What's with all these psudo-/pol/ threads popping up? All this talk about Epstein and immigration is really retarded.
Real world politics in comics about aliens and superheroes is stupid. And all these bait threads are bumming me out. How and when did comic discussion get this bad?

you know what will help stop this kind of thing?
Making a shitty meta thread.
Good job.

>>149340665 (OP)
everything is political. being a good person is political. social zeitgeists are political.

>>149340715
Shut up tard

Wall Street got scared of the people's ability to organize and threaten their lives using the internet so they pushed identity politics into every facet of life to distract everyone from the fact they're stealing from everyone, it will only get worse enjoy

>>149340665 (OP)
Comics have always dealt with real world politics and it’s what keeps them topical ans relevant to readers instead of pretending apolitical political correct blandness is what people want from fiction

>>149340726
I really wonder just how so many people here eat this type of bullshit claims without even a hint of irony.

>>149340734
>dont worry about the rich getting richer and poor getting poorer bro you just focus on pronouns and the war on christmas like a good buy

>>149340734
>don't worry about the rich getting richer and poor getting poorer bro you just focus on pronouns and the war on Christmas like a good little boy

>>149340734
You'd know if you witnessed the change firsthand but that would require that your balls at least dropped beforehand

>>149340665 (OP)
It's just lefty-/pol/ acting up. Righty-/pol/ did the same when Biden refused to release the documents too.

>>149340756
>unironically believing lefty-/pol/ exists and isn't just baitposts and trolls
there's better things for people to do than actually being a leftist on /pol/

>>149340750
Only a sheltered white child would think it wasn’t impacting how people acted and made decisions prior to whatever arbitrary year you decided to mark as the birth of idpol. It was prevalent in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, etc. All that changes is the name and what topics end up getting talked the most.

It’s absurd to claim black identity politics didn’t exist prior or have heavily politicised climate around it before year 201X.

>>149340665 (OP)
>How and when did comic discussion get this bad?
When the industry became invested with self-absorbed writers who think like >>149340727 catering to like-minded readers who think constantly revisiting political grievances is the height of commentary.

>>149340726
Also this. Especially this.

>>149340719
you suck a tailpipe first

>>149340734
identity politics accelerated as a response to the Occupy Wall Street activism, you stupid dipshit

>>149340776
You must be underage if you don't remember the world before politics were forcefully packed into every part of everyone's lives

>>149340771
>there's better things for people to do than actually being a leftist on /pol/
There's better things for people to do than be direction brained retards, yet they still do it. What's your point?

>>149340787
Cope and seethe

>>149340776
you're still not getting it.

the function of racism/caste is to put a different ethnicity in a lower economic class, just like the function of misogyny/homophobia is to put non cis men in a lower economic class. the second people start talking about class is when the media jumps on idpol again. the black panthers as marxists gave up idpol and became stronger for it before dissolving after getting a lot of what their local goals were. you don't see the entertainment industry focusing on class because idpol helps deepen culture wars and entrenchment

>>149340795
i'm doing fine because you have no argument. take your meds.

>>149340746
>Nooooo I have to be super racist all the time and simp to billionaires, I can’t care about income inequality and other issues!

Hey you said it not me. The left has kept talking about healthcare and raising minimum wage and taxing the rich and somehow chucklefucks like you keep voting republican and then not give a shit when all they do every time they’re in power is give themselves and corporations more massive tax cuts at the expense of cutting down social security and healthcare programs while calling you lazy video game playing losers who need to work more

>>149340665 (OP)
This is the autism board. Autists are extremely vulnerable to the effects of political brainworms.

>>149340788
Says someone who didn’t live through the anti-communism red scares, 60a civil rights movement, anti-Vietnam and Iraq war protests and Islamophobic war on terror era of the 00s…

Trump only won against women btw

>>149340819
>raising minimum wage
Big mistake buddy, and I say that as a social democrat is a rich social democratic country without a minimum wage.
Minimum wage only exists to give corporations a solid pay floor, and give unions less bargaining power.

>>149340819
>The left has kept talking about healthcare and raising minimum wage and taxing the rich
Kek

>>149340832
Seems like he'll be a safe winner for years to come then.

>>149340836
NTA

marx said it's the worker's prerogative to seek a fair wage in exchange for their labor on the market. places without unions frequently don't have workers' rights so that workers can actually leverage that right. fair pay doesn't exist without the context of the existence of unions

>>149340832
Against Fake Woman, you Troon

Meta threads are cancer and against >>>/global/rules/8 and >>>/co/rules/1
OP is a faggot.
Fulfill your civic duty to help purge this board of anarchistic, sociopathic, intellectually regressive youtube/reddit/twitter immigrant subhumans like him who are under the delusion that all of 4chan (instead of just the designated shitposting playpens like /b/, /trash/, /bant/, etc.) is a toilet by reporting this thread en masse.
Here's a link so you don't have to scroll up to the top of the page.
https://sys.4chan.org/co/imgboard.php?mode=report&no=149340665

>>149340836
And you can’t get rid of it in America, so all you can do is raise it, something that was last done in 2009. You think in 2025 you can live on minimum wage salary that’s 16 years out of date and hasn’t taken inflation into account at all?

>>149340665 (OP)
You should apply for an unpaid /co/ mod job and do something about it.

>>149340852
An minimum wage laws only hinders that goal.
Fair wages can never be gained as long as a corporation can simply refer the workers back to a legally laid wage, and say "take it or leave it".
You will forever be stuck trying to play catchup, like >>149340860 points out.

>>149340856
>immigrant

buddy i've been a leftist and on 4chan for 15 years. chances are you're the immigrant from the fascist youtube algorithm. not me.

>>149340870
ah i see, so the answer is to do nothing. that got workers so far in the late 19th and early 20th century.

oh wait.

>>149340872
>for 15 years
lol, fucking newfags

>>149340876
No the answer is to get rid of it, and regain your bargaining power.
The Eu recently wanted to try and force us to adapt a minimum wage, and every single union told them to go and kick rocks, because it would completely destroy our ability to negotiate fair wages.

>>149340884
>15 years
>newfag

>>149340884
>No the answer is to get rid of it

There is no plausible way to get that accomplished in modern day America. That can be a stated goal but achieving that isn’t something you could plausibly get passed in congress and senate. So what you’re left with is raising the minimum wage and tying it to an index that automatically increases every year to compensate for inflation. That is far more likely to have a chance to pass then completely getting rid of it. Especially when unionisation is at the levels it currently is.

>/co/ - Comics & Cartoons

>>149340665 (OP)
>complains about /pol/ threads
>by making another /pol/ thread
Good job, OP.

>>149340827
I lived through the last one and it was nowhere near as bad as it is today, there was a clean separation of normal life and politics, it's fucking inescapable today

>>149340892
Everyone who joined after 2006 is a newfag yes. You should know this if you remember the time ca 2010-2012 where people wouldn't even call newcomers newfags, but instead call them cancer for being even worse than newfags.
2004-06 is oldfag, 2007-09 is newfags, and everything after is an ever increasing degradation.

>>149340884
if EU wanted to force minimum wage on the world, then it sounds like you're saying

>we can only have bargaining power if we get rid of unions because unions will deny an international union since there's free trade from countries that don't have workers unions

if you mean "us" by a european country, you failed to explain how it destroys your ability to negotiate fair wages as if that's the only thing that would possibly factor in, like taxes on corporations and businesses when they make profit from this low floor you speak of.

what the fuck bargaining power do workers have in countries where there are no unions? oh right, fucking none.

>>149340902
the conversation we're having could easily be had in the floor of the senate on coruscant. would you rather we switch it up to star wars trade federation problems? darth plagueis was literally from a family of bankers, wasn't he?

>>149340912
Sure, as long as it didn’t impact your own immediate life you could safely just ignore all the shit it was doing to other people

>>149340941
You keep missing the point, previously it was something you COULD ignore, nowadays you CANNOT ignore it no matter how much you try, it WILL be forced onto you wherever you go

>>149340945
You can ignore it just as easily today if you aren’t addicted to social media.

>>149341053
You can't

>>149341072
Okay, snowflake

>>149340919
You are a retard

>>149340665 (OP)
The only thing that’s kept America from descending into hyperviolent anarchy for the last 60 years has been a stable economy and the possibility for upward mobility (or rather the illusion of those things) so everyone there has steadily been going stir crazy for the last couple decades because, whether consciously or not, they understand that 2008 and 2020 were fatal blows to their economy and once the illusion collapses for everyone they’re going to start seeing and doing shit that makes Rwanda look like a little playground slap fight

>>149340665 (OP)
>why are all these people talking about Epstein
Probably because then idea that a child sex trafficker wouldn't keep a list of his clients is too absurd for even the stupidest trump supporter to believe, but also means they'd have to accept that they're supporting a pedophile

>>149340665 (OP)
You have to be at least 18 to post here son.

>>149340715
"Everything's political" is true to an extent but you can't be "autistic" about it. Preaching politics all the time is annoying. Can everything be read through a political lens and do politics effect us in most things? Sure to some extent. But sometimes a pipe is just a pipe and you need to be able to make art that isn't preaching, and you need to be able to talk about art without preaching.

>>149341940
What people today consider “preaching” often just boils down to “don’t be an asshole”. Which is offensive to terminally online edgelords who never grew out of their contrarian asshole phase

>>149342047
Nope. You are an idiot. People don't like people preaching about politics in media and in discussions. You are to emotional and immature to understand that someone could disagree with you politically and still be a good person. You have black and white thinking. And this is why the left keeps losing. You all act like crazy extremists and everyone in the center either stops interacting/voting or switches sides.

>>149340665 (OP)
I think all the anti-Elio threads made someone angry.

>>149342074
>People don't like people preaching about politics in media and in discussions.

They don’t like hearing things they disagree with. That’s why they throw tantrums when a cartoon has a gay parent. Meanwhile if it said gays deserved to burn in hell they would have no problem with it.
>This is why the lef-
Oh shut the fuck up. The right just took healthcare away from millions of people to give rich people tax cuts and regularly says if you aren’t white male you deserve to be fired bedding “you’re a DEI hire”. And before that kept calling everyone pedophiles if they didn’t agree with their anti-LGBTQ hatred. You are a partisan hack.

>>149342135
Again, you are dumb. People in the past knew how to tell a story that had politics within, but wasn't the main focusing drive. You could enjoy the show without feeling preached to and then when you set back and thought about it maybe it would make you think about some issues. But now it's the whole thing. It's front and center. No one cares about the art of storytelling; they just want to rant and rave about politics. Most of these people should just be streamers or podcasters because they don't care about the art of storytelling; they only care about politics.

And it's not just writers there's a subset of the general public that has political brain rot and can never turn politics off and just enjoy things. They have to bring politics to the table nonstop.

The right is retarded too. And the left is correct on everything except for maybe like 2 issues. But the nonstop culture war and fun policing have ruined lots of the entertainment industry.

Keep acting this way if you want the right to keep winning. Or learn grow and change if you want to win.

>>149340715
Politicians are actors on the world stage. You posting about it on the internet doesn't do shit.

>>149340715
>everything is political
One of the most bot, /pol/tard midwit phrases that comes from you internet trad larping nu-fedora tippers.