Chariot racing in the Easter Roman Empire. Green team versus Blue team.
“Blue versus Green: Rocking the Byzantine Empire”
“But the two remaining teams were wildly popular in the Eastern, or Byzantine, Empire, which had its capital at Constantinople, and their supporters were as passionate as ever—so much so that they were frequently responsible for bloody riots.” – Smithsonian Magazine
If the Republicans were really smart. they would find a way to amend the second Amendment, to read: “The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.”
This is the zero-sum philosophy of politics. The only way a disenfranchised group can get a freedom, or a right, or justice is to take it away from YOU.
All conflicts – national, religious, gender, race, all of them – are manufactured by the 1% to distract us from the real conflict – class. If the rich guy up on the hill can convince us that we have a problem because our skintone, etc., is different, we’re less likely to get together and say “Let’s go up the hill, f*** him up, and take our share!”
“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” —Thomas Paine (1737-1809) American revolutionary, pamphleteer, and atheist
Asharah 10 days ago
Divide & conquer!
finzleftright 10 days ago
Start by creating what you’ll call the “second amendment”, but keep it vague!
Concretionist 10 days ago
Divide and conquer is an ancient recipe.
Jesy Bertz Premium Member 10 days ago
“I’ll give you my pitchfork when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!”
Ratkin 10 days ago
“Good advice, Donald.”
Zykoic 10 days ago
Chariot racing in the Easter Roman Empire. Green team versus Blue team.
“Blue versus Green: Rocking the Byzantine Empire”
“But the two remaining teams were wildly popular in the Eastern, or Byzantine, Empire, which had its capital at Constantinople, and their supporters were as passionate as ever—so much so that they were frequently responsible for bloody riots.” – Smithsonian Magazine
unfair.de 10 days ago
Oldest trick in The Book. Already used extensively by the Romans: „Divide et impera“.
Jayalexander 10 days ago
Sounds like the DNC platform, NAY IT IS THE DNC PLATFORM!!!
C 10 days ago
Divide and conquer
andrew5 9 days ago
“… that’s how the idle rich have kept their wealth for centuries. Divide and control”
Huckleberry Hiroshima 9 days ago
Well, as history shows from time to time, in the long run they will all want to remove you at some point.
William Bednar Premium Member 9 days ago
If the Republicans were really smart. they would find a way to amend the second Amendment, to read: “The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.”
dflak 9 days ago
This is the zero-sum philosophy of politics. The only way a disenfranchised group can get a freedom, or a right, or justice is to take it away from YOU.
Billavi Premium Member 9 days ago
I’m so lucky that my side doesn’t do this. It’s all that evil other side
mfrasca 9 days ago
“Cut the…country in half; my view is that we would have far the larger half.”
—Pat Buchanan, in a memo to Richard Nixon, 1971.
Ken Otwell 9 days ago
Uh… I have a copy of this meme from years ago.
Cerabooge 9 days ago
Can we get Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to attack each other?
morningglory73 Premium Member 9 days ago
Turn the people against each other and away from the REAL PROBLEM MAKER.
Saddenedby Premium Member 9 days ago
the plan of the ruling class since time began
b.john71 9 days ago
You’ll have to pry my pitchfork from my cold dead hands! LOL
drds2 9 days ago
Pit the vaccinated against the unvaccinated, and no one will notice what our leaders did …
It's Not Easy Bein' Me 9 days ago
Or you buy up all the news outlets, and preach all your disinformation!
Cozmik Cowboy 9 days ago
And there you have the truth.
All conflicts – national, religious, gender, race, all of them – are manufactured by the 1% to distract us from the real conflict – class. If the rich guy up on the hill can convince us that we have a problem because our skintone, etc., is different, we’re less likely to get together and say “Let’s go up the hill, f*** him up, and take our share!”
The Brooklyn Accent 9 days ago
“I can hire one-half the farmers of the United States to shoot the other half to death.”
—attributed to 19th century railroad magnate Jay Gould
PoodleGroomer 9 days ago
There was a guy that worked a torch into his pitchfork that was rejected by both sides.
Mel-T-Pass Premium Member 9 days ago
The ol’ “Lets you and him fight” gag.
RonBerg13 Premium Member 9 days ago
Never bring a pitchfork to a torch fight.
aaronenzor 9 days ago
This is a great comic. I found it on June 15, 2022. Nothing changes.
hubbard3188 9 days ago
Yup, divide and conquer.
mrwiskers 8 days ago
“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” —Thomas Paine (1737-1809) American revolutionary, pamphleteer, and atheist