Funny part is that this comic is at least a decade old
It feels earlier. I could swear I saw it at the tail end of the Bush years, but it might have actually been the first Obama term. The artist dumped a bunch of comics in a 2011 post on their blog, so probably at least that old.
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George Carlin routines always feel relevant and fresh. The reason is he didn’t jump into specifics of Reagan or Clinton. He talked about general behaviors of government and society.
The reason his material always seems current despite him being dead for almost 2 decades is that we as a country never got our shit together and fixed the issues.
@Lost_My_Mind Go watch some old Lenny Bruce routines, and you’ll see the same. He did make specific references – and so did Carlin sometimes – but the overall thrust in both cases is timeless. Some of this material was probably being told in Ancient Greece.
This scene takes place in the gift wrapping section of a department store. Let that sink in for a moment.
This comic is from (IIRC) 2002 or 2003, it’s at least 22 years old.
The have wanted us to shut the fuck up and play along sine 9/11
They’ve always wanted everyone to shut the fuck up and play along. 9/11 was just another opportunity to build towards that goal.
I‘m pretty sure it’s from the early 2000s
Trump fucks kids
Is this literally true?
I know he’s been a creep forever (and a felon, and a racist, and…), but I don’t remember literal statutory rape.
There’s plenty of solid arguments we could make against him, especially about his predatory behavior, but I don’t think this should be one of them.
And if a fence-sitter actually follows up on it, this is the kind of thing that could be used as an excuse for them to go full-MAGA.
Recent claims that new documents prove the validity of the Johnson claims are false, because these documents are from 2016 and have nothing to do with what have become known as the “Epstein docs.”
Viral claims that Trump has a history of sexually assaulting children first emerged with the Johnson lawsuits in 2016. Pictures of court documents related to the case have lent perceived credibility to additional unsourced claims of child abuse that followed, and memes frequently combine the two claims.
Such claims are not new, come with several red flags and originated with an aggressive push by a serial fabulist.
@railway692 Snopes is a lot like the OED: A very reliable and trustworthy FORENSIC source, narrowly focused on what is directly provable from (publicly!) available evidence. It is not a court of law, however, and does not work the same way. If courts worked like Snopes does, there would be many credible allegations, but few convictions. The ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ standard, for example, would be useless.
In the so-called real world, it’s fair to assess unproven allegations as LIKELY true.
Are you saying, “If Snopes can’t prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, it’s probably true.”
If so, I don’t understand the logic that gets you to that conclusion.
@railway692 Not at all. This is about rules of evidence, and I used the OED comparison very deliberately, because they work the same way. OED is scrupulous about verifiable examples in print, and is a very reliable source for that. But it’s much less useful for what many people consult it for: etymology. OED doesn’t do that, but many people think they do, and misinterpret what they read there.
Snopes is solidly driven by verifiable facts. But the full truth is often beyond verifiable facts.
@railway692 Put another way, it’s about different registers of forensics. What you and I and Snopes can directly verify about this would not be sufficient for conviction, by itself. But a reasonable person would conclude from secondary evidence that it’s LIKELY to be true, and that would be sufficient to indict, for a trial that might produce much more solid evidence than WE’VE seen so far. A grand jury would almost certainly indict based on what we all DO know so far.
In that case, I’d rate it as “enough for an indictment” or even “highly suspicious” rather than “likely to be true”.
Calling something “likely to be true” when the evidence just isn’t there feels like an invitation for people on the internet to round up to “100% true and real”.
(Not saying people won’t do that anyway, but that’s a tendency I don’t want to contribute to.)
Ah yes, downvoting somebody because he uses critical thinking and questions statements on the all truthful internet.
Yes, he’s been seen with Epstein and talked about those activities with him. He visited his island. That says enough for the obviousness.
I asked if it was literally true (as in proven, documented, a known fact).
Not if he was very probably, highly likely, the most suspicious ever, the first person you would point at if anyone asked who in this room fucked someone underage.
Yes, he should be behind bars and investigated.
No, as far as we know, it’s not literally true. (Probably true, though.)
Unfortunately it is only barely better in the EU, and not just because we use the same trashy US services. On the 14th of October the EU parliament decides about chatcontrol, and it doesn’t look too good right now. They’re close to completely eradicating trust of communication.
Wanted to say the same, the uncle Sam hat might just as wel be replaced by an EU hat.
They’re close to destroying EU software trust. Everyone will just move on. Apps like Telegram who are not EU based are already spiking
Lol, as if Telegram was even remotely better or would not bow to the EU.
I think the only safe bets would either be software that’s rather safe due to it’s FOSS nature (with servers outside of the EU), or those who simply do not give a shit. There’s als Signal clearly stating that if the EU does this their app will become unavailable, as they’d rather stop releasing their software to people than collaborating in surveillance and breaking their own secure protocol in some way.
Not to mention chatcontrol literally breaks both basic EU law, human rights as well as most national constitutions. They’d still try though, obviously. It would indeed shatter the current high trust in EU software.
The UK has already gone all-in, lots of US states are actively crushing free speech with SCOTUS’s illegitimate and corrupt blessing, and the EU is set to approve the widespread spying of it’s citizens in a few weeks. Global authoritarianism is here.
We’ve always been at war with eastasia
Unfortunately for the US government, the internet never forgets.
But it’s just a series of tubes
@SalamenceFury Not true, unfortunately, and I’m saying this as someone who was online before the Internet went public in 1988. The Internet can and does forget, and way more than most people realize.
It turns out, it’s even more like a physical library than its early proponents knew when they coined that metaphor back then. Vast amounts of knowledge are lost every year, because no one’s actively maintaining stuff that people stop caring about.
Most of the early Internet is already gone.
@SalamenceFury To explain this better: Though we experience the Internet as virtual, in reality it’s entirely physical. In principle, it’s no different from party telephone networks of decades ago. It’s entirely dependent on physical objects of matter and energy, and discrete information on it only exists for as long as those specific local resources are maintained. The moment they’re not, that information vanishes, often for good.
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@SalamenceFury 2/ This happens mostly to data that too many people have lost interest in, which decreases the likelihood of it being maintained. This is why most people don’t notice this happening, and are unaware of it. Most people are also unaware that their local library discards many books every year, but all libraries do, and must. The few people who do care are largely powerless to preserve it, for lack of resources. (How many books could YOU store?) The Internet is no different from that.
Don’t forget to call it antisemitism to speak out against genocide
Also don’t forget to check whether your VPN is now owned by a British-Israeli company Kape Technologies, because they’ve been buying them up!
Golden.
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