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We're going to see a lot of recycled political cartoons from 2003.
Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat their political cartoons.
those of us that do, are doomed to witness it repeat itself.
First one that came to mind was one I have an actual newspaper clipping of. Can't find it online. It's an image of the Iwo Jima Memorial, but they're pushing up a gas gauge from Empty.
And it was dated more than two weeks ago. Such a predictable man-child.
Luckovich is a badass.
Did the oil derrick really need to be labeled?
It could be ambiguous to a general audience. A Chevron logo would've been more elegant
Without knowing the context of what's happening in Venezuela I'd probably think that's a radio/cell tower without the label and wonder what the army has to do with 5G in South America
It's not a political cartoon if there's not a label on every relevant detail.
I knew what it was, but not that it's called an oil derrick. So maybe.
Today? Probably not.
More than 2 weeks ago, when this was published? In that context, based on what was common knowledge among the public then, I understand why he erred on the side of overexplaining that the U.S. military was on the cusp of escalating to an invasion.
But the context of Venezuela having the most oil of any nation didn't change in those two weeks.
O say can you drill, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the wellhead’s last gleaming,
Whose drill bits and flood lamps through the perilous fight,
O’er the mud pits we watched, were so gallantly reaming?
And the flare stack's red glare, the crude bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our rig was still there;
O say does that oil-spattered derrick yet stand,
O’er our new vassal serfs and their occupied land?
I really don’t want to hear Americans bitch about any other nation right now, shut the fuck up, stop being cowards and fix this shit. Not a single one of you in that country is a person i want to hear from
But you see, not all of them voted for Trump, so it's unfair of you to demand anything of them and ostracize them all as one.
Unlike when USians spout their opinion of other countries, being totally justified in anything they say.
Forget the right for a second altogether. The American left went insane, nobody was left enough for anyone. Many of the ones who didn’t vote trump also silent vote Harris. The same people that demanded the old white man step down, saw him replaced by an educated black women and the American left still went “eeew not that”
Speaking of which as an indigenous person I have never seen so much racism from the left as I did this past election. If you disagree with anything at all, forget civility, the teeth came out, fuck allies, fuck friends.
And I don’t want to hear about how bad Harris and Biden are, it’s 2026, we’ve had a year of trump and you guys are still blaming everyone else.
An apple may have some good spots left but when it’s rotting im just gonna toss it away like your country
Lying in this community gets you nowhere. We were massacred, twice. Get your head out of fascist propaganda, arm up, and guillotine everyone of these capitalists.
Feeling's mutual, chum.
Yeah we know, you guys have always been terrorist assholes who don’t care about anyone, that’s my point
Let's just not look too closely at the history of wherever you're from.
Yeah, if you look you’ll see a bunch of genocide, slavery and murder being done to my people by yours when you infected our continent.
The new racist talking pint is “well natives had war too!” As if tribal skirmishes are in any way related to the atrocities of modern America
Bro I have no idea what the hell you're on about.
Oil is sub $60 a barrel. Its the minerals, Marie.
Venezuela's heavy oil can only be processed in the US (and it isn't accessible right now). So there is no shift in production. It should stay in the ground.
There WILL be blood
fuck repubicans, ALL OF THEM
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what is with political cartoons and labeling the thing it is? i get if you really want to hammer the allegory in and label it what it represents, though barely. but it’s a bit insulting. or is it an inside joke?
Ben garrison would've labeled the ground, the soldiers, their helmets, and the trees.
this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2026
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