Dickshit MAGAt cowboy cartoonist think NYC is still in the 1970s.
He can go fuck himself.
This is propaganda. The new York subways are safe.
Alt right trash
I don’t remember actually seeing a fight in public transit in the US. Public schools, however… 👀 (There’s like a fight every day in my highschool)
I seen some kids with a boom box doing some cool dances on the bart in SF
I went to wrestlemania 18 at the Toronto skydome, $75 for great mid seats. I stopped watching wrestling 20 years ago but I wanted to take my brother for old times sake, $400 for the same type of seats for a lower show. I don’t know how people afford to go to anything anymore. Going to a restaurant now costs as much as it used to cost to have a concert night
Consolidation in real-estate and the entertainment industry are why. In real-estate it leads to higher rents and mortgages, which for restaurants makes the location more expensive, but also the staff because they need to make rent as well. In entertainment it’s all just ticketmaster, which owns venues and the ticketing system. That makes them able to double dip on every ticket, since they can charge exorbitant rents for event locations, and also take IIRC a 30% fee on every ticket sold.
People pay thousands of dollars for shrink-wrapped copies of games I rented for $5 as a child. Alcohol use is down. Drug use is down. Pregnancy is down. All this other nonsense is way up.
Thousands…?
Other than a handful of ubercollectors when does that ever happen?
How are people upvoting this alt-right trash?
Here’s another comic by the same author
Thanks for the heads-up.
Too bad to hear about the author. I found the comic itself to be kind of funny in an absurd way.
But know that I know what his intentions are it is time to give the author the “stone toss” treatment.
Unconvinced: the commenter above showing yet another absurdist comic hasn’t proven shit to me.
Their claims could be true, but they need to argue more convincingly than that.
Read the comic name and the comic blurb and anything else on the origin website.
Right, that’s open to interpretation & freedom to conclude anything. There’s tremendous latitude here.
It’s nondeterminate to a particular conclusion. Make a coherent argument.
“Writing comics to fight wokeness” is pretty conclusive on their intent.
That’s not Trump… That’s… Giorno Giovanna?
That Trump comic is still kinda funny in a lolsob kind-of way. Like, I could imagine someone who does call themselves woke making it as well. It’s still saying a criminal got to be president, so…
A lot of humour is structurally the same for left and right (we’re all human, despite how inhuman the other can seem), it’s just a matter of how you meant it. A lefty making this joke might have an anti-consumer angle, while a
dipshitright wing comedian would be criticising public transit or probably just being racist.
Well, from my perspective:
- Comic is funny
- I have no context of who the author is or what the author did
- It makes me feel superior about the Hong Kong mass transit railway system /hj
I have no context of who the author is or what the author did
Their usage of “woke” in the name is a clue
Your ignorance shows. You’d have more luck catching a good fight at a redneck bar for free than on the NYC subway.
That’s funny, I used to live in Louisiana. I would occasionally go out drinking with my friends, and not one time did I ever not see at least one bar fight. And it didn’t matter what kind of bar or club it was, it always happened. It’s just a core part of society down there.
One time I was at a bar in Lake Charles and I was watching the “Malice in the Palace” which was a big fight during an NBA game where some players went into the stands and were punching fans. The TV was muted but I could still hear the sounds of the fighting; eventually it dawned on me how strange this was and I turned around to see a huge fight going on in the bar behind me with guys being thrown into tables and whatnot like an episode of Bonanza.
Deep south, born and raised. I always preferred a rough bar. Sit in the back smoking a cigar or pipe, sipping bourbon, and watch the show.
They tore down my first home bar and put up a gas station, I mourn the loss. It was great: bikers shooting up in the bathroom, fights all the time, drug deals, meth head drama, bikers selling moonshine outside. Had a hooker OD and show up dead in the parking lot.
Met a former roommate and lover there, had to chase her out of my house with a shotgun. She and her boyfriend started smoking meth in my house. Last I heard she went back to Georgia and is doing better.
Sucks, sometimes, that I had to quit drinking.
Sit in the back smoking a cigar or pipe, sipping bourbon, and watch the show.
I too found it enjoyable. Only time I ever got involved even accidentally was when two guys fighting slammed into the foosball table and pinned me between it and the wall. I took a handle to the nuts but not too badly.
I had a coworker who started doing MMA and taking steroids because he was tired of getting beaten up at the bars all the time. The only thing he achieved was to get beaten up by better fighters. I was like “dude, you could try just being polite to people like I do, or worst case you could just stop going to bars every night”.
Luckily, I haven’t been in a fist fight since highschool. But yeah, I never had much trouble, in bars, myself. Always polite, especially to bartenders and servers, tip well. I’ve hung out a lot with rough crew. Few times someone got shitty with me, pretty much half the bar would tell them to knock it off.
Long shot, but you run bingo in drag?
Ha ha no way! I only play bridge in drag …
Growing up in rural south Georgia, I knew folks that would proudly declare that they would rather fight than fuck.
Yeah did a little research
Using the available data, the rate of reported violent crime on the NYC subway in 2024 is approximately 0.79 violent crimes per million riders.
https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/pr0101/nypd-citywide-crime-statistics-march-first-quarter-2024
Perhaps the HK mass transit system is safer, but I’m guessing not by that much, considering the ridership and crime rates, especially because they don’t report specific crime rates for mass transit that I could find but rather generic crime statistics
https://www.censtatd.gov.hk/en/EIndexbySubject.html?scode=400&pcode=FA100161
Gotta love this comic with subtle tones that “public transportation is dangerous” and this comment with “Chinese public transportation isn’t dangerous.”
Safe as long as you agree with Winnie the Pooh and the CCP
光復香港， 時代革命。
作为喺廣州來嘅美籍華裔，我希望有一日，中國大陸，香港，澳門，得到都更多自由。
獨裁主義喺世界上好多嘅國家都受到獨裁思想嘅威脅，而家連美國嘅民主正在衰退，但我希望世界既人民能團結，一齊消滅所有獨裁政權。
消滅中共，消滅普京政權，消滅川普政權，民主萬歲！
100%, friend. We will never give in to dictators!
I miss 2019
I forgot a /hj on 3.
And of course I’m “ignorant” about the US railway system because I live in Hong Kong and not US
Chinese becoming more American all the time. Talking shit about things they know nothing.
Oh so it’s a requirement for us to know about US stuff to go online and not vice versa?
It’s not my fault that the internet is full of Americans. I’m merely contributing to the activeness of Lemmy.
This feels like the scared, naive, suburbanite’s take on cities and public transit. Like, do you really think a system with 3 million daily riders has constant brawls?
It’s a comic from WokelyCorrect. I’d be surprised if they even know how to ride transit.
I legit thought the name was satire, like The SoyPill on YouTube.
Wow, it turns out he’s actually serious. Jeez.
Oof I didn’t even notice the author
I like making people laugh & I dislike Woke politics. So I made these comics for us to laugh at Woke politics together and push back against its stupidities. I will stop mocking when it leaves us alone.
Author seems to be an absolute idiot.
Drawing comics at night to fight wokeness
I thought it was a sarcastic comics regarding what’s happening in Washington :o
Is sound transit or the DC metro having lots of fights?
But the TV said it does! I better go get in my big emotional support truck and sit in traffic instead!
Gender affirming vehicle. Asphalt princess. Anyone got any more synonyms? I’m collecting them.
I prefer to call them Pavement Princess.
Yeah, I ride it every day and I’ve never actually seen a fight in my car.
Constant brawls no, but I’d never say the NYC subways are boring.
I have had many, many, uneventful subway rides. Most of the time it’s just people sitting and/or standing quietly. Boring is a little more subjective- someone might find people watching interesting, but even then sometimes off-peak it can be sparsely populated. Sitting in quiet non-interaction for 25 minutes with an old lady reading, a middle aged guy dozing, and another person silently looking at their phone isn’t very exciting, but that’s a lot of rides.
Like, this is people’s daily commute. It’s not the warriors. It’s not whatever wacky video surfaced on youtube. Most of the time it’s just transit, and good transit is pretty boring.
I’ve only ridden NYC subways a few handfuls of times but I never saw anything strange 🤷
I gather that the 80s was a whole different scene in the NYC subway. Plenty of pics out there!
Only time I was there was in '92 and it was nice enough.
Yeah, I’m not old enough to have experienced the city in the 70s and 80s. I’ve heard stories but it’s hard to say how credible some of them are, but I believe the city is a lot nicer than it was back then.
Like, Bryant Park is a nice patch of green in Manhattan. They do yoga classes there. There’s a holiday market. People used to call it needle park because it had some a drug user problem.
Places change.
yeah, I’m also not quite old enough for that, but the modern conservative narrative would have you believe that most cities are actual warzones right now that are worse than the 80s. i imagine it was similar then. it’s hard to trust what people try to tell you about it anymore.
Helsinki subway is much, much smaller and this joke would work for it. Sometimes you see wild stuff in there
this isn’t true people only fight with saxophones in the nyc subway
Having ridden the subway for like 20 years, I’m a little pissed that I didn’t get any shows for my ticket price.
No showtime?
Damn the only thing unbelievable in this comic is the cost of riding the subway. Is it really that cheap?
Subway and most buses $2.90 a ride, and if you use the same payment method it has a maximum combined fare of $34 per week. That means that if you pay for 12 rides, any more rides are free within a 7 day period.
Dang that’s awesome. If I were in NY I feel like I would exceed that 12 ride limit & get free rides within the first day or two hahaha.
I used to live in Japan (in the rural north) and for a time I was also in Tokyo. Their public transportation infrastructure, while intimidating and maze-like (bullet/local trains, buses, the metro) I quickly fell in love how convenient and smoothly things ran. With a suica pass I would actually get on trains with no real destination just to enjoy the ride hahaha (and the a/c).
Also remember that the subway is a flat fare no matter how long you ride. You can go from Coney Island to the Bronx on that $2.90. and back again. You only pay again if you exit.
Eh. The only times I ever had trouble navigating Japan’s public transit were finding bus stops, Shinjuku Station, and one (actually two) random stations in between Kyoto and Osaka. Busses are shit the world around (and most of the highway buses double up with train stations where an attendant will gladly explain what random corner to stand in), Shinjuku Station is an eldritch horror that NOBODY can navigate, and Google to this day does not realize those are two different stations and they have a lot of duplicated named lines.
But yeah. People very much underestimate US public transit… inside cities (and on the East Coast). Most I have used take the approach that if you use one system enough times in a day/month (via a card or single credit card) it just auto-buys you an unlimited pass for that period.
I’ve stayed in Shinjuku for probably closer to two or three months than not over the past decade. LOVE the area and never have a problem finding my train no matter how out of it I am. But I have also NEVER managed to actually find the exit I want and invariably end up just exiting out to the street and walking around the station to get where I want to go. And locals I know have had similar complaints where they either luck out and their train drops them off in front of the exit they want or they just pretend they are going shopping before going home.
I only know Shinjuku from anime/manga. When a certain arc gets animated, I expect it’ll be wild for a while. If the hype stays strong anyway.
…
Shinjuku is a major business center and a major entertainment center. It also has a decent amount of shopping and residential areas related to all of the above. Kabukicho (a few streets in Shinjuku) is also a theme park at night with a lot of live music, food, bars, etc. Its also generally one hop from the major hub stations so it is a very popular and cost effective place to stay when traveling for leisure or business. And… Kabukicho is also one of the biggest red light districts in Tokyo if you walk like two blocks to the East of the boy band filming a music video in the square near the KFC.
Shinjuku is ALWAYS hopping.
Careful, this comic author might figure out a way to make a new comic about how good public transportation is bad for society
That’s not bad at all. I’ve only got buses around me: 2.50/ride with 90min to transfer to any other bus free. Buying two tickets in a day automatically becomes a day pass (unlimited rides for the day). Or there’s a 30day pass you can buy for $70
Then there’s discounts for students and seniors.
and the PATH is $3
(for people that don’t live here, the path is basically another subway system that serves Manhattan and North Jersey.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(rail_system)
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All I see here is someone who doesn’t ride transit.
ITT we fact check hyperbole before deciding whether it’s ideologically acceptable to declare it funny like a bunch of bitchasses
All I see here is a joke on absurd ticket prices & how to be thrifty. I don’t think we’re expected to treat the comic genre as scientific assertions on the incidence of brawls in the subway. Touch grass.
Please learn better media literacy skills.
Please don’t pretend the lack of argument is a valid one. Maybe work on narrowmindedness (assuming your interpretation is correct)? Maybe work on not reading more into shit than merited by the occasion?
Do you treat Airplane!, Police Squad!, or Naked Gun as serious, scientific representations, too?
Please don’t pretend the lack of argument is a valid one
I don’t really know what you mean by this
Do you treat Airplane!, Police Squad!, or Naked Gun as serious, scientific representations, too?
No, but I don’t think anyone is saying this comic is a serious scientific representation, either.
What do you think people are saying? Why do you think people don’t like this comic?
In light of this comment, please learn any media literacy skills.
That’s not an argument, bruh. You’re just telling me you don’t understand genres that aren’t meant to be treated seriously.
Also confirming your rigid, narrowminded inability to accept that by claiming those who do accept that need literacy. In other words, cool projection.
But please, go on. Prove your 1 true irrefutable interpretation of this comic that isn’t built on shaky suppositions & wankery.
Why are you fixated on “taking seriously”?
“It’s just a joke bro” has never been an excuse for (for example) racism, sexism, and other poor behavior.
Or I could pay $5,000 for shitty seats and see a UFC fight at the Whitehouse.
Pay $50,000 and you decide who wins the fight
Can I pick the fighters?
Throw $7 on the ground for a boost.
Coming soon to the front lawn of the highest elected official in the US
and hosted by the trashiest person, dana white, and a glorified bumfight association.
$50,000 ticket though for the real grift.
