This week's comic: The Big Dumb War Cycle

[asprinkleofsage@mastodon.social]

@jensorensen Step 8: "sensible cebtrists" try to make the occupation slightly less of a shitshow and cop 100% of the blame
Step 9: hawks run for office on a "stop the war" platform.

[sleepytako@famichiki.jp]

@jensorensen didn't you write the same comic like 25 years ago?

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@ASprinkleofSage @jensorensen And the hawks will say of all this: See, war is human nature, there’s nothing to be done! 🤷‍♂️ .. which is why it continues.

[cjpaloma@mstdn.social]

@ASprinkleofSage @jensorensen "I was wrong, But after 10 years of learning to fight and kill for oligarchs, I learned* golly gee wilikers!!!

And now, I'm the best person to lead you!!!"

meanwhile the millions of protesters who have not had to ever to go off to war to see how bad it is are just 10 or 20 years older.

*And I've made quite a few friends who own companies that profit from wars, but I won't mention that.

[cjpaloma@mstdn.social]

@gimulnautti @ASprinkleofSage @jensorensen it really has been quite a trick when you think about it- there are currently billions (with a b) of people who have never resorted to violence on others in their adult lives…and yet… I'd imagine a good chunk of those folks might buy into the "It's just HuMaN NaTurE to be abusive jerks" idea

[mrs_malice@mastodon.world]

@jensorensen genuine question, why is your alt text in all caps? perhaps you didn’t know this, but some screenreader software will read out each capital letter, rather than the full word. it’s also harder to parse visually for sighted folks, especially those with dyslexia. just wondering if you’d ever be open to converting it to sentence case at titlecase.com or something

[iamdannyboling@mstdn.social]

@jensorensen

This is excellent. And maddening.

[ptvirgo@mastodon.social]

@jensorensen We'll need to hold people accountable then.

[wilbr@glitch.social]

@mrs_malice @jensorensen could've used an OCR app which would literally copy each letter in the uppercase comic font

[wilbr@glitch.social]

@sleepytako @jensorensen my depressing thought exactly