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- comicstrips@lemmy.world
Rümeysa Öztürk was grabbed off the street in my town one month ago.
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This might be the saddest xkcd so far.
I can’t think of any other ones that are sad. Maybe I missed them?
The ones about cancer were pretty sad, but some were hopeful too.
The Trump administration just yesterday stopped a long running data gathering effort to study women’s medical needs as they age. Decades of valuable information, blood samples interviews etc.
Fuck women right? Grab them by the pussy!
But not my daughter or my sister or my nieces or my mom. My sister in law might be interested though and her friend too, but that’s a whole nother story.
Ah, back to the good ol this medication might be more harmful to women and we don’t know because we only use middle aged white men for the studies!
Studies? No, we don’t do studies here anymore. Now we just declare things. If you just declare something enough then it becomes true.
I call this “the Fox News approach to reality.”
Do you have a link? I heard about this one but haven’t found a sharable link yet
Thank you!
Those had me nail biting over the scale of months/years. That first cancer one where they were holding each other with no reference frame was rough. 800 frames of sarcasm and wit and all of a sudden… BOOM
He explained it like 6 months later, but stayed pretty quiet, then the two years (1141) was kinda optimistic, then 7 (1928) was kinda a breath of relief, 10 years (2386) was refreshing, now I’m quietly waiting to see 15.
I went back and reread xkcd somewhat recently, and seeing each of the cancer ones, and how the panels were added as they kept living…
Ugh, I teared up just typing that. Christ.
There’s always the Opportunity rover one.
And likely one of the most topical, so extra sad.
Fuck yeah, Randall!
I hope the neo-Schutzstaffel (that is, ICE) doesn’t come for Randall now, but I respect the fuck out of him for using his platform and popularity this way.
Is it the first ‘political’ one? (Not that this should be!)
I can’t remember many that reminded me it was a US based (I assume) comic.
He made one endorsing Clinton in 2016. https://xkcd.com/1756/
Recently mocked the tariffs
Hopefully he’s got his barrel ready.
If you click on the comic on the site, it goes to the YouTube video of her being grabbed.
I went looking for the alt text because, well, I love the Easter-egg nature of the alt text he provides. Got chills as soon as I realized what he’d done.
So much respect for him.
I did the same, pressed on it for the text, got sent straight to the video, and swore under my breath in admiration. In the current climate what he’s done isn’t risk free, despite the fact it a) should be, and b) shouldn’t be needed in the first place.
Nothing but respect for people calling out the crimes of thus administration, and when it’s someone with an unrelated platform and an audience, so much the better.
The alt text: Rümeysa Öztürk was grabbed off the street in my town one month ago.
Totally out of the loop. What’s goin on?
Trump is voiding student visas and illegally arresting and detaining students that speak out against genocide. The video linked is security camera footage of masked gestapo goons disappearing a student off the street.
Yikes!
Anyway, thanks for the clarification.
I get there s an XKCD for everything but this is next level.
It’s awesome to see people stepping up like this! Our current situation is NOT normal.
Holy shit this is crazy.
And major news outlets aren’t covering this due to the billionaire class owning mass media.
That and the fear that Trump will disappear them next.
I have to believe that this factor is equally to blame
Next step in the playbook is to outlaw all the minor news outlets that do cover this stuff. Is trump already working on that?
Thanks to the internet you can’t easily stop that. BBC will keep covering it.
Before the Judge has time to intervene is now optional.
*before the judge is arrested
fuck if I watched this without knowing the context, I would have thought they are kidnapping her. What the fuck is this?
It looks like a kidnapping because that’s what it is. They’ve not charged her with a crime to my knowledge. Demonstrates how easy it is for people to disappear. They had her from all angles, cuffed and gone in under a minute.
fair enough
Fascism. I used to think the word was just a silly term the privileged South Park goths accuse everybody of being. Of course I knew it existed in places like Iran, North Korea, and Russia, but not here. Not in the “Land of the Free”.
But that was in the Before Times. Fascism is real, it’s terrifying, it’s disgusting, and it’s here now. So we have to fight it. Together.
I think it can be also seen as a fairly pointed reference to this, which happened only a few days ago. It was a stupid and careless error on the part of the scientist in terms of running afoul of bureaucracy, but the consequences here are WILDLY out of proportion - especially if you take into account the incredible positive effect her research could have.
I hope the authors skin is white
That Canadian woman was arrested and held for 2 weeks. That won’t protect you, and it won’t protect me.
- Quick! Is there a doctor in the plane?
- Sorry, not yet.
