Poison the planet? Do you honestly believe that government corruption has progressed to the point that they’d use nuclear weapons on their own people if we rose against them? And if you do, do you honestly believe we’re not just waiting for the fall of humanity anyway? Do you honestly think that politics has gotten at all better in the last 30 years? The difficult way of making change isn’t to vote in a “lesser evil” and hope they do good by accident…

Revolution is the final resort of downtrodden people everywhere, and is exactly what our country was founded on. It’s not lazy or childish, it’s a major decision that takes hard work and planning just to have a shot, which is why people only try it when there’s literally no other way out. And if you think that we’d get nuked if we tried it, then damn, there really is no other way out.

You bale water to prevent a ship from sinking. If your baling doesn’t overcome the amount of water coming into the ship, then you’re just spending your time buying more time with diminishing returns. Even that would be beneficial if there was something we were waiting for, but there’s not. Our politics keep getting worse even when we win elections. The longer we wait, the harder it becomes for us to do anything about it. What we need now isn’t time, it’s the courage to swim to one of the corporate overlords’ ships and take what’s ours. The only way we avoid drowning is to get a better ship, and the longer we spend baling, the more invested we get in the idea that it’s helping. As I’ve said, I’m still voting. I believe voting is good, but I don’t believe it’s the equivalent to baling water, and the more we think of it as being something akin to a real solution, the less we focus on real solutions that might actually save us.

Democrats are doing plenty, it’s just not in our favor. Our government is far too far gone to allow anyone with any real good intentions to seize power. At this point our “democracy” is essentially picking which of the monarch’s 2 corrupt children we want as king next. One’s terrible, and the other is better by comparison, but we would’ve called him terrible 30 years ago for good reason. I’m voting for him, but I have no illusions that positive change will happen as a result.

Nobody’s baling any water on this sinking ship. Our only choice for real survival is to seize some of the hundreds of corporate overlords’ reinforced ships that are all around us. But I honestly think we’ll all just die lamenting that the tiny dingy we were allowed by the ruling class was too worn out, and blaming each other for not baling for just a little longer, for surely they’d have thrown us a lifeline soon… Any election now…

This entire comic is just a reiteration of the same divisive rhetoric that has long since kept us from consistently making positive change. The battle has always been the people vs the ruling class, and the best way to distract people from that has always been to focus one subset of the people against another subset of the people.

If you wanted an accurate comic, you’d need republicans and democrats together on a nearby megayacht shooting holes into the boat occupied by the entire American working class. Maybe republicans are shooting the majority of the holes, but the idea that the democrats are actually baling water is ridiculous.

At best democrats are like the cops that stand by while their coworker murders an innocent civilian, then stay quiet during the subsequent “internal investigation.” Sure, you should use your voting power to ensure they get in power over their gun-crazy friends, but don’t for a second believe real positive change will happen until we come together as an entire working class and force it to.

Republican voters will accept it wholeheartedly simply because a Republican suggested it. Then they’ll view themselves as heroes who made a huge sacrifice for the good of the country when really none of this needed to happen and the country’s just getting worse. Of course, when they actually get to retirement age they’ll be confused and angry as to why THEY can’t retire yet; after all, they’re heroes!

Wait, so Steam isn’t even actually on the picture? I feel like they could’ve just circled any original logo and made the joke about that instead.

It took me a few glances to realize that’s not chewed gum stuck in the keyboard.

Stupid cosmetic designs have been an issue for a long time. There was a theater fire in Chicago in the early 1900’s where a bunch of people died because they couldn’t figure out how to use the fancy door handles while panicking and being crushed by everyone trying to get out. That’s the reason why exit doors on buildings with a high occupancy are now required to swing out, and have those pushbar locks that allow the door to open even if you’re just falling on it.

If it’s possible that someone will need to use something while panicking, it needs to be as simple, intuitive, and failproof as possible

I honestly can’t tell if sending this to my wife would go over very well or very poorly.

Hamas is evil, yes, but ultimately Israel isn’t attacking Hamas. It’s attacking Palestinians indiscriminately and hoping afterward that some of them might’ve been associated with Hamas. People aren’t calling for a ceasefire because they like Hamas, they’re calling for it because Hamas has nothing to do with Israel’s attack on Palestine besides being a convenient scapegoat.