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Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

This does not make sense when, again, aggregate indicia also indicate improvements. The belief that things are worse is false. It remains false.

Tibalt posted:

I was sitting here going "Oh Ted, you hosed up your message by having the last panel be between simplistic binary traps or independent thought, implying the correct answer was to sit out and to not think about politics at all" but then I read his blurb and realized that was the intended message.

So, uh, good job Ted.

Congratulations, you have internalized authoritarian propaganda.

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Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

Discendo Vox posted:

Congratulations, you have internalized authoritarian propaganda.
Штаны на земле
Штаны на земле
Выглядит как дурак
С твоими штанами на земле

the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!


I know that sooner rather than later Stantis will get bored and meander off towards another Nothing Happens/SomethingSomething Dems/Bad No True Republican non-plot, but I am morbidly curious how long he actually does manage to milk this "arc."

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

This does not make sense when, again, aggregate indicia also indicate improvements. The belief that things are worse is false. It remains false.

Pants Donkey posted:

The disinformation thing is a waste of time because the right-wing propaganda machine is massive and going to outpace whatever Biden’s administration tries to do. And anyone who thinks the election was stolen is not going to be swayed by a government agency.

I guess maybe there’s value in reaching out to less-engaged moderates, but that doesn’t outweighs the damage it’ll do when the right inevitably takes back the white house and incorporates into said propaganda engine.

Discendo Vox posted:

Without googling, do you know what the disinformation thing is?

So to answer, it's an entity within DHS to address foreign-constructed disinformation campaigns, and it's got no direct power, it's to inform policy development by other entities. The principal target is appears to be sources of false material(the not-so-proverbial "fake news") that then gets laundered and remediated into domestic discourse- but the scope is strictly outside the US, for obvious reasons. It's got nothing to do with the 2020 election or the domestic right wing.

Byzantine
Sep 1, 2007

It's a committee to advise the committee that selects a workshop group to submit a ten-point program to the advisory board that then gets filed in the warehouse with the Ark of the Covenant.

Terrible Opinions
Oct 18, 2013



Pants Donkey is correct in that it will be completely ineffective next to the right wing propaganda machine.

Hunt11
Jul 24, 2013

Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/banalplay/status/1521130676795453440?s=20&t=HNJKvmLtM455EstXAjaohA

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

It's in the five-hole!

Definitely hating on trans people, but also a special kind of racist for a white author/character/anyone to tell someone “no, no, shut up, you’re black”

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
https://linktr.ee/Cylindricule


I bet he thinks Kyle Rittenhouse was defending his rights of protest and January 6th was political discourse.

Oh what's that? That doesn't count as minimizing targeted violence through rhetoric? Whyever not?

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Thaddius the Large posted:

Definitely hating on trans people, but also a special kind of racist for a white author/character/anyone to tell someone “no, no, shut up, you’re black”

Well also the assumption that black people can't be qualified and are only hired to meet diversity quotas

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



https://twitter.com/g0m/status/1309488893566353410?s=20&t=IuSEwQJKKIoqym0IaZbLfQ

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

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


Scott Addams keeps impressing me with his horribleness. he keeps topping himself.

After The War
Apr 12, 2005

to all of my Architects
let me be traitor
Managing to be both transphobic and lovely about the complicated, fraught history of racially "passing" in a single line. Efficient!

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

By popular demand posted:

Scott Addams keeps impressing me with his horribleness. he keeps topping himself.
I mean since his fake wife divorced him he doesn’t have a choice.

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😭.

Maybe if we imagine Scott's horribleness doubling constantly it'll simulate gravity.

World Famous W
May 25, 2007

BAAAAAAAAAAAA

Neito posted:

Maybe if we imagine Scott's horribleness doubling constantly it'll simulate gravity.
Going to write down "Scott Adam's hands spontaneously break" a hundred times a day to make it happen

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

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


Id rather measure gravity by dropping a heavy Dilbert effigy on his stupid bald head.

Skeleton Mom
Aug 11, 2008

After The War posted:

Managing to be both transphobic and lovely about the complicated, fraught history of racially "passing" in a single line. Efficient!

even more "nuanced" than that in some printings

https://twitter.com/ToadKingStudios/status/1521147809872941057?t=bteFT8FtHVNpGwOsXHCedA&s=19

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

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

Guardian:

"Ben Jennings on pornography in parliament – Tory MP Neil Parish has resigned for watching porn in the Commons, but Labour says misogyny comes from the top down – the ‘fish rots from the head’"

Telegraph:


Independent:

Local elections 2022: When will results be announced?

Times:

Tony Blair backs Keir Starmer in Labour campaign video

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

God damn this shit is
fuckin' re-dic-a-liss

🍖🍖😛🍖🍖

Thaddius the Large posted:

Definitely hating on trans people, but also a special kind of racist for a white author/character/anyone to tell someone “no, no, shut up, you’re black”

VitalSigns posted:

Well also the assumption that black people can't be qualified and are only hired to meet diversity quotas
Add to this that the strip is literally titled "Dave the Black Engineer". Took him 33 years to introduce a black character whose entire character design is "they are black" just so he could swing at another minority.

Raised By Birds
May 5, 2013

quote:

“SUPER MONSTER TERRORISTIC FREE SPEECH IS ATROCIOUS”

The “Disinformation Governance Board” has been set up by The Department of Homeland Security.

It’s a gross attack on the First Amendment and our right to free speech. Many are calling it “The Ministry of Truth,” from George Orwell’s novel, “1984.” Nina Jankowicz is ‘Big Sister.’ She heads the board and she strikes many as a far-left loon. She considers herself the “Mary Poppins” of disinformation.

Equally looney is the DHS director, Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas. He said his department is doing a good job at handling the huge influx of illegal aliens, due to Biden’s open border policy. Both have been busy flying and bussing the invaders around the country for free. The DHS itself was created in 2003 in response to the 9-11 attacks, even though Americans were fed massive amounts of disinformation from our own government about what happened that day. Consider Building 7. It collapsed in its own footprint—controlled demolition. The government said a common fire melted steel beams—a lie. I suspect our own government was behind the attacks, thereby giving them a needed excuse to start new wars and create more government control.

Consider that the DHS now has 240,000 employees. That’s what Big Government does. It gets bigger. The FBI has grown into a rogue, politicized agency and instead of solving crimes, it commits them. The CIA is even worse. They control media, spark wars, spread lies, and engage in dirty tricks while hiding behind the dark cloak of ’national security.’ Over 50 leaders from the security agencies lied and said Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian ‘disinformation.’ The government spreads disinformation when they said the Covid jabs were ’safe and effective.’ Biden said people wouldn’t get Covid if they got the shot. Ha. They lied about Wuhan. They lied about the efficacy of wearing masks and lockdowns. Now they’re lying to us about the need to go to war in Ukraine. They want us to believe their lies, but first they must prevent open debate. They don’t want to be questioned. They demand compliance. Hence the creation of a ‘board’ that stifles free speech.

Government should be greatly pared back, not continually grown. Remember when Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education? It turned out to be another wasteful agency that sponges up way too many taxpayer dollars. Since Department of Education was created, the US continues to slide lower in the world rankings—especially in math. Ron Paul called for the elimination of the Department of Education, but it never goes away…just like the Federal Reserve will never go away.

The ridiculous IRS and the income tax never goes away, either. When it was created the citizens were told not to worry—only the ultra rich would pay. Now the IRS harasses the poor and middle class with audits because the IRS officers have determined they are easier to go after than billionaires. Any agency or department created by Big Government never goes away. They don’t solve problems—they worsen them. Why should they solve anything and undermine the reason for their existence? Instead they grow larger and more dictatorial as they siphon power away from We The People.

The DHS is a policing agency and they’re well-armed. We can laugh at their newly-created disinformation board now, but how long will it be before armed agents bang on our doors to arrest us because we questioned a new and dangerous vaccine? Maybe they’ll go after someone who posted a reality-based comment that a man cannot give birth. Maybe we’ll get stifled because we questioned their narrative about war. We will be accused of spreading ‘disinformation.’ This new ‘board’ will only grow more monstrous and malignant if we allow it. Its purpose is to impose fear, control, and obeisance. Only Big Government will be allowed to determine what might be disinformation, even though we know that government constantly lies to us.

They want to reserve the right to be the ultimate purveyor of truth while also preventing debate.

It’s totalitarianism.

— Ben Garrison


Arrested for shitposting crimes.

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:



Arrested for shitposting crimes.

Apple Pie Hubbub
Feb 14, 2012

Take that, you greedy jerk!
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https://twitter.com/KartoonistKelly/status/1521235800758755328

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story

Good thing that according to people like Mike Lester (who beats his wife), this isn't torture at all and is in fact totally fine. Which doesn't quite make it easily reinterpreted, but it's close.


Dammit this would have to happen when I don't have any spending money.

Trapezium Dave
Oct 22, 2012

:australia:

Warren Brown:

The big question for today is whether the Reserve Bank of Australia lifts the cash rate (and thus interest rates) to counter the high inflation or continue to sit it out and be accused they are only holding off because of the election (most reports suggest they have to raise the rate to maintain credibility). Will the RBA lift the cash rate this week to counter inflation – or wait until after the election? (Guardian).

Rowe:

Philip Lowe is Governor of the RBA. Monique Ryan is the independent challenger in treasurer Josh Frydenberg's seat of Kooyong. Frydenberg is a keen tennis player and once wanted to go pro.

Broelman:

Huge flaw with Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s curry dinner revealed (news.com.au). Morrison made a post with his family meal with the tag "Strong Curry. Strong Economy. Stronger Future." but that was swallowed by all the horrified comments about how his chicken was still raw.

Wilcox:


Knight:

House featured in TV show Kath & Kim to be demolished (ABC).

Lethbridge:

Former PM Paul Keating, who lost the 1996 election to John Howard.

Spooner:

After Norman Lindsay's The Magic Pudding.

First Dog on the Moon: Housing in Australia is a cruel disaster and getting worse!

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Kellies Nomination: Worst Label. Because apparently the thing crushing people is student loan forgiveness, not student loans. C'mon Britt, you're usually better than this.

JamesBont
Oct 1, 2021
So apparently Roe V. Wade is about to get overturned.

I look forward to all of the right-wing cartoonists who spent the entire Covid pandemic kicking and screaming about mask mandates and vaccines and "My Body My Choice" to obviously showing their opposition to such a big medical government overreAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I'm sorry I couldn't finish that with a straight face.

Raised By Birds
May 5, 2013
Nick Anderson


Steve Benson


Tim Campbell


Stuart Carlson


Jeff Danziger


Matt Davies


Al Goodwyn


Bob Gorrell


Joe Heller


Clay Jones


Jack Ohman


Joel Pett


Michael Ramirez


Gary Varvel


Tony Branco

quote:

Superhighway to Serfdom: Walz is hanging on to millions in a tax surplus while taxpayers are hurting the most.


quote:

The Sticky Fingers Gang: Joe Biden and his son hunter have received millions of dollars from China and Ukraine in exchange for what?

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

This does not make sense when, again, aggregate indicia also indicate improvements. The belief that things are worse is false. It remains false.

The book being pointed to is an anti-trans parable 4 kidz from the Daily Wire publishing company.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

World Famous W posted:

Going to write down "Scott Adam's hands spontaneously break" a hundred times a day to make it happen

How would you be able to tell?

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😭.

I AM GRANDO posted:

How would you be able to tell?

He has a suspicious neck injury a week later.

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

Discendo Vox posted:

The book being pointed to is an anti-trans parable 4 kidz from the Daily Wire publishing company.
But Walsh was proven wrong seven years prior in the award-winning documentary Tusk

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005

I'm feeling Jimmy


JamesBont posted:

So apparently Roe V. Wade is about to get overturned.

I look forward to all of the right-wing cartoonists who spent the entire Covid pandemic kicking and screaming about mask mandates and vaccines and "My Body My Choice" to obviously showing their opposition to such a big medical government overreAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I'm sorry I couldn't finish that with a straight face.
I predict 23 fetuses tomorrow, 10 of which will talk.

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

23 fetii in a black void

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Can’t wait to see what single object Bennett puts in his white void, for contrast. I say a coat-hanger.

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost
Two hats, three protest signs, that's my guess, lock it in

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

This does not make sense when, again, aggregate indicia also indicate improvements. The belief that things are worse is false. It remains false.

I AM GRANDO posted:

Can’t wait to see what single object Bennett puts in his white void, for contrast. I say a coat-hanger.

tbf it was his single greatest hit, and he could accurately just re-run it.

the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!

I AM GRANDO posted:

Can’t wait to see what single object Bennett puts in his white void, for contrast. I say a coat-hanger.

Will it be a bloody coathanger, or just a normal one?

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Jay Rust posted:

23 fetii in a black void

Imagine four fetuses on the edge of a cliff...

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the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!

Murdstone posted:

I predict 23 fetuses tomorrow, 10 of which will talk.

All of which will have a little newspaper.
11 of them will be waving flags and saying God bless America.

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