Charlie Hebdo’s cover of the week: Thank you covid casualties! “more Christmas cakes for us!”

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  1. Reminder that Charlie Hebdo was always meant to be provocative satire. Their motto in a previous incarnation was “bête et méchant” (stupid and mean), and they live up to it to this day.

    In that case I think it would be a mistake to think the drawing belittles the suffering of people impacted by covid. It’s more like laughing at the horror of the situation itself.

    It also might be a jab at people who would profit from the situation, but I don’t think it’s the case, since they didn’t express such views in the regular articles. It’s definitely pure dark humor instead.

  2. My take from this is;

    no matter what, we won’t stop, we won’t think, we won’t care for the dead, the living or the future. We’ll keep consuming, people died? Good! It means more for us!

  3. “I’m so happy I survived covid I’m going to make myself more likely to die from covid”

    It’s like the free donut vaccinations all over again

  4. What’s that type of cake called that’s rolled up and all chocolate? Like have seen pre packaged ones in carréfour or Lidl and they call it SwissRoll? Is that what it is?

  5. I know it is a (non-)joke, but in Medieval Europe the plague increased the capital-to-person ratio and likely played a role in Europe’s economic growth spread vis-à-vis Asia.

  6. Quand je vois les commentaires des gens qui ne comprennent pas la caricature et qui déversent leur bavouille haineuse de non-comprenant, ça me fait penser à ce que disait Desproges :”l’humour est la politesse du désespoir”.

  7. People here seem to have a bit of a hard time grasping the humor here.

    Nobody is actually happy that people died, the cartoon is shoving in our face how many people actually died, while people’s main concern are the christmas holidays.

    It’s harsh, but that’s Charlie Hebdo.

  8. Well, there is satire and then there is being a insufferable asshole, and Charlie Hebdo falls into the latter. There is dark humor, even black humor, and there is the person making a jackass comment that leads others around them to roll their eyes and groan. That’s their level of humor.

  9. Stop saying people don’t understand the cartoon. We understand it. It’s not that fuckin deep. That said it’s still disgusting, nothing that i wouldn’t expect from the sick fucks at Charlie Hebdo.

    People in this thread : “I’m 14 and this is deep.”

    You’re actually pathetic.

  10. Seems a bit like they wanted to make a crass joke (of course, it’s Charlie Hebdo) about COVID (of course, it’s 2021), and then had problems thinking of a good one.

  11. Unfunny, badly drawn and making no point of value. I’d say it was the normal standard of quality from Hebdo, except on this occasion, they’ve also failed to elicit the usual disgust at how low they can stoop.

  12. Hebdo prove that people can look at a simple cartoon and have different interpretations of the meaning. Some people are “outraged” and calling it “disgusting” when in reality there’s nothing inherently disgusting here. Just goes to show people will form on an opinion on nothing but their personal prejudices.

  13. To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Charlie Hebdo.

    No, for real tho, people can dislike a joke even when they “get it”.

  14. The best thing about Charlie Hebdo is that when their drawings suck and are not funny you can still laugh at people being offended

  15. Message for all the people who keep calling Charlie Hebdo «Hebdo» in this thread.

    *Hebdo* is short for *hebdomadaire*, weekly.
    When one call Charlie Hebdo «*Hebdo*»,it mean one doesn’t know anything about french publications.
    Charlie is not for you, Charlie is for people who understand french language…

  16. 12 of their staff are also leaving more Christmas cake for the rest of us. Isn’t it insensitive that they are not thanking them too?

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