Toon: The Hilldenburg Disaster

[MattSh]

http://4splainin.blogspot.com/

[MrChuck]

1. I can appreciate your enthusiasm

but this is in exceptionally poor taste. There are people dying in this image. I don't even think the most ardent among Bernie Sanders supporters are interested in promoting this kind of thing.

I'm a Sanders supporter and donor, banned from the HRC group and have NO love for the former Secretary or her husband. I just think this is crude stuff.

Carry on if you must but I won't be rec'ing or sharing this image.

Best

MrChuck

[MattSh]

5. Yes, people did die there...

And who gets elected President will determine how many people continue to die in our name. It's not just all about health care and jobs and the economy, after all. People will die from US policies regardless of who is elected, here and abroad. Though at least with Bernie, he at least understands all this, though getting a Congress to cooperate with him is certainly not a given at this time.

So is this a good way to bring attention to people who will die in our name? Maybe, maybe not. Is there any good way to bring attention to that? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe I'm naive to think that even 1% of the population even factors that into their decision...

[MrChuck]

8. In my opinion...

...and that's important to remember, "my opinion."
it's in poor taste.
It's not naïve. None of us want any more war. Bernie talks about it and we listen.
If he wanted all of the good domestic policies he talks about for us and advocated for an aggressive and interventionalist foreign policy I don't think he would engender the kind of support he has now.
My beef is with the co opting of this historical photograph and somehow interpreting the image as "burning " the establishment or communicating that somehow the photo purports the eventual fate of our political adversaries.
Death is inevitable and it is in poor taste to suggest that it's an option toward political ends in any case. Even in jest these memes should not ridicule death but that's just my opinion.

[Peace Patriot]

3. Yeah, it's over the top, I'm afraid. I appreciate it as a metaphor...

...but it would be better to find an image of a crash from which the people escape and then maybe have them scurrying away, with wads of cash falling out of their suitcases, to a villa in the Cayman islands or something.

Also, it's premature. We have not yet defeated the Goldman Sachs campaign. Bernie Sanders has certainly altered public consciousness and our national political discussion, and has aroused the real roots of the Democratic Party--in spite of the Trump Distraction--and I think this aroused citizenry will never be quiet again. That is a wonder in itself. But Goldman Sachs, et al, still has a lock on the DNC and many bought-and-paid-for Democratic leaders, in the filthiest political system on earth. Sanders certainly has momentum, but we're not there yet, to the Dem Establishment's crash and burn.

[Ivan Kaputski]

4. ~

[deepestblue]

6. This election

For the future of us earthlings, it helps to remind peeps what is at stake in this election - actual lives - millions of them. Let's not repeat the HORRENDOUS MISTAKES of the past.

[Donkees]

7. K&R

To be happy, Charlie Hebdo draws, writes, interviews, ponders and laughs at everything on this earth which is ridiculous, giggles at all that is absurd or preposterous in life. Which is to say - very nearly everything.

Because life is so awfully short that it would be a pity to spend it whining in dismay instead of laughing it up a storm.

[greymouse]

9. really poor taste, please delete your thread.

I am pretty sure you would not use a photo of 9/11. The only difference is time.