Lurdiak posted:It's basically copaganda, so it has bite, but in the wrong direction. The government made it harder for a black officer to pull out his gun. You can’t watch Watchmen and think the police are the good guys.
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The big story today is a massive scandal in the Victorian Labor party regarding factional powerbroker Adem Somyurek being involved in branch-stacking (paying memberships for more votes), after extensive video footage was released to The Age and 60 Minutes. Somyurek is also on tape hurling misogynistic threads towards another ALP minister, a bunch of homophobia as well, plus boasting he's the one who controls the entire party. Too much to fully summarise - so far Somyurek has quit/been sacked plus two more ministers in his faction, plus the federal Labor branch is going to hold an intervention. ‘F**k the premier’: Labor’s secret tapes reveal industrial scale stackathon (The Age). Rowe: Premier Dan Andrews sacked Somyurek from the ministry, said he didn't deserve the opportunity to resign. Spooner: Knight: Broelman: Queensland is still having border closure arguments. Wilcox: Downes: Former Victorian Liberal premier and Aussie Rules Football club president for Hawthorn Jeff Kennett has been speaking out against Tasmania's border closures.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 01:44 |
Prairie Bus posted:The government made it harder for a black officer to pull out his gun. You can’t watch Watchmen and think the police are the good guys. They're certainly not the bad guys.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 03:21 |
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the watchmen show literally is so dedicated to its weird faux-woke thing it has no actual ideology. It made a character explicitly meant to be a KKK member to show how vigilantes are not even a full step removed from them, who also literally loved Hitler, a black guy just for a weird twist to be all 'see, there ARE other black heroes in this world's history but the racists made him...praise Hitler...' You can't call it copaganda because literally nobody in the writing room understood politics enough to be capable of any form of propaganda
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 03:26 |
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We're doing another gangtag donations drive, this time for the Bail Project, dedicated to helping low-income people make bail and avoid pretrial detention. $5 or more gets you this:
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 03:31 |
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fool of sound posted:We're doing another gangtag donations drive, this time for the Bail Project, dedicated to helping low-income people make bail and avoid pretrial detention. $5 or more gets you this: Rad, thank you! I want to keep the gangtags I have now but I'mo donate anyway.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 04:25 |
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:7
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 04:39 |
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Lurdiak posted:It's basically copaganda, so it has bite, but in the wrong direction.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 04:49 |
Pants Donkey posted:I love Rainbow Snake.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 04:54 |
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sexpig by night posted:the watchmen show literally is so dedicated to its weird faux-woke thing it has no actual ideology. It made a character explicitly meant to be a KKK member to show how vigilantes are not even a full step removed from them, who also literally loved Hitler, a black guy just for a weird twist to be all 'see, there ARE other black heroes in this world's history but the racists made him...praise Hitler...' You can't call it copaganda because literally nobody in the writing room understood politics enough to be capable of any form of propaganda
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 04:58 |
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I only watched a couple episodes but my brother was into tthe show. He said the whole rorshach ideology revitalizes the kkk or something and i had to explain to him that tthat was the whole point of Rorshach. He was libertarianism beefed to 11. It made logical sense thatt they took that and made it into their ideology. They didn't like it though. I also got the sense that cops were heavily neutered, hence why two cops were vigilantes.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 05:22 |
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 06:12 |
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fishman please stop making me laugh at the duck's jokes, it's upsetting
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 06:15 |
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Ignoring all the groups that break this supposed rule, the racial groups that do get treated like voting monoliths usually do so because they overwhelmingly vote for the side that isn't loving openly racist. hth
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 12:15 |
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 17:30 |
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Why is this even a comic? It seems like every few weeks we see them just floating in the air with the author's facebook status as a conscience stream.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 17:52 |
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 18:03 |
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Pat Cross mad as gently caress 1 2 But if he’s a textualist then why did he make a ruling I dislike
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 18:10 |
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quote:We’ve seen plenty of looting during the ‘peaceful protests,’ but the looters we saw on TV are amateurs compared to what’s going on at the top.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 18:17 |
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It's extremely disorienting to have the same "right idea, but coming from the wrong place" sentiment for Garrison that normally is associated with Rall.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 18:25 |
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Woke Garrison understands the 1% is the source of society’s ills, and he knows the only way to stop them is to vote them into office!
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 18:26 |
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Kit Walker posted:Woke Garrison understands the 1% is the source of society’s ills, and he knows the only way to stop them is to vote them into office! The closest he's come to connecting any individuals to the 1% is like, Gates, Bezos, and Soros. ...My god, ben garrison hates GBS
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 18:32 |
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"Passing Lane"
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 19:19 |
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jesus kelly
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 19:22 |
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You're right, he did forget to put Jesus into his heaven toon.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 19:28 |
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I figured Kelly would be more sympathetic towards a pair of HARD WORKING SENIORS
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 19:35 |
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You mean SPITEFUL OLDSTERS who are denying poor WOULD-BE INHERITORS their estates through the devious application of GERIATRIC MEDICINE (NEW FAD)?
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 19:45 |
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Electric Phantasm posted:I figured Kelly would be more sympathetic towards a pair of HARD WORKING SENIORS
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 19:49 |
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Pants Donkey posted:Pat Cross mad as gently caress yesssssssss Your tears are delicious
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 20:39 |
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Electric Phantasm posted:I figured Kelly would be more sympathetic towards a pair of HARD WORKING SENIORS Kelly hates everyone who isn't Kelly or currently praising Kelly.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 21:23 |
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Kelly hates everyone who isn't Kelly or currently praising Kelly. And certain celebrities, defined according to his own whims.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 21:27 |
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Pants Donkey posted:Pat Cross mad as gently caress Amazing how transparent they are that "Textualism" is just supposed to mean "deciding the way the GOP wants".
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 21:50 |
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The Quaker Oats guy owned slaves?
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 21:58 |
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The Quakers were renown slavers, after all.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 22:06 |
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Yes, of course. The United States stood, undivided, united in purpose, for an unbroken period of time ending just now. In 2020. (And if anything did happen prior to now that, say, involved disunity, then we should probably honor the flag of those people that were against the Union because I'm sure it was for a very good reason)
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 22:38 |
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bartok posted:The Quaker Oats guy owned slaves? His fellow quakers would be pretty pissed with him.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 23:04 |
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on the return of the bull market – A further relaxation of the coronavirus lockdown rules saw many shops reopen across England on Monday" Telegraph: Royal Ascot without silly hats and posh frocks but royalty on the box Bonus! Send your dad a special Blower print for Fathers' Day! Matt: Independent: Times: Racism contributed to disproportionate UK BAME coronavirus deaths, inquiry finds Evening Standard: UK jobcentre claimants rise 126% to 2.8m since start of the lockdown Mail: PAUL THOMAS on... Britain goes shopping again
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 23:35 |
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Faustian Bargain posted:Why is this even a comic? It seems like every few weeks we see them just floating in the air with the author's facebook status as a conscience stream.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 23:40 |
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The Artificial Kid posted:Because it makes the creator feel like they're making something on par with the moments when Calvin and Hobbes fly out of their billy-cart/sled, but without having to draw and watercolour all the difficult landscapes. Its actually pretty funny to think about. It makes no sense without the additional context that Stantis is shallowly mimicking Calvin and Hobbes, a comic that ended a full quarter of a century ago. Just goes to show, comics are hypothetically for kids, but their real audience is boomer who want reassurances the last 30 some years never happened and it's still Morning in America.
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# ? Jun 17, 2020 00:14 |
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Rowe: Scott Morrison talking to opposition leader Anthony Albanese. Written on the dead tree are the names/nicknames of old Labor politicians. The fountain is Josh Frydenberg. Leak, Son of Leak: Karm Gilespie: government appeals to China over fate of Australian man sentenced to death (Guardian). Universities hit back at China's 'unjustified' warning to students that Australia is unsafe (Guardian). Go8 is The Group of Eight, the eight top research universities in Australia. Broelman: Wilcox: Knight: Victorian Labor party branch-stacking scandal. Somyurek is the Labor powerbroker primarily involved and the other two are his factional allies, all three are out of the ministry. Zanetti: Frecklington is the leader of the opposition in Queensland, her LNP opposition party is also having problems. LNP turmoil as Deb Frecklington issues loyalty ultimatum to president Dave Hutchinson (ABC). "Faceless men" refers to those who have influence over party policy who usually have little to no public profile.
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