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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Clean up your mess
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(QC RSS) Be Our Guest
we all saw it coming
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on I Think They Call This Fascism by Irfan Khawaja
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on I Think They Call This Fascism by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Michael Young. As a semantic matter, the problems with “authoritarianism” and “fascism” are exactly the same: there’s no difference there at all. Neither has a precise definition; both involve family resemblanc…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on I Think They Call This Fascism by Michael Young
I don’t think there are any substantive cognitive flaws in ‘authoritarian’. Sure, one might miss out on or gloss over particularly bad forms of authoritarianism (like totalitarianism or something like fascism). So don’t do that!…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Professional mistakes
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! The Lockhorns, 3/12/25 Why do you think Loretta is in the room with Leroy as he gets his…
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(Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka) llms and humans unite, you have nothing to lose but your chores
There a class of tasks that drive me to distraction, and that’s when I am obliged to execute them myself, in the full knowledge that a computer could do them better and faster. These tasks are manual, require little mental or physical effort on my part, are dull and monotonous, and achingly time-consuming. Most frustrating…
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(QC RSS) Comicxs
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(xkcd.com) Off By One
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on I Think They Call This Fascism by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Michael Young. I can’t dispute the first part of your comment, but I think “authoritarian” has problems you’re missing. Your comment is driven by the thought that the condemnatory character of “fascism” c…
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