trenchant social commentary 2

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

If they had the imagination to update these as horrifying metaphorical ways to explore decaying infrastructure and police racism and despair deaths and random terror that plague our society, this could all be awesome, but that's not what they're going to do

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:04 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Poor selection and frankly I think ur the wrong person for the job

-Sad but true....... pic.twitter.com/iyhU23JfMn

— Awesome Planet™ (@Awesome_planet_) March 8, 2017

xp only nixon could go to china

the modern Democratic Party is a Hillary Clinton RT for an ad for a 50 million movie on top of an ad for a hedge fund. pic.twitter.com/tJFt3TBGY5

— andrew kaczynski 🤔 (@KFILE) June 15, 2017

What's the modern Republican Party though? The bull, with a different hat?

it's a portrait of Trump, purchased with Trump Foundation nonprofit funds, displayed at a Trump country club

andrew kaczynski otm

http://i.imgur.com/6E50Mju.jpg

the modern republican party is that demon in the hospital from that episode of buffy who was invisible to healthy people but killed children while they slept and looked like this

qualx's jpeg seems to me to suggest extreme admiration for the figures depicted, verging on worship

Really serious indictment of our democracy that something with 16% would even get near passing

― Treeship

American life at this point in time is pretty much just a series of indictments of our democracy, tbf.

― I Love It When They Call Me Big Pharma (Old Lunch)

posted the article because i'm still shocked to see any attention paid to prog

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, June 25, 2017 5:44 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well it's true

Re: the freeze frame in goole's linked twitter video; this might look like the most overwarn cliche of all time, but when I lived in Beijing I witnessed it in real life - or something worse I suppose.

https://haonowshaokao.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/140220121033.jpg

If you can't make out what it is, they've painted a downtown coal power station sky-blue with fluffy clouds, then painted on men with ladders painting the clouds.

I have no idea what sort of logic was behind this, but it was my view at work for a few months and it never stopped being bizarre.

file under 'weird satire'

There isn't a lot of satire in Beijing, especially 50-foot-high satire painted on government infrastructure

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDvPyFCW0AAboX_.jpg

pic.twitter.com/OnjIxhbIdf

— Julian Assange 🔹 (@JulianAssange) August 28, 2017

That one doesn't even 100% make sense. What does the lawnmower represent? What is the force that makes sure you keep using your phone?

The oppressive Capitalist hegemony

if you keep using your phone it's all good, if you look up your...head will get lopped off?

What is the parapet in the phrase head above the parapet. Who shoots the arrows in this metaphorical scenario

Is the chicken in the chicken/road joke a chicken or is it an allegory. What would the road be in this setup.