Skios posted:

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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idonotlikepeas posted:

They didn't specifically write a song about trans people as far as I know. They did write King for a Day, which is about a cross-dresser. (Not the same thing, but I did see an anecdote on reddit of the lead singer grabbing a trans flag out of the audience and waving it around during it.)

The band has also made several pro-trans-rights statements, said they want their concerts to feel like a safe space for marginalized people (calling trans people out as an example specifically), etc. None of this is recent, of course. Billie Joe Armstrong was talking about being bisexual in the mid-90s. They've always been a politically active left-wing band that's friendly to the LGBTQ+ community.

Green Day posted:

I went to a whore
He said my life's a bore
So quit my whining 'cause it's bringing her down

Byzantine posted:

..Dutch East Indies?

JamesBont posted:

I...what? I straight up don't get this one.

Pants Donkey posted:

Pelosi has one foot in the grave, and isn’t super popular. AOC would be a perfect replacement as their new boogiemonster, but she has no presidential aspirations and the party brass would never allow it anyways.

Newsom flat-out said he is not running, and you’re gonna look stupid if you keep claiming Hilary will jump in at the last minute, so Michelle is the closest they have even though it makes no real sense outside Michelle having high popularity polling…which is because she is isn’t a politician.

idonotlikepeas posted:

Rivers

Phlegmish posted:

Thanks. The thought process behind that cartoon was somehow even dumber than I could have suspected.

I understand the desire to stick it to the Other Side, and to be honest there is stuff coming from parts of the left that I don't agree with, but if you are so brain-poisoned by the Culture War™ that you start defending the position that it is good for humanity to all but destroy itself, maybe you need to take a step back and examine how you got there. But I guess doing so would require a minimal amount of self-awareness to begin with.

idonotlikepeas posted:

It's even worse than that: this is the position they've been pushing. We've had a bunch of chuds writing articles, drawing cartoons, and doing segments on right-wing media about how DEI is terrible because unqualified people will be hired... and now we have Lester writing a cartoon about how people might believe the things he and his buddies have been saying and that is somehow DEI's fault. No, it's not the right-wing media that has placed this idea into peoples' heads! It just naturally arrived there as soon as they saw a Black person!

Nenonen posted:

It's not that, though? The claim is "if you have positive discrimination in hiring then people will assume that you were selected for your race instead of your qualifications". Because of course companies never discriminate in their hiring in non-positive ways...

Rebel Blob posted:

I'm not sure if it's come up, but since losing syndication, Scott Adams has a political comic: "Robots Read News" on his website.

The Islamic Shock posted:

Oh gently caress all of the way off. Yes I'm sure the idea that someone doesn't want to participate in a system where the choices are obvious fascist leader or the genocider-in-chief is insane to you.

Clerical Terrors posted:

So is Biden too bellicose in the middle east but also not bellicose enough against Iran? I'm starting to get confused.

idonotlikepeas posted:

I found his LinkedIn page, which has him at high school from 1974-1976 and college from 1977 - 1981. That would place him around 65, depending on whether the three years of high school is because he skipped a grade or made a typo. (He uses a much younger picture to represent himself, of course.) Animal House came out in 1978, so it's pretty much positioned perfectly to embed itself in his consciousness.

Hihohe posted:

what the gently caress are you talking about, you loving demon

100YrsofAttitude posted:

You know what I'm on holiday. So here is a selection of "political cartoons" from Le Monde. In fact these illustrations accompanied specific articles. Does it count? I don't know, but it's a lot prettier than some of the stuff we tend to see.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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escapegoat posted:

Discendo Vox posted:

I swear to god these are getting stupider.

Trapezium Dave posted:

Rall: He's Like Us*

Vib Rib posted:

Yeah definitely the plan all along was to get long-beloved DNC-darling Kamala Harris to be president

Skios posted:

Tom Stiglich

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Phlegmish posted:

I would ask if it's actually true that 'Truckers for Trump' has brought the city of New York to its knees, but, you know

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Every Confederate state except South Carolina had at least one full regiment worth of unionists in one Union army or another. Secession ordinances in many cases were passed by minority votes marked by voter intimidation and outright violence against unionists and their sympathizers by the state militias, between whom and the slave patrols a Venn diagram would be close to just a circle. The idea of there being a united Southern dream of secession and independence is very much a wartime myth amplified by the Lost Causers.

hooman posted:

There was no counterfactual, the cartoon claims people do not like Biden because he's old. The response countered that claim.

You were specifically the poster who started this discussion by incorrectly claiming that the post that you quoted said something it didn't. You are directly responsible for this content being in this thread, when instead you could have hit report and moved on and let the mods do their jobs, instead you continue making GBS threads up the thread with backseat modding.

wizzardstaff posted:

"What's the best way to depict my nation's virtuous war? I know, I'll draw a soldier aiming a rifle at a group of unarmed, surrendering people."

Alhazred posted:

Biden could and should make it a law that women should have the right to abortion. Women shouldn't depend on the whims of the supreme court. But he won't do that and women in the US won't have a right to decide over their own body regardless if Trump or Biden is president.

quote:

Biden also reiterated his call for Congress to codify protections that had been provided by Roe, adding that if a bill were passed, he would "immediately" sign it into law...
The administration has repeatedly urged Congress to pass a law that would restore the protections that existed under Roe, but that proved impossible even when Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate, so it is unlikely to happen any time soon.

The departments of Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services issued new guidance Monday to clarify standards and support expanded coverage of Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptives at no cost under the Affordable Care Act for millions of women nationwide...
The Justice Department is defending the position that required emergency care “can, in some circumstances, include abortion care” before the Supreme Court. The high court is expected to rule by June...
The Biden administration plans to make ballot initiatives on abortion a “core part” of its strategy in the next 10 months, engaging with hundreds of state leaders who are deeply involved with current legislative battles on the topic...

VitalSigns posted:

So this was a lie then?

VitalSigns posted:

Presidents routinely talk about their role in terms of leader of their party and not just as the the article 2 executive, because that's what the presidency is.

Jumping on people for simply repeating the President's words is ridiculous. A president should be able to shepherd his agenda through congress (iirc one if the arguments for voting Biden was that he had senate connections and knew how to get things done and even reach across the aisle to get Republican support, then he gets in and can't manage his own party).

If a president can't get his agenda passed, it is a failure, your 8th grade civics education wasn't enough to understand how government works. There's a reason Carter is considered an ineffective president: he wasn't able to work with his own party in congress to accomplish a domestic agenda.

VitalSigns posted:

It wasn't a statement, it was a question to examine what you were saying. You're jumping on someone for simply saying what the president said and when this is pointed out, doing a bunch of gymnastics to add imaginary caveats to reconcile Biden's words with what you think they ought to be.

Nobody thinks about the presidency the way you're scolding people to, not even the president himself who routinely makes promises to pass an agenda, not to simply wait around and hope someone else does something that he can then support, because that is not the the role of the president who is a political leader not simply a functionary with a rubber stamp.

Drakyn posted:

Colourist Errors, Corrected

Skios posted:

A.F. Branco