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![[0043] The Rose Is A Bullet…](/comics/2009-03-19-[0043]-the-rose-is-a-bullet....png "[0043] The Rose Is A Bullet…")
The current story arc started with this strip: People Like You and Me.
- Woman: You can count yourself lucky that you have not yet had to experience the brutal persecution of exotic pet owners in our society.
- Sandra: Say what?
- Woman: It’s true! Just yesterday, the neighbor of my tiger pen called me a “crazy cat lady”. Can you believe it?!
- Caption: Meanwhile at 20°47’N, 97°02’E.
- Military officer: That’s what you get for opposing our discipline-flourishing democracy.
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Fantastic strip!
I’m a new reader just starting my way through the archives, and I love what I see! I usually don’t comment, but this one was so excellent I just had to say something. I really like that this comic doesn’t always feel the need to try to make everything “ha-ha” funny-sometimes things should just be left as they are.
*dives back in to the archives*
@ Novil:
I recently went to Mae Sot, Thailand (roughly 8 hours in a charter van from the Bangkok airport – but they have public night buses), which is ltierally a wade across from Burma, to do volunteer work. There’re plenty of NGOs there who work with Burmese migrants to help teach them life skills for both personal and community improvement for when they return to Burma. There’s also a political prisoner’s support org there with a museum. Perhaps you could go there and interview people (but obscure their faces and put the sound through a voice-scrambler) who are both legal and illegal migrants from burma. I worked with Burmese student/workers there on a playground building project and talked a lot with them. They’re a very spirited and optimistic people who strive for the better all the time. My best burmese friend there gave this quote when I asked him what his dream was. He said, “I want to be the richest man in Asia, so that I can show them [the youth] that it is possible.”
anyway, email me (it should be included in the comment section) if you want info on how to volunteer. =]
I don’t really see a connection. The animal that the lady has looks like an Ocelot or a similar small jungle cat, but Ocelots to my knowledge are not found in Burma.
@ dzamie:
No, whats happeneing is the old lady says “Atleast you haven’t experienced the pursecution of being an exotic pet owner.” The point of the last comic shows, what I assume is a persecution in burma which the author is supporting their freedom. It’s essentially showing how modern people see persecution while not realizing there are people like the man up top who face death for doing somthing we think is a birth right!
Well, I don’t know if this means anything to you, or even this strip. But somewhere I heard that receiving a black rose meant that you were on the mafia’s list… or something like that.
I can’t remember the details.
@ jamie:
Actually its in Mexico LOL near Tecolutla XD
… I understand it… I think… but I hope this wasn’t meant to be “funny”.
The rest of this little arc has been fairly lighthearted up to this point, then BLAM… a comparison to a guy being brought up before a firing squad. Just sorta feels like being ambushed with a surprise political brick out of nowhere. Mood whiplash extreme.
My mother used to do this to me from time to time…
Eventually I reminded her that if I didn’t give a damn about the mice that the cats chewed the legs off and tortured to death on a regular basis in front of us, that there was no way in hell I could give two hoots about some random human’s lesser suffering on the other side of the globe. She responded by buying “humane mousetraps”… crazy hippie that she is.
The actual point of the statement was that my personal baseline for suffering is NOT dependent on things well outside my range of experience.
Yes, I imagine if I had my legs blown off due to stepping on a landmine, my notion of “pain” would be recalibrated such that a stubbed finger wouldn’t bother me so much… but since I still have my legs and haven’t personally encountered landmines, I’m still going to be bothered by stubbed fingers… and no amount of random strangers elsewhere in the world stepping on landmines is going to change that.
@ Clint:
According to Google’s magic, it is attributed to Jaakko Uusitalo, who actually said “War is like a rose. It looks beautiful first, but when it bursts it is massive.”
Thanks so much man! Makes sense now
@ no space:
I thought the rose was referring to another event that happened in Vietnam, where a guy being held in prison wrote a poem about “flowers blooming on cold steel”
Alright, lets make this easy. We see Ye Thuza’s stepbrother being told “This is what he gets for ‘opposing democracy'” We see someone giving him a rose. The title is “The Rose is a Bullet”. Therefore he is being given a bullet. He is being shot. Was that so hard?
For a similar case of censorship, see XKCD What-If #98 and #105
Uh oh….is that Cloud’s mom’s sister’s husband?
Loaded those coordinates and it came out with a map of somewhere with Spanish names.
South America or somewhere like that?