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Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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I'm the Shanghai tower featured in the Hong Kong skyline

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Garrand
Dec 28, 2012

Rhino, you did this to me!

I unbookmarked this thread in November and decided to come back to the new thread. Read 3 pages and I already can't take it. Jesus I don't know how you people can do this anymore.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Samurai Sanders posted:

Are they flying up in the air from being shot?

Blown by explosions, except there were no explosions in the Istanbul attack...

escapegoat
Aug 18, 2013

Pants Donkey posted:

I wonder how much poo poo they got for including Palestine in that

Not as much as they got for including Taiwan I imagine.

escapegoat fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Jan 2, 2017

King Possum III
Feb 15, 2016


"Drop your bombs between the minarets"

ACRE & EQUAT
Aug 28, 2004

FUNERAL BREADS
WAR BREAD
what is the goku loving the old guy in the op's title image from?

SirSamVimes
Jul 21, 2008

~* Challenge *~


Carlos Latuff drew it.

Jurgan
May 8, 2007

Just pour it directly into your gaping mouth-hole you decadent slut

Technowolf posted:



New Years Resolutions: then and now.

"Jupiterian" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. The correct adjective is "Jovian."
:goonsay:

Trapezium Dave
Oct 22, 2012

Fojar38 posted:

I'm the Shanghai tower featured in the Hong Kong skyline
The Sydney is apparently the one from the Mirror Universe, which is also the one with the really lovely bridge.

Jurgan
May 8, 2007

Just pour it directly into your gaping mouth-hole you decadent slut

Xenoveritas posted:

Bad lesson to learn from that. The polling wasn't that bad. Even before the election, the race was close enough that pollsters knew Trump could still win.

Yeah, the issue wasn't the polls themselves. It was more that the people reporting on the polls couldn't believe Trump could win, so they spun them in a way that made Clinton seem inevitable. Silver and Co. got that mistake out of their system in the primaries, when they marked Trump's chance of getting the nomination somewhere between 2 and negative 10 percent, so they were chastened and more cautious in the general.

Elysiume
Aug 13, 2009

Alone, she fights.

Memento posted:

There was a suicide bombing :(

Edit: wait, no, that was Baghdad. I guess they're being shot into the air? :shrug:
There was a mass shooting in Istanbul on New Year's Day.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Elysiume posted:

There was a mass shooting in Istanbul on New Year's Day.

Yeah I mixed it up with the suicide bombing in Baghdad from NYE.

Abyssal Squid
Jul 24, 2003

Jurgan posted:

Yeah, the issue wasn't the polls themselves. It was more that the people reporting on the polls couldn't believe Trump could win, so they spun them in a way that made Clinton seem inevitable. Silver and Co. got that mistake out of their system in the primaries, when they marked Trump's chance of getting the nomination somewhere between 2 and negative 10 percent, so they were chastened and more cautious in the general.

There's also the fact that under a functioning political system, Trump winning SHOULD have been impossible. The problem is that the people in gatekeeping this election (GOP leadership primarily, but later on the Electoral College) seem to have assumed that ~The Process~ magically screens out unacceptable candidates and they didn't have to do anything special.

Ugh, there was a post on 538 about that back in the early days of the election, but I'm having trouble finding it.

the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!


So, the first Gorrell of the new year is a re-run? That's rather fitting.

U.T. Raptor
May 11, 2010

Are you a pack of imbeciles!?

Abyssal Squid posted:

There's also the fact that under a functioning political system, Trump winning SHOULD have been impossible. The problem is that the people in gatekeeping this election (GOP leadership primarily, but later on the Electoral College) seem to have assumed that ~The Process~ magically screens out unacceptable candidates and they didn't have to do anything special.

Ugh, there was a post on 538 about that back in the early days of the election, but I'm having trouble finding it.
The problem is that the Republicans don't want a functional political system, and since no one (especially the voters) is ever willing to hold them accountable for their actions they're getting exactly what they want.

Starving Wolf
Apr 2, 2010

MUCH LATER
Yams Fan

the_steve posted:

So, the first Gorrell of the new year is a re-run? That's rather fitting.

Second, actually, the one before this was a repeat as well.

Gorrell should teach a master's course on how to be a lazy shitheel. He could record the first 2 minutes of the first lesson, leave the other 88 minutes blank ("and here's what the lesson would be like If I wasn't here"), and then just replay that recording for his students for all remaining lessons. It's gotta be more lucrative than cartooning.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Starving Wolf posted:

Gorrell should teach a master's course on how to be a lazy shitheel.

He would, but he unwittingly signed a non-compete agreement with Kirschen because he was too lazy to read the fine prints.

Duke Igthorn
Oct 11, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

What a thoughtful cartoon that I'm sure had a lot of reflection and contemplation put into it to perfectly sculpt its message to these trying times.

Oh hold on, I'm getting an email from an alternate, better, timeline:

Fulchrum
Apr 16, 2013

by R. Guyovich
You could insert literally anyone other than Ted Rall and he would have made it.

Abyssal Squid
Jul 24, 2003

U.T. Raptor posted:

The problem is that the Republicans don't want a functional political system, and since no one (especially the voters) is ever willing to hold them accountable for their actions they're getting exactly what they want.

Don't get me wrong, they've been chipping at the country's democratic institutions for decades now, but they still want a functional Republican Party. They didn't want Trump to win, but they decided to go all-in against Cruz instead of Trump, and they didn't pivot fast enough (if it was even possible to pivot at all). Here's the article I was looking for, says it a lot better than my half-rememberings of it.

TheBigAristotle
Feb 8, 2007

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.
I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

Grimey Drawer

Duke Igthorn posted:

What a thoughtful cartoon that I'm sure had a lot of reflection and contemplation put into it to perfectly sculpt its message to these trying times.

Oh hold on, I'm getting an email from an alternate, better, timeline:



No, that's his cartoon from before the election.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

God damn this shit is
fuckin' re-dic-a-liss

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This starts off with a good message, discouraging people from screaming "burn in hell" at the recently deceased in judgment and spite, and maybe even that bit about praying in the public square to flaunt one's faith, but then it ends up being that whole "deeds will not save you" Jack Chick thing again, instead.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Vib Rib posted:

This starts off with a good message, discouraging people from screaming "burn in hell" at the recently deceased in judgment and spite, and maybe even that bit about praying in the public square to flaunt one's faith, but then it ends up being that whole "deeds will not save you" Jack Chick thing again, instead.

Yeah it's all magical words with these motherfuckers, isn't it.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


FronzelNeekburm posted:

Angus got kidnapped and sent to a coffee plantation. I think he's okay with it.


Ah, he's one of these insufferable fuckers who fawns over coffee. That explains so much.

Deep State of Mind
Jul 30, 2006

"It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."
Fun Shoe
Isn't his name like Weed Potman and coffee is a fig leaf for drug use?

Capntastic
Jan 13, 2005

A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

Bloodnose posted:

Isn't his name like Weed Potman and coffee is a fig leaf for drug use?

Yes but also I think he does sell his own line of coffee

King Possum III
Feb 15, 2016

1

"I'd give it a few minutes, kid."

2


3


4

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
Can we, as a society, agree to fast forward a week to bypass any remaining "Trump in a diaper as Baby New Year" cartoons

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:

Can we, as a society, agree to fast forward a week to bypass any remaining "Trump in a diaper as Baby New Year" cartoons
Yeah, please only post them if they're erotic.

neongrey
Feb 28, 2007

Plaguing your posts with incidental music.

A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:

Can we, as a society, agree to fast forward a week to bypass any remaining "Trump in a diaper as Baby New Year" cartoons

How is anyone supposed to tell the difference between that and any given photograph of him?

Silver2195
Apr 4, 2012

Bloodnose posted:

Isn't his name like Weed Potman and coffee is a fig leaf for drug use?

Weed is the rear end in a top hat conservative guy who makes the Weed Whack rants. Angus is the chill coffee-obsessed guy.

Begemot
Oct 14, 2012

The One True Oden

Bloodnose posted:

Isn't his name like Weed Potman and coffee is a fig leaf for drug use?

No, Weed is the mad scientist guy who does the weird rants all the time. The coffee guy is Angus, and I think it's just about how much the author loving loves coffee.

Fulchrum
Apr 16, 2013

by R. Guyovich

neongrey posted:

How is anyone supposed to tell the difference between that and any given photograph of him?

The top hat and the sash.

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005

I'm feeling Jimmy


Shouldn't this be an old man? Or is it baby 2017 wearing an "I survived 2016" T-shirt for some reason?

Trapezium Dave
Oct 22, 2012

Cathy Wilcox:

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

Jonas Albrecht posted:

Ah, he's one of these insufferable fuckers who fawns over coffee. That explains so much.
And that's the most endearing character!

duz
Jul 11, 2005

Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost


FactsAreUseless posted:

Yeah, please only post them if they're erotic.

How can you tell the difference?

twerking on the railroad
Jun 23, 2007

Get on my level

I'm usually gung-ho as gently caress about the Gaybies, but I'm not sure my heart can take reading through comics from the latter half of last year.

Schizotek
Nov 8, 2011

I say, hey, listen to me!
Stay sane inside insanity!!!

Jonas Albrecht posted:

Ah, he's one of these insufferable fuckers who fawns over coffee. That explains so much.

Mahmoud Darwish posted:


I want the aroma of coffee. I want nothing more than the aroma of coffee. And I want nothing more from the passing days than the aroma of coffee. The aroma of coffee so I can hold myself together, stand on my feet, and be transformed from something that crawls, into a human being. The aroma of coffee so I can stand my share of this dawn up on its feet. So that we can go together, this day and I, down into the street in search of another place.

How can I diffuse the aroma of coffee into my cells, while shells from the sea rain down on the sea-facing kitchen, spreading the stink of gunpowder and the taste of nothingness? I measure the period between two shells. One second. One second: shorter than the time between breathing in and breathing out, between two heartbeats. One second is not long enough for me to stand before the stove by the glass facade that overlooks the sea. One second is not long enough to open the water bottle or pour the water into the coffee pot. One second is not long enough to light a match. But one second is long enough for me to burn.

I switch off the radio, no longer wondering if the wall of this narrow hallway will actually protect me from the rain of rockets. What matters is that a wall be there to veil air fusing into metal, seeking human flesh, making a direct hit, choking it, or scattering shrapnel. In such cases a mere dark curtain is enough to provide an imaginary shield of safety. For death is to see death.

I want the aroma of coffee. I need five minutes. I want a five-minute truce for the sake of coffee. I have no personal wish other than to make a cup of coffee. With this madness I define my task and my aim. All my senses are on their mark, ready at the call to propel my thirst in the direction of the one and only goal: coffee.

Coffee, for an addict like me, is the key to the day.

And coffee, for one who knows it as I do, means making it with your own hands and not having it come to you on a tray, because the bringer of the tray is also the bearer of talk, and the first coffee, the virgin of the silent morning, is spoiled by the first words. Dawn, my dawn, is antithetical to chatter. The aroma of coffee can absorb sounds and will go rancid, even if these sounds are nothing more than a gentle “Good morning!”

Coffee is the morning silence, early and unhurried, the only silence in which you can be at peace with self and things, creative, standing alone with some water that you reach for in lazy solitude and pour into a small copper pot with a mysterious shine—yellow turning to brown—that you place over a low fire. Oh, that it were a wood fire!

Stand back from the fire a little and observe a street that has been rising to search for its bread ever since the ape disentangled himself from the trees and walked on two feet. A street borne along on carts loaded with fruits and vegetables, and vendors’ cries notable for faint praise that turns produce into a mere attribute of price. Stand back a little and breathe air sent by the cool night. Then return to your low fire—If only it were a wood fire!—and watch with love and patience the contact between the two elements, fire colored green and blue and water roiling and breathing out tiny white granules that turn into a fine film and grow. Slowly they expand, then quickly swell into bubbles that grow bigger and bigger, and break. Swelling and breaking, they’re thirsty and ready to swallow two spoonfuls of coarse sugar, which no sooner penetrates than the bubbles calm down to a quiet hiss, only to sizzle again in a cry for a substance that is none other than the coffee itself—a flashy rooster of aroma and Eastern masculinity.

Remove the pot from the low fire to carry on the dialogue of a hand, free of the smell of tobacco and ink, with its first creation, which as of this moment will determine the flavor of your day and the arc of your fortune: whether you’re to work or avoid contact with anyone for the day. What emerges from this first motion and its rhythm, from what shakes it out of a world of sleep rising from the previous day, and from whatever mystery it will uncover in you, will form the identity of your new day.

Because coffee, the first cup of coffee, is the mirror of the hand. And the hand that makes the coffee reveals the person that stirs it. Therefore, coffee is the public reading of the open book of the soul. And it is the enchantress that reveals whatever secrets the day will bring.

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Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

God damn this shit is
fuckin' re-dic-a-liss

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Not that this sentiment really breaks new ground but I'm really loving sick of the "boy 2016 sure sucked!" excuse for a joke being so endlessly regurgitated. There was a rant to this effect on The Worst Things for Sale -- it got a little too into the topic but expressed a similar sentiment.

quote:

It’s not that this calendar year was unarguably wonderful, taken overall or as a collection of independent events. It’s just that repeating something over and over causes it to become worthless, in the way that saying “newspaper” a hundred times in a row will leave you wondering if you’re saying the syllables in the right order, concentrating on the movements of your throat and tongue rather than the meaning of the word.

Reducing all of the political and social problems of the world in the past year into a catchphrase is not only intellectually lazy, and flaccid in its delivery, but it’s part of what contributes to our problems as a whole in the first place. Calling an entire year a “dumpster fire” is semantically the same. It’s the absence of meaning, coupled with the suggestion of something thoughtful, that makes this so repugnant. If you oppose fascism, say that. If you’re a socialist, say that. If you believe women, minorities, and the poor should have the same rights as rich white men, say that. These are all specific ideas that are worth fighting for. If you’re afraid to put your beliefs on a t-shirt, then don’t buy a t-shirt that says “I Hate Bad Stuff And Only Like The Good poo poo.” Just skip the t-shirt thing entirely.

Researchers have found that the lower a person’s cognitive ability, the more receptive they are to believing that vague statements carry deep meaning. (Here’s the study, if you’re curious.) So don’t take offense if you really do believe that “2016 Sucked” or “2017 Will Be Better”. A quick glance at Facebook will show you that many, if not most, of the people you know also like to repeat the same things back at each other, devoid of meaning. And know that given the success of this idea, there will undoubtedly be a “2017 Sucked” shirt, and 2018, and every year from this point forward, until the destruction of the earth prevents cotton from being grown, processed, knit, and screenprinted.

Everyone's been hopping on this train, from random YouTube commenters to Twitter personalities, but just for the sake of relevancy, let's assume you're a nationally syndicated cartoonist. You have the power to reach, with your words, an audience so vast that an uncountable many people would envy your voice.
You could say something profound, but instead let's just go with "gosh 2016 was so bad!!" Nailed that one. Great job.

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