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Is this a sex thing?

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[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 40 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I vaguely recall that it was supposed to portray some blue collar, working class person.

I just randomly found this quote, it seems interesting:

If you visit the cartoon's elaborate Web site -- do pluggers have elaborate Web sites? -- you learn that "Pluggers" was not created by some working class hack, but by nothing less than a committee. Reading the site's voluminous background information, you learn that "Pluggers" was conceived in 1993 by a group of five middle-aged men, none of whom seems to have much in common with the proletariat they seek to depict. One is a successful entrepreneur. One is a TV sitcom writer. Another is the "former CEO of a major American company." MacNelly, who prepped at Phillips Academy, is the well-off, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune, who lives in the "rolling hills" of Virginia and collects antique cars. These people are Pluggers?

https://web.archive.org/web/20100721065413/http://www.salon.com/media/media960710.html

So I guess it's the whole right wing portrayal of working class people, as opposed to those city people??

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It cost you $0 to not post this. Instead, your electric bill has gone up.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

We don't need to use protection. Safety third uwu

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Jfc cursed.

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

Bloody hell, it's just a committee trying to cash in on legally distinct "you might be a redneck" cringe...jokes

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Maybe back in the 1910s lmao

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As a poor, I dress like a train driver from the 1880s.

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish I had the money for that kind of drip

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I used to wear a barrel with suspenders but saved my money and invested it in real $5 city clothes.

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been running around with the same newspaper over my crotch for the last 20 years

[–] astronot@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

I stole some old clothes out of a random basement with Mr. Spock, and then Joan Collins made out with me.

[–] stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I will believe that the artist of that strip is the only person to ever draw an anthropomorphic animal without wanting to fuck it until proven otherwise.

E: that is to say it’s a lot of things but I don’t think it’s a sex thing.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh there’s a liiiiiiittle bit of bear daddy going on here. Maybe not that the artist wanted to fuck them, but that they think that’s what honest, real women want to fuck.

[–] stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bear daddy isn’t real, it can’t hurt you.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

But what about Soviet Bear Mommy?

can he hug me?

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Bad News Berenstain Bears

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

red, white, and blue

Sounds Fr*nch to me

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

these colors don't run o7

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

All patriots are confused bloods or crips

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Pluggers aims to celebrate the simple, upstanding, stoic blue color types who form the backbone of this great country. But I’m guessing that it’s unintentional that the life of a Plugger is made by these little anecdotes to look suicidally depressing.

guessing it's not about unplugging your ethernet cable when you're losing

[–] musicpostingonly@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

pluggers are the same guys who drive dodge rams on 34" swampers and those adjustable aluminum receiver hitches to fetch their groceries.

pluggers are the guys who wear pressed khakhis, PFG shirts and Costa sunglasses.

republicans mostly, i guess.

[–] Xenomorph@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

Looks like a kink for people that like furry bears.

plugger deez nutzzzzz

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

biden-the-thing we got a lotta pluggers in Plaris

c'mon man

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

I think this might be the boomer version of "grill-pilled" if I had to hazard a guess.

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

someone is trying to make a thing