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[Prospero]

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Before you click, understand that this is meant to be a satire of American liberalism, not American conservatism.

It is 2021, tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of 9/11 It is up to an underground group of bio-mechanically enhanced conservatives led by Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North to thwart Ambassador Usama Bin Laden's plans to nuke New York City ...And wake the world from an Orwellian nightmare of United Nations- dominated ultra-liberalism.

I mean--you must be kidding me.

P.S. For starters, that Apple laptop is terrible art.

 

[Drinky Crow]

AWESOME. CYBORG G. GORDON LIBBY IN THE HOUSE!

 

[bishoptl]

"Excellent..."

 

[APF]

It's so horrible... so horrible... they should have sent a poet...

 

[Forgotten Ancient]

Looks like cyborgs prefer apple.

 

[Father_Brain]

Apparently, in 16 years Sean Hannity will look two decades younger than he does today.

 

[FoneBone]

This is so "unintentionally" funny that one almost wonders whether the creators are pranking the wingnut community. Almost.

 

[olimario]

Just like LIBRULS to attack this God-ordained comic with its wonderful art and its powerful message. You shall all be destroyed in the massive moral reconstruction this comic inspires.

Ah, who am I kidding... This is a complete joke.

 

[Kano]

Stuff like this shouldn't even be mocked. We live in dangerous times. These people are fascists, with Liddy as a jackboot thug and Hannity a wannabe Goebbels. They want you to :lol and dismiss it as a joke. Don't.

 

[APF]

Stuff like this shouldn't even be mocked. We live in dangerous times. These people are fascists, with Liddy as a jackboot thug and Hannity a wannabe Goebbels. They want you to :lol and dismiss it as a joke. Don't.

Can we have one thread which doesn't reassert Goodwin's law?

 

[Rorschach]

It is 2021, tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of 9/11. America is under oppression by ultra-liberal extremists which have yielded governing authority to the United Nations. It is up to an underground conservative group (known as F.O.I.L.) led by Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North to thwart Ambassador Usama Bin Laden’s plans to nuke New York City.

:lol :lol :lol

 

[ronito]

Oh no.

I'm certainly glad these people are seeking out to all americans to work together for a better country, instead of instilling fear, hate and ignorance....sigh....

 

[explodet]

The whole concept of an ultra-liberal police state confuses me.

 

[Chesapeake Silt]

It's like the bizarro channel zero.

 

[ronito]

Kids remember, DO NOT question dear leader. If you do question dear leader the terrorists have won. Do not listen to these liberuls with their "human rights", "science", ideas of "peace", "equality", "liberty" and "justice for all". They are un-american.

 

[impirius]

STOP THAT! YOU KRIMINELL!

 

[Drinky Crow]

haha, KRIMINELL

wtf

 

[APF]

The whole concept of an ultra-liberal police state confuses me.

It depends on what you mean by "liberal," but what confuses (amuses) me is the idea of the UN blue-hats being the stormtroopers. Most anti-UN Conservatives I know make fun of these guys for being completely impotent and hamstrung...

 

[Fragamemnon]

The whole concept of an ultra-liberal police state confuses me.

Liberals like their freedoms too much and don't mind endless bickering over policy and often engage in "agree to disagree" positions on things. You can't have a police state without having ideologoical homogeneity, and us liburls don't have that.

There are ways in which an "ultra-liberal" (using the American interpretation of the word liberal, not the academic one) police state could exist-things like encourage secularism/repression of religious speech, population control and government seizure of private firms laws as part of an agressive environemental plan, etc. But it wouldn't be so much as "ultra-liberal" as it would be "ultra-left".

 

[Mandark]

I could write a paper on this stuff. The irrational UN-fear, Chelsea as bogeyman, America being saved by pundits (does Liddy get to break into UN headquarters?), etc. etc. Sure, we may be asking for other people to die in our war, but we're risking our lives in a hypothetical comic book dystopia!

Serious question, though: Has there been any conservative humor in the last ten years that's actually funny? Mallard Fillmore, Prickly City, This Just In, Day by Day, etc. all suck.

 

[Fragamemnon]

(does Liddy get to break into UN headquarters?)

G. Gordon Liddy, I assume, has been bioenhanced to better infiltrate secured facilities. Also, I'm sure that, given the picture of Oliver North in the comic, that he coordinates the efforts of the team in some kind of underground office of some sort, perhaps a converted basement. He's probably the financier of the F.O.I.L. effort, too-I wonder what he is selling and to whom he is selling to to allow Hannity to get such nice biomods.

 

[Kano]

Liberals like their freedoms too much and don't mind endless bickering over policy and often engage in "agree to disagree" positions on things. You can't have a police state without having ideologoical homogeneity, and us liburls don't have that.

There are ways in which an "ultra-liberal" (using the American interpretation of the word liberal, not the academic one) police state could exist-things like encourage secularism/repression of religious speech, population control and government seizure of private firms laws as part of an agressive environemental plan, etc. But it wouldn't be so much as "ultra-liberal" as it would be "ultra-left".

Nice clarification. I think a benevolently fascist state would work, if only to institute controls that checked the markets and ensured that there wasn't too much of a divide between the "haves" and "havenots."

 

[APF]

Serious question, though: Has there been any conservative humor in the last ten years that's actually funny? Mallard Fillmore, Prickly City, This Just In, Day by Day, etc. all suck.

Day by Day definitely sucks, and the degree to which it's pimped on the Conservative side of the blogosphere really shows how desperate they are for simpathetic humor. I'll note that there are a bunch of "redneck" comedians out there who are extremely popular (like Jeff Foxworthy, "Larry the Cable Guy," etc), but I'm not sure how directly political they are...

Nice clarification. I think a benevolently fascist state would work, if only to institute controls that checked the markets and ensured that there wasn't too much of a divide between the "haves" and "havenots."

You'll just love this comic then

 

[Fragamemnon]

Nice clarification. I think a benevolently fascist state would work, if only to institute controls that checked the markets and ensured that there wasn't too much of a divide between the "haves" and "havenots."

I think it would work too-I just worry about the overwhelming desire for extremism in any authoritarian state. I do openly admit that if people and politicans were willing to make tough sacrifices to improve the country, that this wouldn't be necessary-but that went out of fashion in the mid 1960s.

 

[Kano]

Serious question, though: Has there been any conservative humor in the last ten years that's actually funny? Mallard Fillmore, Prickly City, This Just In, Day by Day, etc. all suck.

Nope. You know why? Because they lack of sense of humor. I'm serious.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Ahahaha

Got him!

Sacre bleu, that's just up the rue!

Apparently he speaks French about as well as I can.

 

[Kano]

You'll just love this comic then

What do you mean? I'm not a communist. I don't believe socio-economic parity can be egendered through violent totalitarianism. I do think that certain controls must be instituted to protect the exploitation of the lower classes by monied elites. While I don't believe in the drastic redistribution of wealth that an ideally communist state would push, there should be greater attention given to how our tax dollars are spent.

 

[Prospero]

I could write a paper on this stuff.

I could write a paper on the title as rendered on the cover:

LIBERALITY - ALI (stereotypical Middle Eastern name, or at least I think so if I'm this comic's target audience) = LIBERTY: OMG!

Also, the word ALI is decorated with the UN symbol--THE UN IS BREAKING LIBERTY APART: OMG!

Also, ALI is in blue while LIBERTY is in red--GET RID OF THE BLUE

Spoiler

(states)

FOR LIBERTY: OMG!

 

[FortNinety]

P.S. For starters, that Apple laptop is terrible art.

:lol :lol :lol :lol

Also, I love how it features the now cancelled Freedom Tower on the cover.

 

[APF]

What do you mean? I'm not a communist. I don't believe socio-economic parity can be egendered through violent totalitarianism.

You advocated implementing a fascist state in order to implement wealth control. My implied comparison was more apt than not.

 

[Kano]

You advocated implementing a fascist state in order to implement wealth control. My implied comparison was more apt than not.

A benevolently fascist state. I don't believe in violent suppression of dissent or rescinding property rights. There needs to be a balance between liberalism and stricter controls that put the markets in check.

 

[impirius]

It's a shame that this is turning into a serious thread... FFS, this is about Cyber-Sean Hannity broadcasting a pirate radio signal

JET SET RADIOOOOOOOO

 

[Inumaru]

A benevolently fascist state. I don't believe in violent suppression of dissent or rescinding property rights.

Is that a picture of Che next to your name? Might be time to read up on him a bit. :lol

 

[Uter]

You advocated implementing a fascist state in order to implement wealth control. My implied comparison was more apt than not.

A benevolently fascist state. I don't believe in violent suppression of dissent or rescinding property rights. There needs to be a balance between liberalism and stricter controls that put the markets in check.

Stuff like this shouldn't even be mocked. We live in dangerous times. These people are fascists, with Liddy as a jackboot thug and Hannity a wannabe Goebbels. They want you to :lol and dismiss it as a joke. Don't.

:lol :lol :lol ???????? :lol :lol :lol

 

[kablooey]

what a fucking farce. :lol :lol

 

[fart]

It's a shame that this is turning into a serious thread... FFS, this is about Cyber-Sean Hannity broadcasting a pirate radio signal

JET SET RADIOOOOOOOO

i think this page is pretty solid proof that this comic is the great fucking thing ever

 

[iapetus]

Nope. You know why? Because they lack of sense of humor. I'm serious.

Absolutely. Every single person who deviates to the right of center has a sudden humourectomy.

Where would PJ O'Rourke and Dennis Miller fall on this one, by the way?

 

[Kano]

Is that a picture of Che next to your name? Might be time to read up on him a bit. :lol

You mean the truth? Or how he's been framed by revisionists? I have read up on the man, from truthful accounts to rightist propaganda. Che helped unseat a class that sought to oppress millions while restricting prosperity to a few. He did participate in the imprisonment and execution of Batista sympathizers, which I believe was a just response to a contingent that, with the backing of the US, pillaged human resources and subjected an entire population to wage enslavement, a tool of capitalist control. As well, elsewhere, he continued the revolution where the "havenots" were systematically slaughtered for exerting their fundamental right to feed their families. Have you read up on Che?

 

[Kano]

Absolutely. Every single person who deviates to the right of center has a sudden humourectomy.

Where would PJ O'Rourke and Dennis Miller fall on this one, by the way?

I don't think Dennis Miller is so much a rightist as he is a Zionist. Now, I'm anything but a friend of Zionism, but even Noam Chomsky has admitted that he was once a Zionist -- and he is hardly right of center.

 

[maharg]

Can we have one thread which doesn't reassert Goodwin's law?

Strictly speaking, comparing to fascism is at worst a very weak invokation of godwin's law. All naziism was fascist, but not all fascists are nazis.

 

[ronito]

Che helped unseat a class that sought to oppress millions while restricting prosperity to a few.

You mean Che unseated the Bush Administration? Wow! Is there anything he didn't do?

 

[Red Blaster]

Have you read up on Che?

I saw the Motorcycle Diaries!

 

[iapetus]

I don't think Dennis Miller is so much a rightist as he is a Zionist. Now, I'm anything but a friend of Zionism, but even Noam Chomsky has admitted that he was once a Zionist -- and he is hardly right of center.

That's alright - he's not as funny as O'Rourke anyway.

Does being a Zionist inherently make you left-wing? I'd have thought it was open to both left and right...

 

[Kano]

That's alright - he's not as funny as O'Rourke anyway.

Does being a Zionist inherently make you left-wing? I'd have thought it was open to both left and right...

No, of course not. I thought you were attempting to offer Miller as an example of a, admittedly, funny rightist. I don't really think of him as right-wing. Actually, I think he's pretty clearly not right-wing. As for Zionism, I think that it's more a case of false heritage. I know plenty of liberals/leftists who're staunchly pro-Israel.

 

[Uter]

"hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine." - Che Guevara "Message to the Tricontinental"

dang, now that is some decidedly fascist style determination, I can see the appeal for you.


"I ended the problem with a .32 caliber pistol, in the right side of his brain.... His belongings were now mine." - Che Guevara (January 1957 diary entry after shooting Eutimio Guerra because he suspected him of passing on information)

Violence for any marxist or fascist purposes = good. Hurray!

What a sexy devil Che was. First he personally murdered or oversaw the executions in summary trials of scores of people who were proven or suspected enemies, and then those who were just at the wrong place at the wrong time. But then Castro put him in charge of San Carlos de La Cabaña!

According to Javier Arzuaga, a Basque chaplain:

there were about eight hundred prisoners in a space fit for no more than three hundred: former Batista military and police personnel, some journalists, a few businessmen and merchants. The revolutionary tribunal was made of militiamen. Che Guevara presided over the appellate court. He never overturned a sentence. I would visit those on death row at the galera de la muerte. A rumor went around that I hypnotized prisoners because many remained calm, so Che ordered that I be present at the executions. After I left in May, they executed many more, but I personally witnessed fifty-five executions. There was an American, Herman Marks, apparently a former convict. We called him "the butcher" because he enjoyed giving the order to shoot. I pleaded many times with Che on behalf of prisoners. I remember especially the case of Ariel Lima, a young boy. Che did not budge. Nor did Fidel, whom I visited. I became so traumatized that at the end of May 1959 I was ordered to leave the parish of Casa Blanca, where La Cabaña was located and where I had held Mass for three years. I went to Mexico for treatment. The day I left, Che told me we had both tried to bring one another to each other's side and had failed. His last words were: "When we take our masks off, we will be enemies.

Four hundred people were executed between January and the end of June in 1959 when Che was no longer in charge of La Cabaña, according to one source. Other sources place it at over 500, over 700, and over 2000.

But he was just "framed by revisionists", right?

 

[Kano]

"hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine." - Che Guevara "Message to the Tricontinental"

dang, now that is some decidedly fascist style determination, I can see the appeal for you.


"I ended the problem with a .32 caliber pistol, in the right side of his brain.... His belongings were now mine." - Che Guevara (January 1957 diary entry after shooting Eutimio Guerra because he suspected him of passing on information)

Violence for any marxist or fascist purposes = good. Hurray!

What a sexy devil Che was. First he personally murdered or oversaw the executions in summary trials of scores of people who were proven or suspected enemies, and then those who were just at the wrong place at the wrong time. But then Castro put him in charge of San Carlos de La Cabaña!

According to Javier Arzuaga, a Basque chaplain:


Four hundred people were executed between January and the end of June in 1959 when Che was no longer in charge of La Cabaña, according to one source. Other sources place it at over 500, over 700, and over 2000.

But he was just "framed by revisionists", right?

You know what? I read the same article. July issue of The New Republic.

 

[Excess Poo Flakes]

A boy scout, that Che was. Had he had his way, we'd all be dead.

1962-Guevara argues for a nuclear first strike against the US during the Cuban Missile Crisis (National Review; 09/15/97)

 

[APF]

Strictly speaking, comparing to fascism is at worst a very weak invokation of godwin's law. All naziism was fascist, but not all fascists are nazis.

And comparing Shawn Hannity to Joseph Goebbels...?

Absolutely. Every single person who deviates to the right of center has a sudden humourectomy.

When Democrats leave the country, does their sense of humor disappear the instant they realize they're no longer that far left?

 

[whytemyke]

hahaha, they were looking for conservative superheroes and the best they could come up with was SEAN HANNITY, G. Gordon Liddy and fuckin' OLI NORTH?!

Christ. They have SCHWARZENEGGER in their pockets and they're using fucking wankers like Sean Hannity? What's his superpower... balancing a checkbook so perfectly that his bank account magically grows? Or does he have a forcefield that prevents poor people from getting close to him, with his vault for the power source?

Shit. And Oli North? The guy barely got past CONGRESS, how could he stop Osama bin Laden?

You mean Che unseated the Bush Administration? Wow! Is there anything he didn't do?

Yeah. The guy's just bad with paperwork. Doesn't get a cent from all those shirts.

 

[Kano]

And comparing Shawn Hannity to Joseph Goebbels...?

Well, Hannity is nothing more than a promulgator of lies. He's a painter of fiction with the express purpose of deceiving the public. A propagandist, if you will.