Man, I could have sworn tons of people said this was a U.S.-only thing.

Canada sure was confident about “elbows up” while Alberta was talking about seceding for the same reasons.

No one is immune.

Ah yes, Sun Tzu said “If your opponent calls you the same thing you call him, there’s no comeback, game over.”

Yep, it’s actually from 2015! The artist is the original Ziggy artist’s son (literally Tom Wilson and Tom Wilson II), so I’m sure he intentionally references the old art style.

I think this is more of a general plane crash joke than a 9/11 joke. It’s not specific about where the plane is going and lots of plane crashes happened between September 11, 2001 and November 27, 2015 (when the comic was published).

I’d be surprised if Ziggy didn’t make pretty much the same joke in the 1970s-1980s!

I thought the same thing.

I was like “there were Ziggy cartoons in 2015?!” But yep, Ziggy is apparently still ongoing.

The most recent one is also about airplanes. “We’ve upgraded you to early deplaning, here’s your parachute!”

This is REALLY funny coming from the Wall Street Journal, who was quick to publish that there were “transgender” messages on the bullets.

He’s actually performing a role AS the tape. He’s really owning it, I’d say

“Lesbian erasure” is so much funnier than “woke erasers” but I guess you gotta do what you gotta do

Thank you for saying it was a reference to something because reading it out of nowhere was surreal. lol

Don’t forget that the Wall Street Journal ran with this news without bothering to check. Love those clicks!

They said “whiter than raisins in potato salad.” It’s a meme saying that white people put raisins in potato salad.

There’s a book by street lit author Quan Millz called Becky Put Raisins in the Potato Salad. This is actually where I heard about it and I was like “ew! Raisins in potato salad??”

I’ve never seen a potato salad with raisins in it. Sounds gross.

Oh definitely! Plus, tons of people who don’t have a full-on flagpole still hang a flag outside their house at all times.

The people who live across from me put up a comically-tall flagpole after Trump won last year… the first flag on it was a Trump flag. They now have an American flag up all the time (and it’s currently at half mast).

They’re all totally bizarre. Rarely have bad Americans announced themselves so clearly, right in front of their houses.

Yes, sadly. The same people still have it at half mast, and it’s 9/12.

People around here have also never put their flags at half mast for 9/11, they actually don’t put their flags at half mast for literally anything at their houses. Post offices, schools, government buildings, and some businesses, yeah. Houses, no.

So this is extremely performative for certain conservatives.

My town too. Most flags at houses are being flown at full mast.

Like, flying a flag at all is questionable at best but it’s nice to know that most people clearly don’t care.

I’ve literally seen decals on trucks that say “kill your local pedophile.”

They call everyone who doesn’t agree with them a “pedophile,” so they’re just advertising in plain sight that they’re looking to kill someone.

The U.S. loves its sociopaths.

I appreciate this, it seems like no one is making this explicit.

His last words were exactly who he was as a person. No one should ever forget.

This is correct, and it’s legitimately insane to me that the Nazis themselves never see it.

In fact, they will completely deny it afterwards.

I recommend reading They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-1945 by Milton Mayer. This is my favorite quote but the whole book was eye-opening:

When I asked Herr Wedekind, the baker, why he had believed in National Socialism, he said, “Because it promised to solve the unemployment problem. And it did. But I never imagined what it would lead to. Nobody did.”

I thought I had struck pay dirt, and I said, “What do you mean, ‘what it would lead to,’ Herr Wedekind?” “War,” he said. “Nobody ever imagined it would lead to war.”

It’s because conservatives legitimately don’t actually know the difference any more. There are several people in my town who have their flags at half mast.

They think Donald Trump is a great leader, and they probably see him as a great “military officer” too.

The rules have changed.

Matt Forney is already a well-known Nazi. He has his own ADL entry.

You know, I was actually like “Kirk who?” for a second.

May we all move on to “Kirk who?” that quickly.

Nah, they never got married. He just dated her for four years, when she was 17-21.

She was in high school when they started “dating.” He was 39.

“Great guy,” thank god he still has a mouthpiece so we have to read the shit he spews out of his dumb fucking mouth.