trenchant social commentary 2

The tide pods + condom snorting thing has really taken off among Millennial-haters hasn't it? Has Ben Garrison done a strip about it yet?

not as far as i know but here's the next best thing:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DaBmBq0X0AA2wlF.jpg

greatest hits of this particular stupid rightwing meme
http://agoodcartoon.tumblr.com/post/172603139855/agoodcartoon-agoodcartoon-ayelander

all because a whopping 39 people out of 74 million did this.

https://i.imgur.com/16vWVYe.jpg

lol

haha

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcHyoFhX0AAymRn.jpg

good ratio

ooooof wtf

posts to ilx imo

lol

My father would never have done that.

so much going on in that tweet

glad there is that blue checkmark, wouldn't want someone unverified to make these sort of posts

i too remember the day my father left in a helicopter, waving and smiling, while mother turned to stepfather and said "now you may do what you will with the children and i shan't stand in your way."

weird that trump hasn't made any noise about obama not recognizing his many illegitimate children

it would be a somewhat hypocritical thing to say, so it's right up Trump's alley

back to the trough, sheeple!

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, May 16, 2018 7:10 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

platonic imo

Ohhhhh, I see. It's a portmanteau of 'people' and 'sheep'. Huh. Pretty clever!

Times have changed pic.twitter.com/ZwaDoLX6F2

— jake likes onions (@jakelikesonions) May 19, 2018

^ does not understand how medieval wars were fought. also, "overcoming" cholera was purely a matter of "surviving" cholera. finally, does not mention how many of those four children are already dead.

or that he has maybe 20-25 years left if he continues to be extremely lucky

also "sired" lol excellent use of gendered bullshit verb for "inseminated a woman"

No way yer average 30 year old in the middle ages had fought in three wars.

So we’ve established that medieval 30-year-old man is not accurate. How about car guy

We’re only just getting back to wars that last for 30 yrs tbh. Bringing back the good old old old old old days (but with added hot drone action).

I think he'd likely have some hair.

And some ears.

The best thing about overcoming cholera is the memory of overcoming cholera

car guy is probably an accurate representation of the dude who draws the jakelikesonions cartoons? which are usually not that bad

although his earless bald generic protagonist is not as good as gary larson’s line-for-eyes acute-angle-for-nose simplicity

better cartoon would have been a baby boomer who already paid off his house with his union job vs current 30-year old

let's all promise each other to draw only better cartoons

that cartoon was less like Garfield and more like an editorial cartoon. it posed as making a valid social observation based on something historically accurate, but the only thing underpinning its opinion was a profound ignorance of the subject it was addressing.

there will always be a certain number of people who happily accept ignorance as truthful, because it reinforces their own biases. the fact this piece of nonsense was in cartoon form makes no difference to the process of spreading and reinforcing ignorance that I just described.

So, fuck that noise. the cartoonist is a poopy head.

avg 30 year old of the middle ages would without a doubt ponder buying a car if it were available.

No way yer average 30 year old in the middle ages had fought in three wars.

yeah not for an average 30 year old. tho if you were in the military class you would likely get sent around to different conflicts. you would fight the French or Spanish or other Englishmen, maybe personal/private conflicts, maybe state affairs, maybe both. the same you maybe a modern 30 year old would get sent to Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. different conflicts in different geographical regions.

as for the children he sired, they may be off in these different parts of the land, with bastards all over Europe. frivolous spending on military campaigns was a huge political problem in the middle ages (just as it is now lol). famously the revolt of 1381 was in response to over-taxing to pay for the constant wars.

lol @ "overcome cholera" tho. 1/3rd of the population, were dying off every generation, from various forms of the plague, and medicine was entirely ignorant and often did more to harm the patient than anything. mercury was given as a common cure. even if you could afford a doctor, they would be entirely ineffective. medical knowledge was based on gazing at urine in jars and inhaling all kinds of drugs imported from the East while doing astrological charts. if a family member got sick, there was a strong chance it could spread to the entire family, so may were left to isolate their family members in fear of their own lives. infanticide was at an all time high. xenophobia was at an all time high. as for cholera:

A widely-held theory in western Europe during the Middle Ages was that disease was caused by a miasma, i.e., an atmosphere polluted by air from decaying bodies or from swamps. Risky areas could be identified by a bad smell.

due to the non-existence of a public sanitation system nor corporate/industrial environmental regulations, there were plenty of sitting water sources festering in waste and bacteria around. sometimes public river sources caught on fire from the shit disposed by the nearby wealthy hyper consumers. again, just like modern times, the rich screwing over the habitats of the people they benefit from. for many Jewish citizens, tradition instructed different ways to find water, and these different customs were looked at suspiciously, conspiracies brewing (as always) from misunderstanding. people, in lieu of legal recourse or really any rights to defend against the abusive powerful, resorted to blaming ethnic/cultural minorities for poisoning water sources. this kind of shit has been going on for 700+ years.

https://i.imgur.com/k0Be7od.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/sYagmLc.gif

…knowledge is a broken clock?

we make money like Fred Astaire

time is also apparently a broken clock

which, sounds about right to me

knowledge is a lot like dick-swinging

blah blah flat circle

yeah the information clock is the only one working properly

https://i.imgur.com/PSmq9T9.jpg

banky wanky

https://i.imgur.com/w2CRVsJ.jpg