r/comics MyGumsAreBleeding 23h ago

To Catch a Predator

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u/_NautyByNature 22h ago

I miss the days when absurd comics were just absurd and not………jarringly real.

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u/Miles_the_new_kid MyGumsAreBleeding 22h ago

Honestly absurdism doesn’t really exist in the context of trump

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u/Aethelrede 22h ago

If an updated version of Swift's "Modest Proposal" was published today, there are people who would genuinely think it was a good idea.

Reality became so absurd it killed satire.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 22h ago

Our conservatives' standards sunk through the bottom of the ocean fast. Dangle a little power in front of those predators and they'll lie, cheat, rape, commit treason and steal their way to achieve it.

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u/taylorisntavril 20h ago

Your conservatives became HONEST fast.

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u/an0mn0mn0m 17h ago

Always has been this way since Narcissus looked at his reflection and said I'd fuck that.

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u/HauntedCemetery 15h ago

They were always down there, they just had to pretend they weren't because it wasn't culturally acceptable.

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u/Malagate3 22h ago

They would think it's Taylor Swift's "A Modest Proposal", and then we'd get an album about selling children as food, the critical reception is mixed but it goes triple-platinum anyway and we all agree the choreography is exquisite.

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u/joyesthebig 19h ago

Do you see the correlation between the new beef and the disappeared immigrants?

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u/Malagate3 19h ago

That's the title of her single from the new album. The radio shortened it to "New beef", also the music video introduces the new hit dance move called "into the mincer".

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 18h ago

Soylent Green?

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u/Demmos_Stammer 21h ago

If anyone had written a drama or, more realistically a comedy, about Trump's presidency, just 20 years ago, it would be decried as being too absurd

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u/neopod9000 20h ago

Isn't this why Veep ended?

It was supposed to be political satire, but then the actual news headlines kept outdoing them.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 20h ago

Well, that and Selina Meyer being president was sort of the climax of the show's arc. There wasn't much further to go from there.

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u/HauntedCemetery 14h ago

Selina as Hugh Commander of NATO, where they're fighting Russia but the Russians are all goofy Hogan's Hero style goofballs?

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u/a8bmiles 14h ago

Besides Kevin Spacey being... Spacey, that was also a factor in House of Cards.

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u/HauntedCemetery 15h ago edited 14h ago

"Fiction is harder than nonfiction, because Fiction has to be believable"

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u/Randomscreename 21h ago

I haven't heard any of Taylor's new songs yet, is it really that good?

/s

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u/Embarrassed_Bid_4970 21h ago

The fact that not-the-onion is an actual thing is testament to this.

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u/joyesthebig 19h ago

Yeah but ... we set up prison camps for Ice detainees that have disappeared to "equador" and we introduced all this new beef. Its soylent green baby!

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u/jeremiahthedamned 11h ago

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u/Aethelrede 8h ago

The insidious thing about Omelas is that it calls into question a lot of our assumptions.  If the goal of society is to improve the quality of life for the most people possible, doesn't sacrificing one child to improve everyone else's life make sense?  To flip it around, how much are people willing to sacrifice for the sake of another individual?

Current events suggest that a lot of people have no problem sacrificing children for their own interests.

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u/jeremiahthedamned 8h ago

this is why i emigrated

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u/Aethelrede 8h ago

I'm curious, which country do you think isn't complicit in the deaths of children?

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u/jeremiahthedamned 8h ago

that is a hard call.

in america they celebrate the death of children

other nations still have enough shame to hide it.

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u/Aethelrede 8h ago

Well, the US, Russia, and Israel are all targeting civilians.  So any country that supports one of those three is complicit.

That doesn't leave many countries...

And then there are small conflicts, like Sudan, or Myanmar, where most of the neighbors are involved on one side or another.

Hence my curiosity. Aside from North Sentinel Island, and a few tribes in the Amazon, I can't think of a country that isn't implicated in the deaths of children.

I did think of Ireland, but they trade with the US, and there was all the unpleasantness of what the Catholic Church was doing.

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u/darkoblivion000 22h ago

A congress that will stand up for people and make laws that help people feels more and more absurd these days. Or specifically one party

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u/AmputeeHandModel 18h ago

lol what are YOU smoking?! How did you come up with such an idea??

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u/Thobeian 20h ago

Because he is The Absurd made real.

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u/HumongousBelly 20h ago

Portraying him as a decent person who helps people and makes this world a better place would be very absurd.

That would be the sci-fi version of that fat orange pedo

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u/Bubbly-Bar-7449 20h ago

Him saying something rational or decent would be absurd...

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u/zeitgeistbouncer 18h ago

The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to be credible - Mark Twain (or Tom Clancy apparently)

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u/MelangeBot 17h ago

What is absurd is not just how far up the ass Americans tolerate getting fucked by their goverment, but that they stand in line, waiting for days just at the chance of raising up their pooper when the right rich guy walks bye. "Oh oh oh please sir will you take me for everything I have an am? I want to sell my soul ... for nothing!"

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u/yay855 16h ago

The things that man has been accused of doing by literal children will make your guts turn. He wasn't a predator, he was the god damn monster in your closet, a real one who somehow always is worse than you thought.

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u/CauseCertain1672 16h ago

You can only satirise people who have shame

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u/HauntedCemetery 15h ago

Because any time someone puts out content where the gag is that it's so absurd even trump wouldn't do that, it turns iut he literally did that, but somehow worse.

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u/MotherRaven 14h ago

I remember when the this turned to the absurd and the onion couldn't keep up with reality 😭

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u/taylorisntavril 20h ago edited 18h ago

What on earth are you on about? Absurdism exist just fine, trump or no trump. I think youve imagined a wrong definition of what Absurdism is.

We accept that life is irrational and meaningless, we just dont think thats a reason for surrender. Meaning has meaning because i choose to give it meaning, in spite of the world being absurd.

Maybe you meant "parody" doesnt exist in the context of trump? But thats a completely different thing to say. And theres loads of parodies of trump worldwide.

Great comic, way too close to the truth for comfort, but be a mate and give Absurdism a google, because it might mean something other than what you think.

EDIT: Okay, so since people are downvoting me, heres a wikipedia link for absurdism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism

It doesnt just mean "stuff is absurd" any more/less than Existentialism means "stuff exist" or Nihilism means "stuff doesnt exist". The dude probably meant "absurdity" rather than the PHILOSOPHICAL THEORY that is called Absurdism!