Dumb message aside: Are these people actually talking to each other? One gives a question and the one on the right answers her sign instead.
Yeahhhhh thatās not what Matt was going for Garrison
It looks to me like Ben Garrison is fine with a personās cartoon being co-opted by Nazis and used to promote hate speech while leaving that personās name and reputation on themā¦wait a minuteā¦
FLASHBACK
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It must be nice for Garrison, being a hack who doesnāt have to worry about fringe political elements hijacking his IP. Itās because he doesnāt have any IP, because his entire career is based on shitty hot-takes about current events.
I feel so bad for Furie. Itās like the run of the mill art theft you see every day on the internet x1,000,000, and thereās nothing he can do about it because our copyright system can only be enforced by millionaires.
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It so sad. To see a thing you put your heart and soul into stolen and morphed into something you can hardly recognize.
Yāknow, I donāt think Iāve seen anybody have the hot take of āThe replacement is pretty much equally as bad as Obamacareā so far, so this is pretty uniquely dumb, lol. Iāve only seen āThe replacement is way better/worse.ā What kinda cartoonist thinks āObamacare was like a shark biting Uncle Samās head but this new thing is like a bear biting Uncle Samās head, theyāre almost the same bad thingā? Interesting.
How dare this Garrison give my brand such a bad name 
Thatās not Garrison, thatās Jeff Darcy of cleveland.com. Heās pretty much the political polar opposite of Garrison.
Though ironically this was his cartoon chiding the former Hillary campaign last week.
What? An artist doesnāt like a thing they made because it was co-opted by literal nazis and they killed them in-comic? Better start respecting their wi- oh wait weāre morally bankrupt and still need a symbol to push.
How are we supposed to know what the frog person represents if itās not even labeled, Ben?
Maybe Iām wrong, but I read it as being from the GOPās pov (because of the elephant) thereby demonstrating their double-standard.
Garrison is just barely on the cusp of realizing that fictional entities were created by another person and have no independent existence.
While heās still not quite there it does give him a leg up on your garden variety nerd.
If it were criticizing Republicans, I feel like Obamacare would have been portrayed as a small dog or something, not a shark. So it feels like the cartoonist is saying āthey made one thatās just as bad!ā which is, like I said, a unique view on the situation. Most people think this is either way better or way worse than Obamacare, not ājust as bad.ā
Well, I mean, it IS criticizing Republicans, but in a vaguer way than Iām used to seeing in a poltoon, with the additional weird outlook of āitās just as badā.
I see what you mean. Itās odd, for sure.
Been looking through the Garrison trolling saga, and itāsā¦quite something. Ran into this charming piece, and Iām actually not sure if it is a genuine Benny G or a spoof.
It did definitely lead to him having a real grudge against Nazis for a while, though somehow he doesnāt seem to tie that to the modern political situation.
I havenāt seen it about Trumpcare specifically but Iāve been hearing it about the GOP in general since the election, so Iām not really surprised to see it either. Iām a little befuddled but mostly because I know enough about what Trumpcare is going to do to people that I canāt really parse the sentiment.
Frankly, these days āRepubs and Dems are as bad as each otherā really only means āI stopped paying attention to politics back in the Clinton administration and refuse to start, but want to maintain my moral superiority while the country goes up in flames.ā
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Oh man, I canāt wait to start my LP of āIām a Euphoric Loserā just as soon as I can get my capture card to record my MICROSOFTā¢ XBOXā¢
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Local Man literally too stupid to understand the phrase āWitch Huntā.
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