The Jan 6 insurrection was both Antifa leftwing crisis actors and also patriotic Americans doing the right thing.
That’s my favorite paradox so far!
Joe Biden is running an international money laundering operation with Ukraine right under our noses.
Joe Biden is senile and doesn’t know where he is or put together complete sentences.
Well… which one is it?
both actually
“The Left is everyone we don’t like.”
And the “liberal news media” controls all the information. You know, that media that is all owned by about six corporations.
Look up “news consolidation” sometime. In the 1980s, all the news outlets were ultimately owned by about 30-40 companies.
Honestly I wish the proud rigged market capitalists who don’t believe in progressive wealth redistribution, or a society with any equity, would stop calling themselves the “left.”
It’s nice that you support 2 homeless people being allowed to get married regardless of gender identity and live in the same refrigerator box in the same gutter, but the fact remains that no one should be homeless in a society that generates such wealth. This neoliberal mindset shouldn’t pass for left-wing. Our entire effective political spectrum has been reduced to “give rich people all the money and let people do what they want socially” and “give the rich people all the money and torture any non-white conservative Christians socially.”
And yes, i’m voting for Biden to stave off Jerry Lewis Hitler, just as I did last time and Clinton before, full well knowing it solves nothing and only slows the rate of descent into oligarchal madness and dystopia. It’s just voting to keep the water pumps running on the Titanic, it buys time, it is not a path to survival in itself.
USA is a multi-party democracy, and as such laws and programs need to be approved by representatives with opposing views. Currently, republican governors are refusing to accept free federal money to feed children. There is absolutely no way they care about giving the homeless homes. I absolutely agree with you that this is an “orphan crushing machine” issue but unless the GOP implodes we’re not going to have such progressive policies.
Then we will fall to fascism in the near future. Maybe not this election, but soon.
You can’t get people en masse to support you on the message of “Your tangible situation will continue to be horrible, but letting those guys win will cause unimaginably worse horror” cycle after cycle and continue to get them to care, and it is understandable to for them to eventually wash their hands of it, because at the end of the day, voting associates you with this system, and it feels dirty to participate because it makes it feel like you bear responsibility for what a Faustian bargain it is every cycle.
I will keep showing up with a funeral dirge in my heart to vote for the lesser evil and attempt to hold back the bloodthirsty fascist horde yet again without hope for things actually improving, but I’m not the norm. Most sane people will eventually just walk away from it sooner or later because the reality is too unpalatable.
Ive also seen people who praise Elon Musk and Trump who said that the left is far right
Fascism requires an enemy that is too strong, to unify a base; and too weak, to convince the base of their superiority.
What I think is hilarious is when conservatives call Joe Biden of all people the radical left.
Its all true because to them the left is anyone that they dont like or agree with.
If I had to guess what the conservative attitude is here, they notice that both poor and rich people (occasionally) disagree with their social project. Their news bubble presents all violence as left-initiated. Assume a binary mindset of “disagree with me = leftist” and you are left with what’s in the meme
and then you have the liberals claiming to be the left while pretending we’re not living in a class society 🤡
That cup is way too wide.
Child sized, one could even say.
Replace “The Left”™ with Jew and Conservative with Naizs and the Meme would still make sense.
American “Left”: maybe we shold do some student debth relif? Just a tini-tiny. If you don’t mind.
Rest of the world right: universal education, more funding!
Rest of the world center: universal education, state must provide students with everything(including housing and food) so they don’t worry about anything else other than learning, state must provide teachers with everything(including decent salary) so they don’t wory about anything else other than teaching, state must provide universities with all necessary equipment, buildings must be maintained in good condition(so ceiling wouldn’t fall on students’ and teachers’ heads)!
The fact that some people genuinely think there’s any kind of leftist representation in the US or that its system would ever even allow that to happen is funny
