I don’t remember actually seeing a fight in public transit in the US. Public schools, however… 👀 (There’s like a fight every day in my highschool)
this isn’t true people only fight with saxophones in the nyc subway
How are people upvoting this alt-right trash?
Here’s another comic by the same author
Too bad to hear about the author. I found the comic itself to be kind of funny in an absurd way.
But know that I know what his intentions are it is time to give the author the “stone toss” treatment.
That Trump comic is still kinda funny in a lolsob kind-of way. Like, I could imagine someone who does call themselves woke making it as well. It’s still saying a criminal got to be president, so…
A lot of humour is structurally the same for left and right (we’re all human, despite how inhuman the other can seem), it’s just a matter of how you meant it. A lefty making this joke might have an anti-consumer angle, while a
dipshitright wing comedian would be criticising public transit or probably just being racist.
That’s not Trump… That’s… Giorno Giovanna?
Well, from my perspective:
- Comic is funny
- I have no context of who the author is or what the author did
- It makes me feel superior about the Hong Kong mass transit railway system /hj
Your ignorance shows. You’d have more luck catching a good fight at a redneck bar for free than on the NYC subway.
That’s funny, I used to live in Louisiana. I would occasionally go out drinking with my friends, and not one time did I ever not see at least one bar fight. And it didn’t matter what kind of bar or club it was, it always happened. It’s just a core part of society down there.
One time I was at a bar in Lake Charles and I was watching the “Malice in the Palace” which was a big fight during an NBA game where some players went into the stands and were punching fans. The TV was muted but I could still hear the sounds of the fighting; eventually it dawned on me how strange this was and I turned around to see a huge fight going on in the bar behind me with guys being thrown into tables and whatnot like an episode of Bonanza.
Deep south, born and raised. I always preferred a rough bar. Sit in the back smoking a cigar or pipe, sipping bourbon, and watch the show.
They tore down my first home bar and put up a gas station, I mourn the loss. It was great: bikers shooting up in the bathroom, fights all the time, drug deals, meth head drama, bikers selling moonshine outside. Had a hooker OD and show up dead in the parking lot.
Met a former roommate and lover there, had to chase her out of my house with a shotgun. She and her boyfriend started smoking meth in my house. Last I heard she went back to Georgia and is doing better.
Sucks, sometimes, that I had to quit drinking.
Sit in the back smoking a cigar or pipe, sipping bourbon, and watch the show.
I too found it enjoyable. Only time I ever got involved even accidentally was when two guys fighting slammed into the foosball table and pinned me between it and the wall. I took a handle to the nuts but not too badly.
I had a coworker who started doing MMA and taking steroids because he was tired of getting beaten up at the bars all the time. The only thing he achieved was to get beaten up by better fighters. I was like “dude, you could try just being polite to people like I do, or worst case you could just stop going to bars every night”.
Luckily, I haven’t been in a fist fight since highschool. But yeah, I never had much trouble, in bars, myself. Always polite, especially to bartenders and servers, tip well. I’ve hung out a lot with rough crew. Few times someone got shitty with me, pretty much half the bar would tell them to knock it off.
Long shot, but you run bingo in drag?
Ha ha no way! I only play bridge in drag …
Growing up in rural south Georgia, I knew folks that would proudly declare that they would rather fight than fuck.
Yeah did a little research
Using the available data, the rate of reported violent crime on the NYC subway in 2024 is approximately 0.79 violent crimes per million riders.
https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/pr0101/nypd-citywide-crime-statistics-march-first-quarter-2024
Perhaps the HK mass transit system is safer, but I’m guessing not by that much, considering the ridership and crime rates, especially because they don’t report specific crime rates for mass transit that I could find but rather generic crime statistics
https://www.censtatd.gov.hk/en/EIndexbySubject.html?scode=400&pcode=FA100161
Gotta love this comic with subtle tones that “public transportation is dangerous” and this comment with “Chinese public transportation isn’t dangerous.”
Safe as long as you agree with Winnie the Pooh and the CCP
I forgot a /hj on 3.
And of course I’m “ignorant” about the US railway system because I live in Hong Kong and not US
Chinese becoming more American all the time. Talking shit about things they know nothing.
Oh so it’s a requirement for us to know about US stuff to go online and not vice versa?
It’s not my fault that the internet is full of Americans. I’m merely contributing to the activeness of Lemmy.
This feels like the scared, naive, suburbanite’s take on cities and public transit. Like, do you really think a system with 3 million daily riders has constant brawls?
It’s a comic from WokelyCorrect. I’d be surprised if they even know how to ride transit.
Oof I didn’t even notice the author
I like making people laugh & I dislike Woke politics. So I made these comics for us to laugh at Woke politics together and push back against its stupidities. I will stop mocking when it leaves us alone.
Author seems to be an absolute idiot.
Drawing comics at night to fight wokeness
I thought it was a sarcastic comics regarding what’s happening in Washington :o
But the TV said it does! I better go get in my big emotional support truck and sit in traffic instead!
Gender affirming vehicle. Asphalt princess. Anyone got any more synonyms? I’m collecting them.
I prefer to call them Pavement Princess.
Yeah, I ride it every day and I’ve never actually seen a fight in my car.
Helsinki subway is much, much smaller and this joke would work for it. Sometimes you see wild stuff in there
I gather that the 80s was a whole different scene in the NYC subway. Plenty of pics out there!
Only time I was there was in '92 and it was nice enough.
Yeah, I’m not old enough to have experienced the city in the 70s and 80s. I’ve heard stories but it’s hard to say how credible some of them are, but I believe the city is a lot nicer than it was back then.
Like, Bryant Park is a nice patch of green in Manhattan. They do yoga classes there. There’s a holiday market. People used to call it needle park because it had some a drug user problem.
Places change.
yeah, I’m also not quite old enough for that, but the modern conservative narrative would have you believe that most cities are actual warzones right now that are worse than the 80s. i imagine it was similar then. it’s hard to trust what people try to tell you about it anymore.
Having ridden the subway for like 20 years, I’m a little pissed that I didn’t get any shows for my ticket price.
No showtime?
Damn the only thing unbelievable in this comic is the cost of riding the subway. Is it really that cheap?
Subway and most buses $2.90 a ride, and if you use the same payment method it has a maximum combined fare of $34 per week. That means that if you pay for 12 rides, any more rides are free within a 7 day period.
Dang that’s awesome. If I were in NY I feel like I would exceed that 12 ride limit & get free rides within the first day or two hahaha.
I used to live in Japan (in the rural north) and for a time I was also in Tokyo. Their public transportation infrastructure, while intimidating and maze-like (bullet/local trains, buses, the metro) I quickly fell in love how convenient and smoothly things ran. With a suica pass I would actually get on trains with no real destination just to enjoy the ride hahaha (and the a/c).
Also remember that the subway is a flat fare no matter how long you ride. You can go from Coney Island to the Bronx on that $2.90. and back again. You only pay again if you exit.
Eh. The only times I ever had trouble navigating Japan’s public transit were finding bus stops, Shinjuku Station, and one (actually two) random stations in between Kyoto and Osaka. Busses are shit the world around (and most of the highway buses double up with train stations where an attendant will gladly explain what random corner to stand in), Shinjuku Station is an eldritch horror that NOBODY can navigate, and Google to this day does not realize those are two different stations and they have a lot of duplicated named lines.
But yeah. People very much underestimate US public transit… inside cities (and on the East Coast). Most I have used take the approach that if you use one system enough times in a day/month (via a card or single credit card) it just auto-buys you an unlimited pass for that period.
I’ve stayed in Shinjuku for probably closer to two or three months than not over the past decade. LOVE the area and never have a problem finding my train no matter how out of it I am. But I have also NEVER managed to actually find the exit I want and invariably end up just exiting out to the street and walking around the station to get where I want to go. And locals I know have had similar complaints where they either luck out and their train drops them off in front of the exit they want or they just pretend they are going shopping before going home.
I only know Shinjuku from anime/manga. When a certain arc gets animated, I expect it’ll be wild for a while. If the hype stays strong anyway.
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Shinjuku is a major business center and a major entertainment center. It also has a decent amount of shopping and residential areas related to all of the above. Kabukicho (a few streets in Shinjuku) is also a theme park at night with a lot of live music, food, bars, etc. Its also generally one hop from the major hub stations so it is a very popular and cost effective place to stay when traveling for leisure or business. And… Kabukicho is also one of the biggest red light districts in Tokyo if you walk like two blocks to the East of the boy band filming a music video in the square near the KFC.
Shinjuku is ALWAYS hopping.
Careful, this comic author might figure out a way to make a new comic about how good public transportation is bad for society
That’s not bad at all. I’ve only got buses around me: 2.50/ride with 90min to transfer to any other bus free. Buying two tickets in a day automatically becomes a day pass (unlimited rides for the day). Or there’s a 30day pass you can buy for $70
Then there’s discounts for students and seniors.
and the PATH is $3
(for people that don’t live here, the path is basically another subway system that serves Manhattan and North Jersey.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(rail_system)
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All I see here is someone who doesn’t ride transit.
Or I could pay $5,000 for shitty seats and see a UFC fight at the Whitehouse.
Pay $50,000 and you decide who wins the fight
Can I pick the fighters?
Throw $7 on the ground for a boost.
The rest of the $497 is to not get shot by police’s bullets, shrapnel etc.
Give’im the ole dick twist!
Coming soon to the front lawn of the highest elected official in the US
$50,000 ticket though for the real grift.
