What's Mallard raving about today?
Hippos, the culture war, physchobabblers.
After a week of mildness, it's nice to see Mallard back on track with a standard bit of sophistry today. The combination of straw man liberal, a straw man argument, and a series of hot-button code words into something completely incoherent which will appeal to the lunatic fringe.
I confess, however, that I do enjoy the image of Mallard coming across a factoid about deaths-by-hippo and thinking to himself "How can I use this against liberals?"
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I like how it's Africans that he said were being killed by the hippos, yes, hippos are in Africa, but I read somewhere it's usually idiot tourists, or just plain idiots.
And it is true, they get pissed off and kill more people than... sharks, I think.
But I think AIDs, Man-with-gun, and other diseases kill more Africans than hippos.
By saying Africans, he wants us in a corner, if we oppose killing hippos, than we hate Africans. Or something?
I saw this at 2, no 3, when the time changed.
I wish he'd done something on that today, it was so funny. (I was exhausted, uploading a video to the internet with dial-up.) I was looking at it at 1:59, then it said 3:00! What?! It was so funny, but Mallard wasn't. I've had 6 hours of sleep since then, let's see if it makes sense now.
No, no, no. It makes no f'cking sense. I bet today's Doonesbury will be witty, well drawn, and LOGICAL.
Again, how does this get printed?
I may not know what I'm talking about, but I kinda think it's probably mosquitoes, unless the animal has to physically assault you for it to count.
And now to help Bruce Tinsley, I've used today's strip to create a formula for Sunday comics going forward!
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Mallard: Hey...[insert some fact I read somewhere that may or may not be true and is irrelevant to most everything.]
Straw Man: Really? Well [series of increasingly riduculous arguments that no actual person would ever say in real life.]
Mallard: Those stupid liberals...[Broad unintelligable statement based on delusional logic that Straw Man's comments = liberal thinking.]
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On the plus side, I like the drawing of a hippo. Too bad it's not trying to kill the duck.
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