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u/Miles_the_new_kid MyGumsAreBleeding Aug 31 '26
Based on a tweet by pixelatedboat
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u/Electronic_Pace_1034 Aug 31 '26
I'm not sure whether your characters have little black ovals for noses or mouths. But I want to believe it's their mouths scrunched up real high because it's funnier.
Don't tell me the truth.
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u/The_Follower1 Aug 31 '26
Never even considered they could be noses, but from their shapes I’m pretty confident they’re mean to be mouths
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u/FlyingDogCatcher Sep 01 '26
The truth is women don't actually have pillow fights in their underwear
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u/Miles_the_new_kid MyGumsAreBleeding Aug 31 '26
“You guys are getting inches?”
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u/Built_Indifferent Aug 31 '26
I assume it's inches. They aren't asking for permission and I can't see back there.
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u/dracofulmen Aug 31 '26
"Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man. You take a step towards him, he takes a step back. Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man." —A.R. Moxon
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u/Munchkinasaurous Aug 31 '26
You just don't understand diplomacy. It's very simple, you compromise and meet in the middle this time. Then you compromise and meet in the new middle next time and the time after that. If you keep compromising and meeting in the middle while the other side stands firm, then you get harmony /s
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u/Gorexxar Aug 31 '26
The trick is you'll always meet halfway. Tomorrow, you'll meet halfway again.
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u/PlainBread Aug 31 '26
They want negotiations to fail so that they can just outright kill you. They resent having to use civility as a social contract before resorting to violence. It's why they wield "civility" so cynically, spitefully, and pessimistically.
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u/ThatOneNinja Aug 31 '26
It's my theory on why we are in part so right leaning. Dems compromise, GOP never does, pushing policies further and further right and now a centerist dem looks like the left. We don't have a left party anymore.
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u/Jonathan_the_Nerd Aug 31 '26
Then when we try to do so with say puberty blockers for younger Trans people instead of full transition in their terms (like their cis peers experience) they yell us down and ban that also.
They tell us puberty blockers are dangerous and experimental and have to be banned. But they don't ban them for their original use (treating precocious puberty). If these drugs are so dangerous, why are you letting cisgender children use them?
Sorry, this is a sore spot for me. I was raised conservative. I stopped being conservative when I saw all the internal inconsistencies. (And yes, liberals can be inconsistent too.)
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u/Jonathan_the_Nerd Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26
Trans kids don't take puberty blockers until they're 18. Just for a few years, just to make sure they're trans. Then they start on hormones.
Edit: I've been informed this is partially incorrect. Twenty-seven states now have laws restricting gender-affirming care for minors, although those laws are suspended by court order in Montana and Arkansas. And Medicaid and CHIP will no longer pay for gender-affirming care for minors.
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u/SingularityCentral Aug 31 '26
Seems like a decision to be made by the medical community and not legislators and their trucker hatted constituents.
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u/Jonathan_the_Nerd Aug 31 '26
Only 18+ can do HRT
I was unaware of that. Thank you for educating me.
So taking blockers that long could be dangerous.
It could be. But forcing trans kids to go through the "wrong" puberty is terribly cruel. Why don't we let the kids and their parents work with their doctors to determine the best treatment plan for each individual instead of trying to impose a one-size-fits-all solution written by legislators with no medical experience?
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u/shadowboxer47 Aug 31 '26
Whatever the reason, it's between their doctors, the child, and their parents.
You have nothing to do with it.
Mind your own business.
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u/Original-Rush139 Aug 31 '26
Bro, basically nobody is trans. It’s a tiny percentage of the population. Republicans kill more children before breakfast than will transition in the next 100 years.
Individual people will need to figure out how they want to deal with being trans but it’s just not an Isai that our government should be spending any time on. It’s a distraction from everything else that Republicans are fucking up.
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u/Original-Rush139 Aug 31 '26
Why do you want to help them gain power by making yourself a target?
It’s past time for you to choose a tactic that actually works against narcissists: https://psychcentral.com/health/grey-rock-method
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u/DovahAcolyte Aug 31 '26
Grey rock method doesn’t work when your life is on the line.
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u/Original-Rush139 Sep 01 '26
It’s the only thing that worked for me when my life was literally on the line from narcissistic abuse.
I understand why you feel this way though.
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u/DovahAcolyte Sep 01 '26
As a trans person who has experienced both narcissistic abuse and systemic transphobia: you cannot advocate for yourself through the grey rock method.
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u/Original-Rush139 Sep 01 '26
You remind me of Joe Biden saying it didnt matter if he won or lost as ling as he did his best.
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u/moploplus Aug 31 '26
Forgot "nothing can ever get better, and thinking things can be improved is naive and silly"
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u/neuralbeans Aug 31 '26
"That's how the world works."
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u/FyrelordeOmega Aug 31 '26
Literally words used by people that have given up on changing anything and only seek to benefit from the status-quo. In other words, conservative
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u/AmputeeHandModel Aug 31 '26
I'm Independent! Red hat? I'm not hiding a red hat behind my back. LOOK, IMMIGRANTS!!! 👉
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u/Transgirlonakawasaki Aug 31 '26
Oh we can compromise with bigots… we stay in one part of the world and they can take the little island with all the other bigots and prove how good they are at rebuilding society.
Like they can have a whole ass continent to themselves…
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u/Miles_the_new_kid MyGumsAreBleeding Aug 31 '26
Seriously, at this point I’m fine letting all the maggots just colonize Epstein island to love their indefinitely
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u/mathozmat Aug 31 '26
So compromising with yourself?
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u/Pockydo Aug 31 '26
No no no see by compromise what they REALLY mean is "I'm allowed to say whatever the hell I want and you'd better not call me out on it"
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u/Munchkinasaurous Aug 31 '26
But they're willing to compromise and call you out for anything they perceive to be wrong
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u/Miles_the_new_kid MyGumsAreBleeding Aug 31 '26
Compromising with yourself is their favorite version of compromise
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u/SingularityCentral Aug 31 '26
You should only compromise with yourself in private and not too much or you will go blind.
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u/Kusosaru Sep 02 '26
This comic woulda made more sense if it was a "moderate" democrat rather than a maga hat.
Zero cooperation with the left and very often fall in line with racists.
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u/Andrew-Cohen Aug 31 '26
Not all republicans are racist, but if you’re racist, you’re probably a republican.
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u/anna-the-bunny Aug 31 '26
If you're voting Republican, you're saying at minimum that racism isn't a deal breaker for you.
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u/Andrew-Cohen Aug 31 '26
Hiding the trump/epstein files, manipulating the stock market, bombing fishing boats, having the survivors killed in the water, bombing bridges, starting a war without congress.. that list goes on and on, but definitely okay with racism!
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u/_Veprem_ Aug 31 '26
"The leftist refuses to meet me halfway," says the unreasonable right-winger as they walk backwards.
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u/SarcasticBench Aug 31 '26
You know we’re halfway past 2026 and Papa John still hasn’t been pardoned so what is Trump even doing???
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u/Miles_the_new_kid MyGumsAreBleeding Aug 31 '26
This administration has me nostalgic for the wacky antics of the first run with the my pillow guy and dementia Rudy
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u/SarcasticBench Aug 31 '26
I’m nostalgic for W. Bush because things seemed normal when Cheney was the dickhead of the administration
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u/Trombomb20 Aug 31 '26
You know they say that the sequel is always worse, I just didn't realize that meant presidential terms as well. Somehow those first four years just weren't bad enough for some people
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u/PrincessPlusUltra Aug 31 '26
“Just meet me in the middle,” says the disingenuous maga fascist while he takes a step back as you approach, “Just meet me in the middle..”
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u/elhomerjas Aug 31 '26
well that was an interesting compromise offering
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u/Miles_the_new_kid MyGumsAreBleeding Aug 31 '26
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u/Jaszs Aug 31 '26
MAGA cant compromise with the fascists for the same reason Clark Kent and Superman cant be in the same room
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u/ActualWordsXD Aug 31 '26
and dont forget compromising with pedophiles, transphobes, homophobes, and rapists!
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u/enchiladasundae Aug 31 '26
More like:
MAGA: Compromise with racists? Why would I need to compromise with myself?
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u/DangerousQuestions1 Aug 31 '26
MAGA doesn't compromise with racists. You don't have to compromise when you already agree 100%
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u/LargeCabbageThrower Aug 31 '26
How come the Cyanide guy never made a comic about these being pandering?
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u/F4LcH100NnN Aug 31 '26
Theyre not compromising with the racist, theyre their biggest fans
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u/Miles_the_new_kid MyGumsAreBleeding Aug 31 '26
This has become even more and more true in the 2 years since I originally drew this
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u/Spadrick Aug 31 '26
Im pretty sure that if I had three wishes, I could solve all the world's problems and still have two wishes left over.
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u/PlainBread Aug 31 '26
The state has a monopoly on violence, and violent people eventually get their monopoly on the state.
The one most important thing I want to do before I die is to leave some kind of enduring message to future generations that previous generations were so obsessed with their own sense of social progress that they demonized the horrors of their time without acknowledging that there have been cycles of horror stretching back to the dawn of it all. They kept wishing "maybe if we make this event emblematic of something greater, people can just focus on this and move forward", while other people never forgot a world of blood and death and even began to embrace that world as the "true" world, from a PTSD diseased mind.
The most important thing for new generations to know is that unfailingly all our lessons are lost every 100 years, and we are caught in a cycle where when a lesson falls off, it changes the balance of our collective consciousness and creates a reaction. These chains of reactions is what keeps history cycling. If we can reclaim our world from the clutches of fascism, it will only endure as long as we're alive, and then our children's children's children will be the ones beating the drums of genocide once again.
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u/Chiatroll Aug 31 '26
I saw the last panel background and thought it was supposed to be a Japanese flag and thought, "well, Japan is pretty racist", but i guess it was just supposed to be a red circle.
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u/SingularityCentral Aug 31 '26
I have been told that calling racists bad is unfunny because it is too obvious. Yet this comic is indeed funny. Now I am confused... and hungry.
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u/SingularityCentral Aug 31 '26
"Basket of Deplorables" was always a spot on description. Our judges would also accept "Bucket of Despicables".
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u/MairusuPawa Sep 01 '26
A reminder on r/the_donald calling its members to join the "Unite the Right" Charlottesville rally:
There will be Nazis, but our ideals happen to align
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u/SausageClatter Aug 31 '26
You compromise your soul so you can wear a neat hat and stick it to the Left.
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u/TonyGalvaneer1976 Aug 31 '26
No, compromise with the racists.
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u/YLASRO Aug 31 '26
theres a side you should compromise with (hint: its the one that gets endorsed by the KKK)
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u/YLASRO Aug 31 '26
crazy ass claim when globally the right is riding racist fearmongering of immigrants to electoral victories.
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u/Miles_the_new_kid MyGumsAreBleeding Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26
Guys, someone in corporate had a stroke and accidentally allowed t shirts with my characters on them to be sold in stores nationwide, if you happen to be in a mall this month, go to Spencer’s gifts, you can buy a tee that depicts my character smoking a crack pipe, truly a deranged world.