I like how the child in the first panel grows up to be the protester in the second panel, and the child in the second panel grows up to be the protester in the third panel.
And the protester of one panel becomes the reactionary in the next panel. The person with red hair can be seen in every stage throughout the panels.
The protestors also become the parent in the next panel. The child in the first panel is in every panel.
And the child in the third panel is arguably the child form of the first pulling-parent. Excellent design!
That's funny because those are the kind of opinions I developed by going to school.
and that's why you can see that once the person has gone to school they protest (in the next panel)
you then can see in the panel after they protest that they become the parent, telling their child to go to school. presumably because they forgot what they learned at school (or because they think school is the best way for children to learn about these things - which seems a little less likely)
Ah! I didn't even catch that. That's actually brilliant.
Oooh, didn't even notice that... Nice catch!
Yeah, I'm kind of confused by this.
Pacifism is always an unpopular stance, because always, always, always, THIS war is different! THIS war is justified!
The way pacifists are treated right now, when they criticize involvement in the Ukraine war, is pretty similar to how pacifists were treated before the first World War.But also, we shake our heads at the war enthusiasm before WW1, and don't realize our own today. Cause this war is different.
(For the record, I'm not personally against supporting Ukraine. But I also realize not everyone who is against involvement is a Putin-bot)
But we must also look at pacifism as a convenient shield at times. There were “pacifists” in the Second World War who clearly weren’t ideologically opposed to war but were opposed to fighting hitler. I see letting putin continue as utterly chamberlainian.
Ok that's not really fair. Declassified docs have revealed that Chamberlain knew damn well what was going to work and intentionally played down causus belli because he was buying Britain time to rearm, the problem was that time is a resource you buy for both sides, and the axis used theirs a lot better.
Not really comparable. If in 2003 the US did nothing Iraq would still be doing what it was doing and there would have been no war. If Ukraine stops fighting for even a day the country no longer exists.
It isnt special pleading when you can point out major differences between cases.
Kraut IMO made a pretty good argument based on exactly that point that Iraq would have been doing what it had been doing already,
That being that what Iraq was doing was plenty horrible on its own, and that Bush and co could have made an argument for US involvement just on the merits of stopping a genocidal dictator. The question with no answer is if the public would have accepted that argument for going into Iraq at the same time as Afghanistan.
Yup. Support for the Iraqi war was at like 80% in the US when it started.
It's different now. Now Republicans don't want people going to school. School just forces the lib'rul into kids brains.
You know how MLK is famed for nonviolence in his protests?
This is how they treated him in his time
If Biden gets reelected and we do the "each party gets two terms then switch" dance that has been going on now for decades, it will be 2036 before we have a chance of electing a president that will hold Israel accountable for its actions.
Can anyone make similar picture with texts: "No Afgan war", "No Chechnya war", "No Ukraine war" and on every slide police is beating them?
"Educate yourself"
I don't get what you're saying here tbh.
This is Chamberlain in October 1938, returning from Munich to London, waving the Munich Agreement, confident to have appeased Hitler by betraying Czechoslovakia and to have secured eternal peace for Europe. Worked like a charm for 11 month.
Hmm, how about that ceasefire that was ongoing until October 7th? That's not even to mention the number of ways Hamas broke the current ceasefire that Israel let slide.
You realize Gaza has been an open-air prison the whole time right? And you're trying to deny the natives' right to fight back against colonizers and settlers?
Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism, was just a racist colonizer, and saw it as bringing 'civilization' to 'barbarians' as the rest of Europe did when they were colonizing and enslaving Africa and Asia:
"We should there form a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism. We should as a neutral State remain in contact with all Europe, which would have to guarantee our existence." Source [II]
That is exactly what's happening right now. All for European and US military and economic interests in the region; for their ruling class of capitalist corporations at least. Israel is literally a modern western colony committing genocide on natives.
That is exactly what’s happening right now.
you know well enough that your small excerpt of literature from 150 years ago is not manifesting itself today. if that would be a thing, let's make it happen with the Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei.
speaking of open-air prison, what's your verdict on West-Berlin's situation between 1961 and 1989 then? and how did Hamas and others get such an arsenal of weaponry into a prison?
What this cartoon is saying is that we all accuse other people of being ignorant and uneducated when their views clash with our own, or their politics are different. And that's absolutely true, I do it myself all the time, calling people uneducated and morons because they don't agree with my points of view. In that sense, we're all reactionaries and we all could use some more schooling - on how to get along and not be reactionaries all the time.
That's not really true, in the US the GOP/conservatives are scientifically proven to be less educated, less intelligent, and have less empathy to their fellow man.
Not just the US, throughout the world, the more right-wing and populist a party's stance is, the lower the average level of education their supporter base has.
I'm with you all the way on this. The proof is in what people do, not just say. And any body of uneducated dolts who believe in patriarchy and taking away human rights and banning books - that's all the proof I need that GOP/conservatives are fascist bullshit-brained pieces of walking excrement. They are indeed.
