Remember Trump's red dinner roast where he called out all the BS (Hillary bumped into me and said "pardon me")
Not everyone was laughing, some were very uncomfortable or shocked. Much like Ricky Gervais at the awards.
I see it as him mocking the status quo, but that's just me. High empathy has been part of why I have numbed myself so many times over the years. I trust my gut. He's a fucking actor and isn't phased over what's going on, he's playing a role. Quote me on that if you want.
Trump's roast was very different from Zelensky's routine.
Trump was calling out the establishment and no one in that room except Maria Bartaroma genuinely laughed.
Zelenksy is using comedy to normalise the evil stuff and make people who were already neo-nazis in their heart to do it openly. This is much like Stephen Colbert or any of the other comedians in the West who have been doing the same - pushing a bad agenda and normalising it by making innocuous jokes with plausible deniability.
Clearly Zelensky is playing his role here and not a comedian, but it serves the same purpose.
Remember Trump's red dinner roast where he called out all the BS (Hillary bumped into me and said "pardon me")
Not everyone was laughing, some were very uncomfortable or shocked. Much like Ricky Gervais at the awards.
I see it as him mocking the status quo, but that's just me. High empathy has been part of why I have numbed myself so many times over the years. I trust my gut. He's a fucking actor and isn't phased over what's going on, he's playing a role. Quote me on that if you want.
Trump's roast was very different from Zelensky's routine.
Trump was calling out the establishment and no one in that room except Maria Bartaroma genuinely laughed.
Zelenksy is using comedy to normalise the evil stuff and make people who were already neo-nazis in their heart to do it openly. This is much like Stephen Colbert or any of the other comedians in the West who have been doing the same - pushing a bad agenda and normalising it by making innocuous jokes with plausible deniability.
Clearly Zelensky is playing his role here and not a comedian, but it serves the same purpose.
I read into it as Zelensky drawing attention to an unspoken reality that everyone knows is going on but no one admits
He might not be phased by what's going on because he's drugged out of his mind.