Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 21, 2024

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    BE THIS GUY  7 months ago

    And Hobbes went off to write the next chapter in the history book while Mom hosed Calvin off.

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    C  7 months ago

    A widely adopted sentiment

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    codycab  7 months ago

    Sorry Calvin. Every person for themselves. That includes tigers.

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    markkahler52  7 months ago

    Calvin, you…uh… considering a career in politics? You’ve got firsthand experience in mudslinging, now….

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    Bilan  7 months ago

    If you can’t even trust a stuffed tiger, …

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    snsurone76  7 months ago

    Calvin thinks too much like Trump!

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    GeorgeInAZ  7 months ago

    Calvin the contemporary progressive.

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    enigmamz  7 months ago

    The hitch is that sometimes it’s a cop or a DA doing the arguing about what you did…

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    luca.debus creator 7 months ago

    To be fair, when I need to do some serious thinking, I find a good roll in the mud works wonders! Oink oink!

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    hariseldon59  7 months ago

    It’s a tiger eat boy world.

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    Scorpio Premium Member 7 months ago

    In a dog-eat-dog world, Calvin, remember that you are one of the dogs that can be eaten.

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    cracker65  7 months ago

    Hmmmm, who does that sound like?

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    Humerus1  7 months ago

    its four am rn…

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    Walrus Gumbo Premium Member 7 months ago

    Trumpology 101

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    Calvinist1966  7 months ago

    This is one side of Calvin’s character. It is Calvin at his most cynical and his most selfish. The other side of Calvin’s nature was well demonstrated in a Sunday strip reprinted last year in which Calvin told Hobbes that he had been debating whether or not to cheat in a test. He listed reasoning on both sides of the argument. Hobbes asked, “What did you decide?” Calvin replied, “I didn’t. I ran out of time and handed in a blank sheet.” Hobbes then said, “Anyhow, merely acknowledging the issue is a moral victory.” Calvin replied, “Well, it seemed wrong to cheat in an ethics test.”

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    MayCauseBurns  7 months ago

    It’s not hypocrisy when I do it.

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    belgarathmth  7 months ago

    Kant’s Categorical Imperative.

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    nancyb creator 7 months ago

    Calvin grew up and went into politics.

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    steveh64  7 months ago

    Rules for thee, not for me.

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    Link from Twilight Princess (He/Him)  7 months ago

    I love how Calvin just sinks fully into the mud and gets drenched in it.

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    gantech  7 months ago

    Isn’t he on trial right now…?

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    Ol' me  7 months ago

    I can’t believe the amount of projection in these comments.

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    [Traveler] Premium Member 7 months ago

    “It’s a dog eat dog world and I’m wearing Milkbone underwear” Norm Peterson

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    Just-me  7 months ago

    It’s choices and consequences Calvin. You can’t have it both ways.

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    flagmichael  7 months ago

    My philosophy is that when our lives reach the end, all that will matter is the journey.

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    aerotica69  7 months ago

    Situational Ethics has become the norm.

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    royq27  7 months ago

    And this was pre-social media!

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    uniquename  7 months ago

    Point made, Hobbes.

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    rshive  7 months ago

    Calvin certainly knows which “side” he’s on.

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    elvira.alejandro  7 months ago

    So far away from Machiavello. That only works for CEO Lex Luthor

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    g04922  7 months ago

    LOL… Hobbes serves up yet another life lesson to Calvin.

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    Free or Not? Premium Member 7 months ago

    Collectivism run by the elite summed up in one comic strip.

    The “oppressed” masses love to think they can benefit from the utilitarian ethic embrace by marxists and fascists where an elite class will do all for the “common good” of “the state”.

    But in the end, they are ground under foot by the elite.

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    mfrasca  7 months ago

    Six year olds tend to have sociopathic tendencies. Most grow out of it.

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    ladykat  7 months ago

    Good one, Hobbes!

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    YulanaLow Premium Member 7 months ago

    Hobbes always knows how to bring Calvin back down to earth; or, in this case, literally into the dirt.

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    lisaegray  7 months ago

    Is this Trump as a kid?!

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    yangeldf  7 months ago

    another timeless comic from Bill. I think this comic perfectly sums up the “leopards ate my face” subreddit, or any other group of people who espouse getting ahead by hurting others only to whine when they get hurt the same way.

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    Robert4170  7 months ago

    Means are how we achieve an end. Some ends are obviously good and desirable (such as feeding ourselves, living in houses, clothing ourselves, etc), and obviously justify the means to achieve them (raising crops and animals, making use of timber and metals, manufacturing, etc), so it’s an incorrect oversimplification to say that “the ends don’t justify the means”. What people really mean when they say that is “not ALL means are justified by an end” (for that matter, not all ends are desirable). Someone’s end (obtaining money) doesn’t justify him robbing me or stealing it from me. Someone’s end (living in a house) doesn’t justify stealing my house. But entering into a voluntary agreement to work for someone in exchange for money, or paying off a mortgage to buy a house is obviously justified by the desired end.

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    Steverino Premium Member 7 months ago

    Moral relativism.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  7 months ago

    Like I’ve said before, Watterson was giving us warnings, not instructions.

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    gnorth22 Premium Member 7 months ago

    Ah, the libertarian credo!

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    kathleenhicks62  7 months ago

    Lesson learned?

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    Sojourner  7 months ago

    I love how well Hobbes delivers object lessons, in this case, the Golden Rule of treating others as one would want to be treated by them.

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    qmwnebrvt  7 months ago

    It’s like going to Costco…

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    willie_mctell  7 months ago

    Uberkind

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    eced52  7 months ago

    Sounds like our government.

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    Romena’s guy  7 months ago

    This describes shopping the sales on Black Friday back when every store was closed on Thanksgiving.

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    Fuzzy Kombu  7 months ago

    Run for the presidency, Calvin?

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    smsrt  7 months ago

    Solomon, with all of his wisdom, couldn’t have said it any better than these two “dolts.”

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    johnec  7 months ago

    It’s not a successful day in nature if you don’t need to be hosed off before going back inside!

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    awcoffman  7 months ago

    And to think this was written 30 years ago in 1994.

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