Anyone upset that xkcd is supporting Harris is probably also mad that RATM got political
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2024
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Anyone upset that xkcd is supporting Harris probably hasn't been paying attention for the last 19 years. I wonder if this header image is a foreshadowing for XKCD 3000 (!) tomorrow.
Yeah! And for that matter, when did Green Day get political?!
RATM got political
got ?
Weren't they always? ;-)
That's the thing. People genuinely were upset they "got political", completely missing the machine they were raging against...
Yeah, maga nut jobs didn't get what ratm meant with their songs
that's the above comnenters point yeah
Also apparently basic sanity.
No one in their right mind wouldn't want to punish the Republican party - especially to death.
Yeah. It needs to die.
The GOP needs to be taken out to the gravel pit and fed very fast, very hot buckshot until it stops moving.
But because we can't get away with using that weapon to do the job, we'll just have to use these icky Democrats instead. Even though the Democrats don't WANT the Republican party to die, we are using the tools we have to do what must be done.
If the Democrats could be the party of the "far right" AND we could finally get a Progressive super majority, I would be so happy.
for real though, that's exactly what happens if we can finish the republican party and bury it in the dustbin of history where it fucking belongs.
In any first-past-the-post electoral system, it will always settle toward there being two parties - how this came out the LAST two times America purged one of its two parties was that the remaining surviving party split.
So, after the GOP is well and truly DEAD, the Democrat party will massively recruit to fill the power vacuum and then it will begin to polarize. It will polarize into progressive and regressive factions, most likely. And when that happens, we all board the progressive train and systematically purge what remains of the old Democrats TOO.
At some point while this is going on, hopefully we can dismantle FPTP and replace it with proportional representation elected through ranked choice.
Ultimately the castle won't sink into the swamp and we won't have to build on top again.
Honestly we gotta sink these castles faster if we ever want to reach the bedrock of this swamp XD
Yup. It needs to collapse like it has in the past with the wigs.
I'm Canadian and cannot vote in the US election, even though it'll affect us a lot (when a sleeping elephant rolls over...)
However, it drives me nuts looking at US polls. Harris is ahead by 2.4 points on average, which translates to something like 5-6 million in popular vote. But due to the electoral college system, it's still a tossup! 538 is running monte carlo simulations based on state-specific polling and margins of error, and Harris is only winning ~54% of the time. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/
So I say this kindly, as your northern neighbour, please please go vote :D
We will likely have our own election in 2025 complete with buffoonery.
We will likely have our own election in 2025 complete with buffoonery.
With smarmy ephemeral know-it-all career-politician candidate fully prepped in his pressed blue jeans and cool new contacts as his sole attempt to 'reach' us plebes. Maybe if we avoid supporting his science denier counterpart regionally it'll have some damping effect nationally.
Tab.arr.nak.
Maybe one day we will get a platform from them so we know what he actually stands for other than "Trudeau bad". Without a platform we can only rely on soundbites compiled over time. And I really don't think investing in Bitcoin is sound federal fiscal policy...
As a fellow Canadian, I also cannot vote in the US election, but I support this message.
To my American neighbors, please make a plan to vote.
If y'all really care so much why don't you have spy groups infiltrating our media to influence the election? Really shows who thinks we're worth the time 😤
See this is how Mother Russia shows she cares by funding dim tools like Tim Pool to spread their form of kleptocracy.
Because we wouldn't want you to do it to us.
There's this phrase, that I hate, that goes: good fences make good neighbours.
I'd rather just be good neighbours.
because we wouldn't want you to do it to us
slides the entire Pentagon under a rug
Any source for this? It wasn't today's comic.
The image is hosted on xkcd.com, but I expect there's some article with it?
It's the banner image.
Perfect. Thank you!
Thanks. I missed it since I'm still using uni.xkcd.com.
Wow, I didn't know that existed, that's really fun
I was added on some april fool's day years ago. It accepts a whole bunch of commands. Obvious ones like "prev", "next" and "random" to go through the comics, and more obscure ones like "sudo make me a sandwich".
I looked at today’s comic, and it’s at the top of the page!