trenchant social commentary 2

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.

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…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

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banky wanky

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If Pompeii happened now. pic.twitter.com/bv3tlcMc74

— Helen Dale (@_HelenDale) September 4, 2018

龜

After being cited twice in the first ten posts to this thread, I can't see it bumped without a certain trepidation.

I like the elephant one.

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it's only the apocalypse when the middle class gets scared

it's from a Merican on my twitter who I quite like. It's bad but at least it isn't Canary.

"post-apocalyptical"? jesus christ, i try not to be a prescriptivist but that's fucking horrible

agree ugh

i don't think that bookstore even had a post-apocalyptic fiction section in the first place

playing devil's advocate now, "post-apocolyptic" does seem to want to modify fiction [as its own section] rather than lend itself to the phrase "post-apocalyptic fiction"

post-2pac eliptical

i don't think that bookstore even had a post-apocalyptic fiction section in the first place

― shwarmaduke (symsymsym)

i'm choosing not to believe that establishment is a bookstore at all until presented with further corroborating evidence

Язрцыісаиs иззd а sчsтзматіс роllіиg зггог то шіи тнз Ноцsз

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republicans-need-a-systematic-polling-error-to-win-the-house/?

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 November 2018 00:54 (yesterday) Permalink

trenchant yet beautiful

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We don't want immigrants in our schools?

Can the walls have doors?

listen mr drumpf how about you build a "nuclear bomb" but instead of "splitting atoms" it "splits food" and we call it a "buffet"

what if we make america learn again?

Lift Her Up

For a significant amount of time (before online dating) I had a job where I edited and laid out newspaper personals ads. It was fascinating but also a little heartbreaking.

The way people feel they have to pick a few signifiers, cultural dogwhistles, or whatever. It provides a fast sort, I understand the impulse. If you believe you need to date a juggalo or a knitter or a MAGAnaut, then you pretty much do.

But it seems like with all our algorithms and swiping and such, we haven't come very far from liking pina coladas and getting caught in the rain.

― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, January 22, 2019 3:15 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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i love this thread

free to half-ass an ellipsis

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you sort of subscribe to that view though lol

too self-celebratory

Needs more labels.