Puppy Time posted:

Isn't that picture photoshopped? Something about the shadows looks off. That, and I'm fairly sure you couldn't ride in a subway in that position for long enough to take that photo.

OptimusShr posted:

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Pastry of the Year posted:

Sure, you may have followed Sementanks dot com on Facebook in order to keep informed about the best deals and sales on semen tanks, but you'll also appreciate their cutting-edge political commentary.

Eponine posted:

The ABSOLUTE STRAIGHT POOP made me very quietly laugh at work.

Krispy Kareem posted:

People do nude photoshoots on subways.

The guy to her left looks absolutely miserable about his choice in subway cars. Which is probably the most authentic thing about that image.

Henchman of Santa posted:

Let me guess...this person didn't serve.

Eponine posted:

I'm so mad that someone spells their name as Jeph.

OptimusShr posted:

TheKennedys posted:

My best friend dated Jeph Jacques like a million years ago and says he's a really good dude, just waaaaaaaaaay too beholden to his fans at this point, making QC basically Tumblr: The Comic

TheKennedys posted:

My best friend dated Jeph Jacques like a million years ago and says he's a really good dude, just waaaaaaaaaay too beholden to his fans at this point, making QC basically Tumblr: The Comic

Regalingualius posted:

Granted, I can't entirely blame him: I sure as gently caress wouldn't turn my nose up at earning 10k+ a month in exchange for placating some of the... Kinda out there elements of tumblr.

Pastry of the Year posted:

Sure, you may have followed Sementanks dot com on Facebook in order to keep informed about the best deals and sales on semen tanks, but you'll also appreciate their cutting-edge political commentary.

hyperhazard posted:

Semen Tanks sounds like what a strawman feminist would call men. I love it.

Lottery of Babylon posted:

Hey Jeff,

Congrats on finally have a fat girl in your comic, you depicted her SOOO well! I understand that not ever girl is rail thin like Dora and curvy like Faye so its nice to see a REAL woman like Marigold in your comic. I have to give you props for having the courage to tackle such a sensitive issue too. I mean she did have any rolls, or stretch marks or even a muffin top, and I think that's great. Ya, put her in a bikini, break down those walls. Your a regular Gobachev my friend. Lets just say keep up the good work, next you can depict the “fatty” Marigold having a “fat issue” and being told its okay to be fat and its whats inside that matters. You can even end it with a butt joke like you always do.

Inconclusion, the above paragraph was sarcastically written. Try not to insult women anymore Jeph, I know its not what you intended but that doesn’t meant its not what you did.

~Kearsley

Jeph Jacques posted:

So:

Basically what happened yesterday is i drank an entire bottle of whiskey, stabbed myself in the hand (not my drawing hand), had some kind of delirious breakdown in the hospital, got stitched up and sent back home.

Today I go to see the hand surgeon about my hand and a therapist about my emotions.

I guess something like this was bound to happen eventually. The monsters finally caught up. But at least I am ok. I feel very, very bad about all of this and would really like to apologize. I'm sorry.

There will be some guest comics for a few days. Thank you again for your patience.

OptimusShr posted:

Pastry of the Year posted:

Sure, you may have followed Sementanks dot com on Facebook in order to keep informed about the best deals and sales on semen tanks, but you'll also appreciate their cutting-edge political commentary.

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

Who is telling these people they need to be PC anyway

Does someone like call them up or do they send a letter via registered mail or is it an online thing like a change.org petition

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

Who is telling these people they need to be PC anyway

Does someone like call them up or do they send a letter via registered mail or is it an online thing like a change.org petition

twistedmentat posted:

And this is why I don't automatically respect anyone who serves, because they often turn out to be giant pieces of poo poo. gently caress you, you don't get to choose who's freedoms your protecting you human pile of poo poo.


I love the part about 20 planes being given to Egypt. Please ignore the tons of materials given to Iraq, Pinochet and other tin pot dictators around the world during the Regan admin.

Elderbean posted:

Yeah basically everyone I met in the Navy would not shut up about their SACRIFICES for FREEDOM and how much they valued FREEDOM. It only extended to white conservatives though, everyone else could gently caress off, die, or be thrown in prison.

Eponine posted:

The ABSOLUTE STRAIGHT POOP made me very quietly laugh at work.

Madkal posted:

Basically anyone who tells someone to stop saying racist/misogynistic/xenophobic remarks are accused of being too sensitive/PC

Elderbean posted:

Yeah basically everyone I met in the Navy would not shut up about their SACRIFICES for FREEDOM and how much they valued FREEDOM. It only extended to white conservatives though, everyone else could gently caress off, die, or be thrown in prison.

EZipperelli posted:

Is there/have there been any studies showing conservatism being linked to lower intelligence (based on school performance and grading)/low socio-economic areas or higher rates of poverty?

I know we've all seen the map of red states being primarily in the southern US, and the general lower income levels and lower rated education systems, but has there ever been any definitive study on this?

It always amuses me that Republicans seem to prey on the poor/less intelligent for votes by exploiting their inherent racism/classism/whatever-ism, yet completely and totally pander to the wealthy, and poo poo all over the poor.

Eponine posted:

There's been studies linking racist beliefs to lower intelligence.

china bot posted:

E: Anyone have a subscription here?: http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/23/6/454.full.pdf

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Current and Future Directions
Our review highlights limitations warranting further inquiry. First, the studies reviewed have overwhelmingly examined self-reported prejudice. Although individuals with stronger cognitive skills might be better at masking socially unacceptable attitudes, responses to straightforward questions about out-group attitudes are unlikely to require elaborate cognitive skills of the sort that differentiate those with lower versus higher mental abilities (for a discussion, see Hodson & Busseri, 2012). Furthermore, negative relations between mental abilities and prejudice also occur among university students (e.g., Keiller, 2010) and young children e.g., Costello & Hodson, 2014), and occur independently of education, rendering this account unlikely. However, in more complex or nuanced contexts (e.g., job-hiring decisions about candidates with ambiguous qualifications), those lower in cognitive ability may be less able to inhibit biases, failing to recognize and execute socially appropriate responses. We therefore urgently encourage the future use of nonreactive and
implicit measures of prejudice. Second, extant research has examined only Westerners, limiting the generalizability of its findings to other sociopolitical contexts. Psychological characteristics typically associated with right-wing socially conservative ideologies are also likely manifest among defenders of the status quo in totalitarian communist regimes. More research is needed to advance our understanding of social conservatism
in non-Western societies and its relations with cognitive ability, resistance to change, and out-group attitudes. Finally, associations between cognitive abilities and ideological attitudes in the economic-hierarchical
domain remain underinvestigated. Theoretically, economic (vs. social) conservatism represents an unlikely mediator (Heaven et al., 2011), but this remains untested. In closing, we want to be clear that this review does not inform the rationality, accuracy, or validity of right- or left-wing ideologies, but rather helps to illuminate cognitive factors contributing to ideological and intergroup attitudes.

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Recommended Reading
Hibbing, J. R., Smith, K. B., & Alford, J. R. (2014). Differences in negativity bias underlie variations in political ideology. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 37, 297–307. A comprehensive review of the literature on the differences between liberals and conservatives in their physio- and psychological responses to negative environmental stimuli.

Hodson, G., & Busseri, M. A. (2012). (See References). An article presenting evidence that lower metal abilities in childhood predict greater prejudice in adulthood through right-wing ideologies.

Van Hiel, A., Onraet, E., & De Pauw, S. (2010). (See References). A meta-analytic overview of research on the relation between right-wing ideologies and behavioral measures of cognitive style and ability.

Zuckerman, M., Silberman, J., & Hall, J. A. (2013). (See References). A theoretical and meta-analytical overview of research on the relation between intelligence and religiosity.

china bot posted:

E: Anyone have a subscription here?: http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/23/6/454.full.pdf

quote:

Deary, Batty, and Gale (2008a) and Schoon, Cheng, Gale, Batty, and Deary (2010) investigated the prospective association between general intelligence in childhood (ages 10 and 11, respectively) and a combined social-attitude measure of racism, social conservatism, and gender inequality in adulthood (ages 30 and 33, respectively), using large representative U.K. samples. Their results confirmed that children higher in mental ability were less likely to endorse socially conservative ideologies in adulthood. A reanalysis by Hodson and Busseri (2012) tested the effect of intelligence specifically on racial prejudice and found that greater general intelligence in childhood predicted less racism in adulthood (average correlation approximately −.22). Although cognitive ability conceptually and statistically predicts lower SES and education (Deary et al., 2008a; Schoon et al., 2010), direct predictive effects of cognitive ability on social attitudes remain after controlling for SES, education, and social background (see also Hodson & Busseri, 2012), ruling out these potential confounds.

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Right-wing ideologies offer well-structured and ordered views about society that preserve traditional societal conventions and norms (e.g., Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, & Sulloway, 2003). Such ideological belief systems are particularly attractive to individuals who are strongly motivated to avoid uncertainty and ambiguity in preference for simplicity and predictability ( Jost et al., 2003; Roets & Van Hiel, 2011). Theoretically, individuals with lower mental abilities should be attracted by right-wing social-cultural ideologies because they minimize complexity

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Given the established relations between lower mental ability and adherence to socially conservative right-wing ideologies and between right-wing ideologies and prejudice, it is conceivable that mental abilities predict prejudice through socially conservative right-wing ideologies.

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Deary, I. J., Batty, G. D., & Gale, C. R. (2008a). Bright children become enlightened adults. Psychological Science, 19, 1–6.
Hodson, G., & Busseri, M. A. (2012). Bright minds and dark attitudes: Lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice through right-wing ideology and low intergroup contact. Psychological Science, 23, 187–195.
Jost, J. T., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A. W., & Sulloway, F. (2003). Political conservatism as motivated social cognition. Psychological Bulletin, 129, 339–375.
Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2011). Allport’s prejudiced personality today: Need for closure as the motivated cognitive basis of prejudice. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 349–354.
Schoon, I., Cheng, H., Gale, C. R., Batty, G. D., & Deary, I. J. (2010). Social status, cognitive ability, and educational attainment as predictors of liberal social attitudes and political trust. Intelligence, 38, 144–150.

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