• m0darn@lemmy.ca
    53·
    9 months ago

    I think the establishment is actually quite sensitive to unemployment figures because people that are unemployed have time to demonstrate.

    • eletes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      40·
      9 months ago

      Sounds like a nice time for prison populations to increase and get back that labor for cheap.

      Almost felt like they were gonna pull that one with the No Kings protests

      • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world
        13·
        9 months ago

        7% is low in France. From what i can see online thats the lowest the unemployment rate has been since at least 1990 (thats as far back as i could find reputable numbers)

      • threeduck@aussie.zone
        93·
        9 months ago

        Ooh, my opinion is my own here.

        I was completely out of the loop with who this creator was when I one day scrolled through /r/comics/top, wasn’t aware of the drama, the circlejerk, you name it.

        Her comedy is bottom of the barrel, obvious, decades old takes, that appeal to an era of the internet when comedy was written by those who had the technical know-how to engage with the internet - i.e., unfunny people.

        Panel 1: she’s eating airline food, followed by 3 panels of silly “yucky food” faces. Final panel “you expect people to eat this stuff??”.

        Panel 1: “honey will you take out the trash” followed by 3 frames of a guy beating up trash. Final frame, pizza cake self insert looking exasperated at the mess.

        Panel 1: she’s excitedly buying stuff from the bargain bin, followed by 3 panels of all her purchases falling apart. Final panel - the “bargain” sticker falls off of “bargain bin”. She has exasperated look with hair pointing out.

        Panel 1: she’s sleeping awkwardly, followed by three panels of different awkward sleeping poses. Final panel, husband is waking up refreshed, she says “maybe we need to swap pillows”

        All of these are technically jokes and/or observations, but just know that if you think these are worth illustrating and sharing, what you consider good comedy is about 15-30 seconds of effort, or the absolute first thing that came to my mind.

        People don’t like PC because her comics sit amongst others who exert effort to - at the very least - add a second layer to their comedy. It’s unearned accolades given to the undeserving.

          • threeduck@aussie.zone
            31·
            9 months ago

            I ain’t organising to hate her, like I said, I don’t care about any of the circlejerk. And I can use meaningless buzz words too if you like. “It’s pretty fucking authoritarian to silence criticism of art. Just don’t look at my comment, I’m living in your head and you need to figure out why”

            See, fairly pointless rhetoric.

    • gurnu@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
      153·
      9 months ago

      More like PCC’s rabid fans are making this like reddit. It was reddit where she threatened to sue over parodies of her comics… I don’t think we need toxic shit like PCC over here at lemmy

  • Oida Grantla@discuss.tchncs.de
    11·
    9 months ago

    The sad part is… I’m living picture 1 right now, with the Microsoft outsourcing my team to be lead from india and reducing manpower from 12 to five and thinking the service will be as good as before… first they wanted the bakers do the work of a pastry chefs and the pastry chefs do the work of the bakers. Now they want the bakers and the pastry chefs to do the butchers job too.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
    33·
    9 months ago

    I think the people who actually want to work might be in the minority?

    I guess most people want to contribute to society, or earn money, or both.

    • GooberEar@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      Truthfully, I want to work. I just don’t like having to play the game because the game sucks and I’m terrible at it. Let me just do the work.

      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        9 months ago

        it’s interesting to hear this!

        i have very poor understanding of how many people in society actually want to work, and i’m currently trying to figure this out.

    • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      262·
      9 months ago

      I guess i just don’t get criticisms like this. They have been rerunning family circle for 50 years and Garfield as it turns out is better without Garfield, but this kind of banality is just too far?

      Daily comics are mostly garbage with the occasional, possibly even accidental, brilliance.

      • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        61·
        9 months ago

        Because they don’t want to admit they don’t hate the subject matter, they hate the artist

        Although she has done her fair share to take away community good will

        • gurnu@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
          21·
          9 months ago

          “Fair share” is an understatement when they threaten with legal action over parodies. Her fanbase is as toxic as can be

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1221·
    9 months ago

    Great example of why we shouldn’t just blindly absorb memes. I’m not arguing on the side of the cartoon businessman here, but if the memesmith is talking about the US they’re just plain wrong - unemployment is NOT “sky high” or even regular high. It’s a little above the 50-year low we had a couple years ago, but it’s below historical average. But if you don’t already know that and can’t be bothered to look it up, you’re being led around by the nose. Brawndo is Brawndo, no matter who serves it up or why. Now go ahead and douchevote this like a good little trooper!

    And no, I’m not trying to make everything be about America. It’s somewhat implied by the red, white & blue and let’s face it, most posts here are already about America.

    • Seleni@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 months ago

      Or, and hear me out, she might just be pointing out how the behavior in the first two panels eventually unquestionably leads to the second and third.

      Also, while unemployment maybe ‘low’ (and given how those numbers are often drawn from who’s pulling unemployment benefits, and at least in America they kick you off those after a little bit, I also wonder about those statistics, but I digress…) many people who are employed are severely underemployed, which is just as bad in the long run.

      • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        9 months ago

        Granted, but if the stats are being skewed to make the economy look good, so would stats from other years because the government always wants everything to look good. Same goes for people being underemployed - I’ve been hearing that since at least the 90s. The truth is that unemployment right now are not historically high - everybody just wants to feel like their experience is unprecedentedly horrible. It’s really not. And again, this isn’t taking the side of greedy billionaires, it’s just the truth. We should all be on the side of truth - even if it contradicts a meme.

    • optional@piefed.socialEnglish
      231·
      9 months ago

      I’m new here in the fediverse… why she is hated here? I’m out of the loop on something?

      • ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world
        383·
        9 months ago

        She made a comic on reddit about “if women talked to men the way men talk to women”

        A bunch of people commented that they had personally heard women say one or more of those things

        Everyone who made those comments was banned and muted

        People made posts on other subreddits explaining what happened and were banned and muted from /r/comics even without having posted or commented in it

        She and the mods of /r/comics doubled down on future posts

        There are a number of Reddit refugees on Lemmy.

      • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
        2212·
        9 months ago

        Her comics are utterly devoid of humour, her art style is bland, and she states the blindingly obvious.

        Just an incredibly mediocre artist that people are weirdly supportive of.

          • burgersc12@mander.xyzEnglish
            125·
            9 months ago

            Why dont you ignore my “performative bitching” and keep your performative bitching to yourself. I was answering the question to why she gets hate.

            • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              1011·
              9 months ago

              And people are allowed to think inflated performance of that dislike is cringe, i suggest the two if you make up fot boring the rest of us with a duel.

              A duel fought by robots controlled by core functions of their operating systems-both arch based, controlled only in terminal.

              Left turns are eazy, you just need to reset sound and get audio playing-will you use alsa or pulse?

              Right turns are a little harder.