https://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/mad/

Not just that but the story also suggests that the US can fail so terribly while still functioning to be able to still host monster truck rallies and have a working water system that can pump millions of gallons of mountain dew

Pretty much summarizes humanity as well

Think of it as someone’s private house or warehouse. Everyone is invited in to hang out and talk. At first there is a lot of freedom and no one is really affected. It becomes popular and there are many different types of people and open conversations are happening everywhere.

A new owner takes over the place.

He decides that some people shouldn’t be allowed to talk. He has a bunch of loud mouth obnoxious friends with extreme ideas and he starts giving them a louder voice. Anyone that disagrees or challenges them are drowned out, pushed to the back or told to leave. It’s become their place and their hang out now.

It’s not a public space and you really have no rights to anything there because it’s all privately owned by someone else. Write, share and save as much as you want there but none of it is really under your control or ownership.

You can shout, fight, disagree and challenge them all you want but it’s their place. You have no power there because if you put up too much of a fight, you’ll be pushed out, told to leave and never come back.

As an Indigenous Canadian … most people in my family have a black ball so big that we put wheels on it and take it for a ride.

That’s a way better option than being born brown in the slums of Mumbai or during a famine complicated by war in Sudan.

This is like listening to the abused house wife who keeps running back to the same unapologetic violent husband.

“He’s changed and won’t do it again”

“I believe in him … it’s going to be different this time”

“I’ll give him another chance … again”

“He promised that it will be different this time”

“I know it will work this time”

Classic war time mentality

Leaders: We need to fight this war!!! … but I don’t want to fight in it or let any of my family or friends fight in it … that’s dangerous, they might get killed!!! … let’s send someone else to fight it for us!!! … we need to defend our honour and our nation!!!

I’m Ojibway / Cree in Ontario just on the other side of the Great Lakes from all this. And the language and story telling is very familiar. I remember hearing this story from other Native groups Minnesota before and they always loved it because it completely turns the whole Paul Bunyan legend on its head. The language is related to mine because the place name ‘Bemidji’ means ‘a lake with crossing waters’ or something like that … it’s implying that its a location where areas of water can be crossed. It’s familiar to me to because in my language Bemichi means portaging across or to waterways.

And when it comes to Nanaboozhoo - The Greatest Ojibwe who ever lived … we call him Nanabush in our part of the country. He’s a great character because he is everything … powerful, strong, brilliant, intelligent while also feeble, humble, dumb and fallible.

Definitely a great Ojibwe … or Oochiboo as we call ourselves … for slapping Bunyan silly with a fish!

Not unless they know the Horizontal Mambo

It de-legitimizes actual debate about issues with racism, homophobia, sexism, etc

When you just lump in everything that is legitimate debate along with batshit crazy stuff, then its far easier to just to dismiss it all and keep acting like a racist, homophobic, sexist ignorant jerk.

If you can’t tell what is offensive and what isn’t … it’s not a problem with the comic, it might have something more to do with you.

Very cool … neat work and very imaginative … I keep collecting scrap copper wire all the time from my work renovating and fixing things and often imagined doing stuff like this.

This is modern day podium politics in a nutshell.

I’ve stopped watching press conferences because they’ll spend half an hour telling you nothing in the most complicated, incomprehensible language imaginable.

They should change it again and call themselves Stage Four

“It stuck now”

This is what happens when governments rely on a private corporate service for public announcements

Every government should just adopt a fediverse instance of some sort, maintain it and push that to everyone to use as a public announcement service. That way it would not be controlled, manipulated, lost or disconnected if they had full control over it all the time.

Music … learn music … learn the piano … or learn the guitar … or whatever instrument you might have used before. Music really occupies your mind because it needs a lot of mental training. You have to coordinate your body to do things, your brain has to train to follow patterns, your listening has to coordinate with what you are doing and what you produce … it’s a full brain experience and once you get accustomed to it, time seems to change … you play for an hour and it felt like you were there for five minutes but it also felt like hours passed by, it’s amazing. I’m not a great musician, I know my basics but it’s fun every time I do it.

To make it easier … leave the instrument in your living space and make it easy to pick up … park the piano in your living room where you see it every day … or a guitar on a stand next to your seat … etc

If you are not musical or want to learn music … then try visual art … drawing, painting

Just a simple pencil and paper to start with … doodling and learning forms and human anatomy … I used to do that for years when I was a teen and learned a lot but life got in the way and I got too busy to keep it up. But I have a few friends who kept it going and now produce beautiful artwork.

And it’s all about training and time. If you play music or learn to draw in a month … it probably won’t sound great or look great … give yourself a year and you’ll be producing great things … give yourself a few years and you’ll be a musician or an artist recognized by others

So … instead of Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill!

It would be Nye, NYE, Nye, NYE, Nye, NYE, Nye, NYE!

The flamethrower mode is activated when you say that

Psychiatrist: … no, no I meant in five years if you are still alive

Me: … dead inside