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Original stripe from the Onion: https://www.theonion.com/bum-rush-hour-1846606314

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Really high Poe factor. I can't tell if the cartoonist is posting this ironically or not.

I've heard enough people regard bicyclists as a menace (and feeling ashamed in the cases when I'm quiet about being a bicyclist) that this really is how we're seen.

ETA the source explains a lot. Not knowing where it came from, though, seriously high Poe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ve heard enough people regard bicyclists as a menace

The point is, most aren't. But the handful of assholes are the ones that stay in the mind. Just like with car drivers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Being introspective, I wasn't great, learning from the bike messenger sector who was adroit at aggressive driving downtown, but to be fair San Francisco has an intense, unkind traffic vibe (at least compared to Vacaville and Sacramento, when my then-girlfriend was driving from Vacaville and Sacramento to visit me every other week.

In my opinion, the best traffic community in SF was on Clement street in the commercial area (a blend of Chinese community and Russian community small businesses) in which everyone drove horribly but did so at five miles per hour, so I could be patient while a cluster sorted themselves out, and in the meantime find an opening to zip through.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Kelly’s artistic screeds are devoid of irony, but as the invention of Colorado-based cartoonist Ward Sutton, Kelly the character — much like Stephen Colbert’s former Comedy Central bloviator — is composed almost entirely of irony. And that joke-within-a-joke makes all the difference.

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Sutton is a true student of old newspaper comic strips and cartoons, so what emerged was a character whose persona embodied this “man out of time” approach — a cartoonist who is himself a caricature of a blind-to-his-own-buffoonery pundit, producing old-timey cartoons that ripple with parody.

A visual stroll through the Kelly collection is like a meta-history lesson in editorial cartooning before sardonic subtlety became fashionable. Kelly’s illustrations, reflecting wading-pool deep takes on the news, are larded with labels (“today’s no-good teens,” “today’s troop haters,” “benevolent America”) that skewer the worst practitioners of the art form. Kelly sees himself as a political “king of comedy,” but in truth, he is as deluded as Robert De Niro’s bad stand-up Rupert Pupkin in Martin Scorsese’s “The King of Comedy.” He would have been painfully mediocre at best in his own era; in our era, he is laughably hackneyed.

https://archive.is/nDvkY

Ben Garrison uses this style unironically, so at a glance it's hard to tell. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/ben-garrison

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

IMO. Bicyclists have liberal disregard for traffic laws here. But so do the following groups: pedestrians, motorcyclist, big rigs, cars.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

It's a parody news site