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Conservatives only care that they piss of everyone else. They don't care about how the US citizens are suffering, as long as they 'libs' are among them. This comic is painfully accurate you make me wanna cry at work! I drive buses man!
Their need to engage in harmful activity is completely inseparable from their understanding of success, so they will engage in harmful activity even knowing they will harm themselves in the process.
Simply put, if they destroy the economy and their own country to "own the libs" they will still think that they are winning, even if they lose everything in the process.
This is because these people are deeply emotionally insecure, and cannot tolerate the idea of belonging to an in-group that is no longer dominant. They would rather dominate a wasteland than live under a liberal paradise.
Their insecurities have turned into hate, and hate consumes everything including their ability to reason.
This is why it's impossible to reason with extremists. Extremists are inherently unresonable.
They are essentially suffering from a group identity crisis, where the legitimacy of their in-group identity is constantly threatened (largely due to their own escalating bad behavior). They can only respond to this by attacking out-groups in an attempt to diminish the legitimacy of the out-groups they're targeting, using tactics that escalate from discrimination to violence, and eventually they will attempt to exterminate the targeted out-group. It's an inevitable pattern of progression that will follow a predicable course if left unchecked. It doesn't matter if they destroy their own legitimacy in the process, as long at the out-groups are harmed they think they are winning.
Can’t believe they picked economic collapse over pronouns. They didn’t read the story of the scorpion and the frog? Too bad they banned all the books mentioning the value of empathy. Little did they know that the entire humankind survived this far is due to empathy. Evolved a large pre-frontal cortex for nothing. SMH
Well in their eyes after Trump gets rid of all the deplorable folks, everything will go right back to normal and they'll be winning again.
They never realize that once everyone not them is gone that it'll be their neck that gets the boot. It feels like there's a poem that specifically mentioned this about the holocaust hmm... 🤔
One of the problems/issues that I've noticed is that barely anyone ever learns what led up to Hitler's rise to power or how he went about gaining his power/influence; in most cases people's understanding of WW2 and the Nazis starts on D-Day, moves straight to the liberation of Auschwitz, then jumps straight over to Pearl Harbor, and then the war ending with the atomic bombs, all as if it happened on consecutive days or something.
In my opinion this is also why they often don't believe in what happened in places like Auschwitz because as far as they can compute, there was no progression of events to led up to those places; things just went from zero to gas chambers in a day.
It feels like there's a poem that specifically mentioned this about the holocaust hmm...
And why do you think there are so many holocaust deniers in that crowd?
The deliberate enshitification of education has been one of the intentional long term steps in the plan that is now unfolding. Yes most of MAGA are dumber then oil-soaked dirt, but those pushing it for their own enrichment are not.
Constant attacks on education, science and intellectuals is not a fault, it’s a feature itself by design. Replacing “woke” ideologies with Christian nationalism is the goal.
Not ironic. I do not trust the scorpion. And I do not feel empathetic towards fascists. Paradox of the tolerance…
Popper’s paradox posits that if a society extends tolerance to everyone, including those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the intolerant to undermine the very principles of tolerance, ultimately leading to the dominance of intolerance.
To prevent this, Popper argues that a truly tolerant society must retain the right to deny tolerance to those who promote or practice intolerance.
Yeah, scorpions are dangerous, the story is about being wary of obvious danger and not trying to logic yourself out of being wary of clear and present danger.
Uhh, did you read the the scorpion and the frog? Why are you surprised that the bigots and fascists failed to change their nature? They were awful in 2016, they're awful now. What part of that is hard to believe?
Except in reality those most affected are the morons sinking the boat. So it’s consistently a double decker boat with the gun deranged idiot having to look up to laugh at the liberal.
A while back you made a few comics about feeling burnt out or not sure where to go, but I've enjoyed your swing into full-frontal political cartoons. You have a knack for turning complex problems into simple analogies which is useful for communicating issues. Hope you're enjoying it too!
Im feeling better lately! Thank you for asking :) I enjoy using my platform to talk about things I find important. There's so much happening right now, and maybe it won't change anyone's mind to see things in a boat metaphor, but at least it helps some people laugh about it! And sometimes that's all you can do 🥲
Isn't one of trumps staffers the guy who shot himself in his own dick while teaching a "safety training" and claiming there was no problem sticking loaded guns in your pants? And then a month later did more stupid things with a gun and shot out his own eye?
Conservatives have referred to liberals as snowflakes for years if not decades. In that time, what I’ve learned is that to them “I don’t appreciate what you say and I’d like to be treated with respect.” is a snowflake response. Meanwhile, if you impugn the honor of an American conservative, they become violent and threatening. Liberals ask you to stop, conservatives tell you to stop, or else. And yet, somehow the measured response of stating your feelings and making a reasonable and easily achievable request is more ‘snowflake’ like than immediately resorting to threats. They must see it differently because to me, flying off the handle and threatening violence on someone for their speech indicates WAY more insecurity and ‘snowflakeness’. As with many conservative positions, the whole ‘liberals are sensitive snowflakes’ inside again projection to protect their fragile little egos from harm because they are so incredibly hateful and/or self loathing that they must ALWAYS have an ‘other’ to focus blame, ire, and threats upon. The inability to introspect is a core tenet of modern conservatism.
Two guys are rescued by boat. When found, the man with the gun was heard lecturing the other man about how "both sides are the problem" and that it wasn't his fault there were holes in the boat.
When questioned why he purposely sank the boat, he continually avoided the question by blaming "DEI hiring" and "affirmative action", despite being reminded multiple times there were only two caucasian males on the boat.
The man without the gun spent the next month being continually harassed online being told: "People like you are ruining boating in this country." And "This would never have happened if it weren't for illegal immigrants."
A couple of weeks ago my dad was diagnosed with late stage cancer, and his sentiment is "At least this means I don't have to deal with what comes next."
MAGA saying "Trump Derangement Syndrome" to anyone criticizing Trump is like flat-earthers saying "Flat-Earth Derangement Syndrome" to anyone criticizing them. It's so ridiculous.
There are no easy one-and-done fixes but one big win for stabalizing elections is ranked choice.
When people have the opportunity to vote for their first choice instead of voting for the lesser evil candidates have to battle not just their main opposition, but also other ideas. It helps push things to a more moderate discourse.
Not perfect of course, many European nations have ranked choice and still have crazies. Just I think Alaska shows us that it could be quite succesful at fixing at least some of the ground-level polarisation.
See! This is why climate change is bad because at least when someone shoots out the tires of our truck we can just keep walking. But noo, we’re on a boat now because Florida got washed away.
Who’s gonna help us now? The penguins?! The penguins we just tariffed? No! They’re a bunch of jackasses who we just pissed off.
It's funny. Usually when I sort by 'Controversial' there's some some MAGA "But whatabout" type of comment, but lately all I'm seeing are more comments agreeing with the post lol
Well you see drowning is a good thing, it'll make the country stronger, make it great... again.
We know it's a cult, I think what's worse is they also know it's a cult. And are perfectly OK with that. Not a whole lot of ways to come back from that.
It's the 401K boat and the "Age Discrimination used to be illegal" boat and the Medicare/SocialSecurity Boat and the "stable federal job (for vets)" boat.
The trick here is "learn to swim" (financial savings + basic survival skills). Since these dumbasses are dead set on flipping the lifeboat the rest of us need to find a way to stay strong so we can live long enough to make it to shore (wherever that may be).
And build local community. Not everyone can do those things or do them well (disabled and elderly, for example), so we have to look out for each other where we can. Extreme selfishness is what got us to this point.
Otherwise, yeah, that's about all we can do right now.
Spez is a chud trying to turn a platform designed for free exchange of info into a quick buck. I doubt the mods here care what he thinks personally, but I could be wrong.
This is honestly the best comic on reddit nowadays. I don't always agree with the message, but the succinct political observations, the quality of the art, the consistency are all top notch.
Also the accuracy of the facial expressions. It's uncanny. Panel 3 should be framed in a museum.
White shirt guy got splashed by the water and thought he was already as wet as he could get. I don't think enough people on my side realize how bad some of the conservatives think life is for them already. They think they're at the bottom.
MAGAts are The Grinches of the world. Isolated in their own little bubble and don’t want to see others live good lives, however instead of their heart being 3x too small it’s their brains …and prbly their hearts too
I don't remember the exact quote, but a sentence I've read and really liked: "a conservative would eat a sht sandwich just as long as he's sure a liberal will have to smell his breath"
Hey, let’s not calling names on the poor innocent garbage bin here. He has feelings too. Look how brave he is by putting up a happy face and keep going. Me fr fr.
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