Eventually, philosophers arrived at the superiority theory of humor, according to which every joke is, at its core, a hostile attack designed to affirm the comic’s dominance and assure the subjugation of its target.

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#Plato #Aristotle #comedy #cruelty #ThomasHobbes #laughter #humor #philosophy #jokes #comic #dominance #subjugation

Philosophers, going back to #Plato and #Aristotle, have observed a link between #comedy and #cruelty. In the seventeenth century, #ThomasHobbes pegged #laughter as the companion of scorn. He framed #humor as an act of self-aggrandizement premised on the debasement of others.

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Watching My Old Ass film on Prime Video.

#Film #Comedy

#Comedian #TonyHinchcliffe Called #PuertoRico a ‘Floating #Island of #Garbage’: His #Hate #Disguised as #Comedy Wasn’t #Funny or a #Joke

I am #PuertoRican, and my #country is no “floating island of garbage.”

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Tony Hinchcliffe Calls Puerto Rico 'Garbage' - But It's Not Funny

At Sunday's Donald Trump rally, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico "floating garbage" and it wasn't funny, and it wasn't a joke.

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