VitalSigns posted:

Ah so Union Armies didn't invade the Confederacy since it was never internationally recognized, they just got into some scuffles during a stroll to Richmond and it took them longer than they thought to have that picnic at Appomattox

This is fun because Korea was in a similar situation so:

• Nobody invaded anybody in June 1950, there were just some Koreans from Korea going to Korea
  
• In September the UN launched an unprovoked invasion of Korea, landing at Incheon. While they claimed it was North Korea that had committed the illegal invasion this is logically impossible because how can Koreans invade Korea lol.
  
• UN forces quickly reached the 38th parallel and crossed it but this was unremarkable since they were already in Korea and simply going from Korea to Korea
  
• The Chinese military was able to stop the UN invaders from reaching the Yalu River and drove them back to the 38th parallel but were unable to eject them from the country so Korea is still partially occupied by invading forces.
  

Makes perfect sense

the sex ghost posted:

Mad how quick the dial shifts, like 12 months ago I cant imagine you being able to draw a cartoon that was just outright the character saying 'pride month is bad and queer people should keep quiet about it'

By popular demand posted:

And it's not like if it was called the Gay Acknowledgement and Acceptance Month those awful chuds would be any nicer.

Post poste posted:

Never happened. Yes, they were wrote it did, no it did not

Randalor posted:

When did you get a career working for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's propaganda history department?

Xander77 posted:

After unironically regurgitating 60 year old US propaganda, you attempt to "ironically" repeat what you imagine to be Korean propaganda. Cool. And\or ironic.

The idea that there are other words that you can use for attacking \ re-annexing \ having a war within a single country is just... willfully lost?

The term invasion is generally used to refer to external forces. It's why you're unlikely to find the term used when describing the US civil war except by extreme lost cause enthusiasts, and why the Vietnamese (and, circling back to whatever point the initial cartoon \ post ever had, the Russians) refer to the Japanese \ French \ American \ Chinese invasion, not the invasion of the totally real state of South Vietnam by the savage foreigners of North Vietnam (though I guess the term is still being used by Americans who are convinced that the war with Vietnam was justified and winnable)?

Why am I required to explain these extremely obvious points? What are you even trying to say?

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Crunch Buttsteak posted:

This whole "the gays are all over media, it's being shoved down our throats, every show has at least a trans on it now" talking point is exhausting. Like it's blatantly not true, to the point where you'd think it's an attempt at gaslighting, but then the people saying it legitimately have an apocalypse-is-nigh meltdown if two dudes are shown walking down the aisle for like 2 seconds in a suit outlet commercial, so you're never quite sure how to react.

Crunch Buttsteak posted:

This whole "the gays are all over media, it's being shoved down our throats, every show has at least a trans on it now" talking point is exhausting. Like it's blatantly not true, to the point where you'd think it's an attempt at gaslighting, but then the people saying it legitimately have an apocalypse-is-nigh meltdown if two dudes are shown walking down the aisle for like 2 seconds in a suit outlet commercial, so you're never quite sure how to react.

Skios posted:

Fister Roboto posted:

I love when this comes up, when Christians point out that pride is a sin. But that's really just a quirk of the English language that "pride" means two different things. The sin of pride, or more accurately called hubris, is the opposite of the virtue of humility. The pride that Pride Month celebrates is the opposite of shame. Very important distinction.

Xander77 posted:

Scalia.

VitalSigns posted:

As well lol at the idea that Christians aren't putting their religion on TV every all year long, they broadcast services every week and have their own network where you can send in your worthless secular government issued currency and get vital rapture preparation supplies in exchange

the_steve posted:

It'll be the same thing for Hillary. She'll have faked her death because Trump was totes about to LOCK HER UP and now she can run the Deep State in peace.

Kellies Nomination: Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT)

Skios posted:

A.F. Branco

Fister Roboto posted:

I love when this comes up, when Christians point out that pride is a sin. But that's really just a quirk of the English language that "pride" means two different things. The sin of pride, or more accurately called hubris, is the opposite of the virtue of humility. The pride that Pride Month celebrates is the opposite of shame. Very important distinction.

Guavanaut posted:

Same with 'respect' meaning either 'as an authority' or 'as a human being', so like "why should we respect LGBT when they won't respect the nuclear family/Bible/traditional way of life?"

Crunch Buttsteak posted:

This whole "the gays are all over media, it's being shoved down our throats, every show has at least a trans on it now" talking point is exhausting. Like it's blatantly not true, to the point where you'd think it's an attempt at gaslighting, but then the people saying it legitimately have an apocalypse-is-nigh meltdown if two dudes are shown walking down the aisle for like 2 seconds in a suit outlet commercial, so you're never quite sure how to react.

Pants Donkey posted:

Trump’s death will be the most insufferable event imaginable. The man could go on stage and announce he has Stage 4 cancer with a pallet of medical documents backing him up, and we’ll still have multiple conspiracy theories about how Obama poisoned him or Biden had the FBI bathe him in radiation or #TrumpIsNotDead hashtags polluting social media.

Clerical Terrors posted:

I had a different version of this with a friend, when he was playing Outer Worlds and noticed how 50% of enemy NPCs appeared to be female. This somehow bothered him, but he couldn't quite put his finger on why. For context: he was talking about about the kind of NPC mooks that wear armor and otherwise just exist to be shot at, there's no further interaction with them, their gender or presentation does not matter at all and the only way he could tell was by slight differences in body frame and voice. But the fact that he was suddenly exposed to more women than he was used to was enough to throw him off.

Eventually the only real response I managed to get out of him was some mumbling about how "it really shows you how things have changed, I guess" and that was that.

Just the fact of having to see a historically marginalized group be slightly more represented and included is apparently enough to throw some people off, enough of a disruption of the status quo that it makes them uncomfortable, even if they can't fully articulate why.

VitalSigns posted:

That's what the original post was referring to yes.

I suppose you could have a philosophical debate about whether North and South Vietnam were legitimate states or not and therefore whether North Vietnamese soldiers entering the Republic of Vietnam were invading anything or not, but that wasn't the point. The op's point was how bad of an analogy the cartoonist was making.

I'm also not sure you would win that semantic debate. Did Union armies not invade the Confederacy because both sides were Americans and can't invade themselves? Did South Korea not get invaded since both sides were Korean? Is the DMZ a waste of money since it's logically impossible for North or South Korea to invade the other? Did the Berlin Wall not do anything since Germans fleeing from Germany to Germany couldn't be causing problems for Germany?

Vib Rib posted:

Yeah there's no possible way Trump could die that won't lead to a billion conspiracy theories.

Vib Rib posted:

Yeah there's no possible way Trump could die that won't lead to a billion conspiracy theories. I agree this applies somewhat to Hillary too, but mostly because as we've seen from cartoonists, they'll never let her go as their boogeyman.

Craig K posted:

it's ~the future~, ten minutes after he keels over there will be hundreds of deepfake videos of trump loudly proclaiming "i was killed by the deep state pizzagaters for getting too close to the truth" and it's not going to stop until the sun goes nova

Crunch Buttsteak posted:

My favorite is when outright Christofascist, OT law-advocating fundamentalists make the argument that they're the most pro-liberty and pro-freedom people out there. You just need to accept this completely-different definition of what "liberty" and "freedom" mean, and then it ALL makes sense.

Pants Donkey posted:

i mean the whole point of the transgender panic was to allow them to try and reopen the gay rights debate and get a second stab at denying them rights.

the_steve posted:

The absolute best one of those was from a number of years back where it's the cishet christian woman talking about how completely submitting to her husband in all matters was actually the most counterculture, liberating and equal rights punk rock thing a woman could do in this day and age.

the_steve posted:

The absolute best one of those was from a number of years back where it's the cishet christian woman talking about how completely submitting to her husband in all matters was actually the most counterculture, liberating and equal rights punk rock thing a woman could do in this day and age.

idonotlikepeas posted:

A perrennial favorite:

Fister Roboto posted:

still loling at "full joan of arc"

skeleton warrior posted:

Nearly 100 words to say "same but I want to pretend it's different', smh

idonotlikepeas posted:

This is the thing that always strikes me about it. The dialogue in the cartoons literally means the same thing, just said by different people in a different dialect.