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A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also jokes. Follow me on bluesky: existentialcomics

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1Aug 5, '23Søren Kierkegaard claimed that if a person behaved perfectly rationally they would be so discordant with civil society that people would deem them mad.91.6×8M74k5.3k3.8k
2Jan 12, '23Why are ethics questions always like: "is it ethical to steal bread to feed your starving family?" And not: "is it ethical to hoard bread when families are starving?"74.2×6.5M162k27k2.7k
3Mar 9, '25Not sure I've ever seen a more obvious picture to remind us that police exist to protect the property of the ruling class, not the rights of the people.55.1×4.8M99k16k2.4k
4Jan 9, '23A lot of people make fun of Elon Musk's tunnels, but I'm impressed by it. You could give me 1,000 years and I'd never come up with a solution to traffic as dumb as "a single lane t24.2×2.1M52k3.5k496
5Jun 1, '20If I woke up tomorrow and my boss told me that today at my job I had to shoot rubber bullets and throw tear gas at people protesting racism because one of my coworkers killed someo20.7×0171k43k1.1k
6Apr 30, '24What's cool about looking back at the history of college protests is that 19 year old students have been right about every single American war, and the esteemed Harvard educated op13.4×1.2M46k9.5k1.5k
7Feb 29, '24The only way to be pro-Israel at this point is simply to believe that Palestinians are not human beings.11.2×976k26k5.8k543
8Apr 4, '24So apparently I was gifted a verification? So let me just say this, as an official, verified person: Elon Musk is a fucking Nazi. I mean this literally, he is an actual Nazi in eve11.1×963k24k3.2k506
9Sep 1, '23I would like to issue a formal apology to the X community for implying that the Telsa Autopilot™ feature could be engage safely around pedestrians. According to industry experts Te10.9×944k21k2.9k313
10Dec 28, '22The amazing thing about these misogynist self help gurus like Andrew Tate, or even Jordan Peterson, is how obvious it is that they are deeply unhappy people. It is a dead end ideol9.3×810k11k1.3k222
11Nov 6, '23"Hamas has hidden tunnels beneath hospitals in Gaza" is one of the more insane pieces of propaganda I've ever seen. Are we all supposed to accept as a premise that Israel is justif7.7×671k23k5k355
12Jul 2, '23Elon Musk (greatest genius of our time) running a social media platform: "what if we don't let people look at the website".7.3×631k13k2k76
13Nov 13, '23Call for a ceasefire? They are bombing hospitals. We should be shooting down Israeli jets. And by the way we absolutely would be if Palestinians had blonde hair.7.2×629k13k2.6k242
14Nov 8, '23All of Israel's propaganda is more or less the same. They claim Israel is doing ethnic cleansing in a civilized, enlightened, moral way. They claim Palestinians are resisting ethni7.1×615k20k5.7k515
15Oct 3, '24Yes, Middle Eastern politics are very complicated. However, they do become much simpler if you take it as a premise that children of all races are equally valuable.6.3×549k31k4.3k761
16Oct 19, '23If you can't stand against State sponsored ethnic cleansing then what can you stand for? What are you even doing on this Earth?5.8×501k13k3.6k204
17Feb 19, '24Starship Troopers discourse is funny because it reveals how Fascism is the only ideology so stupid it can't even recognize itself. When Ayn Rand parodies socialists in Atlas Shrugg5.8×500k13k1.2k531
18Nov 15, '23Israel's obvious lies aren't meant to convince people who don't want to kill Palestinian children, they are meant to placate the guilt of people who DO want to kill Palestinian chi5.4×470k13k4.7k393
19Jul 30, '23I think my biggest takeaway from being on twitter for years is that libertarians are even dumber than you'd think.4.6×396k10k86171
20Mar 20, '20Landlords do not "provide" housing. Construction workers provide housing. Landlords, in fact, do the opposite of providing housing. They take the houses that were built for people 4.4×036k8.5k468
21Dec 26, '19When rich CEOs brag about how many hours they work, remember that they have servants who clean their house, cook their meals, and do their shopping. When you have to do these thing4.3×036k8.6k318
22May 30, '19It's unfair to call the Marvel movies "kid's movies", they also have serious political messages, such as: - America is good - the military is good - military contractors are good -4.2×034k7.9k595
23Mar 12, '21Capitalism requires infinite growth or it collapses. It cannot solve climate change, ever. End of discussion.4.0×037k5.8k479
24Apr 3, '21The neoliberal solution to climate change is to hope that somehow it will become profitable to save the planet. This will not work.3.4×032k4.9k325
25May 23, '18Watching Elon Musk seamlessly moving from "the free market solves everything" to "trade unions sow social division among classes" and "we need a watchdog to discredit lying journal3.4×027k7.3k118
26Apr 29, '22People like Elon Musk think the left has become "radical" because people want to like...put pronouns in their bio. He doesn't realize that actual radical leftists have always openl3.2×034k2k635
27Oct 26, '19Capitalism didn't give us the internet. Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fif3.1×024k7.1k302
28Oct 24, '19Capitalism: good news! with technology we can produce more with half the work. Workers: cool! so we only have to work half the hours? Capital: … Workers: we get paid double? Capita3.0×021k8.1k281
29Dec 5, '24UnitedHealthcare Group had a profit of $32.36 billion last year by the way. Profit. For context the budget of the government of Bulgaria was $32.47 billion. Some have estimated tha2.9×248k12k2.7k528
30Jun 14, '19British literature: I will die for duty. French literature: I will die for love. German literature: I will die for greatness. Russian literature: Yeah I'm the one that killed the o2.8×022k5.6k394
31Jan 17, '21Man, minimum wage discourse is wild. Conservatives just come out and say stuff like: "Learn economics. Capitalism requires a supply of millions of desperate exploitable workers liv2.7×023k4.7k413
32Jun 18, '19Nietzsche: God is dead. Everyone: wow cool. Nietzsche: No, not cool you little shits. Now we have to be God ourselves. Can you replace God? No, because are all a bunch of idiots. E2.7×021k5.5k301
33Jul 30, '20Rent is a tax that poor people pay to rich people for the right to live in society.2.6×022k4.7k375
34Nov 15, '17J.K. Rowling 1997: I hope my book brings happiness to children. J.K. Rowling 2017: Harry Potter would support loosening regulations to allow capital to flow more freely across bord2.6×021k5.6k4
35Nov 8, '19Bill Gates made his money by extinguishing free software and forcing us to pay him a tax just to turn our computers on. This was only possible because the State was ready to violen2.6×020k5.4k583
36Apr 18, '20if the economy is crashing because people can't work, i don't understand why the entrepreneurs don't just create more wealth. i've been told for years that they are the wealth crea2.5×018k6k217
37Mar 15, '22i hate to break it to J.R. Rowling but literally the first thing people would do if they had magic would be to get freaky with gender. like five seconds after discovering magic the2.5×026k1.8k316
38Mar 23, '19Capitalism began in England around the 16th century. They immediately went on to colonize half the planet in search of new markets, committed multiple genocides, traded slaves, and2.4×017k5.2k381
39Feb 19, '15"What do you want to be when you grow up?" "An honest, brave, compassionate human being." "No…I mean, how do you want to sell your labor?"2.2×09.9k8.7k23
40May 5, '19Likely reasons you can't get a girlfriend: - You are an asshole. - You have poor hygiene habits. - You are too scared to even ask girls out. Unlikely reasons you can't get a girlfr2.2×019k3.8k151
41Nov 27, '21Elon Musk is still so butthurt from the time I said he was like the villain from Altas Shrugged that he went back and replied to the thread 3 years later! It just goes to show, no 2.2×020k2.7k586
42Aug 25, '19British novel: let's go to a party and find a wife. German novel: let's go to the wilderness and find ourselves. Russian novel: let's go to the depths of despair and then find out 2.1×017k4.4k294
43Jan 4, '22Can't stop thinking about how we could have knocked out covid by simply paying everyone to chill at home for like 3 weeks right at the start. Or at literally any other point.2.0×019k2k120
44Jun 15, '19Capitalism is quite literally going to destroy the planet in order to make more money for the small percentage of people who own production, so no, I don't think it is "not perfect1.9×014k4.5k156
45Nov 15, '17we must imagine Sisyphus happy and also as an otter1.9×013k5.1k14
46Oct 22, '17There has been a lot of confusion about the difference between fascists and anti-fascists, so I've made this handy chart:1.9×011k5.9k6
47Jan 17, '21The funniest part of the "if we double the salary of fast food workers it will double the price of burgers" people is that they appear to believe that 100% of the dollars paid for 1.9×019k2.3k89
48May 1, '20The funniest thing about Elon Musk in the last few years is finding out that he's just a stupid person. Like he's just dumb. He isn't even smart at one thing and dumb at others, he1.9×017k2.5k173
49Sep 19, '20Democracy is when an unelected 87 year old dies and now all the laws might change for some reason.1.8×018k2.5k165
50Mar 19, '20Landlords are like, "but how will I pay my mortgage if there is a rent freeze?" Perhaps by doing work at a job. But thanks for the reminder that my labor not only pays for your liv1.8×016k3k151
51Nov 9, '18Child: "Grandpa, what did you do during the rise of fascism?" Grandpa: "I can proudly say that I bravely stood up to the people who were mean to the fascists, upholding the highest1.8×015k3.8k65
52May 9, '25Conservative men think they are less "emotional" because they don't count "being a huge whiney baby about literally everything" as an emotion.1.8×155k12k1.3k291
53Oct 24, '17A scientist, a philosopher, and a poet walk into a bar. They all drink heavily to try to forget the state that society is in.1.7×011k4.7k2
54Aug 29, '19Socialism will never work, people are too selfish. That's why we have a system where you work your entire life to make your boss richer while you get the scraps. To accommodate you1.7×014k3.5k170
55Oct 6, '16Communism is good in theory, but in practice it usually just ends up being destroyed in a military coup financed by the CIA.1.7×09.5k5.5k45
56Mar 3, '22Wealth of the top 100 Russian "oligarchs" combined: $567 billion. Wealth of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates combined: $594 billion. Lucky for us our billionaires are good guy1.6×014k2.4k251
57Apr 19, '20The greatest trick capitalist propaganda ever pulled was convincing people that "freedom" meant something like "being able to choose between 27 different flavors of ice cream", and1.6×012k3.7k222
58Feb 7, '18French novel: I can't decide who to fuck. British novel: I can't decide who to marry. Russian novel: I can't decide who to kill.1.6×013k3.1k11
59Jun 20, '19Joe Biden: Do I work with racists? Absolutely. Do I respect racists? Of course. Do I like racists? Big time. Do I admire racists? Heck yeah. Do I pass racist legislation? All the t1.5×013k2.8k81
60Aug 26, '21Lord of the Rings is considered a fantasy because the trees win the battle against industrialization.1.5×013k2.7k96
61May 11, '18I usually hate people posting screencaps of someone blocking them, but Elon Musk arguing with me that he succeeded *in spite* of billions in public funding, then calling me a chimp1.5×011k3.1k131
62Mar 19, '20So it turns out that the people who stock grocery stores, drive trucks, farm, and work in hospitals are actually the ones preventing civilization from collapsing. Meanwhile the ban1.5×011k3.4k97
63Jan 7, '20Only in the United States will we drop a bomb on a state official in a foreign country that we're not at war with, and then call THEM the terrorist.1.5×011k3.2k92
64Sep 25, '19Greatest moment of enlightenment for philosophers: Aristotle: reads Plato Descartes: reads Aristotle Hume: reads Descartes Kant: reads Hume Hegel: reads Kant Marx: reads Hegel Fouc1.4×012k2.6k312
65Jul 22, '19Under capitalism some of our smartest engineers go to school for years to study, then go to work trying to figure out more effective ways to get children addicted to gambling mecha1.4×011k3k138
66Aug 11, '19Remember when the Panama Papers revealed that the ultra rich all had a secret tax-evasion island where they hid their assets, and nothing happened? Well, you'd think the ultra rich1.4×011k3.2k121
67Oct 13, '18Capitalism is quite literally going to destroy the planet for profit and centrists will be on the survival raft saying "I'm not saying capitalism is perfect, but it's the best syst1.4×011k3.2k77
68Nov 7, '19Bill Gates, the supposed "good guy" billionaire not being sure if he would vote for Trump rather than have a 2% wealth tax or whatever is why billionaires cannot exist. No one shou1.4×012k2.4k65
69Sep 8, '18Tips for people new to cooking: 1. Use more garlic. 2. Every online recipe lies to you about how much garlic to use. 3. One clove? Are you fucking kidding me? I can't even taste it1.3×011k2.7k24
70Sep 29, '21BEWARE: As Halloween gets closer, parents need to make sure to LOOK at your child’s candy. Some people are giving out what looks like normal candy, but turns out to be Karl Marx's 1.3×011k2.6k92
71Sep 3, '20Centrists are like: "extremism is dangerous on both sides, that's why I support the moderate, reasonable, non-extreme system where like 12 dudes own half the world."1.3×011k2.5k138
72Oct 2, '20People who say things like "I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy" don't understand what a real enemy is.1.3×013k1.7k80
73Jun 7, '19Capitalist dictionary: Freedom: serving the rich. Equality: everyone gets to serve the rich. Happiness: liking how you serve the rich. Failure: your life's work isn't useful to the1.3×08.8k3.5k174
74Jun 24, '19Becoming an adult is great because you can do whatever you want. Except get a good night's sleep. Or be happy.1.3×09.3k3.2k71
75Mar 16, '20The absolute funniest part of capitalist ideology is that they someone managed to convince everyone that "freedom" meant like...the freedom to choose between 63 kinds of shampoo, a1.3×010k2.8k170
76Jun 4, '20We have gulags, we just call it "prison labor". We have secret police, we just call it "undercover cops". We have brutal crackdowns on dissent, we just call it "riot control". Ever1.3×09k3.3k146
77Dec 7, '19The wealthy elite will fight tooth and nail against free college for two reasons: 1. it will be harder to fill the ranks of the military with poor people if college is free. 2. sta1.3×09.5k3k143
78Sep 18, '19"Haven't you heard? Communism is awful, millions died." "But haven't millions died under capitalism too?" "Yes, but under capitalism poor people deserve to die."1.3×010k2.7k116
79Oct 19, '20Congrats to Bolivia in returning to a government for the people. Condolences to all the journalists working for billionaires in the USA who have to try to spin democracy as "author1.3×012k2k80
80Jun 4, '18Life is: British novel: responsiblies. Russian novel: suffering. French novel: beauty. German novel: despair. Latin American novel: actually it was a ghost the whole time. plus tim1.2×09.2k2.9k77
81May 9, '20This pandemic has shown clearly that Americans are the most brainwashed people on earth. Not only do half of us literally not believe in science, but now people think "freedom" is…1.2×09.5k2.6k121
82Sep 22, '19Get a job doing what you love and you'll have to work twice as hard for half as much money, because your boss will exploit your passion for profit, and drive you little by little t1.2×09.3k2.6k133
83Jul 28, '18If college is a job training program then your boss should be paying for it. The idea that we should go into personal debt in order to better serve the business owners is beyond ab1.2×09.8k2.4k41
84Jul 25, '19Greek philosophy: how to live the good life. German philosophy: how to know the world. French philosophy: how to understand society. American philosophy: how to justify neo-imperia1.2×09.4k2.5k141
85Apr 19, '21American politics becomes a lot clearer if you mentally replace the word "freedom" with "property" every time a politician uses it.1.2×010k1.8k233
86Feb 18, '20The real torture wasn't that Sisyphus has to roll the rock up the hill for eternity, it was that Zeus kept telling him that if he worked hard and applied himself, one day he might 1.2×010k2.2k67
87May 28, '19The hardest things to explain to aliens if their species doesn't have it: - music - sex - religion - war - comedy - why we constantly sabotage our own happiness because we are so a1.2×08.9k2.6k126
88Apr 28, '20The American system of propaganda is so powerful it has even convinced people that we don't have propaganda here.1.1×09.8k2.1k101
89Apr 16, '20Capitalists: "one time a hundred years ago, a million people died in a famine in the Soviet Union, so we can never try communism again." Also capitalists: "look, is a million death1.1×08.5k2.6k159
90Jun 18, '18Nerd culture is funny because it fooled an entire generation into thinking that if you liked sci-fi and disliked sports, that somehow made you smart.1.1×09.5k2.2k26
91Sep 30, '19The funny thing about Kafka is if the same books were written in the USSR they'd teach them as a devastating critique of Communism, but since they were about the dehumanizing force1.1×09k2.3k198
92Jun 4, '19Rent is basically just a tax that poor people pay to rich people in order to live in society.1.1×09.1k2.2k106
93Jun 30, '19Fascists are marching in the streets while our government is throwing minorities into camps and trying to deport millions in an attempt to keep a white majority in America. So no, 1.1×08.4k2.3k60
94Jan 8, '21I don't know who needs to hear this, but rats abandoning a sinking ship isn't a sign that they've had a moral awakening on the nature of ships.1.0×09.4k1.7k72
95Mar 24, '19The Mueller Report amounting to nothing will hopefully finally put to rest the liberal fantasy that the way to stop the rising tide of fascism is to call the cops and get them arre1.0×08.3k2.1k69
96Dec 5, '20How anti-communist propaganda works: The Headline The Article1.0×08.6k1.6k277
97May 26, '18These right wing "self help" gurus are pretty surreal. They are like: 1. Exercise regularly. 2. Focus on concrete goals. 3. Find supportive friends. 4. Women are serpentine creatur1.0×08.2k1.9k48
98Nov 4, '20For four years, the liberal media was absolutely obsessed with "never Trump" Republicans. They want "civility" and "decorum", and we were told they would all swing Democrat as long1.0×08.7k1.6k100
99Aug 26, '18Before making fun of John McCain, remember that he was a true American. He put his life on the line for an imperialist war, then came back and spent his entire career serving the i1.0×08.5k1.8k33

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