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TrismegistusMx ( TrismegistusMx@slrpnk.net )  to Memes@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

Remember, if Fascism wins it is YOUR FAULT.

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Remember, if Fascism wins it is YOUR FAULT.

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TrismegistusMx ( TrismegistusMx@slrpnk.net )  to Memes@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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  • db2 ( db2@sopuli.xyz ) 
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    That image is more telling than you intended it to be.

    • TrismegistusMx ( TrismegistusMx@slrpnk.net ) OP
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      Maybe you’re misreading my intention. The image is supposed to convey that the Democrats use Republicans as a threat so they can stay in power, and the frayed rope represents them losing control. What did you think I was trying to say?

      • CylustheVirus ( CylustheVirus@beehaw.org ) 
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        Oh we understand. It just means you’re not worth talking to.

        • TrismegistusMx ( TrismegistusMx@slrpnk.net ) OP
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          Removed by mod

        • explodicle ( explodicle@local106.com ) 
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          But you just replied to them

      • kpw ( kpw@kbin.social ) 
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        Yes, the Republican party is controlled by the Democrats so they can use them as a threat. Makes perfect sense now, there’s no other explanation.

        • TrismegistusMx ( TrismegistusMx@slrpnk.net ) OP
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          The Democrats and Republicans work together to make sure you don’t have any meaningful choice. The Republicans don’t know that they’re being controlled because they have only the politics of hatred and destruction. Democrats keep them around for the appearance of civility.

        • cecinestpasunbot ( cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml ) 
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          Saying the Democrats control the republicans is silly but saying that they use the republicans as a threat to stay in power is indisputable. They literally funded pro trump candidates in republican primaries under the assumption they would be easier to beat in the general election.

      • db2 ( db2@sopuli.xyz ) 
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        That’s what I thought you meant, the image implies they’re the same thing wearing different masks. The elephant is the weapon, the donkey is the one using it. In other words, a one party system pretending to be two.

        • ShrimpsIsBugs ( ShrimpsIsBugs@feddit.de ) 
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          What? I’m really not into us politics and also it’s pretty clear that the two party system is shit, but I never got the feeling that the two parties are similar in any way?

          • knightly the Sneptaur ( knightly@pawb.social ) 
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            They have a lot more similarities than differences:

            • Scary_le_Poo ( Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ) 
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              What the actual hell is this?

              Misleading and full of bunk. The two parties are very far from one another, regardless of what this guy’s cute little graphic says.

              • knightly the Sneptaur ( knightly@pawb.social ) 
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                Say I’m a single-issue voter for nuclear disarmament, which party represents my interest?

                • Scary_le_Poo ( Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ) 
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                  Clearly the Democrats (specifically progressives) align most closely with what you want.

                  • knightly the Sneptaur ( knightly@pawb.social ) 
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                    Cool story, bro.

      • But Class War [Illinois] ( But_Class_War@midwest.social ) 
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        That’s an actual liberal stance I see thrown around way too often so without a /s or some other explicit commentary I can understand why the post would be taken at face value or without assuming there’s an implied sentiment.

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          Maybe I put too much trust in the audience, but I wanted it to accurately depict liberal ideology while subtly undermining its hypocrisy.

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            The fact that you think that image accurately depicts liberal ideology is enough to dismiss this out of hand. A moment-in-time choice of vote is as indicative of an ideology as comparing weather to climate. And equating the vote against literal fascists, openly and with pride working to dismantle the republic and install an autocracy, as being a scare tactic just to stay in power is as small-minded as I seem to, disappointingly, expect from the internet.

            But I understand all that if you’re spoon-fed that from your choice of news outlets, it gives you less to think about and more to “meme” about.

            • TrismegistusMx ( TrismegistusMx@slrpnk.net ) OP
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              Where do you see any news outlets expressing that the Republicans are the threat used by Democrats to control the population? Even your attacks are disingenuous.

              • ulkesh ( ulkesh@beehaw.org ) 
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                I never once said anything about “control the population.” Clearly you are doing exactly what idiot conservatives do — make shit up. Have fun living in the bubble of nonsense and intellectual mediocrity.

                • TrismegistusMx ( TrismegistusMx@slrpnk.net ) OP
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                  I didn’t say you said that. Work on your reading comprehension. The idea that the Republicans are the threat used by the Democrats to control the population is the basis of MY meme.

          • But Class War [Illinois] ( But_Class_War@midwest.social ) 
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            I feel that, like if a lib had posted this then they’d have been sincere about it but it was you posting it so we all know what’s up

            • TrismegistusMx ( TrismegistusMx@slrpnk.net ) OP
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              I think the frayed rope is the difference. A lib would put an unbreakable chain on the elephant.

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      A Bell, Book, and Chicken in a Hatbox

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