I have had the honor of working on two different comics projects with Don Hertzfeldt. But this is the story of my first interaction with the man.
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... I can't be the only one seeing this.
Once you get to a certain level of advanced maths, you basically become a wizard.
this is what a page of my wizards spellbook looks like
Sounds like something a wizard mocking another wizard for their poorly written spellbook would say
A frustrating part of the mainstream vegan “love all animals and protect the environment” mindset is the fact that things need to die in real-life ecology all the time but deer hunting season makes icky feelings and carp culls aren’t cottagecore
The vegan “any animal death ever is morally wrong” mindset doesn’t hold up when:
We don’t have any of the large predators we used to (black bears, mountain lions, or gray wolves) but still retain large deer populations. If nothing is removing animals, they’ll quickly overload the carrying capacity of the environment and have massive losses to starvation and disease that can also pass on to livestock. Human hunters replace the large predators that our landscape can no longer support.
It’s kinder to euthanize an un-releasable hawk rather than try to find it a permanent home with humans. Wildlife rehabs have extremely limited space and resources and are usually run entirely on donated money and volunteer time. Only a few are large and stable enough to care for permanent residents long-term, and those spots are few and far between.
An invasive species poses a danger to threatened native wildlife. I will admit- Australian possums are adorable. But not in New Zealand, where they’re an invasive species that eats the eggs of ground-dwelling birds that previously had no such predators. The landowners I worked with replanting native bush, all native Maori, had no qualms about setting the dogs on them.
I don’t know how to end this except. Sometimes things just gotta die and acting otherwise just isn’t a realistic expectation.
Highlights from the notes over the past 6 months include a lot of angry vegans saying “you’re blowing things out of proportion, no vegans actually think like this!” and a lot of people who work in conservation and education saying “Every day. I have to fight people who think like this.”
As a bonus this post was originally inspired by the vegan who called me racist for saying we should kill invasive species
The notion that all art is political implies that nothing is outside of politics and therefore that nothing is above politics. Truth as a concept in itself, beauty, kindness, humanity, even love, the very concepts of good and evil - if you claim "all art is political", all of these are made out to be mere derivatives of politics, and all of these things are placed in subjection to politics. Politics then rules over and consequently gives demands and definitions to truth and beauty and good and evil, rather than how it should be, which is the other way around.
Not all art is political.
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The trick’s pretty simple - someone is obviously tilting the ground under him.
Capitalism this, fascist that, no wonder your brain is mush, no wonder you think all art is political, you don't seek out delight, you seek out justification for your misery
...and then demand that everyone else be miserable.
I'll pass. I love my life. I'm not going to change it to assuage some bitter old harpy's terminal butthurt.
Hey guys, you wanna see something funny?
In 2016 a guy drew (and redrew later in 2019) this:
Then apparently during the covid times some Bad People started using the comic to have unapproved opinions, so he added this below it:
An added note on 2021-05-09: Multiple disingenuous bad actors have stolen the above comic, cropped off the attribution at the bottom, and shared it as part of science-denying, conspiracist, and frankly evil agendas, particularly in anti-vax circles. Let it be known in no uncertain terms that CrustaceanSingles thoroughly and unequivocally condemns the anti-vax movement, its ideas, and every last ignorant, selfish, reckless person who espouses them. Such people are callously endangering the lives of disabled and immunocompromised people including the author of this comic.
In case you were wondering how deep can cognitive dissonance go
why would you think the knight would be easy
the most dangerous enemy is always someone who is your size who starts the fight by slowly walking towards you
Yeah, the smaller the boss size, the harder the fight
a punk ass bitch
THE MOTHERFUCKING STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
Turns out loving your “work” is a far cry from loving your industry. Who knew?
Anyway look out for my new show, coming to a streaming platform near you where it will be buried under a monsoon of nigh-identical dogshit
*whoosh
i feel like no one really wants to hear that sleep/exercise/nutrition/hydration are major factors in treating mental health issues bc we’ve all talked to that person who thinks your depression would be cured by one good session of goat yoga or whatever but unfortunately they do help and i’m chronically annoyed about it
The enemy is both weak and strong. “[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
- Umberto Eco on fascism
dear diary,
today a tumblr user called me a fascist for saying they might feel better if they drink water
"What's the point of the government pushing for electric appliances and EVs if they're just going to shut off the power grid" you are so close to having an awakening.
You could spell it out to these people and they will never understand.
These people legit, whole heartedly share multiple, conflicting beliefs at the exact same time.
The government is always bad (But Also) Actually the democrats are good and saving this country from the evil racists
Climate change is going to kill us all in 2 years how dare you not submit to all the ideas I didn't come up with myself (But Also) It's so disgusting that people live in fly over country. How can they live like that so far away from society where they are away from trash, heavy pollutants and needles everywhere and gridlock traffic.
Communism will totally save us in every way. If only we didn't have capitalism (But Also) I can't believe I have to work at all to live. Why can't I do nothing or just travel and draw about gay, disabled dance theory.
OMG I can't believe that we are literally saying gay people can't be served at businesses all because of those bigoted Christians. This is so bad and wrong and sets us back so many years (But Also) Islam is the greatest religion to ever exist ever. It's women are so great they volunteer to wear full body covers because it's liberating and they totally love gay people.
You can't wake these idiots up. You really can't. They can watch a Muslim man castrate a man for being gay, and see that same man throw same gay man off a building and they will go "Not all Muslims" but then if ONE Christian says "your going to hell", All of a sudden, it's tantamount to genocide.
I fear we may be beyond hope with these brainwashed, braindead lunatics. When Moderates say that leftists are in a cult it's because they literally are. But because of the 24/7 news cycle, and social media, there is no getting them away from the cult. Because it's in their pockets. And it's only until other members of the cult go TOO far even for those other cult members in which you see ANY of them wake up at all. And it's too few at a time.
We might be winning the fight. But we are losing in terms of time. The longer it takes, the worse things get. And eventually the Reps will become the Dems of now and then there will be no normal to go back to.
You forgot Police are bad, we need less of them AND we need more gun control, which will be enforced by police.
Though I think that’s because a lot of gun controllers don’t actually support gun control, they support their Perfect Solution idea of gun control, which has little to do with practical reality.
Personally, I think OP could be explained by incompetence.
It’s important to remember another piece of their logic, though. It isn’t that they’re stupid, it’s that they are idealists.
They don’t believe that police are needed to enforce anything, because they believe crime is purely a consequence of needs not being met, and they believe that is a consequence of :”society not being evolved enough to meet those needs for free.” IE, they believe people only act like selfish pieces of shit and steal and kill and form organizations to exploit others by force for greater power, because they, “haven’t been taught properly.”
They genuinely believe this. Unironically. They believe that something being in fiction proves to them a model of it functions and if it appeals to them, they now have a model to emulate. They believe the only reason bad models perpetuate is because they exist in our economy and culture, and so believe if you gateekeep and censor and make everything provided obligate by the government, you can’t have poverty, or violence, or rape, or murder.
That’s how they juggle, “no cops but also no guns.” Because they believe in how “evolved” a society is determining the behavior of the little people that live inside of it. And they somehow reconcile this idea of totemizing “society” as a living monolithic entity and culture as the scribble drawn on it, but consider themselves the superiors and successors of organized religion.
My ex roommate's one night stand asked her to "Squeal like a dolphin".
Apparently screeching with laughter through our very thin walls ruined the mood and he called me a cunt.
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The enemy
Very appropriate name
“Once we fine-tune the skinnerbox, you’ll love it!”
This faggella may as well be championing state-mandated, remote controlled brain implants that stimulate the pleasure center of the brain on demand.
Just bear in mind that there’s no suppressing nature. When the religious fundamentalists with a moral interest in stamping out homosexuality do it, it doesn’t work. And despite the stacked odds, we still have gay rights.
By the same token, ideology that tries to substitute for animal needs like love and sex based on what the body tells you to look for, like Political Lesbianism, that declared, “men are oppressors and no relationship under patriarchy can be consensual,” broke down because maintaining that belief is unsustainable, long term.
How deep they’ll burrow into civic society to put their ideas in a protected bubble that sees society suffer before their idealism gets threatened, however, has yet to be seen. But making other people bleed or risk existential terror for their idealism as a good way to spur people into doing their thing is kinda what they live to do.