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Humor as a political change tool/tactic
Find many creative ideas and tools at BeautifulTrouble: “…Public protests use humor and ridicule to generate laughter and promote solidarity. These “rhetorical charms,”[1] or what we define as “stylistic seductions based on surprising uses of language and/or images designed to provoke laughter, disrupt ordinary arguments, and counter taken-for-granted truths,” include time-tested methods of humor such as satire and ridicule, but also include creative appropriations and uses of graphic icons and images that further demean the object of the ridicule, such as a dictator or a known terrorist or a violent extremist group,” e.g., TACO and funny nicknames like:
- Mango Mussolini
- Kumquat Despot
- Cheddar Ceausescu
- Tangerine Palpatine (master of Darth Vader
- Velveeta Voldemort (Harry Potter)
- Fanta Menace
- Manchurian Cantaloupe
- Coppertone Caligula
- Needy Amin
- Orange Julius Seize Her