Unsurprisingly for the Star Tribune, seems like a reactionary response

One of the links in the article was interesting, I didn’t know that Nancy Pelosi visited Tianenman Square in 1991:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Z8-Woj1eA

If you’re in her district, you should let her know what you think of the bill

Yeah, I can kind of see the argument of “the state messed this place up and now needs to fix it”, but that doesn’t seem sufficient in this case.

Rare animated SMBC. Comments over on the blog have an example of one other one too: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2005-09-11

The comments section on the blog felt just like a Lemmy flamewar:

Of course, in practice, the question is more realistic, like “How many Palestinians would you kill for lower egg prices?”

Oh, was Harris not going to kill Palestinians now? How quickly we forget what we were shilling for just yesterday.

That’s a generalization and infantilizing. Let’s try to not do that about groups of people here.

I’m trying to do low-touch moderation in this comm and haven’t had to really do anything yet, and I’d like to keep it that way. I think what I’m going to try to do is leave comments up that aren’t straight terrible and respond like this to steer conversation in a better direction when possible. I mostly don’t want to ban people, unless they’re repeatedly contributing nothing of value.

Your comment was the first one that’s on the edge since this still a pretty small comm, so don’t take it personally. This is just what’s been floating around in my head.

I also realize the irony of my complaining about “neolibs” as a group of people in another comment in this same thread. I could stand to do better there, but I also see a difference in generalization based on immutable characteristics vs political opinions

A rare full color bonus panel today

I hope so. I wonder if social media might actually help here. It’s much harder to suppress stuff like that since everyone’s got a camera with them all the time, and it can be shared even if it’s not shown on major media.

I think we’re going to see some big realignments happening, as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy. Hard to say for sure until we’re years out looking back, but it doesn’t seem like that’s a temporary shift.

I find it darkly humorous that neolibs shot themselves in the foot so hard by trying to make an easy election for themselves in 2016. The sort of twist you’d expect from Game of Thrones or something.

The first one he did that Patreon pointed out: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/haiku

Reminds me of this classic:

Some of them have not aged well, but here’s the others:

https://danarchy.youfailit.net/Spiderman/

Relevant after last night:

Is the kid with a bat Disneyland security, or did they just really go downhill?

Yeah, he’s really been leaning into that the last few comics. Hopefully he’s not going through some shit. Reminds me of Dan Harmon basically writing his bitterness about his failing marriage and then divorce into Rick & Morty early on.

What a shitbag

First appearance of the SMBC god in the bonus panel. Though I guess he added the bonus panels for these early strips later on, so probably not the first one he drew.

Reminds me of superdickery.com, which looks to be gone now. Fortunately, the wayback machine has a copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060116031910/http://www.superdickery.com/dick/1.html

Lots of examples of Superman just being a dick to people for no seemingly good reason

Anybody do any trick or treating? It was pretty cold and wet

How I imagine the NOPE in the bonus panel