Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 21, 2022

Democracy, shemocracy — all that matters is that the videos download real fast.

Tragically true

And the clock is running back to the darkest age.

Where I live, we used to have some international news channels, including Euronews, France24, and RT. I miss them.

Coo-coo, coo-coo…

It is, among other things, proof that the younger folks (up through about 30 years old, seems like) don’t actually like to read. They want crap poured in via the video. I hope it works out for them, but have my doubts.

Well Goat, …we had a good run…

I know this is true and a sadly serious situation, but I had a good laugh!

But we live in a republic.

Do you know Tibk tok is funded and managed indirectly by the Chinese communist party, Enjoy

The End of the World will occur tonight at 10:30. Film at 11:00!

This is exclusive news at Ticktick.

I tried TikTok for a while. It failed the Turing test. No intelligent life detected.

But I think it helps explain my meme of the day:

How is it possible to discuss “rule of law” with people who actively prefer “law of the jungle”?

Alternate form: What’s the moral difference between hanging Mike Pence, guns for “schools” in China or the USA, and dead Ukrainians and dead Russian soldiers? I can’t see it.

Tik-Tok is banned in India. There are any number of variants available, but none seem to be as popular as it once was.

Tic-Tok I think I will pass on it!

Goat knows the real Doomsday Clock.

I get my facts on Twitter. It all depends on who you are following, and paying attention to in order to seek the truth

I wouldn’t want to live in a world without influencers. /s

Down with democracy. Up with the Republic,

Republic, actually. The US system was based on the Roman Republic, not on Athenian democracy. About the only thing Athenian democracy accomplished was the execution of Socrates.

Tiny, cute videos made by kids.

And thank God the founders realized that a ‘democracy’ was nothing but mob rule and set America up as a Republic.

TikTok seems to be yet another step towards “Fahrenheit 451” where people don’t read and they are entertained by “immersive” three walled televisions blasting brief videos at them.

Goat’s not wrong.

TikTok is a huge time sink.Follow me for more tips.

Evolution must be going in reverse.

I got my news recently from the Sunday Newspaper – which might not be as liberal a medial as it was in the past – on the list of Birthdays (that lists celebrities born on THAT DAY) they wished Trump a 6 day belated Birthday – and the article recapping the Thursday insurrection hearing was on the Opinions page.

The USA is a Republic. A democracy allows for a dictatorship of the tiniest majority.

It’s getting scary when the govt is attacking their own….the lamest, most violent congress ever

He’s not wrong.

misinformation from Tiktok is worse then misinformation from Twitter.

I’m guessing Rat is watching strategies on how to sell a famous brand of mint on his phone. Or, one might say, Tic-Tac tactic TikToks.

I hear Texas Republicans have adopted a platform modeled after the Republic of Gideon …

I thought Tik Tok was a Chinese Intelligence Source

I don’t think everyone’s definition of democracy is the same anymore.

It’s odd. When American soldiers laid down their lives in WW 2 they were very clear that they were fighting to protect democracy. Now the Republican party is convincing people that democracy is bad, and that they live in a Republic. This is somewhat similar to Hitler’s propaganda for the German people in the 1930’s, or Putin’s destruction of the fledgling democratic experiment in Russia. What is disturbing is that the USA is viewed as the country the created the first modern democracy. A Republic can exist as a democracy, as was originally intended for the USA, or it can become an oligarchy, theocracy or outright dictatorship. The thing about a democracy is that sometimes people who have different ideas than you will be in power.

I believe.

9 Chickweed Lane today is muscling in on your turf, Stephan. And they did it better.

Anyone else see the article about how China-based employees of ByteDance (TikTok’s parent company) have repeatedly been accessing nonpublic data about US TikTok users?

I’m afraid the clock has already run out; the alarm went off, and we slept through it.

Not likely, Rat. Better look for some real news.

Quickly it is….

I skipped most of the comments, so I don’t know if someone has said this before, but:

The part I like best about this cartoon is that it expresses three different points of view from three different characters.

Some people allege that TikTok is being used by the ChiComs as a spy-device. Meh. I don’t/won’t use it in any case….

Well said, Goat.

the problem is getting you news from only one source

You’d probably here on tiktok before you would FOX

The U.S. Is not a democracy, it is a republic. The U.S. Constitution does not contain the words “democrat, democratic, or democracy”. Hower, Article 4 Section 4 guarantees every state a Republican form of government.