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[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 90 points 3 weeks ago

Unmute this meme immediately!

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 48 points 3 weeks ago
[-] sexybenfranklin@ttrpg.network 15 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah... Like, I agree a lot of the liberal "resistance" is useless but also every time I see a leftist online advocating for revolution, I'm wondering when they're gonna kick it off.

[-] BJ_and_the_bear@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

It ain’t gonna happen until a critical mass of the population has nothing left to lose. As it stands now, revolution sounds great to me, but getting arrested or killed leaves my family impoverished and possibly homeless. Being a cog in the machine is a preferable fate

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[-] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 43 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago

But it’s not helpful to doom about these things.

[-] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 51 points 3 weeks ago

I dunno, acknowledging the problems seems like a good start

[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Lemmy has been chock-full of these memes critical of the dems since the election. How much more of this "good start" is needed before people move on to the next step (whatever it might be)?

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[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

You're right. Everything's ok.

/s

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[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

But they are. Think what the message is implying here. Don't do the things that are actually important to actually pull votes to your side. There's no point since it's all rigged. This post is propaganda.

This post is like some political consultant group found things that could sway an election and turn tides and then inverted it to imply those things are just silly

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 8 points 3 weeks ago

This post is propaganda.

So is this reply. Also being propaganda is funny in this case since nothing here says anything about not voting, just that currently the two party system has broken down and no longer feels like democracy (due to how it is not). In this case who would the propaganda be for? The democrats? Not likely, they are not helped here. The republicans? Don't think they care, many don't plan on having fair elections again. Big molotov?

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[-] eugenia@lemmy.ml 37 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Sorry to break it to you but the blame lies with the American people. In Europe, when something like this happens, everyone's on the streets and there are strikes everywhere. And the protests almost always turn violent. And we're talking about large demonstrations of millions, not a few hundred/thousands as in the US. In the US, the demonstrations kinda feel like a spectacle, a show that you join for a couple of hours. In Europe it means business. I'm also American, but I'm currently in Greece. I've seen the differences with my own eyes. The public needs to show force, or it has no teeth. I'm not advocating for violence, I'm advocating for teeth.

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 45 points 3 weeks ago

Unfortunately even Europe is going this way. The right have figured out how to spam nonsense on social media and turn enough people. And how to control media in general, just be on tv and radio as much as possible complaining about everything even if it doesn’t exist and offer up baseless solutions to solve every problem you’ve ever head.

See Farage.

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Even Japan is seeing protests against immigration right now and rallying for building up armies and getting nuclear weapons. Ideas we would have thought completely insane even a few years ago.

Far-right rhetoric is the key to corporate wealth. As long as the world is divided, people will focus their fears outward instead of unionizing, creating competition or regulating the businesses in their homelands. Wealth inequality is how you make billions of people want to give you money for stupid distractions and entertainment and false security.

We HAVE to stop buying shit. Seriously, we are feeding our killers and supplying them with every incentive to keep raping us. We have to stop buying doordash and fast food and new games and movies and new cars and phones. We have to start living like we're already in the hard times ahead, because if we can punch the corporations hard enough, they may loosen their grip enough or lose time restructuring their tactics that we can get actual anti-oligarch representation into local seats of power. That's our ONLY hope right now, and it's a longshot that requires each of us to do far more uncomfortable things than we want.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago

I’m not advocating for violence, I’m advocating for teeth.

The status quo is more violent than a riot or political assassination could ever measure up to. I advocate for killing it by whatever means are available. If violence is a plausible tool, use violence. If voting still has any hope of accomplishing anything, do that. Our stupidity and apathy have created a monster that must die.

[-] cobysev@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

I think one of the big concerns is that Trump is looking for any excuse to deploy the military against our own citizens. If he can start something violent in the streets, it justifies declaring martial law and taking over Democrat-run states. But in this digital age, everyone has cameras on their phones, so he needs the citizens to start shit first. He's not brave enough yet to directly contradict video evidence of crimes (although he's getting there).

That's one of the big reasons Americans are trying to keep their protests civil. If we turn it violent, Trump gets his way and we get don't stand a chance against a military invasion on our own land. Like in California, when Trump sent the National Guard to quell protests against ICE in LA, nothing came of it because no one wanted to start a fight. Protestors showed up, but none of them directly engaged with the military. Eventually the whole military campaign fizzled and the National Guard was recalled home.

We're dealing with that again in Washington D.C. right now. Trump created some fake crime emergency to deploy the National Guard in D.C., despite an all-time low crime rate right now. Protestors are showing up in force, but nothing's happening because they're not directly confronting the National Guard. Just standing their ground and peacefully protesting.

I'm all for revolution; I think the only way we'll fix our broken system is to tear it all down and rebuild from scratch; there are too many corrupt officials, on both sides of the fence, to repair it as is. And too many corrupt laws and regulations in place to function effectively. But you can't just go in with violence. It's a delicate situation right now and violence should be the absolute last resort. Trump has no problem sending millions to their deaths for his ideals and he'll gladly invade our own nation to cement his dictatorship. We can't give him the excuse to do it.

I was serving in the US military when Trump got elected the first time, and that was a scary time for us. He spoke very favorably about various dictators and wanting to reshape America like their countries. But he had a majority Democrat government that kept slapping down every BS thing he tried, so his first term was mostly uneventful.

This time around, though, he has a majority Republican government and enough supporters in high level positions that he's surrounded by yes men. He's been a lot more bold. I'm really glad I retired when I did because there's no way I could follow his unlawful orders.

I think that's the biggest difference between the US and Europe. Europe isn't going to deploy the military to break up violent protests and then use it to enact martial law and overthrow that nation. Trump will, if given the chance.

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[-] TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 weeks ago

In Europe, when something like this happens, everyone’s on the streets and there are strikes everywhere.

This is not true, most major European countries have a growing Trump like movement and they’re steadily gaining ground. Consider France, the country most notorious for its protests, the left there does like the Americans – keep voting for their version of the Democrats only to get burned over and over in Parliament. In many spaces, European countries do not have as good protection for individual liberties and even social democratic governments are fine with doing things that are sometimes on par with the Trump regime (albeit not being as gauche, lawless and explicitly cruel about it). For instance, the EU is trying to mandate that pretty much all digital communication is put under AI based surveillance (under the guise of tracking down pedos) – the movement against this is very fringe even though it affects everyone. You should also keep in mind that European leaders, all over the spectrum, are blindly caving to Trump whenever he exerts any form of pressure.

In summary, many of us in Europe are better off in terms of not yet living under a creeping autocracy that has become void of any credible democratic influence for the populace. But it’s slipping here too, heading in the same direction, and by and large the general public is not really paying attention.

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[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago

The final count for No Kings was over 5 million. Glad a bunch of folks that only work 30 hours a week can be at their commin protest point within hours and complain that Americans barely keeping their heads above water have low numbers just because our country is massive.

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[-] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago

NGL memes like this just read like Doomer Cope and Fascist propaganda.

[-] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, that's because that's exactly what it is

[-] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 33 points 3 weeks ago

"Resistance theater" is a great term.

[-] nexguy@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

It's also a term describing the protest non-voters.

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[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yah I don't have solutions for near-term successes because we're now living in motherfucking consequence.

Our liberal appeals, our lefty identity politics, our scolding and appealing and hand-wringing about all the wrong problems to focus on has cost us everything and I have spent the last decade warning everyone that this was going to happen.

But sure, go ahead and keep sharing memes on Lemmy about how bad orange man is, keep reposting witty twitter exchanges and keep deluding yourselves into thinking "any day now, America is going to wake up and DO SOMETHING" while the situation gets progressively worse.

You don't expect some great plan for getting out of "consequence" you try to avoid it from happening in the first place. A lot of us were screaming the entire last decade that we need to mobilize FAST to get grassroots candidates installed in local and state seats, that we need to protest not brands for not being woke, but we needed to protest EVERYTHING and start hoarding and saving money broadly. You lost the left because the left was about scolding the right and not mobilizing people against oligarchy and corporations. You made it about inclusivity and fringe issues when it should have been about workers. Once you secure the workers and production, you can then fix the social issues... I don't understand how you all thought you were going to fix social issues while the elite capitalists were running the show.

Sure though, go ahead and blame the Democrats, blame Obama, blame dumb hicks who have no education or consistent values and just go along with whatever emotional narrative feels good to them at the moment- you know, instead of USING them like the tools they are. We could have done SO MUCH.

Right now, America's remaining middle-class liberal population are like a ripe nest of honeypot ants out in the Sahara. There are massive forces looking at that ripe basket of wealth waiting for any and every opportunity to chop into that nest and start scooping out whatever they can before it's all gone, and it's going fast. That's where we're fucking at right now. The middle-class is being raped and gutted and we're here on the sidelines saying "Is our platform inclusive enough?"

Fuck all ya'll. You were dumb and this is what happens when you're dumb. First you checked out and didn't care what was happening, then when you started to care, you just divided in a thousand splinters arguing about the dumbest shit imaginable for performative Lefty Points that can be redeemed at your local concentration camp for the benefit of feeling smug as you wait for deportation.

[-] uriel238 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

But sure, go ahead and keep sharing memes on Lemmy about how bad orange man is

It's not an orange man bad meme. It's a liberals ain't doing nothing meme, which is actually a true and valid problem. We have to find ways to sabot the gears of the autocratic oppression machine. As Helen Cox Richardson notes, if you got an artistic bone in your body, get to artting!

Also Knitting Cult Lady did a video ( on YouTube ) about how Orange Man's orange makeup is the same thing as Queen Elizabeth I's make-up (white leaded paint, which, yes, did poison her) to signal that she is a living god. In the queen's case it was a means to get England to recognize a woman as a legit ruler (rather than pressuring her to find a husband to take over).

Orange Man does it because he wants to be a cult leader (which is essentially the same thing), and we don't find his facepaint absurd enough to throw him from his podium or think of him as a clown.

This is how we know human beings are the evolutionary equivalent of a lowest-common-bidder project, the minimum amount of reasoning necessary to build a rocket and touch the moon. Otherwise, we are still brutal animals, and apes as silly as the ones in the jungle.

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

I don't even take issue with this meme in this post, it's actually closer to reality than anything.

It's the constant, daily "LOOK AT WHAT HE SAID AND LOOK AT WHAT THIS PERSON SAID IN REPLY" or other kinds of fake, delusional satisfaction-porn that we all spread and pat ourselves on the back for that bothers me. I don't mind the propaganda, we need everything we have, but I don't like how it's being circulated in places where it's just reinforcing people's belief that we're actually scoring points.

I feel strongly that if the average LemmyLefty were to see just how strong the country's conservative base really is, and just how tuned-out and apathetic the average American voter is, any how many there really are, they would despair the way I have and sound just as angry and cynical as me.

And then hopefully, after the despair passes, they will start tackling it seriously like the real problem that it is, from a more realistic ground-floor than letting themselves get distracted over every identity-politics hit-piece and emotional appeal designed to make people lose rational thought.

[-] Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

Everything you claim should be done is what Bernie Sanders supported and that got us nowhere.

It's really easy to get up on your high horse and claim that leftist identity politics is the problem instead of looking at the systemic failures of American democracy. Lobbying, Gerrymandering, media outlet control, anti-intellectual propaganda, voter disenfranchisement, an underfunded education system, the electoral college, a packed supreme court, etc.

This isn't a case of 'if you can stop being righteous and just hate gay people for a moment we could have had universal health care.' This is a case of the democratic process unravelling in its end stages as the popular candidate lost the vote four times in the seven presidential elections.

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[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 26 points 3 weeks ago
[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

Is this like a political compass kind of thing?

[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Kind of, it shows that there are a few ways to try to achieve change. So if you keep trying one of those methods and don't see the change you want, it might be time to change tactics.

The political axes of moderate–militant and liberal–radical may seem equivalent, but they are not. It’s true that liberals are often moderates, and radicals are often militants. But that’s not inevitable and it’s not universal. I’ve worked with plenty of radicals who were also moderates, who sought to make fundamental changes in the power dynamics of their communities using low-risk action to make gradual changes. And I’ve worked with liberal militants, who were willing to fight to make changes within established power structures. In any case, all of these approaches can have a time and place in resistance struggles.

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[-] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

The only real resolution is the one people don't want to admit to publicly. They can't even write the words out and publish it. It's not even a game of chicken. Nobody lives forever. History has seen the correct treatment to what he is in the past. It should be done now as well.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 weeks ago

I've got a solution, get rid of Facebook and Fox News in your Maga people's lives. Put parental controls on their TVs if you can and try to convince them that Fox News was bought out or something. It's the constant deluge of bullshit that's causing this.

MAX FISHER: The places where Facebook usage - not general internet usage, but specifically Facebook usage - was significantly above the average for Germany, the number of attacks on refugees was also well above the average.

SHAPIRO: That's author Max Fisher, who writes about this research in his new book, "The Chaos Machine." It's not just that violence against refugees went up in places where people used Facebook a lot. The researchers also looked at outages - Facebook disruptions - and they found that when the platform went offline in a specific place, attacks against refugees in that community dropped.

FISHER: Extended time on social media is addictive, and it changes your behavior, and it changes the way that your mind works. And it does that in a consistent direction towards more outrage, more extreme ideas and a greater hatred of us versus them.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1122786134

[-] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

You could wipe every reactionary television station, radio station, magazine, social media, and newspaper off the face of the earth, but capitalism's internal contradictions would make their resurgence inevitable.

So long as wages are suppressed, social safety nets withered, wealth inequality balloons, education decays, retirement age grows, and healthcare becomes unattainable, the backside into fascism is inevitable.

How do you think fascism took hold in Germany, and how was it mitigated?

Your analysis falls into the same trap as other liberal analysis - that our means of changing our politics is a function of "changing people's minds" in "the marketplace of ideas". Liberal analysis champions the notion that "ideas" are what turn the wheels of history. In reality, it was Soviet T34s blasting Nazis into mist that mitigated German fascism - not some completely unachievable and unpragmatic scheme to break into retirement homes across the country and put parental controls on grandpa's favorite flavor of right wing pundit TV.

[-] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 3 weeks ago

Just remember to always vote for the least worst, because there is no good, so that's the best you can do. And fascists are always the worst, by a mile.

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 13 points 3 weeks ago

Me in my 20s: "NO EFF YOU! NO COMPROMISE!"

Me, tired, in my 30s: "1 vote for Kodos, please"

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

80% of Democrat voters: "yeah I know they're owned by corporate interests and won't actually make good on any of their promises, but if I don't vote for them the Republicans will get in"

80% of Republican voters: "yeah I know the GOP is mostly about making themselves rich, but I hate Democrats more than I like the Republican Party"

Votescolds: don't you dare think of trying to upset this perfect beautiful balance that will play out every election for the next thousand years. In fact if you even suggest it you're probably a Russian psyop

[-] prole 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's just false though since Biden did do a lot of shit that he promised he would.

They both suck, but it's not even close to the same.

Why lie?

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 9 points 3 weeks ago

fits the narrative that all politicians are bad and that no one should vote, even if it's the most powerful force of change that ordinary people have at their disposal

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[-] Nalivai@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Ooh, anti-democracy propaganda started early this cycle. I guess cons aren't so sure about this one so they had to start this voting supression psyop this time of the year.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'll vote blue out of harm reduction, not out of hope.

IF there's another real election, and IF the Neoliberals win, they'll do NOTHING to reign in the capitalists that fund the fascists because they're bribed to protect the "free market," just as the Fascists are.

All them winning in 2028 might do is buy a little time before the Fascists are on the march the following cycle. That's why it's ignorant when people claim the only reason we're collapsing is Trump. Reagan set the table for fascism and every president since has furthered that outcome. Whether this happened in 2020,2024, 2028, this was happening.

So vote for the Neoliberals all you want. I do it out of the starfish parable, to one delayed fascist action, it matters, but we're still in a capitalist fascist hell, and until we have something to vote or riot for that will bring the capital markets to cinder, nothing can improve. You should feel like throwing up after voting here.

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[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 weeks ago

Americans have so thoroughly bought into the notion that democracy means an entrenched two-party system, that they instinctively view any suggestion to the contrary as "anti-democracy".

Virtually every other functioning democracy in the world manages to maintain legislative houses with anything from 6-20 parties represented in Government, but somehow you've created a self-fulfilling prophecy where it's impossible for you to have because it's impossible for you to have.

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[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 weeks ago

Eat poo no matter who!

[-] Genius@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 weeks ago

Tankies love to post these memes about how it's hopeless to resist fascism and there's nothing we can do, but what they like to forget is that we leftists have the option of rising against the state, not just by voting, but also by organising for general strikes, civil disobedience, and armed revolution.

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