this isn’t true people only fight with saxophones in the nyc subway
Alt right trash
Or I could pay $5,000 for shitty seats and see a UFC fight at the Whitehouse.
Pay $50,000 and you decide who wins the fight
The rest of the $497 is to not get shot by police’s bullets, shrapnel etc.
Damn the only thing unbelievable in this comic is the cost of riding the subway. Is it really that cheap?
Subway and most buses $2.90 a ride, and if you use the same payment method it has a maximum combined fare of $34 per week. That means that if you pay for 12 rides, any more rides are free within a 7 day period.
That’s not bad at all. I’ve only got buses around me: 2.50/ride with 90min to transfer to any other bus free. Buying two tickets in a day automatically becomes a day pass (unlimited rides for the day). Or there’s a 30day pass you can buy for $70
Then there’s discounts for students and seniors.
Careful, this comic author might figure out a way to make a new comic about how good public transportation is bad for society
and the PATH is $3
(for people that don’t live here, the path is basically another subway system that serves Manhattan and North Jersey.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(rail_system)
)
Dang that’s awesome. If I were in NY I feel like I would exceed that 12 ride limit & get free rides within the first day or two hahaha.
I used to live in Japan (in the rural north) and for a time I was also in Tokyo. Their public transportation infrastructure, while intimidating and maze-like (bullet/local trains, buses, the metro) I quickly fell in love how convenient and smoothly things ran. With a suica pass I would actually get on trains with no real destination just to enjoy the ride hahaha (and the a/c).
Eh. The only times I ever had trouble navigating Japan’s public transit were finding bus stops, Shinjuku Station, and one (actually two) random stations in between Kyoto and Osaka. Busses are shit the world around, Shinjuku Station is an eldritch horror that NOBODY can navigate, and Google to this day does not realize those are two different stations and they have a lot of duplicated named lines.
But yeah. People very much underestimate US public transit… inside cities (and on the East Coast). Most I have used take the approach that if you use one system enough times in a day/month (via a card or single credit card) it just auto-buys you an unlimited pass for that period.
I only know Shinjuku from anime/manga. When a certain arc gets animated, I expect it’ll be wild for a while. If the hype stays strong anyway.
Also remember that the subway is a flat fare no matter how long you ride. You can go from Coney Island to the Bronx on that $2.90. and back again. You only pay again if you exit.
All I see here is someone who doesn’t ride transit.
This feels like the scared, naive, suburbanite’s take on cities and public transit. Like, do you really think a system with 3 million daily riders has constant brawls?
Yeah, I ride it every day and I’ve never actually seen a fight in my car.
Constant brawls no, but I’d never say the NYC subways are boring.
I have had many, many, uneventful subway rides. Most of the time it’s just people sitting and/or standing quietly. Boring is a little more subjective- someone might find people watching interesting, but even then sometimes off-peak it can be sparsely populated. Sitting in quiet non-interaction for 25 minutes with an old lady reading, a middle aged guy dozing, and another person silently looking at their phone isn’t very exciting, but that’s a lot of rides.
Like, this is people’s daily commute. It’s not the warriors. It’s not whatever wacky video surfaced on youtube. Most of the time it’s just transit, and good transit is pretty boring.
I’ve only ridden NYC subways a few handfuls of times but I never saw anything strange 🤷
It’s a comic from WokelyCorrect. I’d be surprised if they even know how to ride transit.
I legit thought the name was satire, like The SoyPill on YouTube.
Wow, it turns out he’s actually serious. Jeez.
Drawing comics at night to fight wokeness
I thought it was a sarcastic comics regarding what’s happening in Washington :o
Is sound transit or the DC metro having lots of fights?
I was thinking of Trump deploying the national guard because he claims the city is a total mess / war zone.
Oof I didn’t even notice the author
I like making people laugh & I dislike Woke politics. So I made these comics for us to laugh at Woke politics together and push back against its stupidities. I will stop mocking when it leaves us alone.
Author seems to be an absolute idiot.
I gather that the 80s was a whole different scene in the NYC subway. Plenty of pics out there!
Only time I was there was in '92 and it was nice enough.
Yeah, I’m not old enough to have experienced the city in the 70s and 80s. I’ve heard stories but it’s hard to say how credible some of them are, but I believe the city is a lot nicer than it was back then.
Like, Bryant Park is a nice patch of green in Manhattan. They do yoga classes there. There’s a holiday market. People used to call it needle park because it had some a drug user problem.
Places change.
yeah, I’m also not quite old enough for that, but the modern conservative narrative would have you believe that most cities are actual warzones right now that are worse than the 80s. i imagine it was similar then. it’s hard to trust what people try to tell you about it anymore.
But the TV said it does! I better go get in my big emotional support truck and sit in traffic instead!
Gender affirming vehicle. Asphalt princess. Anyone got any more synonyms? I’m collecting them.
I prefer to call them Pavement Princess.
Helsinki subway is much, much smaller and this joke would work for it. Sometimes you see wild stuff in there
Coming soon to the front lawn of the highest elected official in the US
$50,000 ticket though for the real grift.
Throw $7 on the ground for a boost.
Dickshit MAGAt cowboy cartoonist think NYC is still in the 1970s.
He can go fuck himself.
I don’t remember actually seeing a fight in public transit in the US. Public schools, however… 👀 (There’s like a fight every day in my highschool)
ITT we fact check hyperbole before deciding whether it’s ideologically acceptable to declare it funny like a bunch of bitchasses
All I see here is a joke on absurd ticket prices & how to be thrifty. Touch grass.
Please learn better media literacy skills.
Please learn to not to be rigid & narrowminded to your way of seeing things like it’s the only way?
In light of this comment, please learn any media literacy skills.
That’s not an argument, bruh. You’re just telling me you don’t understand genres that aren’t meant to be treated seriously.
Also confirming your rigid, narrowminded inability accept that by claiming those who do accept that need literacy. In other words, cool projection.
But please, go on. Prove your 1 true irrefutable interpretation of this comic that isn’t built on shaky suppositions & wankery.
Why are you fixated on “taking seriously”?
“It’s just a joke bro” has never been an excuse for (for example) racism, sexism, and other poor behavior.
racism, sexism, and other poor behavior
Is there any of that here? No, so you’re reaching & pulling shit out your ass.
Point out what in the comic conveys a definite opinion/judgement/attitude/stance toward the depicted subject. Anyone can see no opinion is indicated: it’s nonjudgemental & leaves unspecified how you should feel.
The only judgements “there” are those you project onto the author apropos of nothing.
Is the author seriously claiming there’s a high incidence of brawls in the subway or posing other scientific assertions? Not necessarily: the comedic irony still works without that assumption.
Is Naked Gun claiming anything serious about police procedures & crime? Likewise, no, and I think we know that.
The judgement seems premature or poorly supported and somewhat masturbatory & contrived. It’s tedious. Ignoring basics of how these genres work is pretense.
Whenever I see contrived pretense like that I’m going to ridicule & criticize it.
Please don’t pretend the lack of argument is a valid one
I don’t really know what you mean by this
Do you treat Airplane!, Police Squad!, or Naked Gun as serious, scientific representations, too?
No, but I don’t think anyone is saying this comic is a serious scientific representation, either.
What do you think people are saying? Why do you think people don’t like this comic?
I don’t really know what you mean by this
“Please learn better media literacy skills.” is neither an argument nor a valid one. Cheap.
I don’t think anyone is saying this comic is a serious scientific representation
We have criticisms that the comic is propaganda that misrepresents the safety of subways (as if that were a real point).
Dickshit MAGAt cowboy cartoonist think NYC is still in the 1970s.
Like, do you really think a system with 3 million daily riders has constant brawls?
They also claim the word “woke” indicates a clear political orientation when it could go either way. The word could be used unironically, ironically, as a reclamation or reappropriation, derisively, self-critically. The comics shown don’t express an unambiguous political attitude or sentiment anyone can objectively pin down.
People really seem to be projecting & acting on wild takes.
Having ridden the subway for like 20 years, I’m a little pissed that I didn’t get any shows for my ticket price.
No showtime?
This is propaganda. The new York subways are safe.
Just go to a racist town in one of the southern states. Follow some cops around
