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first off, i wanted to give a shout out to my new Patrons, and all the kindly people who’ve donated since i started up my Ko-Fi page. It means a lot when people part with their hard earned coinage to help me produce my little comic. If you can, of course that’s great, if you’re not in a finacial position to do it, i totally understand. but if you think to do it, do me a favour and share the comic with a friend. One set of eyeballs at a time!
when i was a younger lad, about as tall, half as wise, but still as big a wise ass, i thought voting was pointless. it was an attitude i shared freely as sort of a conversation killer with people i didn’t care to not alienate. it was a belief i knew to be unpopular with people who were annoyed with the state of politics, and while i was no less annoyed with the world than they were, my annoyance manifested itself in a sort of preemptive throwing in of the towel, as it were. then i noticed something interesting…. people didn’t want to hear me complain anymore. not that my opinions weren’t valid, and not that i was more of a bore than they were, it’s just, why would someone want to hear someone bitch about X, when they didn’t even care to put in the smallest effort into something that could possibly change it?
so to my american friends, whether or not you think it changes anything, register now, go and vote. cause if you vote, no matter what happens next, you can complain about the results. you can bitch, and moan, and rant and get pissed off. cause in the end, complaining about stupid politics is the best. and you don’t really get to if you don’t pretend to try.
thank you for listening to my TED talk, pretending to give a shit for sociopaths.
You are welcome for the compliments. The imagination and creativity that go into the production of a story, even a bad one, never fail to impress me. It is a talent which I lack, and I genuinely respect it. (This is where you pat yourself on the back). As you may have gathered, I am an old Fart. I actually have several friends and acquaintances who have immigrated to this country through Canada. Several from the British Isles. I like them all, and am glad they are here.
At the same time, while I cannot say that there is an Isolationist bent to our current state, there is an awareness that there is a certain intent to very radically change this country in a fashion that, I do not believe that the majority of our people want. They are Loud, Obnoxious, and Violent about what they want. And only THEY are right.
It never fails to amaze me, that the people I know who have immigrated here do not understand that. They came here because there was opportunity here that was available nowhere else. They are grateful for that, and appreciate it.
In 1925, Congress stopped all immigration to this country, except for asylum, and certain other exceptions, in order to allow the millions who had immigrated to “acclimate”, and understand what it meant to be an American. It stayed that way until 1965. I think that perhaps it is time to do so once again. The majority of people that come here are actually fleeing socialism, communism, and tyranny. They do NOT want this country to become that which they fled. I agree. That is NOT America.
Please forgive me if it seems I have embarked on a Diatribe. I have a tendency to pull out my Soap Box a bit too readily. Nevertheless, I am grateful to be an American, and I am grateful to have Canada as a friend of ours. You have achieved your Independence much more recently than ours, but we have been growing together for a long time. Let’s hope we can continue to do so.
And I still LOVE your story! Charles Schultz carried on for 52 years. Perhaps you will equal him, or ever exceed him.
no worries on the diatribe. i find myself typing myself into circles some nights. it’s all good.
i think we might possibly disagree on a few points, and agree on a few others. and that’s ok. people need to be able to chat this kind of thing out, and ‘agree to disagree’ by the end of it. i think sometimes that we all have a very similar end goal, and a vision for the future we share, but our concepts of what the next step should be is where we get hung up. respectfully, i don’t think socialism and communism is akin to tyranny. i do get why people coming from certain places would make that association, and i don’t think it’s my place to tell them i know better, but i don’t think they are synonymous.
as for another 50 years, we’ll see. if i have another 50 in me, i’ll still be producing art, but i hope to have the comic wrapped up sooner than that by a few years. haha
I found your creation about 2 weeks ago, on another site, as a recommendation. I don’t recall which one. Tried it, liked it. It is an interesting place. It doesn’t seem surprising that you don’t see children. Nasty people. I usually don’t read the comments much, as I really don’t spend much time analyzing the stuff I like. I just try to enjoy it. As a result of reading the comments, I am determined not to binge this story. I have done this with a number of other stories, and end up impatient with the waiting for new episodes. I prefer to make this experience last a while. I have also seen far too many just suddenly stop. l find it incredibly annoying. I am hoping that you will not suffer from burnout, or illness, or any of the many odd reasons I have seen posted for not continuing your story. Many are truly baffling. Suffice it to say, that having reached page 170, I am continuing to enjoy it. I really like the animations, too. Even though some of them don’t load. So far, so good. Keep on keepin’ on!
On a separate note, I don’t know where you live, although your mastery of English seems to indicate that it is your native tongue. In your letter on page 460, you refer to your American friends. It was good to be referred to in that context. It is often difficult, as an American, to tell who our friends are. I hope you are sincere. As for myself, I have already voted, and will continue to do so for so long as I live, just as I have for the past 50 years. Your words reminded me of what my Father used to say. If you don’t get off your ass and vote, you don’t have any right to bitch about the people in office. ‘Nuff said! Thanks for your time. And Thanks for listening!
hey joe, thanks for writing! always appreciate hearing from new readers!
i’m canadian, since you were curious. one of your neighbors to the north, so i have more than a few american friends. i think america has more friends than it realizes, and i hope that some of the instinct to isolate itself with nationalism rhetoric slows down. i don’t think it would be as rewarding as some people think it might be. but maybe it’s not my place to say.
as for the comic, i’m glad your digging it! and even more glad you think it’s something worth rationing out. but fear not, when i feel burned out, i just take a break, and get right back to work. that’s why i try to stay a little ahead of what gets posted so i don’t ever feel like it’s a chore. art is hard enough without feeling obligated to preform. so, i’ve never missed a post yet, and i don’t intend to. sorry some of the animations don’t load. i haven’t heard that before. maybe try a different device on those pages? oh, and if you remember where you saw the recommendation for B&B, let me know, i’d love to thank them!
Read this page then go to 6:59 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULWgEnnmcv4 (this is part 3 of a 3D-enacted audiobook of a parody fan-fiction- if you find it nonsensical and confusing that’s the point)
that was like the weirdest thing ever. so, thanks!
I find I have a perverse thought to see what kind of further damage 45 could do, given another 4 years. I truly believe he could end this experiment of a Democratic Republic (so many citizens don’t realize that the US is NOT a democracy…)
But I really don’t want to live that reality. I’ll check it out once the Time Travellers LLC starts up.
I guess I just told everyone how I’m voting.. lol
i will admit when it was still before the 2016 election, i thought it would be amusing to see the crash and burn that would naturally occur after 1 month of him running the show. i didn’t think he’d last. i thought there was an outside chance he’d make it 2 years, but a full term? like morrissey says, that joke isn’t funny anymore.
Shockingly, he lowered income inequality, stopped (pre 2020 obviously) the yearly decrease in life expectancy we had since 2016 – it was actually statistically significant twice) and … his foreign policy is actually leading to less violence in the Middle East pluse Arab Israeli peace. He’s even deliberately and systematically decreased the powers of the executive branch, especailly to control speech, and stopped our recent habit of wire-tapping journalists. It’s … not what most people, especially educated people, expected, that’s for sure.
hahah, yeah. ok. that’s trump. abolisher of wage inequality, champion of journalists, reliquisher of executive power, advocate of peace…..
Decreased the executive powers?
Rotflmao
As we now see, his not-so-hidden plans are for him to become King, for his lifetime.
The trials will be fun. They are already being called The Trial(s) of the Century.
On a comic note, I’m pretty excited to see where this all goes.
…I guess that applies to the election as well
i’m less excited about elections. more anxious. maybe the comic needs a big election as it’s back drop. haha
A lot of races have a third party or two on the ballot. My dream is that half the people who don’t vote because they feel alienated by the process would show up and vote for one of them. If a third party guy got 20% of the vote, the major parties would absolutely change their process to become more responsive to the electorate
yeah, seeing things as a 2 party system has a manifest destiny way of coming true. it reinforces the concept that you exist on a political spectrum, and so long as everyone believes it, it’s true. people have toyed with the idea of ranked voting, which seems like it would eliminate the need for voting ‘safely’ by casting a ballot against a candidate, rather than for the 3rd party candidate you would like.
Vote random! Remember to bring your dice, and put them to good use.
yeah! bring that 1D2…. well, a coin. heads, you use your brain, tails…. um, you but the pencil between your cheeks, and slam ass first into the ballot. and pray the pencil isn’t too sharp.
Electoral colleges render the whole process futile in my opinion, but I will do it just because I like standing in little cubicles and filling out surveys things.
cubicles are the best. but i know what you mean. there shouldn’t be a system in which based on where you live, your vote either overkill to a predetermined result, or the crucial pivotal ballot for the rest of the country. funny how so many people whine about what’s fair and fraud in an election, without any interest in the basic fundamental flaws in the system.
The races that impact your life the most – local, state, and congressional – don’t have an electoral college