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[–] steakmeout@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (8 children)

This same shit comic keeps floating back up the s-bend. Crappy conservative messaging where accounting is valued higher than art.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

A) That's not "conservative" messaging

B) It's a joke

[–] steakmeout@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I generally like Perry Bible Fellowship comics but this one seems like it’s either pandering to or coping with conservative messaging.

[–] sus@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/shocked/ clearly pandering to incels

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/puppy-wish/ clearly pandering to conservative fundamentalist christians

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/youll-be-ok/ clearly pandering to hypochondriacs

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/preserves/ incels again (and this one isn't even remotely funny, the greatest crime)

I'm starting to think this artist is a cryptofascist. Basically equivalent to rock throw

[–] Lupo@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Who does this one pander to?

Asking for a friend

[–] sus@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It is a message that there is no smoke without fire. The "intellectual" (note the glasses) has a seemingly convincing argument, but is shown to be a fool. The suspicion of sinful, non-procreational sex (notice the falling leaves, which do not play a reproductive role in trees) turns out to be true.

This belief in smoke without fire feeds into the conservative tenets of anti-intellectualism, the tendency to assume guilt based on prejudice and fuels paranoid conspiracy theories. It is also a meta-dog whistle confirming that yes, those other dog whistles the comic uses are really what you think and not just coincidental.

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