Posted on 08/26/2021 3:38:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
“I enjoy being in America. It’s fun, you know? Because you had, you have so many things we never had in Russia. Like warning shots.” - Ukrainian comedian Yakov Smirnoff on The Johnny Carson Show, 1988.
Comedy is easy. Risking your life over it is hard. If there is anything murderous psychotic fascists will not brook, above all else, it is being ridiculed. No sense of humor whatsoever.
Historical precedents abound. In 1940, Adolf Hitler sentenced Charlie Chaplin and the Three Stooges to death in absentia for The Great Dictator and You Nazty Spy, respectively. All four comedians exhibited extraordinary courage in spurning Hitler’s lethal decree by continuing to make fun of him in film and public appearances for the duration of the war unto Hitler’s demise.
It is unlikely that Russian authorities ever shot Soviet-era comedian Yakov Smirnoff, though I have no doubt the Soviet government was more than happy to hand him a visa to get him out of the country. Afghani comedian Zahar Mohammed, aka Khasha Zwan, who became nationally famous for ridiculing the Taliban in hilarious fashion, was not so lucky. Khasha received no warning shots when he was dragged from his home by Taliban psychos in Kandahar in late July. He was later found murdered, shot to death, and his throat slit.
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Communists are not funny themselves but a whole lot of fun to ridicule.
“If there is anything murderous psychotic fascists will not brook, above all else, it is being ridiculed.”
For all intents and purposes, they seem to be offended in advance, so might as well give it to them with both barrels loaded with humor in a jocular vein. It does not fall to them to define jocularity, so aim high with every punchline!
of course it is...
they aren’t running around like chicken littles screeching we’re all gonna die from covid...
Someone once said: “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
Truer words were never spoken.
A sad article. He joked with his executioners right up until they murdered him. What courage. What courage.
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