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The facial hair and paunch are what make it for me.

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[eris-devotee.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for brightening my day with this.

[sachmet.livejournal.com]

I know a few dozen people like this. It'd be funnier if it weren't so true; as is, it's just sad.

[hweimei.livejournal.com]

That's weird—I had that in a tab since yesterday and 'varked it not long after you posted it here, evidently.

[kennfusion.livejournal.com]

It really upsets me that although I categorically disagree with every sentiment attributed to Joe, they still used a picture of me to represent him.

bah!

[namja.livejournal.com]

If they were deer we'd be thinning their numbers.

Next developers' meeting

[mrhinelander.livejournal.com]

Man, me and namja _must_ be retained as efficiency experts at your next brainstorming session with Dopin' Dan.

[odradak.livejournal.com]

Joe is a jerk.
I'll bet his third wife locks the car doors at intersections when I walk by.
Joe's wife is a jerk, too.

[kennfusion.livejournal.com]

Even the hippies in Pr0tland probably lock the car doors at intersections when you walk by.

[odradak.livejournal.com]

Well, I am physically impressive.

[substitute.livejournal.com]

Jay Leno locked his doors on me once in L.A. when I was a 21-year-old scraggly journalist waiting for the bus.

[odradak.livejournal.com]

Figures.
I hate that friggin sound.

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that; I've just blogged it.

[substitute.livejournal.com]

Your icon makes me very happy in a Terry Gilliam way.

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

It's from the TV series Nathan Barley, which was rather influenced by Banksy.

[flipzagging.livejournal.com]

For the dumb Canadian here: do such people really believe all this, or are we only told that they do?

All my USian liberal friends have a very defeatist attitude about the majority here. Like, that the Republicans have a lock on this guy and he's always going to believe what they tell him to, and always go along with them 100%.

I live in SF now, so I have no idea what the reality is.

[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Joe really believes this shit. I know several carbon copies of this guy. It's eerie how well this cartoon tags them.

In SFO, our defeatist attitude about Joe is unfortunately somewhat amplified our sense of parochial superiority. It's not as bad as outsiders think it is, but it's not like there isn't anything to it at all. The truth is: the Republicans have a lock on this guy, and he's going to believe what they tell him and go along 100%— right up until we stop hiding from our own political shadow and put some real marketing into the effort to change his mind.

Until then, hey— at least, we have snarky cartoons to amuse us.

[substitute.livejournal.com]

Well, there's a lot of people like Joe. I don't know if they're the majority, but they're the people the ruling classes are paying attention to lately. A middle-class white professional like me encounters Joe all the time, and he makes me tired.

The real majority is always an unknown, and everyone makes up stuff about the majority to prove their points. There are just too many people in this country and too many possible majorities. At least by voting habits we seem to be fairly Joe-like at the moment, but the "silent majority" stopped the Vietnam War and turned its back on Nixon and there was a long decade of liberalism after that. Joe changes his mind a lot.

Joe semper, mutabile

[torgo-x.livejournal.com]

• Joe doesn't like "those fucking Mexicans". But he likes Mexican food, made by Mexicans, in the US, for cheap.
  
• Joe thinks of starting his own business. But you would not want to work for Joe. Joe figures that if he under-pays you "just a bit", that's okay.
  
• Joe was beaten as a child, and figures that if he has kids, he'll probably just sorta yell and threaten instead of beating them.
  
• Joe also mostly dies off every few decades and is restored anew -- like a phoenix, or herpes.
  
• Don't get me started on how Joe votes when he's 70.
  
  

[threepunchstuff.livejournal.com]

A political scientist made up a pretty good term for describing these guys. "Unenlightened self-interest."

Oh, here it is: Homer Gets a Tax Cut.

[zrusilla.livejournal.com]

Boy he's got the average Joe pegged. Especially on transportation.

[nosrialleon.livejournal.com]

Oh shit. I'm the public transportation Joe.
That said, public transport in the OC really could not be less conveinient for me if it TRIED.