• WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    90·
    2 days ago

    Can you take a stand against genocide? No

    Can you stop funding Israel? No

    Can you stop sending arms to Israel? No

    Can you stop illegally occupying Palestine? No

    Can we put homeless people in unused homes? No

    Can you do disaster relief? No

    Can COVID tests be affordable? No

    Can the price of food go down? No

    Can there be a jobs guarantee? No

    Can the hiring process be regulated? No

    Can AI be regulated? No

    Can library budgets increase? No

    Can you stop torturing people at the boarder? No

    Can we get bail reform? No

    Can drugs be legal? No

    Can we have high speed rail? No

    Can we expand public transportation in general? No

    Can we break up big tech? No

    Can anything be done about the literacy rate? No

    Can billionaires be made to pay tax? No

    Can copyright be reformed? No

    Can I get healthcare? No

    Can you fix infrastructure? No

    Can you fight climate change? No

    Can you protect LGBT? No

    Can you keep abortion legal? No

    Can you do something about the supreme court? No

    Can you stop violence against immigrants? No

    Can you help struggling minorities? No

    Can you help struggling majority? No

    Can you increase labor protections? No

    Can you help unions? No

    Can you stop war? No

    Can you make city design better? No

    Can I ever afford a house? No

    Can you make student debt less ridiculous? No

    Can you stop creating conflict with China? No

    Can you keep a campaign promise? No

    Can you help with spiraling rent costs? No

    Can you help put the cost of living in line with salaries? No

    Can you stop exploiting the third world? No

    Any social safety nets? No

    Stop underfunding government programs before privatizing them? No

    Arts and athletics in schools? No

    Reduce violence in schools? No

    Defund the police? No

  • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    28·
    2 days ago

    Childish: Accepting that the current system is insufficient and a massive undertaking is necessary if you have any morals whatsoever even if you personally aren’t affected right now.

    Mature: fuck you, got mine, I’m entitled to your vote 🍷

    Childish: Listening to the argument to vote for a candidate who checks none of your boxes and deciding that this time enoughs enough, because that lizard is committing a genocide.

    Mature: Upon hearing the long list of reasons people won’t vote for your candidate, shut your ears and claim they require a perfect candidate who will create world peace.

    Childish: Remembering the many promises the Dems have broken and requiring some sort of actual guarantee they will take action.

    Mature: football-lucyfootball-charlie-brown

    Childish: Having a memory that’s longer than four years

    Mature: This is the most important election of our lifetime!

  • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    74·
    2 days ago

    A complete misuse of the meme format, a dogshit take, and they can’t even finish the meme without frothing at the mouth over leftists who refuse to endorse genocide. Peak lib shit.

  • radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    58·
    2 days ago

    Oh, yeah, this is a democracy. But your vote doesn’t mater for most issues. You have to have genocide and war mongering, no sufficient action on climate change, etc. Your vote is only deciding between Republicans and polite Republicans. You stupid child, how dare you think your vote should have input in terms of what the government does.

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      23·
      2 days ago

      I love how in one breath liberals will scream “voting matters! Republicans want to make it illegal” then in the next breath post memes like this where voting doesn’t matter and you’re simply ticking a box, but that’s a good thing because what are you a child?

      Bluemaga really is the most apt poltical term of the last decade

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    291·
    2 days ago

    “World peace” is implied to be a childish goal here.

    Fucking treat hogs are vicarious ministers of death, praying for wars to watch on screens.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      221·
      2 days ago

      Also what a ridiculous strawman; it’s literally America sending billions of dollars in weapons WILLINGLY to Israel; world peace would require other nations with any power to stop contributing to conflict (even though ironically it’s us behind many of the world’s conflicts), for Israel it’s literally as simple as a call from the president and telling them to stop unless they want to end up like Libya, and to stop sending arms.

      What a very childish strawman. How did our navy end up in (failed) conflict with the Houthis? They didn’t magically teleport there, we sent them there.

      If libs were acting in good faith, they’d yell at Kamala to STFU every time she defends Israel; in fact why don’t they do that? If they’re being intellectually honest, yell at her during her public speeches when she defends Israel to STFU; don’t they want her to win? They should tell her to at least stop standing up for them and hurting her chances.

      What utterly dishonest people.

  • 2812481591 [any, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
    34·
    2 days ago

    I dunno, guys. I only have the energy to vote in one election, and I have a feeling like the election after this one is going to be the most important election of our lifetime.

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    35·
    2 days ago

    no one’s asking for world peace, although leftists acknowledge U.S. role in most of the conflicts.

    The weapons used to kill Palestinians are mainly U.S. made, that’s the problem, the problem is centered on the U.S. and the role its President plays, not some lack of world peace.

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    26·
    2 days ago

    Liberals really are braindead with these kinds of takes, if policies don’t matter then voting for Trump is equally as valid as voting for Harris

    But then liberals screech “hIs pOlIcIies!!!” and when you point out Harris has equal or worse policies then Trump, suddenly its “policies don’t matter, your voting for president not world peace”

    Liberals don’t believe in anything so their entire politics has to center around whatever power demands and how they can consume more comfortably

    • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      The Kingdom of Conscience will be exactly as it is now. Moralists don’t really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child’s toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn’t change – not even incremental change. It is control. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.

    • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Hey it worked for Hillary! (Like the average democrat my memory only goes back four years, but I just saw that tweet about future president, so I guess she was one once)