Political Cartoons 2017: Gotta go fasc

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Easy Salmon Recipe: Jan 10, 2017

Vib Rib posted:

I did notice he made a pretty quick swerve away from "FREE SPEECH, YOU CAN'T UNINVITE SPEAKERS" around 2 weeks after Milo told everyone he supported pedophilia, so that might have something to do with it.

Just a few weeks ago I saw someone saying that they bonded with their boyfriend, who is a Trump supporter, over Star Wars. Except that the boyfriend thinks the Empire was right, which apparently wasn't a huge red flag.

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

What? How? In what way? The Empire are comically evil. They blow up planets, directly murdered a bunch of children, and use clones as slaves.

Republicans have been supporting the Empire for a while now:

http://twitter.com/billkristol/status/810650507714891777

http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-case-for-the-empire/article/2540#.WFcwWY5m1Vc

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/20/why-conservatives-love-the-galactic-empire.html

http://www.wired.com/2016/12/rogue-one-alt-right-boycott/

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# ? May 12, 2024 07:14

Eggplant Squire: Aug 14, 2003

Regardless of the politics behind Prickly City he's literally just been making the same lazy "omg everything is so crazy and I'm freaking out!" strip for a month and it's really loving poo poo considering he spent the last eight years talking about how the Republicans were the adults in the room.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 16:35

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

# ? Mar 27, 2017 16:34

F_Shit_Fitzgerald: Feb 2, 2017

Radish posted:

Regardless of the politics behind Prickly City he's literally just been making the same lazy "omg everything is so crazy and I'm freaking out!" strip for a month and it's really loving poo poo considering he spent the last eight years talking about how the Republicans were the adults in the room.

I was under the impression that it's been going on longer than a month. I don't remember any Prickly City strips since at least the inauguration that haven't been the same "OMG! Freak out! OK, I'm not going to freak out....oh wait - yes I am!" stuff. It's gotten really boring. Even Trump's most ardent detractors have moved on from that poo poo by now. Stantis needs to get over it.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 16:46

Oxyclean: Sep 23, 2007

The only reason anyone should root for the Empire is because they either haven't seen the movies or are too young to pay attention the plot and just think the Empire has cooler ships/weapons.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 16:45

Sir Tonk: Apr 18, 2006; Young Orc

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

Goddammit this is the dumbest arc, tinsley has been doing a better job lately.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 16:51

SomeMathGuy: Oct 4, 2014; The people were ASTONISHED at his doctrine.

FactsAreUseless posted:

Prickly City has been worse than usual (which is already pretty bad) lately, but this looks like we're finally making some progress.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 16:58

Pakled: Aug 6, 2011; WE ARE SMART

Oxyclean posted:

The only reason anyone should root for the Empire is because they either haven't seen the movies or are too young to pay attention the plot and just think the Empire has cooler ships/weapons.

Or they're super into the expanded universe and approve of the Empire's anti-alien racism and misogyny which are kind of underplayed (non-existent) in the movies.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 16:57

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001

Oxyclean posted:

The only reason anyone should root for the Empire is because they either haven't seen the movies or are too young to pay attention the plot and just think the Empire has cooler ships/weapons.

TIE Fighter remains the best Star Wars video game ever made, in part because it's fun to pretend to be the bad guy.

_{^{Serve the Emperor above all others.}}

# ? Mar 27, 2017 17:02

Regalingualius: Jan 7, 2012; We gazed into the eyes of madness... And all we found was horny.

Pakled posted:

Or they're super into the expanded universe and approve of the Empire's anti-alien racism and misogyny which are kind of underplayed (non-existent) in the movies.

Eh, even that can be picked up on in subtext if you actually pay attention to how many on-screen Imperial women and aliens there are in positions of power in the Empire compared to men in the original trilogy.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 17:04

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

Captain_Maclaine posted:

TIE Fighter remains the best Star Wars video game ever made, in part because it's fun to pretend to be the bad guy.

_{^{Serve the Emperor above all others.}}

It is because you know you're the bad guy. It's sad when you think that you're actually the good guy.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 17:05

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

# ? Mar 27, 2017 17:06

Oxyclean: Sep 23, 2007

Captain_Maclaine posted:

TIE Fighter remains the best Star Wars video game ever made, in part because it's fun to pretend to be the bad guy.

_{^{Serve the Emperor above all others.}}

I think the majority of my early exposure to Star Wars was the TIE Fighter game.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 17:11

Kopijeger: Feb 14, 2010

Captain_Maclaine posted:

TIE Fighter remains the best Star Wars video game ever made, in part because it's fun to pretend to be the bad guy.

_{^{Serve the Emperor above all others.}}

Except that they didn't dare to have you be a blatantly bad guy and instead had you fight Imperial renegades under Harkov and Zaarin most of the time. There were never any missions in the vein of "shoot down this starship full of civilians" or "blow up an entire inhabited planet".

# ? Mar 27, 2017 17:21

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001

Kopijeger posted:

Except that they didn't dare to have you be a blatantly bad guy and instead had you fight Imperial renegades under Harkov and Zaarin most of the time. There were never any missions in the vein of "shoot down this starship full of civilians" or "blow up an entire inhabited planet".

I'll admit it was a lot more fun to shoot down rebels than it was on those missions, sure (and man with the Zaarin ones drag on at times, particularly the ones around the Vorknkx project), but at least there were those ones at the end where you bait the Bothans into stealing faulty info about the Death Star II project. Oh, and the very first campaign involved a lot of shooting down rebel transports fleeing from Hoth, so I'd sorta count that?

Captain_Maclaine fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Mar 27, 2017

# ? Mar 27, 2017 17:24

Feinne: Oct 9, 2007; When you fall, get right back up again.

Regalingualius posted:

Eh, even that can be picked up on in subtext if you actually pay attention to how many on-screen Imperial women and aliens there are in positions of power in the Empire compared to men in the original trilogy.

They also have lines with phrases like 'alien scum' as I recall.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 17:35

Sandpuppy: Jun 16, 2012; Social Abscess
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A rough weekend for the GOP. Ramirez and Branco are clowning them, but they'll always have McCoy.

5
Anyone know what that medal is?

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Once again, Ted leads the charge from his drawing board.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 18:00

Erenthal: Jan 1, 2008; A relaxing walk in the woods; Grimey Drawer

Sandpuppy posted:

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Once again, Ted leads the charge from his drawing board.

Ok Ted. Go ahead. Smash a cop car. Climb the White House fence with a molotov. Do something, you goddamn coward, instead of smugly lambasting others for not doing anything.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 18:04

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Sandpuppy posted:

5
Anyone know what that medal is?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=red+star+medal

# ? Mar 27, 2017 18:05

Pakled: Aug 6, 2011; WE ARE SMART

Sandpuppy posted:

7
Once again, Ted leads the charge from his drawing board.

The left thinks Trump is "doing great?" Tinsley and Stantis have a two week delay, what's your excuse, Rall?

Pakled fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Mar 27, 2017

# ? Mar 27, 2017 18:09

SomeMathGuy: Oct 4, 2014; The people were ASTONISHED at his doctrine.

Yeah the left is definitely thinking "Trump is doing great." We're definitely not organizing at the local level. Protesting is definitely the only way to show and practice dissent.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 18:11

Lemming: Apr 21, 2008

Sandpuppy posted:

7
Once again, Ted leads the charge from his drawing board.

Yeah, there definitely weren't widespread protests at every airport after the Muslim ban

# ? Mar 27, 2017 18:23

D.N. Nation: Feb 1, 2012

Sandpuppy posted:

7
Once again, Ted leads the charge from his drawing board.

My wife, who is currently busting rear end for the planning committee for a huge pro-science march next month, would like you to french kiss a belt sander, Ted.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 18:26

Erenthal: Jan 1, 2008; A relaxing walk in the woods; Grimey Drawer

D.N. Nation posted:

My wife, who is currently busting rear end for the planning committee for a huge pro-science march next month, would like you to french kiss a belt sander, Ted.

But is the march lead by Rall, for Rall? If not, it's just useless reformist posing!

# ? Mar 27, 2017 18:29

mandatory lesbian: Dec 18, 2012

Vib Rib posted:

Same reasons you'd probably expect people to argue: Things were 'stable' under their rule (for most people), they kept things running well, they united the galaxy, you were only in trouble if you rebel ("why rebel if rebelling is what causes trouble in the first place??"), and a smattering of "we only see the bad stuff, there's hundreds or thousands of other planets that were running just fine under their rule".

well if you look at the EU

# ? Mar 27, 2017 18:33

wearing a lampshade: Mar 6, 2013

Erenthal posted:

But is the march lead by Rall, for Rall? If not, it's just useless reformist posing!

Rall for one, one for rall, as the saying goes

# ? Mar 27, 2017 18:33

Sandpuppy: Jun 16, 2012; Social Abscess
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Universe

Xander77 posted:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=red+star+medal

Strangely, that lmgtfy link reveals the exact same non-answers I got when googling it manually before asking the question.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 18:37

mandatory lesbian: Dec 18, 2012

Sandpuppy posted:

Strangely, that lmgtfy link reveals the exact same non-answers I got when googling it manually before asking the question.

first result i got

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Red_Star

altho i do agree that LMGTFY is dumb passive-aggressive thing to do

# ? Mar 27, 2017 18:42

Skippy Granola: Sep 3, 2011; It's not what it looks like.

Sandpuppy posted:

Strangely, that lmgtfy link reveals the exact same non-answers I got when googling it manually before asking the question.

It appears to be the Order of the Soviet Union medal

# ? Mar 27, 2017 18:43

Ruzihm: Aug 11, 2010; Group up and push mid, proletariat!

Trapezium Dave posted:

First Dog on the Moon:

I don't usually read these, but this one is good. I like this arc.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 18:51

Kurtofan: Feb 16, 2011; hon hon hon

Crain posted:

i do'nt get the meme

# ? Mar 27, 2017 18:54

Kopijeger: Feb 14, 2010

Skippy Granola posted:

It appears to be the Order of the Soviet Union medal

I'll assume you mean "Hero of the Soviet Union":

The ribbon is clearly wrong, though. There is also the post-soviet "Hero of the Russian Federation medal":

# ? Mar 27, 2017 18:55

xthetenth: Dec 30, 2012; Mario wasn't sure if this Jeb guy was a good influence on Yoshi.

mandatory lesbian posted:

first result i got

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Red_Star

altho i do agree that LMGTFY is dumb passive-aggressive thing to do

LMGTFY would be barely acceptable if google didn't personalize search results. But it does, so a dogshit site designed to be snide by wasting someone's time and likely not succeeding deserves mocking.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 18:57

Sandpuppy: Jun 16, 2012; Social Abscess
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Universe

mandatory lesbian posted:

first result i got

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Red_Star

I got that too, but it doesn't look much like the one in the cartoon, other than being a shade of red and star-shaped. The Hungarian Red Star looks closer, by way of having a red suspender, but I guess that would make less sense. Perhaps I'm expecting it to be too specific, and Mike Thompson just made up his own stand-in medal for Russia.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 18:58

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

LMGTFY was funny when I was in college, ten literal years ago

# ? Mar 27, 2017 18:58

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

Pants Donkey posted:

2
An original joke coupled with a timely reference. What a combo!

https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/846401929882353665

# ? Mar 27, 2017 19:00

mandatory lesbian: Dec 18, 2012

Sandpuppy posted:

I got that too, but it doesn't look much like the one in the cartoon, other than being a shade of red and star-shaped. The Hungarian Red Star looks closer, by way of having a red suspender, but I guess that would make less sense. Perhaps I'm expecting it to be too specific, and Mike Thompson just made up his own stand-in medal for Russia.

honestly it's too small for me to see clearly in the cartoon, but it's star-shaped and red so eh close enough

i agree tho, it's prob not a specific medal per se but just meant to be emblematic of the soviet love of red stars

# ? Mar 27, 2017 19:01