[an orange character is driving a bulldozer, facing a house]
I am going to bulldoze your house
[a yellow character is shocked]
[yellow asks politely, hands clasped]
Could you please not do that?
[orange, pushing the bulldozer’s controls, answers]
NO!
[yellow walks away from their house, looking dismayed]
Well, I guess I tried to do everything I could
Too bad
[orange smiles smugly as they bulldoze yellow’s house]
https://thebad.website/comic/respectable_resistance
How could Our Cause have failed? I upvoted and downvoted everything I was supposed to!
We even signed the big petition and did an op-ed in the WaPo, guess it’s time to take the L and move on, nothing else can be done.
Why aren’t you doing it?
Quit my comfy regular job six years ago to become a full time activist.
Didn’t feel like being passive in the era of rising fascism and extinction level threat climate change.
I’m probably not the person you should be asking that question to.
My hero
Six years and this is where the worlds at. Seems you’re just as ineffective as everyone else. Good thing you post edgy comments though, that’ll turn the tide.
You’re exactly who I should be asking that question to; smugly superior writing cute little comics to attack and divide people.
If narcissistic triangulation was a meal you shoved it down your gullet in one go and asked for more.
Aye, cute performative anger right there.
The goal has never been to save the world, one person alone can’t do that. The goal is to do our best to help those who are suffering from the current state of society, while building collective momentum in order to achieve structural change.
I’ve been doing extremely well on both of those goals, thank you very much for inquiring so politely.
Your life seems sad if you’ve reached the point where all you can do is bark and bite through a screen, maybe you’d have a better outlook on life if you too tried to follow whatever your dreams and ideals are. It helps become a calmer person. I’ll keep posting my comics. If you ask nicely, I’ll send you a kiss emoji next time. Have a beautiful day!
lol, go back to your pithy comics couched in the guise of social commentary.
Seems like that and ad hominem arguments are what you’re good at.
Sure, I love making them, I’ll make a lot more!
Pot calling the kettle hominem buddy, see you in the next one :)
I’m sure you will. I imagine they feed your superiority complex without actually engaging in any meaningful action.
Using and ad hominem after being called out for an ad hominem? Bold move. However, you won’t see me at all. That’s one of my favorite things about blocking people!
Enjoy your circle jerk!
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Why do you assume that person isn’t?
Oh, that’s what we’re doing? Okay.
Why do you assume they are?
Why do you assume in the first place? They are, though; they occasionally talk about it.
I didn’t assume. You did, as did the other commenter. I asked a question.
They talk about what? Doing the same thing as others and then making smug comics that cut down others as not doing enough.
“Why aren’t you doing it?” assumes they’re not doing it. Claiming otherwise is as dumb as the “when did you stop beating your wife” kind of crap.
The assumption is the value you assigned, so it’s your assumption.
I just assume people who say this shit are snitches and deserve what they gonna get.
I just assume you and others like you would rather fall into the trap of division than foster unity to go after the select few who actually pull the strings and manipulate events.
I agree in part though; you all deserve what your going to get and it will be really unfortunate.
You’re up in here attacking a person who very sincerely claims to spend their time doing the things you’re complaining about people not doing. This is the ally you seem to want, but yet here you are. Just doubling down and getting hostile with anyone on the topic after you made a bad assumption.
What unity are you here fostering lmao? Kinda seems like it’s you being the divisive one here.
You’re wrong. I have no use for those who insult and degrade those who’ve taken any action of any sort.
The rhetoric from OP in this comic is to deride the character who made an effort as “not being enough”.
The ally I want is one who draws this comic but with the last panel having community stepping up to bolster that individual and encourage them to continue resisting with their support. A comic that shows how the everyday people are stronger together when they support each other.
I’ll take allies that are willing to try what they’re capable of over those who lift themselves up by shitting on others for “not doing enough”.
Your original bad take was:
It has been you, from the jump, shitting on others, insulting and degrading others for “not doing enough”. Like what are you even saying, are we in the same thread? You started this by doing the thing you are literally now complaining about others doing.
[Edit: the rhetoric from the comic that I read is attacking the assertion that we can politely, civilly, solve heinous problems such as what’s depicted. It’s your idea that the comic represents shitting on people who do try. That’s been your interpretation that others don’t seem to share. And then you respond by doing the literal thing you are complaining about the comic saying, but the comic didn’t even say that. You have layers of wrong going on here and I think you’re just too defensive at the moment to see what’s going on.]
Nope, just OP.
I question your reading comprehension and understanding of context. The comic, as well as OPs comments don’t fit your narrative at all.
You disagree and attack me as being “defensive” for (checks notes) defending my position.
As for my original question, the OP sarcastically hints at the need for action beyond what’s been taken. I call out armchair critics who like to criticize others for not doing what they themselves won’t do.
It’s awful easy to risk someone else’s freedom and safety.