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The shit post to end all shit posts
I’ve come to the conclusion that my sense of humor has gotten very strange recently. With that being said something dumb happened on the internet that is the most hilarious thing I’ve ever imagined. It’s the most gloriously shitty shit post that transcends time, space and reality. I’m not exaggerating when I say that this shit post is a beacon of garbage that burns with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns. When I saw this shit post I fell to my knees and laughed until I was in tears. I seriously considered giving up writing comedy because there is no way on gods green earth that I could come up with something funnier than this post. Here’s what I’m talking about. Recently GOP representative Paul Gosar tweeted out a political campaign video. It was a 90 second parody of the opening theme of the popular anime series Attack on Titan. It was heavily edited to portray Gosar and other republicans as Eren Yeager, Mikasa and the other protagonists of the show. As well as portraying the US border patrol as the survey corps and the titans Titans as illegal immigrants. There's also a part where two of the Titans are portrayed as Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Joe Biden. Here’s a link to the video so you can see all the immense levels of shit for yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evSLp...
So let’s start to unpack this a little bit. The basic premise of Attack on Titan is humanity lives behind walls and they are under constant threat from giant flesh eating monsters called Titans. Inside of the stories plot and setting it lays out a dystopic, fascist world filled with rampant inequality and threats from other people as well as titans. It has a government that is concerned with maintaining the social hierarchy, keeping order in the walls and maintaining a strong military. A lot of the themes run parallel with the thinking of Nazi philosopher Carl Schmitt.
So most of Attack on Titan comes comes right out of the fascist playbook. In recent years the republicans have quickly been devolving into a party of fascists so it makes perfect strategic sense for Gosar to appropriate imagery from Attack on Titan. It’s so explicitly fascist that it had to be on purpose. Also all of the mainstream media interpreted this shit post as a threat to kill Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Joe Biden so watch out for that I guess. Once it blew up on social media Gosar took the video down and released a statement that said it’s just a joke and a cartoon that shouldn’t be taken so seriously but if my in-depth analysis holds up this isn’t just a cartoon and he really means this. He could have picked any anime to parody but he chose one that echoes the ideals of fascism.
So the question remains why do I find all of this funny. While I’m a big fan of anime I must say that in the US anime is an under-appreciated art form that is only recognized by niche audiences and is far from mainstream. So in my mind there’s no overlap between fans of anime and people who vote Republican. Republicans are old people who have no idea what anime is. Only people around my age or younger know what anime is and the younger generation are not voting for republicans. So whatever audience Gosar was trying to reach with this video he didn’t reach it at all. So the only thing that video accomplished was being completely cringey. So I find it hilarious that this video was a complete swing and a miss, it’s cringey and awkward, it’s a perfect metaphor for what the Republican Party currently is and what it’s turning into, and it’s also a threat to kill the president. That is why this shit post is the funniest thing that has ever happened. This shit post transcends our earthly reality and is a glimpse into the butthole of god.
I guess that’s just where my sense of humor is at right now. During the Trump years I was horrified that a person like that was in the white house. Now that the guy has been out of the public eye for a better part of a year I can finally look back and laugh at all the stupid stuff he did. With Trump gone the GOP is desperately scrambling to define themselves without him. This has resulted in a series of cartoonish stupid antics as well as some of them who act like they live in a fantasy world. All in an effort to appeal to and recreate the Trump phenomenon. So this shit post is truly a plateau of all that silliness. I might right some more about politics or anime in the future so stay tuned for that. Is there anything out there that you guys think is really weird but it also make you laugh out loud? Let me know in the comments.
Have a good one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evSLp...
So let’s start to unpack this a little bit. The basic premise of Attack on Titan is humanity lives behind walls and they are under constant threat from giant flesh eating monsters called Titans. Inside of the stories plot and setting it lays out a dystopic, fascist world filled with rampant inequality and threats from other people as well as titans. It has a government that is concerned with maintaining the social hierarchy, keeping order in the walls and maintaining a strong military. A lot of the themes run parallel with the thinking of Nazi philosopher Carl Schmitt.
So most of Attack on Titan comes comes right out of the fascist playbook. In recent years the republicans have quickly been devolving into a party of fascists so it makes perfect strategic sense for Gosar to appropriate imagery from Attack on Titan. It’s so explicitly fascist that it had to be on purpose. Also all of the mainstream media interpreted this shit post as a threat to kill Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Joe Biden so watch out for that I guess. Once it blew up on social media Gosar took the video down and released a statement that said it’s just a joke and a cartoon that shouldn’t be taken so seriously but if my in-depth analysis holds up this isn’t just a cartoon and he really means this. He could have picked any anime to parody but he chose one that echoes the ideals of fascism.
So the question remains why do I find all of this funny. While I’m a big fan of anime I must say that in the US anime is an under-appreciated art form that is only recognized by niche audiences and is far from mainstream. So in my mind there’s no overlap between fans of anime and people who vote Republican. Republicans are old people who have no idea what anime is. Only people around my age or younger know what anime is and the younger generation are not voting for republicans. So whatever audience Gosar was trying to reach with this video he didn’t reach it at all. So the only thing that video accomplished was being completely cringey. So I find it hilarious that this video was a complete swing and a miss, it’s cringey and awkward, it’s a perfect metaphor for what the Republican Party currently is and what it’s turning into, and it’s also a threat to kill the president. That is why this shit post is the funniest thing that has ever happened. This shit post transcends our earthly reality and is a glimpse into the butthole of god.
I guess that’s just where my sense of humor is at right now. During the Trump years I was horrified that a person like that was in the white house. Now that the guy has been out of the public eye for a better part of a year I can finally look back and laugh at all the stupid stuff he did. With Trump gone the GOP is desperately scrambling to define themselves without him. This has resulted in a series of cartoonish stupid antics as well as some of them who act like they live in a fantasy world. All in an effort to appeal to and recreate the Trump phenomenon. So this shit post is truly a plateau of all that silliness. I might right some more about politics or anime in the future so stay tuned for that. Is there anything out there that you guys think is really weird but it also make you laugh out loud? Let me know in the comments.
Have a good one
