Xitter Tanks

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• QuazarOmega@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is it just me getting unreasonably irritated when the artist captions the things they’re depicting, as if we’re either too dumb to understand or they suck at making subtle references?

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  • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a political comics thing that I believe originally started in England like 250 years ago. The comic is meant simultaneously to be funny and legitimate political propaganda. To ensure that the political propaganda message is not lost on the masses they label everything to make sure their message most clearly gets across.

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    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s actually cool to know, though I dislike the practice, they kinda look like previous century memes lol

      For example, see this political cartoon from 1903.

      That was lost on me either way, but I guess it’s just my lack of knowledge on US’s history 👀

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  • DharkStare@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    These sorts of comics have been captioned like this for decades. I’m not sure if they were ever not captioned.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If anything I think they were even more obvious back then… The Troll would have had “Troll” written on their laptop and so on…

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    • Papergeist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Decades indeed. Thomas Nast made his first cartoon in like 1860 or something.

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    • GreenMario@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve seen some done in the 1800s. Captioned.

      At this point it’s a staple of the genre.

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  • vimdiesel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s just the way political comics goes. It’s expected and common. It’s not a web comic, bruh; there’s a tradition to maintain.

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    • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not all political comics are like that though, the best ones don’t need the labelling.

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    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, I guess so, wasn’t expeting a whole culture around these

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  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This reminds me of a Ben Garrison cartoon. Way too heavy handed.

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  • Sarcastik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s just you

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  • FormerlyChucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ben Garrison does the same thing. It’s pretty common

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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, his audience seems to pretty obviously need things spelled out for them. In very, very short words.

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    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Damn, now that’s one that goes overboard!

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• Nacktmull@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The seat is way too small for that bowl and I find that mildly infuriating

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Makes sense to me … a seat small enough for a little asshole and a bowl big enough for someone who produces a lot of shit

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  • JesusTheCarpenter@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s because they had to put the Elon’s Twitter sign. Which is why I am not big fan of this kind of old school satire. It’s a little on the nose Everything has to have signs, subtitles and arrows so even the dumbest people can understand them. While I understand the need for that, it makes the jokes fall flat for me.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve actually seen that kinda shit IRL in public restrooms pretty frequently.

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    • Nacktmull@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      NOOOOOOO

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  • XEAL@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    hold up

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• r00ty@kbin.life ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ah yes, they're standing in x-crement.

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  • wheresmypillow@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Xitter… pronounced like shitter.

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• TheKarion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Where’s the Ben Garrison watermark

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  • kitonthenet@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not enough labels

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    • db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also it would have to get everything wrong with complete confidence.

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    • TheKarion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ahh yea that explains it

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    • flucksy_bango@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, who’s the man and the toilet and the child holding the sign?

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• Blackout@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  they forgot the saudi king sitting on a throne of dead migrant bodies

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• SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This post is difamation against goblins.

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  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think that’s a troll…

    but agreed.

    Also where’s the crowd of khaki-wearing nazis?

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  • ekZepp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    yes.

    Image

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• WorldieBoi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Truly a shitpost.

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  • vimdiesel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah this is just accurately stating the actual status of X as a metaphor, I like it.

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• DarkDecay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lol i recently heard someone refer to tweets as xcrements now. Fits perfectly with this

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• FiskFisk33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  𝕩itter

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• PointThink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ah yes my (least) favorite! Political comics!

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• Prager_U@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  BRRRR skibidi bop bop bop yes yes

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• Fernando-678@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Xitter, Jesus, you guys are amazing.

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  • vimdiesel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Shitter would have worked too

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    • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s why you pronounce the X the Chinese way!

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• Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Errrrhmmmm, it’s X, actually

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  • vimdiesel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But Xitter will make Elon fanboys mad, so it’s worth the misspelling.

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• pelley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Who’s the guy on the right supposed to be?

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  • letsgocrazy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    De Santis

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  • pelley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Of course!

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  4chan edgelord convinced that his shit don’t stink made this possible.

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• Fernando-678@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Xitter, Jesus, you guys are amazing.

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