it is a good thing there is no option for political violence on this helpful chart about the distribution of political violence
you wouldn’t want anyone to get the wrong ideas about the direction political violence has to flow
Third party represent.
So that’s the middle path, a useless/selfish moral high ground that will ultimately see more people dead/suffering.
People on the internet who claim to hold democracy in the highest regard and gatekeeping voting if ideology differs.
Name a more iconic duo.
It’s hardly a democracy, it’s really just voting to not shit the bed.
You guys should ask the UN to establish a protectorate since both side are genociders.
keep voting, keep paying, this time will be different
Just nuke the planet cuz humans suck regardless
Magneto was right!
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Good luck dismantling the system with Hitler+ in power. You’d have an easier time dismantling it while ‘regular’ Hitler is in power.
Hey look, a reason to vote.
Except, you’re implying that’s not what you’re doing. You want to believe that your vote can accomplish everything you want, as easily snapping your fingers, but that’s not how it works. No positive change in history has happened in a day, but you seem to want to vote as if positive change can happen immediately.
Well, we demanded to do other things than voting to push the Dems to end their support for genocide. And got heavily attacked for it, daring to dirty the nest. We got insulted as being Trump supporters in disguise.
The idea that a serious threat to Dems voting turnout if they continue genocide would force them to change their stance before the election, was immediately met with hostility and gaslighting at worst and “lets wait until after the election” at best. Well waiting until after the election didnt work the past 25 or so years. Not with Clinton, Obama, Clinton or Biden.
Well what exactly are you doing to dismantle the system? Posting on Lemmy? How’s that working out? Not great?
Now get off your lazy, entitled, privileged ass and vote against Hitler+.
Everybody knows this. We’re just asking people to make the best choice given the circumstance. A protest vote against Harris isn’t going to teach them anything, a loss isn’t going to teach them anything. We’ll be left with a situation worse than we are in now.
Well you should do that pissing match during the candidate selection then. Don’t drag it out to after the choices are set.
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Why was the choice set since like a year already? And we met the same hostility and “reasons” 9 months ago. Truth is not enough people care enough to push for change. They just wanted to feel that their lot is not threatened, solidarity be damned. Well this does not work, as history has infamously shown time and time again. Unless people band together they’ll be picked off one by one.
The only time I saw resistance was when people were pitching about Joe or harris without saying, hey vote for candidate x y or z in the primary they are better than Joe or Harris.
If all you do is say so, and so is ship I’m not voting for them, then your just being a nuisance.
And when the context is Trump or Harris being elected, saying “I’m not voting for Harris” means by default you are supporting Trump.
And when the context is Trump or Harris being elected, saying “I’m not voting for Harris” means by default you are supporting Trump.
So if i am saying “I’m not voting for Trump” then what happens? By this logic even if i vote the same third party candidate or not at all, i would be supporting Harris.
The only way this “default” works is if people are expected to vote Democrats. And if that is the default expectation it means they can do whatever they want, with no accountability. Instead of politicians having to win your vote with good politics, the blame gets shifted to the voter for not being loyal to the party. That is gaslighting. And when having these discussions it seems a lot of people were gaslit quite successfully by the party elites.
I don’t remember Hitler lite defending sexual assault victims. Or fighting for justice
By your logic, you’re more genocidal because at least she’s publicly asking for a ceasefire. You’re just ignoring those requests and shouting over her
Imagine fighting for people’s rights your entire life only to have nut jobs pretend like you’re killing children.
How many people have you helped?
This shit is getting annoying because it’s such a fundamental misunderstanding of what the trolley problem tries to tell you. You cannot use the trolley problem to prove that utilitarianism is better. The entire point is to show the difference between deontology and utilitarianism. It’s just tiring to watch.
I saw this exact one with someone on the bottom that said “I refuse to participate in a broken system” on r/PeterExplainsTheJoke and NOBODY understood it.
Let me fix that for you.
It should be giving the choice to a Nazi.
This picture misses that the choice also kills the switcher.
I feel at this point the majority of content on this sub is not funny or a meme anymore. While I don’t agree with Trump at this point Lemmy is becoming “astroturfed” like reddit
American elections bring out the worst in everyone everywhere.
No shit, my friends in lebannon getting bombed and some idiots first worldist yank are drawing memes with palestinians tied to a track.
This is, objectively, a political meme. Humor is not requisite.
This happens every election cycle the closer election day comes. Is it really any surprise political advocacy is higher during political season?
And what makes this “astroturfed”?
Every single time I open Lemmy I see at least 5 posts about " voting third party bad" it is not much different from reddit during the 2016/2020 campaign. How it is run now I wouldnt know because I havent browsed reddit since 2023.
Even political Memes are generally lighthearted and people dont fight as much in the comments compared to reddit.
These are just facts though. Until idiots stop voting 3rd party and spoiling elections for fascists, this pattern will continue.
You would be better off convincing the ignorant to stop engaging in the Spoiler Effect.
Then the memes shall stop. Everyone wins.
A better solution would be for the US to implement some kind to voting system where third party voting does matter. Like lots of the world has.
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100% agree. The only way to that is electing Dems and sending the GOP the way of the Whigs.
Yep. The thing I worry about is, even if the dems pull of a win that gives them the power to do this, would they actually do it? I doubt it, somehow.
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“Things I disagree with are being upvoted so it must be a coordinated campaign”
That is so disengenious and you know it…
Is it? Your complaint is that things you disagree with are appearing more frequently, which they do when people upvote them. Sorry most of us have similar feelings about not voting / voting third party, but the only reason you’d call it astroturfing is if you think it’s disingenuous.
You dont like voting third party/not voting, yet you would frame me as your opponent…Nice framing. I haven’t said I disagree or agree with it. Not everything is so black and white as you may see it.
All I said was is that I don’t like seeing the same posts appear X times on political Memes every day.
And what I think is disengenious is the way you frame it. To frame my statement as such that I support not voting/ voting third party.
Astroturfing is when there is a disingenuous coordinated campaign with a goal in mind. This post is specifically against not voting or voting third party, and you came here to complain about seeing too many things like this post. If your complaint was about seeing too many voting / politics memes in general, I imagine you would recognize what sub this is and what month it is.
I don’t believe you would be calling an abundance of voting related memes in a political memes sub this close to an election with no goal in mind “astroturfing” unless you didn’t know what the word meant. The obvious implication is that you believe there is a disingenuous coordinated campaign against voting third party or not voting. My point is that there doesn’t have to be. It’s more likely that many people, myself included, agree with the message of the political meme in the politics sub, and probably more than normal since we are so close to the election.
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Oh, I agree that it has been astroturfed. Anyone who’s been on this site longer than a few months can tell you that.
Except it’s not memes like this that are being pushed. In fact, this meme is a direct response to the massive influx of propaganda that this site has seen in the past couple of months.
Sub? Really? You know this isn’t Reddit, right? And it’s called: Political Memes. Not SuperHappyFunnyHaHaMemes. Want funny? maybe go to a “sub” that hosts funny memes. I dunno. Just a thought.
I just want a candidate that supports both universal healthcare and the 2nd amendment.
Quick, somebody get this guy on the ballot!
Considering everyone is talking about fascists coming to power and life getting more threatening, it would make some sense for the groups in the photo to look into being armed.
It’s one national government, Micheal! What could it cost to derail, 10 lives?
“Elon Musk isn’t just some no good immigrant, he’s my no good immigrant”
There’s always rubles in the borscht stand.
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“Rehashing a discussion from a locked post?” Seriously?? Then remove OP’s whole post! @JonsJava@lemmy.world I want an explanation.
I locked the post due to a ton of reports on comments. That’s not happened here.
Was my comment one that attracted reports? If so, why didn’t you give an actual reason for removing it? If not, then what’s the problem with continuing a part of the conversation that wasn’t part of the reason the other thread got locked? This is ridiculous.
How is it fair to keep up OP when it’s clearly a continuation of the previous post, but then remove my comment for the same reason?
I’m on Mobile right now. I restored the comment, as it broke no rules.
Thank you.
Sorry to bother again, but it still shows removed on my end from .ml, but shows up if I go to .world, do you know if there’s a way to fix that?
Sadly, just time. Federation isn’t always instant
So, the colorful left is just killing everyone and everything but with extra steps and the illusion of doing the right thing. Sounds about right.
So the bland right is just drawing memes and basing their entire world-view off them.sounds about right
The liberals claiming to be different from the far-right muppets whilst engaging in the same kind of simpleton take on politics would be hilarious if the results of them having been propaganda muppets for decades weren’t so bad for everybody (by moving the center of American politics so far to the Right that it now sits on what is considered Far Right in World political terms).
The only upside of this shit is that by now pretty much nobody outside the US looks to it for references on Politics - even the Far-Right in Europe stays away from lots of American quirks like hyper-religiosity.
