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ToxicFrog posted:Every time I visit the US it kind of freaks me out how many houses have flags hanging on them. Is complaining about houses that don't have flags an actual thing? There are 321,163,157 people living in the United States. It is the third most populous country in the world. Between 4-5 of every 100 humans are Americans. Of the 5,500 or so people who live in my city neighborhood, which FWIW is in an urban area of around 6,000,000 (about 500,000 more people than the country of Denmark), one house will either display an American flag or a Tottenham one. I think you know the answer to your question. But do you like that you know? Or would you rather view America as America: The TV Show? 
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The latest Day By Day is grotesque and horrifying beyond measure. To bring you back to normality, here's a condom man, a guy in a gimp mask and Nosferatu. If... 1-4 June     From left to right our cast of villains are George Osborne (Chancellor of the Exchequer), David Cameron and Iain Duncan Smith (Secretary of State for Work and Pensions). Bell always draws Osborne in a gimp mask - partly for the sadist visual but mostly because of this (safe for work) photo of him with a dominatrix. IDS is drawn as Nosferatu because he really really looks like him. Also his workfare programmes are vampire capital incarnate. Following the election, the Conservatives had their first majority government since 1992 and immediately started doubling down on election promises such as £12 billion in cuts to the welfare bill. Cameron tempered this with positive sounding announcements such as 30 hours a week free childcare for parents of young children. IDS's line in the final strip is a riff on one of his most famous lines as Conservative party leader in the early 2000s. As an opposition leader IDS wasn't particularly great and he suffered particularly badly when speaking in public. In the weekly rhetoric slugfest of Prime Minister's Questions, facing down a then young and popular Tony Blair, he was regularly demolished. An attempt to turn this into a positive with the line "do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man" backfired badly and was widely mocked. At 2003's Conservative party conference he had another bash at dispelling his uninspiring image, declaring "the quiet man is here to stay, and he's turning up the volume!" The party disagreed, and IDS was voted out of the leadership less than a month later.
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ToxicFrog posted:Every time I visit the US it kind of freaks me out how many houses have flags hanging on them. Is complaining about houses that don't have flags an actual thing? I have a hard time distinguishing between Kelly exaggerating for comic effect and Kelly making fun of things that actually happen. Funny, when I visited Canada I was surprised by how many people flew the Canadian flag from their homes. It seemed like they were everywhere. Maybe they're just really patriotic or maybe I just noticed their flag more because I wasn't used to seeing it all over the place. Regardless, America isn't the only country that's big on flags.  Edit: Third option: maybe all that  wafting up from the lower 48 makes them want to up their game a bit.
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alnilam posted:Not only is the fuckbarn in a remote corner of a huge private property / embassy (?), but even in his own fantasies Zed is 100% the type to point a gun and ask "jest what're you doin on my property" to anyone and everyone who might be entering via the southern gate or whatever. That's real welcoming to, uh, customers. You just know Muirs got a goddamned stash of assorted guns, explosives and various other dangerous instruments that would make Burt Gummer reel back in shock locked away in his basement.
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Klaus88 posted:You just know Muirs got a goddamned stash of assorted guns, explosives and various other dangerous instruments that would make Burt Gummer reel back in shock locked away in his basement. Buying guns require you have money. Dude can't even afford to fix a leaky roof.
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D.N. Nation posted:There are 321,163,157 people living in the United States. It is the third most populous country in the world. Between 4-5 of every 100 humans are Americans. City of six million? Rill Murricuns don't even live in states of six million 
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I'm pretty sure that every time Muir's gone all gunporn in DbD it's been the same hastily googled wordsalad poo poo that he spews about any subject. Muir's never getting near a handgun or a vagina.
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I wish I had that picture of the guy drinking the bottle labeled "Republican Tears" because they are flowing freely in this one.
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Jenny Angel posted:It's important to note that nobody had said a single word about Seinfeld's gay French king joke until he himself brought it up as proof of PC silencing. Nobody wrote think-pieces about it. Nobody complained about it on Twitter. Nobody even complained about it during the actual routine. He didn't get heckled by people calling him a homophobe, he just threw out a joke that bombed. That was his entire evidence. I'm more just baffled by the joke. It's like it was written by a mad-lib. "Okay, name a sexuality, a nationality, and a political office." turtle_07 posted:I was waiting for someone to say that! Seems pretty ridiculous to use your marriage and your sex to argue why they can't have marriage or sex... see we're both sinners and we're both just gonna have to try really REALLY hard to not follow our lustful hearts. "See, your desire to be with your husband is just like my desire NOT to be with my wife! You want to have sex with one person, and I want to have sex with many people! So it's only fair that, if I have to settle for one person, you settle for zero people! I love you!"     "Why won't women vote for Republicans?!"
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New Holbert! I'm trying to figure out what's going on with Trump's arms.
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The seething impotent hate coming through my monitor is about to burn off my eyebrows.
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PassTheRemote posted:We as a country are still fighting over whether a flag from a country that stopped existing 150 years ago should still be flying. Abraham Lincoln: A country that NEVER existed 
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Ah yes, the Supreme Court which produced the Citizens United, Hobby Lobby, and Voting Rights Act decisions... all part of the liberal conspiracy.
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The cartoonist has no idea how government works.
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King George III, who precipitated the American Revolution by imposing harsh demands on his colonies such as allowing gay marriage loquacius fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Jul 6, 2015 |
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Jul 6, 2015 23:43
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Obama's inner being is really Ronald Regan, a radical left cartoon.
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The Supreme Court forced King George III's will against the colonies/states? King George III was pro-gay marriage and thought King v. Burwell was an trolly, pedantic challenge to the ACA? Wow. Learn something every day.
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Yes, King George should have done stuff like extend the power of the Admiralty Courts to enforcement of the Stamp Act. Then the colonies wouldn't have revolted at all.
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The nightmarish despotic scenario of gay people being able to get married and healthcare being semi-affordable for most people, truly our freedom is gone.
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Apple Pie Hubbub fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Jul 7, 2015 |
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What's that in % working rate in comparison to, say, the UK, France, or Italy? e:the horror, the horror  http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.ZS/countries/FR-GB-IT-US?display=graph Mr. Squishy fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Jul 7, 2015 |
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Poor Yoda, couldn't find a job in the new Star Wars movies 
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Mr. Squishy posted:What's that in % working rate in comparison to, say, the UK, France, or Italy? I can't find completely up-to-date statistics for the UK or France, but by all accounts less than 62.6% (albeit not by much). Italy's appears to be 63.9%  (note that the labor force participation rate does not account for, say, retired individuals, and the baby boom generation is getting kind of old) e: Here is a handy (if rather incomplete) source. At the top of the labor-force-participation-rate charts are economic superpowers Slovakia and Tanzania! loquacius fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Jul 7, 2015 |
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Something doesn't seem right about those numbers, but I don't got no math smarts. The population is ~320 million... so roughly a third are unemployed? But I can't make it work with the numbers he has there. E: He says 94 mil Americans are not working, which would include E2 wait I figured it out I'm, stupid E3 nope actually I still can't make those numbers work. Still way off of 94 mil. E4 WHY DOES THE TEXT BOX POINT AT UNRELATED THINGS 
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Jerusalem posted:Abraham Lincoln: A country that NEVER existed I support state governments flying the confederate flag. It lets us know which states are in revolt 
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Bravo, Ramirez, you loving infant, you reached the conclusion that the United States is a really big country.
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 Guardian:  "Steve Bell on Greece's eurozone relationship – If Europe’s institutions remain unanswerable to its citizens, Greece will be the beginning of the end – and the whole eurozone could be flushed away." Telegraph:  Independent:  Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis resigns Times: 
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Acid Haze posted:E: He says 94 mil Americans are not working, which would include old/children/disabled/unable to work. It doesn't include children, definition of the term is "percentage of population above 15 years of age who is working" It does include 
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D.N. Nation posted:The Supreme Court forced King George III's will against the colonies/states? King George III was pro-gay marriage and thought King v. Burwell was an trolly, pedantic challenge to the ACA? Wow. Learn something every day. I'll never stop loving that those two decisions were so close together.  Why does this unelected court get to overturn a law I like? Why does this unelected court get to uphold a law I don't like?
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twistedmentat posted:Obama's inner being is really Ronald Regan, a radical left cartoon. isaiah is pretty hard-left actually
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loquacius posted:It doesn't include children, definition of the term is "percentage of population above 15 years of age who is working" Definition of what term? How do we get 94 million from that? WHATS HAPPENING?!
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Acid Haze posted:Something doesn't seem right about those numbers, but I don't got no math smarts. The math is a bit confusing, this could help: quote:The 157,002,000 who participated in the labor force was 62.8 percent of the 249,899,000 civilian noninsttutional population, which matches the 62.8 percent rate in April, May, June, and October of 2014 as well as the participation rate in March of 1978. The participation rate hit its lowest level since February 1978 (62.7 percent) in September and December of 2014. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/628-labor-force-participation-has-hovered-near-37-year-low-11-months Edit: tl;dr The population is aging, it seems likely that this would have happened no matter who was President. Davethulhu fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Jul 7, 2015 |
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Acid Haze posted:Definition of what term? How do we get 94 million from that? WHATS HAPPENING?! "Labor force participation rate." It is a super-duper inclusive unemployment measurement in that it includes tons of people who would not have a job no matter how good the economy was due to factors like "retirement" or "still being in high school", or (if you listen to Ramirez) simply being too discouraged by the existence of Obamacare and the Democratic party to leave their basements. It's literally just # of employed people / total number of people over 15 years of age. loquacius fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Jul 7, 2015 |
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Jul 7, 2015 00:49
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" some numbers are big! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ " - the editor of Investor's Business Daily
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Ramirez can't use unemployment to whine, so he found a new number to bellyache over. Once unemployment goes up again, suddenly that statistic will no longer be "spin" but iron-clad damnation of Obama.
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He probably read this article and made a comic from there. I love how the article even gets a snub in on millennials before the close claiming we are the ones loving things up. 
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