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RoboRodent posted:Simptomatic. I can’t help but wonder if Lester used “simp” as an edgy way to sneak an alt-right term into a mainstream comic. He seems like exactly the rear end in a top hat to both use the term and to gleefully sneak it in. Maybe I’m paranoid, but always more, always worse, etc.
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Oh drat, Mike Lester's only 65 years old. I thought he was older than that, and the promise of his imminent transformation into worm food and fertilizer was a gentle ray of hope that brought me a small amount of comfort in these dark times. He might be my least favourite guy in this thread. Others may be more hateful and more idiotic, but he's a special blend of profoundly stupid and hideously nasty with a generous helping of unearned smugness that just makes him especially detestable, for me at least.
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gently caress yourself, McCoy. George Floyd hasn't even been buried yet. Here's a photo of the memorial at the place where he was murdered: 
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Ague Proof posted:Oof. This one really suffers from the 200 year delay. 
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Jun 4, 2020 16:51
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Oh, that was close, Ramirez---let me help you with that: 
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This was the only comic in that post that didn't make me want to break something. What an age we live in. Mike Lester is a shithead. that's not a very high effort insult, but he's not trying why should I?
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people notoriously dressed in black armor at protests: not the police
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there wolf posted:Ugh, insomnia strikes again. I read that whole thing about mental health as a joke the first time around because of how patently ludicrous it is. Sailors' mental health in the days of sail? Long months away from land in cramped, leaking quarters, living on hard tack that was best eaten in the dark so you couldn't see the wiggling? Be part of a world exploration crew that left home port crambed to the the gunnels with men because they expected to lose two thirds of them to disease and accident? Your employer discouraging a knowledge of swimming so you were more likely to stay on the ship? Your employer "recruiting" you through kidnapping by an armed group of men? I agree, I don't think mental health was a concern. "No man would go to sea who had wit enough to get himself in gaol. For being at sea is like being in gaol, with the added chance of being drowned. Further, both the company and food are commonly better in gaol."
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 Guardian:  "Steve Bell on Boris Johnson taking direct control of pandemic response – The PM has announced he will oversee delivery of UK policies tackling Covid-19" Telegraph:  Independent:  Times:  Boris Johnson lays out visa offer to nearly 3m Hong Kong citizens Evening Standard:  Pressure grows on Priti Patel after Vallance avoids full backing for UK quarantine move Mail: PAUL THOMAS on... churches in lockdown 
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Mike Lester is a shithead. The one genuinely funny thing about Mike Lester's cartoons is that it really does feel like he spends a lot of time carefully thinking out this stupid dialogue. So many of them are these ridiculously overworked comebacks and gotchas in response to something that no-one would ever say and it conjures up images of a real life George Costanza furiously rubbing his two brain cells together to formulate a lethal, incisive ice burn that definitely isn't a preschool level insult. I bet he wins so many imaginary arguments in his head.
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Jun 4, 2020 17:50
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just imagine i quoted every single one of the comics on the last page implying that the protestors are A) besmirching George Floyd's name by protesting and B) only damaging themselves by protesting with "All 4 police officers involved in George Floyd's murder have been arrested"
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Jun 4, 2020 18:32
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Love all the concern trolling about "burning down your own neighborhood". Like a loving McDonalds is part of anyone's neighborhood.
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Fister Roboto posted:Love all the concern trolling about "burning down your own neighborhood". Like a loving McDonalds is part of anyone's neighborhood. Fun fact: when the youth house, which was a place for anarchists and leftists and punks in general, in Copenhagen was demolished (a fun story...), the local McDonald's went out of business. For all their good intentions, the punks managed to keep a symbol of capitalism afloat. Luckily, the new place only has locally owned fast food nearby. I don't have a point, except that capitalism is super pervasive, and also bad.
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Fister Roboto posted:Love all the concern trolling about "burning down your own neighborhood". Like a loving McDonalds is part of anyone's neighborhood. There’s also plenty of people who own local businesses that have been damaged and destroyed who have spoken out in support the riots. gently caress, the ceo of target spoke out in support.
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 quote:Roughly 5,000 individuals, a combination of individuals, partners in the major Wall Street firms including particularly Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and JPMorgan, and associated lawyers and others engaged in the global ecology of naked short selling and money laundering – both federal crimes – are now subject to discovery and criminal forfeiture of all assets purchased with illicit wealth. HOW MUCH ARE THESE PEOPLE PAYING BEN. Every other day he makes a cartoon for them.
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My long standing gripe with Lester who beats his wife is that he's so loving lazy he seldom bothers to erase the guide lines from his newspapers or whatever labels. It's disgracious, and he's a racist who beats his wife. May Drunkman never come back, I kinda like Fishman. Stallie, McCoys, Ramirez, Bok, Ramirez... please follow Tinsley to where ever his rehab is.
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Fathis Munk posted:
I actually read that for once, and holy gently caress, Ben wants the President to redistribute wallstreet's wealth. Korthal fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Jun 4, 2020 |
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Fathis Munk posted:
Wait, so he's literally just saying "this is what strong daddy could do," rather than cheering anything the dilapidated dipstick has actually done?
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welcome to the socialism party ben
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i can't decide if that cartoon shows how ben garrison is just willing to promote any message under the sun for money or if he's just delusional enough to believe that trump is the enemy of wall street and big money
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Cowcaster posted:i can't decide if that cartoon shows how ben garrison is just willing to promote any message under the sun for money or if he's just delusional enough to believe that trump is the enemy of wall street and big money He 1000% believes that Strong Daddy Trump is going to Drain the Swamp, fix the abuses of Wall Street, and give the real social and financial power back to the little people, where it belongs. Aaaaany day now.
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:He 1000% believes that Strong Daddy Trump is going to Drain the Swamp, fix the abuses of Wall Street, and give the real social and financial power back to the little people, where it belongs. In Garrison's mind, Big Daddy Trump has already made more progress in doing that then every other president in history combined. It's just that the rascally deep state keeps filling it back up, and even the strongest daddy is just one man.
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I know it's supposed to be "criminal thugs defacing a gravestone" but I still can't help but read this as A Good Cartoon.
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I can never get imgur to work right on my phone, but here's a link to a new Rob Rogers https://www.facebook.com/549542561/posts/10157802341007562/
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 "An Acquired Waste" the_steve posted:I can never get imgur to work right on my phone, but here's a link to a new Rob Rogers 
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Love you can see the grin from behind her mask.
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"George Floyd, a man who was killed by police, wouldn't want this." is one hell of a dumb take.
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Korthal posted:Love you can see the grin from behind her mask.
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Libra posted:The one genuinely funny thing about Mike Lester's cartoons is that it really does feel like he spends a lot of time carefully thinking out this stupid dialogue. It's why Lester got my vote for worst (still active, Liccar finally drowned in his own bile or something I guess) cartoonist when we had that competition. Branco owns being dumb and mean, but Lester thinks he's being clever with his spite. It's a hateful man condescending you to about how petty, stupid bigotry is the real wit and wisdom.
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the kelly would be slightly better if dad and son weren't wearing masks imo
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I've been with this thread for like 100 years but this might be the worst cartoon I've ever seen. "Look how awful this thing is! Defacing George Floyd's grave/legacy! Just imagine if they did this thing I'm depicting!"
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"'zoom' is now a verb" uhhhh what was it before?
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VitalSigns posted:"'zoom' is now a verb" I think he meant to say it's a noun now. I'd say that's the dumbest thing I've ever seen in PC, but hoo boy that's a long list.
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Fister Roboto posted:I think he meant to say it's a noun now. I'd say that's the dumbest thing I've ever seen in PC, but hoo boy that's a long list. but it was a noun even longer! it's onomatopoeia!
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Anyhoo, I was wondering how Ben Garrison was going to rationalize Trump extending the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act and continuing the unconstitutional big government surveillance of freemen-on-the-land, my guess was that he'd just ignore it forever, but I did not expect "well...for all we know he could be listening to all our phone calls in order to take down Wall Street!" as if that's a good reason to surveil literally everyone else. Also lol at Garrison endlessly complaining about QE and artificially pumped-up markets and predicting financial collapse, then wailing about short sellers when stocks dip just a little bit
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Grimdude posted:I've been with this thread for like 100 years but this might be the worst cartoon I've ever seen. i think he was going for a figurative defacing of george floyd's legacy than a literal one, which is not one iota less repulsive
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