Normally when someone asks “would you like to dance” it’s an invitation to dance with that person. In the comic, the lady did not invite the little guy to dance with her, as he and the reader expected.
People often find subversion of expectations like that to be funny.
Hard disagree on WXYZ. C tier. Maybe B tier at best.
If you’re willing to do something about that wish, then you’re an authoritarian too.
And FWIW, casting it in personal terms makes that wish tautological. No one wishes for a system where they have to cater to the whims of someone else. I’m sure you meant to say “no one has to cater to anyone else’s whims,” and that’s all well and good. Still authoritarian if you’re willing to see anything at all done to overcome the desires of the powerful to maintain the status quo (and in case it’s not obvious, that’s a good thing to be authoritarian about).
On Authority is a pointed response to the thought-terminating pejorative of “authoritarian.” If you haven’t read it, you should! It’s short and important =)
You want a change in society? You don’t care that fascists don’t want that change? Then you’re an authoritarian. Everything after that is a matter of degree.
Is considering sex work generally non-consensual a SWERF thing? I’d guess most people who think that don’t at all want to exclude sex workers…it’s not a criticism of sex workers. I also don’t think it precludes that some people might not have a coercive experience with sex work. Im sure there are plenty of people selling feet pics on instagram and feeling great about it, and maybe that’s fine…but I don’t think that’s the norm!
Maybe I’m wrong though; I don’t intend to be a swerf, but I do think sex work is generally non-consensual. Most paid work is probably non-consensual on some level but I think sex kind of has a special place in non-consensual activity.
Sex work is obviously something many people feel forced into. 73% of sex workers have at least one disability; maybe they feel they have other options, but it looks like that’s not most people’s experience: https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/nearly-3-in-4-sex-workers-live-with-a-disability-rare-bc-report-finds/
You know, you think that the first time, but if you go for it (and have the storage) you’ll be surprised at how glad you are to have them!
I just kinda gently jostle her a little until she stops. Its usually about the angle of the head in my experience (at least for my wife!)
I agree it’s scummy to wish death upon a stranger you know nothing about. In this case, the guy thinks he knows the stranger is a fascist. I think that’s jumping to a conclusion, plenty of non-fascists do really dumb stuff with regard to health. This particular dumb thing with regard to health was popular among fascists, so it’s not totally nuts to think he might be.
Anyway, wishing death upon a fascist (stranger or no) is not scummy. Only a bootlicker would think it is! That said, I also don’t think you have to be a bootlicker to think we shouldn’t assume someone’s a fascist because they want ivermectin.
This is lovely :)
I love the patient fella at the end.
Glad this is getting some attention. Age verification is the marketing spin they’re putting on “identity verification”
Incorrect, see above. The role of a king in a civilized society is to be guillotined! Anything less is barbarism.
well here’s my theory: if the reason it didn’t work is because you have a new king…well…what’s the new king’s role in civilized society?
Kings have one appropriate role in civilized society and it is to be guillotined.
What RSS readers do people like? I used to love Google Reader!
It’s to stop all the SEESEEPEE spies from slacking off at work…that’s gotta be it!
I really think we should rethink what “defense spending” means. You know, buying these strategic weapons like fancy-ass planes and submarines strike me as an enormous waste of money except insofar as they let us assist/participate in foreign wars (generally wars of aggression by our imperialist neighbor). Any foreign power that would or could meaningfully endanger Canada would utterly overrun anything we could field in terms of “conventional warfare.” If we care about defense, we could be spending instead on light infantry and drones. Hell, just with some back-of-the-napkin math, I suspect we could cut our military budget in half, buy everyone a rifle, and still have a quarter of our military budget left to do things like run trainings for would-be defensive volunteer forces. And I don’t just mean shooting. Like…the military could run first aid classes, outdoor survival courses, computer programming, etc. We could pay people to attend and recieve certification…like for-pay boy scout merit badges or something! We could make ourselves the most unappealing target for invasion without spending very much money at all, and skill-up our people at the same time. We could use “defense spending” to make life better here at home at the same time. Instead we’ll buy honkin big guns we can’t do anything with except tag along with the USA.
He doesn’t let his PR hacks tell him what to do!
These guys are such incredible losers. This guy in particular.
the announcement that Allbirds was transitioning from shoes, a product category it has a decade of experience in, to AI compute, a product category it has no experience in, shot the stock up by over 400 percent.
This is preying on boomers being really goddamn dumb. It’s basically elder abuse!
I’m always shocked to hear him speak about stuff because he sounds so perfectly well-adjusted, empathetic, and normal. lol that’ll show us to judge someone who makes an ascii game all night every night and has plywood over his window so he can sleep all day!