The Problem With Powerful People [COMICS]
Winston Rowntree is the author of Subnormality, the popular webcomic which he describes as containing "weird characters, endless opinions and occasionally huge walls of text."
Today, we bring you a web-comic that explains what's wrong with ... well, everything.
Check out past updates, in which Winston illustrated The Circle of Life for Jocks and Nerds or weeks before when he showed you How To Win At Panhandling and How NOT to Get Revenge on Your Ex.
Amount of political debates started so far in the first page of he comments: 5
ReplyI don't want to live on this planet anymore
There's also the issue that people who have power can usually use said power to keep their power.
ReplyTL;DR
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesIt's three panels. Do you read Stop signs when you drive?
Translation of "TL;DR" into normal English: "I am a lazy, illiterate douchebag."
Don't worry. I got the joke, MurderMan. :D
A longtime reader?
seeing that looks like the right-wing politicians here in brazil want that the poor people pratically starve to death, this could be true.
ReplyI smell a PT ass-kisser.
Unfortunately this comic strip is quite true.
ReplyI paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, FullBids.com
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesWe care why?
Because bots give incredible shopping advice...
All the prices are lies. Its not a bid site, it's gambling site!
I do believe this is the shortest comic ever produced by Winston Rowntree.
ReplyWhy can't comedy-types stick to comedy? f**king soap-boxing asswipes. No one cares about your angst. Go masturbate to Twilight again.
Reply Hide All See All 9 RepliesWow. Y'mean comedians have opinions too?
Who would have guessed THAT.
Scrolling down to read this as the first comment at the time made me sad, made me question why the hell I even scroll this low. I enjoyed this comic. It's fair for someone with a very entertaining web comic (to some) should voice his opinions through this medium, but then this intelcm who definitely does not and never will create/own any interesting intellectual property has to open his moron mouth and blurt something pointless that will do nothing other than prove what a damn waste of space he is.
Agreement with Bassario.
It's hardly a soapbox, it does go to show an interesting point. Hell, I can even quote precedent. Al Gore won the 2000 election, but the Bush's manipulated the supreme court so that George would win. Al Gore, the smart, good president stepped down despite winning because of the amount of public manipulation occurring.
Also: Where the hell did you get Twilight from?!
It's called the "electoral college", MrNumbers. You're reading way too much into it because the candidate you wanted didn't win.
What RussianRoulette said...Al Gore only won the popular vote, you have to have the most electoral votes to win, and lucky for us the electoral college had the sense to choose the simple-minded daddy's boy over the sociopath
Lucky?!? You are aware of the recession the "simple-minded daddy's boy" caused. I'd much rather have a sociopath than an idiot.
George Bush did not single handedly "cause" this recession. He had help from everyone in Congress for the past 20 years and other complex economic factors. In fact to say that any major political/economic change ever happened solely due to any one person is pretty stupid.
intelcm: 'I am an angry a*****e.'
Lain_Coulbert, the system that produced attaching all blame (and accomplishments) to the figurehead is made to do that to the populace, atleast in it's modern incarnation and political use. This is basically the largest expoited misunderstanding in US politics.
More of a blunt, depressing truth than a joke.
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesI agree, sadly.
but the way it was presented was funny as hell!
That's what some of the best comedy does. Wrap a depressing truth in shiny paper and ribbons and leave it under your tree.
If you read more of Winston Rowntree's comics, you find out that pretty much his style
Usually I find Rowntree's commentary to be interesting, not necessarily because I agree with him, but because at least his comics display what appears to be some form of thought as opposed to the average poop joke, but this one really falls flat. It doesn't really prove itself or say a whole lot other than, "I think politicians are all sociopaths, and everything is f**ked up because of it!" And that's not exactly a new or interesting take on the subject.
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesNow, if it happens to be a sarcastic poke at that sort of thinking then congrats Wiston. You've made a joke you and the four other people you've explained it to will actually fully understand and fallen into one of the greatest pitfalls of internet comedy, the inside joke. Though, I doubt that's the case.
I don't agree. I think it accurately portrays the shaky foundation that this "free" society is based on. Sure, in theory, any good and decent person can try to help lead society, problem is, good and decent people don't want any part of that flawed and corrupt system. So, the people that end up leading you are the psychopaths that will report you to the local authorities because the type of crab grass growing in your yard isn't a native species and that violates local ordinance 134.05(c)(i).
It doesn't only apply to politicians, in every profession where power and authority is found sociopaths are frequent.
We've all met them, and they're always in an authoritative position; police, your boss, your teacher etc, where they can f**k you over and will do so for the sheer thrill of ruining your day,
I agree with AfterGlow. It's not just politicians. This applies to high-ranking executives of (insert your least favorite corporation here) as well, all the way down to your typical grade school bully. It's just that the higher up the chain these people get, they gain an increasing amount of ability to f**k everyone else over. No, it's *not* an especially new or original idea, but that doesn't make it any less valid or the comic any less interesting or funny.
Well put.
ReplyThis is less of a joke and more of a comment.
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesThis cartoon has every friggin fascist zionist propagandist crawling out of the woodwoork to add their pathetic snipes.
.... Manwithcat, you appear to be anti-semitic. Is your first name "Mel" by any chance?
Perhaps with a last name rhyming with 'Jibson?'
What? I don't claim to be a mathematician.
This is actually a really good comic. The comedy comes from the bluntness and simplicity as well as the "it's funny 'cos it's true" aspect.
ReplyNot enough dick jokes.
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesObviously your problem, Fartocan, is NOT ENOUGH DICK. Did the rabbi slice off more than he was supposed to?
Obvious troll is obvious.
manwithcat, what did that have to do with anything? Did a bully paint tiny pictures of Jews on the inside of your glasses again?
FIGHT FOR POWAH!!!
ReplyFIGHT FOR POWAH!!!
FIGHT FOR POWAH!!!
FIGHT FOR POWAH!!!
I read the comments first and laughed out loud when I saw the three-panel throwaway thing they were all freaking out over.
ReplyVANtastic made me chuckle
ReplyI actually found this pretty good. Maybe because I'm not from America and thus don't associate it with anyone in specific.
ReplyCompetitions aren't won by the people who "want it the most," they're won by the people who succeed, either through skill, bending or altering the rules, or outright cheating. Once a political system is formed, it self perpetuates, because the people in power can change the rules so that they keep it, and pass it on the successors of their choice. In "democratic" societies, this is achieved by forming political parties that internally choose their candidates from the top down, marginalize and invalidate independent candidates, and redraw voting districts (gerrymandering) to insure that the party in control stays there.
Reply Hide All See All 4 Replies"Competitions aren't won by the people who 'want it the most,' they're won by the people who succeed, either through skill, bending or altering the rules, or outright cheating."
And which people are the most willing to bend the rules, cheat, and devote all of their energies to develop the top-level skills? Those who work hardest at it, y'know, those want it the most.
Not that the political system in the US isn't broken- it most definitely is- we've gone from a democratic republic to an oligarchy, and All Men may still be Created Equal, but their bank accounts aren't, so we're left with government Of the many By the few For the special interests and corporations.
If the Founding Fathers were alive today, they'd be very, very disappointed in the way things have worked out (after we dig them out of their graves, and deal with the brainshock of the modern world, of course)
"[...]we've gone from a democratic republic to an oligarchy[...]"
You mean an "oligarhy".
"Not that the political system in the US isn't broken- it most definitely is- we've gone from a democratic republic to an oligarchy, and All Men may still be Created Equal, but their bank accounts aren't, so we're left with government Of the many By the few For the special interests and corporations.
If the Founding Fathers were alive today, they'd be very, very disappointed in the way things have worked out"
LMAO! My God, what is it with people believing the Founding Fathers were saints with no personal agendas?
Washington and Hancock were some of the richest men in the country, in fact almost all the founding fathers were wealthy. The Tea Act LOWERED the price of tea, the Boston Tea Party occurred because it was cutting into Hancock's smuggling profits. We were taxed waaay less than british civilians. 12/13 states had a land ownership requirement to vote.
South Park called, they want their preachy, condescending, moralistic comedy style back.
ReplyZING [from the 90s]!
1992 called. It wants its banal "(Insert thing here) called" unfunny comments that mistakenly think they're jokes back.