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MechaCrash
Jan 1, 2013

Here's to another year. I am sure things will grow increasingly insufferable around the election, and win or lose, the right wingers are going to be horrible about the results of the election. :smith:

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MechaCrash
Jan 1, 2013

One of the big examples of evidence not mattering for policies is Universal Basic Income. Every single place and time it has been tried, the results have been a resounding success, but that just doesn't matter, something something commies.

MechaCrash
Jan 1, 2013

Larryb posted:

Green Day has been doing this since at least the W Bush era and chuds are just now noticing?

I don't know why you're surprised. These dumbfucks have the media literacy of a moldy turnip. Remember, "Born in the USA" is about how the system will chew up the working man and spit him out in the gutter to die, and Reagan made it his loving election anthem!

And then proceeded to prove the song right.

MechaCrash
Jan 1, 2013


Welcome to the unlimited and unfettered capitalism you simped for. I hope you choke on it.

MechaCrash
Jan 1, 2013

What does Rall think will happen if it's ruled that Trump can't run for president on account of all the treason? Biden will just run unopposed? Does he really think that there's nobody the Republicans can grab to throw up on stage?

MechaCrash
Jan 1, 2013

L. Ron DeSantis posted:

Kellies nomination: Too Many Words and also it reminds me of an Ed Gamble cartoon where people are just talking and there's no joke or metaphor.
Also, did Rick McKee's politics change? Back when he used to be posted a few years ago he was a real right-wing shithead but the last couple cartoons I've seen here are pretty inoffensive. Hell the Neuralink one got a little chuckle out of me.

Garrison seems to be putting out more cartoons than usual lately, here's another one already:


I'm not reading that verbal diarrhea that passes for thought under the comic. Is there an explanation in that sludge as to why "let's bomb Iran" is a bad thing now? I know the real reason is "because it might be a Democrat that gets to spill the blood of countless in an orgy of nuclear hellfire, that should be our guy engaging in wanton slaughter," but I want to know what the alleged reason is. Not bad enough to subject myself to Garrison's pseudothoughts directly, mind you.

MechaCrash
Jan 1, 2013

KennyMan666 posted:

Kellies nomination: Most incomprehensible

So, uh... AI is being shackled by Taylor Swift and fake porn? Who are friends? But friendship bracelets are supposed to be worn by two or more separate people, who are friends.

Whatever the message is supposed to be here, it feels extremely mangled.

It's poorly conveyed, but the gist of it is that Twitter got flooded with AI-generated fake porn of Taylor Swift, who actually has the clout to fight back, so there may actually be some hammers coming down and regulations being drafted.

MechaCrash
Jan 1, 2013

It is also demoralizing because there is an upper limit to the number of times we can do this dance where they say "vote for us to prevent horrible things," and then the horrible thing happens anyway, and they go "well just vote harder."

I distinctly recall, right after Roe was struck down, they said "vote to protect abortion rights" and the first response was "WE DID."

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MechaCrash
Jan 1, 2013

Guavanaut posted:

Says the man who regularly shits his pants over "you will own nothing, and be happy." Guess it's the happy part he's scared of.

Just for complaining..?

I wish we lived in the world right-wingers are so terrified of. :smith:

MechaCrash
Jan 1, 2013

Technowolf posted:

Kellies nomination: Worst False Equivalence

"Biden has done bad things!"
"Trump has also done bad things, promises to do more bad things, and would gleefully do this bad thing but even worse than Biden does."
"SHUT UP!"

It is a flavor of dipshittery I more equate with centrists than whatever the gently caress Rall is, but some people have just a complete lack of pattern recognition and get hostile when you point out things like "somehow I don't think the aggressive white nationalist is acting in good faith when bringing up alleged plagiarism" or "I do not think Trump will be less terrible than Biden at this" or "I am not particularly interested in the opinion of BasedKekistani1488 about Sweet Baby." The super short version being "Sweet Baby is a consulting firm for making video games more diverse, the latest iteration of Gamer Gate is filling their diapers over it.

And, as I'm sure has been brought up in this thread before: anything people remotely on our side of the political spectrum (which, according to Rall, includes him; his behavior doesn't bear this out but we'll take him at his word for now) consider good about Biden, Trump will do stuff they consider bad. Anything they consider Biden bad about, Trump will be devastatingly worse on.

MechaCrash
Jan 1, 2013


Wasn't the problem not with electric cars in general, but specifically with Teslas? On account of Teslas are badly made deathtraps?

MechaCrash
Jan 1, 2013

Trapezium Dave posted:

Rall: Baltimore Bridge Disaster - Choose Your Explanation

I am not a structural engineer, but I'm pretty sure the age of the bridge wasn't a factor. That thing could've had a ribbon cutting ceremony the day before, and it'd still go down when a ship that size hits it.

MechaCrash
Jan 1, 2013

Skios posted:

A.F. Branco



There is a huge number of reasons this poo poo is infuriating, but the big ugly one that is the elephant in the room is "people with literal Nazi flags showed up to CPAC and none of them did anything about it, the Republicans refused to tell Nazi supporters to gently caress off, and let's not forget the torch wielding mob howling JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US a few years back."

MechaCrash
Jan 1, 2013


I went to a presentation about this tornado a few years ago at the local rec center. It sticks in my memory because the presenter said "I'm sure we all remember where we were when the tornado happened."

I'm pretty sure I was the only one there who hadn't been born yet.

MechaCrash
Jan 1, 2013

I think we are well past the point where we can say Tats is "going mask-off" about anything. He is a full on unapologetic Nazi, and has been for a while.

MechaCrash
Jan 1, 2013

Skios posted:

A.F. Branco


'Palestien'

As always, he's not angry that they're doing it. He's angry that he's not allowed to.

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MechaCrash
Jan 1, 2013

Mordaedil posted:

I love the random Winslow cactus in the background. Might get closer prompts if you state the art style should be closer to Calvin & Hobbes, but I dunno if any AI is trained on that.

Officially, probably not.

Unofficially, I don't think the people behind the planet burning plagiarism engines really gave a poo poo about what they were shoveling into the hoppers, and they have already done plenty of whining about how they can't make money if they aren't allowed to steal the entirety of human culture as training data.

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