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Stultus Maximus posted:I consider him to be polling low enough to be irrelevant. How many votes does he need to pull in a general to let Trump win?
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MelvinBison posted:I remember hearing a version of that story (maybe even in this thread) where Athena did that so Medusa would be able to protect herself in case she was attacked again. Jurgan posted:I love the alternate reading that Athena gave her superpowers so she could protect herself in the future. I don’t know if it’s true, but I read that women in Ancient Greece often read it that way to the point where Medusa heads were used to mark women’s shelters. Ah yes, I forgot this reading. I love it. I mean, she definitely did go live in a cave with her sisters, but that never stopped men from bothering her, apparently. She just couldn't get them to leave her alone. There's a million versions of Medusa's story, but they're all very tragic.
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It's always funny to me that Greek gods seem to be incapable of undoing the curses of other gods. One gives you snake hair? Here's stone vision. One strikes you blind? Now you can see the future. I guess the mythology wouldn't be as interesting if they could.
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I'm not sure I buy that reading of Medusa because the classic setup for a classical Greek myth is: Human: "I have positive quality!" God, disguised as anything from a stag to just an old person: "Would you say you have...very positive quality?" Human: "Yup!" God, revealing themselves "HOW DARE YOU SAY YOU ARE GOOD TO A GOD! NOW YOU ARE AN ANIMAL OR SOMETHING"
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Cloud Potato posted:Independent:
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Riatsala posted:It's always funny to me that Greek gods seem to be incapable of undoing the curses of other gods. One gives you snake hair? Here's stone vision. One strikes you blind? Now you can see the future. I guess the mythology wouldn't be as interesting if they could. They could if they were more powerful or somehow cleverer than the other god they just typically didn't care. Remember the whole deal with Perseus and Medusa is that various gods gave him magical poo poo to enable him to beat Medusa like the helmet of invisibility. Hera hosed around with Hercules constantly because she was really mad at Zeus for cheating on her with Herc's mom but she couldn't do anything to him. He could have easily stopped her if he'd known she was doing it but he was an absentee dad who didn't really give a poo poo. Zeus for example was able to break into Hades and rescue Persephone when no one else could. But Hades had a lot of power there too so they ended up having to compromise on her staying six months out of the year there because she ate some hell-fruit.
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kaschei posted:Are panels 3 & 4 being identical part of a joke? No. It's separate panels the nib site so they might have uploaded one of them incorrectly but it's fixed now. 
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HootTheOwl posted:I'm not sure I buy that reading of Medusa because the classic setup for a classical Greek myth is: Wasn’t that kind more or less their way of explaining why the gods let terrible things happen to the world? “Yeah, it turns out that they’re all a bunch of egotistical shitheads who just so happened to get all of the power, so try not to piss them off... even if you’ll probably have no idea until it’s too late.”
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Regalingualius posted:Wasn’t that kind more or less their way of explaining why the gods let terrible things happen to the world? “Yeah, it turns out that they’re all a bunch of egotistical shitheads who just so happened to get all of the power, so try not to piss them off... even if you’ll probably have no idea until it’s too late.” Know your place or you'll become the origin story for the existence of spiders.
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Leak, Son of Leak: Tex Perkins, as part of ABC's live broadcast New Year's Eve celebrations in Sydney Harbour, dedicated his performance of "The Honeymoon Is Over" to Scott Morrison and flipped the bird in the direction of the PM's house.
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Jurgan posted:Kids. I was there in 2008 when it was the Mallard Fillmore Megathread. Imagine going back in time to tell them one day Drinky Duck would make a comic offensive enough to get suspended from making new comics. How many people would have guessed anti-Semitism/Islamophobia?
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Chamale posted:Imagine going back in time to tell them one day Drinky Duck would make a comic offensive enough to get suspended from making new comics. How many people would have guessed anti-Semitism/Islamophobia? I took a break from this thread last year, what happened?
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HootTheOwl posted:I'm not sure I buy that reading of Medusa because the classic setup for a classical Greek myth is: "Death of the Author" is doubly applicable when the author is unknown. If women want to re-imagine the story to be more empowering, good for them.
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Riatsala posted:I took a break from this thread last year, what happened? He dropped this lovely piece of work:  and it's been nothing but reruns ever since for some reason.
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Johnny Walker posted:What's the story behind Trump taking away the NHS? I remember he said something dumb indicating that he wanted to, but how would that even work? Over the last few decades various services under the NHS have been outsourced to private companies, pretty much always making them worse but making the owners a lot of money because we've pretty much got to use them anyway since the only alternative is other private companies. With Brexit looming and Britain needing to start negotiating its own trade deals again, there's been a persistent fear that the privatisation is going to get a lot worse. The NHS is one of the most effective and popular healthcare systems in the world, so medical companies are greedily eyeing up its for-sale signs. Trump is pretty openly keen to negotiate that, and no one really believes Johnson when he says he'll refuse.
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Lagomorphic posted:He dropped this lovely piece of work: Puzzling that it took this long. Thanks for filling me in.
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Let's see how long I last THIS time. Let my needless suffering... BEGIN! Gaybies nomination: Best Edit/Parody  Gaybies nomination: Worst cartoon about a Man-Made Tragedy Gaybies nomination: Worst Gaslighter Cartoon  Gaybies nomination: Most Willfully Dense  Gaybies nomination: Worst Gaslighter Cartoon Gaybies nomination: Best Edit/Parody  Gaybies nomination: Worst Gaslighter Cartoon (context from Jurgan: ""Anti-religion violence." So if I understand it correctly, he's trying to conflate church shootings with anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish violence and claim to be the victim of all of them, even though the perpetrators of the latter are often Christians with the same ideology as McCoy. Gotta have the persecution complex, can't live without it.")  Gaybies nomination: Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT) in a Cartoon
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I find it interesting that we have such interesting takes on these extremely old mythology. It helps that there are very few canonical takes that you can really say are above any others. But yes every God is a horrible rat bastard and every goddess well they're actually fairly decent except Hera who was kind of really mean. I understand it's probably projecting but yeah.
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Axe-man posted:I find it interesting that we have such interesting takes on these extremely old mythology. It helps that there are very few canonical takes that you can really say are above any others. Nah, everyone of divinity in Greek mythology was a massive piece of poo poo somewhere. It's just Zeus and Hera took it well above and beyond the call of duty.
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Axe-man posted:I find it interesting that we have such interesting takes on these extremely old mythology. It helps that there are very few canonical takes that you can really say are above any others. E: wait Diana is the Roman. I don't know about the bear woman and am too lazy to look it up
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HootTheOwl posted:The goddesses were poo poo too. Athena loses a loom-off and thus spiders. Diana turns her priest into a bear because she's raped. Hera makes Heracles go mad and kill his children for reasons I forget. I had forgotten those yeah everyone in Greek myth was a piece of poo poo. Also hera was pissed cause zues banged a gal to get heracles so he would forever be a target of her wrath.
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They clearly understood pretty well about how powerful people act in general.
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I wonder how Garrison is gonna justify the current warmongering with Iran, given that the only achievement he could point to last year was "no new wars"
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Somfin posted:I wonder how Garrison is gonna justify the current warmongering with Iran, given that the only achievement he could point to last year was "no new wars" "Trump defended Are Boys overseas instead of LEAVING THEM TO DIE like HILLARY!!!!"
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The Problem of Evil is a lot easier when you can just answer “God is a psychopath.”
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It took nine years, but Lester finally gives us the squeakquel:
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Pants Donkey posted:It took nine years, but Lester finally gives us the squeakquel: even in the best case scenario a whole bunch of people get shot because somebody has a gun, agc
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Somfin posted:I wonder how Garrison is gonna justify the current warmongering with Iran, given that the only achievement he could point to last year was "no new wars"
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Somfin posted:I wonder how Garrison is gonna justify the current warmongering with Iran, given that the only achievement he could point to last year was "no new wars" "Yes but see Iran is super bad and terrorists so it's good Trump started a war with them!"
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Pants Donkey posted:It took nine years, but Lester finally gives us the squeakquel: The Guy They Were There To Worship posted:Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
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HootTheOwl posted:How many votes does he need to pull in a general to let Trump win? He can't run 3rd party. 46 states won't let him be on the ballot cause or sore loser laws
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fool of sound posted:He can't run 3rd party. 46 states won't let him be on the ballot cause or sore loser laws He missed the deadline in Nevada, maybe he isn’t going to “lose” so he can run third party?
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Here's a lol. https://twitter.com/MZanona/status/1212851941094699010?s=19
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kaschei posted:He missed the deadline in Nevada, maybe he isn’t going to “lose” so he can run third party? Lol true, he can pick up a few extra states he declared to late to get in on, but if his goal is "throw the election" he's doing it in a stupid loving way.
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fool of sound posted:He can't run 3rd party. 46 states won't let him be on the ballot cause or sore loser laws Can't be a sore loser if you never made the ballot
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HootTheOwl posted:The goddesses were poo poo too. Athena loses a loom-off and thus spiders. Diana turns her priest into a bear because she's raped. Hera makes Heracles go mad and kill his children for reasons I forget. The Trojan War started because goddesses are vain and catty.
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