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Discendo Vox posted:This is about as good as it gets: And if I did, I feel like the utter howling void of nothingness that is Prickly City would take priority. So look forward to that write up some time in 2025.
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I can't find any references to a government cryptocurrency at all. The closest I could get was a Biden EO that is in the works regarding regulations and taxation, and a CNBC article on how the IRS sells off seized cryptocurrency like other assets. Any idea at all what this is about? Edit: wait, is this about central bank digital currencies? Tibalt fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Mar 1, 2022 |
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Tibalt posted:I can't find any references to a government cryptocurrency at all. The closest I could get was a Biden EO that is in the works regarding regulations and taxation, and a CNBC article on how the IRS sells off seized cryptocurrency like other assets. Fishman completely misunderstood an article about a proposal to develop a system for digital transactions supported by the treasury, so that buying things online doesn't have to involve third parties. This got reported as a "digital dollar".
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I'm absolutely loving sick of prickly city So it's everyone else, check those doors
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Xander77 posted:And if I did, I feel like the utter howling void of nothingness that is Prickly City would take priority. So look forward to that write up some time in 2025.
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Xander77 posted:Huh. I've argued "hey, if you're a sci-fi nerd that's cool with transhumanism, trans people really shouldn't be a big deal" a few times, and never got anywhere. Maybe that's why. For what it's worth, I know a lot of sci-fi nerds that are cool with transhumanism (myself included) who are totally on board with trans people. It's not the loudest shittiest segment of the nerd-dom, but I'm pretty sure it's not a rare position. I'd like to have robot arms and brain-computer interfaces, why would I give a single poo poo about what you want your genitals to look like? A person with their brain distributed among a swarm of robots is still a person, why would it be a problem to call someone "they/them"?
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Kaza42 posted:For what it's worth, I know a lot of sci-fi nerds that are cool with transhumanism (myself included) who are totally on board with trans people. It's not the loudest shittiest segment of the nerd-dom, but I'm pretty sure it's not a rare position. I'd like to have robot arms and brain-computer interfaces, why would I give a single poo poo about what you want your genitals to look like? A person with their brain distributed among a swarm of robots is still a person, why would it be a problem to call someone "they/them"? It's because those people are entirely inward looking about this. "Oh yeah I'm going to bag all the ladies with my cool robot dick" turns into "oh wait these ladies might have agency and robot dicks of their own?? Oh that's too weird gross". Their "belief" in it is just an egocentric fantasy.
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Me sowing: Ha ha gently caress yes, this robot dick rules!!! Me reaping: I didn't ask for this
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Xander77 posted:Huh. I've argued "hey, if you're a sci-fi nerd that's cool with transhumanism, trans people really shouldn't be a big deal" a few times, and never got anywhere. Maybe that's why. I don't want to go No True Sci-Fi Nerd, but if you're a sci-fi nerd and you don't think The Culture is cool as hell, you're not a True Sci-Fi Nerd. 
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Antigravitas posted:I don't want to go No True Sci-Fi Nerd, but if you're a sci-fi nerd and you don't think The Culture is cool as hell, you're not a True Sci-Fi Nerd. Fully automated luxury gay space communism seems pretty fine to me.
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Cloud Potato posted:Telegraph: VAIK if he'd gone with ATM then that would have been the same letters 
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Mikl posted:Hello this is your routine "poo poo you put up with as a trans person on the internet." I suspected, but thought the assumption was too uncharitable even for political cartoons.
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i'm all for transhumanism (as long as we don't let elon musk types anywhere near it) but if you want a robot dick just walk down to the local sex shoppe and get yourself fitted for a nice strap-on. we already solved this problem, the future is here, embrace the new flesh
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Famous bad guy and villain, Bilbo Baggins
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The sides were definitely Frodo and Mt Doom vs the good guy, Sauron and his Good Ring Yes I know Bilbo is being depicted in the comic, but in the dream logic political cartoons work in you are thinking of the Trilogy movies somehow fitting this political angle Blind Duke fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Mar 1, 2022 |
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I like how, the second you cross Trump, the veil is lifted and Garrison realizes you’re fat. No more washboard abs and Adonis figure for you, buddy! We all know fat people are bad, isn’t that right, President Trump?
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That Gorrel is the Laziest Non-Gorrel Gorrel, because lol his only contribution was a two second piss yellow scribble that couldn't even stay inside the lines. A title previously held by that one where he used some GIS'd picture of Disney's Snow White and scribbled on the apple.Raised By Birds posted:
Continuing the fine conservative tradition: https://twitter.com/parscale/status/1258388669544759296 https://twitter.com/parscale/status/1258402017590104067 https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1204503645607333888
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Like making Barr into Gollum, stealing the Ring back from Frodo Trump at the last second (right before his failure) is right there. Just label the Ring something like "Dem lies" or "election fraud" or something, it'd be entirely consistent with their horrible worldview. All Garrison's demonstrated there is that he's only got some half-remembered commercials for the movies to draw upon. Next he's going to have Trump triumphantly holding up the jeweled golden goblet from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with the old knight looking on approvingly (or angry while being labeled something alluding to the point where the Templar conspiracy theories cross over with the (((bankers))) conspiracies).
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i mean i guess it makes sense that people who are cartoonishly evil can't identify who the bad guy is in movies for children
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That latest Gorrell may be bad, but don't forget this utter travesty he shat out six months ago. All mockery aside he should have been god drat embarrassed to turn this one in.
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disposablewords posted:Like making Barr into Gollum, stealing the Ring back from Frodo Trump at the last second (right before his failure) is right there. Just label the Ring something like "Dem lies" or "election fraud" or something, it'd be entirely consistent with their horrible worldview. All Garrison's demonstrated there is that he's only got some half-remembered commercials for the movies to draw upon. Next he's going to have Trump triumphantly holding up the jeweled golden goblet from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with the old knight looking on approvingly (or angry while being labeled something alluding to the point where the Templar conspiracy theories cross over with the (((bankers))) conspiracies). He did it because Bill Barr sounds like Bilbo. It's a one pun cartoon and now the whole thread is getting owned by Ben Garrison, master of puppets 
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escapegoat posted:That latest Gorrell may be bad, but don't forget this utter travesty he shat out six months ago. lmao, that's right, that's the one I was thinking of. I guess he's putting effort into somehow finding the worst quality version of any image he's stealing.
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Even ignoring the whole "The One Ring (and by extension Sauron) is actually good" thing, the loving climax of LotR is that Frodo* is finally taken by the lure of the ring and refuses to destroy it, instead embracing it, and it's only by sheer luck that Gollum shows up and is able to bite it off of Frodo's finger. This would mean Bill Barr was actually completely loyal to Trump. * Yes I know that Bill Barr is a play on Bilbo but given him mentioning Lord of the Rings in the rant, plus Mt. Doom and "Fellowship" on the book, it's probably more representative of Frodo.
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I like the part where Bilbo, who is evil, is taking the ring, which is good, to give to Sauron, who is still evil. It's like Ben set out to outdo his misinterpretation of Don Quixote. And when he's called on this, because there's no way there won't be a billion nerds telling him how insanely poor a metaphor this is, he'll once again double down into "uh I've put my own twist on it, look how triggered you are."
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RoboRodent posted:I like the part where Bilbo, who is evil, is taking the ring, which is good, to give to Sauron, who is still evil. It's especially good because like fascists and the rest of his audience really love the Lord of the Rings and see it as a powerful tale of white nationalism triumphing over mongrel hordes and poo poo. Like outside of the fantasy and tabletop gaming communities, I think fascist political cartoonists like Garrison probably have the audience most likely to be deeply familiar with, and fond of, Tolkien's work.
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Lalo Alcaraz Nick Anderson  Robert Ariail  Clay Bennett  Lisa Benson  Chip Bok  Steve Breen  Tim Campbell  Jeff Danziger  Al Goodwyn  Bob Gorrell  Joe Heller  Clay Jones  Jack Ohman  Joel Pett  Michael Ramirez  Marshall Ramsey  Rob Rogers  Jen Sorensen  Jeff Stahler  Tom Stiglich  Dana Summers  Gary Varvel  Tony Branco  quote:An Inconvenient War John Kerry is in hot water for referring to the Russian attack on Ukraine as merely a Putin distraction from focusing on Climate Change. This Kerry thing and the "80's called" thing... it's funny seeing the same talking point filtering out amongst the right, cartoonist by cartoonist.
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Raised By Birds posted:Tony Branco Climate change is your term, idiot. Luntz invented it.
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Cloud Potato posted:Independent: "Apologies to rattlesnakes."  I usually hate the "apologies to whoever" things in British cartoons, but this one is good.
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