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1. about 14 hours ago on Clay Jones

   I agree that the cartoon can be interpreted that way, but I’m sure that the intention is to point out that TFG’s fine is too low.

2. about 23 hours ago on Clay Bennett

   “Ranked choice may work in the interim, but constitutional change is needed. "

   Ranked-choice voting would seem to be impractical in a national election—would you have to get totals across all states in order to eliminate candidates at the bottom, and then redistribute? A better solution, which would actually fit in the current constitutional system (Maine and Nebraska already do it), might be to allocate Electoral College seats according to proportional party votes. (The EC is of course a different problem, no less serious.) Some right-wingers are advocating this, but only for blue states, where it would serve to dilute the blue vote; adopting it for all states would be pretty fair, and make elections count in every state, as opposed to having elections hinge on a relatively small number of voters in so-called “swing” states.

3. about 23 hours ago on Clay Jones

   “What proof do you have, that right-wing agitators come in and start the violence.”

   Well, there’s: https : // www . nytimes . com /interactive / 2024/05 / 03 / us / >

4. about 24 hours ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   Since we haven’t demonstrated time travel for real yet, and probably never will, it seems that the only way to explore its possibilities (or impossibilities) is through fiction.

5. about 24 hours ago on Clay Jones

   Getting him to testify would automatically be a perjury trap for TFG, which is why his lawyers are all terrified of that and why we should all be encouraging him.

6. 1 day ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   Somewhat less related to the current strip (one hopes!) is Robert A. Heinlein’s famous time-travel story “All You Zombies”. Or the movie Predestination.

   (Other Heinlein time-travel works include the story “By His Bootstraps” and the novel The Door Into Summer.)

7. 1 day ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   “What if you go back to kill your grandfather?”

   Check out Alfred Bester’s famous sf short story “The Men Who Murdered Mohammed”

8. 1 day ago on Rob Rogers

   “. . . it’s all about what’s good for him [Netanyahu].”

   And what would be good for him would be the election of many Republicans, including TFG.

9. 1 day ago on Rob Rogers

   I’d suggest “ethnic cleansing” in place of “genocide.” Israeli settlers, aided by the IDF, are doing “retail” in the West Bank what Israeli forces are doing in Gaza.

   However, Netanyahu has explicitly compared Hamas to the Amalekites, the traditional enemies of the Jewish people.

   1 Samuel 15 (KJV) says “2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. 3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and a$$.”

   Now, that is genocide, and Israeli forces seem to following that model, including Hamas infants and sucklings.

   Not that there’s much new here. Check out (here in GoComics) Doonesbury for August 26, 1982, during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and shortly before the Israel-complicit massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

   (At first, GC’s nannybot said that my post contained “words on the banned list.” Turned out it wasn’t anything political—just the Biblical reference to Amalakite donkeys.)

10. 1 day ago on Rob Rogers

    I’d suggest “ethnic cleansing” in place of “geno0cide.” Israeli settlers, aided by the IDF, are doing “retail” in the West Bank what Israeli forces are doing in Gaza.

    However, Netanyahu has explicitly compared Hamas to the Amalekites, the traditional enemies of the Jewish people.

    GC’s nannybot says that my post contains “banned words.” Let’s see if I can omit the Biblical quotation from KJV 1 Samuel 15 2-3—you can look it up yourself.

    Now, that is gen0cide, and Israeli forces seem to following that model, including Hamas infants and sucklings.

    Not that there’s much new here. Check out (here in GoComics) Doonesbury for August 26, 1982, during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and shortly before the Israel-complicit mass acres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.