Is this even satire? It’s just using the Simpsons to illustrate current events.
Nice touch that Trump has to keep notes of the complicated words.
Good at heart but easily twisted.
Haitians put the Spring in Springfield tbh
I never realized until now why they use the “45” so much. Just move one of the black bars and it’s a fucking swastika… And Haitians are really a stand-in for black people.
The real problem is that we allowed the plutocrats to control both the news and social media and the government. Basically the US doesn’t have a free press any more but a quasi-government controlled oligarch media. As long as these neoliberal policies continue the degradation of institutions and politics continues.
Something drastic would need to happen to purge this incredibly power imbalance from the captured state. A kind of reformation or practically a coup.
Not sure how this is a shitpost.
This is dead on. Tomthedancingbug, awesome again (as almost always).
- Does anybody think this kind of normalization and absolute insanity currently going around in the USA is from psyops?
- Is every civilization destined to fall?
- Has democracy shown that it does not work on such a big scale?
- Is the internet the reason for all the disconnect we are experiencing?
I’m starting to have these thoughts more and more.
- Yep, but not the gov, from right-wing extremist groups funded by billionaires
- Yes
- It does work, but it shows how fragile it is to a few rotten apples
- The internet? No. Circa 2005 it was a wonderful place for nerds to exchange ideas and foster small communities and groups. Social media gameified this, turned quiet discussion into a public stage where the aim is to win an argument by votes, and not to foment ideas through the freeform exchange of discussion. Polarisation was a metric they maximised because it kept engagement high for ad revenue.
America: famously the only democratic nation on earth.
Even the ancient Greeks has visions how democracy collapses in to a fascist Oligarchy when money and politics are intertwined.
It’s a bit sad that we are globally making that happen word for word.
Kind of dark but idk why, the last column with Ned did it for me.
Cause at the end of the day, those people would still exist even in an insane world.
Well, not “kind” of dark, but really dark. I mean, the cartoon couldn’t be more direct in comparing the “haitian Simpsons” to the jews and other racial minorities in Nazi Germany, with the last panel being a page from the life of Anne Frank.
Me seeing the swastika in the preview image:
“Welp…guess I gotta wait for nobody to be around me before I look at THAT!!!”
Me after seeing it:
“Glad I waited until I was alone.”
That’s not even a swastika it’s a 45. It just really feels like it’s a swastika when you see the fanta fascist.
…wow. If you hadn’t pointed that out, I would have never even noticed that detail. My brain just saw that as a swastica.
Ok fine but WHERE IS THEIR CAT?!?
They’re currently between Snowball II and Snowball V.
The centre image is sheer magnificent genius.
Agreed, very well done.
Using 45 as a swastika is well done.
Haven’t watched the simpsons in a while…did they do this?
checks notes
Oh. Well then. This may be a rare case where the simpsons DIDN’T do it. Real life did it first.
That’s almost too real
She’s countering our truth-like lies with fake-sounding truth!
This is gold. I might have to steal it slightly.
Feels like a classic Simpson’s quip, author really nailed their comedy style.
Rueben Bolling’s comics are nearly always just as on-point as this. Well worth following.
