trenchant social commentary 2

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.

once you get your head mowed off you get a mower

Is the messed-up perspective also a metaphor?

julian assange is telling everyone to keep their pubic hair well-trimmed using a lawnmower

when I was little my mom would cut my hair with a flowbee which is basically a lawnmower

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKBLAhFUQAEH5Z5.jpg:small

Completely transfixed by this. What incredibly creative dramatic talent pic.twitter.com/RnFz1ze9nI

— Felicity Morse (@FelicityMorse) October 22, 2017

hahahaha yesssss

'yoann bourgeois' seems a little on-the-nose

Have to admit that looks way more fun than most of this stuff.

yeah this is banky af but fun banky

I don't know what social phenomenon it's commenting on, trenchantly or otherwise, but it looks kinda cool.

yeah it's like it seems obvious and yet I can't put my finger on what exactly it's being obvious about so maybe it isn't obvious?

kinda workplace sisyphean imo?

but they're wearing beanies and no ties

it's called the mechanics of history so presumably some kind of history repeating itself thing

yeah trying and failing to make progress or something like that

specifically, mansplainy philosophy grads who where sportjackets with t-shirts and beanies and fail to make progress as they theorize annoyingly in a pub