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By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


Guavanaut posted:

reptile transhumanists who are in turn controlled by secret trans people who are in turn in league with a cabal of Jewish doctors

I personally prefer kinder and happier fantasy worlds to live in.

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Skios
Oct 1, 2021

I might be alone in this, but for whatever reason, this comic really drove home how worn the One Joke has become. How completely and utterly meaningless they've made the phrase 'I identify as'. It's just anything that's mindlessly tacked on to any suggestion of hypocrisy from their political opponents. Just a hollow phrase, a shorthand, without any real awareness of its transphobic roots.

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


Someone should really start harassing those guys by first asking them their religion and after that repeatedly insisting that there's no such thing as Christianity, only Jewish heresy.
Again and again.

Neito
Feb 18, 2009

😌Finally, an avatar the describes my love of tech❤️‍💻, my love of anime💖🎎, and why I'll never see a real girl 🙆‍♀️naked😭.


Kellies Nomination: Least Comprehensible and Laziest Non-Gorrell.

NRVNQSR
Mar 1, 2009

Grape posted:

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.

To clarify: The topic of the cartoon isn't Rwandan asylum seekers, it's the government plan to send asylum seekers from other countries to Australia-style camps in Rwanda.

The joke is that the stereotypically British couple went out to sea on a pedal-boat and when they came back they were mistaken for asylum seekers and shipped off to Rwanda.

Mac is absolutely both a shithead for treating these camps as "wouldn't it be funny if it happened to a real person rather than an asylum seeker" and a racist in many, many ways, but this specific comic is much more the former than the latter.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Neito posted:

Kellies Nomination: Least Comprehensible and Laziest Non-Gorrell.

I don't think it really counts as Gorrellian laziness because he drew an egg and it's a nice looking egg, too. Incomprehensible, sure.

Srice
Sep 11, 2011

Nenonen posted:

I don't think it really counts as Gorrellian laziness because he drew an egg and it's a nice looking egg, too. Incomprehensible, sure.

We'd need someone brave enough to look at the past Easter comics he did to see if it's the same egg.

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

Srice posted:

We'd need someone brave enough to look at the past Easter comics he did to see if it's the same egg.

He did not.

the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!

Skios posted:

I might be alone in this, but for whatever reason, this comic really drove home how worn the One Joke has become. How completely and utterly meaningless they've made the phrase 'I identify as'. It's just anything that's mindlessly tacked on to any suggestion of hypocrisy from their political opponents. Just a hollow phrase, a shorthand, without any real awareness of its transphobic roots.

Unfortunately for us, S.Kelley identifies as someone who is good at their job, so our hands are tied.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011





This is another cartoon where you have to be super duper transphobic to "get". To someone normal it's just a trans woman using the bathroom and no one is hurt by it.

BonHair
Apr 28, 2007

Alhazred posted:

This is another cartoon where you have to be super duper transphobic to "get". To someone normal it's just a trans woman using the bathroom and no one is hurt by it.

Not sure I can agree there, the trans woman has a beard, along with arm and leg hair (which women obviously don't have...) and is a gigantic oaf, for lack of a better term. It's pretty clearly understandable as "bloke in a dress".

I'm not agreeing with the point, but the intended reading of "trans women are just (pervy) men in dresses" is quite obvious.

Also the hurting is done by violating a female only space in this logic. I'm pretty sure that most people, unconsciously at least, believe that the ladies room is off limits to men, and that any man entering is a violation. Again, this is bullshit obviously, but commonly accepted bullshit.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Yeah, but she isn't doing anything pervy. She's just using the bathroom as a normal human being.

BonHair
Apr 28, 2007

She's in the "wrong" bathroom, which is pervy in itself. And she's standing up to pee and not closing the door.

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



Alhazred posted:

This is another cartoon where you have to be super duper transphobic to "get". To someone normal it's just a trans woman using the bathroom and no one is hurt by it.

should close the stall door behind her though that's just being polite

Dr. Stab
Sep 12, 2010
👨🏻‍⚕️🩺🔪🙀😱🙀

BonHair posted:

Not sure I can agree there, the trans woman has a beard, along with arm and leg hair (which women obviously don't have...) and is a gigantic oaf, for lack of a better term. It's pretty clearly understandable as "bloke in a dress".

I'm not agreeing with the point, but the intended reading of "trans women are just (pervy) men in dresses" is quite obvious.

Also the hurting is done by violating a female only space in this logic. I'm pretty sure that most people, unconsciously at least, believe that the ladies room is off limits to men, and that any man entering is a violation. Again, this is bullshit obviously, but commonly accepted bullshit.

The idea that a man in a dress is a pervert is the transphobia that you have to be bought into to see it as bad.

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

Alhazred posted:

Yeah, but she isn't doing anything pervy. She's just using the bathroom as a normal human being.

It comes off more like a one shot story about an adult child, like that Robin Williams movie Jack or something. Like that's what I'm noticing. They're in the school and a childish adult has used the children's bathroom, and this is what the girls are finding strange (while also not seeming scared).

Ishida is too much of a coward to fully commit to what he believes here and show the demonizing of a same age transgirl.

Dr. VooDoo
May 4, 2006


Do you think we’ll get a Zyklon Ben where he draws plucky little Alex Jones being stepped on my the deep state and the crisis actor sandy hook parents now that InfoWars has de learned bankruptcy

BonHair
Apr 28, 2007

Dr. Stab posted:

The idea that a man in a dress is a pervert is the transphobia that you have to be bought into to see it as bad.

Yeah, my point is that it's something that Western Culture as a whole has been buying into for a while, so his entire potential audience can pretty much be assumed to have bought into it, unless they have actively rejected the link between man in a dress and perversion (in which case they are no longer the intended audience).
In conclusion, society is bad, in a way that makes the dumb comic understandable to most people.

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
:britain:

Guardian:

"Nicola Jennings on Putin and Ukraine at Easter – Russian leader spreads his message of death and destruction"

Telegraph:


Independent:

Archbishop Justin Welby says Rwanda asylum plan ‘cannot stand God’s judgment’ in damning Easter sermon

Times:

the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!

Cowcaster posted:

should close the stall door behind her though that's just being polite

But then Ishida wouldn't be able to draw them peeing while standing, which is evidence of...something...to him and whoever hears the dogwhistle/foghorn.

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

Clearly every trans woman has a piss fetish, and the ladies’ room is their magical realm.

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



well great now i just have the picture in my mind of a piss fetishist entering a public restroom and browsing around like it's a porno store

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005

I'm feeling Jimmy


Truly, no one has it better in this country than the migrants at the border.

Twibbit
Mar 7, 2013

Is your refrigerator running?

Somfin posted:

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.

Mine has six teeth

Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon
I will grant that it's definitely what Ishida would say the icon is if pressed, but that's more pointed than any gear icon I've ever seen.

But fair point, when he decides to openly gun for the Jews, he won't be subtle about it.

Raised By Birds
May 5, 2013

quote:

TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

It’s “fear season” again.

Today is the deadline to file income taxes with the IRS. It can also be known as FEAR day. That’s how the IRS operates—on the basis of fear. If you don’t file or pay a lot of money obtained by hard labor, then the IRS can seize your bank accounts, your stuff, and even your freedom by sending you to jail. Is this all likely to happen if you refuse to file? Probably not. The IRS is currently in disarray. They’re using ancient computer technology and they have a backlog of millions of filings to sort through. Sure, they’ll cash your check right away, but the more paper you throw their way the less likely they’ll be able to sort through it all. The IRS dragon consists of a lot of flame and smoke, but not much bite.

Biden promised he would generate a windfall in tax revenue by going after the billionaire class. That never happened. Instead, the IRS is going after the defenseless poor and middle class. Why? Because going after billionaires is too complicated and costly. It’s easier to shake down the little guy. The screwing of the average man is what big government does best. Besides, Sleepy Joe wasn’t installed in order to get the top of the pyramid to ‘pay their fair share.’ He’s there to protect them.

The progressive Income Tax that was inflicted upon us is supposedly a ‘voluntary’ tax where participants volunteer to tell tyrants just how much they’ve earned, invested, and spent. There is no such thing as financial privacy, except perhaps with crypto currency. No wonder Bitcoin has taken off. Try not volunteering to file your Income Tax and you risk armed men banging at your door, ready to take you away (well, in extreme circumstances that can happen). People don’t want to lose their stuff, so they usually file even though there’s no law that real citizens of states have to file and pay. The law pertains to protectorates and non-citizens, but the 16th Amendment is really a slight-of-hand mechanism that tricks people into their own enslavement.

We saw how a presidential election was stolen. It means we have taxation without representation. Our founding fathers rebelled for far less, but Americans have been conditioned to live in a state of fear. This is no longer the land of the free and home of the brave. We’re shivering cowards who have had our freedoms stripped away from us. The tyrants want us to do as we told. Any sign of rebellion risks prosecution.

People think the Income Tax is a good thing since it goes toward funding infrastructure. Wrong. If it accomplished such an end, why do the Democrats need infrastructure bills costing trillions of dollars? Why do we need an Income Tax at all? The Federal Reserve could print up endless debt money as needed. They’re doing that already. The Income Tax is meant to pay the debt, which is an impossibility. We The People would need to have our own money printing press to do it.

The legion of other taxes goes toward paying for roads, schools, and regulation. The gas tax, property taxes, sales taxes—the list is endless. The Income Tax is about fear and control. It’s about obeying a leviathan government and its security agencies such as the CIA, FBI, and the military industrial complex—all saturated with corruption.

It takes a lot of courage to stand up to the IRS and those that have have been uniformly vilified. There is a long list of those who found the courage to stand up to the IRS. They have fought the dragon. Some have succeeded while some, such as Irwin Schiff, have ended up in prison. They’ve all been vilified and smeared as con artists. The Federal Reserve and the IRS are the real con artists. Never forget that—they conned us into slavery.

Maybe some day more people will find the courage to break the chains of tax bondage. End the Fed. End the IRS. End the FBI and CIA. Stop the endless wars.

— Ben Garrison

No link to the tax dodging outfit this time, but they did get a label.

Trapezium Dave
Oct 22, 2012

:australia:

Rowe:

The Coalition are bouncing back in the polls after a week where the media have focused on the opposition leader's gaffes and less so on the Coalition and the baggage of nine years in office. Will that change in the remaining weeks of the election (see below lol).

Broelman:

‘Albo, Albo’: Bluesy Albanese gets a mixed reception (SMH). Albanese got a mix of boos (when the audience expected to see Jimmy Barnes) and cheers (when he talked about his arts policy) at the Bluesfest in Byron Bay. Media is divided in reporting the reaction as either "mixed" or "deafening boos" depending on the narrative they are selling.

Knight:


Lethbridge:


Herbert:


Spooner:

Former ALP PM Bob Hawke.

Neito
Feb 18, 2009

😌Finally, an avatar the describes my love of tech❤️‍💻, my love of anime💖🎎, and why I'll never see a real girl 🙆‍♀️naked😭.

Raised By Birds posted:



No link to the tax dodging outfit this time, but they did get a label.

why is the shield concave
why are both wings on the same side of the dragon
why does ben garrison fail at the most basic idea of perspective.

Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon
Also that shield appears to be a thick slab of solid iron, which is not something you want to heft straight up with a bent arm, nor anything you want exposed to an open fire while you're touching it. If you somehow manage to avoid crushing yourself under it, you're gonna get baked like a ham potato.

guys i think garrison's grasp of visual metaphor and perspective may be no better than his grasp of reality

Apple Pie Hubbub
Feb 14, 2012

Take that, you greedy jerk!
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fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012


(i dont actually remember who syndicates mallard fillmore and i couldnt be bothered to check)

Space Cadet Omoly
Jan 15, 2014

~Groovy~


Cowcaster posted:

should close the stall door behind her though that's just being polite

Agreed, but in her defense it's possible she did close the door and then it swung open on it's own when she turned around because the lock was broken.

Frankly, broken locks and those weirdly huge gaps some doors have are the real problems that public restrooms and I wish society would come together and focus on fixing those things instead of bothering trans people.

Space Cadet Omoly fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Apr 19, 2022

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

fool of sound posted:



(i dont actually remember who syndicates mallard fillmore and i couldnt be bothered to check)

It's...literally on the left side of the panel. King Features.

fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012

Discendo Vox posted:

It's...literally on the left side of the panel. King Features.

It is very small and also lol oops.

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

Neito posted:

why is the shield concave
why are both wings on the same side of the dragon
why does ben garrison fail at the most basic idea of perspective.
More to the point, why is there a goddamn dragon at all when his whole rant talks about how the IRS is a fangless entity that can only function via the illusion of power? He mentions smoke, how hard is it to draw a tiny, pathetic lizard spewing a huge cloud of smoke in the shape of a terrifying dragon?

I guess that requires more thought than an Oz reference.

Republicans
Oct 14, 2003

- More money for us

- Fuck you


Pants Donkey posted:

More to the point, why is there a goddamn dragon at all when his whole rant talks about how the IRS is a fangless entity that can only function via the illusion of power? He mentions smoke, how hard is it to draw a tiny, pathetic lizard spewing a huge cloud of smoke in the shape of a terrifying dragon?

I guess that requires more thought than an Oz reference.

He already did that one, though. He's done like five IRS cartoons in the past month.

the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!


Oops, he remembered to tell a joke

Raised By Birds
May 5, 2013
Stuart Carlson


Jeff Danziger


Matt Davies


Bob Gorrell


Joe Heller


Clay Jones


Jack Ohman


Jeff Stahler


Tony Branco

quote:

Wheel of Misfortune: Unlike President Truman, The buck never stops with Biden as he’s ready to blame everyone but himself.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
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Lol Branco, you gotta choose some symbols to drop

Also why the one rod coming out of Oil Execs?

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ZZT the Fifth
Dec 6, 2006
I shot the invisible swordsman.

Brawnfire posted:

Lol Branco, you gotta choose some symbols to drop

But how will viewers know it's Biden without the massive grin, the empty thought bubble, the Obama-Signal, the bloody hands, the day-glo sippy cup, the stinky poo poo fly, and the...

The...

I guess Branco is using cum as one of the Biden symbols now? :psyduck:

quote:

Also why the one rod coming out of Oil Execs?

A handle, I think.

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