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Ahahaha, so is their (Conservative Political Cartoonists) reality or our reality Bizarro-world?
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Jerusalem posted:Ahahaha, so is their reality or our reality Bizarro-world? This one's honestly a little hard to read. The fact that "Final Nail" is in quotes and the many other nails makes it clear that he doesn't believe the embargo was working or doing anything that would lead to democracy; there were just too many other things in the way. But the fact that removing the embargo is a nail in the coffin at all makes it seem he believes that the embargo was still a good thing in some way.
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Jan 6, 2015 03:21
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"Any day now" is a cornerstone of conservative political philosophy. It applies to so many things.
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The joke is that she responds to all the acronyms with an acronym of her own. But "lolz" isn't itself an acronym, it's a terrible Internet conjugation of the acronym for "laugh out loud." The hell does the Z stand for? Or maybe I'm not up to date with Muir's hip lingo, perhaps "LOLZ" stands for something else entirely. Probably about Zed. Or maybe he hosed up his own joke, who knows?
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As a patent clerk, wasn't Edison the government man himself? If anything he's an example of a corrupt government stooge loving over the little guy.
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Suitaru posted:The joke is that she responds to all the acronyms with an acronym of her own. But "lolz" isn't itself an acronym, it's a terrible Internet conjugation of the acronym for "laugh out loud." The hell does the Z stand for? Or maybe I'm not up to date with Muir's hip lingo, perhaps "LOLZ" stands for something else entirely. Probably about Zed. Or maybe he hosed up his own joke, who knows? Also, lolz or lulz is a (plurale tantum) noun, not a verb.
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Karnegal posted:As a patent clerk, wasn't Edison the government man himself? If anything he's an example of a corrupt government stooge loving over the little guy. That's literally what happened. Edison used to work a desk, steal patents from applicants, and resubmit them under his own name.
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Jan 6, 2015 03:43
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Darkman Fanpage posted:This one guy made a thing one time and now we can never improve on it gently caress you if you try. Well hey, that's all three Abrahamic religions in a nutshell!
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Removing the embargo is the final step before we can ship Cuba a big box of democracy via new economic pressures. agc.
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 I was compelled to do this, I really can't explain why. You lot have loving infected me.  Also, I hope you all enjoyed your first Thomas but don't let Taciturn Tactician's post lead you into thinking he's a one trick pony - no, along with his hatred of migrants he also has a truly lovecraftian sense of scale:  He can't draw people for poo poo either, unless those people are either Bod or Postman Pat.
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Jan 6, 2015 03:50
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nah guys Edison was obviously a CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY who worked 20 hours a day unlike that lazy shiftless serb Tesla.
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Jurgan posted:I'm thinking dress-wearing elephant. Rorus, you are needed.
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Nikola Tesla posted:The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. Several European countries and a number of states of the American Union sterilize the criminal and the insane. This is not sufficient. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal. seeing nerds lionize him just because Edison was a douchebag is pretty annoying.
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FTR I only added the Tesla bit because I like saying the phrase "lazy, shiftless [ethnicity]" I actually don't care much for Tesla.
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Small Frozen Thing posted:seeing nerds lionize him just because Edison was a douchebag is pretty annoying. I don't know, that was a pretty popular scientific idea then, it's not like that's especially damning given the context. I mean don't get me wrong Tesla was absolutely not perfect but "he supported what seemed like sensible, ethical science at the time but turned out to be terrible" doesn't seem that bad to me.
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"He had some bad ideas" also does not counter out the good ideas he had regarding other things. Just makes him not exactly a person you want to have a conversation with.
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Drew Sheneman works for NewJersey.com (https://www.nj.com), a collection of new Jersey newspapers. While often mistaken for Ramierez due to his use of cross hatching, he has Good Opinions and often draws about Governor Chris Christie. He has been an editorial cartoonist in New Jersey since 1998. 1It'll be fun to watch the race to the bottom that's about to ensue as these two grovel and beg for the limited pool of GOP donors. Let the pandering begin in 5...4...3...2...  2I am a Philadelphia Eagles fan. It's not something I chose, because who would. [...] That's why it always mystifies me when someone, like our esteemed Governor, feels justified in picking a team to which they have no familial or geographical association. This is football, not Chipotle. YOU DON'T GET TO CHOOSE! You root for the team you were born with, not the one with the coolest helmets! Your team is something inflicted upon you, not chosen on a whim. Your team is something to be endured, lamented and occasionally, if you're lucky or a Patriots fan, celebrated. Christie was born and raised in Jersey. He should have spent his weekend hammering ten penny nails into a John Idzik voodoo doll or texting Jerry Reese a list of free-agent offensive linemen, not hugging Jerry Jones' waxy head in an Arlington, TX luxury box.  3The first summit he attends is gonna go pear shaped as soon as he tells Putin to "Sit down and shut the hell up!"
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You know, Muir jumps from one issue to another so often and so without closure that I have to wonder what the ratio is for standard conservative talking points versus really obscure or outright false stuff that only a few talk about, or to matters of actual public discourse. I imagine it's 50:49:1 or so. At least the other conservative cartoonists keep harping on the same poo poo repeatedly (and in tandem, I wonder if there's a schedule or something; they kept talking about Benghazi way after it was disproved and put a hell of a lot of focus on Ebola and Gruber for suspiciously similar lengths of time with one another). e: made sentences less bad.
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Fulchrum posted:And once again I have to ask, on this Nega-D&D politoons thread, do they have an evil version of Pants Donkey? 
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Rorus Raz posted:Slacks Elephant 
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Rorus Raz posted:Slacks Elephant Goldman Slacks?
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:I don't know, that was a pretty popular scientific idea then, it's not like that's especially damning given the context. I mean don't get me wrong Tesla was absolutely not perfect but "he supported what seemed like sensible, ethical science at the time but turned out to be terrible" doesn't seem that bad to me. Edison himself was in favor of eugenics... But not to the point of "our foolish pity has prevented us from removing the untermenschen." It's like Lovecraft's racism, people try to defend it by going "but everyone was racist back then", but really, Lovecraft was racist even by his time's standards. Shugojin posted:"He had some bad ideas" also does not counter out the good ideas he had regarding other things. Just makes him not exactly a person you want to have a conversation with. Tesla had a lot of really good ideas, and a few really stupid ones. Unfortunately for the world, he become obsessed with one of the stupid ones and wasted the last decade of his life trying to do something pointless and silly. I Killed GBS fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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Muscle Tracer posted:Goldman Slacks?
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Rorus Raz posted:Slacks Elephant Rorus Raz posted:Slackyderm
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Rorus Raz posted:Slacks Elephant You are the thing that makes this place worth coming to. Rorus Raz posted:Slackyderm Goddamn man, pace yourself. Can't use all thaty magic all at once.
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Small Frozen Thing posted:Edison himself was in favor of eugenics... But not to the point of "our foolish pity has prevented us from removing the untermenschen." It's like Lovecraft's racism, people try to defend it by going "but everyone was racist back then", but really, Lovecraft was racist even by his time's standards. Attempting to experimentally prove quantum physics has broken many a mathematician and physicist. 
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In the spirit of the new thread, I went looking for what local cartoonists the Twin Cities have (other than Steve Sack, who I honestly quite like but already gets posted pretty regularly). Thus, I found Kirk Anderson, who was on staff at the St. Paul Pioneer Press for 8 years (apparently mostly during the late 90s and early 2000s). He has very, very Good Opinions, and still puts out one or two cartoons a year: 1... but other than the odd cartoon has more or less stopped drawing (he had I think 2 in 2014, 1 in 2013, 1 in 2011 and then none between then and 2004). However. If you go back to the Bush years, he has some  cartoons that would make Priggee jealous. Some of them are pretty dated: 2...but many, many, MANY others are still so ridiculously relevant that I had to double-check that they were posted ten years ago, and not ten weeks:  3 4 5 6 7(I literally shouted "holy poo poo!" out loud when I saw this) It's a shame he's stopped; I feel like he would be one of the thread favorites, up there with Bennett, were he still active.
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Political Cartoons 2015: Sometimes You Just Gotta Lolz 
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Small Frozen Thing posted:Edison himself was in favor of eugenics... But not to the point of "our foolish pity has prevented us from removing the untermenschen." It's like Lovecraft's racism, people try to defend it by going "but everyone was racist back then", but really, Lovecraft was racist even by his time's standards. The weird thing about lovecraft is he probably wouldn't have been anywhere near as good at portraying terrifying unknowns had he not been so goddamn xenophobic in real life. I don't know how I feel about this.
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Holy gently caress, that's hard-hitting.
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Rorus Raz posted:Slacks Elephant
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I really like the lettering on these two, it adds a nice extra touch to the feel of the cartoon.
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Rorus Raz posted:Slacks Elephant God bless you sir hahaha
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:The weird thing about lovecraft is he probably wouldn't have been anywhere near as good at portraying terrifying unknowns had he not been so goddamn xenophobic in real life. I don't know how I feel about this. Innsmouth is by far my favorite concept by him and it really only is so memorable because of his grotesque racism. EDIT - I say concept because I think Lovecraft's work functions best as a setting, a setting other better writers can work with. Speaking of which, is there any other writer for whom actual writers can basically sell fanfiction of their works? Dr. Killjoy fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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Occultatio posted:In the spirit of the new thread, I went looking for what local cartoonists the Twin Cities have (other than Steve Sack, who I honestly quite like but already gets posted pretty regularly). Thus, I found Kirk Anderson, who was on staff at the St. Paul Pioneer Press for 8 years (apparently mostly during the late 90s and early 2000s). He has very, very Good Opinions, and still puts out one or two cartoons a year: I remember that first one making waves when it was posted last year. That last one is straight up uncomfortable. That's exactly what Rall wants to be and can't pull off. Nativity In Black fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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Here's another unfortunately timeless one from him.
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Rugoberta Munchu posted:Here's another unfortunately timeless one from him. holy poo poo e: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wyeth#Christina_Olson
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Dr. Killjoy posted:Innsmouth is by far my favorite concept by him and it really only is so memorable because of his grotesque racism. Stephanie Meyer.
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