cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23601023
I do wish these things depicted more just a MAGA person screaming at random people. The left generally wants to be able to move past the seething hate of the right to make the class war we are already fighting a lot easier but the right just can’t help but fight for their oppressors.
It’s getting tiring seeing these like it’s news to both people in the image.
It should be the rich guy marionetting the MAGA guy and hiding behind him. Nobody is trying to make conservatives into second class citizens.
The rich guy is marionetting the maga guy and the hardcore leftist, just with different strings.
Leftists are even easier to fracture actually because it’s such a large tent.
At the end of the day, we’re all left fighting over bullshit while the 1% siphon off all the wealth.
Leftists: “Harris working with Liz Cheney is bad.”, “Moderates should stop trying to reach across the aisle”
Yes, because all it has done is enable the conservatives to do heinous shit. There is no compromise between wanting human rights and not wanting them. There is no “moderate” position on giving women the right to choose abortion, for example.
Harris working with Liz Cheney was bad because she was so hyper focused on that that she left a large portion of her base behind. She killed all her momentum to court conservatives who still didn’t like her all that much right up until the end. This is not hidden information unless you choose to ignore it so your argument can make sense.
Harris working with Liz Cheney was bad because she was so hyper focused on that that she left a large portion of her base behind.
What does this even mean? How did she “leave them behind”?
She killed all her momentum to court conservatives who still didn’t like her all that much right up until the end.
What “momentum to court conservatives”? She was trying to get never-Trumpers to vote for her. Taking votes from your opponent is done by all politicians every election cycle.
She didn’t change her campaign to do this afaik.
This is not hidden information unless you choose to ignore it so your argument can make sense.
Unless you can support your unfounded claims, you’ve only shared your unfounded opinion, not information.
I don’t know how many times I’ve seen “red hat”, “magat”, “trumpist”, etc… as a pejorative. I’m no fan of right wing policy or Trump’s cult of personality, but let’s be honest, leftists and progressives deride their supporters just as much as their leaders. The racist uncle trope and face eating leopard party are perfect examples of a permission structure for infighting instead of fighting the real enemies of the working class. I have fallen victim to this mentality myself, but we have to face our own faults clear eyed and with humility. It’s not both sides, but the whole spectrum of the working class that has been deceived.
It’s the difference between an earned pejorative and an unearned one.
If you intentionally identify yourself as a member of a cult built on hatred, you deserve how people respond to that.
That’s not the same thing as hurling insults at people for being gay, trans, black, latino, asian, women, asexual, or whatever other component of people’s identity that they choose to hate next.
Except that no matter what happens the left will not deny the right their access to universal healthcare. The racist uncle isn’t a trope, it’s reality for far too many people. The face-eating leopards meme is always used to show examples of why supporting fascist governments is a terrible idea for everyone, even those within the governments. They are real things.
I’m just a cishet white guy, I get to choose to do the right thing and support others. For so many people, though, their very existence is under threat by these hateful morons dragging them through the dirt at any opportunity and I’m not about to tell them they have to be kind to those people. Ten years ago I was saying to at least act with compassion but these days I’m fucking disgusted by conservatives and their easily disproved, hateful nonsense. I’ll still do it, because again I get to choose, but I understand why so many of my friends are fed up.
The only people trying to deny rights and freedoms are conservatives and, like, five cherry-picked examples of an extreme leftist that the right parades around to justify their hate. If the conservative base stopped trying to shit all over the left today the left would not then jump on the opportunity to punish them, they’d just go “THANK YOU. FUCK.” and finally have the time and support needed to actually make postive differences in everyone’s lives. We know that BECAUSE IT HAPPENS ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
actually make postive differences in everyone’s lives. We know that BECAUSE IT HAPPENS ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
Fun fact: the first billionaire was Rockefeller. That probably won’t surprise most people. He was THE oil baron after all. He had so much wealth that him and Carnegie tried to donate as much of their wealth to charity before they died. (They got scared by the French revolution and the giant wealth inequality that caused it.).
Anyway… Even with Rockefeller donating and AFTER there was a progressive movement to break up the monopolies. He was out of the daily operations and just collecting a % of each broken up company. After all their terrible business dealings is when Rockefeller became a billionaire. Not because his business dealings, in spite of them. I’ll say that again. HE GOT RICHER WHEN HE SHARED HIS WEALTH WITH A MIDDLE CLASS.
So yes, you are spot on.
It really isn’t. The left is trying to fight the class war and the right are trying to deny trans people rights while sucking off capitalists. These are not the same thing.
There is no Left in America except for a handful of Democrat Congressmen like Bernie Sanders and political thinkers like Chomsky,
Identity Politics itself isn’t Leftwing, it’s moral Liberalism, which is on a political axis which is a mainly orthogonal axis to the Left-Right one, thus the thinking of Identity Politics is something which can be part of the Leftwing when it’s just an element of a broader fight for Equality and treating all people fairly (so in there it’s not really a separate Identity Politics), or part of the Rightwing when the equality it fights for is narrowly defined so as to exclude the greatest inequality of all with the most widespread and impactful discrimination of all - Wealth Inequality - were it serves a sort of marketing function of “differentiating the product” of that political offer from that of other Rightwing political offers.
The later combination (Moral Liberalism + Rightwing) is Neoliberalism and is almost entirely all of what you have in the US with merely a handful of notable exceptions.
The US doesn’t have a Leftwing and a Rightwing main parties, it has a Morally Liberal Rightwing party and Morally Illiberal Rightwing party.
A person with blue hair and glasses isn’t a political statement. A person wearing a hat saying “Make America Great Again.” , is.
Republicans want you to think of “both sides,” but it’s just backsliding into corruption, at least in NON-politicians that accept their doctrine.
If you see someone with blue hair and glasses and assume they’re liberal, you haven’t met very many military wives. I thought we were over the “gamer gate” feminist hate.
I thought we were over the “gamer gate” feminist hate.
What gave you that idea? If anything, gamer gate was part of the spark leading to the current alt right movements.
You must have a better monitor. When I zoomed in I couldn’t read anything on that hat. I think they are just icons for the purpose of the cartoon. Perhaps you could assume they were liberal simply because they are arguing with the presumed republican. There are guys with red hats and mustaches that aren’t Republican too. I don’t think this is a latent feminist hate piece.
Go tell LGBT communities that their concerns are just a “distracting culture war” I’m sure that’ll go over great.
I don’t think the original image is trying to discount the harm the culture war is creating.
In the US, if you sit a voter down, either a republican or democrat, and talk to them like a person, find out their desires, passions, fears, anxieties, and hope for the future. MOST of them want the same damn thing, they are just listening to a different source of misinformation for how to fix it. Neither Republican nor Democrat parties actually have a long term fix for any of our issues. They have temporary Band-Aids that will wear off as soon as they leave office so it looks like the next guy did it. They both do this while slowly eroding away at the very basic rights we as citizens are guaranteed by the laws of the land.
In the still, sadly, relevant words of Lyndon Johnson,
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
