David “A Home I’ll Never Know” Precht

“I support the ayatollah because he stood for liberation and against Israel”
By imprisoning any dissent? Journalists enmasse? By labeling anyone who disagreed as Zionists and “tools of the West”? By r*ping women prisoners in Evin Prison? By executing queer people?
That’s not standing for liberation

R CRUMB’S ONE PUNCH MAN

That’s incredible

This guy is going to do so many war crimes against my people
Thanks for confirming a guy with multiple white supremacist tattoos and has repeatedly made white nationalist comments throughout his career, the Senate

"but I'm vegetarian" (or vegan)
Replace beef/lamb with 2/3 cup of yellow split pea
If you want to put some tofu in there, please don't. Some firm tofu is better for khoresh bademjan. Still use more yellow split peas for bademjan but adding some tofu and using a bit more oil and you're golden (pun)

If you're in New York and looking for a great meal before temperatures go up, might I suggest gheymeh
Does it take hours to make? Yeah, man, it's Persian food. Everything we make takes hours, but gheymeh has french fries on top so make it and thank me later

That is an impressive dedication to stubbornness

Wish I were doing more conventions, but instead I'm working on a 10-page comic for an anthology and a bunch of short stories for Patreon and we'll see how this all goes, y'all

Or reply with a simple "kinetic deez nutz"

My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.

The thing about all these freak AI execs constantly going "our machine may have gained sentience?!" is that they want slaves. That they are ok with slave labor.

And *then* it always, always turns out their latest AI trick actually used slave labor somewhere in the global south.

They're slavers.

At a 2015 party during San Diego Comic Con, a visibly intoxicated Allie sexually assaulted novelist and comics writer Joe Harris, grabbing his crotch and biting him on the ear. Writing about the incident in Graphic Policy, Janelle Assellin—a journalist and former editor at DC Comics who had helped spearhead a multi-staffer HR complaint against Berganza in 2010—gathered accounts from multiple sources at the company noting that he’d behaved that way for years, garnering the nickname “Bitey the Clown”; staffers attempting to go through internal channels invariably received cheerful assurances that the problem was being dealt with. (Dark Horse themselves famously ran a 2006 interview with him—since apparently deleted but archived here—that included the joke “Watch out, he bites.”) Allie issued an apology and remained part of the official masthead until 2017, when he became a freelance editor. Nonetheless, he maintained close ties at Dark Horse, continuing to edit and write for Mignola’s Hellboy. While his behavior remained a topic of open discussion on the comics internet for years, Allie likewise continued to be a fixture at conventions and—sources speaking on background to The Daily Beast confirm—a mover and shaker in comics social circles. His behavior was often explained in those circles as substance abuse: since he was now sober, the standard line went, the issue had gone away.

It had not. On June 24, former Dark Horse editor Shawna Gore, now senior editor at Oni Press, publicly accused Allie of sexual assault. Over the course of 14 years, Gore wrote in a horrific account, Allie engaged in a pattern of “chronic, escalating, unchecked abuse that was not related to his alcohol use.” On one occasion in 1999, in the backseat of a minivan filled with their colleagues, Allie put his hands in Gore’s underwear. “For the next 10-15 minutes I had to quietly, physically wrestle against Scott to prevent him from forcibly penetrating me with his fingers,” Gore wrote. She alleges he repeatedly told her to relax as he groped her.

In both Allie and Berganza’s cases, higher-ups at both Dark Horse and DC Comics had ample evidence of severe misconduct, and did as little as possible to deal with it. “We did not, and cannot, perform a public flogging, as some might wish,” Dark Horse founder Mike Richardson proclaimed in a response to Asselin’s 2015 piece. “I am extremely sensitive on this subject, being the father of three daughters and having experienced first hand the effects of sexual harassment and gender discrimination…[Asselin’s] assumption that my longevity somehow ‘embeds’ within me an attitude of inappropriate permissiveness is not only wrong, it is insulting.” After Gore’s statement, however, Richardson struck a more conciliatory (though still martyred) tone. “I tend to think I can fix the behavior of people,” he wrote. “I thought this with Scott, that I could in some way fix him and change his behavior. A horrible mistake on my part that caused harm that can never be undone.” The set of reforms he proposed going forward—which included adopting an official No Tolerance policy for harassment and promises that there would be no retaliation for reporting abuse—were met with blanket scorn. As Graphic Policy incredulously noted, several of them may already have been legal requirements.

Dark Horse Comics founder Mark Richardson has been fired from the company after 40 years. The news has occasioned a lot of tributes. Feels important not to forget, however, that for years he enabled — if not actively protected — Scott Allie, a really hideous sexual harrasser.

The US will bomb your country and then 20 years later make movies about how it made their targeting computer sad

Besides our tax dollars, soldiers and the people of Iran, we also need to pay more money for common things. Didn't they also get rid of medicare and premiums are skyrocketing? Is that part of the "sacrifice"?
No thanks
Your boner for murder shouldn't be anyone else's problem

Didn't the Secretary of War say something about a holy war in Iran or something? And didn't the head of the FCC say something about a need for Judeo Christian values? And...

This argument, "We need extremists as decision makers," is how minority theocracies come to be

Support this book! It’s incredible

This.

Also, RKF stinks out loud

“We invaded Iran and now I’m asking you to do as Iranians do and make preparing way too much food and then bringing plates full to your neighbors who are vegan before realizing there’s lamb in it and apologizing and then talking for 45 min about their family, central to your life”

Good point
Then I'd go with Ramos

Vasquez has the most utility (plus he can pitch) but it seems like the love Ramos
Personally, I'd go with Vazquez since he can spell short, third, second and the corners or act specifically as a defensive replacement for third. Any additional offense is great but not necessary, imo

Dessin représentant une femme (long cheveux noirs, visage rond, sourcils joints et petite buche rouge, dans un style de khatoon) qui pleure en levant les bras au ciel. Un oiseau de la paix (avec le symbole de la paix sur le dos) vole parmi les bombes qui pleuvent du ciel et les explosions. Il y a écrit "PRAY FOR MY PEOPLE" et "STOP WAR IN IRAN". Le dessin est entièrement en noir, blanc, rouge et vert.

A spy showed up to my work to mess with me

After Kickstarter suspended Young In Iran (because sanctions smh), SAW has gone ahead with publication
You can preorder your copy right now
Iranian voices must be heard, their people seen for who they are
bit.ly/YoungInIran

You took an image and generated a similar but shittier version, removed from context and tried to turn it into a meme?
Cool

Lanterns looks very fun and good

Iran-Contra happened 40 years ago! It *literally* involved the US selling weapons to... Iran.

So, the argument is we were funding the armed forces of a country we were at war with?

Every time I say it’s insane — given his lack of experience — to expect Reza Pahlavi to run even a transition for a country as complex as Iran — a country surrounded by Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, and the Persian Gulf states, with terrorist organizations and armed groups inside its borders and more than ten significant ethnic groups — someone replies: “Oh yeah? Like Khamenei had experience? Like Khomeini had experience in 1979?” Isn’t the whole point that we don’t want to make the mistakes of the past? Obviously, I’m not comparing Reza Pahlavi to these men in terms of ideology — but how is it an appropriate response to say, “Well, what about those awful guys?”

Losing my mind!

“We’re going to do that thing we’ve been doing for 40+ years, citizens”
Iranians: “We know. What’s new?”

This isn’t new. The IRGC arrests anyone who says anything against the regime. Journalists, protestors, etc
I mean, unless they just slaughter them in the streets