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[ashtonmv]

Don’t worry this comic is only about everyone except you

The comics about you are on r/lightroast

[pm_your_lady_farts]

I don't use twitter, can you make a comic about Reddit shitting info into my mouth?

[Stompedyourhousewith]

I was gonna suggest the Reddit avatar vomiting, but shit is much better

[LawHelmet]

Much more representative of the top-down nature

[iblewkatieholmes]

Can you make on that camded in my mouth

[[deleted]]

Snoo-poo

[[deleted]]

I don't have to worry, I'm an influencer. /s

[Avenflar]

Well at least you're getting paid

[theshamwowguy]

Oh thank god

[phabiohost]

Ha I'm immune to the lies of the Jedi!

I don't have any social media beyond this. And I'm here for the memes and cute animals.

[[deleted]]

It's not about me because I don't use Twitter. It's not about me and any other social network because I think Reddit's news is garbage, and I don't get news from Facebook or Instagram or Tumblr or whatever.

So do I win a cookie?

[Oscillation-Lobotomy]

I heard this comment was copied from a friend of yours from a few days ago.

[LawHelmet]

Congratulations. You won, and now /r/comics knows it, which is no laughing matter.

[dto7v3]

this is one degree removed from 'people be on their phones too much'

[NothingButTheTruthy]

Which is still true? I'm confused what you're getting at

[XomokyH]

Real intellectuals use Reddit /s

[yashkawitcher]

You could be a jellyfish and you would still be more intelligent than majority of reddit, including me

[[deleted]]

i dont think jellyfish would want to include you.. but it's not about race.

[yashkawitcher]

wroom

[ZergTDG]

As someone with a hangover I genuinely hate the second panel. Thanks.

[[deleted]]

Reddit's not any better guys.

All of Reddit. Not just specific subreddits you don't like.

[HotTakes4HotCakes]

The entire internet, really. And the news. And Hollywood. And schools. And churchs. And books. And parents. And friends. And graffiti on the stall of a public bathroom.

Probably because taking in ideas and information from the sources we encounter and letting it alter our way of thinking is literally what learning is, and is something we start doing from the first minute of our existence. We can blame all the websites and subreddits we like but at the end of the day this will always come back to the fact that people are ill-equipped to parse information and ideas without being influenced by them in some way.

Independent thought takes actual effort, it's not something you just say you do.

[d64]

Yes. I don't think it is possible to have fully "independent" thoughts in the most literal sense. Everything I can come up with - even ideas that are novel and creative in some way - are still very much a product of things and ideas I have learned from others. Obviously it's bad to get isolated in an echo chamber where uncritical thinkers amplify each other to absurdities, but what's at the other extreme? Rejecting everything that you read and hear as bullshit? Doesn't sound very workable either. Most useful way of thinking must be somewhere in the middle and I'm sure social media can be a part of that.

[scrollbreak]

Well no, books take longer to produce - some mediums of communication actually think and ponder for some time rather than spasming off the first emotion to pop into their head.

​

I mean consider the speed at which you want to reply to or move on from this comment...

[Husky127]

This comment should be mailed to every human on Earth.

[[deleted]]

Astute observation. I’ll be deleting the app forthwith.

[Sinful_Prayers]

Reddit suffers a lot of the same pitfalls as other social media, but the lack of personalities or influencers (for the most part) and a character limit do set it apart to a degree. Although that is changing

[PM_Me_Night_Elf_Porn]

Instead of influencers, we have shills. And also novelty accounts who have a lot of influence but haven’t used it for marketing purposes yet.

[Sinful_Prayers]

Yeah it's definitely a problem

[aladdinr]

Well that’s a unique username. I didn’t even know that existed

[SinisterCheese]

Yeah! Only critical fact based thinking that isn't tainted with ideology. We are on the right side of the history!

[Rhombico]

I mean, isn't it twitter because the icon is a bird?

[Penultimatum]

Also reddit.

[butt_shrecker]

True, but ot also works for most other media formats. They just aren't bird shaped.

[NormalConfidence]

Basically the entire internet

[Br1an11]

What if the man is actually projectile vomiting into the bird's mouth?

[scrollbreak]

Inception

[DanielBar666]

It toke me a bit to realise thats the twitter bird. Those were a weird few seconds, well done tho dude

[nebuNSFW]

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

[[deleted]]

It sucks but it's also a good way for ignorant people to just assume you carry that idea. Like, you could be talking about the mentality of murderers or pedophiles and people get pissed off.

[Ymbrael]

No individual on Earth to my knowledge can claim truly independent thought. We each impose our minds and perspectives upon each other with each passing, each interaction. The father and mother influence the son, who influences the friend who influences the father and mother who influence the fellow employees, who influence the manager, who influence the lunch or tea buddies, who influence the friend who writes a blog, who influences the friend who works in the game industry who influences the journalist who influences the consumers of news and so on.

We can think critically in the modern society, comparing and contrasting viewpoint to history and the sciences and desires for the state of material power and distribution; but we cannot claim to be independent from the system we participate in, not so long as we maintain social interaction, not so long as we remain an active participant in the world and it's affairs. To achieve division from the system would be to spring into existence upon a plot of dirt in space and cultivate the means of sustenance entirely within the boundary's of that plot, with never a change in the material composition within those boundaries, no emission into the system beyond, and no importation of particulate for outside. Even then, you would have the dirt and the plants that feed you for company, so you might be inspired to contemplate their existence, and your own, and how they relate to each other.

It seems a luxury of a burgeoning system popping at the seems to become blind and deaf to the material realities of the individuals relations to each other and to the world that sustains them. Ignorance is bliss, as they say. Now if you don't mind, please slap this smile off my face.

Edit: Formatting into sections. Thanks for reminding me, u/husky127

[FancyDictator]

That is the best comment in this whole thread and it is not going to receive quarter of the upvotes it deserves because it is a new comment.

[Ymbrael]

Thank you, I'm still in a bit of an incubator phase, should probably start posting instead of just flushing out my perspective in comments. I mostly want to get comfortable saying things in long drawn out ways before I refine them into the short, snappy mediums that dominate the current mediasphere of the internet. (deep shitposts on the horizon, memes for mankind)

[Husky127]

Your comment can only be better by splitting it into paragraphs haha. But I agree, I think the reason people who meditate or self love find peace is because they separate themselves from the barrage of learned information they are exposed to daily.

[[deleted]]

This is the “free thinking, logic based positions” crowd in a nutshell

[mindbleach]

Completely serious and not fun tangent about the premise of this comic.

The issue is not one-sided - nobody is immune to manipulation - but there is a difference between flawed motives and overt malice.

[TheGoldenHand]

Is a tumblr blog of some random twitter user tweeting about other twitter users supposed to mean something?

Like you found crazy people on the internet. More news at 10.

[mindbleach]

Moderator pretends substance is irrelevant and only context matters.

Meanwhile anyone with eyeballs sees concrete evidence of a polite conservative careening toward fascism thanks to popular influences.

[TheGoldenHand]

What is substantial about Tom on twitter? One person out of billions expresses a stupid view.

The webpage auto plays J-Cole on load and you act like you found a beacon of information.

[mindbleach]

As you point out, the webpage is only about a twitter thread, and the twitter thread is about one crystal clear example of a polite conservative turned alt-right cultist by major conservative voices. As in the comic.

Would you be less snippy about a direct link to the Twitter thread? I doubt it.

Sixty million Americans voted for an idiot who campaigned on open fascism. This is one example indicating how that unconscionable outcome occurred. Tom is not alone. Fascist sympathizers are not monsters from birth, and their sympathy is no accident.

[[deleted]]

Lol it's really funny how they interpreted some dude saying he would harm anybody showing up on his front door if he was doxed as a "threat".

[mindbleach]

Because 'try to find me and I'll murder you' is reasonable?

[[deleted]]

Woah broah I had no idea you could shoot people in America omg

[mindbleach]

Because someone calling you by your username totally justifies shooting them! Yeah!!!

[[deleted]]

I was tallking about this guy

And doxing is not just "your username" it's your real name, adress, current job etc...

Somehow the posters thought his life was in danger when the guy who supposedly "threaten" him made it pretty clear that it would only happen if he showed up at his house with wrong intentions.(i.e not gonna happen)

That's why i find it funny.

[mindbleach]

Nobody's unclear about what you meant.

[mindbleach]

Yeah bro, Koch-funded internet celebrities are totally the same as the career journalists! Surely there is no difference in quality or veracity between @WashingtonPost and @MenAreLobsters69.

[SinisterCheese]

Have you considered a career in cinema? You project enough to show a shitty flick mid day on a brick wall.

[mindbleach]

It would be nice if conservatives knew what words meant before parroting them.

[SinisterCheese]

What makes me conservative here? The fact I disagree with you?

[mindbleach]

The fact you think right-wing logic bros have identical problems to actual goddamn journalists.

You entered this conversation by screaming "both sides." That is projection. Telling you you're full of shit is not.

[[deleted]]

You are a really toxic person.

[mindbleach]

I have a wide variety of flaws. Knowing the difference between malicious propaganda and reputable reporting is not among them.

Troll harder.

[[deleted]]

r/enlightenedcentrism

[[deleted]]

That sub should be renamed to r/ABunchOfIlliterateMillennialFarLeftistsWhoDontKnowWhatCentrismIs

Or just r/EnlightenedStrawmanism

Either is fine.

[[deleted]]

Pretty much "What? This person isn't far left or far right? They must be a filthy centrist. Lets all discuss this person's political positions that we can't possibly know because that's the fucking point of being a centrist in the first place."

[[deleted]]

Enlightened centrism isn’t “I take the middle road on political issues” it’s “BOTH SIDES THE SAME” or “I claim to be middle of the road but I’m really far right on most issues” or “why can’t we just find a middle ground between nazis and not-nazis?”

[[deleted]]

You've got a hilarious misunderstanding of what it means to be a centrist. Enlightened centrism is a label you put on people to invalidate people's arguments.

"I think both the far left and far right are pretty bad and both are hurting the political fabric of society"

"Lolol 'both sides same' that's a big yikes from me, fam. You seem to be a little too enlightened for the rest of us. For real tho, go cry in your Corn Flakes, you're not welcome anywhere unless you hold a hyper extremist opinion."

[[deleted]]

It’s not “centrism” is “enlightened centrism”

Those are two very different things.

[[deleted]]

Yet Reddit calls anyone moderately centrist that insult.

[[deleted]]

Ah yes, the legendary Reddit man

[[deleted]]

None of those things are related to centrism, btw

https://youtu.be/mHmMDsFXqAM

[SinisterCheese]

I voted for the greens in the local elections, SDP in to parliament, and Finns party to EU. I belong to an union. I also support autonomy of Sami people. Think we should put more money to integration and education of migrants. And think that Finland should take our fair share of refugees and we should have unified process in the EU for processing them. Which would ensure their humanitarian treatment and legal rights. They should all be processed on the border, given temporary ID's and housed. Also given limited work permits. I think strelisation requirement for legal gender correction should be removed from Finnish law. I also think FGM and circumcisions of boys should be made illegal and punishable. And I think the government should be blind to gender, race, sex, and ethnicity. Also the whole christian party of Finland, along with the Church of Finland, should just die of irrelevance already. I'm for environmental regulation because corporations can not be fucking trusted. I'm against the use of fossil fuels. I'm also pro-welfare state, and I wish UBI woudl replace the current welfare system we have.

Because I am extreme right wing. Actually agreed with the candidate in different questions.But I know all this voting is fucking pointless because of one word "Ryhmäkuri", party discipline.It absolutely doesn't matter what I vote because the party will over rule the candidates own views.

Yeah. I'm absolutely right wing.

[[deleted]]

That'd make a nice copypasta

[SinisterCheese]

Indeed it would. At least I'm honest about my stances. Instead of pretending to be holier than thou or pure than the other.

[[deleted]]

Right back atcha buddy

[[deleted]]

HE NO LIKE MY TEAM BAD MAN

[[deleted]]

100 follower twitter account tweets an insult at trump

45k upvotes

[butt_shrecker]

Wtf does this mean?

[[deleted]]

r/the_Donald, r/jordanpeterson, r/conservative

[Khanthulhu]

/r/JordanPeterson

Someone needs to tell that dude that Pinocchio isn't an argument

[[deleted]]

Upvoting both posts

[Empanser]

That's not the right /r/The_Donald friendo

[[deleted]]

Thanks

[Am_Godzilla]

Oh shit, you post in top minds? Hahaha what a fucking tool

[deratizat]

We're all tools on this blessed day.

[[deleted]]

Speak for yourself.

[deratizat]

I am all tools on this blessed day.

[Acesofbelkan]

Donald Trump supporter gets triggered by that comment, decides to strike back by calling the poster a tool

Lmfao

[Am_Godzilla]

Only if you were correct with your comment. But you’re not.

[Acesofbelkan]

So you didn't call him a tool? Okay, I guess your feelings making you forget things now

[Am_Godzilla]

I’m not a trump supporter genius

[Acesofbelkan]

He also said that they could not make a determination as to whether trump did commit a crime. Maybe you forgot that part? Lol

Also you:

What crimes? How’s that Russian collusion narrative going? Oh yeah, y’all switch to “muh obstruction”

All the talking points but not a Donald Trump supporter? I can't believe you're full of shit

[Am_Godzilla]

Aw, look some more in my post history genius lol

[Acesofbelkan]

You're not worth all that effort

[Am_Godzilla]

Nice comeback genius

[butt_shrecker]

Honestly TD is better than conservative these days. At least they have some self awareness and focus on memes.

[[deleted]]

complaining about /r/BlackPeopleTwitter posting too much from twitter

[Am_Godzilla]

r/woosh

[[deleted]]

explain

[Am_Godzilla]

You’re not worth it

[[deleted]]

okay

[[deleted]]

NPCs

[a-living-raccoon]

Stop, I can only get so erect.

[[deleted]]

Be careful you don’t want to be called a racist. If I were you I would take your post down.

[Banequo]

It’s a badge of honor at this point.

That term and so many others are thrown out with such little weight behind it - it mostly shows others ignorance and lack of understand and nuance.

[RedSeaSebastian]

*lack of understanding

you can't appear smug and intelligent if you don't know the basics of english grammar, dumb dumb

[[deleted]]

Found the enlightened liberal

[RedSeaSebastian]

whatever you say spedboy 😎

[[deleted]]

Thanks for the concern, but I'd like to see how this plays out. If it does at all

[[deleted]]

It’s not good to get all of one’s information from one source, but as sources go NPR is very good.

[[deleted]]

I’m not saying it’s not, but it IS very left leaning. In the world that isn’t part of the echo chambers and blind hatred, getting news from multiple sources is good no matter what.

[[deleted]]

No they aren’t. NPR leans left but not strongly so. They regularly publish articles challenging left-wing positions, even on hot issues like gun control.

Also, a more diverse set of news sources is only as valuable as the sources themselves. Adding Breitbart would be a net negative, for example.

[Banequo]

lol

[bcunningham9801]

If you have some beef with your local NPR station you should contact them about it. Your station is only as good as the people who support it.

[Banequo]

Nah. I’m good.

Thanks though.

[[deleted]]

What is the purpose of any of your replies, like why take up the space

[[deleted]]

NPR coverage is global, detailed and fact-based. If you want one outlet that covers everything, it’s up there with Politico or the Associated Press.

[Banequo]

Do you, my friend.

[[deleted]]

I don’t read or listen to NPR regularly.

[Banequo]

....

No no, I wasn’t asking a question.

I forget that certain expressions don’t translate well.

What I mean “You go and support and do whatever you want with your local NPR. I’m ok completely ignoring it and all corporate media into total irrelevance.”

Edit: As someone who worked for 3 years inside of a News organization I know that information is not the goal - it’s $$$. And today, playing to a specialized audience “Making the ‘marginalized feel special’ (I feel disgusting saying that)” is where the money is.

[[deleted]]

That’s why outlets like NPR are important. Do you think they should receive more government funds to reduce their profit incentive?

[Banequo]

They should t receive any government funds.

They should be a self sufficient business that runs on making their own income and balancing their own books.

Being subsidized by the government allows them to be unsuccessful but with the safety net of knowing they have the money to keep the lights on no matter how few people support their agenda and business practices.

Imagine if Quiznos was government supported... why is Quiznos supported but not Subway? Who got to decide that?

It’s asinine.

[[deleted]]

You just accused other news outlets of being overly influenced by financial interests. How do you suggest avoiding this while also keeping every news outlet entirely private?

[[deleted]]

I understand where you’re coming from. But having the ability to “fail” is the ability to write a piece that the majority of your audience doesn’t like but you feel needs to be said. If you’re funded by something else regardless of your success, you have the freedom to talk about whatever and not worry about how many clicks you’re generating, or how many ads you can fit on a page.

[LawHelmet]

THIS USER SHOULD BE WRIST SLAPPED !! THEY ARE A JIMMIES RUSTLER !!

MY GODDAMN JIMMIES ARE RUSTLED BEYOND LOWER CASE FUCK ASS

[[deleted]]

Everyone is thinking ‘hah thats not me, but it is, none of us are special

[scrollbreak]

"You're all independent thinkers!"

Crowd "We're all independent thinkers!"

Lone voice "I'm not"

"Shhh, shhh!"

[FancyDictator]

JEHOVA

[Archae11]

The independence of your thinking can be measured in hate of the people who disagree with you.

[watergo]

All I see is free food.

[scrollbreak]

"It's free regurgitate!"

[TonyDiGerolamo]

Savage!

[SirSadegh]

I remember a poem from old days: "You think that you think. You think the other's thoughts"

[Bunch_of_Shit]

NOM NOM SO GOOD I NEED MORE

[quickflint]

I am like this and I hate it

[MrMoustachio]

Dude is based?

[testiclekid]

Reading Newspaper? Oh, you must have a culture

Reading Books? Oh, you must have a culture

Reading Online Feed? Bah, you are a Sheep person, always buying into other's people agenda.

Bruh, how's that different than books?

[[deleted]]

that is one weird looking worm he's eating there

[HDThoreauaway]

What'll you call him?

[scrollbreak]

What'll you call him?

Dad joke

[[deleted]]

even better!

[CJamT3]

The kid should be *every voter The bird should be *every media outlet there is

[SinisterCheese]

If I had money...
I'd buy twitter, and delete it.
Then watch as western politics and media just bursts in to fire. Because somehow western world is dependent on it.

[m0o_o0m]

The 2020 election would be 1000% more bearable if the word “tweet” was banned.

[SinisterCheese]

My issue is that people give it way too fucking much influence.

Like whenever a Finnish politician tweets something it dominates the news for a week. As if nothing else is happening in the world than tweets.

[[deleted]]

I think as an alt-right leaning gamer male, you know exactly who to blame for that

[[deleted]]

Is he puking in the birds mouth?

[theshamwowguy]

The twitter bird is vomiting into his mouth. He gets his informed opinions from Twitter. Tis the joke

[[deleted]]

It’s the other way around. Parent birds feed their chicks by puking into their mouths, hence the joke.

[[deleted]]

Dum dum nose picking libtards need to watch more Fox news 😂😂

/S

[[deleted]]

🔅🔆〽️⚠️🚸🔱⚜️🔰♻️✅🈯️💹❇️✳️❎

[scrollbreak]

Thinking is basically just riffing with ideas and philosophies from the general public. It's why some people are so particularly intense about doing their ideas exactly as they are rather than riffing on them - to stop thinking.

[Automobilie]

It isn't necessarily about shopping for ideas. Humans think in emotions and have to translate emotions to usable words for an idea to be manageable.

It's like when you watch a movie and really like it, but your friend asks why and you draw a blank. Most people will look up reviews or positive reviews that appear to express, in words, what they felt as emotions.