PoliToons 2021: the Hent is to damn Tai

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UZworm: Feb 9, 2009; Young wild Elsweyrian
C'mon baby, do you have a soul gem

Grape posted:

lol at when goons use "liberals/libs" not in some actual criticism of centrist politics, but in what is very transparently some sort of hipstery groan aimed at something lame but harmless their mom and dad might be doing.

I was, in fact, talking specifically about people with things like "KHive" in their Twitter bios who have spent the entire time since the inauguration mocking their opposition (both the Trumpists of the right and anyone to the left of your average SocDem) and have already thrown aside the kids in cages and the dozens of other things they complained about under Trump in favor of loudly lauding aesthetic changes above actual political changes like, for instance, the fact that there are ~DOGS IN THE WHITE HOUSE AGAIN~ as proof that daddy Biden is finally here to save America.

If calling literal neoliberals who proudly call themselves liberals "liberals" doesn't do it for you I don't know what to tell you, person who is calling others hipsters in the year 2021.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 06:30

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SirSamVimes: Jul 21, 2008; ~* Challenge *~

Discendo Vox posted:

I have decided to rename the Politoon awards to "Kellies" due to issues with the old name.

Lmao what the gently caress

What "issues" are there with the classic?

# ? Jan 25, 2021 07:01

the_steve: Nov 9, 2005; We're always hiring!

SirSamVimes posted:

Lmao what the gently caress

What "issues" are there with the classic?

Pretty sure the biggest point is that it could be taken as homophobic.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 07:09

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

# ? Jan 25, 2021 07:13

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

There�s just a special magic in being able to miss the point like this.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 07:36

Zesty: Jan 17, 2012; The Great Twist

I'm honestly SHOCKED he acknowledged it at all. But it took him 2 days of very bland comics before doing so.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 07:57

Captain Kosmos: Mar 28, 2010; think of it like the "Who's Who" of genitals

How about something like "Sickos Choice Award's" or "It's Powerful Symbol Award"?

# ? Jan 25, 2021 08:15

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

It's not that I feel it really matters, but it seems a bit odd that the forums of Something Awful would use the intellectual property of a cartoonist working for The Onion as the name and face of their thing. Can't something a bit original be come up with? Like I don't know, Turdbortions (trophy is a fetus on top of a giant poo poo) or whatever? Pants Donkey at least has become the thread's own thing beyond that one time appearance so even that would be less plagiary.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 08:21

Fister Roboto: Feb 21, 2008

Obviously it should be named after the thread's favorite in-joke: the $CUMMIES.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 08:26

SirSamVimes: Jul 21, 2008; ~* Challenge *~

Part of what made Gaybies good as a name is that wasn't the Smartephant and the rear end a goon creation?

# ? Jan 25, 2021 08:55

neongrey: Feb 28, 2007; Plaguing your posts with incidental music.

I legitimately saw a Diamond Joe Biden-style joke in the wild today and my soul withered and died. I used to enjoy that sort of thing, sure, but... I can't anymore. I can't.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 08:57

Pakled: Aug 6, 2011; WE ARE SMART

SirSamVimes posted:

Part of what made Gaybies good as a name is that wasn't the Smartephant and the rear end a goon creation?

Yeah but people who aren't familiar with this thread's history and in-jokes just saw a term that a homophobic middle schooler in 2004 would use to describe something they didn't like. So it couldn't stay.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 09:03

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

There�s just a few ancient gay as bad references that still come up regularly in SA and it�s pretty embarrassing every time. The one here isn�t exactly the same but it�s close enough that it should get scrubbed out too. I don�t think anything of value will be lost.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 09:13

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

We definitely still have posters in QCS and other bad subforums who desperately want it to be ok to call people the f-slur again, so I support anything that moves us away from that.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 09:16

neongrey: Feb 28, 2007; Plaguing your posts with incidental music.

Yeah, we're so far removed now from the original context of the phrase that I don't think it's right to use for the awards. Calling them Kellies does seem a bit odd with the Onion thing though.

The Smartephant and the rear end Memorial Awards for Excellence in the Field of Failing at Satire...

# ? Jan 25, 2021 09:33

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

The Weathervane Awards? It's a dumb old joke, but it's a dumb old joke at our own expense.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 09:52

Captain Kosmos: Mar 28, 2010; think of it like the "Who's Who" of genitals

Nenonen posted:

It's not that I feel it really matters, but it seems a bit odd that the forums of Something Awful would use the intellectual property of a cartoonist working for The Onion as the name and face of their thing. Can't something a bit original be come up with? Like I don't know, Turdbortions (trophy is a fetus on top of a giant poo poo) or whatever? Pants Donkey at least has become the thread's own thing beyond that one time appearance so even that would be less plagiary.

Original stuff sure is better. So what we got to work with? Weathervane, Mud or poop, skull donkey, $CUM PASS?

# ? Jan 25, 2021 09:56

Trapezium Dave: Oct 22, 2012

Rall: Financing Americans is Getting Cheaper

Ted Rall posted:

$1400 per American citizen for stimulus might seem like a lot of money but it�s getting cheaper by the day.

First Dog on the Moon: 26 January - a million bloody words written every year

# ? Jan 25, 2021 10:09

cant cook creole bream: Aug 15, 2011; I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Trapezium Dave posted:

Rall: Financing Americans is Getting Cheaper

First Dog on the Moon: 26 January - a million bloody words written every year

That's not even accurate. The population is still climbing.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 13:08

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

Keiya posted:

The Weathervane Awards? It's a dumb old joke, but it's a dumb old joke at our own expense.

Despite spending a past life in the politoons thread back when LF was its home, the weathervane "thing" totally passed me by. What's that about?

# ? Jan 25, 2021 13:10

toanoradian: May 31, 2011; The happiest waffligator

A cartoon has a weather vane on it. Goons spend pages discussing if the vane actually points the right way. If I remember correctly, it was the West and East arrow that's causing the problem.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 13:21

cant cook creole bream: Aug 15, 2011; I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

I think the point was, that depending on perspective it looked like it was going

--N
E W
--S

NEWS!

# ? Jan 25, 2021 13:33

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

Oh god, I think I remember that actually.

IIRC, it was a perspective thing like the Necker Cube

# ? Jan 25, 2021 13:51

HootTheOwl: May 13, 2012; Hootin and shootin

They should be called the "Couldn't Handle Awards" and their thread is a deadicated space for them. a "CHADS", if you will.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 14:51

toanoradian: May 31, 2011; The happiest waffligator

An old politoons meme is adding "the" in the middle of the goon's username when the goon didn't realize Kelly was satire. So an award based on Kelly could just be

A the ward.

toanoradian fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Jan 25, 2021

# ? Jan 25, 2021 14:54

HootTheOwl: May 13, 2012; Hootin and shootin

toanoradian posted:

An old politoons memes is adding "the" in the middle of the goon's username when the good didn't realize Kelly was satire. So an award based on Kelly could just be

A the ward.

A the word?
Other word?
IN OTHER WORDS!

# ? Jan 25, 2021 15:10

Mercedes Colomar: Nov 1, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Lurdiak posted:

We definitely still have posters in QCS and other bad subforums who desperately want it to be ok to call people the f-slur again, so I support anything that moves us away from that.

They brought back fyad for those posters. Which will forever remain a mistake.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 15:13

KennyMan666: May 27, 2010; The Saga

Clearly, it should be The Good Cartoon Awards.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 15:34

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Drunky Duck Award would also be in line with the thread's history :tinsley:

# ? Jan 25, 2021 15:42

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

KennyMan666 posted:

Clearly, it should be A Good Cartoon Awards.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 15:42

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

Please.

The A Good Cartoon awards.

Or AGCies for short.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 15:52

RoboRodent: Sep 19, 2012

Keiya posted:

The Weathervane Awards? It's a dumb old joke, but it's a dumb old joke at our own expense.

I like this one.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 16:13

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Please.

The A Good Cartoon awards.

Or AGCies for short.

The Aggies.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 16:21

Discendo Vox: Mar 21, 2013; This does not make sense when, again, aggregate indicia also indicate improvements. The belief that things are worse is false. It remains false.

More of you have second-guessed the award name than have actually nominated any cartoons.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 16:31

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

"Get Up and Joe?"

# ? Jan 25, 2021 16:40

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Ben Garrison posted:

WELCOME TO THE DARK WINTER OF DEMOCRAT RULE

Biden promised us a �dark winter� if elected, and he�s delivering. We patriots who voted for Trump are left out in the cold as China Joe�s regime labels us �domestic terrorists.� Biden immediately issued executive orders to dismantle many of Trump�s accomplishments. Biden wants America to be masked, injected, distanced, impoverished, and rendered quiescent.

Of course, Sleepy Joe�s election was a complete and obvious fraud. Trump won in a landslide but the Democrats, aided by their mega-billionaire globalist allies, arranged for mass cheating that allowed Biden to claim victory. Such election rigging will now become permanent. The Democrats will vote to make the District of Columbia a state, thus giving them two more senators. Maybe they�ll make Puerto Rico a state as well. More senators. They will allow illegal aliens to vote. Maybe they�ll vote away the Electoral College. They want voting to be easily abused and manipulated�by them.

They will continue to limit our free speech. They�ll come after our guns by means of staging false flags. They want to impeach a president who is no longer in office to make sure he never comes back. The socialists are kicking us while we�re down and their corporate media cheerleaders love it.

The Tree of Liberty is dead. Nothing was done to stop the steal. COVID-19 was set up to help them steal the election more easily. Now the Democrat Socialists are nailing down their advantage. Once a country goes socialist, they won�t allow their subjects to return to a constitutional republic. There�s no going back except through violence and the socialists in charge have a monopoly on that. The military will save us? If they could, they would have already. It�s game over for now.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

I�ve seen Little Shop of Horrors, so I know that a plant demanding blood is better off dead.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 17:27