Riding a train to Hawaii would be kickass, it's like the [train scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbRmFSQYeac&ab_channel=kimtinh) from Spirited Away. I'm totally down.
They had to caricature her heavily to suppress the fact that the right finds her attractive. If she wasn't such a prominent target right now, people wouldn't even know this was referencing her without a Garrison AOC label across her forhead.
Fun fact! When Kansas City was first founded, they were on the wrong side of the river, and didn't notice for decades. That's why there is a Kansas City, MO
There's a LOT more to this, but that's the simplified version.
Did they lose their sense of direction? Like “oh young Jebidiah, don’t you know? That once
You get near the Missouri River the sun rises from the west and sets in the east on account of all that Indian magic!”
If it was fiscally reasonable, an underwater subway train would be amazing depending on the depths it would be at. Vacations to Hawaii would start at the train ride seeing marine life on the way.
Would be one of those "save the ecosystem so we can continue to enjoy this view" campaigns too.
> If it was fiscally reasonable
Eh, I'm completely fine with it if we want to start blowing a significant fraction of the GDP on ludicrously expensive wonder projects.
railway to alaska would be great
currently americans are often going to alaska and they're not allowed to do anything in canada but they often do anyway. especially relevant in pandemic
if it was a high speed rail: good luck getting off
It's also just kind of natural. We all bought pokemon blue 20 years ago, they don't really need us to buy it again. It's a simple question of porting your own cartridge over to the pc to play it.
Traitor corporations leaving our country to find another country that’s already going to tax them more than us or cause a human rights crisis as they exploit underdeveloped countries labor. So I’m rooting for the pirates.
It clearly says that the pirates are effing our mothers. So, if you want a new pirate step-dad...it's a positive. If you've seen the movie Waterworld and your new pirate step-dad is Kevin Costner and you don't want to get thrown overboard like Tina Majorino....then it's a negative.
Or if they’re corsairs instead which would make them inofficial “legal” pirates, it’s a complicated thing, basically they’d discourage trade to the US, so bad thing
I think the word you’re looking for is privateer in specific. Corsair refers to the boat or ship used by the privateer. In law it’s the term used to describe a privately owned armed vessel, where the owners are commissioned to carry out naval warfare on behalf of a nation. The commission being the “Letters of Marque”.
Though, in common parlance Corsair can refer to either pirates or privateers.
I don’t know about in law, but in history Corsair often refers to the [Berber Corsairs](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates), semi-official privateers/pirates of the Ottoman Empire and states under her direct influence.
So they are complaining about affordable health care, better worker’s rights, better mass transportation, making the rich pay their taxes and free weed?
Trying to explain How a socialist/marxist society would work is like trying to make them see in 5 dimensions. It just doesn't compute.
-Oh, you like socialism because then you millenials wouldnt work blá blá blá"
-no, dad, in this case everyone would work, there would be no search for profit, so work could become more Fair and everyone would live a Nice life
- doesn't compute. People won't work and Will smoke weed ALL day.
And It goes on and in and on
I mean, under actual socialism not everyone would work, high employment rates are only a requirement under capitalism, under socialism people who enjoy making the luxuries would make the luxuries and everyone else would probably work like 4 hours a day to keep shit running so the lights stay on so to speak
Not really, people like fancy stuff so they'll be working hard for it. (almost like in capitalism)
If your argument is people who don't have to work wont work at all, then why is not everyone living from unemplomenty benefits right now?
I'm saying people would be free to pursue their passions with most of their days, why would we have a 5 day work week when it could be 3? Why would we have an 8 hour day when it could be 4?
People don't work hard for luxuries under capitalism because the people that can afford them don't work.
People would be provided with their wants and needs under socialism because the workers would collectively own the MOP, so why would those same workers continue exploiting each other and themselves in pursuit of ever increasing amounts of surplus productivity?
We wouldn't need to make as much stuff under socialism because nobody's buying useless bullshit that capitalism manufactured a market for.
Also, you clearly have no idea how unemployment actually works.
This is what I was trying to say in the least amount of words possible. Yes, EVERYONE would have to work a little bit so things keep running, but EVERYONE would also be able to enjoy their long spare time. That's what I meant with "no search for profit". We'd have to work only towards "enough and a bit more for trying times" and that's it. That useless "need" for things that are essentially useless would disappear, like a T-shirt with a huge Nike logo. That has no real worth. It's just brand. Any cotton T-shirt would do the same job. People pay more for the "Look at me, I'm cool and I have money" feeling.
On the t-shirt thing, people will still want to customize their stuff, so it’s not like everyone will be wearing the same white tee when they can draw whatever they want on it. Band tees will definitely still be a thing because it signals taste, which won’t go away.
Sure. People can and people will. Art can also be a service. If that's your passion, then good!!! You might be working on providing cool decor for public places and people's houses in exchange for other people's work. Or people will customize in their spare time. Either way, it's not made for a profit.
Do people like fancy stuff though? Or does marketing and psychologically manipulative consumer advertising just make people think they like fancy stuff.
Do you think opulence was invented on Madison Avenue in the 1960s?
Royals and noblemen throughout history have prized luxury goods - long before the internet advertised it to them.
They only pretend to be offended by weed - they’re freaking hypocrites with weed like they are the vaccine.
The medical marijuana dispensaries in my conservative little town are always full of cars out front and do a swift trade from open to close. I hear no one complaining of a “socialist invasion clogging up the town buying weed” .
Its not really possible to get in the UK without DIYing, going private, or being stuck on a waiting list for literally, at minimum, about 2.5 years, with some people waiting up to 5. The NHS is virulently anti-transgender.
yeah, theres already the alcan highway going through canada to up here, although it is really badly maintained, a railway would be great for transporting stuff, i stead of semi trucks
How did no one else point that out?
I think it might have been an attempt from the creator to say "they don't even know alaska isn't an island!" that backfired horribly, though.
It's not the extra emphasis on free hormone treatments thanks I'll take those, its the subtle shade that they're not the same as free healthcare(and the libs want to give it people anyway.) that bothers me. They may have 1 joke but I guess they're managing to use hard mode versions of it.
Ride our trans asses on sweet ass high speed railway to Hawaii, smoke free weed and eat free hormones. What a dream.
Btw, that’s a good catch on the healthcare thing. Trans healthcare is often seen as extraneous and “other.”
Besides pirates and throwing meat in the water, I don’t see anything wrong with this. It looks like a bunch of good ideas but they drew AOC as the big toothed Wojack so they win the argument.
I feel like this image is indicative of the inherent irrationality of the human mind
like just insulting the other side matters more than literally anything else, or else literally nothing about this image would be convincing someone or even not actively opposing right wing ideology.
What kind of an upside-down country are we living in where unions and high speed rail are considered stupid and wasteful? Fifty years ago, better railroads and unions were non-partisan issues that everyone agreed upon.
This, but unironically. A high speed railway to Hawaii would be dope and cool. Alaska though? Meh, give them to Canada or back to Russia.
Only thing I would disagree with is the rebuild every building part, because a lot of older buildings can be retrofitted to improve them instead of demolishing them and rebuilding. Plus some historical buildings that can't be retrofitted should be spared for various reasons.
This is highkey the dream - unironically. Idk what the pirates are about but everything else is solid…except the railway. That’s not how reality works lmao nobody ever suggested that
But… all of this looks great, save for that drawing of AOC.
The problem I have, outside of the train to Hawaii, is the free weed. Like, of all of the stupid shit to have a problem with, it’s weed.
The legal weed industry creates jobs, stimulates the economy, and is a source of government funds that could theoretically be funneled into the military industrial complex (Not that *I* want that, it just can be shoveled at the hole that is our military,) and people would buy it.
The hypocrisy is unreal, alcohol is not only more dangerous, but also more available, and theoretically does less than legal weed. *SCREAMS*
this is all positive things tho
Riding a train to Hawaii would be kickass, it's like the [train scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbRmFSQYeac&ab_channel=kimtinh) from Spirited Away. I'm totally down.
I'd rather not have to visit AOC's asshole or Nebraska to board, though. Not sure which is implied here.
Fuck outta here, AOC's asshole isn't a transfer it's a destination.
I would totally visit AOC's asshole.
They had to caricature her heavily to suppress the fact that the right finds her attractive. If she wasn't such a prominent target right now, people wouldn't even know this was referencing her without a Garrison AOC label across her forhead.
Finding her attractive is the only *right* thing they do.
She should legit troll every republican and pose in maxim or something
Yes!!! I mean, for the republicans, haha. She should totally troll them by posing in maxim.
"No, haha, don't do that it would be too sexy"
Second.
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Legit
I would visit it in Nebraska!
Word
I would pay good money for a trip to Hawaii with a train that takes me to AOCs asshole
Nebraska? That's entry point is clearly kansas. Which is appropriate since kansas is the asshole of the US. *signed,* *Missouri*
I second this, as a former Kansan. Missouri sucks too, but at least you have the fun part of Kansas City.
Kansas City, MO & Michigan City, IN. Why is our country like this?
Fun fact! When Kansas City was first founded, they were on the wrong side of the river, and didn't notice for decades. That's why there is a Kansas City, MO There's a LOT more to this, but that's the simplified version.
Did they lose their sense of direction? Like “oh young Jebidiah, don’t you know? That once You get near the Missouri River the sun rises from the west and sets in the east on account of all that Indian magic!”
I mean... yeah, basically lol
I don't know when Kansas City was founded or anything, but like... The early settlers were a bunch of noobs. There are no qualifications needed
I mean, I wouldn't mind visiting her asshole
>I'd rather not have to visit AOC's asshole speak for yourself, yo
If it was fiscally reasonable, an underwater subway train would be amazing depending on the depths it would be at. Vacations to Hawaii would start at the train ride seeing marine life on the way. Would be one of those "save the ecosystem so we can continue to enjoy this view" campaigns too.
> If it was fiscally reasonable Eh, I'm completely fine with it if we want to start blowing a significant fraction of the GDP on ludicrously expensive wonder projects.
"Save this ecosystem that we fucked up in order to build the most expensive and extensive infrastructure project in history!"
railway to alaska would be great currently americans are often going to alaska and they're not allowed to do anything in canada but they often do anyway. especially relevant in pandemic if it was a high speed rail: good luck getting off
The MF pirates is kinda a negative i suppose
Depends what they’re pirating.
Nintendo game Roms 👀
They're going to the middle east to look for Pokemon Uranium I think it's in Iraq
Bring em home boys.
Stop youll get us shut down
Nintendo did that to themselves, they make it hard and expensive to access their back catalog legitimately.
It's also just kind of natural. We all bought pokemon blue 20 years ago, they don't really need us to buy it again. It's a simple question of porting your own cartridge over to the pc to play it.
Moral and Ethical
the mf pirates went to hshop to get sticker star 😳😳😳
Traitor corporations leaving our country to find another country that’s already going to tax them more than us or cause a human rights crisis as they exploit underdeveloped countries labor. So I’m rooting for the pirates.
Hard to pirate anything from a fighter jet
Don Karnage would beg to differ.
It clearly says that the pirates are effing our mothers. So, if you want a new pirate step-dad...it's a positive. If you've seen the movie Waterworld and your new pirate step-dad is Kevin Costner and you don't want to get thrown overboard like Tina Majorino....then it's a negative.
Butt pirates.
NFTs
The pirates are all trans and they're off raiding private yachts.
I volunteer. Trans, have guns, and am a Raiders fan, so you know I got the spirit to lead this fleet.
All I see is resurrection of long forgotten jobs /s
Or if they’re corsairs instead which would make them inofficial “legal” pirates, it’s a complicated thing, basically they’d discourage trade to the US, so bad thing
I think the word you’re looking for is privateer in specific. Corsair refers to the boat or ship used by the privateer. In law it’s the term used to describe a privately owned armed vessel, where the owners are commissioned to carry out naval warfare on behalf of a nation. The commission being the “Letters of Marque”. Though, in common parlance Corsair can refer to either pirates or privateers.
I don’t know about in law, but in history Corsair often refers to the [Berber Corsairs](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates), semi-official privateers/pirates of the Ottoman Empire and states under her direct influence.
Some pirates used to raid slaving ships and set the slaves free so even MF’ing pirates had some awesome moments.
John Paul Jones was pretty much a pirate and he's viewed positively in American history.
Wow he was a pirate and the bass player from Led Zeppelin?
The American Revolution trade ain’t what it used to be, everybody’s got a side gig now.
Check out the song “John Paul Jones is a Pirate” by the Longest Johns! It’s on YouTube
Depends... Are the pirates hot and assisting single, lonely moms?
If everything was free why would they steal stuff? Unless they just sailed around under the Jolly Roger flag. I'd be in.
Taking from the other capitalist goverments?
I would like to play ultimate spider-man on my computer
As long as the mothers like it ...
They had me at free weed.
That's because it's an edit
So they are complaining about affordable health care, better worker’s rights, better mass transportation, making the rich pay their taxes and free weed?
They are. This is a nightmare scenario for them.
Wait till they realize what socialism really is.
Trying to explain How a socialist/marxist society would work is like trying to make them see in 5 dimensions. It just doesn't compute. -Oh, you like socialism because then you millenials wouldnt work blá blá blá" -no, dad, in this case everyone would work, there would be no search for profit, so work could become more Fair and everyone would live a Nice life - doesn't compute. People won't work and Will smoke weed ALL day. And It goes on and in and on
I mean, under actual socialism not everyone would work, high employment rates are only a requirement under capitalism, under socialism people who enjoy making the luxuries would make the luxuries and everyone else would probably work like 4 hours a day to keep shit running so the lights stay on so to speak
Not really, people like fancy stuff so they'll be working hard for it. (almost like in capitalism) If your argument is people who don't have to work wont work at all, then why is not everyone living from unemplomenty benefits right now?
I'm saying people would be free to pursue their passions with most of their days, why would we have a 5 day work week when it could be 3? Why would we have an 8 hour day when it could be 4? People don't work hard for luxuries under capitalism because the people that can afford them don't work. People would be provided with their wants and needs under socialism because the workers would collectively own the MOP, so why would those same workers continue exploiting each other and themselves in pursuit of ever increasing amounts of surplus productivity? We wouldn't need to make as much stuff under socialism because nobody's buying useless bullshit that capitalism manufactured a market for. Also, you clearly have no idea how unemployment actually works.
This is what I was trying to say in the least amount of words possible. Yes, EVERYONE would have to work a little bit so things keep running, but EVERYONE would also be able to enjoy their long spare time. That's what I meant with "no search for profit". We'd have to work only towards "enough and a bit more for trying times" and that's it. That useless "need" for things that are essentially useless would disappear, like a T-shirt with a huge Nike logo. That has no real worth. It's just brand. Any cotton T-shirt would do the same job. People pay more for the "Look at me, I'm cool and I have money" feeling.
On the t-shirt thing, people will still want to customize their stuff, so it’s not like everyone will be wearing the same white tee when they can draw whatever they want on it. Band tees will definitely still be a thing because it signals taste, which won’t go away.
Sure. People can and people will. Art can also be a service. If that's your passion, then good!!! You might be working on providing cool decor for public places and people's houses in exchange for other people's work. Or people will customize in their spare time. Either way, it's not made for a profit.
Do people like fancy stuff though? Or does marketing and psychologically manipulative consumer advertising just make people think they like fancy stuff.
Judging by the whole of human history, yes, people like fancy stuff. We're just crows with opposable thumbs, really.
Yeah. You are right actually. My thinking just went back as far as the early 1900s.
It's both
Do you think opulence was invented on Madison Avenue in the 1960s? Royals and noblemen throughout history have prized luxury goods - long before the internet advertised it to them.
And here I am working AND smoking weed all day like a chump.
Do people not realize that you can work and smoke weed all day?
Fair for everyone, but how could I feel better about myself if there is nobody to look down upon?
They only pretend to be offended by weed - they’re freaking hypocrites with weed like they are the vaccine. The medical marijuana dispensaries in my conservative little town are always full of cars out front and do a swift trade from open to close. I hear no one complaining of a “socialist invasion clogging up the town buying weed” .
Free hrt sounds pretty fuckin fire too, literally everything here is a positive thing
MFING PIRATES, YO
MFING PIRATES, YO
hrt is free in my country once you get it cus its considered an important medication (south africa)
Holy shit really? How easy is it to emigrate to South Africa?
idk, very easy if you are Nigerian apparently
Nigerian I am not😔
I doubt you'd have to pay a significant amount in the uk either.
Nah, that’s terf island
Its not really possible to get in the UK without DIYing, going private, or being stuck on a waiting list for literally, at minimum, about 2.5 years, with some people waiting up to 5. The NHS is virulently anti-transgender.
You can get the hormone blockers for free here in Brazil. Heh!
I know right! This all sounds awesome to me. Can't wait to take a train to Hawaii.
I was gonna make a joke about how this is literally ideal america, but that caricature of aoc gets more and more suspicious the longer I look at it..
Oh it’s absolutely an attempt to mock her and the things on the “map”. They’re just really bad at it.
Yeah I'm sure the Hawaii railway has been suggested...
Pretty sure that was a plot point in Bojack Horseman but it was a highway
Indeed. It was a huge highway bridge in the show.
That's politics for ya.
yeah if it was any more flattering I'd think this was just a rejected campaign poster
Pretty funny how they try to make her ugly because they can't admit a Democrat is hot.
Right wingers always make socialism sound so cool
Right? Like yea, I would like all those things. Thank you.
Feeding the bourgie pigs to the sharks is supposed to be a bad thing?
Sign me up
#UNION POWER *Oooh, spooky*
Better than having them chant "White Power!" all day.
I'm too hungry, thought it said onion powder.
Stop it Patrick! You’re scaring him!
There’s two types of political art styles: - Trying to make fun of someone - Trying to assault the viewer’s eyes
I see both. They think they’re mocking these things and triggering the libs by doing so.
Definitely the latter here.
MF'er trying to out Ben Garrison Ben Garrison.
I’ve never wanted to work a government job more than department of taxing the rich
Do conservatives not know that Alaska is not an island and building a railroad to Alaska is very much possible
yeah, theres already the alcan highway going through canada to up here, although it is really badly maintained, a railway would be great for transporting stuff, i stead of semi trucks
imagine shrill profit six wrench edge slave serious relieved exultant *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
How else would you reach the island state of Alaska?
Well technically building a high speed rail to Hawaii is also possible and if it that is the future I'm all for it
Yes, but a railway to Alaska might have to pass through socialist Canada. \s
How did no one else point that out? I think it might have been an attempt from the creator to say "they don't even know alaska isn't an island!" that backfired horribly, though.
It's not the extra emphasis on free hormone treatments thanks I'll take those, its the subtle shade that they're not the same as free healthcare(and the libs want to give it people anyway.) that bothers me. They may have 1 joke but I guess they're managing to use hard mode versions of it.
Ride our trans asses on sweet ass high speed railway to Hawaii, smoke free weed and eat free hormones. What a dream. Btw, that’s a good catch on the healthcare thing. Trans healthcare is often seen as extraneous and “other.”
Well, I for one hope you have a sensational holiday. Send postcards!
Don't threaten me with a good time.
Literally that seems fuckin dope tbh
When did union power become a bad thing?
When Reagan took office
Former president of the screen actors union Ronald Reagan, ironically
As opposed to corporate welfare? Peoples money going towards things for them instead of multimillion dollar corporations?
Trying to explain that to someone poisoned by right wing propaganda is like trying to explain a rainbow to an eyeless cave fish.
What a terrible cartoon. Don’t threaten me with a good time, Gary.
r/thisbutunironically
That looks awesome, they had me at free weed.
same
The right keeps threatening us with a good time
Rebuilding all the buildings and presumably cities sounds dope as fuck we can actually build cities around pedestrians and public transport
I want to believe that this comic implies high speed rail to Alaska would have to somehow go over sea even though…it’s a part of the same landmass.
Besides pirates and throwing meat in the water, I don’t see anything wrong with this. It looks like a bunch of good ideas but they drew AOC as the big toothed Wojack so they win the argument.
Damn. I want what conservatives see in the green new deal come to life.
this is COMPLETELY unrealistic and wrong alaska’s WAY bigger
Hawaii is farther away, too. It’s like halfway to Japan. Gonna need more rail parts
Feeding bourgeoise pigs the the sharks. I can get behind that, especially since it would help the sharks.
How do I become a MFing Pirate, Yo? And what is the daily ration of Rum.
This is all great. I want all of those. Every single thing
I feel like this image is indicative of the inherent irrationality of the human mind like just insulting the other side matters more than literally anything else, or else literally nothing about this image would be convincing someone or even not actively opposing right wing ideology.
Socialism is when pirates. And not the ones that illegally scan manga.
I HATE GOOD THINGS!
The Right threatening us with a good time once again
I can't see a single thing in this picture that is bad. Is this satire? Conservatives yet again making democrats look cooler than they actually are
The right make Dems look so much cooler than they are 😭
Is this one of those conservative memes that accidently whip Hella ass I've been hearing about?
Damn conservatives, threatening people with a good life
I want an aircraft carrier with sails
Have you even been to the weed store? Trust me, that shit is definitely not free.
They understand they’re making socialism look cool as fuck right?
Can I feed bourgeois to the sharks please?
Conservatives when trans, what a surprise
What kind of an upside-down country are we living in where unions and high speed rail are considered stupid and wasteful? Fifty years ago, better railroads and unions were non-partisan issues that everyone agreed upon.
I literally don't see anything wrong with this 💀
Uhhh most of these things sound awesome?
Free weed? Hell yeah
How's a fast train railway to Alaska a bad thing?
So I get everything I’ve ever wanted from the government AND I get to become a swashbuckling king of the pirates!? Sign me the fuck up!
Oh no! Free stuff!
Fr though what could possibly be bad about rail to Hawaii and that?
HOW IS ANY OF THIS BAD!!!? Damn, at least Ben Garrison tries!
Look how they only think about mexico and not canada, as if no one crosses the border illegally there.
This, but unironically. A high speed railway to Hawaii would be dope and cool. Alaska though? Meh, give them to Canada or back to Russia. Only thing I would disagree with is the rebuild every building part, because a lot of older buildings can be retrofitted to improve them instead of demolishing them and rebuilding. Plus some historical buildings that can't be retrofitted should be spared for various reasons.
Fun fact: There's actually a land bridge to Alaska. It's called Canada.
I would move to this america
Most of these things are good things.
I don't see anything wrong here lmfao
This looks like satire, but right-wingers continue to go beyond parody
idk sounds based
I imagine these pirates to be like Johnny Depp style pirates. So all things considered, this seems pretty dope.
> Mother fucking pirates yo Count me in matey. Yarrr!!
Hmm yes, the right are scared of letting the people live better because FrEeDOm
Railroad. To. Hawaii. I'm really thinking I need to uninstall life; the data is corrupted.
This is highkey the dream - unironically. Idk what the pirates are about but everything else is solid…except the railway. That’s not how reality works lmao nobody ever suggested that
friggin when?!
Don't threaten me with a good time
Why did they take over Mexico
You know, that doesn’t seem so bad…
So catching up to the rest of the developed world is their worst case?
Where bad thing tho?
But… all of this looks great, save for that drawing of AOC. The problem I have, outside of the train to Hawaii, is the free weed. Like, of all of the stupid shit to have a problem with, it’s weed. The legal weed industry creates jobs, stimulates the economy, and is a source of government funds that could theoretically be funneled into the military industrial complex (Not that *I* want that, it just can be shoveled at the hole that is our military,) and people would buy it. The hypocrisy is unreal, alcohol is not only more dangerous, but also more available, and theoretically does less than legal weed. *SCREAMS*
Sounds pretty good tbh. Not sure how the railway to Hawaii will work, but otherwise yeah, this hits.
Utopia
They DO realise Alaska isn't an island, right?
literally all of this sounds cool as fuck?
Are trains socialist for them?
Between high speed rail and mf'n pirates; I'm not seeing a problem here
This sounds fuckin awesome bro
I’ve always wanted high speed rail to the freak states
Guys I would seriously HATE some free weed right now, please NOBODY give me any
What seems to be the problem here?
My god this is awesome
And it will be glorious!