Yeah, it’s just that in a lot of these stories and threads, at least in the beginning there where things like ‘a French version of MAD’ or something similar. I then looked up the Charlie thing and man like you say it is nothing like MAD.
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Mad Magazine often contains works of pure genius, and while I support the french publications right to publish without facing firebombing.....they aint no Mad Magazine
Then again, considering the differences between American culture (our revolution had no anti-clerical elements, extramarital affairs are still the stuff of scandal, we are the most Christian of developed countries,...) and French culture (whose revolutionaries set up a whore on the episcopal throne in Notre Dame and murdered priests and bishops, regards extramarital affairs as normal, has a level of piety reflected in the joke about Englishmen being congenital agnostics and Frenchmen being congenital atheists,...) I think Charlie Hebdo is “a French version of MAD”.