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Jedit posted:And thus it is shown that Mac can actually be funny when he avoids politics and sexual morality (even if he has no idea how much hash to put in a hash cake). Eh, with Mac there seems to be no middle ground between 'utterly dull and pointless' and 'utterly disgusting bigotry', even if he manages to suppress his hatred of gay people he's not a very good or interesting cartoonist.
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Fluo posted:Telegraph: I probably shouldn't find this so amusing but I've gotten a lot of schadenfreude from the middle class screeching now that benefits cuts are happening to them as well. They probably don't even consider themselves to be really on benefits, benefits are something that scum receive after all and they're Valuable Members Of Society. So their payments are completely justified unlike that chav on the dole I bet he's living it up on his £71 a week that bastard. Ideally this would convince them that the Tories and their neoliberal policies are designed to gently caress everyone over but I'm sure they'll continue being as myopic as ever.
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Fluo posted:UKIPgraph: I love how even a guy who's presumably on Farage's side is incapable of drawing him as anything other than a smug arsehole.
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It's quite a feat for a political cartoon to make me feel the same level of visceral disgust I have for this government.
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Jan 9, 2013 13:48
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Probably not the best metaphor to use if you're trying to dismiss global warming seeing as Noah was completely right despite being mocked relentlessly and everyone who mocked him died horribly in the flood.
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Fluo posted:Diana Express: Almost certainly the most factual thing that will be printed in the Express today.
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But it comes across as a parody of those arguments because the scenario presented is so utterly ludicrous. I'd be certain it actually was a parody if it wasn't coming from the Express.
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Jan 23, 2013 16:08
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Jedit posted:And it's actually a very subtle and clever joke - which makes me wonder if it's intentional. This is a Daily Mail cartoon so I'm going to assume that the intended meaning doesn't rely on a knowledge of BDSM relationships. Honestly it reminded me of the story Greek historians made up about how Xerxes had the sea whipped after a storm destroyed the bridge he'd had built so his armies could invade Greece. That'd be an amusing comment on Cameron's idiocy but again I'm going to assume that's not the intended meaning.
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Jedit posted:Don't worry, so do I. It was a bit involved just to do an AGC, is all. Ah, should have guessed that. Although the media has become so obsessed with putting 50 Shades into everything that part of me was worried you were right. 
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Jan 24, 2013 19:42
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Rowson's somehow incredibly good at drawing both utterly grotesque and extremely adorable things. That fur cup. 
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Fluo posted:Telegraph: Heh, Osborne's face in this is great. Cartoonists seem to be very good at capturing his vileness in general. And the Scarfe thing is a case of unfortunate timing but unless you're one of those people who thinks criticism of Israel is inherently anti-Semitic there's nothing to discuss really.
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Yeah, it's not the best joke but Clegg got an actual laugh out of me which is generally more than even the cartoons I agree with can accomplish. And I think the Torygraph have backed the Conservatives in every election ever, even back in 2001 when literally no over paper did. So if they're starting to snipe at the party it's not a great sign, although I imagine they'll get back in line when it comes to election season.
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Jan 31, 2013 15:14
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Fluo posted:
I use the Tube about once a year on average so I don't see what this is getting it. Travelling on the Tube is... bad? Not fun?
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Exclamation Marx posted:Full of minorities. Welp, I'm not as good as picking up on racism as I thought. Saw the minorities and just thought 'well duh, it's London'. I was assuming it was some banal comic about how people don't talk to each other on the Tube or something...
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Naturally most cartoons focus on gay marriage today. Surprisingly little passion or vitriol, most of them are going for A Thing Happened mixed with laughing at Cameron Guardian:   Daily Mail:  quote:“Don’t raise your hopes, Norman. I’ve got a feeling Brad Pitt is already spoken for.” Telegraph:  Express:  Independent: 
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Fluo posted:Torygraph: I guess the quote is meant to make him look like a glorious hero (albeit a  FRENCH one) but the actual cartoon makes him look like an idiot on a Light Brigade-esque charge. As it's the Telegraph I'm genuinely not sure whether or not that's intentional.
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If we want to really take the metaphor and run with it the Tories will win the battle but will in the long-term be broken by it. In two decades time a resurgent NUT will conquer the Home Counties with ease.
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Fluo posted:Daily Mail: This would be awesome, both because they deserve each other and because the bastards who make up the Catholic hierarchy over here might actually throw a bigger fit then they did over gay marriag.
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Feb 12, 2013 11:41
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Fluo posted:Finally found a photo of him. Oh gently caress you, because of that I actually checked the OP and found out that Mac has an MBE.  If that doesn't prove the utter bankruptcy of the current system I don't know what will.Interesting to see even the Express doesn't seem to be defending IDS, even if the joke is '  our lot have hosed things up so bad you might as well throw away your degree and acccept a life of menial labour!'
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Fluo posted:Daily Mail: It's fascinating how perfectly the media's proving Mantel's point in their hysteria over this. Even with the normally low standards of our press this is an astonishing lack of self-awareness.
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The line they're taking on this is sociopathic even by Mail/Express standards. Those kids apparently don't deserve proper housing so I guess they should all either live in one room and be grateful for it or the mother should do the decent thing and kill them all so they won't be a burden on the state.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Would it somehow be more acceptable if the family were split into two three bedroom houses? I doubt it'd be grabbing headlines if that were the case... She'd still get attacked for daring to have children while on benefits (mostly by people who would also be screaming at her if she dared to have an abortion) but it wouldn't be quite as big a story.
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Who'd have expected the Mail to be the first paper to openly call for class war? 
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Fluo posted:Telegraph: Clegg and Milliband are bullying Cameron by... trying to implement the recommendations of an inquiry specifically set up to recommend how to change our hosed-up media? How awful? Also at this point I think even most Torygraph readers are going to side with the people beating up Cameron. quote:Daily Mail:
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Fluo posted:
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Fluo posted:Telegraph: This may be embarrassingly ignorant of me but who the hell is that meant to be in the last panel?
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quote:drat, this hit home pretty hard for me. My European boyfriend wants to live and work in this country but he's getting increasingly unsettled by the tone of the rhetoric on immigration from all sides- there aren't exactly many voices speaking up in favour of immigrants these days. quote:Indy:
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That's a pretty good cartoon, famous deaths seem to bring out the best on Bors. As ever the milk bottle suffers most. 
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Fluo posted:Telegraph: That's a horrifically drawn cartoon,  Merkel is pretty great though.
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God help me I laughed at a Mac. Bad puns.
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What the gently caress is up with those Guardsmen? He's not even trying with them, I guess making Fergie look vaguely human used up the last scraps of his artistic talent.
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Cloud Potato posted:Telegraph: This guy's opinions vary from banal to lovely but he's not bad as a cartoonist, he's often able to amuse me somewhat which is a rare talent in a political cartoonist. I'm not sure what the intended message is but I like the image of Abe sitting at the side rolling his eyes at the wacky antics of his fellow world leaders.
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I never realised how morbid the whole thing is until I saw all these 'ahahahah they just can't wait for their elderly relative to die!' cartoons...
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A Not Awful Telegraph Cartoon?  Though it's not that praiseworthy as attacking the rail system as it is is the lowest hanging fruit imaginable.
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So are the energy companies greedy bastards or delicate waifs that we need to protect from Ed Milliband's Stalinist purges I'm confused.
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