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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.
Sometimes the best you can hope for is things only getting a little worse
Too bad USA doesn't have a viable left party
Hard to have a left party when we're making new grounds of what a right-wing party can look like.
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?
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.
Liberals aren't left. You guys have far right and neolib mid-right
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.
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.
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.
Both sides are corrupt, not "the same"
And not the same corrupt, and that corruption doesn't mean they deliver the exact same outcome.
"The left"
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.
Because the political compass is a lie meant to perpetuate "both-sidesism".
It's also an excuse for the people on r/politicalcompassmemes to act like an "enlightened compass"
Biden regarding black people: “Superpredators”
Biden regarding Palestinians: “Kill their women and children if you have to.”
Please stop using the political compass. Perpetuating right wing propaganda and misinformation is not helpful.
"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
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?
Or maybe I'm not American and I'm just pointing out there is no "Left" in America
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?
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.
Yes, the left wants you to have health care, but Democrats are not of the left. They are just right light.
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.
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.
democrats are not leftists, and havent really helped with healthcare in the grand scheme of things
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:
AAAND the bots/Russian plants have swarmed the comment section.
Ah US politics 2024.
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.
This is the scene that plays in my head whenever people talk about how great Hamilton is. I can’t help it.