Comic 868: Randall learns political science

Alt-text: Also in the right quadrant are NFPA-compliant chemical manufacturers and Sir Charles Wheatstone. Sharing the top with the internet libertarians are Nate Silver and several politically-active kite designers.

You know what? I don’t care that this comic is a chart. A chart can be good if done right. I don’t even care if it’s lazy and easy to do, I would forgive it if it were insightful or funny.

Can I skip past the bit where I say this comic wasn’t funny or insightful? No? Okay.

This comic wasn’t funny or insightful. What the hell was this meant to be? A parody of Nolan diagrams? Perhaps if he were laughing at the fact that libertarians had made a diagram that puts their own beliefs at the top, I would accept it was parody, but this comic is devoid of any such commentary. Observational humour on the habits of internet libertarians, then? Seriously? That’s the best he’s got against them? Diamond-shaped diagrams?

Maybe I’m missing something here. I’m from the UK, you see. To me, baseball is cricket for people too stupid to understand why surprise chinaman googlies are useful against left-handed tailenders, and the word 'libertarian' translates to ‘bourgeois traitor who will ruin our glorious Health Service’. Thankfully the internet has at least made me aware of Republicans and Democrats. I know, for instance, that Bush was a strategically shaved hillbilly chimp repeatedly slamming a big, red ‘KILL FOREIGNERS’ button, and Obama is a Muslim Marxist Black Panther Antichrist with a false birth certificate.

But still I have questions. Do baseball fans actually use diamond-shaped diagrams? Do libertarians use any diamond-shaped diagrams other than Nolan charts, and do they use them a lot? Are Republicans and Democrats not allowed to like baseball? Are ‘Republican’, ‘Democrat’ and ‘Libertarian’ the only political opinions allowed over there?

Was ‘politically-active kite designers’ worth putting in there?

And isn’t the Nolan chart a fucking square anyway?

BINGO TIME!

And again so close! No-one was amused by The_Autodidact's hate? For shame, people! On the plus side,  there was a 'Rob is REALLY fat' joke before a 'Rob is fat' one! Wonders will never cease.