• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    3 days ago

    Political cartoons would be so much better if they did that instead of looking visually cluttered with all the forced metaphors being drawn into the scene. I swear, some of those things are like puzzles. You miss one or two small pieces of context and suddenly the whole cartoon makes 0 sense.

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      2 days ago

      I hear you, but I do like it when the artists at least makes some effort at satire. The above comic reads more like a motivational poster than something making a point.

      I keep looking at the last panel expecting the shoe to drop, but am left deeply unsatisfied, even though it’s a message I agree with

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      2 days ago

      The JFK conspiracy community apparently was fixating on this guy visible in the background of some of the film. On a bright sunny day in Houston Texas, he’s wearing a formal suit and carrying an umbrella.

      Apparently he was doing so as a protest against JFK because something something a character with an umbrella was a common symbol in political cartoons at the time?