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Space Cadet Omoly posted:
Hey, want to get real angry? (I know you, you’re reading Political Cartoons thread.) What’s the iconic instance of law enforcement protecting a child while protestors threw produce at them?
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Sinfest Sunday!
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is there a rash of puppy thefts in the UK or...?
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HootTheOwl posted:is there a rash of puppy thefts in the UK or...?
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Sep 5, 2021 19:06
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Dog thefts are quite common here in North London
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I found an old book of political cartoons from 1989 lying around, and I figured you lot would "enjoy" some of these. Please forgive my mediocre scanning and the yellowy paper that may or may not have been that colour at time of printing. Bennett drawing backgrounds!  1Gorrell drawing at all!  2Ramirez... still being a piece of poo poo!  3You'll never guess what those clowns in congress are a bunch of!  4It was a year ending in a number between 0 and 9 so abortion was a hot-button issue.  5 6 7There was also a school shooting that year, which I'm hazy on the details but I'm sure the government acted quickly and effectively to prevent such a thing happening again.  8Also important this year: flag burning!  9 10The Environment was a big issue as well, with the hole in the ozone layer and scientists apparently looking into this little thing called the "greenhouse effect" . This was over 30 years ago so I'm sure that's been dealt with by now.  11 12Here are some others I felt like scanning.  13 14 15The phrase "War on Drugs" would keep being used for another 20 years, when as I understand it the Obama administration decided to keep on doing the war on drugs but at least not calling it that anymore. Angepain fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Sep 5, 2021 |
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Sep 5, 2021 19:34
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Angepain posted:
Jack McBrayer is going to play Jimmy Carter in the film. Also it's funny, I've never seen a Jerald FOrd Characture before. You'd think I'd have since i laugh at him falling down the stairs but still
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:
His twitter is down, but his spinster is still up, featuring this splash page with even more evil identities: 
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Sep 5, 2021 20:31
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I want an illuminati tophat. It'll rent a tailed coat and make it my holloween consume.
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SimonChris posted:His twitter is down, but his spinster is still up, featuring this splash page with even more evil identities: Looks like a fun and welcoming store.
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SimonChris posted:His twitter is down, but his spinster is still up, featuring this splash page with even more evil identities: Over the years, I've noticed that pansexuality is kind of a litmus test. Like, if someone encounters the concept of pansexuality and immediately starts sputtering and acting like things are So Goddamned Crazy nowadays, you're just looking at a factory-standard homophobe that has learned how to be quiet about it. also lmao oh no, not furries
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War Wizard posted:Looks like a fun and welcoming store. Gonna swing by and pick up some Furry and Robot Gender.
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Sep 5, 2021 20:41
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I'd like to know more about "pandemic sexual"
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Bennet's old style is so much better than his current one
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:
Accidentally based, lmao. Also it’s interesting that Ishida is linking government spending to identity politics. I’m not sure how using new pronouns or whatever is supposed to break the bank.
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Angepain posted:It was a year ending in a number between 0 and 9 so abortion was a hot-button issue. What were middle eastern stereotypes bombing in 1989? I'm not old enough to remember this.
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readingatwork posted:Accidentally based, lmao. He's talking about the subprime mortgage crisis, obviously. Obviously.
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DalaranJ posted:What were middle eastern stereotypes bombing in 1989? Plane bombs weren't unheard of in 1989, it's even a joke in airplane
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I'd like to know more about "pandemic sexual" He thinks that wearing masks is oppression, so pandemic sexual is anyone who doesn't think that
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DalaranJ posted:What were middle eastern stereotypes bombing in 1989? US Marine barracks in Beirut; marketplaces across the Middle East It was a common enough stereotype that the Edit: look up anecdotes first, SW, not after skeleton warrior fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Sep 5, 2021 |
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Sep 5, 2021 21:18
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I'd like to know more about "pandemic sexual" It’s the hot new slang for bug chasing.
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DalaranJ posted:What were middle eastern stereotypes bombing in 1989? 
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DalaranJ posted:What were middle eastern stereotypes bombing in 1989? Lockerbie happened in 1988.
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SimonChris posted:His twitter is down, but his spinster is still up, featuring this splash page with even more evil identities: I dunno why we're supposed to hate the place, seems nice. It's basically just a Spirit Halloween store with cooler lighting. Come on, get some cat ears, and chill with a cool robot.
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SimonChris posted:His twitter is down, but his spinster is still up, featuring this splash page with even more evil identities: Hell yeah I'm a Vulva Owner, they get great gas mileage.
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Garrison gets a lot of poo poo for his bad metaphors and imagery, what with his repeated trend of "the guy I like is Don Quixote", but Ishida's mixed metaphors and self-defeating imagery are really in a class of their own. Pants Donkey and others have pointed this out already but I just can't get over how much this comic says the exact opposite of what he clearly intends. Uncle Sam is a spoiled brat wasting OUR money but how dare they throw tomatoes at him, only I'M allowed to criticize him. He carelessly picks up an identity as a false, pretentious shield, but my enemies can see right through it and are not fooled by such flimsy signals and empty gestures! The identities I cling to are so outdated and obsolete nobody would want them, even if all other choices were off the table! What the hell do you think you're proving here? Is this just a full-length self dunk?
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Cloud Potato posted:Mail on Sunday:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is sometimes political, at least in terms of socio-political commentary, and in my opinion has veered a little too often into the kind of sheltered suburbanite perspectives you might see out of Horsey, but today's is really something else.
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 Rowe:  NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian. Broelman:  Downes:  Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein will reduce his workload to focus on his health (ABC). "Tasmania's Premier has attributed his recent health crisis to overwork and will hand over several portfolios to colleagues in order to take better care of himself in future." Knight:  Kudelka:  Spooner:  Leunig: 
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Trapezium Dave posted:Broelman: As a non-Aussie, I literally cannot tell if this cartoon is supposed to be for or against an actual national plan.
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Vib Rib posted:Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is sometimes political, at least in terms of socio-political commentary, and in my opinion has veered a little too often into the kind of sheltered suburbanite perspectives you might see out of Horsey, but today's is really something else. These aren’t arguments adults make, these are arguments fascist make. Or am I misunderstanding and were su-posed to agree with the kid? Either way what a loving mess.
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Edmund Lava posted:These aren’t arguments adults make, these are arguments fascist make. Or am I misunderstanding and were su-posed to agree with the kid? Either way what a loving mess. Pretty sure we're supposed to agree with the kid.
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I don't think you're supposed to agree with anyone in that comic. SMBC makes a lot comics where you're not supposed to agree with anyone in the comic because they're deranged.
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Dr. VooDoo posted:
 Speaking of if anyone is still entertained by Muir's brain worms, I checked in and he's retconned in that his self-insert has a 23 year old long lost Israeli-American Christian daughter who is trapped in Afghanistan thanks to Sleepy Joe Biden Pants Donkey posted:The lack of any coherent consistency is what kills me. The woke zombies hate America, including the Uncle Sam Mecha that Ishida has been using as a symbol of America’s bloated defense spending and power for over a decade. This is after a week of comics where Uncle Sam is shown as being a bratty kid who wants to run up the debt to play dress up with bad identities. So already, the woke zombies are more sympathetic attacking him because he’s A) America, a bad entity and B) Disingenuously buying up identities. You really have to build him up sympathetic for this to work, which being a longer Sunday strip might work. Like he can't even decide if cops are good or bad. The violent woke mob is calling cops slurs which are just as bad as the n-word and chasing and beating cops for no reason, but also the cops are rounding up patriots on false charges and torturing 2021's dad and 2021 is really righteous and awesomely beating up cops but also the cops were abolished and they all went to work for evil corporations and now they really are bad (??????) 
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SimonChris posted:His twitter is down, but his spinster is still up, featuring this splash page with even more evil identities: "Vulva Owner" Having a vulva is bad now. And I'm so loving tired of people menstruating every month, really chaps my rear end
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VitalSigns posted:"Menstruator" Abortion activist have been using the phrase “people with uteruses” to not exclude trans people from the abortion debate. It’s just more spiteful transphobia.
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yeah, a few times some organisation relating to e.g. period poverty or abortion access or cervical cancer screenings or similar has referred to "menstruators" or "vulva owners" or other inclusive language, so as to include people with the relevant plumbing that don't identify as women. Now, modifying existing terms while still being understandable is always going to lead to a bit of awkward-sounding terminology, especially when there isn't a totally accepted inclusive term to use, but the criticism from terfs is less along these lines and more that the transes are abolishing the concept of "woman" and will henceforth force us all to refer to ourselves as Bleeding Vaginas With Flesh Surrounding, no other word will be accepted in any context by the Woke. you know, reasonable conclusions that one makes when one approaches a topic in good faith.
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Neo_Crimson posted:I don't think you're supposed to agree with anyone in that comic. SMBC makes a lot comics where you're not supposed to agree with anyone in the comic because they're deranged. I'm looking at the way that the parent is framed and the fact that the kid has the final "Actually yes I am the dumb and so goddamn crazy one" line and thinking that maybe we are supposed to agree with the parent.
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I mean, it's very Manichean to assume a comic strip must have one right person and one wrong person; "five panels of one person revealing they are DASGC followed by the other person revealing they are DerASGCer" is an actual punchline
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Edmund Lava posted:Abortion activist have been using the phrase “people with uteruses” to not exclude trans people from the abortion debate. It’s just more spiteful transphobia. Yeah I know, it's just you have to be so deep in culture war nonsense to even know that let alone give a poo poo. I remember when these same dipshits were freaking out because forms started asking for parents' names instead of "mother and father". Because the loony left is trying to erase motherhood, my kids aren't going to know what mothers and fathers are! "Menstruators" is my favorite though because even in TERF world you need a more specific term than "women" to address people who menstruate because a whoooooole lotta women don't menstruate.
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skeleton warrior posted:I mean, it's very Manichean to assume a comic strip must have one right person and one wrong person; "five panels of one person revealing they are DASGC followed by the other person revealing they are DerASGCer" is an actual punchline There's also the framing of the whole thing as "Actually, heh, if you think about it, this issue is more nuanced than we think" which is old-internet-athiest crack and exactly the sort of thing SMBC was and is hugely into. SMBC is pretty obvious when it is saying one side of something is right and the other one is wrong, and if it's just musing and taking a stupid position on purpose it'd be the two kids in the snow doing it.
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