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I dont know posted:Maybe I misread it uncharitably given his past cartoons, but I interpreted Mac's drawing of a Gorilla in front of a sign labeled "Rwanda-UK Border Control" as implying the gorilla is the border control agent. No, but it is an implication that Rwanda is all jungle with monkeys swinging through the banana trees. Rwanda does have some jungle, and amazingly it's even on the borders, but most of it is in national parks and well away from whichever major city the detentions centres would be 10 miles outside of. So it's sort of racist, but as an assumption of what Africa is like rather than its people. (You can ignore the peeling wallpaper and squalid room; that's basically how the detention centres would be, not because Rwandans can't do better but because the Tories aren't going to pay for better when the cruelty is the point.)
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Yeah, it's that irritating, weasely racism where dipshits can deny it's racist with "but there are gorillas in Africa" but everyone knows why he didn't draw civilisation outside the window, ancient racist prick that he is.
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This feels like a redundant discussion since we’ve had plenty of examples of Mac’s racism over the years.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Yes. It's a gorilla being a gorilla and doing gorilla things (OK, gorillas don't swing from trees but y'know). It's just meant to be a gorilla. Really though? Think of the context. No he's not saying "AFRICAN IS MONKEY LOL" but like.... the topic is Rwandan asylum seekers, and he depicts some cartoon Africa encroachment on Britain. And yes as bad. That's extremely racist albeit in a quiet sort of way.
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 Sinfest Sunday!   Huh. I must be out of the conspiracy theory loop because "Everything happening in the Ukraine is a false flag meant to distract people from the dangers of vaccines" was not something I'd heard before.  The NPC meme, for when you want to talk about how you willfully dehumanize massive amounts of people and use video game words to try to make what you're doing sound less horrifying.  Someone had a bad burger recently, honestly he kinda deserved it. No tasty treats for transphobes.  Oh hey look, it's that thing that's been drawn a billion times and yet has never happened in real life. And even if it wasn't a bullshit scenario, what exactly is this woman doing wrong other than peeing with the door open? Who is out there giving any sort of gently caress about the physical appearance of random people in public restrooms? Isn't it more important to do literally anything else in the world with your time?  And then there's whatever this is. Why is being able to mute the dude who's been constantly talking about how horny he is for everyone around him to die in an apocalypse for the past several months a bad thing?
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:
And nothing bad happened? Someone just used the washroom?
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A better writer with something more to say could use this as a metaphor for how we use social media, how parasocial relationships and the blurring of online and offline personalities affects our society, and how there are positive and negative effects within an ever-present internet. But it's just 'the vax turns you into a robot beep boop' and Ishida continues to disappoint.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Huh. I must be out of the conspiracy theory loop because "Everything happening in the Ukraine is a false flag meant to distract people from the dangers of vaccines" was not something I'd heard before. IIRC Garrison's basically claimed the same thing. And hey, speaking of,  quote:Happy Easter, He Has Risen Happy Easter!... and watch out for the satanic marxist pedophiles!!!
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If Jesus preached today like he preached in Galilee, people like Ben would be begging for him to be killed.
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Exactly, the "satanic globalist cabal" wouldn't give a poo poo about Jesus, it'd be people like Ben Garrison calling Jesus a radical socialist Marxist pedophile that someone should do something about.
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Fyi, the adverse events thing Ishida is referring to was just a list of things they were checking for during testing. A lot of the stuff doesn’t even make sense in the context of a vaccine, like HIV. Coronavirus spikes must mutate something fierce.
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J.A.B.C. posted:A better writer with something more to say could use this as a metaphor for how we use social media, how parasocial relationships and the blurring of online and offline personalities affects our society, and how there are positive and negative effects within an ever-present internet. It's a bit weirder than that actually. Ishida thinks that there's a cabal of So weird that the call to action in all of these conspiracy theories is that marginalized groups and their allies are evil and that you are justified in attacking them. Can't imagine why that keeps happening.
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most of those buttons seem like they'd be pretty handy, in particular the mute button, but I can't help but notice there's a Star of David button I can't even imagine what that button is supposed to do in the context of a real life HUD.
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I clearly need to talk with my doctor, as I’ve been on HRT for years and yet still haven’t beefed up like Senator Armstrong.
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Pants Donkey posted:Fyi, the adverse events thing Ishida is referring to was just a list of things they were checking for during testing. A lot of the stuff doesn’t even make sense in the context of a vaccine, like HIV. Coronavirus spikes must mutate something fierce. There was a conspiracy theory that the vaccine used a component of HIV and could cause infections.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:most of those buttons seem like they'd be pretty handy, in particular the mute button, but I can't help but notice there's a Star of David button In Ishida's defense (ugh) that's totally the Android icon for "Settings."  When he does decide to go mask off anti-Semite, you will know.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:most of those buttons seem like they'd be pretty handy, in particular the mute button, but I can't help but notice there's a Star of David button I think that's a gear icon, for settings edit: gently caress
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Pants Donkey posted:I clearly need to talk with my doctor, as I’ve been on HRT for years and yet still haven’t beefed up like Senator Armstrong. I hate to be the one to tell you this, but HRT doesn't actually have that effect. If you want to turn yourself into an immortal God built like a brick shithouse talk to your doctor about nanomachines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhMsboqMMzs
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Sure, the Congressional health plan covers the good ones, but the rest of us will get stuck with the seizure-causing ones from MGS4.
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All my insurance would cover is this parasite that kills me if I speak Eng
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Clay Bennett Steve Benson  Jeff Danziger  John Deering  Al Goodwyn  Walt Handelsman  Clay Jones  Steve Kelley  Jack Ohman  Michael Ramirez  Jeff Stahler  Tom Stiglich 
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Raised By Birds posted:Michael Ramirez haha nice cum edit now post the real one
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Hated artist Bob Ross.
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Raised By Birds posted:Steve Kelley "Well then you would be a work of fiction and wouldn't exist, so you wouldn't need to get on the plane anyway."
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:
The zombies are the "real world" you can only see through the un-patriarchy glasses. We saw last week reptilians are also real, they take the form of teachers (you can see the fangs above). But also, both of these are things are fake things you project onto reality when you're addled by medication?
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My first car was a stick
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Kellies Nomination: Best Edit
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I've said before but "Biden is secretly flying illegal immigrants out in the middle of the night to overrun red states with them" is a level of ridiculous we don't often see. Making up stories about the border being overrun is whatever, people don't normally hang out there, but people go to airports all the time and they're busy even in the middle of the night, there's no way to secretly fly out hordes of undocumented immigrants without a bunch of people noticing. I can only assume that much like how "Dems are busing hordes of people to multiple poll stations to commit voter fraud" is "someone saw a bus full of minorities and assumed it was some sort of Dem plot," this talking point was created because someone saw a bunch of minorities getting on a plane.
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It’s an awesome three-for-one cartoon, extremely impressive for Stantis 1. Mask mandates 2. Immigrants (undocumented) 3. “Ok yeah well I identify as a pikachu”
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Twelve by Pies posted:The problem is that this isn't the same as completely and utterly defeating Russia, as noted by the fact that Russia is now sending an even larger force. That's not happening. They started with 120-130 Battalion Tactical Groups in Ukraine, and they currently have between 65-80 there.
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Raised By Birds posted:Jeff Danziger So is this a fart joke? A dick joke? What are you trying to say here, Jeff? Use your words.
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I've seen so many "Putin having a bloodbath" cartoons that I was initially very confused seeing that one.
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Nameless Pete posted:In Ishida's defense (ugh) that's totally the Android icon for "Settings." I've got an Android and my settings app gear has eight teeth, not six. If you're doing a comic with secret lizard people who run society you don't get deniability on this poo poo.
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Mine has six.  We're talking about the same person who made this:  When he wants to be a bigot, he just does it. I'm not saying he isn't a racist; I'm saying he's not that subtle of a racist.
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Given that Ishida has portrayed Jews as evil and running/destroying the country, as well as the comic posted above me, I think that Ishida has no problem being blatantly bigoted and would have no need (or desire) to hide it at this point. So to me that's enough to say he isn't being secretly and subtly racist. But more than that, I think it's the context. It's clearly an icon in a menu of phone/computer icons. What would a "Star of David" button do in that context? All the other icons have very clear purposes based on what they do for a phone/computer. The music note one would allow the cyborg lady to listen to music, the camera one would take a snapshot of what she's seeing and...store it in her brain? Or whatever. The magnifying glass icon would zoom in on things to make them easier to see. The mute button makes the annoying Jesus guy not audible. So again, given that these are all things actual computers/phones have, what would the "Star of David" button do? Would it forcibly convert someone to Judaism? Would it just photoshop a yarmulke on their head like the alien face icon in the later panels? Would it load up Kirschen's Twitter feed? Ishida has expressed racism towards Jewish people before; that's not debatable, it's just that it doesn't make sense to view this icon as secret racism in the context it's presented.
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Rall: Big Brother Is a Slacker Ted Rall posted:After a gunman opened fire and set off smoke bombs in a Brooklyn subway, the NYPD investigation was hampered by the fact that none of the cameras in the station were working. According to officials, many of the surveillance cameras in the subway system are out of order at any given time.
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Ishida is just making a word bank of alt-right insane buzzwords. If he next does a 'holocaust didn't happen but it totally should have' I win the bingo game!
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After The War posted:Sure, the Congressional health plan covers the good ones, but the rest of us will get stuck with the seizure-causing ones from MGS4. Pants Donkey posted:All my insurance would cover is this parasite that kills me if I speak Eng You should both really consider switching to Umbrella insurance, that's what I have and it's great! Now I know the mandatory t-virus injects that come with the plan are something a lot of people have concerns about, but I got mine yesterday and so far there have been no negativesdaskdijkahsjkhdeiluahjlds ItcHy TaSty
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Twelve by Pies posted:What would a "Star of David" button do in that context? All the other icons have very clear purposes based on what they do for a phone/computer. Ishida seems to be following the Jennifer Bilek school of reactionary garbage where there are reptile transhumanists who are in turn controlled by secret trans people who are in turn in league with a cabal of Jewish doctors, so I expect we will see his Jews at some point and they'll be about as subtle as his zombified men with quiffed hair holding hands and chanting 'gay gay gay'.
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