[News] Post a D&D Picture

Previous incarnations of Cleveland/P&C/D&D have had an image thread, to handle political cartoons and other image-based stuff that doesn't belong in the general post-a-picture threads.

If any of them spawn an extended discussion, please spawn it off into its own thread. Replies to non-picture replies should take the form of a link pointing to a post on a different discussion thread.

And I shouldn't have to say it, but the images still need to abide by the rules.

BadKen wrote:

Piss off, disruptive meme.

I think the same could be said by trumpists about almost every image I post. It is a fun thread about things we find humorous.

And now back to humor....or irony

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Wow!
Costco?!
Wow!

It is fake.

I was leaning that way... Thanks for confirming

I keep reading "I can't eat applause" as "I can't eat applesauce" for some reason and my brain says "YES YOU CAN."

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Quintin_Stone wrote:

I keep reading "I can't eat applause" as "I can't eat applesauce" for some reason and my brain says "YES YOU CAN."

I didn't realize that it didn't say applesauce until your post. I was confused.

iaintgotnopants wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

I keep reading "I can't eat applause" as "I can't eat applesauce" for some reason and my brain says "YES YOU CAN."

I didn't realize that it didn't say applesauce until your post. I was confused.

Same!

Tanglebones wrote:

LOL. https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/wa...

IDGAF about national polls. Show me the states that matter.

Mixolyde wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:

LOL. https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/wa...

IDGAF about national polls. Show me the states that matter.

Case in point

Donald Trump Leads Joe Biden By Two Points Across Six Battleground States

The latest survey by Change Research and CNBC revealed that 47 percent of likely voters in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin would back the commander-in-chief if an election were held the same day. By comparison, 45 percent told pollsters they would opt for former Vice President Biden.
gewy wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:

LOL. https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/wa...

IDGAF about national polls. Show me the states that matter.

Case in point

Donald Trump Leads Joe Biden By Two Points Across Six Battleground States

The latest survey by Change Research and CNBC revealed that 47 percent of likely voters in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin would back the commander-in-chief if an election were held the same day. By comparison, 45 percent told pollsters they would opt for former Vice President Biden.

Coooooooollllllll

Why are people so f*cking evil? Jesus what is wrong with so many people? I am pretty much to the point that I don’t want my kid to grow up in this country and this culture that has come about in the last twenty years.

gewy wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:

LOL. https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/wa...

IDGAF about national polls. Show me the states that matter.

Case in point

Donald Trump Leads Joe Biden By Two Points Across Six Battleground States

The latest survey by Change Research and CNBC revealed that 47 percent of likely voters in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin would back the commander-in-chief if an election were held the same day. By comparison, 45 percent told pollsters they would opt for former Vice President Biden.

Likely voters aren't the same registered voters and asking them who they'd maybe vote for right now is pointless when there's six months of hundreds or thousands of Americans a day dying thanks to Trump's bungled pandemic response and an economic downturn that's going to rival the Great Depression that has barely begun to play out.

Polls this far out are largely meaningless.

Yeah I will see what the polls say in mid to late November. Until then I'll take each with a grain of racism.

Polls in late November should be able to predict the election outcome with 100% certainty.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Polls in late November should be able to predict the election outcome with 100% certainty.

That's the joke

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I laughed, then I got all sad about what all that's funny about that picture represents

This community is often in my thoughts at the moment, I sincerely hope each and everyone one of you in the US finds a way through this or finds a way out before things go superbad over there...

LeapingGnome wrote:

Why are people so f*cking evil? Jesus what is wrong with so many people? I am pretty much to the point that I don’t want my kid to grow up in this country and this culture that has come about in the last twenty years.

I am dead serious when I say this: if I knew in my 20's how far we would fall in my 40's, I'd have done everything in my power to emigrate, and to hell with my family. Dad's a conspiracy theory nutjob, Mom and both sisters are evangelical Trump/GOP voters, and one of those sisters is an anti-vaxxer to boot. I'm not going to flat out disown them, but there's no reason for me to have bothered to stay in the US out of some misplaced sense of familial duty.

farley3k wrote:
BadKen wrote:

Piss off, disruptive meme.

I think the same could be said by trumpists about almost every image I post. It is a fun thread about things we find humorous.

Your "both sides" claim is disingenuous. The call to inaction that you shared are talking about is not a "fun" image. It is the kind of image that, as I suggested, is promulgated by foreign propaganda operations in an attempt to influence the election, which is only months away, and to foment negative public discourse. But please, please don't take it down now, because it provides an important example.

Lest anyone start thinking I sound like I'm wearing a tin foil hat, I'm in good company with a lot of other tin-foil hat wearers. Like, for example, the US intelligence community, cybersecurity researchers, nonpartisan think tanks, and independent academics studying the phenomenon. They all agree that foreign anti-democracy influence in social media is as strong as it has ever been, if not stronger than it was leading up to the 2016 election.

Forwarding images like that isn't just a laugh. It is doing the work of the enemies of the USA. Not the current, ineffectual USA that those enemies helped put in place, but the USA that fought their influence in the world for decades. Don't think I'm absolving the USA itself from the current situation. The enemies of the country have had the gleeful assistance of popular political movements comprised entirely of American citizens.

Even if it is just for a laugh, do you really want to help do those peoples' work for them?

Now more than ever is a time to be hyper vigilant about things we share and the potential impact those things may have. The stakes have never been higher. The organizations who are trying to disrupt our political system are very good at what they do. They have had a lot of practice, have enjoyed years of success, and their methods are subtle and devastatingly effective at moving public opinion, creating controversy, and instigating social disorder.

Lay off of farley3k, the foreign agent was me (well, literally, since I'm latvian. I feel invested because when you guys c*ck up it actually directly influences geopolitics in my region and boy have you cocked up lately)
You can read meme any way you want but the intention was not to call for inaction. Fatalism a bit, I guess, but you can be a good trooper and vote for hopeless causes anyway.
I see the politics in US as class-conflict where there are two classes - voters and then the GOP/Dems. From the outside it's like watching zombies voting for who will hold the shotgun that blasts chunks off of them.
Just imagine - you have a sitting duck president that by any means is terrible and even his supporters have conflicted emotions about them on a mainstream level. And yet the best you can muster is a bland candidate who's promise is that things will not get worse.
Bidens presence at the moment in the infospace is nonexistant and he is by all means already decided versus candidate to the orange shroom sitting in the White House.
But please do go on and maintain your feel-good-vibe. It's good for psyche after all.

He's right, most. Spreading despair and dislike among Democrats is precisely and exactly the Russian playbook to keep Trump in power.

Your entire post couldn't serve their ends better.... "both sides are the same, you're being eaten by your government no matter you do, everything is futile."

Most, check out what I wrote at the bottom of the previous page in response to tuffalo if you think I'm trying to promote some kind of feel-good happy horsesh*t. From my perspective, Biden is the worst candidate to be running - well, except for maybe the froofy Green woman who was talking about crystal power and astrology or some sh*t, she was koo-koo.

Biden is not a great candidate, but he is what we have to work with, because of the way our two party system, craptastic first-past-the-post (mostly) primary system, and national conventions work. The most important thing in this election is to gain back some modicum of control over the electoral process. And the way to do that is to get people to vote. Not just for president, because Biden is very likely to be a crappy, or at best mediocre, president. But there are races up and down the ticket that will have much more impact on everyone's day to day lives, local and state races, and it is crucial that people get out and vote in those races.

When there is a reasonable voter turnout (which hasn't happened since Obama's first election, and before that, I can't even remember when), voters make reasonable choices. The way to break the country is to stop people from voting, like what happened in 2016. In that election, anti-democracy (democracy, not Democratic party) forces only had to stop people from voting in a handful of states to turn the election. The majority of the country voted for sane people, but the majority of the country doesn't matter.

The defeatist message of that meme is not the least bit funny. If enough people take it to heart, we in the US, and as you point out, in large parts of the world, are well and truly f*cked (as if we aren't f*cked enough already). It should be crystal clear by now that with Trump as US President, things can always get worse. There is no depth to which he and his supporters will not sink. There is no line he will not cross. There is no corrupt, inhumane, self-serving, evil policy that is too outrageous. Anyone who thinks things are bad as bad can be now has no idea just how bad things can and will get with four more years of a Trump presidency.

So as unfortunate as Joe Biden is, and he is pretty unfortunate, he is a freaking heroic beacon of truth, justice and the American Way compared to Donald Trump. Other candidates may have been better, but that doesn't matter any more. It's Biden or Trump now.

I was mistaken to say that Farley posted that image, but I was not mistaken to explain why it's a bad idea for him to say it's not a big deal. It's a big deal. It's a very big deal.

Badken isn't always right, but when he is right he is really right. Right now he is really right, right on.

Well, sure, Im not even sure we're really at cross purposes here. Its clear that if you want an improvement within the existing system, that senile sunglasses guy is the only option.
But for the life of me I can not understand why you are not razing that two parties bs to the ground. Objectively, it is much more important than say gay rights, abortion rights, sex equality etc. Because having multiple parties would give enormous power boost to each of those ideas instead of needing to convert more than half of population for each of those concepts.
So it really should be priority number one not some distant vague idea.

"both sides are the same, you're being eaten by your government no matter you do, everything is futile." Is both effective tool for foreign disruptors while also *being absolutely true* and not seeing that actually speaks of huge blindness of priviledge. Which is fine and understandable, this forum is one of many social bubbles with median affinity above average, its not a condemnation, its a fact. But do also try to remember occasionally that in your country there are quite a lot of people for whom Biden and Trump are equally bad, especially of they dont care about the lofty human ideals stuff but only for the survival of their families. They are also most likely politically illiterate because what would exactly be the point of spending energy on that stuff?
You react to Trump so nervously because him being in power impacts you suddenly in ways you could not have predicted. But for a poor schmuck being tyranized by his landlord and debt collectors knocking on the door and new health bills piling in the drawers...both Trump and Biden are *exactly the same* objectively. They might want to care about immigrant kids in cages but they are overworked and really being worried about their own kids being unfed. How many of us in this forum can claim such experience? My guess is - less than one in hundred.

Again..the f*k should i care about foreign country but the sad truth is that US influence projects itself across the globe and when you have finally selfcannibalized your systems to the point that scum like Trump can run amok your corridors of power, it starts to actually impact everyone else all around the globe.
And if Biden manages narrowly to beat Trump, he will do frickin nothing to stop another clown show coming to power four years later.
So excuse me for feeling bewildered, confused, amazed and friggin scared of America.

SallyNasty wrote:

Badken isn't always right, but when he is right he is really right. Right now he is really right, right on.

BadKen wrote:

he is a freaking heroic beacon of truth, justice and the American Way compared to Donald Trump.

Gonna say nope, not right. Not right on.

He is a disaster of a human being of lesser proportions in comparison to Donald Trump.

Beacon of the American Way? Yeah, pretty much, unfortunately.

Beacon of truth and justice? F*ck no.

I get the complaints about the "messaging" around saying Biden is going to lose this far out. But let's not get too enthusiastic about sucking his dick.

As I said in another thread, the difference between Biden and Trump in the "grab 'em by the p*ssy" department is that one of them said it out loud.

EDIT: Also, LOL at the language filter on these boards. "P*ssy" is auto-censored but "dick" is not. Even GWJ's profanity filter endorses the unwanted penis.

It's not about what's true or untrue to say about Biden. It's about influencing low information voters to vote in a manner that doesn't screw us over. Or at least screws us over less. By all means gripe about it backstage,* but be mindful of that when y'all speak and post to a broad audience.

*Whether or not this forum is "backstage" or a general audience is left as an exercise for the reader.

NSMike wrote:

EDIT: Also, LOL at the language filter on these boards. "P*ssy" is auto-censored but "dick" is not. Even GWJ's profanity filter endorses the unwanted penis.

If you're can write filtering software capable of distinguishing "a common nickname for Richard" from "a rude term for male genitalia" then I'm sure the powers that be would love to have your assistance.

If you're can write filtering software capable of distinguishing "a common nickname for Richard" from "a rude term for male genitalia" then I'm sure the powers that be would love to have your assistance.

Arbitrary distinction. There are just as many legitimate uses - perhaps more - for p*ssy as there are for dick.

Vargen wrote:

It's not about what's true or untrue to say about Biden. It's about influencing low information voters to vote in a manner that doesn't screw us over. Or at least screws us over less. By all means gripe about it backstage,* but be mindful of that when y'all speak and post to a broad audience.

*Whether or not this forum is "backstage" or a general audience is left as an exercise for the reader.

Also this... This is nonsense.

I remember nearly four years ago when people were wondering just what the heck we ( "we" being left-leaning voters) were supposed to do to win an election, and I cynically posted something along the lines of "lie through our teeth, apparently," because that's how they did it.

I also remember the response was not unfriendly, but generally admonishing of compromising values to just win.

Amazing what four years & an orange goblin in office can do to you.