Political Memes

I'm not a liberal, I'm a consequentialist. Electoral politics are gravely consequential. Non-consequentialists are a vile evil.

What a lot of liberals don’t get about leftists criticizing the Democrats is that it isn’t “both sides are bad”.

Yes, leftists like yourself absolutely do. This is just a lie.

We criticize them because they’re lauded as saviors of the common people due to their occasional, surface level platitudes and vague gestures toward “progress”.

Liberals laud them maybe. Not electoral leftists or consequentialist leftists.

Y’all get defensive because deep down you know the Democrats are never going to save us or even stem the tide, but they’re the systems “solution” to the fascist problem so bygolly were just gonna keep “voting blue no matter who” until the country is “”““fixed””“” again. It’s a narrow, misinformed, and foolish perspective that deprioritizes everything but elections and tribalism.

We'll never be saved by anyone.

What flawed lesser evils provide is an opportunity. Throwing away a chance because its not a glorious revolutionary act is so painfully and aggressively stupid.

I can’t speak for every leftist, but the ones I know and the spaces I run in outside of this godforsaken site don’t want to talk about the Democrats, they don’t want to talk electoral politics

That's because they're content to not pay attention to the suffering of the wider world outside their immediate communities, unless its Palestine.

Electoralism is a distraction, and we’re all falling for it.

If electoralism was immaterial or jsut a distraction, the republicans would not be trying to rig it in their favor at every turn.

I’m not saying don’t vote.

Sure buddy. You only wrote all of this anti-electoralism to say that it makes perfect sense to vote.

Why are we wasting so much energy chirping at each other when we could be active in the streets, supporting our communities, and building alternative systems that sidestep the two party system entirely?

I wasn't doing that before November 2024 because I knew that trying to convince you to vote for Harris in this way was a lost cause and would just harden you further because of psychological petulance. Now I just intensely resent you. It no longer matters, we are fucked. You can go ahead and not vote now I legitimately do not give a fuck.

I don't want to cooperate with someone who actively advocates for making things worse for me. THEY ARE MY ENEMY.

Plenty of people already are, we’re just pleading with the libs to get the fucking hint and actually do something for once

Again, not a lib, but I don't owe you types fucking anything. I was enthusiastic to do things anyway. I did volunteer and help. I canvassed. I protested. I risked my job. I donated. I volunteered at a food pantry. I have my current job in non-profit work because I wanted to help my community.

Especially after November 2024 however, there is a voice in my head that tells me "fuck these stupid fuckers, they don't deserve my help. They want to drag me into the mud so I'll get a fire in me to fight and then I'll just get shot by a cop or a brownshirt, forgotten in a mass of angry people. Fucking assholes."

If you are content to let things get worse so people will become motivated to risk their lives for your revolutionary project, you are an evil manipulative asshole. You and your comrades deserve to be hated and reviled.