Political Memes

It pisses me off to no end when people conflate legitimate criticism of Democrats with tankie rhetoric. The Dems are complacent, listless, corrupt, and lazy. They refuse to stand up to the Republicans until it's too late or doesn't matter.

The people want progressive politics: universal healthcare, living wage, affordable housing, education, and food. We want a sustainable future and an end to corporate greed.

The donor class, superpacs, and other sources of dark money in politics are what keep nearly everyone corrupt. Its addictive.

I’m just punching right. Tell the Dems to stop standing there.

And it was the Dems who sued the socialist candidate off of the ballot in my state. Not the GOP. They occupy leftist space to prevent leftward movement, while Dems ally with the GOP to push through fascism.

What a stupid post. Yeah it's progressives' fault mango Mussolini is POTUS /s. This is a talking point manufactured by MAGA handlers that some broadly Dem-supporting people choose to broadcast, now outside the US. This is a type of brainrot that undermines critical thinking, divides the left, and helps elect the right. Canada deserves better

If centrists wanted criticism of republicans, they could have done that more.

But then they might not have got the endorsement of dick cheney. establishment democrats punched left and embraced the right.

6 months in and Liberals are still trying to blame their election loss on the left.

Oh no dems are not perfect let's Satan/Hitler win to teach them a lesson!

Like bruh try won't learn but let's get rid of Satan/Hitler first. And ill be first to turn on them.

Current US: a neoliberal capitalist nightmare being ruined by CEOs

Your most intelligent American: This is definitely the socialists' fault

I thought Democrats were better than Republicans because Democrats will at least listen. Why would I waste my time criticizing the side that doesn't listen.

yeah the like 10 tankies in the US really threw that election...? The takes from people on lemmy are so fucking strange.

Seriously blaming the tankies again? How bourgeoisie of you lol

If you want to blame something, blame the media. Both news and social media have completely sold out for profit. You CANNOT have a democracy if vast parts of your population is being misinformed. And this started with talk radio in rural areas many decades ago. And the democrats did nothing - because they are not left. Thanks for all the empty "Hope and Change" Obama!

So yeah, blame socialists all you want but their critique was valid.

You need a revolution or reformation. A massive change in who owns the means of communication to have a free press again that is not purely profit driven. Can you even imagine that? Is that something you would say? No. You'd rather blame and denigrate socialists and call them tankies. Look at the mass protests, it seems the libs aren't even calling for Trump to step down and demand new election lol. People would rather bow to unjust laws and simplistic principles than believe in democracy. Of course they are all being stage managed.

But this is just pathetic.

This is just a meme designed to divide people who share common interests in opposing corruption and to turn them against each other instead.

Honestly the fact that the entire country keeps getting mad at Democrats while taking an "Aw shucks, who hasn't tried to do a coup de tat or shifted blame for your actions onto a minority group. All is forgiven!" Attitude with Republicans, is...

Just fucking bizarre.

Republicans are going to republican. Democrats at least have the pretense of representing their constituents interests.

It's like if an oil tanker that takes ten miles to stop was bearing down on a small passenger ferry. Sure it might be the fault of the tanker's crew but they can't stop and they won't stop. The democrats driving the ferry have the capacity to easily save everyone on board and simply refuse to do so. That's why people shout at them.

The thing is that they don't govern. The MAGA crowd does nothing. There's no constructive legislation. Everything proposed is to remove some imaginary barrier that keeps society from running well, but they make things worse. Even with good legislation, some people are wronged, and get left behind. Conservatives use the bad stories to justify doing nothing good.

The whole narrative with firing "unelected government bureaucrats" who are ruining our lives is BS from the start. The "unelected government bureaucrats" are simply employees doing the bidding of our elected officials. Trump has every right to pursue an agenda of shutting down institutions and culling the herd of government employees - he won the election. The correct way is through Congressional legislation. The problem is, that he and Musk/Doge DO NOT have the support of the people. The MAGATS know the legislation would never pass with the approval of the people, through their elected representatives - so they go about doing things illegally.

Republicans have no enemies on the right. Democrats have no friends on the left

Look at the division in this thread.

A U.S. President is literally trying to recreate the conditions of 1930s Germany by tanking the economy and isolating us from our international partners.

Stop looking for someone to blame and put out the current dumpster fire before it catches the grease.

Get out and protest. Get your boots on the ground.

Seems to be a lot of talk here about authoritarianism.

Is demanding responsible speech over free speech absolutism "tankie"? ....because the US is demonstrating exactly what happens when you give free speech to fascists and don't monitor their "religion".

As is tradition. In the Weimar Republic the communists were far too busy fighting the social democrats to put up any meaningful resistance against the Nazis.

Tankies would unironically promote known Russian asset Jill Stein in actual left communities and then turn around and unironically talk about electing Trump in Hexbear and Lemmygrad, because he's friendlier with Xi Jinping.

I hate Tankies.

Fuck the tankies, they are irrelevant.

Why would you expect media outlets mostly owned by the Oligarchs to criticize the people the oligarchs want to put into power?