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2021-09-04

by shaenon on September 4, 2021 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon
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  1. chirigami
    September 4, 2021, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    I think today’s and yesterday’s strips have been uploaded in inverse order?

    • kiralamouse
      September 4, 2021, 8:00 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, that would make yesterday’s feel less of a non sequitur with “Tip’s right.”

  2. BMunro
    September 4, 2021, 1:18 am | # | Reply

    I don’t think there’s enough time left to infiltrate, Tip.

  3. Jerry Aethers
    September 4, 2021, 1:51 am | # | Reply

    I believe in Tip’s ability to infiltrate any organization to any level in the organization in practically no time flat as long as there is at least one romantically feasible encounter to be had. Beyond that, he will get caught.

    • Candace
      September 4, 2021, 2:09 am | # | Reply

      Well, for those encounters that aren’t romantically feasible, Tip could break out the finger puppets…

  4. dvandom
    September 4, 2021, 1:55 am | # | Reply

    I hear Tip say “Psychologist!” in exactly the same way that Marigold Heavenly Nostrils says, “Unicorn!”

    • BMunro
      September 4, 2021, 2:29 am | # | Reply

      Now I find myself imagining the two having a fabulousness-off.

    • Manifesta
      September 4, 2021, 4:21 am | # | Reply

      Same here. They have a lot in common.

    • Shadowmehr
      September 4, 2021, 9:02 am | # | Reply

      The world may not survive such an encounter.

    • Dewy
      September 4, 2021, 10:56 pm | # | Reply

      Confused. Marigold from QC?

      • Eddurd
        September 5, 2021, 1:04 am | # | Reply

        No, Marigold from “Phoebe and Her Unicorn”. Follow the link under “Other good comics”.

        • Dewy
          September 5, 2021, 3:28 pm | # | Reply

          Ah. Thank ya, Eddurd.

  5. Robert Nowall
    September 4, 2021, 6:48 am | # | Reply

    I’d comment on the problem with that philosophy, but, at the moment, I can’t remember the philosophic or religious terms. Suffice it to say that some believe people are inherently good, while others accept people for what they are.

    • David B Huber
      September 4, 2021, 10:39 am | # | Reply

      People are inherently selfish, greedy, foolish, violent and venal. But mostly just lazy.

      Which makes masking those traits the path of least resistance. And given our enviable capacity for self-delusion we’ve come to both expect and accept the masks as reality.

      Call it “Enlightened Self Interest”. 😉

      And of course cooperation within and conflict between groups are the linchpins of civilization, which makes Progress desirable.

      • Sheik
        September 4, 2021, 11:10 am | # | Reply

        Which, of course, is the reply to those who declare “True Socialism has never been tried.”
        And the proper rejoinder is, “And never will be.”
        Humans are simply incapable of making it work just for the traits you cite.
        The Soviet Union did not die in flames and glory for the Proletariat. It died after uncounted millions were murdered trying to make socialism work while decaying of an internal rot of a corruption brought on by people gaming the system to death.
        The only reason Capitalism proved to be superior is because the process of corruption is self limiting if confined to small disposable units.

        • TheWreck
          September 4, 2021, 11:29 am | # | Reply

          Unless those small, disposable units aggregate into “too large to fail” units. Then the “absolute power” aphorism comes into play.

        • s854
          September 4, 2021, 9:57 pm | # | Reply

          Sheik: I haven’t heard this theory about corruption being self-limiting, but I don’t think anyone’s ever managed to confine corruption to small units. There’s always someone at the top who has more than just the national interest to think about.

          • David B Huber
            September 4, 2021, 11:40 pm | #

            I believe Sheik is saying that Capitalism is predicated on competition in the marketplace rewarding service to the common good with proportional market share, which inherently limits the scope of damage from failure due to any cause. Which was tossed into a cocked hat by economies of scale enabled by mass production.

            To be clear, I personally do believe that people are basically decent, kind, hardworking, altruistic souls who will gladly help their neighbor. The problem today is that society has been hijacked away from loyalty to community to loyalty to Brands thanks to ham-handed, short-sighted social engineering focused on short-term profit over long-term viability.

        • maarvarq
          September 5, 2021, 4:20 am | # | Reply

          Sheik, oddly enough socialism is not the same as communism, and other countries (like Australia, although our current government looks at the worst excesses of the USA and says Yes Please) that have managed some degree of socialism to moderate the lethal extremes of unbridled capitalism.

        • skullthetroll
          September 5, 2021, 9:11 am | # | Reply

          Socialism is an economic model. Despotism is a governmental model. Communism is an economic model defined by the state owning all property and is thus combined with a governmental model. All of those can be combined with other models in a infinite variety of ways. Sheik is overlooking Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland, etc that all have a largely socialist economic model combined with a democratic governmental model.

  6. Al
    September 4, 2021, 11:13 am | # | Reply

    Quality nose boop, Tip. You know your stuff!

  7. Nick Alcock
    September 4, 2021, 4:14 pm | # | Reply

    Well.. A-Sig owns any of St. Charlie’s mad tech which was still there (though as recently shown they might well have no idea how to use it) — which, as we’ve seen with Helen, might not be much, since a lot of it has a mind of its own or at least the ability to get up and walk away, or be stolen, or stashed away by paranoid mad scientists (i.e. not anyone in St Charlie, admittedly), etc etc.

    There are a lot of mad technologists who are not, ah, St Charlists.

  8. Robert Nowall
    September 4, 2021, 4:31 pm | # | Reply

    “Now A-Sig owns all the mad tech,” said Sweetheart, who feels like a wreck. But Tip wants to infiltrate, and thinks good people wilt-straight. But to Sweetheart it looks like it’s dreck.

  9. Madman
    September 5, 2021, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    No no- Marigold from the comic that used to be called “Marigold Heavenly Nostrils” and is now called “Phoebe and Her Unicorn”. Highly recommended!

  10. Madman
    September 5, 2021, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    (That was meant to be a reply to the thread about Marigold above. I suspect that my Noscript settings caused something in the comment thread to not work properly, my bad.)

    • awgiedawgie
      September 5, 2021, 4:02 pm | # | Reply

      Yes, WordPress sites tend to develop a bad attitude if you disallow java script and/or cookies.

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