THIS!!!!

[yuiyoshida]

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[DonaldsRump]

1. Only way to stand up to a bully

Is to mock them and NEVER give them one inch on any issue. Eventually they will give up.

[smirkymonkey]

2. Absolutely.

[Bev54]

3. Love it!

It is just too bad there is a pandemic, so many fun mocks could have been done in the streets for all to engage.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

4. Not sure that power exists.

This episode of Malcolm Gladwell's podcast, Revisionist History, lays out the case that humor doesn't work as we wish it would in that regard.

In the political turmoil of mid-1990s Britain, a brilliant young comic named Harry Enfield set out to satirize the ideology and politics of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. His parodies became famous. He wrote and performed a vicious sendup of the typical Thatcherite nouveau riche buffoon. People loved it. And what happened? Exactly the opposite of what Enfield hoped would happen. In an age dominated by political comedy, “The Satire Paradox” asks whether laughter and social protest are friends or foes.

The conclusion Gladwell comes to is that they are foes because such humor actually does more to normalize the behavior it satirizes. Maybe there are other examples of where humor does tend to help bring down to bad guys, but I haven't seen it demonstrated.

[FeelingBlue]

5. Very interesting. Thank you. N/t