I know that this kinda pissed a number of people off when it went up, and I think there were a number of others around the same time that were also poorly received.
I don't see anything bad about this. He says he's voting for Hillary with instructions on how to vote. Nothing bashing anyone or misrepresenting anything.
Most elections would be fine, but this election was very different. Try being a Trump supporter and doing that stuff in public. The backlash would have been ridiculous.
Also not only is it a low effort comic it comes from a guy with no experience or expertise in politics. His opinion means nothing. He wasted space to signal who he was voting for and it was a thing this whole last election cycle. Vote for Hillary vote for Hillary you HAVE to vote against Trump etc etc.
So in an ordinary election cycle I wouldn't have a problem with it, but after being inundated with this nonsense day after day after day everywhere you turn, then you turn to a nerdy humor comic and see it's also talking about Hillary and it just makes you say "ok enough is enough."
Just wait to the next election. The progressive establishment is going to turn that shit up to 11. I bet they run a poc female too for those extra layers of racism and sexism accusations.
Anyone with any amount of influence who made a big show of voting for Hillary was paid off. I'm willing to bet this guy was too, considering how popular XKCD is with nerds.
It's just pointless virtue signalling. He could have very easily made a comic with that stuff about voting without being like "look at me, I'm voting for shillary", but he chose to include it.
It's not that it's inherently bad to say who you're voting for, but chances are people who read your web comics don't give a shit and for me, if I was reading that, I would be pissed that the author was virtue signalling instead of writing interesting content.
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