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Cowcaster posted:why are conservatives so absolutely convinced that medical professionals will force people to become a different gender? Im not sure they are. I’m pretty convinced at this point that most conservative beliefs are just post-hoc rationalizations to justify things they want to do anyways and that they know this on some level. In this case they want to block trans people from transitioning by criminalizing the HRT and puberty blockers while using the law to intimidate doctors.
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Part of that Sartre quote is that they take pleasure in the knowledge that anyone they disagree with will try in earnest to refute whatever insane bullshit they spout, and that part of the pleasure for them is being beyond reason and beyond language while their hated enemies voluntarily cleave to those things and believe in them. It’s partially about reveling in the perceived weakness of their enemies, like the dumb kid in class who tries to rules-lawyer the teacher on a technicality. They don’t believe any of it, and the point is to force a performance from the rest of us that shows we believe in things and are therefore weaker and deserving of extermination. Does that What Is A Woman guy have a definition of what a woman is? He does not.
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Jun 20, 2022 17:17
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You're all really giving them too much credit, 99% of conservative thought can be explained with them believing porn is real life. Incels think straight porn portrays a realistic depiction of straight sex and relationships, great replacement stuff relies on thinking the world functions on cuckold porn logic, and ishida thinks force fem is real life. This stuff may have originated as a a justification but is now perpetuated by how conservatives consume pornography.
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Jun 20, 2022 17:20
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Cowcaster posted:why are conservatives so absolutely convinced that medical professionals will force people to become a different gender? it's like 10 years ago when gay marriage was the hot button issue and they knew in their hearts the endgame was to force everyone to get gay married It's just how they operate through fear-mongering. Remember back years ago when the ACA was being created? The GOP turned chicken little claiming that "Death panels are going to pull the plug on Grandma!"
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Jun 20, 2022 17:25
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It’s funny because I believe one of the Transformers comic series was pretty queer, up to and including a trans character. But I get the feeling they weren’t twerking and emphasizing their robogenitals.
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Jun 20, 2022 17:27
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It helps to remember that conservatives took to 4chan, a place where sincerity is actively discouraged and bad-faith arguing is expected, like flies to poo poo.
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Jun 20, 2022 17:32
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:
Even in his whack dystopia with flying drones threatening you into getting vaccines, mind control hats, people getting GULAGed in digital tron jails left and right for posting on the internet, and the actual devil in charge of everything, he still depicts gender transition as a completely voluntary process where patients are repeatedly assured whenever they ask that they are free to stop at any time. And this is supposed to be scary because... transitioning is allowed?? Because doctors aren't prescribing conversion therapy to everyone who is LGB and/or T ???
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Jun 20, 2022 17:35
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Sinfest Sunday!
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Calling trans kids brave and beautiful is actually pressuring them into transitioning, because transitioning has no social downsides and is not difficult at all
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Jun 20, 2022 17:54
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I wonder how much of this is rooted in the old reactionary idea that healthcare workers being nice and telling kids that they're brave encourages malingering and all healthcare (for proles and women especially) should be about acting like an emotionally distant father while administering electric shocks or foul tasting medicine. Massive amounts of transphobia too of course, but that itself gets tied up with the idea that being nice and affirming people makes them weak and nice/feminine/weak/bad are all the same thing.
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Jun 20, 2022 18:01
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I think it's one of those "You have to already be a shithead to get the punchline" comics. Like, i think the punchline is supposed to be "oh my god isn't it terrifying that they would even consider transitioning this girl" combined with his ongoing "Where's my cookie for being such a good ally" jealousy.
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Jun 20, 2022 18:11
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Xander77 posted:How and how? I honestly think that Rall is...right here  We shouldn't do small changes and then act like it matters. It would be like if Lincoln made it legally required for slave owners to be a bit nicer to their slaves and then act as if he fixed slavery.
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Jun 20, 2022 18:23
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Or you know doing the Russia thing of freeing their slaves but forcing those slaves to pay back their value as property to former owners, and then the government after the debt was transferred.
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Xander77 posted:How and how? One of the main strategies of reactionary rhetoric used to prevent policy change is to claim that a given policy is futile or meaningless. I have a big effortpost about these strategies here, which I conveniently wrote with NRA examples. Generally, regulated industry (and their trade associations especially) do not like granting concessionary regulation when it can set precedent. The NRA isn't asking for or inviting the proposed regulations from the senate- they're fighting it tooth and nail, which is a pretty good sign Rall is also obfuscating how gun control actually happens; that this isn't "Politicians", it's specific politicians, with specific affiliations (and overwhelmingly, it's Republicans) blocking broader reform. The punchline is, of course, to depress Democratic turnout, because that's the goal. He's doing his usual thing, which is trying to get people to disengage from the political process, based on deliberately cultivated ignorance.
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Seems like the Dems are doing more than enough on their own to depress turnout, don't see why they need Ted Rall's help.
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Terrible Opinions posted:Or you know doing the Russia thing of freeing their slaves but forcing those slaves to pay back their value as property to former owners, and then the government after the debt was transferred. Discendo Vox posted:Rall is also obfuscating how gun control actually happens; that this isn't "Politicians", it's specific politicians, with specific affiliations (and overwhelmingly, it's Republicans) blocking broader reform. The punchline is, of course, to depress Democratic turnout, because that's the goal. He's doing his usual thing, which is trying to get people to disengage from the political process, based on deliberately cultivated ignorance.
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Randalor posted:Transformers only have 1 sex. There is no other sex for them to transition to. They have multiple gender identities, but only one sex. Traits we normally use to indicate someone is female have shown up on both genders of transformers. Yes, even breasts. I'm convinced he lost his own joke right in the middle of drawing this. The first two panels are clearly "Magatron is evil and bad according to the evil and bad people!" He's called Magatron, he's got the stars and stripes painted on him, and he is quite literally a gun ("you'll never confiscate me!" is the closest thing to an actual joke he's managed to make in this weekly dump), while the Autobots are the real bad guys because they transition instead of transform, and want to be mean to the leader of a group that's still called the Decepticons for some reason. The second half suddenly put "Magatron" in the position of the weak and whiny liberals, a "joke" he constantly uses to say "look at this ridiculous whining used to smear true patriotic terfs!", which is always followed by all the other weak and whiny liberals being unfairly angry at the person who caused it. Always. Always, always. Shorter, Ishida's brainworms ran in opposite directions where the unfairly maligned caricature the evil media uses to demonize the poor poor conservatives suddenly becomes the character the weak and whiny liberals are supposed to feel sympathy for and outrage on behalf of, probably because he couldn't be bothered to think about his default joke for .0000001 seconds.
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This comic is so lazy and lovely it almost looks like a parody. What the gently caress is that sign supposed to be, the guys not even looking at it as he makes the comment. Oh and the weird political cartoon generic brand noodle heads, walking along a sidewalk against a white void, and of course the One Joke™
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Trapezium Dave posted:Spooner: This is like a parody of what people think a political cartoon is.
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Is too late a thing? Hypothetically speaking if I were 40 and starting to think that always playing as girls in video games and RPGs is a sign of something...is it too late? And what, exactly, makes it too late?
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rydiafan posted:Is too late a thing? Hypothetically speaking if I were 40 and starting to think that always playing as girls in video games and RPGs is a sign of something...is it too late? And what, exactly, makes it too late? I think whoever made the edit is talking specifically about puberty; it's never too late to transition, but puberty will have permanent effects if you don't go on blockers before some of those changes start happening
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Nick Anderson Robert Ariail  Matt Davies  Al Goodwyn  Bob Gorrell  Phil Hands  Joe Heller  Clay Jones  Mike Lester  Joel Pett  Michael Ramirez  "Let's raise this." Tom Stiglich  Tony Branco  quote:Feeling the Pain: Biden’s policies like inflation, gas prices, etc, inflict pain on America while he blames Putin.
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rydiafan posted:Is too late a thing? Hypothetically speaking if I were 40 and starting to think that always playing as girls in video games and RPGs is a sign of something...is it too late? And what, exactly, makes it too late? It's never too late.
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Randalor posted:"Bad guys that want to overthrow society and impose a tyrannical rule will quickly begin crying about how unfair the system that they tried to overthrow is the moment they're apprehended and disarmed. AGC." After a vast amount of thought, and realizing the complaint is about grabbing "Son of a gun", maybe it's just insanity about how Democrats will grab guns if given half a chance, but if those guns they grab are people, that's pretty much like sexual harassment? God, this is genuinely the best attempt I can find at decoding this jape.
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Raised By Birds posted:
I'm pretty sure anyone who wants to defund the police also wants to disarm them.
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I suggest we have a Kellies category this year for "worst object labeled as inflation".Raised By Birds posted:Joe Heller Nomination: Worst "two things happened" Nomination: Most incomprehensible
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Raised By Birds posted:Mike Lester Aside from the stupidity of the fact that people who want to defund the police do not want police to have guns, Mike Lester would absolutely never support anyone shooting a cop and so using the "Hmm but if cops are bad then that should mean you want people to own guns to protect themselves from cops" is also stupid. Well, okay, maybe Lester would support it if it was a white guy shooting a black cop. Or if the cop was trying to stop a guy from beating his wife, since Mike Lester beats his wife and would sympathize with others who do. "Later, in another part of the White House..." Joe Biden wearing a shirt that says "I <3 Oil"
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Twelve by Pies posted:Aside from the stupidity of the fact that people who want to defund the police do not want police to have guns, Mike Lester would absolutely never support anyone shooting a cop and so using the "Hmm but if cops are bad then that should mean you want people to own guns to protect themselves from cops" is also stupid. Of course, right now it's both and people are getting shot all the time, but that doesn't mean there's a gun problem.
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rydiafan posted:Is too late a thing? Hypothetically speaking if I were 40 and starting to think that always playing as girls in video games and RPGs is a sign of something...is it too late? And what, exactly, makes it too late? I helped someone transition at 63. The only too late is post death.
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Twelve by Pies posted:"Later, in another part of the White House..." God is Powerup Comics good. Raised By Birds posted:Tony Branco Glad I'm not the only one who saw it that way 
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Kikas posted:God is Powerup Comics good. Wait, hes not hitting himself?
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Jun 21, 2022 07:43
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I think he is supposed to be hitting the "American People" laying at the bottom of the panel.
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Raised By Birds posted:Joe Heller Kellies Nomination: Worst Label Or I suppose Worst Pop Culture Reference would be more apt, but I think Label is the closest category we have for that.
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rydiafan posted:Is too late a thing? Hypothetically speaking if I were 40 and starting to think that always playing as girls in video games and RPGs is a sign of something...is it too late? And what, exactly, makes it too late? There's no such thing as too late. The changes come slightly slower the older you start, but there's no point at which you can't do it. People have done it in their 90s. 40 is not especially old among people I've met.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No_Vti186Tk&t=121s Schultz deserves better than your lovely version of his gag. (For those who don't get it, this is a reference to a minor recurring Peanuts gag from the motherfucking 1950s where Charlie Brown would have issues writing with a fountain pen and inkwell.) Raised By Birds posted:Joe Heller I just... The amount this is insulting to the reader is almost baffling. The visual metaphor works on it's own, why did you add those lines and oops now I'm bleeding from my ears brb aneurism. Raised By Birds posted:Michael Ramirez rydiafan posted:Is too late a thing? Hypothetically speaking if I were 40 and starting to think that always playing as girls in video games and RPGs is a sign of something...is it too late? And what, exactly, makes it too late? I had a friend who transitioned well into her 40s and is definitely the happiest I've ever seen her in years. If you think it's worthwhile, it's an area to explore about yourself and come to a decision on.
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Alhazred posted:I'm pretty sure anyone who wants to defund the police also wants to disarm them. it’s even weirder because as far as i can tell lester’s saying “you need guns to shoot killer cops”
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