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Is it just me, or are these Kelly cartoons never funny? They aren't satire if they're *exactly* what an earnest magat would create. Is he just purposely creating Poes? I love the Onion, but I've never gotten the joke of a Kelly cartoon. Maybe the Onion is just trolling its own readers, but...

they aren't though. they're totally chock full of obliquely on-the-nose symbolism and labelling. they are obviously stupid as hell. no magat would make this. it's insultingly stupid. that you think this is indistinguishable from actual right wing art says more about you than it does this cartoonist.

There's zero nuance in a Kelly cartoon, nothing oblique or symbolic, just absolutely literal quotes from shit I've read from magats. No magat would find these funny, but most magats would strongly agree with Kelly's apparent viewpoint. And let's be honest. There's no such thing as right wing art.

"no magat would find these funny, but would agree with his apparent point" you don't say... the target of satire would agree with the point being satirized, but wouldn't find it funny... almost like that's the point... of satire...

how. how is an obviously stupid joke cartoon gonna promote transphobia. even if taken literally, this says nothing new that hasn't already been said by right wingers. pull your head out your ass and learn to appreciate a joke.

They are always mad about the "kitty litter". The thing that pisses me off is how may of them have worked in shops, etc, that use dry soak? They should fucking know better. It's there for liquid spills, which sadly includes blood spilling out of murdered children.

Reminder that schools had kitty litter, so that when locked in the classroom during a school shooting, as that can take hours, the students have somewhere to go. It's a fucking smart solution to a horrible problem that shouldnt be, but is.

Its one of those dark awful truths that just stick with you once you know. And somehow a lot of americans still dont. Kelly im pretty sure knows. If someone shares this unironically then people can hit em with this damn fact.

Uuuhhhh, because the cartoon satirizes the positions of the goofy conspiratorial right…. see, so sharing as fact would indicate that person sharing was doing so unironically.

Reminder 1: The only reason a classroom actually had kitty litter in it was in case of a school shooting lockdown situation when students couldn't get out of a classroom to use a toilet, there was an emergency bucket to use Reminder 2: anti-furry hate is just anti-queer hate with ears & a tail on.

Ive never understood if this guys cartoons are lampooning right wing bullshit or if the Onion just allows his right wing bullshit.

Explicit labels and heavy-handed visual metaphor are an established hallmark of political cartoons going back a couple of hundred years. This one is so of-its-type that it's hardly recognisable as satire, as seen from the comments.

Some of these replies are heartbreaking. Something very bad is happening to media literacy. Yes, kids. It's satire! No, kids. It's not funny! It's intentionally not funny. It is very deadpan humor making fun of MAGA cartoonists. This makes it REALLLY funny. It's really OK if you don't get why. 😽👍