• IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      16·
      10 months ago

      Makes sense to me … a seat small enough for a little asshole and a bowl big enough for someone who produces a lot of shit

    • JesusTheCarpenter@feddit.uk
      152·
      10 months ago

      That’s because they had to put the Elon’s Twitter sign. Which is why I am not big fan of this kind of old school satire. It’s a little on the nose Everything has to have signs, subtitles and arrows so even the dumbest people can understand them. While I understand the need for that, it makes the jokes fall flat for me.

  • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
    6513·
    10 months ago

    Is it just me getting unreasonably irritated when the artist captions the things they’re depicting, as if we’re either too dumb to understand or they suck at making subtle references?

    • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      592·
      10 months ago

      It’s a political comics thing that I believe originally started in England like 250 at least 350 years ago. The comic is meant simultaneously to be funny and legitimate political propaganda. To ensure that the political propaganda message is not lost on the masses they label everything to make sure their message most clearly gets across.

      • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
        151·
        10 months ago

        That’s actually cool to know, though I dislike the practice, they kinda look like previous century memes lol

        For example, see this political cartoon from 1903.

        That was lost on me either way, but I guess it’s just my lack of knowledge on US’s history 👀

        • Phrodo_00@lemmy.world
          15·
          10 months ago

          The cartoon shows the US aligning with Panama separatist factions to break from Colombia so that they can permit the construction of the channel.

          Panama was a separate colony from Colombia, but they joined when becoming independent.

          • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
            61·
            10 months ago

            I find it utterly hilarious that the cited purpose is clarity, but the referenced comic required explanation. Bravo.

            Also thanks for the explanation because I wasn’t getting it, either. Makes sense, though. Give it a few hundred years and English might be so different the labels wouldn’t have mattered at all, let alone missing context.

            • thatgirlwasfire@lemmy.world
              12·
              10 months ago

              I’m guessing you just don’t know History very well, i didn’t need any sort of explanation to understand the comic.

              • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
                3·
                10 months ago

                Good for you! Totally and completely irrelevant to my point.

                The comic already required explanation … while it had text on it. Nothing you say, do, or believe will EVER change the fact that the comic required explanation about as soon as it was posted.

                Grow up and realize you are not the main character. Your beliefs or knowledge do not change reality.

          • Phrodo_00@lemmy.world
            7·
            10 months ago

            I don’t necessary know about the intelligence part, I’ve seen plenty of braindead political cartoons

            • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
              3·
              10 months ago

              I’m not seeing too many labels. You get an F for this political meme, good sir!

              … I know it’s not political, but how am I to know without labels??

    • vimdiesel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      10 months ago

      That’s just the way political comics goes. It’s expected and common. It’s not a web comic, bruh; there’s a tradition to maintain.

      • Obi@sopuli.xyz
        43·
        10 months ago

        Not all political comics are like that though, the best ones don’t need the labelling.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        10 months ago

        Well, his audience seems to pretty obviously need things spelled out for them. In very, very short words.

        • FormerlyChucks@lemmy.world
          12·
          10 months ago

          At least when Garrison does it it’s so over the top it’s farcical and ridiculous which makes it funny unlike this comic

    • vimdiesel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      10 months ago

      Nah this is just accurately stating the actual status of X as a metaphor, I like it.

  • DarkDecay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    10 months ago

    Lol i recently heard someone refer to tweets as xcrements now. Fits perfectly with this

      • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        4·
        10 months ago

        To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Ben Garrison. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of political philosophy most of the jokes will go over a typical reader’s head. There’s also Ben’s perennialist outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Nouvelle Droite literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Ben Garrison truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Ben’s antimodernist catchphrase “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Solzhenitsyn’s Russian epic Gulag Archipelago. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Ben’s genius wit unfolds itself on their phone screens. What fools… how I pity them. 😂

        And yes, by the way, i DO have a Trump tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎