It’s just Plato’s allegory of the cave, but with internet language.

No it’s an argument in favor of being a radical activist instead of a boring institutional theory NERD

Are you complaining about this comic strip in particular, or the comic as a whole?

I like Lord of the Rings.

It’s sometimes easy to forget since they’re an Official Enemy™, but Russia too is afflicted by the same neoliberal rot as the West which puts these absolute incompetents in power.

were

I’m hoping they still are, since they probably still exist in real life?

It’s a souls-game, the way it’s “supposed to be played” is any way that allows you to progress.

“Lockdown” = “I saw someone wearing masks”

This is one thing I miss from the first Trump presidency, you could actually have a conversation with liberals about all the problems with the US and all the problems the US was causing globally, and they would sometimes be inclined to listen because Trump was at the helm. Then, after Biden won, they completely hunkered down and were all “What do you mean, our guy is in the White House, everything is perfect, shut up you lunatic leftie”.

You shouldn’t be surprised, this is the country that overruled the Nuremberg Trials so that they wouldn’t have to reckon with having recruited a shitload of Ukrainian nazis after WWII. You might remember the recent fuss about the entire Canadian House of Commons giving a standing ovation to one of them.