Are they parodying other comics though, or is this said in earnest?

You sound like you need a hug.

Political cartoons are typically like this. The one you're replying to is a really old one I think.

If you remove the word Internet it would be timeless and I would have assumed it was made a hundred years ago.

Nah, just drunk and being an asshole. Sorry, not trying to actually upset you. The world is shitty enough without extra douchebag going on.

Have you taken a history class in high school? They teach about political cartoons and how they were the memes before memes. Memes have lots of text just like these cartoons.

Well maybe they don't teach you if you're in a red state, but all AP History classes should at least have that covered.

Damn those meddling terrorism kids.

First, I'm not in the US.

Second, that may be the way things are done, but that doesn't make them good.

Does anybody know when this was published? Best I could find was people calling it old 10 years ago.

Fair I shouldn't have assumed.

But these are the rules of a political cartoon. Like how there are rules for a Haiku.
These aren't as stringent but that's the general idea.