Political Memes

A majority of one particular demographic voted for Trump in the past three elections which PoC and I assume anyone reading this is acutely aware of.

… the school shooter wasn’t voted class president by the students.

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[actualleftist@admin]:

Right. But you can’t have unity/be in coalition with someone who is actively committing a genocide against your family.

Which is part of why democrats lost, especially in Michigan. With its fairly sizable Arab population. Even if they’d managed to win the other swing-states that would have lost the democrats this election.

Why should we not have unity with the Arab People of Michigan?

Please try to keep in mind pointing out the fact that Trump also isn’t in unity with them is not an answer to this question.

If you want to not kneecapping the left, you could start by not slurring progressives as "a fucking opp."

people who vacillate between "I won't vote for genocide" and "why won't the Democrats save us!?

Those aren't conflicting opinions, my guy. These people exist and are actual leftists who want the party to be what they pretend to be

Source: I've fuckin met many IRL, trippy I know

In this analogy, the Republicans are the shooter. Not sure how you can draw the conclusion that anyone is blaming the Dems there.

I'll be the first to call out people for solely blaming the Dems when that's the case. I've been banned from so many Reddit subs for that very thing, which is how I ended up here at Lemmy in the first place. But that's just not the case here. What this image is saying is that the fault of the action (the shooting) lies with the Republicans, and the Democrats (the Uvalde cops) are too cowardly to do anything to stop it. It's a pretty damn accurate description of American politics.

The dems are one of the only groups in the US who (legally) had the power to:

• reduce voter suppression
• fix the electoral system in general (e.g. remove the broken FPTP system)
• stop sabotaging popular candidates
• not choose a senile dementia-sufferer to remain the country's leader for years
• support the worker class instead of the owning class and get their votes (too many things to list)
• support US citizens instead of imperial interests in countries half the population can't plot on a map

For most of these things, they should have been doing this long, long ago, before even Obama's terms. The Democrat Party clearly had the power of the state for more than enough time to make them look like an alternative rather than a complicit ally of the Republican Party. Why should they not be seen as at fault?

did you not read the text in the pic? did it not load for you? lemme transcribe.

"My roommate described Republicans as the mass shooter and Democrats as Uvalde cops, and I can't get it out of my head"

maybe, if you want people to vote for you, you should try fighting for them. maybe, if you want people to vote for them, you shouldn't sacrifice them and sell them out at every opportunity. maybe, if you want people to vote for you, you should take office when you win the election(2000) not betray every promise and ideal that has ever come out of your mouth (2008) and not be a thug who uses the threat of a worse thug to gaslight and collectively abuse a nation being indistinguishable politically from the guy you rolled over for in 2000 (2020).

maybe you could try some sort of harsh fingernails-and-teeth parliamentary resistance? more than one guy, and try not shunning him for it (like you did literally last week). maybe organize armed groups to fight the nazis in the streets? I know, wishful thinking; you would never fight your work friends.

but, you know; you could do something for us. if you want us to vote for you. hell, maybe try just not spending our tax money on murdering children for OTHER nazi shit heads for literally no benefit to us? maybe spend it on building bridges instead. or stimulate the economy by hiring a bunch of local sex workers and partying every night; whatever.

I agree. The Trusk team has got the ball rolling for some of trump's base, but we have to figure out a way to separate the rest from him. I really don't know how at this point. Common sense doesn't work and they never see the people making fun of them because they live in a bubble. It's starting to be too late.