i never learn. bye
What did they want to teach us? 🤔
Removed Comment tankies is the latest word libs learned to call everyone to the left of joe biden; marxists and anarchists by Diva (she/her) @lemmy.ml reason: misinformation
Weird that isn’t misinformation
Incredible badge of honor, wear it proudly
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All the liberals who make these punch left memes including trans people are never trans themselves.
Also all the liberals who make the punch left memes including black or brown people are almost never black or brown themselves. In my experience.
It’s always a white cishet dude trying to use some group he’s not actually part of as a political bludgeon against the people he hates the most, anyone to the left of him. It’s incredibly disingenuous and they only see marginalised peoples through the lens of their political usefulness as a weapon to wield. To this guy, I am a means instead of an end.
More like Red guy: “I want to arrest trans people.” Blue guy: “I also want to arrest trans people, but current polling states that is a bad look so I’ll let red guy do it even if I’m in power so I can pretend to be blameless.”
The BlueMAGA CHUD who made this: “If you don’t vote my team I’m going to be cheering as you’re dragged off to the camps you disgusting untermensch!”
I have seen this meme comic before and I fucking hate it with a burning passion. All I have seen of USian trans people is they themselves talking mad shit about the Dems, trans people are not mindless sheep that is influenced by someone out of nowhere, this is just an incredible infantilization and yet again using us as scapegoats as if the Dems are not a bunch of pieces of shit, libs can go to hell.
Also note that the comic is doing that smug, obnoxious lib thing of posting the marginalized group as being outside and separate from the radical left. Of course, trans people couldn’t possibly be active and influential figures within the left, it’s all Bernie Bros!
Yeah that too, the huge amount of trans commies I see online is surely just bots to these people and doesn’t exist irl lmao.
I didn’t even realise that angle, yeah it does the same liberal thing of treating all minorities as completely powerless little children in need of guidance by the democrats, not just talking over them, but denying that they even have thoughts and opinions of their own. They either agree with the democrats or they have been “tricked”.
It got locked before I got my dunk in ):<<<<<<<
Anyways I’ll just note it here: Where’s those trans rights they’re promising when a lot of democrats have been running with the transphobic culture war narratives that actively consider trans people to be the incorrect gender, like “Men shouldn’t be in the women’s bathroom”?
And for what too? In hopes the public will be all “well shucks, y’all dems ain’t so bad after all!”
I know that not all dems are naive, and instead just chuds in blue, but it’s like abusers. Republicans have the same moral deficiencies as abusers. They aren’t holding back now. They already think we (minorities and anyone to the left of them) are scum unworthy of life and at best can be allowed to live to be their punching bags. If we just complied, chuds are masters of manipulation and will have anyone gullible enough to believe them that chuds are the victims and we’re the bad guys.
Lmao they bad faith our criticisms so much it’s actually one of the strongest tells that the liberals hate the left more than the right.
Watch them twist themselves into knots to cater to the unsatisfiable cravings of the right, from abortion to gay rights to foreign policy. I could go on. Nothing has rehabilitatated right wing bullshit like centrist left punching and cowering to right wing framing
Lmao they bad faith our criticisms so much it’s actually one of the strongest tells that the liberals hate the left more than the right.
They can look at a right winger who says really obviously wrong and hideous shit and point out why it is wrong, it makes them feel smart and moral. But a left winger makes arguments that they can’t easily debunk or criticize, and this pushes them dangerously close to self-awareness, so they have to strawman and vilify leftists to protect their ego.
It’s because leftists are small in numbers and are comprised of the marginalized. Liberals, being the effete cowards that they are, find it easier to pop off on us to blow some steam from getting their ass beat all day
On the one hand: Yes, go to the ballot and vote blue. Even if they’re 99% Hitler. If you think you have “nothing to lose”, go look at Syria or Russia. ‘The worst the Republicans could do’ is worse than you can imagine.
Hey, uh quick question? Who is it that couped Syria again?
Or for that matter, how did Putin come to power? Guy is the hand-picked successor to Yeltsin, wonder who helped that guy come, and stay, into power?
Well that’s obvious, it was Stalin, who in his will ordered all future dictators of the USSR to be the most evil man they can find.
The universe is a cause-less and effect-less monad that was created in its present form yesterday, so nobody.
Alternatively, various ethnic groups have been fighting over the region for thousands of years, so it’s impossible to say.
Alternatively, various ethnic groups have been fighting over the region for thousands of years, so it’s impossible to say.
Wild how many liberals are so incurious they actually use this as justification. I remember like 20 years ago when I was studying Iran-CONTRA for a sociology final project and it led me to digging into wider regional conflicts and then digging into the history of Israel and it took all of a couple hours to trace back to its founding and then the Nakba in 1948 and I was like “hey wait a minute this isn’t that complicated at all, it’s just more European settler colonial shit”.
I still can’t get over the “99% Hitler” thing. It’s like saying “I understand we live under fascism, but as long as I’ve personally done the absolute minimum to make things slightly less-worst, then I can feel like I’ve done my part” and the logic kinda works for them because any% Hitler is only a threat to them emotionally. But anyone who questions the premise or takes further action beyond voting is just a massive threat to their self-conception, and needs to be silenced.
I know this is a freezer-burnt take but apparently we’re still doing 2016 discourse so I guess it’s the place for it.
I still can’t get over the “99% Hitler” thing.
It’s surreal isn’t it? Like that was a joke that they would vote for 99% hitler and now they are out just fucking saying “yes we need you to vote for hitler”. Wall, all of them.
I keep forgetting we’re coming up on midterm season in the US
ugh
Didn’t the blue party in California just veto some trans healthcare and protection legislation? Libs literally just make shit up and pretend it’s reality
Gruesome Newsom is spearheading a transphobic Dem normalization push
Yes, and several dem candidates for the midterms have ran anti-trans ads, especially when it comes to sports bans - the classic entry point for wider transphobic sentiment, as it seems like a minor issue at a superficial glance, but fully necessitates buying into the central premise of not recognizing trans people in our lived gender. They’re now at the point were some of them have switched from talking about trans women in women’s sports to the GOP wording of “men in women’s sports”, which should make it abundantly clear how this will continue
The grownups are in the room sweaty
They proudly talk about voting for 99% Hitler, but tell them that makes them 99% a nazi and they 100% lose their shit
go look at Syria or Russia
foreign policy outcomes that the democrats supported and had full participation in???
red line in LibyaSyria
Cw: anti-veganism, implied torture.
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"For dinner you can pick between overcooked turkey, or a bowl aged horse urine, children’s fingers, and broken glass. You have to eat one of them.”
“Neither option is vegan and the turkey is dry, so it doesn’t matter which one I eat .”
Huh? If you’re vegan then both of those options are equally disgusting to you and you’d probably choose to skip this meal
One of those is clearly worse than the other. Yeah - neither is a vegan option, but they’re the only choices. That means that whether or not they’re vegan doesn’t matter.
The last part of the prompt is that you have to eat one of them. Because that’s what a general election is. You’ll end up having one of those meals going down your throat no matter what. Refusing to choose is essentially choosing cannibalism and eating broken glass.
Deciding not to vote because one issue you care about isn’t on the ballot is choosing to let the world burn. The world has a lot of problems, and ignoring them all in order to continue not fixing one is idiotic
It’s incredible levels of telling on yourself to say that you live in a superior society because you have individual liberties and a say in your government and then turn around and argue that your only rational choices are between two degrees of moral unacceptability. And it seems like this should be a really simple and obvious observation and yet it somehow keeps sailing over the heads of these galoots.
Refusing to choose is essentially choosing cannibalism
Liberals need to learn words like coercion or “choice made under duress” maybe. The analogy given there is torture, so no choice is actually being made. Also liberals always do this thing where they assume the democrats are simply, on their face, better than republicans and everyone simply agrees with this. The last democratic president committed genocide and let Roe v Wade get overturned.
I’ve seen people make this sort of argument against the libs in the past, usually with a “would you rather eat dog shit, or dog shit with broken glass in it?” and the correct answer is obviously neither of them because neither of them are edible. But I see they’ve tried to defang the argument and put it into terms where it is actually a positive when you push for reprehensible things, because the other guy is worse, just like they did with the trolley problem.
It’s becoming a weird, kinda gauche game of Would you rather?
Yeah, it’s an absolutely terrible analogy because in real life
is a valid reason not to eat the turkey. They even realize that in their own reply when suddenly it doesn’t matter that they’re not vegan.Of course, that lib probably chose that for a reason because they think ”vegans are annoying”.
The way they describe the second option like that is pretty disturbing to say the least.
There’s a darkly comedic tension between the lurid imagery used to render one of the main parties and the stubborn insistence that the system in which those obvious monsters are embedded and allowed to hold power is the best we can expect to get.
Actually, I want as many people as possible to live
The USA and others are making that very, very difficult
I don’t want everyone in the US to die. I live here.
It is the fossil fuel capitalists, and the AI boosters who aim to undo all green energy progress who are literally trying to kill everyone in the world.
Yeah but that’s just for money so it doesn’t count, it’s not political
Nooooo that’s a load-bearing boot on your neck, you can’t disturb it or else the sky will fall.
The amount of confidence and ignorance someone from the heart of the empire needs to have to churn such phrase as if their country is not the reason the global south is fucked to begin with is incomprehensible to me, the hypocrisy is truly incredible.
I want for ZILtoid1991 what he wants for Palestinian children
Transphobes absolutely get the bullet, starting with those that make memes that weaponize the democrat’s former lip service to trans rights less than a month after they openly declared transphobia a bipartisan issue.
tankies first and foremost want to see the US and its citizens die, for shits and giggles
Actually, I want as many people as possible to live
I never said those lives were exclusively yankees
“We should change the system of property relationships that creates endless violence against social minorities.”
“I’m not even going to consider the possibility of actually addressing the root causes of the issue I claim to care about. I hope you all get killed.”
“my enemies are inherently evil, not a product of material conditions and propaganda. So we just need to vote harder.”
Trans people: “Rights pls!”
The dem party base: “Rights pls!”
The Democratic Party: “Nooooo! The super cool GOP will make fun of us online! What will the Republicans think of us?”
The GOP: “I will ignore the Democratic Party’s move to the right to make us more comfortable, not appreciate it, and accuse trans people of being worse than Epstein!”
