this post was submitted on 04 May 2025

265 points (92.1% liked)

Political Memes

7966 readers

4032 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

Be civil

Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

No misinformation

Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

Posts should be memes

Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

No bots, spam or self-promotion

Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

No AI generated content.

Content posted must not be created by AI with the intent to mimic the style of existing images

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

265

Cuz baby, I'm an anarchist (lemmy.world)

submitted 19 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

29 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 29 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

Love that this is the standard for Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

It’s not fair to call them bootlickers.

They are people who may be persuaded to apply a lingual polish to certain footwear if the poll numbers say it might help them lose by less than 5%.

To be a bootlicker would require decisiveness that liberals do not have. Otherwise they wouldn’t be liberals.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Spineless liberals ….

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

We marched together for the eight hour day though.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The closer I get to middle age the less time I got

Let's MOVE PEOPLE HORIZONTAL ORGANIZATION OR DEATH

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

No time for punctuation get rid of that apostrophe you poser

[+] [email protected] -18 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Liberals are the adults in the room trying to keep the conservatives from killing anyone they don’t like and the progressives from killing themselves or each other.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Liberals are the true enlightened centrists here of course.

Where are these progressives that are trying to kill each other?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Same place as the ones building an effective party or have a seat in government I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Nice moving the goalposts. I assume you're from the US, where is your effective liberal party? That has a seat in federal government that is able to effect any legislative change?

Leftists, especially social democrats, but even socialists have been in government and have passed legislation that created systems like universal healthcare, unemployment insurance, family allowances, pensions, maternity leave. Just not in the US. The reason you don't have all that is because you spend more time fighting against progressives than doing anything else.

And gloating as a liberal that "well, progressives just can't get into government" after making such a shitshow of governance and campaigning that you got Trump elected twice is ghastly.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Idk I feel like liberals are responsible for enabling people like trump by always trying to maintain the status quo of capitalist growth and the illusion that access to marketplaces = rights. In the case of women, of lgbtq folks, of brown people, etc. I feel like they are half the whole problem. They are also in service to capital, and perpetuate the myth that you can serve your community with integrity while also taking in loads of cash from large organization as a politician

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I’d say liberals are less responsible for Trump than the people who voted for him or decided to not vote.

I do know women, LGBTQ folks and people of visible minorities were getting better treatment until Trump and the GOP stepped it back twice rather severely.

While I’m not against McCarthyism-Lennonism I don’t see it working on a large scale.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Those are fair viewpoints. I'm no marxist-leninist. But I will say, capitalism doesn't work on large scale either. So why keep it around?

Edit: in other words I think what you say is accurate but doesn't address the problems I brought up about liberals

[–] [email protected] -2 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Because capitalism does work well for many countries but you have to keep the population educated much like you have to vaccinate against diseases.

America stopped doing both effectively a while back and now we’re seeing the consequences.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Agreed but captialism must be strickly counter-balanced with things that empower people, like strong unions, higher taxes on wealth, and so forth.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

If every couple of decades you get a right wing faux populist uprising somewhere, then it's not an abberation of the system. It's how the system cycles around.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That’s why I used the vaccine analogy because education is supposed to train the population to deal with issue like that before they get elected president.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago

And yet, here we are. And not just in America. In much of Europe, they're celebrating being able to keep their right wing faux populist parties at bay. Just the fact that it got to the need to do that means something went wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

The thing though is that, capitalism, when followed to the letter, causes this decline in education.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

capitalism does work well for many countries

At the expense of others, and usually only for a while.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

They say never meet your heroes and they’re right.

I never thought SMCF would be spineless.

Pro tip for you adults: You have to actually win elections once in a while.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Idk what made you think they were radical

[–] [email protected] -1 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

This is more about who you’re choosing as heroes.

I would love to see progressives start a party or take over the DNC but that would require them to do something besides bitch about democrats.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Be the change.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Luigi strain?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Progressives have been doing the most out of any political bloc, and certainly more than establishment Democrats. If the DNC leadership weren't acting as a barrier to getting anything done then progressives wouldn't have to split their time and efforts between fighting them and fighting the fascists.

If you think that the only thing progressives have been doing is "bitching" about Democrats you need to pull your head out of your ass (or perhaps Chuck Schumer's) and look at reality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

MAGA took over the GOP and progressives can’t take over the DNC?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

🎤 “…and you’re a spineless lib-ur-al” 🎶

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

As a suicide-surviving progressive, you’re not wrong.