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I'm counting eight comics in a row from Ted Rall with the overt message "Biden and/or the Democrats are worthless" and the strongly implied subtext "(so don't bother voting for them)." Will Rall go for the full dozen before election day? Stay tuned!
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Friday's Rall is going to be about Ukraine which you would think would break the chain except the subtext is still "so don't bother voting".
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Nov 2, 2022 14:22
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100YrsofAttitude posted:Is that supposed to be a wand? That or he's turned into a giant and picked up the Empire State Building.
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Nov 2, 2022 16:52
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Rall drawing what is supposed to be a wand that ends up looking exactly like a tranquilizer dart from a cartoon is pretty on point if you're like me and look forward to seeing how he's going to draw the next gun he decides to include. His revolvers are practically non-Euclidean
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Nov 2, 2022 18:20
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China Daily US ubiquitous gun violence by Cai Meng  What I find interesting about China Daily is that it's Chinese propaganda that is focused specifically on being Anti-American, but we never or rarely see any "pro-China" cartoons. It's a bit telling, but I guess they don't want to risk it? Charlie Hebdo  Musk unplugs the liberty of expression.  Invasive Species: Should hunters be regulated?  "I'm fed up with these gods who keep us in place with threats!" "Come back, my boy, those were just jokes!" Accompanies a piece about cultural Muslims that are fed up with dogma. I think. The following pieces have a lot of words, among other things, I've translated them, but I thought the images would be interesting if you don't want to read it all.  Mbappé, the man who will save the purchasing power of the French: Mbappé's 630 Million euro doesn't bother the left because we know French genius will know how to distribute his riches. 630 million makes 9.30 euro per French person! From left to right 9.30Є lumber per French person! 9.30Є worth of kitty litter per French person! 9.30Є in pizza per French person! 9.30Є in fruits and vegetables per French person! 9.30Є in gas per French person!; 9.30Є in aperitif per French person! 9.30Є in toilet paper per French person! 9.30Є in coal per French person! The left for purchasing power mobilize: More money for Mbappé!  Large breasts. No magic wand for the Electricity Fairy: Or how to use less electricity while keeping your daily comforts Read the left side first, top to bottom, then the right Adopt an elephant to eliminate the need of an electric hair-dryer Take advantage of forest fires to make your coffee Divide your consumption by 36 by using your electric toothbrush only for one tooth Equip your city with surveillance cameras with built-in nosy little people Take advantage of autumnal flooding to wash once a year your dishes in the dishwasher Plug your juicer into a 200 meter high windmill Try the natural microwave that will defrost your pizza in two minutes. HAHA I bothered to translate and go through a whole comic, about the Pope's possible replacement after a recent knee surgery and NWS it due to a loose scrotum when I noticed near the end one of the small images was a pope raping a child. Cartoony sure, but good job, Charlie Hebdo crew. Good on you.
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Nov 2, 2022 18:41
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100YrsofAttitude posted:China Daily
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Nov 2, 2022 19:01
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It's just the LBJ quote writ international. “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” When it works, it works.
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Nov 2, 2022 19:17
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100YrsofAttitude posted:
Yup, that's Charlie Hebdo for you. I see the French are taking their yearly electricity shortages with practiced stoicism.
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Nov 2, 2022 19:20
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Trapezium Dave posted:Rall: Denying Reality Is Bipartisan
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Nov 2, 2022 19:31
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100YrsofAttitude posted:China Daily What could they possibly say that would both be positive and identifiable to the average US reader? “Hey everyone, the belt and road initiative is really swell!”
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Nov 2, 2022 19:50
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Trying to convince Americans to like you through political cartoons from half a world away seems like an awful lot of wasted energy considering the strength of our own propaganda networks. I'm not sure what their formal mission is but pointing out the more insane parts of our culture that we have just sort of normalized and even defend seems like the path of doing the least amount of work to make the most people angry, which is to say they really embody the spirit of political cartooning
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Nov 2, 2022 19:58
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Epic High Five posted:Trying to convince Americans to like you through political cartoons from half a world away seems like an awful lot of wasted energy considering the strength of our own propaganda networks. I'm not sure what their formal mission is but pointing out the more insane parts of our culture that we have just sort of normalized and even defend seems like the path of doing the least amount of work to make the most people angry, which is to say they really embody the spirit of political cartooning For sure, I'm just curious how they would portray themselves positively is all. DalaranJ posted:What could they possibly say that would both be positive and identifiable to the average US reader? When I passed an exam years ago, in between bouts of studying I watched TV and the only channel on that was mildly interesting was a Pro-China channel, I think it was CGTN but named something differently then. It's not the point. They had shows about how great it was living in China, it was super interesting to see what they portrayed as positive and all. One show was how New Year's was celebrated and everyone would go back to the countryside to the matriarch's house, traveling hours or even days from their factory work, and frankly the food looked good but it was real bleak. Another one, was on Westerners moving over there and just loving it and explaining how great it was. Another was a nature documentary, can't go wrong with that. Just interesting.
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Nov 2, 2022 20:05
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100YrsofAttitude posted:China Daily This is a pretty weird comment considering literally every other comic in this entire thread and every previous iteration of the thread; the closest we get to pro-American cartoons are Prickly City's occasional flag-waving exercises and you've seen how bad those are. Even the hard-right nationalists in this thread stick to attacking other Americans. There's this aspect DalaranJ posted:What could they possibly say that would both be positive and identifiable to the average US reader? but there's also the aspect where cartoonists are still artists and would prefer to be making art that appeals to a wide audience. Taking a comedic swing at a nation that has been fairly vile to the entire rest of the world is way easier and is gonna have far broader appeal than trying to go comedically nationalist for one particular nation.
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Nov 2, 2022 20:06
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100YrsofAttitude posted:For sure, I'm just curious how they would portray themselves positively is all. It's an interesting thing I hadn't considered before. Certainly they have curated propaganda for states or nation-level orgs to get people on their side considering the combination of how many countries' leadership distrusts them in general and their status as industrial and trade giant, even before considering B&R campaigns to build public goodwill. I wonder what they look like. That said, I've got my doubts that politoons play any role in serious diplomacy like that
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Nov 2, 2022 20:10
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Epic High Five posted:Trying to convince Americans to like you through political cartoons from half a world away seems like an awful lot of wasted energy considering the strength of our own propaganda networks. I'm not sure what their formal mission is but pointing out the more insane parts of our culture that we have just sort of normalized and even defend seems like the path of doing the least amount of work to make the most people angry, which is to say they really embody the spirit of political cartooning Some of it is just plain American division stoking. But honestly, I think this stuff is more targeted at the population of EU countries then the US. A huge number of number of China Daily's cartoon are either Uncle Sam loving over the world as a whole Europe specifically (the Europe is usually represented as some kind vague plutocrat). The overall goal seems to be trying to drive a wedge between the US and it's allies.  
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Nov 2, 2022 20:14
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It is a fixture of Russian and Chinese politics to not consider European nations as having any agency whatsoever. They aren't trying to sow division, this is literally how they view the world.
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I'm a dual citizen of America and New Zealand, and I live and work in the latter. We're an ally of America; we're part of the Five Eyes thing. If you're not aware of the kerfuffle over the filming of the Hobbit movies, there is now a law on the books in NZ that explicitly prevents the unionisation of film sector workers, and allows them to be on rotating short-term contracts instead of being made full-time permanent workers, specifically to appease Warner Brothers, the American conglomerate that owns the film rights to the Lord of the Rings IP. That law affects everyone working in "screen industries," which means games as well, which means it directly affects me. That law was put in place because WB were threatening to pull the film out of New Zealand and put it somewhere else, taking all of that funding and all of those theoretical tourist dollars away. New Zealand has great worker protections, and American companies went out of their way to strip those rather than risking the workers getting uppity and making demands. The only reason that I'm a full-time worker is because my company is run by a CEO who believes that long-term company survival is better than short-term profit, which is loving absurdly rare and I consider myself lucky every day. I'm aware that American workers tend to be on permanent rotating short-term contracts anyway, but y'all have to understand that American workers are incredibly, incredibly vulnerable compared to the rest of the world, and in return for it they don't even get good wages anymore. American companies want to impose that poo poo on the rest of the world as well, so that they can use their wealth to destroy overseas industries that are protected from such depredation. Now you can say "ah but America, the nation, the government, didn't explicitly do that in writing, so you can't hold America accountable" and to that I say yes I loving can, every nation has control over companies based in its borders, America decided to allow those companies to do whatever they want internationally and they went full rabid dog mode for decades. Any New Zealand company that gets big enough to set up shop overseas keeps in mind that it is still, in many ways, an ambassador for New Zealand. American companies just sink their teeth in and tear. That's how America treats its allies. The allies that America hasn't decided need help changing their regimes, anyway. Yet. It wasn't some fuckin' cartoon that drove that wedge. Warner Brothers, acting as American companies, directly hosed with my employment rights as a way of getting more money out of some bullshit movies that turned out awful anyway, and I'm just some dipshit computer toucher living in some tiny island nation that usually doesn't even make it onto the corner of the map. Those wedges are well-driven at this point; if anything China Daily is just saying stuff the rest of the world already knows but with better art.
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DalaranJ posted:What could they possibly say that would both be positive and identifiable to the average US reader? Somfin posted:That's how America treats its allies.
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Guavanaut posted:Does America sponsor any political cartoons about how China is treating Kenyan railway workers in East Africa? That sounds like the closest to what China Today seems to be doing with Europe. It gives out a lot of corporate welfare to media conglomerates that occasionally pay a cartoonist for a depiction of Xi as the devil and also Winnie the Pooh, that's pretty close If decentralised stochastic propaganda isn't a thing it should be
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Nov 2, 2022 22:01
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Someone in the Department of State is really missing a politoons trick if they're not paying for Xi dressed as a British Colonial Officer being kicked out of an outline map of Kenya by one of USA's many civil rights heroes who were all well loved by all Americans in their day.
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 Rowe:  PRRT = Petroleum Resource Rent Tax, the government is moving to use this to get billions more from gas and oil companies. Clear public appetite to overhaul gas tax: Chalmers (AFR). Broelman:  Fence 'integrity issue' at Taronga Zoo blamed for five lions escaping enclosure, sending staff to 'safe zones' (ABC). Wilcox 1:  Lethbridge:  On the Reserve Bank continuing to raise interest rates to halt inflation. Knight:  The Victorian state election is officially underway (Dan Andrews on horse, Matthew Guy in ambulance). The Liberal opposition launched a "Ditch Dan" 1970s ambulance which is technically illegal under the Ambulance Services Act. Liberal campaign stunt may backfire as ‘Ditch Dan ambulance’ prompts legal questions (Guardian). Spooner:  Wilcox 2:  Le Lievre:  Based on The Sneetches.
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Antigravitas posted:It is a fixture of Russian and Chinese politics to not consider European nations as having any agency whatsoever. They aren't trying to sow division, this is literally how they view the world.
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Trapezium Dave posted:Rall: Denying Reality Is Bipartisan Is the joke that the Democrats have no plans to do any of those things?
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Spanish Matlock posted:Is the joke that the Democrats have no plans to do any of those things? The joke is, as it is with every Rall strip, Rall himself.
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Duck's going mask off to openly admit he scorns stuff like diversity ("not only letting white males in"), equity ("all people should be treated equally") or inclusion ("not being horrible to people who happen to be different"). Neither Paul Pelosi nor his attacker were naked/wearing underwear during the criminal assault. That lie has been debunked as originating from a conspiracy theory site. The DOJ has released a statement of the attacker's interview, in which the attacker himself admits that Nancy Pelosi was his intended target for violence. I know, I know, a political cartoon repeating lies and conspiracy theories is nothing new, but this just feels especially galling. Paul Pelosi is probably going to live BECAUSE his attacker didn't have a gun. If the attacker had owned/brought a gun, Paul Pelosi would very likely be dead. The attacker might be dead too; the responding police would have been much more likely to shoot him. California's laws regulating guns could have played a role in why the attacker didn't have a gun (I don't know if they did, but they could have). If that's the case, then California's gun laws may have saved both Pelosi's life and his attacker's life.
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Putin is using Iranian weapons is a hell of a new one! Does... does this artist not know why they were called that already
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Somfin posted:Does... does this artist not know why they were called that already Surprising, really, that no one has stooped to creating a conspiracy about alcoholism in order to cartoon the two lovers discussing their evening plans. "What are you in the mood for tonight, dear?" "Oh let's just get hammered". "Well, if you think that will get you off." (Sorry, this is SA after all. Truth be told this is so stupid, a waste, deplorable, that it's one of the things collectively making me quite angry. I have visions of Escape From LA: yeah we have electric chairs handy if you don't choose to go survive with the barbarians.  because these people have given up being civilized.)
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Somfin posted:Putin is using Iranian weapons is a hell of a new one! It is not, in fact, a new one: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/iran-missiles-russia https://www.reuters.com/world/exclusive-iran-agrees-ship-missiles-more-drones-russia-defying-west-sources-2022-10-18/ https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-foreign-minister-tells-iran-counterpart-stop-sending-arms-russia-2022-10-28/
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PhantomOfTheCopier posted:I suspect they were attempting some pseudo-intellectual construction using the only hammer-related reference they could manage, but found themselves trapped in finding a punchline. drat that's a good joke
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Pants Donkey posted:Can someone with actual artistic talent take a crack at this? The concept of a dude becoming more manically happy and wizardy as he overestimates Biden and the Democrats’ electoral futures would actually be awesome if the art was good. Meh. It's just the old clown makeup meme format. 
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Victar posted:Neither Paul Pelosi nor his attacker were naked/wearing underwear during the criminal assault. That lie has been debunked as originating from a conspiracy theory site. The DOJ has released a statement of the attacker's interview, in which the attacker himself admits that Nancy Pelosi was his intended target for violence. This cartoon is also perpetuating the lie that the glass door was broken from the inside, insinuating that the attacker had been invited into the Pelosi house because he was a gay escort/drug delivery guy/adenochrome mule etc.
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I'm the WELCOME PELOSI doormat
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I was expecting the right wing to get weird about this story but I wasn't expecting this
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By popular demand posted:I was expecting the right wing to get weird about this story but I wasn't expecting this
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Any day now Hillary Clinton will run for president again, any day now Also apparently the French for "magic wand" is "baguette magique". Hoping they also call the sex toy this
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