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[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 106 points 7 months ago

I don't like memes like this because they are easily dismissed, since the left absolutely has problems, and it's not just "we want healthcare"

However, the truth is, for all the faults the left has, they pale in comparison to the right wing batshittery.

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[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 62 points 7 months ago

Too bad USA doesn't have a viable left party

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago

Hard to have a left party when we're making new grounds of what a right-wing party can look like.

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[-] Turious@leaf.dance 60 points 7 months ago

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?

[-] ZeroCool@vger.social 29 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

a font called Akbar

Named after Akbar of Akbar and Jeff, I assume.

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago

Is that not the Simpsons font?

[-] jose1324@lemmy.world 51 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Liberals aren't left. You guys have far right and neolib mid-right

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

I only ever see "both sides are the same" as a atrawman, here. I've never seen it presented genuinely, generally I see "I have issues with the Democrats" and the only response is either "but the other guys are worse" and "bOtH sIDeS aRe ThE sAmE!!"

ALMOST as if having an actual conversation about the problems people with the Democrats makes people uncomfortable.

[-] FreddyDunningKruger@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago

If you really want to change the party, JOIN it, convince like-minded people to join, and start changing it from the inside.

You know, like the way Trump and MAGA changed the Republicans.

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

The DNC has made it clear they're not interested in moving to the left and that they're perfectly happy gradually meandering further right. Sure, 30 million Democrats might see it differently but the people voting aren't actually in charge.

[-] go_go_gadget@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

MAGA had the support of moderate Republicans.

Leftists and progressives do not have the support of moderate and liberals. They made this clear in the 2020 primaries. Anyone to the left of Biden was too radical. Liberals and moderates made it clear again yesterday when they celebrated police breaking up the protestors. When Biden was asked if the protests have made him reevaluate his policies in Israel he simply said "No".

There's no room for us in the Democrat party so I'll be voting 3rd party.

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[-] KroninJ@lemmy.world 45 points 7 months ago

Both sides are corrupt, not "the same"

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[-] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 42 points 7 months ago
[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago

Those red and blue dots are damned close together for one guy that incited a coup, kept mein kampf on this nightstand writes love letters to Putin and IL.

Biden is nowhere near where I want him to be policy-wise, But to try to put them close together on social issues is disingenuous

The political compass site is far from scientific.

[-] Veraxus@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Because the political compass is a lie meant to perpetuate "both-sidesism".

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

It's also an excuse for the people on r/politicalcompassmemes to act like an "enlightened compass"

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[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 12 points 7 months ago

Biden regarding black people: “Superpredators”

Biden regarding Palestinians: “Kill their women and children if you have to.”

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[-] Veraxus@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

Please stop using the political compass. Perpetuating right wing propaganda and misinformation is not helpful.

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[-] FreddyDunningKruger@lemmy.ml 14 points 7 months ago

Why don't you join a political party and start a grassroots campaign to replace First Past the Post?

Or maybe you already belong to a party, and are just trying to create apathy to prevent people from voting Democratic to ensure Trump gets re-elected?

[-] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago

Or maybe I'm not American and I'm just pointing out there is no "Left" in America

[-] go_go_gadget@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Why don’t you join a political party and start a grassroots campaign to replace First Past the Post?

Careful now. That sounds a lot like encouraging people to vote 3rd party in the upcoming election.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

"Biden is less authoritarian than Trump!" I cry as I'm dragged into the back of a police cruiser for criticizing Israeli. I'd go into further detail, but the police are currently gagging me, beating me with their batons, and harnessing me to the Palestinian Chair

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[-] bigFab@lemmy.world 42 points 7 months ago

If there was actual left, there would be health care already. Instead there are billionaires.

[-] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 36 points 7 months ago

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?

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

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.

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[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago
[-] whoreticulture 28 points 7 months ago

I don't like this meme because the last two panels don't rhyme.

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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The Democrats are currently supporting a genocide in Gaza and are violently attacking the first amendment.

Don't pretend this is about healthcare.

Edit - apparently the people idolizing the Democrats can't handle actual criticism.

[-] somtwo@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

Let's be real here: the entire US government is supporting a genocide in Gaza. Trying to make it out to be a problem only on the left feels incredibly dishonest.

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[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

i agree with the rhetorical goals of this meme, but it does its job poorly.

some better options:

  • the right yawns when kids get shot

  • the left seeks to put in place bare minimum common sense gun laws

  • the left wants healthcare to be a human right

  • the right wants healthcare to be privatized for the benefit of investors

  • the right wants trans people, an incredibly small fraction of the population, to be harassed, abused, and murdered

  • the left doesn’t want that

  • the right is actively looking to get a national ban on abortion

  • the left supports a woman’s bodily autonomy, and recognizes that abortion can also be a life saving procedure but that such decisions should remain between a pregnant person and their doctor

and one very important and fucking atrocity of a similarity between the parties that will be used as a “gotcha” to “prove” all of the left/progressives are a poisoned well:

  • Republicans are Zionists and support an active genocide
  • Democrats are Zionists and support an active genocide
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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 22 points 7 months ago

democrats are not leftists, and havent really helped with healthcare in the grand scheme of things

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

Yes, the left wants you to have health care, but Democrats are not of the left. They are just right light.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

AAAND the bots/Russian plants have swarmed the comment section.

Ah US politics 2024.

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[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 18 points 7 months ago

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.

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

This is the scene that plays in my head whenever people talk about how great Hamilton is. I can’t help it.

[-] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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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[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Centrists do tend to abandon rhyme schemes when rapping.

[-] dan00@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago

Left party? Where is it?? Are you talking about the narcoleptic grampa who loves to bomb kids? boi oh boi, you guys live in fairyland…

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