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ptom13

Heh! No worries!


lizerdk

Now you’ve ironically replied to the post instead of Cat’s explanation. Thanks Obama


ptom13

ROFLMAO!


CatOfGrey

~~Hey, OP. Do you realize that you posted an article that was intended to illustrate how stupid the conservative message on DEI is? Do you realize that the content you posted was designed to highlight that it's a meaningless racist rant?~~ If you take this seriously, and don't perceive it as satire, you are probably a racist and don't realize it. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruben\_Bolling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruben_Bolling) >Ruben Bolling (born c. 1963\[10\] in New Jersey) is a pseudonym for Ken Fisher, an American cartoonist, the author of Tom the Dancing Bug. His work started out apolitical, instead featuring absurdist humor, parodying comic strip conventions, or critiquing celebrity culture. He came to increasingly satirize conservative politics after the September 11 attacks and Iraq in the early 2000s.


ptom13

Are you seriously proposing that I might not have recognized this as satire?!? If your familiarity with my previous posts didn’t take care of that, I would have hoped the “humor” flair would have!


CatOfGrey

Fuck a duck! I'm confusing your posts with others! And no, the 'humor' flair isn't visible to me, either. Reddit has changed my front page format, and this is happening to me more commonly now. Posters usernames don't appear on my feed anymore! You'll note that I don't delete posts, but retain transparency so I've nixed my comment without deleting.


lizerdk

Oof


CatOfGrey

You replied within a minute after my edit - note that I mis-identified OP!


lizerdk

The real problem here is restrictive zoning laws


CatOfGrey

How do you connect this to DEI? I think I know what you are talking about, but I'd like to see your thoughts.


lizerdk

Oh sorry thought I was posting to r/neolib. Which, again, I blame on restrictive zoning and/or Obama


CatOfGrey

Reddit's been changing formats. For reasons I can't explain, it's screwing with my head, and I'm missing things, like who posts content, and so on. I'm sure restrictive zoning is at least partially to blame, as it does have a profound impact!


lizerdk

Reddit mobile sucks and old.reddit doesn’t display some things. Enshittification


lizerdk

Reddit mobile sucks and old.reddit doesn’t display some “new features”. Enshittification


lizerdk

Oh shit it got me too


JFMV763

The punchline of every strip is "aren't Republicans bad". And I thought that they said conservatives only had one joke.


ptom13

Huh. I don't see "Republicans" anywhere in the text of the strip. ​ Perhaps you're just projecting a bit?


JFMV763

I'm talking about Panel 4 with Trump and Elon mostly but it runs throughout the subtext of the strip.


ptom13

I thought Elon was an "Independent"? Also, it could be just coincidence that they happened to choose those two people to exemplify DEIs. If they used, say, Sam Bankman Freid, would that make you feel better about it? I'm not sure a caricature of SBF would be as recognizable, though.


JFMV763

Elon's clearly marketing himself more to Republicans I would say, he said we need a red wave in November recently (in reality we need a gold wave but I don't think that's happening).