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Electric Phantasm posted:Conspiracy theories would be way cooler as wrestling storylines. JFK Junior VS. Second Shooter in a Grassy Knoll match, this weekend at SUMMERSLAM.
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Srice posted:I looked around to try to find it and this was his take on that local election. Might not be the exact one you're thinking of but it surely has the same sentiment. I think the one Zulily was talking about was this one:  And here's the opinion piece that went along with it: quote:Before he got banned from Twitter, Donald Trump was the prolific prima donna of caustic, inflammatory, unhinged tweets. Now, Seattle has its own aspirant to Trump-style messaging: Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, the leftist candidate for city attorney. Horsey doesn't explicitly say he would prefer a Republican to her, but it's pretty strongly implied by how he talks about her. There is, however, this "classic" Horsey where he laments that there aren't any Republicans running for Seattle's city council:  quote:In this year’s upcoming municipal elections, one of the key races is for Seattle City Council Position 9. The three leading contenders for that at-large council seat are Nikkita Oliver, a community organizer and political activist, Brianna Thomas, chief of staff to the current council president, and Sara Nelson, co-owner of Fremont Brewing.
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Raised By Birds posted:Tom Stiglich Lmao, yeah the person nonviolently protesting a war was the bad guy. Great opinion Tom.
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It's an interesting thing about this cartoon that at no point does McFadden consider the plight of the Ukrainian people. Only bad takes by a nebulously-defined media and how America is involved, both issues being portrayed in a typically reductionist manner. And while frankly I agree with them that there's been many ghoulish and stupid takes on the war I do raise an eyebrow at the lack of consideration for why this war is happening in the first place. To judge by the narrative presented in this cartoon, you would think American troops are pouring into somewhere to fight somebody and nuclear war is a positive certainty. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Mar 9, 2022 |
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Twelve by Pies posted:I think the one Zulily was talking about was this one: Actually now that I see it again, the second of those is definitely the one I was thinking about, even if the first one is a lot closer to the description. I guess I've been blending a lot of his rants together. I found another couple cartoons from the same time with similar rants, but then the Seattle Times paywalled me for having looked at two articles and I cannot be bothered to circumvent it. Short version, he really hates his local city council and their refusal to recognize that the homeless are animals who can't be contained through social services and that only cops can deal with them.
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Horsey is known to be a quite skilled (if often extremely horny) artist. Reminder: Voting for the first round of the Kellies ends on the 13th. I am likely to let folks cast votes for all three rounds throughout the voting period, but that would mean you had to read all 360 entries in one sitting. Do you really want to do that?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:It's an interesting thing about this cartoon that at no point does McFadden consider the plight of the Ukrainian people. Only bad takes by a nebulously-defined media and how America is involved, both issues being portrayed in a typically reductionist manner. And while frankly I agree with them that there's been many ghoulish and stupid takes on the war I do raise an eyebrow at the lack of consideration for why this war is happening in the first place. How would you do that while maintaining both the joke and the message? This is a comic about warhawks, it's not like adding nuance helps it. Would you also like them to include an explanation that NATO countries getting more directly involved would guarantee a nuclear exchange?
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MrUnderbridge posted:So what are all those cartoonists who said Biden was paying for the war by still buying oil from Russia going to do now? You’re neglecting the possibility that they’ll just gaslight right through it.
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Raised By Birds posted:Jeff Stahler I know this is simplification and also a stupid nitpick on my part, but a gallon is such a stupid unit of measurement when compared to the liter, I doubt that you'd find one person fleeing Kiev who knows what a gallon is. Raised By Birds posted:Jen Sorensen Goddamn, that's grim. Raised By Birds posted:Tim Campbell drat I laughed.
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Rall: Why Are We in so Deep for Ukraine? Ted Rall posted:The people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and many other countries destroyed by US military forces never enjoyed the sympathetic media coverage, much less the humanization, that Ukrainians are getting during the Russian invasion. To the contrary, Afghan patriots who shot at American forces were portrayed as terrorists and enemy combatants. Why the difference? First Dog on the Moon: Will it be the war or the floods or white feminism or mould that finally pushes YOU over the EDGE? 
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Raised By Birds posted:Gary Markstein Thank you.
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Raised By Birds posted:Tom Stiglich I know political cartoonists are some of the stupidest people in existence and there's nothing that they can't misunderstand but how the gently caress did someone draw this? Fister Roboto posted:There it is folks, the perfect combo She (and other right wingers) would say that this isn't hypocritical or contradictory because they want oil companies to drill more in America. That's been one of the biggest right wing talking points even before Biden announced the US would ban Russian oil imports, is that we wouldn't have high gas prices right now if Biden hadn't closed the Keystone pipeline and prevented oil companies from drilling on American soil. Trapezium Dave posted:Rall: Why Are We in so Deep for Ukraine? Ted Rall Say the Russian Invasion of Ukraine is Bad challenge.
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The magic of Rall: I kinda agree with him, but he is so bad at making the point, that I now think that maybe US good? 
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Raised By Birds posted:Gary Markstein What the gently caress is wrong with these loving cartoonists. The loving buildings dont even look like buildings that exists in loving Ukraine!
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Raised By Birds posted:Lisa Benson But... the entire point of an MRE is that it's self-heating. That's like, their one most famous feature. EDIT: Like I'm sorry, I just can't get over this. What was the point of putting "MRE" on that bag? If she had just left it off it'd still be a lovely joke, but it would at least have part of it make sense. Why is this, and not the dumbass point, the thing that's pissing me off so much?
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Neito posted:But... the entire point of an MRE is that it's self-heating. That's like, their one most famous feature. I think it's because it comes across as the guy being so paranoid and delusional that he stockpiled MREs (without knowing ho to use them ) and moved his family to a cave because he felt there was some impending doom due to the "democrats". In reality there's a perfectly fine and thriving city only just a mile away with a lovely cafe owned by some lesbians who have been together longer than than dad in the cartoon. They have amazing scones. They should eat there. NO Wait! Democrats and solar panels are about. Eat this half burnt, half uncooked MRE and sleep on that rock.
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Xarn posted:The magic of Rall: I kinda agree with him, but he is so bad at making the point, that I now think that maybe US good? i wonder sometimes if rall is a psyop to make people think leftist ideas are actually bad, but if that's true it's not really working because my politics aren't changing but i am hating rall more with each strip
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By popular demand posted:We should put in the OP that Rall is often the epitome of that "worst person you know just made a good point" He's really not, that gag is about agreeing with a person you really don't want to agree with because they tend to have all the worst views. It's really just a reimagining of the old "stopped clock" metaphor. Rall's points are the opposite, in that his views are broadly from the same place as yours, but he makes his points so poorly that you get the urge to disagree on principle. In the clock metaphor he's more of one that's 15 minutes off, which means that he will never be correct, not even twice a day, but he'll consistently be adjacent to being correct.
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Skeleton Mom posted:i wonder sometimes if rall is a psyop to make people think leftist ideas are actually bad, but if that's true it's not really working because my politics aren't changing but i am hating rall more with each strip I think it's more likely that Rall is a psyop to see if you can make people suffer an aneurism from pure rage.
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GoutPatrol posted:Epstein doesn't know how to work, he looks perfectly calm when inside a devastating headlock. Tbh that expression and the hand position puts me in mind of religious iconography. As though he’s some saint being martyred.
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It's nice to imagine a world where Ted Rall exists on purpose, but the boring explanation is that he is just the archetype of a Mediocre White Guy, someone with no particular talents and zero capacity for introspection, but a shitton of unearned confidence. They make extremely dependable Useful Idiots, because you just have to tell them you think they're smart and cool and they will doggedly stick to your guns and never attempt to comprehend a thought that contradicts their already held beliefs.
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OK so is surrogacy a right wing culture war thing I’m just not aware of? This is a particularly weird take even for Ishida: https://twitter.com/bitterkarella/status/1501606259132227588?s=21 My best guess is that conservatives noticed that surrogacy let’s gay people have kids so it must be bad by default.
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 Guardian:  "Steve Bell on Priti Patel and Ukrainian refugees – Home secretary accused of misleading Commons over help offered to those fleeing war" Telegraph:  Russian tanks stuck in the mud ‘an example of poor planning’ for Ukraine invasion Independent:  Times:  Evening Standard:  Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance found off coast of Antarctica
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readingatwork posted:OK so is surrogacy a right wing culture war thing I’m just not aware of? This is a particularly weird take even for Ishida:
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Rall's problem isn't that he's wrong about things. Like the one where he drew Biden saying the US wouldn't tolerate a country invading another one on false pretenses and then it shows Obama/Bush/Trump in prison. He is absolutely 100% correct about the US being wrong on invading Iraq and Afghanistan, and that Bush, Trump and Obama should be in prison for war crimes. The problem is that he's using it to distract and deflect from Russia invading Ukraine, because he can't say "Russia is bad" due to getting paid by Russia. And he's still doing it, I guess because he hopes they'll hire him back at some point. It's not that Ted Rall is wrong, he's just more concerned with getting sick burns in on the US because he wants to prove he was right all along about how Iraq and Afghanistan were bad, to show all those Hitlers how great and smart he is. So he's incapable of saying another country is doing something wrong, especially if everybody already agrees that a country is doing something wrong, because everyone agrees with him so he's not special. Better instead to say "Oh yeah well what about when I was right about this OTHER thing huh? Praise me, Ted Rall, for being right!" readingatwork posted:My best guess is that conservatives noticed that surrogacy let’s gay people have kids so it must be bad by default. Conservatives are against gay people adopting kids and want to make it illegal for them to do so, but I don't think I've actually heard any of them talk about surrogate parenting. I assume they don't think it's an issue, because in their minds liberals would rather abort babies than have babies so they don't think liberals are doing it, which would mean only good conservative people who wouldn't be gay are doing it, so why would it be an issue? It may be a thing where it's purely an Ishida point of view, like he knows liberals don't just love aborting babies or whatever and thus he's outside of that specific part of the right wing mindset, but like you said he goes "But wait, that means it would allow gay/trans people to have kids! That can't be good!" Kind of like how the right wing media was all "We're saying the vaccine and masks are bad because of science, science is good it's just liberals are misusing it," and Ishida just went "The vaccine and masks are bad because science is bad." It wasn't a mainstream right wing opinion, it was just Ishida's own weird opinion.
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Fister Roboto posted:I wish that there were more people who were calling out the immense hypocrisy of western nations' response to the Ukraine invasion who aren't Ted Rall.
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