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Rorus Raz posted:He forgot to add "A political caroonist thinks they're clever by doing a 'hot takes cartoon'". Plus at least one 'hot cakes cartoon', but that's just Dan Lacey's thing. 
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Thats our problem. The Matriarchy. Those bastards 
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Gilganixon posted:This is quite cool, I thought you drew it for a minute. Fat Joe Satriani is the cause of all our troubles.
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Axe-man posted:Thats our problem. The Matriarchy. Those bastards If the matriarchy was really that powerful wouldn't they be living in Dona Portago's house? :iamafag:
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I naturally didn't read that was there a zombie movie released recently or why is daimon green today?
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Jan 11, 2015 04:11
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Bor-Jesus Christ more like it.
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Jan 11, 2015 04:20
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Wanna know what I noticed? Not one news story referred to this as terrorism. Funny how that works.
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Fulchrum posted:Wanna know what I noticed? Not one news story referred to this as terrorism. Funny how that works. Was that stuff not even mentioned on the local news? Because from my understanding of America, a lot of that stuff sounds like things that might be happening weekly, and not worth reporting on the national news, especially since nobody got injured. I mean, America is a big country.
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Broken Cog posted:Was that stuff not even mentioned on the local news? Because from my understanding of America, a lot of that stuff sounds like things that might be happening weekly, and not worth reporting on the national news, especially since nobody got injured. I mean, America is a big country. If it hadn't been a white guy it would probably be all over national news.
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Jan 11, 2015 04:36
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Can someone please explain to me what Muir is trying to say here, I seriously don't get it.
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snakeandbake posted:Can someone please explain to me what Muir is trying to say here, I seriously don't get it. "TITTIES!" That help?
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Jan 11, 2015 04:45
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snakeandbake posted:Can someone please explain to me what Muir is trying to say here, I seriously don't get it. It's a bunch of lovely sex puns based around the idea that there will be a revolution of the bourgeois, (that Muir believes are the real "producers") as they strip away liberalism and feminism from our society to regain their rightful power. Damon considers himself a "producer". Damon hasn't had any recognizable sort of job since he and his wife did a faux Hannity&Combs talk radio show many, many years ago. Muir also considers himself a bourgeois "producer". Muir didn't have enough money to fix the hole in the roof of his shack and survives only on the donations of his fans.
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Jan 11, 2015 04:49
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Fulchrum posted:"TITTIES!" Amazingly, I had already noticed the titties (even checked the site for the uncensored version!), but what's he on about with regards to the middlemen, producers, feminism, bourgeois, etc. and what does it have to do with the attacks in France?
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Jan 11, 2015 04:51
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snakeandbake posted:Amazingly, I had already noticed the titties (even checked the site for the uncensored version!), but what's he on about with regards to the middlemen, producers, feminism, bourgeois, etc? Persecution complex giving way to really lame innuendos. e: Hey, I think I just summed up every DbD after Muir lost syndication!
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Jan 11, 2015 04:52
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Broken Cog posted:Was that stuff not even mentioned on the local news? Because from my understanding of America, a lot of that stuff sounds like things that might be happening weekly, and not worth reporting on the national news, especially since nobody got injured. I mean, America is a big country. The United States is admittedly a very violent country by the standards of most other developed nations, but bombings are not exactly a weekly thing. If this had been a different target and perpetrator, it would have been all over the national news.
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e_angst posted:Muir also considers himself a bourgeois "producer". Muir didn't have enough money to fix the hole in the roof of his shack and survives only on the donations of his fans.
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Mister Bates posted:The United States is admittedly a very violent country by the standards of most other developed nations, but bombings are not exactly a weekly thing. If this had been a different target and perpetrator, it would have been all over the national news. Hm, there's a fair bit of bombing here in Europe (From separatist groups and suchlike), and the vast majority of them fail, doesn't cause much damage or injuries, and therefore you don't hear much about them. Bombings usually don't get major coverage here unless they actually cause some casualties, serious property damage, or if it was a really close call. I just figured it might be a bit of the same in the states, especially with the amount of gun-related deaths you have. Does it get reported nationally if a spree shooter gets taken down before he manages to kill anyone? Edit: Actually that's a dumb question, he's not exactly a spree-shooter if he doesn't kill anyone. 
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e_angst posted:It's a bunch of lovely sex puns based around the idea that there will be a revolution of the bourgeois, (that Muir believes are the real "producers") as they strip away liberalism and feminism from our society to regain their rightful power. Damon considers himself a "producer". Damon hasn't had any recognizable sort of job since he and his wife did a faux Hannity&Combs talk radio show many, many years ago. Look at this guy not remembering that Damon made a SOFTWARE THING that made him millions because reasons. 
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We have significantly better controls on bomb-making material than we do on guns, so it's not surprising we'd have way more shootings than bombings.
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Broken Cog posted:Hm, there's a fair bit of bombing here in Europe (From separatist groups and suchlike), and the vast majority of them fail, doesn't cause much damage or injuries, and therefore you don't hear much about them. Bombings usually don't get major coverage here unless they actually cause some casualties, or if it was a really close call. I just figured it might be a bit of the same in the states, especially with the amount of gun-related deaths you have. Does it get reported nationally if a spree shooter gets taken down before he manages to kill anyone? It depends on the shooter's race and political motive. Same with bombings or any other sort of terrorist plot. A group of lefties that the FBI sweet-talked into trying to blow up a bridge, then immediately arrested for terrorism, got a few little blurbs on the national news a few years back despite literally not even getting to the point of building a bomb, while the attempted bombing of an MLK Day parade back in '11 or so barely even got any coverage on the local TV, despite the fact that there actually was a complete bomb there. e: Also, yeah, fertilizer is more heavily regulated in much of the US than guns are. Bombings are relatively rare compared to mass shootings because the materials are a lot harder to get; as such, they generally get more coverage, and are seen as more 'serious'. Mister Bates fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Jan 11, 2015 |
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Darkman Fanpage posted:Look at this guy not remembering that Damon made a SOFTWARE THING that made him millions because reasons. Chris Muir doesn't even remember that. Hell I don't think he remembers the bar that characters used to own.
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snakeandbake posted:Amazingly, I had already noticed the titties (even checked the site for the uncensored version!), but what's he on about with regards to the middlemen, producers, feminism, bourgeois, etc. and what does it have to do with the attacks in France? The liberals are the people that made the attack on CH possible, yet now they're claiming that they're the guardians of liberty. Bourgeois producers like Muir are the true guardians of liberty, though.
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Mister Bates posted:It depends on the shooter's race and political motive. Same with bombings or any other sort of terrorist plot. A group of lefties that the FBI sweet-talked into trying to blow up a bridge, then immediately arrested for terrorism, got a few little blurbs on the national news a few years back despite literally not even getting to the point of building a bomb, while the attempted bombing of an MLK Day parade back in '11 or so barely even got any coverage on the local TV, despite the fact that there actually was a complete bomb there. Like most things in the US, it has to actually kill people before we eventually forget about it.
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If you are the middleman then you aren't the producers.  The source image for that house looks really familiar but I don't know what it is from. i am harry posted:$50 says he's pulling food stamps.
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CampingCarl posted:The source image for that house looks really familiar but I don't know what it is from. Don Portago's house is literally a replica of Tony Stark's from the Iron Man movies.
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Gilganixon posted:I come here for the cartoons but I stay for the history lessons. Last year was a bit Great War themed, more medieval history this time round would be great thanks. A helpful thing to remember is that Muhammad and his followers drew from many traditions, but the most fundamental influence on Islam is Christianity. Christianity (in various flavors) dominated the cultural centers of the Middle East during the early Byzantine era, but to many the religion was seen as somewhat "foreign" -- too clerical, too fragmented, too bogged down by pointless theological disputes, too Greek. So while many Arabs espoused Christianity and most were familiar with its myths (rooted as they were in Semitic traditions shared by Jews and Arabs), there was a certain skepticism toward it that kept it from fully supplanting the more "local" gods. The genius of Islam is that it embraced (or appropriated, depending on your perspective) enough elements of Christianity to be appealing and relatable to its adherents while also being critical enough of the churches of the time to mollify those who hated or distrusted them. Early Christian converts to Islam didn't necessarily see themselves as joining a new religion at all. To many, the pure faith in the one true God (or "Allah" if you're an idiot who doesn't understand how translation works), unfettered by "pagan" idolatry, Greek theosophy, or Roman imperial control, represented what Christianity should have been all along. Why is any of this relevant to us today, or political cartoons in particular? Well, think about it. Islam has defined itself in opposition to Christianity for a very, very long time. Early Muslim critiques of a "corrupt" and "decadent' Christianity find modern echoes in denunciations of the "godless" West. In both cases the point is not to attack what it is to be Christian/Western, but to dictate what it is to be Muslim/Arab. The phrase "clash of civilizations" may be a 20th century invention, but the ideology itself is much older. The point of "sharpening the contradictions" isn't to attack outsiders, but rather to control insiders. When a shithead like Glenn McCoy draws his disgusting Arab caricatures, it looks like he's attacking an out-group ("take that you filthy terrorists!") but he's actually trying to control his own group ("think like I do or you're just like those filthy terrorists!"). He and his tribe may say they're just mocking extremists and rant righteously about the power of the pen, but at it's all a bit disingenuous when you consider how many Muslim radicals are in his audience. The same critique, sadly, can probably be made of Charlie Hebdo. Though their cartoons are more mocking than hateful, it seems highly unlikely that they counted many FN supporters, Muslim fundamentalists, or conservative Christians among their readership. Now don't get me wrong, mocking your political opponents as a way of firing up or amusing your supporters is a long and, in many cases worthy, tradition in its own right (we certainly do it often enough), but there's nothing terribly revolutionary or transgressive about it and the typical response from the other side is generally "well, you would say that, wouldn't you?" I'd be interested to know how often CH challenged the prejudices and pieties of its own (secular lefty) readership, because, to my mind, true satire is about forcing your audience to come to terms with the contradictions and absurdities in their own worldview, not just mocking them in others. True satire is also really goddamn hard to pull off. Rorus Raz posted:He forgot to add "A political caroonist thinks they're clever by doing a 'hot takes cartoon'".
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i am harry posted:$50 says he's pulling food stamps. Well, if Social Security and Medicaid was good enough Ayn Rand, it should be good enough for Muir.
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Jan 11, 2015 05:34
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CampingCarl posted:One time he didn't want to make over a certain amount of money which was theorized because it would put him outside the bracket for aid and/or he misunderstands taxes. Muir's an idiot, basically.
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Jan 11, 2015 05:48
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Pththya-lyi posted:The liberals are the people that made the attack on CH possible, yet now they're claiming that they're the guardians of liberty. Bourgeois producers like Muir are the true guardians of liberty, though. I still don't really get it, so I'm going to just assume that the best explanation is "Chris 'I don't understand marginal tax brackets' Muir is a loving idiot" (which applies to pretty much every single DbD).
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Op-Ed from Kreider today:quote:Much as I admire Steve Bell’s caricatures of George W. Bush as a dung-flinging chimpanzee, it’s hard to imagine them landing the former president in The Hague. Most daily editorial cartoonists in the United States produce work about as incisive as a prime-time sitcom, and the rest are consigned to niche markets where they preach to their demographic choirs. I have to wonder whether any of my colleagues felt the same queasy mix of emotions I did on hearing about the assassinations in Paris: beneath the outrage, sorrow and solidarity, a small, irrational twinge of guilt that we’re not doing anything worth shooting us over. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/opinion/sunday/when-art-is-dangerous-or-not.html?_r=0
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beepsandboops posted:Op-Ed from Kreider today: He's great
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Pththya-lyi posted:Don Portago's house is literally a replica of Tony Stark's from the Iron Man movies.
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CampingCarl posted:I don't think so unless there is another besides that curvy house. The one in DbD is one of those modern blocky houses. It's a different house in today's strip, but before it's literally been the curvy Stark house.
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To be honest, I'm still kind of surprised no one ever even attempted to take a shot at Kreider over his Guns Are For Pussies comic.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:To be honest, I'm still kind of surprised no one ever even attempted to take a shot at Kreider over his Guns Are For Pussies comic.  
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It's a good thing Tim Kreider has never done anything racially questionable! From "What Now for the Giant Squid", Oct. 5, 2005:
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