It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Torn Curtain.
This is how Muir interprets 'No Kings'. Just another excuse for him to whine about we just don't appreciate white guys like him who do all the stuff that keeps civilization running. Mind you, Muir doesn't actually do any of it, but he's sure he could. He's a white guy after all.
I leave you with images of Muir's imaginary white saviors all dying of exposure on Mars as their AI sexbots babble nonsense about generic Viagra.
Sooooo...Muir's vision of paradise is one where white men are kings, can live on their own planet where they don't have to care about anyone else, and will bring their sexbots, since human women are just too inconvenient and demanding.
ReplyDeleteAnd he wonders why his donation base is shrinking.
I also find it extremely ironic that the Latino man in the strip is yelling about EBT, considering how the Mexican immigrants Muir hates so much work their asses off in this country. Not only are his white saviors gonna die of exposure, who's gonna grow their veggies, the poor babies? I mean all they know how to do is post angry blogs....
Ahh, but 'Civilization!' and all that. Without Muir, it wouldn't run, he's certain.
DeleteI'm reminded of Dickens' famous line about the bug on the leaf grudging the life of its brethren in the dirt. And also the bit about libertarians and housecats.
Who came up with the libertarians/housecats thing? Just for that one line they deserve every literary prize there is.
DeleteI believe it was John Spaulding in a Twitter thread. Libertarians hate it and have written pseudo-brainy screeds explaining why it's wrong, so you know it cuts deep.
DeleteThis might be among the top ten most racist strips he's ever written.
ReplyDeleteFrom multiple angles, on multiple fronts, it's up there.
It's so confounding how in so many cases the entire premise of their worldview is just factually wrong. Most illegals work. Most pay taxes. That's just fact. The entire narrative of masses of "leechers" is a farce.
Also...
"EBT, it will be there, sí?"
Maybe I'm speaking from ignorance, but do modern-day Spanish speakers from Latin America even construct sentences like this?
I genuinely have no idea what the "AI sexbots" angle is, here. Like...is that Muir-via-Zed sincerely expressing the wish for those to be a thing? I can't tell.
I mean...his obsession with robots having sex is only growing. Not sure where it'll ultimately end up, but it's growing.
DeleteI can't believe I didn't make the mental connection with his robot sex fetish.
DeleteI think it's a combo of that--and at least part of what fuels the robot sex fetish is an idea of impossible bodies doing things that human bodies can't--and his growing misogyny leading to him imagining compliant sexdolls who will give him everything he wants from a woman without the bothersome 'having opinions' part.
DeleteAlso, on the subject of the immigrant's strange sentence structure... remember, I call El Dorado Dad that for a reason. He talks like a "Hispanic" character in a Hanna-Barbara TV cartoon from the early 80s.
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