If conservatives were happy they wouldn’t act the way they do.
I have a conservative friend who will start screaming like a little girl when a cyclist is doing nothing other than just using the bikelane that happens to come into an intersection with the road he’s on.
Such happy people, amazing.
Why are you friends with douchebags? I’m not trying to be snarky, I am genuinely interested
I have a douchebag friend. We have a lot in common. We’re both like playing pinball. We both get migraines, and we both have chronic pain. Both have families that we love a lot. We’re both older and retired. I genuinely like him.
He posts a lot of shit on Facebook “owning” liberals. I don’t think it suits him, but I think he’s caught up in the moment, and I think his pain and migraines get to him a bit.
I believe he’s too good a man to stay on this track, and I’m going to be there when he realizes it. And I’ll give him a hug and tell him I understand.
My sister has a childhood best friend that she had been through everything with, including him coming out as gay, and in her 50s her friend started supporting Trump. Again, I don’t think it suits him, he’s a sweet guy, but she just quit a relationship of 40 years because of that.
We gotta look inside people. They have s lot of reasons for what they do.
There has been lots of studies on this, and part of the issue is how do you get an honest rating of someone’s happiness?
Summary:
- Self-Reported Happiness: Conservatives often report higher levels of happiness compared to liberals.
- Research Studies: New studies indicate that conservatives may judge their lives and circumstances more positively than liberals.
- Emotional Language: Analysis of transcripts from Congress shows that liberals use more positive words than conservatives.
- Genuine Happiness: Studies on smiling intensity suggest liberals display more genuine happiness.
- Impact on Behavior: Conservatives have a more confident style of self-assessment, which might contribute to their reported happiness.
The research suggests that the way conservatives and liberals perceive and report their happiness might be influenced by their self-assessment styles.
Stupid people tend to be happier, yes it’s true.
Are they happier? Because they sure do complain a lot and get enraged over the simplest of issues.
get enraged over the simplest of issues.
Those issues are not even real most of the time and they’re still raging mad. 😂
“We’re happier than libruls”
Must be the whole “Ignorance is bliss” as well
ahh yes family values like bailing Andrew Tate out.
Not to mention worshipping a thrice-married sexual predator
Andrew Tate and his brother have probably, uh, you know…
Raped, incest, murder? At this point I wouldn’t be surprised at any of it.
Sorry, they’ve probably fooled around with each other.
Family values.
People these days seem happiest when ostracizing, excluding, and destroying another’s life just because they are different.
Empathy is dead, because if you show empathy it’s grounds for expulsion. Anyone still capable of empathy has been ejected from society by the twitter mob over the past decade. The only people left are callous bullies.
Privilege. Especially white privilege. It’s easier to be happy when you’re benefiting from the invisible suffering of others.
I’ve noticed that conservatives cant feel empathy. They only feel sympathy. This is why they don’t understand any injustice until if effects them personally. This is the root psychological reasoning behind the leopards eating faces memes.
The richest man in the world, who has only ONCE paid anything approaching a 20% tax rate and crowed like he was a PHILANTHROPIST when he did, is removing all social programs that are a safety net for the poorest and most desperate among us.
Empathy? Sympathy? They are vampires.
Lack of empathy and utterly selfish. It enables these trash humans to take others rights and believe the lie that doing it is a good thing.
He’s so funny, he does it for work! He’s an excellent comedian, one who doesn’t invite hecklers but will destroy them.
He’s smart because he’s educated. He’s also a sharp wit but he just generally knows a lot of shit.
Sadly, his tour stop near me is too far away so I can’t go.
Those hecklers are plants. How do you not know this?
Source?
You mean to tell me that you actually believe that dude gets heckled so often as to have a YouTube channel full of heckler videos- and he flawlessly delivers his responses with the wit and skill level worthy of the legendary Robin Williams without even a slight hesitation?
I don’t think proof is what you need.
source? :>
I’m guessing you also are the type of person that needs a source to prove gravity?
He’s obnoxious. He’s not funny. And he spams his content on multiple platforms with multiple accounts.
Stop censoring these people’s names and faces. They said it. They said it out loud and proud, in front of god and everyone. Why are we afraid to show them?!
Some places do have rules against name and shame, to be fair. Not sure that this is one of them, but still a safe general rule to follow.
Those places deserve pushback on that bullshit
If someone said it in public then they’re fine with it being out there
Oh, I absolutely don’t disagree with you, I can just see why people would err on the side of caution with their own posts.
Isn’t he that guy that plants hecklers in his audience that serve him meatballs so he can come off as clever and quick-witted?
Do you have evidence that they’re plants? This is the first I’ve heard of that accusation. He does get an unusually high number of hecklers, and it fuels a lot of his online content, so I wouldn’t be shocked if they’re plants, but I haven’t heard any definitive proof. I’d just as soon believe that people heckle him more because they think they’re smarter than his previous hecklers or want attention or something, but idk.
Yeah. The dude has a TON of heckler videos. For starters… It’s incredibly unrealistic for a comedian to be heckled that often. Secondly, his responses are always perfectly timed and executed without hesitation. Every time. With not even a slight pause or moment to collect his thoughts before tearing into the person.
Only Robin Williams is that skilled at improv.
I’ll add that he’s well known for behind a huge asshole in the comedy circuit. Look it up. And lastly, heckling generally gets you tossed out of clubs. None of his plants ever get tossed that I’ve seen.
Still not hearing any definitive proof. Professional comedians, especially well educated ones, can and do have quick and witty comebacks pretty often. And like I said, it’s possible that he gets heckled so much because of his reputation for engaging with hecklers, so it may attract overconfident hecklers to come see him.
I’m not gonna knock the late, great Robin Williams, but it’s a little weird to say that he’s the only person capable of disarming a heckler this effectively. I think most accomplished comedians could do what Steve Hofstetter does, more or less; he is much more knowledgeable about economics and civics than most probably are, so he’s able to wield that handily.
Idk anything about his reputation for being an asshole. He’s constantly getting work and tours with a consistent group and seems like a good dude, so I have my doubts, and I’m not interested in looking that up for myself when you’re not even willing to do it to prove it to me. And yes, hecklers do get tossed from his shows. He usually tries to get them to stop, and then if they don’t then he usually embarrasses them to the point that they leave on their own, but some are so shameless that they do need to be removed. That generally happens after the rest of the crowd gets so pissed off that a fight seems likely.
I’m not saying that there aren’t plants. I’m saying that I’m only seeing speculation and no actual proof to support that accusation. I’m not down with alleging that he’s a fraud when there’s no evidence to do so. Imagine destroying his livelihood just because you didn’t believe he could possibly be this good at his full time job lol. Comedians are notoriously good at this sort of thing.
Ahah, but how could a professional comedian - someone who is literally trained to be funny in front of an audience - be that good at being funny in front of an audience? Checkmate liberal!
Do these people have any idea how stupid they sound? This is the dumbest conspiracy theory of all time. Yes, some people are actually just really good at being witty on the spot. Not all stand up comedians just recite a bunch of prewritten jokes, most of them (especially the really good ones) teach themselves how to be improvisationally funny. These idiots sound like they’ve never seen an improv comedy show, or a British panel show or any other kind of improv comedy.
And the idea that it would be hard to get genuine hecklers by saying vaguely left wing stuff in America is even dumber. Sorry America but opinionated assholes are basically 90% of your population. If anything it’s surprising he doesn’t get more hecklers.
WTF does any of this have to do with politics? Seriously, are you really that person that injects the “checkmate libruls!” bullshit into every topic you find yourself in?
And, who are “these people?”
Do you mean these people with personal opinions that are derivative of their own observations? Because, man- I really hate to break it to you, but- that’s how shit works for everyone that thinks for themselves.
And since you made this political, I’ll say that maybe the reason you are so butt-hurt by the opinions of others lies within the fact that you people don’t like it when others think differently than what your own programming suggests.
Maybe it’s best that you work on learning not to concern yourself so much with politicizing people opinions of comedians and more time asking yourself whey you feel the need to do so to begin with…
mmmmkay?
And since you made this political, I’ll say that maybe the reason you are so butt-hurt by the opinions of others lies within the fact that you people don’t like it when others think differently than what your own programming suggests.
Yikes. Seems like you just proved their point lol. The “programming” you’re unhappy with is just critical thinking. Instead of assuming some grand conspiracy is at play, why not take a breath and consider different ideas for how things got to be the way that they are? And it’s really no secret that a lot of the hecklers are conservatives as they’re usually quite proud of that. Moderates to trump republicans to literal Nazis have heckled him. Acknowledging the reality of the political ideals of most of these hecklers is not politicizing this, it’s just pointing out facts. If that’s offensive to you, then maybe it’s you who is butt-hurt here.
Hilarious! Thanks for the laugh. Though I’m not going to apologize that I hurt your feeling by not liking your favorite comedian, I’ll just agree to disagree on something that is more than likely entirely irrelevant to both of us.
Go find an argument elsewhere.
Just look him up. There’s plant of people that have flowered with and for him that say he’s a huge asshole.
But for some reason, the internet loves protecting him.
There’s plant of people that have flowered with and for him that say he’s a huge asshole.
What? I’m really trying to understand, but you’re making it pretty difficult.
Just look him up.
It’s clear that you have no evidence or you wouldn’t keep telling me to do the research to find the evidence that supports your claims. I’m not sure why you think I care so much about this when you don’t even care enough to cite a single source. It’s not my job to prove you right here.
There’s really nothing unbelievable to me about his hecklers except for maybe the sheer quantity, but I’m not a comedian so maybe this isn’t actually so extreme. Maybe if I did 300 shows per year and filmed all of them, I’d have a similar trove, especially if tickets were relatively cheap and I had a reputation for being “that guy who owns hecklers”. I bet the truth is that he doesn’t plant hecklers, but every interaction with one is more content for the content farm, so he’s not actively interested in dissuading hecklers from being a problem. I’ve seen a video or two where it seemed like he was provoking somebody a little because they were quietly talking or not paying attention during the show, so by initiating over a minor thing I think he was inviting a real interruption. I don’t think he plants, but I think he welcomes drama. Maybe that’s not cool, but idk, it’s pretty much impossible to be a successful content creator without resorting to hooks or clickbait or elevating energies.
If you have proof, bring that bombshell to a journalist. If you don’t have proof and you just don’t like the guy, stop watching him.
It’s plain as day that no comedian in the world gets heckled at that frequency. That alone is enough to tell you something is up.
But there’s also tons of write-ups people have made that have worked with/for him to illustrate that he’s a huge asshole that would do that.
I’m not going to die on this hill though. I honestly don’t know why people go to such extremes to argue against someone opinions. I don’t care if or that you like this dude.
Source? Unless you can prove otherwise, I think I’m ready to call you a goddamn liar. I don’t think you’re qualified to say what a reasonable frequency of hecklers is, and you keep implying that there’s evidence but I’m not sure you’ve even seen any yourself. And if there are “tons of write-ups” on this, how do you know that they’re not just coming from people making shit up to try to destroy his career? This is why a source matters. The guy tours with the same group of people all the time. Did one of them do one of these “write-ups”? Or was it maybe one of his hecklers who was pissed off that they got tossed from one of his shows and so they wanted vengeance? Or a bitter ex? Just some hateful stranger who doesn’t like his face? Who?
I wouldn’t praise Hofstetter too much. His comedy is horrendous and he relies pretty much entirely on bringing in paid hecklers. Every time he shows up on PKA, he is not just unfunny but he kills all the enjoyment of the episode.
