This comic is designed under a sane ethical framework, which places responsibility for the success or failure of a party on the people who actually hold power within the party. It’s told from the framework of party leaders, holding them accountable for their failures. It’s punching up rather than punching down. What options were available at the ballot box, as we’re not talking about voters, we’re talking about leaders here. Don’t try and cover up for corrupt leaders by blaming the voters.

In contrast to Transylvania, of course.

We should start calling them “submissive genes.”

We should pass a constitutional amendment requiring every diplomat visiting the US to French kiss the sitting president at first meeting. You want to meet with Trump? You have to kiss him square on the lips.

Yes, you can make any problem seem childishly simple with the trolley problem.

This is actually a whole series of trolley intersections arranged one after another. And every time you pull the lever to run over people, extra people get added to the intersections down the line. You skip killing five people now, but the next intersection has branches with 5 and 10 people on it.

You need to consider both short term and long term in your voting. It’s very easy to get myopically focused on just one election. To think that this election is all that matters, the fate of the whole world to be decided in one moment.

This idea is a fantasy and not how the real world works. Parties move slowly over many elections. Change and legislation happens over many elections. Even Trump’s power grabs are just a continuation of the ruthless expansion of executive power that has happened with both parties in charge.

If you hold your nose and vote for the Democrat every time, no matter how evil, you have now removed yourself entirely from the political process. If you’re not afraid to actually withhold your vote, the Democrat will inevitably respond by moving to the right. Think about what actual incentives Democrats have. And think about how your actions affect those incentives.

We are in the situation we are now in part because Democrats have been blindly “voting blue no matter who” for election after election. As left voters will blindly vote for the Democrat no matter what they do, Democratic candidates suffer no political consequences from moving to the right.

Don’t ignore the consequences of your actions. If you’re not willing to punish leaders at the ballot box, you are giving them absolutely zero incentive to actually try and address what you care about. They’ll happily take your guaranteed locked-in vote. They’ll happily take your donations. And then they’ll laugh to themselves, “can you believe this moron?” as they ignore everything you care about and pander to Republicans. After all, why shouldn’t they? You’ve castrated yourself politically. Your thoughts and beliefs don’t matter, as you’ve made yourself irrelevant.

Where’s your truck bomb?

People have different values, and they approach voting differently. You vote based on utilitarian ethics, but there are other moral philosophies. And ultimately utilitarianism is a deeply flawed ethical system.

Learn to be a good citizen in a pluralistic democracy. Your way is not the only way. Learn some humility.

Kamala’s Israel policy is just a less white trash version of Trump’s.

The turtles aren’t missing anything. They all have cloacas.

We just moved in to a new house. We’re going to do a ton of customization at this place. It’s the first home we have that we can really treat like a forever home, so I’m going to go nuts with built ins and other projects.

My first project? Simply giving the master bedroom closet a new coat of paint. Budget? About $250 in paint, spackle, brushes, tape, etc. That’s $250 in materials alone. And all I’m doing is painting a closet.

I’m also going to spend about $6-10k outfitting my new workshop space, including the dust collection and other appurtenances I’ll build out. And I’ll use that to build a house’s worth of built ins.

But make no mistake, making stuff yourself is neither cheap nor easy. My general rule for a piece of good hardwood furniture is that it will cost about the same in materials alone that an equivalent ikea piece would cost. And I focous on materials as those are independent of tool cost.

I’ve definitely done this on tabletop rpgs. A one-shot DND character I played once was “Napoleon the 69th.” He was named after and visibly resembled our black cat, Napoleon. He was a tabaxi monk. His backstory was that his family line was an extremely ancient long-deposed royal family. Like a royal family from several dynasties ago. But his ancestors were still obsessed with protecting their noble lineage, so they were inbred to hell and back. He was a tabaxi that was so inbred, that physically…he was just an ordinary cat.

No he really doesn’t. He has little people to handle the phone for him.

I mean, it’s a pretty effective filter. Someone who paints their nails and wears women’s clothes from time to time is at the very least unlikely to be some misogynistic asshole. I’m sure there are some exceptions, but as a general rule, it’s a good simple filter.

Nah, that’s bogus. It’s a private company, they can do what they want. They could have absolutely given OP the 5/5 rating, and just had them sign something saying that they were content with the bonus appropriate to a 4/5 rating. No one would have had to receive a penny less.

If you’re involved in any kind of protest, the phone number of a lawyer. Hell, generalize this. Make sure you memorize numbers of at least the first few of your emergency contacts. You never know when you will be separated from your phone.

Are you asking leading questions?

We need a law that people that treat their employees like this are just forever barred from owning money. Literally. They’re legally not allowed to receive or own currency in any form. Make these people go back to barter.

You and your friends are running a marijuana grow op. The police break down the door. One of them sees your friend reaching for something (their phone) and shoots them dead. That person died in the commission of a felony (marijuana growing) that you were part of. You can now face life imprisonment for felony murder. In some states, this can actually happen.

I used to put it on my resume and the kind of offers I would get…where VERY bad. Or had some huge red flags.

In what way, someone looking for people to hack old banking systems?

This person should be banned from ever touching a computer again.