Political Cartoons

Agreed, this kind of tries too hard and ends up forcing the issue. It reminds me of when kids in school sarcastically act like other kids they don't like: "I'm [name of kid they're pretending to be] and I'm a big jerkface who eats doody and draws on the walls! Derrr huuurrrr [fart noise]" (or whatever, I'm not up with fashionable school-yard insults any more).

At any rate, a dash more subtlety would help.

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Satire works best when it starts off with an agreeable or at least acceptable proposition then slowly follows to an unacceptable conclusion. It essentially uses the same method as reductio ad absurdum; the point being to show how the initial proposition is actually incorrect in the first place.

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badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com

The problem is that the internet SJW is already what a parody of someone interested in social justice would be, so it's hard to make satire of something that appears satirical in the wild.

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lafinjack.livejournal.com

Poe's Law.

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kittymink.livejournal.com

idk, it's only slightly exaggerated from what actually happens on tumblr.

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farchivist.livejournal.com

S'what I said, ja!
Tumblr SJWs are frankly hilarious.

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madscience.livejournal.com

Subtlety would be unrealistic. Each of the panels could be direct quotes from

sf_drama or some other comm like that.

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except the last one.

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yes-justice.livejournal.com

The issue is that this isn't satire, its irony.

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tcpip.livejournal.com

Well, unintentionally yes, I suppose it is!

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I'm a 57%-fluid, saucepansexual (especially if it has freshly-made veloute in it) humankin, am I spacial?

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I don't know, do you exist in a 3 dimensional plane of existence?

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Space-Time has three dimensions?

Strewth, you learn something new every day.

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Three spatial dimensions, and one temporal dimension (time), unless you factor in string theory or M theory, and then you're looking at anywhere between 10 and 26 dimensions.

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Even numbers too now, even...

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I love how if the superstring theory maths doesn't work with fewer than 26 dimensions, it's not the maths that's wrong, but the number of dimensions we can see.

Makes perfect sense.

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I tried to keep time out of it, because time may not exist.

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Einstein harrumphs in his mason jar.

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http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-09/book-excerpt-there-no-such-thing-time

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lafinjack.livejournal.com

Ah, a Pastafarian?

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Perfect.

And "sad" used to mean "full" or "heavy", so it's a derogatory slur against the overweight.

Edited Date: 2013-12-19 11:57 pm (UTC)

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geezer-also.livejournal.com

Awesome!! (I don't even care if it's factual ;) )

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rose-cat.livejournal.com

But they're WHITE! (appropriation, racism, sit down and shut up, etc.)

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hardblue.livejournal.com

If it's about LiveJournal,
shouldn't it be in Russian? :p

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We had one of these in

politicartoons awhile back. 100% accurate.

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Ooh, was I there?

It's getting like the '60's over here…if you were there, you don't remember it. And I'm probably too far gone in my senility to fucking care. Most of this should be about changing the underlying mindset of the fucking interweb population. If you like, to civilise them, even if they don't want it. Consider the example of beating Latin irregular verbs into brattish children: even privileged white (or almost-white) males can learn that folk should have equal rights for self-definition before the law. And that different (within certain limitations*) can be demonstrably good for society as a whole.

*Of course, there are certain forms of self-expression forbidden by law for explicitly moral reasons. And I'm paternalistic High Tory enough to consider this situation to be a good thing. But LGBTQ rights, Women's rights, and Minority rights don't fall into any of those categories, no matter what some members of various religions assert.

Edited Date: 2013-12-19 05:20 pm (UTC)

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Sure, but it's a matter of degree. Some people go way beyond the realm of reason and decorum in order to achieve their goals. The types of people depicted in this cartoon tend to repulse more than educate. It's counterproductive, and even those for whom they claim to be advocates more often than not are turned off by their radical behavior. Martin Luther King, Jr., for example, did far more for civil rights in America than Louis Farrakhan.

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I agree: but I also think the rational jump on these sort of people from all points of the political spectrum.

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the-rukh.livejournal.com

Yes you insulted everybody's mother, kissed some random girl who never came back, and passed out on the dining table.

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