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The crazy vaccine conspiracy Kennedy put out a book that says Fauci is part of a crazy vaccine conspiracy! We got him now!
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Technowolf posted:Damnit Ted Rall, stop saying things I agree with! It's not really saying anything new or insightful over 4 panels that wasn't already said in this tweet.
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Dec 28, 2021 01:10
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Tibalt posted:It's not really saying anything new or insightful Thread title?
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Dec 28, 2021 01:22
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Tibalt posted:My response on the other hand is "Okay, and...?" No poo poo student loans suck and feel like a scam, but I graduated 11 years ago and Rall graduated 31 years ago, people have been saying that for decades.
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Dec 28, 2021 01:32
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World Famous W posted:Oh, its been discussed before, guess a political cartoonist should never mention it again
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Dec 28, 2021 01:38
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All political cartoonists set to resign in shame after reading that post.
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Dec 28, 2021 01:40
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Tibalt posted:it's a waste of space. That cartoon was not worth committing on at all other than disdain for its author. Which fine. Whatever.
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Tibalt posted:My response on the other hand is "Okay, and...?" No poo poo student loans suck and feel like a scam, but I graduated 11 years ago and Rall graduated 31 years ago, people have been saying that for decades. I forgot that studen loans were cancelled decades ago, and are thus no longer part of the discourse
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Dec 28, 2021 02:09
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You guys are reeeeealy reaching to hate on that Rall. It's a good comic, unironically.
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Dec 28, 2021 02:28
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Bors and Lubchansky would have at least mentioned student loans restarting. And included a joke.
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Dec 28, 2021 02:43
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The joke is that right wingers consider people irresponsible for not paying back student loans, despite the fact that many of those people signed up for the loans when they were children who did not fully understand how the world worked. Is it a good joke? Not really, but it is recognizable as a joke. "This cartoon is bad because the cartoonist is talking about things that have already been discussed and using a personal anecdote" is a lovely criticism because you could then argue that Lubchansky, Keith Knight, or Marty Two Bulls are bad cartoonists.
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Dec 28, 2021 03:13
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Rall's comic feels like half a good comic that might appear on somewhere like The Nib. If it had a few panels tying it to what is happening now, like maybe how his children have the exact same problem, then it would work. As it is I don't know if making it about his own personal experience makes the cartoon stronger or weaker. It makes more personal, but the time difference makes it feel weird - I don't know what it was like in the US but the college payment experience in Australia was vastly different in the eighties compared with how it is now. Plus given all the bullshit stories he has told about his life it is hard not to have mixed opinions about someone saying "you're irresponsible" to a young adult Ted Rall.
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Dec 28, 2021 03:27
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Terrible Opinions posted:To the average American the entire Middle East is one continuous series of sand dunes. And it doesn't take a lot of research to discover that the climate is Mediterranean. The countryside around Bethlehem is rocky rolling hills covered with trees and scrub. The Judean hills are full of olive groves and vineyards and in the winter it's often cold and rainy. And the kinda weird thing about the "Bethlehem is in a desert" thing is that it didn't used to be like this. The Adoration of the Magi is a well-worn subject in art, and if anything the tendency used to be to depict Bethlehem as too lushly pastoral. He's an illustration from a book of hours circa the late 14th Century:  And one of several of Hieronymus Bosch's takes on the subject, circa the end of the 15th Century:  And here's Perugino having a go in the early years of the 16th Century:  So I'm kinda curious as to what poisoned the well, so that now it's always three guys on camels in the middle of a featureless desert.
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Dec 28, 2021 03:47
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Tim Campbell Jeff Danziger  Matt Davies  Bob Gorrell  Joe Heller  Clay Jones  Mike Lester  Henry Payne  Tom Stiglich  Gary Varvel  Tony Branco  quote:Carjacker
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Dec 28, 2021 05:09
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Raised By Birds posted:Bob Gorrell lol at those scribbles
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Raised By Birds posted:Gary Varvel The "Radical Left" was the only support the Democrats had, and 2022 pushed them right...of a cliff.
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Dec 28, 2021 05:26
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SubG posted:And it doesn't take a lot of research to discover that the climate is Mediterranean. The countryside around Bethlehem is rocky rolling hills covered with trees and scrub. The Judean hills are full of olive groves and vineyards and in the winter it's often cold and rainy. The Bible even specifically says that shepherds were out tending to their flocks, which is a pretty big sign that the area isn't desert, because it's kind of hard to graze sheep if you're just surrounded by sand dunes. I think it really is just "Americans think the entire Middle East is desert," no other explanation makes sense. Raised By Birds posted:Tony Branco This poo poo is just loving hilarious. So completely detached from reality. It's incredible.
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Dec 28, 2021 06:03
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Twelve by Pies posted:The joke is that right wingers consider people irresponsible for not paying back student loans, despite the fact that many of those people signed up for the loans when they were children who did not fully understand how the world worked. It's the go-to complaint whenever Rall occasionally draws something correct but people want to criticize it anyway See also: drones
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Dec 28, 2021 06:28
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Raised By Birds posted:
The cartoonist doesn’t know how pandemics work
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Dec 28, 2021 06:56
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Dr. VooDoo posted:The cartoonist doesn’t know how pandemics work I mean to be fair that does seem to be a -somehow- ever increasing amount of people over the last two years.
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Dec 28, 2021 07:06
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Really hope that dapper hat becomes one of the mandatory hamfisted metaphorical devices going forward
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Dec 28, 2021 07:07
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You cannot fight tooth and nail against any government action to prevent pandemic deaths, and then turn around and chastise that same government for failing to prevent pandemic deaths.
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Dec 28, 2021 07:49
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Pants Donkey posted:You cannot fight tooth and nail against any government action to prevent pandemic deaths, and then turn around and chastise that same government for failing to prevent pandemic deaths. You seem to have confused this with the "not a pile of giant racist hypocrites thread*" *plus Collins, Two Bulls, Pope and a few others.
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Dec 28, 2021 07:55
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Covid cases and deaths were overwhelmingly in urban blue areas under Trump, and has moved steadily towards rural red areas under the Biden administration. 2021 having more covid deaths is good actually, point Biden.
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Dec 28, 2021 09:17
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I wish someone with more skill and patience than me would catalogue all of Branco's accessories for Biden from the 2020-2024 period, then put it all together in one big katamari of artistic hackery.
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Dec 28, 2021 11:58
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Republican senators represent 143 million people; Democratic senators represent 184,5 million people. That's 41,5 million people more than the GOP. Manchin represents less than 800 people. tl;dr: get hosed. (Yes I do know that the Senate works like this by design, thank you. Ramirez can still go get hosed.) e. 800 thousand people, because of course it's not just eight hundred. The point still stands. Mikl fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Dec 28, 2021 |
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Dec 28, 2021 12:29
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Mikl posted:Republican senators represent 143 million people; Democratic senators represent 184,5 million people. That's 41,5 million people more than the GOP. Manchin represents less than 800 people.
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Dec 28, 2021 16:01
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"Because students in special ed are dumb, you see."
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Dec 28, 2021 17:26
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Literally just googled Waffle House colors, read red and yellow, then went gently caress it and couldn’t be bothered to hit the images tab
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Dec 28, 2021 17:41
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Alhazred posted:"Because students in special ed are dumb, you see."
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Dec 28, 2021 17:53
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The most Boomer complaint Waah people aren't at work serving me over the holidays they're so lazy says the guy who slammed out a copy-paste comic in 15 minutes two months ago and took the whole month of December off
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Dec 28, 2021 17:55
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Twelve by Pies posted:The Bible even specifically says that shepherds were out tending to their flocks, which is a pretty big sign that the area isn't desert, because it's kind of hard to graze sheep if you're just surrounded by sand dunes. What's interesting is that there are any number of discussions about the evolution of depictions of the Magi, as the consensus view about their identity, geographic origin, and in fact number has changed frequently over the years. Similarly the "stuff" associated with depictions of the Nativity--its location (the now-familiar manger or, for example, a cave), whether or not Mary is present and if so what she's doing, the location and behaviour of animals, and so on--have all evolved and there are detailed discussions of that out there as well. But if there's any breakdown of how and when Bethlehem was transformed into a blasted wasteland of shifting sands I've failed to locate it. For whatever it's worth, many of the first known artistic depictions of the Nativity come from reliefs carved into sarcophagi from around the 4th Century, and it's common for them to depict the Magi with camels:  Later the camels invariably became horses (as befitting the Magi's then-hypothesised identity as Nabateans) before reverting back to camels (more appropriate for our sandy wasteland-wanderers).
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Dec 28, 2021 18:05
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SubG posted:Not just Americans--the comic I quoted, for example, is Australian. I thought the Magi were usually thought of as coming from somewhere in the Persian empire, which would be consistent with camels.
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Dec 28, 2021 18:11
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HootTheOwl posted:Who was it that kept positing it and eating probes? The same person who's posting it now. Pog just hasn't been probed for it since 2018, when it became more of a tradition than an annoyance.
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Dec 28, 2021 18:49
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SubG posted:Yeah, I know it's this. It's just that...I mean look, I'm not a Christian. So I don't really have a dog in the fight. But if I actually believed that this guy was the literal saviour of all mankind and he was also literally the creator of all things...I dunno, I think I'd like, you know, look this poo poo up. Like if I literally believed god had a hometown and it still exists, I'd be kinda interested in it. One thing to consider is that renaissance artists usually depicted Biblical characters as Europeans in renaissance clothes, so it is not surprising that they would also paint them in European (Italian) sceneries with 15th century castles. It's not like anyone had reference photographs of Palestine, nor did their contemporary audience. After the crusader states failed there weren't many European christians who would have seen the place with their own eyes. Keep in mind for centuries everyone really believed that Moses had physical horns because the Bible said so. No one stopped to ask "why does this central holy person in the Bible have horns on his head which we connect with banned pagan religions", they just depicted that on canvas and marble as a fact. Nowadays this is usually credited to a mistranslation or some lost meaning of the Hebrew word used in the original scripts.  Michelangelo's Moses
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Nenonen posted:One thing to consider is that renaissance artists usually depicted Biblical characters as Europeans in renaissance clothes, so it is not surprising that they would also paint them in European (Italian) sceneries with 15th century castles. It's not like anyone had reference photographs of Palestine, nor did their contemporary audience. After the crusader states failed there weren't many European christians who would have seen the place with their own eyes. quote:Keep in mind for centuries everyone really believed that Moses had physical horns because the Bible said so. No one stopped to ask "why does this central holy person in the Bible have horns on his head which we connect with banned pagan religions", they just depicted that on canvas and marble as a fact. Nowadays this is usually credited to a mistranslation or some lost meaning of the Hebrew word used in the original scripts. Beam of light \ horn.
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 Broelman:  States fight for rapid antigen test supplies as federal government sits back (SMH). Spooner:  Queensland's chief health officer John Gerrard and premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. Queensland's COVID-19 testing rules make 'no scientific sense', expert warns, as tourism industry welcomes easing of regulations (ABC). Knight:  Scott Boland-led Australia tears through English batters to retain Ashes on stunning morning at MCG (ABC). Downes:  Leunig:  I guess because most cartoonists are on holidays they're printing Leunig on a Wednesday.
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