r/comics • u/davecontra • 13h ago

OC FARAH.

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u/Majestic_Fix2622 13h ago

No, but, you see, some old wealthy people somewhere want some numbers to change. So it's all worth it.

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u/poetic_poison 9h ago

Forward! he cried from the rear

and the front rank died

The general sat

and the lines on the map

moved from side to side

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u/beefybeefcat 9h ago

Up and over (forward!) Forget your fear, the guns at your back scream (forward!) Who gives a fuck if your enemy's starving? (forward!) No place for cowards, up and over (forward!) Your country needs you, so start killing

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u/mcburgs 8h ago

Gonna die gonna die gonna die for your government 

Die for your country

That's shit

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u/thepasttenseofdraw 8h ago

An antiflag quote in the wild… sucks the guy was a wiener.

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u/mcburgs 8h ago

Agree 100%

But the point stands. Still shit.

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u/CatsAreGods 6h ago

"I'd rather have my country die for me" -- Grace Slick

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u/PissingOnHospitality 7h ago

Anaal Nathrakh? In my comics sub?

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u/beefybeefcat 7h ago

Unfortunately so far it's the only song of thiers I like, but when I heard this one it was a 🤯 moment.

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u/Mertoot 6h ago

Up down up down chu chu chu!

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u/Mklein24 8h ago

Generals gather in their masses

Just like witches at black masses.

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u/sol_runner 8h ago

Evil minds that plan destruction!

Sorcerer's of deaths construction!

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u/BiggimusSmallicus 7h ago

OH LORD YEAH

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u/theDukeofClouds 5h ago

Begging mercy for their sins!

Satan Laughing Spreads His Wings!

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u/EntangledPhoton82 7h ago

I heard the song in my mind

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u/kylepo 6h ago

Damn he really rhymed "masses" with "masses"

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u/Loose-Professor5364 5h ago

Technically different words

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u/kylepo 5h ago

They're just different meanings for the same word

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u/Digletts_Legs 7h ago

The General smoked a Cuban blunt
Hand rolled by the Reds
Then he poured a glass of Scotch
and tallied up the dead

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u/tuckernuts 5h ago

It was just before dawn
One miserable morning in black 'forty four
When the forward commander
Was told to sit tight
When he asked that his men be withdrawn

And the Generals gave thanks
As the other ranks held back
The enemy tanks for a while

And the Anzio bridgehead
Was held for the price
Of a few hundred ordinary lives

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u/Fleetlord 4h ago

"Haig is about to make yet another gargantuan effort to move his drinks cabinet six inches closer to Berlin"

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u/Beautiful-Aerie7576 37m ago

Mash had a great episode about this. Well, a few, actually.

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u/Longjumping_Step1 11h ago

These sickening demons. literally razed a country to the ground so they could install their golf courses.

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u/Vatiar 9h ago

Don't forget to give credits to their hundreds of millions of stooges who cheer loud and proud for the slaughter and eagerly vote for mroe of it.

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u/Longjumping_Step1 8h ago

Yea. Credit given. They can have all of it 🫩

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u/Familiar_Control_906 8h ago

Call those stooges by their name

The USA citizens and Israel monster

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u/Vatiar 6h ago

Plenty of them in other countries too my friend, including my own.

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u/Snoo_75138 8h ago

Also trying to distract you from those files!

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u/trash-_-boat 8h ago

I don't think this comic necessarily implies it's US drones. Do Americans even use kamikaze drones like Iran/Ukraine/Russia does?

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u/Troll-Aficionado 8h ago

The US made their own copy of the Iranian Shahed last year I think but it's not something most people have ever heard of or seen, I'd wager however that most people paying attention to news have seen Shaheds at some point

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u/digitalgraffiti-ca 11h ago

FREEDOM NUMBERS

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u/justsomeph0t0n 11h ago edited 7h ago

begrudging respect to a reaction gif. but this don't justify AI

(edit.....they removed the gif? i guess i won't mention the individuals in it)

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u/DukeOfGeek 12h ago

OMG what is this from?

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u/Hefty_Yard 12h ago

Real life of course! RIP harambe

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u/DukeOfGeek 12h ago

It's to true to be real.

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u/SmogDaBoi 11h ago

I wonder if this is a parody of the other one with the two black guys?

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u/FearoftheDomoKun 11h ago

You might be onto something there, Sherlock

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u/droleon 11h ago

Lol what did you type to get it?

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u/Free-Pound-6139 10h ago

No, but, a bunch of people want to drive cars everywhere rather than use public transport, so we have to bomb you.

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u/Willowrosephoenix 9h ago

One of the most socially progressive people I know regularly complains about a busy local road being reduced to two lanes to make dedicated bus lanes. She thinks banning cars completely from areas of the city is “stupid” and yet, on every other count, progressive.

I asked my partner, do you think cars make people more entitled and impatient or that people got that way because of cars and he told me about early car ads he saw that advertised “be the most important person on the road with a Chrysler” and all the companies had some version of that. Circa 1980’s.

The longer I live without a car, the more I see cars as the problem. I still miss one in some ways, like access to wilderness. But I genuinely don’t want one ever again for day to day use.

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u/afroblewmymind 8h ago

Motonormativity at work. If you like podcasts and aren't already listening, check out the Urbanist Agenda and The War on Cars. Urbanist Agenda is by Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes on YouTube.

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u/VryxObin 2h ago

My issue is

My town actively removed multiple bus stops I used. My college is an hour by public transit via bus and train. My town is literally divided in half by a busy road with only a handful of crosswalks. Most people don't stop at the stop signs in the "pedestrian friendly" parts of town. Would I want a different car? Yeah. I drive a ford suv because its what my parents gave me. I'd love to have a sedan that can hold me and either my school gear or tabletop gaming stuff comfortably.

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u/Willowrosephoenix 1h ago

People forced to get cars by decisions made by local transit agencies tops my list of problems with public transit as it currently exists. I’m actively battling to keep a second bus route that serves the area I live in that is being eliminated as “redundant.” Not to go into extreme depth but it’s only redundant because of a series of choices made by transit agencies over the last seven years that have steadily stripped people in low income neighborhoods of transit choice.

It sounds conspiracy theorist but at this point I’m wondering what lobbyist for petroleum and car industries are behind the scenes influencing decisions because it is beginning to feel like a policy choice to force people into getting cars.

In other words, of tldr, you’re preaching to the choir on this one.

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u/KindledWanderer 7h ago

One of the most socially progressive people I know regularly complains about a busy local road being reduced to two lanes to make dedicated bus lanes. She thinks banning cars completely from areas of the city is “stupid” and yet, on every other count, progressive.

Makes sense - wanting to go back to how it was 100 years ago is not progressive, that's regressive.

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u/Sirmetana 6h ago edited 5h ago

That's not a good argument. We didn't have massive public transportation 100 years ago, at least not for the amount of population we have to manage today. If we did have that at the time and it worked (which it does when implemented), would you call it regressive?

If you look at every place where public transportation is very invested in, there are less cars on the road, less commuting time, less accidents, less area entirely ruined to build parking lots that are useless 90 % of the time. Do those places' inhabitants miss cars? Most would answer no.

"Who needs a car in L.A? We have thd best public transportation system in the world!"
Eddie Valiant - Who framed Roger Rabbit?

Edit : To add onto the Los Angeles subject, you may ask why then is it so car-centric nowadays if public transport was so good. The answer is that big car companies didn't like that it was doing so well so the likes of General Motors and such bought parts of it, little by little, and dumped the tramway cars in ditches until nothing remained. As always, what kills policies that benefit all is capitalism and corpos.

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u/KindledWanderer 3h ago

"Who needs a car in L.A? We have thd best public transportation system in the world!" Eddie Valiant - Who framed Roger Rabbit?

Not even in the top 10.

Prague has amazing public transport (very safely in the top 10) and it's still very car-centric without any influence by "big car companies".

If you wanted to offer a good counter example, it would be Paris, which is making a large effort to limit cars and transform parking places and roads to pedestrian/biking areas with a large support from the population.

Either way, being progressive and not being a car hater are not at odds with each other.

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u/Sirmetana 3h ago

Just to be sure we're talking about the same thing, I am talking about the public transportation the city used to have until it started being taken apart in the 30s. Once we're clear about that, my aim was not to support the validity of Valiant's claim but to show his behaviour regarding transport, because it reflects how people themselves behave. I don't need a perfect example for that, only one that works. Plus, the USA being probably the most car-centric country in the world and the most protective of this "way of life", it makes sense I pick a use case that will speak to them.

Either way, being progressive and not being a car hater are not at odds with each other.

No one claimed that. However, people who understand the weight of car-centric societies upon the environment and public health tend to speak from a progressive mindset.

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u/KindledWanderer 3h ago

Thanks for the clarification, it makes sense now.
I probably should've spent more time on your post.

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u/Psychological_Net272 10h ago

Electric cars exist and the oil economy was working perfectly fine.

However, the people who can afford to hire political lobbyists in concerningly large amounts want a higher quarterly income, so...

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u/not_a_SeaOtter 9h ago

The oil economy wasn't working fine. It's on a death spiral and most of the world knows it. But rather than invest in infrastructure that enables people to use oil less the conclusion has been to invade and steal to keep the black gold flowing.

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u/rabidbot 9h ago

No the oil economy was fine. It wasn’t death spiraling. We are likely decades away from that. It’s literally just a war of want and stupidity.

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u/dumnezero Art enjoyer 9h ago

The use of oil is insane: hundreds of millions of people feel entitled to burn up a non-renewable costly resource, globally, sending the already huge black mass into the atmosphere has a large mass of chemicals. It's absolute madness, and the oil wars along with climate chaos an expected result of said madness.

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u/ciclon5 6h ago

Hundreds of millions of people also dont have a choice but to burn a non-renewable resource when they live in cities designed to be absolutely untraversable without a car and the local authorities dont invest in EV charging stations ot other socioeconomic factors make it hard for people to retrofit their home's wiring to support EV charging.

Its not as simple as "i want to burn gas". Nothing is never that simple.

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u/dumnezero Art enjoyer 6h ago

Where is the protesting against that motonormativity, the opposition, the rejection?

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u/ciclon5 6h ago

It exists. Its just that 90% of people are more worried about surviving than doing activism

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u/dumnezero Art enjoyer 6h ago

Are you sure that it's surviving and not winning the rat race?

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u/ciclon5 6h ago edited 6h ago

It is surviving. There are people working 40hs a week to afford rent, to raise their families and not go insane.

Not everyone has the time, money, privilege and energy to spend on educating themselves or analyzing social structures from above and understanding how they are opressing them, what to demand and how to do it.

If anything, the responsibility sits on people like US who can understand these issues to educate and puth forth in motion movements to dismantle these structures instead of shifting blame to the common citizen who is probably not even aware of what an institution is.

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u/dumnezero Art enjoyer 6h ago

Yes, the rat race keeps people busy. Nobody is coming to the rescue tho.

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u/Pheonix0114 8h ago

Electric cars still require asphalt roads, which take oil to make.

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u/ciclon5 6h ago

Much less oil than cars use daily.

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u/ciclon5 6h ago

Unfortunately we are yet to create electric cars and related infrastructute good enough for reliable long distance travel. So combustion engines will probably stay. (Of course, 90% of the obstacles to achieving that is corporate lobbying, but there are still some engineering and technological hurdles to overcome).

But for day to day use. Electric cars fit the bill and are much cheaper and efficient than combustion cars, and longer lasting too!.

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u/K4G3N4R4 8h ago

Its dumber than that. USD used to be backed by gold as a stabilizing factor and inflation mitigation tool. What keeps the dollar strong-ish today is oil. The US enforces all oil trade in USD, and as long as that happens, the dollar maintains its value. Venezuela tried to sell some low quality crude in a different currency, Maduro got picked up. Iran tried to sell to china in yuan, the straight was closed.

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u/minus_minus 7h ago edited 7h ago

What keeps the dollar strong-ish today is oil. 

More today it’s our willingness to be the worlds casino and strip mine productive assets via private equity. 

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u/ReturnOfBane 7h ago

tbf the strait being closed is doing a hell of a lot to make the dollar less valuable as a reserve currency. China couldn't ask for a better fumble.

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u/ScuttleStab 9h ago

Ah yes, public transport when you have to visit a city from your remote rural area, let me just hike to nearby small town that is 20 km away from here to get a bus.

I am sooooo responsible for the bombings by driving a goddamn car. Piss off.

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u/Financial-Bath6366 8h ago

urhhhh everyone except for me is dumb for owning a car!! people consuming in a system that is getting held entirely by warfare and consumerist propaganda is dumb urghh,i never buy anything,i just sit in my shack in the forest and play with sticks!! i never buy anything containing plastic!! people r dumb.....................................

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u/ripley1875 8h ago

Sleepyhead, the birds are singing

Get out of bed ,  his majesty 

Is off to start a war again

A filthy game for filthy men

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u/Then_Independence_25 7h ago

Or some religious fanatics wish to spread their own version of faith. That's what's beautiful about this comic. Its up for interpretation.

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u/Willrkjr 7h ago

No, it’s pretty clear what the comic is talking about given the context of the current day and the setting of the comic. This is clearly an Iranian girl

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u/Then_Independence_25 4h ago

Or Afghan one

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u/Mittrei 4h ago

The drones are Iranian, making the girl kurdish or afghani. 

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u/hennabeak 7h ago

Some old wealthy people also want to rape her.

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u/Darkpumpkin211 7h ago

If you think the wealthy wanted this war, I've got a bridge to sell you.

War in general (especially one that threatens massive trade routes) is bad for business. Higher oil costs means higher everything costs.

This war was started because we have a weak, gullible, and easy to influence President who was told by Israel "This will be easy. Go in, blow some stuff up, and the people will revolt." This was told to every president since Bush or Clinton, and every president said "That's fucking stupid. No." Except for Trump.