Tuesday, March 15, 2022

So Much Toxicity On Display.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because a room with a moose.

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It says something that it's a relief that Muir has returned to this level of disease, instead of plumbing his new depths.

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  1. EurobratMarch 15, 2022 at 9:19 PM

    Also, the characters have become so unlikable over the years that I'm utterly unmoved by what is supposed to be a touching moment. Meh.

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  2. JLGMarch 16, 2022 at 12:55 PM

    Unlikable doesn't even BEGIN to cover it. Zed is the person who referred to the Christchurch mosque massacre as, and I quote, "A good start".

    That moment was the rubicon for me. The moral event horizon. Muir had said many awful things before, but that was levels beyond. Unforgivable.

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  3. John BallMarch 16, 2022 at 8:26 PM

    Aside from the awfulness of the cast, there's the quiet awfulness of his sexism.

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  4. EurobratMarch 16, 2022 at 9:15 PM

    Wow. I don't think I ever saw the Christchurch thing. Jeez.

    My personal moment of irreversible disgust with this strip was when the Oroville Dam in CA was threatening to go, and one of the characters "joked" about how we should put all the undocumented immigrants in front of it. That's when it hit me just how much of a psycho Muir was.

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  5. JLGMarch 17, 2022 at 9:28 AM

    I'm somewhat chagrined to say that during that period, I was posing as a member of the peanut gallery, partly to troll them and partly as an experiment to see just whether there was any limit to their awfulness. In character, I would say the absolute worst, most vile, cruel, and inhumane things I could possibly think of, to see if I got ANY pushback. From ANYone.

    Almost none ever came. Not even when I spoke enthusiastically about the mass slaughter of children in exactly that scenario you alluded to.

    I'm not proud of having done this little experiment, but in a way it was warranted. I really did want to see if these people were as wicked as they seemed to be.
    They are.

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  6. EurobratMarch 17, 2022 at 10:36 AM

    I can definitely understand the motivation for this experiment...and the disappointment with its terrible results.

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