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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Goddammit stop depicting war as an anthropomorphic figure like this. Wars don't just happen for no drat reason. They are not acts of God. Intentionally or not, it downplays the responsibility of politicians and other assorted demagogues that are actually causing wars. Meanwhile, Russian speaking emigre media is all "for real, Odessa? The iconic city? So many stories? So many childhood vacations you took? You just don't give a gently caress?" I don't even know what the American equivalent would be. Bombing Disneyworld, except it's a real place?
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FBS posted:that's one tortured metaphor The phrase is "out of the pan and into the fire" to mean going from one bad situation to worse situation. So let's count the issues: - this is not that. This is just "in a bad situation" - he specified it as a frying pan - is this because of the record heat? Mixing up news stories in a nonsensical way, if so. If not, then just unnecessary - regardless, all florida is affected by the depicted issues, not just the pan handle - they're in the pan, not the pan handle! The text is WRONG!! - if that bit of florida is known as the pan handle that's because the rest of florida is the pan! So why is the pan bit of florida also depicted as part of the handle idonotlikepeas posted:Adam Zyglis Kellies nomination: Worst metaphor
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Microplastics posted:The phrase is "out of the pan and into the fire" to mean going from one bad situation to worse situation. So let's count the issues: "Out of the frying pan and into the fire" is a very common form of that phrase. I got nothing against the rest of your points though.
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idonotlikepeas posted:Adam Zyglis Hopefully giant Desantis will burn his hand on the metal Florida shaped Frying pan handle....
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Al Goodwyn Chip Bok  Chris Britt  Gary Markstein  Michael Ramirez  Mike Luckovich  Tom Stiglich 
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Skios posted:Chris Britt Kellies Nomination: Laziest Non-Gorrell
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""Let's help to rebuild a country being bombed" - A Bad Man" - Tom Stiglich
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Skios posted:Al Goodwyn I'll give Goodwyn this: that's the most car-looking car I've can remember seeing in this thread. (Probably a major keep that it doesn't have a roof, though.)
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idonotlikepeas posted:Mike Thompson
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Tibalt posted:I don't get this one. "They made the Barbie movie too woke, what's next trans GI Joe?"
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I read it as "People are going out to see Barbie in huge numbers despite Republicans calling for boycotts because ~feminism~, so Hollywood pushing their culture war buttons even harder to spite them would be funny." Weird message, I guess, but I'd put it under "a little confused but has the spirit". I could be wrong in my interpretation though!
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That's what I got from it, and I think that's the correct way to read it.
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Yeah, I don't think it's anti-trans because GI Jo isn't built like a linebacker and doesn't have a five o'clock shadow, but like... What?
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China Daily Putting the brakes on by Luo Jie  Dollar hegemony by Song Chen  Charlie Hebdo  Marseillens have to deal with minimum police service "We only get halfway beaten up." Some Marseille cops beat someone up and got arrested for excessive violence.
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Tibalt posted:Yeah, I don't think it's anti-trans because GI Jo isn't built like a linebacker and doesn't have a five o'clock shadow, but like... What? I think this thread has just traumatized us to the point where we're not used to trans people being portrayed in even a neutral manner.
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100YrsofAttitude posted:Dollar hegemony by Song Chen Tibalt posted:Yeah, I don't think it's anti-trans because GI Jo isn't built like a linebacker and doesn't have a five o'clock shadow, but like... What?
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Charlz Guybon posted:https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2014-01-23-ancient-carthaginians-really-did-sacrifice-their-children Unlike the virtuous Romans who practiced infanticide for rational reasons only.
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Also there's a difference between sacrificing and eating them. Not all offerings were fully burned (the original sense of the word holocaust), sometimes you sacrifice the spiritual part of the offering to the god and still get to eat the tasty part. Accusations that people were eating infants are either people who practised the second form with animals hearing about the first and assuming, or just accusing your enemies of the worst thing you can think of. ofc most modern conspiracy flavors descend from the blood libel against Jews, where various religious commands about Jewish ritual slaughter (of kosher animals) were similarly warped into antisemitic rumors.
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Political Cartoons 2023: NUBILE TEENS100YrsofAttitude posted:China Daily Another tally for the "make the US look badass" column. Also, the "US Companies" looks to be added in post- I wonder if those are meant to be specific caricatures.
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"I believe in freedom, Mr. Lipwig. Not many people do, although they will, of course, protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based."
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:I think this thread has just traumatized us to the point where we're not used to trans people being portrayed in even a neutral manner. I think the cartoon is demanding a Christine Jorgensen biopic.
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Cloud Potato posted:
I think the cartoonist might be an actual child this time.
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Ah, yes, the famous pronoun, "nonbinary"
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Kellies Nomination: Most Deliberately Ignorant First one because you drat well know that "we measured the famously hot thing and it's now even hotter than we expected" is a very good way of measuring for bad things in an engineering context, so gently caress you. Second one because Crunch Buttsteak posted:Ah, yes, the famous pronoun, "nonbinary"
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The latest in global warming denialism is mocking the libs for thinking 95°F (roughly 35° C) is too hot. Naturally, they are too ignorant or deceptive to acknowledge that these were wet bulb temperatures, which take evaporative cooling into effect. That means the temps are 95° AFTER your body does everything it can to keep you cool from sweating. It’s roughly 150° F (around 65° C) air temperature, although this varies on the humidity. It’s basically the limit at which a human can survive outside unaided. And not in death valley, but places like Georgia. It’s, you know, a touch alarming that certain regions have heat waves that are rendering the area uninhabitable without AC.
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"I checked the heat shield on my lawnmower and it's 20 degrees hotter than normal Glenn!" "Well it's not called the cold shield is it Gary!" "Ha ha good one" *both brothers died in a gasoline explosion*
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Discendo Vox posted:Political Cartoons 2023: NUBILE TEENS
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Lmao I just did this post in the biosphere collapse thread Microplastics posted:They didn't call it COMFORTABLE valley, did they???
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"Of course it's hot it's summer right now" *6 months later* "If global warming is real why is it cold right now?" *6 months later* "Of course it's hot it's summer right now"
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Fister Roboto posted:"Of course it's hot it's summer right now" "If global warming is real why is it cold right now?" *5 months later* “Of course it's hot it's summer right now"
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Drakyn posted:The chinatoons in general just seem like the most depressingly transparent and predictable things, even by political cartoon standards. Just...endlessly self-serving and filled to bursting with a constant, screaming undertone that in the end the only actual problem the cartoon has with the purported actions of the countries being lampooned is that it isn't the author's country doing it instead, who surely deserves to be the big stupid rear end in a top hat with outsized global importance more than THOSE jerks. There's technical skill in the artists behind them, but they're putting drawings on top of a message that's as dull and empty as any one of Gorrell's patented big white blank spaces labelled 'JOE BIDEN'S PLAN TO FIX THE ECONOMY/NUMBER OF TROOPS WILLING TO SERVE IN WOKE ARMY/ALL THE PROBLEMS WITH CROWNING TRUMP DICTATOR FOR LIFE.' I'd found some details of the how and why of their process last year: Discendo Vox posted:I recently found a mid-length graphic depiction by, iirc, an australian cartoonist who had the chance to talk with one of the China Daily cartoonists about their work- specifically the lead of their cartooning team. Regrettably I can't find it atm. Among the information disclosed, the cartoonist indicates that they're working in a team studio under his supervision, and that all cartoons are produced under tight deadline and require advance review by managers from the party, which means that if one is rejected, they have to revise them with virtually zero time. This is likely a factor in how screwy the China Daily cartoons are: the cartoonists are pressured to "play it safe" by repeating the exact messages intended for distribution in that cycle over and over, and everyone involved has very little perspective of their target audience's viewpoints and reasoning outside the state-controlled media bubble in China (and, of course, if they did, they can't safely exercise it)! The result is really technically skilled people producing propaganda that is, in function, frequently reflective of their domestic information limitations to the point of being completely ineffective.
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Fister Roboto posted:"Of course it's hot it's summer right now" I don’t know if they can even do “why cold!” this go around. I’m in Rhode Island and we had basically zero snow and it’s already projected we’re going to have another very mild winter. Like those of us living in typical snowy regions are noticing little to no snow year over year now
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Nah they'll still do it as long as there's somewhere in the world where it snows at least once. Not to mention all the erratic weather caused by global warming that will actually cause some places to be unseasonably cold.
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 Tina Garrison posted:“I’M A BARBIE GIRL, IN A BARBIE WORLD” Kellies nomination: Worst caricature. Mulvaney looks like Caitlyn Jenner in that South Park episode.
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Fister Roboto posted:Nah they'll still do it as long as there's somewhere in the world where it snows at least once. Not to mention all the erratic weather caused by global warming that will actually cause some places to be unseasonably cold. I live in The Netherlands. Ice skating is a major part of our national culture. The last twenty years or so, even at the height of winter, skating on natural ice has been all but impossible. When it does happen, it's usually on way too thin ice, and only for a day or two. It's actually a running joke that this only makes us better at speed skating, because people learn to outrace the cracks. And without fail, those two or three days with actual ice are then held up as proof that everything is fine, in spite of the fact that we've gone from skating season lasting at least two weeks to being lucky if we get two days a year.
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Yes Tina, that's right. One of those is a real woman and the other is a plastic toy. Good job.
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