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The “For the better”, also known as Anakin and Padme 4-Panel and Clueless Padme meme. The first panel shows a guy saying “You should vote dem and push them to be better.” The second panel shows another person saying “So you’re going to push them to be better after you vote?”. The third panel shows the first person saying nothing and staring. The last one shows the second person with a concerned look on her face saying “you’re going to push them to be better after you vote?”.
They’re no opposition at all. They’re an organisation of and for the ruling class.
They are the more culturally liberal of the two Wall Street parties, essentially the “good” mobster to the Republican “bad” mobster á la “Vote for me and I’ll try not to make things worse – for now. Or do you want my friend elephant over there to beat you up?”
(Of course they are lying, they are just far more gradual and self-cucking in their reaction)
They are the liberals covering for and collaborating with fascists. They have no issue with concentration border caps and with the pillage, rape and destruction of societies infinitely more valuable and cultured than theirs.
Just put some rainbow and BLM stickers on those bombers and border patrol trucks and everything is good and civilised again; they are the ones that protect you from “the backward barbarians” after all.
But when all that reactionary violence is funnelled inwards as well, when they loose their imperial privilige, they start to whine about “the downfall of our civilisation”.
It disgusts me with such deep disdain, because they are just the keepers of capitalism, holding it nice and warm for as long as they can, until the ruling class requires the backup of fascism to “bring order” back into the world and upon the working class; just so that the cycle can begin again and again and again…
(and also two side rants:
From an older comment of mine:
To quote Malcolm X:
The white liberal is the most dangerous thing in the entire wester hemisphere. He is the most deceitful, he’s like a fox. And a fox is always more dangerous in the forest than the wolf. You can see the wolf coming, you know what he is up to. But the fox will fool you. He comes at you with his mouth shaped in such a way, that even though you see his teeth, you think he is smiling.
All their supposed progress and opposition to capital only reinforces and propels capitalism, alleviating the need for fascism just for a little longer (which arises for the ruling classes when the majority of the population grows disillusioned with their lies, be they conservative or “progressive”). In the end only legitimizing the underlying framework (capitalism), without ever threatening it.
TL;DR: scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds
Just put some rainbow and BLM stickers on those bombers and border patrol trucks and everything is good and civilised again; they are the ones that protect you from “the backward barbarians” after all.
Not the nuance bomb 💀💀
(but muh “both sides”)
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You should vote dem and organize a real non-dem opposition, be it a third party or by getting people organized.
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That’s still better than not voting and not organising
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Well that’s definitely going to happen sooner if you vote Rep.
Voting in our system is like choosing the boss for the final boss fight. So yeah, if you’re in a place where your vote could make a difference, vote Dem, but never stop raising hell.
No, I will do neither and complain on the Internet.
At least with dems nothing changes (like conservatives claim their party is for)
At least with dems nothing changes
the problem with “nothing changes” is that it in fact, does change. wages have stagnated for decades and the cost of living keeps rising, and dems won’t vote to increase minimum wage. meaning dems are actively making things worse for people by doing nothing. dems could have enshrined abortion rights in law, they did nothing and now those rights are lost to a portion of the nation, with plans by republicans to make that nationwide.
I could keep going like this for hours, talking about all the things dems have made worse with their “nothing changes” policy, but I think we all get the idea. nothing changes is nothing more than a policy of slowly making things worse.
I can’t expect better than steady decline from modern voters/politicians
True, I more meant at least things dont get actively worse at the speed they do when mfs like trump are in power
It’s a steady decline tho
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Does tho. It just gets worse slowly.
lefties working together to defeat literal fascism challenge (impossible)
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Exhibit A:
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you’re the one enabling fascist to grab power, but I’m the bootlicker?
sure, dude.
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“I simply chose not to stop the school-shooter when I could, how am I at fault?”
I hope you know that many minorities will suffer greatly or even be killed because you wanted to be morally superior and not support the lesser evil.
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