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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 183 points 9 months ago (7 children)

You know, I couldn't really figure out what this comic was commenting on until now. It's rich people. The lions are rich people "educating" the masses on why they should be thankful that the lions exist.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 69 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It can be applied to any hegemonic class, really.

But yes, it's rich people. Public schools may have originally risen out of defiance of the hegemony, at least in some notably locations, but they were quickly captured by it.

Schools over a place where the rich of the past can be aggrandised, and the rich of the present can ensure the workforce gains the basic skills to keep making them money, while also hearing about how it is right, and natural, and inevitable that they get to keep the product of your labour.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

A place where your movement and thought is determined by schedules down to the minute and broken up by bells is an industrialist's wet dream.

"WORK TIME IS NOW"

"REST WHEN THE BELL RINGS"

"LUNCH TODAY WILL BE SLOPPY JOES"

[–] beatle@aussie.zone 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

“I’ll tell you how I feel about school, Jerry: It’s a waste of time. Bunch of people runnin’ around bumpin’ into each other, got a guy up front says, ‘Two plus two,’ and the people in the back say, ‘Four.’ Then the bell rings and they give you a carton of milk and a piece of paper that says you can go take a dump or somethin’. I mean, it’s not a place for smart people, Jerry. I know that’s not a popular opinion, but that’s my two cents on the issue.” — Rick

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Yeah, he said that, but we all know he was gaslighting Jerry and Beth. I kinda assume Rick is lying whenever he says almost anything at this point.

[–] AscendantSquid@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Until you added the Rick part, I read this in Kramer's voice

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it is a really good one. But I keep seeing people not getting the metaphor behind it. So normally I'd be like, seriously dude, you had to write that out? But in this case, yes, yes you had to and thank you for that!

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 7 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I don't know why it took so long to click.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 10 points 9 months ago

Oil companies sponsoring school science fairs

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Yup, just like religion teaches us that poor people go to heaven and rich fucks go to hell. So don't struggle against the latter, just do as your told and it will all work out

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

This is one of my favorite comics and I'll say something I've said before:

Even the lion who wants to start the school thinks he's helping the antelope and the other lions think he's crazy, possibly even a class traitor. He thinks he's helping, but his entire worldview is from a lion's perspective, so he's not equipped to get the antelopes to think outside of the Predator-Prey dynamic. In the real world, it's very possible for people to think that they're helping, but if they aren't prepared to question the underlying foundations of a system they're a part of, then they may never make any real changes.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Not just exist. But exist because of the masses making them that wealthy from the underpaid worker to the consumer.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

It's commenting on a scene in The Lion King that explains why the lion king exists, which inadequatedly made it one of the most conservative Disney cartoon ever, only rivaled by blackface and stuff like that.

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 87 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ah, the rare lesser spotted SFW Oglaf.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I dont know, that lion is going straight for it on the last pannel.

[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

I still consider some light ass eating to be SFW by Oglaf standards.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Memento Mori et dat ass

requiescant in pieces

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Fun fact: Oglaf is actually two people. Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne. Both Australian. Both, presumably, horny weirdos.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 70 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes, interspecies ass eating. What a time to be alive

[–] redbeardgecko@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I thought the art style looked familiar!

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

ONWARDS MY CUMSPRITES!

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

I love the internet

[–] mrfriki@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago (6 children)
[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not really - the lions actually provide a benefit, unlike capitalism. The comic can be taken completely seriously and it's true. Predators are very important to an ecosystem.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (18 children)

As a resident of a state where deer kill more people than the mountain lions we eradicated ever did, this rings true.

Along that line, you could argue that capitalists perform a similar function in economic ecosystems, exploiting the poor and swallowing up the weak. But then human society isn't built to create an efficient profit mechanism. It exists to provide safety, cooperation, discovery, and the betterment of all humankind. Nobody needs to suffer at the hands of the economic predators.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

For that to be true then generational wealth wouldn’t be a thing.

If everyone truly started at 0 and only those with better “genes” rose up, then you should argue it’s at least “fair”.

But even that is inhumane by many standards.

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[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Isn't that the joke? Is there some other meaning that I am not picking up on?

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

All the socio economical classism it brings with it summed up quite succinctly in a comic. Yikes.

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[–] Mac@mander.xyz 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] _WC@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A normally very NSFW comic called Oglaf. Brilliantly written, but don't browse at work.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Oh, I knew that style was familiar to me but couldn't place it with the total lack of nudity and kinkyness.

Well, I guess it has ass-eating not in the usual Oglaf way.

[–] PeachMan@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Damn, that hits hard

[–] dessimbelackis@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Oglaf: putting out cutting social commentary and nicely drawn naked folks for… a long time now

[–] S_204@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Educational resources Funded by Qatar.....

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