Dickshit MAGAt cowboy cartoonist think NYC is still in the 1970s.
He can go fuck himself.
ITT we fact check hyperbole before deciding whether it’s ideologically acceptable to declare it funny like a bunch of bitchasses
All I see here is a joke on absurd ticket prices & how to be thrifty. Touch grass.
Please learn better media literacy skills.
Please learn to not to be rigid & narrowminded to your way of seeing things like it’s the only way?
In light of this comment, please learn any media literacy skills.
That’s not an argument, bruh. You’re just telling me you don’t understand genres that aren’t meant to be treated seriously.
Also confirming your rigid, narrowminded inability accept that by claiming those who do accept that need literacy. In other words, cool projection.
But please, go on. Prove your 1 true irrefutable interpretation of this comic that isn’t built on shaky suppositions & wankery.
This is propaganda. The new York subways are safe.
Alt right trash
I went to wrestlemania 18 at the Toronto skydome, $75 for great mid seats. I stopped watching wrestling 20 years ago but I wanted to take my brother for old times sake, $400 for the same type of seats for a lower show. I don’t know how people afford to go to anything anymore. Going to a restaurant now costs as much as it used to cost to have a concert night
I don’t remember actually seeing a fight in public transit in the US. Public schools, however… 👀 (There’s like a fight every day in my highschool)
The rest of the $497 is to not get shot by police’s bullets, shrapnel etc.
this isn’t true people only fight with saxophones in the nyc subway
How are people upvoting this alt-right trash?
Here’s another comic by the same author
Too bad to hear about the author. I found the comic itself to be kind of funny in an absurd way.
But know that I know what his intentions are it is time to give the author the “stone toss” treatment.
Unconvinced: the commenter above showing yet another absurdist comic hasn’t proven shit to me.
Their claims could be true, but they need to argue more convincingly than that.
Read the comic name and the comic blurb and anything else on the origin website.
Right, that’s open to interpretation & freedom to conclude anything. There’s tremendous latitude here.
It’s nondeterminative to a particular conclusion. Make a coherent argument.
That Trump comic is still kinda funny in a lolsob kind-of way. Like, I could imagine someone who does call themselves woke making it as well. It’s still saying a criminal got to be president, so…
A lot of humour is structurally the same for left and right (we’re all human, despite how inhuman the other can seem), it’s just a matter of how you meant it. A lefty making this joke might have an anti-consumer angle, while a
dipshitright wing comedian would be criticising public transit or probably just being racist.
That’s not Trump… That’s… Giorno Giovanna?
Well, from my perspective:
- Comic is funny
- I have no context of who the author is or what the author did
- It makes me feel superior about the Hong Kong mass transit railway system
Your ignorance shows. You’d have more luck catching a good fight at a redneck bar for free than on the NYC subway.
I forgot a /hj on 3.
And of course I’m “ignorant” about the US railway system because I live in Hong Kong and not US
Chinese becoming more American all the time. Talking shit about things they know nothing.
Oh so it’s a requirement for us to know about US stuff to go online and not vice versa?
It’s not my fault that the internet is full of Americans. I’m merely contributing to the activeness of Lemmy.
That’s funny, I used to live in Louisiana. I would occasionally go out drinking with my friends, and not one time did I ever not see at least one bar fight. And it didn’t matter what kind of bar or club it was, it always happened. It’s just a core part of society down there.
One time I was at a bar in Lake Charles and I was watching the “Malice in the Palace” which was a big fight during an NBA game where some players went into the stands and were punching fans. The TV was muted but I could still hear the sounds of the fighting; eventually it dawned on me how strange this was and I turned around to see a huge fight going on in the bar behind me with guys being thrown into tables and whatnot like an episode of Bonanza.
Deep south, born and raised. I always preferred a rough bar. Sit in the back smoking a cigar or pipe, sipping bourbon, and watch the show.
They tore down my first home bar and put up a gas station, I mourn the loss. It was great: bikers shooting up in the bathroom, fights all the time, drug deals, meth head drama, bikers selling moonshine outside. Had a hooker OD and show up dead in the parking lot.
Met a former roommate and lover there, had to chase her out of my house with a shotgun. She and her boyfriend started smoking meth in my house. Last I heard she went back to Georgia and is doing better.
Sucks, sometimes, that I had to quit drinking.
Sit in the back smoking a cigar or pipe, sipping bourbon, and watch the show.
I too found it enjoyable. Only time I ever got involved even accidentally was when two guys fighting slammed into the foosball table and pinned me between it and the wall. I took a handle to the nuts but not too badly.
I had a coworker who started doing MMA and taking steroids because he was tired of getting beaten up at the bars all the time. The only thing he achieved was to get beaten up by better fighters. I was like “dude, you could try just being polite to people like I do, or worst case you could just stop going to bars every night”.
Luckily, I haven’t been in a fist fight since highschool. But yeah, I never had much trouble, in bars, myself. Always polite, especially to bartenders and servers, tip well. I’ve hung out a lot with rough crew. Few times someone got shitty with me, pretty much half the bar would tell them to knock it off.
Long shot, but you run bingo in drag?
Ha ha no way! I only play bridge in drag …
Growing up in rural south Georgia, I knew folks that would proudly declare that they would rather fight than fuck.
Yeah did a little research
Using the available data, the rate of reported violent crime on the NYC subway in 2024 is approximately 0.79 violent crimes per million riders.
https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/pr0101/nypd-citywide-crime-statistics-march-first-quarter-2024
Perhaps the HK mass transit system is safer, but I’m guessing not by that much, considering the ridership and crime rates, especially because they don’t report specific crime rates for mass transit that I could find but rather generic crime statistics
https://www.censtatd.gov.hk/en/EIndexbySubject.html?scode=400&pcode=FA100161
Gotta love this comic with subtle tones that “public transportation is dangerous” and this comment with “Chinese public transportation isn’t dangerous.”
Safe as long as you agree with Winnie the Pooh and the CCP
光復香港， 時代革命。
作为喺廣州來嘅美籍華裔，我希望有一日，中國大陸，香港，澳門，得到都更多自由。
獨裁主義喺世界上好多嘅國家都受到獨裁思想嘅威脅，而家連美國嘅民主正在衰退，但我希望世界既人民能團結，一齊消滅所有獨裁政權。
消滅中共，消滅普京政權，消滅川普政權，民主萬歲！
I miss 2019
Or I could pay $5,000 for shitty seats and see a UFC fight at the Whitehouse.
Pay $50,000 and you decide who wins the fight
Give’im the ole dick twist!
Throw $7 on the ground for a boost.
Having ridden the subway for like 20 years, I’m a little pissed that I didn’t get any shows for my ticket price.
No showtime?
This feels like the scared, naive, suburbanite’s take on cities and public transit. Like, do you really think a system with 3 million daily riders has constant brawls?
Helsinki subway is much, much smaller and this joke would work for it. Sometimes you see wild stuff in there
It’s a comic from WokelyCorrect. I’d be surprised if they even know how to ride transit.
I legit thought the name was satire, like The SoyPill on YouTube.
Wow, it turns out he’s actually serious. Jeez.
Drawing comics at night to fight wokeness
I thought it was a sarcastic comics regarding what’s happening in Washington :o
Oof I didn’t even notice the author
I like making people laugh & I dislike Woke politics. So I made these comics for us to laugh at Woke politics together and push back against its stupidities. I will stop mocking when it leaves us alone.
Author seems to be an absolute idiot.
Yeah, I ride it every day and I’ve never actually seen a fight in my car.
But the TV said it does! I better go get in my big emotional support truck and sit in traffic instead!
Gender affirming vehicle. Asphalt princess. Anyone got any more synonyms? I’m collecting them.
I prefer to call them Pavement Princess.
I gather that the 80s was a whole different scene in the NYC subway. Plenty of pics out there!
Only time I was there was in '92 and it was nice enough.
Yeah, I’m not old enough to have experienced the city in the 70s and 80s. I’ve heard stories but it’s hard to say how credible some of them are, but I believe the city is a lot nicer than it was back then.
Like, Bryant Park is a nice patch of green in Manhattan. They do yoga classes there. There’s a holiday market. People used to call it needle park because it had some a drug user problem.
Places change.
yeah, I’m also not quite old enough for that, but the modern conservative narrative would have you believe that most cities are actual warzones right now that are worse than the 80s. i imagine it was similar then. it’s hard to trust what people try to tell you about it anymore.
Constant brawls no, but I’d never say the NYC subways are boring.
I’ve only ridden NYC subways a few handfuls of times but I never saw anything strange 🤷
I have had many, many, uneventful subway rides. Most of the time it’s just people sitting and/or standing quietly. Boring is a little more subjective- someone might find people watching interesting, but even then sometimes off-peak it can be sparsely populated. Sitting in quiet non-interaction for 25 minutes with an old lady reading, a middle aged guy dozing, and another person silently looking at their phone isn’t very exciting, but that’s a lot of rides.
Like, this is people’s daily commute. It’s not the warriors. It’s not whatever wacky video surfaced on youtube. Most of the time it’s just transit, and good transit is pretty boring.
Coming soon to the front lawn of the highest elected official in the US
$50,000 ticket though for the real grift.
