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Blind Duke posted:How DARE this political office engage in politics! And they don't and haven't in Trump's case, but conservatives keep insisting they do and did.
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Murdstone posted:The Justice Department is supposed to be beyond politics. Yeah, when they pursue prosecutions they are focused on priorities that are the president's or the party's, but they are not supposed to be "political" as in, when it comes down to crimes, they should not focus on political enemies for no reason. as always, and as repeatedly proven by both the Trump and Bush administrations, it's projection. They absolutely want to gently caress over their enemies using the power of the federal justice system.
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Trapezium Dave posted:From what I remember the last steps felt more SWERF -> TERF/probably going to make a comic that is just the 14 words. Ishida was perfectly primed to plummet down that rabbit hole and his politics shift super fast. Also the johnbies are incoherent even by Ishida standards, I legitimately couldn't figure out what the gently caress was going on and thought it was about marijuana somehow because they were moaning "legalize it" at first. CapnAndy fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Jun 11, 2023 |
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CapnAndy posted:Yeah, he went from World's Greatest Male Feminist to SWERF really really fast because he apparently got stuck on second wave feminism and DON'T EXPLOIT THE POOR WOMEN!!!! (woman in porn: "I chose this job" ishida: "NO YOU DIDN'T, YOU WERE EXPLOITED, I KNOW BETTER THAN YOU, YOU SILLY FRAIL WOMAN"), and he's just been holding there for like seven years or something. There's a long gap where he's just raging about porn and exploited women and porn and sex trafficking and porn and prostitution and porn and commercialism and porn and porn and imperialism and porn, and his comic has long since become completely incomprehensible, but his politics don't shift. When the turn happens, I think it's gonna come quick. Probably not a hot take, but Ishida's trajectory kinda feels like the inevitable endpoint to building a political identity devoid of materialist analysis and focusing entirely on "Good" or "Bad" actions
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They love bringing out "economic coercion" to explain why women go into porn, but that never seems to come up for the people dealing with screaming customers or scrubbing toilets or working fourteen hours a day to stock shelves or whatever. "Sex work is work" and "economic coercion exists" are not mutually exclusive thoughts, and while I am sure there are guys taking their dicks out for money who would stop if they won the lottery or UBI got passed or whatever, I am equally sure that there's some lady punching numbers into a spreadsheet who'd rather be telling men they're dirty little piggies who need to be punished.
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Look at him now, being such a great feminist that he doesn't even bring up Roe vs. Wade when it was overturned. You know, the thing ACTUAL feminists care about.
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Lareine posted:Look at him now, being such a great feminist that he doesn't even bring up Roe vs. Wade when it was overturned. You know, the thing ACTUAL feminists care about. Oh you sweet summer child, maybe when you reach the same upper tier of feminism that he has you'll realize that the Real Feminists are all very deeply concerned about trans youth and making sure they can't live their lives. That's the real hot button issue.
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Nenonen posted:My first read of the Lester was "sound science". I coloured myself surprised, but of loving course it said "junk science". How surprised were you when you saw the "Canada wild fires" fire was burning the "Drugs" apartment building?
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CapnAndy posted:he doesn't even seem to like trump very much, CapnAndy posted:Does COVID break his brain?
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VitalSigns posted:Just hold on to that thought Also I'm into 2019 and the turn has begun, and... hmm. I think what's happened is that up until now, like I said, Ishida's been able to square being both a rabid fundamentalist with being King Feminism by being a second-wave feminist and using the "anything that is not marital sex is sinful" overlap. But he's been knocked out of that equilibrium. He has, somehow, been exposed to concepts relating to societal enforcement of rigid gender roles and gender identity as a whole. Someone told him, or he saw something, or he read something, or he got the idea that he should make growth in his journey as a feminist, whatever it was. He's dipped a toe in that before by some fairly surface-level railing against the virgin/whore dichotomy, but he still clearly wholly bought into it despite the slight nods in that direction. In Sinfest, quite literally, Good Girls Don't. He's symbolized a heel/face turn multiple times in the past by having the woman throw away her slutty clothes/quit her job as a a sex worker. Anyway, now he knows "gender binaries are bad". He was taught that. It is feminism thought, and he is The Best And Most Feminist, so he believes it. But the second, the very second he steps outside that binary, he's repulsed by what he finds. He reflexively sneers at a "johnbie" who identifies as "pan-fabulus goth gendr mascara sexual" -- the illuminati bot checking for "gender papers" approves of this! The pig who's always high goes to drive-through and orders a "nothing burger and word salad" and another "johnbie" gives him a spiel about "he/hir/xir/gir/blir temporal positionality". So gender binaries are bad, but anything outside a gender binary is disgusting. These are exclusionary concepts, and it's led to some incoherent even by Ishida standards writing. He can no longer be both a fundamentalist and a feminist. One of them has to destroy the other. Combine that with his pre-existing hatred of "Big Pharma", and in what appears to be days or a week at most after a storyline about the government enforcing "boy brains, girl brains, blue brains, pink brains" in prison camps and with mandatory medication to realign gender non-comformists(!), a "johnbie" has just cracked a "joke" of "gahhh graaaaghhhhh gluuuuuurrgghhhh are my pronouns" to the unimpressed 10 year old Arbiter of Feminism on her Big Wheel. I am buckling up.
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Lareine posted:Look at him now, being such a great feminist that he doesn't even bring up Roe vs. Wade when it was overturned. You know, the thing ACTUAL feminists care about. Spoilertagging this just in case CapnAndy cares: Pretty sure he's done stuff making GBS threads on feminists and feminism since the RvW overturn.
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 Sinfest Sunday - In this week's episode of Watching a Broke-Brained Boomer Spiral Ever Deeper: He actually manages to wrap up the Target storyline, which... basically leaves him confused and lost - even moreso - for the rest of the week. So he busts out an old joke and repurposes it for his persecution complex and Q-tier conspiracy theories. He then throws out a separate one, followed what might charitably be described as an actual current events joke that doesn't kick down. Of course that leaves him with no clear direction for the Sunday strip, so he defaults to his safe spot - using current events and his piss-poor media literacy to 'joke' about how his political enemies aren't human.       And the Pettyfest chaser:     
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Given how fundie media portrays other religions, this could be a solid mirror held up to that if it weren't just Tats implying that all 'woke' media is satanic.
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Wasn’t the point of Blade Runner that the replicants are no different from humans?
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I AM GRANDO posted:Wasn’t the point of Blade Runner that the replicants are no different from humans? Skios posted:his piss-poor media literacy Honestly, at this point, I feel like 'Least media literate' could be a Kellies nomination.
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Skios posted:Honestly, at this point, I feel like 'Least media literate' could be a Kellies nomination.
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"Everyone that doesn't agree with me is a mindless robot"? Really? Geez, he really is a decade out of date isn't he? I look forward to a decade from now when he's
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And are the pro-USSR pro-Ukraine deep environmentalists in the room with you right now, Tats?
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Randalor posted:"Everyone that doesn't agree with me is a mindless robot"? Really? Geez, he really is a decade out of date isn't he? I look forward to a decade from now when he's poo poo, I thought even that was a generous interpretation, granted I'm probably reaching too far and giving him too much credit. I was seeing it as "All of this Woke Equal Rights stuff is manufactured. Real People don't actually want it, we're just being told we want it by the Bad Guys, for Reasons, but nobody actually believes in it."
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CapnAndy posted:Well, I knew going in he turns hard right, my journey has been to see what flips him from being a very left-wing whackjob. So in that context "huh, it wasn't initial exposure to trump or even him winning" was interesting. A common refrain from TERF types is that Trans people actually reenforce gender binaries, because they could just be a feminine male or tomboy, but instead decide to flip because, according to TERFs, they can only think of "feminine == woman, masculine == male". It's a facile argument at best, obviously.
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Guavanaut posted:And are the pro-USSR pro-Ukraine deep environmentalists in the room with you right now, Tats? I was going to say, anyone waving an old USSR flag in the streets right now is not going to be popular.
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Pretend I posted that Oglaf comic on sexual dimorphism here.
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It's wild seeing just a normal joke comic in the middle of his insane screed.
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Randalor posted:"Everyone that doesn't agree with me is a mindless robot"? Really? Geez, he really is a decade out of date isn't he? I look forward to a decade from now when he's he's already got the zombies for "all my enemies are mindless nothings" so i look forward to the important and meaningful distinction between the two in the upcoming strips that will conclusively explain why he has both in a way that makes any sense at all
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Randalor posted:I look forward to a decade from now when he's He's already doing that, complete with indulging his bulge fetish.
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Neito posted:A common refrain from TERF types is that Trans people actually reenforce gender binaries, because they could just be a feminine male or tomboy, but instead decide to flip because, according to TERFs, they can only think of "feminine == woman, masculine == male". It's a facile argument at best, obviously. They do not think anyone ought to be allowed to be a feminine male.
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This is... maybe the lamest thing I've ever seen in my loving life. It's some washed up hack doing DeviantArt levels of pathetic art. "Look, here's my super badass cool hot babe OC totally OWNING this real life corporation, and she walks out all dramatic, and like, the Target logo -- you know, the corporate logo? From loving Target? -- it gets all like, changed and magic distorted and poo poo!!" It's on par with Tim Buckley drawing his characters blowing up "Micro$$$oft HQ" with a plunger of dynamite except it takes itself 10x more seriously. Ishida has done some really stupid and hateful poo poo in the past but this might be the single most pathetic strip in the history of his comic. I can't stop staring. It's a cringe singularity. He really drew this, published it, and thought it was cool and badass. The loving TARGET logo! Jesus Christ. I know he's leaned and hinted at it before but man, we're at a point where he's completely mask off about how his anti-T tirade is now explicitly anti-LGB, too. E: Seriously I'm still stuck on this, holy poo poo. There's a Target down the street from me and my mind is folding in on itself thinking about this 50+ year old man sitting there going "ha ha my cool OC is destroying a supermarket logo in this drawing I did" Vib Rib fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Jun 11, 2023 |
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Vib Rib posted:I know he's leaned and hinted at it before but man, we're at a point where he's completely mask off about how his anti-T tirade is now explicitly anti-LGB, too. I think he's been doing that for about two years now. There was that storyline where 'nique was strolling around the devil's mansion for some reason, and she came across a map of America with a bunch of flags planted on them to indicate his plans, which included a rainbow flag.
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Has the queer representation been anything other than young, conventionally attractive lesbians?
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 Observer:  "Can Donald Trump still lead the Republican party back to the White House? – The former president rails against a second indictment, this time over his handling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate" Sunday Telegraph:  Boris Johnson resigns as MP over partygate report Matt:  Sunday Times:  Mail on Sunday:  “Get ready, Mrs Gribly. Your examination will start immediately after the words, Brace! Brace!”
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TIL supporting Ukraine make you woke, therefore bad Also, I have no idea what two of these flags even mean (the orange one with what looks like a skull, and the other orange one with what looks like three green missiles).
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After The War posted:Has the queer representation been anything other than young, conventionally attractive lesbians? When he did, it was the swishy, effeminate stereotype you’d expect, although this was before he fell down the alt-right hole, and intended as positive. Just…in that weird straight person way.
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the_steve posted:poo poo, I thought even that was a generous interpretation, granted I'm probably reaching too far and giving him too much credit. Yeah, but we're being shown it's explicitly robots programmed to do it. You're right in your reading of it, I'm just saying the reader's difest version of that interpretation. It's more the shock of seeing a loving NPC meme reference in this day and age. Didn't those fall out of use awhile back? And besides, he had been using the zombies for the "mindless masses doing what Satan said"/"all right-wing terrorism is the FBI", so I'm surprised at the sudden NPC meme.
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Cloud Potato posted:Mail on Sunday: What. On. Earth?!?
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JamesBont posted:Also, I have no idea what two of these flags even mean (the orange one with what looks like a skull, and the other orange one with what looks like three green missiles). Just Stop Oil and The Three Arrows, a German Antifa logo.
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Randalor posted:Yeah, but we're being shown it's explicitly robots programmed to do it. You're right in your reading of it, I'm just saying the reader's difest version of that interpretation. It's more the shock of seeing a loving NPC meme reference in this day and age. Didn't those fall out of use awhile back? And besides, he had been using the zombies for the "mindless masses doing what Satan said"/"all right-wing terrorism is the FBI", so I'm surprised at the sudden NPC meme. This is like the fourth or fifth time he's thrown the NPC meme into a comic. He keeps putting 4chan meme poo poo into Sinfest nowadays hoping that they'll love him, and I don't think it's going to take.
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