Whats so confusing is how conservatives can say “don’t tread on me” then vote to ban abortion
or “join or die” then say ‘violence is never the answer’
It’s amazing how many Gadsden flags are next to Thin Blue Line flags.
“Don’t tread on me, unless you’re in the group of people who can kill citizens with impunity, then you do what you want because I’ve no critical thinking skills.”
I just want that snake. Is that some iconography I’ve missed? I have the rainbow gadsen on my range bag I want that one as well.
I was genuinely confused there, since I thought it was something that only conservatives used. Thanks for this
“I’m gonna mess with Texas” haha
If there isn’t at least some non-zero amount of tin-snips and turpentine, then the protest is a parade.
Coincidentally, Lowes is having a black friday on tin snips: https://www.lowes.com/pl/hand-tools/cutting-crimping-tools/tin-snips/on-sale/4294857583-2
Turpentine I can understand having for various reasons (lighting shit on fire, removing paint/ink/pepperspray), but what is the need for tin snips? cutting the zip-tie handcuffs used by riot police?
I think they’re for performing the vasectomies as alluded to in the second panel. I assumed the turps is for make-shift antiseptic.
OP just made it sound like they are needed for any type of protest or demonstration, so I assumed they had use beyond just reproductive rights marches. Plus, turpentine can be used as an antiseptic, but there are lots of less conspicuous antiseptics available.
I like your answer, too, though.
Tin snips?
Yeah, metal shears with a nice long handle to make cutting through hardened objects more easily.
And wouldn’t you know it but turpentine is an antiseptic and pain reliever…
I still don’t get it. My metal shears don’t open enough for anything but sheet metal, and they’re definitely not suitable for anything hardened. I get the feeling that the reference is about using them on people, but I don’t understand how.
The comic is about women’s reproductive rights and how righties want to take that away from them. The woman is suggesting the same be done to men, using the tools she mentions, with turpentine being the disinfectant.
Ok, so what’s with the turpentine?
Burning shit down to the ground. There have been many attacks on abortion clinics that included attempts and/or successful burning.
Or tinships? My only guess is castration and cauterizing the wound, but that’s an extreme shot in the dark.
It was a pretty crude way to castrate. It was done that way a few hundred years back. I’ve heard that expression before. The first time was when I was really young. The tin snips were very sharp the and the turpentine sealed the wound by chemically burning the flesh. I’m pretty sure its what they did to some pigs when I was very young. I know the pigs made a lot of noise.
Well I’m not expert - the only thing I’ve ever read about castrating pigs was in some novel in high school where a guy’s job was to tie the testicles off with string or twine and presumably after a while they fell off. Seemed pretty cringey to us all at the time.