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Kwyndig posted:That much Viagra would kill you. Valar Morghulis.
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Rorus Raz posted:A contest convention looks like a malnourished, sleep-deprived, Abraham Lincoln. Ramirez's art is so ugly I thought it was supposed to be Lincoln scowling at the thought of a contested convention. Also the civil war era equivalent of the tea party split off of the Republican party and nominated someone else to run against him for his second term.
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SSNeoman posted:<MIND CHARGE> I can't believe my mind didn't make that connection.
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Fulchrum posted:I can't believe my mind didn't make that connection. I don't get it at all.
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WarpedNaba posted:I don't get it at all. VIDEOGAMES!!!
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Starshark posted:What "Pearl Harbor" crisis is the US facing now, Lang? 
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One dehumanizing effect of capitalism is to dismiss the comfort of passengers to pack them in like sardines (and cut pilot pay to poverty wages, etc.). Instead of blaming the culprit, the passenger gripes at the stewardess. AGC. A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:Pear One Imports 
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WarpedNaba posted:I don't get it at all. ...Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go out back and throw myself in a dumpster.
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It's the second week of April back in... This is something of a slow week, as certain events like China being host for the Olympic games stirring up more controversy as we got closer to the summer.  1The 3am Phone Call was a meme brought about a Hillary ad back in March. Thanks to the magic of the internet, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kddX7LqgCvc It's not a very interesting ad, in my opinion, but fearful Republicans would snap it up. Even today, the 3am Phone Call is used to taunt Clinton about her callous, personal murder of four Americans in Benghazi.  2A big part of Obama's campaign was basically "Undo the War on Terror" which involved big promises like pulling out of Iraq.  3While Obama would get beat up for being "weak" on foreign policy and terrorism, many took the chance to take potshots at Clinton while she was still relevant.  4Of course today conservatives would say that pulling out of Iraq led to ISIS and blah blah blah. It never occurs to them another thing that may have prevented the rise of ISIS: never invading Iraq in the first place  5Clinton wasn't terribly different, desiring to also get out of the Middle East, although her Iraq vote would haunt her then just as it does today.  6I don't even know what this is trying to say.  7Hmmm what could this be referring to?  8This too...we'll get to this little incident next week when more cartoonists jumped on it.  9hey the Clinton Foundation! It's like we never left 2008!  10Charlton Heston died eight years ago this week. Oh and of course, just as he promised throughout the campaign, Obama would eventually eliminate the second amendment and ban all guns forever.  11Clinton's advisor and long-ally, Mark Penn, would leave the campaign after pissing off the base with NEXT WEEK: We're clinging in the rain. Pants Donkey fucked around with this message at 09:03 on Apr 10, 2016 |
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Fulchrum posted:Kennedy tend not to be depicted in pop culture as a corpse with a hole straight through his skull. Meanwhile, you take any depiction of Lincoln in any show, cartoon, comic, movie or game, and it will always have two elements - the stovepipe hat, and the beard. Remove them, and 99% of Americans won't know who they're looking at. Especially when you factor in that Ramirez couldn't depict someone recognizably if you held a gun to his head. Why is Eisenhower considered by a lot of people to be one of the "good ones"? It's his fault we are where we are with Iran today, also he had a big hand in the Vietnam debacle, just to name two things.
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WarpedNaba posted:Brown tide, remember. Although I wouldn't be surprised if /pol/ had an unironic orks = brown people motif. Also, aren't the Orks more often than not caricatures of European empires?
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I love it. It's the closest I have seen to a cartoon about how if men gave birth then free, infallible birth control would be delivered anonymously in the mail to every household in America.
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Samovar posted:Also, aren't the Orks more often than not caricatures of European empires? When have they ever been that? All depictions of Orcs stem from Tolkein, and in his work Orcs represented Asian people, specifically Mongolians and the armies of Ghengis Khan.
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Samovar posted:Also, aren't the Orks more often than not caricatures of European empires? I think you'll find the Orks are caricatures of football hooligans 
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Fulchrum posted:When have they ever been that? All depictions of Orcs stem from Tolkein, and in his work Orcs represented Asian people, specifically Mongolians and the armies of Ghengis Khan. orks, not orcs.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Why is Eisenhower considered by a lot of people to be one of the "good ones"? It's his fault we are where we are with Iran today, also he had a big hand in the Vietnam debacle, just to name two things. At the time, the right wing of the GOP wanted to go much further. While Eisenhower wanted to contain communism, the right wing of the party wanted to destroy it. (Another wing wanted to go back to isolationism.). Furthermore, the Democrats were just as much supporting military actions with the aim of defeating communism as the Republicans at the time. Kennedy, for example, was much more ferocious and hawkish in his anti-communist rhetorics than Eisenhower. Internally, Eisenhower signed legislation that expanded Social Security, increased the minimum wage, created the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and supported government construction of low-income housing. Personally, I think he was a better president than anyone since, though this may be more of an indictment of his successors than a praise for him.
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Never saw this Asay before, it's always nice to get a reminder that he'd draw something wonderful and good and just kind of expect the reader to go,"Oh no what a terrible thing!"
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Jurgan posted:You think Trump wouldn't do the same thing? He hasn't yet. And until he does Nixon still was worse than Trump.
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Fulchrum posted:When have they ever been that? All depictions of Orcs stem from Tolkein, and in his work Orcs represented Asian people, specifically Mongolians and the armies of Ghengis Khan. The Huns, actually. Tolkien was big on the Migration Era, the Rohan are based on the Goths.
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Is this cartoon suggesting that the ideal foreign policy would be "the best defense is a good offense?" Because that is seriously what it looks like.
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Apr 10, 2016 11:28
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Zeroisanumber posted:Valar Morghulis. Viagra Morghulis  I don't know if that cartoon is accurately representing how you get a prescription for Viagra, but I'm sure it can't be hard.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Why is Eisenhower considered by a lot of people to be one of the "good ones"? It's his fault we are where we are with Iran today, also he had a big hand in the Vietnam debacle, just to name two things. I brought up Ford because he came after Goldwater's candidacy and Nixon's ... whatever he did to the American political psyche, and yet I still couldn't find much that was outright disagreeable.
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Kulkasha posted:the Rohan are based on the Goths. More likely they're a mix of Normans and Anglo-Saxons. Their language is based on old English and horses was a big part of the Normans' military tactics.
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Alhazred posted:More likely they're a mix of Normans and Anglo-Saxons. Their language is based on old English and horses was a big part of the Normans' military tactics. Specifically, the Rohan play the role of the Visigoths under King Theoderic(King Theoden) at the Battle of Catalaunian Plains(Battle of Gondor), where they came to the aid of the Western Romans(Gondor) in defeating the Huns.
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Kulkasha posted:Specifically, the Rohan play the role of the Visigoths under King Theoderic(King Theoden) at the Battle of Catalaunian Plains(Battle of Gondor), where they came to the aid of the Western Romans(Gondor) in defeating the Huns. Who is Aetius? Gandalf? Imrahil? Aragorn? Nobody really lines up.
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Kajeesus posted:Is this cartoon suggesting that the ideal foreign policy would be "the best defense is a good offense?" Because that is seriously what it looks like. Asay is not a smart person.
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Alhazred posted:More likely they're a mix of Normans and Anglo-Saxons. Their language is based on old English and horses was a big part of the Normans' military tactics. Not so much a mix of Norman and Anglo-Saxon so much as purely Anglo-Saxon just with lots of horses. Tolkien had a theory that the reason the Anglo-Saxons fell to the Normans is they couldn't compete with Norman cavalry, and since he identified strongly with the Anglo-Saxon culture, obviously his fantasy world would feature a version of their culture where everyone was a horseman... Try winning Hastings now, William!
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Kajeesus posted:Is this cartoon suggesting that the ideal foreign policy would be "the best defense is a good offense?" Because that is seriously what it looks like. More than likely yes. They're sad that the middle east has not been glassed over yet.
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Oops, Bell forgot to tell a joke. Although this isn't really a funny subject... 
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Selachian posted:Oops, Bell forgot to tell a joke. Although this isn't really a funny subject... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KiIP_KDQmXs
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Rorus Raz posted:
Penn will occasionally come out of the hole he lives in to insult Obama, leading wingnuts to soil themselves in joy, because even the liberal Mark Penn!!! thinks Obama sucks. See also: Lanny Davis, Doug Schoen, Pat Caddell. The last two offering one of the dumbest editorials ever written.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Why is Eisenhower considered by a lot of people to be one of the "good ones"? It's his fault we are where we are with Iran today, also he had a big hand in the Vietnam debacle, just to name two things. Ibogaine posted:At the time, the right wing of the GOP wanted to go much further. While Eisenhower wanted to contain communism, the right wing of the party wanted to destroy it. (Another wing wanted to go back to isolationism.). Furthermore, the Democrats were just as much supporting military actions with the aim of defeating communism as the Republicans at the time. Kennedy, for example, was much more ferocious and hawkish in his anti-communist rhetorics than Eisenhower. It cannot be understated how important and amazing the Interstate Highway system is.
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Yeah the way I've always explained Eisenhower and to a lesser extent Nixon is that they existed before polarization took over with the rise of conservatism as the driving force behind being a Republican.
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gently caress Nixon, and gently caress Eisenhower to a lesser extent. Nixon was every bit as regressive as today's assholes. What saved the country was the solidly Democratic Congress and Nixon's lack of interest in domestic policy. Nixon vetoed a national childcare bill; does anyone think Bill Clinton or Obama would do that? Never let anyone tell you that Nixon was a liberal, or even moderate.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Why is Eisenhower considered by a lot of people to be one of the "good ones"? It's his fault we are where we are with Iran today, also he had a big hand in the Vietnam debacle, just to name two things. There is next to no cultural memory of Eisenhower because people in their 70s were barely teenagers when he left the White House. Cruel and Unusual posted:gently caress Nixon, and gently caress Eisenhower to a lesser extent. Nixon was every bit as regressive as today's assholes. What saved the country was the solidly Democratic Congress and Nixon's lack of interest in domestic policy. Nixon vetoed a national childcare bill; does anyone think Bill Clinton or Obama would do that? Never let anyone tell you that Nixon was a liberal, or even moderate. Ironically, the rehabilitation of Nixon's image came not from the neocons, but from the progressives who hate their own party.
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D.N. Nation posted:Penn will occasionally come out of the hole he lives in to insult Obama, leading wingnuts to soil themselves in joy, because even the liberal Mark Penn!!! thinks Obama sucks. See also: Lanny Davis, Doug Schoen, Pat Caddell. The last two offering one of the dumbest editorials ever written. From the "Obama shouldn't run for reelection" article: quote:Moreover, if the president were to demonstrate a clear degree of bipartisanship, it would force the Republicans to meet him halfway. If they didn't, they would look intransigent, 
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Kwyndig posted:That much Viagra would kill you. Naw you'd just get a really stiff neck.
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Rorus Raz posted:
Oh that Assay. "Picture an America where literally no one has guns! No one can accidentally or purposely shoot another human being! Wouldn't that just be the worst, guys?" 
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Cruel and Unusual posted:gently caress Nixon, and gently caress Eisenhower to a lesser extent. Nixon was every bit as regressive as today's assholes. What saved the country was the solidly Democratic Congress and Nixon's lack of interest in domestic policy. Nixon vetoed a national childcare bill; does anyone think Bill Clinton or Obama would do that? Never let anyone tell you that Nixon was a liberal, or even moderate. My edited post above was going to be a big Eisenhower carepost which I eventually decided would be too much of a derail here. Let me just say that even though I'd disagree with Eisenhower being "One of the good ones" (see his complete inaction on both racial issues and McCarthy), I think it's unfair to paint him with the Nixon brush. Nixon was forced on him by the republican old guard after he beat Taft's brains in during primary season.
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