3. But let me take a brief stab at it . For those not familiar, Cerebus the Aardvark is 6,000 page graphic novel about a talking aardvark.
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4. Hard to describe briefly but Cerebus a roman fleuve that starts off as a Conan pastiche & ends up creating a new hyper-sexist religion
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5. But between Conan pastiche & syncretic misogynist theology, there's some political/religious satire in Cerebus relevant to Trumpism
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6. There's a long storyline where Cerebus becomes Pope. And part of how he maintains power is via polarizing.
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7. Pope Cerebus does more & more extreme things, polarizing acts which lose followers but build a hard core of the faithful.
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8. There's a sequence where Pope Cerebus is given a baby to blesspic.twitter.com/N0j9sUxB47
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9. The blessing of the baby does not end well.pic.twitter.com/9czwhYyfbu
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10. Point made by this sequence is that killing the baby doesn't end the worship of Pope Cerebus, rather it intensifies allegiance of base
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11. Throwing (and killing) baby was precursor to Trump's own comment that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue & not lose supporters.
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@PhillipsPasha I think what you fail to understand is way jokes like this reveal underlying attitudes.
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@PhillipsPasha Question of whether these things hurt him is irrelevant to me. I'm more interested in what they say about him & followers1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes - Show replies
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