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Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

Happy 2017 from Bruce Tinsley!


So wait

is uh, is the baby supposed to look like Hitler?

Because

Tinsley?

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Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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FronzelNeekburm posted:

Merry GalatianMan #1000, everyone.


"We should all just get along and live life happily," the man who just threw out every personal insult he could think of told the group he had just described as whiners.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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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.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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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.

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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.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Good thing "free stuff" is only a strawman cheer you use to mock your opponents and has never been an actual rallying cry for democratic voters.

Ah yes, James Comey, well known for his love of Hillary Clinton, whom he will defend at all costs.
I do so enjoy these cartoons posted from loving Bizarro World.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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White people are only being racist because black people are being racist first. Also, racism is actually good. But black people shouldn't be racist, because it makes white people racist. But black people are bad and racism is good, for white people. Also racism didn't exist until BLM. But if it did, which it didn't, it would be okay. White people are an oppressed minority who must rise up and fight for equality, but also black people are not and should not. When will the white straight Republican male get a fair shake in this country??

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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This is all the more ridiculous in a world where "Thanks Obama" became memetically widespread.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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I mean I've already seen the argument multiple times that this is BLM's fault for stirring up anti-white rhetoric so to such critics an official connection isn't even necessary.

Black people are only unhappy with white people because other black people are telling them to be.
There are no other reasons black people might be angry.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Space Cadet Omoly posted:

Nobody is going to stop seeing movies out of loyalty to Trump.

Mike must be waaaaaay up Donald's rear end if he thinks this is a thing that could happen.
And it's not even the director or the studio the person is boycotting, it's one of the casted actors.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Is this trying to suggest it was Trump who turned the GOP away from their efforts to cripple the ethics office?

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Obviously you flip the "2017" instead, getting a bonus visual metaphor to suggest we are regressing as a society.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Republicans posted:

I love the idea that the most radical, rebellious thing you can do is follow mainstream societal norms.
He literally called being faithful to your spouse "revolutionary".

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Pomp posted:

Trump, noted for his staunch support foreign policy based on deescelation
Also good to see "increased racial divide" under the list of things that Trump is going to extinguish. Trump is nothing if not equality-minded and considerate of all races and peoples.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Cat Mattress posted:

If there's one group that is sure to make every skin color feel at ease, it's definitely the neonazis!
Well you see, the thing is that white people are made to feel bad for their skin color because of how society harasses, guilts, oppresses, and punishes them for it.
Incidentally this is true of no other group.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Maybe I'm out of the loop, but what's this about "fake hate crimes"?
Ninja edit: oh wait does he mean the church spraypaint thing?

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Kris Straub over at ChainsawSuit made what I say counts as a political cartoon.


Name-calling is an important part of public political discourse in any country.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Artist made the first one or two thematically, visually clever, now everyone thinks the others have to be a visual metaphor too, despite being just generic things. A "Cow Tools" comic.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Fulchrum posted:

How exactly is a big blob of oil to represent a dependence on fossil fuels not thematic?
Okay, what I meant was that one and the far left one one. I should have phrased it better as it's not literally left to right.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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(link to larger version for those who hate themselves enough to want to make out every word)
This is the ultimate concentrated essence of someone linking a story on CNN and screaming "WHY ISN'T THE MEDIA COVERING THIS???" You don't even have to get into arguing that these things were covered already, or are misleading at best, because even in Ramirez's own imagined "take that" version of reality, the stories are already loving printed in the newspapers, which I'm pretty sure counts as news media.

Even given the power to depict the universe according to his whims Ramirez still subconsciously admits the stories actually were covered.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/799974635274194947

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Do you think Garrison will ever address issues in a future comic, or was the Trump win just too much self righteous smugness for him to handle and now he's permanently stuck doing "ha ha ha look at all the crying babies" comics?
Like in three years Trump could declare war with Alaska or some zany poo poo and Garrison would still be drawing ugly women that have tattoos crying about how Trump beat Hillary.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Prokhor Zakharov posted:

"I don't have a single loving clue how state/local politics works, what can do to get involved?"

"Well you could learn how state and local politics works. It's not complicated."

"BUT IT'S AN ARISTOCRACY!!"
I thought maybe the joke was that this political approach doesn't work in a Generic Medieval Fantasy Realm, where it literally is an aristocracy.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Samurai Sanders posted:

"Sentinel of our swords"? Am I reading that right?
"Sentinel of our Shores"

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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What loving reality does Lester live in?

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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I think "I'm turning this ship around" is more accurate a promise from Trump than Garrison even realizes.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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"When I hear the word 'diversity' I reach for my gun."
-Tinsley, 2017

Actually arguing that a great leader should not be expected to unite his people, and it's the people's fault for not rallying behind a divisive blowhard. Those drat masses!

Also unironically comparing Trump to George Washington.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Lemming posted:

They also saw black protesters at Trump rallies get decked and thought it was awesome. Trump voters are completely disconnected from reality in a way that means everything they see or hear will only help fuel their delusion.
Decked, hell. I've seen people watch videos of BLM protest lines being run through with a loving car and people nodding and going "good that's what they deserve". Hell, they'd literally go on to argue that it counts as self defense because when you're surrounded by a bunch of angry BLM protestors rioters, you could be dragged from your car and beaten to death! It happens!!
You can run over a protestor because I don't know, he's black, it's self defense, but you can't punch a loving Nazi. What a world.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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I AM THE TOILET posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Reginald_Denny

Maybe not beaten to death, but dragged out of a vehicle and mauled? Yeah, it happened.
Yes, that is the example they always quote, too.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Was the duck always that short? I'm so unused to seeing him in a full-body panel. Especially because, in that same comic just a few panels ago, Tinsley draws his head floating in midair for no reason.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Sandpuppy posted:

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Won't someone please think of the limos?
"Alternative facts" isn't just a soundbite gaffe sweeping political cartoons, it's a reality: For Branco, the women's march was a riot. All those cars on fire. All those people attacked and abused.

Any demonstration is now a violent riot. And any violence proves your point is wrong. (Unless Branco agrees with it in which case suck it up and quit whining.)

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:

In general, the alt-right movement denies the holocaust

http://www.dailystormer.com/a-normies-guide-to-the-alt-right/

The alt-right is not the same thing as national socialism, but the differences are mainly cosmetic
Do people who spout this poo poo really not see, even for a second, how telling it is that their stance is "the Holocaust DEFINITELY did not happen... but even if it did, it would be okay."? Or do they just think we don't?
They're saying Hitler was right and that men, women, and children "deserved" to be executed, but they know that's not going to fly with most people so they tack on "ah but it's a lie anyway so don't sweat it".

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Cpt.Americant posted:

God I loving hate this poo poo with a passion. They do something upsetting and that go "what are you upset?"

It's been months now since the election. Still bringing up how they totally won you guys!

Liberals may have been a little giddy for a few days after the election in 2012, maybe even a full week or two. But by end of November did anyone keep bringing up "Republican tears" at all? Did I just miss it? Or is the obvious answer a combination of (a) Republicans are super petty and (b) they don't want to actually defend making Trump the President.
We've reached a point in social discourse (and worryingly, more and more, in discourse that should be held to a higher standard) where painting the other side as angry/offended/upset is the same as proving them wrong. Why should I have to refute your argument when I can just call you a crybaby?

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Ku Klux Klurf posted:

Fake news has no respect for historical continuity.
That's loving hilarious coming from this guy.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Funosaurus posted:

No other cartoonist angers me as much as branco. How does he have the gall to Characterize the Dems as the party of no.
Well remember how for eight years the Democrats consistently blocked the President from enacting any changes, even ones that would benefit everyone?

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Ku Klux Klurf! posted:


" I wonder how many of the current and future mothers of the Women's march actually live their principles. I'm less than optimistic. "
Look, I'm not touching that whole hornet's nest. So let's put the entire topic of circumcision aside for a second.
All I'm saying is it's really telling that this guy looked at the march of women (which had plenty of male marchers, incidentally), specifically in response to an increasingly-misogynistic public discourse and government outlook, and in answer to specific upcoming legislation, and his first (and only) thought on the matter was "but what about MEN?"

Vib Rib fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Jan 27, 2017

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Alhazred posted:

So democrats are villainous enough to commit voter fraud but not competent enough to actually win because of it?
Republicans whipped themselves into an insane fervor leading up to the election. Like many, they were sure Trump would lose, and insisted beforehand that the election was going to be rigged, provided endless "proofs" that Soros owned all the voting machines, that votes were already being wrongly tallied, etc.
When Trump won all that poo poo died instantly. All the hard evidence and undeniable proof that the election was a sham vanished and Republican conspiracy theorists all went silent.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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I hate the mentality of "everyone hates me so I must be doing SOMETHING right! :smuggo:" that goes hand in hand these days with "I upset/offended someone, that proves I'm right!"
Everyone hates cancer, smallpox, and Hitler too, you waste of paper.

World Famous W posted:

"I don't know, have you stopped being one?"
Pretty much exactly what I was thinking. Post-election there's few things that get me angry like people going "well I voted for Trump because I'm sick of being called a racist!" Like how much of a loving racist are you to get called that on the regular anyway? I guarantee it's not just because you're white.
These are people who realize they're being called racist and don't like it, but their solution is not to look inside themselves and try to become better people, even if they don't like what they find -- it's to just tell everyone calling them that to shut up. With political backing, if necessary.
We don't need to get rid of racism, we just need to get rid of people who point it out!

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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Serious question for Garrison though: In what way is this possibly a checkmate? In what way is this "winning", which Garrison promises Trump will bring so much of?
I mean if Trump went in there and came back with news that Mexico was going to pay for the wall after all, that I could understand people seeing as a victory. But as it is all he did was sour relations and get the meeting called off. Where's the loving "checkmate"?

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Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

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So we've got a posit that:
1. Until Trump's Executive Order Muslim Ban, there was no vetting, period (or that this is what Democrats wanted).
2. A border wall is an effective way of keeping out illegal immigrants, and without one we are vulnerable.
3. "Come on in" is a statement that goes against American values.
This isn't just a twisted talking point trying to burn the other side, this is what some people literally believe.

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