Political Cartoons 2019: My Stuggle

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Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

RoboRodent posted:

I am so, so tired of this talking point.

Well you're in for a rough year, then.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2019 21:46

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 15:56

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Saint Sputnik posted:

Ahhhh, our first Ye Fowl Herald of the year!

D.N. Nation posted:

I'll never get why political cartoonists think their medium is a perfect place to do song parodies. Unless my memory has failed me, they're uniformly terrible, without exception.

Everyone once in a great while someone will nail it, but yeah almost always they gently caress up meter and indulge in the cringiest of cringe-inducing "clever" lyrics.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2019 17:07

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

sexpig by night posted:

Yea Krischen is one of those Jews for Jesus adjacent types who thinks that because Jesus was a Jew Christian holidays are ACTUALLY fine and ACTUALLY should follow Jewish convention. He's probably not full on J4J but I imagine mr "Judaeochristian values are so important, I dare say even more important than any other including Jewish ones" has a lot of friends who are

I don't think he actually buys into the J4J garbage, but rather sees appealing to Western Christians as the best/most efficient way to achieve his true goal: A Muslim-free Middle East.

Johnny Walker posted:

This bothered me when I saw this before. Wasn't Jesus (supposedly) born on the 25th? I'm fully willing to believe that I have that wrong, but that's what I thought was the True Meaning of Christmas ^TM.

Nobody actually knows when precisely Jesus was born.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2019 01:49

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

DariusLikewise posted:

This isn't even how airplanes work, you're still not supposed to be holding anything during takeoff or landing

I have never in my life been asked to put anything other than electronics away during takeoffs or landing.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2019 18:22

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

bartok posted:

Was it Drunky Duck that use to do those Squirrel Appreciation Day strips as a racist dog whistle to bitch about Martin Luther King Jr. having a national holiday?

Yep, and he likely will again when that time rolls around this year. Similarly he routinely uses sharks and other dangerous predators as his stand-ins for black people/migrants/Muslims/whomever else is the scary scapegoat of the moment.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2019 18:23

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Katt posted:

Does anyone have that comic where Joe Rogan interviews an SS general while being really open minded about it?

# ¿ Jan 12, 2019 18:51

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Katt posted:

Hell yes. Thanks.

No prob buddy.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2019 19:07

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Ague Proof posted:

What?

The GOP grappled with how best to deal with the Osama elimination in a way that would, somehow, make Obama seem either not responsible for it or having been forced to do it by others. This backfired as nobody cared about the spin and were just reminded that Obama had killed the boogeyman the right had been shrieking about for a decade by that point.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2019 01:43

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Samurai Sanders posted:

Scott Walker understands marginal tax rates and is just in favor of lying to children, right?

No to the first part, yes to the second.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2019 23:38

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

loquacius posted:

Uh exCUSE me but Lee didn't fight to own slaves, he fought to defend slavery which is TOTALLY different #facts #logic

*shoves map showing the movements and maneuvers of the Army of Northern Virginia during the Gettysburg campaign out of sight*

# ¿ Jan 21, 2019 18:52

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Raised By Birds posted:

Oh good lord, I didn't even notice that said "color of our hat," I thought it was just a generic "MLK good" toon.

Oh son of a bitch I also did not notice that, Ramirez get turbofucked.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2019 23:21

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Freudian posted:

Only the Nixon one, to be clear.

So far.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2019 18:40

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Jurgan posted:

And if the "precious child" is never going to take a first breath because it's already dead?

"Well a miracle* might still happen!" is something I've actually heard said, out loud, by someone I was expect to not punch upon hearing them say it.

*as in, a literal biblical miracle by which the dead fetus would somehow be transformed into healthy, living baby upon delivery.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2019 23:29

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

betaraywil posted:

He's above it all, but he's still got tiny hands. Delonas, you petty gently caress.

Reminder that Delonas' primary, perhaps only, motivation is seething hatred of literally everything.

# ¿ Feb 3, 2019 19:36

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Pants Donkey posted:

Also also, his relationship with Maus is complicated, as I think at one point he felt guilt over getting a degree of fame over his parents� and people�s suffering.

You might say that.

# ¿ Feb 8, 2019 06:05

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Sandpuppy posted:

1
It's time for socialists to apply their own "2nd amendment solutions".

A loving good cartoon.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2019 23:46

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Grimdude posted:

I just don't understand what's so loving hard to believe about "we're slowly killing our planet."

That it's happening slowly.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2019 23:30

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Tasmantor posted:

So sad when a cult figure dies

If he'd only held out another month or so, he'd finally see the collapse and self-destruction of Great Britain he'd longed for all his life.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2019 02:48

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Mikl posted:

Fun fact!

Well no, not fun fact, it's not funny at all. Interesting fact!

The very books you see being burned in this picture are the archives of the Institut f�r Sexualwissenschaft (in English that would be Institute of Sexology), a Berlin research institution headed by Magnus Hirschfeld which did pioneering research into gender and sexuality, including homosexuality and "tranvenstitism" (the name that was used for transgenderism at the time). Germany was in fact one of the best places to live for LGBT people because it was super liberal compared to other places around the world at the time. Until the Nazis came along, that is.

(Also, when you hear TERFs and other bigots saying "But there's no evidence of transgenderism until very recent times!", please point them to this picture because that is the bulk of transgender research before 1933 being burned right there, the evidence was literally destroyed at the hands of Nazis.)

Berlin in particular was internationally known in the 1920s and very early 1930s as being one of the most cosmopolitan and accepting cities in Europe when it came to gay and trans people. It's one of those enduring ironies of history the city that became the focal point of the Nazi regime wasn't one that the Nazis or Hitler particularly liked (part of why the huge party rallies were always at Nuremberg).

This is the El Dorado, one of the most famous gay/trans Berlin nightspots, pictured in 1932 so right before everything went to poo poo.

Some patrons.

A couples night at the El Dorado.

Street posters advertising same.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2019 19:03

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Samurai Sanders posted:

What's with all the weird arrows?

DEBT.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2019 03:24

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Jurgan posted:

That was one thing I never understood about the original 1984: why wasn't Winston killed? O'Brien specifically said they killed thought criminals after getting them to repent, so why did they let Winston go? Was it a metaphorical death, like "we killed your individuality?" Was there something special about Winston that merited extra attention? I think O'Brien implied he was different somehow.

Recall that O'Brien told him, back in the Ministry of Love, that they'd never let him die until they'd completely erased him and refilled his hollow shell with themselves, and even then they might not actually end his physical existence because they wouldn't need to. "Winston Smith" would inevitably die, regardless of whether or not they actually killed his body.

quote:

"Do not imagine that you will save yourself, Winston, however completely you surrender to us. No one who has once gone astray is ever spared. And even if we chose to let you live out the natural term of your life, still you would never escape from us. What happens to you here is forever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves."

# ¿ Feb 16, 2019 22:32

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

New Kelly, and it's a good one!

# ¿ Feb 19, 2019 19:02

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

# ¿ Feb 26, 2019 18:25

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

By popular demand posted:

Well yes, every social progress of note had to be fought for by the people.
what's your point Skelly?

That social progress is bad.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2019 21:20

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Fellas, I'm starting to think I do not care for this Ted Rall guy.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2019 16:53

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

ryonguy posted:

Todd, you goddamn worthless loving rip-off hack.

I can beat even that one.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2019 20:38

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Somfin posted:

I always got the sense that 1984's Julia just sort of liked getting it on with older dudes and making them feel loved and special. And Party members aren't fat; a combination of mandatory exercise and poverty rations kinda preclude that. Winston asks her if she's done this before and she says yes and that makes her even more interesting to his jaded, tired eyes. Winston might just be the first one to open up about how he hates it all, too.

I don't understand why you keep feeling the need to emphasise how 1984 is still regressive, do you think if you don't get there first someone will mock you for genuinely liking it?

Not that you're wrong, but also remember Orwell wrote it after the death of his first wife, at time when his health was on the decline and also he was getting involved with a significantly younger women whom many critics have suggested was the model for Julia herself.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2019 21:09

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

loquacius posted:

like, does he think babies are aborted by being carried to term, delivered normally, and immediately put into a tiny guillotine, and even if they were what would that have to do with climate change

Our literal president posted:

The governor stated that he would even allow a newborn baby to come out into the world and wrap the baby and make the baby comfortable and then talk to the mother and talk to the father and then execute the baby

# ¿ Mar 2, 2019 17:23

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

MixMastaTJ posted:

It's been a while since I read 1984 but Winston initially hated Julia because of how especially impassioned she was during the two minute hate, right? When he first met her he assumed she was a poster child for the ideal party member, which Winston rightfully despised. As they actually got to know each other he learned that Julia was just as anti-party as him and his hate dissipated.

Winston was fantasizing about how best to murder her prior to her covertly passing him a note reading "I love you," the aching desire for that to be true being what he risks everything to make contact with her and learns the truth.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2019 00:48

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

# ¿ Mar 5, 2019 19:13

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Raised By Birds posted:

The Eternal Infrastructure Week

Yeah I'm really feeling that Branco has moved on from "socialism!!" to "communism!!"

It's not like he could define, or consistently spell, either term.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2019 23:17

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Wistful of Dollars posted:

He must be doing something right to piss Stiglich off this much.

He's done a lot for meaningful criminal justice reform in Philly, and unsurprisingly the cops and chuds all hate him as a consequence.

Oh, and also it's new Kelly time.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2019 21:43

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

loquacius posted:

Available much earlier tho

And unlike fusion, doesn't need replacing every fifty years.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2019 17:08

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

# ¿ Mar 19, 2019 18:07

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

D.N. Nation posted:

DURR FREE STUFF ARUGULA YOU DIDN'T BUILD THAT

Mission Accomplished
\
Obama

# ¿ Mar 26, 2019 02:00

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

kaschei posted:

Make the thread read it, not me! Not MEEE!

I have managed to skip over every single 2024 post almost reflexively, simply by recognizing Rall's "style" and scroll past the words fast enough to not read them. By actual Orwellian standards, I think this counts as reverse Crimestop.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2019 22:51

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

sexpig by night posted:

yea Everett is a fun comic because the gag of 'big dumb rear end in a top hat overreacts to everything, sometimes get owned by his wife' is a solid one, but lol if you didn't think that joke in the 1800's would be constantly used for 'and also these uppity negros and unionists am I right?'

Thing is, there's a bunch of other ones where he beats up scabs and bosses for abusing labor and I can remember one in particular where he initially stops two men from beating a third, but upon learning that that fellow lured the other two to town to blackleg, lays into him himself. I suspect in this case it's just an unfortunate case of labor splittism, where the more-revolutionary IWW was tarred as anarchist madmen by "respectable" labor organizations like the AFL.

In other news, new Kelly.