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Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008


drat, never thought drunk duck would come out in favor of nationalizing twitter.

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Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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

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Imagine a government that serves the people! What a nightmare that'd be!

Trapezium Dave
Oct 22, 2012

Rall: Five Men Have the Right to Choose

Ted Rall posted:

Recent nominees to the Supreme Court of United States, Republicans appointed by former President Donald Trump, told the United States Senate during their confirmation hearings that they considered the landmark 1973 abortion decision Roe v. Wade to be “settled law.” But a leaked draft decision indicating that the conservative majority plans to overturn that decision belies their statements. The fix has been in for years, and desperate women will pay the price.

First Dog on the Moon:

This is sparked by the second televised leaders debate last night which the hosting station managed to make the worst debate in Australian political history - the editor of the Guardian called it "a genuine poo poo blizzard" - and yet a perfect distilled encapsulation of the campaign from both politicians and media.

Mr. Squishy
Mar 22, 2010

A country where you can always get richer.

I had to remember what side Stiglich falls into, because I would say a "no bully zone" outside of the supreme court is as bad a metaphor as changing the motto above the door to "MAGA", like Bennet did a few days ago. Do I feel bad for the victimized most powerful court in the land, or do I think they're pathetic in trying to avoid even the slightest blowback for a massively unpopular ruling?

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.



Big Victory in Europe Great Patriotic War parade in Moscow today.



(https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220506-how-babushka-z-became-the-unlikely-icon-of-russian-propaganda)

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Trapezium Dave posted:

Rall: Five Men Have the Right to Choose



Featuring noted man Amy Coney Barrett.

Dr. VooDoo
May 4, 2006



:laffo: It’s already come out Elon is getting funding with the Saudi’s to enter into a partnership for owning Twitter privately so awesome timing as always, Drinky Duck

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011


This is going to get some letters

PowerBeard
Sep 4, 2011

You gotta give me the Fangs pointy ears!

I dont know
Aug 9, 2003

That Guy here...

I AM GRANDO posted:

Is that comic not a joke? I thought the second panel was acknowledging the absurdity of the first one.

I cut out a bunch of panels. It was all special pleading about how the man has final authority but they are still equals and no that is somehow not a contradiction. The strategy is to bury the argument under an avalanche of :words:, and then act smugly like you won in the end as a way of pretending your not arguing that two mutually exclusive things are simultaneously true. War is peace and unconditional submission to your husband is the real empowerment.

Back in 2012 Bachman tried to make the same argument that she could be the final decision maker while still showing unconditionally deference to her husband.

I dont know fucked around with this message at 15:01 on May 9, 2022

Terrible Opinions
Oct 18, 2013



Mr. Squishy posted:

Just checking, is it ok to make fun of gun pedants if they're coming from the left?
Making fun of goons being nerds is pretty strictly prohibited in D&D. It's the defining rules difference between it and most of the rest of the forums.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Space Cadet Omoly posted:


What freedoms are you talking about here exactly? Are you talking about Roe vs. Wade being potentially overturned? Because that's a pretty big freedom about to to get denied right there.


I wonder if he's shameless enough to continue to use the handmaid imagery while staying silent on the overturning of Roe vs. Wade.

rydiafan
Mar 17, 2009


Stultus Maximus posted:

Featuring noted man Amy Coney Barrett.

During her confirmation wasn't there a big deal about how she said her husband made all her decisions for her?

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

rydiafan posted:

During her confirmation wasn't there a big deal about how she said her husband made all her decisions for her?
Not seeing her having said that, but she has ties to a group who does.

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story
Remember that Ishida got really mad about surrogate pregnancies in his past strips and equated it to prostitution so given that his point of view seems to be "Having children is the most important thing women can do" he's absolutely in favor of Roe being overturned.

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005

I'm feeling Jimmy


Pants Donkey posted:


This is going to get some letters
Just image how much better things would be if we had gotten two Jesuses. Really makes you think.

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
Two jesuses in the most intense sibling rivalry ever, each trying to out-do the other.

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

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

Guardian:

"Ben Jennings on a true Queen’s speech – Monarch is to set out government’s agenda at state opening of parliament on Tuesday"

Telegraph:

Keir Starmer ‘beergate’ event was planned, leaked memo shows

Independent:


Times:

Putin uses Victory Day speech to rehash list of grievances against west

Evening Standard:

BonHair
Apr 28, 2007

If abortion (and contraception and pregnancy tests) had been as available in 1bc as it is in, say, Denmark today, Jesus presumably wouldn't have been born though.

oobey
Nov 19, 2002

BonHair posted:

If abortion (and contraception and pregnancy tests) had been as available in 1bc as it is in, say, Denmark today, Jesus presumably wouldn't have been born though.

You're the doctor. You go to start the procedure. Suddenly, a flaming set of nested wheels within wheels covered in eyes manifests in the operating room and begins bellowing at you.

Do you proceed?

Raised By Birds
May 5, 2013

quote:

IT’S ALL FUN AND GAMES UNTIL SOMEONE GETS HURT

After the 2008 ‘too big to fail’ bailout of big banks, the Federal Reserve no longer bothers to ask Congress if it’s OK to bail out institutions.

For well over a decade they’ve used quantitative easing to prop up the stock market while increasing the money supply. Combine that with reckless corruption and pork spending from Congress and we’re now faced with massive inflation. The stock market has become a symbol of economic conditions. A perpetual up market is celebrated as a sign of a great economy. A down market means recession, although the mass media tends to avoid the use of the ‘R’ word.

BlackRock and Vanguard are fronts for the Federal Reserve. They now own a large percentage of the stock market. The Fed’s balance sheet may continue to grow, but who cares? They have a printing press and they continue to print up power and control for their central bank owners as well as the illuminati who run the world. The average Joe picks up their tab.

Corruption also runs rampant in the stock market. The central banks use super computers that allow them to automatically front run trades in micro seconds. They can easily outfox average traders. They enjoy an unfair advantage, but nothing is done about it. Nothing is done about the disgusting amount of insider trading going on by politicians in Congress. Pelosi is a prime example. Average traders would go to jail for what she does, but she’s above the law. Sure, they talk about ending such trading, but don’t hold your breath.

What the Federal Reserve does should be illegal as well, but we rewarded the criminals in 2008 and now they’ve become brazen. The central bankers are buying up not just stocks, but homes as well, thus driving prices out of reach for young people. This is what happens when a group of dominant globalists are allowed to control our money supply.

The stock market is now going up and down by huge swings almost daily. Try making money on such a market. The central banker insiders certainly can, but most Americans remain on the outside. They’re throwing darts at a board, as Gordon Gekko famously said. It seemed obvious to short the market ahead of the Fed’s decision to raise rates by .50, but instead of crashing after that hike it instead inexplicably went up over 1,000 points. Shorts were squeezed. Then, the very next day it went down 1,000 points. Longs were punished. Who can guess what it might do next? The stock market is a gambling house, but making money on the casino roulette wheel is difficult since the central bankers own the casino and they have their fat thumbs on that wheel. The house always wins.

The top 10% owns 70 percent of the stock market and the top 1% owns nearly 40 percent. Nearly half of all American citizens own no stocks. They’re too busy keeping up with the inflation caused by a crooked market and an immoral system of debt money. No wonder too many Americans are broke. It’s a broken system.

We must audit and end the Federal Reserve.

— Ben Garrison


That illuminati pyramid just looks more goofy than threatening.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

lol somebody lost some money on put options huh

Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon

I AM GRANDO posted:

Is that comic not a joke? I thought the second panel was acknowledging the absurdity of the first one.

It is absolutely genuine. I dunno if the website is still up (Adam 4d comics), but it's a whole series of "Christian" The Oatmeal ripoffs and they're pretty much all blatantly contradictory claims coated in a jillion words because that's how stupid people believe a compelling argument works. Another comic that was a hot contender back when it came out in this one:




If the stupid blurb at the bottom didn't make it clear, he expects you to read that and conclude that the person who opposes bigotry is the intolerant one, while the person who openly harasses gay people and opposes civil rights is tolerant and inclusive, because she is the one who says "Jesus loves sinners" and actual deeds do not matter.

He is also the founder of the Babylon Bee, a garbage knockoff of The Onion, which he then sold to a guy who uses it exclusively to post transphobic ad libs, which he'll gladly tell you is good and Christian.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Clearly the woman voting to interfere with and prohibit the existence or practice of something she does not necessarily like or agree with (homosexual marriage) is the intolerant one then, easy

E:
ah goddamnit it

VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 23:35 on May 9, 2022

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
They're both intolerant but the blonde one is merely being an annoying r/atheism sort while the brunette is mouthing the usual rigamarole used by homophobic right-wingers about "loving the sinner and hating the sin".

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May
Also the one who doesn't think people should not be allowed to be gay is a loving liar and actually does want to ban gay marriage and bring back sodomy laws.

Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon
lol i didn't realize it also came with an answer key, even though i absolutely should have expected it

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

They're both intolerant but the blonde one is merely being an annoying r/atheism sort while the brunette is mouthing the usual rigamarole used by homophobic right-wingers about "loving the sinner and hating the sin".

She specifies homophobic Christianity. At no point does she say she has any issues with Christianity or religion in general or opposes the practice thereof, only specifically using religion as a cover for bigotry.

The wording is a bit dramatic because she's clearly meant to be a DASGDC straw person, but in spite of that, her views are entirely reasonabe.

Trapezium Dave
Oct 22, 2012

:australia:
There are a lot of cartoons about the second debate and how bad it was.

Pope:


Rowe:


Knight:


Lethbridge:


Warren Brown:

Sophie Scamps is an independent running for the seat of Mackellar. I can't find what story Brown is going on about here but again they are really worried about the potential success of the teal independents.

Wilcox:

The "groupies" comment was from John Howard about the teal independents.

Spooner:

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

That cartoon is fascinating in like three ways.

1) Of course he has to create an insane strawman for the pro-gay side who actually wants to ban Christianity and persecute Christians instead of just, like making them leave gay people alone, because if he portrayed her honestly it would be obvious the bigot is him
2) Saying "man I can't interact with gay people unless I'm telling them to stop being so drat gay all the time" is ""loving"" gay people, but any criticism of this must be motivated by hating Christians for who they are which is such a leap that his comic can't work unless he actually has the person say "oh and I hate Christians personally and am bigoted against them because I am evil and intolerant".
3) Even for purposes of lying in a comic about his position and everyone else's, he still can't bring himself to even leave out how much he loves voting to prohibit gay people to marry who they want, which fits his own definition of intolerance to a T, completely obliterating his own argument he's spending so many words to prop up

What a mess

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

She specifies homophobic Christianity. At no point does she say she has any issues with Christianity or religion in general or opposes the practice thereof, only specifically using religion as a cover for bigotry.

I think it's supposed to be implied that she thinks Christianity is inherently homophobic, either that or he's strawmanning his own strawman in the answer key where he says "she dislikes Christian people and flings insults and accusations against them"

Which is totally different from telling gay people they're all going to hell unless they stop being so gay, not insulting or accusatory at all because see gay people are going to hell and they need to be told to stop being so loving gay!

Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon
Oh that's obviously how he wants you to read it, doubly so with the follow-up strip, but that's not what she's saying. He also wants you to read "I tell gay people I love them as I harass them and vote against their civil rights" as an expression of compassion and inclusiveness, so I don't think he deserves the benefit of the doubt.

Apple Pie Hubbub
Feb 14, 2012

Take that, you greedy jerk!
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Drakyn
Dec 26, 2012

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

Oh that's obviously how he wants you to read it, doubly so with the follow-up strip, but that's not what she's saying. He also wants you to read "I tell gay people I love them as I harass them and vote against their civil rights" as an expression of compassion and inclusiveness, so I don't think he deserves the benefit of the doubt.
Ah, playing the ol' Orson Scott card.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
N.B. It is possible to hate the sin and love the sinner, but the people who actually do that don't go out of the way to call attention to how tolerant they are at every opportunity.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011


Legal abortion gets dudes laid and that's...bad?

E: Kellies nomination most easily reinterpreted

only reason I know this is anti-abortion is because Lester is a square who hates sex

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

VitalSigns posted:

Legal abortion gets dudes laid and that's...bad?

E: Kellies nomination most easily reinterpreted

only reason I know this is anti-abortion is because Lester is a square who hates sex

He’s saying that men are only pro choice for pragmatic reasons.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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

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He's also saying all men who support women in stuff like this are pathetic manbaby losers no one would want as a father for their children.

JamesBont
Oct 1, 2021

Kellies Nomination: Worst Overall

I don't even know where to start with this one.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Vib Rib posted:

He's also saying all men who support women in stuff like this are pathetic manbaby losers no one would want as a father for their children.

When in reality it's only some of them.

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VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Stultus Maximus posted:

He’s saying that men are only pro choice for pragmatic reasons.

Yeah I know but unless you're talking to a dude who hates getting laid that sounds like a good argument to be pro-choice

Like maybe not the most moral selfless argument, but still "hey this is in your self-interest" is persuasive


Vib Rib posted:

He's also saying all men who support women in stuff like this are pathetic manbaby losers no one would want as a father for their children.

I suppose he could be appealing to vanity: "I don't need legal abortion to get laid because I'm so studly women will crave my seed for her babymaker" or whatever but wait let's think this through, is that what guys want, hookups with women who don't care if you get them pregnant and would never abort if you did? Because that does not sound like what guys want unless they love writing multiple child support checks every month.

Unless he's talking only to guys who are saving themselves for marriage.

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