This is what I hate about religion. In concept it sounds great. A bunch of rules for how to live as a good person. Sounds great right?
Well the first rule of christianity is "Thou shalt not kill".
And then you realize that the leading cause of murder on earth throughout all of history is........religious wars.
And it's all downhill from there from a hyprcritical standpoint. Religion is used more as a tool to justify ones shitty behavior, rather than a guide to prevent it.
The only good christian I know of, is Ned Flanders, and he's not a real person!
Well, not "kind" of dark, but really dark. I mean, the cartoon couldn't be more direct in comparing the "haitian Simpsons" to the jews and other racial minorities in Nazi Germany, with the last panel being a page from the life of Anne Frank.
I never realized until now why they use the "45" so much. Just move one of the black bars and it's a fucking swastika... And Haitians are really a stand-in for black people.
The real problem is that we allowed the plutocrats to control both the news and social media and the government. Basically the US doesn't have a free press any more but a quasi-government controlled oligarch media. As long as these neoliberal policies continue the degradation of institutions and politics continues.
Something drastic would need to happen to purge this incredibly power imbalance from the captured state. A kind of reformation or practically a coup.
Are you a bot? Your grammar makes me think: yes. Or autocorrect, via Google.
Neoliberal policies fuel degradation of institutions?
Can't say I disagree, though having little to do with dismantling of democracy, or those institutions.
Some socialist theory defines fascism as capitalism in decline. I don't really agree with that definition but it's not wrong with their critique of capitalism. So if you want to learn more about that, you should look into the (few) socialist academics.
One simple example would be corporate or capitalist ownership of media or the "fifth estate". How could you have a democracy when voters are deliberately misinformed about reality? And not because of ideology but for profit and to create better rules to increase corporate profits? What else do you expect to happen?
How does it suck? Is pretty much spot on throughout. Sucks that this is what we're living in, but the comic makes it easier to relate to the hell we're sharing.