JayDee

That wasn't my personal experience from the comment. I simply recognised it as anti-intellectual virtue signalling and didn't want that to go unchallenged. It just seemed very clear that the intent of your comment was to belittle those picking the comic apart.

Your original comment reads

DEAR LORD PEOPLE, SOMETIMES THERE IS NOT A DEEPER MESSAGE AND IT'S JUST A DUMB JOKE!

It's pretty blankly a thought terminating cliché without your later clarification, same as the noteable "The curtains were fucking blue" meme. Even with your clarification, you are now bringing up yet another one of the comics to try and show there is no deeper substance to find from these comics, which I disagree.

With most of these comics, the author does enjoy using absurd humor. But they do still have some grounding in real things. The first example you give is poking fun at taking the saying 'you can do anything you set your mind to' and the second is a joke about dual-businesses, with the premise being, generically, a business with one service that's normal and another service that's something almost no one is going to request.

There's still some interesting things within that you can get from looking closer at them, even when they're absurd by nature. Again, let people have their hobbies. Don't try to make people feel like fools for picking silly comics apart.

You can't fool me. If a sink was at my door, it'd knock.

The remaster has Nani attend University, leaving Lilo in the care of their neighbor whose known their family forever, Tūtū. She also has an alien teleporter that allows her to visit Lilo frequently.

The film seems to choose to use some fairly hand-wavy solutions at the end so that they don't have to compromise the happy ending with bittersweetness.

Like, I don't think anyone would say Nani made the wrong choice by fighting hard and making sacrifices to hang onto her little sister in the original film, even though that holds its own sad implications.

I also think that the backlash over this new script is fairly justified, since it completely erases all the consequences that any real person in Nani's situation would face for making the same decision. There will be feelings of abandonment if you surrender your position as primary caregiver, even when it's the right choice. The movie goes out of its way a bit to have its cake and eat it too.

Comfort him. Let him know that he's not a leper all of a sudden for having a moment of vulnerability. Listen. Make sure that they understand that they're heard.

These are pretty basic forms of emotional labor that go a long way in helping folks, and can even save lives at times.

You usually don't choose when you have a mental breakdown. The big thing here is that he crashed out and not a single one of his friends cared about his wellbeing enough to try and help. Just got told to go to a doctor.

Sounds like they're 11 naked cowboys short.

Are you under the impression that the US is the only country with meth? Literally every country mentioned has to deal with meth heads, I assure you. None of them gun those people down. It's a person having a medical emergency, not a rabid animal on the loose.

Sure, that's what satire is. A parody of something to criticise it. Often using clichés to ensure the subject is immediately identifiable.

This comic is a satire of militant atheists, because the author finds that militant atheists are insufferable and deserve to be made fun of, as the comic is doing. Why else would the author choose them specifically to satirize?

You chose those two comments to point at examples of unintellectual discussion. I am pointing out that they are not as unintellectual as you paint them to be. I don't strongly agree with what they are saying, but that does not immediately disqualify them from contributing from the conversation. Your comment was the only one calling for the termination of the pursuit of deeper meaning in the comic, which is an anti-intellectual stance.

It's not war crimes because it isn't war. It's the slaughter and starvation of a civilian population. It's genocide.

It's not exactly the only one. What do you think, $, %, &, @, and © classify as? They're all logographs.

That's somewhat my bad for taking the adversarial tone of your original comment to being serious and about all comments looking into the comic's unsaid meanings.

At the same time, though, the comic is 100% meant to make fun of militant atheists, as in atheists who make their whole personality atheism. The folks who's sole goal seemingly is to make everyone stop being religious. And the punchline is that despite achieving his goal, he only managed to make his mother's life worse by forcing her through an epiphany she wasn't ready for and then abandoning her with her own thoughts. The comic is partially funny because of it making fun of militant atheists. The other portion of the humor is the absurd nature of the situation.

The first comment you show takes that joke personally and the second resonates with that message. Neither of these are really off the mark, as grating as their tones may be to some.