Bravissimo. I was worried there were no wordsmiths left. Thank you 🌹

It's only now on the nth re-read of this comic since it came out, that it has finally struck me how dark it truly is.

That's not a mass-kidnapping. A gift needs to be freely given, willfully, or it's not a gift.

The cultist parents off screen just upgraded their robes.

Hey! It's almost Christmas and I'm tired of asking via unencrypted email drafts on a commercial client.

I need drugs and operational funding if you want the stochastic chaos, my guys. Tell the Director it's about time to flip back to chapter 1 on the playbook, we always found the last chapter the most boring part of the re-reads.

You know, absolutely everything you wrote is spot on, zeroed right on the mark correct, as far as I'm concerned. Absolutely explains "why they'd want to shame them". Truly, you translated human nature into the comment very well.

But...human nature is...well.

All that you wrote is what someone who is looking to make someone face and own their decisions and the consequences of their actions should do. But the reason why the poster you commented on is correct, is because the shopkeeper in the comic, by their own signage, isn't someone who is looking to merely chastise to engender better behavior.

The other half, is actually dealing with those consequences. As you noted, the person who chose poorly has invited their consequences upon another living being, whether through willful action or unfortunate circumstance, doesn't matter.

The person will need to learn, but the living being who is not the person, is actively enduring those consequences. The reason why they let you drop off babies at fire fighter stations without making you have to go in and sign a form, is because unrestricted absolution leads to more babies being saved.

When a person has an out, out of a problematic situation that they can utilize without furthering worsening their situation, they will take it. Note that I said without worsening, the sting of the original problem always remains as hook enough for self improvement. A person will have to eventually step up to fix themselves or they should be stopped, and discouraged, yes.

But if someone else is choosing to instead, rescue or protect or rehabilitate the collateral victims of the consequences of another's actions, the most effective course is to focus solely on that which they seek to save, as the person who did the damage is not their responsibility and engaging poorly there, would result in less saving of that which they would protect.

Scene open, interior view of what appears to be a 90s basement, hardly visible beneath an ever present glow.

Tesseract guy in wizard robes, pondering an orb that flashes out images of random hapless Lemmings following the Nicole rabbit hole to its conclusion to their horror, gathering his indignation for the lawlessness of these federated lands from within the confines of his home made of the pure golden light of his righteousness.

Camera pan zoom out, reveals that the home is within a light bulb. A moth divides itself by zero as the light winks out but there are no tankies to hear it, screeches someone cosplaying as a tankie.

Femcelmemes posts a meme simultaneously crying for help and roasting everyone involved that is so lit that Fediversal peace is achieved, until the next time a leftist is technically incorrect, or worse, correct.

Why do I think? The same reason every other issue that is not at all divisive in the face of decency is currently an emotional game of feelings over reality: It's the easiest form of divide and conquer to effect the manipulation over the largest amount of people, which also provides the required length of cognitive dissonance to meet whatever selfish goal the pricks are using it for with very little upkeep after priming.

The rest of the pieces to make it stick are repeated ad nauseam on Lemmy by many comrades, many whom I would say I vehemently disagree on further finer points, but that's the crux of it.

Capitalism is not human, and it does not lend itself to engendering human responses to human problems.

It's not weird at all, and doesn't even require conspiracy. Social clubs, sports clubs, religious sites, and schools.

The way the craven privileged bond and form their cliques, and how easy they are to influence during their early stages of teenage "I know everything", spoiled rich brat version, are neither imaginative nor mysterious.

No matter how badly the chuds try to give their group chats cool names, they're always either impressionable fucks trying to outrun daddy's legacy to make their own, or already compromised by generational favor debts.

The most insulting part of Israel's puppet up the ass of the world's wealthy white men, is how fucking embarrassingly easy it was to size the fit.

You gotta get artistic with it. A couple of pintos as patsies on the soapy tiddies, a garbanzo for Dean's head, a couple of red kidney's wearing jeans, etc.

You got this.

You have arrived at the first of many questions for which the answers have been deliberately withheld.

The number for the rising tide to raise all ships is far far smaller than the current expenditures, but that wouldn't deify the sociopathic strata that fled the Mandates of Heaven to grant us the bountless fruits of Capitalism.

There have been numerous studies, but this is not a question of math, it is one of will.

I'm making a deal with Blahaj. Once I get the power to escape, you're all going to rue the day!

but it makes both the star wars, and star treck nerds mad.

Indeed.

My bet, is that his was Miller's "as a black woman..." puppeteering to take heat off the admin he's now way more visible in than he prepped for, and it failed spectacularly because even hatred doesn't get the jello brain in chief to stay on track anymore.