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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

Is this a sex thing?

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[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 3 points 6 hours ago

I think this might be the boomer version of "grill-pilled" if I had to hazard a guess.

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 38 points 1 day ago

I vaguely recall that it was supposed to portray some blue collar, working class person.

I just randomly found this quote, it seems interesting:

If you visit the cartoon's elaborate Web site -- do pluggers have elaborate Web sites? -- you learn that "Pluggers" was not created by some working class hack, but by nothing less than a committee. Reading the site's voluminous background information, you learn that "Pluggers" was conceived in 1993 by a group of five middle-aged men, none of whom seems to have much in common with the proletariat they seek to depict. One is a successful entrepreneur. One is a TV sitcom writer. Another is the "former CEO of a major American company." MacNelly, who prepped at Phillips Academy, is the well-off, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune, who lives in the "rolling hills" of Virginia and collects antique cars. These people are Pluggers?

https://web.archive.org/web/20100721065413/http://www.salon.com/media/media960710.html

So I guess it's the whole right wing portrayal of working class people, as opposed to those city people??

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 45 points 23 hours ago
[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 20 points 22 hours ago

It cost you $0 to not post this. Instead, your electric bill has gone up.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 11 points 22 hours ago

We don't need to use protection. Safety third uwu

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 14 points 22 hours ago

Jfc cursed.

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 19 points 22 hours ago

Bloody hell, it's just a committee trying to cash in on legally distinct "you might be a redneck" cringe...jokes

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 3 points 19 hours ago

Maybe back in the 1910s lmao

[-] stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net 25 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I will believe that the artist of that strip is the only person to ever draw an anthropomorphic animal without wanting to fuck it until proven otherwise.

E: that is to say it’s a lot of things but I don’t think it’s a sex thing.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 15 points 22 hours ago

Oh there’s a liiiiiiittle bit of bear daddy going on here. Maybe not that the artist wanted to fuck them, but that they think that’s what honest, real women want to fuck.

[-] stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net 8 points 21 hours ago

Bear daddy isn’t real, it can’t hurt you.

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 2 points 6 hours ago

But what about Soviet Bear Mommy?

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 2 points 20 hours ago

can he hug me?

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 3 points 19 hours ago

Bad News Berenstain Bears

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 29 points 23 hours ago

As a poor, I dress like a train driver from the 1880s.

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 23 points 23 hours ago

I wish I had the money for that kind of drip

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 27 points 23 hours ago

I used to wear a barrel with suspenders but saved my money and invested it in real $5 city clothes.

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 21 points 23 hours ago

I've been running around with the same newspaper over my crotch for the last 20 years

[-] astronot@hexbear.net 8 points 22 hours ago

I stole some old clothes out of a random basement with Mr. Spock, and then Joan Collins made out with me.

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 9 points 20 hours ago

Pluggers aims to celebrate the simple, upstanding, stoic blue color types who form the backbone of this great country. But I’m guessing that it’s unintentional that the life of a Plugger is made by these little anecdotes to look suicidally depressing.

[-] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 13 points 22 hours ago

red, white, and blue

Sounds Fr*nch to me

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 10 points 21 hours ago
[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 9 points 21 hours ago
[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 6 points 20 hours ago

these colors don't run o7

[-] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 7 points 21 hours ago

plugger deez nutzzzzz

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 11 points 23 hours ago

All patriots are confused bloods or crips

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 7 points 21 hours ago

biden-the-thing we got a lotta pluggers in Plaris

c'mon man

[-] musicpostingonly@hexbear.net 9 points 22 hours ago

pluggers are the same guys who drive dodge rams on 34" swampers and those adjustable aluminum receiver hitches to fetch their groceries.

pluggers are the guys who wear pressed khakhis, PFG shirts and Costa sunglasses.

republicans mostly, i guess.

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 8 points 23 hours ago

guessing it's not about unplugging your ethernet cable when you're losing

[-] Xenomorph@hexbear.net 7 points 22 hours ago

Looks like a kink for people that like furry bears.

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 2 points 19 hours ago

someone is trying to make a thing

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