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[–] [email protected] 136 points 3 months ago (4 children)

This should show everyone clearly, unambiguously, without a doubt that conservatives in America have zero idea what progressivism or leftism is about at all.

It's just words to them. They do NOT care. It's WWE wrestlemania. They want to paint their faces and get swept away in a stageplay and die as heartbroken as the hero if they don't succeed and make all their enemies pay.

We need to like, mass-spam the entire Midwest america with historical romance novels with bodice-ripping sex scenes. I think if more guys just got lost in that shit, we would have a lot less tension and pain in the world.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

We need to like, mass-spam the entire Midwest america with historical romance novels with bodice-ripping sex scenes. I think if more guys just got lost in that shit, we would have a lot less tension and pain in the world.

Doing that to somewhat compensate for harm from romantic chatbots and porn would be absolutely beneficial.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 3 months ago

What's the old Trotskyite joke? Two members, three parties?

[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Man, I can't even agree with myself most days.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm imagining you doing the Gollum thing arguing with yourself about theory and both sides accusing the other of being a revisionist

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wish you were further from the truth.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

And you as well?

[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Unfortunately in this case, it's projection. The right falls in line and they accomplish stuff because of that. The left could really learn from that.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The right falls in line because they're fascists who are afraid of thinking for themselves. Diversity of thought causes discourse, that's a natural fact, but it should be celebrated as a strength. Looking for leftists to shut up and fall in line is like peak "enlightened centrist" thinking.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's fascists, american monarchists, libertarians, religious nuts, the rare fiscally conservative, the 2A'ers, etc.

Who said "leftists to shut up"? Not me. You can bemoan the 2 party system all you want, but it's what's here. The way for the left to be actually effective in achieving at least some of its goals is to give Dems consistent and overwhelming victories.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Who said “leftists to shut up”?

People talking shit

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They definitely can. It's been off putting lately that the left has a check list that I have to hit every mark on to not be seen as a right winger.

There are leftist who are Christian. There are leftists who are against abortion, but understand that education and reproductive health (including allowing abortions) is an important and productive way to reduce abortions, instead of bans. There are leftists who are still traditional, holding morals and ethics that aren't fluid but also not rigid.

No one is truly happy about their political choices. Except for the insane 1/3 of Americans on the Maga train maybe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (5 children)

If the left were even a fraction as organized as claimed, Bernie would have blown the primary out in 2016 and ridden into the whitehouse with solid majorities in both houses.

It honestly roils me how impotent the left is, because an active organized left could grab this country by the balls and drag it into a whole new era, but all we have is a million headed hydra with each neck pulling in a different direction because nobody can get over themselves for long enough to fall in line behind a common objective.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, a lot of the stuff that the "Left" fails on seems to be because it hits "well it's not exactly perfect and good for absolutely anybody do we're not gonna do it"

Whereas the "Right" is basically 'well it came from my guy so... seems good'

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They're poor that's why.

Uneducated, low resources, no time, no money or means.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (15 children)

The Left as a single monolith is the work of fiction.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

True. But it needs to be one to be an effective boogeyman in a speech like this.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There's no division like leftist unity

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I once got interested like a bored person with a special interest in 70s sci-fi, Asimov, Star Wars, Wiener's "Cybernetics", all those aesthetics. Because leftist ideologies are kinda associated with them.

You come to trots, they seem fine and tolerant (they even consider tolerance and humanism as their main difference from stalinists), until you mention anarcho-syndicalism as something normal or ask questions (in the spirit of normal brainstorm) about the ideal society they describe in their articles. Here they either become hostile or ghost you.

Cause it's their (trots) fucking religion that every cook can guide a state, that a military of a trot state looks like every adult having a gun at home, and in case of war them all assembling, making a shot each and going home (quoting that Swiss joke).

And that their direct democracy and planning system too should not be really designed. Some "modern technologies" will do that.

They are just not interested in discussing how to actually build that shit. Only in the daily activity of a couple of obscure trade unions and in hating "the rich" or/and "the bourgeoisie".

You come to ansyns, they react like "you're already one of us if you want, now get off us, we're not interested in that shit".

You come to ancoms, admittedly some conversations are interesting, but talking specifics with them is like Napoleon going into Russia - the conversation seems to be going on, but you're increasingly feeling that you're getting lost without gaining anything.

You come to stalinists, they tell you your opinions will be considered when they kill everyone they don't like.

You come to usual left anarchists and may get a good conversation occasionally, but in the end realize that they are mostly interested in their hydroponic farms.

YMMV, but I don't see much consolidation.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Every time a right wing pundit talks about the left wing hive mind it's a clear tell that they have no understanding of their political rivals at all..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

"The united front tactic is simply an initiative whereby the communists propose to join with all workers belonging to other parties and groups and all unaligned workers in a common struggle to defend the immediate, basic interests of the working class against the bourgeoisie." - 4th World Congress of the Communist International

Basically the thing Trump does where he hears some antiquated information and then his brain re-interprets it into a pre-school level understanding.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That sounds like something somebody would say if they knew absolutely nothing about the Left (or were just trying to scare/motivate their own base). The Left are ok-ish at organizing when they’re motivated enough, but they can barely agree on anything and will find any excuse to get into a fight with each other. You’ve got people on the Left willing to virtue-signal about Israel, vote third party and lose the presidency to Trump, a candidate who would make things demonstrably worse for Palestinians and would likely increase aid to Israel and remove any lukewarm constraints that the current administration is limp-wristidly raising. Meanwhile, Republicans will overlook any of the hundreds of things wrong with their candidate and compromise any values they’ve had, just to elect the biggest shit stain in history because they know he’ll make the other side feel bad.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

(or were just trying to scare/motivate their own base)

DingDingDing we have a WINNER!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, I guess we do have one common goal, make life better for everyone?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, it's make everyone's quality of life better! /j

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[–] explodicle 6 points 3 months ago

Honestly I expect life to get worse for 0.1% of people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Somewhere...a gaggle of dickless, peaked-in-highschool, douchenozzles wearing underarmor fReEdOm tshirts popped a blood vessel in their eye from getting so enraged that someone suggested minorities get closer to the number of rights and freedoms they have.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Funnily enough, many online leftists think something similar is true for the right.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The right may not have great organization, but they have an astounding ability to put their blinders on for the Ten Minutes' Hate when it's called for. The right's problem is that when they smell blood in the water, THEN the unity falls apart. It's power games for them.

Parts of the left, or what passes for it in this country, would prefer martyrdom to cooperating with heretics.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

This is because "the left" tries to unite groups that ultimately are at odds with each other. Anarchists of all types work very well with each other usually, but not with Auth left because they have bad praxis and care about being in control of the movement. Likewise it's difficult to align with social democrats who think electoralism and reformism is a solution and stifle direct action.

Likewise Auth left and social democrats tend to infight, even within themselves, because their hierarchical praxis causes power play friction.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (8 children)

It's simpler than that - the left has principles, while the right has unity and message discipline driven by deference to authority, a victim complex fear, hate, and thirst for power.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I take great offense in you saying that tankies and socdems infight, lol. (I mean, I get it, they are both statists, but I feel on a emotional level most socdems feel more for anarchism than for leninism.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I would be an anarchist if I weren't socdem. The problem with anarchism is that it only works on a very small scale, where people know each other well enough to work on mutual understanding. That wouldn't work on a very large scale due to people having their own ideas. I was told before that anarchism is basically the norm for most of human history and thus it could be implemented. Well, look around, aren't we already living in anarchism under the nation-state model? Even though there is the United Nations, most of their power is non-binding and could easily be ignored by a more powerful member. And thus we are already living in anarchism; and it's not working as idealised.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I'm more anarchistic in personal beliefs but am willing to embrace social democrats to get some benefit.

The idea of the greatest social good for the largest group is more important than trusting everyone to follow the correct policies when given power. I also personally think that state power is incompatible with anarchist beliefs.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Well if meant to in the context of the occasional big tent movements. I don't think most socdems think much about anarchists at all except when it comes time to scold us for not voting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Yes, and I think that when together in a big tent, socdems would associate more easily with anarchists than with leninists. Especially with syndicalists, for example.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

If that were true, Trump would have never had a chance to become president in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Organized left = isn't part of the cult

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Meanwhile there are 3 fractions for each 2 left wing people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I'd say fuckers problem isn't that we are organized but maybe; we're not a bunch of rock sucker's mixed in with a bag'o'rascists.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

You’re just saying that because of the time the communists took a break from a revolution against monarchists to shoot at other communists. Or because of the other time they did that

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Well, I think that there's actually something to this. I've been involved in a lot of organizing spaces, and there's this "our backs are all up against a wall so we have to work towards a common goal of achieving a workers state and not dying due to climate change" vibe going around lately.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As usual this isn't something to be taken as an observation of reality, but an attempt to create a reality for conservatives to be afraid of...

It's "the big bad left" all organized like an army ready to steamroll your beautiful conservative values! Of course it has no bearing in reality, but that's not the point. The point as always with them is "be afraid of the left!!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can't have a conspiracy theory if you see your so-called oppressors as atomized, alienated, confused, and largely helpless.

But then the trick fascists always pull is to describe their enemy as simultaneously weak and strong, brilliant and foolish, hyper-surveillant and utterly blind.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

That's a lot of words to say "absolutely not dysfunctional"

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