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I'm not American, but I am fascinated by the cognitive dissonance it takes for these People who claim to be progressive to chart a path that clearly puts Trump in office while claiming they're fighting for the very people that Trump has already banned from being in America.
Trump would be bad for America and for the world, but a part of me wants to see y'all elect him again, just out of curiosity. The stupidity knows no bounds.
Seriously. Pro-Palestinian so they'll let Trump win? Do they think a man who instituted a "Muslim ban" (Trump's own words) is going to side with them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769
The bastard moved the embassy to Jerusalem for fucks sake. He gave more funding to Israel than any other president. Trump would gleefully fund genocide just to hurt leftists and reward his evangelical base.
I think there is anti-Western psyops (I don't want to say Russian or Chinese because who knows if either or both are doing it) going on with emphasising not to vote Biden and keep calling him "genocide Joe", even though Trump is far more supportive of Israel in his last presidency. I have seen the rhetoric of genocide Joe and "left should not vote he him for supporting Israel" even in some seemingly centrist comments, which happens to be pro-Russia at the same time and those commenters are suspiciously new, or the account had aged out only to post months later after signing up. This is just too much of a coincidence.
If this is a Russian psyops, it is obvious why because Trump is ideologically (perhaps financially) aligned with Putin, and Trump being back into the White House will gut the aid to Ukraine. Trump himself said he will force Ukraine to accept the territorial losses from the invasion and threatened to pull US out of NATO.
Anyone who keeps saying not to vote for Biden because of his support for Israel is either psyops agent or fell into the propaganda, which in turn is only helping the disinformation propagandists.
The left calls him Genocide Joe for supporting Israel, the right calls him Jihad Joe for supporting Palestine. Environmentalists hate how domestic oil and gas production have gone up, fossil fuels enthusiasts hate his investments in renewable energy. So many people in news bubbles that are mad at Biden.
I mean I think most of the time the people who are doing that aren't necessarily progressives. They're just people who cared enough to vote before against trump but now just feel like nothing has really happened. Sure things haven't gotten worse but they also haven't really gotten better. So they checkout of politics all together cause what's the point in voting if nothing really changes.
Again, I'm not American, but I can't believe that any American could claim that. Nothing has changed from Trump to Biden. It's absolutely obvious there's been a wholesale change in how America is viewed globally. There's been a change in the economy for the better and the American president isn't in the news for saying something foolish everyday.
It's crazy that people would say nothing has changed.
Maybe it's different from an outside point of view but most the people I know haven't seen any of the benefits of the economy getting better. Inflation, while not rising as much anymore, still has stretched a lot of people thin as prices never went back down and wages didn't rise to match. So people on the news say the economy is doing better and Biden is doing good but normal people are still having to spend more on essentials, having less to put away to savings than before. I definitely don't think Trump would do any better at this but I can see why people would check out because of that, it's yet another situation where both sides fail the people, which causes people to check out cause depending on your state having to take a day off work and stand in line for hours to vote for someone who will do not as bad as the other side is not appealing.
Another thing as well is that I think in general average Americans can only pay attention to something for so long (look at how we started completely ignoring COVID as soon as the vaccine came around even though it kept spiking repeatedly). So if there isn't some big draw like the attempt at student loan relief or roe v wade being overturned average people will stop caring and stop following politics. In general the message of vote for Democrats to stop bad things from happening has been starting to burn people out cause bad things have still been happening under Democrats, so they need to start actually pushing through good flashy policies like the student debt relief if they want to get these people to start caring again. (Also this is just all what I think from talking to people who aren't as interested in following politics as me. I still plan on voting for Biden even though I'm very progressive cause there isn't much other choice so I'm not advocating for not voting, just trying to reason why average people are checking out.)
"The charting of a path that clearly puts Trump in office" is the accusation from those opposing progressive or leftist policy.
The argument from progressives is "Support of Israel's genocide is unconscionable and unpopular amongst the American electorate so continuing that support and ignoring the electorate should not be acceptable."
It is unconscionable. It's not unpopular.
There is now an entire generation of young people entering the political world for the first time who are learning just that.
And they're fucking morons for trying to push that line.
"I don't like Biden not being tough enough on Genocide, that's why I'm choosing the path that makes even more genocide more likely!"
That is not the position of someone who takes their own causes as seriously as those causes deserve, that is the position of a whiny privileged little shitstain looking for any reason they can find why they're actually morally superior to you for not being able to be assed to stand in a line for a day at most and check some boxes.
Look, I am not going to ignore that you're responding to your own made-up quote but I'll bite: 'What does the Palestinian cause deserve?'
No protesting or political leveraging by privileged little shitstains, obviously.
I don't have a problem with people protesting for Palestine, I have a problem with the people who are obviously going to stop the day after the voting closes.
What's needed is to identify the people encouraging Biden's moves to condition aid to Israel and spotlight them, give them a bigger platform among Biden voters, and to deplatform the advocates trying to counter that encouragement .
Continued protests, even disruptive protests occupying college campuses, but definitely not responding to a college trying to unfurl the US flag by projecting "Genocide Joe" onto it, there's a difference between disruptive protest and abjectly unhelpful antagonism.
Fair point. However:
Do you believe Biden would have ever made those moves without those protests?
Or perhaps, even, the leverage of people's votes might have played a role?
I am not so sure he would have made any move to condition aid without this disruption and threat.
I mean: Biden was pretty damned adamant against a ceasefire, but called for one less than a month after he got hit with Uncommitted primary votes. So I think there is some kind of relationship there at least worth crediting.
No, leveraging votes on it didn't do anything but show who was confident that they'd be fine when a second Trump Presidency brought the genocide here too.
I'll give you a hint, it is not the Palestinians who also live here in America because we have our own diaspora that also live other places from the homeland.
My dead kin are not a fetish prop to hand us over to the Trump Brand Morality police because being Arab is now defined as antisemitism.
I keep seeing that scene from What If where Killmonger murders Stark, "The difference between you and me, is that you can't see the difference between you and me."
First time I watched it I thought it was just Killmonger being meaninglessly vague to platitude his way to justifying his actions, but then I came back online and witnessed the absolute amount of white "leftists" proudly showing their entire asses declaring that they truly could see zero differences between Republican and Democratic administrations and legislative terms.
These people don't have a deeply held principal that guides their decision to threaten letting things get exponentially worse. They either have an abject ignorance to what they're threatening to the people for whom the difference is life and death, or they have an abject cynicism that causes them to see that threat as the entire point to rob the disenfranchised of the chance to define an American progressivism that isn't led exclusively by bougie white college kids.
They accuse people who call them out of being "vote karens" but they're the ones threatening PoC, Religious minorities, Women, and Queer folks to make the DNC's manager speak with them.
We would L O V E to see these little snots devise a means of protest that actually puts the consequences on the old white boomercrats who run the party right now. The problem is that they time and time again fucking refuse to do it because putting the work in to become a primary force that can eject party members who step out of line isn't as satisfying as terrorizing queer folks with "it says "class solidarity" or it gets the Republicans again!"
BTW this isn't even the first time this level of cynicism has been employed by the white left, in the 20s and 30s a major strategic goal of the American socialist movement was to attract enough black members that if fighting broke out they'd last long enough as a collective magnet for white conservative rage for the white socialists to achieve some sort of victory scenario. You may have seen similar sentiments in this thread and others like it where especially mask off white "leftists" call for a culling or WWIII or all but outright say that Black folks, women, religious minorities, and queer folks are outside the "Working Class", basically mask offing on being fascists that use "The Working Class" as an innuendo for "The Race" or "The Nation"
They don't see us as partners in solidarity, they see us as meat shields who need to shut up and be grateful they even pretend to care about our interests when they show up for the photo-op rallies and marches, and how dare we use their own language of solidarity to ask them for the herculean labor of standing in line and form filling a ballot, maybe flipping it over to check if there's public referenda on the docket this year.
Vote witholding is a tool of privilege wielded by those who know they can ignore the consequences of either outcome. It is Reagan looking his "friend" in the eye and giving no fucks about the AIDs epidemic he was dying from because he knew he was unlikely to catch it himself and that it was a useful political wrench to do what he already decided he wanted to do anyways.
Well it is perfectly fine to believe Biden would have called for a ceasefire or conditioning aid to Israel on his own accord without any political pressure.
There are means of political pressure that aren't threatening the cynical welding of one's own privilege as a hostage taking tool.