Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Truly, It Will Be A Holy Mass Murder!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Were-Wrath.

The movie references in this strip have never not been awkward, and they just keep getting worse.

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  1. JLGMarch 14, 2024 at 12:34 AM

    You know, let's break that down. "Civil war, Satanism, chaos, and cannibalism in Haiti".

    Civil war.
    As we've often discussed, it's the freaking right wing that has become infatuated with the idea over the past decade or so. It is constantly brought up. I, and I'm sure you, have watched it creep from the fringes to almost the mainstream.
    THEY are fantasizing about it. Not "the left".

    Satanism.
    I have no effing clue what he thinks he's referring to. Like the "bully" cited a few days ago, I suppose it isn't anything specific. I guess he considers all progressive policy (which, as we've established, he knows zilch about and couldn't discuss for more than thirty seconds without running dry) to be inspired by worship of Satan. Because that's an utterly rational thing to believe.

    Chaos.
    How vague, amorphous, and essentially meaningless. What chaos? Which chaos? He could be thinking of anything. There certainly is a lot of chaos to go around, but I don't imagine he's looking at any real-life examples.

    Cannibalism in Haiti.
    I've been googling around for days trying to ind even one verified news report that this is actually happening. The situation in Haiti IS horrific and IS filled with ceaseless, brutal violence and murder by competing gangs who have essentially overthrown what little government there was. But no verified reports on cannibalism can be found. The only concrete thing I could find was an article in the Hindustan Times which cited a video from two years ago (in other words, unrelated to the immediately current crisis) appearing to show a gang leader first chewing on a human finger, than ripping some flesh from someone's leg. This, the article, says, stems from a conflict between the Gran Grif and Ti Mepri gangs, and was apparently used as an intimidation message. Nothing in the article about the identity of the murdered person, or if it's known.
    But as grisly as that is, that's all I could find. Nothing widespread or normalized pertaining to the current gang wars and regular kidnappings.
    Naturally, the entire right-wig internet has convinced itself that cannibalism is an epidemic, including --- shocker --- the fantastically stupid Elon Musk, and are using it as a reason to rail against letting in any Haitian refugees.

    What any of this, or Haitian instability in general, has to do with "the left" is a mystery to me.

    And I think I just spend more time typing the above paragraph than Muir spent even looking into these claims.

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    1. John BallMarch 14, 2024 at 9:18 PM

      Regarding the Satanism stuff, I've always half-suspected Muir is referring to the various recentish acts of the Church of Satan.

      Who are a long, long way from being the kind of people Muir WANTS the audience to think of when he mentions Satan.

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    2. JLGMarch 15, 2024 at 1:09 AM

      I'm in the dark as to what these "recent-ish acts" are --- I haven't happened to hear anything about it. I don't know much about the Church of Satan, but I do know it's a deeply misunderstood group that isn't anything like what most of us (not just Muir) picture in our heads.

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    3. John BallMarch 15, 2024 at 9:10 PM

      I was thinking of the Satanic Temple, which... well, just read this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Temple

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