Space Cadet Omoly posted:

What the gently caress would a middle ground compromise even be in this situation? Should the kid be half-vaccinated?

Venom Snake posted:

Over the long game yeah most nations know they can't beat us, but many have plans to deal with isolated incursions. Only nations that honestly think they could go head to head with us is Russia and China, and even china admits they have such a piss poor navy they would never be able to establish naval dominance.

pwn posted:

ME AM PLAY GOD!

loquacius posted:

ftfy

As said earlier: it's an old joke and I'm sick of it

Xenochrist posted:

But there's only one B in his name.

Jeb Bush is redundant. His nickname should've been Je Bush.

Or just Jeb, no last name.

loquacius posted:

This comic was just put up on The Nib; I quite like it

Broken Loose posted:

Holy poo poo, I never saw the housing bubble comic. You'd think maybe Allie would reel it in after being so incredibly wrong about that before ranting about how there won't be a recession.

Deep Hurting posted:

Neither option is likely to be better than mediocre: One option seems to use liberalism as a facade for troubling, right wing philosophies only slightly less conservative than the openly anti-science option which refuses to change a formula that hasn't done audiences any good for over two decades. Luckily, there is a third, much better option available, with a genuinely-progressive message at its core: Bernie "Fury Road" Sanders. A good movie. A good candidate for President. A Good Cartoon.

Ralepozozaxe posted:

To a libertarian, everything you like is a libertarian parable.

there wolf posted:

Well it's mostly just anti-fascism with the anarchist elements wrapped up in the fight against the state more than presented as an alternate form of government all together. Anyone who feels government power stems from the public and the public has every right to take it away is going to be sympathetic of that, and that's pretty much everyone with any kind of anti-authoritarian ideology, be it the authority of the ruling class for communists, or the authority of the state for libertarians and anarchists.

there wolf posted:

I don't remember either of those, but it's been a while since I've seen the film... are you sure you're not thinking of stuff from the comic? Ball of Sadness sounds like the sort of thing that would have been super heavy-handed in the film and thus hard to forget. Or wait... was there some kind of mind control thing along with the radio trucks spying on everyone? Are you just loving with me as some sort of meta-commentary on the themes unreliable information and general paranoia that are key to the film and comic?

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

Shugojin posted:

The reading is "Greece should have deployed austerity a long time ago".

Ramirez ignores that austerity is terrible for countries and their people, because it lets countries make payments to credit agencies who are worse than satan and also Ramirez' s employers

Chimera-gui posted:

Amateur work, amateur level intelligence courtesy of DeviantArt nitwit doctirderp:

Wildeyes posted:

Occasional Some Gizmo comics or no, Two Bulls is one of the only cartoonists I genuinely enjoy reading in this thread. And even his Some Gizmo comics provide palefaces like me some insight into tribal culture/social dynamics (which I would otherwise know nothing about), so they're not a total waste of time.

vyelkin posted:

I dont know posted:

Victim blaming at it's finest. How do you sleep at night?

colonel_korn posted:

THE EPIC SAGA CONTINUES!

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snakeandbake posted:

death to mike lester for this terrible terrible piece of garbage

loquacius posted:

Kasich (governor of Ohio) is running for president. He has said that he would abolish teachers' lounges because they only serve as a place for teachers to laze around and complain.

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Fuckin telekinetic bandito drug lords YOU ARE WHAT MAKES AMERICA BAD

Electro-Boogie Jack posted:

Seriously, if you ever want to see an insane display of Australian racism, just whisper the word 'abbo' near one. Even if they know you're baiting them, they'll still end up ranting for hours.

alnilam posted:

Also voting for e.g. Bernie even if you believe he won't win tells the mainstream dems that a portion of their base finds them too conservative. They analyze their constituents as demographics and en masse, so you might as well try to influence them in the same way.

That's honestly how I see my power as a voter, much more so than actually considering the victory or loss of the person I voted for, since most politicians in office are center-right pieces of poo poo anyway.

vyelkin posted:

It turns out that When the Prime Minister Does It, It's Not Illegal.

aka turns out 90% of Canadian governance was just according to convention with no actual rules or laws saying what you can and can't do and then we elected someone who didn't give a poo poo about convention and did whatever the gently caress he wanted and then we realized that there are actually no checks on the power of the prime minister's office

Broken Loose posted:

An... unironically good Ted Rall? What the hell? The perspective isn't even terribly hosed up or anything.

Geostomp posted:

I don't get that more than a decade of military quagmire in the region has failed to convince some people that we can't just bomb our problems away. Is the potential for pointless dick-waving speeches just too much for their insecurities to pass up?

WarpedNaba posted:

Gonna play Devil's Advocate here and say: Yes, actually, that is a valid concern. Prince Phillip has a rep for that poo poo.

Der Waffle Mous posted:

No there's a lot of that, too.

But yeah it tends to get brought up as a "well you weren't always here so..." attempt at delegitimizing natives.

Reaganomicon posted:

I know this was a couple pages back, but god.

This cartoon is literally saying that the land bridge theory for the peopling of the americas, which is what loving happened (there might have also been some coastal migrations along the western coasts of the continents, and there was a more recent peopling only a couple thousand years ago that became the inuits), is inferior to native creation myths. All of the genetic/morphological/archaelogical evidence overwhelmingly points to a central asian origin for native americans but no, the rain god actually formed the first humans out of maize dough, or whatever.

I try to be respectful of religious beliefs, but this is just ignoring reality because it's inconvenient or makes you uncomfortable or because white people came up with it. I also really hate NAGPRA but that's for a different thread.

Gyre posted:

The skulls wanting to go home is just the icing on the cake for me. I can't stand people thinking that 14,000 year old human remains should be hidden away from science because of the religious beliefs of today's people, no matter if you're related to them. Hell, 99% of humanity's ancestors would probably be utterly terrified by the idea what someone is digging up their bones and disturbing their grave, but how are we supposed to learn anything if we let religion control what we can and cannot do in science?

Monaghan posted:

The idea that archaeologists are digging up the bones just to discredit land claims seems pretty ridiculous.

CampingCarl posted:

Not really sure why the elephant is there.