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For some reason it didn’t like firefox but loaded up just fine in Opera…

Link above just forces me to do captchas over and over again… am I really that bad at finding the stairs, or is this a bug?

American here - Definitely don’t get six weeks a year, and even if I did I am sure I would be guilt tripped into not using it, or so buried by the workload when I return that I would avoid using it on purpose due to lack of cross coverage / duplication.

Are we great yet? Too tired to tell.

European for “Vacation”

this hits it for me, thank you, I came to the understanding above that I had been painted this exact picture when I was younger, but learned better in college.

I think I was a bit blind to the fact that some people still paint the absurd picture of feminists shown above, I forget how far we still have to go as a species sometimes.

totally agree and this experience does make sense to me, people paint feminists very broadly and stupidly - personal anecdote I remember being blown away in college that being a feminist could simply mean supporting the right for women to vote, have equal pay, ect.

I had heard terms like “feminazi” growing up, so the picture in my mind was more similar to the comic than I think I initially realized when reading it.

Ok this makes sense and is the direction I was heading in at the end there (glad I wasn’t just blindly groping), thank you!!

Yeah I don’t understand that either, but thank you for the explanation!

Ok so further simplifying, Straw man fallacy is per wikipedia, the refuting of an argument by refuting a different argument that is not part of the original context, and failing to recognize the distinction.

So here, people refute feminists by using the stawman of them wanting to blow up the earth / being extremists? I feel like something has to come back to training bras, like societal expectations of underwear for women is the argument, but then the straw man is radical feminism?

Goddamn I really am not getting the humor in this one. I’m not trying to be obtuse or overly PC, I really enjoy comics and just want to understand the humor because it seems really abstract to me.

Right? we need the follow up strip where the dude is now addicted to opioids and is pan handling for “gas money” lol.

which part is the joke? I’m honestly missing the humor in this one, like I get it might be funny because the feminists want her to blow up the world maybe?

Petaaaaaahhh explain the joke?

Edit: is the joke the training portion? Like they are training her?

I never intended to posit my comment as encompassing all human wants and desires, but I do believe I have touched on the “basic bill of rights” that most people would agree on.

Tax the excessively wealthy.

I’m not an economist, so I won’t sit here and give a number of what level of wealth should be taxed, but I think it fits under “I know it when I see it”

If you’re buying multiple vacation properties, if you own a yacht or a private jet, you’re probably it.

I think people want to not be hungry, I think they want to have time for leisure, I think they want to not worry about whether they will pay the rent or put groceries in their fridge (forget about a vacation).

I think people want a guarantee that after working for 40 years they can retire and spend some of their life freely.

I think people want to know that they won’t go bankrupt because they get cancer.

I think you’re making it way more complicated than it is.

If the top 1% wasn’t collecting an equal share of wealth to the bottom 40% people these things could be possible.