Hey everyone! In case you haven’t noticed, this is a new community focused on NonPolitical Comics (NPCs), which essentially means no gloom and doom of the day stuff.
If you like the idea, help out by posting a comic that you enjoy for us to share!
Joke’s on Dad. Even 2% annual inflation would make that present-day $100 worth about 80% of its original value ten years ago.
Assuming this takes place from 2015 to 2025, that $100 in 2025 would’ve been $73 in 2015.
More importantly, mum’s only handing over $100 when she should be paying $200
Is that how things work?
She’s gotta repay the $100 she received mistakenly, plus another $100 to cover the bet she lost.
Dad gave her $100. Mom giving him $100 is just a refund, she’d need to pay another $100 to actually pay out on the bet.
Oh, lol. I’m sick so my mind is apparently mush. XD
I like the statement you’re making
Not really my intention, though. As far as I’m concerned there’s nothing political about simply existing.
And that’s why you shouldn’t assign babies gender based on their sex 😔
Now this is something I can get behind. I am tired of gender roles. Whatever happened to gender abolition?
Hot take: I want us all to be assigned chromosomes at birth for medical reasons, and then just have it not be a thing that gets talked about outside of medical situations. I read somewhere (and I’m saying this without a source for now) that as we advance genetic science, it’s turning out that a much larger percentage of people are intersex, or at least some variation of chromosomes other than xx or xy. So like, get that test at birth and then have your chromosomes as a part of your medical file so a Dr knows how to treat your body. Like blood type. And then, trans-ness is such a small percentage of people that most xx’s will still want to be little girls and most xy’s will still want to be little boys, but the pressure to fit in a box will start to fade, and the idea that there even is a binary will just go away, because its already not true. No more “its a boy, it’s a girl” bullshit, just “we had a healthy baby! They will develop into a kind and honest person one day, because we will raise them that way. We will be happy if they are an Olympic figure skater, or an archeologist, or a janitor, as long as they are happy and safe!”
I love your vision, and I hope we keep moving in a sensible reality-based direction like that.
But then I look at the world and think that’s just one set of labels among a million that prompt some people to do awful shit. Kids would still bully the kids that dress different if we had no words for gender roles but still lived in the rest of our deeply ill culture.
But hey, I am also gonna keep making my little spot on the earth a kind and honest place despite, you know, all of everything.
Pretty political for a non political post
And yea it’s a political subject, whether you like it or not
Especially saying it isn’t political is a political opinion
That’s fair. It blatantly shows fiat currency issued by the state, and a black getting health care.
It wasn’t political until you complained about it being political.
Now it’s political because commentary about whether something is political or not is an inherently political topic.
How about this: your dick size is pretty political for its size. And yeah it’s a political subject, whether you like it or not. Especially saying it isn’t political is a political opinion.
your sentence doesn’t make sense, there must be reasoning or point of views for it to be political, and it should fit some definitions
It makes sense if you know what metacommentary is.
I don’t, should I be ashamed? 😰
Shame is an unproductive and self-serving vice that doesn’t absolve you of any responsibility to be more well informed before politicizing something you shouldn’t have.
On the contrary, saying it’s political is a political opinion.
There’s nothing political about the original post, whether you like it or not. You’re politicizing it by claiming it’s political.
Yes, saying it’s political is a political opinion, but saying it isn’t is just as political
It costs you nothing not to leave your comment. I find it hard to believe someone else was out there waiting to comment how not political this comic was.
If someone doesn’t like your car, and they petition congress to outlaw the make and model, they’ve politicized a non-issue.
If you tell them it’s none of their business, you’re not being political. It’s not making it political to tell them it isn’t political.
I would argue it does and there are a lot of examples of this… Tesla maybe? Boycotts are political and acting like they aren’t is a political stance
It’s more like Musk made himself a political figure when he tampered with elections, bribed voters, did a roman salute at a maga convention, and then hired a bunch of twenty-year-olds to hack into every government agency and steal their data for his AI company [edit: while dismantling the services they provide and laying off the majority of their workforce].
His assets, including tesla, are simply collateral. Unless you include all the government subsidies he’s getting from this quid-pro-quo; those are certainly political.
A person’s personal choice, such as what car to drive or what gender to present as, is not political, and not even remotely comparable.
Are human rights political, simply because they’re enshrined in government documents? If so, then I guess we can’t have any depictions life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness either.
Are women political because they’ve had to fight to have the same rights as men? If so, then I guess we can’t depict women.
Are you the type who believes Obama “brought race into politics” simply by… being black and in politics?
Nope. The issue of trans people has basically always been political in my lifetime. I am not saying it should be political, or that it will always be considered political, but to say it isn’t political right now is ignoring the reality and is dismissing the real issues faced by transgender people. You can’t change reality by making statements because reality is not performative. The way the world works does not revolve around what you say or what you think.
Imagine defending trans erasure simply because you believe it’s performative to depict them in a non-political light.
If the comic depicted people protesting with signs demanding trans rights, or a doctor saying “I’m sorry but due to the new regulations I cannot prescribe HRT,” then yeah that would have political undertones. If it depicted a dude in a red hat saying “gender is binary and assigned at birth” then that would also be political.
But this is just a kid coming out to their parents, and the parents are only concerned with what that means for their bet; implying that they accept the kid’s chosen gender. If that’s political, then so is parents accepting a kid’s decision to study art in college, because some people make education a political topic.
You don’t get it. I am saying that indeed the existence of something is the thing that has been politicised. Some people legitimately believe that transgender is not a real thing and is instead some kind of a delusion or mental illness. Even ignoring that coming out as a concept is political. We wouldn’t have the concept of coming out if being queer hadn’t been prosecuted and stigmatized in the first place. Being gay or trans would just be a property someone has like having brown eyes.
Okay then any depiction of a human is political because humans are political beings
Yeah! Also, there’s all these women working outside the home in comics on here! It’s ridiculous!
I saw a black pilot in a comic! All these politics are ruining my good clean fun!
Sure, political subjects as well, but not debated in democratic societies as the overwhelming majority agrees that it’s normal
What is adding doom and gloom? That’s the metric that really matters here. According to the sub, anyway. I do enjoy a technical definition conversation, and with the majority thing you’ve probably hit on a workable metric for a sub more interested in bridging a divide.
However, this sub seems to be more about “Hey, we just don’t wanna feel bad about current events while reading these, okay?” It seems that a mere reference to a trans person does not make most people feel bad. And that actually correlates with polls of the general population.
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