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In the next strip, Drunky Duck wonders why more minorities don't vote for Republicans.
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Didn't Opus end with him dying?
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Jul 13, 2015 08:37
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Markovnikov posted:I didn't know early Israel had such a leftist/communist bent. Or were they just a fringe faction/the bad kind of communists? What could have been... The kibbutzim were basically socialist collectives. Mainstream Israeli discourse has shifted far to the right since Rabin was assassinated.
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Jul 13, 2015 09:17
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AndyP posted:Didn't Opus end with him dying? Are you saying comics characters never come back from the dead?
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Jul 13, 2015 09:37
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Bill the Cat died and was brought back.
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Jul 13, 2015 09:57
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Garfield: my cat eats too much! Marmaduke: when will that dog ever learn!? Mallard Fillmore: Democrats are the party of slavery! Family Circus: kids do the darnedest things! One of these things is not like the others. Seriously, this poo poo runs in newspapers in the section meant for kids.
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Jul 13, 2015 10:58
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sinking belle posted:I swear this is the most Lang's put out in years. Was there ever any explanation for his hiatus? A couple of pages back, but Lang went into semi-retirement in 2011 after whatever newspaper printed his poo poo decided not to print his poo poo anymore. He made his comeback when the vets blog SOFREP hired him, and also started drawing sub-JRROSE! farming panel Corn Time.
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Jul 13, 2015 11:03
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vyelkin posted:Garfield: my cat eats too much! To be fair, and it's been awhile since I've read a newspaper, so fellow Pittsburgh goons help me out here (or tell me I'm mistaken), but Doonesbury is run in the funny section too, I think. Sure, Doonesbury is actually Not poo poo, but it's still political.
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Jul 13, 2015 11:05
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FIRST TIME posted:Bill the Cat died and was brought back. So did Opus.
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Jul 13, 2015 11:06
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Rorus Raz posted:Didn't it come back two or three times already under different names? I remember reading collections of the comics from the early days, and then poo poo got really, really weird near the end. Like "how the gently caress is this is same author" weird. The author either wants his characters to live again or is cash poor.
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Jul 13, 2015 11:32
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Those loving ELLIPSES. I'm angry about a lot of things re: this cartoon, but the loving ellipses are what kill it for me. FIRST TIME posted:Bill the Cat died and was brought back. I would really like it if the new comic threw out the old, dumb storylines and went back to kinda being about Bloom County again, rather than ending up as another chapter in The Increasingly Zany Adventures of Opus (co-starring Bill the Cat).
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Jul 13, 2015 11:33
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Fulchrum posted:"Trying to convey meaning through art is bullshit" says the political cartoonist. Political Cartoons 2015: Trying to convey meaning through art is bullshit
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Jul 13, 2015 11:45
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 Clean Energy Finance Corporation: Tony Abbott defends decision to axe wind, solar from renewables spending
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Jul 13, 2015 12:20
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Jul 13, 2015 12:22
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Jul 13, 2015 12:56
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I love how Muir (and even some other cartoonists) have gone from "Obama is going to let Iran build a nuke" to "Obama gave Iran a nuke as a gift" to "Obama gave Iran literally all of the nukes, we have no nukes left and Iran has all of them." the_steve posted:To be fair, and it's been awhile since I've read a newspaper, so fellow Pittsburgh goons help me out here (or tell me I'm mistaken), but Doonesbury is run in the funny section too, I think. Idk why the Pittsburgh reference, but yes Doonesbury is widely syndicated on the comics page. It's widely suspected itt that most newspapers run either Tinsley or Prickly City as a "no look we're being fair, both sides, see?" counterpart to Doonesbury. I don't think I've never seen Tinsley in a newspaper here btw, but goons elsewhere say Tinsley runs in their paper. The thing is Doonesbury is political, but fairly tame and has a measured tone, and is never outright hateful. It's also pretty dense, with lots of  and if you don't know the backstory it's kind of hard to follow sometimes.In contrast, Tinsley talks about how gay people are going to marry dogs and rape children right next to the goddamn family circus. Or how black people are really the real racists. With a talking duck, who talks in... easy to digest, short (if extremely boring) lines. Speaking of which, someone itt from Boston a few weeks ago requested people to post the most vile Tinsleys they could find, because they wanted to bring it up to their newspaper that it's hosed up that he runs in the funnies. I don't think I ever saw anyone post anything. Did anyone?
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Jul 13, 2015 13:14
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Exclamation Marx posted:The kibbutzim were basically socialist collectives. Mainstream Israeli discourse has shifted far to the right since Rabin was assassinated. Which is doubly unfortunate because it's exactly what the assassin wanted  alnilam posted:The thing is Doonesbury is political, but fairly tame and has a measured tone, and is never outright hateful. It's also pretty dense, with lots of Pretty much, when I was a kid I never read Doonesbury because following it was too much effort for my tiny mind, while Fillmore was quick and easy and in retrospect therefore a much more obvious propaganda tool. Which is dangerous considering how more extreme and nakedly hateful its message is. quote:Speaking of which, someone itt from Boston a few weeks ago requested people to post the most vile Tinsleys they could find, because they wanted to bring it up to their newspaper that it's hosed up that he runs in the funnies. I don't think I ever saw anyone post anything. Did anyone? This wasn't me but it could be! Of all newspapers in the country, the Boston Globe should probably know better than to run Fillmore, and yet it does anyway.
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Jul 13, 2015 13:42
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alnilam posted:I love how Muir (and even some other cartoonists) have gone from "Obama is going to let Iran build a nuke" to "Obama gave Iran a nuke as a gift" to "Obama gave Iran literally all of the nukes, we have no nukes left and Iran has all of them." Nobody actually cares. I don't think editors even read the strip and assume that nobody sane does either. When Doonesbury did a transvaginal ultrasound gag, a lot of papers ran old strips instead based on the idea that it isn't appropriate next to "Pickles" but again I guess the assumption is that anyone sane automatically skips over Mallard and gradually forgets its existence altogether like "Sylvia"
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Jul 13, 2015 13:54
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Republicans posted:Eh. Opus wasn't very good but at least it ended on a sweet note. Let the poor little guy rest, Berk. Yeah, I want to excited for new BC, but really, he needs to make new characters. Of course, he tried that with Outland, but that ended up morphing back into BC anyway. Fulchrum posted:He never said Opus was returning. It could just be Bill the Cat with Trumps brain getting into weird poo poo. Yes please. Ok, changed my mind, I've missed Milo. Squashy Nipples fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Jul 13, 2015 |
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Jul 13, 2015 14:13
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Jul 13, 2015 14:16
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For a bird, it'd be plumerty I think.
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Jul 13, 2015 14:46
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The difference is that the Democrats have actually won something (among other things).
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Jul 13, 2015 14:47
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Is it time to eat my vegetables? Did I miss it? I've been sitting on a related but barely worth it image for a week.
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Jul 13, 2015 15:20
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Krinkle posted:Is it time to eat my vegetables? Did I miss it? I've been sitting on a related but barely worth it image for a week. If this is a reference to those dumb Vegan Comix, I hope it is!!
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Jul 13, 2015 15:25
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The candorville strips on trayvon Martin were great, especially considering it was a daily strip.
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Jul 13, 2015 15:43
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alnilam posted:Idk why the Pittsburgh reference Because Pittsburgh papers are the only ones I could realistically use as a frame of reference. I figured it would help if I specified that so it wouldn't draw comments from folks whose local papers don't run Doonesbury in the funny section. I was trying to head off any possible "Not in my paper." "Yeah, but it is in mine..." Etc.
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Jul 13, 2015 15:44
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Oh my god, we get it. You're from Pittsburgh.
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Jul 13, 2015 15:47
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 I know it's Muir but it still bears being asked, where the gently caress do these people even come up with this poo poo? This is what strikes me about the right these days, they don't even have any real grievances even within their own warped worldview so they have to make them up out of thin air in order to be able to even complain.
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Jul 13, 2015 15:52
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the_steve posted:To be fair, and it's been awhile since I've read a newspaper, so fellow Pittsburgh goons help me out here (or tell me I'm mistaken), but Doonesbury is run in the funny section too, I think. In the Pittsburgh newspapers, at least the last time I checked, Mallard Fillmore is in the Opinions section, and Doonesbury is in the Funny section.
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Jul 13, 2015 16:03
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The Vosgian Beast posted:In the Pittsburgh newspapers, at least the last time I checked, Mallard Fillmore is in the Opinions section, and Doonesbury is in the Funny section. Aah, that's why I've never seen Fillmore.
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Zetsubou-san posted:
Is his throne sitting on a pile of caviar?
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Jul 13, 2015 17:06
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PrBacterio posted:
Ever been to the FReep thread? Those people have themselves whipped up into such a frenzy that they literally think that middle-aged Christian white men in the US today are as badly oppressed as Jews were in Germany, 1938.
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Jul 13, 2015 17:07
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Gay marriage being equated to 9/11, and the confederate battle flag is being taken down, how did I not think of this one. This what it's like for those people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVekJTmtwqM The government is corrupt And we're on so many drugs With the radio on and the curtains drawn We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine And the machine is bleeding to death The sun has fallen down And the billboards are all leering And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles   Johnny Walker posted:What's a plantation mentality? Same dogwhistle poo poo as called Obama the Foodstamp President. Post 9-11 User fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Jul 13, 2015 |
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Jul 13, 2015 17:17
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PrBacterio posted:
loving Obama! loving Iran! loving.... Golf Courses!!!!!!  Even that doesn't make sense, Golfing as a sport appeals mostly to rich white men aka the Republican Party.
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Jul 13, 2015 17:17
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OAquinas posted:Is his throne sitting on a pile of caviar? Coal. He's a big proponent of coal. His energy plan is basically "COAL!" and wearing a speedo. This is what I've gathered from following the political cartoons and no other news from Australia.
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Jul 13, 2015 17:19
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Zaphod42 posted:loving Obama! loving Iran! loving.... Golf Courses!!!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCm9788Tb5g
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Jul 13, 2015 17:20
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The Democratic Donkey is a postbellum symbol, not appearing until an 1874 political cartoon by Thomas Nast.
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Jul 13, 2015 17:28
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Mr. Fowl posted:The Democratic Donkey is a postbellum symbol, not appearing until an 1874 political cartoon by Thomas Nast. quote:In 1828, when Andrew Jackson was running for president, his opponents were fond of referring to him as a jackass (if only such candid discourse were permissible today). Emboldened by his detractors, Jackson embraced the image as the symbol of his campaign, rebranding the donkey as steadfast, determined, and willful, instead of wrong-headed, slow, and obstinate. Throughout his presidency, the symbol remained associated with Jackson and, to a lesser extent, the Democratic party. The association was forgotten, though, until Nast, for reasons of his own, revived it more than 30 years later.
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Jay Rust posted:
How would the scientific community feel if modern day pagans insisted on burying Otzi? They wouldn't stand for it, and we shouldn't stand for it in the Kennewick man case.
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