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Nehru the Damaja posted:Haven't been to this thread in ages but someone posted this 2011 Ben Garrison cartoon. I was surprised that he looked like he had a reasonable opinion for a moment, and then it turns out it's littered with telltale signs of alcoholism and DUIs like a real-life Stan Kelly someone post the political chart of "ron paul radicalizes you here"
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Avirosb posted:What if phones but too much The hottest of takes
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Sep 18, 2017 11:59
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Guys why do we like Horsey again
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Saint Sputnik posted:Guys why do we like Horsey again Bang-rear end tittays
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Didn't garrison go on to make "minorities are over exaggerating" style comics in the wake of Ferguson and other tragedies or did i dream that?
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He did draw about BLM being a pawn of Obama and (((Soros))). As we all know, fascist regimes generally try their hardest to curb police violence.
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Xander77 posted:He did draw about BLM being a pawn of Obama and (((Soros))). As we all know, fascist regimes generally try their hardest to curb police violence. Pay no attention to the white trash and other people that is also murdered every year, they clearly never existed in the first place. And if they did, they were no angels.
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Thoughtless posted:Oh no not some gizmo But on the other hand, there's that thing going around on Facebook that has one person saying "enjoy your $1000 phone with worse camera and broken screen!" And the other saying "Even if the iphone was $3000 and drew blood every time I used it, I would never buy an android!" And people unironically agreeing...
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 imagine defending slavery as though it were a fad that everyone went through. I hate that so many people want to give a free pass to literally owning another human being just because they want to have some historical heroes to worship. We can recognize the contributions these people made to creating this country without forgetting the horrible poo poo they did. If keeping the statues up means we all need to conveniently forget that the founding fathers were mostly slave owners (because it was OK when they did it, you see) then tear them the gently caress down.
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Sep 18, 2017 13:19
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Darth Windu posted:Not really Naw Branco deserves a slow, painful and lingering death where it finally takes him in the dead of night alone and scared.
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Sep 18, 2017 13:26
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All this poor man wants in the entire world is to not have healthcare why must Bernie take this from him 
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Sep 18, 2017 13:38
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A good guy with a gun, a good comic.
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Sep 18, 2017 13:41
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Avirosb posted:A good guy with a gun, a good comic.
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Sep 18, 2017 13:43
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I've often wondered, if tax is theft but authoritarianism rules who do conservatives root for in Robin Hood stories?
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Samurai Sanders posted:I've often wondered, if tax is theft but authoritarianism rules who do conservatives root for in Robin Hood stories? the conservative reading is that the only reason Prince John was bad was that he taxed people at all Also every evil rich person in every book can be read as a "government fat-cat" or "crony" (aka the bad kind of rich person) if you really want to. See: Henry Payne's inexplicable take on the movie Elysium, which is as clear and unsubtle a metaphor for class inequality and argument for nationalized healthcare as I can think of.  but they still drew Obama as Robin Hood thinking it was an insult all the time so v  v
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sirtommygunn posted:
You have no idea how much Americans are trained and expected to revere the morons that expected every president to do the right thing or that slavery would magically just end.
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If this had an image of them 'accidentally' bashing in the head of a bald eagle while they hunted snipe, it would be a perfect metaphor.
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Crabtree posted:You have no idea how much Americans are trained and expected to revere the morons that expected every president to do the right thing or that slavery would magically just end. I have an idea, I am an American after all I'm just disappointed that people actually believe that argument. Like, I know that's the argument they're making on a fundamental level, but it's so rare for someone to be so confident in it they'll just come out and say they were entirely blameless because it happened before the civil war. Usually people will at least mumble something about "yeah it was terrible, but they contributed so much/were so important to the founding of this country...".
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Mermaid Autopsy posted:Who would have thunk so many libertarians would become fascists as soon as they tasted power *slowly raises hand*
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Never mind that noted slave owner and rapist Thomas Jefferson was bad by the standards of his time and social group. He's the archetypical American and that's not a good thing. He talked a big game about liberty and equality but when it came to choosing between what he claimed and living large on the back of slaves it wasn't even a matter of deliberation.
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Sep 18, 2017 15:53
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I even think "Medicare for all" is pretty bad policy ("Medicaid for anyone who wants it" ie the Public Option would be far more sustainable, and I say that as a Medicaid recipient), but jesus christ dude. "Medicare is Communism" right there in my poor eye-holes.
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Mermaid Autopsy posted:Who would have thunk so many libertarians would become fascists as soon as they tasted power Wistful of Dollars posted:*slowly raises hand*
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Wistful of Dollars posted:*slowly raises hand* *hand breaks through the roof at supersonic speeds*
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"product of their time" arguments are so stupid. Like, how far back to we even go for that? People are racist as gently caress and living off of slavery RIGHT NOW. Are they a product of 2017?
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if you want to see a lot of DEBT, look no further than this twitter thread https://twitter.com/DOGGEAUX/status/909685988691034112
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Sep 18, 2017 16:29
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Look at that man's figure, he's clearly impregnated with some alien parasitoid and Berny knows what must be done. The gently caress is wrong with you Horsey?!
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Sep 18, 2017 16:32
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I might be wrong here, but isn't it okay to have statues of people as long as they aren't celebrating slavery? To me this is why I don't buy the  hypocrisy between random and confederate statues. It's deflection trying to conflate the person with the subject matter of the statues.Didn't Robert E. Lee rejoin the regular army after the Civil War?
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Sep 18, 2017 16:39
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Nobody is demanding the removal of Thomas Jefferson statues. There was a protest at one in Charlotesville last week, and their list of demands said that they just wanted a plaque on the statue that acknowledged all the bad poo poo he did. Considering that, while writing about inalienable right of liberty, he owned people as slaves, raped his slaves, and also made his children who were born of those rapes into slaves, I'd say that's a pretty reasonable demand.
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Faustian Bargain posted:I might be wrong here, but isn't it okay to have statues of people as long as they aren't celebrating slavery? To me this is why I don't buy the Lee being good was revisionism.
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Sep 18, 2017 16:47
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I love how Branco's everyman is always this schlubby dude with a big ol' gut in ill-fitting Carhartts. Though – LOL at making him black this time.
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Sep 18, 2017 16:57
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Jefferson never waged war against the united states
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Question: are illegal immigrants (who I'm sure can't vote anyway) largely liberal voters? Aren't they pretty conservative ?
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Unlawful immigrants can't vote .its a racist fantasy popular with republicans .
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Jefferson statues also weren't often put up during the civil rights movement specifically as a "gently caress you" to black people demanding to be treated like human beings.
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failing forward posted:"product of their time" arguments are so stupid. Like, how far back to we even go for that? People are racist as gently caress and living off of slavery RIGHT NOW. Are they a product of 2017? Not to mention that before the modern slavetrade in America slavery had been banned in large parts of Europe for centuries.
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  Stiglich posted:BLM/Occupy Philly DA candidate Larry Krasner has sued the Phila. Police Dept more than 75 times, and endorses safe injection sites for heroin users.
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Black votes matter since each one of their votes holds equal weight to everyone else's. AGC.
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Grimdude posted:Question: are illegal immigrants (who I'm sure can't vote anyway) largely liberal voters? Aren't they pretty conservative ? They're often socially conservatives, yes, but that the main conservative party in the USA insists that they should not be considered to have the same human rights as people with a whiter skin does tend to be the vote-swaying issue.
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Good gods, I was the willfully dense one all along. Editing out all evidence of ever misreading a cartoon, in eternal shame.
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