this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026

92 points (70.4% liked)

Comic Strips

22053 readers

3054 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
Politeness.
AI-generated comics aren't allowed.
Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.

Web of links

!linuxmemes@lemmy.world: "I use Arch btw"
!memes@lemmy.world: memes (you don't say!)

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

lawrence@lemmy.world

Fencing (lemmy.world)

submitted 17 hours ago by nucomp@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

22 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 22 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 hours ago

This is political agitprop again, from a fresh account as usual.

[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 10 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

The sad irony is unwanted babies tend to grow up without the parental involvement and financial backing required to become a successful sports person.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

That hasn't been my experience. But all the pro athletes I know so MMA and Kick Boxing.

[+] Flax_vert@feddit.uk -8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, so we should murder people who don't have finances! More money for the billionaires, eh?

[–] nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Please explain how abortions mean more money for billionaires.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Because then there's less pressure for the state to pay proper welfare. I recently learned that the United States doesn't have guaranteed maternity leave! "Oh, we don't do maternity leave, just have an abortion" the illusion of choice in a world ruled by billionaires!

[–] nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

From a billionaire's perspective, more at risk children means more people to be exploited. There's a whole industry fed by cheap prison labor. Orphans who go through the prison system are incarcerated or arrested at nearly 50% much of which gets funneled into cheap labor.

It seems like you're not from the US, but it doesn't matter how many working class votes we have, many industries in this country thrive off of exploitation of people outside of the view of the general populace starting with slaves, continuing to indentured servants, and undocumented workers now. The next exploitable labor pool is the prison system, and children who would have been aborted are sent to foster care instead where they are funneled into the criminal justice system.

I'm not saying you should have an abortion just so the child doesn't potentially end up in jail, I'm just pointing out how the incentives to have a permanent underclass would actually support bans on abortion.

I'm wondering if you're maybe thinking of the book Freakonomics where they attribute the legalization of abortion with the drop in crime?

[–] IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 19 points 16 hours ago

So that's how Charlie survived the abortion!

[–] LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Seems more like a premise than a joke.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

OP appears to be another comic bot. A few hours old and posts nothing but a handful of comics.

Tons of these accounts have been cropping up since early January. A lot of the accounts delete themselves after a couple days. I have no idea what the goal is, but the comics these accounts post tend to be either really mediocre (like how this one is more of a premise than a joke) or purposefully have some sort of divisive content (often about gender).

I hope that the goal is just to get people engaged in the comments and grow Lemmy, but this being the internet I can't help but wonder if there's something more nefarious going on.

[–] IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 24 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The joke is the implication of what he's fencing in the womb.

[–] LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world -5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I got what they're going for, it's just that they stopped before they made it funny.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Humor is subjective

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world -4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Damn. This is 90% pathetic and the rest is cringe. This is like advanced boomer humor, but for idiots.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Check out OP's history

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world -4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Holy shit. They used three accounts to downvote all the comments I've made in the last day or so (all comments above the posts in my history). That's incredibly pathetic. Hahaha!

Edit: lol, 7 now. Like, what the fuck is this accomplishing?