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In previous years, I had to stop looking at the Political Cartoons thread because I just couldn't take it anymore. I'm curious if I'll be able to make it all the way to December or if this year's going to break me again. 
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I can't help but wonder what all the people making GBS threads their pants about classified documents think about War Thunder, which to the best of my knowledge is now up to six classified information posts, and had the creators straight up post "please stop sending these to us, it is incredibly illegal."
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Jan 27, 2023 15:00
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It's Rall, so I have to ask how much of the map fuckery is him being a lovely person and how much is him being a lovely artist.
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Jan 30, 2023 17:37
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Trapezium Dave posted:Rall: Believe What I Do, Not What I Say I already know Rall is a contrarian moron who'd find a reason to complain no matter what we do ("omg why are we hanging Ukraine out to dry," "omg why are we prolonging this," "omg why are we getting involved"), and I also know that we're not sending troops over because doing so would get us involved in ways that would quickly spiral all to poo poo. I assume that the stuff we're actually sending is keyed to a level of "enough that it's useful, not so much that we get upgraded from HELPING UKRAINE to ACTIVE PARTICIPANT which would result in aforementioned spiraling"?
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Feb 10, 2023 13:00
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Hey, be fair. The incredibly high cabin that restricts field of view in front of you means that it's also really good at killing small children!
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Feb 13, 2023 01:33
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Plus the obvious issue of "they will refuse to do anything about all the other poo poo they're pointing at as the problem." So if they won't fix any of the (alleged) root causes, then gently caress it, we'll take away the thing people use to do all the killing.
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Feb 15, 2023 17:07
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Maybe he's talking down to his audience, who absolutely does not know better and certainly doesn't give a poo poo.
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Feb 24, 2023 02:32
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Epic High Five posted:It's a punch aimed at chuds that only ever hits LGBT people, and in fact cannot actually ever hit the chud because it fundamentally misunderstands exactly what is going on. No evil right winger is ever going to give a seconds thought to some liberal stranger calling them a hypocrite, except maybe to revel in their display of powerlessness, so all it does is continue to normalize ideas and stereotypes that need to be tossed entirely. It's basically this. You can't accuse them of hypocrisy because that requires them to be actual hypocrites, which in turn relies on them acting contrary to any sincerely held belief. And they are not. Because the only sincerely held beliefs they have are "nobody should get to tell me what to do," and "I should be allowed to tell others what to do." Banning drag for those people while still doing it themselves? That is perfectly in keeping with their actual principles.
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Mar 1, 2023 02:34
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It feels like there's a whole genre that basically shakes out to "this group of people are loving miserable because we have set their future on fire and their present isn't looking too rosy either, clearly somehow this is their own fault." Like this is a mental health version of dipshits wringing their hands about job hobbing or "quiet quitting" and don't look at reasons why people might do these things, such as "we are expendable cogs that they will regularly overwork and underpay, and our only reward is being jettisoned at the end of the quarter to make some already rich guy even richer." Or the classic finger wagging about those darn millennial kids (they're mostly in their 30s to 40s now) and their avocado toast or whatever and if they'd stop that they could pay off those college bills and buy a house, because they're still working off a mental model where you could mow lawns for a summer to pay for college, buy a house, start a family, and still have a nest egg for savings and are unable or unwilling to understand that things are different now. Not even worse, which I think they are, just different.
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Mar 6, 2023 17:47
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Yeah, that's the other thing with the "why are kids turning away from church" hand-wringing bullshit and nobody stops and asks why, and it reminds me of this blog post about the guy who "protested" General Mills by setting a box of Cheerios on fire in front of their office in 2012, the short version of which is "everyone assumed this guy is some flavor of evangelical Christian because he was rabidly homophobic and for no other reason, and it turned out he was, because that's what we are in the public eye, and that's terrible." So of course kids aren't showing up to churches when it feels like all you're going to hear is "and here's why god wants you to poo poo all over this group of people." About the only thing that's shifted since that article, which let me point out is eleven loving years old, is exactly which group they're freaking the gently caress out over and want to see oppressed and/or eradicated.
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Mar 6, 2023 19:15
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Weren't there stories about police departments going so hard on tear gassing people that they actually ran out?
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Mar 13, 2023 05:54
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idonotlikepeas posted:Matt Davies That is delightful and I fully respect it. JamesBont posted:Biden is focused on more important issues than China and Russia. AGC And if Biden had done anything about this, they'd be screaming themselves hoarse about interventionism and why doesn't he do anything about these domestic problems?! It's the same poo poo they always do where they yell at you for doing anything, saying you're treating the symptoms and not the root cause, but they won't do anything about the root causes either! Or at least, anything that might actually work or isn't a solution that leads back to "give Republicans infinite power to enact cristofascism."
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Mar 21, 2023 16:43
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I AM GRANDO posted:Another one where, if I didn’t know better, I’d think it was in favor of the completely normal and unexceptional position that children have the right to express their own selves. They treat children like property. That's about the size of it.
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Mar 25, 2023 15:27
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Nothing was said about all the shooters spouting right wing talking points before, and nothing will be said about the shooters spouting right wing talking points that will follow.
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Apr 4, 2023 03:58
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JamesBont posted:The GOP's fixation on abortion is indeed hurting them in the polls. AGC. I wish the Dems would be hitting them even loving harder. Be brutal. Be ugly. Just straight up say "Republicans want underage girls to die carrying their rapist's non-viable fetus." Because that's where all this poo poo goes. The anti-abortion voters wring their hands and go "no no, surely it's not that extreme" and then you show them, no, it loving is, here is all the horrible poo poo we said would happen if you got your way, and then you got your way, and here is the horrible poo poo that is happening, and here is all the equally horrible poo poo that used to happen before we made this legal. Grab them by the loving neck and shove their face into it and shake them, scream at them until they loving see the monster they have created. But it won't loving work, they'll just wring their hands and go "oh no surely not" until it happens to them. And by then it will be too loving late. We already know you're going to do some blubbering about a badly updated "but her e-mails" and pull the lever for the fascist, you disingenuous shitstain.
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Apr 13, 2023 12:42
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Cloud Potato posted:Stephen Collins: Tony Hawk is 54 and still going. On the other hand, that's Tony Hawk. Most of us are not Tony Hawk.
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Apr 14, 2023 18:10
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Especially since Budweiser did some nonpology bullshit about not wanting to be divisive or whatever. I'm not transcribing their Solemn JPG, you can read that twaddle yourself if you give a poo poo. It frustrates the hell out of me because, in addition to being evil, it's downright loving stupid. The message they're angling for is uncharitably but not inaccurately summarized as "hey, sorry our rainbow capitalism offended you bigots, we still cool?" And nobody's going to be happy with it, because people who aren't giant bigots are going to see that you walked back your money-fueled attempt at decency, and bigots will never accept your apology. Just tell the bigots "trans rights are human rights, and if you don't like it you can have a tall can of Bofa, BOFA DEEZ NUTS" and be done with it. Support motivated by crass commercialism is still support. I could talk about how rainbow capitalism is, while not good, at least an indicator of good things, because it's a sign that cash-chasing vultures know which way the wind is blowing and it's blowing towards inclusion, but they keep walking it back. I suspect that their walkback is related to the fact that Anheuser-Busch is a major Republican donor and they're getting a little angry over the fact that the culture war monster is now thoroughly out of the party's control, but it's a little bit late to try and stuff that particular genie back in the bottle.
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Apr 19, 2023 05:43
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the sex ghost posted:Still amazed that that gorrell that was just an unattributed stock image of mickey mouse saying 'the Disney corporation is grooming your kids' didn't end with Bob living on the street wearing a barrel. Lucky the only people in the world who are aware of these cartoons post in this thread I was going to say "Disney isn't going to run down every little thing, they know the optics" but I also remembered, oh right, didn't they send the lawyers after a pre-school because they painted some Disney characters on the walls? But ultimately I think they're fine with letting the dumbshit culture warriors do their dumbshit culture war stuff, and now they're going to make an example out of DeSantis because he hosed with the money. And everybody knows that Rich Assholes only have one rule, which is do not gently caress with the money.
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Apr 29, 2023 00:01
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I suspect that if Garrison's second Twitter account lasts more than a week, it's because Musk fired everyone in charge of enforcing this poo poo.
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May 3, 2023 21:30
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The hands on the AI "art" are  We already know you're going to find some modern iteration of "but her emails" and vote for Trump anyway, you fascist pig. Stop being a loving coward and own what you are, you mealy mouthed hacky piece of poo poo.
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While this doesn't fill me with the same level of incandescent rage that weepily invoking 9/11 does among these shitbags, I do find it incredibly disgusting. Then again, it's kind of fitting they lionize dead soldiers. Dead soldiers don't need any kind of support, as opposed to the people that get out the other side alive but physically or emotionally wrecked. JamesBont posted:Kellies Nomination : Worst Caricature I won't pretend this isn't lovely, but I think it's trying to hit both Biden and Gru? But that would require these Facebook-addled fuckalopes to remember that Despicable Me ever existed, instead of Minions just kind of devouring the entire franchise.
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Angepain posted:how many times have you joined the libertarian party, little girl Also, didn't the Libertarian Party go from "Repbulicans but we like weed" to being taken over by cranks and lunatics?
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Jun 4, 2023 02:55
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They love bringing out "economic coercion" to explain why women go into porn, but that never seems to come up for the people dealing with screaming customers or scrubbing toilets or working fourteen hours a day to stock shelves or whatever. "Sex work is work" and "economic coercion exists" are not mutually exclusive thoughts, and while I am sure there are guys taking their dicks out for money who would stop if they won the lottery or UBI got passed or whatever, I am equally sure that there's some lady punching numbers into a spreadsheet who'd rather be telling men they're dirty little piggies who need to be punished.
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Jun 11, 2023 02:04
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Trapezium Dave posted:Rall: Rise of the Spite-o-cracy Clearly, "the Democrats are going to prosecute Trump because of the many crimes he boasted about doing" is exactly as credible and dangerous as "Trump is going to prosecute people because he's an authoritarian mobster." Charlz Guybon posted:What's DASGDC? Dumb And So God drat Crazy, based on a Shmorky cartoon (linked in the op, also here for your convenience) is basically strawmanning people who disagree with you as, well, dumb and so god drat crazy.
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Jun 23, 2023 09:11
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idonotlikepeas posted:Mike Thompson Does this one think you're smoking it all in one go or something? I know basically gently caress-all about weed, especially dosage, but even I know that two pounds is "I've got a supply for a while so I don't have to run to the store every other day."
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Jun 25, 2023 05:55
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The thing with Monique stomping on a Pride flag, which I am sure everybody here knows, and Tats also knows but is deliberately not saying, is that the kind of people she's trying to appeal to and appease by doing this don't loving care. They divide the world into Nice Normal People, and Degenerate Freaks Who Should Be Dealt With If You Know What I Mean. If you deviate in any way from the Nice Normal People category of "straight and cis" with a lower grade expectation of "white and Christian," then you automatically get shuffled into the Degenerate Freak category. They do not see a difference between "man in a leather harness and a puppy mask being walked on a leash" and "holding another man's hand," you're both sick degenerate filth who need to be Dealt With, For The Children. Tats being Tats, of course, I am sure Monique will just pray the gay away and say "yeah being attracted to other women put me in the Degenerate Freak category so I just chose to stop being one."
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Jun 26, 2023 02:53
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:There's something incredibly visceral that's awoken in some people about someone opting to remove their tits. Like, even Evangelicals using an otherwise-completely-Bible-based argument against gender diversity will have an aside to mourn the chopping off of the healthy breasts of Our Beautiful Daughters. Hell, I still remember when Angelina Jolie got a double mastectomy because her family had a history of breast cancer and other risk factors (the article I found while trying to remember exactly who it was has a quote where she said the cancer chance was eighty loving seven percent, and people were all "how dare you" over it. And you ever notice the anti breast cancer things that are all "save the tatas"? Nothing about the people they're attached to, of course.
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Jul 3, 2023 19:19
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Skios posted:Bakeries are a perfect illustration of the coercive nature of capitalism. Their employees have to get up at 3AM every day because they really knead the dough. Remember when they were blubbering about Big Tech running poo poo? They obviously don't.
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Jul 10, 2023 16:11
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I, for one, will not miss Sinfest Sundays. That said, I agree with "maybe post it if (more like when) Monique decides to stop liking women and become a tradwife" type updates.
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Jul 12, 2023 06:23
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Goebbler is obviously Twitter, I think Influenzza is Instagram, Happytime Funfeed is Threads, I'm not sure about Skunkible but I suspect it's one of the myriad right-wing Twitter wannabes, and big mammoth is Mastodon. Speaking of Threads, have there been any cartoons specifically about how Threads immediately ejected some chuds that showed up and started chudding all over the place?
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Jul 16, 2023 01:46
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SimonChris posted:Tne Nib: Tom Humberstone - I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!) which is about "automation is stealing all the jobs and leaving displaced workers in the lurch" immediately followed by Microplastics posted:Over the past couple of weeks I made a tool for Discendo Vox to manage the kellie noms and after learning some new tricks, it occurs to me that i could probably make a similar tool for getting content posted to the thread (i.e. automating as much as possible) this request for automation is .But to add actual content, yeah, it is immensely frustrating that "the tedious repetitive jobs are being phased out so machines can do them" is a bad thing, but I am not the first and won't be the last to point out that all the increases in productivity and efficiency are only benefiting the people at the top and the rest of us can just get hosed. I don't think we'd have so much pushback against everything being automated if we had UBI, but that's how it is on this on this bitch of an Earth.
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Jul 21, 2023 17:36
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Dr. VooDoo posted:But for Tats and the people he’s courting the idea is that gay couples getting children can only be done via stealing. The claims of surrogacy are lies, what’s really happening is they’re stealing babies from people and giving them to the gays who are child predators. fixed it for you
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Jul 24, 2023 02:37
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For the British cartoons about the concrete, is this a case of "this material is only meant to last so long and is well past the point we should be replacing it," or is it "this material is not suited to purpose and never should have been used in the first place"?
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Sep 7, 2023 22:27
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Skios posted:A.F. Branco Wasn't there a report about how all the trucks (and it's almost always a truck) with a Gadsden flag or "molon labe" sticker or basically anything stroking its dick about guns were constantly getting broken into, because there was always an unsecured and easily stolen gun in them?
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Sep 11, 2023 23:57
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I believe there was a joke about how you could easily spot the line where Grifter gave way to True Believer during the height of COVID days, because the Grifters were mostly okay because they were taking precautions and vaccines, while the True Believers died in droves because they were chugging horse dewormer.
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Sep 17, 2023 02:37
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"You're a stupid paranoid fascist bigot" is something Tats wouldn't care about. "You're a fake nerd who obviously knows nothing about Transformers" might actually get under his skin.
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Sep 17, 2023 18:55
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100YrsofAttitude posted:The Fetterman stuff is particularly dumb with the easy lay-up it would be to get on Menendez's case, or does that hit too close to home for them even if he's on the other side? It's basically this. Fetterman is an issue of style, while Menendez is an issue of substance. And they have always viewed style as what matters, not substance. That's how they can pass the most vitriolic, hateful bullshit and still claim to be the nice guys because they do it with a smile, while they clutch their pearls if someone says "you fuckers are sounding more like Nazis every day." They aren't angry because someone correctly pointed out their policies are actively genocidal, they're angry because someone said "gently caress."
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Sep 26, 2023 21:25
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It's not an entirely unreasonable line of logic, just mostly so. The idea is that as long as it's cheaper to pay human workers than it is to get automation going, then they will continue to pay the human workers. This overlooks two major points: one is "if the wage isn't high enough to live on, then who gives a flying gently caress," and the other is the aforementioned and repeatedly brought up "motherfucker do you really think they aren't looking to automate these jobs away anyway?"
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Sep 30, 2023 05:04
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Pulsarcat posted:The idea that CEOs are watching a number labelled "Minimum wage" slowly going up and once gets high enough they are going to flip a switch and instantly automate everything is hilarious, because it shows just how ignorant these geniuses really are. McDonald's can't even keep a loving ice cream machine working. They expect them to be able to make something that can cook, assemble, package, and serve various configurations of hamburger, and also fries and fish and chicken? I bet you that poo poo wouldn't even go a day without someone making GBS threads themselves inside out because of botulism due to cross-contamination.
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Yeah, that is true. But ultimately, I don't think it matters if the machines are cheap garbage that work poorly on the rare occasions they work at all because of malice or incompetence. There will be a lot of factors in play that result in "just get a robot to do it" not loving working. Hell, I remember reading an article ages ago (I no longer recall specifics) about robotics projects being designed in a lab, and immediately making GBS threads themselves when they're deployed, because hey we built a super cool fruit picker robot except whoops the sensor has to be kept clear of moisture, which is kind of a problem for a device deployed in an orchard and not a clean room.
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