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Jakyl25
02/25/2023
12:14 PM
#1
Lots of attempts to derail Bidens agenda
Thank you, Eddie Guerrero.
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Thorn
02/25/2023
12:24 PM
#2
The GOP finally finding a plight in Palestine they demand action on.
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Peace___Frog
02/25/2023
04:36 PM
#3
Well done, jakyl
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Maniac64
02/25/2023
06:06 PM
#4
Peace___Frog posted...
Well done, jakyl

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LordoftheMorons
02/25/2023
08:46 PM
#5
Nice
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Dancedreamer
02/25/2023
11:06 PM
#6
https://nypost.com/2023/02/25/tulsi-gabbard-biden-dems-share-same-core-principles-as- hitler/
(Remove the space after as- because Gamefaqs won't let me post it)
Gabbard compares Democrats hiring people who are LGBT and minorities to... Hitler of course. And yet another Republican who doesn't understand that MLK's speech was an aspiration not how things are. Just want to remind everyone how fucking awful she is and always was.
This isn't funny Dean, the voice says I'm almost out of minutes!
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Mr_Lasastryke
02/26/2023
06:25 AM
#7
lol @ even jesse watters obviously thinking she's going too far but not having the balls to actually say it.

"well i'm not sure about the german thing but *immediately starts talking about something else*"
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LightningStrikes
02/26/2023
06:47 AM
#8
When a rail disaster with huge consequences for the environment happens, I know I for one think the answer lies with the pro-deregulation anti-environmentalist party.
I just decided to change this sig.
Blaaaaaaargh azuarc
UshiromiyaEva
02/26/2023
01:01 PM
#9
Finding out Woody Harrelson went on an anti-vax rant on SNL is not really what I wanted to wake up to today.
https://twitter.com/OocWTC/status/1348011667976699904?s=19
kevwaffles
02/26/2023
01:30 PM
#10
I hear it was so long and meandering that it's not really clear how genuine he was trying to be? (Haven't watched, don't care to.)
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Grimlyn
02/26/2023
01:56 PM
#11
woody's always been a full on naturalist hippy conspiracy nutter even going so far as supporting 9/11 truther stuff
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UshiromiyaEva
02/26/2023
01:58 PM
#12
I wasn't aware.

But I only recently watched Cheers and it's all I actively know him from, so I wasn't paying attention before I guess.
https://twitter.com/OocWTC/status/1348011667976699904?s=19
Thorn
02/26/2023
02:48 PM
#13
We've found someone willing to stand up and take the side of Dilbert in the matter of "calling black people a hate group that white people should get the hell away from" Can you guess who?

That's right, it's Elon Musk !

https://twitter.com/pixelatedboat/status/1629835147095973894

He also deleted a tweet asking, "What exactly are they complaining about?" in direct response to Adams who was quote-tweeting a WaPo article on it.
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Grimlyn
02/26/2023
03:45 PM
#14
holy the fucking what

like I'm not at all surprised he believes what he said but I'm surprised he was dumb enough to say it out loud good god

although then again it did take kanye making fun of him to turn on kanye even after the hitler rant
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Dancedreamer
02/26/2023
04:06 PM
#15
Elon desperate for republicans to love him.
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Mr_Lasastryke
02/26/2023
05:15 PM
#16
how is someone as unfathomably dumb as elon musk one of the richest people on the planet

this is one of the (countless) reasons why i have no faith in humanity
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Thorn
02/26/2023
05:21 PM
#17
Mr_Lasastryke posted...
how is someone as unfathomably dumb as elon musk one of the richest people on the planet
your family owning an emerald mine in apartheid south africa helps with that
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Mr_Lasastryke
02/26/2023
05:24 PM
#18
fair
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TheRock1525
02/26/2023
05:38 PM
#19
are we sure it wasn't a chaos emerald mine at this point
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UshiromiyaEva
02/26/2023
05:41 PM
#20
No, Obama has all the Chaos Emeralds.
https://twitter.com/OocWTC/status/1348011667976699904?s=19
LightningStrikes
02/26/2023
06:12 PM
#21
Thorn posted...
your family owning an emerald mine in apartheid south africa helps with that

To add, your family leaving Canada because of changes in the social fabric for apartheid South Africa helps with that.
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Thorn
02/27/2023
03:40 PM
#22
Scott Adams saga reaching M. Night Shyamalan levels of twists

https://twitter.com/bestofdyingtwit/status/1630246562877300737
https://twitter.com/xoxogossipgita/status/1630244585275543555

there are so many layers and levels to these tweets you could probably write a doctoral thesis on them

So he "identified as black for several years" in part because black people never discriminated against him (but whites did) and in part because of "the social and economic benefits" and because he "like[s] to be on a winning team."
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Kenri
02/27/2023
03:48 PM
#23
I can definitely believe that Scott Adams "lost three careers to direct racism so far".

But like.

His.
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Grimlyn
02/27/2023
03:49 PM
#24
"black people are a hate group"
"I identify as black"

... sooo... "I identify as a member of a hate group", cancellation upheld
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Jakyl25
02/27/2023
05:08 PM
#25
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/6/5/AAAOt_AAEOZt.jpg

Hes already used this concept as a joke
Thank you, Eddie Guerrero.
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Mr_Lasastryke
02/27/2023
05:28 PM
#26
i hate how scott adams started inserting his own idiotic ideas into dilbert. it was a pretty funny comic before he did this.
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Kenri
02/27/2023
05:45 PM
#27
Yeah Dilbert used to be pretty solid, and God's Debris was a formative book for me as a teenager. It's a shame that Adams has gone full brain-rot in the last ~10 years.
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masterplum
02/27/2023
05:48 PM
#28
Jakyl25 posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/6/5/AAAOt_AAEOZt.jpg

Hes already used this concept as a joke

You know what actually annoys me about this?

Unlike the insane Trump political cartoonist, this joke is actually funny. The punchline isn't the low hanging non joke that people identify as things, it's that corporate hired someone for no reason other than his race and it didn't even work. That's hilarious

Scott Adams is a genuinely funny guy and he blew it being insane. Sad waste of talent
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TheRock1525
02/27/2023
05:50 PM
#29
masterplum posted...
You know what actually annoys me about this?

Unlike the insane Trump political cartoonist, this joke is actually funny.

No it isn't.
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masterplum
02/27/2023
05:52 PM
#30
TheRock1525 posted...
No it isn't.

Oh ok. You convinced me
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TheRock1525
02/27/2023
05:56 PM
#31
It's literally just another variation of "I identify as an attack helicopter."
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Kenri
02/27/2023
05:57 PM
#32
I think it's an okay set-up but he kinda fumbles the actual joke, mostly because "I identify as white" is incoherent in this situation.
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Thorn
02/27/2023
06:03 PM
#33
Also, since many papers don't print the comics in color it just looked like every person in the comic was white in them. (To its benefit maybe?)
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masterplum
02/27/2023
06:13 PM
#34
TheRock1525 posted...
It's literally just another variation of "I identify as an attack helicopter."

Have you never worked with management before? This is definitely not that
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Mr_Lasastryke
02/27/2023
06:13 PM
#35
masterplum posted...
The punchline isn't the low hanging non joke that people identify as things, it's that corporate hired someone for no reason other than his race and it didn't even work.

it's kind of out of character for pointy-haired boss to understand that it didn't work, though. he should have said something like "oh, that's great" in the last panel.
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masterplum
02/27/2023
06:15 PM
#36
Mr_Lasastryke posted...
it's kind of out of character for pointy-haired boss to understand that it didn't work, though. he should have said something like "oh, that's great" in the last panel.

Yeah that's true, though that kills the joke.

Don't get me wrong he should never have printed this one. It has a lot of issues, but you can see an actual funny person behind it which is way better than a lot of cartoonists. Looking at you Jim Davis
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Mr_Lasastryke
02/27/2023
06:19 PM
#37
oh yeah, he's certainly much funnier than ben garrison. that's not a huge accompishment, though!
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Inviso
02/27/2023
06:19 PM
#38
I think the problem with that panel is that it's trying to insult leftists and leftist policies on two different fronts, and it just makes him look like he's trying too hard, rather than making a cogent point.

A better joke would've been to poke fun at what he considers forced diversity quotas, only for the guy to say "Oh no, I just got really tanned during a particularly sunny visit to Aspen." or some other stereotypically white place.

"I identify as X" had always been stupid as a punchline.
Touch fuzzy. Get fuzzier.
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Grimlyn
02/27/2023
06:22 PM
#39
the one good thing about it is the newspaper print version

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Kenri
02/27/2023
06:31 PM
#40
Grimlyn posted...
the one good thing about it is the newspaper print version

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/3/1/AAeYFbAAEOav.jpg
Now this is funny
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htaeD
02/27/2023
06:36 PM
#41
Dilbert comics are only good for warning people about the conditions of a workplace apparently. If you see them hanging on the wall, dont go there.
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LordoftheMorons
02/27/2023
07:14 PM
#42
masterplum posted...
Don't get me wrong he should never have printed this one. It has a lot of issues, but you can see an actual funny person behind it which is way better than a lot of cartoonists. Looking at you Jim Davis
Garfield Minus Garfield is hilarious tbh
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UshiromiyaEva
02/27/2023
07:25 PM
#43
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/8/3/AAeolZAAEObj.jpg
https://twitter.com/OocWTC/status/1348011667976699904?s=19
masterplum
02/27/2023
08:25 PM
#44
I'll have you know I talked to SEW in one of his campfires and suggested a video which he then made and it was awesome
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HaRRicH
02/28/2023
12:14 AM
#45
All ya'll are talking about ways to make Dilbert funnier, and not one of you have changed a thing about what he says or does in that strip.
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masterplum
02/28/2023
06:46 AM
#46
HaRRicH posted...
All ya'll are talking about ways to make Dilbert funnier, and not one of you have changed a thing about what he says or does in that strip.

Oh its pretty easy. You could have replaced the text with

Management wanted to add QA to the engineering team
I identify as a software engineer
Youre ruining everything Dave

To get basically the same joke without the ham fisted swipe at leftist policies. I agree with inviso that its worse because its forced.

A cleaner version that swipes only at forced diversity could also be made but you probably need to change the delivery a bit and have the person obviously not a diverse individual
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Seanchan
02/28/2023
10:28 AM
#47
https://theintercept.com/2023/02/05/ron-desantis-florida-villages-oren-miller/

It's a bit of a long read. Basically amounts to "fuck with the establishment and they'll fuck you three times as hard".
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masterplum
02/28/2023
12:26 PM
#48
This is interesting

Fox, Search told, had been warned by Miller multiple times that there were concerns that she was acting as a conduit for him, and that she should be careful in how she talked to commissioners. But Fox insisted that she was a taxpayer and entitled to lobby her commissioners on behalf of the cause she cared about most deeply: ending the high-kill shelters slaughter of local animals.

...

Search and Miller, phone records showed, spoke somewhat frequently from November 2020 to February 2021. And, they readily admitted, they had occasionally discussed commission business before they were fully trained and understood that doing so ran afoul of sunshine laws.

I think the lesson here is that if powerful people hate you, you have to be especially careful not to do things that give them a casus belli against you.

Kind of like speeding, everyone does it, but if the cops especially hate you then you better not do it even if everyone else is.
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Thorn
02/28/2023
02:52 PM
#49
SCOTUS hearing arguments about Biden's student debt forgiveness.

Essentially the take I'm getting from reporters listening to oral arguments is:

The 3 liberals think the states have no standing to sue and that the Biden admin has the authority to forgive student debt.

Alito, despite it being a complete 180 from his erosion of Article III standing, is just going "fuck it" and inventing a reason why the states have standing to bring this suit. And obviously thinks Biden can't forgive student debt.

Roberts, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kav seem opposed to the idea that Biden can forgive student debt but haven't given many tells on where they stand on standing.

Barett appears to think the states don't have standing and hasn't given a tell on whether Biden can forgive student debt.

tl;dr: It sounds like there are the votes there to say Biden can't forgive student debt but it's unclear if there are the votes to say the states have standing to even bring the suit. So it looks like the best we can hope for is that the liberals, Barrett, and someone not named Alito reject standing and dismiss the case on that basis and don't touch the merits of the case.

But this tweet is basically where I'm at:

https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1630615017031712775

Somehow, some way they'll find a way to kill student debt forgiveness.
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swordz9
02/28/2023
03:53 PM
#50
How about that bill just introduced in Florida that would notify all registered Democrat voters their party has been canceled and theyre now No-Party voters? This country really could only benefit it basically every R politician was sent off planet permanently
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