This is brilliant but i also can’t help but sense a missed c-suite element of the joke

FANTASTIC idea

I even saw someone quote one of ICE’s own manuals where it explicitly says this

Me too and yet it’s been too ling since last rewatch - can anybody explain why?

Obligatory https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently from William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman

I agree! The origin seems to be Susanna Ertrich

Her site: Link

Of course, I’m just saying this problem that does indeed exist is blown out of proportion by the messaging we’re bombarded with.

A bit of a case of this, basically:

Littering is seen as more common than it really is in the public perception thanks to all kinds of cynical messaging from industry groups, like, for example, Big Tobacco and the infamous “Crying Indian Ad”.

This messaging has the effect of shifting the blame of environmental devastation away from industry and onto individuals, much like how the fossil fuel industry popularized the term ‘carbon footprint’ and shifted the onus of fossil fuel emissions away from the fossil fuel industry and onto individuals.

As for the disgusting types of comments depicted in the next panel of the comic, a great deal of that is generated by bots to divide us. It also doesn’t help things in this particular case that only 1 of the 2 main parties/sides in the world’s most “important” country (important and dominant culturally, economically, etc.) is willing to consider any changes to approaches to widespread availability of guns. Creating division is as easy as having bots go around blaming anything (even victims!) except the relative ease of access to guns in the US.

This comic sadly plays into exactly the kind of thinking that leads to defeatism and broad mistrust. The common person is not, in fact, bad.

In fact, it is instead a relatively small number of psychopaths that perpetuate many of the kinds of problems depicted in this comic. The CEOs of any given Big Oil or Big Tobacco company are almost inevitably psychopaths. And we almost cannot help but continue to give power to these kinds of people. They are, after all, often the only ones who think so highly of themselves and their abilities to even offer to take on a leadership role. Sometimes they crave little more than the power itself. And they are the ones with the most power to steer the directions of messaging towards individual blame and individual misdeeds, rather than towards faith in the common person and blame on the corporations they lead.

In other words, the comic’s author is falling right into the trap of being led to see the world misanthropically. When you think “the problem is people,” instead of “the problem is a few people,” there is very little to do except become depressed and inactive.

To solve many of the world’s biggest problems, we literally just need more of the people who first doubt that they themselves could be a good leader to instead raise their hands, instead of letting only the psychopaths and narcissists raise their hands and rise to power.

Mother fucking goddammit son of a bitch

I fucking knew it, too. God dammit

Yes and when they sneeze that’s called a…

Thanks so much

I must be stupid, could you elaborate?

Just went thru a big (unrelated) homelab restore

Had no doubt. Just funny in a “This kills the crab” kind of way.

Top quality comment right here. Way to hit on so many disparate yet crucial historical events. I’d read a history book this person wrote.

Have You Know?

Oh how I hope all these righteous old ladies in viral images and memes go down in the history books. From my own guesstimate experience, tragically, it’s an upvote and a moving on. Yet, these women are not doing it for glory.

“Foundation Security” 🙄

Probably related to the Foundation series from Isaac Asimov and Musk’s absurd idea that he is remotely a figure in some such space story.

It’s political economy with the politics “removed.” As if you can just subtract the human, political impact of political economy and meaningfully “only” talk cold hard dollars.

Is Buttigieg not a neoliberal?? As I recall, neoliberalism is characterized by austerity, de-regulation, tax cuts, and privatization.

He certainly seemed pro-austerity and pro-privatization back in 2019-2020 with his milquetoast “Medicare for All Who Want It” talk. And he is from McKinsey after all.

Looked for this comment before saying the same thing. This is just what emerged at that time as a wonderfully convenient tax avoidance scheme, however organically. Art gatekeepers are tax dodgers’ useful idiots.

It may be aesthetic. It may be beautiful. But applauding while traitors converge upon some artist and their work is a mistake. They will always use this shit to rob society blind.

Luckily the time for highly centralized art opinion is somewhat over with the internet. It is much harder now to ‘force’ opinion to be that so-and-so is just divine and worth ten billion dollars for any art they create.