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Rugoberta Munchu posted:Local douche bag attorney (redundant) sues blog for over $25000. Ahahaha, the douchebag in question is in the comments with a "There's too much free speech!" post. This is gonna be hilarious.
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Discendo Vox posted:Thanks for not jumping on me about this- the last time I effortposted on addiction research/policy I got a lot of I'm more annoyed at this "everyone who disagreed with me in that last discussion was an idiot and a jerk" poo poo than I am at the derail.
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talking points from folks who pretty clearly didn't know confidence intervals from casuistry ethics. I don't wanna derail the thread again- maybe messages?
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smilingfish posted:What the Christ is this? Did Stantis/Allie have a stroke before they wrote/drew this cartoon? (or after? I posted about the artist before. It's Sarah White, who was friends with Stantis's son. She drew for the strip before. She has her own strip here.
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ryonguy posted:Ahahaha, the douchebag in question is in the comments with a "There's too much free speech!" post. This is gonna be hilarious. To be fair pretty much everyone in that comments section is a douchebag. None of them know why the owner cut the trees down on his property but they sure do love to bitch and speculate about it.
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Republicans posted:To be fair pretty much everyone in that comments section is a douchebag. None of them know why the owner cut the trees down on his property but they sure do love to bitch and speculate about it. Oh to be sure the comments about a trivial local issue are going to be filled with dipshits, but him posting 100-level legal rhetoric about why someone's opinion means he deserves 25 grand is just the corn kernel on the comments turd.
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Internet Webguy posted:
So... the terrorists are the champions of their countries?
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Yeah good point Todd, and furthermore governors declaring states of emergency is dumb too. I mean its not like when you're a governor or president, declaring these things frees up resources/cuts through red tape or anything 
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"So I've finished the cartoon, but I don't think people will understand what it's saying unless I relate it to them with a wordy metaphor. I better use an old philosophical question in the metaphor to make sure people know that I, Ted Rall, am super smart. God I'm smart"
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XyloJW posted:I'm more annoyed at this "everyone who disagreed with me in that last discussion was an idiot and a jerk" poo poo than I am at the derail.
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Jan 23, 2014 18:51
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Why is he holding that one piece of paper to his head?
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isildur posted:
One of my favourite things about previous threads is when people who know how to draw (or otherwise know what they're on about) decide to take apart cartoons with a crowbar. I'm just an untrained, uncultured idiot so I can say "Hold on that's not what a human face looks like" or "That isn't even a metaphor for anything, shut up" or "What the hell, why are my eyes bleeding", but it's great to see people breaking down exactly why cartoons are as incompetent and incomprehensible as they are. Previous threads have had people break down lines of action, perspective lines, anatomy and other stuff that my brain just processes as "What the gently caress is this poo poo" without any clear idea of what actually is so broken. Okay, sometimes it's so obvious that even I can see it at a glance, like Rall's pitiful attempt to draw a desk from above. Or sometimes it goes wrong and we end up talking about weathervanes. But it's still great to see people showing exactly why a cartoonist really shouldn't have a job at all.
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It's alright, once Smithers finds his glasses he'll help Mr. Burns release the hounds and then Springfield will be saved.
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Livingtrope posted:Why is he holding that one piece of paper to his head? I'm not so sure he's "holding" it exactly; it seems to be more stuck to his hand. His tiny, tiny hand. quote:Stannis wants to slap simplistic labels of good and evil on things and is upset that anyone would dare suggest it's not just that easy. Considering I haven't seen any bad guys doing anything in this strip, a meeting to determine what the gently caress they're doing exactly doesn't seem like a bad idea.
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As a LGBT southerner (from McKee's Georgia to be exact, though I'm in the ATL), I'm so amused at this cry-fest over Cuomo making an entirely accurate statement about wingnuts' election chances in New York. Tell you what, McKee, how about I lobby the Georgia General Assembly about how we should legalize gay marriage, because other states have done so. I guarantee I wouldn't get 20 seconds into the debate without some jawly, paunchy, pudgy, pasty rep from Deliverance County talkin' wise-like 'bout how we don't do that kinda stuff in Jawja, ya hear.
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Historically Muslims always treated madmen reasonably well, so this is probably true.
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Livingtrope posted:Why is he holding that one piece of paper to his head?
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What happened at the olympics that's making everyone draw bombs and targets and other round threatening objects in the rings?
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Rhinoceraptor posted:What happened at the olympics that's making everyone draw bombs and targets and other round threatening objects in the rings? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3599044&pagenumber=101&perpage=40#post424784521 and the next/last 3 pages.
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Discendo Vox posted:The harm of a legalized substance can be partially mitigated if we can direct public policy efforts toward susceptible populations- so knowing that a set of markers makes some populations vulnerable to alcohol addiction allows you to do things like more easily justify banning alcohol sales on tribal lands, to raise something that came up in the thread earlier. This smacks of scientific racism/paternalism, right? Or am I misreading this specific point?
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Rhinoceraptor posted:What happened at the olympics that's making everyone draw bombs and targets and other round threatening objects in the rings? The Olympics are held geographically close to unstable Russian provinces with separatist terrorist movements that have already committed successful attacks at the end of last year. Conveniently for American cartoonists, the Chechen separatists are predominantly Muslim.
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Zelder posted:This smacks of scientific racism/paternalism, right? Or am I misreading this specific point? According to Wikipedia, white people have higher alcohol tolerance and there appears to be a genetic link. Discendo Vox seems to be confusing banning the sale of alcohol to tribal lands with the sale of alcohol on tribal lands. Besides, there's a lot more than just genetics that contributes to the high rate of alcoholism among Native Americans.
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Nah, it's all cool.
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But Rocks Hurt Head posted:After reading this comic, I honestly have no idea how much Todd knows about Star Trek. Considering the races he has in his quotas, I'm going to go with not much. Or to give benefit of the doubt, nothing after TOS.
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Zelder posted:This smacks of scientific racism/paternalism, right? Or am I misreading this specific point? The development of fermentation is actually a pretty huge driver of human evolution. Populations that have had alcohol for long periods of time have a decent number of genetic markers that appear to have undergone selection. It's kinda correlated with the development of agriculture, though not entirely. So yeah, there is pretty good evidence that some populations are able to metabolize alcohol better than others.
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There have been several of these by now... what's the news item here?
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alnilam posted:There have been several of these by now... what's the news item here? Andrew Cuomo said a thing, which is clearly the exact same thing as xenophobic exclusion because it hurt conservative feelings a little.
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alnilam posted:There have been several of these by now... what's the news item here? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/22/governor-cuomo-extreme-conservatives-have-no-place-in-new-york.html quote:But when Gov. Andrew Cuomo suggested on a public radio station on Friday that “extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault—weapon, anti-gay…have no place in the State of New York” it set off an uproar on right wing radio stations, blogs and Twitter feeds.
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Ah yes now I'm sure those conservatives know exactly what it feels like to be a marginalized, sometimes criminalized outsider in our society. Also wait are they really, really pulling the "statue of liberty welcomes all" card? The same artists who probably want zero immigration (unless those immigrates are european and already highly educated)?
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*stretches* All right, what do we have today? 1  2  3  NOOOO! BENNETT! WHY!??!?! 4  5  "No you idiot, I'm having a heart attack! *gasp, wheeze* Call an ambulance!" 6  7  8  9  10  11  "Global warming? DOH!" 12  13  14  15  16  17  18  This isn't political at all but I don't care because I hate Captain & Tenille.
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Boy do I wish it were Halloween so I could phone it in and recycle a couple of monster drawings and put labels on 'em. Ah, gently caress it, who says I can't?
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Eschers Basement posted:OBAMA Somebody needs to warn JRR that someone's broken into his Pun Depository.
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 1Penalty! Roughing the blockhead.  2Putin's giant fingers.  3Syrians looooove death.  4What have all those researchers with peer reviewed studies been smoking?  5gently caress it.
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Peace Sells But Who's Buying?
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Internet Webguy posted:
Zero percent of this is actually drawn. Muir puts out more effort than this.
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Rebochan posted:*stretches* All right, what do we have today? This attitude is the left's equivalent of ARGH THOSE NEWFANGLED LIGHT BULBS and pisses me off. Yeah, industrially-processed foods are never going to be as nutritious as fresh, and they tend to taste worse too, but it's not like this is getting WORSE with time. Most of the developments in food processing go toward generally making a fresher product (with many of the rest going toward completely new techniques like "melting cheese" aka Velveeta, invented by those Cheese-hating Swiss). A Hungry Man frozen dinner ain't exactly a bowl full of sunshine, but it's a drat sight better than salt beef and hardtack. The problem isn't that processed foods exist or how they're processed, but that they're often much cheaper and more convenient than fresh foods, and that they're processed versions of foods that are pretty bad for you in the first place. Keebler cookies aren't really any worse for you than homemade Tollhouse cookies. As much as I love the term "Pasteurized process cheese food product," I realize it's called that for technical reasons and not because OMG IT'S SO MODIFIED THAT IT'S LEGALLY NOT FOOD AND NOT EVEN GERMS CAN EAT IT. There's plenty to criticize the food industry for, but "it processes foods at all and uses scary names for processes and ingredients" is bullshit . If I were to remake that cartoon, I'd do something like put a ball and chain on each leg, one a can of soup and the other a hamburger, and have a ladder with a kitchen at the top and a couch in front of a TV or something. American attitudes toward food (ew, prunes!) are a lot more destructive than anything the industry puts in their products. And don't get me started on the MSG and HFCS hysteria. 
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Internet Webguy posted:
Assad's going to be pissed when he finds out a skeleton stole his Syria jacket.
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Stultus Maximus posted:
Wait, this is an actual strip? That was published in actual newspapers? I thought you were just posting erotic furry fanart for some reason.
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