Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 18, 2023

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    BasilBruce  over 1 year ago

    Never underestimate Paris Goat.

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    C  over 1 year ago

    Ya think?

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    BE THIS GUY  over 1 year ago

    I bet Goat felt great doing that.

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    salakfarm Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Nihilists Unite! er, uh well…

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    ronaldspence  over 1 year ago

    anarchy is only good when it doesn’t happen to me…

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    AlnicoV   over 1 year ago

    Sort of like revolution or civil war, the idea of anarchy is popular with those who have no idea what that would actually mean.

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Since the days of Sacco and Vanzetti, the Anarchists have been blamed for everything, and then turned out not to be guilty: Spanish civil war in the 30es, Italian bombing in the 60es and 70es are few examples.

    But I know that this is only a comic and there is no need to throw it into politics.

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    Robin Harwood  over 1 year ago

    That isn’t quite how Godwin, Proudhon, Kropotkin, or Baldelli visualised the anarchist society.

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    Radish the wordsmith  over 1 year ago

    Or you could move to Portland, Or.

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Goat! Goat! Goat!

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    Johnny Q Premium Member over 1 year ago

    The depressing thing is people destroying the easy targets and leaving the big ones alone…

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    einarbt  over 1 year ago

    One of the few times that Goat shows that s/he is not well informed, any other goats out there? Inform yourself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy

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    gbars70  over 1 year ago

    Well, that was out of character!

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    Cary Rodda Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Haha! Goat is the one using the bat for a change.

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    iggyman  over 1 year ago

    Rat got “outratted”!

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    Doug K  over 1 year ago

    Peaceful protests are great, too.

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    bignatefantic2.0  over 1 year ago

    Looks like Rat got a taste of his own medicine

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    eddi-TBH  over 1 year ago

    Rat just got head-bXtted by Goat and reality.

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    Ignatz Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Anarchy, Communism, Randian Objectivism. All philosophies that don’t work and can’t work because they ignore human nature. But some people keep believing they can work because a book says so.

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    TheWildSow  over 1 year ago

    The local Anarchists’ Picnic takes place near where I live every year. I always wonder how they organize it!

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    Troglodyte  over 1 year ago

    This must leave Rat feeling shattered!

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    Ellis97  over 1 year ago

    Maybe you might want to rethink your choice of stands, Rat.

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    Goat from PBS  over 1 year ago

    Ohhhhh, that felt sooooo good you would not believe.

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    Econ01  over 1 year ago

    I’ve always wondered how there could exist a universally recognized symbol for anarchy.

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    wirepunchr  over 1 year ago

    Rat that comes under the heading of No shït Sherlock .

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    colinmac2  over 1 year ago

    They’re proponents of anarchy with themselves in charge of it.

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    jel354  over 1 year ago

    Goat waited a long time to do that.

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    MS72  over 1 year ago

    A pitcher’s mound, a baseball bat, what comes next?

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    rossevrymn  over 1 year ago

    Maybe someone could direct this piece to Scott Stantis. He MIGHT learn something from it.

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    Masterskrain  over 1 year ago

    Funny how the people who favor Anarchy want to be the ones in charge of it…which is totally opposite to the reality OF Anarchy.

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    Steverino Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Revolutions typically don’t end well.

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    Tallguy  over 1 year ago

    Wow. Goat is my hero.

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    Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Early in the 21st Century there was an anarchist bookstore in MAD-hattan called Blackout Books. The store displayed of things that could NOT be done in the store. Think about it; anarchists OPPOSED to anarchy!

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    LaughterIsJoyMuliplied  over 1 year ago

    Well, that chicken came home to roost (with a THWACK).

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    prrdh  over 1 year ago

    “As the Englishman said to the anarchist, ‘Your freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins’.”

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    erick.robinson  over 1 year ago

    People don’t want ‘anarchy’ they just want justification for doing whatever they want and ignore any rule that gets in their way…

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    mindjob  over 1 year ago

    When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose

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    lonecat  over 1 year ago

    I’m in favor of a society in which (as much as possible) no person or institution has power over others. Such a society would be based on cooperation and community rather than command. I know we will never get there, but perhaps we can head that direction. Historically one of the roots of anarchist thought was a reaction against centralized socialism. The socialist part was fine, and most anarchists think of themselves as socialists, but the centralization was not so fine. Thus there was a split between anarchists and Marxists, who are centralizing socialists. The kind of anarchism I find interesting is based on analysis (as full as possible) of how power actually works in society. The centers of control are not just governments, but also churches, for instance, and of course there is the power of capital. Anarchism at its most interesting is really about the liberation of human ability so that it can flourish. I have a lot more to say on the topic, but I will leave it there for now.

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    Zebrastripes  over 1 year ago

    Yeah! That’s about it! Violence, destruction!

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    old_geek  over 1 year ago

    Of the Key family, Anne R. was the one that got all the attention, much to the consternation of her older sister Gertrude L.

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    txmystic  over 1 year ago

    Second panel has Office Space vibes…

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    wellis1947 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    In 2016 we elected a bigoted, narcissistic serial Liar who had, as one of his stated goals, the destruction of the “administrative state” – which is another way of saying “Anarchy” – he was not reelected and so did no complete his goal of destroying America and so introducing the anarchy required to meet his goals…

    He is now attempting to run again in order to complete the job either by himself or by means of one of his surrogates such as DeSantis, Haley, Pence, Scott, Youngkin, Christie, et al.

    The ENTIRE republican political party is now nothing more than a corrupt personality cult with no clear goal other than to destroy “the administrative state” (America) – there is no longer anyone left in the party that believes in “governance” in any meaningful way…

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    mwksix  over 1 year ago

    Would’ve thought Goat was a head-butter. Who’da thunk he’d use a bat!? You go, guy!

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    jsimpso1  over 1 year ago

    Well, Rat seems to have the soda straw arms and legs they all seem to display.

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    Snolep  over 1 year ago

    Sadly timely, with attack on Virginia congressman’s staff with baseball bat. Thankfully he didn’t have an assault rifle. ( though “guns don’t kill people”)

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    unfair.de  over 1 year ago

    Goat is so far off what Anachy means. That’s totally out of character. Goat ist far too educated to be a MAGAhatter.

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    198.23.5.11  over 1 year ago

    Goat hasn’t had his morning coffee yet

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    Michael Beeson Premium Member over 1 year ago

    My daughter once had a boyfriend who ran an anarchist bookstore. He told me some skinheads threw a firebomb into his store. “What did you do?” I asked him. “I called the fire department and the cops. They put the fire out and the skinheads in jail.” Unlike Pig, it didn’t make him re-think anything.

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    Foe  over 1 year ago

    GOAT USED VIOLENCE!!! (Sort of)

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    sojourner Premium Member over 1 year ago

    The perfect government is a theocracy. That will happen in the future when Christ takes the throne in Jerusalem.

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    Code the Enforcer  over 1 year ago

    If you think it – know it, live it – and show it! … Then you gotta Take It !! … :)

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    dlaemmerhirt999  over 1 year ago

    Huh. I didn’t see Goat as an anarchist, but it would make sense!XD

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    zeexenon  over 1 year ago

    Best left to the people, not the POTUS.

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    T...  over 1 year ago

    We are not amused. No comment.

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    blunebottle  over 1 year ago

    Yes! Post this everywhere! Isn’t Karma a b*tch?

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    cdward  over 1 year ago

    Anarchy is good when I get to be the only anarchist.

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    twagner003  over 1 year ago

    Many who espouse anarchy actually want to set themselves up as rulers.

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    dadoctah  over 1 year ago

    You can tell Rat is a non-conformist because he dresses just like all the other non-conformists.

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    willie_mctell  over 1 year ago

    OG anarchists believed in a society based on consensus and sharing.

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    MartinPerry1  over 1 year ago

    I categorize anarchy into two camps, depending on the people involved. In my preferred version, people would come together in a society that enables each individual. In the other version, we would have the old beggar-thy-neighbour idiom, in which it’s every man for himself. Of course, we kind of have that second type in the capitalist system we have now.

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    jfikse Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Isn’t Goat being ironic here? He isn’t an anarchist. He’s trying to teach Pig something.

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    Bruce1253  over 1 year ago

    This must be done in the right order – when the power of love is more important than the love of power, then, and only then, can you do away with most rules.

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    knight1192a  over 1 year ago

    Stopped too soon.

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    Arghhgarrr Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Anarchism at least as a political philosophy is not just doing whatever what one wants. True Anarchism means individuals rights and individual responsibility. Can’t have one with out the other but together it is a recipe for peaceful coexistence and a lack of governmental coercion.

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    mistercatworks  over 1 year ago

    Anarchy isn’t for everybody. It’s just for people who like to think the rules don’t apply to them. You want to live in the woods with that idea – fine. City anarchists mostly live in jails of one kind of another.

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    Jason Scarborough  over 1 year ago

    Nice to see Goat come out on top for a change

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  over 1 year ago

    All you would be revolutionaries, consider the consequences.

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    Sisyphos  over 1 year ago

    Surprisingly activated, Goat teaches a lesson in the reality of anarchy.

    Think it through, Rat: “what goes around, comes around”….

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    timinwsac Premium Member over 1 year ago

    We need more goats to come forward.

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    alikgator  over 1 year ago

    That’s not exactly how the movement works but..

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    tomevansphd  over 1 year ago

    History would disagree, in that, the Founding Fathers knew anarchy and a revolution were the solution! My two cents!

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    Silverspring18608  over 1 year ago

    Goat finally gets his revenge!

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    Swirls Before Pine  over 1 year ago

    Have we ever seen Goat’s teeth before?

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    Nick Danger  over 1 year ago

    But it was “mostly peaceful” destruction…

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    [Unnamed Reader - 089148]  over 1 year ago

    The people who despise anarchy the most are those who know least about it, including the otherwise appreciated author of this comic. In fact, anarchism is not the absence of rules, not at all. It is the equal right for everyone to participate in making the rules. If everyone has these rights, then no one is above the other, which is what the Greek word an-archein means. Nowadays, it would probably be called direct democracy. The comic strip reveals utter ignorance of the topic. Sorry, Stephan, but you should read Muehsam, Bakunin or Landauer before you get back on that.

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