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[[File:Preferred-pronouns-comic.png|thumb|right|500px|Used here on All The Tropes by the gracious permission of the copyright holder.]]
[[File:Preferred-pronouns-comic.png|thumb|right|500px|Used here on All The Tropes by the gracious permission of the copyright holder.]]
''[http://stonetoss.com/ StoneToss (full title: StoneToss: A Political Cartoon]'' is a webcomic put out by its titular author, on a bi-weekly basis. Its humor is generally oriented around American Politics, social critique, and [[True Art Is Offensive|being offensive in the name of humor]].
'''''[http://stonetoss.com/ StoneToss: A Political Cartoon]''''' (informally known as just ''StoneToss'') is a webcomic put out by its titular author, on a bi-weekly basis. Its humor is generally oriented around American Politics, social critique, and [[True Art Is Offensive|being offensive in the name of humor]].


It's typically drawn using a 4-panel comic format, using a simplistic art style composed of black and white characters with colored background set-pieces. Each comic is very short and typically meant to be a quick read, generally making a simple if offensive point about something and letting the art ask the question "[[Troll|Why so offended?" to the reader]].
It's typically drawn using a 4-panel comic format, using a simplistic art style composed of black and white characters with colored background set-pieces. Each comic is very short and typically meant to be a quick read, generally making a simple if offensive point about something and letting the art ask the question "[[Troll|Why so offended?" to the reader]].


It has often been accused of extreme political bias, particularly being [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazi]] or extreme right in tone, and though [http://stonetoss.com/about/ the author has consistently denied this] and maintained that it's offensive in the name of being funny and nothing more, his public views (courtesy of his social media) are verifiably inline with many views considered alt-right and/or Nazi in either tone or outright stated.
StoneToss has often been accused of extreme political bias, particularly being [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazi]] or extreme right in tone, and though [http://stonetoss.com/about/ the author has consistently denied this] and maintained that it's offensive in the name of being funny and nothing more, his public views (courtesy of his social media) are verifiably inline with many views considered alt-right and/or Nazi in either tone or outright stated.


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** Ironically enough, the above comic both lampoons the trope while feeding into the [[All Gays Are Pedophiles]] trope, so the humor is rather hypocritical.
** Ironically enough, the above comic both lampoons the trope while feeding into the [[All Gays Are Pedophiles]] trope, so the humor is rather hypocritical.
* [[Greedy Jew]]: While Stonetoss has denied being a Nazi, he does have a noticeable contempt of [https://stonetoss.com/comic/look-closely/ supposed wealthy jews] and has a marked degree of disdain for [https://stonetoss.com/comic/money-grubbing/ any aid to Israel].
* [[Greedy Jew]]: While Stonetoss has denied being a Nazi, he does have a noticeable contempt of [https://stonetoss.com/comic/look-closely/ supposed wealthy jews] and has a marked degree of disdain for [https://stonetoss.com/comic/money-grubbing/ any aid to Israel].
* [[Heteronormative Crusader]]: Gays and the transgender get portrayed in a rather unflattering light most of the time, [https://stonetoss.com/comic/tainted-love/ and the author suggests quite often spiting this trope is seen as normal by those the author deems wrong].
* [[Heteronormative Crusader]]: Gay and transgender people are portrayed in a rather unflattering light most of the time, and the author [https://stonetoss.com/comic/tainted-love/ suggests quite often] that spiting this trope is seen as normal by those the author deems wrong.
* [[Hypocrite]]: [http://stonetoss.com/comic/wrecking-class/ Not all people who champion the working class really care about actual workers].
* [[Hypocrite]]: [http://stonetoss.com/comic/wrecking-class/ Not all people who champion the working class really care about actual workers].
** In this commentary on masks [https://stonetoss.com/comic/mask-off/ it's pointed out that the people who hate masks may be doing so more out of spite than principle].
** In this commentary on masks [https://stonetoss.com/comic/mask-off/ it's pointed out that the people who hate masks may be doing so more out of spite than principle].
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