• hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Choose one:

    • a kick in the balls and a taco.
    • a kick in the balls, acid to the face, and shot in each leg.

    Both sidesists:

    See! See! They’re exactly the same! They’re both gonna kick us in the balls!

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      These metaphors don’t actually explain anything, and are generally used to avoid having to explain, because to do so would be difficult.

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      Is the taco coming from all the immigrants the democrats deported? They even ran on being tougher on immigration than Trump. They deported more people than he did. Is that where the taco is coming from?

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      It really is a reminder of how much western shitlibs don’t consider foreigners human that they would equivocate a modern Holocaust with 'a kick to the balls and a taco"

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        Sometimes I’ll see liberals hating on the left for losing them the election by not voting for the lesser evil and they’ll say “and she’s not even that bad they just don’t like her laugh”.

        Like imagine someone saying the only reason people hate Hitler is because he’s erratic in his speeches.

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          My favourite is when they talk about genocide in Palestine like it’s a bipartisan FOOTNOTE and act smug about it. Even had one in this very thread.

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      Wait but if you’re bluemaga, why do you portray the one where you don’t get trump as worse?

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      Choose one:

      • a polite foreign child crusher
      • a rude foreign child crusher

      Libs:

      How dare you point out that polite people are crushing children? You must think I shouldn’t vote for anyone! It’s very important to never improve things, foreign children be damned!

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        Not that it really matters, because I’m not a liberal, I’m a leftist, but I (and more importantly, my liberal friends) have no problem criticizing democrats for supporting Israel. So go ahead and point that out all you want. I’ll 100% agree with you that they are just as bad as republicans on that issue. The problem I have is when someone reduces the parties down to their stances on one single issue. (In case that wasn’t incredibly obvious from my first comment.)

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          “I don’t agree with Hitler on the death camps, but that’s just one issue, obviously I still support him!”

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          The parties have been reduced down to their stance on this one issue because they can’t even differ there. They both suck on all issues, but a lot of people would still vote for democrats if they could just not commit overt genocide.

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            They “can’t even differ there”? How about republicans want to strip my friends of the right to go into the correct bathroom, or play sports, or have a job, or get the medical care they need, or have the right identifier on their ID, or be treated fairly by their own government. Democrats don’t. That’s a pretty huge difference.

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              Democrats support stripping the right of people to live. Democrats support stripping the right of people not to be raped by dogs. Oh but they’re not your person friends, and you’re the protagonist of reality and people you don’t care about don’t matter

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              Ah yes Democrats famous for giving a shit when roe v Wade was overturned. Democrats whose candidate had one thing about trans people handling persecution: “They should follow the law”
              Democrats whose main takeaway from losing once again was that they were too woke on the gender stuff. They do fuck all about republicans which is the same as supporting it, which a large amount of them do as well. But im sure voting for them despite them working against you and yours will surely result in something good and not at all push them towards even more depraved goals. Like genocide. Which they are committing. I wonder what the next red line will be?

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                So because democrats haven’t stopped republicans from being so shitty when republicans have power, I shouldn’t vote for them, and just let republicans have more power? I’m not following your logic.

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                  You people keep acting as if you’re being told to roll over and accept defeat. Nobody is saying that. What people are saying is “voting for the lesser evil doesn’t work. Its such a dogshit strategy that there isn’t any difference between those two parties anymore.” And somehow you take that to mean there’s nothing to be done. If you are really so hellbent on voting being the only thing you can do, then at least vote for a third party. But really you ought to be doing more than that.

                  The absolute very best case scenario for a democrat is that they do fuck all. Most of them are far worse than that. They are typically doing the exact same shit as republicans, but no one gives a shit because they’re not overt. I am not an accelerationist, so I dont believe its a good idea to concentrate power in the hands of capitalists, so I won’t vote for the more competent managers of empire.

                  In the case of a best-case democrat, you’re also making things worse by voting for them, because your vote legitimises their inaction. Every election were democrats have won has been an election that normalised the monstrous. It didnt use to be like this, that you could just shell out cash for cops and child killers. You didnt use to just be able to hand out massive fracking contracts or senselessly pursue brinksmanship without anyone calling you out for the rabid warhawk that you were. Now it doesn’t matter. John Kerry ran on being the better guy for the war in Iraq. Obama won his second term on the back of all his warmongering. It wasn’t always like this. Decades of the lesser evil has lead us down this path, decades of “well we have to vote for them just this once, its the most important election dont you know” has put us where we are now. It clearly observably does not work.
                  The very best of the democrats is just a republican a few election cycles behind. And most of them are far below par.
                  Voting for them gives them legitimacy, its not a harmless action.

                  And of those that are the very best, they quickly get engulfed and integrated by the machine, turned into the next generation of managers of empire.

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                    I agree with you. I’m in the US and the democrat party was trash and it’s only getting worse. (I’m not a Democrat) So, honestly at this point, thinking about voting third party and trying to do more grassroots stuff. My country needs better and I hate what the US is doing to other countries for wealth and power. It’s honestly disgusting.

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                  Yes, it is clear that you aren’t following the logic. Maybe some context will help: The democrats support republican policies when they are in power.

                  Also, who said that you should “just let the republicans have more power”? I didn’t see anyone even suggest that.

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                  RvW was overturned under the USian dem government, after decades of promising to codify it, and at a time when all of the relevant judges could have just been replaced.

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          • Both bomb kids
          • Both support genocide
          • Both support imperialism and colonialism
          • Both screw over the working class to help out their rich friends
          • Both openly lie about how they are going to fix things
          • Both leverage military and intelligence agencies against their own citizens

          The problem I have is when someone reduces the parties down to their stances on one single issue.

          The “foreign child crusher” in this comic is doing a lot of heavy lifting, for a lot other problems.

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            Democrats are, for the most part, pro union. They are the only ones supporting Medicare for all. They actually support science and education. They support social safety nets like social security and SNAP. They support gun regulations. They support foreign aid. They support safe access to abortions. They support LGBTQ rights.

            Life is demonstrably worse under republican policies for the working class. I’d love it if third parties were an option, but they’re just not. Pretending like things will get better if we just let republicans win is not helping. They are literally turning the US into a fascist police state.

            When one party is fine with me, if a little wary because I’m way further left than they are, and the other part literally wants to kill me and people like me, I see it as a pretty big difference.

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              Joe Biden broke up the rail strike and the democrats have a long history of weakening unions, this is the dumbest most ahistoric shit I’ve read yet.

              Im not gonna bother with the rest of your gish-gallop bullshit except to point out that Roe v. Wade was overturned under a democrat president and it was NEVER codified even when they had run on doing exactly that.

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              Democrats are, for the most part, pro union.

              True, Joe Biden finally ended the Amtrak worker strike—wait that’s not pro-union!

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              They are the only ones supporting Medicare for all.

              Except for Palestinians.

              They support gun regulations.

              Except for Israelis

              They support foreign aid.

              To arm the modern Holocaust.

              Life is demonstrably worse under republican policies for the working class.

              Please demonstrate that the Palestinian working class have it worse.

              They are literally turning the US into a fascist police state.

              The democrats were already supporting the modern Holocaust

              When one party is fine with me, if a little wary because I’m way further left than they are,

              “Genocide is fine with me”

              the other part literally wants to kill me and people like me, I see it as a pretty big difference.

              “Palestinians are objects, not people”

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                All of these are so funny. “They’re turning the us into a fascist police state”
                NEWSFLASH, ASSHOLE! ITS BEEN ONE THE WHOLE TIME. Obama was the one to make the patriot act.

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              Democrats are, for the most part, pro union. They are the only ones supporting Medicare for all. They actually support science and education. They support social safety nets like social security and SNAP. They support gun regulations. They support foreign aid. They support safe access to abortions. They support LGBTQ rights.

              No they dont. They campaign on supporting these things, but when they have power, they don’t do anything about them at best.

              When they had a majority under Biden and Obama, when did they set up Medicare for all? When did they codify abortion rights?

              And lets look at their foreign aid:

              • Support for genocide
              • Support for dictators
              • Support for warlords

              Life is demonstrably worse under republican policies for the working class.

              And life got demonstrably worse under democratic policies for the working class and for people living in other countries.

              Pretending like things will get better if we just let republicans win is not helping. They are literally turning the US into a fascist police state.

              When did I say that we should let republicans win? I’m pretty sure I never did. The democrats are helping the republicans turn the US into a fascist police state. Remember when Obama increased mass surveillance? Remember when Biden increased funding to the military, ICE, DHS, cops, and helped build out the border wall? Remember when they both mass-deported and tortured people?

              When one party is fine with me, if a little wary because I’m way further left than they are, and the other part literally wants to kill me and people like me, I see it as a pretty big difference.

              Well, that may be the difference between us. I’m pretty far to the left of the Democrats, because I think things like rape, torture, and murder are bad. I see both parties actively supporting those things happening to people like me, and people unlike me. But I guess that doesn’t matter to you as long as they aren’t going after you.

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          The meme didn’t say they were the same, they said they both crush children. People gotta come with a list before it’s okay? Not great for memes.

          (It’s not just Palestinian children either btw)

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            The meme heavily implies that the only difference is that one is polite and one is rude, which is not the only difference.

            They both operate the exact same Palestinian child crushing machine, but one also operates a number of additional child crushing machines. People didn’t support the lesser evil because they’re more polite, they do it to keep those additional child crushing machines from operating.

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              Idk, it’s kinda the same to me. It’s just that one doesn’t care about also harming white people for profit. Both candidates are always ass.

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              I’m sorry, do you think, for example, AFRICOM just shuts down during democratic presidencies?

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              You think Palestine is the only Bi-partisan machine? You really need to open a history book. Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Syria and all the rest are all bi-partisan.

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                Eh, the degree varies greatly. And ultimately, bi-partisan machines are irrelevant to the choice. Look at the partisan ones. Which side is operating more partisan machines?

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              I understand why people do it but what I don’t understand is why they are content to continue supporting any child crushing and discourage people from discussing it.

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                Discussing it is fine, I think people only get touchy about it right before an election because they don’t want other people to lose sight of the utility of voting lesser evil. I think the ones who actually think about it don’t support any child crushing, they just recognize that the election has a binary outcome, and they’d rather fight the lesser evil than the greater one.

                At the end of the day, voting in bourgeoisie elections is just choosing the enemy you’ll be fighting, and choosing the lesser child crushing gives you a fight you’re more likely to win.

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                  When else can people put pressure on the lesser evil to “tone down” the evil? Or take the opportunity to ensure folks know about the evil? Isn’t it when things look their worst they say “well actually we need to be slightly more evil to get those swing voters”?

                  Maybe I don’t understand the US system but I believe platforms are individual to candidates and that there are no overall party platforms that the candidates are expected to adhere to. How is there no shift to less evil under these conditions? So many individual elections for individual people and a whole lot of wack people getting elected.

                  and they’d rather fight the lesser evil than the greater one.

                  I think this is my point: when do they fight the lesser evil?

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                    Maybe I don’t understand the US system but I believe platforms are individual to candidates and that there are no overall party platforms that the candidates are expected to adhere to.

                    Sincerely don’t mean to be rude, but the first 7 words provide the answer. Even when there are no official overall party platforms, the eyebrows waggle in a certain direction. Especially where campaign funding is concerned.

                    I think this is my point: when do they fight the lesser evil?

                    I do my part. Many others do too. The fighters are in the minority, which is why it’s so important that the bystanders at least make our work easier.

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      hmm, those both choices you laid out; how do the people outside your country get affected by these elections?

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        Generally, much worse under republicans. Republicans like to start wars.

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          If you are saying this unironically you need to open a history book and look outside your bubble. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, Haiti, former Yugoslavia, Sudan, Gaza, Vietnam, Dominican Republic, Somalia and many many more attacked and or destroyed under democrats.

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          Republicans like to start wars.

          Compared to Democrats? How? Libya, Syria and Yemen were attacked under a Democratic president. In fact, Kamala said that Iran is the greatest threat in the world.

          Or better yet, the escalation of the genocide under Joe Biden? The genocidal monster who loves “Israel” so much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYLNCcLfIkM

          Turns out, outside of Amerika; there is in fact not a single fucking difference between these 2 parties. All you care about is domestic affair concerning your treats. You don’t give a fuck about people outside your area.

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            Turns out, outside of Amerika; there is in fact not a single fucking difference between these 2 parties. All you care about is domestic affair concerning your treats. You don’t give a fuck about people outside your area.

            🫰🫰🫰(That’s snapping btw lol)

            Like I don’t even expect people to overthrow the government tomorrow or whatever. Shit’s scary, I get it. But like, it would be super cool if they could stop aggressively defending the child crushing in front of the world, on the internet. As a start.

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            In my entire lifetime, only republicans have started wars, and only democrats have ended them. I’m almost 40.

            In fact, Kamala said that Iran is the greatest threat in the world.

            And Donald Trump started a war with them.