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by David M Willis on June 24, 2025 at 12:01 am
  • 04 – The Only Exception
└ Tags: asma, dorothy, joyce

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  1. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    June 24, 2025 at 12:05 am | # | Reply Report comment

    a fucking sniper. just. why.

    …

    I ain’t gonna fuck around imma just say it as it is

    The United States has developed a Nazi Problem 💀

    • AeromechanicalAce
      AeromechanicalAce
      June 24, 2025 at 12:06 am | # | Reply Report comment

      We passed “Problem” Decades ago. What we have now is a full blown Nazi Occupation.

      • DJTsurugi
        DJTsurugi
        June 24, 2025 at 1:12 am | # | Reply Report comment

        unfortunately too many people got mad when we punched the Nazis in the face, so we never managed to get rid of them… this story about to Willis again? (by that I mean, mood whiplash into trauma real quick) ~<3

        • Icalasari
          Icalasari
          June 24, 2025 at 7:47 am | # | Reply Report comment

          Betting on Jocelyne getting shot at, with a good chance of Joyce taking the bullet – either accidentally or on purpose. If she doesn’t take the bullet, then Mary comments that Jocelyne deserves it for “being a perverted man” and the user Let Joyce Kill gets to be VERY happy

      • Lysbeth
        Lysbeth
        June 24, 2025 at 4:37 am | # | Reply Report comment

        I wouldn’t say occupation. The call is coming from inside the house. Or the House, as the case may be.

    • Regina phalange
      Regina phalange
      June 24, 2025 at 12:08 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Right? Is this an Indiana thing? I’ve been to two encampments in two major cities and there were no snipers (based on my experience, the local news, and local Reddit chatter)—but like I said, these were major cities, not Indiana.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        June 24, 2025 at 12:10 am | # | Reply Report comment

        I don’t think real-world statistical probability matters here.

      • not someone else
        not someone else
        June 24, 2025 at 12:15 am | # | Reply Report comment

        To my knowledge it has happened before and usually means some people in power are getting very, very scared and offended.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          June 24, 2025 at 1:46 am | # | Reply Report comment

          Fear is good for them to be feeling. Power needs to be afraid.

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        June 24, 2025 at 12:15 am | # | Reply Report comment

        This draws heavily from the Palestinian protests at IU last year (inclusing the rules about Dunn Meadow being changed on them), and there were truly police snipers at those.
        It’s definitely possible everywhere in the US these days, but local politics do have an impact on the likelihood.

        • Regina phalange
          Regina phalange
          June 24, 2025 at 1:21 am | # | Reply Report comment

          Thank you, this is the answer I was looking for. Disgusting intimidation tactics, though I’m not shocked.

        • AK
          AK
          June 24, 2025 at 11:32 am | # | Reply Report comment

          I was wondering if this was about something specific, that seems like a weirdly specific detail to choose if one was just choosing to depict a random high tension protest, let alone a random college campus protest. Thank you for having the knowledge.

      • Tequila Mockingbird
        Tequila Mockingbird
        June 24, 2025 at 12:17 am | # | Reply Report comment

        No snipers that you knew of, at least. Odds are the reason Asma can see the sniper in this scenario is this: they *want* the students to see them. They’re going for intimidation.

        • DJTsurugi
          DJTsurugi
          June 24, 2025 at 1:20 am | # | Reply Report comment

          I remember seeing somewhere footage of a sniper set up above a sports stadium, they didn’t want people to know he was there, until after the fact, or they wouldn’t have released the footage of him being there. I tried looking it up, but the details are fuzzy as it was quite a while ago. ~<3

          • Aubrey
            Aubrey
            June 24, 2025 at 1:45 am | # | Reply Report comment

            Pretty much all large public events (sporting events, music festivals) in the US have snipers; it’s standard practice at this point.

            • Bodmans
              Bodmans
              June 24, 2025 at 3:23 am | # | Reply Report comment

              It’s sad it got to this point

              • Lysbeth
                Lysbeth
                June 24, 2025 at 4:39 am | # | Reply Report comment

                It’s sad it got to the point there was even one

            • yak
              yak
              June 24, 2025 at 9:11 am | # | Reply Report comment

              that sounds dubious. Source?

              • yak
                yak
                June 24, 2025 at 9:23 am | # | Reply Report comment

                After searching, I can find lots of people saying it is true and the Dallas Cowboys owner confirming that his stadium at least has dedicated sniper nests. I guess because important dickheads might be attending.

        • ubertook
          ubertook
          June 24, 2025 at 6:26 am | # | Reply Report comment

          I was there at Dunn Meadow last Spring, there was a sniper on the rooftop and *possible spoiler* lots of people did get arrested.

      • Brainz
        Brainz
        June 24, 2025 at 12:17 am | # | Reply Report comment

        They had one on my campus (also Midwest) during BLM. A few times since then. It’s to “keep students safe.”

        • Lilith Rose
          Lilith Rose
          June 24, 2025 at 12:39 am | # | Reply Report comment

          On my campus, before I went there, during protests in the 80’s, the students also brought snipers. Resulted in the police & national guard refusing to get close to the protesters.

          They really only understand violence.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            June 24, 2025 at 12:49 am | # | Reply Report comment

            That’s a good idea, actually.

          • Davus
            Davus
            June 24, 2025 at 12:49 am | # | Reply Report comment

            Question: Was that legal? And would that work today, do you think?

            • Bash
              Bash
              June 24, 2025 at 1:50 am | # | Reply Report comment

              It would depend on the gun laws in that state. Even if it was legal, it was certainly not safe with armed police on the scene.

            • Laura
              Laura
              June 24, 2025 at 2:00 am | # | Reply Report comment

              Well, apparently Arturo Gamboa tried open carrying at a protest just a week or so ago. Did not end well.

              https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/salt-lake-city-no-kings-shooting-arturo-gamboa

              https://www.yahoo.com/news/watch-arturo-gamboa-released-jail-045112201.html

              • Blakey
                Blakey
                June 24, 2025 at 5:26 am | # | Reply Report comment

                Reminder that mainstream media was reporting this as an attempted mass shooting right up until the footage surfaced, complete with Gamboa taking aim and only being stopped by security opening fire. Because of course they did.

            • The Queer Agenda [frog memes]
              The Queer Agenda [frog memes]
              June 24, 2025 at 3:02 am | # | Reply Report comment

              Well, the Black Panthers doing organized group open carry scared Reagan enough to pass gun control in California. You can decide how successful or not they were overall, but history gives some ideas of how things could go.

              • eh, whatever
                eh, whatever
                June 24, 2025 at 4:06 am | # | Reply Report comment

                That wasn’t a protest, though. It was a parade: “here we are, we’re all armed and maybe even trained, fear us”.

                • Torgamous
                  Torgamous
                  June 24, 2025 at 4:59 am | #

                  I’m curious what you think a protest is, that you think that doesn’t qualify.

                • Blakey
                  Blakey
                  June 24, 2025 at 5:31 am | #

                  That’s… What a protest is. Empty gestures don’t define protest. Demands and the will to force the hand of the ruling class does. Hanging around and making sure you don’t inconvenience anyone, frighten anyone, or break the law in any way is what can rightly be dismissed as “not a protest”, but a group of armed activists showing that they can and will ensure their people’s rights is absolutely a protest.

      • AlexanderHammil
        AlexanderHammil
        June 24, 2025 at 12:21 am | # | Reply Report comment

        it’s definitely a thing, particularly when the protests are anti-racist. most of the ICE protests i’ve been to over the years have had police snipers glowering down at the protesters

        • Regina phalange
          Regina phalange
          June 24, 2025 at 1:24 am | # | Reply Report comment

          I’m with you that it’s a thing in general—I’ve seen them at ICE protests as well—but the encampments I’ve been to on the east coast didn’t have them so I was wondering. Other commenters pointed out that it was a thing in Indiana and Ohio with respect to the encampments, however.

          • Bash
            Bash
            June 24, 2025 at 1:53 am | # | Reply Report comment

            Was it an encampment that was there for weeks at a time? Because obviously it’s going to be hard to have snipers for that long.

            • Taffy
              Taffy
              June 24, 2025 at 2:24 am | # | Reply Report comment

              I’m not sure snipers are particularly known for moving a whole bunch.

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        June 24, 2025 at 12:34 am | # | Reply Report comment

        See, I did the crazy thing and googled “sniper at protest” and got this hit on the first page:

        Newsweek
        https://www.newsweek.com › snipers-roofs-gaza-studen…
        Apr 30, 2024 — Students and protesters have reported sightings of snipers on top of rooftops at Ohio State University and the University of Indiana Bloomingdale’s.

        • Regina phalange
          Regina phalange
          June 24, 2025 at 1:15 am | # | Reply Report comment

          Crazy. Not like I asked if this was an Indiana thing (I literally did, and not rhetorically). Maybe your snark would have been deserved if I had assertively stated there were no protests with snipers based on my limited experience, but I did not do that.

          Sorry I’d rather ask here, where I’ve seen that commenters are pretty familiar with Indiana happenings and are generally happy to inform, than google when half the news will have a red slant? Not everyone lives in Indiana, and that Newsweek article isn’t even in the top ten results when I google what you claim to have googled, perhaps because I’m on the east coast. But go ahead and be aggressive whenever anyone asks a question—I’m suuure that will get loads of people to listen to you.

          • Jamie
            Jamie
            June 24, 2025 at 4:40 pm | # | Reply Report comment

            I mean, I didn’t know either; I relayed the method I used to find out.

            Frankly, I was surprised that it’d happened specifically at Bloomington. I thought it’d be a different protest that Willis was pulling from, but it seems that he’s portraying a very specific incident, down to the exact location the sniper was placed at and the Dunn Meadow decision.

            Sorry that you felt a need to get aggressive as a result. Hope that gets people to answer questions for you in the future. I’d call my manager for you, but it turns out I’m not being paid to take your shit.

            • AlexanderHammil
              AlexanderHammil
              June 24, 2025 at 9:06 pm | # | Reply Report comment

              aren’t they great, folks? be sure to try the veal!

        • HungryHoosier
          HungryHoosier
          June 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm | # | Reply Report comment

          “University of Indiana Bloomingdale’s” leads me to believe that just grabbing first-page Google results isn’t the most reliable source of info either.

      • PedanticJerkass
        PedanticJerkass
        June 24, 2025 at 2:18 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Or maybe you just didn’t see them.

      • UmmaGumma
        UmmaGumma
        June 24, 2025 at 8:00 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Surely not the only place, but it happened at Ohio State at least …

      • Ymbrael
        Ymbrael
        June 24, 2025 at 6:54 pm | # | Reply Report comment

        There were cop snipers in LA at the Ice Out of LA and No Kings protests. It is, unfortunately, a thing that exists. Not sure how common it is for campus protest, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s much more common than anyone should be remotely comfortable with (0, zero snipers “policing” protests should be the amount that people are comfortable with).

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      June 24, 2025 at 12:11 am | # | Reply Report comment

      I don’t like this framing mostly due to the fact it isn’t like Nazis ever had a monopoly on this shit. Kent State springs to mind.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        June 24, 2025 at 12:55 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Yeah, it’s very easy to blame the rot in America on foreigners, but the worst of it is coming from inside the house.

        • Steamweed
          Steamweed
          June 24, 2025 at 1:19 am | # | Reply Report comment

          With the notable exception of 09/11 4-plane suicide crashes, I’m told our domestic terrorists have committed most of the terrorism murders.

        • Casi
          Casi
          June 24, 2025 at 10:06 am | # | Reply Report comment

          Hitler admired the racists in late 19th and early 20th century America, and modeled a lot of the Nazi Party ideologies on them. And then we imported a bunch of Nazi war criminals during and after WW2 with Operation Paperclip.

      • BarerMender
        BarerMender
        June 24, 2025 at 12:59 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Kent State wasn’t snipers. It was, according to my reading, poorly trained and uncommanded National Guardsmen who got scared by students running to see the action, took it for an attack, and shot more or less at random. Considering the people who got shot were some distance away, this seems likely.

        • Charles Phipps
          Charles Phipps
          June 24, 2025 at 1:32 pm | # | Reply Report comment

          The larger issue of course is why they were there to begin with.

    • Wereg
      Wereg
      June 24, 2025 at 12:19 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Oh, we had a problem back with Paperclip. Now? It’s just a Nazi state.

      Buuuut we were shooting college students long before it hit this point.

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        June 24, 2025 at 2:01 am | # | Reply Report comment

        oh believe me, am well aware of Operation Paperclip, and what happened in Germany was hardly an isolated incident

        like. national guard. snipers. at peaceful protests. really.

        at this point, any notion of the intrinsic value of attempts at appealing to our oppressors’ better natures or so-called “compromise” is a fools errand

        I. Am. Drawing. A. Line. In. The. Sand.

        and I advise you all to do the same

        where our country is right now, and where it’s heading, is VERY worrying to say the least, as we are widely coerced into gradually lowering the bar for acceptable bigotries and oppressions until eventually, that bar effectively ceases to exist

        if it’s not the impossible seeming choice you’re faced with of having to alienate bigots who happen to be people you wanted to be friends with,

        it’s the even MORE impossible, devastating choice you’ll eventually be forced to make when you have to choose between your job and watching someone you love shipped to an internment camp

        nearly 80 years ago my great grandparents and their friends learned this the hard way, and nearly died because of it

        if we can help it, would really prefer history not repeat itself 👀

        • willow wind
          willow wind
          June 24, 2025 at 3:29 am | # | Reply Report comment

          *plays the international in hacked muzak*

          but seriously, you are right in everything you said. If we don’t start fighting now, things will get very bad very fast for a long time. Much worse than they are now.

    • anon
      anon
      June 24, 2025 at 1:06 am | # | Reply Report comment

      idk if there’s been ‘snipers at protests’ issues before but i wouldn’t be surprised if a handful of ppl brought guns as counter protests esp in teh south. although while i believe ppl should have a right to defend themselves too, any ‘peaceful’ protesters that also have guns on them would be an excuse to be arrested too even if there’s permit/carry laws where you are

      • Proxiehunter
        Proxiehunter
        June 24, 2025 at 7:47 pm | # | Reply Report comment

        Like most issues at protests the “snipers at protests” issues are being caused by the police. The issue is that police put snipers at protests. So far it’s just been intimidation (unlike the rubber bullets being fired directly into people’s faces instead of being bounced off the pavement as they’re designed to be used) but one of these days one of those donut devouring motherfuckers is going to pull the trigger and take out one or more protesters.

    • Kyulen
      Kyulen
      June 24, 2025 at 3:10 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Developed? Fascism has been around it the US for a very long time. Most people didn’t notice it much in the past because it was either directed outward at countries we invaded and/or bombed, or directed at small and very hated groups in this country like communists.

      • Azrael
        Azrael
        June 24, 2025 at 5:21 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Or World War 1 veterans protesting because the bonuses they were promised were stolen from them. Or before that, when a chunk of the states seceded because they were scared they might not get to own other people as slaves. Or before that, when the powers that be even in the “civilized” states owned slaves and saw no problem with it. All while enacting a genocide against native populations that they made and broke treaty after treaty with.

        The US has always loved authoritarianism and fascism. Even before they were codified and taught in schools.

        • Kyulen
          Kyulen
          June 24, 2025 at 5:38 am | # | Reply Report comment

          Very true. Much of that history is not taught in American schools. I recommend people who want to have a more accurate understanding of US history read “A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn.

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        June 24, 2025 at 6:32 am | # | Reply Report comment

        America started with a genocide, built itself with slavery, and every vote that wasn’t white, male, and middle class had to be dragged from the ruling class by force.

        America has never NOT had a fascism problem.

        • Nymph
          Nymph
          June 24, 2025 at 6:33 am | # | Reply Report comment

          of note, this is me agreeing with Kyulen.

          • Kyulen
            Kyulen
            June 24, 2025 at 7:48 am | # | Reply Report comment

            It always surprises me when that happens.

            • Nymph
              Nymph
              June 24, 2025 at 9:20 am | # | Reply Report comment

              lmao not what I meant. I just didn’t want anyone to get feisty thinking I was arguing instead of offering further evidence.

              • Kyulen
                Kyulen
                June 24, 2025 at 4:35 pm | # | Reply Report comment

                I know, I was just saying I’m surprised when we agree with each other. Most of the time when I comment here I’m not trying to start an argument.

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        June 24, 2025 at 11:47 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Yeah like, half of our country used to be its own nation founded for the sole purpose of maintaining slavery and white supremacist social order.

        Where do you think the Nazis got it from? Hitler literally said he was inspired by the United States

    • Acher4
      Acher4
      June 24, 2025 at 3:58 am | # | Reply Report comment

      77 million Americans chose evil. Thrice!

    • Suzi
      Suzi
      June 24, 2025 at 9:15 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Agreeing on the Nazi problem, but also, any large gathering of people has the potential to get a sniper in America.

      You can spot them at sports events, concerts, protests, marketplaces, any event that draws a crowd.

      While at the protests it can definitely be a “someone in charge does not like this happening” thing, sometimes they’re privately employed by security companies to pre emptively prepare for mass shootings. The idea is that if they spot a mass shooter, they can take them out first.

      I do not condone this. I wish we had a country where we didn’t have THIS be a “solution” to mass shootings. I just wanted to explain that they can be found anywhere if you just start looking for them.

    • achallenger
      achallenger
      June 24, 2025 at 12:06 pm | # | Reply Report comment

      it’s always had a bad one, remember the country was literally built on slavery and we never really addressed our sins on that count, so its just been a slow slide back into the old status quo.

  2. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    June 24, 2025 at 12:05 am | # | Reply Report comment

    So Asma was here!

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      June 24, 2025 at 7:54 am | # | Reply Report comment

      HA I was right! Hello, Asma!

      … And goodbye, freedom to protest. Hello, facist America!

  3. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    June 24, 2025 at 12:06 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Is this the first time we’ve seen Asma not behind her desk?

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      June 24, 2025 at 12:07 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Having just checked, no, she confronted Blaine during the family weekend

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        June 24, 2025 at 1:21 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Thank you for your research work!

      • Queezle
        Queezle
        June 24, 2025 at 2:08 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Every time I look at these older comics again, part of me is surprised how different the art style looked back then.

      • Armadillo
        Armadillo
        June 24, 2025 at 3:27 am | # | Reply Report comment

        So what I’m seeing is… every time she steps out from behind the desk she’s a goddamn hero.

        • Nymph
          Nymph
          June 24, 2025 at 6:33 am | # | Reply Report comment

          this is the truth!

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      June 24, 2025 at 6:31 pm | # | Reply Report comment

      She was with her lunch, somewhat away from her post (because break time) and Walky asked her about a package. This may have been a bonus entry.

      As with today, I think Walky didn’t know her name.

      Now I’m wondering how few of the main group know her name.

  4. The 25th
    The 25th
    June 24, 2025 at 12:06 am | # | Reply Report comment

    I know I should be more concerned about the whole police thing, but look at Dorothy’s arm around Joyce’s waist.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      June 24, 2025 at 12:11 am | # | Reply Report comment

      No no, your instincts are fine. Joyce and Dorothy being affectionate for safety is more important and interesting than whatever a random pig is doing.

    • John Campbell
      John Campbell
      June 24, 2025 at 12:39 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Also, Joyce’s around Dorothy’s shoulders.

    • Armadillo
      Armadillo
      June 24, 2025 at 3:49 am | # | Reply Report comment

      I have been looking and silently seething. Seriously, the inability of these two to recognize that they either need to cut this shit out or break up with the people they’re dating before getting handsy with each other is driving me up the wall. It’s not an innocent gesture anymore, this is not okay!
      Ugh. Have to keep reminding myself this has only been going on for like, an hour tops in-universe.

      • eh, whatever
        eh, whatever
        June 24, 2025 at 4:22 am | # | Reply Report comment

        This is how good friends behave in certain parts of Western culture. Especially if they’re of the female persuasion (meaning not living in constant fear of being taken for gay).

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          June 24, 2025 at 7:33 am | # | Reply Report comment

          And if they were still actually in denial about their attraction, I’d accept that, but they’re not. Dorothy’s openly admitted it. Joyce has decided she’d had sex with Dorothy and asked if she wanted to do it again.
          This isn’t just normal “good friends”, unless we’re using Jennifer’s “friends sometimes bang” argument – which we know exists only because she’s in massive bisexual denial.

          • Megan
            Megan
            June 24, 2025 at 10:45 am | # | Reply Report comment

            dorothy’s openly stated its a trauma response and thinks its not real, joyce verbally agreed with her, what comic are you reading

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              June 24, 2025 at 2:03 pm | # | Reply Report comment

              The one where they followed that up by agreeing to go “do laundry” and were only stopped by people being there already.

              This isn’t just normal friends behavior.

      • Thing2
        Thing2
        June 24, 2025 at 5:45 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Why?

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        June 24, 2025 at 6:36 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Oh geez, what a wild thing to get yourself upset about. Call me when they kiss.

      • Megan
        Megan
        June 24, 2025 at 10:43 am | # | Reply Report comment

        fellas is it cheating for two people at a protest to hold onto each other because they’re scared? seriously can’t believe they’d betray the menfolk this way.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        June 24, 2025 at 10:45 am | # | Reply Report comment

        It’s okay.

      • Nadamás
        Nadamás
        June 24, 2025 at 1:49 pm | # | Reply Report comment

        Fuckoff

    • Acher4
      Acher4
      June 24, 2025 at 3:57 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Same.

      I was all like.
      “OOOOOOOHHHHHHH our girls are hugging!!!!”

      Like roomates. 😛

    • RonF
      RonF
      June 24, 2025 at 9:07 am | # | Reply Report comment

      This is not uncommon among heterosexual adolescent girls in the U.S., and indeed in many other countries. I speak from years of experience in working with them in the Scouting program.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      June 25, 2025 at 12:04 am | # | Reply Report comment

      But that’s not the Hug of Lovers. But the Embrace of Fear. Like, feeling the imminent danger coming

  5. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    June 24, 2025 at 12:06 am | # | Reply Report comment

    I love Asma.

    I decidedly do not love colleges.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      June 24, 2025 at 12:10 am | # | Reply Report comment

      This isn’t what happens at a college, most days.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        June 24, 2025 at 12:12 am | # | Reply Report comment

        What happens at their worst still matters, and this sort of reaction has proved distressingly common.

      • DailyBrad
        DailyBrad
        June 24, 2025 at 12:23 am | # | Reply Report comment

        I don’t imagine that a sharpshooter is an omnipresent thing at colleges, no, but the response by multiple colleges to protests about the Gaza conflict have been excruciatingly poor, and nothing short of vengeful in many cases. Unsurprising, maybe, considering the history of things like the Kent State massacre and other similar retaliatory demonstrations on campuses to bring protestors to heel, but no less disgusting for it.

  6. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    June 24, 2025 at 12:07 am | # | Reply Report comment

    How many can Joyce teleport at one time. Asking for… someone.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      June 24, 2025 at 11:07 am | # | Reply Report comment

      she can only teleport to dorothy! who’s right there!

  7. Taffy
    Taffy
    June 24, 2025 at 12:09 am | # | Reply Report comment

    “Hey, don’t give money to people who are exploding schoolchildren.”
    “What’s that? Blow your fucking head off from a hundred meters away?”

    Like get a fuckin’ grip.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      June 24, 2025 at 6:37 am | # | Reply Report comment

      “Stop killing other people’s kids!”
      “Okay, we’ll kill our own young adults instead.”

  8. Kevin K
    Kevin K
    June 24, 2025 at 12:10 am | # | Reply Report comment

    I’m not American. Please complete my sentence: in America today, the police putting a sniper on a roof when there’s a protest is…

    (a) completely fucking ludicrous, (b) very unusual, (c) rare, (d) common

    Thank you.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      June 24, 2025 at 12:12 am | # | Reply Report comment

      A. Whatever the actual frequency is, it’s ludicrous.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      June 24, 2025 at 12:13 am | # | Reply Report comment

      They’re lucky there’s no drones with tear gas and helicopters.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      June 24, 2025 at 12:14 am | # | Reply Report comment

      They have police snipers at sports games now. It’s ludicrously common.

      • Kevin K
        Kevin K
        June 24, 2025 at 12:19 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Not sure if you’re trolling me.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          June 24, 2025 at 12:36 am | # | Reply Report comment

          Anything to stop the Broncos from winning a game.

          • Ray Radlein
            Ray Radlein
            June 24, 2025 at 12:56 am | # | Reply Report comment

            The Broncos have quarterbacks to prevent that from happening

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          June 24, 2025 at 12:47 am | # | Reply Report comment

          I really wish I was.

          • Clif
            Clif
            June 24, 2025 at 1:15 am | # | Reply Report comment

            https://www.distractify.com/p/why-are-there-snipers-at-football-games

        • Rosalyn
          Rosalyn
          June 24, 2025 at 1:10 am | # | Reply Report comment

          https://www.bosshunting.com.au/sport/superbowl-snipers-nest/

    • not someone else
      not someone else
      June 24, 2025 at 12:17 am | # | Reply Report comment

      I’m gonna say both A and secret answer C1 “rare but becoming more common over time”.

    • RocketRelm
      RocketRelm
      June 24, 2025 at 12:19 am | # | Reply Report comment

      At the time he wrote this, way back before the 2024 reelection of Trump, probably somewhere between A and B. Now that Americans en masse decided Trump isn’t objectionable and he’s back in power… it’s a lot closer to C slightly hedging on D.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      June 24, 2025 at 12:20 am | # | Reply Report comment

      You’re going to be extremely disappointed if you think this is exclusively a US thing, even if it’s certainly more precedented in the US.

      After the Munich massacre, the idea that sharpshooters could prevent escalation and worst-case outcomes became more popular, though in practice, I couldn’t tell you that I’ve seen a ton of cases where it was successful. I think it’s kind of a common theme that people would like the illusion of control by pinning their hopes on a “maybe” than accepting that they could be worsening the situation.

      • eh, whatever
        eh, whatever
        June 24, 2025 at 4:28 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Obviously I don’t know if snipers at big public events are common outside the US; snipers are supposed to be hidden and secret.

        Putting a “sniper” in a place where they can be seen, as an intimidation tactic, is limited to the US to the best of my knowledge.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          June 24, 2025 at 7:41 am | # | Reply Report comment

          But snipers being a known common thing at big public events changes things. It’s not “Oh my god, they’re set up to just massacre protesters”.

          I also wonder how much it’s an intimidation tactic and how much it’s just protests aren’t always in places with good sniper cover and protesters are watching for it more than crowds at other public events. Some of both probably, depending on the authorities involved.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      June 24, 2025 at 12:20 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Fucking ludicrous! Also, truly did happen during protests at IU last year. Doesn’t seem common at college protests– this and one from Ohio around the same time are the big ones that come up– but I don’t know how often it might happen for large protests overall.

    • AlexanderHammil
      AlexanderHammil
      June 24, 2025 at 12:23 am | # | Reply Report comment

      oh, wait until the police tanks roll up and they deploy the sonic cannons

    • EpochFlame
      EpochFlame
      June 24, 2025 at 12:25 am | # | Reply Report comment

      there was one during student union protests at my university pre-covid

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      June 24, 2025 at 12:25 am | # | Reply Report comment

      We had two at my high school graduation. 14 years ago.

      • Kevin K
        Kevin K
        June 24, 2025 at 12:34 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Of course you need two snipers in case one gets crazy and starts sniping people, they can be sniped by the other one. Totally reasonable.

        • StClair
          StClair
          June 24, 2025 at 1:09 am | # | Reply Report comment

          Quis custodiet ipsos cuBLAM

          • Nymph
            Nymph
            June 24, 2025 at 6:39 am | # | Reply Report comment

            Exactly lmao

    • Bash
      Bash
      June 24, 2025 at 1:47 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Common for a large protest. We saw them in LA recently. As another commenter pointed out, they’re supposed to prevent escalations like bomb threats and other worst-case scenarios.

      • Kevin K
        Kevin K
        June 24, 2025 at 12:20 pm | # | Reply Report comment

        Eventually, I suppose they’ll get replaced by AI-driven armed drones, which cost less and can target many people at once. The end goal being that each protester is tracked by their own drone, man-to-man defense style. In this way perfect security will be achieved.

    • Wraithy2773
      Wraithy2773
      June 24, 2025 at 1:48 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Absolutely ridiculous. But I wager the mentality by those in charge is basically “well, we really do need people up high in stationary positions to be able to fully monitor the protest, and they’re going to need something like binoculars anyway to look at potential problems, and well, at that point, I guess making them snipers with training for monitoring this sort of thing makes sense?”

      Again, its utterly ridiculous. But I wager people would be surprised (at the very least) just how many public events have snipers monitoring things.

      …and not just in America.

      • Wraithy2773
        Wraithy2773
        June 24, 2025 at 1:51 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Just did a google to confirm, and yeah, most sporting events? There’s snipers around. Its generally just become “we need snipers because there’s a serious risk of violence here” and more “we need snipers because its a big crowded event and if something goes wrong and a sniper could’ve solved it, we’ll get run through the ringer”.

        This post is not an endorsement of that.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          June 24, 2025 at 2:00 am | # | Reply Report comment

          Anyone who could genuinely endorse that paranoid nonsense, needs to be examined thoroughly for connections to violent extremist groups.

          • Charles Phipps
            Charles Phipps
            June 24, 2025 at 1:40 pm | # | Reply Report comment

            American law enforcement will always say antifa is a greater threat than white supremacist violence.

            You know, despite the former not existing and the latter responsible for everything from Oklahoma City to a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor to January 6th.

            • Proxiehunter
              Proxiehunter
              June 24, 2025 at 7:53 pm | # | Reply Report comment

              That’s because American law enforcement is one of the largest violent extremest groups responsible for white supremacist violence in the country.

      • RonF
        RonF
        June 24, 2025 at 9:04 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Yeah, you’re right. That IS utterly ridiculous. What’s far more likely is that someone figured out that a crowd like that is a tempting target for a mass shooter, so they’ve positioned a couple of snipers in case one shows up and starts shooting.

        • Charles Phipps
          Charles Phipps
          June 24, 2025 at 1:42 pm | # | Reply Report comment

          I mean, that would be a terrible position to stop a mass shooter. A police officer on the ground would be much better positioned. The sniper seems much more likely to intimidate protestors and fire into a crowd.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            June 24, 2025 at 2:05 pm | # | Reply Report comment

            How is an officer on the ground better positioned? Unless they happen to be right next the shooter.

            There are likely officers on the ground as well, though probably around the perimeter.

            • Charles Phipps
              Charles Phipps
              June 24, 2025 at 3:31 pm | # | Reply Report comment

              Because a sniper rifle is a weapon that is not very good at a moving target among a large crowd of civilians that would be panicking in an active shooter situation? Police on the ground would be able to be mobile.

    • jflb96
      jflb96
      June 24, 2025 at 2:01 am | # | Reply Report comment

      I mean, the Met’s been putting snipers on overwatch around sufficiently large public events for long enough that Four Lions could include them in the plot without needing any justification back in 2010, and that’s in the UK

    • Kyulen
      Kyulen
      June 24, 2025 at 3:03 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Unfortunately, it’s probably a lot more common than most people realize.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      June 24, 2025 at 7:58 am | # | Reply Report comment

      You forgot e) an affront to everyone’s civil liberties.

    • RonF
      RonF
      June 24, 2025 at 9:05 am | # | Reply Report comment

      D.

  9. Marvelman
    Marvelman
    June 24, 2025 at 12:12 am | # | Reply Report comment

    What is Joyce hoping to accomplish here? If Jocelyne is there it is because she chose to be there. What good does Joyce being at the protest do? I don’t think she has thought this through.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      June 24, 2025 at 12:14 am | # | Reply Report comment

      She hasn’t thought it through at all. The only thing she set out to accomplish was giving Jocelyn a message that could have absolutely waited. This was an impulsive act from the top to the bottom.

      • AlexanderHammil
        AlexanderHammil
        June 24, 2025 at 12:24 am | # | Reply Report comment

        it’s an act in solidarity with her sister, and impulsive or not, safe or not, it was absolutely the right thing to do

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          June 24, 2025 at 12:34 am | # | Reply Report comment

          I’m not the one questioning that.

      • Bryy
        Bryy
        June 24, 2025 at 12:27 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Not at all. She didn’t want her sister to get ambushed by her implied transphobic dad.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          June 24, 2025 at 12:34 am | # | Reply Report comment

          Yes, I read the comic too.

        • Buck Ripsnort
          Buck Ripsnort
          June 24, 2025 at 5:35 am | # | Reply Report comment

          Anybody wanna bet Willis has Joyce’s sister get shot because Drama and we can’t have nice things?

          • Astariel
            Astariel
            June 24, 2025 at 10:30 am | # | Reply Report comment

            Nah, there’s a preview panel of her having coffee with Dorothy in a few months (our time).

        • Astariel
          Astariel
          June 24, 2025 at 10:30 am | # | Reply Report comment

          It’s not at all clear from Hank’s message or the photo he sent that he clocked Jocelyne.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      June 24, 2025 at 12:15 am | # | Reply Report comment

      She wanted to warn Joss about Hank seeing her at the protest

      • Astariel
        Astariel
        June 24, 2025 at 10:31 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Why does that require a warning? What’s Hank going to do about it that’s so urgent it can’t wait?

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          June 24, 2025 at 2:40 pm | # | Reply Report comment

          He might get in his car and drive for four hours to…
          To, uh…
          I dunno, scold Jocelyne for protesting?

          The sense of urgency is pretty much entirely in Joyce’s head, on this one. She didn’t think it through, and now she’s put herself (and Dorothy) in an actually dangerous situation.

    • Amelie Wikström
      Amelie Wikström
      June 24, 2025 at 1:10 am | # | Reply Report comment

      She could have been thinking, Jocelyne will probably get arrested and then she’ll probably need dad to help, and after that text she (Joyce) had best figure out where Jocelyne stands with dad, without asking dad. Which probably seemed like a quick and straightforward task before seeing the protest up close.

  10. Dave Van Domelen
    Dave Van Domelen
    June 24, 2025 at 12:13 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Volume title: Did You Think First Semester Had Too Much Death? Oops!

  11. M!a
    M!a
    June 24, 2025 at 12:15 am | # | Reply Report comment

    I’m afraid to look up what U. Chicago is doing to its own students during The End of Days. Hard to get unfiltered news here, and unsure whether I really wanna know anyway. Maybe I’ll just cling to one last set of memories. Or illusions. Or something.

  12. M!a
    M!a
    June 24, 2025 at 12:19 am | # | Reply Report comment

    America: the country that white kids thought was America

    • eh, whatever
      eh, whatever
      June 24, 2025 at 4:34 am | # | Reply Report comment

      “Type 2 Eagleland: the country that white kids thought was Type 1 Eagleland”?

  13. True Survivor
    True Survivor
    June 24, 2025 at 12:19 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Ohhh so its not a grotesque, its just grotesque.

  14. Tequila Mockingbird
    Tequila Mockingbird
    June 24, 2025 at 12:21 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Wild how police enforcement is totally on lock to keep their eye on some peaceful teen protestors, but when it comes to stopping or even inconveniencing white supremacists, all you get is excuses and red tape. I’m sorry, did I say wild? I meant completely expected and typical.

    • Buck Ripsnort
      Buck Ripsnort
      June 24, 2025 at 5:37 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Republicans are like the Uvalde shooter; Democratic leadership is like the cops that didn’t go in because they “feared for their lives”.

  15. bitterroot
    bitterroot
    June 24, 2025 at 12:21 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Yep. BLM protests had white supremacist dipshits mishandling AR-15s pointed at demonstrators every day in my city. Scumbags.

  16. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    June 24, 2025 at 12:22 am | # | Reply Report comment

    I feel like this shouldn’t surprise Dorothy. She’s grown up in a post 9/11, post George W, world. Going through school in the first Trump term and the birth of MAGA fanaticism. She should be way more jaded.

    • Li
      Li
      June 24, 2025 at 1:38 am | # | Reply Report comment

      No, this is fully consistent with Dorothy’s characterization from the very start.

      She’s both sheltered and naive, almost as much as Joyce. Her progressive parents didn’t instill a ton of shame about sex or pressure her into any particular religious beliefs, but every other topic she’s ever expressed an opinion on has been like this: surprise about how many facets of the world suck.

    • jflb96
      jflb96
      June 24, 2025 at 1:58 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Her character was written to make sense for fifteen years ago, remember

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      June 24, 2025 at 2:01 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Apparently, Dorothy has grown up with parents who sheltered her and spoiled her sweet so she actually believed the Presidency was achievable and a noble pursuit.

  17. Rachel
    Rachel
    June 24, 2025 at 12:27 am | # | Reply Report comment

    I’m kinda disappointed that Willis chose to represent the college campus protests with a fictional atrocity in a fictional country. mainly because Mary being a Christian zionist (get all the Jews out of the USA) would be so fitting for her

    • IntangibleMatter
      IntangibleMatter
      June 24, 2025 at 12:40 am | # | Reply Report comment

      I think it makes sense because there’s more room for adjusting things as needed for the story. I have no doubts about Mary being a Christian Zionist, though.

      I also think it’s best that we don’t get the comment section filled up with people who have heard about “comic strip that doesn’t approve of the genocide in Palestine” and spam “antizionism = antisemitism” bullshit

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        June 24, 2025 at 12:50 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Yeah, we don’t need a repeat of that shit.

      • Azrael
        Azrael
        June 24, 2025 at 5:25 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Also, with the sliding time scale of the comic, in another 15 years they might be in the second year of college. There’ll be all new atrocities being committed by then I’m sure, in exciting new places. Using a fictionalized country keeps it from being dated; by then Palestine will probably not exist. I expect we’ll be stuck in a forever war in Iran though.

        • Wack'd
          Wack'd
          June 24, 2025 at 11:11 am | # | Reply Report comment

          israel has been genociding palestine for over 75 years. they are not finishing the job any time soon nor are they stopping. the sliding timescale would be just fine

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      June 24, 2025 at 1:06 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Dumbing of Age is 15 years old. A fictional event is one that doesn’t go out of continuity. It also doesn’t exploit RL tragedy for a coming of age dramedy’s characters.

  18. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    June 24, 2025 at 12:35 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Man, I’m glad I was just watching a TF2 video. That makes this feel… a little less depressing.

    But jesus christ, what the fuck is going on in the states that this doesn’t feel like much of a fictional scenario. I’m Canadian, and I’m not gonna claim my country’s handled the whole genocide in Palestine much better than the states have, but at least we’re not… so clearly authoritarian.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      June 24, 2025 at 12:36 am | # | Reply Report comment

      This is straight-up pulled from the headlines of events at IU last year.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      June 24, 2025 at 12:40 am | # | Reply Report comment

      What’s going on here? I’ll tell ya what’s goin’ on here. It’s a fuckin’ madhouse, the inmates run the show, and anyone who suggests we stop smearing human feces on the wall is getting boiled alive as a warning. This country lost the plot a long time ago, and everyone’s given up on pretending otherwise.

    • Armadillo
      Armadillo
      June 24, 2025 at 3:36 am | # | Reply Report comment

      That’s right, our country usually only deploys snipers if the Indigenous are protesting! Ahahaha… yeah we’ve definitely also got our fair share of problems up here.

  19. pdp15
    pdp15
    June 24, 2025 at 12:45 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Just hope the sniper isn’t Unity from Skin Horse.

  20. Icalasari
    Icalasari
    June 24, 2025 at 12:47 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Amazi-Girl has a sniper to take down, it seems

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      June 24, 2025 at 12:48 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Probably wouldn’t be hard for her, either.

  21. Taffy
    Taffy
    June 24, 2025 at 12:48 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Y’know, whatever with your fuckin’ sniper. Who’s gonna get shot, honestly? Asma? She’s about as much of a character as Buckets of Blood Guy. Jocelyne? Yeah, right, like Joyce is gonna have to watch her freshly-out sister get blasted. And I’ve already expressed my doubts that Joyce or Dorothy will get more than a black eye if this all goes to shit. So really, why should I be worried about some unportrayed dillhole with a gun I can’t even see? They’re all gonna be fine.

    • Nadamás
      Nadamás
      June 24, 2025 at 1:33 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Whatever you say

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        June 24, 2025 at 1:36 am | # | Reply Report comment

        You owe me $750, by the way.

        • Nadamás
          Nadamás
          June 24, 2025 at 1:45 am | # | Reply Report comment

          I don’t really fell like doing a bit today.

    • AMagicalDuck
      AMagicalDuck
      June 24, 2025 at 1:40 am | # | Reply Report comment

      This is a very weird thing to say

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        June 24, 2025 at 1:44 am | # | Reply Report comment

        No, it really isn’t, actually. It’s the same sentiment from yesterday, when I said I doubt the main characters are gonna get meaningfully harmed, just spread to the rest of the present cast. Why would it be weird to feel confident there won’t be serious harm done to these characters during this event?

        • Mara
          Mara
          June 24, 2025 at 2:31 am | # | Reply Report comment

          I’m sure they won’t, like, die – but get could still be seriously mentally harmed by witnessing physical harm to unnamed characters. Plot armour only gets you so far in this comic.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            June 24, 2025 at 3:25 am | # | Reply Report comment

            I think watching a nameless background extra die would be really boring, especially if it only happens so the important characters can be traumatized by it. It would feel cheap and unsatisfying to me, and I think Willis is a better writer than that anyhow.

            • Kyulen
              Kyulen
              June 24, 2025 at 3:34 am | # | Reply Report comment

              Even if it’s a student they don’t know very well, seeing that happen would still be pretty traumatizing for a lot of college students.

              • Taffy
                Taffy
                June 24, 2025 at 3:37 am | # | Reply Report comment

                That’s not something I’ve contested even once, though. I even included the words “the important characters can be traumatized by it”, which I assumed would imply I’m aware of that as a possibility.

          • Pergola
            Pergola
            June 24, 2025 at 10:25 am | # | Reply Report comment

            Look at the bright side — it could be Mary who gets shot.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      June 24, 2025 at 1:45 am | # | Reply Report comment

      This feels like it should be punctuated with a cinemasins ding.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        June 24, 2025 at 1:47 am | # | Reply Report comment

        That’s the meanest thing anyone’s ever said to me.

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      June 24, 2025 at 2:00 am | # | Reply Report comment

      I mean they killed Mike.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        June 24, 2025 at 2:17 am | # | Reply Report comment

        He was the most expendable of the main cast, is the thing about that. I’m looking at this from what I guess is an unusual angle. Of the non-Joyce, non-Dorothy characters, we’ve been told Asma and Jocelyne are here, and both of them are essentially background extras (though Jocelyne is on her way up).

        Killing off Asma wouldn’t impact the rest of cast beyond traumatizing whoever witnessed her death, and the same effect could be gained from any of the randos milling about. Even if she does die, there’s not much of a shake-up to be had from it, since she only ever affected the cast by handing them packages and being unimpressed with their antics. Most of them don’t even know her name.

        Jocelyne also feels pretty safe, stakes-wise. Narratively, she’s a step up from Asma in that she’s gone on a whole sidequest with Joyce and Becky, not to mention her direct connection with Joyce, being sisters and all. I can see some really juicy trauma for Joyce if Jocelyne dies. Stepping back from the in-story angle though, I’m not sure how well the audience would take a trans character showing up just to get killed for the sake of traumatizing the protagonist. And I wonder if that potential explosive response (claims of Fridging as far as the eye can see, for starters) is something the author wants to invoke on purpose.

        As for Joyce and Dorothy, if anyone thinks they’re in real peril, I have a bridge to sell ’em. Now, I’m not saying (and never have said) this event isn’t gonna get buckwild, but Mike’s death is about as harsh as I think things are gonna get for the main cast. Hell, it took Amber ages to even start processing her grief, and that’s after a massive time skip.

        • Zero
          Zero
          June 24, 2025 at 3:06 am | # | Reply Report comment

          Reading books is pointless, because you know the main character isn’t going to be murdered in the next sentence so why would you even bother reading it?

          “I know these characters aren’t going to die, because it is a story,” is not an interesting observation–and it’s not the same observation as “these characters are not in peril,” anyway, so you’re just wrong about that.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            June 24, 2025 at 3:20 am | # | Reply Report comment

            You’re the only one saying anything about “pointless”, here. That second paragraph has no relationship with anything I actually said, either. The bit about “because it’s a story” isn’t even my point. You just want to be upset and say I’m wrong, so you’re going out of your way to ignore the actual things I said. It’s worthless behavior.

          • Thing2
            Thing2
            June 24, 2025 at 5:40 am | # | Reply Report comment

            Your comment seems quite pointlessly unkind to me. I expect Taffy can cope with that, so it probably doesn’t even do any damage. But it looks like it was intended to. Which probably tells me something about you.

            • Starlight
              Starlight
              June 24, 2025 at 10:47 am | # | Reply Report comment

              The idea that you can read this exchange and think Zero is in the wrong is bizarre to me. At worst, they’re matching Taffy’s tone; it isn’t an unkind escalation, their criticism is accurate and appropriate, and importantly, it’s not personal – it’s aimed at the comment rather than the poster. Your response is none of those things.

              • Taffy
                Taffy
                June 24, 2025 at 2:23 pm | # | Reply Report comment

                The only part Zero got right about anything I said was “these characters are not in peril”. The rest is just nonsense they made up and blamed me for saying, when I wasn’t saying any of it. It’s not my responsibility for people to learn how to read what’s actually on the page instead of inventing points that weren’t made, and they need to stop acting like it is. My “tone” was fine from the start and a useless strawman extrapolation of it doesn’t actually match anything.

                • Zero
                  Zero
                  June 26, 2025 at 3:33 am | #

                  The only part I got right was the part you said was completely unrelated?

        • eh, whatever
          eh, whatever
          June 24, 2025 at 4:44 am | # | Reply Report comment

          He was the most expendable of the main cast

          Damnably, Willis hadn’t noticed Mike had become a main character.

        • Charles Phipps
          Charles Phipps
          June 24, 2025 at 1:33 pm | # | Reply Report comment

          I think killing off Asma would be horrific. She’s a source of many funny comics and I kind of hope Dumbing of Age has more justice than real life.

      • Proxiehunter
        Proxiehunter
        June 24, 2025 at 2:28 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Wish we’d kept Mike and killed Mary.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          June 24, 2025 at 2:29 am | # | Reply Report comment

          I know I say this every time, but Mary is sexier than Mike, so I’m glad she’s still around.

          • Nymph
            Nymph
            June 24, 2025 at 6:46 am | # | Reply Report comment

            Strongly disagree. Mike over Mary for me, but in my heart and the fanfic I don’t write, Mike is still alive.

            • Scolopendra
              Scolopendra
              June 24, 2025 at 11:50 am | # | Reply Report comment

              This thread is opening my eyes to hitherto unknown Mary/Mike possibilities.

    • Rebecca
      Rebecca
      June 24, 2025 at 2:01 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Yes, yes, we get it, you’re very clever and are aware of general plot conventions. Some of us are invested enough in the story to play along. If you aren’t, nobody’s holding a gun to your head to make you keep coming back.

    • Armadillo
      Armadillo
      June 24, 2025 at 3:45 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Yeah, all the characters here are either too expendable to matter or not expendable enough. I can see Jocelyne being potentially killed for drama at some point, but not this soon after coming out. Too much Joyce character development to milk out of that dynamic right now.

      Now I’m just trying to think if there’s a character that would be in danger if they went to the protest right now… Only one I can think of that doesn’t have some kind of plot armor is maybe Jason? The rest either have too much storyline going on right now or can’t be killed off without multiple other characters being drawn in for the drama.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        June 24, 2025 at 3:54 am | # | Reply Report comment

        I agree that Jason is pretty expendable, but the trouble with that is he hasn’t appeared in a while, and it’d be odd for him to randomly show up at this protest just to get deep-sixed. Jocelyne seems like she has too much storytelling potential to die, but I’m starting to wonder if maybe she winds up injured and in the hospital. That’d put her somewhere nearby for long enough to justify Joyce visiting her at least a few times.

        • SillyGoose
          SillyGoose
          June 24, 2025 at 5:19 am | # | Reply Report comment

          I certainly hope Asma does not get snipered, but I wouldn’t be surprised if her being there here and now was not just coincidence but, erm, Checkov’s Muslima.
          Willis loves to break our hearts with good writing though, so I fully expect him to be a dick either to a character or to values we care about. Or both.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      June 24, 2025 at 6:49 am | # | Reply Report comment

      I agree with this. I think it’s much more likely that Joyce and Dorothy will be in danger socially than physically. Getting arrested together, getting a picture of them kissing at the protest that goes viral, or just getting a lot more into issues outside their tiny lives and more into politics are all much more likely outcomes than “someone important dies”.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        June 24, 2025 at 9:20 am | # | Reply Report comment

        I hadn’t considered their inevitable gay kiss being captured in a photo. Now there’s some stakes.

      • Pergola
        Pergola
        June 24, 2025 at 10:30 am | # | Reply Report comment

        A news photo which Hank will see.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      June 24, 2025 at 8:01 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Also, from a different angle, while there’s a temptation to see the sniper as “Chekhov’s sniper”, that takes it well beyond even the reality of American protests. Protesters have been killed by cops, though rarely, but I don’t think there have been any cases of them just being sniped – either out of the blue or in a riot. Deaths and major injuries tend to be from the cops on the ground – usually using less than lethal weapons – tear gas canisters hitting someone, rubber bullets fired directly at the crowd, etc.
      The sniper might just be stage setting, to heighten tension. Doesn’t have to actually be used.
      It would also take this far beyond any parallel with the actual events at the Dunn Meadow Gaza protests – which did have a sniper and did have police violently clear the meadow and arrest a lot of people, but didn’t involve any fatalities or (iirc) any serious injuries. The likely bad end here is that our cast here gets arrested and roughed up, not that the sniper just murders them or murders someone else in front of them, just because they’re a cop and thus evil.

      And that’s bad enough, right?

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        June 24, 2025 at 9:24 am | # | Reply Report comment

        A night in a jail cell would definitely be an uncommon event for these kids. I’d rather see that than another death.

    • Icalasari
      Icalasari
      June 24, 2025 at 8:02 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Actually, I am betting pretty high odds that Jocelyne does get shot and this leads to her being outed to her father. And either Joyce shoves her out of the way to take it (and whoever takes it would at most get a fucked up shoulder out of it on the physical side of things) or Mary mocks Jocelyne and your avatar comes VEEERY close to coming true

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        June 24, 2025 at 8:46 am | # | Reply Report comment

        You could get essentially the same story arc with Jocelyne being arrested without being shot or by being shot by a riot cop with a rubber bullet or some other common police violence, while staying much more realistic than the sniper opening fire on the crowd.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        June 24, 2025 at 9:27 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Joyce having enough and finally strangling Mary against a wall, silent, her face expressionless.

        • Scolopendra
          Scolopendra
          June 24, 2025 at 11:51 am | # | Reply Report comment

          (cue Komm, Susser Tod)

    • Dave
      Dave
      June 24, 2025 at 8:36 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Ignoring for a moment that this is a boring way to evaluate fiction and really does not need to be repeated every single day: the sniper is there because they were there during last year’s college protests that this storyline is directly representing. The threat of violence from the sniper is literally more real than Blaine beating Toedad to death with a hammer, because they actually existed, and will continue to be more real even if no shots are fired.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        June 24, 2025 at 8:47 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Yes and no. The snipers were there, but it’s hard to say the threat of violence is more real based on that, since the snipers didn’t actually start murdering protesters. If you want to use parallel to real events to evaluate it, you’ve got to actually use the real events.

        • Dave
          Dave
          June 24, 2025 at 9:01 am | # | Reply Report comment

          What exactly do you think “threat” means? Like, if I hold a loaded gun to your temple but ultimately don’t shoot you, I still threatened you with violence. You could argue semantics over whether or not I actually intended to shoot but it wouldn’t matter, because the presence of the gun is 100% intended as a threat of violence even if it isn’t used.

          • Nadamás
            Nadamás
            June 24, 2025 at 1:44 pm | # | Reply Report comment

            Thejeff had just been really weird the last few strips about police violence in protest.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              June 24, 2025 at 2:25 pm | # | Reply Report comment

              And yeah, I’m being really weird about this in response to what I see as a wildly exaggerated idea of the risks of going to a protest. Police violence definitely can happen and is completely indefensible, but your chances of being killed or seriously injured at a protest still aren’t nearly as high as I think some are painting. Most protests aren’t war zones. You’re not taking your life in your hands by protesting, except in rare and pretty identifiable cases.

              And I think it’s counterproductive to exaggerate the dangers that way. Yeah, it makes the cops look even worse than they are, but it also discourages people from going out there.

              • Proxiehunter
                Proxiehunter
                June 24, 2025 at 8:05 pm | # | Reply Report comment

                I haven’t seen anybody (in this comment section since last time I said that I was wildly misinterpreted) saying the risk of attending a protest is high. People are saying the risks exist and should be prepared for and minimized when possible.

                The risk of my car being in a collision isn’t high but I still wear my seat belt. Your comments the past few days have sounded like you seeing people talking about how they always wear their seat belt and saying they’re over reacting and being in a car isn’t that dangerous.

                • thejeff
                  thejeff
                  June 24, 2025 at 8:45 pm | #

                  Difference in reading the tone I guess.

                  There’ve been multiple posts about who’s going to get shot. That’s where this particular subthread started.

                • Nadamás
                  Nadamás
                  June 24, 2025 at 11:55 pm | #

                  Because this is a story, and it is being the establishef that there is a sniper, in a protest referring very real world issues, it is an entirely reasonable worry.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            June 24, 2025 at 2:20 pm | # | Reply Report comment

            It’s potentially a threat of violence in the real world and is definitely perceived that way. (Though see other arguments here today for other reasons why snipers might be there.)

            I don’t think this sniper is a real threat to these fictional characters in the sense that I don’t think they’re going to be shot by them, both for narrative reasons as Taffy argues and for realism reasons because despite snipers at protests being real, random protesters being murdered by snipers isn’t.
            Being murdered by cops on the ground is possible, but still incredibly unlikely. Violence short of that is much more likely.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        June 24, 2025 at 2:35 pm | # | Reply Report comment

        “Ignoring for a moment that this is a boring way to evaluate fiction”
        What, from a structural angle? I’m weighing the likelihood of various outcomes and coming to the positive conclusion that Joyce and Dorothy aren’t likely to get seriously harmed. It’s a positive sentiment, an “I’m not worried for them, watch, they’ll be alright.”

        “And does not need to be repeated every single day”
        Which hasn’t happened. Why is this even part of the sentence? Why be a cop about things that aren’t happening?

        It’s very strange to me that a very entry-level story analysis, made with an understanding of the story in this comic, is getting any pushback at all. Taking the pieces that are there, looking at them together, using them to come to a positive conclusion about where the story seems likely to go, that’s normal. If it bores you and isn’t how you prefer to engage with literature, that’s 100% fine, but there’s no value whatsoever in trying to shut someone down just because you saw them doing it.

  22. furubatsu
    furubatsu
    June 24, 2025 at 12:48 am | # | Reply Report comment

    And remember kids, none of Dorothy or Joyce’s friends know that they are here! What could go wrong?

  23. Ghostforge
    Ghostforge
    June 24, 2025 at 12:55 am | # | Reply Report comment

    *plays Ohio by CSN on the hacked muzak*

    • Ray Radlein
      Ray Radlein
      June 24, 2025 at 12:59 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Always liked Devo’s cover of it, given that they were there at the time

  24. JA
    JA
    June 24, 2025 at 12:57 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Being rich and in a position of power must be so nice. Just change the rules on a whim or when someone does something you don’t like. Living above the law and accountability just because you can throw money at a problem until it goes away. Must be nice.

  25. Ray Radlein
    Ray Radlein
    June 24, 2025 at 12:58 am | # | Reply Report comment

    I am appropriately pleased with Dorothy for distinguishing between gargoyles and grotesques.

    • Andy
      Andy
      June 24, 2025 at 8:49 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Yes. That’s a nice call-back.

  26. Bogeywoman
    Bogeywoman
    June 24, 2025 at 1:03 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Who takes out the sniper:
    A. Amazi-girl superhero style
    B. Dina ninja style
    C. Charlie prank style
    D. Carla pie style
    E. Mike

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      June 24, 2025 at 1:05 am | # | Reply Report comment

      F. Norville by accident

    • Nullset
      Nullset
      June 24, 2025 at 1:07 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Mike murder suicide style off the roof again.

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      June 24, 2025 at 1:14 am | # | Reply Report comment

      A Carla-Charlie-Dina teamup. Dina makes them invisible; Charlie gets them up on the roof; Carla ties the sniper’s bootlaces together _and_ swaps out the actual sniper rifle with a looney-toons fake copy that splats a cream pie in the sniper’s face.

    • Amelie Wikström
      Amelie Wikström
      June 24, 2025 at 1:21 am | # | Reply Report comment

      For character development purposes it should be Carla. Maybe threatening to sue them.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      June 24, 2025 at 1:50 am | # | Reply Report comment

      E, but I’m afraid they will need a medium, or a Phoenix Down item.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        June 24, 2025 at 1:52 am | # | Reply Report comment

        If it’s something a Phoenix Down can fix, at least we know they’ll live. Silver linings and all.

    • Acher4
      Acher4
      June 24, 2025 at 3:54 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Mike is the sniper. 😛

    • RonF
      RonF
      June 24, 2025 at 8:59 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Why would anyone take out the sniper? He or she is there to defend the students AGAINST a shooter, not to shoot the students.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        June 24, 2025 at 9:33 am | # | Reply Report comment

        That’s a very funny joke.

      • Regret
        Regret
        June 24, 2025 at 11:45 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Are you unclear about what the word “sniper” means? They are literally a shooter. And they are literally aiming at the students because the only other people there are cops and the occasional random bystander and I don’t think they care enough about the random bystanders, and the police sniper definitely won’t be shooting at the cops.

        • RonF
          RonF
          June 25, 2025 at 10:05 am | # | Reply Report comment

          Right – a sniper is a shooter, there to take out anyone who starts shooting.

          “And they are literally aiming at the students ….”

          They are literally aiming at no one because right now in this story arc there is no one that represents a threat. Should someone represent a threat they will then aim at that person and shoot them.

      • Kyulen
        Kyulen
        June 24, 2025 at 4:48 pm | # | Reply Report comment

        Yes, because cops have such a great record of not shooting protesters. (not serious)

  27. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    June 24, 2025 at 1:40 am | # | Reply Report comment

    oh.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      June 24, 2025 at 1:51 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Yeah, it seems like things are gonna get a bit darker than usual, soon.

  28. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    June 24, 2025 at 1:52 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Now, I’m worried a little more about Asma, than Joyce and Dorothy.

  29. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    June 24, 2025 at 2:00 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Plot Twist: Asma is a Bulmerian sleeper agent who exists to turn the protest into a massive riot so public opinion can be turned against the oppressed minority.

    • Megan
      Megan
      June 24, 2025 at 10:52 am | # | Reply Report comment

      shut the fuck up, what the actual shit is wrong with you? making terrorist jokes about visibly muslim characters might be okay in whatever reddit you frequent, but in this circle we’re going to hit you with fucking bricks. eat galss

      • Scolopendra
        Scolopendra
        June 24, 2025 at 11:48 am | # | Reply Report comment

        It also smacks of antisemitic conspiracism to my ear, what with implying Israel would be manipulating protests to such elaborate ends. Two-for-one special. The bigotries tend to be linked.

        • Charles Phipps
          Charles Phipps
          June 24, 2025 at 1:22 pm | # | Reply Report comment

          I protested the Israeli genocide of Gaza. I also believe bad actors very much are employed by the police and United States to justify genocide and discredit counter-fascism. I don’t abide by the belief that criticism of Israel’s current party (especially Netanyahu) is Antisemitism and I don’t believe that Trump is above labeling nonviolent protests as terrorists.

          Asma is a fictional character and this is a dramedy comic. Real people should not be equated with them. Throwing around the kind of talking points of MAGA and fascist apologia here is not cool, especially to real posters.

          • Nadamás
            Nadamás
            June 24, 2025 at 1:38 pm | # | Reply Report comment

            Man you make a bad taste joke and people called you out on it, fuck off with this bullshit justification.

            • Charles Phipps
              Charles Phipps
              June 24, 2025 at 1:44 pm | # | Reply Report comment

              I fully admit it’s a bad joke born from a desire to think of this as a fictional over the top event and sadly not our reality. I have no desire to argue with people I agree with either when I live in the Deepest of the Red States in RL.

      • Thing2
        Thing2
        June 24, 2025 at 11:24 pm | # | Reply Report comment

        While replies unhappy with this comment are entirely reasonable, I think (as in my personal opinion) a response suggesting violent actions is not reasonable.

  30. Thing2
    Thing2
    June 24, 2025 at 2:10 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Congrats to those who called it.

  31. Zamperla
    Zamperla
    June 24, 2025 at 2:42 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Ah, universities. Don’t worry in like 10, 20 years they’ll celebrate this historic record of youth political activity. If I sound cynical, that is because; I am a Californian.

    • Amelie Wikström
      Amelie Wikström
      June 24, 2025 at 3:00 am | # | Reply Report comment

      “One day everyone will have always been against this” to quote a current book title.

      • SillyGoose
        SillyGoose
        June 24, 2025 at 5:25 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Thanks for the bringing this book to my attention. Do you recommend it?

        • Amelie Wikström
          Amelie Wikström
          June 24, 2025 at 7:12 am | # | Reply Report comment

          I haven’t read it but if you’re into political nonfiction about the current events it’s probably a future classic from what I’ve heard.

  32. Kyulen
    Kyulen
    June 24, 2025 at 3:05 am | # | Reply Report comment

    I knew I had very good reasons to be worried about Joyce and Dorothy going to this protest.

  33. Acher4
    Acher4
    June 24, 2025 at 3:53 am | # | Reply Report comment

    It’s weird how Willis wrote this a year and more ago, and these situations are literally happening right now in USA… and things are going to get worse. :O

    Willis… the time traveler? <.<
    Or an empathetic person with common sense that saw what was coming?

    I'll believe the time traveler angle for the time. 😛

    • Nadamás
      Nadamás
      June 24, 2025 at 3:59 am | # | Reply Report comment

      This happened last year with the gaza protests

    • Kyulen
      Kyulen
      June 24, 2025 at 5:24 am | # | Reply Report comment

      There were anti-genocide pro-Palestine protests happening on many college campuses last year. I’m assuming Willis was thinking of them, and particularly the protests at Indiana University in Bloomington where this comic is set, when he made these strips.

      • Kyulen
        Kyulen
        June 24, 2025 at 5:31 am | # | Reply Report comment

        In fact, there were protests at colleges and universities in almost every US state last year.

        • Charles Phipps
          Charles Phipps
          June 24, 2025 at 1:39 pm | # | Reply Report comment

          It’s a thing that gives me hope. People are standing up.

  34. chuckroast
    chuckroast
    June 24, 2025 at 4:04 am | # | Reply Report comment

    … Hey, hey alt-text? Don’t fucking say that!

    • Da Boy
      Da Boy
      June 24, 2025 at 4:06 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Oh, that’s not good.

    • Jdorr
      Jdorr
      June 24, 2025 at 3:11 pm | # | Reply Report comment

      *goes to recheck the alt text*

      I second “don’t say that”

  35. Da Boy
    Da Boy
    June 24, 2025 at 4:05 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Honestly, considering the crap that’s been happening in this school as of late, a sniper and police being super paranoid feels warranted.

    • Nadamás
      Nadamás
      June 24, 2025 at 4:46 am | # | Reply Report comment

      No

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      June 24, 2025 at 6:51 am | # | Reply Report comment

      “Considering the number of times campus police have failed to stop violent crimes being committed against their students, pointing guns at their students feels warranted.”

      Hmmmmmmmmmm…

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        June 24, 2025 at 8:21 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Most sadly, that’s the exact “logic” that modern “warrior cop” organizations use when faced with protests. They’re always prepared to escalate, while rarely prepared to de-escalate.

      • Da Boy
        Da Boy
        June 24, 2025 at 8:40 am | # | Reply Report comment

        Ah, right, I kind of forgot those are American cops.

    • Megan
      Megan
      June 24, 2025 at 10:53 am | # | Reply Report comment

      grow up

      • Da Boy
        Da Boy
        June 24, 2025 at 1:25 pm | # | Reply Report comment

        Way too old for that and I’ve seen too many terrorist attacks in the West not to appreciate the need for cops.

        • Megan
          Megan
          June 24, 2025 at 4:28 pm | # | Reply Report comment

          aren’t you pigs usually too busy shooting dogs and kidnapping babies to be reading webcomics? why are you here?

          • Da Boy
            Da Boy
            June 24, 2025 at 5:10 pm | # | Reply Report comment

            Not a cop, not even an American, taking a little break from frantically preparing for Russia invading us.

          • Thing2
            Thing2
            June 24, 2025 at 11:26 pm | # | Reply Report comment

            Megan, what is with this hate talk?

            • Megan
              Megan
              June 25, 2025 at 1:15 am | # | Reply Report comment

              When people are vocally supporting fascist regimes, it tends to piss people off, hope that helps

              • Da Boy
                Da Boy
                June 25, 2025 at 6:02 am | # | Reply Report comment

                Yeah because talking about how there might be a reason why cops are trying to secure a place for everyone’s safety because of past disasters is suddenly waving my arm in the air like certain Melon.

                • Megan
                  Megan
                  June 25, 2025 at 1:30 pm | #

                  Yes. It is. Yes, praising the police and saying that military opposition to peaceful, anti-war protests being deserved because of “everyone’s safety” while slyly removing people who think genocide is bad from “everyone” is a nazi dogwhistle. You don’t need to be throwing heils for people to clock you.

                  Being pro-police state is fascist. Trying to act like the police are aiding the common good instead of being violent, racist armed thugs used by the government to crush dissent and sow chaos makes you either incredibly stupid, unobservant, and pedantic, or it makes you a sympathizer. Cops are not your friend unless you’re a billionaire or a klan member. Pretending otherwise, when they have guns aimed at children, makes you sound like a nazi goon.

                  You don’t get to play ‘oh but sometimes’ in a comment section of a comic written by and for leftist queers. Bring this shit to our house and you will get called out for the rancid bullshit you spew. We are done being nice, our lives are on the line, millions of *other peoples* lives are on the line, and we’re done letting fash-apologists like you walk all over us and pretend everything’s fine. Pack up, go home, fuck off.

                • Da Boy
                  Da Boy
                  June 26, 2025 at 7:21 am | #

                  You are putting a lot of crap in my mouth that I didn’t make.

  36. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    June 24, 2025 at 4:18 am | # | Reply Report comment

    “Hey I’ve only been here for a few minutes, what’s going on?”

    – Lenny Dorothy and Joyce

  37. Joey
    Joey
    June 24, 2025 at 5:23 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Freshman year I worked the Front Desk at McNutt in the late ’90s and there was a group of girls that called me Center Desk Boy for all 4 years of college.
    Football Games, Yogi’s (where i worked more than McNUtt) Frat Parties. Center Desk Boy

  38. Axel
    Axel
    June 24, 2025 at 5:37 am | # | Reply Report comment

    I mean, there may not be a grotesque, but it’s pretty grotesque

  39. Alaric
    Alaric
    June 24, 2025 at 5:43 am | # | Reply Report comment

    It’s okay. If that’s Chekhov’s sniper, he probably left his rifle hanging on a wall somewhere.

    • Arianod
      Arianod
      June 24, 2025 at 6:01 am | # | Reply Report comment

      You’re right! I waw almost worried for a minute there ^^

  40. Thing2
    Thing2
    June 24, 2025 at 5:53 am | # | Reply Report comment

    The Relationship Paladins are gaining ground…

    • Kyulen
      Kyulen
      June 24, 2025 at 7:48 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Not nearly enough ground. We’ve been stuck at 42% for a couple days now.

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      June 24, 2025 at 8:19 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Ha HA! You’ll never catch up to us Sex Sickos! (aka, the Amberites)

    • Scolopendra
      Scolopendra
      June 24, 2025 at 11:39 am | # | Reply Report comment

      The poll agonizes me because I am a total yuri sicko, but only for complex, nuanced character arcs. I see and support Joyce/Dorothy, but we just haven’t had enough time with Joe/Joyce for me to be comfortable moving on. Break his heart if you have to, but it’s only been like 2-3 days!! There’s so much more character development that he and Joyce could do for each other, and she could still go for Dorothy after!

      Sadly I must lend my critical support to relationship paladins on this cause.

      • Scolopendra
        Scolopendra
        June 24, 2025 at 11:44 am | # | Reply Report comment

        It’s possible this storyline could win me back if they go off and have some very gay experiences together, and then the reveal is that Joyce doesn’t process any of this as real, and goes back to Joe while leaving Dorothy even more shattered than before. That is pretty much what it would take at this point.

        I’m that exact kind of sicko, but in a two-party system I gotta vote for the relationship paladins. The greater of two evils.

        • Bittersweet
          Bittersweet
          June 24, 2025 at 6:50 pm | # | Reply Report comment

          I don’t think Joyce would Dorothy Dorothy, but that would be funny in a very messed up and kind of problematic way if that happened.

    • Nadamás
      Nadamás
      June 24, 2025 at 1:33 pm | # | Reply Report comment

      The sickos fell a bit bad for them.

  41. Arianod
    Arianod
    June 24, 2025 at 6:00 am | # | Reply Report comment

    I don’t trust those trustees >_>

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      June 24, 2025 at 8:18 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Nowadays they’re mostly businesspeople. And profit-driven. Whereas colleges and universities are not intended to be profit-driven. The cultural and mindframe conflict causes more harm than good.

      • Proxiehunter
        Proxiehunter
        June 24, 2025 at 8:13 pm | # | Reply Report comment

        This is America, the land of the free (unless we can find a way to charge you for it) everything is intended to be profit driven. /s

  42. Juanoku
    Juanoku
    June 24, 2025 at 7:31 am | # | Reply Report comment

    i hoped it might just get played off but the alt text makes me more nervous

  43. Serendipity
    Serendipity
    June 24, 2025 at 8:19 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Please, please don’t hurt Jocelyne.

    • Wilde
      Wilde
      June 24, 2025 at 8:49 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Hoping Willis wouldn’t fridge the fan-beloved trans sister of the main character, just for some protagonist character growth, but I do believe someone may get hurt 😔

      • Charles Phipps
        Charles Phipps
        June 24, 2025 at 1:16 pm | # | Reply Report comment

        I feel like Joyce is a good character but can be replaced by her sister.

        So clearly she’ll be the martyr.

        (Joking! Joking!)

  44. RonF
    RonF
    June 24, 2025 at 8:57 am | # | Reply Report comment

    School shootings do happen, and a crowd of people you can count on being unarmed is a tempting target. A police sniper would be a useful thing to have around in case someone shows up with murderous intent to take advantage of that.

    • Serendipity
      Serendipity
      June 24, 2025 at 9:04 am | # | Reply Report comment

      100% not what they’re there for.

      • RonF
        RonF
        June 24, 2025 at 9:17 am | # | Reply Report comment

        What makes you say that?

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          June 24, 2025 at 9:32 am | # | Reply Report comment

          American cops aren’t there to prevent violence, only ever to perform or instigate it. I had a gun pointed at me while I was trying to commit suicide, last year. It was very confusing.

          • Mym
            Mym
            June 24, 2025 at 3:44 pm | # | Reply Report comment

            Jesus fucking Christ!!!! I’m so sorry you went through that!

            • Taffy
              Taffy
              June 24, 2025 at 3:53 pm | # | Reply Report comment

              Don’t be, it doesn’t really matter here except to help illustrate how trigger-happy and bloodthirsty our cops are.

        • Jerach
          Jerach
          June 24, 2025 at 11:51 am | # | Reply Report comment

          You don’t have police snipers around when there’s, say, a school sanctioned festival with snacks and games on campus drawing a big crowd to a particular spot.

    • Megan
      Megan
      June 24, 2025 at 10:55 am | # | Reply Report comment

      me when i’m 7 and think cops are the good guys

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      June 24, 2025 at 1:18 pm | # | Reply Report comment

      Introducing more guns to a situation rarely makes the options of getting shot less. I trust the police to more likely shoot innocents in the crowd (by accident let’s say) than to take out a crazy MAGA trying to spree kill protestors. Which is by far the most likely murder situation.

    • Thing2
      Thing2
      June 24, 2025 at 11:33 pm | # | Reply Report comment

      But can you cound on them being unarmed? Esp. if the police turn up armed? States that allow concealed carry could definitely end up with some protestors and some counter protestors armed, in a crowd, where feelings are running high. he very best was to start uncontrollable violence is to appear ready to meet violence with violence.

      • Thing2
        Thing2
        June 24, 2025 at 11:34 pm | # | Reply Report comment

        Well, shoulda proof read that before clicking on post, but you get my drift.

  45. RonF
    RonF
    June 24, 2025 at 9:17 am | # | Reply Report comment

    I presume Dunn Meadow is a large common space on the IU campus. As such it is there for everyone’s use, not just for one self-appointed group to commandeer for their own purposes for an indefinite period.

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      June 24, 2025 at 10:09 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Without dismissing your point, a protest is by nature meant to be disruptive so that people are forced to face the uncomfortable fact that the people are protesting.

      • RonF
        RonF
        June 25, 2025 at 10:07 am | # | Reply Report comment

        The First Amendment requires the government to defend people’s right to peaceably assemble. But government entities are permitted to set limits on how long a given group can monopolize public spaces rather than permitting the public at large to use that space. Generally, overnight encampments are banned in public spaces unless you get a permit from the location’s governing authority.

    • Megan
      Megan
      June 24, 2025 at 10:57 am | # | Reply Report comment

      dismissing your point, you need to find a moral compass that doesn’t point towards ‘nazi apologia’

      • Thing2
        Thing2
        June 24, 2025 at 11:37 pm | # | Reply Report comment

        Arguing with Ron’s point is one thing, (almost, but with plausible deniability) accusing Ron of being a Nazi apologist, looks pretty aggressive. Why the over the top reactions?

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      June 24, 2025 at 11:15 am | # | Reply Report comment

      i think if people prevent someone from hanging out in a meadow they should be shot

      • Regret
        Regret
        June 24, 2025 at 11:43 am | # | Reply Report comment

        “i think if people prevent someone from hanging out in a meadow they should be shot”
        Asking for the police, mayor, and government (the most likely to preventy someone from hanging out in a meadow) to get shot is calling for rebellion. I’m not saying I disagree, just clarifying what you just said.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          June 24, 2025 at 5:21 pm | # | Reply Report comment

          Rebellion is a good thing, when people with good ideas are being intimidated with the intent to silence them.

        • Wack'd
          Wack'd
          June 25, 2025 at 5:36 am | # | Reply Report comment

          are you

          are you really

    • Serendipity
      Serendipity
      June 24, 2025 at 11:26 am | # | Reply Report comment

      Right to assembly, falls under the 1st amendment. Please stop falling into the fascist ideology hole.

      • Charles Phipps
        Charles Phipps
        June 24, 2025 at 1:27 pm | # | Reply Report comment

        I also believe if it is illegal, that doesn’t make it wrong. Civil disobedience in the face of unjust laws is justified.

    • Regret
      Regret
      June 24, 2025 at 11:42 am | # | Reply Report comment

      What do you mean by commandeer? None of the protestors are keeping anyone else out anymore than a random jogger is – the only place they’re taking up is the physical space taken up by their body.

      If you mean the protestors you’re saying other people are only allowed to take up space as long as they don’t in any way inconvenience you, which is not what sharing space means.

    • Nadamás
      Nadamás
      June 24, 2025 at 1:32 pm | # | Reply Report comment

      Reporting, this is some weirdo stuff.

    • HungryHoosier
      HungryHoosier
      June 24, 2025 at 3:39 pm | # | Reply Report comment

      Dunn Meadow has a long history of being a protest site and free speech designated zone. You can read about it here in the Indiana Daily Student Newspaper: https://www.idsnews.com/article/2024/06/opinion-guest-column-dunn-meadow-protests-assembly-ground-israel-palestine-students-arrests-iu-bloomington

      Besides that, though, the 2024 pro-Palestine encampment really only took up half of the meadow. There was still a large area (closer to Indiana Ave) that was not occupied by protestors. Usual outdoor activities like students studying, playing volleyball, etc. continued there.

    • Mym
      Mym
      June 24, 2025 at 3:43 pm | # | Reply Report comment

      This comic is really bringing out the nazi lovers today

  46. thumb
    thumb
    June 24, 2025 at 10:38 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Chekov’s sniper goes home that evening after a completely peaceful and uneventful day, decides that he’s had enough of his horrible job and wants a career change, goes back to university, turns his life around, saves the entire cast from an attempted kidnapping/murder, takes a bullet in the chest and is sent to the hospital, DOES NOT DIE, realises a lot about himself, enters a loving relationship with his childhood best friend, winks at the camera, end of Dumbing of Age.
    (The sniper supplanted the main character in an homage to Roomies, btw)

  47. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    June 24, 2025 at 10:40 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Amazi-Girl appears behind the sniper and breaks the rifle in two rendering it unrepairable. She knocks out the guard and the sniper and ties the both up together back to back and uses their own handcuffs to prevent them from untying themselves.

  48. SvenTS
    SvenTS
    June 24, 2025 at 10:40 am | # | Reply Report comment

    I look forward to Chekov’s Amazi-Girl punting a sniper off the building.

  49. Pseudowolf
    Pseudowolf
    June 24, 2025 at 11:52 am | # | Reply Report comment

    A protest
    Fenced in
    A sniper on a roof
    I’ve seen Andor and now I’m VERY worried

  50. JC
    JC
    June 24, 2025 at 11:56 am | # | Reply Report comment

    Huge bonus for Dorothy’s self-correction.
    Grotesques are the statues. Gargoyles are the statues if they’re serving as downspouts/to direct water.

  51. Suet
    Suet
    June 24, 2025 at 1:10 pm | # | Reply Report comment

    we’ll ask about AG’s thoughts on firearms if we want to

  52. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    June 24, 2025 at 1:28 pm | # | Reply Report comment

    A friend compared the Andor massacre in Season 2 to a RL event. I was like, “It’s similar to hundreds of RL events from every nation on Earth throughout history.”

    • Proxiehunter
      Proxiehunter
      June 24, 2025 at 8:23 pm | # | Reply Report comment

      Yeah, but the writers likely only intended the scene to be an allegory to like 3 of them max. Maybe 4.

  53. BorkBorkBork
    BorkBorkBork
    June 24, 2025 at 2:23 pm | # | Reply Report comment

    So in the comic universe, it takes 24 hours worth of protests to get police to show up with fences, guns, and a sniper to face off the scary, scary protesters.

    In the “real life example,” it was after 100 consecutive days of camping out and protesting.

    Not that bringing a sniper out is really an appropriate response, unless you think there’s going to be actual armed resistance. But there’s a huge difference between a forced removal of a weekend protest, with like a day’s notice, compared to something that’s been up for over three months.

    I guess DoA’s police are just 100x more trigger happy than IRL police?

    • Nadamás
      Nadamás
      June 24, 2025 at 3:09 pm | # | Reply Report comment

      This is starting to get weird on your part.

      • BorkBorkBork
        BorkBorkBork
        June 24, 2025 at 4:24 pm | # | Reply Report comment

        It really doesn’t serve anyone to portray protests as this incredibly dangerous thing, except for the people who want to prevent protests from happening.

        I get it if you see that differently. There’s another mindset out there, that goes, “Why, if people can see just how much they fear us, and just how far they’re willing to go to put us down, then of COURSE they’d protest!”

        And that does get a certain type of person. That’s the same sort of person who sees the police getting ready, sees the sniper, and thinks, “Yes, that’s it, we’re provoking them, this is going to look so bad on TV.”

        That sentiment does embolden the people who are very upset and get them to commit. But it scares other people away. Joyce was practically looking for any way to affirm her sister and spend more time with her, but the thought of joining her never even crossed her mind. She and Dorothy right now would do ANYTHING to be away from this protest.

        Jocylene attended the protest. Her sister didn’t attend. Her friends didn’t attend. As we can tell from Carla and Charlie, many people on campus who aren’t attending believe the protestors are in the right. That’s a ton of people who otherwise could have been there that weren’t. Protests are led by people who are extremely passionate, but they are made stronger by numbers. And once there, surrounded by other like-minded people, you become passionate even if you were just kind of for it before.

        So yes. Especially now, when there’s so much out there to protest and so much to stand up for, it rubs me the wrong way that this is being portrayed as, not just more dangerous than it actually is, but that the characters just take it as a *given* that it’s more dangerous. Like “Ah, of course, the sniper’s in position, must mean it’s 4:00. Thank goodness I deleted my browsing history before I showed up, that would be so embarrassing for my parents to find.”

    • HungryHoosier
      HungryHoosier
      June 24, 2025 at 3:30 pm | # | Reply Report comment

      You’ve got the timeline wrong—the snipers, police presence, and arrests at IU all happened very early on while school was still in session in April. The encampment lasted 100 days total and was finally disbanded in August. Here is a retrospective article by the Indiana Daily Student Newspaper that also contains a lot of links to articles they published as the events occurred: https://www.idsnews.com/article/2025/05/encampment-iu-palestine-protest-one-year

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      June 24, 2025 at 3:36 pm | # | Reply Report comment

      Ignore the troll, you’re saying a lot that makes sense

      • Thing2
        Thing2
        June 24, 2025 at 11:42 pm | # | Reply Report comment

        I wish we would all ignore the troll!

    • Mym
      Mym
      June 24, 2025 at 3:42 pm | # | Reply Report comment

      Ferguson, 2014
      August 10: protests
      August 18: national guard

      That’s 8 days

    • Strawberry Tallcake
      Strawberry Tallcake
      June 24, 2025 at 4:04 pm | # | Reply Report comment

      I was there on IU Bloomington’s campus when it happened. The protests were going on for a couple of weeks beforehand, and the tents themselves were there for a few days. It wasn’t “100 consecutive days of camping out.”

      The time difference is clearly for narrative reasons — if he paced it realistically, it would take so long for the story to get there that the events wouldn’t be as fresh or relevant. (Willis was probably writing it into the story as it was happening.)

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      June 24, 2025 at 4:24 pm | # | Reply Report comment

      I don’t think that’s actually true for the Dunn Meadow protests.
      The rules were changed the day the protest began and the cops cleared the next day. Or maybe the same day?

      There might have been protests already, but not an encampment.

      Or am I being horribly misled by year old news stories?

      • BorkBorkBork
        BorkBorkBork
        June 24, 2025 at 5:00 pm | # | Reply Report comment

        According to this, the encampment was formed April 25th, the policy was written on July 29th, going into effect on August 1st, with the police clearing on August 2nd.

        https://www.idsnews.com/article/2024/08/iu-clears-pro-palestine-encampment-in-dunn-meadow

        I mean, I wasn’t watching this in the news at the time. I’m just looking it up after the fact. So my information is only as good as the news articles that I’m finding today.

        But the protestors were allowed there for 100 days, and apparently did about $100,000 worth of damage. In comparison, the protesters on today’s comic have been there for one night, and the campus has, in effect, called in SWAT.

        • BorkBorkBork
          BorkBorkBork
          June 24, 2025 at 5:12 pm | # | Reply Report comment

          Actually – doing more digging – what I posted above looks incomplete.

          Looks like there WAS a forced arrest and removal of some people on April 25th. https://www.aol.com/state-police-detain-pro-palestine-003552244.html

          So… then what happened altogether? Police broke it up, but then didn’t break it up? They arrested people for pitching tents, but then let them continue to keep their tents up?

          Somethings not making sense here.

          In any case, looks like I was wrong about how quickly force was assembled. Damn.

          • Yumi
            Yumi
            June 24, 2025 at 6:47 pm | # | Reply Report comment

            I’m not looking up that much about this specific protest, but sometimes what happens is that powers in place turn to force quickly, try to cut things right off, but then community or other people of influence are like, “Hey, whoa, what they’re doing is legal,” and then some of the force recedes until they can change the law to make what they don’t like illegal.

            Here, there are powers coming at this from different angles, including state police and the university leaders, who may want (or be pressured to) take different approaches.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              June 24, 2025 at 8:49 pm | # | Reply Report comment

              This leads to interesting possibilities from a narrative point of view. (And I’m sure Willis has a much better idea of what happened there than I do.)

              I was a little surprised this came to a head so quickly, since I expected it to be at least part an excuse to have Jocelyne hanging around campus for awhile, but if there was an initial crackdown, followed by a longer encampment, that lets us have the early dramatic moment, but still keep her around.

          • Tan
            Tan
            June 24, 2025 at 11:24 pm | # | Reply Report comment

            Also here is confirmation of police sniper(s) on April 25th and 26th specifically: https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/04/26/snipers-college-protests-gaza/

        • NickG
          NickG
          June 24, 2025 at 5:17 pm | # | Reply Report comment

          Jocelyn has been there one day. Do we know how long the protest in general has been going on?

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            June 24, 2025 at 5:19 pm | # | Reply Report comment

            That’s an interesting point. You should look back and find out.

    • Kyulen
      Kyulen
      June 24, 2025 at 4:42 pm | # | Reply Report comment

      In the real world, cops often show up within hours or even minutes after a protest starts. Especially if that protest could in any way be consider subversive to power structures, such as anti-war and anti-genocide protests.

    • Da Boy
      Da Boy
      June 24, 2025 at 5:30 pm | # | Reply Report comment

      Well keep in mind all the nonsense that happened here in the last half a year. Being overly cautious makes sense.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        June 24, 2025 at 5:49 pm | # | Reply Report comment

        There’s being overly cautious, and then there’s putting a sniper on a roof with the intent to intimidate people who are saying things you don’t like. The latter is what’s happening here. That loser with a gun isn’t there to stop another loser with a gun, it’s there to make the protesters afraid. There is no argument that justifies putting a sniper in place over a bunch of people just trying to be heard.

        • Da Boy
          Da Boy
          June 24, 2025 at 6:22 pm | # | Reply Report comment

          I guess yes and no? Like I get it, cops have a very bad reputation, often deservedly so. But at the same time, one maniac with a gun, a maniac with a knife, kidnappers. That’s a lot of nonsense to happen in such a short time in one place and with this kind of protest you are looking at potential maniac who disagrees with the protesters.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            June 24, 2025 at 6:28 pm | # | Reply Report comment

            That maniac who disagrees with the protesters is most likely to be the sniper or its boss, though. There’s nothing to be gained from treating cops like people.

            • Da Boy
              Da Boy
              June 24, 2025 at 6:36 pm | # | Reply Report comment

              Nope. Regimes usually fall when the security aparatus decides to side with the opposition. You gain nothing from giving them all the reason to stick with the current regime because they have no way out.

              • Taffy
                Taffy
                June 24, 2025 at 6:51 pm | # | Reply Report comment

                If one faggot saying they’re subhuman makes them feel like they have to be fashy murderers, they’d already made that decision.

          • Proxiehunter
            Proxiehunter
            June 24, 2025 at 8:28 pm | # | Reply Report comment

            Yeah, and that maniacs more likely to be on the fucking roof with a sniper rifle than shot at by the guy holding the sniper rifle.

          • PedanticJerkass
            PedanticJerkass
            June 25, 2025 at 12:06 am | # | Reply Report comment

            “with this kind of protest you are looking at potential maniac who disagrees with the protesters.”

            Yeah, and he’s up on the roof with a rifle right now.

  54. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    June 24, 2025 at 5:49 pm | # | Reply Report comment

    Crazy theory.

    Hank shows up to talk to Jocelyn and ends up taking a bullet for his daughter.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      June 24, 2025 at 6:55 pm | # | Reply Report comment

      Even crazier theory: It happens at night, Hank catches the bullet between his fingers, flicks it back directly into the gun, and reveals the sniper is a vampire and the Brown bloodline has been hunting them for centuries.

      • Florence
        Florence
        June 24, 2025 at 7:55 pm | # | Reply Report comment

        “Damn you Hank brown! You haven’t seen the last of the vampire robots!”*

        *see the comments section for ‘Saturday’ to get this reference
        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/book-15/04-the-only-exception/saturday/

  55. PedanticJerkass
    PedanticJerkass
    June 25, 2025 at 12:04 am | # | Reply Report comment

    I don’t know, Dorothy, a sniper on a rooftop at a college campus protest seems pretty damn grotesque to me.

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magdalene visaggio 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com ⋅ 14h
#mutualaid
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Hey! I'm incredibly humiliated to be doing this again in such a short span of time. I need to raise $5k to make a down payment on my rental arrears. We are paying our monthly rent, but we still owe a lot, and if we dont get it settled soon we're gonna lose our place. Venmo magdalene-visaggio
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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social ⋅ 16h
@smilingnodding.bsky.social

every new restaurant in every major city is either called Thistle+Thorn and thinks adding turmeric to brussel sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called
Burger Bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says
cole1.bsky.social's user avatarCole @cole1.bsky.social ⋅ 16h
the worst genre of burger place is now available on uber eats in our area
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 15h
Carlas and Joyces!
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X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Anyways, it is SUPERMAN week!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 19h
For June's second bonus strip, we see an AMAZI-GIRL moment concurrent with today's strip! Read this bonus strip and hundreds of previous at the Dumbing of Age Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/second... and remember you can always pledge up to read tomorrow's strip 👀
amazi-girl tackles a riot cop right behind asma
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 19h
If I have to learn Ditto is a foot tickling fetishist, then so do you
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Em @embienbi.bsky.social ⋅ 20h
You fifteen years ago: I know, I'll start a college comic. That's an experience that never changes. Classes, parties, relationships, it'll be easy. You now: well I guess I have to address that police brutality is part of the college experience. That's uh... Not great
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Dumbing of Age: "Cuffed" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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Cuffed
uh oh!  tomorrow's comic is viewable early on patreon!...
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
package grandpa-simpsoning in and out of and in and out of and in and out of and in and out of schiller park
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Mario Kart World hits my attention span just right. Why do I want to do the same lap 3 times in a row? Why can't all three-to-five laps be all different things who wants to drive in a circle mario kart world takes me places
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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social ⋅ 1y
Check out my new original character, Guy Around the Office Who's 100% Noticed That Clark Kent Is Superman
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Asking an elderly person to identify Yosemite Sam is a real dementia check question, especially if they respond with his voice actor.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
stop copying my story beats, luann!!!!!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
thinking about how that one gijoe message board site is called hisstank, for some reason
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Jack Dorsey working on Bluetooth messaging app, Bitchat
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Block CEO and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey wrote in an X post on Sunday night that he spent his weekend creating an app called Bitchat (presumably a
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Dumbing of Age: "More trouble" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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More trouble
you can read tomorrow's strip now on patreon, if you want...
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
i know the second patreon bonus strip of the month tends to drop on the 6th day of the following month, and it's now the 9th, but i gotta hold on to this one for at least one more day, for reasons
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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok
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Wineless Cat Mom @nicoleoking.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Real AF; I too would delay releasing new music for 8 years to avoid being trapped in a vehicle with James Corden
James Corden admits he
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
I am sincere when I say when lockdown happened and everyone decided to Go Onto Computer the majority of people didn’t have internet brainworm antibodies and now they’re the greatest marks known to man
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that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic
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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
tagging the bad Jeffries like is that asshole your brother lol
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Hasan Kwame Jeffries is not only Hakeem Jeffries' brother, he is also a history professor at Ohio State University — where he teaches classes on African-American, US, and civil rights history
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Hakeem Jeffries' brother endorses Zohran Mamdani ––>
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
don't tell walky, but i massaged him out of a joyce head
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
I ask this about Beetle Bailey every day.
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