trenchant social commentary 2

it's not more than a step in either direction i'm just not sure which way

lol that is dead on

this is lame but i have to post the thread:

i post the image with the description "Still working on it, though. It's at 12 frames now, but I'm going to double the frames."

imgur asshole
That someone already did it about and posted it about twenty times today.

me OP
Oh really? I didn't check. Damn. I'll just delete it.

a second imgur asshole
So basically you're a plagiarizer

me
I don't think that word means what you think it means. Also, I'm deep down in the most recent and popular posts, and I don't see any of them

a second imgur asshole
You were taking credit for it "still working on it" but then admitted it was a repost?

me
It's not a repost, I've spent 8+ hours isolating the body parts and animating them. It's a popular meme that you're obviously familar with

second imgur asshole
Then don't remove it! I withdraw my objection. I will even up vote your fidget spinner as all OC is good OC.

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to which i replied "oh thank you for your generosity! you have truly showed the world your support of OC" in my mind and then thought "HEH! GOT HIM."

i take things way too personally, i gotta stop

http://imgur.com/gallery/qG5PV

xlol that is dead on

xpost to pplains there

man Karl those dudes can't handle someone with your shine, let em eat themselves, you're operating outside their ether

well, you all are really nice and not like the rest of the internet. i don't know why i keep going back to the well (not just imgur but other places as well) with this shit but the endless immediate antagonism i seem trigger everywhere starts to get to me after a while. wtf is wrong with everyone? i know it's the anonymity of the internet working its magic but i remember a golden time when you could log into yahoo chat in the mid-90s and interact with people in the internet commons and it didn't seem like these public internet spaces were packed to the brim with assholes foaming at the mouth

we always seek first the approval of people who would otherwise shit on us because we know if we can win *those* assholes over, we've truly made it.

Thread got trenchant

it's the theme of my oc

oidnc

oicwydt

wait wtf is going on right now

this is the part where i realize i just signed a legally binding contract to give away all of my possessions, entirely with acronyms

From little acrons great trees grow etc

better than mouths foaming at the asshole, but only slightly

Fuck all them shitty statues tbh

Also, the bull statue- did anyone actually care, or even notice this thing before the fearless girl thing? Pretty sure I must have walked past this thing on one of my visits to the big apple, stateside, but obviously wasn't interested enough to even cursorily take it in.

hay guys I too have a covfefe pun

karl, that gif <3

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looks great zs!

Maybe not quite as egregious as the post-banky memes of young women getting face-fucked by instagram or whatever bullshit but I've noticed there's been a spate of crap political cartoonists doing tired variations on the old "turkeys voting for Christmas" line and getting RTd all over the place by yr great dismals

https://scontent.flhr3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/18556305_1353194148101524_8193126306724132096_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=2e13c99cb200f33dcb444f29c778b1fd&oe=59A4791F

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/160829_a20072-690.jpg

http://memestatic.fjcdn.com/pictures/Slug+for+salt_b3613c_6167777.jpg

(caption for the nyer being "he tells it like it is", I'm sure you've all seen it)

Then caption was the whole point of it - it's not "turkeys voting for Christmas" it's the existence of "he tells it like it is" as an argument. But yeah, sure you have proved you are better than "great dismals" whoever they are.

lol ok I'm sure the speaker being oblivious to being on the receiving end of the policy isn't part of the punchline at all

(at the great dismal is cyberpunk author and retweeter of things William Gibson btw)

It's just this thread always annoys me when it crops up because it just seems like sneering at people who haven't been around for as long as you. I know I was very pretentious when I was younger, had some pretty simplistic and not-well-thought-through views, but weren't we all like that? Why be annoyed with people just for being in that phase of their lives? And often it's "this is a cliche" but so what? Cliches are everywhere, something being a cliche doesn't make it any more or less true, who cares? I just can't understand what is annoying or even interesting about the 6/10 internet ephemera that lives here.

Trench as fuck

sneering at people who haven't been around for as long as you - NBD?

(that's New Board Description for the clueless noobs among you)

These crap political cartoonists are not teenagers, I can pretty much guarantee that they are older than me

it's always about being a better consumer. detached derision is at the top of the hierarchy of consumption.

in any case I think it's ok to make fun of simplistic and ill-thought-out political rhetoric because... it is simplistic and ill-thought-out

just a thoroughly bad post from camaraderie at arms length tbh I feel superior to it

My favorite NYer cartoon of all time is one where all the different animals are at a conference room table and they all say "woof" instead of their normal animal onomatopoeia and there's a dog at the head of the table and the caption is "everybody gets a raise."

Why be annoyed with people just for being in that phase of their lives?

Some (most?) people have tired "trenchant" opinions their entire lives. Some of the most trenchant people I know are old now and unlikely to change a single thing that they believe before they're interred. Trite truisms and ponderous platitudes of the sort exemplified in this thread are worthy of derision. They are the product of lazy, comfortable minds, and one should always afflict the comfortable.

alright can we just get back to original thread purpose

it's always about being a better consumer. detached derision is at the top of the hierarchy of consumption.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 4 June 2017 16:29 (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://68.media.tumblr.com/69e0f004436d01e9318c842ee6953eb9/tumblr_olpbb9z7Ol1qfvz38o1_400.jpg

tick.jpg

I do enjoy the implication that people might revisit their most stubborn beliefs after they've been buried. That's why I'm going to be cremated!

Few xps, those wolf/sheep, salt/slug, turkey/christmas cartoons are a bit too 'other people are stupid' for my liking

i like the picture of the wolf

Lots of ppl are stupid and it's relevant

Yeah true but always a bit dangerous to say someone voted for something I don't like, why, because they're stupid. Maybe I'm stupid, or maybe me and them are both a bit stupid, maybe something more is going on, etc

It's not because, it's and

lots of ppl vote against their interests it is still true to say these shit cartoons are not good cartoons imo

You afflict my comfort and I'll hurt you

CAAL thinking it's mostly young people spreading these images makes me think he hasn't been around as long as me

Yea some of these started as trenchant chain letters

I thought that the top of the consumption hierarchy were rich celebrities -- I'm getting schooled in this thread

saw this in the grocery store today

http://i.imgur.com/qWs38UW.jpg

poorly considered movie tie-in