I never thought I'd see you parody stonetoss.

that isn't exactly what it is, but that seemed like an appropriate keyword for a comic strip about a blob person with horrible ideas about how the world works. The creature was yellow before but I didn't want anyone to somehow think it was meant to be the yellow snake-creature that I usually show in these strips. I just have a tendency to toss neon on everything.

That's explains it, he seems way too smug to act like this. Half the time he's to busy trolling both his side and the other and giving the worse defense for NFTs.

If there is a Like function for comments, I would have added that comment to my Likes. I think you explained succinctly on the paradox of free speech in the way that if said free speech must make way for others to squash other people's freedoms, it is no longer free speech.

Free speech is an impossibility when someone has nothing of worth to say. Open debate is impossible when someone is utterly defeated by basic facts. "Free Speech" to such people is merely their belief that should be allowed to fling crap around without getting dirty.

Haha hey guys, I heard Nancy Pelosi's husband damn near got his brains bashed out by a crazed attacker who was attempting to kill her for explicitly political reasons. Lol must be his gay lover! Lmao I identify as hammersexual now, thanks attacker guy!

Wait, did you say someone tried to kill MY favorite politician? DO THESE RADICAL LEFTIST STALINIST MANIACS IN BIDEN'S DEEP STATE EVEN UNDERSTAND THAT WORDS ARE VIOLENCE?

And they see "laughing about him was okay because he's bad, and joking about the assassination attempt is bad because that person is great" as logical and reasonable.

That's not what's happening, though. Most of the jokes I saw about Paul Pelosi were about how squeamish the mainstream news outlets seemingly were about reporting the incident in its entirety, leaving out important details about the attacker. There's a big difference between that and "Don't miss Trump next time." One is mocking the reporting of an attack, the other is mocking the victim of an attack.

Trump Jr. posted an image he titled "Paul Pelosi Halloween costume" consisting of underwear and a hammer. Dinesh d'Souza, Ted Cruz and Paul Hifggins didn't exactly mock Pelosi directly, but they did say they thought the attack was some sort of false flag. Trump himself, in a speech, asked by the way, how's he (Paul) doing? and got laughs from his crowd.

Ignore Dolphanatic. It's obvious which side of this he's on.

Scoped out their page. Yup.

You could say I've run into him before. Repeatedly. The dude is a real tool. He's pretty reliably on the wrong side of almost everything.

Or he may be trolling. On sites like Reddit, trolls who roleplay as "solid & unshakeable believers of (insert ideology here) who'll firmly tell you off for thinking differnt" are a dime a million. I'm sure some spill over here.

He's at least not JUST a troll. He likes to harass people, but I'm convinced that he believes the things he says.

The Left Can't Meme is an expression typically used to criticize the political memes created by left-leaning internet users as unfunny or cringeworthy. It is believed to have been created on /pol/ and rose to prominence during the 2016 United States Presidential Election.

The phrase began spreading through the course of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and saw a sharp rise following the election. On January 3rd, 2017, Facebook page Hoppean Snake Memes posted an image of a leftist Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism meme with the caption "The. Left. Can't. Meme.", gaining 110 likes and reactions. On March 24th, 2017, a post on conservative Reddit-esque site VOAT made a similar point with an image of troll dolls and right-wing buzzwords like cuck and triggered.
On May 18th, 2017, the term was defined on Urban Dictionary by user "Running in the nyetis" as "Its a insult for the left leaning people who make memes about the left. The insult is mostly used by the alt-right, /pol/acks or simply people who hate the left." On August 3rd, 2017, YouTuber user Leftist Cuck posted a video talking about the phrase that gained over 157,000 views.

On September 14th, 2017, webcomic artist Kukuruyo[6] posted a blog comparing some of his comics to some leftist comics to illustrate the point that the left can't meme.

In 2019, the book Can the Left Learn to Meme? by Mike Watson was released by ZerO Books. The book, which is sympathetic to the left suggests the left embrace bizarre and abstract aesthetics using Vaporwave as an example.

In February 2020, the author released a video called "I'd like to teach the world to meme" on the YoutTube channel Theorywave Nights which features a melody from a 70s Coca Cola Advert which later became a hit song. The video features footage of lefttube figures Angie Speaks and ContraPoints as well as Overly Attached Girlfriend, Bad Luck Brian, lolz cats, Doge Dogs and Sanders memes.

tl;dr: too much text, it ain't fun.

Why are you delivering this worthless information to me?

because you can't meme

I do not aspire to "meme."

so... it's just a miserable lecture with a strawman as guest star?

It is not straw, it is metal! This piece is not ideal but certainly preferable to a worthless low-effort meme that only annoying people will find funny. I will work a bit harder and amuse myself if no one else is going to.

Yea but the expressions and visual gags make up for it. He did comic. Comedy and fun comes in more forms than just the alphabet. and No I don't the message of the comic.

tl;dr

Common take whenever a leftie delivers good criticism: find a way to bash them for something else.

Naw man, I agree, we should slide right into fascism all because Stonetoss is better at making snappy punchlines. Unfortunately for democracy, the right wingers drew us as the seething NPC and themselves as the Chad Wojack.

Chip Chilla, Beechum, New Norm, Leo and Layla, I guess those are cool because they "identify" as having good jokes. People don't say "the right can't meme" because they don't even think they're trying to meme when they're all saying the same nonsense over and over.

Unironically, this is just a sad, worn-out excuse for an expression coming purely from people who are tired of losing and want a way to bash lefties who, more often than not in my experience, aren't even trying to "meme". It's reactionary nonsense at its finest. "You're not funny so I'm glad I don't agree with you" - same, brother~

tbh i don't believe in conservative stuff, i believe in bad and good media.
i despise those shows you named just as much as i do with the so called woke/anti-woke media and unfunny political comic strips filled with walls of text.

I don't honestly know if anyone can make this concept snappy as a comic, though. If you simplify down to one statement and de-verb-ify it for flow, you risk making it sound agreeable and failing to demonstrate hypocrisy. It becomes a lot easier to brush aside as "an opinion I/they don't have", therefore, not hypocrisy.

The "problem" with the left largely seems to be that our positions are too nuanced. BLM (why don't ALL lives matter?), ACAB (but police are necessary!), lots of things require too much explaining compared to the right wing's simple, straightforward messaging. MAGA (fill in your own goals/desires), woke (if you hate it, that's what it is), fake news (anything damning of us is made up, trust me bro), they're more thought-terminating cliches than anything substantive you can talk about. But that's the inherent battleground: feeling your knees jerking and responding to that (reactionary) versus thoughtfully and deliberately approaching the nuance of issues. Things are almost never black-and-white, and being on the side that has to explain the shades of grey doesn't do us any favors.

So you have become so enlightenedly non-political that you mistook a political vent comic for a generic comedy meme?
And then you also thought that groypers who intentionally searched out the worst leftie content to parade about had some sort of point that anyone should care about?

Just spit out the blackpill dude, if politics disturbs you too much to bear then just avert your eyes and get comfortable with hoping it will all turn out ok because politics has always happened whether you know about it or not.

Admitting you can't read isn't the own you think it is.

It's a good thing I was trained in the Navy Seals of Internet Arguing.

The pinecone is your amogus.

Actually most here on FA would take offence to the shirt worn by the little purple guy more than any of the other shirt sayings. :/
Still love your comics and wish you had time to produce more. Also like the tech, what little we can see of it, of the yellow-green guy. I don't know if you'll ever use him again but it's pretty good for a throw-off character. :)

They keep ignoring my request to recategorize all avian characters as robots! You can't hide the truth behind anthropomorphism!

Everybody knows that birds aren't real.

Hats off !
This short comic is a masterstroke !

The slight modification you have brought on the last panel hasn't affected the power / dynamic of the cartoon and has elegantly avoided some touchy subject without missing the final target (if I might say so). I truly admire you for this ... and I also envy your brillant skill !

I find myself agreeing with these political comics!

That is definitely a change! I made the mistake in 2016 of waiting to see what trumpy did as president to decide how much of a creep I thought he was, as if suddenly having real responsibility would prompt him to stop screwing around. But I did not vote for him then or ever would.

Yeah, generally narcissistic people of any job title don't really change away from being narcissistic during their lives.

Elon Musk, is that you?

One of the worst problems with the idea of assassinations are the inevitable unforeseen consequences.

And now there's been another Drumpf assassination attempt. He immediately started trying to raise money on it. Next will come accusing Dems of stochastic terrorism and comparing himself with Jeebus.