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I’ve never seen anyone say both sides are the same. I’ve seen people dismiss any and all criticism of Democrats as both-sidesism, I see that a lot. It’s social media’s favorite strawman.
I’ve seen a lot of criticism of Democrats that obviously implies both sides are equally bad, I’ve seen plenty of plainly stated “both sides are the same”, and I’ve even seen a couple of “Biden is worse than Trump” ultra-tankie takes.
Literally every damn day on this platform I see someone unironically taking this exact stance.
Oh and encouraging people not to vote.
I do, on the grounds that they both care jack shit about people, aren’t accountable to people and don’t represent people’s interest. They are two sports teams, both playing the same game of pretending people have a choice, even when the choice is between bad and worse.
Once you start to squint, it becomes incredibly obvious that one really is worse than bad. This is still a nuance that is only there to force people to vote lesser evil instead of solutions.
Are they the “same” same? No. Indistinguishably same? No. Still, they’re two, say, basketball teams in a system that brainwashed people to vote for the best basketball team to determine who’s gonna be rowing the country back to normalcy. How voting for the best rowers is somehow just not an option never ceases to fascinate me, but, apparently, they’re bad at basketball, and another one is even worse, so what do I know?
I agree with all of this. Two groups can be bad at the same time, even if they don’t like each other, and even if one of them is worse.
I’ve seen it, but its extremely rare compared to the number of times people on this platform accuse someone of saying that because they say something like “I’m not voting for anyone who knowingly gives weapons to other countries to commit genocide.”
Horseshoe theory is bullshit but seen a lot here and on every social media platform.
“Both sides” in the context of this meme is about the mainstream, Dems and repubs. Horseshoe theory is about the fringe. You don’t see similarities between Nazis and tankies?
Coup
2020 Election was clearly stolen. Calling J6 a “coup” or “insurrection” is the hoax of the century. Just look at the footage they don’t want you to see of DC police escorting Jacob Chansley through the building. Or Ray Epps shouting, “We need to go IN to the capital.” And running free while thousands are locked up as political prisoners.
Let’s just completely forget about the “Summer of love” in 2020 with all of the “mostly peaceful protests” and George Soros attorneys refusing to prosecute while innocent people are killed, and buildings burned and looted all over the country.
Healthcare
When we decided to subsidize education with tax dollars prices skyrocketed, and quality went down.
Same story with Healthcare. Both are bureaucratic nightmares.
Both sides are the same
The House voted on Wednesday to pass the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness Act. Completely gutting your 1st Amendment freedom of speech. The House vote was 320 to 91 with 70 Democrats and 21 Republicans voting against the bill. The politicians in this country are openly betraying you. It doesn’t matter left or right. They’re not working for you. They’re bought and paid for by lobbying money.
Dumb.
You are the embodiment of everything that is and had ever been wrong with this country. Your ideological forebearers were always the bad guys and the losers, and you will join them.
And the earth is flat and JFK is alive and 5G is spreading COVID. Yeah yeah, We know, we know. Lol
Anyone else remember how good the Internet was before deranged conservative trolls figured out how to use it?
There used to be a barrier to entry. You needed to have a computer, which was an expensive piece of equipment for most homes. You needed to be able to configure it, and that took knowledge. Some idiot would have to make a webpage, and then some other idiot would have to find it, both things were surprisingly difficult.
Now it’s just Eternal September.
Yeah dude really we get it the right are bad and they’re evil but holy shit how come the Democrats have to be so fucking awful at their job?
Find the Fair Vote org in your state
And see how progress on ranked choice voting is going in your state legislature.
You’re going to get downvoted, but You’re not necessarily wrong. So often the Democrats take the “high road” and let Republicans walk all over them because the Republicans don’t care about the rules or about decorum.
And Democrats are SO BAD AT MESSAGING. I mean my god, they should be shouting their successes each and every time they speak, but you really just don’t hear it. And every new movement gets so easily misconstrued by Republicans because of the nature of how complex the ideas and solutions are, so actual intent gets lost in “defund the police” and “black lives matter” (both of which I wholly support, so don’t come at me). Those phrases mean something extremely important, but it’s too easy for Republicans to make them sound like they mean something bad.
And journalists don’t care because controversy sells, not wins.
This has more to do with most media and social media being owned by billionaires putting their thumbs on the scales. They support certain social issues to seem leftist but they are all conservative financially and on anything that could affect their bank account. There is very little true left leaning media in America.
Making the case that the government needs to step in and take control of many if these issues, but Dems dont want that either because wE’rE a cApiTaLiSt nAtIoN.
And DtP and BLM could easily be advanced by simply posting videos everywhere of police brutalizing white people , because the right cheers when they see police brutalize blacks. Dems DO NOT KNOW WHO THEY ARE DEALING WITH
aaaand you just went off into the deepend.
Like I was saying: you dont know who you’re dealing with.
no edgelord, we get it, we simply don’t care about you.
Well that’s great because your way is working so well that we have the same lineup we had three years ago
Yes. If you’d cared back in 2022 to begin campaigning on a replacement candidate (I canvassed for Bernie) I could understand your outrage.
As is, the rest of us have a job to do. If you’re not in on the better of the two, you do you champ.
This is the scene that plays in my head whenever people talk about how great Hamilton is. I can’t help it.
Snowball “Sabo” Two in the middle panel tho
Democrats are not Left and they won’t want you to have healthcare… Or we’d have it when they had all the branches. Try again Democrat bot.
Or we’d have it when they had all the branches
You mean the supermajority that was 72 working days?
I mean sure the party isn’t so progressive. But “why didn’t they fix X?” is a bit stale. Either way, FPtP sucks.
EDIT: just a trifecta is marred by senators like Manchin and Sinema, and things like filibusters may still be an issue (also something like universal healthcare would likely not be as simple as passing 1 bill with a simple majority)
We can agree FPtP sucks. 👍
Try again Democrat bot.
Beep boop dork.
Very cool
SAY THE LINE BART!
“I didn’t do it”
Do Simpsons screenshots automatically get that font when you try to put the text on, or is it something that just everyone has decided to do across the board?
Is that not the Simpsons font?
Most people get these images from frinkiac.com and that site uses a font called Akbar.
The same people also run morbotron.com for Futurama and masterofallscience.com for Rick and Morty.
a font called Akbar
Named after Akbar of Akbar and Jeff, I assume.
They want you to have paid healthcare to protect their lobbyists’ profits.
Unless you fall under medicare or medicaid, have fun paying insane insurance costs to cover your medical bills because the “left” is too busy using all their budget to fund a genocide.
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To be fair either one are so rightwing by european standards, that french will blow dust off National Razor.
Centrists do tend to abandon rhyme schemes when rapping.
Christ. Let go of the fucking j6 shit. It won’t win you anything. You can’t use something that only you see as a lever. It’s just a plank of wood with no fulcrum.
“Both sides” has to do with theory of power. They have different policies, but both think they own us all the same.
I don’t like this meme because the last two panels don’t rhyme.
I think they’re going for tried a coup / want you rhyme but the scanscion doesn’t work
They do rhyme, some of the stanzas
So is this supposed to sway centrists to democrat?
I think its supposed to sway centrists to Republican.
I mean, revolting against the government is an age-old celebrated patriotic tradition. But a socialized medical system? Sounds like leftists want to turn us into Venezuela.
Sway centrists? No, this is to make fun of their idiocy (or pretend centrism). If they would be swayed, living in a world where the issues in the panel are repeatedly thrown at them would have done it already. Those morons deserve nothing but ridicule.
So are you trying to create voter apathy and make sure Trump gets elected, comrade?
The fact that Democrats consider those bottom of the barrel plans from the open healthcare plans as replacement for Medicare just proves they want to dismantle real healthcare slowly. They are literally a worse version of private healthcare plans we already had.
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