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wizzardstaff posted:

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happycat's mom looks awesome.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2020 21:37

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 13:59

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Republicans, like internal combustion engines, are outdated, over-loud, and have inferior performance compared to greener alternatives; they only win because the rules are rigged to prevent the greener options from even competing; and nevertheless they are destined to be replaced by those greener options within our lifetimes. AGC.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2020 10:21

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Sandpuppy posted:

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I like how whenever Branco really doesn't like somebody he just kinda doodles little squiggly evil lines all over them. He's like a less talented Jack Chick.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2020 23:37

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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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I can't even figure out what gormless truth-is-in-the-middle position he's attempting to stake out here.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2020 01:30

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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Pictured: Paris this time of year (seven days ago, specifically):

# ¿ Jun 10, 2020 05:05

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The Artificial Kid posted:

What does that cartoon even mean? I need a button to hit that says "easily offended"? Does it activate any kind of response or do I just feel better by hammering the button, thereby engage in a ritual act of self-identification as "easily offended"?

The cartoonist is bemoaning the fact that people care about things, and is demonstrating that he, the cartoonist, has transcended such nonsense, by making their 100th angry cartoon on the subject.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2020 08:08

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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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# ¿ Jun 12, 2020 14:13

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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:

2 hello, two-week delay and predictable missing the point

George Floyd died. If you speak out against property damage but not the loss of life that precipitated it you are endorsing the moral calculus of the slaveholder. This is propaganda for apartheid.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2020 23:35

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Tenebrais posted:

They were said by a different character, some sort of old general.

Major.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2020 11:50

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DalaranJ posted:

Unborn fetuses wishing they had made it down to the garbage pit of earth when they�re being depicted as being in heaven. A confusing cartoon.

Christian soteriology is like Pok�mon ontogeny in that it makes less sense the more you think about it or, importantly, more sense the less you think about it.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2020 00:19

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Ambitious Spider posted:

I miss the days when they used hang out with like Socrates and the other virtuous non-christians

Stuff like Limbo and Purgatory and the other fan fiction additions to the Christian Cinematic Universe are cool but if you're going there I think you should go full-on syncretism/folk religion and arrive at, like, Hatian Vodou or Jes�s Malverde.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2020 00:26

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The Cubelodyte posted:

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What is Trump supposed to be holding here?

It's clearly a red bell pepper wearing a l'il purple pirate hat. I don't know why you guys always make these things so hard.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2020 06:53

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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

Fractal centrism.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2020 01:49

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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:

It's all projection. They can't imagine any of their organizations or movements not being a grift, so they assume everybody else's are too.

It's not projection, it's lying. Projection is a passive cognitive bias. Accusing BLM of being a bunch of commies acting as a front(?) for the Democrats to (???) money from corporations(?) isn't a passive bias. It's a lie crafted by someone who want to spread misinformation about BLM and the Democrats. Don't let them off the hook by pretending it's unintentional.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2020 22:55

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Jedit posted:

High fructose corn syrup isn't just bad as a sugar, though. Studies show that it doesn't trigger the reward centres of the brain in the same way as glucose does, so it doesn't sate appetite. Because this can lead to overconsumption, often without even knowing it if you don't read the ingredients, HFCS actually causes Type II diabetes by promoting insulin resistance.

You say studies. Can you name them? It sounds kinda like you're describing this study, based on fMRI scans of 20 individuals. But as far as I know there haven't been any replication studies.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2020 23:19

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Jedit posted:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20693348/

That doesn't have anything to do with any of the claims you made. The only claim you made that even resembles anything discussed in that study is the claim that HFCS consumption "causes Type II diabetes by promoting insulin resistance", but while the study does report an increased risk of type 2 diabetes among those in the highest quantile of sugar-sweetend beverage (SSB) intake, they don't specifically implicate HFCS. In fact, they explicitly say the opposite:

Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes posted:

SSBs, which are now the primary source of added sugars in the U.S. diet, are composed of energy-containing sweeteners such as sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup, or fruit juice concentrates, all of which have essentially similar metabolic effects.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2020 10:52

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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:

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Nero personally funded disaster relief, provided shelter for those made homeless (including opening the imperial palace), and provided food to the hungry. He oversaw redevelopment, implementing improvements in urban planning to limit the damage later fires could do.

The crusty conservatives of the day didn't think much of Nero. In policy terms because of the reforms he was responsible for (and specifically in diverging from the model of Augstus, his great-great grandfather). But Nero was also a poet, and he composed and performed poetry while emperor. This was considered beneath the dignity of the office by the conservatives, and so it was the kind of thing that would be mentioned in criticisms of Nero. Later members of the Flavian dynasty used this to more or less invent the story that he sang the Iliupersis, an epic about the sack of Troy, during the Great Fire. It alludes to a real thing Nero did--public recitation of poetry--but only in the context of a completely fictional anecdote--doing so during the Great Fire--and was done to rationalise rolling back his reforms. The later popular myth of Nero playing the fiddle (which wasn't invented until over a millennium after Nero's death) during the Great Fire was based on that bit of anti-Nero propaganda.

That all aside, the one thing you can say about Nero during the Great Fire of Rome with some certainty is that he wasn't the minority party.

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# ¿ Jul 21, 2020 04:30

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Alhazred posted:

Turns you don't gotta hand it to Nero.

Or any other Roman Emperor. But pointing out that the "fiddling while Rome burned" reaches us as a lie based on a different lie, and is invariably used to craft a third lie (about some contemporary political figure) isn't handing it to Nero. It's pointing out the lie. Whatever else you want to say about Nero, he didn't fiddle while Rome burned, and whatever else his response to the Great Fire of Rome was, it wasn't detached and ineffectual indifference, and whatever other reasons his critics had for crafting those specific stories about him, it wasn't belief that he actually did those things.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2020 10:58

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Samurai Sanders posted:

I've always wondered, if you're a die-hard conservative do you hate Robin Hood and any other character like him? They're kind of central to almost any literature in the world.

Not quite. Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, for example, has a kind of Robin Hood character. He's named, and I'm not making this up, Ragnar Danneskj�ld. He's a pirate. As in a pirate in a ship on the high seas. The traffic he attacks are relief vessels carrying humanitarian aid. This is justified, see, because all of that humanitarian aid was paid for with tax dollars. Danneskj�ld eventually meets Hank Rearden, who owns the largest steel company in the world, and gives him a bar of gold to make up for all the taxes he's been forced to pay. Rand anticipates that we'll see Danneskj�ld and Rearden as the good guys.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2020 09:36

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Pakled posted:

I think it's dumber than that: the message I got from it was "the Trump campaign owned the libs by intentionally using fascist symbolism to make them angry"

That's how I read it as well. But I also read "America First" as fascist on its face, as it in fact has a long history in that regard. A political cartoon almost everyone here has probably already seen, but I'll repost just to point out the label:

The slogan was first used in the interwar period by isolationists and anti-war activists, but ended up being most associated with the America First Committee. The AFC was the largest anti-war organisation in US history, which is cool, but they ended up skewing hard pro-German, which turned out to be really, really bad. For a while they engaged in a lot of plausible-sounding rhetoric, but there were eventually a lot of yikes moments, the most famous of which was Lindbergh delivering a speech in which he said:

Charles Lindbergh, September 11, 1941 posted:

Instead of agitating for war the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the first to feel its consequences. Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation. A few farsighted Jewish people realize this and stand opposed to intervention. But the majority still do not. Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government.

And so on. A couple months later Pearl Harbor happened and the AFC dried up and blew away and probably wasn't thought much of until Donald loving Trump decided to dust off the decrepit old literally pro-Nazi slogan and slap it on a shirt next to an eagle cosplaying as a reichsadler.

Woody Guthrie wrote a song about all of this (not counting the recent revival) with a line that I've thought about lately: And I'm gonna tell you workers, 'fore you cash in your checks/They say "America First" but they mean "America Next".

# ¿ Jul 28, 2020 10:12

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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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# ¿ Jul 29, 2020 23:37

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Fathis Munk posted:

Garrison often has trouble drawing a consistent perspective but holy lol that motorcycle. Like look at the turn indicators and try to imagine what the geometry of the front fork is supposed to be.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2020 15:45

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sexpig by night posted:

Yea boy those gross republicans sure are gonna make offensive comics

# ¿ Aug 12, 2020 15:27

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Fathis Munk posted:

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This is that Garrison. Like, identically.

Fathis Munk posted:

# ¿ Aug 18, 2020 15:20

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JustaDamnFool posted:

Is there any reason Ramirez and Lester are laundering the "looting as reparations" talking point? I've only ever seen that argued by that one 1960s civil rights activist, and their only response seems to be incoherent screaming.

Because they're racists.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2020 09:31

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Fathis Munk posted:

In my head Branco sounds like a nazi Zippy the Pinhead.

Let's join the RADICAL LEFT and loot FLATSCREEN TVS and tiny JOE BIDENS with our MOLOTOV COCKTAILS.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2020 23:27

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Trapezium Dave posted:

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# ¿ Aug 20, 2020 08:18

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Fathis Munk posted:

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lol

California's energy market was working perfectly fine, then the Republican Governor pushed through a campaign of deregulation after aggressively being lobbied by Enron, a company whose name you only know because it is famous for corporate fraud and corruption.

After deregulation Enron and utilities companies like PG&E engaged in price-fixing, destroyed capacity--California's generating capacity fell to nearly half it's pre-deregulation levels--and generally engaged in market manipulation that simultaneously gave the state worse service--like years of rolling blackouts--and driving prices up as much as twentyfold. People subsequently went to jail for this, although nowhere near as many as should have.

More recently, PG&E plead guilty to criminal charges for killing people for failing to conduct routine maintenance on power lines which subsequently failed, causing wildfires, including the Camp Fire, that destroyed huge amounts of property--including the town of Paradise--and caused 84 deaths. PG&E literally plead guilty in court to criminal charges for this.

PG&E didn't fail to do this maintenance because they didn't have the money. They billed customers nearly US$100 million for safety and operating expenses which they then gave to stockholders and used to award bonuses to executives.

But yeah. Ignore basic logic. Ignore the facts. Ignore admissions, by the people involved, literally in court pleading guilty to criminal wrongdoing. The real problem is green energy.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2020 02:28

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Samurai Sanders posted:

What the hell is going on here?

A carefully articulated apologia for white supremacy, same as all of that guy's cartoons.

It's also part of the ongoing war on the very idea of rational discourse. If racism and opposition to racism are literally indistinguishable, then all discourse on the subject is simply meaningless nonsense. And if that's true, then you aren't obligated to think or worry about the subject, because it is literally impossible to evaluate the difference between a true proposition and a false one--it's all just meaningless nonsense. One side just says one thing and the other says the other, and nobody can tell the difference which is which. So instead of listening to any of the public debate currently going on, just rely on your common sense--like our goosestepping duck--and accept what you already know to be true: that you're not a racist at all, racism isn't a real problem, and the real problem is the people trying to make you feel bad. In fact, people trying to make you feel bad about racism is precisely as bad as racism itself. I mean, just look at the cartoon. It's literally the same thing.

It's asinine horseshit, but at least it's better than cartoon blackface thing where the cartoonist invents a black character specifically to endorse their whiter-than-thou opinions.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2020 15:29

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Pants Donkey posted:

Jesus Christ

This cartoon is a crime against humanity.

SneezeOfTheDecade posted:

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The VW I.D. R does 0 to 60 in 2.25 seconds.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2020 15:21

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kaschei posted:

What the gently caress is "retroactive racism"

Fillmore was a "slavery is bad, but..." anti-abolitionist. So I assume scab drunk duck is saying that since he said slavery is bad, you have to take him at his word and accept he was not a racist.

This requires ignoring, e.g. his support for the Fugitive Slave Act, his not-at-all-subtle racism against Native Americans, and his association with the Anti-Masonic Party and the Know-Nothing Party. Which, for anyone not familiar with them, were something like the 19th Century forerunners to qanon.

The Anti-Masonic Party was a single-issue conspiracy theory, the outlines of which everyone is probably already familiar with: a secret cabal of Masons is secretly controlling everything from behind the scenes, and the Anti-Masons would...???. In addition to conspiracy theories and right-wing reactionary politics, the Anti-Masonic Party's durable contribution to modern political life is the nominating convention. Prior to their introduction of nominating conventions, the party (whichever party) would largely just line up behind a chosen candidate and demonstrate party unity. But to a wild-eyed Anti-Mason that looked an awful lot like a Masonic conspiracy, so they decided to select candidates by publicly ranting insane garbage at each other until consensus is reached, the process used by the major parties today. The first presidential candidate they selected by this process was William Wirt, a second degree Freemason.

The Know-Nothing Party was more of a conspiracy theory buffet like qanon. Their name derives from a Fight Club-esque oath taken by members of the Order of the Star Spangled Banner, an actual secret society out of which the Know-Nothings grew. They were nativists in the "believer in replacement theory" sense of the word and racists in the "had a judge declare that no Chinese person could offer testimony in court against a member of the white race" sense of the word. They believed all Catholics secretly received orders from the Pope, who was sending waves of Irish immigrants to America to take the country over. Fillmore was their nominee for the 1856 presidential election.

But you know, you should ignore all of that because, dude...he said slavery is bad. What more do you want?

# ¿ Sep 1, 2020 09:32

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Fathis Munk posted:

Thanks for the Cross dump, that was some grade A garbage I love it!

Zyklon Ben posted:
Last year we saw the town of Paradise completely and quickly burned and there were many indications that it was not natural.

Yeah, "indications" like PG&E pleading guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter for the deaths related to the 2018 Camp Fire that destroyed Paradise. Like they went into a court and literally plead guilty to it. They also paid out tens of billions in wrongful death, personal injury, and property damage claims. There's no mystery.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 20:25

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Fathis Munk posted:

So what you're saying is that they fired the beam?

The cause of the fire was a power line failure. PG&E was aware that the power line needed maintenance. PG&E customers paid for the maintenance. PG&E took the money it collected from its customers for maintenance and gave it to executives as bonuses, and to shareholders as dividends.

Between 2012 and 2017 about half of the roughly US$17M in bonuses paid to executives were for exceeding safety goals. This was possible despite PG&E paying more than half a billion dollars in fines in a single year (2015), and paying out over a billion dollars in liabilities related to the San Bruno explosion...because these things, and others like them, were excluded from the safety goal calculations because, and this is an actual quote, they "do not reflect the normal course of operations".

# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 21:21

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Fathis Munk posted:

The digital solider typo is back

The dove carrying an olive branch is the sign Noah receives which tells him YHVH has finished literally wiping everyone else off the face of the earth and it's now safe for him to start building Jewish settlements on the now-vacant land.

# ¿ Sep 17, 2020 23:01

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Fathis Munk posted:

George Washington's Farewell Address, 19 September 1796 posted:

The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom a choice is to be made.

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All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.

However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

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The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.

Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.

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In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. But, if I may even flatter myself that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2020 18:39

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Discendo Vox posted:

We need to ask the important questions, like "what is that The Atlantic is resting in?"

Private Speech posted:

In case of BBC world service it's literally designed to be pro-British propaganda dating back to the second world war, though the Brit government is a very different kind of "deep state" (if you can call it that) than Garrison imagines.

I always find the world service an interesting read in their news app specifically because it appears to try to do user-specific targetting in a particularly spectacularly stupid way. That is, stupid even for an algorithm/AI/whatever driven "smart" whatever. For approximately two years it became convinced I desperately wanted to read an article about a tiny lizard , and had it perpetually pinned to the top of its recommendations.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2020 21:03

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hooman posted:

I want to read an article about a tiny lizard.

Enjoy yourself. It's not much of an article, but it does link to a video narrated by David Attenborough.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2020 00:40

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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Imagine being this committed to the idea that cops should be allowed to shoot PoC in their sleep.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2020 11:46

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GeminiSun posted:

I guess the idea here is "sphinx is good at riddles and therefore cannot be stumped by the Democrats' UNREASONABLE QUESTIONS", but it's a very weird and confused choice of imagery considering the sphinx was (1) a man-eating monster that (2) famously asked an unreasonably difficult question and killed anyone who couldn't answer.

Describing a person as a sphinx is a common idiom indicating that a person is difficult to read.

The implication of the comic being that it is desirable to give lifetime appointments to people whose thinking is an enigmatic mystery.

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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Motherfucker actually expects us to be overwhelmed with sympathy by the horrific possibility of a rich guy being forced to live like the rest of us. Like that's the point. He's expecting us to go oh no not the rich guy.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2020 10:16

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