I mean, if you're saying that to a person who published an article titled "Where Vegans Went Wrong" a year ago I think a bit of opprobrium is warranted

They are asking for the feds to STOP IMPEDING the local investigators. MN *wants* to investigate!

(And add others have said, you're quibbling over semantics; Dem senators are blocking a bill over these requests, what is that if not "insisting" it happen?)

Want to point out that they are sneaking a little racism twofer in there as well - Cern is definitely online enough to know the internet joke/trope about black people and chirping alarms when he calls out smoke alarms as being intolerable to "high IQ" people: amp.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/g...

Ironically there are several in the featured tweets!

Isn't it as simple as "It's both," though? America has always been a promise of freedom, AND has a history of consistently breaking that promise, AND ALSO a history of people pushing back on those violations to uphold that promise. You can't ignore either!

Holy SHIT was not expecting to see a SB Mesa shout-out on this thread!

I will go a different direction with my nostalgia and say The Green Dragon, a cafe/coffeehouse that I spent a TON of nights at in high school

As Jamelle noted, federal elections happen coterminally with state and local elections - governors, state reps, district judges, county offices, mayoral races, school boards - all affected if they don't have elections. That's a lot of self-interest to have to try and get past!

I literally yelled, scaring my parents, when I read the notice in our paper that they would start carrying Bloom County.

I think there were a lot of us in Gen X too- I was even going to the library and checking out Pogo, Li'l Abner, Flash Gordon (!), Krazy Kat(!!)

My theory is the collected comics market was at its peak in the 80s/90s, and "graphic novels" had not yet grown enough to take over that reading niche

I originally read your post as saying that there is exactly one Greater Oklahoma Shark, whose name is Dr. Sharkman, and now I'm sticking with that interpretation.

I am a GenXer who read TONS of old Peanuts & Doonesbury collections in addition to all the great stuff coming out contemporaneously (and yes, even Garfield & Dilbert)

For me, graphic novels were not really a mainstream thing yet, so cartoon collections filled the gap.

remembering that it was canon that whenever his tie wasn't flipped up, it signified he just got laid

Look, he referred to the "risk/reward ratio," how much more Smart & Rational do you need him to be??

Also, it's some meme called "John Pork is Calling," I'm quite online and had never heard of it so I'm POSITIVE a random deputy wouldn't be aware of it. I think the baristas were amusing themselves drawing memes on cups and the wrong snowflake got this one

It's a Tiktok meme!

amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/people...

fun fact: not only is there a book about this, but a few years back Gene Luen Yang did a Superman graphic novel that was based on that arc of the radio show: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superma...

but both of these platforms are feed-based? anyone who wants to be in an echo chamber on Twitter is easily able to achieve that, and conversely you can come here and subscribe to all the Syria feeds?

If anything, we are still well inside the cultural "War on (refined) Carbs" which has been going on for a while now, and which this post from HHS is continuing!

when I saw this story I thought "I bet this doesn't even have anything to do with the cop" and sure enough: the drawing is of a recent tiktok meme, "John Pork is Calling"
(no, I hadn't heard of it either, but that's what Know Your Meme is for)
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