Boiled Water posted:

Amused to Death posted:

For more content, Rinehart who is now the world's richest woman, has recently said poor people are poor because they're lazy drunks.

Ogantai posted:

Chamale posted:

Michael Ramirez is a loving hack and has always been a loving hack.

quote:

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — They seem to be on every street corner. Police officers riding bicycles, horses and golf carts that look like baby Humvees. Metal barricades surround all of Tampa's government buildings. State police, FBI, the Secret Service — some in riot gear — throng the city's streets surrounding the Republican National Convention.

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The American Civil Liberties Union expressed concern about Tampa's ban of poles, posts and rope from the so-called "event zone." The items can be used to hang banners, prop up signs and make puppets (mostly protesters have used hand and sock puppets, but larger ones are made of papier mache and held together with planks or 2 X 4s).

"Some of these restrictions make sense from a security standpoint," said Baylor Johnson, a spokesman for the Florida ACLU. "But who are you keeping safe by telling someone they can't bring in a puppet?"

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During some of the actual protests, the number of law enforcement officers has rivaled the number of demonstrators.

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Even some of the Republicans in town are shocked.

"It does feel kind of, how shall I put it, a little claustrophobic," said Andrew Richner, 20, from Detroit, whose father is a Michigan delegate. "We're all closed in."

emfive posted:

[edit] goddamnit I did attach an image

hold on ... oh there it is

source

Spirit Tree posted:

Also can we make it a megarule of the thread that if you've just posted a picture of a statue or linked to a google maps picture of a Gujarati town, you have to give some actual context instead of assuming people are loving psychic or know everything you do?

Spirit Tree posted:

Also can we make it a megarule of the thread that if you've just posted a picture of a statue or linked to a google maps picture of a Gujarati town, you have to give some actual context instead of assuming people are loving psychic or know everything you do?

Fried Chicken posted:

Armyman25 posted:

Labor Day Weekend!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDd64suDz1A


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHeQeHstrsc

Fried Chicken posted:

Rand alPaul posted:

He's the biggest hack of them all, he just draws big ships or planes and then labels them DEBT or CONGRESS. I can't believe what it takes to win a Pulitzer for Political Cartoons, and a good 95% of cartoonists in the US are right-wing shills.

Compare this garbage with Bell or Rowson from the British cartoon thread, and it's an indictment of how smutty and lowbrow the American media has become:

Forums Terrorist posted:

Reminder that whenever Bell or Rowson are posted in the Polititoons thread people start bitching about how either they don't get it and it needs labels (usually after bitching about how American cartoons are full of labels ) or complaining about the art style so I guess they're not the cartoons you want but the cartoons you deserve.

Armyman25 posted:

Labor Day Weekend!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDd64suDz1A


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHeQeHstrsc

Forums Terrorist posted:

I wonder how they'd react to Ralph Steadman.



I love the naked putrescence of British comic art.

Fluoride Jones posted:

Someone posted some Steadman cartoons in that thread and I think like almost every reply was "" Yeah, the reaction to the brittoons in that thread were just embarrassing as gently caress. I know next to nothing about british politics and culture and even I could understand them.

R. Mute posted:

Why is America's labour day in september?

Forums Terrorist posted:

Reminder that whenever Bell or Rowson are posted in the Polititoons thread people start bitching about how either they don't get it and it needs labels (usually after bitching about how American cartoons are full of labels ) or complaining about the art style so I guess they're not the cartoons you want but the cartoons you deserve.

Also to be honest without the scare factor of LF the polititoons thread is full of GBS rejects running tired LF memes like Pants On The Ground donkey or Groverhaus into the ground and posting page after page of "ugh gently caress Muir/Rall/Lester/Ramirez he's such a bad cartoonist"

cheerfullydrab posted:

I stopped reading the cartoons thread after years and years because it was getting way too far into just making fun of wacky obscure right-wing nutjobs. As in it was way more and more about "cartoons" you'd only find on someone's blog and less about stuff you'd see on an actual editorial page in print. For example, I started skipping the posts about DBD, but I realized after a little bit that that was a huge part of the thread. I miss my toons though, has the discussion changed at all?

Forums Terrorist posted:

Reminder that whenever Bell or Rowson are posted in the Polititoons thread people start bitching about how either they don't get it and it needs labels (usually after bitching about how American cartoons are full of labels ) or complaining about the art style so I guess they're not the cartoons you want but the cartoons you deserve.

Also to be honest without the scare factor of LF the polititoons thread is full of GBS rejects running tired LF memes like Pants On The Ground donkey or Groverhaus into the ground and posting page after page of "ugh gently caress Muir/Rall/Lester/Ramirez he's such a bad cartoonist"

R. Mute posted:

Why is America's labour day in september?


This is a campaign ad by the extreme-right Flemish-nationalist party Vlaams Belang. On it, you can see Saïd I., robber, who is told in clear terms 'Out! No excuses!'. There are several more of these ads, with more foreign-looking people with foreign-sounding names committing all kinds of crimes. (though to be fair, there's also a child-rapist with a Flemish name, so... there's that) VB has three selling points: racism, Flemish-nationalism and fascism (tough on crime!). Unfortunately for them, N-VA is doing much better on the Flemish-nationalism front, so they decided to double down on racism and fascism. This is the result.

Alas, the campaign went awry when people horribly misinterpreted the otherwise hate-free campaign. In the past few weeks, strung up puppets have been appearing in Antwerp, each with a sign with a name from the VB campaign on them. Shocked and dismayed, VB is now suing the unknown puppet-murderers for doing something they would themselves never ever dream of.

Totally unrelated:

Fluo posted:

It's funny because when ever I posted a handful I'd get so much hate. Also they somehow said they were bad artists (hand drawn / water colours), generally I'd just get "BLURGH IDK IT DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH LABELS".

I seriously had people in the last polititoons thread complain about how these were not "politicial" but "pee pee poo poo he is bad president".

Fluoride Jones posted:

Did you try Riddell? He seems more the speed of that thread.

Small Frozen Thing posted:

I liked the brittoons. Except the one guy who would post the huge sets of super-low-resolution ones, so they'd all end up merging into one big brownish-yellow smudge, that was pretty annoying. That's probably just my bad eyesight, though.

1stGear posted:

People didn't mind the Bell and Rowson cartoons when they were understandable but when its something like this:



and the poster just drops it with no explanation as to what it means, its not unreasonable for an American-centric site to be confused. Additionally, Rowson in particular has a really detailed and dense art style that relies heavily on symbols that only makes sense to Brits and turns everyone into repulsive goblins. His cartoons are really hard to look at some times.



Non-cartoon chat:



See, they totally need those APC's guys.