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HootTheOwl
May 13, 2012

Hootin and shootin
AOC even included a shot of logic and reason, why are you mad?

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Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?


That Red Dead Redemption 2 side-mission had a real downer ending :smith:

Sandpuppy
Jun 16, 2012

Social Abscess
of the
Universe
Not surprisingly, Baghdad Ben couldn't help but make her skin tone about 12 times darker than it really is.

Trapezium Dave
Oct 22, 2012

Sandpuppy posted:

I know about Abbott's budgie-smuggler, and Turnbull's tin can top hat, but did we ever get an explanation for Pope's Morrison caricature? Since it's Pope, I'm assuming hoping it's a bit deeper than "Look at those clowns in [Gov't Body] - what a bunch of clowns!"
I get the impression that it essentially is just "what a bunch of clowns" but in this case extremely warranted.

This is the first ScoMo-As-Clown cartoon from Pope's archive:


The story here was Pauline Hanson (leader of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party featuring Pauline Hanson) introduced a motion in the Senate that "It's Okay to Be White" and the government voted in support of it. This was the week of the Wentworth by-election with majority government at stake, and I can't remember the list of all the crazy things they pulled - although one of the more memorable was Scott Morrison without warning declaring Australia was going to move its embassy to Jerusalem, causing a diplomatic flare-up with Indonesia just days before he was to sign a trade deal.

The Wentworth by-election was Scott Morrison's first true character defining test as Prime Minister, and it is after that where Pope started regularly drawing him as a clown.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

This unicorn's is a dickhead.

Feinne
Oct 9, 2007

When you fall, get right back up again.

Crunch Buttsteak posted:

While most people are obviously just going to take a generic "gays are indoctrinating our kids!" message from this, I think this might be referring more-specifically to the "sudden-onset gender dysphoria" meme going around right-wing facebook groups and email chains right now.

Lots of right-wing news sites have posted articles recently with the subject of "Our dear sweet Christian-raised daughter was the model of femininity, until she went to her first semester of public college and came back with a double mastectomy and a mustache, and yelled at us about things like 'pronouns' and 'privilege', oh woe is us". It's an attempt to re-pathologize trans identities, by portraying a transition as a sudden, rash decision made by someone who is OBVIOUSLY not in their right mind, caused by social pressure from even a brief exposure to a liberal environment. Some articles also say it's tied to autism, for some reason?

The whole thing is just bullshit fearmongering aimed at conservative Boomer parents, of course, but it's the kind of fearmongering that's right up KKKlurf's alley.

From pages back but I wanted to share because this is personal and recent for me.

To me, it's the stigmatization of trans identities that makes things often appear sudden, because people don't necessarily feel comfortable talking about their dysphoria when they're still sort of managing to live with it. I know I sure didn't, in part because I have serious trust issues and in part (and sort of amplified by that first portion) I found the specific ways that it's essentially always hit me extremely embarrassing. I'll long story short it that I had an extremely negative body image and it led to a lot of really poor health and hygiene choices. In late January I finally hit a breaking point where I couldn't go on anymore the way things were, and started taking some affirmative steps to live the life I want to live. I'm not quite at the point of feeling comfortable telling anyone about it in person and when I do I'm sure I'll get quite a bit about how 'sudden' it is to suddenly decide I'm a woman nearly 34 years into my life but from my perspective there is absolutely nothing sudden about the dripping toxicity that was going towards me drinking myself into an early grave.

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal
https://mobile.twitter.com/ByRosenberg/status/1095809462202298368

Here's to hoping one of them was Skelley.

QuoProQuid
Jan 12, 2012

Tr*ckin' and F*ckin' all the way to tha
T O P

Mitsuo posted:

This the one you were thinking of?



A few lesser known variants of this same idea:





bunnyofdoom
Mar 29, 2008
[b]BUNNIES ARE CUTE BUT DEADLY/b]

Jesus. That's....kinda terrifying

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Wait, are people giving away fully restored Roadmaster wagons? Where do I sign up?

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

That Pittsburgh-Post Gazette story is supremely hosed up. That poor little girl :smith:

QuoProQuid posted:

A few lesser known variants of this same idea:







How anybody could look at these and not think these women looked cool as gently caress I'll never know.

Gordon Shumway
Jan 21, 2008

Feldegast42 posted:



Garrison does it again

Someone else will pay for it...

...I feel like I've heard that before from somebody that Garrison supports...

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005

I'm feeling Jimmy


Wow that was some old school Charles Foster Kane-type stuff. That poor girl.

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost

Gordon Shumway posted:

Someone else will pay for it...

...I feel like I've heard that before from somebody that Garrison supports...

Yeah but when he says it he means the poor rather than the people who can afford it

Technowolf
Nov 4, 2009




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usenet celeb 1992
Jun 1, 2000

he thought quoting borges would make him popular

gently caress off Sack, you puling pseudoliberal. No republican will ever give you headpats for "evenhandedness" and they will absolutely send you death threats should you ever say anything vaguely complimentary of Bernie Sanders. Fuuuuuuuuuck off

D.N. Nation
Feb 1, 2012

My first job out of college was the night copydesk for a newspaper published by a rich right-winger; drunken rants and rampages after-hours were kind of the norm there too.

Conservatives are lovely people.

Jagged Jim
Sep 26, 2013

I... I can only look though the window...

"No child, There's also the Jesus Trap."

E: Also what's with all the pointing in that second one?

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

I can't precisely tell if this is meant to be defending Israel or not lol.

AngrySpork
Nov 9, 2003

The most powerful voice in gaming


Can this moron even attempt to strawman any harder?

fake edit:

"Also Tinsley, I'm sure posted:

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I really hope Hitler is
A GOP candidate too

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug
Is there something about elementary school recently that I don't know about why they're holding their fingers up like that?

Apple Pie Hubbub
Feb 14, 2012

Take that, you greedy jerk!
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AngrySpork
Nov 9, 2003

The most powerful voice in gaming

Crabtree posted:

Prickly City, coming closer to 2020, is now screaming and wailing about how neither side specifically makes the white author feel good, especially not the leading "independent" candidate, nary a mention of Coffee Man as far as I can tell. But will bitch about Bernie Sanders and Trump Dinosaurs not making nice with each other so the author, a fake democrat dog and a fake poc, can't have some centrist compromise while also systematically still hating the dems for even presenting the illusion of social progress or taxing the rich.

Fake POC is almost devoured by Trump Dinosaur, but suffers no consequences that would realistically occur in this scenario IE the republican would scream to a cop and that kid would be dead for being black in public. Trump dinosaur would then present themselves as victim to media. Scott "My internet search picture is literally White Bow Tie Guy" Stantis would clap, but subtly.


I would just like to remind everyone that Crabtree isn't joking and just how loving much of a joke Stantis looks like



Holy poo poo, lol, that's a huge picture

Vandalseed
Jun 21, 2013

Bringdowner

Cat Mattress posted:

Tankies do not have consistent ideological positions, they just go with "America Bad; therefore Russia Good". (When the correct opinion is "America Bad; Russia Also Bad".)

The enemy of your enemy might be Even Worse.

I renounced my US citizenship because of the Iraq war. Well, specifically, the Democrats giving all those standing ovations to the Chimp in Chief during the Axis of Evil speech.

I actually thought they were going to attack Iran. The US was wounded, bloodthirsty, some proper country (Afghanistan didn't count) was going to pay...

My point is that I detest warmongers like HRC more than most people. And Russia is much much worse and kills journos and with literally any other metric you could use.

Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!

hm. need a little tweaking




there we go

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

Holy. poo poo.

quote:

The “Shame on the Blocks” poster upset him greatly. He said he wanted it torn down. He pulled his daughter over to it, and I heard him tell her that the message of the poster was directed at her, too, because she was a Block. Then he yelled for a photographer to take he and his daughter’s photo in front of the poster so he could run it on the front page. His daughter, who sounded scared and on the verge of tears, told him she didn’t want to be in the photo, and she tried to get away from him, but he grabbed onto her and wouldn’t let her leave.

quote:

He yelled at his daughter, up to her face: “You’re a Block don’t you forget it. You’re a Block, you’re not one of them,” repeatedly as he firmly jabbed his finger into her shoulder.

quote:

JR proceeded to rip the cell phone out of his daughter‘s hand because he thought she was trying to call her mother. He was screaming in his daughter‘s face about the Block family legacy: “Do you want to be high class or low class? You’re a Block, you’re one of us! You have to learn how to lead!” She was shaking and saying that she didn’t want to. …

Zesty fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Feb 14, 2019

AngrySpork
Nov 9, 2003

The most powerful voice in gaming

Feldegast42 posted:



Garrison does it again

1) You know the reason and logic shotglass is for Ben Shapiro, it fits his size perfectly :v:

2) As I saw elsewhere, Garrison is so awful, how did he not call it a "Late Term Abortini"?

3) Garrison probably horked it to this cartoon

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost

Zesty posted:

Holy. poo poo.

Ooh, wow. Okay. They're real loving direct about it, aren't they? Here I was thinking it was all soft touch poo poo where you just always felt that pressure on you, but no, get them drunk and they'll tell their kids that they're born nobility in public.

I'm downgrading my lethality requirement.

Kill anyone who ever kept an inheritance of over a million dollars.

fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012

Zesty posted:

Holy. poo poo.

now lets put a face to all that

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost

fool_of_sound posted:

now lets put a face to all that



Haha, that's a pretty funny Bethesda character with the "lovely dweeb" slider turned all the way up but come on now, this guy's gotta be a John Galt captain of industry ubermensch right?

He's a Block, after all. Proud legacy. Born to rule.

:preacher:

SwitchbladeKult
Apr 4, 2012



"The warmth of life has entered my tomb!"

:eyepop:

The PR spin his twin tried to pull is amazing. I'm glad the Guild called him out.

Apple Pie Hubbub
Feb 14, 2012

Take that, you greedy jerk!


Katt
Nov 14, 2017

Cat Mattress posted:

Tankies do not have consistent ideological positions, they just go with "America Bad; therefore Russia Good". (When the correct opinion is "America Bad; Russia Also Bad".)

Hold the gently caress up there. As an avowed tankie I can confirm that Russia is also bad because it strayed from the path of socialism and is now ultra capitalist with levels of corruption that was previously only possible in a laboratory environment (and the US)

felch me daddy jr.
Oct 30, 2009

Ah yes, when i think about people with a strong moral center and unshakable principles, Stantis certainly is the first person to come to mind.

BiggerJ
May 21, 2007

What shall we do with him? A permaban, perhaps? Probate him for a few years? Or...shall we employ a big red custom title? You, the goons of SA, shall decide his fate.

Gaybies nomination; Worst Gaslighter Cartoon

Thanks For Pushing Normal People Even Further To The Right(TM)

Aand now, Stonetoss and Fr-- wait, what?




Oh god. Another new dogwhistle, now more generalized than ever, that enables them to claim, "It's not political, you're just paranoid and crazy; you're probably wrong about everything else about our comics too." I literally don't know where to start with decoding this one.

BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Feb 14, 2019

Raised By Birds
May 5, 2013

fool_of_sound posted:

now lets put a face to all that



Young Old Sheldon.



For a moment I thought he was pivoting to "Maybe The Center isn't the only valid place to be," until that third panel. Winslow's line there makes me think "having good things is nice, but not if we have to actually do things to get them."

ungulateman
Apr 18, 2012

pretentious fuckwit who isn't half as literate or insightful or clever as he thinks he is
i mean this is less 'dogwhistle' and more 'extremely low-effort punching down on people i don't like' by going after people with unpopular sexual interests.

either that or they're extremely mad about the foot fetishists debunking the fake nudes of AOC, i dunno

fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012

BiggerJ posted:

Oh god. Another new dogwhistle, now more generalized than ever, that enables them to claim, "It's not political, you're just paranoid and crazy; you're probably wrong about everything else about our comics too." I literally don't know where to start with decoding this one.

Nah sometimes he does the 'lets lol at the wierdo' cartoons like that. the one about the insufferable personality contest between vegans and bicycle riders, for instance. it's very 4chan culture. SA too, if we're being honest.

SwitchbladeKult
Apr 4, 2012



"The warmth of life has entered my tomb!"

Zesty posted:

Holy. poo poo.

I just realized that they had to call an Uber to take him home meaning he drove with his daughter in the car to the office where he was too intoxicated to operate the office door! This dude is next level poo poo bag.

Katt posted:

Hold the gently caress up there. As an avowed tankie I can confirm that Russia is also bad because it strayed from the path of socialism and is now ultra capitalist with levels of corruption that was previously only possible in a laboratory environment (and the US)

^ this is pretty drat true. The Russian Federation probably has the worst crony capitalism on the planet that isn't a failed state. The entire economy openly operates on bribery and manipulation. It is the very template of what the US will look like if the current trends continue.

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felch me daddy jr.
Oct 30, 2009

ungulateman posted:

i mean this is less 'dogwhistle' and more 'extremely low-effort punching down on people i don't like' by going after people with unpopular sexual interests.

either that or they're extremely mad about the foot fetishists debunking the fake nudes of AOC, i dunno

it's not about foot fetishists, it's about "sexual deviants" like LGBT people

you're proof that the dogwhistle works

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