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Pilchenstein
May 17, 2012

So your plan is for half of us to die?

Hot Rope Guy

D.N. Nation posted:

better stop giving big corporations enormous tax breaks, eh Branco?
Let's not go nuts

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Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
:britain:

Guardian:

"Ben Jennings on the Greensill scandal – Boris Johnson faces a burgeoning sleaze crisis that is threatening to engulf his government and the Whitehall machine"

Telegraph:

4,000 to attend FA Cup semi-final as live sport cautiously reopens

Matt:

European Super League: Premier League ‘big six’ sign up to competition

Independent:

Act now on sleaze crisis or lose red wall votes, Boris Johnson warned

Times:


Evening Standard:

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

Vivian Darkbloom posted:



Capitalism: it's bad folks

"OK so let's tax those corporations so they have less power"

"No that's socialism"

Thoughtless
Feb 1, 2007


Doesn't think, just types.
To be fair, blaming both communists and capitalists is a very Nazi thing to do. Well, one particular type of capitalists, and Branco's depiction has the nose for it, just about. I just can't tell if it's intentional or because his "art" is hideous.

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

Yeah it's really not a good thing when fascists are the loudest voices denouncing corporate power and overreach. This is what happens when you don't have an actual left wing party.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

rydiafan
Mar 17, 2009




Not pictured: the third panel with her horrified reaction at learning that her friend/coworker is batshit insane.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011





Der Ewige Obama.

Vivian Darkbloom
Jul 14, 2004


I wish the chuds would decide if Obama or Harris is the real puppetmaster. It's really hard to keep up.

Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

Maybe I'll go where I can see stars

Vivian Darkbloom posted:

I wish the chuds would decide if Obama or Harris is the real puppetmaster. It's really hard to keep up.
Soros, of course

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
Look it's very simple,

Space Cadet Omoly
Jan 15, 2014

~Groovy~



I dunno, replacing all human cops with emotionless robots actually seems like a step up from what we have now.

Dracula Factory
Sep 7, 2007


Vivian Darkbloom posted:

I wish the chuds would decide if Obama or Harris is the real puppetmaster. It's really hard to keep up.

I thought that the Qanon narrative now says that trump is secretly controlling the government still? Though it's not like that poo poo is consistent so it could have changed by now for all I know.

Wistful of Dollars
Aug 25, 2009

Cloud Potato posted:


Evening Standard:


what gave rise to this comic?

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

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

Nap Ghost

RoboRodent posted:

Man, the cognitive dissonance involved in believing capitalism is the greatest and also recognizing that capitalism is doing harmful things.

Welp, guess the capitalists are all communists and that's why they're bad!

There's a Dwarf Fortress play-through where the author characterises dwarf dialogue by having them refer to everything negative as "elf-" that thing. So, rocks collapsing are elf-rocks, harpies attacking them are elf-birds, spoiled food is elf-food, et cetera. I think about that a lot when folks use "communism" as a generic political negative.

Communist Corporate America, holy poo poo.


Space Cadet Omoly posted:

I dunno, replacing all human cops with emotionless robots actually seems like a step up from what we have now.

We regret to inform you that the emotionless robots were accidentally programmed to inherit current racist biases and also can't be stopped by bullets

NRVNQSR
Mar 1, 2009

Wistful of Dollars posted:

what gave rise to this comic?

Same as the previous one:

Raised By Birds
May 5, 2013

Ben posted:

THEY USE FEAR TO CONTROL YOU

It probably shouldn’t be surprising, but it is disappointing that so many people are eagerly doing whatever a small sliver of humanity tells them to do.

The latter are the ruling oligarchy. They consist of centi-billionaires and perhaps even trillionaires. They own and control most of the valuable land, the biggest banks, our security agencies, our education system, and dutiful politicians who do their bidding. The CIA-controlled corporate media is used to brainwash the public into compliance.

Compliance is achieved through means of fear more than force. The ruling caste and the pharmaceutical industrial complex claim we must voluntarily give up our freedom in exchange for safety. It’s for our own good! You want to save lives, don’t you?

The lever pushers at the top of the pyramid are using science to keep people in lockstep obeisance. We must do as we’re told because they claim to have the logical and scientific high ground. We must take their experimental jabs to prove we’re good humans who care about others. Doing so doesn’t mean there won’t be more lockdowns and social distancing. Masks have become permanent even though their own science shows masks do more harm and good. You see, they suspend science in cases such as mask wearing, rioting, and the number of genders. A man can become a woman and vice versa just because they say it’s science instead of what it really is—insanity. Their experimental gene therapy jabs and vaccines are safe even though thousands experience severe side effects and death. The ruling class says they’re safe and effective, so most of the public ignores hard evidence to the contrary. Too many people are not in touch with reality and fear makes that mental illness possible.

Nearly half the population has succumbed to such brainwashing. They’ve deeply swallowed the lies doled out by the one percent and have done so hook, line, sinker, and globalist rod and reel.

How much longer can they use fear to herd us toward our own demise? Indefinitely. They’ll trot out new viruses—real or imagined—and vaccines will become an annual event. Then perhaps even monthly. Why not? People appear to enjoy getting the jabs. They receive a virtue signaling high from them.

People need to stop participating in their own demise. Tune out CNN. Don’t take the shots—you’re not a lab rat! Stop wearing the masks. Ignore the lockdowns. Support small businesses. They can’t arrest all of us.

Most of all, stop being afraid—is it that difficult?

Ben Garrison


Tina posted:

Tina sez- How to stop being afraid? Turn off the TV News, Don’t read newspapers, take a break from social media tech tyrants like Facebook who brainwash you with their “fact checkers and disinformation campaigns.”

Reminder if the plannedemic was real they would not spend millions on TV commercials and celebrity endorsements to convince you to get the jab.

The Nuremberg Code is also being ignored (The Nuremberg Code, included a new, comprehensive, and absolute requirement of informed consent (principle 1), and a new right of the subject to withdraw from participation in an experiment (principle 9.)

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

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

Nap Ghost

Love to see Garrison is now so scared of Big Trans that he hides his transphobic bullshit in the middle of a paragraph that starts out about vaccines and ends up about vaccines, in a rant that's supposed to be about not being afraid. Dude's loving shook that people are expecting the equal rights his beloved constitution promised them.

Kaza42
Oct 3, 2013

Blood and Souls and all that
It's such a small thing, but Centi- means 1/100. A centi-billionaire would be someone with 10 million dollars. He's trying to say Hecto-billionare, which is someone with 100 billion dollars

In SI prefixes, Latin words are used for fractions and Greek for multiples

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005

I'm feeling Jimmy


Kaza42 posted:

It's such a small thing, but Centi- means 1/100. A centi-billionaire would be someone with 10 million dollars. He's trying to say Hecto-billionare, which is someone with 100 billion dollars

In SI prefixes, Latin words are used for fractions and Greek for multiples
Who controls the SI? That's right...

An insane mind
Aug 11, 2018

Johnny Walker posted:

Who controls the SI? That's right...

...The Spanish?

Wistful of Dollars
Aug 25, 2009

NRVNQSR posted:

Same as the previous one:

holy moly

packetmantis
Feb 26, 2013

SneezeOfTheDecade posted:


Fun game: show this to someone who's unfamiliar with political cartoons and ask them to figure out what it is:



Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005

I'm feeling Jimmy


An insane mind posted:

...The Spanish?
This goes deeper than I thought.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

God damn this shit is
fuckin' re-dic-a-liss

🍖🍖😛🍖🍖

SneezeOfTheDecade posted:

Michael Ramirez

We've been in Afghanistan for so long that when our first troops got there, Ramirez only had one Pulitzer.
Republicans: "AT LEAST TRUMP WANTS TO STOP THE FOREVER WAR! WE MUST PULL OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST!"
Biden: "We're pulling out of Afghanistan"
Republicans: "WHAT, AND LET THE TALIBAN WIN?"

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

It is the year 2147, and Ramirez’s greasy brain secretes the necessary hormones in his jar to trigger the computer to upload another cartoon about how President Mecha-Jeb! cannot leave Afghanistan lest the Taliban win.

The bloated brain drips a few more chemicals, and another cartoon follows. Iran will have nukes any day!

Raised By Birds
May 5, 2013
Nick Anderson


Stuart Carlson


Phil Hands


Mike Lester


Joel Pett

That skull vase tho

Tony Branco

quote:

American Graffiti
The “Land of 10,000 Lakes” has become the land of 10.00 riots with Walz and Maxine Waters as instigators.

Neo_Crimson
Aug 15, 2011

"Is that your final dandy?"

Holy poo poo, gently caress you Lester.

CuwiKhons
Sep 24, 2009

Seven idiots and a bear walk into a dragon's lair.


The most amazing part about this is that Lester also drew the character speaking as wearing a basketball jersey. So what's Lester really saying here? It's only hypocritical for black people to wear clothes made in China? It's totally fine for white people, of course. Because white people are historically fine with slaves.

the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!


Kellies Nomination: Least Concealed Bigotry (Race)

I don't think it's going to beat out Ramirez, since Lester is only good at beating his wife, but it's still a contender.

SneezeOfTheDecade
Feb 6, 2011

gettin' covid all
over your posts

There is a lot to unpack here.

1) The only reason Lester cares about the detention and abuse of Uighurs in China is because it's a way for him to say China Bad. If it were happening in any other country he wouldn't give a poo poo about a Muslim population being oppressed.
2) Note the bartender, who is Black-coded and is playing the role of "background character who agrees with Lester and is looking into the camera to indicate this". (Lester often includes this character in his cartoons; when he's talking about race the character is almost always Black or Black-coded.)
3) Note the difference in skin tones between the first and second speakers; the second is clearly meant to be Standard White Person, and the first is... :chloe:

Vivian Darkbloom
Jul 14, 2004


Dracula Factory posted:

I thought that the Qanon narrative now says that trump is secretly controlling the government still? Though it's not like that poo poo is consistent so it could have changed by now for all I know.

I don't think Q has actually posted since the election, and also that HBO documentary made it pretty clear it was Jim and Ron Watkins doing most of the posts.

predicto
Jul 22, 2004

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON
It’s been three days and I’m still loving livid about that Ramirez “just obey directions” toon

&*#$&#($(&( piece of poo poo I wanna jam those Pulitzers down your hateful throat

Wistful of Dollars
Aug 25, 2009


Lester is determined to not let Ramirez run away with the first half of the season of poo poo.

Trapezium Dave
Oct 22, 2012

:australia:

Rowe:

Government announces royal commission into veteran, serving Defence member suicides (ABC). Scott Morrison and the government have been resisting calling a commission but a campaign from the veteran community and the crossbench has flipped them.

Broelman:


Spooner:

Peter Dutton overrules decision to strip medals from SAS soldiers who served in Afghanistan (Guardian). The chief of the defence force Angus Campbell previously said the evidence that implicated 25 members of the unit in war crimes in Afghanistan was enough to revoke the meritorious unit citation from them, but Dutton has reversed that except for those soldiers that are actually convicted of a war crime.

Wilcox:

‘Very big package’: $10 billion aged care boost at heart of federal budget (SMH). An exclusive from Wilcox's paper about a promise that will be in the May budget.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Kellies Nomination: Least Concealed Bigotry (Race), Worst overall

gently caress you Lester

War Wizard
Jan 4, 2007

:)
I can only read that Lester as "THIS IS WHAT CONSERVATIVES ACTUALLY BELIEVE". We're led to think he's a hypocrite liberal, but this is just face value conservative gatekeeping.

DarklyDreaming
Apr 4, 2009

Fun scary

War Wizard posted:

I can only read that Lester as "THIS IS WHAT CONSERVATIVES ACTUALLY BELIEVE". We're led to think he's a hypocrite liberal, but this is just face value conservative gatekeeping.

"It's not (Historical atrocity) because of (Pedantic hairsplitting)" Is an argument that gets a lot of traction among republicans these days and it's hilarious to see Mike Lester accuse someone of doing that

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008


"OK so let's make sure that workers throughout the entire world have adequate pay and safe working conditions"

"No that's socialism"

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the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!

War Wizard posted:

I can only read that Lester as "THIS IS WHAT CONSERVATIVES ACTUALLY BELIEVE". We're led to think he's a hypocrite liberal, but this is just face value conservative gatekeeping.

He's going for a double "You're the real racist."

Hypocritical libs and black people are both the Real Racists because they both think that slavery only ever happened to Africans.
It's on the same Greatest Hits album as "Actually, the Africans are the ones who were doing the most selling other Africans to the whites" and "Irish people can't be racist because they were also slaves"

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