This is one strip that makes me laugh out loud every time. That punchline setup is just perfect and Calvin’s head barely getting over the table kills me.
Funnily enough, I actually loved Lima beans. Admittedly, my family never had them alone, but Mom would get the frozen veggie mix with them in and I would save them for last because they were the best.
If you told an American from the 1950s about the rising inequality in America today and all the issues that result from it, or the ultimate end result of all of Ronald Reagan's terrible economic policy, without blaming Reagan for it...
They'd think America lost the Cold War.
And in a way, everyone except the oligarchs did lose the Cold War.
Well, when you don't look at the Cold War as "Soviets bad, America good, rah rah rah, USA USA USA!" (or a similar "Soviets good" perspective, which I'll admit I'm more prone to than most Westerners), then you can see a lot more angles on it.
And it doesn’t even get into the horrifyingly rapid acceleration of the fascist police state.
Well, isn't that what you guys always used to say about the KGB during the Cold War? Accusing the Soviets of being a fascist police state? (Although I do appreciate that most politically aware Americans are comparing their secret police and paramilitary groups to the Gestapo and the SS, it's more accurate.)
The Soviet Union was a left-wing authoritarian state; Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy were right-wing authoritarian states. All used repression and weaponized paranoia, and brutally crushed dissent. The Nazi and Soviet regimes both qualify as totalitarian, as today does North Korea under the Kims.
Ugh... lima beans. I wasn't allowed to get up from the table until I ate my, now cold, lima beans. It was a struggle of wills with my Dad.
One day I figured out they might not be so bad if I ate them while still hot, and mixing them in with my mashed potatoes might cover up the taste entirely!
It worked! Then Mom looked at my plate and said "Where's your lime beans?" "I ate them", I said.
Bull. She looked under my plate and under the table. Then Dad growled "Where are they?" Told them what I did and they were astonished!
I asked, why do you even make them? (no good answer). But that was the last time we ever had them! Winner!!!
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This is one strip that makes me laugh out loud every time. That punchline setup is just perfect and Calvin’s head barely getting over the table kills me.
Calvin is so hilariously smol. When he's standing, it looks like his shoes are attached to his pelvis.
His dad being done with the theatrics is so relatable
I HATE lima beans.
Always makes me think of the movie Camp Nowhere.
I think Watterson wanted Dad to say eat the damn lima beans, but couldn’t get it printed. At least that’s what my dad would’ve said.
I love how the bubble shape conveys that he’s yelling.
I think it's common in comics to also use a dashed speech bubble to convey whispering.
Funnily enough, I actually loved Lima beans. Admittedly, my family never had them alone, but Mom would get the frozen veggie mix with them in and I would save them for last because they were the best.
Me too. I think this comment made me curious about lima beans so I paid attention more the next time and was like what is Calvin's problem?
My parents could not pay me to eat Lima beans they offered me 10 cents a bean and I wouldn’t.
You missed your calling as a bean counter.
Well, “the awful truth” was a joke forty years ago.
Now it’s the soul-crushing reality.
If you told an American from the 1950s about the rising inequality in America today and all the issues that result from it, or the ultimate end result of all of Ronald Reagan's terrible economic policy, without blaming Reagan for it...
They'd think America lost the Cold War.
And in a way, everyone except the oligarchs did lose the Cold War.
I’ve never seen our situation framed that way before, and it’s devastatingly accurate.
And it doesn’t even get into the horrifyingly rapid acceleration of the fascist police state.
Well, when you don't look at the Cold War as "Soviets bad, America good, rah rah rah, USA USA USA!" (or a similar "Soviets good" perspective, which I'll admit I'm more prone to than most Westerners), then you can see a lot more angles on it.
Well, isn't that what you guys always used to say about the KGB during the Cold War? Accusing the Soviets of being a fascist police state? (Although I do appreciate that most politically aware Americans are comparing their secret police and paramilitary groups to the Gestapo and the SS, it's more accurate.)
The Soviet Union was a left-wing authoritarian state; Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy were right-wing authoritarian states. All used repression and weaponized paranoia, and brutally crushed dissent. The Nazi and Soviet regimes both qualify as totalitarian, as today does North Korea under the Kims.
Ugh... lima beans. I wasn't allowed to get up from the table until I ate my, now cold, lima beans. It was a struggle of wills with my Dad.
One day I figured out they might not be so bad if I ate them while still hot, and mixing them in with my mashed potatoes might cover up the taste entirely!
It worked! Then Mom looked at my plate and said "Where's your lime beans?" "I ate them", I said.
Bull. She looked under my plate and under the table. Then Dad growled "Where are they?" Told them what I did and they were astonished!
I asked, why do you even make them? (no good answer). But that was the last time we ever had them! Winner!!!
Amazing.
How apropos today 😥
This sums up too many of our fellow Americans these days: sounding like kids who resent being told to eat their lima beans...
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