HisMajestyBOB posted:

Half the fun of the vegan comics is watching posters flip out over them.

loquacius posted:

I know attempting to understand Dees is a fruitless endeavor, but can someone tell me why he apparently thinks Jews can never actually be gay themselves, and/or how Jews out-reproducing "the European race" on a global scale long enough to seriously affect demographics is at all possible no matter what the relative gayness levels are

RagnarokAngel posted:

I've heard a lot of anti semitic rhetoric trying to come to terms with the fact that orthodox jews do not like gay marriage and yet a lot of Jewish organizations were funding the push for gay marriage in the US so why would they do that?

To normal people the obvious reason is that secular, reform, reconstructionist and (most) conservative jews are OK with gay marriage and they were the ones backing it. To crazy people it's "they want to drive down the non Jewish reproduction".

Nenonen posted:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3758235&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=67#post455143962

Nenonen posted:

HisMajestyBOB posted:

Half the fun of the vegan comics is watching posters flip out over them.

gradenko_2000 posted:

I don't think it's meant to be taken literally. "Drinking soymilk makes you into an emasculated pansy!", says the meat-loving patriarchy. "No it doesn't!", says gender-progressive veganism

E-Tank posted:

The artist has gone on record stating that it is none of our business what she feeds her little dog who is totally a vegan.

Thankfully dogs are a bit hardier in that regard than cats, but loving christ.

E-Tank posted:

"This is not just a first world problems white girl movement!" *posts group of pictures showing nothing but first world white girls*

Hitler B. Natural posted:

It's an edit, Goon braintrust.

Nenonen posted:

quote:

The girl, IIce (pronounced ICE), will be 3 in July and has been living in foster care since the authorities took her from her parents in November 2001. Prosecutors said yesterday that IIce was ''now on the growth scale,'' and was physically progressing, but doctors suspect that she has neurological damage.

Mulva posted:

Yeah that's not a cool edit bro.

E-Tank posted:

Whoa whoa. Lets not make fun of trans people while mocking Vegans.

Sir Tonk posted:

Did he make a larger version?

Lord_Ventnor posted:

I think Telnaes has become my favorite cartoonist posted on here. There's this expressiveness to her art that isn't present in any of the other thread regulars. And her caricatures are spot-on.

Fearless posted:

I'm really not sure. I do know based on a few friends of mine that a nourishing, healthy vegan diet is entirely possible but it requires pretty careful management to ensure that important elements of nutrition aren't forgotten. I don't condemn vegans on the basis of the lunatic fringe for the same reason that I don't poo poo on more traditional diets because of people that do nothing but gruffle down burgers.

loquacius posted:

I've heard "vegans would love to eat meat and dairy if the animals were housed in humane conditions" from non-vegans speaking in defense of vegans as a whole and "you didn't ask that cow for her milk" from actual vegans

Rorus Raz posted:

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You see son, I'm a manchild and only want big vroom vroom cars.

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Obama supports new developments in clean energy.

Rorus Raz posted:

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Happy White People Pretend to Care Day

RagnarokAngel posted:

I've heard a lot of anti semitic rhetoric trying to come to terms with the fact that orthodox jews do not like gay marriage and yet a lot of Jewish organizations were funding the push for gay marriage in the US so why would they do that?

To normal people the obvious reason is that secular, reform, reconstructionist and (most) conservative jews are OK with gay marriage and they were the ones backing it. To crazy people it's "they want to drive down the non Jewish reproduction".

Rorus Raz posted:

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Oh god

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Also the Israeli government has invested a lot of time and money into an ad campaign which presents themselves as being a Gay Friendly country.

Then again the thing you need to understand about Dees is that he believes in all the conspiracy theories.

Rorus Raz posted:

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ANY loving DAY NOW

Rorus Raz posted:

9
You see son, I'm a manchild and only want big vroom vroom cars.

Rorus Raz posted:

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quote:

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Obama supports new developments in clean energy.

Mister Beeg posted:

Here's a larger version:

Taciturn Tactician posted:

While I see why you have a problem with it, I'm pretty sure it was just riffing on that strip about the dude spontaneously growing giant breasts when he drank soy milk, not any judgement about trans people.

loquacius posted:

same

"That's a person who holds an opinion on energy policy which I disagree with. This makes him intolerant for self-evident reasons, so I drew him as a Puritan. This is coherent political satire."


what is supposed to be so bad about the coal industry dying exactly

Like, the people who work for them will need new jobs, yes, but green energy producers need workers too. This would be a lateral move for them in terms of payment/job security, and a huge jump forward in terms of having a job that doesn't have the potential to kill you in several different unpleasant ways. Even Henry Payne, coal/oil-industry shill, could simply use his existing body of work as an energy-industry shill to become a shill for big wind or whatever.

CowHammer posted:

The two biggest problems with making cats go vegan:

1. They don't synthesize taurine (unlike humans and dogs, which is why it's stupid and pointless to put taurine in anything for human consumption), so if you don't supplement, they'll just eventually go blind and probably die. The only way to get around this is to use synthesized (not natural, because that requires harvesting taurine from animal remains) taurine supplements, and you know how these kind of people are about anything "unnatural."
2. Cats are picky fuckers, so good luck getting them to eat pureed vegetables or whatever.

I don't think anyone has done any long-term studies on it or anything, but dogs will probably be fine on a vegan diet as long as they're getting a good variety of vitamins and minerals and whatnot.

Also, yes there's a really strange (and not backed up by any actual evidence whatsoever) belief that eating a lot of soy makes you grow boobs. I think it's popular in the bro body-building circles, so they always go for whey-based protein supplements instead of soy.

Nenonen posted:

This, and for reference in case you missed it:


Which has nothing to do with trans people but with something about soybean containing phytoestrogens which act like estrogen and fears over how it could affect men. Mostly though I'm amused over how insecure you must feel over your diet to post a collage of normal looking vegans including ME THE ARTIST LOOK I'M NOT UGLY LIKE YOU THINK.

Bass Bottles posted:

This just isn't true, though.

Working for a coal company is probably not that similar to working for a solar panel company or windfarm. The skills aren't really transferable. And you're also assuming that the new energy companies will be built anywhere near the old coal mines.

A couple years ago I visited a small mining town that had basically been thrown into poverty when the mine closed. The entire town was based around that mine, and no one was able just transition to a new position at a windfarm or whatever. These are poor working class people with children and large extended families/support systems, sometime divorces, who can't just pack up and move away.

Like, it's easy to dismiss them as dumb hicks who think global warming is a lie because they're gullible, but these are actually people whose lives are ruined by stuff like this. It's not cut and dry positive progress. You are throwing people under the bus, whatever you do.

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77% of Palestine is territory occupied by the kingdom of Jordan.
Israel, the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza all together make up only 23%.

Trogdos! posted:

"Jordan is Palestine"

alnilam posted:

This is all true, but not a reason not to act. Yes, it's sad, and I think those people deserve respect and significant assistance for sure. But you can't use "what about the poor mining towns" as a reason not to act against climate change. I'm not saying you are, but people do; I actually know people who say that climate change is real and bad but that it's not worth loving over the poor miners.

Sadly this reasoning happens with prisons, too. "Yes it's true we have too many prisoners and a bad reintegration system, but let's not pass criminal justice reform, because think of the small towns where the nearby state prison is the sole source of employment" is a real thing that people say. Especially people in office whose congressional district is comprised mainly of such a town

If there were a town whose economy was based around needlessly torturing puppies, and people determined that puppy torture was unethical and should be outlawed, I guess these same people would say "but won't somebody pleeease think of the good people of Pupkill, Nebraska?"

loquacius posted:

Yeah, maybe I was a bit too cavalier with my post, but what it comes down to is that every time something changes people who profited off the old way of doing things will suffer until they figure out how to make their lives work under the new way. It happened when farm mechanization forced all the fieldhands into manufacturing work, and it happened again when the manufacturing jobs went overseas and people were forced into the service economy. That doesn't mean we should just stop changing things for any reason.

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Is his point here "Israel is entitled to all Jordan's land" or is it "The Palestinians should be happy with the 77% of the British Mandate they got!" or is it "Jordan should just take in the Palestinians and get them off our case already" because he is not making it clear himself

OldMemes posted:

The Prime Minster sets aside money to teach muslim women english to spare them from abuse and radicalisation, and give them a chance to actually settle and take part in the country and the cartoons say he's worse than Trump.

Zelder posted:

i can't believe we ever used to let the British run the world

loquacius posted:

Is his point here "Israel is entitled to all Jordan's land" or is it "The Palestinians should be happy with the 77% of the British Mandate they got!" or is it "Jordan should just take in the Palestinians and get them off our case already" because he is not making it clear himself

seiferguy posted:

Payne is from Michigan, which has a city that's experiencing one of the worst water crisises in a long time, where the water literally catches fire. But lower pollution: bad.