Political Cartoons Thread (International & National)

[sherb]

 

[Todman]

 

[sherb]

 

[Fire]

Look, I've seen this attitude floating around on twitter. But think of it this way; if this comic constitutes a good argument to you, and you hold the exact opposite positions in each pannel, then you are just as hypocritical.

 

[Number37]

Look, I've seen this attitude floating around on twitter. But think of it this way; if this comic constitutes a good argument to you, and you hold the exact opposite positions in each pannel, then you are just as hypocritical.

Allow birth control
Allow abortion
Allow gay marriage
Ban assault weapons.

Where is the hypocrisy?

 

[Ratts of Tobruk]

Look, I've seen this attitude floating around on twitter. But think of it this way; if this comic constitutes a good argument to you, and you hold the exact opposite positions in each pannel, then you are just as hypocritical.

Generally most people think massacres are a bad thing. The more popular argument against gun control in the US generally is that it is 'too hard' or 'won't work', not the NRA-style idea that if only we all had bazookas then no one would try and shoot someone. Therefore the cartoon is pointing out that in other circumstances when things 'won't work', like trying to ban abortions (or make it really difficult for people to get them) people aren't following the same approach that the fact abortions still happen anyway means that any attempt at controlling it is pointless.

 

[Fire]

Allow birth control
Allow abortion
Allow gay marriage
Ban assault weapons.

Where is the hypocrisy?

I dont think there is any. These are my views. But the comic exists to try and frame such as hypocrisy. It is a bad piece of propaganda that's easy to turn around. Why use it?

 

[Fire]

Generally most people think massacres are a bad thing. The more popular argument against gun control in the US generally is that it is 'too hard' or 'won't work', not the NRA-style idea that if only we all had bazookas then no one would try and shoot someone. Therefore the cartoon is pointing out that in other circumstances when things 'won't work', like trying to ban abortions (or make it really difficult for people to get them) people aren't following the same approach that the fact abortions still happen anyway means that any attempt at controlling it is pointless.

Thats a great argument but you had to cherry pick one frame to make it. How does this apply to banning gay marriage, for example? Taken as a whole, that is not the point the cartoon is making at all.

 

[Ratts of Tobruk]

Thats a great argument but you had to cherry pick one frame to make it. How does this apply to banning gay marriage, for example? Taken as a whole, that is not the point the cartoon is making at all.

It also applies to birth control and I think we all know that the objection to gay marriage is a remnant of a distaste for gay activity rather than any of the ooga-rooga about it being an institution that can't change (it changed in 2004 under Howard, no-fault divorce was allowed a few decades ago, interracial marriage used to be banned in some places a few decades before then, etc.).

 

[sherb]

I dont think there is any. These are my views. But the comic exists to try and frame such as hypocrisy. It is a bad piece of propaganda that's easy to turn around. Why use it?

Have a look at the cartoon again.

It isn't just about the topic in each of the four instances.

It's also about the tone and method of delivery.

Which makes it more subtle than you give it credit for.

 

[Showbags]

 

[Pessimistic]

Right wing....Thin skin

 

[sherb]

 

[Todman]

Allow birth control
Allow abortion
Allow gay marriage
Ban assault weapons.

Where is the hypocrisy?

What about Capital Punishment?

 

[Pie eyed]

What about Capital Punishment?

I would have thought that was obvious if you were following the theme.

All the redneck inbreds go,
Doo doo doo, doo dee doo doo doo eed do...
Ban birth control
Ban abortion
Ban gay marriage
Allow assault weapons.
Allow capital punishment....

an then all the educated normal forward thinking people go...........

Wooooo......ooooo...wooooo
Allow women to take control of their futures, take the decision out of the hands of priests and religious lunatics.
Allow everyone in a secular society to share the same legal status no matter what their sexual preference is, no matter what the cult beliefs of the ruling party of the day.

Ban all military or assault weapons from the hands of the public.

Ban Capital punishment solely due to the massive mistakes of the past.

Then the redneck inbreds go ...ooo! OoOOH!!! AARRghhhhhh.
and die from not having been immunised.....

 

[Todman]

I would have thought that was obvious if you were following the theme.
Ban Capital punishment solely due to the massive mistakes of the past.

So you are happy to allow the innocent to die but not the guilty.

Will you allow euthanasia?

 

[Todman]

 

[Ratts of Tobruk]

I'm afraid your ilk have got the time machine all wrong, dear chap.

The 1930's are <---- that way.

 

[Fire]

I don't get it... Why is the flag halal?

 

[radiojake]

LOL cos Sharia Law has come to Australia -didn't you get the memo?

 

[Pessimistic]

I'm afraid your ilk have got the time machine all wrong, dear chap.

The 1930's are <---- that way.

They were more progressive in the 30s

 

[Ratts of Tobruk]

They were more progressive in the 30s

Depends on what part of the world they go to...

 

[Fire]

LOL cos Sharia Law has come to Australia -didn't you get the memo?

So if nothing has changed since 2007, was it Howard's fault that the Muslims took over?

That's the only thread of logic I can pull...

 

[radiojake]

yeah I don't really get the flag either

 

[Pessimistic]

Hun handing our support CFA bumper stickers and characterising CFMEU as 'thugs' in its cartoon

Camt find picture online, but printed herald sun has an actual CFA 'hero' every bit as scarey as the ones above, and hes not even a cartoon!