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idonotlikepeas posted:Jeff Danziger "Hahahaha lots of people in the Southwest are gonna die from the extreme heat, I'd better mock them from my relative safety in Vermont!" Seriously, gently caress you Jeff Danziger.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:"Hahahaha lots of people in the Southwest are gonna die from the extreme heat, I'd better mock them from my relative safety in Vermont!" It's referring to the fact that Vermont has had catastrophic flooding, causing at least one death.
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Discendo Vox posted:It's referring to the fact that Vermont has had catastrophic flooding, causing at least one death. Is it? I prefer my interpretation, but that may be because I live in the Southwest in an older building without central air conditioning.
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idonotlikepeas posted:Ed Gamble Were the student-debt-havers guest drawn by Øyvind Thorsby?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Is it? I prefer my interpretation, but that may be because I live in the Southwest in an older building without central air conditioning. This is the capital of Vermont about a week ago: 
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Discendo Vox posted:This is the capital of Vermont about a week ago: Well then 
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idonotlikepeas posted:Lisa Benson The agenda is to the right. Too easy.
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idonotlikepeas posted:Ed Gamble Kellies Nomination: Ugliest Cartoon The artist forgot to draw the chairs in which the melting wax dummies are supposed to be seated.
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Nothing is as sinister as a list of things to do. Only a true villain has an agenda 
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Xiahou Dun posted:Or why there's a squirrel. There was a recent news item about 'splooting' which is apparently what they do to keep cool: https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1185092056/squirrels-splooting-heat-wave-climate-change
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Rall: Grate Debate Quote on the page same as in comic. First Dog on the Moon: The northern hemisphere is on fire! The temperature records being broken are record-breaking! 
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Trapezium Dave posted:Rall: Grate Debate
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Bob Gorrell Chip Bok  Chris Britt  Gary Markstein  Gary Varvel  John Deering  Marshall Ramsey  Michael Ramirez  Mike Luckovich  Tom Stiglich 
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Trapezium Dave posted:Spooner: ZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Skios posted:
You double posted, twice. A double double.
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gently caress! Fixed it  .
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Skios posted:Tom Stiglich Tom revealing his fetishes Skios posted:
Is it just me, or is Varvel getting more and more unhinged lately? First was that "Biden literally eats babies" cartoon, and now he's saying Kamala is a loving Terminator. JamesBont fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Jul 19, 2023 |
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Yeah, over the last few years Varvel has gone from “mediocre GOP shill” to “almost QAnon levels of extreme right-wing conspiracy beliefs.” How much of that is him being released from the Indianapolis Star, I don’t know - whether he had an editor pushing back on his worst stuff, or he’s gone rightward in search of a regular audience, or maybe it has nothing to do with that and he’s just getting more extreme from watching NewsMax.
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Literally eating babies is what you make a villain do in a bad movie to let the audience know which person to hate, and conservatives think TV and movies are real. Biden has gotten countless kids killed in his career, for example his vote to invade Iraq, and will continue to get kids killed long after he's gone, for example he's shipping cluster munitions to Ukraine right now. But all of that is indirect child-killing so conservatives have to tell each other he's sauteeing infants with a Dijon mustard sauce and serving them up on a bed of arugula in order to understand that he's the villain in their movie.
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Speaking of eating babies, Tats is still on about surrogacy and apparently Amazon traffics babies and even delivers to Hell. So convenient!
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Don't fall for those Amazon babies, the market's quality has really dropped.
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VitalSigns posted:Literally eating babies is what you make a villain do in a bad movie to let the audience know which person to hate, and conservatives think TV and movies are real. Along this line, I heard a radio piece recently which was mostly about the satanic panic around D&D, but the speaker offered an idea that has been living rent free in my brain ever since. His idea is that it's very important to practice imagination, because imagining the world other as it is allows you to imagine ways to change it, or pretending to be someone else can help you gain insight on yourself. But the flip side of that is that if you grow up in an environment where imagination is discouraged or dismissed as "escaping from reality" or even, as in some very evangelical Christian sects, seen as dangerous (if you imagine a demon then a real demon will come and get you, therefore reading a book with a demon will put your soul in danger), then you grow up without ever having learned how to imagine something that isn't true. And then if you don't know how to entertain an idea that is not true, then it's harder to critically examine the truth of your beliefs and reject what is false, and it's very easy to fall into conspiracy thinking because whatever you can think of must therefore be real. My mother grew up partly in a very conservative religious environment (salvation army; honestly she is still unpacking a lot of that) and the other day I shared this with her and I got a whole lot of stuff in return about her childhood that I'd never heard because this resonated so much with how she was taught to behave and think.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:"Hahahaha lots of people in the Southwest are gonna die from the extreme heat*, I'd better mock them from my relative safety in Vermont!"
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RoboRodent posted:But the flip side of that is that if you grow up in an environment where imagination is discouraged or dismissed as "escaping from reality" or even, as in some very evangelical Christian sects, seen as dangerous (if you imagine a demon then a real demon will come and get you, therefore reading a book with a demon will put your soul in danger), then you grow up without ever having learned how to imagine something that isn't true. I think it also plays into the whole idea of narrative truth and material truth, things that are true in stories and things that are true in reality. And then you get people like Alex Jones and Ben Garrison who corrupt that distinction on purpose and then go "it's just entertainment bro, it's an act" when called out on it.
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how long has that been a smilie*?
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RoboRodent posted:But the flip side of that is that if you grow up in an environment where imagination is discouraged or dismissed as "escaping from reality" or even, as in some very evangelical Christian sects, seen as dangerous (if you imagine a demon then a real demon will come and get you, therefore reading a book with a demon will put your soul in danger), then you grow up without ever having learned how to imagine something that isn't true. There's a whole book analyzing this phenomenon and the Christian backlash to D&D, Dangerous Games by Joseph Laycock, that I'd recommend you check out. It's a really dense academic book with a lot of takeaways, but one of them is that American Evangelicals get really uncomfortable with the concept of someone only acting as if they believe something in a fictional context, for this exact reason.
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:There's a whole book analyzing this phenomenon and the Christian backlash to D&D, Dangerous Games by Joseph Laycock, that I'd recommend you check out. It's a really dense academic book with a lot of takeaways, but one of them is that American Evangelicals get really uncomfortable with the concept of someone only acting as if they believe something in a fictional context, for this exact reason. I can handle dense academia. I'll check it out, thanks!
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:American Evangelicals get really uncomfortable with the concept of someone only acting as if they believe something in a fictional context, for this exact reason.
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Guavanaut posted:Which is interesting because Fred Clark made a very good case about some of the more improbable Evangelical urban myths that they were doing exactly that, and then getting outraged when even mildly called out on it. I don't think the book ever explicitly says it, but I definitely got the impression while reading it that the idea that someone can merely pretend to believe something for emotional benefit hits a little too close to home for the more-performative Strong Christian Warriors out there. Like, there are definitely those who, like RoboRodent said, were raised in such a manner so that they have a hard time reconciling the idea that someone could say something with seeming conviction that they don't really mean. Then there are those that are incredibly familiar with the idea, they just don't like talking about it.
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Skios posted:Bob Gorrell If the secret service wanted to cover up cocaine for Hunter Biden wouldn’t they just…not have reported finding the cocaine?
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Dr. VooDoo posted:If the secret service wanted to cover up cocaine for Hunter Biden wouldn’t they just…not have reported finding the cocaine? You are a fed guy doing a snow job Be it West Wing coke or a Clinton’s blow job Where the cocaine decisions that you make today Will mean that millions somewhere else Will go vote your way
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Dr. VooDoo posted:If the secret service wanted to cover up cocaine for Hunter Biden wouldn’t they just…not have reported finding the cocaine? Well you see, the answer is always the cognitive dissonance of "There's good FBI agents/troops/cops and bad ones." Obviously the good ones reported it, only to be stymied by the bad ones who munch on their vegan cigar and tell them to drop the case.
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the_steve posted:Well you see, the answer is always the cognitive dissonance of "There's good FBI agents/troops/cops and bad ones." This was Alex Jones' take on it. That the good secret service officers that are tired of the Bidens reported it over the public airwaves so it could no longer be covered up.
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duz posted:This was Alex Jones' take on it. That the good secret service officers that are tired of the Bidens reported it over the public airwaves so it could no longer be covered up. I remember a Jordan Klepper clip where he was at a Trump rally and everyone he talked to was all "Trump is still the president. Biden isn't." So then Klepper started asking the usual Gotchas like "Ok, so Trump is still in charge of the military, so that means he did *thing conservatives don't like*?" "No, no, that was Biden. There's the good military, that Trump is still in charge of, but then there's the bad military, and those are the ones who listen to Biden."
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World Famous W posted:how long has that been a smilie*? The answer is "forever but I only noticed it just now"
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the_steve posted:I remember a Jordan Klepper clip where he was at a Trump rally and everyone he talked to was all "Trump is still the president. Biden isn't." Same thing they were doing throughout his presidency. Trump is MAGAing everywhere and defeating the Democrats on every front and is the best president ever. So Trump banned bumpstocks then? Nope that was the Deep State. He just stopped caring about locking her up? Nope, foiled by the Deep State. Ok but Trump authorized the CDC mask guidance? Nope, Deep State again. But Trump definitely fast-tracked the vaccine right, he bragged about that? Hmm sorry still the Deep State.
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It's amazing how these people have no concept of Occam's razor. Like given the location that the coke was found it was 90% a dumb tourist, 10% a low level staffer. When these people come home to a turd on the carpet and the dog hasn't been walked do they concoct a story about how someone must have broken in and planted it while meticulously covering their tracks?
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