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wizzardstaff posted:The metaphor seems pretty clear to me? Not just a generic Latest Fad but tech/automation trends pushing out journalists from their jobs, which seems like a valid thing for a journalist to be cynical about. Are they journalists, though? It's taking place in an utterly generic office building. There's no specificity anywhere in the cartoon so it just comes off as "new trend bad". What is new trend? Doesn't matter. New trend bad. The lack of specificity robs the cartoon of any insight, especially when there's so many new trends (AI, crypto, etc.) that are bad. This is one step removed from the old Simpsons bit about "those clowns in Congress". There's no real comment about anything and it sucks rear end because its a sign of lazy hack work just like Prickly City. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Apr 28, 2024 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:God this is so vapid. Trend thing bad! You should no like trend thing! What is this even supposed to be about? 
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Rall: From the Whiners to the Twee, Right-Wingers Will Be Free Ted Rall posted:Pro-Israel students at colleges and universities like Columbia claim that they feel endangered when they see pro-Palestine antiwar protests on campus and hear phrases like “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Everyone is entitled to their own baseless feelings, but let’s not forget who has REAL cause to fear for their lives–those in Gaza who are being slaughtered by Israel.
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idonotlikepeas posted:
This is based on this cartoon. From what I read it was one of those xerox-lore cartoons that people copied and put up on office noticeboards in the 70s-80s.  Meh, boomer klurfs.
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I'm just old enough to remember the era of pre-internet photocopy memes from visits to family member workplaces, but I think about them often. Is there an archive somewhere of those?
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It's a funny metacommentary how Lubchansky's milquetoast criticisms of corporations and government make people fly into an absolute rage. It's a cartoon about corporations latching on to [latest fad], written nonspecifically so it can apply in the future to the next time management does the same thing, and the next time... It's pretty mild but I guess it's slightly more transgressive than 1990 Dilbert which is the maximum critique of the system allowed.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:God this is so vapid. Trend thing bad! You should no like trend thing! What is this even supposed to be about? its about bitcoin/AI/next years dumb silicon valley pump and dump
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It's about cube.
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Speaking of boomers copying poo poo, it's time once more for  See the plushies are a metaphor for money here. Because the Jews control the money.  I... don't think they need to actually catch it? It sounded like it just needed to be born somewhere? What the gently caress?  Are the cows... some kind of minority group now? What is even happening? Does even Tats know if this is supposed to be literal or metaphorical at this point?  I guess this person is supposed to be some kind of trans Jew. Like, we're just jamming the puzzle pieces together at this point.  I'm not saying I'm going to let the Steven Universe people know that he did this but in fact that is something I am going to do, yes. (Using something made by a Jewish person for this is just extra great.)  You heard it here first, folks. White Supremacy: not the enemy of mankind.  Aaand we're right back to just super, super racist poo poo. Like, here's Ishida comparing and contrasting two protests and managing to be a terrible bigot twice over. Pettyfest  Shipping Tier List    
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idonotlikepeas posted:
Wait, isn't that Monique? I thought he was making her one of the "good ones", why is she having a problem with white supremacy instead of claiming that everything bad in the world is because of the trans jews?
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If you cut the middle panels so that it was just "BLM protests => cops take knee => protestors take knee => cops get up and beat BLM protestors" then it'd be accurate.
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the_steve posted:Wait, isn't that Monique? I thought he was making her one of the "good ones", why is she having a problem with white supremacy instead of claiming that everything bad in the world is because of the trans jews? But this is the man with the writer’s version of ADHD, so we might not see her against for another year. I mean, 2024 was shown once and we likely won’t see her again until the obligatory summer week of strips where she bemoans Pride month.
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At the rate he's going he's just going to have a whole month of 'goy pride' parades being blown up by space lasers.
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as if "let's go beat up some jews" isn't going to be the explicit message of sinfest in a year's time (as opposed to now, where at least the beating up part is merely strongly implied)
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So this one, i had to look up, but it's a riff on a real Israeli settler who literally stole someone's house out from under them and used the same defense, word for word https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9q9PDBsDe8
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Like his Rocky IV visual vomit a few months earlier, weight classes just don't seem to be a thing. Also, note how the other competitors seem... I don't know, fine? They barely get any defined features, but the best I can read their response to the woman yelling about cheating (who is in no way involved with the competition) is 'huh?'.
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Cloud Potato posted:
I suspect Mac didn't entirely intend the takeaway to be that police are corrupt and just as bad as the criminals they're supposed to arrest, but as someone who likes Mac's art I'm always glad to see a comic from him that isn't rife with bigotry and old-fashioned racism.
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Oh good another National X Day cartoon. It had been too long and I was jonesing for a tepid joke
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JamesBont posted:I don't get it quote:An omnibus spending bill is a type of bill in the United States that packages many of the smaller ordinary appropriations bills into one larger single bill that can be passed with only one vote in each house of Congress. There are twelve different ordinary appropriations bills that need to be passed each year (one for each appropriations sub-committee) to fund the federal government and avoid a government shutdown. An omnibus spending bill combines two or more of those bills into a single bill. The analogy doesn't work though when you are talking about making food for the entire caveman clan, you'd want to put what everyone's hunted & gathered together so there is maximum amount of food to eat, instead of voting to only eat roots today and throw away the meat and berries.
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VitalSigns posted:It's a funny metacommentary how Lubchansky's milquetoast criticisms of corporations and government make people fly into an absolute rage. Is Lub getting hit a lot on Twitter about this comic? Doesn’t surprise me, it’s a right-wing hellscape these days. My biggest complaint about it is exactly what you’re saying: it’s boring and weak and whiny, and it’s metaphor muddies its message more than it helps.
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Nenonen posted:The analogy doesn't work though when you are talking about making food for the entire caveman clan, you'd want to put what everyone's hunted & gathered together so there is maximum amount of food to eat, instead of voting to only eat roots today and throw away the meat and berries. I would not want to be part of Fishmans caveman clan. His stew would be bland as gently caress
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Ah yes, that dish most well known for being hated and reviled across the land: Stew. If he really wanted to make the point he thought he was making, the caveman should've said something like "Ok, I know the majority of you said you wanted to grill, but I'm not in the mood for that, so we're having stew, again."
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Perpetual Stew was common throughout a lot of societies from time immemorial to the modern day because it works. It works because of exactly how Fishman claims it doesn't. An historically ignorant cartoon.
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Stews, famous for not featuring meat or roots
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I think this is a repost from a few years ago, unless it's a separate cartoon with the label "Low-class Mexican food peddlers (probably Mexican)". I think Taco John's also relented on the Taco Tuesday trademark.
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fool of sound posted:Stews, famous for not featuring meat or roots the_steve posted:Ah yes, that dish most well known for being hated and reviled across the land: Stew. Guavanaut posted:Perpetual Stew was common throughout a lot of societies from time immemorial to the modern day because it works. It works because of exactly how Fishman claims it doesn't.
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Vib Rib posted:It's so cool that whenever conservatives (or liberals) bitch about pro-Palestinian college protests, they always have a bunch of picket signs like FREE PALESTINE and NO MORE GENOCIDE but then the artist realizes "oh poo poo these aren't evil enough" so then they just throw in one or two signs of like "I WANT TO KILL ALL JEWS". It's so self aware, such a reveal of the flaws in their approach, and yet it doesn't slow them up for a single second because they'll just react as though the signs they made up are completely real and very common. Making up your own reality and forgetting you made it up. Trapezium Dave posted:Leak, Son of Leak:
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VitalSigns posted:It's a funny metacommentary how Lubchansky's milquetoast criticisms of corporations and government make people fly into an absolute rage. My dude, I was annoyed because her stuff is always milquetoast and unspecific. It takes no effort or insight to say "non-specific thing bad" especially when there's plenty of specifically bad things out there.
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Trapezium Dave posted:Leak, Son of Leak: Good ol' Calm Hitler reasoning. 
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Doomykins posted:Good ol' Calm Hitler reasoning. Not really a fan of this interpretation when there's no indication here that the Jewish students are supporters of what Israel is doing, and in fact quite a few of the protesters have been Jewish themselves.
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I think it's fair to guess which side of the last week of propaganda working to portray student protestors as malevolent hotheads Leak comes down on. My interpretation is that portraying the protestors as extra snarky rubes who don't even know that college-age adults have civil debates is pretty empty-headed.
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L. Ron DeSantis posted:I think Taco John's also relented on the Taco Tuesday trademark. Caved due to all the pressure from high class political cartoonists,no doubt.
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