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Don’t ask him what humans he helped between 1939 and 1945
You can tell he’s a baddie because of his red eyes, ugly face, and angry expression
The skull pins are a solid indicator too.
I knew it!
I thought this was the Kromaggs from Sliders at first, but the camera angle reminds me of something from Buffy. What am I looking at?
Joe mama
I read this over and over. Never got close to making sense
I read it as a critique of human tribalism. As if aliens came and helped those they encountered, their enemies would see it as an offence to them.
Good old tribalism gene, always bringing us the W
Not everyone has it. Hopefully it’ll breed out
Sounds like you view the people with the tribalism gene as “them” and those who don’t carry that gene as “us”. Perhaps you are more tribalist than you think…
I’m being a bit cheeky but I honestly do think humanity would be better off if we acknowledged that certain character flaws are fundamental to human nature, rather than pretending that there are “good” people and “bad” people.
It’s the paradox of tolerance sadly. If they insist on being tribal then they’re insisting of being removed from the whole. And I care about the whole.
Are you sure about that? I think those that “do not have it” have just reframed all of humanity to be their “tribe”, i.e. they still have it, just not “using” it
That would imply that they’d be willing to be against aliens or other non human sentient species. I disagree with that assumption.
Though maybe we’ve just defined our tribe as literally every living thing? But that doesn’t seem right to me.
What I mean is, how do you know that the tribalism gene is gone? I’m pretty sure that if the people that “have no tribalism gene” grew up in an environment where tribalism was normal, they would have developed the traits just like everyone else.
It’s very arrogant to assume someone who is not acting in a tribalistic way has in some way a different biological make-up, as if they were some kind of more advanced lifeform. It’s very likely pretty much the same genetic code, just expressed differently through environmental factors.
Where tribalism is normal? That’s literally everywhere. Do you have a favorite sports team? I don’t. Do you have a religion that you think is right? Not me.
I’m a member of groups, of course, but I feel no urge that these groups are somehow better or more than others.
Now, is it genetic or learned? Who knows. I was just replying to the guy who said it was a gene. I guarantee no research shows that’s a thing.
If aliens showed up and beamed a bunch of food and diapers into the hood. There is a large portion of humanity that would get mad at the aliens for helping black people, instead of being happy that aliens helped anyone at all
What’s the context? What is this character from?
AFAIK, Port Sherry’s comics are usually not part of larger series.
Fortnite
Geez which humans did he help??
Games as a Live Service Devs
Probably all of them?
Maybe the KKK lol
Would have been funnier if the guys shooting him had a diverse cast like the US Army, The Taliban, and some Chinese Assassin, instead of some generic dessert dudes with guns.
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Bleak
Can comics just be funny? Why does everyone have to try and make some deep political point?
Have you ever considered that people who do their best to look away from bad things happening are, in fact, enabling those events in the first place?
Try being more involved in the world around you. Who knows, you might make it a better place.
Can comments just be funny? Why does everyone have to try and make some deep point?
Really though why should a broad medium like comics need to be limited in tone and theme? Just because you like unserious comics? Serious comics don’t stop those from existing.
They can be both. Why should all comics be funny?
“comics”
The Divine Comedy
Words come to mean different things at different times. Ever read a “comic book”? Not all (or most) are funny. Cartoons in newspapers have historically been all over the place in mood but been referred to broadly as comics or funnies. The name implies a format, not a mood.
Because this is Lemmy
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Least self centered American over here, thinking the whole world is about their “shitface #1 vs shitface #2” pseudodemocracy
Exactly the same!!! BoTh SiDeS!
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I have no idea what you’re trying to say or why anyone writes “most past-participle-ed noun”. It’s not even a sentence.
The Internet is such a weird place. Is the goal to see who can be the most cryptic while also at the same time knowing that someone will understand?
If you really don’t get the “least/most adjective category” meme, I will explain - and therefore ruin - the joke:
Let’s imagine a category of people, an eminent trait of said category, and an element exhibiting it. For example the Italians are known to be fanatical about food orthodoxy, and you spot online an Italian guy raging about the wrong shape of pasta being used for carbonara.
You comment: [this guy here is the] “least fanatic Italian”, implying that as fanatical as this guy is, the others are worse.
What have you achieved? With only three words you have insulted his category (Italians are a bunch of fanatics) and the guy himself, by reducing him to a stereotype. Two offenses in three words, an excellent ratio. Just to be clear though, most of the time these are not used to mean the insult in a really insulting manner - it’s more of a banter.
It’s a pretty common way to insult people online, I’m surprised you haven’t encountered it much. Hope I helped.
Thanks for explaining! I’ve seen it many many times, but never quite understood the nuances you just wrote out. I always thought it was something sarcastic that I didn’t get.
Literally no idea what you are getting at.
Ok yeah just repeat what I said … Fucking weirdos
