Political Cartoons 2017: Gotta go fasc

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Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

Horrible Lurkbeast posted:

Is there even a single person who likes Tony Blair?

Himself? Probably?

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Ramos: Jul 3, 2012

Erenthal posted:

All I can see from this is that hurricanes blow white people away.

# ? Sep 13, 2017 00:44

Fister Roboto: Feb 21, 2008

Hahahahahaha How The gently caress Are Hurricanes Real Hahahaha Just Walk Away

# ? Sep 13, 2017 00:53

Technowolf: Nov 4, 2009

# ? Sep 13, 2017 00:56

Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

D.N. Nation posted:

More '80s Gorrell.

Might have had something to do with jokes used eight years earlier in Bonjo From Beyond The Stars.

# ? Sep 13, 2017 00:58

Brawnfire: Jul 13, 2004; 🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
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Oxyclean posted:

Uhh, maybe my history is a little rough, but human sacrifices? Like is Branco thinking of the Mayans or something? Or a book he read?

e: lmao @ Branco having an issue with Obama's mentor but likely not with Trump's dad being literal KKK.

# ? Sep 13, 2017 00:58

Mermaid Autopsy: Jun 9, 2001

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

Can anyone explain the deal with this comic to me? I see this artist posted a lot in this thread and the topics never seem specifically political. It just seems like the most standard webcomic topics possible with like above average art for a webcomic. Is there something about it that makes it not just "megatokyo but girls" that makes it a political cartoon? Do all the girls represent like countries or something I'm missing?

So that you have better reasons to hate feckless millennials than the ones Branco gives

# ? Sep 13, 2017 01:04

Trapezium Dave: Oct 22, 2012

First Dog on the Moon:

# ? Sep 13, 2017 01:10

Ralepozozaxe: Sep 6, 2010; A Veritable Smorgasbord!

Andy Marlette has moved up to being one of my least favorite cartoonists. He was never good, but his hurricane cartoons are absolutely awful. It's like he's not trying to offend the hurricanes by being to harsh on them.

# ? Sep 13, 2017 01:56

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Sandpuppy posted:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmKHHdqwVes

# ? Sep 13, 2017 01:59

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Ralepozozaxe posted:

Andy Marlette has moved up to being one of my least favorite cartoonists. He was never good, but his hurricane cartoons are absolutely awful. It's like he's not trying to offend the hurricanes by being to harsh on them.

Marlette's from the one part of Florida that didn't get hit by Irma at all too so lol

# ? Sep 13, 2017 02:06

seiferguy: Jun 9, 2005; FLAWED
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 02:45

Arthur Crackpot: Sep 4, 2011; Proceed in a str8 line shaped like a perpetually shifting torus knot until you feel a sense of despair transcending all mortal comprehension, then hang a right at the next octopus, she'll be in the first room on the left

Ramos posted:

All I can see from this is that hurricanes blow white people away.

My first-glance interpretation was "natural disasters disproportionately affect blacks because low-income communities can't always afford to evacuate or rebuild." But it's a Lester, so it can't mean that.

# ? Sep 13, 2017 02:50

Omnicrom: Aug 3, 2007; Snorlax Afficionado

Arthur Crackpot posted:

My first-glance interpretation was "natural disasters disproportionately affect blacks because low-income communities can't always afford to evacuate or rebuild." But it's a Lester, so it can't mean that.

A Good Cartoon.

# ? Sep 13, 2017 03:05

Teketeketeketeke: Mar 11, 2007

Cloud Potato posted:

MAC on... Tony Blair speaking out again

'I'm afraid it's one of those irritating pains in the bottom that just when you think you're rid of it, it pops back up again � we call it a Tony Blair.'

Christ, what an rear end in a top hat

(So much for the tolerant left?)

# ? Sep 13, 2017 03:46

Gordon Shumway: Jan 21, 2008

Sandpuppy posted:

You could say that about half those books. Except for "My Morals by Donald Trump", which would be represented by a black hole.

Well, the whole thing is rife with hypocrisy, that was just the one that first caught my eye.

# ? Sep 13, 2017 03:56

itskage: Aug 26, 2003

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

"megatokyo but girls"

Not at all.

It actually updates on a regular schedule.

# ? Sep 13, 2017 05:29

Hunt11: Jul 24, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Teketeketeketeke posted:

Christ, what an rear end in a top hat

(So much for the tolerant left?)

Doesn't really work as one of the few things that people from across the political spectrum can agree on is that Tony Blair was a loving rear end in a top hat.

# ? Sep 13, 2017 06:05

Keiya: Aug 22, 2009; Come with me if you want to not die.

The hairstyles in zelda are no where near absurd enough to be Megatokyo but Girls either.

# ? Sep 13, 2017 06:06

King Possum III: Feb 15, 2016

# ? Sep 13, 2017 06:13

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

# ? Sep 13, 2017 06:23

Ramos: Jul 3, 2012

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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YEAH, NAZIS ARE BAD. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT WAS WORSE? ANTIFA.

I think everyone saw that coming from a mile away.

# ? Sep 13, 2017 06:26

cheetah7071: Oct 20, 2010; honk honk; College Slice

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Honestly it's breath of fresh air to hear "antifa oppose nazis but are still bad" instead of "actually, antifa are the real nazis". It's sad when that's the fresh air and maybe it's just because his talking points are two weeks old rather than anything else

# ? Sep 13, 2017 06:27

RuanGacho: Jun 20, 2002; "You're gunna break it!"

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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I'm waiting for the pivot

# ? Sep 13, 2017 06:27

ded redd: Aug 1, 2010; by Fluffdaddy

RuanGacho posted:

I'm waiting for the pivot

Ha ha. Hah. You fool.

You loving fool.

# ? Sep 13, 2017 06:29

Trapezium Dave: Oct 22, 2012

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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If the thorax is the price gouging and the abdomen is the looters, what does the laser sight represent?

RuanGacho posted:

I'm waiting for the pivot

We all know where this is going and that is "Hunny Bunny's new book".

# ? Sep 13, 2017 06:37

Fister Roboto: Feb 21, 2008

The effects of looters in a crisis are initially irritating, but ultimately temporary and minuscule. A good comic.

# ? Sep 13, 2017 06:39

Jurgan: May 8, 2007; Just pour it directly into your gaping mouth-hole you decadent slut

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

Or the opposite, like many of your ideological predecessors.

# ? Sep 13, 2017 06:44

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

# ? Sep 13, 2017 07:00

Jonas Albrecht: Jun 7, 2012

Alhazred posted:

# ? Sep 13, 2017 07:24

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

# ? Sep 13, 2017 07:44

Crabtree: Oct 17, 2012; ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
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Fister Roboto posted:

The effects of looters in a crisis are initially irritating, but ultimately temporary and minuscule. A good comic.

Looting is only encouraged and increased by bad business practices price gouging people in a time of crisis.

# ? Sep 13, 2017 07:49

ded redd: Aug 1, 2010; by Fluffdaddy

King Possum III posted:

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I adore this, mostly for the dead climate denier.

# ? Sep 13, 2017 07:50

Zetsubou-san: Jan 28, 2015; Cruel Bifaunidas demanded that you [stand]🧍 I require only that you [kneel]🧎

King Possum III posted:

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those are some good ol' elephants from good ol' chip bok

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Zetsubou-san fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Sep 13, 2017

# ? Sep 13, 2017 08:08

Vib Rib: Jul 23, 2007; God damn this shit is
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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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"Supported"? Like, during his rule?
Also yes Stalin was a huge friend of the intellectuals.

Wait so this comic is just smearing "intellectuals", right? So why is there a picture of an anti-fascist? Is he saying all intelligent people are anti-fascists? Or all anti-fascists are intelligent?
Also loving the implication of "intelligent people" as defined as people who "don't learn".

# ? Sep 13, 2017 09:05

THE BAR: Oct 20, 2011; You know what might look better on your nose?

Samurai Sanders posted:

Frankly yeah, "that's climate change I guess" has become a regular feature of casual weather discussions recently. I wonder why that is?

Also, what did you expect when discussing the weather with a meteorologist (presumably)?

# ? Sep 13, 2017 09:06

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

Vib Rib posted:

"Supported"? Like, during his rule?
Also yes Stalin was a huge friend of the intellectuals.

Yes. Many western intellectuals supported communism in general and Stalin in particular all the way up to 1953. And yes, Stalin actually invited these people into the Soviet Union for propaganda purposes and to increase support abroad.

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Wait so this comic is just smearing "intellectuals", right? So why is there a picture of an anti-fascist? Is he saying all intelligent people are anti-fascists? Or all anti-fascists are intelligent?
Also loving the implication of "intelligent people" as defined as people who "don't learn".

The point, for the willfully dense, is that opposing facists does not necessarily make you a good guy worthy of support.

...

You can disagree with any point of the comparison, but seriously. The reason why political cartoons are aimed at the lowest common denominator is (among many other things) that even people who read political cartoons as a hobby are apparently REALLY bad at understanding them.

# ? Sep 13, 2017 09:09

Vib Rib: Jul 23, 2007; God damn this shit is
fuckin' re-dic-a-liss
🍖🍖😛🍖🍖

Xander77 posted:

Yes. Many western intellectuals supported communism in general and Stalin in particular all the way up to 1953. And yes, Stalin actually invited these people into the Soviet Union for propaganda purposes and to increase support abroad.
The point, for the willfully dense, is that opposing facists does not necessarily make you a good guy worthy of support.

My misunderstanding was more that I thought his commentary was on modern antifascists pushing themselves as intellectuals, not comparing them to the contemporary "intellectuals" of Stalin's time. I assumed when he talked about "intellectuals" in quotes he meant modern day intellectuals, since it's a term and a lean he uses frequently. There's precedent in him talking that way. I just didn't realize he was speaking about people from before and blaming antifascists for being like them, rather than talking solely about antifascists.
So yes, that's my bad, but you don't gotta be lovely about it.

# ? Sep 13, 2017 09:15