Trunkards III: The Search For Slim

[RJDiogenes]

Welcome to the new Trunkards thread.

#257:

[emma glitch]

I'll be writing in, too.

[RJDiogenes]

Bernie and Mary Jane in '16.

[jgc]

My brother used to day "Vote early. Vote often"

[RJDiogenes]

Well, we're now able to vote early, so who knows....

[RJDiogenes]

#258:





Normally, I just post the cartoons on the blog without much comment, but this week I included this:

A universe where elephants talk suddenly seems slightly more realistic than the one we’re living in now.

Here at Trunkards, we try to gently advocate for those basic humanistic values of kindness and decency, friendship and sensitivity, and unity and understanding, that allow cooperative ventures such as civilization to exist. In an environment of antagonism, cooperation breaks down. Society fails.

Fifty years ago, there was a movement abroad in the land to promote the liberal values of peace, love, and understanding. The intent was to fix the mistakes of a young species which had not yet learned where instincts leave off and reason begins. This movement was an unparalleled success. The world was changed more in one generation than it had changed in the entire prior history of mankind.

A half century later, much of this has gone by the wayside. We have come to live in an age of extremism. Refugees flee through the minefields of the Culture War. Daily we see people inciting hatred and divisiveness, and calling it progress. Instead of uniting in our common humanity, we have allowed ourselves to be chopped up into finer and finer factions, dehumanized by a mushrooming of meaningless labels, and set against each other in manufactured conflicts designed to make the weak feel strong.

Hatred breeds hatred. You get as you give. You reap what you sow. These axioms are not rocket science, but they go largely ignored. And now the result is that reactionary anger and apathy have appointed us a leader who represents the precise antithesis of our values.

Most people are basically decent, if properly cultivated. We know what works and we know what doesn’t. There are no excuses. If you want to promote positive change, begin with yourself.

[RJDiogenes]

Here it is flipped to make it easier to read:

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[jgc]

[RJDiogenes]

Thank you very much.

[emma glitch]

Well done, and well said.

[RJDiogenes]

Thank you very much.

[RJDiogenes]

#259:

[jgc]

[RJDiogenes]

Thank you.

[RJDiogenes]

#260: