Lady Naga posted:

Don't worry, they'll be replaced with twice as many "latuff sucks/no he doesn't" arguments.

Funosaurus posted:

Not only are there a lot of words without anything really added by the illustrations, the font is impenetrable to the eye.

Lady Naga posted:

Well obviously furry anime deviantart drawings are worth less than incoherent Ramirez scribblings because, uh...

He was able to bullshit his way through his career longer????????

toanoradian posted:

Maybe all his rants are based on experience of studying a field he later considered useless.

(What do PoliSci graduates do?)

Zanzibar Ham posted:

Can't wait for his tweets when other world leaders don't treat him as he thinks they should.

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Pudding Space posted:

In this thread: People who argue over cartoon correctness wonder why they didn't connect with a wider demographic...

crowoutofcontext posted:

Unlike Rall's cackling psychopath Obama I think the real Obama feels some abstracted level of remorse when he fucks up and a sort of perpetual but perfectly manageable anxiety about certain global issues unfolding.F or example, II think when he appeared to cry after Newton he had gone thru the mental exercise of imaging his daughters being gunned down for no reason. All that type of poo poo and stress ages you.

I dunno what Trumps deal is but I dont think his brain really procceses things the same way so I dunno if he will age hugely.

Xander77 posted:

Mako projects Trumps presidency, based on promises he made during his campaign. He promised to:


Never participate in a bike race
"Sorry, I made a promise"


"We need 10$ to place the final brick.
Hey Pedro, you got a tenner? Now, who's going to give me a ride home?"


Find and kill terrorist family members
"Tralalala"


Place surveillance systems in mosques


Throw Bergdahl out of a plane over Afghanistan
"I shouldn't have participated in the kidnappers BBQ"


Force Nabisco to make Oreos in the US
"Don't be stingy with the cream!"


Always refer to the Iranian supreme leader as a "baby".
"Hey babe, what's up? I'm not a baby "


Allow people to say "Marry Christmas"
"merry christmas"


Never take a vacation


Blow up ISIS, take away their oil, and give the profits to injured veterans
"Mazal Tov! There's a gift card attached."


Jail Hillary for the email scandal
"Where's the wi-fi?"


Take care of women


Improve the national mood
"We rock!"

xthetenth posted:

How about you listen to minority voices about ways you can help, confront racism when you see it and actually be willing to put anything whatsoever on the line (even the discomfort of dealing with criticism in an adult way) is pretty good advice, and I'm sorry your feelings weren't coddled enough and it made you uncomfortable.


gently caress people who claim to be allies and do jack poo poo to help when it might inconvenience them in any way is pretty drat relevant.

majormonotone posted:

you're an idiot

FactsAreUseless posted:

Dammit! Why aren't we being rewarded for empty gestures? Someone used an angry tone of voice with me. Reverse racism! SJWs!

Cat Mattress posted:

What the gently caress is "loxism"?

FactsAreUseless posted:

Why? I still have my switchblade and greaser pompadour.

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eviltastic posted:

Might be old news to some of you, but in trying to look up Israeli reactions to the Bannon thing, I discovered that Gingrich was arguing yesterday that it's preposterous to call Bannon an anti-Semite, given that he worked for an investment bank and was a producer in Hollywood. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-transcript-november-13-2016-gingrich-sanders/

Jerusalem posted:

How... how the gently caress can this be intended to read any other way than Obama trying to forge a new path and lamenting that America chose to repeat the mistakes of the past instead?

I mean, it's obviously meant to be an anti-Obama cartoon and I guess it's trying to say,"Barack Obama - the first black President of the United States of America - won't be remembered by history" but the execution is stunningly bad.

Edit: Nope I'm just a dummy who didn't get the obvious "Obama wanted to take the country left but America is going right." Putting "history" in there muddies the waters but it still should have been obvious.

Les Affaires posted:

Is it just me or is the british political cartoon aesthetic just a little too jarring?

FactsAreUseless posted:

British humor is two men farting while saying the word "fanny" and laughing drunkenly.

Mister Beeg posted:

When pictures of Trump meeting with Obama post-election came out, Trump looked absolutely miserable. Like, one would think he'd be smirking in a smug fashion or something, but Trump had the face that said "what the hell did I get myself into?".

I'll admit that I got a little schadenfreude out of that.

Shangri-Law School posted:

Strange that we haven't seen any people that voted Trump as a joke, like with Brexit.

Though a majority of Americans did vote against Trump, so we aren't as dumb as the Brits.

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Cape Cod Crab Chip posted:

You're not the first person to get really worked up at JRRose! and I still don't understand. It's a picture of Santa encroaching on Thanksgiving, it's super harmless, to me anyway. You said it's irrational but would you still mind working out the reason why that cartoon angered you?

Lord Hydronium posted:

I'm not angry about it myself, but I imagine the sheer banality of it versus all the actual important crazy poo poo going on that a political cartoonist could be spending effort on commenting about could get to somebody.

On the other hand, it's JRRose!

Cape Cod Crab Chip posted:

Fair enough! I like JRRose! or at least tolerate him precisely because he's so often apolitical and doesn't bother being in the opinion business. Sure, he's conservative and wrong when he bothers to be political but that he often doesn't is, I think, preferable. Best say nothing if you don't have anything to say. JRRose! is dadjokes dot cartoonist, he makes his living telling jokes for people whose sense of humor is alien to mine.

Fojar38 posted:

For some reason this makes me more angry than even McCoy's fascist apologia

NoEyedSquareGuy posted:

I don't know what the hell is going on in this thread but here's a new Bad Reporter:

Memento posted:

I think the most hilarious part about that little brain malfunction was his assumption that no one in this thread ever went anywhere really lovely to shoot at and be shot at by people who were trying to preserve their way of life as well. Or that both sides did all that at the behest of old rich men in power so they could stay rich and in power and that there's no way anyone could do all of that and then come back with a disdain for the government of the time and of conservatives in general.

Nahh we must all be latte sipping lefty scum who would never risk their comfortable lifestyle, let alone their life, to try to make things better for anyone else on this dirtball.

Fulchrum posted:

I mean stuff like, before a transwoman begins hormone therapy and/or surgery, is it common for them to freeze a sample of their sperm so that later in their life, if they want a biological child, they can still have one? And ditto for a transman and their eggs?

ratbert90 posted:

Wasn't Castro Catholic? If so lol he's in heaven with Hitler.

Ularg posted:

"I hope people I disagree with in politics die and also they're as bad as an actual dictator." - Ben Garrison.

Horrible Lurkbeast posted:

Does Garrison actually disagree with Kissinger's opinions?
or does he just hate him because he's a jew?

Cat Mattress posted:

Where's Rainbow Dash?

Cpt.Americant posted:

Is this a reference to something specific? I feel like I'm missing something.

SwitchbladeKult posted:

It says more about humanity in general.

xthetenth posted:

The takeaway is that adding in (a character from a tv show that the commentator had time to build empathy for) helps (commentator) feel empathy for the people in that situation. If you don't have that connection, it's adding in (character from a children's TV show), and it makes no sense, but that it's that particular character from that particular TV show is irrelevant. The crux is that the person felt less empathy for actual human beings than for a character in a tv show, that over a decade of education doesn't do a good job of building the skills to empathize with people to the point where a few years of maybe a day of content each does a much better job of making the viewer feel empathy for the character. That's an indictment of the whole of humanity and a lot more relevant than "lol bronies can't even relate on an emotional level to the holocaust". Ask people studying the holocaust or military history about how it takes work to identify with the people they study and the enormity of what happened and how frequently they have their own tricks to do it and to properly understand what's going on rather than mentally flattening it to an emotionless number. That they each have their own tricks that at best are passed down from teacher to student goes to show how weird and distorted an idea people get of this, because a lot of people don't have the benefit of those tricks.

It's similar to how, without prompting, most people read through survivors' narratives and don't really get that their gut is right, that there sure are a bunch of close calls, and getting lucky in all those ways is unlikely. Of course the survivors have close calls where they got lucky because if they didn't get lucky they wouldn't be survivors writing down their accounts, now would they?