{"id":4196,"date":"2024-10-11T08:34:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T12:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4196"},"modified":"2024-10-11T08:34:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T12:34:45","slug":"this-is-awkward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4196","title":{"rendered":"This Is Awkward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/JPA466.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"413\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/JPA466.jpg\" alt=\"This Is Awkward\" class=\"wp-image-4197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/JPA466.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/JPA466-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not only plausible but entirely predictable that Elon Musk would fire somebody for a perceived insult. This self-styled defender of the First Amendment&#8217;s free speech protections has proven himself time and again a vengeful snowflake when it comes to contrary opinions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the logical fallacy I could not resolve in the cartoon is that Musk cannot fire a union worker because he would never employ a union worker. It&#8217;s a conundrum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you know what? A union worker with any sort of admiration for Musk (or Musk&#8217;s preferred presidential candidate) defies all logic, too. So by these bizzarro-world standards, I may just be on solid ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not only plausible but entirely predictable that Elon Musk would fire somebody for a perceived insult. This self-styled defender of the First Amendment&#8217;s free speech protections has proven himself time and again a vengeful snowflake when it comes to contrary opinions. However, the logical fallacy I could not resolve in the cartoon is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4198,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions\/4198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}