The last few decades of politics
Glad they're taking off the gloves a little, but it's always been a non-option to just make our lives significantly and irrevocably better like M4A or the PRO act and although they're good at trying and failing, they never talk about the consequences as dire as they actually are with few exceptions.
Bernie is the one with the camera.
Which makes all of us George Floyd.
US politics is literally Kafkaesque. You have an opposition party who refuse to be an opposition party.
Not really... it's just your garden variety corruption. They're both owned by the same ultra-wealthy corporations and individuals, so of course they're both doing the bidding of their owners.
Going to hell for smiling now, 🤦♀️
Also, picking the least shitty option is always better than being ok with the shitty option. If you want better options then go start actively volunteering for a good option.
Ok, and when they ratfuck the good option and instead give you republican-lite?
Learn what they did and work against it? Strategies change all the time.
Being ok with the republican choice is accelerationism, which always fucks over everybody.
start firearms training and put an antifa patch on your denim jacket, join an anarchist reading club and start talking about Mao's policies at family functions.
too bad people wont wake up from that, if it stays the same, maybe a couple of cyle of republican elections, would finally wake people up, because republicans always made sure the ticking time bombs that set in place is always the blame of the dems
Then maybe the Dems should stop building the bombs, and handing them to the Republicans.
It's quite literally worse. Chauvin faced consequences.
only after world wide pressure, most don’t get that
Took me a minute to get the context of what I was looking at. I was going to ask what the LEO on the left side was doing.... Then.... Yeah. I don't even know that motherfuckers name. I also don't care to. Fuck him.
He's in prison.
Good. I hope he gets the Epstein treatment.
The democrats are more active than that.
look at Harris’ proposal for Medicare for all: co-opting progressive terminology and proposing a system that ultimately keeps our disgustingly fractured system of wasteful and redundant privatized administrative bureaucracy. Only now there would be a two lane system where the rich class have better doctors and care while the poor “technically have insurance”, just with long wait times and shittier doctors and facilities. If you think this wouldn’t be the case literally talk to anyone currently on Medicaid just about finding a provider.
The poor would now technically have Medicare but overall will be bitter about how terrible their experience is, giving ammo to the right to fuel us towards fascism, the democrats get to go on about their “healthcare win”that doesn’t really fix anything of substance for 99% of people, and even more tax dollars are funneled into top donors like Aetna and Cigna. Win win (except for the worker class, once most jobs stop providing insurance to anyone outside of upper management/executives as a perk to cut costs since “you have Medicare now” and material conditions are worsened significantly for 60+% of us).
It’s a more substantial version of the individual mandate from obamacare. Technically everyone gets insurance now, but at increased cost to you, which makes people resentful (especially young people) and accelerates adoption of the right wing politics on a single issue for politically apathetic voters (I never voted but now I’m voting republican bc Obama forced me to buy $200/mo health insurance and then the republicans got rid of that), doesnt actually fix any of the pricing or complexity issues, and funnels tons of cash to key donors (see the “forcing to buy insurance with stuff tax penalties for not doing so” bit). A half baked solution compromised by their inability to do literally anything on behalf of their constituents before their donors
It would be a more accurate depiction if the other cop was like handing the murderer a weapon going “don’t worry, this will help you because then it won’t be as painful, I’m on your side really”
Someone actually talking sense in this sub instead of spouting reactionary tripe. Rare sight.
What I always appreciate about this meme is that they picked Tou Thao to represent the Dem platform to Chauvin's Republican. Thao famously denied any wrongdoing up to sentencing and described himself as a human traffic cone. As a result, he got a worse sentence than even other officers who put hands on Mr. Floyd(though not as bad as Chauvin of course). It really gives it layers.
You know what they say - it's not stupid if it works...
What, are you going to vote for the guy who will put his knee on your throat and murder you? No, of course not. You should vote for not that, because not that will not do that and if someone else does, they will glare disapprovingly from a safe distance, secretly appreciating that it isn't them being murdered.
Democrats. We're not actively evil.
Simpsons in 1994:
If it gets really bad, Chuck Schumer will write a stern letter and Cory Booker will, like... stand in one spot for a long time talking about stuff.
And yet, if I have a choice to be policed by Chauvin or Thao, there is no question that I choose Thao.
Yes, the ultimate goal is to deprive both of these men of their power. But for that to happen we need Chauvin to take his knee off our neck.
This is barely a metaphor by the way. Since Trump pardoned Chauvin and the Democrats didn’t.Evidently I must have been thinking of another pardon.No you need the guy with the camera to set it down and throw a fucking Molotov.
Become ungovernable. We already live in a police state.
You know we need to destroy the power of both
trump hasn't pardoned chauvin from my research as a note.
He's garbage and his entire administration is collectively like Darth Vader huffing spray paint.
In case you choose Thao you get same course but in slow pace. The whole Trump thingy just accelerated things and showed the real faces of current politicians not only in us but worldwide
That's a nice false dichotomy you made there.
Except they are actively evil they don't just ignore Republican actions it wasn't like Biden was looking the other way when murder by police officers was reaching record highs and Israel was commiting a genocide with his support or Obama was looking the other way when millions are violently deported and many others blown up at weddings by drone strikes. They commit plenty of active evil themselves.
That's an inspiring bumper sticker. NOT.
Unfortunately, it seems to be the entire Democratic strategy since 2000.
Goes way back before that. Carter was unable to get the DNC leadership support for budgets or reforms. And Carter was barely left of center. In fact, Ted Kennedy challenged him for the presidential nomination in 1980, with Kennnedy running as a more liberal candidate. Kennedy lost, of course, and then Carter lost to Reagan.
First comment I see today and not a wall of text is a word salad 🥗
The irony of using terrible grammar to complain about word salad
Occasionally, you might not understand what someone is saying or satirizing as you aren’t familiar with their style or substance. And that’s fine. So is admitting to it in a comment! But doing it so dismissively is rude, and paints you as an *80’s teen movie bully
Makes sense to me, it's even punctuated accurately and effectively outlines the premise of the meme. It's just a sentence you have to slow down and turn off your "internet scroller" brain for a moment and use your "communication" brain.
If you can't understand them, thats on you.
BoTh SiDeS
Are you saying I'm saying that, or are you mocking people who say that?