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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Political Cartoons 2015: It was. I think. I don't know. Fuck that dumb comic

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Mister Beeg: Sep 7, 2012; A Certified Jerk

Mallard Fillmore: Year One (March 20-25, 1995)

Attitude Indicator posted:

a moron making fun of an idiot. how fitting.

I used to go to a message board that Wiley posted in. He's kind of a dick in real life.

Mister Beeg fucked around with this message at 15:45 on May 21, 2015

# ? May 21, 2015 15:40

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# ? Jun 4, 2024 09:41

Kulkasha: Jan 15, 2010; But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Likchenpa.

Do we have a thread devoted specifically to the various refugee issues, or are they already covered in country threads, ie Auspol? I'd like to learn more about the subject outside of the Americas.

# ? May 21, 2015 16:06

Crain: Jun 27, 2007; I had a beer once with Stephen Miller and now I like him.

I also tried to ban someone from a Discord for pointing out what an unrelenting shithead I am! I'm even dumb enough to think it worked!

Kulkasha posted:

Do we have a thread devoted specifically to the various refugee issues, or are they already covered in country threads, ie Auspol? I'd like to learn more about the subject outside of the Americas.

Unless someone started one in the last week or so I don't think we have one. I'd be down for a dedicated thread for that issue.

# ? May 21, 2015 16:16

Fuckt Tupp: Apr 19, 2007; Science

# ? May 21, 2015 16:17

Taciturn Tactician: Jan 27, 2011; The secret to good health is a balanced diet and unstable healing radiation; Lipstick Apathy

Mister Beeg posted:

Haha, yeah, that's crazy, imagine if you had an ad free station that was funded by tax. Maybe you could call it a license fee!*

*Note: This joke may no longer work a year from now if Cameron gets his way.

# ? May 21, 2015 16:22

D.N. Nation: Feb 1, 2012

Internet Webguy posted:

Alternate, more realistic cartoon would have a paper labeled "NRO/FOX Talking Points" and the caption "...it was Obama's fault."

# ? May 21, 2015 16:34

Apple Pie Hubbub: Feb 14, 2012; Take that, you greedy jerk!

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# ? May 21, 2015 16:36

Kabanaw: Jan 27, 2012; The real Pokemon begins here

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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By continually raising the minimum wage, more and more people can leave their dead-end jobs. Eventually machines can take over menial labor. AGC.

# ? May 21, 2015 16:42

Brawnfire: Jul 13, 2004; 🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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With increasing automation and skyrocketing efficiency, the company was able to offer generous paychecks and perks to employees, allowing them to eventually retire or start their own ventures leaving more resources for remaining workers. Eventually, the company is streamlined into a high-tech, high-efficiency moneymaking model funneling cash straight to the shareholders.

Capitalist success story, or socialist nightmare scenario?

# ? May 21, 2015 16:44

Taciturn Tactician: Jan 27, 2011; The secret to good health is a balanced diet and unstable healing radiation; Lipstick Apathy

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Oooh, fun, simultaneous equations. Well, either each of those signs is an additional raise every time, or more likely the total raise.
Looking at the first we get
5(x+15)=y
4(x+15+20)=y
3(x+15+20+25)=y
2(x+15+20+25+50)=y
x+15+20+25+50+100=y

so clearly,
2x+30+40+50+100=x+15+20+25+50+100 so 2x+220 = x+210 so x = -10
-10+15+20+25+50+100= 200
so 5(15-10) = 200
25=200

Uh, clearly he meant total raise then. Looking at that, we get
5(x+15)=y
4(x+20)=y
3(x+25)=y
2(x+50)=y
x+100=y

2x+100=x+100, so x=0.
y=100
Hence 3(0+25)=100
75=100.

Gee, I'm starting to think that just maybe this math doesn't add up!

# ? May 21, 2015 16:56

Mekchu: Apr 10, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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This carttoon is the most "a thing happened" i've seen so far about the Hillary/Stephanopolous issue.

# ? May 21, 2015 16:58

NoEyedSquareGuy: Mar 16, 2009; Just because Liquor's dead, doesn't mean you can just roll this bitch all over town with "The Freedoms."

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

George Stephanopoulis is not impressed by the pun.

# ? May 21, 2015 17:01

Lysdexique: Sep 12, 2010; Let me give you some advice, little buddy.

I'm sure no one at Fox News ever donated money for a republican candidate.

# ? May 21, 2015 17:03

Gimnbo: Feb 13, 2012; e m b r a c e t r a n q u i l i t y

Brawnfire posted:

With increasing automation and skyrocketing efficiency, the company was able to offer generous paychecks and perks to employees, allowing them to eventually retire or start their own ventures leaving more resources for remaining workers. Eventually, the company is streamlined into a high-tech, high-efficiency moneymaking model funneling cash straight to the shareholders.

Capitalist success story, or socialist nightmare scenario?

Dude's just holding up signs. There were no raises; they were about to get laid off anyway.

# ? May 21, 2015 17:05

alnilam: Nov 10, 2009

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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I hate this lovely argument. Business is not arithmetic, idiot.

In the universe where this cartoon takes place, that boss just hired the extra hands around to be nice and give money to people. He had to fire them when minimum wage went up, because his labor cost has to be exactly fixed for some reason.

In real life, he hired the number of people needed to do the job, and can't operate with fewer.

# ? May 21, 2015 17:10

Ralepozozaxe: Sep 6, 2010; A Veritable Smorgasbord!

Lysdexique posted:

I'm sure no one at Fox News ever donated money for a republican candidate.

"Let's go to Karl Rove for more on this."

# ? May 21, 2015 17:15

moron izzard: Nov 17, 2006; Grimey Drawer

# ? May 21, 2015 17:16

Rigged Death Trap: Feb 13, 2012; BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

A Yolo Wizard posted:

Oh.
Oh wow.

Context?

# ? May 21, 2015 17:20

moron izzard: Nov 17, 2006; Grimey Drawer

uk is going to close some low cost dorms or something i don't even know

http://www.kentucky.com/2015/05/16/3855419/university-of-kentucky-plans-to.html

moron izzard fucked around with this message at 17:28 on May 21, 2015

# ? May 21, 2015 17:25

Monkey Fracas: Sep 11, 2010; ...but then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you!; Grimey Drawer

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Ah yes, a combination of "Businesses are keeping people on out of the goodness of their hearts and will have to fire them if those mean ol' Liberals raise minimum wage" and "SLIPPERY SLOPE! SLIPPERY SLOPE!!!!"

Exquisite

# ? May 21, 2015 17:29

Mercedes Colomar: Nov 1, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

# ? May 21, 2015 17:30

Daniel Hillard: May 22, 2012

A Yolo Wizard posted:

uk is going to close some low cost dorms or something i don't even know

http://www.kentucky.com/2015/05/16/3855419/university-of-kentucky-plans-to.html

Also the dorms are two identical towers

# ? May 21, 2015 17:55

Taerkar: Dec 7, 2002; kind of into it, really

And they are one of the cheapest places to live on campus with matching quality apparently.

# ? May 21, 2015 18:05

Portals: Apr 18, 2012

# ? May 21, 2015 18:06

there wolf: Jan 11, 2015; by Fluffdaddy

Portals posted:

hmm...should the artist have flipped the composition, putting the patchwork half right-side-up since it's a little harder to read because of the busier background?

# ? May 21, 2015 18:15

Rincewinds: Jul 30, 2014; MEAT IS MEAT

Zetsubou-san posted:

australian_foreign_policy.jpg

In Norway Australia is pretty known as being rotten towards refuges, after a norwegian ship was highjacked by australian special forces, because it had picked up boat refugees whose conditions were so bad that the captain believed the best course of action was to go to Australia, where the Australian Government decided the best course of action was to order the ship out of Australian waters at gunpoint.

Rincewinds fucked around with this message at 18:23 on May 21, 2015

# ? May 21, 2015 18:18

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

there wolf posted:

hmm...should the artist have flipped the composition, putting the patchwork half right-side-up since it's a little harder to read because of the busier background?

Nah, that would change the order they're read in and the current order makes more sense. It would have worked better as a two-panel cartoon, though, so you don't have to read the second half of it upside down. Interesting concept, doesn't really work in practice.

# ? May 21, 2015 18:22

Portals: Apr 18, 2012

loquacius posted:

Nah, that would change the order they're read in and the current order makes more sense. It would have worked better as a two-panel cartoon, though, so you don't have to read the second half of it upside down. Interesting concept, doesn't really work in practice.

Here's Paul Berge's explanation about why he chose that composition:

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I apologize, dear reader, that this cartoon works a whole lot better in a newspaper, which is easy to turn upside down, than on a desktop computer, which isn't, or a smart phone, which will keep trying to turn the image right-side up. (At last, an advantage dead trees have over live circuits!)

This cartoon is probably the result of my having recently read a mention of The Upside-Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo. The six-panel cartoon by Gustave Verbeck (starting in 1903) was ingeniously designed so that the second half of the story was told when you turned the page up-side down.

Verbeck's reader had to overlook the fact that Old Man Muffaroo's legs were extending up from the top of Little Lady Lovekins's hat, or that a stream the heroes had waded across in panel #3 was flowing through the sky in panel #10. But it was a weekly tour de force nevertheless: a story aimed at children but presented in a way that adults could appreciate.

At first, I was going to have a human character in the cartoon, talking out of his rear end, as it were -- one of the preliminary sketches is at the top of this post. In the end (ahem), I decided that some of my editors endeavor to run respectable news publications in which exposed derri�res belong in the club photos and phone sex ads in the back pages, not the editorial page. So I went with an elephant instead -- the traditional symbol of the Republican Party, whence these laws superseding local ordinances on everything from the above mentioned labor conditions to gun safety and fracking bans originate these days.

With an elephant instead of a human, the aspect of talking out of one's rear end still remains, but not quite so explicitly that the League of Perpetually Offended Complainers should catch it.

# ? May 21, 2015 18:25

colonel_korn: May 16, 2003

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# ? May 21, 2015 18:28

snakeandbake: Aug 21, 2012; by exmarx

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

Increasing wages for entry level workers will improve their job satisfaction and productivity such that the same amount of work can be done with less workers. Eventually, technology will make many of these jobs obsolete, at which point we will have to rethink capitalist policy to be able to provide a decent quality of life for the now unemployed hordes.

A Basic Income Cartoon.

# ? May 21, 2015 18:34

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Isn't Miller supposed to be a good artist? Why doesn't Holy Terror at least look half-decent? That is seriously some ugly poo poo.

# ? May 21, 2015 18:39

Ralepozozaxe: Sep 6, 2010; A Veritable Smorgasbord!

colonel_korn posted:

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This is just amazing.

# ? May 21, 2015 18:39

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

Rorus Raz posted:

Isn't Miller supposed to be a good artist? Why doesn't Holy Terror at least look half-decent? That is seriously some ugly poo poo.

Even his best stuff looks kinda ugly but yeah it definitely deteriorated

# ? May 21, 2015 18:41

CaptainCarrot: Jun 9, 2010

colonel_korn posted:

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Transient (but not meaningless) damage has been dealt to the forces battling Daesh, but they're still in a much better strategic position. AGC.

# ? May 21, 2015 18:51

Pancho Jueves: Aug 20, 2007; BEST FRIENDS!!

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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The problem is clearly that these people are not already rich, otherwise it would be extremely important to get them more money!

# ? May 21, 2015 18:55

Mister Beeg: Sep 7, 2012; A Certified Jerk

A bunch of cartoons by Barry Deutsch

# ? May 21, 2015 18:56

Mr. Squishy: Mar 22, 2010; A country where you can always get richer.

D.N. Nation posted:

Alternate, more realistic cartoon would have a paper labeled "NRO/FOX Talking Points" and the caption "...it was Obama's fault."

Sometimes Bennet's cartoons aren't great but then some goon proposes a fix and you realize how good you have it now.

# ? May 21, 2015 19:00

Capfalcon: Apr 6, 2012; No Boots on the Ground,
Puny Mortals!

colonel_korn posted:

...Yes, this is true? It is a minor setback?

Seriously, how can anyone look at this cartoon and think, "That pucky little ISIS sure has that Obama right where they want him?"

# ? May 21, 2015 19:01

Monkey Fracas: Sep 11, 2010; ...but then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you!; Grimey Drawer

colonel_korn posted:

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Heh heh heh, take that, Obama!

Now to draw Obama in a flight suit on an aircraft carrier with a big "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" banner to finish the job!

I love you Branco please never stop

# ? May 21, 2015 19:06

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Capfalcon posted:

...Yes, this is true? It is a minor setback?

Seriously, how can anyone look at this cartoon and think, "That pucky little ISIS sure has that Obama right where they want him?"

"Because that limp-wristed homo-lovin' Mooslim niblack "President" hasn't turned every inch of ground occupied by the goddamn raghead militia into a sheet of glass already. Because he is a limp-wristed homo-lovin' Mooslim niblack."

- the American Right

# ? May 21, 2015 19:09

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