So many 'both sides are the same' memes by Blue MAGA trying to voter shame like they do ever election year. We don't live in a democracy, we haven't in awhile. Another example of the plutocracy surfaced today...
this post was submitted on 18 May 2024
-40 points (30.8% liked)
Political Memes
5514 readers
1302 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.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I have noticed that a lot of slrpnk accounts take a somewhat simplistic view of US politics -- they seem like they want to be left alone to do their thing, which is 100% to the good, but then they don't seem to want to engage with any sort of politics that might enable them to continue to be left alone to do their thing.
Like yes I'm very happy that you want to organize in your community and do good things, it sounds probably better and more healthy than me posting on Lemmy about establishment politics. But the police state or the global war aren't going to go away if you just pretend they don't exist or don't engage with them. Not electing Trump is absolutely critical to you being able to continue to exist in the US and advocate for the type of more-systemic change that it sounds like you're in favor of.
(Of course slrpnk is a lot less homogeneous than lemmy.ml so that may or may not apply to any given user; it's just sort of my reaction to the general vibe of "I like grassroots and non-electoral organizing for real change" coupled with "it's of no concern to me if Trump gets elected." And I do think they're on the balance way more sensible than the lemmy.ml hivemind, FWIW.)
Sounds better? 🙂