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  • Edmund Rudolph Schluessel
    February 14, 2017

    I think I’ve seen that tower before. Is that Tatlin’s Tower?

  • Tom Boutell
    February 14, 2017

    Oo, completely, thanks for leading me to that clue. I am still not sure what “the action at JFK” refers to.

  • Tim Brown
    February 14, 2017

    JFK airport, after the announcement of the Ban, I think

  • Tom Boutell
    February 14, 2017

    Oh of course, thank you! (Hey you’re not the formerly Durham, CT Tim Brown are you? That would be a weird coincidence)

  • Geoff
    February 14, 2017

    Every Tuesday, this comic proves itself smarter than me

  • ToxicDelirium
    February 15, 2017

    What Ban?

  • D.J.P. O'Kane
    February 27, 2017

    Edmund Rudolph Schluessel:

    That’s not just Tatlin’s tower, it’s the (never built) Monument to the Third International.

    Props if you can name all four internationals – I bet Dorothy can. ;-)

    (by the way, thanks for all the cartoons over the years, Mrs. Cat and Girl Creator).

  • Edmund Rudolph Schluessel
    February 27, 2017

    Oh I can name seven or eight internationals. Including two Fourth Internationals. (Personal favorite for trivia purposes: the Two and a Half International)

  • D.J.P. O'Kane
    February 28, 2017

    “Including two Fourth Internationals.”

    Ah, but which one do you consider the authentic inheritor of Lev Davidovich’s mantle?

    And while we’re on the subject, does the Cominform count as an international?

  • Edmund Rudolph Schluessel
    February 28, 2017

    OK well, lemme start out by saying this is a question I never thought I’d be asked in a webcomic comment thread.

    The USFI members I’ve met seem to be more in line with practical politics than those of the ICFI. In the UK and in the US I’d constantly see ICFI members try to undermine actions they didn’t consider correct, rather than supporting them while contributing critically, and I feel this is a basic political error.

    All that said, I’m a Committee for a Workers’ International member myself (link in my website), and I think the success of the CWI in for example Ireland or the US illustrate a genuine connection to the need to actually try to get things done.

    Cominform…I would say that as a rule of thumb, if it can split and it has member groups in multiple countries, it might as well be called an international — the split indicates there’s sufficient internal discipline that people feel leaving the organization is necessary to follow a politically correct path.

  • D.J.P. O'Kane
    March 1, 2017

    Bloody hell.

    YOU WIN THIS ROUND, SCHLUESSEL, BUT WE SHALL MEET AGAIN.

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