We Should Improve Society Somewhat: A Collection of Comics By Matt Bors

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Sure, Hollywood elites are as cloistered from real life as it can get, they do work for dubious companies, and there is something grating about thespian earnestness from an award podium. But the criticism of them isn’t that they try to make political points elsewhere, take their money, and shut up. It’s that they should make these political points all the time. When they don’t, accusations of hypocrisy shouldn’t silence them. For those who appreciate political satire that makes a statement beyond simply choosing a side, you may enjoy this collection. This is not meant to be a collection of new material that speaks to today specifically, but that goes without saying, especially in these times of new unethical and illegal actions daily from the White House. This is a collection that highlights some of Bors' recent comics. He contextualizes many of them by mentioning what event he is responding to or what right wing hypocrisy he is emphasizing.

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Matt Bors takes pain, and turns it into funniness. Which then also still reminds you of the pain it started with. Ha ha ow!, like that. We Should Improve Society Somewhat: A collection of Comics by Matt Bors is a collection of his comics that stretch from the latter part of Obama's term through Trump's debacle of a term.Some historians argue that we must thank the Church for the bridges built in Europe during the Middle Ages. However, this is wrong: the Church built those bridges basically because they were the only ones around with power; if they hadn't done it, someone else would have done it. There seem to be multiple fallacies all wrapped up into one class of response there. Just on a cursory glance: British car journalist Jeremy Clarkson was “very intelligent” when he called Greta Thunberg a hypocrite. Take Greta Thunberg. The vitriol and scratching around in the soil of her past to try and find a way to undermine her message is of witch hunt proportions. Did you know her mother was a Eurovision contestant? Where does her waste go when she takes a virtue-signalling boat rather than a plane? And why isn’t she in school? Single cause ("the government made these things available, therefore only the government could have made those things available"),

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This is what Mr Gotcha wants to do ultimately – not face up to the real problems of the society in which he lives because then he might have to do something or admit he is too lazy to care. We all live in a society, and just because we do not live off-grid doesn’t mean we should do nothing at all. If Gervais really cared about Chinese sweat shops or tax dodgers, he should have made the offending corporations the target of his monologue and not the actors who enjoy the affectionate paid court jester roasting, with whom he will have a drink, a meal and a laugh afterwards. He thinks they are virtue signalling and out of touch, yet he still takes their money and participates in their events. Curious! I am very intelligent.Second, it's a classic motte-and-bailey fallacy. The socialist/communist talks a big game about "consume the wealthy people"* and "you have nothing to lose but your chains" and "reshape civilisation in Marx's image", but when pushed retreats to the much more vague and non-commital "we should improve society somewhat" which is an opinion very few people actually disagree with. However, you can also upload your own templates or start from scratch with empty templates. How to make a meme Yes! Animated meme templates will show up when you search in the Meme Generator above (try "party parrot"). Matt Bors takes the finger of funniness, the funny finger, and squishes it into the stinky open wound of today's news.

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But the deeper issue is that socialists are clearly unaware of the notion that "actions speak louder than words". If you claim to prefer x over y, but then choose y, do you really prefer x, or are you just saying that? This year started with an ostensibly frivolous but deeply serious demonstration of the danger of imperfection paralysis in You are being an hypocrete criticizing public education because you went to a public school and did your studies thanks to the State, that financed your education So one of the gotcha claims used by folks on the right towards socialists/communists is that they live in a society where they benefit from the material living standards that have arisen through a capitalist mode of production. It is therefore seen as hypocritical to express a desire to tear down and re-arrange the system while also actively participating in it. Surveying our current dystopian hellscape, Matt Bors makes the bold declaration that We Should Improve Society Somewhat in this collection of comics from The Nib’s founding editor.In my examples, the same thing applies. I might have been able to study in a public school thanks to the government, but if that weren't the case, I would have probably studied anyway, only in a different way. First, good political satire isn't supposed to be generating belly laughs. The only kind that can do so is usually the weakest form, namely the insult. The ones currently just making fun of Trump without making any reference to anything elicits laughs from some of those who are smart enough to despise Trump, but it makes no actual statement about what is wrong beyond having an imbecile in the White House. Bors points out hypocrisy and/or contradictions within stances within a group. He also is coming from a particular position, not from a particular party. He criticized Obama for his mistakes and miscues just as he does for Trump. It isn't Bors' fault Trump has as many moronic moments in a normal week as Obama (and his entire administration) had in 8 years. So a critique because the book isn't funny enough means that the person either supports Trump's cruel regime or they like a very base level of political satire, or both. Socialists generally have the exact same response, this meme. It's become kind of the catch-all response to deflect criticism away from their consumerist habits. user-uploaded templates using the search input, or hit "Upload new template" to upload your own template Last year, I was on a panel on climate change, where a behavioural psychologist said the most depressing thing: most people don’t want to make small changes in their lifestyles because they think that collectively they won’t amount to much, so why bother?

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If only the "pure" (whoever they are) had been allowed to make social and political commentary or criticism, no change would have ever taken place. And perhaps that is the point. Mr Gotcha isn’t just a depiction of annoying men (and let’s face it, they are almost always men) who want to have the last word and affect a sort of knowing cynicism and weariness with political activism because they think it makes them look cool. (It doesn’t.) There is something more sinister about it. Some dark impulse that seeks to chill any efforts to bring about change for the better, by discrediting the messenger as not pure enough to do it. At his best, which is often, Bors makes good use of the political absurdities of the past decade, extending Trump-era political arguments to their nuttiest extremes by building them into a Mad Max-inspired, mutant-infested wasteland. But sometimes the book shifts into just lampooning what's on Fox News, which...I get it, but it doesn't really feel like he's transforming his annoyance into something new.I highly recommend this collection unless you prefer more base humor or you are anti-democracy (as in, you support Trumpenfuehrer). Still, it's a beautiful effort, given the material Bors had to work with. Possibly the only misstep is the strip predicting Hillary Clinton's win in 2016, but... he had to have something ready to publish, and could you blame ANYONE for assuming at the time that she would've won? (Bors even has commentary along the lines of how much it hurts to see that strip again, for multiple reasons.) When Hasan Piker spends thousands of dollars on an ugly Hawaiian shirt, and 6 figures on a new Porsche, does he really hate the rich? Does he really care deeply about the poor? These are all questions that are reasonably to pose to socialists who actively participate in the consumption of goods and services which have been made available to them through capitalist production. An excellent collection, beautifully drawn (his Trump, uh, trumps anyone elses). It almost makes being alive in these ridiculous and disastrous times doable. It is a bit on the raw side. Some of these things are still going on, and getting worse. You have to laugh through the pain.