wizzardstaff posted:

Technowolf posted:

Kchama posted:

This is true, but Gene was especially so. It was really at odds with his utopian ideals, but it was what it was.

Sarcastr0 posted:

This is becoming the new thing already on the right - the media is already helping Bidden by not reporting the same crazy stuff that was true about Trump!

there wolf posted:

Gene Roddenberry was not H.P. Lovecraft; there was nothing exceptional about his sexism or bigotry in the context of his time, and especially his contemporaries in science fiction. Asimov and Heinlein wrote about utopian futures, too, and I wouldn't want to be a young woman in an elevator with them either.

Cloud Potato posted:

Fister Roboto posted:

The sad thing is that this is true. You know that there's a credible sexual assault allegation against him that has been completely buried for months, right?

Vivian Darkbloom posted:

By popular demand posted:

There's this thing with some white male science fiction authors where they can never be wrong about anything.
I hope society is moving away from that.

Elysiume posted:

Will it actually get you high or will you just die or something?

Lotsofluck posted:

Look can we just close this thread and make the Political Cartoons 2021 thread.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Angepain posted:

2020 will never end, the thread is just reflecting this

Discendo Vox posted:

It’s been awhile since I looked it up but extremely unpleasant high with a side of organ damage risk. A lot of the culinary herbs have toxic intake levels that get way lower if you’re not eating them.

Edit: nope, my bad- oregano can potentially be carcinogenic as smoked but does not produce a high. I was thinking of nutmeg.

Keiya posted:

That kid's gotta be what, six or seven at the oldest? None of those are age appropriate picks, the kids need a lot more context to make sense of them.

Sarcastr0 posted:

This is becoming the new thing already on the right - the media is already helping Bidden by not reporting the same crazy stuff that was true about Trump!

Abyssal Squid posted:

I was wondering if that was what you were thinking of. Nutmeg as a drug is hilarious because 1) you need to ingest an absurd amount, like half a dozen whole nutmegs worth of powder and 2) literally every single trip report I've seen agrees that there's absolutely no pleasant aspects, it just makes you feel like hell for an evening like a really bad hangover.

Abyssal Squid posted:

I was wondering if that was what you were thinking of. Nutmeg as a drug is hilarious because 1) you need to ingest an absurd amount, like half a dozen whole nutmegs worth of powder and 2) literally every single trip report I've seen agrees that there's absolutely no pleasant aspects, it just makes you feel like hell for an evening like a really bad hangover.

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The political cartoons of Ben Garrison
_{AMERICA’S CONFRONTATION WITH THE DERANGED ID OF THE CONSERVATIVE FEVER SWAMP.}

A Twitter search for “Ben Garrison” and “horny” yields many, many results. The conservative political cartoonist and eccentric 63-year-old Montanan has a penchant for, shall we say, oversexualizing his subjects, men and women alike: See a laughably chiseled Trump sporting a six-pack in the boxing ring against Joe Biden, or his aggressively crude depiction of a crop-topped Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tending bar. Beyond being just libidinal Mad-style caricatures, they’re the most obvious reflection of the uncontrollable, raging id underlying Garrison’s uber-right-wing ideology.

Garrison’s outlook is extreme. Sometimes it manifests in a manner that’s just cartoonishly unrealistic, like his depictions of a granite-jawed and resolute Trump-as-ubermensch. Sometimes it’s downright psychedelic, like his hallucinatory depiction of a sentient, “Swamp Thing”-like Deep State surrounded by an inscrutable assortment of monsterized conservative boogeymen. And sometimes it’s just plain racist, as in his grotesque comparison of Michelle Obama to Melania Trump. For his excess and extremism, Garrison earned a legion of fans on the so-called “alt-right,” although he’s attempted to disavow them.

In that light, Garrison’s cartoons might seem like offensive curios not worthy of inclusion on a list such as this one, given their status at the fringes of acceptable speech. The catch: There’s nothing fringe about their aesthetic.

Spend any amount of time on various popular far-right Facebook groups, and you’ll find photoshops 10 times as offensive as Garrison’s depiction of the Obamas, and memes so crudely drawn they make Garrison look like Herblock by comparison. The vitriol and contempt for all outside the far-right tent ferments on forums and comments sections, but eventually leaches through to the mainstream: See the “Trump that bitch” T-shirts popular at the outgoing president’s 2016 campaign rallies, or Donald Trump Jr.’s posting to Instagram a bizarre photoshop featuring his father as the Trump-era meme icon Pepe.

Garrison is the Matisse of the conservative fever swamps, refining ever so slightly the racial and psychosexual pathologies at the heart of far-right meme culture to make them resemble—if you squint—something like mainstream political art.

Angepain posted:

2020 will never end, the thread is just reflecting this

Angepain posted:

2020 will never end, the thread is just reflecting this

Pants Donkey posted:

I’ll make a new thread tonight, I guess.

Hitler B. Natural posted:

IKs have lives as well, presumably

Discendo Vox posted:

Nutmeg's also an abortifacient (don't use it for this it may kill you). Lots of herbs have weird and surprising and unpleasant effects if used outside a limited culinary context.

RoboRodent posted:

We are just very weird creatures that like to put small amounts of poison in our food on purpose.