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[–] 73 points 5 months ago

That sums up the most resent Meet the Press interview really well.

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  • [–] 131 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Remember when calling someone "presidential" was a compliment?

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Remember when half the country or more kept saying he’ll pivot to being presidential any day now for like all his first term?

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago

    A Human shouldn't be like this

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Conan was right, this shit is beyond satire and it just seems weird to see comedians try to take it on.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 5 months ago

    It's hella hard to crack jokes about being so far beyond satire. Like did you see turnip literally post a picture of himself as Naruto the other day?

    Like it was so unreal that I didn't believe it at first but sure enough, it was in the middle of one of his AI slop fueled posting sprees in the middle of the night.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Funny thing about comedians is that all the good ones tap way too hard into reality, share "that" with us / explain things to us / make us lol / protect us from it - and are ultimately shattered by that experience. Almost to a rule.

    So yep. What's left? And who?

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago

    For the naysayers:

    Well yes, it does just frame reality as it is and calls it a day. It’s not high art. However, it does serve a purpose.

    There is still a portion of the American population who views the drumpf as god on earth. As disgusting as that may be.

    Putting him in a 4 panel format might help to break that illusion for some of those people, probably not right away but it can help change the discourse.

    This type of meme or comic is hard to ignore because the message is simple, direct and it doesn’t say that much that it leaves things open for interpretation.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago

    The American "News" Media: "Dear Leader Gives Bold Answers To Unfair Question!"

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    I remember when this happened and it was one of the saddest moments this country has ever seen. More people should have been upset.

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  • [–] 64 points 5 months ago (17 children)

    I mean, I agree with the sentiment, but the only "joke" in this comic is literally zero exaggeration on the orange clown...

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  • [+] -38 points 5 months ago (15 children)

    You're right, but good luck convincing anyone this comic is anything other than comedic genius.

    This place loves her, and I cannot fathom why.

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  • [–] 52 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I hate to be the one to point it out, but not all comics are jokes. They're often used to summarize an absurdity, observation or viewpoint in a concise graphical format that's easy to digest and share.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Why are you trying to convince people this instead of just ignoring the artist that you don’t care for?

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    I have a theory:

    She made a comic strip at some point that specifically made fun of a behaviour that this guy has been called out for

    When people agreed with her, whatever it was, he felt personally slighted and has had an axe to grind ever since

    It's not likely that he is capable of thinking about his behaviour though, so he's just going to keep digging in deeper

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  • [–] 57 points 5 months ago

    This place loves her

    Everytime anything from this person is posted, there's a swat of people that actively come in to say "I don't like that". Which is both, like, ok, why are you telling me this? And also, not exactly fitting your statement either.

    Most people, faced with something they don't care about, just ignore it instead of clamoring it in public.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Certain people really feel the need to point out how much they don't like her. You could probably add a word filter on your lemmy app to hide posts with pizzacake in the title. Wouldn't catch all of them, but the last few I've seen have had the artist name in the title.

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 5 months ago

    When I share other people's work I try to post the artist in the title partly for this reason and also for searchability.

    If people don't want to see a thing it's generally pretty easy to not see it and incredibly easy to not engage when it does slip through their filters. But alas, too many people base their identity on yucking other's yums so they clamor on any opportunity to proclaim "I'm better than you because I hate this popular creator"

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  • [+] -21 points 5 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Loses consciousness and shits pants? Could it be? No? Awwwwwwwww, fuck.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    When I left reddit I was worried about not having a good source of fallacies to use as examples in my Logic class. Blessed lemmyverse and threads like this one keep me fueled with hilarious examples.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    We shouldn't have a president at all and "presidential" was never a compliment when all were genocidal war criminals.

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  • [+] -37 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    There's no joke here, no humour, just the author's opinion. What is the point of this comic?

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  • [–] 43 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Are you familiar with political cartoons, and with the idea that an author can use their space to share items that may differ in tone or intent from their typical material?

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  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'm sorry, but I don't find any of Pizzacake's content funny or clever or poignant or having any other value as a political comic strip; or otherwise for that matter. I really don't get the appeal. Is there something I'm missing? I'm familiar with her work, I've been seeing it for years. It just feels like there's a joke or an angle to it I'm not getting

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    In this case, I'd say the point is providing a bit of relief to people who feel that the current U.S. president is not a good fit for the role and who are frustrated with the biggest news outlets not shining a light on how absurd he is.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago

    Opinions and humour aren't mutually exclusive.

    That you personally don't find it humourous doesn't necessarily mean it lacks humour.

    If you want to complain about the authors political opinions, do that directly.

    Pretending that you don't understand how subjective humour works instead of saying what you mean is weak of character.

    Unless you genuinely didn't know humour can be different for different people?

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