Politoons 2022: I am the Warax, I speak for the MICs

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Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Nenonen posted:

I don't get what the artist is thinking, like are people of colour tied to their home country by international currency rates or.... what???

Europe is more affordable to average Americans because exchange rate good + they have been considering leaving

# ? Jul 14, 2022 14:25

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# ? May 26, 2024 16:26

VitalSigns: Sep 3, 2011

Nenonen posted:

I don't get what the artist is thinking, like are people of colour tied to their home country by international currency rates or.... what???

A more favorable exchange rate makes it more affordable to move to another country. The guy is joking that maybe Europe is trying to entice them on purpose meanwhile the woman is already packing presumably because the US supreme court just took away her rights

# ? Jul 14, 2022 14:41

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Guavanaut posted:

Europe is more affordable to average Americans because exchange rate good

but if they move to Europe to work they will be paid here in euros so how would they gain anything, plus they will find it hard finding good work with their language skills :confused:

I could understand e.g. universal healthcare or any other issue, but currency rates?

plus EU doesn't let non-EU citizens to just move here at will, you have to be rich or a highly skilled worker or have family ties basically

# ? Jul 14, 2022 15:04

VitalSigns: Sep 3, 2011

It's a joke

# ? Jul 14, 2022 15:26

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

Someone needs to record the dialogue in Lucy and Desi voices.

# ? Jul 14, 2022 15:30

Fister Roboto: Feb 21, 2008

Twelve by Pies posted:

You know the Uvalde police have massively hosed up when Michael Ramirez is criticizing them.

Eh, right wingers are gonna be pretty eager to throw these guys under the bus because it's easier than blaming easy access to guns. Plus their solution to it is still going to be "give the cops more money".

# ? Jul 14, 2022 15:30

Cloud Potato: Jan 9, 2011; "I'm... happy!"

Guardian:

"Martin Rowson on the Tory leadership battle � Candidates deliver differing portion sizes of anti-woke, low-tax dream dust" Left to right: Tom Tugenhat, Penny Mordaunt, Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch, Rishi Sunak (with Ian Flation), Liz Truss.

Telegraph:

Matt:

Independent:

Times:

Johnson says he is leaving �with my head held high�

Evening Standard:

Penny Mordaunt gains on Rishi Sunak in second round of voting in Tory leadership contest

# ? Jul 14, 2022 17:45

Srice: Sep 11, 2011

quote:

President Joe Biden has a lot in common with another president, George H.W. Bush, and that may not be a good thing for him.

Like the elder Bush, Biden is a man with long government experience, more comfortable with the clubby, one-on-one relationships of old-style American politics than the showboating, hyperpartisan, social media-driven politics of the 21st century. Awkward and generally uninspiring in their public speaking, both Bush and Biden served as vice presidents to men who could move a nation with their eloquent words and charm a majority of voters with their charismatic presence. Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama were larger-than-life celebrities; Bush and Biden, by comparison, number among the more boringly ordinary commanders in chief.

The big difference between the two is that Bush was the last president to come to the White House before the rise of Fox News and the right-wing media, before newspaper journalism�s decline, before the internet and social media and before Newt Gingrich turned Congress into a vicious partisan battlefield. Biden is struggling in this altered environment.

Biden�s calm and grandfatherly demeanor may have been what voters wanted in 2020 after four years of Donald Trump�s bilious bombast and nonstop violations of White House norms, but the return to a traditional presidency appears to have quickly lost its appeal for a majority of Americans. Biden�s restoration of competent government goes unappreciated. Instead, he is portrayed as both a dangerous radical and a doddering old fool by Fox News commentators, while, on CNN and MSNBC, the president is nearly invisible.

Trump thrived in the new communications era, dominating social media and becoming the obsession of cable news. Thanks to his Big Lie about a stolen election and the investigation into his complicity in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the ex-president continues to be the constant focus of media coverage and commentary. The current president barely gets a word in edgewise.

Biden gives speeches. He proposes new policies. He travels the country. He heads abroad. He does all the things presidents normally do. But, like a tree falling in the forest, no one hears him because the celebrity-and-scandal-driven American media are busy chattering about more compelling things, while the American public, to the extent attention is being paid at all, is divided into distinct ideological echo chambers where they hear only what they want to hear.

If Biden�s age is a detriment, it may be because his old-style communications skills were honed in a media world that no longer exists.

If Horsey was trying to bore me to death, he succeeded. I'm dead now. Pray for me.

# ? Jul 14, 2022 17:52

Dr. VooDoo: May 4, 2006

Raised By Birds posted:

Tony Branco

I�m sure you were upset at this lovely old person doing the exact same thing too, right?

# ? Jul 14, 2022 17:56

By popular demand: Jul 17, 2007; IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!

Srice posted:

If Horsey was trying to bore me to death, he succeeded. I'm dead now. Pray for me.

Can we trade Horsey to the republicans? I'll take a nice pizza in trade.

# ? Jul 14, 2022 18:21

Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

Nenonen posted:

but if they move to Europe to work they will be paid here in euros so how would they gain anything, plus they will find it hard finding good work with their language skills I could understand e.g. universal healthcare or any other issue, but currency rates?

plus EU doesn't let non-EU citizens to just move here at will, you have to be rich or a highly skilled worker or have family ties basically

There's this weird parochial idea that only America has problems ever and other places like Europe are magic. That's the line of thought behind that cartoon, even though it's supposed to be a joke. Same reason you get stories during every election about Americans declaring they'll move to X foreign country if candidate Y doesn't win.

Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Jul 14, 2022

# ? Jul 14, 2022 19:38

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

There's this weird parochial idea that only America has problems ever and other places like Europe are magic. That's the line of thought behind that cartoon, even though it's supposed to be a joke. Same reason you get stories during every election about Americans declaring they'll move to X foreign country if candidate Y doesn't win.

Yeah, weird to think that the EU is better than the US just because basically every quality of life indicator is better there.

# ? Jul 14, 2022 20:05

Twelve by Pies: May 4, 2012; Again a very likpatous story

quote:

Biden�s restoration of competent government goes unappreciated.

Shut the gently caress up Horsey.

# ? Jul 14, 2022 20:29

BonHair: Apr 28, 2007

Stultus Maximus posted:

Yeah, weird to think that the EU is better than the US just because basically every quality of life indicator is better there.

I'm pretty sure the EU is behind in the most important indicators: freedom and guns. And I guess car size?

# ? Jul 14, 2022 21:12

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Stultus Maximus posted:

Yeah, weird to think that the EU is better than the US just because basically every quality of life indicator is better there.

That sounds pretty easy to achieve if you run it as a gated community where

Nenonen posted:

you have to be rich or a highly skilled worker or have family ties basically

to even get inside.

# ? Jul 14, 2022 21:24

Prism: Dec 22, 2007; yospos

Guavanaut posted:

That sounds pretty easy to achieve if you run it as a gated community where

to even get inside.

Have you ever looked at the rules and requirements for American immigration? You may find them interesting.

# ? Jul 14, 2022 21:42

Raised By Birds: May 5, 2013

quote:

�YOU VILL EAT ZE BUGS!�

This is a statement often seen on 4chan�s �/pol� board whenever they talk about Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum. For some reason, the unelected Schwab thinks he can dictate how we are all going live. Oh, I almost forgot�his organization works with global corporations to fund his carefully groomed candidates. His �young leaders� are then installed in �democracies� around the world. Voters then unwittingly cast their ballots for Schwab. He pulls the strings on people such as Macron, Trudeau, Jacinda Ardern, and many politicians here in America. They are the ones who carry out Schwab�s globalist agenda.

That agenda includes the end of fossil fuel energy. The globalists want it replaced with their failed �green� energy. They also want mandatory vaccination even though those vaccines have been proven to be unsafe and ineffectual. Schwab said ��Nobody is safe until every last one of you is vaccinated!� Does that sound imperious or what? His statement is an absurdity and not based in science. Still, the globalists control science and they can make any outrageous claim they want in order to further their own power.

That power includes controlling our food. Bill Gates has bought up 269,000 acres of farmland. The globalists are starting to outlaw fertilizer. They are disrupting the supply chain. They control water supplies. They want the end of real meat because they say cows emit too much methane�and that�s a threat to the climate. Yes, their climate change card is always played when they want to seize more power.

So don�t be surprised to see the prices of real food skyrocket while at the same time there will be less and less of it on supermarket shelves. It will be replaced by insect protein and fake meat from Bill Gates.

Klaus Schwab�s predictions for the future: �You will own nothing and be happy.� Also, �You vill eat ze bugs!�

Schwab and his comrades are determined to inflict that dystopian future on us all.

� Ben Garrison

Thus of ould: "I will sue the 4chan trolls who edit my toons."
Thus now: "This is a statement often seen on 4chan�s �/pol� board"

# ? Jul 14, 2022 21:58

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

Guavanaut posted:

That sounds pretty easy to achieve if you run it as a gated community where

to even get inside.

You're saying that America's problems are due to its overly generous immigration problems. Please, tell me more. :allears:

# ? Jul 14, 2022 22:07

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Other way around, many of the things that lead to the 'higher standards' in European countries are tied into a gated community mindset that's trivially easy for frothing populists to jump on with fears of 'those people' using 'our stuff' until you get a bloc voting to dynamite 40 years of trade relations over fears that a Bulgarian might use their public toilets.

I'm not saying that mindset doesn't exit in the US (build the wall, migrant caravans, etc.) but the US doesn't really have the socialist element of that, uh, national socialist idea about public services and quality of life and 'mass migration'.

Raised By Birds posted:

quote:
Schwab said ��Nobody is safe until every last one of you is vaccinated!� Does that sound imperious or what?

Schwab: If you jump out of that window you will get hurt.
Ben: up yours, woke moralists

# ? Jul 14, 2022 22:38

Blind Duke: Nov 8, 2013

What is this copy pasted grocery cart clip art bullshit Garrison

I hold you to higher standards than this

# ? Jul 14, 2022 22:40

Dr. VooDoo: May 4, 2006

Lab grown meat is an awesome idea and if achieved solves a lot of issues with meat in general. Of course people like Garrison hate it

# ? Jul 14, 2022 22:41

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Septic tank safe wipes would be great too, but apparently that's also the Elders of Zion.

# ? Jul 14, 2022 22:42

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Prism posted:

Have you ever looked at the rules and requirements for American immigration? You may find them interesting.

Stultus Maximus posted:

You're saying that America's problems are due to its overly generous immigration problems. Please, tell me more.

All first world countries with some moderate standards of living and maybe a speck of public healthcare, free education etc. have become walled communities, whether it be EU, Australia, UK or USA. But many Americans seem to believe that they are privileged to migrate to EU if they feel bad at home - which is a fantasy. This has nothing to do with USA's immigration restrictions per se, it's just that both have similar restrictions.

# ? Jul 14, 2022 22:47

Vib Rib: Jul 23, 2007; God damn this shit is
fuckin' re-dic-a-liss
🍖🍖😛🍖🍖

Not just clipart, but digital repeating textures, line tools, etc. Very little done by hand on this last Garrison toon. Wonder why.

# ? Jul 14, 2022 23:08

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Dr. VooDoo posted:

Lab grown meat is an awesome idea and if achieved solves a lot of issues with meat in general. Of course people like Garrison hate it

Insects can also be incredibly efficient for protein per calorie when compared to red meat. And people get weird about eating bugs but consider big water bugs to be a delicacy so it�s all hosed up.

Because the eating bugs thing is an antisemitic conspiracy theory :ssh:

# ? Jul 14, 2022 23:16

Aztec Galactus: Sep 12, 2002

It's easy to become jaded by the internet and the world in general, but that is an especially batshit Garrison

# ? Jul 14, 2022 23:25

SubG: Aug 19, 2004; It's a hard world for little things.

Pants Donkey posted:

Insects can also be incredibly efficient for protein per calorie when compared to red meat. And people get weird about eating bugs but consider big water bugs to be a delicacy so it�s all hosed up.

I mean I'm all for using edible insects as a source of protein but, as someone who's tried a lot of edible insects, shellfish absolutely are a delicacy by comparison.

# ? Jul 14, 2022 23:40

MrUnderbridge: Jun 25, 2011

The thing is, you can use the insects to produce the proteins needed to make the "fake" meat and other foods.

You don't have to go around licking up ants.

# ? Jul 14, 2022 23:49

SubG: Aug 19, 2004; It's a hard world for little things.

MrUnderbridge posted:

The thing is, you can use the insects to produce the proteins needed to make the "fake" meat and other foods.

You don't have to go around licking up ants.

Yeah. Like I said, I'm in favour of using them as a protein source. But it isn't like people preferring shellfish to insect protein is entirely attributable to unthinking bias. You can kinda slide insect protein into a lot of places where people absolutely wouldn't bat an eye if they didn't know ahead of time what they were eating. Like chapulines are usually seasoned with hot pepper and lime and they end up tasting like crispy hot pepper and lime. But there really aren't any sources of insect protein that are as viscerally satisfying as, say, crab meat. Like yeah everybody's tastes are different and they're culturally and socially informed and all that, but insect protein tends to be either a little crunchy nothing in particular, a little slightly mealy/pasty nothing in particular, or one of those two plus an astringent ammonia flavour.

# ? Jul 15, 2022 00:15

Korthal: May 26, 2011

Wow, Ben Garrison really is in with the cool crowd, the "/pol" people.

4chan boards are referred to by two back slashes, so it'd be /pol/. This is a sticking point only because if he were to actually go on pol and say "/pol", he would be immediately attacked since Reddit subs are /subname. It'd be like if he used Reddit Spacing.

# ? Jul 15, 2022 00:23

Trapezium Dave: Oct 22, 2012

Pope:

The government is planning to go through with the planned end of pandemic payments and free RATs despite the new wave of infections.Labor backbenchers call for pandemic supports to continue as PM announces snap national cabinet meeting (Guardian)

Wilcox:

The Stage 3 tax cuts are for those on high incomes which the previous government passed with Labor's votes even though they objected to them because they were afraid of being labelled as pro-tax and are now unlikely to stop going to effect for the same reason even though it takes many billions a year out of the budget.

Leak, Son of Leak:

Anthony Albanese hugs Solomon Islands PM and preaches positivity at Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji (ABC).

Knight:

# ? Jul 15, 2022 00:26

Space Cadet Omoly: Jan 15, 2014; ~Groovy~

Dr. VooDoo posted:

Lab grown meat is an awesome idea and if achieved solves a lot of issues with meat in general. Of course people like Garrison hate it

Yeah, if scientists can get that right then there'd really be no downside.

Lot's of people would get lots of food in a way that's better for the environment and harms no living creatures.

But sometimes people just decide to hate poo poo for no reason.

# ? Jul 15, 2022 00:57

Zulily Zoetrope: Jun 1, 2011; Muldoon

SubG posted:

I mean I'm all for using edible insects as a source of protein but, as someone who's tried a lot of edible insects, shellfish absolutely are a delicacy by comparison.

A lot of that comes down to prep, I think. I've had fried crickets and ants that were real scrumptious, and I've had disappointing shrimp.

Like I'm not sure anything will compare to well-prepared shellfish, and I've yet to see anyone produce anything good with mealworms, but it's far from hopeless.

# ? Jul 15, 2022 01:06