• WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    102·
    15 days ago

    Can you take a stand against genocide? No

    Can you stop funding Israel? No

    Can you stop sending arms to Israel? No

    Can you stop illegally occupying Palestine? No

    Can we put homeless people in unused homes? No

    Can you do disaster relief? No

    Can COVID tests be affordable? No

    Can the price of food go down? No

    Can there be a jobs guarantee? No

    Can the hiring process be regulated? No

    Can AI be regulated? No

    Can library budgets increase? No

    Can you stop torturing people at the boarder? No

    Can we get bail reform? No

    Can drugs be legal? No

    Can we have high speed rail? No

    Can we expand public transportation in general? No

    Can we break up big tech? No

    Can anything be done about the literacy rate? No

    Can billionaires be made to pay tax? No

    Can copyright be reformed? No

    Can I get healthcare? No

    Can you fix infrastructure? No

    Can you fight climate change? No

    Can you protect LGBT? No

    Can you keep abortion legal? No

    Can you do something about the supreme court? No

    Can you stop violence against immigrants? No

    Can you help struggling minorities? No

    Can you help struggling majority? No

    Can you increase labor protections? No

    Can you help unions? No

    Can you stop war? No

    Can you make city design better? No

    Can I ever afford a house? No

    Can you make student debt less ridiculous? No

    Can you stop creating conflict with China? No

    Can you keep a campaign promise? No

    Can you help with spiraling rent costs? No

    Can you help put the cost of living in line with salaries? No

    Can you stop exploiting the third world? No

    Any social safety nets? No

    Stop underfunding government programs before privatizing them? No

    Arts and athletics in schools? No

    Reduce violence in schools? No

    Defund the police? No

  • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    80·
    16 days ago

    A complete misuse of the meme format, a dogshit take, and they can’t even finish the meme without frothing at the mouth over leftists who refuse to endorse genocide. Peak lib shit.

  • radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    63·
    16 days ago

    Oh, yeah, this is a democracy. But your vote doesn’t mater for most issues. You have to have genocide and war mongering, no sufficient action on climate change, etc. Your vote is only deciding between Republicans and polite Republicans. You stupid child, how dare you think your vote should have input in terms of what the government does.

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      26·
      15 days ago

      I love how in one breath liberals will scream “voting matters! Republicans want to make it illegal” then in the next breath post memes like this where voting doesn’t matter and you’re simply ticking a box, but that’s a good thing because what are you a child?

      Bluemaga really is the most apt poltical term of the last decade

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    39·
    15 days ago

    I haven’t seen the show, but isn’t the dad meant to be incredibly controlling and fascistic in his worldview and is actually the overall villain of the show?

    • JayTreeman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      15·
      15 days ago

      OK. I’m a fan of the comic. There’s a fascist villain that’s going to be introduced, but the dad isn’t it. The dad’s character explores, for a bit, the trauma that following orders blindly can bring about.

        • JayTreeman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          3·
          14 days ago

          Invincible Written by Robert Kirkman. He also wrote the comic ‘the walking dead’. There was a tv show loosely based on it. Invincible is his love letter to super hero comics. He acknowledges tropes and then plays with them. It’s a lot of fun when it’s not dealing with heavy subjects.

            • JayTreeman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
              2·
              14 days ago

              It’s unfair to judge her as a girlfriend when it’s a bad relationship. Mark’s got priorities, and she isn’t one. It’s on both of them to advocate for themselves, and she was better than Mark at it. Yours?

              • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                2·
                14 days ago

                I like yours. I think she’s a bad girlfriend and that he’s a bad boyfriend, but the shows writers create a universe that only acknowledges one half of this and makes Mark out to be unreasonable when he responds to her poor treatment of him (which is a reaction to his poor treatment of her and so on and so on.).

                This has made some people see only her as an issue, some people to see the issue with the metatext and some people just hate women, but these three get lumped together (I swear I’m going somewhere with this) which has then resulted in valid criticisms of Amber being treated like misogyny, because there’s a lot of misogynists criticizing Amber, which has then further inflamed what is really just a question of perspective into a larger issue, which the writers then tried to deal with in season 2, but not super well. (Trying to bring it back) Amber ends up being better at advocating for herself and Mark does get his say, but the wider text still treats Mark as the sole bad partner and Amber as the recipient of a bad partner (don’t wanna use the word victim because it does not victimize her). Even Marks close relations who knows how they treated each other, treats him as the only person who is at fault. This issue was really the root of the issue for a large group of people who took issue with Amber, so the cycle continues.
                I like to call this the “female Ghostbusters” dynamic.

                On the other hand I never finished season 2, so I don’t know the whole of it.

                TL;dr they’re both bad, but the meta text treats Amber as not being bad, which has made an interesting relationship dynamic result in online discussions being inflammatory.

      • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        14 days ago

        Literally doing the shoot and cry trope.
        “Yes on the one hand our soldiers did do the My Lai Massacre, but on the other hand they’re sad about it and they regret it.”

  • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    37·
    15 days ago

    Childish: Accepting that the current system is insufficient and a massive undertaking is necessary if you have any morals whatsoever even if you personally aren’t affected right now.

    Mature: fuck you, got mine, I’m entitled to your vote 🍷

    Childish: Listening to the argument to vote for a candidate who checks none of your boxes and deciding that this time enoughs enough, because that lizard is committing a genocide.

    Mature: Upon hearing the long list of reasons people won’t vote for your candidate, shut your ears and claim they require a perfect candidate who will create world peace.

    Childish: Remembering the many promises the Dems have broken and requiring some sort of actual guarantee they will take action.

    Mature: football-lucyfootball-charlie-brown

    Childish: Having a memory that’s longer than four years

    Mature: This is the most important election of our lifetime!

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      6·
      14 days ago

      I always say the maturity cult in western society is just fetish. Ultimately it have little to do with actual maturity and more with conforming to capitalist society and being good drone.

      • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        14 days ago

        Relatedly the constant talk of “nuance” which is also just a way to whitewash the shitty system we have, without actually providing any nuance (the nuance right now is that Israelis are committing a genocide, but the palestinians sometimes throw rocks at the soldiers killing them, so its not so black and white again).

        Real maturity isn’t to do fuckall and real nuance would be to applaud hamas despite their fucked up politics.

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    37·
    16 days ago

    no one’s asking for world peace, although leftists acknowledge U.S. role in most of the conflicts.

    The weapons used to kill Palestinians are mainly U.S. made, that’s the problem, the problem is centered on the U.S. and the role its President plays, not some lack of world peace.

  • 2812481591 [any, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
    36·
    15 days ago

    I dunno, guys. I only have the energy to vote in one election, and I have a feeling like the election after this one is going to be the most important election of our lifetime.

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    28·
    15 days ago

    Liberals really are braindead with these kinds of takes, if policies don’t matter then voting for Trump is equally as valid as voting for Harris

    But then liberals screech “hIs pOlIcIies!!!” and when you point out Harris has equal or worse policies then Trump, suddenly its “policies don’t matter, your voting for president not world peace”

    Liberals don’t believe in anything so their entire politics has to center around whatever power demands and how they can consume more comfortably

    • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      15 days ago

      The Kingdom of Conscience will be exactly as it is now. Moralists don’t really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child’s toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn’t change – not even incremental change. It is control. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.

    • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      15 days ago

      Hey it worked for Hillary! (Like the average democrat my memory only goes back four years, but I just saw that tweet about future president, so I guess she was one once)