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(9,033 posts)a double: an "I wish" moment followed by arrrrrrgh.
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)calimary
(80,693 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Too bad too, because it could have been funny and poignant on multiple levels.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)If you want an example of satirical commentary that is both poignant AND accurate, see the top cartoon.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Getting bullied and dealing with people making fun of you is unfortunately a reality for millions of kids every day, and most people have their own emotional scar tissue from these experiences. The sad thing is, many adults continue this practice. These practices can be stopped when you learn how to deal with someone mocking you.
Instructions
1 Laugh. If someone is laughing with you, they can't be laughing at you. This holds the most true in situations when it is someone that you don't have to normally deal with. If you are never going to see the person again, laughing a comment off exudes a class and confidence that your bully is sorely lacking.
2 Turn it around. Think about what the person is saying and think about ways in which they are being hypocritical. If the statement or something similar can be said about them, turn it back around to the subject of who they are. Doing this with a laugh and merry tone will confuse and catch the person off-guard. Difficult people tend to know reactions they always get from people.
3 Ask someone why they are being mean. This is the most honest and direct way to deal with the problem, and it can be most effective. Most people don't call a bully by what they truly are. Asking them to face the reasons why is important and will leave most speechless, searching their own heads for how they got to this point.
more:
http://www.ehow.com/how_2302842_deal-someone-mocking-you.html
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)baldguy
(36,649 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Gun regulation is a touchy subject. Every misstep costs us. That cartoon is inaccurate. End of story.
Sorry I don't find satire that is also erroneous, funny.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)And it's not surprising to me that you don't "get" the satire. Conservatives usually don't, and when they do they don't like it.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I said the first cartoon is funny and accurate. I like it. Nailed it.
The second had potential, but has a gross error.
I 'get' the satire. I abhor incredibly low hanging fruit type errors that will be used to dismiss the cartoon elsewhere. It could have been a home run. If I re-post it elsewhere, I will correct it first.
Quit pretending everyone who doesn't see the world precisely as you do through your personal filters is a 'conservative'.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)The fascists represented by the NRA & their allies (like you) stand in the way of doing something positive about fact that people are being killed, which doesn't really concern them. That's their shtick. Your shtick. You're more concerned about your guns than your fellow human beings.
Nitpicking on a fucking cartoon over the trivial technical minutia of firearms design is just a small part of it. You're so blinded by your RW dogma that you don't even realize the cartoon isn't as much about guns & gun control as it is about the hypocrisy of US foreign policy - which it accurately portrays.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I suppose this sailed right over your head.
"Too bad too, because it could have been funny and poignant on multiple levels."
It is interesting from a domestic firearms policy level (unregulated re-sales*), a military funding level, AND a foreign policy level.
Unless you want such cartoons to only resonate in the echo chamber of your own mind, it would HELP that cartoon resonate with broader audiences if the cartoon didn't have a glaring, nearly 100 year old error in it.
If you want gun owners (REGARDLESS OF THE POLITICAL LABEL YOU SEEM TO FEEL QUALIFIED TO ASSIGN TO PEOPLE YOU DO NOT KNOW) to pick up on these ideas and actually consider them, you simply cannot have such a glaring error, or it will be dismissed.
And who the fuck are you to tell me I am carrying water for the RW pointing out the cartoon is good but could be better? Get real.
I could just as justifiably accuse YOU of the same thing for promoting and defending policy commentary like this cartoon, that is factually weak and easily dismissed as false propaganda. But at the end of the day, neither of us is a conservative, so get over it.
(*It has a subtler second technical error, anyone who sells a certain number of guns in a month is deemed by the BATFE to be a dealer, and if they proceed without various requirements like the background check, that's a felony, and they DO prosecute those, but I wasn't going to raise it, as it's much subtler than the main error, which since you have not asked me about it, and referred to 'minutiae', I suspect you damn well know what the error is.)
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Dead kids don't matter as long as you have your gun. Got it.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)strawmen that don't apply to other participants in the conversation.
Who is looking in whose mirror?
baldguy
(36,649 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Pointing out an error (well, two now actually) in a SINGLE cartoon, is a pretty thin agenda, as fevered imaginations go, if you ask me.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)asjr
(10,479 posts)Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,340 posts)LOL