Okay this is actually what makes humans amazing. Btw the malört and Marx is talking now.

I feel like we are sold this idea to be purely a specialist because… It’s easy to know that your tool does one thing and one thing well. It really is a mindset that benefits a capitalist that a worker is good for one thing. How many jobs have you been in that you felt never utilized your potential? That you had so many skills that weren’t being utilized?

Marx characterized humans as being creative and diverse. We are amazing Swiss army knives, but so often our companies ask us to only be a screwdriver or a bottle opener.

Sadly if you are reading this thinking “I’m only good at one thing” it’s not true and it’s not your fault. You’ve been sold an idea that you bought into, and it may have even been beneficial financially. How many people are making $350k to turn a button blue and move it left 3 pixels? Our system rewards people when they are able to be tools for a specific purpose.

Oddly enough Marx predicted that the country most likely to be communist would be the United States. He actually really liked Americans, we were farmers in the morning, artists in the evening, and philosophers at night. We had overthrown the aristocracy, so it just made sense we would be the first to overthrow the Bourgeois class.

Turns out Marx couldn’t predict everything :/

Look don’t judge them, anything goes in the airport cafe.

Oh yea, you can cook it with any vegetable, fruit, or flower, milk, and rock salt to get a tough seafood stew. I those are pretty powerful, like your defense goes up for 5 minutes.

Alternatively mix it with monster parts and you get an elixir but what fun is that?

Now he did it. IT’S DONE. WE GOT EM. Donald will finally feel the FULL FORCE of our justice system telling him that they are VERY CONCERNED.

Mark your calendars everyone, we have a new holiday.

I mean, have you read the tenets of Satanism? Pretty darn convincing. Call me a devil’s advocate.

At first I read “have you ever met a single scientist?” As in “don’t you know they’re all fuckin?”

And naturally when the king dies, the throne will go to his heirs.

Every rhetorically cautious bone in my body doesn’t want me to say it, but I think we elected the king.

^I’m saying rhetorically cautious because I feel if I said “careful moderation” people would think “politically moderate” where I mean being careful not to jump to conclusions and make wild claims (extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence)^

!cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee

My non-anuerism take on this was it feels like it’s the car lobby trying to pass off driving alone as an inclusive thing to do. Kinda like when I saw a BP float in Chicago’s Pride parade this year.

Am I getting it right?

Edit: I think the term I’m trying to find is “corporate performative allyship”

I love that the Evergreen State College Geoducks has “let it all hang out” spelled in Latin on their crest.

I don’t know how to add images to comments

Huh I always thought it was “yup, while it comes up, I could use a little fuel myself”

Man I’m looking kinda dumb.

It is, and I think the novel thing about it is that it was a cyclone. Wind storms do happen out there and it’s normal to see a few trees go down, but a bomb Cyclone is a completely different story.

Ah, I thought it was also like “cherry bomb firework” that fuckin rocked but yea that too

I’m afraid not. Not even in the “I’m Matt and I work in sales but my dream is to do standup professionally so I started going to dive bars in Chicago but get absolutely shit faced before I go up and decide I can just whiff it to an audience of 3 who are in the same boat and aren’t laughing because they are all reading their own notes” kinda way.

Oh man I’m sorry that sucks. First thing I want when I get home from a trip is a meal :(

EYES UP HERE PERV

I’m thinking the outcome of this may be even more sinister.

I know there is already plenty of corporate hands in science, doing what they can to fund research they want and making it more difficult for potentially damning results to come out.

Fun wild experiments won’t go away, they’ll still get funded, but only at the mercy of the corporation that bankrolls their study.

Oh 100%. This is why I had respect for the party for not running anyone for president.

I see a lot of folks being critical of the movement due to controversial associations (the Bushes etc.), and while I don’t personally like what these people have done, I recognize passing RCV will mean making strange bedfellows. It’s kinda like when you see AOC and Ted Cruz working together on banning lawmakers from becoming lobbyists.

My comment or the political party?

Andrew Yang is a billionaire which does suck, but if a billionaire is able to help us get RCV I’ll take it, but that’s just my 2 cents.

As for me I’d love if my comments were being funded by dark astroturfing money. I got credit card debt that I need to pay. Sadly I still need to go to work.

Edit:

Andrew Yang isn’t the one guy funding the party- just like any party they are pulling from many sources, I just assumed the comment was trying to get at the fact a billionaire is setting this up. I had a knee jerk reaction to that because I see purity tests as an unproductive way to judge a movement. There should be boundaries sure, but there should also be a degree of pragmatism in how to get things done.

So I think a lot of folks don’t know the context this comic was written in and how misleading the message is.

This is an attack comic on a recently created 3rd party, the Forward party, created by Andrew Yang. There are several pillars to this party’s mission, such as UBI and Campaign finance reform, but the core of the party is the ranked choice vote.

If you aren’t familiar with ranked choice vote, Here is a great video explanation , but essentially it gives voters the ability to vote for multiple candidates and removing the entire “voting 3rd party is throwing your vote away” situation. If the forward party is successful to getting this passed in every part of our government, it would fully upend the two party system.

This comic is pointing at Andrew Yangs slogan in his 2020 run for president as well as for the forward party- “not left, not right, forward”. What he is trying to do is tap into the discontent found in a majority of Americans. Most voters would like to see choices beyond Dems and the GOP and these voters are all across the political spectrum.

Someone like my father, a former Republican who is disillusioned with the party but is still heavily free market, and myself who believes more in regulation and strong institutions both agree on the issue of RCV because we are in the same boat of feeling like we aren’t actually represented in our government.

I’d say this comic is a perfect example of “if you ignore the details of a philosophy and redefine it’s rhetoric, you can make it stand for anything you want”.

TL;Dr this comic is trying to convince you that the Forward party is the exact opposite of what it really is by ignoring any nuance.

Edit: Here is a video explaining the positions of the forward party. Keep a critical eye while watching it as I’m not trying to sell you on the party, but at least for you to be aware of it’s existence.