Political Memes

For a moment I was wondering what a veterinarian had anything to do with this

That's always been the goal, the point is more one of commitment. How much are you willing to lose to see your end through?

That's not to say that only those who max out commitment are allowed, just that you should know where your limits lie. Have frank discussions about your limits such that your allies can make contingency plans should your limits be reached, as you would do for those that martyr themselves.

beat me to it. if someone is trying to kill you, you kill them right back.

Luigi is the only example of someone who followed through though.

I was never willing to give my life for anything and that's still true.

This country stands, and right now those values

Which values? Colonialism? Genocide? White supremacy? Enslavement of the global south? Anticommunism? Burgers?

part of what this country stands for is standing agianst tyranny

Bull.shit. I'm Spanish. Go ahead and tell my murdered ancestors during fascism how glad they are that the US had perfect relationships with Franco. Go ask people in Chile what they think of Pinochet and his US-Sponsored fascist coup. Or go ask the progressive leaders of the middle east like Mosaddegh, who were eliminated from power through destabilisation. And that's fucking nothing compared with what the people of Vietnam, Laos or Korea endured during the most intensive bombing campaigns in human history (Laos was bombed by the US with more explosives than the entire explosives used in WW2). Your country IS THE TYRANT, it doesn't stand against tyranny.

Why is lemmy filled with this?

What do you want from this interaction?

Do you want them to feel shame for not seeing the truth you've seen? What are you trying to accomplish?

Things are bad. Things are getting worse. People are learning this in real time, and the endless commentary of "it always has been" and "nothing's new" is not helpful or productive. It doesn't even make sense. People are coming around to your point of view - that things are bad. Maybe, as they learn why and how things are bad, they will learn about some of the things that have always been bad, but they won't learn it from a comment like this.

Things are bad. Things are getting worse. We don't need more cynicism and apathy. We need to help people understand that things are bad, and things are getting worse.

We kind of hoped we were turning over a new leaf. Nope, same fucking leaf. Same rotting monetary elite underneath it all.

Note that the meme doesn't talk about what the United States stood for

It has also stood for resisters, runaways, rebellion, race traitors, class traitors, communist, unionists, socialists, militant farming communities, civil rights protestors, suffregettes, panthers, occupiers, standing rock, bros and whatever comes next to drag this country into something slightly better and closer to its written ideals.