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pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Tatum Girlparts posted:

Hahaha lookit this sad little man.

Ah yes, the execution via firing squad that routinely happens during the "Trial" phase of the US court system.

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Prokhor Zakharov
Dec 31, 2008


This is me as I make another great post


Good luck with your depression!

pentyne posted:

Ah yes, the execution via firing squad that routinely happens during the "Trial" phase of the US court system.

It does when you borrow your guns back from kenyan usurpers!!

Dr.Zeppelin
Dec 5, 2003

pentyne posted:

Ah yes, the execution via firing squad that routinely happens during the "Trial" phase of the US court system.

Why do we need a trial? He put himself on trial by ballot when he illegally tried to declare himself dictator and run for a third term, and We The People voted Guilty of Tyranny.

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost

Dr.Zeppelin posted:

Why do we need a trial? He put himself on trial by ballot when he illegally tried to declare himself dictator and run for a third term, and We The People voted Guilty of Tyranny.

I mean, Zed testified against him! That means that he must be wrong.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Post 9-11 User posted:

More like $30 if you're lucky enough to have a Planned Parenthood in town.

Most places? $70 and above. Get hosed you lovely rear end in a top hat cartoonist that doesn't know what it's like to live in the very country he is published in.
It doesn't matter. Birth control could cost a dollar a year (I know a few people who get it for free, thanks Obama), it still wouldn't matter. When you discuss the cost, you cede the framing of the discussion to assholes, and once you've done that you've already lost.

Abrogating a right is wrong no matter how great or how little the monetary cost. If the feds started charging people two bucks a week to go to church, no one would defend it by saying "well poo poo that's only eight bucks a month sooo..."

Apple Pie Hubbub
Feb 14, 2012

Take that, you greedy jerk!
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Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it

Whoever said Tinsley should stick to non-political stuff is spot-on. I actually chuckled at this a bit and it isn't even the tiniest bit hateful!

MrUnderbridge
Jun 25, 2011

That's a real degree, right?


I swear, at first glance I thought Thomas was blowing god...

RyokoTK
Feb 12, 2012

I am cool.

Holy poo poo this is a genuinely good joke, what the gently caress is happening.

quote:

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:fuckoff:

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

As someone pursuing a basic STEM degree, gently caress off with that smug "Good luck with that English degree champ :smug:" bullshit

Especially from a person whose whole career is based in the arts. Ramirez actually was planning to go to med school and decided to do cartooning instead, but if a kid did that TODAY I bet Ramirez would tell them to get hosed. The cognitive dissonance is amazing :psyduck:

A HUNGRY MOUTH
Nov 3, 2006

date of birth: 02/05/88
manufacturer: mazda
model/year: 2008 mazda6
sexuality: straight, bi-curious
peircings: pusspuss



Nap Ghost

But then he'd have $320,000 in student loan debt!! That doesn't seem like very helpful advice at all!!

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling




This cartoon taught me that I went into the wrong loving field of academia, but I don't think I learned the lesson Ramirez wanted me to learn. :shrek:

Dr. VooDoo
May 4, 2006



"Get a REAL degree so you can do something that matters you loser college students"
- A man who poorly draws political cartoons in a dying medium for a living

Vox Valentine
May 31, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.


I feel like that in the midst of searching for porn, Ramirez saw the word "scatalogical" pop up in common search results. And he said "hmm. This word has five of those word-beat things. This must be a smart word. I can use this in my next political cartoon by combining Smart Word with a Liberal Thing!"

And thus Scatalogical Poetry was born.

the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!


Pee-pee, doo-doo, it is a bad degree?

CampingCarl
Apr 28, 2008




That is a pretty ironic cartoon for a scatological cartoonist.

Melaneus
Aug 24, 2007

Here to make your dreams and nightmares come true.

SCAT 104 - 3 Credits - The Complete Works of Chris Muir
Explore the astounding mastery of the craft by this genre's Shakespeare, writer of the epic collection of scatalogical sonnets titled "Day by Day".

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005

I'm feeling Jimmy


A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:

But then he'd have $320,000 in student loan debt!! That doesn't seem like very helpful advice at all!!
It is kind of ironic Ramirez is suggesting this guy use deficit spending to deal with his economic problems.

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

My scatological poem

by axolotl farmer

skee-bop-da-be-bop-doo
roses are red violets are blue

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

Mozart was pretty big on scatological poetry.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?


Lucky for the recent grad, a job suddenly became available at the help center when the spiteful, unhelpful and abusive woman working there was fired.

Swan Oat
Oct 9, 2012

I was selected for my skill.
I studied poetry and a foreign language in college and now I make above the median household income, checkmate Ramirez :smug:

e: I even made a TS Eliot joke at work today that nobody got :v:

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

Nanomashoes posted:

Mozart was pretty big on scatological poetry.
Ramirez has no taste :colbert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cnQCk0u49w

Dr Christmas
Apr 24, 2010

Berninating the one percent,
Berninating the Wall St.
Berninating all the people
In their high rise penthouses!
🔥😱🔥🔫👴🏻
Guys, I'm worried Ramirez might be right. If he can get paid to draw that, what excuse do the rest of us having trouble with the job market have?

Mellow Seas
Oct 9, 2012
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
Does Ramirez realize that liberal arts degrees, being liberal arts degrees, all include a requirement of basic math skills? For that matter, does Ramirez think basic math is an actual job skill in the modern economy?

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug

Mellow Seas posted:

Does Ramirez realize that liberal arts degrees, being liberal arts degrees, all include a requirement of basic math skills? For that matter, does Ramirez think basic math is an actual job skill in the modern economy?
I was liberal arts all the way through (as an undergrad anyway), and waived the math requirement by taking programming instead, I wonder if that counts for Ramirez? Anyway, I think he was trying to say that because the guy didn't have math skills, he didn't know $160k was a lot of money.

Zemyla
Aug 6, 2008

I'll take her off your hands. Pleasure doing business with you!

Dr Christmas posted:

Guys, I'm worried Ramirez might be right. If he can get paid to draw that, what excuse do the rest of us having trouble with the job market have?
Well, unfortunately, he and Branco have cornered the "lovely underachiever" market, despire Muir trying to break into it.

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost

Samurai Sanders posted:

I was liberal arts all the way through (as an undergrad anyway), and waived the math requirement by taking programming instead, I wonder if that counts for Ramirez? Anyway, I think he was trying to say that because the guy didn't have math skills, he didn't know $160k was a lot of money.

I think it's because he obviously lacked the good sales sense and business know-how provided by a subscription to Investor's Business Daily, and so he invested a lot of money in a whole lot of flowery poo poo.

That Old Tree
Jun 24, 2012

nah


Xander77 posted:

Does anyone have an average/median monthly medical insurance cost in the US? I need it for a very important facebook burn, but google gives me highly variable results.

Well, this Wiki article says this:

quote:

From 1999 to 2009, Kaiser found that the insurance premiums had climbed 131% or 13.1% per year, and workers’ contribution toward paying that premium jumped 128% or 12.8% per year. In 1999, workers’ average contribution to the premium was $1543, and in 2009 it was $3515. For employers, their contribution was $4247 in 1999 and $9860 in 2009. [5]

Also according to Wikipedia the median income in 2009 was about $50k.

Fulchrum
Apr 16, 2013

by R. Guyovich

Melaneus posted:

SCAT 104 - 3 Credits - The Complete Works of Chris Muir
Explore the astounding mastery of the craft by this genre's Shakespeare, writer of the epic collection of scatalogical sonnets titled "Day by Day".

SCAT 136 - "IT'S poo poo", and other works of Eric Allie.

Dr Christmas posted:

Guys, I'm worried Ramirez might be right. If he can get paid to draw that, what excuse do the rest of us having trouble with the job market have?

It gets better when you remember that how talented you are and how hard you work has no bearing whatsoever on how much you get paid.

Wait no it doesn't :smith:

Prokhor Zakharov
Dec 31, 2008


This is me as I make another great post


Good luck with your depression!

Fulchrum posted:

It gets better when you remember that how talented you are and how hard you work has no bearing whatsoever on how much you get paid.

Wait no it doesn't :smith:

Uh it worked for Ramirez and since everything is exactly the same as back then everyone should be able to do the same forever :ocelot::ortiz:

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012


gently caress you you dumb oval office, I have a Bachelor of Science majoring in maths and opportunities are incredibly limited, because "maths" isn't what's in demand, statistics/economics/whatever's relevant to your field of work is. I'm so loving sick of this worship of STEM majors, mostly because the people that scream the loudest about doing a STEM degree haven't been anywhere near the fields. Does anyone remember the talking point response for people who couldn't find work after graduating with a science degree?

sub supau
Aug 28, 2007

CampingCarl posted:

That is a pretty ironic cartoon for a scatological cartoonist.
He's not a scatologist, he's a scatographer.

Kegluneq
Feb 18, 2011

Mr President, the physical reality of Prime Minister Corbyn is beyond your range of apprehension. If you'll just put on these PINKOVISION glasses...

BBJoey posted:

Does anyone remember the talking point response for people who couldn't find work after graduating with a science degree?
Yep, move five states (or if you live in Europe, countries) away chasing jobs that might exist there. After all, it worked for these (young, single, white) guys on the news (who are specifically shown because it did actually work out for them)! Note that this is still all tied into the whole 'unemployed people are just lazy, there are plenty of jobs' meme.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
MacKay was on vacation and I've been busy, so here are his cartoons since he got back.

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An Egyptian-Canadian dual citizen journalist was recently found guilty of journalism supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and our government doesn't care very much beyond stock responses of outrage and condemnation. At least they said they won't revoke his citizenship like a recent laws they passed says they totally could!

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Our Justice Minister, Peter MacKay, is in trouble over two recent incidents where he showed some misogyny. In one, he said that less women are becoming judges than men because they have families instead so they don't apply (something statistics doesn't back up) and in the other he sent out Mother's Day memos congratulating mothers for changing diapers and doing parental work, and then sent out Father's Day memos congratulating fathers for shaping the minds of their children. His defence has been really weak too, basically boiling down to "It's okay that I was misogynistic because a female staffer in my office actually wrote those memos, stop being mean to me. :qq:"

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Andrea Horwath lost the Ontario election, lost any power in the legislature, and is now just a passive observer for the next four years instead of a participant.

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Yesterday was Canada Day but beyond that I don't know :wtc:


Bonus Peter MacKay cartoon gallery:

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Vulpes Vvardenfell
Jan 30, 2011

"But even advanced nuclear nations have so far not had great success in finding efficient peaceful uses for nuclear explosions."

Oh really now?

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Vulpes Vvardenfell posted:

"But even advanced nuclear nations have so far not had great success in finding efficient peaceful uses for nuclear explosions."

Oh really now?
Well, it's not like the US didn't try. :v:

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.



Plague of Hats posted:

Well, this Wiki article says this:


Also according to Wikipedia the median income in 2009 was about $50k.
I noticed, but I'm a bit more interested in the figures for 2014.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.



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esto es malo
Aug 3, 2006

Don't want to end up a cartoon

In a cartoon graveyard


I have a PhD in A Real Science and this poo poo pisses me off to no end. More people should be encouraged to branch out into "weird" or contentious areas instead of just having a trillion people with degrees in the same poo poo. Not to mention people are proficient and enjoy applying themselves to an enormous range of different poo poo. A dedicated MFA grad is worth a thousand Ramirez or McCoys when it comes to improving the community and world around them.

For all the clamoring by the right over free market hoorah, they seem to conveniently forget that there isn't an infinite number of Engineer or Scientist I - IV positions regardless of how much they hate liberal arts. I won't even get into the debate over the industry's desire to drive down tech position wages by increasing applicant competition either since that's a whole other can of rage.

BBJoey posted:

gently caress you you dumb oval office, I have a Bachelor of Science majoring in maths and opportunities are incredibly limited, because "maths" isn't what's in demand, statistics/economics/whatever's relevant to your field of work is. I'm so loving sick of this worship of STEM majors, mostly because the people that scream the loudest about doing a STEM degree haven't been anywhere near the fields. Does anyone remember the talking point response for people who couldn't find work after graduating with a science degree?

The response should be "gently caress off you ignorant rear end in a top hat" because someone piling on an unemployed graduate is blind to the most apparent of current events. The idea that a grad doesn't find a job simply because of their own faults is the pinnacle of contemporary just-world bullshit. The same person who takes shots at someone unemployed with a degree right now is probably using unemployment as a cudgel to characterize the current administration's efforts and validity which only further illuminates how hollow the detractors' positions are in reality.

esto es malo fucked around with this message at 12:34 on Jul 2, 2014

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