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Post 9-11 User posted:That is what I was saying? If not for this thread and the politics thread i would not be confused.
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FREE SPEECH http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/france-begins-jailing-people-ironic-comments quote:A 16-year-old high school student was taken into police custody on Thursday and indicted for “defending terrorism,” national broadcaster France 3 reports. If that sounds very similar to that Charlie Hebdo cover, it's because it literally is:  So uh, watch out with the edits if you'll be travelling to France anytime soon, I guess.
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Post 9-11 User posted:Am I being a carehard moron by pointing out that this never ever happens except by medical necessity?
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Guilty Spork posted:I can't tell how much is ignorance and how much is lying, but pro-lifers really don't seem to understand that the average abortion happens when the embryo looks like a tiny fish thing, which lacks shock value. They also keep pushing totally debunked nonsense about abortions leading to depression and breast cancer, can't grasp that Planned Parenthood does other things and helps poor people, etc. That's not how abortion works. I've read educated literature that says abortion happens when Obama grabs a fetus out of the uterus and beats it to death with a baseball bat in a dumpster behind planned parenthood. VERY educated literature.
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beepsandboops posted:The thing I appreciate about Branco is the layers of poo poo he manages to fit into each of his terrible cartoons. Pander posted:That's not how abortion works. I've read educated literature that says abortion happens when Obama grabs a fetus out of the uterus and beats it to death with a baseball bat in a dumpster behind planned parenthood. VERY educated literature.
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Jan 20, 2015 03:24
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Guilty Spork posted:... can't grasp that Planned Parenthood does other things and helps poor people, etc. There's a sadly large overlap between hardcore pro-lifers and people who implicitly think the above is a bad thing.
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Jan 20, 2015 03:28
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Yes, the successful ranch owner who owns at least one helicopter and puts up his son's family in a mansion and kept a classic car rusting in a barn for decades can't afford government bribes because
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Jan 20, 2015 03:34
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Well you see bribing the government is clearly something that should be legalised because China does it and they'll take us over because of the pinko liberal muslim in charge making our troops gay and
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Jan 20, 2015 03:45
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WarpedNaba posted:What's the skinny on Hillary anyway? I mean, she's hella better than any litebread the Republicans can put up, but is she the best the Democrats have? It depends what you mean by "best," really. She's the best known and the best funded and despite decades of relentless right-wing attacks she (and Bill) still enjoys fairly high approval ratings with the general public. Add all these up and throw in a dose of first woman ever appeal (about 55% of voters are women) and you have a candidate who is amazingly attractive to the pragmatist, moderate, and establishment wings of the Democratic party. There's a significant portion of the Democratic party that would rather win for the wrong reasons than lose for the right ones and these people tend to like the Clintons. There's just one problem: 2008. Six years ago, we learned that the party establishment isn't quite as good at picking the winners as we'd been led to believe. Clinton's campaign was a debacle with poor message control, internal dysfunctions that made it into the press, and real failures to articulate a coherent vision for America's future that made her vulnerable to a strong insurgent candidate running from her left. The fact that the Obama administration really hasn't been very different from what we would have expected from her just underscores how much that loss represented a failure of messaging rather than actual policy. In many ways she's much stronger than she was six years ago. Her time as Secretary of State has helped her get out of her husband's shadow and proven that she has real leadership and foreign policy qualifications and the receding of the Iraq War in popular consciousness means that her hawkish tendencies are somewhat less of a liability than they used to be, but other things have changed as well. The dark side of her husband's economic legacy (NAFTA, financial deregulation, welfare "reform") looks a lot worse now than it did then (remember the recession started in '07, but the true extent of the crisis didn't become clear until Lehman collapsed in September of '08, long after the primaries) and the Clintons' long history of holding lucrative board memberships, charging extravagant speaking fees, and schmoozing with billionaire donors could badly undermine her credibility as an economic populist. Ultimately though, it all depends on who else is running and not just on the Democratic side of things. One interesting thing to consider is that Hillary Clinton's status as "the Democrat who can win" seems a little silly if the Republican field is full of losers. In a world where assclowns like Bush, Paul, and Christie can dominate the Republican field despite their horrible baggage, where Romney can rise from the dead, we may not have to worry too much about the Republicans this time. By all appearances, it looks like we're in for another crowded primary Republican shitshow, but this time there's not a "sensible moderate" in sight to rise above it the way McCain and Romney did and, in any case, neither of them turned out be quite as threatening as they first appeared. Combine that with demographic shifts that continue to work to Democrat's advantages (despite what the angry centrist pundits tell us, the party really can alienate old white men and still win, at least at the presidential level) and you have a situation where Democrats actually have the opportunity to stand on principle for a change. This opens up real possibilities of another insurgency against Clinton this time maybe even from an actual leftist. The question is though, who's in position to be that insurgent? Bernie Sanders has a lot of great things to say, but he's apparently too old and socialist for our media to take seriously, Elizabeth Warren says she's not running, and most of the Democratic governors are either still fairly unknown (O'Malley) or not particularly leftist (Webb) or both, so although the opportunity to challenge Clinton is there, I'm not sure if there's a candidate. We've got a year left before the primaries start for real, so stay tuned, and try to remember at this time in 2007, many people were already rushing to crown Hillary while a certain junior senator from Illinois was barely a blip on most pundits' radar. tldr ask in a year
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a thing happened, but i have nothing to really say about it, so i'll just draw it happening in a slightly different way Johntalouette posted:
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Jan 20, 2015 04:29
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Calico Heart posted:a thing happened, but i have nothing to really say about it, so i'll just draw it happening in a slightly different way Or maybe they are drawing it in a comical exaggeration in order to highlight the absurdity of it?
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Jan 20, 2015 04:32
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Post 9-11 User posted:That is what I was saying? If not for this thread and the politics thread i would not be confused. There's a documentary called After Tiller that looks at the few clinics in the US that do third trimester abortions. It's sad, but eye-opening.
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Duckbag posted:most of the Democratic governors are either still fairly unknown (O'Malley) o All I know about O'Malley is that he was the inspiration for Carcetti on The Wire, and that unfairly makes me terrified of ever seeing him become President.
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I like Enos in general; this seems pretty good. It's similar to others but includes the FORBIDDEN CARICATURE for extra balls points.
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Duckbag posted:It depends what you mean by "best," really. She's the best known and the best funded and despite decades of relentless right-wing attacks she (and Bill) still enjoys fairly high approval ratings with the general public. Add all these up and throw in a dose of first woman ever appeal (about 55% of voters are women) and you have a candidate who is amazingly attractive to the pragmatist, moderate, and establishment wings of the Democratic party. There's a significant portion of the Democratic party that would rather win for the wrong reasons than lose for the right ones and these people tend to like the Clintons. There's just one problem: 2008. Six years ago, we learned that the party establishment isn't quite as good at picking the winners as we'd been led to believe. Clinton's campaign was a debacle with poor message control, internal dysfunctions that made it into the press, and real failures to articulate a coherent vision for America's future that made her vulnerable to a strong insurgent candidate running from her left. The fact that the Obama administration really hasn't been very different from what we would have expected from her just underscores how much that loss represented a failure of messaging rather than actual policy. In many ways she's much stronger than she was six years ago. Her time as Secretary of State has helped her get out of her husband's shadow and proven that she has real leadership and foreign policy qualifications and the receding of the Iraq War in popular consciousness means that her hawkish tendencies are somewhat less of a liability than they used to be, but other things have changed as well. The dark side of her husband's economic legacy (NAFTA, financial deregulation, welfare "reform") looks a lot worse now than it did then (remember the recession started in '07, but the true extent of the crisis didn't become clear until Lehman collapsed in September of '08, long after the primaries) and the Clintons' long history of holding lucrative board memberships, charging extravagant speaking fees, and schmoozing with billionaire donors could badly undermine her credibility as an economic populist. Ultimately though, it all depends on who else is running and not just on the Democratic side of things. What about Benghazi?
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Fun trivia fact: King Abdullah II bin al-Hussein of Jordan, when he was a prince, cameo'd in an episode of Star Trek Voyager because he was a big fan. 
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Jerusalem posted:All I know about O'Malley is that he was the inspiration for Carcetti on The Wire, and that unfairly makes me terrified of ever seeing him become President. I know it's dumb to make predictions two years in advance, but here goes anyway: O'Malley has zero chance of making it to the presidency. He has no Obama-style charisma and his record as governor is ... shaky (his Lt. Gov. ran to succeed him last year and lost to an unknown Republican).
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Jan 20, 2015 06:01
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WarpedNaba posted:Well you see bribing the government is clearly something that should be legalised because China does it and they'll take us over because of the pinko liberal muslim in charge making our troops gay and Maybe we can come up with a whole regulated system for paying government bribes. You'd get forms to fill based on your income and capital that would tell you how big a bribe you need to pay.
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Jan 20, 2015 06:23
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What's hilarious to me is that Tinsley gets a bug up his rear end when he feels personally offended by poo poo.
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Jan 20, 2015 06:28
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Storysmith posted:FREE SPEECH This is hilariously crass and while I don't know a lot about Charlie Hebdo, it seems like a satire magazine worth its salt would be laughing along.
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Nativity In Black posted:This is hilariously crass and while I don't know a lot about Charlie Hebdo, it seems like a satire magazine worth its salt would be laughing along. Most likely yes; said magazine had no say in that arrest though.
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Jan 20, 2015 06:40
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Nativity In Black posted:This is hilariously crass and while I don't know a lot about Charlie Hebdo, it seems like a satire magazine worth its salt would be laughing along. Europe is a p. hosed up place sometimes, hth
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Jan 20, 2015 06:48
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The University of Michigan responds to Tinsley: "Quit drinking and go to bed" Unfortunately that came from our old Athletic Director, so...
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Jan 20, 2015 07:27
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This is in the funnies. This is in the funnies.
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Jan 20, 2015 07:41
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Moddington posted:This is in the funnies.  Never not relevant when it comes to Tinsley.
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I'm guessing that the actual response will be more amusing than this dumb cartoon. And it won't even be attempting comedy!
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It's been a little while since I posted some Australian toons, so it's back to the Canberra Times: David Pope:  idk something about the constant carrying-on about pokie machine limits. The ACT assembly let people put $50 notes in pokies now? Whatever. Nobody knows/cares who the parliamentarians in the territory are anyway, we're too busy caring about federal politics  Harking back to the last lot I posted, 'cept Tony backflipped on that now. Jellyfish Tony is horrifying though  And their other cartoonist Pat Campbell's back from vacation!  Already mentioned the kerfuffle around the medicare rebate cuts and what bulk-billing is last time. Which Tony Abbott now backed away from already.  
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Jan 20, 2015 08:36
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America and the West are in the driver's seat when it comes to polluting our planet, while the third world can do nothing but come along for the ride. A Partially Unintentionally Environmentalist Cartoon.
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Jan 20, 2015 08:41
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Fun fact: the figure in that painting ("The Scream of Nature") is not actually screaming Hopefully the Republicans actually will be stunned into paralysis by a primal cry of emotion they cannot comprehend.
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Jan 20, 2015 09:06
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Mr. Belpit posted:They've had no trouble calling Obama an out-of-touch elitist since the '08 elections so... The difference being they can pretend to not be out of touch elitists. It's a lot harder for them to get away with calling the Clintons nepotists and dynastic monarchs when their party's last two Presidents were father and son and a third member of the same family is planning to run against Hillary.
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Kegluneq posted:Fun fact: the figure in that painting ("The Scream of Nature") is not actually screaming Is it applying a facial scrub?
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Jedit posted:The difference being they can pretend to not be out of touch elitists. It's a lot harder for them to get away with calling the Clintons nepotists and dynastic monarchs when their party's last two Presidents were father and son and a third member of the same family is planning to run against Hillary. You think that will stop them? Have you not been paying attention?
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Bloodnose posted:Is it applying a facial scrub? Possibly? More likely to be a O of shock. The scream being heard by the front figure is confirmed by the artist though.
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Woah hey that looks just like one of Tinsley's actual comics, I'm now confused. I wonder if the duck will help me understand what's going on without tacking on a pedophile joke in the funny pages.
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