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Performance indicator has been met

[a car jumps over a bunch of tied up characters, in front of a huge crowd]
THE BIG JUMP

[the car's driver is speaking, index finger in the air]
I once successfully jumped a car over ten orphans!

[the car's driver is still speaking, arms crossed, looking smug]
…while trying to jump over twenty of them

[the car's driver is celebrating with an evil grin, in a rain of confetti, surrounded by cheering people]

https://thebad.website/comic/performance_indicator_has_been_met

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Trust no one not even yourself

[two characters are talking]
Vaccines have saved millions of lives you know

[a blue character points at them proudly]
Heh, look at those idiots over there, they believe in the most obvious propaganda

[the blue character is shown doing various faces]
Anyway, did you know communism killed 100 million people?
I've seen that 20% of the people commit 80% of the crime
Our military keeps the world a safer place
Everyone starts with opportunities, you have to earn your place in society, work harder

[sixteen variations of the blue character are shown on a multicolored grid]
Crime is out of control and keeps getting worse
Men are natural leaders, women's nature is to nurture
Billionaires create jobs
Poor people just keep making bad decisions in life
Migrants are taking our jobs
Socialism is when we all share the same paycheck
If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear
If minimum wages go up, everyone will get fired, it's math
We brought modernity to the countries we colonized
The wage gap is a myth you're just looking at it wrong
Immigration mathematically causes crime
Developing countries are poor because of corruption
We are the good guys
If workers were worth more, they would be paid more
Universal healthcare is communism
Patriotism means supporting the troops

[a large drawing of a serious Garfield is surrounded by the infinitely repeating phrase]
YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA

https://thebad.website/comic/trust_no_one_not_even_yourself

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The irony trap

[below an IRONY ONLY sign, at a desk showing a dog about to be kicked, a yellow character reassures us]
Don't worry, it's all irony!
Here at the ironic dog kicker club we are just pretending to be dog kickers in order to mock real dog kickers

[a huge sign reads]
ONE YEAR LATER

[lots of different characters are shown smirking while kicking dogs, trash is all over the place]
Kick!
Pow!
Heheheheh
Totally ironic I swear
I love kicking dogs
Boomshaka
Yeah wreck those doggos
Kicky the doggy

[a character which looks suspiciously like the one in the first panel but sideways shrugs above a LIVE ANONYMOUS NARRATOR REACTION]
Wow, unexpected!

[a wall of text follows]

This comic is sponsored by the Anti Irony Club.

We take irony very seriously. If exposed to irony, immediately quarantine yourself and consume only sincere media until symptoms subside. Side effects of prolonged ironic exposure include accidentally cultivating the exact audience you claimed to be mocking, saying "based" unironically, and waking up one day to discover your community is now 95% composed of the people you insisted it was making fun of.

If you or a loved one has accidentally founded an ironic community, remain calm. Seek immediate assistance from your nearest licensed grass toucher and begin a strict twelve week rehabilitation program consisting of sane hobbies, sunlight exposure, and conversations that aren't buried under multiple layers of snark.

Together, we can build a blander tomorrow.

https://thebad.website/comic/the_irony_trap

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Withering

[behind a lectern, a slightly shady red character is giving a speech to a mixed crowd at the 1ST CONGRESS]
So uh… we've reached the next stage, the proletarian state is about to wither away now… any minute now, trust…

[behind a lectern, the same slightly shady red character is giving a speech to a mostly blue crowd at the 2ND CONGRESS]
Look it's happening any time now just give the proletarian state a little bit more power I swear it will wither away by itself…

[behind a lectern, the same slightly shady red character is giving a speech to a mostly yellow crowd at the 3RD CONGRESS]
So uhm… here's the plan, we strengthen even more the proletarian state, except this time it'll be different, okay?

[a miner is shown giving up and turning away, while another red miner is aggressively pushing forward towards a chamber with text in it]
FACT:
99% revolutionaries stop strengthening the proletarian state right before it withers away for good

https://thebad.website/comic/withering

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The human nature alibi

[a wide character looks smug with a wide smile]
Your ideology is wrong and can't work because "human nature" is to exploit others

[a thought bubble is connected to their head]
I really really want to exploit others, exploiting or being exploited is the only way I can picture society please God I play that you let me become an exploiter I dream of it every day

https://thebad.website/comic/the_human_nature_alibi

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The revolutionary spirit

[Kropotkin is looking at us with a loving smile hidden by his big bushy beard]
A revolution is more than the destruction of a political system. It implies the awakening of human intelligence, the increasing of the inventive spirit tenfold, a hundredfold; it is the dawn of a new science - the science of men like Laplace, Lamarck, Lavoisier. It is a revolution in the minds of men, more than in their institutions.

  • Peter Kropotkin
    The conquest of bread
    1982

https://thebad.website/comic/the_revolutionary_spirit

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Conflict of interest

[we are shown a trolley problem, except the trolley is headed towards a rail with a lot of people tied on it, while the other rail is clear of people, the person holding the lever is talking while looking neutral]
I could easily reroute this train so that it does not kill anybody but I bet a lot of money on that train hitting people so…
RIP my dudes :)

[one of the tied people is speaking]
say wallahi brother

https://thebad.website/comic/conflict_of_interest

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Kropotkin on home ownership

The house was not built by its owner. It was erected, decorated, and furnished by innumerable workers - in the timber yard, the brick field, and the workshop, toiling for dear life at minimum wage.

The money spent by the owner was not the product of his own toil. It was amassed, like all other riches, by paying the workers two-thirds or only a half of what was their due.

Moreover - and it is here that the enormity of the whole proceeding becomes most glaring - the house owes its actual value to the profit which the owner can make out of it. Now, this profit results from the fact that his house is built in a town possessing bridges, quays, and fine public buildings.

A house in certain parts of Paris may be valued at thousands of pounds sterling, not because thousands of pounds’ worth of labour have been expended on that particular house, but because it is in Paris; because for centuries workmen, artists, thinkers, and men of learning and letters have contributed to make Paris what it is today - a centre of industry, commerce, politics, art, and science; its streets are household words in foreign countries as well as at home; because it is the fruit of eighteen centuries of toil, the work of fifty generations of the whole French nation.

Who, then, can appropriate to himself the tiniest plot of ground, or the meanest building, without committing a flagrant injustice?

-Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread, 1892

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Insecurities

[a lime green character stares at us with a wide creepy smile]
Society feels too violent
We can solve this by militarizing the police

[a blue character stares at us with a wide creepy smile]
The world is getting too dangerous
Time to bomb some people

[a bright pink character stares at us with a wide creepy smile]
I just want everyone to feel safe
Except those people

[a grey character stares at us with a wide creepy smile]
I want a calmer society
That's why I support every policy that makes me panic

[a yellow character stares at us with a wide creepy smile]
Why does everything feel so tense these days?
Anyway, here's a list of "enemies" I want to see jailed

[an orange character stares at us with a wide creepy smile]
I live in constant fear
We should make that everyone else's problem

[a purple character stares at us with a wide creepy smile]
My number one concern is SAFETY
That's why I'm voting for the pro-war candidate

[a red character stares at us with a wide creepy smile]
BE AFRAID
Or we will give you reasons to be afraid

https://thebad.website/comic/insecurities

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Dangerous product names

[a TV screen is full of information]
LIVE
DEADLY SUPERMARKET MIXUP
SHOCK INVESTIGATION
HE THOUGHT HE WAS BUYING COOKING OIL
IT WAS MOTOR OIL
[a character is shown confusedly holding a bottle of motor oil with a skull on it]
LIVE REACTIONS
"This is outrageous" - Jennifer, 38
"We need to do something" - Mark, 62
"How could he have known" - Amy, 27
"What else are they lying about" - Kevin, 41
24/7 NEWS
SHOULD "MOTOR" OIL BE BANNED?
CONSUMER ALERT: AUTHORITIES CONSIDER NEW RULES TO PREVENT DANGEROUS LABEL CONFUSION

https://thebad.website/comic/dangerous_product_names

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