Trapezium Dave posted:

Rall: Really, Please Feel Free to Abandon Us

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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By popular demand posted:

I love that devil horn throwing lady in the left corner.

By popular demand posted:

I love that devil horn throwing lady in the left corner.

Libra posted:

Is it radical to have two left hands?

Nenonen posted:

That's actually an insectoid with one compound eye facing us, and its claws just look like that.


Go ask Rall.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Libra posted:

Is it radical to have two left hands?

Moon Slayer posted:

Good thing Rall knows what the Afghans want more than the Afghans do.

SneezeOfTheDecade posted:

Ben Garrison

Ague Proof posted:

Pants Donkey posted:

On the other hand, I highly doubt there’s going to be a clean withdrawal since we’ve been there so long that people who were babies on 9/11 are now being shipped there. After a decade or two some dependence is going to inevitably develop, and maybe that’s intentional so hawks can justify a forever war.

Trapezium Dave posted:

Rall: Really, Please Feel Free to Abandon Us

Ted Rall posted:

President Donald Trump has ordered the evacuation of all but 800 United States troops from occupied Afghanistan, which the United States invaded 19 years ago. As usual, the media is repeating shibboleths about how the Afghans will feel “abandoned” by the US departure.

Barry Shitpeas posted:

I don't think Ted knows what a shibboleth is

Vivian Darkbloom posted:

Reading it charitably, I think he's using the word not in the Old Testament sense but in the sense of "a custom, principle, or belief distinguishing a particular class or group of people, especially a long-standing one regarded as outmoded or no longer important", according to whatever dictionary Google uses. That is, the media class assumes permanent occupation is necessarily good, without really considering why.

Stultus Maximus posted:

But the media don't use that terminology to distinguish themselves from other groups. It's a total misuse of the word. Rall is dumb.

Vivian Darkbloom posted:

Technowolf posted:

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Jedit posted:

Nice to see Bors is using Facebook. "Use your stimulus check to build a guillotine" has been all over my wall today.

Jedit posted:

Nice to see Bors is into Bernie both as a candidate and as a film

Ague Proof posted:

For some reason whenever I see this person's art style I expect to read a comic complaining about gays and black people.

Moon Slayer posted:

It's an utterly lovely situation with absolutely no good solution, but I think we can all agree that Rall's "anything America does is automatically bad and wrong" takes are pretty dumb.

Pants Donkey posted:

It did make me realize that political cartooning is naturally tailored to furries, and yet so few bother.

SerialKilldeer posted:

Whatever happened to Animalz Nooz or however it was spelled?

Ague Proof posted:

For some reason whenever I see this person's art style I expect to read a comic complaining about gays and black people.

Manuel Calavera posted:

This, is certainly something.

https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1341524754835120128

So why am I linking youtube's twitter? This is a reply about StoneToss wannabe, Anton Servetnik. Better known as Antoons. Who has been up to a Year of...well being lovely. Most of the year he was harassing a minor who goes by the name of Puppy. He lied to her several times by my understanding, and was just generally lovely to her.
This? This is him harassing a different minor. Including sexual harassment.
Of a minor.

So hoooo boy. The taint of the StoneToss sphere continues.

Chicken Parmigiana posted:

Hello, politoons thread. It's me, the father of Gay Abortions. (Well... would-be father, I guess.)

It's been a long time! Good to see you looking well. I drew a thing today that I thought I ought to pop in and share with you. I humbly call it... the Editorial Cartoon of the Century!




(Bigger version)

This was born of me whingeing on twitter about that lazy, familiar meme floating in the media lately: "Well, 2020 was a nightmare, but don't worry — it's nearly over, phew! And 2021 will surely be much better!" Have they forgotten saying the same thing a year ago, about 2019 and 2020? And again a year before that? And a year before that, and so on and so on? Surely you'd recognise the pattern, at this point? But no, no: this year bad, therefore, next year good. We don't have to do anything; that's just what happens.

Anyway — it was born of that, but the format of it was born of years and years of browsing THIS VERY THREAD, and the endless cycle of Baby New Year cartoons (it's not a trope I've ever seen much outside of American editorial illustration), all some variation on what I've attempted, above, to distil into a single, reusable image, with a simple, dumb message — WHAT A poo poo YEAR — sure to remain relevant and postable every late December for decades to come. It's the everlasting gobstopper of editorial hackwork!

From a mostly-lurker, thank you all for your diligent posting, this year and every year, every year forever and ever. Merry Christmas and happy Gaybie season!

Pants Donkey posted:

It did make me realize that political cartooning is naturally tailored to furries, and yet so few bother.

Moon Slayer posted:

Good thing Rall knows what the Afghans want more than the Afghans do.