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Cowcaster posted:i think i've made this observation before in this thread but it's always insane to me how this specific art style regardless of political content makes me think these are cartoons from like the 1960's or something It helps that he draws a world trapped in 1965 manners and culture that merely names modern things, even apart from the look. The trope of doctors always playing golf is something I only know from looney tunes and old media self-consciously invoking even older media, like Spaceballs. That goofy golf gear strikes me as exactly the same thing. It’s like seeing archival content from a universe where covid happened 60 years earlier than it did here.
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Cloud Potato posted:Matt: Huh, Matt told a funny joke. It's probably secretly bigoted or something.
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Boy, I'd bet it took Ramirez most of the day to come up with these particular kneeslappers.
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Oct 17, 2021 21:29
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I'm amazed he resisted the temptation to draw an exquisitely detailed tree outside the window. Not even a house plant
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Oct 17, 2021 21:31
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The world's dumbest man attempts a crossword puzzle.
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Cross posting this from the Idiots on Social Media thread:Platystemon posted:Two awful things that taste awful together!
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 Rowe:  Nationals fail to land on climate position during marathon meeting as Barnaby Joyce warns party will not be bullied (ABC). Angus Taylor is the energy & emissions reduction minister. Bridget McKenzie is Deputy Nationals leader, Rowe draws her with a gun because during the sports rorts affair she awarded a bunch of cash to a shooting club without declaring that she was a member. Broelman:  Kudelka:  The image of the National party is that they're for farmers - they all tend to wear Akubra hats - but they act far more for coal. Warren Brown:  New South Wales has hit 80% fully vaccinated for age 16+ and so is removing a whole bunch of restrictions. Knight:  Victoria has hit 70% fully vaccinated for age 16+ and so is removing a whole bunch of restrictions. Leak, Son of Leak:  Tasmania is in a snap lockdown after a lone positive man escaped quarantine, went to a whole bunch of places before being caught, and then wouldn't cooperate with authorities to tell where he had been. If Tasmania's coronavirus lockdown is extended as other states open up, Peter Gutwein could face scrutiny he's so far avoided (ABC analysis). Downes:  Christopher Downes is a Tasmanian cartoonist.
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Cowcaster posted:i think i've made this observation before in this thread but it's always insane to me how this specific art style regardless of political content makes me think these are cartoons from like the 1960's or something Mac is 85.
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Oct 17, 2021 22:03
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“Flurk” is definitely him thumbing his nose at Shmorky, right? That’s such an obscure loving thing, but SA and SA-descended communities are probably 90% of his audience, hopefully all as hostile as we are to him (minus the offsites that became nazi pits, so 100% of whatever isn’t us).
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Ague Proof posted:Mac is 85. Oh not long left then
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VitalSigns posted:Even in his own dystopia where he draws all his enemies as club-wielding thugs and deft syringe-laden hummingbird drones, the only thing the villains do to him is 'unlike' him on Twitter and Reddit This is a good point. In a world where other people are disagreeing and downvoting you, the reason can't be your opinions aren't popular, it's the woke mob of sheeple mindlessly believing in SCIENCE! Y'know, the thing that makes phones possible, and like, the internet. Their violence is in stealing speech from the free-willed, god-fearing, patriots! So this likely will be fought with actual physical violence. This whole strip feels like a Black Mirror episode, where it turns out it's all an augmented reality. But the twist here is that it's all just a normal world underneath, he's just subscribing to the clown world narrative.
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Oct 17, 2021 22:24
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So is he including modern medicine in general as a member of The Great Malevolent Force now? Judging by the evil blimp with the Rod of Asclepius on it...
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Oct 17, 2021 23:16
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Oct 17, 2021 23:26
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Because he knows you're an idiot who thinks birds evolved from Tyrannosauroidea rather than Maniraptorans (like Velociraptor, Utahraptor, and Dakotaraptor)
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Oh not long left then You say that but Henry Kissinger is still alive. Strom Thurmond lived to 100 as well.
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It's annoyed me for a long time now how much credit/blame the President gets for the state of the economy. The following is obviously grossly oversimplified and not all that accurate but still. 1. The President is the head of the Executive branch of the government, which is responsible for enforcing the law. 2. The American economy is a free-market capitalist economy, which means it operates independently of the government. The primary actual way the two are causally linked is rich people write the laws, but somehow the President is the main person responsible for it all. Also for some bizarre loving reason according to these idiots, the President knows about this attribution, which obviously hurts his re-election chances, and ruins everything anyway out of pure malice presumably, but only when his name is followed by a (D).
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Oct 18, 2021 01:03
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That dumb Biden is too senile to know to push the economy lever to "good" and the gas prices lever to "low."
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Raised By Birds posted:So is he including modern medicine in general as a member of The Great Malevolent Force now? Judging by the evil blimp with the Rod of Asclepius on it... Ishida, on the other hand, seems fully aware of this and even acknowledges it, but his conclusion then is "no, it must be the experts who are wrong" and summarily wrote off all science to justify his bigotry.
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I like how Ishida wants me to be intimidated by a cartoon blimp with a rainbow, a cartoon blimp with the symbol for trans folks, and a cartoon blimp with a...symbol widely recognized in the US as medicine/health related. He's missing the really happy guy, though, why am I denied the really happy guy blimp? And the confetti? Step it up, Ishida. edit: actually, he's so frequently bad at messaging that his strips mostly just come off as a bunch of people who don't have names moping around being sad and ominous about everyone else, who also don't have any names, being pretty happy and content. And zombies. Granted, there are a lot of zombies, but all the zombies ever do is...uh. I guess they chased some cops that one time? Something that helped the protagonist escape? And in this one they were very ominous with cell phones. kartikeya fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Oct 18, 2021 |
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Twelve by Pies posted:That dumb Biden is too senile to know to push the economy lever to "good" and the gas prices lever to "low." (i.imgur.com/sbu5DSK.png)
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:“Flurk” is definitely him thumbing his nose at Shmorky, right? That’s such an obscure loving thing, but SA and SA-descended communities are probably 90% of his audience, hopefully all as hostile as we are to him (minus the offsites that became nazi pits, so 100% of whatever isn’t us). Either that or a not so sly admission that they are Shmorky
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The Islamic Shock posted:I know I've been following these threads too long when I instantly know which specific cartoon you're referencing with this. It's good to know the thread's deep lore. You wouldn't want to be caught looking like a fool.
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Oct 18, 2021 04:26
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Clay Bennett Steve Breen  Clay Jones  KAL  Kevin Necessary  Jeff Stahler  Tony Branco  quote:New Teacher My high school didn't offer Gay Sex Role Play so I took Latin instead.
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Raised By Birds posted:My high school didn't offer Gay Sex Role Play so I took Latin instead. I feel like there is a fair amount of gay sex in there too if you were translating classical texts.
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Oct 18, 2021 04:35
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I love it when Branco draws a tattoo. It's a complete crapshoot as to what you're gonna get.
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Oct 18, 2021 04:42
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Do you think that swirl on the forearm is meant to be the satantic pedophile swirl/triangle qanon was going nuts about a while ago?
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Do you think that swirl on the forearm is meant to be the satantic pedophile swirl/triangle qanon was going nuts about a while ago?
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I found out about Internet porn in 1999, when I was 14. I quickly graduated to triple penetration before realizing some time later that actually doing that wouldn't be particularly enjoyable. lol at Branco being so old he thinks kids' first exposure to this is going to be in school Edit and RIP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBbRazeFd0 The Islamic Shock fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Oct 18, 2021 |
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My mother volunteered with a group that did sex ed and abortion access in the late 70s/early 80s. Like, she was full into Our Bodies, Our Selves, you know. My first formal sex ed class was when i was seven, taught by my mother, in Sunday school at our very left wing church. I already knew the basics of where babies came from at that age, because I was curious and already had two younger sisters and my parents did not lie about things like that, but this class, taught over several Sundays, went into the basics of sex, pregnancy, fetal development, birth, and the concept of birth control. Sunday school sex ed was pretty extensive and accurate, without fear mongering, though I admit I did not fully grasp the concept of oral contraceptives and had the idea in my head for several years that women just had to take a pill every day forever when they reached a certain age, even if I wasn't really clear on why. As Branco suspects, I have grown into a crazed, depraved sex demon from this exposure to practically pornographic drawings of anatomy and frank discussion of sex as a normal part of human behaviour and -- no, I'm sorry, that's not right. I'm more or less asexual.
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Oct 18, 2021 06:19
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Branco always threatens me with a good time.
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RoboRodent posted:As Branco suspects, I have grown into a crazed, depraved sex demon from this exposure to practically pornographic drawings of anatomy and frank discussion of sex as a normal part of human behaviour and -- no, I'm sorry, that's not right. I'm more or less asexual. Branco absolutely considers asexuality to be crazed and depraved and thus he would consider it proof that his beliefs are correct.
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Raised By Birds posted:
They have a censored swear word tattooed on their arm, I feel like that's the little detail that really ties the whole terrible picture together.
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Also since Branco is such a hateful piece of poo poo I can't tell if the beard stubble and hairy legs are meant to imply "this woman is actually a man" or if it's just the standard "this woman is unfeminine and ugly and therefore wrong and bad."
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Oct 18, 2021 07:09
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That's one gimp mask away from being the full Branco, Son of Leak.
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Oct 18, 2021 07:22
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I like how one subject is porn. Just "porn."
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Rall: Employment Angst in the Time of Covid Ted Rall posted:American employers spent decades treating employees like crap. They slashed salaries, eliminated training, disrespected them, increased their working hours and then, when they were done with them, unceremoniously fired them in mass layoffs. Now they need more workers but people have moved onto their own businesses or family obligations instead. First Dog on the Moon: Barnaby Joyce reckons four hours isn’t long enough to agree on a climate policy – is eight years long enough?  (The four hours is the meeting the National party had to hash out whether they wanted to sign on with the Liberal's net zero policy resulting in an unsurprising total waste of everyone's time)
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Raised By Birds posted:So is he including modern medicine in general as a member of The Great Malevolent Force now? Judging by the evil blimp with the Rod of Asclepius on it... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_of_Life He doesn't hate all medicine, only emergency medicine.
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Murdstone posted:I like how one subject is porn. Just "porn." It’s probably not the worst idea. Kids, if left to their own devises, are going to discover porn eventually and could escalate from “hosed my stepmom stuck in the washer,” to “cum bus gangbang 82” to “triple anal fisting cock and ball torture” before seeing another person naked and someone ought to teach them that these are not representative of your typical sexual encounter.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I feel like there is a fair amount of gay sex in there too if you were translating classical texts. ...pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo...
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