TheWeedNumber posted:

dave chapelle

Flikken posted:

We can balance that with Bill Watterson.

TheWeedNumber posted:

who?

TheWeedNumber posted:

who?

TheWeedNumber posted:

who?

TheWeedNumber posted:

who?

Terrifying Effigies posted:

The last Calvin & Hobbes and Far Side were both published ~28 years ago

Feeling like I just drank from the wrong grail

TheWeedNumber posted:

Herstory Begins Now posted:

the second stage also blew up

'second stage experienced rapid unscheduled disassembly' was the exact wording that they used lol

TheWeedNumber posted:

bro I’m American, I have the right to be loving ignant. It’s in the bill of MAH RIGHTS!

Arrath posted:

If I have kids, they shall read from the sacred books: the Calvin and Hobbes collections.

That Works posted:

Upside is you get the have the legit joy of reading Calvin and Hobbes

Mr. Nice! posted:

The guy that created Calvin & Hobbes.

Herstory Begins Now posted:

wasn't that martin luther?

Herstory Begins Now posted:

I agree with this in spirit but I think this perspective particularly misses the point wrt actually understanding neo-nazi and white nationalist individuals and groups and its integration within the business/local/state/national power structure. Yeah they're losers but they're very often in powerful positions in the establishment power structure and if they were merely powerless assholes who just wanted to feel important it would be a huge improvement. It almost definitionally is not something that people are into because they have nothing and their lives are poo poo. Much of what is so damaging about it is that it specifically is people who are integrated into their communities, who have seemingly good lives*, who are in powerful positions and are able to use those to make things easier for their side and harder for everyone else. It's often people who are socially and/or economically on top who come from families that have been doing well for a long time. If anything a lot of it seems to come out of a worldview that recognizes someone will always be on the bottom and you really, really do not want that to be you. 'white pride' is functionally more of a shibboleth for the above than necessarily a literal statement, though sometimes it also is said literally, too.

how the actual groups recruit is another story, those definitely are going after people without much going for them and will take basically anyone that they think might be useful to them, which is basically just gangs 101, but those groups are really the tip of the iceberg wrt the greater problem of neonazis and white nationalists

TheWeedNumber posted:

Oh I remember these comics. Lol

Qtotonibudinibudet posted:

i guess outside my normal wheelhouse, though i'd be curious how the social elites end up in that sphere too, and to what extent they're true believers (at least at the outset) or morally flexible sorts who couldn't find a "good" power/profit base and realized you can hella grift off the lumpenazitariat if you offer an uh.... alternative viewpoint. you maybe fail at working your way into traditional power structures but find you can totally build one elsewhere if you're willing to sell a bitta soul

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President Joe Biden led off his remarks at an APEC welcome reception in San Francisco on Wednesday evening by semi-jokingly floating a future Gavin Newsom presidency.

“I want to talk about Gov. Newsom. Want to thank him,” Biden said at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, according to a transcript released by the White House. “He’s been one hell of a governor, man. Matter of fact, he could be anything he wants. He could have the job I’m looking for.”

Newsom, the governor of California, has for years been a rumored presidential candidate. Those rumors have subsided slightly in recent months, as Newsom has taken on more of a surrogate role for Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign. But even a full-throated endorsement of Biden hasn’t fully killed off the presumption that Newsom is waiting in the wings, either as a 2024 last-minute replacement, or for a full-fledged 2028 run.

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, for instance, insulted Newsom during a recent speech, saying he doesn’t have the “guts” to formally announce a presidential primary campaign. Newsom’s trips to Israel and China also raised some eyebrows.
Biden, who turns 81 next week, might’ve just been making an innocuous quip, but the stakes around his candidacy — and the jostling by his possible successors — are less of a laughing matter. Biden’s approval ratings have fallen in California, and recent polling indicates that in the 2024 general election, he’s vulnerable against Donald Trump in important battleground states.

Vice President Kamala Harris, who’s also presumed to be waiting her turn for another go at the presidency, was in attendance for Biden’s speech on Wednesday. In fact, Harris gave remarks of her own a few minutes before Biden, during which she highlighted her Bay Area ties.

In September, Newsom told “Meet the Press” that Harris is “naturally the one lined up” to succeed Biden, and that he couldn’t imagine running against Harris. But around the same time, The Messenger spoke to an anonymous senior political strategist who’s worked for both Harris and Newsom, and referred to the duo as “frenemies.”

The senior strategist told The Messenger, “Their worlds will collide. Newsom isn’t going to stay in the backseat for Kamala…The writing is on the wall.”

Platystemon posted:

Joe Biden floats Gavin Newsom presidency at APEC welcome reception in San Francisco

Newsom should be disqualified for being unable to imagine running against Harris.

pantslesswithwolves posted:

Not like I live in a place where my vote actually matters on the national level, but goddamn I would have a really hard time voting for this rear end in a top hat.

pantslesswithwolves posted:

Not like I live in a place where my vote actually matters on the national level, but goddamn I would have a really hard time voting for this rear end in a top hat.

pantslesswithwolves posted:

Not like I live in a place where my vote actually matters on the national level, but goddamn I would have a really hard time voting for this rear end in a top hat.

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In sum, just 37% of voters say they have enthusiasm for a Harris presidential bid, compared with a whopping 59% who expressed hesitancy. When looking at the results among only Democratic voters, 56% say they'd be enthusiastic, while 41% said they would not be. The fact that 4 in 10 California Democrats don't want to see Harris run for president is extremely worrying news for her.

99pct of germs posted:

Ah yes Kamala Harris, incredibly popular former senator from California *checks polls* correction former senator from California.

Her entire candidacy in 2020 could be generously described as a whispy fart, but sure I guess she's the next chosen one on the national level according to the lanyard class.

Herstory Begins Now posted:

wasn't that martin luther?

99pct of germs posted:

Ah yes Kamala Harris, incredibly popular former senator from California *checks polls* correction former senator from California.

Her entire candidacy in 2020 could be generously described as a whispy fart, but sure I guess she's the next chosen one on the national level according to the lanyard class.

Terrifying Effigies posted:

I forgot the detail that Biden publicly promised to pick a woman as his VP on stage at the last Dem Primary debate in March as a needless gimmick three weeks before Bernie suspended his campaign lol.

And then he ends up picking the woman who got less popular votes than Marianne Williamson in the primary.

davecrazy posted:

Why do people treat Harris like she’s the female Dan Quayle?

davecrazy posted:

Why do people treat Harris like she’s the female Dan Quayle?

davecrazy posted:

Why do people treat Harris like she’s the female Dan Quayle?

Steezo posted:

Sending the patents of truant students, in struggling families, to jail isn't a good look.

pantslesswithwolves posted:

Harris ended her campaign before the first primary was even held.