• Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
    33·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
      10·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    332·
    3 months ago

    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.”

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
        9·
        3 months ago

        …wow. If you hadn’t pointed that out, I would have never even noticed that detail. My brain just saw that as a swastica.

  • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
    13·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    10·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
      6·
      3 months ago

      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.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      4·
      3 months ago
      • 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.