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The Mind of a Political Cartoonist - CatTrigger (lemmy.ml)

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The Mind of a Political Cartoonist

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[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 115 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I live near a weigh station that border patrol, ice, and highway patrol all use. They were always parked together, but you'd never see them pull someone over together.

Now, every time I see a brown dude getting pulled over, I see ALL of them together. Not to mention, they did a raid on my neighbors, so those people are fucking GONE.

It's the 15 near temecula/ fallbrook. If you're brown or undocumented, be careful driving around there.

Sorry for the google link, it's here:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/i3CHjqCup4JmNsEM9

Check your lights, follow the speed limit, and carry your passport if you have one. I'm not joking. This is a warning to all California residents driving in that area.

[–] severalkittens@ani.social 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh hey we're neighbors!

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Howdy, neighbor!

Edit: I just looked through your user posts, lmao. Howdy, neighbor!

[–] severalkittens@ani.social 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'm uhhhh helping provide content!

[–] railway692@piefed.zip 7 points 5 months ago

Lmao. I got curious and looked through your user posts, too.

Howdy, internet neighbor!

[–] SoloCritical@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Lmfao. Yes you are. /salute

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 2 points 5 months ago

You do indeed. Nice posts

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

I live in Ohio, and I'm white, but I still appriciate you doing this. If you're ever in Cleveland, I'll buy ya a beer.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I fucking keep hoping better of CHP but of course not.

[–] EvilFonzy@lemmy.world 89 points 5 months ago

'Fuck them kids' is probably the plan. That global elite pedo ring is definitely recruiting at Guantanamo.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 85 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Yeah it's not funny anymore. The time for jokes is really long gone

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Bush era was great for jokes. He was awful, and fuck him, but this shit is dystopian.

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

That was the Bush era as an American (mostly just the white men, I would imagine), perhaps, but in some other places around the world probably felt pretty dystopian because of the Bush administration. Beyond the usual complaints, there was the Global Gag rule (don't say abortion or even think about saying it!) and the stop-loss policy (sure, let's extend your military service requirement to 100 years!). Those things, among many others probably felt pretty dystopian during the Bush era.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It was pretty fuckin' dystopian as an American in opposition to invading Iraq. The only way I feel that could've been otherwise is through some combination of support, ignorance, and/or being a child/unborn.

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was young, white, and male with a good support system. So, my life was close to best case scenario. I was too young to vote in 2000, but I voted against him in 2004. I was naive to the importance of elections outside of the general election. I'm not sure why my parents didn't educate us more on that. My kids are more than a decade from voting and we are already discussing how we look up information to inform our votes. We vote in every election and we get the kids excited about it (they love the voted stickers!).

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah I guess I should clarify for posterity the 'ignorant' part isn't meant to be damning, just, well, true for much of the American electorate. Then and now. I knew I was already a weirdo for even caring about politics at all in my youth and accept it now. Political apathy is the default state so there's just no grudge to hold or ax to grind about it.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 months ago

Bush era was great for jokes

Because the kids were brown and in the middle east instead?

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

I didn't find the "they're eating the dogs" shit even mildly amusing in 2024 because I knew a large amount of people were going to just go vote for the "they're eating the dogs" guy after watching the memes and laughing.

[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 months ago

Me as a Canadian talking to Americans who jokingly say "deport!" , there was never a time for that joke and there surely is not now

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

It's never about the humor, it's about delivering a message

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

It was never fucking funny. Political memes is as bleak as it is fucking stupid.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

The time for jokes is never gone, we just make calls about which ones we feel like making.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago (4 children)

The correct response is to become so angry you grab your representative by the collar and yell in their face until your vocal chords snap and bleed.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mine supports all of this, refuses to meet with constituents, and would have me put up on terrorism charges.

Oh, and he’s definitely getting reelected.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 31 points 5 months ago

I remember going to a town hall with my many time incumbent and saying "I dislike this bill, it's bad for your constituents, here's why, what are you going to do about it". He gave a nothing corpo-political speak answer back at me. He didn't care one bit. He did the town hall because he had to, it's his job. Reelected by a landslide and btw he voted for the thing I was against.

[–] CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or, you know, we could just bring back guillotines. Those worked pretty well.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did they? There's been five "revolutions" since then, and their government is still falling apart. At best it moved the autocracy from one plutocrat to another.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They work for awhile.

But you have to keep pruning the garden until you find a better solution.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Do they work, though? Sure, you don't have a target for anger and hatred for a little while. But if that's your entire focus for motivation, it's just going to fester and rot until another target comes into view. Be it someone deserving or not.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Sadly, I'm represented by a Democrat, so kinda muddling through half-supporting the lighter end of fascism is - I am told - the best they can do. Any effort to lean on the Democrat to move leftward is greeted by local Biden-tier liberals screaming that I'm a Secret Russian Trump Supporter trying to lose the seat in the next election.

[+] Zorque@lemmy.world -9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Yes, having someone yell in your face is totally a way to get you to think of their argument as well thought and worth considering.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Sucks to suck. Listen to your constituency before it gets here. Serve the people not yourself. Otherwise you're putting your own ass on a platter and I dont feel bad for what will happen when the masses you made wretched come for you. Its a tale as old as time.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

It's their job to be yelled at I better fucken hope they'd at least consider it. If not skip to step 2 and bash their brains out using a rock, the slower they die the fucken better.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

You know, I think it works more than you're giving credit. No one likes being yelled at.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I cringe every time they're called the "Trump Administration"...

.... it's an Authoritarian regime. They're fascists!

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I say trump Regime

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I feel this in my fucking bones.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 months ago

They are preparing for war on their own populace, we are drawing cartoons.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 5 months ago

Yeah and I mean the whole murdering thing.