(OC) We Can Disagree And Still Be Friends
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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I like how the mask starts slipping in the second panel to foreshadow the third. It’s even creepier that the mask can still talk after falling off.
Love all the Easter eggs? What’s the tattoo last panel
Here’s a link to [a timelapse drawing video](https://youtu.be/ct269j0th18)Â for this cartoon!
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**TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON**
This cartoon has four panels, each of which shows two characters on a sidewalk. One is a man in a yellow polo shirt, the other a woman in a striped tank top.
**PANEL 1**
MAN: Why do you liberals make everything so personal? I know folks whose own kids have cut them off because they voted for Trump!
**PANEL 2**
The woman has stopped to face the man, and is listening with a little smile. The man is smiling and talking, but his face has begun to fall off, like a mask.
MAN: Sure, we’ve got political disagreements. But we shouldn’t let them stop us from being friends, right?”
**PANEL 3**
The man’s face falls off, and under it is a monstrous, open-mouthed creature. His speech balloon has a creepy, intense font. The man’s human face, still visible as it falls, is laughing.
MAN (monster face):Â Black illegals eating our dogs get out trannies are pedos fuck voting rights Sieg Heil
MAN (fallen face): Oops! Ha ha!
**PANEL 4**
The man pushes his face back into place. The woman is in shock, eyes wide and hands over mouth.
MAN: Anyhow, let’s not let politics come between us.
**CHICKEN FAT WATCH**
“Chicken fat” is unimportant details slipped into the art for fun.
Panel 1: Mickey Mouse, drawn in the style of “Steamboat Willie,” the first Mickey Mouse cartoon, is emerging from a hole in the ground, holding up a note that says “public domain ha ha!”
Panel 2: A gravestone in the background has “Floppy Disks 1971-2011” inscribed on it.
Tattoos: The woman has a tattoo on her bicep. In panel 1, it’s a tattoo of a nut (like at a hardware store). In panel 2, it’s a tattoo of a nut (a peanut). In panel 4, it’s a tattoo of Jerry Lewis as “The Nutty Professor.”
RIP floppy disks, we hardly knew ye
I actually forgot about the “they’re eating the dogs” thing. Fucking wild he got elected after that.
This is currently where I’m at with my own parents. Trying to decide how racist and deplorable Grandma and Grandpa can get before I stop exposing my 4yo to them. How long until I start having to explain their behavior to my daughter.
Half the time it’s not actually evil, but immaturity and laziness.
Inability to care or take responsibility or accountability for their beliefs. Often framed as private and personal. But that’s like saying, running a red light is a personal decision. Technically it is, and you CAN choose to do so. But if you do, you run the risk of running someone over, or, getting T-Boned. So yeah, exercise your right to “have an opinion” but sometimes those “beliefs” you think are so personal are anything but.
A former friend of mine told me that he didn’t think that I should be allowed to get married. Said it shouldn’t be called that. No longer my friend, especially after they ALSO voted to ban said marriage.
Friends treat each other as equals. I was not equal according to him and “separate but equal” was just fine for me, but not him. Their “political opinion” wasn’t something to be debated.
So no, framing things as “different political opinions” while failing to explain those “opinions” is quite disingenuous and wrong.
Yeah I’m not being friends with someone who legitimately votes against my rights.
I’ll agree to disagree on a lot of things.
Movies, video games, TV shows..
But if you think *this* is even remotely okay?
Don’t fucking speak to me.
We can disagree about pineapple on pizza and still be friends. We can’t disagree about whether certain people should have human rights and still be friends. I get where they’re coming from, but they don’t seem to understand what it means to the other side.
Maga desperately needs people to not to alienate them over politics because they know deep down they’d lose all the good people in their lives. It’s a real insecurity they broadcast pretty loudly.
Considering they’re getting their way with the country, being surrounded by people just as miserable as them is the least karma could do for these ugly monsters
I overheard a conversation with a guy who was talking about how his kids were brainwashed, and *two sentences later* he’s like, “people just have the same politics as the people in their immediate bubble, don’t they?” And it’s like dude, you were *just* talking about how your kids went against the grain in their family. So according to him, when liberal parents have liberal kids, they were brainwashed by their parents, but when conservative parents have liberal kids, they should listen to their parents more. Fortunately, the guy he was talking to was like, “but your kids turned out differently, didn’t they?”
Why do people think they’re so entitled to other people’s ftiendship? What happened to freedom of association?
This is genuinely terrifying
I feel this… Got a new coworker sitting next to my desk at work and she’s been so happy with Elon Musk and how much he and Trump have cut from our spending. In her words, we’ve been wasting our money by sending aid to other countries including fucking Ukraine. I was so angry. Ended the conversation quickly after that, but she sits next to me and tries chatting with me all the time like nothing is wrong. Technically, she hasn’t done anything wrong, so I can’t go to HR or the supervisors. But I can’t believe she doesn’t see the harm being done or even what Musk is saying and doing. I can’t stand her.
Damn Predators, coming down to the US and voting Republican
Guess it makes sense though , those views in black are the beliefs of one ugly motherfucker
“Whaaaat, just because I want your friends to literally die, and you to have less rights… dont mean you should be MEAN to me!!!!”
This is creepy as shit ngl good job
Public domain! Haha!
We didn’t change, they did.
Who TF was using floppy disks in 2011?
Aw, her little smile in panel 2, like she’s actually thinking that maybe she can salvage this friendship…
There are people who aren’t about politics that voted for Trump – they just did it and won’t make it their personality so you might never know
But the people making these arguements of “we can’t let politics come between us” are typically rabidly pro-Trump
Kinda feel a missed opportunity to slip in “your body my choice” given the genders, but that’s me being hypercritical and neurotic – great work as it stands. Updoot.
2011? That’s longer than I thought.
You nailed the creepiness, and I love all the small easter egg in each panels
Well said.
Were you a contributor on The Nib?
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Nah, not all people who voted for trump are like that, some are just dumb