Political Cartoons 2013: Click Here To Hate Yourself

Maybe I'm being kneejerk but if you make a cartoon scoffing at gay marriage you should be shot into the fucking sun.

So this cartoon has now come under criticism as being anti-semitic:
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/101023/scarfe-regrets-timing-sunday-times-netanyahu-cartoon

Murdoch has apologized, the cartoonist has regretted the timing.

Am I the only one who finds the comparison to blood libel ridiculous? On the one hand, we have the total myth that Jewish rituals used the blood of (Christian) babies, and on the other we have the real human suffering that the wall and Israeli military action causes. I mean, I can understand numerous criticisms, but this seems to concoct the anti-semitism charge out of nothing.
I realise the visual style is a bit old-fashioned which can make people vaguely recall anti-semitic propaganda of the past, but that seems like a weak charge.

I think it's the blood as motar that does it for me. Jews using blood for other purposes is at least a veiled reference to the original blood libel.

I think it's probably unintentional but it's definitely uncomfortable. The thing is, the same exact cartoon could be made about any number of places and situations, and if the guy building the wall didn't happen to be Jewish the meaning would be clear, so I don't think it's intended as a blood libel thing. However, fair or not it's easy to predict that "Jewish figure using blood for a nefarious purpose" is going to be read that way by some people and spark some kind of controversy, so if your intent is to get a point across that kind of thing is best avoided.

Oh man I saw a crazy jellyfish exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium a few months ago. It was awesome. Also they were playing funk music because they decided that jellyfish were the funkiest of sea creatures I guess, and I don't know why but it worked.

You piece of shit.

You're whole gag is a letter written by a child AND YOU COULDN'T EVEN BE BOTHERED TO ACTUALLY WRITE THE LETTER.

Four reasons why U.K. cartoon of Netanyahu isn't anti-Semitic in any way

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As far as I can tell, neither of those statements are true in general. Firearm ownership rates being scarcely more precise than a wild guess, the most recent data I could find had the ATF and CIA estimating pretty equal rates of ownership for handguns and rifles. As for regulations for rifles versus handguns, that's obviously going to vary from state to state, but based on my rough knowledge, handguns are much more tightly regulated than rifles. Here in NC, I could drive to the gun store and buy a rifle today, assuming I pass the background check. For a handgun, I have to go to the county sheriff's office during their ridiculously inconvenient hours, fill out a background check form, and then go back two weeks later during those same stupid hours and pick up the permit that allows me to purchase a handgun. I am completely unaware of any situation in which purchasing a rifle is more difficult than a handgun. I guess you could factor in regulations on automatic rifles (there are also pistols) and short-barreled rifles, but these are extreme outliers.

But I could be totally wrong and/or misinterpreted what you meant.

I'm sick. Have pity.
In short I meant "more rare in crime" with rifle regulations going toward preventing their use in crime (barrel length, licencing, etc) but you're right, the rules vary too much from state to state to make any type of blanket statement. Withdrawn.

Gorrell forgets a joke. Or a point. This must be missing like, five labels maybe? Is that cactus debt? Does that rock represent pudding?

Like this is just a Democrat thing
And you're damn sure not going to do anything elephant. Maybe if you were more responsible with your toys someone else wouldn't have to step in?


TELL ME MORE ABOUT HOW PEOPLE SHOULDN'T TALK ABOUT THINGS THEY HAVE NO IDEA ON

MSMBS will turn be bought by FOX News in 2013.

GUYS! IT'S PURGE DALEY!!! HOLY SHIT GUYS I DON'T THINK YOU GET IT YET!!


Been working so far


Obama didn't mention an issue?? What a failure!!

So you're saying nothing happened this week?
PS: what are plaques for?
On that note: new Bennett.



Story: Georgia's Hays State Prison is pretty much pure chaos and the situation is getting too hot for the guards to handle.


Ok: let's raise taxes to pay for better mental health-hey stop calling me Hitler!


Republicans: too proud to pander for votes

Thought this was a good Ramirez for a second!


Obamaaaaaa! Why're you treating Biden like that! The way you oops out of space

Oh my god, people are actually saying that. I mean, I know it mentions WSJ, but I was really really hoping it wasn't true.

I hate this planet.

On the upside, the three squares to a man's four made me laugh!

Just to set things straight, you can see Big Diomede island from Little Diolmede island in Alaska. In the 80's the Soviet Union did actually fly Tupelov bombers over Alaskan airspace. But those non-geographical data points were obsolete by a decade when she took office. The Soviet Union no longer existed and the Diomedes are a international date line anomaly. She's still stupid, but facts are facts.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

To set things even straighter, "I can see Russia from my house!" was said by Tina Fey, not Palin.

I need more labels on this one. Wasn't last year the hottest on record? Why are we questioning the models? And what the hell does the shirt mean?

Holy shit, I thought Birthers were extinct!

I want to like this one, but I feel like the last panel could've been punched up a bit. We will poop here for you? Our poop is all we need? I don't know, maybe George Meyer can work on it.

Look at the awesome, loving detail on the robot. And then there's Wormbama.
I'm ready to internet diagnose Ramirez now.
Also I want someone with actual knowledge to talk about how both these programs are financially (Good)

That's a lot of people. None of them Hillary.

Eh?

"As an example of this "Liberal propaganda" I present *mumble mumble mumble*"



So Liberals are fascists for supporting Bush policies when it's Obama doing them? So what are Republicans for supporting Bush policies?
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Whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhat?

Heh, I like the middle panel where he hops onto the desk floating in the gradient void for a single sentence and then right back off.
If only Karl had had a gun he could have stopped this home invasion (but then Muiry Sue wouldn't have forgiven him his sins and gifted access to a woman)
And he's using a cane (and speaking broken English German for the first time ever) because Muiry Sue beat his ass so badly the first time:





And, as penance for making Sjofn cry: ...Asay:
*sigh*

"Fell for it"? I don't get this one. Oh it's Asay: TEA PARTY HEROES SAVE US FROM OBUMMER!!


For example...
(grrr I HATE Obama for his "What difference does it make?" gaffe!)


I love you Party Taliban Guy :)

"Abortion pills" eh?
Also using a naive puppet your mouthpiece ISN'T HELPING YOUR MESSAGE YOU HATEFUL TWO DOLLAR PAI GOW WHORE

Ah. I've no idea how we got here but, in that case:

People aren't mocking the idea of seeing Russia from Alaska, but the idea that that somehow gives one insight or knowledge

T-shirt man is a hippy Liberal (note the pony tail and sock/sandals) his shirt is mocking the religious people that get upset when you question their god, he is furious at the newspaper that is questioning his god: science.

Nope. Luckovich is not one however.

Well, as Sjofn said: three out of the man's four squares made her laugh, I guess you found the fourth.

1) FUCK YOU, DAY BY DAY
2) I see I was pretty much right, that marriage and babies made Token Liberal Woman give up her terrible liberal ways. And also got her hair straightener or something.
3) Seriously, fuck you.

Did ... did Karl find Jesus? He must've been cured of the LIBRUL too.

RRRRGH, fuck you too, you son of a bitch.

Would guess it's about this: global warming trend possibly, apparently flat for last 15 years

I'm guessing the shirt is to mean the guy is a "religion-mocking science believer" so "ha ha hypocrite" when he reacts to new facts like that.

Yes, to clarify - 1997/1998 was absurdly hot, people disingenuous fuckheads like to use 1998 as a starting point to plot graphs from and then go LOOK NO WARMING

sweet, new avatar.

That most recent graph is however using 1997 as starting point, not 1998.

"Ending the data then [2010] means it is possible to show a slight warming trend since 1997, but 2011 and the first eight months of 2012 were much cooler, and thus this trend is erased."

I wouldn't be too keen to take the Daily Mail at face value.



And a nice in-depth piece by Tamino on the "15 years of no warming".

Tamino's a good read; it's fun watching a statistician pull his hair out when people who have no clue what they're doing produce "facts" from data they have no idea how to read.

One more, just for fun.

Yeah, definitely wouldn't be trying to jump to any conclusions from it; was just clarifying they weren't abusing the 97/98 thing in the report.

OH MY GOD THE AUTHOR OF DAY BY DAY IS SECRETLY DAVE SIM.

No, they really were :) That particular bit of 'research' is still majorly obvious cherry-picking, it's just that they take into account the previous (still pretty hot!) year in order to make it seem like they've covered the 1998 counter point. It's just more obfuscation.

Joe Biden is the Senate President. Harry Reid is the Majority Leader.

Joe Biden breaks into Harry Reid's office and takes a shit on his desk. A good cartoon?

So, Muiry Sue is older than his father? What?

Damn, I do love Asay's art style. Shame about the brain damage, though.

The brain damage that causes you to love his art style?

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No, I know what he means. I can't ignore the vile messages enough to enjoy it at all and I wouldn't go so far as to say I love it, but it's a pretty good cartoon art style, I think. Certainly much better than most of the other garbage in this thread.

Hobby Lobby owner David Green is a notorious liar with a head made of wood, and should be locked up. A good cartoon.

What does this mean? Is it pro old skool homophobic (molestation enabling) Boy Scout policy or pro enlightened equality boy scouts policy? Wat?

The troop number on the geezer says 1950, as in the year. I think it is a poorly stated cartoon about how the BSA is stuck in the past. The "Are we prepared for this??!" probably means that they are too stuck in their old ways to change with society to be more inclusive. I don't see any coded messages about homosexuality being wrong, so yeah, probably pro-inclusion.

E: "Are we prepared??!" is also a joke on the BSA motto, "Be Prepared," which I thought was obvious (I'm an Eagle Scout weeeeeee!) but on second thought there are probably a lot of people unfamiliar with this.

Old people and institutions can find it hard to change. An obvious cartoon.

I'll believe it when it happens.

I like this.

Holy shit!

To keep people who don't want kids from having them? Yeah.

Que pizza amigo!
I'd slam these the same way I slam the "Democrats are only doing it for the votes" ones if the GOP hadn't specifically had meetings on outreach to the Hispanic community and this was the result.


"They're just animals" thinks the anthropomorphic Elephant.

BURN!

It really grinds my gears when people use adjectives describing sexuality or race as nouns. Not that most of the cartoons that do that would be good anyway.

That babies in combat one is fucking terrible.