• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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    1932 months ago

    She’s countering our truth-like lies with fake-sounding truth!

    This is gold. I might have to steal it slightly.

      • @naught101
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        102 months ago

        Rueben Bolling’s comics are nearly always just as on-point as this. Well worth following.

    • @[email protected]
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      Flanders is a devout Christian, but one that actually follows the teachings so he takes the love thy neighbour part seriously.

      • @Lost_My_Mind
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        782 months ago

        This is what I hate about religion. In concept it sounds great. A bunch of rules for how to live as a good person. Sounds great right?

        Well the first rule of christianity is “Thou shalt not kill”.

        And then you realize that the leading cause of murder on earth throughout all of history is…religious wars.

        And it’s all downhill from there from a hyprcritical standpoint. Religion is used more as a tool to justify ones shitty behavior, rather than a guide to prevent it.

        The only good christian I know of, is Ned Flanders, and he’s not a real person!

        • @TexasDrunk
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          532 months ago

          Fred Rogers was a great Christian.

          • Snot Flickerman
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            262 months ago

            Last I checked so is Weird Al Yankovic.

            It’s a pity they’re so rare, but they really are.

          • @Lost_My_Mind
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            102 months ago

            Forgot he was christian. I always just thought of him as a great person.

            • kora
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              People like that ascribe to the life, not the label, and I wish more went about their religion like that.

        • @[email protected]
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          The first rule of Christianity is, “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”

          There is no probation against killing in general in Christianity, only murder, which makes an appearance as the 5th commandment. Murder being unlawful and/or unjustified killing, so clearly wartime killing is a-okay in Christianity.

          Now, you could argue that “love thy neighbor as thyself” might implicitly forbid killing, but if you start looking to Christianity for morality or even simple consistency you’re going to have a bad time.

      • Track_Shovel
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        But what if they are gay or worship other gods than us?

        spoiler

  • @[email protected]
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    Kind of dark but idk why, the last column with Ned did it for me.

    Cause at the end of the day, those people would still exist even in an insane world.

    • @ByteJunk
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      Well, not “kind” of dark, but really dark. I mean, the cartoon couldn’t be more direct in comparing the “haitian Simpsons” to the jews and other racial minorities in Nazi Germany, with the last panel being a page from the life of Anne Frank.

  • @Lost_My_Mind
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    382 months ago

    Me seeing the swastika in the preview image:

    “Welp…guess I gotta wait for nobody to be around me before I look at THAT!!!”

    Me after seeing it:

    “Glad I waited until I was alone.”

    • @BottleOfAlkahest
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      382 months ago

      That’s not even a swastika it’s a 45. It just really feels like it’s a swastika when you see the fanta fascist.

      • @Lost_My_Mind
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        132 months ago

        …wow. If you hadn’t pointed that out, I would have never even noticed that detail. My brain just saw that as a swastica.

  • @[email protected]
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    Not sure how this is a shitpost.

    This is dead on. Tomthedancingbug, awesome again (as almost always).

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    I never realized until now why they use the “45” so much. Just move one of the black bars and it’s a fucking swastika… And Haitians are really a stand-in for black people.

    The real problem is that we allowed the plutocrats to control both the news and social media and the government. Basically the US doesn’t have a free press any more but a quasi-government controlled oligarch media. As long as these neoliberal policies continue the degradation of institutions and politics continues.

    Something drastic would need to happen to purge this incredibly power imbalance from the captured state. A kind of reformation or practically a coup.

  • @Rolando
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    192 months ago

    Ok fine but WHERE IS THEIR CAT?!?

  • @Lost_My_Mind
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    162 months ago

    Haven’t watched the simpsons in a while…did they do this?

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    Oh. Well then. This may be a rare case where the simpsons DIDN’T do it. Real life did it first.