And Now ... Politics!
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More storyline stuff, and less of this, please. Just when Erin gets moderately interesting you interrupt it with things like this, and it's not even remotely gaming or story related.
Unless you count what that guy said about DmC, which looks so bad it's depressing. Sigh....
Unless you count what that guy said about DmC, which looks so bad it's depressing. Sigh....
Having followed the elections, and having seen the kind of shit Republicans keep doing, and how the media keeps putting out this inane "both sides do it" meme, i find this comic not only not funny, or accurate, but also fucking arrogant "oh look at me, i'm too smart to be taken in by the lies of either side".
There is a clear contrast between the two major parties in USA, while neither is perfect, one is lot less honest, and lot more insane, than the other.
There is a clear contrast between the two major parties in USA, while neither is perfect, one is lot less honest, and lot more insane, than the other.
It's about political detachment, using stereotypes. Basically we're dealing with a piece of banal celebrity news, where some Jersey shore type dweeb dying from a heroin overdose, this being big televised news as opposed to other more important issues. While irrelvent to anything of note going on both political parties try and use it to their favor in attacking the other. We have the handsome, smooth talking liberal, with a rather psychotic agenda against your freedoms if you read the "small print", and a raving older gentleman representing the conservatives, which are also a tool of special interests, the idea here being since it's about death, they are representing the interests of the Grim Reaper much like how they are accused of representing corperate intersts and such.TWEWER said:
You'll also notice a triple whammy of banality in the first panel, the ticker on the bottom has a homeless person saying "muffins are tasty" (which made the news) but the this becomes a double because you'll notice the alleged homeless guy is apparently being quoted from a tweet meaning he obviously has a smartphone or something despite his "plight", which makes it even more insane he would be quoted on the news since he's obviously faking.
Got it now? Pretty much everyone from the media, to society (for watching this reality TV garbage and making things like a moron ODing on Heroin imporant news at election time), to both political parties got blasted within this one strip. In three panels it's pretty much a summary of the idiocy of current politics, with part of the point being that as idiotic as the politicians are, we're just as bad, as are the people covering it.
^antipunt said:
that.
course, that because i regard politicians as nothing more then lairs who have been bought and paid for by special interest groups.
If Thatcher is responsible for the Great Recession then Clement Attlee is at fault for the Winter of Discontent and stagnation of British industry during the 70s.Magichead said:
I direct you to my previous posts which you seem to avoid so that you can ignore anything that bursts your nicely made ideological bubble. I must complement your strawmen though.
Anyway, I imagine you also think that 1979, 1987 and 1992 were rigged as well considering the Tories got a constant vote share.
Did you just throw scientific discovery under boring newsPunkRex said:
.I mean I saw you call it exciting also, so you are still good people.
Otherwise...this would have been some exciting news >: (
BECAUSE MURDER!
And I thought I had it figured out.Therumancer said:
You put it better and clearer than I did and and with a lot fewer words.
Thumbs up!
Neither of these politicans know or care about the actual news story any more than it takes for them to profit politically. In both cases, their arguments are nonsensical, stupid and have little to do with the sorrow that SHOULD have been behind the man's death.TWEWER said:
In addition, they're both doing what the opposition says they do: the democrat is being a slimy snake dedicated to pushing his own agenda no matter how much mudslinging he has to do, while the republican is a fat yelling blowhard that doesn't care who lives or dies as long as he gets to say the opposition sucks with it.
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TL;DR: Politics is full of complete cunts.
At first I thought this comic was mocking how federalists think the Government's God, capable of solving every human ill it wants. That would've been a funny satire. But then the idea continued with Republicans being opposed to any improvements and aligned with evil, so we know the comic creator's a fool who thinks if the government spends our wealth with the stated purpose of eliminating problem x it
1) Is telling the truth
2) will eliminate problem x.
Also, there's only one party in America: The Federalists. Both supposedly different parties are for expanding the government until the people are sufficiently impoverished and oppressed the state's infrastructure can no longer be maintained.
1) Is telling the truth
2) will eliminate problem x.
Also, there's only one party in America: The Federalists. Both supposedly different parties are for expanding the government until the people are sufficiently impoverished and oppressed the state's infrastructure can no longer be maintained.
