bOtH sIdEs ArE tHe SaMe : politicalmemes

[+] [email protected] -18 points 3 days ago (4 children)

ITT: Americans debating whether choosing between "the ONLY two choices they have" is good or bad, completely forgetting revolts exist and completely disregarding their beloved 2nd amendment.

A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Sounds like you aren't free anymore. You can bitch and moan about only having two choices all you want. If you vote Trump/Kamala/3rd party instead of taking up arms, overthrowing your state government and forcing your state to secede until the elections are changed to no longer be FPTP, then you are tacitly supporting genocide.

But maybe it was really hard to consider such extreme actions. Well, now you know what the anti-genocide choice is. Let's see if you risk your lives to stop your government from being genocidal fucks, or if you're gonna do nothing about it because you've been completely pacified as a nation and are now unable to even consider fighting against tyrants. If you'll excuse me, I'm not gonna hold my breath.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

ITT: Tankies that think the only solution to a non-utopian outcome is to burn everything to the fucking ground.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I legit was thinking of the trolley scenario what I was doing laundry earlier today. Great minds think alike

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[+] [email protected] -12 points 3 days ago (4 children)

You didn't even make this meme correctly.

The point of this is that not pulling the lever leads to more dead but pulling the lever leads to less deaths but due to your action of pulling the lever.

Good job?

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[+] [email protected] -14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Good to see blue MAGA finally admitting they are fascist and evil.

If you seriously think the queer community is supposed to stand on your side, as you actively support genocide, and pretend like they won’t be the next sacrifice needed to SaVe DeMoCrACy….

Lmao

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

✅ - bLuE mAGa

✅ - geNoCiDe!

✅ - inaccurately attributed fascist accusation

✅ - prediction with nothing to support it

✅ - Lmao

Folks, I believe we have reached “socialist” bingo!

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

I was going to make this, but put Palestine before the fork. And then put the person away from the lever refusing to participate when pulling the lever would move it to a track with nobody on it. Or pulling a different lever that does nothing (labeled Jill Stein).

Palestine is and will continue to get run over regardless who wins the presidency, so they aren't exactly relevant to the choice. It's not a real trolley problem because it's not a trade for different people. It's just "let the trolley run over Ukrainians, lgbtq+ people, minorities, and immigrants" or... don't. And then refusing to touch the lever because it somehow makes you "love genocide" to have anything to do with the trolley, even if to mitigate the damage.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

Please also put someone on the trolley with control over the brake and label them: Israeli leaders, military, and citizens. Since the trolley doesn’t actually need to go anywhere, regardless of whether the US track-switching money/arms are sent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Please do, I'd love to be able to just slap that image down whenever "bUt tHe gEnOcIdE!" comes up around here.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Derail the train don't accept a false choice not to mention democrats also are terrible on policing and immigration for example so more should also be on the democrats track.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Either the Dem or Rep nominee will become president. It’s going to happen. There’s no “derailing the train”.

You can doubt me now. You’ll see soon enough.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago

The point is nobody is saved by electoral politics instead do actual organizing and actions.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

No, really. Q says there's a super special session of the real Congress that happens on February 7th with jfk jr presiding to choose the real president, but it only happens if you don't vote. Trust me, bro.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

What's the difference between the first two flags?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Trans flag and the pride flag

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

No, that's the progress flag

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[+] [email protected] -10 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Intentional divisiveness in an attempt to derail the entire movement, and idiots keep taking the bait.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think the flags serve a purpose almost like some form of heraldry when interacting in-group, as a shorthand way to share identity.

But as an outsider, I'm not going to keep track of every variant. I'd prefer there be one generic flag used when presenting to a general audience that is meant to encompass the entirety. And sticking with it. Maybe there already is one that is preferred?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I came to interpret it as more of a general flag for minorities.

Iirc it started to get more traction during the height of the BLM movement around 2020. It's supposed to include BIPoC into the pride movement.

Found a piece talking about it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

A rainbow has every color. That’s the whole point, it’s very simple.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Wtf. I've never seen so many people annoyed that their fellows are protesting genocide. How do you take a situation like this and make it a fucking trolley meme.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Imagine you're strapped to an operating table, incapacitated. There are two other people in the room strapped to tables with you.

In walk two psychopaths, let's call them Al and Bob. They explain to you that they've decided to let the three of you choose your fate: Al wants to chop off your right hand, Bob wants to chop off all four of your limbs. They give you five minutes to decide, and then they'll come back to take a vote, majority decides whether Al or Bob gets their way. If you refuse to vote they'll flip a coin.

Immediately one of the other victims starts saying how terrible Al is and how horrible it is to chop off someone's right hand. Non-stop protesting the inhumanity of Al, how important it is to deny Al the opportunity to take your right hand.

For whatever reason they seem oddly quiet on the fact that Bob also wants to take your right hand, and arm, and the left, and both legs. Whenever you try to interject with that fact, they accuse you of being pro-handchopping and how could you even suggest voting for Al the evil handchopper. And now the other victim seems to be taking this anti-Al rhetoric quite seriously.

Would you find that annoying?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (10 children)

I don’t think people are saying you shouldn’t protest the genocide. You should! But it’s stupid to not vote for Harris over it because letting Trump win doesn’t just throw women, LGBTQ people, etc. under the bus, it also makes the genocide of Palestinians even worse.

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