[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

[A CIA agent sits below a map of an invasion plan for an unknown country, typing on their computer]
As a concerned citizen of Foreigna, Anti Corruption Law is a tyrannical infringement on our God-given right to grow chocolate for the Nestlé company.
Please withhold baby formula and malaria vaccines until conditions deteriorate enough for our citizens to overthrow President Progressive.
https://thebad.website/comic/grassroots_regime_change

[purple, a finger up, complaining]
A content creator has been accused of electrocuting his dog, this makes me very mad!
Animal abuse is where I draw the moral line!

[purple is now munching into a hamburger]
Now back to eating my burger from the animal mass murder factory

https://thebad.website/comic/drawing_the_line

[a cute grey cat is playing with a mouse toy, unaware of anything going on around it]
You cannot ragebait me

https://thebad.website/comic/you_cannot_ragebait_me

[a character is drinking dishwashing liquid]
This… tastes wrong

[the character drinks more dishwashing liquid]
The market knows best

[the character drinks even more dishwashing liquid]
Taxation is theft

[the character has finished the entire dishwashing liquid bottle]
Being poor is a choice

https://thebad.website/comic/dishwashing_liquid

[blue, shaking, in distress]
Help me!
I have been robbed!
I have lost all my belongings!

[yellow, a finger raised, looking smug]
Wrong.
Robbing is illegal.
It's impossible that you have been robbed.

[zoom on blue, who is looking blasé and emotionless]

https://thebad.website/comic/the_humble_legalist

[a blue character with a tall mouth is speaking, smugly]
Nice argument, however…
If I changed the conditions, then the outcome might change too!
Checkmate, air breathers

https://thebad.website/comic/the_least_annoying_thought_experimenter

[a hovel stands in front of a dry and empty looking field - in front of it, a red official points angrily at a disheveled peasant in tatters]
As a communist, you must pay your 100% tax on everything you own
Pay up !

[the peasant looks distressed]
Please, my fields have already been stripped bare, there's no more straw to give to the central committee
I must eat…

[a strawman of a communist official stands next to some text]
Deprived of straw, the country was unable to produce enough strawmen to feed the narratives about communism, and promptly collapsed
Another great failure for leftist political theory
This actually happened

https://thebad.website/comic/historical_strawterialism

[Thomas à Kempis, wearing a cloak and a fur coat, looks at us with a smile in his eyes]
I have looked for rest everywhere,
but nowhere have I found it
except in a little corner
with a book

https://thebad.website/comic/with_a_book

[a creepy orange character smiles absent mindedly]

"Actually the guns exist to defend yourself against a tyrannical government" mfers when I ask them to actually defend us against the actual tyrannical government

https://thebad.website/comic/bro_left_freedom_on_read

[a character smiles while saying]
So I went to protest against…

[and gets loudly interrupted by another character]
BRO DOESN'T VOTE

[a character smiles while saying]
So I went to t(?) and voted for…

[and gets loudly interrupted by another character]
BRO DOESN'T DO ACTIVITSM

[zoom on the exasperated face of the character that keeps getting interrupted]

https://thebad.website/comic/diversity_of_means

[purple, happy]
You know how sometimes you don't want to keep consuming media after finding out who wrote it?

[blue, a finger raised]
Sure, people would say you're having a hard time separating the art from the artist

[purple, distraught]
Well the other day I was reading this book called "Mein Kampf" which was alright, then I looked up the author's bio on Wikipedia and… damn

[blue, blasé]
...

https://thebad.website/comic/advanced_media_literacy

[yellow, a finger up, looking smug]
The answer to oppression is NEVER violence
Turn the other cheek
Pacifism always wins
You could earn rights by asking nicely instead

[yellow, proudly showing us a huge book]
Don't believe me?
Open a history book!

[yellow, looking frustrated as they are shuffling through the book's pages]
Ok so…
Uhm…
Not this page…
Wait…
The next one…
Awkward…
Another…
Yeah but…
For sure this time…

[yellow, sweating, protecting their book, a hand raised towards us]
Can you stop looking?
You're being rude
That's my book

https://thebad.website/comic/please_resist_responsibly

[orange, proud]
We built a machine that can answer ANY question

[green, curious]
Cool, how does it work?

[orange points at a conveyor belt on which children are sitting, which leads to a creepy machine]
First, you feed it a few orphans (it's important that they're still alive)

[orange points at the other end of the machine, which is producing a document]
Then it grinds them up into fuel for the machine and provides you with the answer to your question

[orange, to green]
Oh and it gives you wrong answers sometimes

[green, blasé]
...

https://thebad.website/comic/innovation

[a character with a triangular head speaks]
There's two main things I dislike about leftists*\

1. They're fascists\
2. They're antifascists
   
   [a tiny version of the same character pops out of a frame to add something]
   *this all makes sense somehow
   
   https://thebad.website/comic/schrdingers_leftist

[characters surround a flowchart]

Do you agree with me ideologically?\

• No: Then you are not a leftist\
• Yes: Proceed
  
  Did you ever disagree with me online?\
• Yes: Then you are not a leftist\
• No: Proceed
  
  Have you ever read theory?\
• No: Then you are not a leftist\
• Yes: Proceed
  
  Did you reach the same conclusions as me?
  No: Then you are not a leftist
  Yes: Proceed
  
  Do you believe in left unity?
  Yes: ??? -> just kidding -> loop back to the same question
  No: Proceed
  
  Are you to my left or to my right ideologically?
  Right: Then you are not a leftist
  Left: I hate you because you are a tankie -> Bruh -> Then you are not a leftist
  We agree: I hate you because you are a liberal -> Wait what -> Then you are not a leftist
  
  https://thebad.website/comic/true_leftism_flowchart

[a pissed off character with a weird looking head speaks]
I dislike this thing, therefore everyone else should dislike it too

https://thebad.website/comic/taste_dictatorship

[this entire comic is drawn in the style of Nazca lines]

[a human character stands by a ballot box, pondering]
Hmm…
Today, I will vote for
"President stabs people in the back"

[the human character is now shocked, a knife through their body]
I have been stabbed in the back
I could have never predicted this outcome

[a happy knife smiles while walking through a landscape]

[a bird and a sun stand between repeating words]
Repeat the cycle
Repeat the cycle
Repeat the cycle
Repeat the cycle
Repeat the cycle

https://thebad.website/comic/eternal_lesson

[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