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zoux posted:Haha like demonstrations of how austerity measures don't grow economies ended the practice worldwide forever? Well yeah but it would still be nice to have some sort of recent example for the pearl-clutchy-type people whose assholes clamp shut when you talk about decriminalizing drugs or something. Chaos in the streets!
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Stultus Maximus posted:Today's Prick City brought to you by Ted Rall and Rand Paul Did Prickly City take a break or did people just stop posting it? Been a while
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loquacius posted:I think the point is that they're cutting the city's income by not ticketing people for stuff. Which as a non-NYC-city-employee is fine by me! Court costs and fees are a massive problem for low income people who get put into the criminal justice system, often putting them in jail for missing payments and fines. These are how governments pay for CJ rather than through a progressive tax system, and if you bring up just how punishing and onerous these fees and fines are on the people who bear them they just say "well maybe they shouldn't commit crimes then  "
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Taciturn Tactician posted:Did Prickly City take a break or did people just stop posting it? Been a while He went through another boring "why can't we all just get along?" stretch.
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loquacius posted:Yeah uh these guys know it's not America the predator drones are flying over, right? They have been since 06 I think? It's been going on for a while, initially they were just used for border and maritime patrol (leading to the interesting incident where students at UT-Austin "stole" one by spoofing its GPS). When Christopher Dorner was being hunted they were first deployed on American soil for the purposes of surveilling american citizens/a manhunt. There are no currently known cases of them being deployed with weapons, but that's a matter of time. They won't be using hellfire missiles, but there is ongoing work on being able to put sniper rifles and nonlethal weaponry on them.
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Beautiful. The use of costumes and symbols rather than labels, the Job Creator paying with a card while the worker pays with dollars and coins. Ouch.
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Judge is on a fairytale tear lately. Outbreak of Jerms below:     
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loquacius posted:I think the point is that they're cutting the city's income by not ticketing people for stuff. Which as a non-NYC-city-employee is fine by me! I don't know about NYC in particular, but the City I worked for basically none of the revenue raised by ticketing went back to the City proper. It pretty much all stayed in the Public Safety budget. If this is true in NY, then it's pretty funny that the cops are basically robbing themselves. Zeroisanumber posted:I was out with my sister and some friends of hers in Manhattan and we got ticketed by a cop because we were shooting the poo poo with him while we were drunk at 2am and then he accidentally slipped over a curb and fell on his rear end. He got mad and wrote us tickets for drunk and disorderly. We didn't even laugh, and one of our guys offered to help him up, but he was just pissed off and fined us for being in the general vicinity. This is one thing that always makes me wary around cops. There's a million stories like this and since ignorance of a law is no excuse a cop can basically ticket you at will for something you didn't even know was illegal. I had a friend once who got a public intox ticket because he was "acting drunk." No breathalyzer or anything.
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Stultus Maximus posted:He went through another boring "why can't we all just get along?" stretch. There were these.  
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Y'know, I'm beginning to suspect that the slowdown is actually the NYPD's way of responding to criticism without looking like they're caving to pressure. As Bors pointed out, it is a move toward more liberal policing practices, but this way they can still act like they're standing up to the mayor and stuff!
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loquacius posted:Y'know, I'm beginning to suspect that the slowdown is actually the NYPD's way of responding to criticism without looking like they're caving to pressure. As Bors pointed out, it is a move toward more liberal policing practices, but this way they can still act like they're standing up to the mayor and stuff! No it's exactly not that.
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loquacius posted:Y'know, I'm beginning to suspect that the slowdown is actually the NYPD's way of responding to criticism without looking like they're caving to pressure. As Bors pointed out, it is a move toward more liberal policing practices, but this way they can still act like they're standing up to the mayor and stuff!
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Nativity In Black posted:This is one thing that always makes me wary around cops. There's a million stories like this and since ignorance of a law is no excuse a cop can basically ticket you at will for something you didn't even know was illegal. I had a friend once who got a public intox ticket because he was "acting drunk." No breathalyzer or anything. In some states it is actually illegal to pretend to be drunk. I don't know why, so don't ask.
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zoux posted:No it's exactly not that. That may not have been an entirely serious theory 
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This horrible poo poo that Republicans condone and encourage? That makes me hate government and want it smaller! So I'm voting for Republicans. Allie/Stantis crying over police brutality and torture is the biggest friggin pile of crocodile tears. Especially for Allie.
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colonel_korn posted:
The dumbest cartoonist here likes the dumbest member of Congress. Shocker. Also, Branco, Gomer Pyle isn't getting the Speakership in any shape or form, so...
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D.N. Nation posted:This horrible poo poo that Republicans condone and encourage? That makes me hate government and want it smaller! So I'm voting for Republicans.
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D.N. Nation posted:This horrible poo poo that Republicans condone and encourage? That makes me hate government and want it smaller! So I'm voting for Republicans. We must cut spending to improve things that broke because of cut spending. You see: One heavy set anthropomorphised elephant. Uncle Sam. The elephant is strangling Uncle Sam. The Elephant is shouting, with a crazed look in his eye. "We have to tighten our grip so he can make something of himself!" Give me the pullitzer. The answer is always tax breaks and spending cuts.
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I'm not a supporter of John Boehner, but at least he knows how to lead a caucus away from their worst impulses most of the time and how to thwart his political rivals. But Louie Gohmert is just a loudmouthed, grandstanding idiot, and it says a lot about the GOP polity that the base is totally behind the idea of making a barking non-entity Speaker of the House.
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Samurai Sanders posted:I still can't believe that there are people who DON'T think this way. THAT, and not the actual situation, is like something out of a political cartoon. As a MOS in NYC I can confirm there are people who think there's some kind of war against cops (and by extension Fire and EMS somehow). Of course it's mostly, but not even close to entirely, white people. Siege mentality is a hell of a thing.
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Zeroisanumber posted:I'm not a supporter of John Boehner, but at least he knows how to lead a caucus away from their worst impulses most of the time and how to thwart his political rivals. But Louie Gohmert is just a loudmouthed, grandstanding idiot, and it says a lot about the GOP polity that the base is totally behind the idea of making a barking non-entity Speaker of the House. I have no idea what the appeal of him is to anyone, anywhere.
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A bit late of a reply, but this is the most impact I've ever seen in a political cartoon.
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Post 9-11 User posted:Outbreak of Jerms below: I never thought about it till now, but his toons are basically if Lester had suffered from a lifetime of alcohol abuse in South Africa.
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steinrokkan posted:Some recent-ish Horseys: The article contained a link to my favorite Horsey of last year.  Just a reminder of how surreal last year was, for a time small children and infants fleeing violence were regarded as one of the greatest threats facing the nation by the right wing. Surprisingly, I don't think any of those cartoons were nominated for a gay abortion.
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Zeroisanumber posted:I was out with my sister and some friends of hers in Manhattan and we got ticketed by a cop because we were shooting the poo poo with him while we were drunk at 2am and then he accidentally slipped over a curb and fell on his rear end. He got mad and wrote us tickets for drunk and disorderly. We didn't even laugh, and one of our guys offered to help him up, but he was just pissed off and fined us for being in the general vicinity. Not a cartoon but relevant to your story. You should basically never talk to cops, ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
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Rorus Raz posted:Slacks Elephant The first thing that popped into my mind when I saw this was the song during the credits of Battleblock Theater. "Buckle your pants! Buckle your pants! Buckle-buckle-buckle your pants!"
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I dont know posted:Just a reminder of how surreal last year was, for a time small children and infants fleeing violence were regarded as one of the greatest threats facing the nation by the right wing. Surprisingly, I don't think any of those cartoons were nominated for a gay abortion. That sums up the past decade or so.
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colonel_korn posted:
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D.N. Nation posted:Gohmert got all of three votes just now for the Speakership. Nice going, Branco. I want you to find five lies in that political cartoon and then do the same in every single Branco cartoon ever.
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D.N. Nation posted:Gohmert got all of three votes just now for the Speakership. Nice going, Branco. I'd like to think that its a symptom of a schism in the GOP but #NoBoehner is itself a GOP talking point. Republicans versus RINOs is mere political theater as much as Democrats versus GOP or the entire Tea Koch thing.
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QwertyAsher posted:This is a dream sequence from twin peaks i'm pretty sure  I was gonna say, "Guest concept artist David Lynch here" cause what even the gently caress
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D.N. Nation posted:Gohmert got all of three votes just now for the Speakership. Nice going, Branco. Was "Dewey defeats Truman" ever a politoon?
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