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If a pro golfer is out of work doesn't that just mean they suck at golf and can't land a sponsorship? Lester seems to be devaluing the free market's ability to let only the best raise to the top. I mean maybe if the yacht Builder built better yachts he wouldn't be in this predicament.
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Xander77 posted:I believe Rool approaching Trump's team for an interview / collaboration on his book: *cracks knuckles* https://twitter.com/TedRall/status/718046185978785792 https://twitter.com/TedRall/status/718387671991742465 https://twitter.com/TedRall/status/719973715220504578 https://twitter.com/TedRall/status/721439735680528384 https://twitter.com/TedRall/status/722200667713060864 https://twitter.com/TedRall/status/722200918914154496 https://twitter.com/TedRall/status/722201359550976003 https://twitter.com/TedRall/status/727160223107010561 https://twitter.com/TedRall/status/730007238929190913 . . . https://twitter.com/TedRall/status/739443565785415680
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:*cracks knuckles* When the most attention-addicted man in the world won't even give you the time of day.
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Apr 22, 2017 21:00
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Each of the 10 tweets has 2 retweets or less, except one with 3. The level of delusion here is immeasurable.
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Apr 22, 2017 21:06
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Burn the au pair program to the loving ground and salt the earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Au_pair#Norway
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Apr 22, 2017 21:08
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TheBigAristotle posted:Each of the 10 tweets has 2 retweets or less, except one with 3. The level of delusion here is immeasurable. It reminds me of when I was a kid, and I'd write scathing "open letters" to public figures on my livejournal, and expect people to care.
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Apr 22, 2017 21:10
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Easy Salmon Recipe posted:It reminds me of when I was a kid, and I'd write scathing "open letters" to public figures on my livejournal, and expect people to care. Ted Rall personally, manually tweets his blog updates, in addition to the automatic tweets his website sends out for every new post. If Twitter had been around when I was an attention-starved teen with a blogspot, that is exactly what I'd have done, and it's embarrassing to even consider. Also here's the cover of his latest opus, out this summer:  Great work man! I think the thirty years of professional artistic experience are really starting to show!!
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Apr 22, 2017 21:25
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Easy Salmon Recipe posted:When the most attention-addicted man in the world won't even give you the time of day.
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Apr 22, 2017 21:27
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War Wizard posted:If a pro golfer is out of work doesn't that just mean they suck at golf and can't land a sponsorship? Lester seems to be devaluing the free market's ability to let only the best raise to the top. I mean maybe if the yacht Builder built better yachts he wouldn't be in this predicament. From context I think that's a guy whose job it is to teach rich men how to golf better unfortunately after Barack Obama raised the tax rate on billionaires to 100% no one will hire them, oh wait no that didn't happen whoops
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Apr 22, 2017 21:33
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Is Bernie in the news or something?
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:Also here's the cover of his latest opus, out this summer: Haven't given this thought before, It must take a legendary amount of not giving a gently caress to not improve a single bit in thirty years. Did he take lessons from Kirchen?
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Jay Rust posted:Is Bernie in the news or something? He and Perez are doing a national tour to rally the Democratic base, so he's doing a lot of public speaking.
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:Ted Rall personally, manually tweets his blog updates, in addition to the automatic tweets his website sends out for every new post. If Twitter had been around when I was an attention-starved teen with a blogspot, that is exactly what I'd have done, and it's embarrassing to even consider. I kinda want to read it, just to see if it reads like I imagine it to. "You know, if Pope Francis ever met me, I'm sure he'd say 'Ted Rall, you are doing God's work with your amazing cartoons', and I'd be all like 'God's fake, old man, deal with it' and he'd be all 'No way, Ted Rall you blew my mind and didn't even need to write one of your award-winning comics to do it! You're totally better than Art Spiegelman'."
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:*cracks knuckles* Just as sad as I remember it. Horrible Lurkbeast posted:Haven't given this thought before, It must take a legendary amount of not giving a gently caress to not improve a single bit in thirty years.
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Apr 22, 2017 22:02
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Jay Rust posted:Is Bernie in the news or something? They need a boogeyman or Republicans will realize Trump is the boogeyman. We're going to see a lot of Obama, Hillary, and Bernie in cartoons for the next year.
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Apr 22, 2017 22:07
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Cat Mattress posted:The era where rich people lived in manors and employed dozens of servants is over, nobody lives like that anymore even if they're even richer relatively than the brooding nobles from an Austen or Brontë novel. That's just it: Lester fears that taxing rich people would cause the ever so important yacht industry to crater. At least in his mind. Also, what industry do pro golfers support besides themselves? I mean, yeah this is a bad cartoon and I honestly can't believe Lester believes with the core tenants of it.
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"I can only hear on the left side," Bob says, while staring blankly into the distance and speaking to no one in particular. The man behind the counter makes a smug joke. In Bob's brain, the damage caused by his seconds-old stroke worsen.
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Zesty posted:They need a boogeyman or Republicans will realize Trump is the boogeyman. Also Liz Warren. She and Bernie are two of the highest-profile still-active Democrats, and both of them have at least some probability of being 2020 candidates (Bernie is of course super old so maybe a bit less in his case), so they're probably gonna get brought up for some fairly spurious reasons for a while. Other "rising stars" such as Harris, Ellison, Duckworth, or, oh say for example, Pete Buttigieg are considerably less famous, so whipping up conservative fervor against them wouldn't be as effective. seiferguy posted:That's just it: Lester fears that taxing rich people would cause the ever so important yacht industry to crater. At least in his mind. They are a cornerstone of the critical "pampering the rich" industry, which according to Reaganites is the most important one we have
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Xander77 posted:Like the vast majority of geriatric cartoonists in this thread, he actually got worse as he aged. I wouldn't call his 90's art "good" or even "competent" or even "not an utter rip-off of Matt Groeining's style", but at least it had some notion of perspective and anatomy. The trick is that he only appeared to have a notion of perspective and anatomy because he stuck to the same static talking-head poses. This made his art a LOT more consistent, and consistency is how people start to believe it's a stylistic choice and not a lack of skill. Rall never knew what the gently caress he was doing, but he used to at least know his limitations.
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Lester just refuses to/doesn't understand just how gross the wealth has become. A lot of luxury items have the price jacked up because it really isn't about owning the item, but showing off to others what you can afford to buy. Wealth signaling? Like, you could cut the rich's wealth by half and there'd still be a loving yacht industry. The prices of some items would likely just go down because people can't afford to compare dick sizes to such a degree, but that's it. Oh, and since we'd be taxing that wealth, it means those poor yacht makers and golf tutors would have basic income and healthcare, so they wouldn't have to rely on a thinly-veiled serfdom serving the megarich to survive.
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It's the moral duty of the poor to support their natural betters. Basically that Lester comic is amazing since, intentional or not, it kind of let the mask slip about what the ultimate endgame goal of conservatism is: bringing back Feudalism. Or at the very least a proper gilded age 2.0.
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:The trick is that he only appeared to have a notion of perspective and anatomy because he stuck to the same static talking-head poses. ... Also, you don't even need that much money to go yachting or even own a yacht. My cousin is a medical researcher, and he's really into the yachting thing.
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Xander77 posted:Ah... we have very different notions of what "static talking-head poses" are, apparently. When I think of 90's Rall, I think of 3/4-ish perspective, chest-up characters B^Uing at each other from the bottom corners of the panel with various degrees of arm-flailing, but I am wrong fairly often in life
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I've seen Rall's books on Bernie and Trump in the bookstore. $15 each, so no chance, but I flipped through them. I was spared from looking at his lovely art because he used a bunch of photos that he didn't take.
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:When I think of 90's Rall, I think of 3/4-ish perspective, chest-up characters B^Uing at each other from the bottom corners of the panel with various degrees of arm-flailing, but I am wrong fairly often in life http://imgur.com/gallery/0U7J6
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:The trick is that he only appeared to have a notion of perspective and anatomy because he stuck to the same static talking-head poses. This made his art a LOT more consistent, and consistency is how people start to believe it's a stylistic choice and not a lack of skill. Rall never knew what the gently caress he was doing, but he used to at least know his limitations. Yeah, Rall's stuff used to look at least stylistic back when he kept it really simple. As he tried to add more and more detail it became more and more obvious that he doesn't know how to draw. Like it was always lazy but at least it was cleanly lazy? If that makes sense.
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Though I guess it would be more like DD^Uing in his caseXander77 posted:My only exposure to 90's Rall is My War With Brian: There are actual backgrounds but the characters are all very stiff (love those tilted torsos) and drawn from the same angle every time. They look like paper dolls
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Xander77 posted:My only exposure to 90's Rall is My War With Brian: Rereading that, and where's the part where the kid gets buried alive? Was that a different "I tortured a child and I'm the good guy" anecdote?
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seiferguy posted:Also, what industry do pro golfers support besides themselves? I mean, yeah this is a bad cartoon and I honestly can't believe Lester believes with the core tenants of it. Some of them give golf lessons to rich idiots who want to play better.
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Hey, guys! I think I found Kelly's house!
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Easy Salmon Recipe posted:I kinda want to read it, just to see if it reads like I imagine it to.
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Unkempt posted:Hey, guys! I think I found Kelly's house! Is... is it... free? This is one of a handful of legitimately funny, clever politoons I've ever laughed at. I AM THE TOILET fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Apr 23, 2017 |
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Mantis42 posted:He disagreed when I said the Bible was boring, that it was unreadable now. But he couldn't articulate why I was wrong. He kept pointing out its historical importance, which I didn't dispute. Did Rall say that?
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Mantis42 posted:Is eating mud a colloquialism I don't get, or something? This is a worse thread meme than pants donkey
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