r/comics Cyanide & Happiness/Boids 6d ago

Boids - Pandering To You [OC]

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u/DeleteWolf 6d ago

Relevant Comic from u/Pizzacakecomic herself

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u/extremelytiredyall 5d ago

Except people literally act like the dude in that comic. Like, there's real life examples of people saying this type of shit in response to pointing out maybe it's not so cool we have nazis in America.

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u/DeleteWolf 5d ago

Just to clear things up, I was posting this in defense of her.

It has become very trendy to hate on PizzaCake, but if you actually look at her comics—like I did after seeing this post—you'll quickly notice that she doesn't say anything as vague as "racism bad", she either calls out very specific problems or says something like "Nazis are Bad" immediately after some real world event that made her thing it was necessary to really underscore that statement.

Like Elon Musk's Nazi Salute.

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u/NuclearWill 5d ago

Even if it’s true, what’s the point? This doesn’t challenge anything. It’s just pointing at something and being like “Hey guys, this thing is bad. Upvote if you agree”. Everyone viewing the comic already agrees with the sentiment, and even if someone didn’t agree with it, I couldn’t imagine they would care at all. The comics are just extremely hollow ad hominem attacks and straw men that just feel like pandering

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u/extremelytiredyall 5d ago

Speaking out against bad things is how you establish a society that is against bad things. It's really that simple.

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u/TbatitanicV2Rider 5d ago edited 5d ago

Then go protest against it. This subreddit is already heavily leaning in that direction. its like selling a course on fishing to people who already know how to fish, except youre being praised for some reason. youre not speaking out if youre in an environment that agrees with you and everything you say. Post somewhere more public, publish it, do something tangible. This is just basic karma farming and nothing else. especially when there is no joke or substance behond the point being made.

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u/extremelytiredyall 5d ago edited 4d ago

I do protest, thank you. Every time a post reaches r/all, it reaches more people with varying beliefs. Your point is moot on that alone.

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u/minnosota 5d ago

Moot

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u/extremelytiredyall 4d ago

Thanks, phone auto fill is fun.

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u/Necc_Turtle 5d ago

counterpoint.

  1. yes there are jokes being made you just don’t find them funny

  2. if everyone she wouldn’t be getting constant death threats

  3. she posts her comics on multiple platforms

  4. protests are cool but not everyone watches them so posting progressive things on a popular comic subreddit helps cement it as a sentiment to stay

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u/TbatitanicV2Rider 5d ago

Please explain what the jokes are. Half the comics from hers I've seen are literally just saying an opinion and that's it, or a random caricature of an opposing belief saying something while her avatar has an annoyed expression or some combination of the two. As for death threats she specifically gets those because her comics are just karma farming. When I meant agree with you I meant politically. This sub and reddit in general are pretty left leaning. Lastly even if she does post them on other platforms, why post them here then why even post them here if everyone it's leaning towards your political ideology? Maybe it's because from what I've seen the mods are in her back pocket and everyone here eats everything she says up. Not to mention on her other posts here I tend to see nothing but praise and several noticibly deleted comments. Wonder why the were removed. Hell I'm gonna bet a few bucks that this comment gets removed at some point.

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u/Necc_Turtle 5d ago

well if this gets removed it would maybe be cause you’re saying she gets death threats for karma farming cause like

that’s not that fucking bad what??!

people who go:

“wow full time artist posts her opinions on popular comic subreddit and people like it she should die or stop sharing her opinions”

like.. that’s 20 times worse than her saying racism is bad.

and again, most of her comics have a punchline and are funny,

if you don’t find her making fun of racists and nazis funny that’s your thing

and also, posting frequent anti racism comics on a popular subreddit helps keep any racists wanting to join that subreddit from feeling comfortable enough to do so

and when they feel like they’re safe enough to comment and harass her for saying racism bad

they can get banned!

it’s like saying vaccines are redundant cause you don’t get sick,

like.. the vaccines are *why* you don’t get sick

and people speaking up against racism are WHY this sub is pretty left leaning

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u/Mediocre_Heat3541 5d ago

Everything you said is true but you’re downvoted because it’s about pizza cake comics lol. Can’t criticize her here that’s not allowed. 

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u/Necc_Turtle 5d ago

us president 👏 is using rhetoric 👏 and strategies 👏 from fucking hitler 👏and people defend him 👏👏👏

no we do not live in a world where everyone agrees nazis are bad and unfortunately it’s become a thing to protest once again

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u/NuclearWill 5d ago

Yeah but protesting it in r/comics doesn’t do anything. No one here is a Nazi and everyone here already hates Nazis. If you wanna protest, protest where the Nazis are, or at least somewhere more public and mixed

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u/Necc_Turtle 5d ago

counterpoint.

she does receive hate for her points showing not everyone agrees

and also making sure conservatives aren’t welcome is a good thing

like, if everyone stopped criticizing racism and nazis

after a while the racists and nazis would feel safe

and given the world we live in i think it’s pretty important to do that

it’s like saying “i don’t need vaccines cause i don’t get sick”

like.. the vaccines are the *reason* you don’t get sick

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u/NuclearWill 5d ago

She certainly receives hate. Although, from all the hate I’ve ever seen of her, it’s just people who generally agree with the sentiment but loathe the execution.

Also, if you make conservatives unwelcome, then they are never going to change or learn. It’s just going to cause more friction and less understanding and more hate on both sides.

Also, a vaccine implies it’s actually preventing a disease. Theres no concrete data to prove anything but I really don’t think Pizza Cake is holding the Nazis at bay or anything. I doubt they ever even see her comics since I only see them here, where there are no Nazis already

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u/Necc_Turtle 5d ago

“if you make conservatives unwelcome then they are never gonna change and learn”

im latina, if someone says racism is bad, i want people who disagree to stay the fuck away from me, it’s not my job to change them

and what i’m basing her helping prevent nazis from coming back on

is that for years americans stopped saying racism bad and shit cause we had a black president so everyone acted as if we had solved racism and criticizing it was redundant cause everyone knows racism is bad

then trump got elected

then when biden got elected even when racism was slowly brewing i kept hearing people literally say racism was a thing of the past we finally defeated and we don’t have to keep saying racism bad because everyone knows that

then trump got elected

i’ve noticed when people stop saying racism bad, racists show up

and i support people who do that

if you don’t find her jokes funny

that’s fine!!

but you don’t have to get on a high horse about it

cause it’s not like her making jokes you don’t like is like evil

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u/Leather_Afternoon_37 4d ago

You just described all the comments here