ITT: comics for intelligent people

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Objectivism is OBJECTIVELY false.


*tip tip*

>>93704206
This comic is funnier if you imagine that he never actually turns his head around so he has no idea what the wall said

>>93704227
>>93704206

This comic is also funnier if you imagine that it doesn't exist.

>>93704206
Yeah, but, it is. It's an intellectually bankrupt pseudo-philosophy for angry teenagers and man-babies who can't accept growing up.

>*tip tip*

Neckbeards are the ones MOST likely to be Objectivists/libertarians.

>>93704394
> It's an intellectually bankrupt pseudo-philosophy for angry teenagers and man-babies who can't accept growing up.

I was hoping for a legitimate critique of the ideology, but I doubt you know more than the average "Ayn Rand was a vengeful Ruskie salty at the Bolsheviks" layman.

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>>93704421
Any Rand wrote her books using taxpayer's money. She worte love letters to serial killers and cucked her husband.

She was a model parasitic female.

>>93704547
>Criticizing the creator rather than the ideology itself

Again, layman who only knows bad stuff about Rand and uses that so they don't actually have to learn about the ideology.

>>93704176
How many times are you going to do this thread OP? Until you go back to school?

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>>93704309
Where is the hovertext for these pics? Nothing shows up when I put the "mouse" on them.

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>>93704183

>>93704573
>pursue radical self interest
>respect your employer's private property rights
these are mutually exclusive, her ideology is inherently logically flawed.

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>>93704644
Then how do you explain this?

>>93704183
Fuck this guy, beer does taste good, its just everyone has different tastes and if you dont lile the taste of beer then no big deal, i hate IPAs but love stouts its all in what you like

>>93704176
We already had a thread yesterday.

>>93704747
You're just pretending because you want to perform masculinity in front of your peers.

>>93704769
Jokes on you i drink alone

>>93704680
t. some pseudo-intellectual that doesn't understand objectivism

>>93704821
>no arguments
Nice

>>93704892
I can't argue against a non-argument.

>>93704309
That went well.

>>93704892
Don't bother, you always lose when you're dealing with a Randroid. It's like trying to talk down a committed Scientologist.

>>93704940
>everything I disagree with is a non argument
Molymeme kys. Nothing I stated was false.
I actually read Anthem and Atlas Shrugged. Have you?

>>93704769
Don't imply i'm a normalcuck ever again.

>>93704769
That's just dumb. Millions, hell billions of people enjoy the taste of beer. If you don't care for it that's fine, but it's retarded to act like everyone else is just pretending. Different kinds of beer do have different flavors, and people like them according to their preferences.

>>93704821
Not him, but please try to explain it. I never understood what she wanted.

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>>93704987
Nah. I don't believe you. It tastes objectively bad. I get it if you like the effects, but Randall is right on this one, it just tastes bad and there's no way around it.

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>>93704765

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>>93704821

Shut up and post mocking edits

Do you guys think all this beta male bullshit, siding with SJWs and hurt feelings patrol is his only way of getting, or trying to, girls?
I feel he let's that sip into his comics a lot, like the one where someone is blasting females on the internet and his self insert shows up blowing up the door and gives him a lecture, but not because he believes on women's rights and dignity, but, in his own words, because he "likes nerdy girls".

>>93704206
This is the only good xkcd.

>>93705035
Wouldn't that just be preaching to the choir? It's much more interesting to complain about real ones.

>>93705041
Short answer: no.

>>93705005
She wanted people to think she invented the ideas of Plato, Nietzsche, and Hegel.

>>93704821
It's basically a New Faith, a religion, which is why its adherents take great pains to deny that its internal contradictions have anything do do with anything.

>>93705031
>I get it if you like the effects

If you just want to get drunk there are many better and faster choices than beer. Beer really is something you drink to enjoy the taste.

>>93705079
Objectivism already sounds quite pretentious.

>>93704573
Rand is basically Apocalypse. Survival of the fittest mentality is laughable and selfish.

>>93705097
It's a fedora in abstract form.

Though its cultists are entertaining to mess with.

>>93705118
Well she had to give her bullshit an attractive name, just like Hubbard couldn't call Scientology "giant scam machine".

>>93705031
Well, you're of course under no obligation to do so, but there are an enormous variety of beers available to try. Especially now thanks to the craft beer explosion. You probably just haven't found one that's to your taste.

You might think about what flavors you like in drinks, and look for a beer that might appeal to that.

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>>93704176
Okay

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>>93704206

I honestly want to slap the writer.

https://www.aynrand.org/ideas/overview

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>>93705098
Y-you guys are being awfully polite in responding to my bait...

Remember guyse
>propose that you're capitalist
>destroy capitalism, return to a quasicommunitarian society and build machines and devices that would've made you fuck rich under the system you destroyed, but that basically only free you from having to work now.
>then sit around all day every day talking about how you're THE BEST at EVERYTHING and how you finally SHOWED IT to "those people"

>>93705240
We get it. You're a virgin. We're not going to judge you.

>>93705240
/co/ is love, brother.

>>93705231
Why? Are you a butthurt Randroid?

>>93705351
Never even read that book. Doesn't mean I automatically like stuck up pseudo-intellectuals arguing from a position of false authority because he can autistically add some numbers together.

>>93705041
This is the guy who flaunts that he used to work for NASA right? I imagine he uses that as well.

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>>93705233
ok. Ayn Rand was a cult leader.

>>93705041
He literally had a break up in his comic. Dude has issues.

>>93705456
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>>93705041
Someone post the spinning comic.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and Existential Comics are much better "intellectual" webcomics.

>>93705552
I've had my quota of cringe though.

>>93705566
Super Mega Comics is the best intellectual comic

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>>93705630
I know jack shit about physics, does this even really do anything?

>>93705630
My god, you weren't kidding

>>93705608
The true educated sophisticate exclusively reads Electric Retard. Enjoy your baby toys.

>>93704176
why is it humpty dumpty

>>93705725
It's from "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll:

>"I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said.

>Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't—till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'"

>"But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected.

>"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."

>"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

>"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."

>Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again.

>"They've a temper, some of them—particularly verbs, they're the proudest—adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs—however, I can manage the whole lot! Impenetrability! That's what I say!"

>>93705630
That's a good trick

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>>93704997
Studies have shows this to be false. Is most western cultures drinking beer is equated to adulthood or maturity so people are enticed to drink it despite all flavors and side effects just to show off their level of maturity towards the community.

Simply, it really is bitter shit water, but people want to be seen as not children/gay/effeminate so they force it down anyway. Drinking multiple beers in a night is more about an insecure child of a person trying desperately to convince themselves that they are anything but.

>>93705643
yes and no it does what it says in the comic but the effect is so little as to be unnoticeable

>>93704183
All I really see here is

>Hey, you like something that I do not. Fuck you that should be impossible for people to like things I do not like! You must be some kid of faggot lying to yourself!

>>93705135
Not that a noble born rich bitch from old country would know the first damn ting about survival of the fittest outside of what she read in a book....because she was wealthy enough to be taught how to read.

>>93704765
I like this meme, "comics for intelligent people" where we just post shitty comics where the creator has a retarded opinion.

Someone post the ones from the Brazilian dude

>>93704206
Well yeah, Objectivism is meant only for actual retards

>>93704183
I unironicly agree with this one.

>>93706056
>Studies have shows this to be false

Cool, can you link to some of them?

>>93706537
Whose side is these even supposed to be on?

>>93706280
Well I mean most of randells opinions are right (keyword being most, he thinks a few truely retarded things) he is just a faggot for the way he presents them.

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>>93704176
Dunno if sarcasm or serious.

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>>93706607
Either way...

>>93705630
I don't see what's wrong with this one.

>>93704183
Beer is shit and dudebros DO just drink it to fit in.

I have no doubt there are some genuine connoisseurs out there but the vast majority drink it to fit in.

>>93706546
what?

>>93706747
or you know, they could be drinking to get drunk.

>>93706757
The 8 year old is a tranny

>>93706546
He litteraly did nothing wrong.
If my son was strong I would say the same thing to my granddaughter.

>>93706777
Just pop a pill if you want to alter your state. It tastes better.

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I'll just post this befor the cunt gives me an aneurysm

There are a whole bunch of angry middle schoolers here who had one sip of beer that Dad let them have.

>>93706779
Ok, thats dumb but ok, how is what the grandad said triggering?

>>93706809
What is this shit? Bill Watterson would puke seeing this.

>>93706808
It also tends to be illegal and more expensive.

>>93706581
No one.
All normalfag is filth
The Chads
The women
The betas

>>93706819
Because the protagonist likes to take everything in the most homophobic way possible.
Convinced that strength is something only men should aspure to.

Bear in mind you are meant to agree with her.

>>93704309
One of the funnier ones.

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>>93706819
Reading a few of the comics, it almost comes off as a parody since the main character is offended, or horribly insulted by...essentially nothing at all in every strip.

>>93706927
so, its a little boy that wants to be a girl, and she(he) got upset because grandad implies she will be like her dad when she grows up?

That's asinine as fuck.

>>93707039
I'm not sure if I get this one
Anyone mind giving some explanation into it?

>>93707173
Bitches say they want a geeky and nerdy guy but what they really want is a model wearing hipster glasses.

>>93707173
C'mon.

>>93707173
really sizzles the synapses

>>93706809
>implying this instance of 'male violence' isn't a relatively demonstration of interest and invitation to friendly bonding.

I'm not saying it works on women, hell I think it's big part of why little boys tend to stop interacting with women and go 'hang out with the guys' a couple years before puberty (because they realize their overtures somehow arn't translating properly, thus the realization that 'girls are weird and spooky'.)

However, it's pretty common observation that among men violence and physical stress are the ways to initiate strangers into friends. (part of the reason 'hazing' is practiced, and why, despite their differences both DnD Nerds and Sports Jocks pastimes essentially boil down to 'beat the shit out of eachother, but particularly, those other dudes'.)

>>93705643
it adds a few extra milliseconds maybe, yeah. you really never took physics?

>>93704176
The person Randall's arguing against in this comic is me.

You have no idea how many times I'll say something like "Are you going to clean up the dishes?" and I'll get a snippy "Why do I always have to clean them?" or something in response. I ask a simple question and there are layers upon layers of imagined subtext that they choose to respond to instead, when I was literally just trying to learn or impart some basic facts. I get around it by being needlessly specific with my questions - "Are you going to clean the dishes and I'm just asking because if you aren't going to clean the dishes then I thought I'd clean them and I'm not asking you to do the dishes or expecting you to the dishes but I am wondering if you're going to do them because if you are planning to do them then I'm not going to do them.". Which has obvious fucking technical difficulties associated and makes me look like a sperg.

Like many of Randall's comics, including the beer comic, you can see the comic as a parody of both sides of the argument. Humpty is being immature and not understanding how conversations work, but just as easily you could say that he's simply trying to communicate to the girl how he communicates. He's trying to make her understand how to understand him. She's being willfully ignorant and choosing to shut him down instead of improving their dialogue by taking that into account.

On a meta level, most of Randall's most controversial comics have to do with the supposed "smug intellectual atmosphere" he exudes. Is it possible that he's not being smug or intellectual, and is literally just making comics about funny or interesting situations? It is. But people choose to see subtext. Is that a failing on Randall's part, or on the readers' parts?

>>93707173
The joke is the guy is a loser

>>93706977
>>93707000


These are kind of funny though

>>93707203
Oh, ok, she's faking it, I get it

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>>93704176
You continue to disappoint me /co/

>>93706977
>>93707000
LO....L? I guess?
2deep4me

>>93707000
the motion is impossible day was my second favorite part of highschool philosophy class.

My favorite was when I said I'd blow up a fat person stuck in the entrance of a flooding cave in order to save my own life and everyone else there.
People actually got offended.

>>93706056
>Studies have shows
[citation needed]

>>93706927
Fuck I mean most transphobic.

>>93705904
Underrated post

>>93705031
yes hundreds of years of brewing different types of beers for different tastes and yields is all an elaborate conspiracy of masculinity

>>93707039
I like her expression during the time warp in contrast to his

>>93707140
Further, you are supposed to sympathize with "how hard" it is for the son, because the grandfather doesn't understand why his comments were taken that way, rather than with the grandfather for making a genuine effort.

>>93706809
So what exactly is the joke there?

>>93704602
joke's on you I'm a NEET

>>93707522
There's a "didn't get the joke" section after most comics for people like you:

Discipline: Parmenides was a presocratic philosopher who believed that existence was timeless, eternal, and unchanging. The change that we appear to see is only an illusion due to how we perceive the world.

Presentation: Zeno of Citium was the founder of Stoicism, which held that the path to happiness was living "according to nature", meaning for the Stoic according to the universal reason that is in nature. Things beyond our control shouldn't effect our happiness, because happiness stems only from virtue. So if bad things exist, we should rationally accept that they exist, and they should cause us no suffering.

Gossip: Democritus was an early Atomist, believing that atoms (objects which could no longer be divided into smaller parts) were the only things that exist. For Democritus, there were still many different kinds of atoms, possibly infinitely many, but larger objects that were composed of the atoms didn't properly exist. He believed the world was totally determined by the causal interaction of the atoms.

Excuse: Zeno of Elea was famous for his many paradoxes, most of which were proving that motion is impossible. Similar to how Parmenides believed that time was an illusion, Zeno thought his paradoxes logically showed that motion must be some kind of illusion, and doesn't actually occur.

Brainstorming: Thales believed that everything was composed of a single substance (he picked water). Heraclitus thought everything was composed of fire, although he didn't take it to mean a substance like Thales, but more of an means of change between substances.

The Plan: In The Republic, Plato said that the general populations would have to be told a sort of "noble lie" to keep society together and encourage the less educated classes to behave morally and keep in line with the State. The more educated classes would study philosophy, and know the truth about how to behave virtuously.

>>93707833
That tricycle bitch needs a slap in the mouth.

>>93707833
it's an edit

>>93707833
>>93707902
Iirc, the original was Calvin saying that he doesn't throw snowballs at Moe because Moe's bigger.

>>93706939
Best comic in this shitty thread. Truly Kino

>>93704176
>When I say nigger, it means what I want it to mean
>When you say nigger, it's bad no matter what context you're using it in

>>93706496
I remember being 23 years old. In a couple years you'll realize there is nothing better in life than to ruthlessly and cynically exploit others for your own gain. Not even memeing here.

>>93707732
Does it matter. You got your point across.

>>93705643
Not in the way it's implying. It's not like the more revolutions she makes, the more time she has; the moment she stops spinning, whatever time she gained would be lost again due to conservation of angular momentum.
Also unless she's standing on the north or south pole, her spinning is even more irrelevant than it already would be.

>>93704940
You can, however, pursue an argument of your own.

>>93705801
And of course, /co/'s impotent rage against some thing is borne from a pitiable lack of exposure to literature. We don't just avoid reading comics here.

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>>93706809
>Why don't you throw snowballs at Moe
Because he has a crush on Suzy that he only knows how to express by annoying her because he's six years old. She does the same thing.

>>93706848
And might kill you if you're not up on the supply chain.

>>93704176
I don't get what real world view Humpty Dumpty is meant to portray.

>>93705118
It really isn't. At its core, it boils down to one basic philosophy: I'mma get mine first, because nobody else is going to do it for me.

It's the notion that nobody owes you shit, and you don't owe them shit.

>>93710071
I don't find anything objectionable about objectivism, it's internally consistent and that's better than most ideologies, but people who call themselves objectivists are loonies and hypocrites including Rand herself.

>>93706813
I just ignore them. They don't drink, so ranting angrily on the interbutts is all they have. I can't be the guy who takes that away from them.

>>93710140
Eh. Most people who call themselves anything are loonies and hypocrites. I can't fault Ayn Rand for being human.

>>93710140
While your claim may be true, the vast majority of people who claim the title haven't read anything beyond Rand, and Rand was a terrible philosopher. A more inquisitive objectivist would read well beyond her, but most read her and have their selfish worldview (e.g. "oh, everyone else is the problem") affirmed.

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>>93710253
>I can't fault Ayn Rand for being human.
Not for being human, but definitely for pretending she wasn't and writing a book about how being human is for losers, moochers and degenerates.

>>93707331
... That's actually a really solid alternate interpretation of his comics. Thank you, I hate Munroe a little less now.

>>93710338
Have you seen humans? They got poop in their bellies and they are covered with rotting dead cells.

>>93704176
>tfw 4chan has become so insecure about their intelligence and bent on attacking intelligence you will never be able to discuss or ask about things that actually are for intelligent people without shitposts and ironic suggestions

>>93704206
Best book... why the hate?

>>93704687
>he tried out for SNL but didn't get on the show because he was too good

>>93707331
We'd have to look at how many of his audience don't get his intended message. If it's a majority of them, than the fault lies mostly with Randall and vice versa. However, I'm guessing the sides are probably fairly even. In this case (and in true dialogic fashion), both sides are somewhat at fault.

>>93707173
I have two guesses.

The girl is using her geeky hobbies (look up "neoteny") as a method of attracting provider males who think that's cool.

The young version of the man was unrefined: ugly, short, and socially awkward. Most women don't like that. Women put a lot of value in tall, okay-looking guys. Women don't put as much value the traits that we think makes us interesting and unique. There's nothing wrong with that.

>>93710331
My philosophy was cemented by reading the three worlds theory and realizing it applied to individual people as well.

>>93705231
What did this anon mean by this? I don't know. He could have chosen any meaning for those words.

>>93704183
>when the autism kicks in
So randal was just a robot this whole time.

>>93707512
No, anon. You disappoint us. This is a joke thread. You don't actually post good comics, you post shitty pseudo-intellectual comics like xkcd.

>>93712608
>pseudo-intellectual
Anyone who uses this word is a dumbass and insecure as fuck.

>>93712853
So what you're saying is only pseudo-intellectuals use the term pseudo-intellectual?


This is coming from a self-admitted pseudo-intellectual.

>>93704183
Without getting into the actual act of drinking beer, being conspicuous about drinking beer is a zero-effort expression of maturity or masculinity, like being conspicuous about eating lots of meat or getting a tattoo. Expressions of maturity or masculinity which actually demonstrate competence in some area involve risk -- like doing well in a fight or sports, or getting a high prestige job. Most people are too lazy or too much of a baby-dicked cock sleeve for any of that sort of thing and just stick to the cosmetic, zero-effort stuff like drinking.
Not to say that genuinely successful people don't drink, of course. It's just they do it on top of being measurably successful.

>>93710972
Any community that pretends to be idiots...

>>93705390
Trust me, if you find out about the book you will change your tune talking about how a broken clock is right twice a day.

>>93704309
>tfw to intelligent too win

>>93712920
Ackshyually, he said only insecure dumbasses use the term "pseudo-intellectual". If you equate "insecure dumbass" with "pseudo-intellectual", that's on you, Mr. Self-Admitted "Pseudo-Intellectual".

>>93706537
Hot.

>>93704206
I think the Fountainhead is much more valuable to the reader than Atlas Shrugged. It's a long, shitty slog, but it'll get you thinking about the way the city you're living in is built if you've never thought about it before.

>>93713054
>tfw to intellectual to be an insecure dumbass

>>93712853
Who hurt you as a child, anon?

>>93712853
True. I prefer sub-intellectuals myself.

>>93712464
whose side does the creator of this want me to take? I genuinely can't fucking tell.

>>93713273
If you say you're a man then men who fuck men must also fuck you.

>>93712985

You mean how a broken clock is right twice a day but also 0% of the time?

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>>93712464
Who the hell goes shirtless at an indoor party?

>>93713767
Gays

>>93704176
xkcd was always a pretentious, talentless hack.

>>93710338
Sounds like loser moocher degenerate talk to me.

>>93713767
They work hard

>>93704206
Even if you don't like the philosophy, this is an insufferably smug comic.
>Oh, you have terrible taste for being interested in this writer thats had a huge impact on contemporary philosophy

>>93706607
>>93706637
>tfw dresden codak was entertaining

>>93713767
Gays looking for dick

>>93710253
>Most people who call themselves anything are loonies and hypocrites
Can't argue with that.

>>93704183
The reason the beer comic gets so many replies every time is because it has a ring of truth.

If it said that about chocolate people would be like "lol what?"

But because it's beer, which DOES taste kind of bad, people get mad.

>>93704206
why does is say KEK in the first panel?

>>93707000

Not always super funny, but I like a comic that talks about philosophy. His knowledge is based really heavily in the Classical period and Existentialism seems like though. When he branches out of that his jokes seem a little more shallow.

Like that Gorgias joke at the end though.

>>93714564

No, it gets replies because the line of thought is asinine. Taste isn't objective. The fact that people broadly prefer things that satisfy our basic needs (e.g. sugary chocolate) doesn't mean that you have to pretend to find enjoyment in other stimuli.

Instead of beer, substitute surströmming. Or, hell, flip the script entirely and say, "do you ever think maybe we should just admit that all chocolate tastes kind of good and you're just pretending to not like it?"

The comic's thesis is that anyone who disagrees with the most common preference is a lying hipster. It's stupid.

>>93714583

Same reason the comics code authority used to ban the phrase "flick knife."

>>93707331
Well? Do you always make them wash the dishes? They aren't responding to your words but your established pattern of behaviour.

>>93713273
It's assigned gender, so obviously you're supposed to side with the stupid one.

>>93704421
Bioshock is unironically a good critique of a society that operates on Objectivist principles. It points out that such an arrangement only works if everyone's fully devoted to said Objectivist principles regarding the free market, which is fucking impossible in practice. Not everyone will play fair (theft, corporate espionage, etc.), so you need the government to enforce rules of fair play. But Objectivism hates government meddling of any sort because the free market must be free and regulated by moral principles of Objectivism alone, so there's a paradox.

Speaking of the government, no FDA means no enforced safety standards. The plasmids were the most fantastical aspect of Bioshock, but it's easy to picture instead a faulty performance enhancing drug that fucks you up the more you take it. The market will finally catch on, but potentially too late to prevent widespread damage. Then picture everyone is putting out these sorts of pills on a regular basis.

Then you have to believe that those devotees of Objectivism will stay devoted even when other, smarter and more successful devotees outplays them. You have to expect these second-rate tycoons will simply give a respectful nod as their betters scoop the market out from under them, rather than employing every dirty trick in the book to get back on top.

tl;dr For someone who despised communism for its obvious shortcomings, Rand was just as stunningly ignorant of human nature.

>>93704997
This is the truth. Somehow my mom unironically loves Reese's Cup-flavored beer.

>>93707331

The comic is not even dimly about subtext. There isn't even an argument. The comic is a hypothetical response to Humpty Dumpty's nonsensical statements in Through the Looking Glass which is itself a reduction to absurdity of Cratylus' theory of language.

tl;dr there's a Platonic dialogue where Cratylus argues that language is, essentially, entirely arbitrary and can change so rapidly as to not be understood. In Through the Looking Glass, Carroll points out that this is patently absurd because it makes even the expression of the idea impossible. There must, therefore, be some underlying rigidity to language.

In the comic, Randall has (presumably) Alice snarkily explain the point Carroll was making. The comic lets us know that Randall has successfully understood a century-and-a-half old critique of two thousand year old philosophy.

To wit, Randall is a very clever man.

All this said, your communication issues are entirely explained by Carroll's original point. You are not the sole arbitrator of meaning. Your words don't mean exactly what you choose them to mean. Language isn't that simple.

>>93715486
>fully devoted to said Objectivist principles
Except for, you know, the drug use.

>>93714564
No it gets replies because it's a divisive issue. It's like if you post something either extremely anti-circumcision or extremely pro-circumcision. Instant derailment of most any thread.

>>93709951
Even with context, it's still not funny. He's just taking the actual content of the story and barely changing it in a 'humorous' fashion.

>>93716407
Circumcision like any other type of body modding is retarded and feral.

>>93716458
I must disagree. It is healthy and beneficial for both males and females.

>>93716467
Inshallah, my friend.

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>>93707000
>>93706977
I actually really like Existential Comics
Sometimes they're funny, sometimes they're not, but when they're not funny they're usually at least sort of interesting, and they're definitely unique.
I'm not that into philosophy, but I can respect a comic that is perfectly content to fill its niche.

Or maybe I just like a comic that isn't afraid to use its premise as a vehicle for S&M jokes once in a while.

>>93704309
Still upset minute physics did the same thing.

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>>93716528
>I actually really like Existential Comics
So do I. And I might be seriously misunderstanding stoicism, because everything I know about it I learned from a comic, but it's a great philosophy to have when you're working in a call center dealing with ass holes all day.

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>>93706537
>where have all the good men gone?
Bitches, man.....

>>93704309
Probably his funniest comic. I love his irony.

>>93704176
Wait, so isn't that cartoon against poststructuralism? Like, dictionaries are made by dead white men and thus words need new meaning and nothing is true anyways.

>>93717014
What exactly is wrong with this comic?

>>93704183
I hate beer but this makes me cringe

>>93713906
You seem to have completely missed the possibility that Atlas Shrugged is just a terribly written book, independent of philosophy.

>>93715486
you're retarded

BioShock was contrived bullshit, It does nothing but depict people who support Objectivism as cartoon villains.

>>93713080
Remember that we had cities before we had white people.

>>93717461
Nothing, I was just mocking the statement of one of the characters.

>>93707039
At least his acne cleared up.

>>93707203
She never said that though

>>93718048
Really makes me think

>>93717014
The crossed over Chad tattoo got me.

>>93718048
>alt text says "We can do this."
>no they couldn't

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>>93718115
"I love geeky boys!"
>immediately rejects geeky boy

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>>93717430
But you also need to be able to hold the speaker responsible for offensive taken by yourself, even if it's divorced from the intended message.
Obviously a compromise needs to be made in order to tick all boxes.

>>93704747
Have you ever had goze aka sour beer? It's really god but I rarely see it in liquor stores.

>>93710066
It's a scene from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.

>>93713250
>sub intellectual
That's actually a much better term. It implies a lack of credentials or achievements. "Pseudo intellectual" is just some poorly defined jab that ultimately comes off as a doofus lashing out at anything that may be perceived as intelligent.

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>>93719828
I hate Miller's incessant wanking over Batman as much as the next guy, but that's just a strawman.

>>93719914
no, that's just dobson

>>93719828
>Nazi Batman
Actually sounds like a pretty cool idea to be honest

>>93720015
>Actually sounds like a pretty cool idea to be honest

Elseworlds Nazi Batman when?

>>93719792
Yes anon, just as pseudoscience is actually real science that is just too smart for us doofuses to understand
seriously do you not know what the pseudo- prefix means?

>>93720023

http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2017/07/07/sean-murphy%E2%80%99s-batman-white-knight-arrives-october-4

If this goes well maybe soon

>>93704183
I've often had the same thoughts about beer, but never would I consider expressing them in such an obnoxious way.

>>93704206
As someone who has actually read Atlas Shrugged and paid witness to the endless slog of pretentious drivel within, I unironically find this one funny.

>>93706809
This guy is such an unbearable autistic white knight that he can't even see that they do that out of liking each other and Calvin still plays house with her despite always complaining about it on the outside, it's pretty clear that Hobbes is a platform for Calvin to express his deepest thoughts and feelings through.

>>93704309
Put out literally a few hours before the polls closed, IIRC.
So brave.

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>>93720015
>Nazi Batman vs Red Son Superman
Fuck this would actually be kind of neat

>>93705143
>>93705097
Sounds like Marxism.

>>93707039
Is she wearing a Sonichu medallion?

>>93707000
>everything is fire
*everything is like a fire
why does everyone keep twisting that one? it was a simile, not something literal

>>93713906
>ayn rand
>mattering in philosophy outside the usa

It wasn't until I got on 4chan and talked to Americans that I heard about her. She literally doesn't exist outside the USA and usaeboos.

>>93720441
>DC and Metro 2033 crossover when?

>>93720061
The crux of the issue is that it "pseudo intellectual" can refer to almost anything. It can mean "this person sounds intelligent in this specific way but I'm not intelligent in that way so I won't define it as intelligence". Calling someone a "pseudo intellectual" acknowledges that someone seems intelligent but doesn't address how they are intelligent or what about them proves that they aren't truly intelligent in that regard. If someone is calling someone a "pseudo intellectual" they are almost always leaving it at that, and if they aren't making any well defined claims about how the person is not intelligent then they are probably just lashing out at popular perceptions of intelligence as a whole. And if are lashing out at how the entire world perceives intelligence out of the blue in a conversation about something else then you are probably very insecure about your own intelligence.

>>93720562
This. You will never have heard of her outside of the US unless you hang out on US boards and consume US newspapers.
She's about as irrelevant in Eurasia as Erich von Däniken is in the US.

Exactly at what point do you think XKCD started to go downhill?

>>93720605
No anon it very plainly and literally just means they're pretending to be smarter than they are
No offence but you kind of sound like someone called you a pseudo-intellectual and you're venting about it

inferred turn of events:

some dude: hey look a pigeon
you: I THINK YOU MEAN COLUMBA LIVIA DOMESTICA
that same dude: lmao fuck outta here w/ that pseudo intellectual shit
you again: [vents on 4chan]

>>93704176
if i call you a faggot, how could that be misinterpreted?

>>93709821
elitists tend to not lend themselves to criticism.

>>93721072
>actual male homosexual
>straight male with non-masculine tendencies
>general-purpose insult

How do we know which one you mean?

>>93721072

You need a bundle of sticks? Starting a fire son? Did you get your burn license first?

>>93721112
>implying it isn't all of the above
only real fags would narrow it down like that

>>93717014
Post the rest of these

>>93721149
>comics for "intelligent" people
kek

>>93719828
I like how not only is he wrong about DKR Batman being the most prominent one but he's wrong about who DKR Batman is

>>93706502
Then you've been drinking shitty beer. There's a huge difference between brands in which the makers know what they're doing. A beer with more hops taste different than one with less, same with filtered and unfiltered, etc. It'd be like saying all fast food burgers taste the same. My suggestion is to avoid the brand name beers go for the independent ones.

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>>93704505
I just can't see the dots as mustaches. Simple art style maybe.

>>93705035
>xcdc

>>93706056
you sound like a faggot trying to justify their dislike of beer

look, if you havent found one you dont like the taste of, thats fine. its not for everyone. thats why spirits and wines also exist.

just stop assuming that because you dont like the bitter taste that theres no way anyone else likes it because we all have different flavor preferences and, believe it or not, the bitter wheaty taste of beer appeals to some people more than others.

always pisses me off when i go drinking with friends and they grab a beer despite hating beer. just get a fucking cocktail you soggy noodle

>>93719914
Welcome to Andrew Dobson.

>>93711400
Good, he was better on MR.Show.

Lol at the one flabby loser who writes 500 posts defending beer and posturing

>>93704183
Fourth panel: bald guy getting kicked out of the party and made to walk home

>>93721112
Well at least I can call you a faggot and you'd have a 2/3 chance of guessing right

>>93720562
>>93720630
>If it's not relevant in my country it doesn't matter
And I thought Americans were self centered

>>93721767
At least America has something to be self-centered about.

>>93721767
>the entire world outside the USA is one country

Wew lad. I bet you read a lot intellectual comics.

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>>93719828
I wonder if anyone sent him this panel

>>93721961
That comic is not intelligent though.

That's just common sense.

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>>93721996
So you're fine with people socially ostracizing a women because she's pro abortion?

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>>93722132
I don't give a fuck. You can do whatever the fuck you want on your own property.

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>>93722157
Careful lad, that sounds dangerously close to states' rights and personal liberty!

>>93722007
the human silhouette interrupting the sentences is really gonna fuck with the poor sods trying to translate that

>>93721767
She's not relevant anywhere that isn't the US or Liberia, bro.

It's not just my country, it's any country. The Bioshock-series was more or less the world's first not-totally-insignificant contact with Randianism.

>>93706977
>>93707000
These are kind of funny, but at the same time feel like it's just the author showing off his entry-level understanding of philosophers.

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>>93721878
I wonder if you've ever seen this

>>93722157
So they should also be able to not serve/hire blacks?

>>93722179
>states' rights and personal liberty!

As much as the slavers and racists try to conflate these concepts, there's no relationship between them. Oppression at the state level isn't any better than oppression at the national level.

Its useful, though, because anyone pushing this idea is showing their true colors as human garbage who want to cloak their bigotry and authoritarianism in the guise of freedom.

>>93722437
Your second statement doesn't logically follow the first.

Your first statement is correct, though, which is why "states rights" needs to always be followed up with "personal liberty". Devolution of powers is generally a good thing, but not when it lets petty local dictators abuse 49% of the local population.

>>93722437
>Oppression at the state level isn't any better than oppression at the national level.
Yes it is, because their armies are smaller and the representatives more local.

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>>93722437
>human garbage
Get out of here Anita, go back to /v/

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>>93722482
>which is why "states rights" needs to always be followed up with "personal liberty".
Which is why I added both, but you can't say "states' rights" in any context without some lefty losing their shit.

>>93704176
Define "intelligent people".
I don't read much xkcd. It seems to dry and silly for me.

>>93719828
I swear that whenever somebody talks about how bad someone is, it's never enough to label them as what they actually are, but they have to also pin the other -isms and phobias to that group or individual because they are focused on demonizing a person as much as possible rather than merely calling them out.

>>93719962
Well there's your problem right there.

>>93721112
>male who acts sexually obnoxious at inappropriate times
>contemptible male (typically homosexual)
>male who annoys others and attempts to create drama or chaos
>bundle of sticks
>pack of cigarettes

>>93722437
It's arguably worse because of how state authoritarianism is more familiar and direct it is with the region and the people. National authoritarianism gives some towns a chance to either slip through the cracks or share it with thousands of other cities.

Even though I know that the Confederacy formed to keep slavery rather than preserve states' rights, I hate accepting that fact even though I have little attachments to the South.

>>93722531
>someone mentions "human garbage"
>calls someone human garbage and tells them to go to the 3rd-7th trashiest board
What?

>>93722712
Anita Sarkeesian, "prominent video game critic," recently lost her spaghetti at an anti-harassment panel at vidcon and called a youtuber (who has politely refuted her points before) "human garbage" despite him not doing anything while in the audience.

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>>93722712
>I don't read much xkcd. It seems to dry and silly for me.
>"I'm too smart for XKCD."

>>93722791
Right. Still, human garbage is a common phrase. Don't let pretentious no-fun pissants take away everything.

>>93722808
I never said that. If anything dry would imply I'm too easily bored, and thus not "smart" enough if one were to stretch things.
Also did I really fucking type "to"?

>>93722607
As a lefty in a liberal state being threatened by the current administration, I'm all for state's rights.
Only the most shortsighted can't understand that rules (and the lack of rules) are there to protect them. Sadly, most people seem pretty shortsighted these days.

>>93722712
>I know that the Confederacy formed to keep slavery rather than preserve states' rights,

Primarily formed to keep slavery. States rights were a very real and prominent issue - but slavery was #1.

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>>93722960
>As a lefty in a liberal state being threatened by the current administration
I didn't know CNN used 4chan

>>93722437
>As much as the slavers and racists try to conflate these concepts, there's no relationship between them.

3/5ths of a vote for every nigger was a state's right, Anon. They were barred from bringing nigger westwards happened on the level of state rights too.

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>>93723076
>this level of ignorance

>>93722960
>As a lefty in a liberal state being threatened by the current administration, I'm all for state's rights.

The current Republican government's getting ready to perform white genocide, Anon. Left or right doesn't matter to them, they just want to see a couple of millions of white people dead in the next couple of years.

Though honestly, that's mainly going to hit the people who don't matter politically, mostly because they reliably do not vote or because they don't have the cash to actually matter to candidates.

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>>93721318
I think you are missing the point

NO ONE likes a designed bitter taste. It is a negative feeling, if you claim to like it that is called "pretending" because it is specifically not a likable sensation in the first place.

And legitimately preferring an unlikable sensation is an indication of severe mental illness.

>>93717014

>CEO
>having to masturbate

immersion broken.

>>93704997
People equate drinking beer to maturity and have this huge hangup with just *needing* to look outwardly mature and adult by drinking this thing that is anti-childish. They put up with the terrible taste because they want to project a kind of persona that says
>Look at me, I'm totally mature and adult! I'm totally not childish at all!

>>93723243
It's what phone sex lines exist for.

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>>93720015
>>93720023
>>93720138
>>93720441
>Nazi Batman vs Red Son Superman
PLEASE

>>93714912
But there is a clearly understood pleasure/displeasure sensation compared here. Chocolate is sweet which the brain reads as pleasing, only reason people do not like it is because they are either tired of it or prefer other sweet flavors. Beer on the other hand is extremely bitter and displeasing. The immediate reaction known as "Beer face" shows that the body has a fast negative reaction to the flavor of it since it is seen as very negative.

People just try to power through that because they want to look manly or tough being able to drink this thing that is horrible with each sip

>>93723177
>NO ONE likes a designed bitter taste.
>Victoria Bitter is one of the most popular beers and is an extremely successful brand

>>93704183
>>93706502
>>93714564
I'm sorry that you've only ever had pisswater, but this proves you're utterly the definition of Americunt. Try drinking something other than Buddweiser or Coors, and you might actually change your narrow opinion.

>>93720015
I would like a Nazi Batman. Hell, I would like to see an portrayal where Batman is the oppressor and Superman is the resistance, since they always do it the other way around.

>>93723415
>.....because they want to project a specific personal to all their peers

you did not finish that last line anon

>>93723458
*persona

>>93723076
When it got to 1850, the South made themselves look hypocritical with states rights with the Fugitive Slave Act. To be fair slaves were considered property in their native state, but the South should've known that the North had their own laws and slavery was quite controversial.

>>93723169
You're trying to bait too hard, mate.

>>93723415
>People liking a thing that is bad for them and tastes like shit but they force it down any damn way because they desperately want to look cool

Yea like no one ever does that, nobody in the history of ever has done something unhealthy and shitty that made them puke out of the small and taste alone just to look cool and hip in front of others anon, that would be fucking crazy...

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>>93723415
>>93723531

>>93723177
I love bitter tastes.

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>>93723482
SOCIAL LINKS SOCIAL LINKS SOCIAL LINKS SOCIAL LINKS

>>93706143
Now you understand postmodernism!

>>93723177
Coffee is bitter, anon.

>>93723177
So sour candies just don't exist?

>>93720507
No, it's a tie.

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>>93704227
I think the joke works better without the call-out. Just him having shit enough taste to require a trap bookcase is funny on its own.

>>93723177
Oh, can I play this game too?

NO ONE likes a designed spicy taste. It is a negative feeling, if you claim to like it that is called "pretending" because it is specifically not a likable sensation in the first place.

And legitimately preferring an unlikable sensation is an indication of severe mental illness.

>>93723384
Here's your (you) because no one can be that retarded.

>>93723243
>having to
It's almost as if you think it's a chore.

>>93722365
That's not Batman, that's The Batman.

>>93723591
>>93723611
You mean both of the things that people add lots of sugar to?

>>93723675

No, no. He's right. It's impossible to dislike sweets, and if a woman is ever eating or drinking anything bitter it's to prove how manly she is -- even if she's alone.

>>93723506
>You're trying to bait too hard, mate.

What else would you call the act of willfully exposing a couple of millions of white Americans if not an act of genocide?

You gotta call a spade a spade, especially when everybody in the media's chicken and going full out on the PC language to mask the facts on the matter.

>>93723668
That is better

>>93723698
I am currently on my 3rd cup of black coffee, try again.

>>93705801
The real question is why'd they make the strip when the source material already made the same point.

>>93723177
So because I like really spicy food, I am mentally ill?

Sir, I humbly suggest you either kill yourself or try undoing some of that sociology degree with a frontal lobotomy.

>>93723698
I never add sugar to coffee or tea. In fact, it wasn't until I had some properly made black coffee that I actually enjoyed coffee.

>>93723668
Yes but then he doesn't get to be superior to anyone

>>93723553
What a shitty point. Most people I know that still, smoke does it to quell their anxiety or because they like the taste, which, more expensive cigarettes, cigars, and types of pipe tobacco all have subtle flavors to them that people enjoy.

Smoking is about as cool as vaping anymore anyway.

>>93705135
>"LET ME STEAL YOUR MONEY"
>No
>"WHAT ARE YOU A PSYCHOPATH FUCK YOU I'M GONNA ORGANIZE A GROUP TO COME KILL YOU"

>>93723673
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/the-pleasure-and-pain-of-chili-peppers/?_r=0

http://gizmodo.com/5645331/why-do-humans-love-spicy-self-torture

https://turmericandtwine.com/2012/10/13/benign-masochism-and-harissa-for-the-naughty/

https://www.ideapod.com/idea/The-Hidden-Masochism-of-Everyday-Life/566868f1fa12c6917611e442#!


Way to pick the most well documented one anon, turns out your are a masochist and you do not prefer spicy food as much as you prefer to be in pain. Better get some help.

>>93723837
Seriously, I buy cigarettes and smoke them like cigars just because I like the taste.

>>93704394

Isn't there a whole section in Shrugged about how attraction should be based on intellectual capacity, not looks?

Yeah, I can see why it's a neckbeard bible.

>>93723747
http://wtnh.com/2015/10/14/study-people-who-drink-black-coffee-more-likely-to-be-psychopathic/

https://www.consumerhealthdigest.com/general-health/people-drinking-black-coffee-likely-to-be-psychopaths.html

http://www.popsci.com/psychopaths-may-prefer-bitter-foods

Whelp, guess what anon....

>>93723884
>if I call other people the neckbeards they won't think I'm the real neckbeard
Also, actually read the book retard.

>>93723780
Yea that is pretty much what it means

>>93723851
>linking NY Times as credible any more
>Gizmodo
Sir, you dropped your [autistic screeching] that some people like what you do not.

>>93717890
Feel free to give actual refutatuons to the points I providedm

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>>93723892
Coffee has been linked to fucking everything under the sun, anon, want to get an actual argument?

>>93713767
This needs a Jean Grey/Iceman edit

>>93723851
Spice is also an ancient aphrodisiac, try again

>>93724004
I also recall hearing that part of why it is a trait is that spicy things tend to be hostile to microorganisms, thus were generally considered safe to eat.

>>93724035
That's why it is used so heavily in tropical and sub tropical regions known for the amount of parasites like Louisiana swamps, southeast Asia, central America, they all eat a lot of spicy food since that is usually microbe-free.

>>93723007
If only :(

>>93724035
>>93724064
Yeah, that one anon who's shitting on bitter/spicey foods is either a troll or fucking retarded.

>>93724064
So it makes sense that developing a fondness for the burn would be a survival trait.

>>93723872
Even after I quit I still buy American Spirit Blues because their taste is top teir.

>>93724064
My family is cajun, and all the food down there is spicy because it kills all the evil shit that lives in the water.

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>>93724091
I'll also smoke cigars now and again, but it's hard to find 2 hours to invest in them these days

>>93724079
People seem to have a lot of trouble understanding how others can like something they do not like. It just does not click with them that a different opinion can legitimately exist and is not someone just trolling them over and over again.

>>93723892

>According to the New York Daily News, 1,000 people were asked to rate for preferences and complete personality trait tests.
>The Innsbruck study involved 1,000 people, including students and prison inmates, who were asked to rate for preferences and to complete tests for personality traits, such as aggression.
>Subjects assessed such statements as “Given enough provocation, I may hit someone.”

Hey, guys! Somebody at some university I've never heard of out in Austria p-hacked a small, diagnostically irrelevant survey and demonstrated a zany statistical correlation. Let's remove all doubt and what little nuance the original study possessed, and run it as gospel for a fluff piece.

t. western media

>>93723851
Turns out India is just a country of masochists I guess.

>>93724111
>>93724091
What are the best cigarettes for taste anons? I used to smoke Newports and every once in a while crave that flavor. A friend gave me some menthol cigars but they weren't the same.

>>93724186
Turns out shitting in the street is just some really messed up humiliation play.

>>93724202
I have admittedly shit taste, but if you can find a pack of unfiltered Lucky Strikes it's some good shit.

>>93724186
sounds about right

>>93724186
Louisiana too.

>>93709739
If she doesn't stop until sun rises she's making the night longer and the day shorter. Conservation of angular momentum doesn't mean conservation of time-in-each-angular-position.

>>93723906

t. ugly neckbeard