Letters to the Editor
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I love the true irony inherent in this strip
1. 1 strip complained about Conservatives/Republicans not being adult in their arguments--after numerous strips portraying them as childish, incoherent, and conspiratorial. You get what you give.
2. I love how he's already complaining about Iran, which has come out and admitted nuclear testing and refused to stop--that if we were to go in, we'd be the bad guys attacking another innocent nation (the last "innocent" nation, mind you, was thought by every world power to possess such weapons, and was headed by a genocidal dictator that, ahem, was our fault to begin with).
But hey, you know the This Modern World way--my thoughts first, and you're a stinky pooperhead!
lol.
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uh, right...
I love how he's already complaining about Iran, which has come out and admitted nuclear testing and refused to stop
Nuclear testing? That term is almost always used to refer to the test explosion of actual nuclear weapons. We didn't say India and Pakistan had engaged in "nuclear testing" before they actually detonated working atomic bombs, and to say Iran has engaged in "nuclear testing" is at best equivocation, and more likely an outright lie.
Iran's development of nuclear technology is not a violation of the NPT, unlike the development of new nuclear weapons by the US. Would you advocate an international military attack on the US due to this treaty violation?
By the way, "every major power" was convinced that Iraq had WMD because they thought they could trust the Americans not to make up intelligence to "prove" their existence. Of course, now we're told that the Iraq war was never really about WMD. I can't wait to hear about how the Iran war was never about uranium enrichment, and how the thousands of US troops killed there died to give the Iranian people the right to have free elections to pick their fanatical Islamist leaders (well, that one might not work; they already had a free election to pick their current insane President, which he would have lost if Bush hadn't insisted on making proclamations about who Iranians should vote for. Can you imaging the 2004 election results here if Osama had actually demanded that Americans vote for Kerry, rather than just having Republicans insist that he would want them to vote for Kerry, being a militant Islamist Secular Humanist as we all know he is?)
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And furthermore...
Don't forget that we just signed up with India, who is not an NPT signatory, to help them do exactly what we claim Iran has no right to do under the NPT (never mind that the NPT allows for civil nuclear programs). This sort of double standard is not lost on the rest of the world.
Finally, isn't it quite ironic that we are considering using tactical nuclear weapons on Iran, because we allege they might be embarking on a nuclear weapons program? Who is violating the NPT here, I ask?
The insanity of this situation is beyond description.
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"1. 1 strip complained about Conservatives/Republicans not being adult in their arguments--after numerous strips portraying them as childish, incoherent, and conspiratorial. You get what you give."
So "Conservatives/Republicans" behave childlishly (i.e. "I'm the decider") or use lies, attacks, and at-best junior high-level word games to obscure or avoid the truth (i.e. take your pick of anything that has ever come from Cheney/Rove), Tom Tomorrow notes this (while the corporate media lets it slide), they behave childishly some more and Tom Tomorrow notes this, as well, and then they keep behaving childlishly, and Tom Tomorrow keeps noting this.
I don't know what "you give what you give" means (typo, maybe?), but if it means that "Conservatives/Republicans" are childish, you're correct. As Tom Tomorrow himself has stated, the illegal installation of Cheney/Rove in the White House marked the end of satire. No satirist who ever lived could match the banal evil scipted by these stupid old white men with somebody else's money and no concept of history or humanity.
Also, "lol"? I mean, seriously. With all the peace, prosperity, and intelligent discourse coming out of the White House, I loved the '90s, too, but some things you just have to let go.
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Perpetual War
"Oceania is at war with Eastasia, and has always been at war with Eastasia."
I don't know what else to say, except what Orwell said so well in '1984'. I read this book as a very young man and throughout the book I was bouyed by the hope that Winston Smith would help bring down the Party and it's evil machinations, but in the end, the Party was too strong and the amchine ate him alive.
I may very well be my own version of Winston Smith, and guys like Tom Tomorrow may be my Goldsteins. Read the book to figure out wha I'm talking about. I'm too tired and depressed to explain it.
Fuck us all...
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Explanation, please...
I don't get the connection between the famous Gerald Ford line on Watergate, "our long national nightmare [is over]," and Bush's exploitation of 9/11 to attack Iraq and now probably also Iran. The parallel between the quote and the strip should be the heart of the joke, but it's not there. Or did I miss it?
While I find wake me's weekly complaints tiresome, I agree that TT should spend more time working on improving the irony, humor, and art in his strips and less time working on his blog. Something about the Golden Goose...
But unlike wake me, I appreciate the cut-and-paste "pop art" style. It is something that is very hard to do well. Think Roy Lichtenstein. Mr. Tomorrow would do well to examine how RL developed his art over the course of his career.