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Cybertoonz 3
An homage to xkcd
For this edition of Cybertoonz, I thought I'd do the art myself. Which is how I discovered that, embarrassingly, I can't even draw stick figures as well as xkcd's Randall Munroe. Luckily, Munroe has authorized reproduction of his cartoons with credit, so I cheerfully admit that I've reproduced and then tweaked this brilliant xkcd cartoon.
In fact, that's the point.
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"I have to force Facebook to fix it!"
. . . by compelling Facebook to publish plenty of bigoted, ignorant, archaic, superstitious nonsense whether Facebook wants to or not!
Carry on, clingers. So far and so long as your betters permit, as usual.
You're being tiresomely repetitive as usual, Asshole.
Where's the irrelevant Youtube video for me to not look at?
What the hell are you talking about? It's the woke who are complaining that Facebook hasn't done enough to deny its platform to those you call clingers.
And the clingers want government to decide what Facebook (and Twitter, and others) can, can't, or much publish -- because conservatives want to ensure that enough bigoted right-wing content is available to lather our superstitious, half-educated, vestigial racists and gay-bashers.
Congratulations. You've added two things to the left panel, and both serve to make the cartoon significantly less funny. What is it about conservatives and comedy?
What is it about statists, period? No sense of humor, which they blame on those who created the humor; no self-awareness; and get all bent out of shape over the most trivial criticism, which they take as personal insults.
Are you referring to the statists who wish to entitle the governmentto direct Facebook's publication decisions?
The link is again to a fucking YouTube video that, I assume, as always has nothing to do with the underlined words that, if you don't know The Asshole, might trick you into clicking on them.
Can’t figure the connections? Ask a less-gape-jawed conservative to try to explain the links for you.
Under your very broad definition of statist, most comedians are statist.
If you don't find them funny, that seems more about your own sense of humor.
In the end, people who try and use humor as a tool, with ideology first and humor second, suck at humor. That's across the spectrum, and includes this post.
WAAHHH how dare people criticize censorship with stick figures.
Baker isn't much of a conservative. He is a statist. He will blindly and absolutely support the state no matter who is in power.
To the Volokh Conspiracy*, Mr. Baker is an always independent, often libertarian, sometimes contrarian voice.
To the rest of modern America, Mr. Baker is a secrecy- and-surveillance-craving authoritarian operating at the right-wing fringe of American political thought.
(*Of course, the guy making that call is the type of "libertarian" who endorses Ted Cruz and imposes partisan censorship.)
"What is it about conservatives and comedy?"
Huh? It wasn't conservatives that canceled all the decent comedians.
That's his point. The comedians weren't funny because they were conservative fake comedians.
Name one. And if you think Dave Chappelle is a conservative, you may want to watch his sets beyond the transphobic bits.
What is it about conservatives and comedy?
Remind us who it is that's having meltdowns over "Let's go Brandon!"
Neither conservative nor comedy, and therefore nothing to do with this conversation?
Once during firefigher's training, we heard this anecdote.
Gas company employees went to an address where a gas leak was reported. A woman answered the door. She said her husband smelled gas yesterday.
They asked, "Where is your husband?" She answered, "When he smelled the gas he ran upstairs to his computer to search the Internet for what to do about a gas leak. I haven't seen him since."
xkcd is basically the techhipster's version of a new yorker doodle. Often not funny or insightful or really anything but a badly drawn doodle but for some reason is a magical totem that instantly earns a reposter massive amounts of whatever social media token. The hipsters who like reposting xkcd (usually with a dumb comment like 'relevant xkcd') are the equivalent of the follower sheep who sell MLM products or make a duckfaced selfie for instagram likes. But at least the latter make no pretension about being intelligent independent thinkers.
I congratulate you for putting a bit more effort than the usual brainless xkcd repost. This edited doodle is better than a typical xkcd although thats admittedly not a high bar.
Seems like you're extrapolating from a few bad experiences.
Wow, you sure do hate everything!
Wrong. He loves the Confederacy, Jesus, rattlesnake-juggling, the Klan, Trump, the Volokh Conspiracy, the Republican Party, and South Texas College Of Law Houston.
The right cartoon needs another panel.
"Facebook isn't playing ball."
"Tell them we'll wipe section 230, causing stock prices to plummet hundreds of billions of dollars as half their business model evaporates."
"Ok...ok...ok now they are censoring. Of their own free will!"
Recently someone opened a fake Facebook account with my name and picture, and attempted to phish info from my FB friends. I reported the account to FB using their own system, which includes a category for "fake account impersonating me." Half an hour later, I got back a reply stating that the fake account doesn't violate Facebook's community standards. Pretty much sums it up.
"...and attempted to phish info from my FB friends."
You can report that to the FTC(.gov) on a form that I just used to report a text that claimed to be from "Citibank fraud". It's the first time I've tried it so I don't know if I should expect any follow-up. Not feeling terribly hopeful, but they do give you a number for your report and you can bring it up...
One of the three stories headlined on the site was a complaint against Facebook, iirc. More directed at anti-competitive practices, I recall.
Overall a funny/snarky idea, but the "What a loser" and "What a hero" is too much trying to explain your own joke. Take those off, enough people will get it without those added.
You know what they say about a joke you have to explain...
Stewart, what you did was create a derivative work, which I'm not sure was allowed. Also, kudos on improving your work. This one is a lot closer to being a joke and not just a rote recitation of things that actually occurred in the world.
Lol thanks for reminding me how great xkcd is. Haven't been there in years, the flinch one he just posted did a number on my sides 🙂
Lol thanks for reminding me how great xkcd is. Haven't been there in years, the flinch one he just posted did a number on my sides 🙂