r/pics • u/EndeLarsson • 6h ago
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u/myaccountgotbanmed 6h ago
His cheeks look like testicles
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u/SpeedBlitzX 5h ago
The beard doesn't help either.
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u/OnePinginRamius 2h ago
He looks like he should be in that scene of the secret life of Walter Mitty when Adam Scott rolls in with a bunch of bro dudes to destroy the company and they all have beards that don't look right on them at all.
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u/SmokeyDBear 4h ago
I thought political cartoons were supposed to be drawn as caricatures, not perfectly lifelike renderings.
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u/Butterball_Adderley 3h ago
That’s funny, I came here to comment on how perfectly they captured his essence
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u/Muted_Anywherethe2nd 2h ago
Who knew the real aliens that made contact where not so distant cousins of the ballchinians
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u/Mrrrrggggl 5h ago
America will help to liberate your oil.
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u/nsucs2 5h ago
And in return we will spread some democracy on your ass.
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u/Ulvaer 4h ago
Isn't the US running out of its supply of democracy?
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u/flargenhargen 3h ago
can the US invade America and bring democracy here?
and free healthcare and billions of dollars for public programs like we provide for israel?
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u/Haunting-Sport3701 4h ago
With bomber jets.
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u/Pin_ellas 2h ago
America will help to liberate your oil.
Key & Peele - But We Have Oil
Hilariously sad.
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u/Thanatos_56 2h ago
They were saying that the second Gulf War was going to be named "Operation Iraqi Liberation".
And then they realized the acronym didn't send the right message...
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u/notorioustim10 5h ago
All we ask in return is that you say thank you
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u/SpriggedParsley357 4h ago
And wear a suit.
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u/TurtleTurtleFTW 3h ago
I'm ngl I think Vance looks weird
I think their plan was to get him to grow a beard, put him on Ozempic and then try to push a tough guy/sexy image
It doesn't work when you have the personality of that kid in school nobody wants to play with so he just comes off as creepy and off-putting
South Park nailed it once again
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u/minervascats 1h ago
It's the air of disdain and superiority with which he treats everything... You can see it in his face and it's nasty
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u/Exist50 2h ago
South Park nailed it once again
I really think we should stop giving credit to a show that helped get us in this situation to begin with.
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u/DealerHumble1103 2h ago
Anyone who voted for Trump because of South Park is too stupid to be helped
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u/Exist50 2h ago edited 1h ago
It's not just the people who voted for Trump, but also the people who didn't vote at all because of their "douche vs turd sandwich"/"both sides are the same" type of rhetoric. The writers have always clearly hated anyone who cares about politics, and who do you think benefits most from that apathy? And as a corollary, who suffers the most when people are convinced that political activism is worthy of derision?
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u/IDOWNVOTERUSSIANS 1h ago
to be fair, the douche vs turd sandwich is a 21+ year-old episode. You might not have been around, or been too young (I'm really sorry if that comes off as condescending - not my intention - or if you're not too young to remember) but politics in those days was extremely different, and that episode wasn't wrong
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u/Exist50 1h ago
It was not an isolated incident, and that analogy was frequently cited in the run-up to the 2016 election. It's not like they changed stance in the intervening time. It's been a very consistent part of their political messaging.
And quite frankly, to say things were "extremely different" back then is both a cop out (nothing that we see now is truly new to American politics*), as well as a result of the political philosophy South Park pushed. In some ways, you can consider the current environment a great success for them.
* I'm not sure if you're either old enough to have experienced, or young enough to have studied, the Nixon admin, but that would be one of the more direct modern parallels.
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u/IDOWNVOTERUSSIANS 1h ago
by "extremely different" I mean the republicans weren't openly fascist and the two parties basically were the same. usa is now staring down it's own destruction with literal fascists in charge - things were extremely different
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u/Exist50 1h ago
That too isn't as new as people would like to believe. In no particular order, there's the Red Scare (and associated crackdown on media and political freedoms), all the stuff Nixon got up to (and more or less got away with), the FBI under Hoover, the "you're with us, or with the terrorists" rhetoric under Bush Jr (and further curtailing of liberties), etc etc. There's always been this undercurrent in American politics. So the question you should ask is what are the circumstances that allow it to surface.
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u/IDOWNVOTERUSSIANS 54m ago
undercurrent
this is my point. One of the parties - the one in control of all branches of power - is now openly fascist. There are no undercurrents anymore. Things that would have been truly unthinkable 21 years ago are now routine. 21 years ago it was appropriate to compare the parties and accuse them of being the same. Everything is different now.
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u/guruglue 1h ago
Blaming satire for voter apathy feels like a distraction from the real issues of disenfranchisement within our two-party system. This tendency to point fingers at pop culture instead of acknowledging strategic missteps—like the party's choice of candidate—is exactly why elections are lost. If we're looking at 2028, it’s probably time to stop blaming the comedians and start looking at the strategy.
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u/Exist50 1h ago
You do realize that cultural influence has a huge impact on politics, don't you? South Park is one such example. Are you going to seriously tell me you didn't hear people unironically parroting the "douche vs turd sandwich" line in 2016? You can't handwave away all political influencing as just "comedy".
Do they deserve all the blame? Of course not. But intentionally or not, they helped encourage the political environment we find ourselves in today.
This tendency to point fingers at pop culture instead of acknowledging strategic missteps—like the party's choice of candidate
If you're unhappy with the choice of candidates, did you vote in the primaries to have your say in which candidates were chosen? Did you pay attention to policy at all, or did you get your political impressions from memes on Twitter and Reddit? Which of these two do you think South Park leaned into?
If anything, I'd argue South Park is an example of how to successfully influence people politically. You need to simultaneously excite your base enough to vote for you, while doing as much as you can to suppress turnout for your opponent. There's no better way to do that than to convince their potential voters that it's pointless.
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u/TurtleTurtleFTW 1h ago
I mean, that's fair. If anybody painted a huge, glowing target on the back of trans people it's those assholes
Fantasy Island baby Vance is still hilarious
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u/CicadaFit9756 5h ago
Noticed that the forehead of this caricature is the smallest part of his head. Considering his idiocy, that seems apt!
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u/Rush_Banana 5h ago
The United States are traitors to Ukraine.
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u/SudoTheNym 5h ago
The government of the United States is traitors to Ukraine. We the people stand in solidarity with Ukraine, even as our government has become infiltrated by russian muppets.
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u/lalaland4711 4h ago
The people decided to elect a known convicted felon, an obvious grifter, a known "john", racist (e.g. Central Park 5 and leader of the birther movement), and misogynist (grab em by the pussy).
You can go all "hashtag not-all-americans", but this guy won both the popular vote and electoral college even after all this was well established.
And I'm not even mentioning all the wink-wink, nudge-nudge, we all know he did the other stuff too, but not legally proven.
I mean, the guy made a credible multi-pronged attempt at overthrowing an election (pressure Georgia and Pence, send armed people to stop the count, had stooges like Crowley and Cruz "just ask questions", send fake electors with forged document, ...), and most voters still said "yeah let's try that guy again".
No, like it or not, this is the people of America. Land of the lawless rule, home of the school shootings.
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u/the_card_guy 2h ago
What Americans like to forget/ignore is that America has a looooooong history of discrimination and hating "the other". One of the easiest examples is Japanese internment camps (and boy how the tables have turned there, but that's a different topic), but I've heard that the Irish, Italians, and even Germans were all discriminated against at one point or another. I hope I don't need to state the obvious for black people...
The difference is, the government ityself never condoned those. Perhaps looked the other way, yes... but never was openly in support of the discrimination, with the internment camps being the obvious exception. But the government now? They're saying "You wanna hate these people? Go right ahead; we'll even make them actually disappear due to how much we all hate these guys!" And it turns out, Americans have a lot of hatred (misguided, I personally believe) in them. As for why the amount of hatred? Because Change Is Scary, and a lot of current changes are For The Worse.
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u/_Fun_Employed_ 3h ago
I honestly believe the 2024 election was stolen, Elon was involved, and the doge thing was them installing backdoors and eliminating the evidence. I’m sure a lot of people did vote for him but I still don’t believe he legitimately won. However where I will say we failed was in not insisting on an audit.
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u/brontosaurusguy 3h ago edited 49m ago
I here what you're saying, but what does it say about America's government the last few decades when people would prefer that?
I like to remind people that the system was broke before trump broke it.
Edit: c/p from below I mean you have a government that led us into two disastrous wars (that Democrats voted for btw). That stopped taxing rich people and corporations. That stopped enforcing monopoly laws. That did little to stem the tide of climate change. That didn't do anything to help stop gun violence and mass shootings.
And people wonder why Americans were eager to bring the thing down.
You had a Democrat in office with power in both chambers who passed almost nothing... No immigration laws. And a nerfed healthcare system
Blame left, blame right, but it wasn't working before trump.
What am I saying that is wrong? Srsly
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u/Exist50 55m ago
Does it say more about the government, or Americans?
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u/brontosaurusguy 51m ago
I mean you have a government that led us into two disastrous wars. That stopped taxing rich people and corporations. That stopped enforcing monopoly laws. That did little to stem the tide of climate change. That didn't do anything to help stop gun violence and mass shootings.
And people wonder why Americans were eager to bring the thing down.
You had a Democrat in office with power in both chambers who passed almost nothing... No immigration laws. And a nerfed healthcare system
Blame left, blame right, but it wasn't working before trump.
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u/Exist50 48m ago
I mean you have a government that led us into two disastrous wars. That stopped taxing rich people and corporations. That stopped enforcing monopoly laws. That did little to stem the tide of climate change. That didn't do anything to help stop gun violence and mass shootings.
Americans cheered that all on while it was happening. Just for a particularly obvious example, Bush Jr's approval was sky high leading into Iraq and Afghanistan.
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u/stone_henge 4h ago
In a democracy, who exactly is responsible for the elected government again?
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u/Paksarra 4h ago
I don't know if you noticed, but one of our parties isn't playing fair.
Elon is good with the computers, all the news channels have been purchased by billionaires (and the few that aren't get called liberal echo chambers constantly and are probably on the radar for regulation to force them to prioritize conservative viewpoints.) Most social media is controlled by conservative billionaires, as well.
They tried to murder their own vice president and sent in false electors. Any state where they get enough power gets gerrymandered so they can keep their power. They close polling places in areas that don't vote for them and pass laws that make voting more difficult.
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u/Kill_Welly 3h ago
it's not a democracy anymore
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u/stone_henge 3h ago
Still, it couldn't be so without the support of a large number of americans, so "we the people stand in solidarity with Ukraine" is as much nonsense whether you call the American house of cards a democracy or not.
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u/Exist50 4h ago
We the people stand in solidarity with Ukraine
Who elected the government?
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u/stinkywinky99 4h ago
The fact it happened twice and they still say "it's them, not us!" while not doing anything to prevent it.
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u/Exist50 2h ago
Yeah, at some point you have to acknowledge that the American people as a whole simply don't care about Ukraine, and in many cases (including the ruling party) actively admire Russia. I'm not saying that like it's something I'm happy or proud about, but it's impossible to deny given the political environment.
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u/Paksarra 4h ago
Elon Musk?
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u/Exist50 2h ago
He's only one vote. Can't pin the blame all on him.
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u/Paksarra 2h ago
Then why did Don Childfucker brag about how Elon was good with computers just after he took every swing state just a hair outside of the range that would command a manual recount?
(We should have had a recount, that was immensely suspicious.)
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u/Hypertension123456 4h ago
Shh, we don't like to think about how the oligarchs rule only with the consent of the governed.
Please understand, posting on reddit is active resistance and washes the American people of our sins.
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u/newsflashjackass 3h ago
Good question.
The head of the current administration ran for president four times and never won a majority of the popular vote.
Who elected the government? No one- they're all appointees.
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u/Exist50 3h ago
The head of the current administration ran for president four times and never won a majority of the popular vote.
He won the popular vote in the last election.
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u/newsflashjackass 3h ago
He won the popular vote in the last election.
Correct, and as I wrote: He did not win a majority of it.
Don't take my word for it: A majority is more than half. 49.8% is less than half.
All four times the current occupant of the White House ran for president, the majority of the people in the USA voted for someone else.
Rendering your question, "Who elected the government?" most germane.
Who indeed?
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u/Alheim_Terrain 4h ago
No you dont, you dont even stand in queue at a voting booth. Apathetic losers.
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u/sapianddog2 2h ago
I did. Millions of others did, too. Lots of people in this country. We're not all the same.
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u/Morbid_Aversion 4h ago
Maybe less standing in solidarity and more overthrowing your government. That is if you want some credit for doing something aside from sending thoughts and prayers.
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u/maybeitsundead 1h ago
We gave up our Afghan allies before that and our Kurdish allies even before that
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u/NoSpawnConga 2h ago
Well they never have pledged allegiance to Ukraine in any way, shape of form.
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u/sirotka33 1h ago
we did pledge to protect them in order for them to give up their nukes. we have failed them.
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u/NoSpawnConga 1h ago edited 46m ago
Well, US state apparatus evidently doesn't think so, with the whole "Uhm actually Budapest memorandum was non binding you see" spiel. And now whole world sees what giving up nukes does to ya, good non proliferation effort there.
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u/Ninevehenian 3h ago
pedo-supporting surrendermonkies.
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u/itsverynicehere 1h ago
This is too on the dot. I both want this to stick and want this to never be said again.
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u/Upbeat-Tooth8711 5h ago
Coward games of America. Cowardly against the great Russia. Strong against Venezuela because they don't get any help
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u/Slocum_joe_ 2h ago
How is this a picture?
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u/Alternator24 4h ago
Ukraine should've kept its nukes.
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u/SpriggedParsley357 4h ago
Russia shouldn't have invaded. Keep the blame where it belongs.
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u/Alternator24 1h ago
there are 2 world views regarding to politics. idealists and realists. idealists say what you just said. yeah, Russia shouldn't have invaded Ukraine, in an IDEAL world. I personally think the concept of "military" shouldn't exist at all. no one wants to kill someone. However, this is the world we live in right now.
Realists say, peace comes through power. you have to be equipped, armed to teeth, or they will invade you. they will bully you. that's harsh but true.
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u/solarguy2003 3h ago
It sounds bad, and frankly.....pretty stupid when you say it like that.
BECAUSE IT IS BAD AND VERY STUPID.
No matter how you say it.
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u/Commercial_Ask_1626 1h ago
WMD for Iraq! …..I mean Freedom!
They have no WMD! ….I mean they have no Freedom!
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u/Zealousideal_Ad1704 1h ago
I wake up everyday with problems but then I think to myself…….. Thank god I don’t live in the States….
It feels better already……
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u/jimschocolateorange 2h ago
Your country is dying and trying to take the majority of the world with it (and somewhat succeeding). I feel for those of you who tried to fight against it, but the majority of you voted for this maniacal, fascist Pedophile again… as in for a SECOND time. For those of you who didn’t vote: you’re equal to as much of the blame as the brainwashed.
It will take decades to regain what you’ve lost and the civil unrest you are due to face in the upcoming months is terrifying for you and your families.
As for the rest of us, we need to take this opportunity realise the dependency we had with the States.
I truly hope that those of you who are in danger( aka. anyone in opposition to the Fascist regime/ or of a pigmentation that is not ‘white’), I hope you can find shelter and comfort for your families.
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u/Physical-Speed-7515 1h ago
Thats not even a picture. I know that this sub has nothing to do with photography anymore, but at least give the illusion you aren't just jacking eachother.
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u/Regular-Finance-9567 1h ago
Poltical cartoons have used caricatures since at least the 1700s.
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u/Physical-Speed-7515 1h ago
Tf has that got to do with anything? The sub is PICS and the avatar of the sub is a guy with a camera. Why are there drawings here. If this sub is to be believed, trump and his cabinet are the most photogenic people in history. I know that there hasn't been about photography for a while and it is a politics circle jerk sub, but they should at least have the common curtesy to keep to the theme.
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u/Regular-Finance-9567 57m ago
Isn't a drawing a type of picture? True, this post isn't a photograph; but, not all pictures are photographs?
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u/Physical-Speed-7515 54m ago
Pics is a term that mean photos. You know, snap a pic. If it was pictures then fine, but it is not.
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u/Regular-Finance-9567 52m ago
"Picture" and "photograph" are often used interchangeably, and photographs are pictures; but, not all pictures are photographs.
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u/Physical-Speed-7515 49m ago
Yes. That is why i clarified "pics" and not "pictures". Pics is a shortend version of picrure, but used only for photos.
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u/Regular-Finance-9567 47m ago
The subreddit rules don't say anything about the post having to be a photograph? No text is allowed, apparently, hence why this post was removed.
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u/No-Tomatillo3698 4h ago
Hey US, how come this knob is still higher up in the polls than any democrat?
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u/erodshot 3h ago
I just pray for the USA to stop all the menacing and start to take some action about Maduro
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u/Isthatajojoreffo 3h ago
Yeah, he is terrible! The correct sentiment is: "To all nations fighting for freedom, we will force you to continue dying in an obviously lost war till your whole nation is obliterated, while all the people who support this won't lift a finger to end your sufferings"
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