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Cartoonist quits Washington Post after mockery of oligarchs' fealty to Trump is spiked
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this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2025
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Where has the post (As in media not WashingtonPost) gone, where back in the day, a president demanded a cartoonist be sacked for depicting him as a parrot, (Just parroting others) saying they cant portray him as an animal, and threatened the publishers,
in response most political cartoonist purposely drew him as an animal and publisher said, tldr, "Just try and fight us"?
Do I agree with every political cartoonist depictions, no.
Do I think they should be allowed to be as they are, the jesters of print, bringing jest to pressing thoughts or concerns?
yes
Everyone understands this, I think the problem is that now people just make angry posts like this and vent some steam and feel accomplished enough to where you'll never actually follow through with this criticism.
You're hitting the nail right on the head, tons of people understand and agree with you but what is being done? Not by others but by you and people like you?
Why would there ever be change? Of course the rich just do what they want, all they get back is a tiny scream into a void that doesn't matter, at all.
I agree with you, but what exactly are we supposed to do? This is why Luigi has had such a positive reaction online despite the brutality of what he did, it actually had an impact…but the vast majority of people aren’t killers yet civil actions have not been working. We are all stuck.
Keep backing people into a the corner of poverty, homelessness, hunger and helplessness and that will eventually change.
The majority of Americans bought the bullshit of cheap gas and eggs, lock, stock and barrel. Wait until they find out.