[a TV host speaks, paper in hand]
On today's show, we'll be discussing worker's rights and whether socialist policies could improve society.
To ensure a fair and balanced debate, we've invited a diverse panel of experts relevant to this topic…

[hands clasped, wearing a huge gold bitcoin chain and an obvious wig, a character smirks]
…first, Alexandre De La Bourgeoisie Royale, a self-made crypto-AI entrepreneur who works tirelessly every day from 5AM to 11PM and thinks the average worker is a lazy slob…

[a finger up, wearing rectangular glasses, a character in a brown suit is ready to argue]
…next, Neo L. Beral, a prized economist known for his essays Why We Should Raise The Retirement Age By Ten Years and Taxing The Rich Would Ruin The Country…

[arms crossed, wearing a red cap and a cross necklace, a character in a high visibility suit frowns]
…and finally, representing the workers themselves, John "Class Traitor" Mussolini, head of the beloved Christian Conservative Trade Union For Surrendering Your Rights.
Let's get started!

https://thebad.website/comic/standard_tv_debate

[an earthlike planet is floating in space]
The needlessly complicated real life planet:
- Too many biomes
- Annoyingly varied climates
- Distinct cultures??
- Multiple governments????
- No world capital??????

[an orange-brown bland planet is floating in space]
The humble sci-fi planet:
- SIMPLE
- One biome
- Unified climate
- Worldwide culture
- Planetary government
- Huge capital city

https://thebad.website/comic/planetary_essentialism

[an orange character is driving a bulldozer, facing a house]
I am going to bulldoze your house

[a yellow character is shocked]

[yellow asks politely, hands clasped]
Could you please not do that?

[orange, pushing the bulldozer's controls, answers]
NO!

[yellow walks away from their house, looking dismayed]
Well, I guess I tried to do everything I could
Too bad

[orange smiles smugly as they bulldoze yellow's house]

https://thebad.website/comic/respectable_resistance

[a character holds a lever connected to rails, on which a train is approaching fast]
A train is approaching fast…
Many people are tied to the tracks…
As a bystander, I can do only one thing in this current moment: flip a lever, which would send the train to another track where it would also kill people, but less of them

[next to another separate railway track, someone is trying to get the first character's attention]
Hey you, over there, look!
There is a third track here!
It is not connected to the other tracks, but there are zero people tied to it, so if you do not choose to send the train on this third track right now you are an evil genocide enabling liberal

https://thebad.website/comic/third_track

[an orange character is holding a sign, looking angry, on the sign is written]
PROTECT THE CHILDREN

[their clothes have text]
ABUVISE PARENT SHIRT
VOTED FOR A CHILD MOLESTER HAT

[a trophy sits next to them]
#1 HYPOCRITE
MY KIDS WON'T TALK TO ME EVER AGAIN TROPHY

https://thebad.website/comic/extremely_subtle_criticism_of_family_values

[self-portrait of the artist, a melancholic looking middle aged man with long hair and a short beard]

https://thebad.website/comic/selfportrait

[a character is pointing at and berating a strawman made to look like a stereotypical communist]
So, you're a communist right?
Okay then, solve every single problem in the world right now
Create the perfect society, we're watching, you have five minutes
Can't do it? Sounds like your silly ideology is whack then
Tankie!

https://thebad.website/comic/reasonable_request

[sitting in the middle of a dirty bedroom, a character speaks smugly]
If male privilege is real, then how come I, am man, am a total loser?
Checkmate foids

https://thebad.website/comic/privilege_debunker

[a study paper is shown, with some of the text legible]
STUDY RESULTS
GIVING POOR PEOPLE MONEY REDUCES CRIME MORE THAN GIVING COPS THAT SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY
CONCLUSION
If you want to reduce crime, take care of your community's primary needs instead of funding cops so much

[an orange character in a suit has stamped a paper labeled MORE POLICE FUNDING BILL, and is grinning]
Heh, you think we don't know?

https://thebad.website/comic/scientific_policing

[Wikipedia's logo is speaking to us]
Did you know Wikipedia is a truly neutral encyclopedia which strives hard to have zero ideological bias

[purple is browsing the Wikipedia page "Mass killings under communist states"]
Very informative page, I can't wait to learn more on this topic and the history of the world in general

[purple is asking a question]
So I'm assuming you've got similar articles for mass killings under capitalist, or fascist, or colonial states, right?

[Wikipedia's logo shrugs and gives us a cheeky grin]

https://thebad.website/comic/wpneutral_point_of_view

[orange points and screams at a terrified green]
By attacking her for her actions, you are leaving her NO CHOICE but to join the far right

[orange points and screams at a terrified green]
By simply existing with an ethnicity different from mine you are leaving me NO CHOICE other than joining the far right

https://thebad.website/comic/forced

[purple is choking green, an evil look on their face]
Step 1: You choke them

[purple is choking harder, green is visibly struggling]
Step 2: Keep choking, don't relent

[purple is still choking, green is gasping for air, looking dire]
Step 3: They gasp for air

[green has collapsed on the ground, is still gasping for air on all fours, while five characters including purple are pointing and laughing at green]
Step 4: Just let people be people…

https://thebad.website/comic/manufactured_weakness_embargo

[a chibi version of Germany is looking cute while wearing a military officer hat]
Hiyaaaa it's me chibi Germany!
Jawohl!!! :3
Das nyaa~~
You don't understand, I need more waepons!! Lots and lots of them!!
Look how big my little arsenal is getting!!! :D
I love my little NATO buddie!! We keep each other safe and never do anything bad ♡
Rearmament usually leads to wars? This time it'll be different don't worry uwu
The far right? Topping the polls? Don't be alarmist, they will never get access to the arsenal I'm building
One trillion weapons please hahahaha :3
It's defensive xD
Anyway, wanna see how many tanks I can make? :D

https://thebad.website/comic/germanychan_and_its_little_toys

[a blackboard contains the following text]
TEXTBOOK EXAMPLES OF CAPITALISM WORKING EXACTLY AS INTENDED

[a character with a briefcase is pointing at the blackboard using a stick]
And these are why we think capitalism isn't working anymore

[the character contains various labeled clothing items]
ECONOMIST HAT
INCREMENTAL REFORMIST SHIRT
MEANS OF PRODUCTION EXPERT BRIEFCASE

https://thebad.website/comic/capitalism_understander

[a character stretches saran wrap]

[they keep stretching and the saran wrap tears]

[the saran wrap is now a messy ball in their hand]

[the character rages]

https://thebad.website/comic/saran_wrap

[on a wall, a painting of a very poorly drawn square is hung, below a light and protected by a rope]

[pink seems underwhelmed]
I'm not a fan of this one specific drawing of a square

[purple points angrily at pink]
AH SO YOU'RE A SQUARE HATER
YOU HATE EVERYTHING SQUARE RELATED
YOU'RE THE ONE REASON SQUARES ARE SO HATED
EVERYTHING IS YOUR FAULT

https://thebad.website/comic/the_master_extrapolator

[Albert Einstein looks at us]
Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to the crippling of the social consciousness of individuals.
This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism.
I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy
Albert Einstein
Why Socialism?
1949

https://thebad.website/comic/the_crippling_of_individuals

[Vladimir Lenin looking pensive]
To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism.
Vladimir Lenin
The State and Revolution
1917

https://thebad.website/comic/bourgeois_parliamentarism

[a doctor looks distraught while giving someone bad news]
We are so so sorry…
The treatment failed
We tried our best, but your cancer is getting worse

[the person being given the news smiles smugly and replies]
Well you see, doctor, this individual example of a failure must mean that all cancer treatments fail and therefore we should stop treating cancer as a whole
I am very smart
Gotcha!

https://thebad.website/comic/terminal_defeatism

[Mark Fisher is looking in the distance, past us]
One of the left’s vices is its endless rehearsal of historical debates, its tendency to keep going over Kronstadt or the New Economic Policy rather than planning and organizing for a future that it really believes in.
The failure of previous forms of anti-capitalist political organization should not be a cause for despair, but what needs to be left behind is a certain romantic attachment to the politics of failure, to the comfortable position of a defeated marginality.
-Mark Fisher
Capitalist Realism
2009

https://thebad.website/comic/endless_rehearsal