This is just "both sides" with more steps.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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This thread has been fucking great for blocking people who would have insisted, whatever this new Auschwitz thing is, it's just as bad as something Hindenburg did.
Tell me more about how democrats are not like republicans. How they're not owned by the billionaires. How they didn't deport people. How they implemented medical care for all. How they codified Roe.
This is not "both sides" but quite the opposite - there's a good and progressive side (top of the stick) and a depraved and evil side (bottom of the stick). While the parties differ in their demeanor (e.g. civility, rule of law), their goals are quite similar, which is why both are at the same position on the political spectrum.
They weren't planning to round up an entire fifth of the US population and put them in concentration camps.
I feel like that alone counts for a lot. Sorry you seem to disagree.
No. They weren't.
Generic percentage increases to immigration enforcement are not the same as Kristi Noem tweeting about SIXTY-FIVE MILLION PEOPLE, no matter how strongly you feel about the shit we were doing before.
The Idiot is talking about stripping natural-born citizens of that citizenship, and sending them all to cat-food factories in Sudan, and y'all still wanna bicker about Obama catching people crossing the border. Like you can't figure out there's a difference between a little over a million people, across eight years, and every Hispanic in America facing a no-trial black-hood flight to fuckoff nowhere, as soon as practically possible.
The Democrats literally conceded immigration as a national security issue and changed the debate to who could solve it more efficiently in the 2024 elections.
Even before they publicly accepted the Republican framing, Obama built the concentration camps Trump was derided for during his first term.
Oh right, I'm on ML. Where whatever a building is used for now is the fault of whoever built it.
No difference between fighting human trafficking and separating all children from all parents.
No difference between having immigration laws and shipping random brown people to Sudan.
Same same same nuh uh always same.
Obama literally built them as and used them as concentration camps wtf are you talking about. They weren't all encompassing resorts that Trump remodeled.
Trump also claims he's only targeting criminals and human traffickers, the only difference is you rightfully don't believe him, but wrongfully believe the Dems.
It's not the same as always, it's worse under Trump2 than it was under Biden, or even Trump1. If Kamala won, it would also be worse than Trump 1 or Biden, you just wouldn't care. Just like you didn't care when Biden was as bad as Trump1.
The point is not that things are always the same, the point is that both parties serve the same donors and core system and will ultimately do what the system demands of them. That's why the Dems started pushing the same "immigration as a national security" issue, they were manufacturing consent.
That's all we get in memes these days. Shitty modding.
Generous placement on the starred quadrupeds to be honest
I know I'm not getting the metaphor here because to me, this looks like Republicans and Democrats working together to impale fascism using the power societies gain when wielding the "stake" of communism??
Also looks to me like Communism rises above and is better than fascist ideologies. Sounds good to me.
I'm really not sure what the intent was here. Was this made by a Comrade?
It seems to be a play on "horseshoe theory" where libs always place themselves in the middle and leftist and right wingers are on the ends, closer together. With the implication that leftists have "circled back" to facsism.
There is also "Fishhook theory", Where the same principle is true, but more in line with this "stick theory" where the Fishhook places the far right beside liberalism/centrism.
In this one, it's a stick, facsism is at the bottom, Dems and Republicans are just barely above that and communism is at the top. The main difference between this and fish hook is that fish hook relies on the curve coming back to make them close, while stick theory says they are just close period.
I’m really not sure what the intent was here.
Political illiteracy from a hexbear user? That's certainly something I didn't expect.
exactly!