearing it explained, I can't really tell if it was funny or not. But I'm going to assume that if he delivered it in a funny way, then it was funny. It has nothing to do with whether I can relate on a one-to-one level.

"you'll never be a real woman" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6AYv6rV3NXE.html

It's such bullshit that trans guys are so ignored that most of the bigots don't even know they exist. Sure, y'all aren't getting as much hate, but you aren't even acknowledged in a lot of ways

@@Elizabeth-rp8kz Hey, why bother transitioning if you're not gonna get some of that sweet male privilege? Women get scrutinised, men get ignored.

Elizabeth It's really weird because at least in my area, transmasc people are *way* more common than transfem

I share these words of wisdom from someone in a very dark place, purely for the perspective of laughing at one's own pain: "Life's a bitch and then we die, fuck it all let's get high!"

(I typically find casual self-harm jokes distasteful, but I figured that within the context of this video, it wouldn't be too... shocking, I guess.)

i'm laughing my ass off this is brilliant

Ahahahaha, brilliant! 😁

yeah, this is the kind of joke i would be fine if me or one of my friends or someone i know gas issues around sh made, but would be pretty hurt if some mentally stable edge lord made for a giggle.

@@fankid1018 You don’t have to be an edgelord to make that sort of joke, it’s just normal dark humour.🤷🏽‍♀️

Yep. Often that type of man is the first to take offence when people make jokes about his people. Like British people getting offended about RRR, this Indian movie that makes a colonial British governor the cartoonishly evil villain (which was entirely justified if you know anything about British colonial rule over India). Made me respect Germans more -- I mean, "cartoonishly evil German villain" is pretty much a genre trope at this point.

He went after Hollywood elites though.

That's what I really respect about South Park that it really is that no one is sacred and usually the jokes for minorities are tame. Like how the joke about Tolkien's is that Stan was the idiot thinking his name was Token. Like to point where even Cartman knows his name is Tolkien and not Token

You mean it was on the floor for an hour are you took it an hour ago?

Lindsay Ellis hmmmm that Xanax must’ve not been very helpful because it couldn’t even get itself off of lying on the floor

omg lindsay i was also a bit S H O O K cause i had also literally taken a xanax minutes before that joke and straight up laughed to a near coughing fit ahahah. also natalie, if you see this - this video is EVERYTHING to me btw.

Don't get do to binge on them benzos. Or was is not so bad? Can't remember...

@@thishandleistacken I tried antidepressant years ago. I hated numbness I felt from taking them so I stop taking them.

Just felt like sending some love to a beautiful human being. 💕 Thanks for being amazing

It will be miserable and you know it, as much as you delude yourself otherwise.

Danielle Spargo aw thank you!

TheControlBlue I’m sorry that you feel that way. Carrying all that negativity must be a hard and sad way to live. Being that I’ve dated girls before this really isn’t that big of a deal, and it’s improved our relationship because my wife is a happier person as she’s not hiding anything from herself or otherwise. As people who’ve lived through someone dying in our home after 3 years struggling with cancer, or her best friend being killed by a drunk driver, or most painfully, our baby nephew dying from health complications at 7 weeks old, we learned that you love and cherish everyone while you have them. I’m truly sorry if you’ve never experienced that kind of love for another person, it must be a miserable existence.

@@XJunixAnnexKayxScarX I'd rather have Respect a thousand times over Love. You had a hard life, I can give you that much, but it seems that whatever you are doing right now is more like digging down into the darkness (to go back to the Contra-point) rather than going up to the light, it seems you are even ready to spit at the light if it dares come to you. "My spouse came about being trans and began her transition on New Years 2019" If he had an ounce of Respect towards you he would never have done that to you. I am sure he Loves you, but what he is doing there to both of you is very much bringing you two closer to the darkness. But hey, it's your life, you must think I am some kind of hateful monster, but if there is one thing I truly respect, it is your divine right to live your life as you see fit.

"You only get to watch when you have the privilege of not being on fire" That part hit hard

How are trans politically besieged in the west?

@@jansettler4828 many ordinary trans people who aren't famous get shamed or ridiculed in their communities and some families even disown them. The number of trans women who get murdered for trying to date straight guys is a huge problem too. Also I think there are certain states that still allow trans people to get turned down for jobs or housing but I still need to get more info on that one

@@alexarias5717 You got any stats on that? Btw, parents disowning their children is not "politics"

@@jansettler4828 No you're right, that example wasn't related sorry. And I don't have stats right at the top of my head, I gave you the ways they are, I think you can find the rest.

^ This pleaaase

I find it difficult to sad-cum, but David Bowie always helps me!

ew

lol xP

@@mr.countess3610 my 'ew' was directed at statement t-shirts, not your Jizzy Nutbust sessions

Visit my channel. I have a couple of singing recordings that might be what you're into.

That's why whenever someone comments that Natalie needs to speak up about Chappelle, I link this video, replace the Ricky with Dave and it's basically the same type of talking points.