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  • Bubs@lemm.eetoThe Far Side@sh.itjust.works15 April 2025
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    3 months ago

    Don’t like it either. The way I browse, I often click on images directly which doesn’t show the title text.

    I see Farside comics and I expect to either see the caption under the drawing, or see the lack of a caption and know the joke is in the image. I thought this one didn’t have a caption, and was frankly confused a little.


  • Bubs@lemm.eetoThe Far Side@sh.itjust.works5 September 2024
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    10 months ago

    From Wikipedia, the scandle is described as “a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan administration. Between 1981 and 1986, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the illegal sale of arms to Iran, which was subject to an arms embargo at the time. The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras, an anti-Sandinista rebel group in Nicaragua. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by legislative appropriations was prohibited by Congress, but the Reagan administration figured out a loophole by secretively using non-appropriated funds instead.”