this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2026
899 points (92.0% liked)

Political Memes

11740 readers
1654 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

1) Be civilJokes 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.

2) No misinformationDon’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

3) Posts should be memesRandom pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

4) No bots, spam or self-promotionFollow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

5) 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
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Anyone posting stuff that insinuates that people who didn't vote for Kamala in the last election did the wrong thing, basically. Or sometimes just the idea that we must vote for lesser evil candidates in general, depending on how blanket the view is.

For example the OP here is a Kamalapost because the obvious implication is that people who didn't vote for Kamala due to her stance on the Palestine issue made a mistake because the other option did all the same bad things as her plus much more. This is a really solid argument against that reasoning for not voting Kamala. The problem is that, out of the people who didn't vote for Kamala, most of them have different reasoning than the kind this post criticizes - which is why I called it a strawman. There are non-strawman Kamalaposts too (albeit a lot rarer) and I can respect those, those are just good healthy discourse.

[–] NerdyTimesOrWhatever@lemmy.today 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

So is the implication that they are or were percieved as equivalent evils?

I think anyone rational would see that a man who would invade the capital of the country to overturn the results of an election isn't very trustworthy. Voting against him is a simple way to denounce and oppose a rapist who supports strongmen and other genocides.

Supporting Israel, or not publicly denouncing them, was certainly supportive of an evil country. AIPAC absolutely has too much power in this country. How does that relate to Trump also supporting the country? And, you know, idolizing Netanyahu amongst other fascist leaders and strongmen? (I believe we can easily say Netanyahu is as much a fascist as a gymnast is flexible)

Idolizing strongmen currently committing genocides in multiple countries, attempting to overthrow the government, spreading false information leading to millions of deaths because... horse dewormer was touted as a remedy is equivalent to a moderate pretend-democrat conservative with bad opinions that could be changed, and opposed, how exactly? Project 2025 was already public information prior to the election. Equating a solid plan for introducing and attempting to cement fascism in the USA to that is a little weird.

I cant quite recall the Carlin quote, forgive the extension, but its along these lines:

"Asking about the differences between the options we have right now is like being given 2 options of airline food: Shards of glass, or (airline, yuck) chicken, and asking how the chicken is cooked."

Like I said, poor paraphrasing. The obvious point is that a man who tripled the debt in one term and supports other genocides isnt going to attempt to stop a different genocide.

No, I don't want to angrily tell you how to vote. I just want affirmation from potentially reasonable people that they won't attempt to equate such obviously different candidates, and such obviously different parties. Schumer and a select few dinosaurs are not the democratic or republican party, but if you consider them a negative influence on our government and democracy, I would agree with you.

Stubbing your toe intentionally sucks. Intentionally sawing off your legs sucks a little more.

I would like to see how this post inverts its intended meaning, and how there are few reasons to vote against fascism which has repeatedly publicly announced itself as opposed to voting for it. Im truly curious how there are less pro-Trump or pro-fascist ideas and complaints with substance and more Kamala and liberal based complaints. If the message is inverted, you must be quite knowledgeable. I do want to learn, despite snarkiness, as I clearly do not understand their equivalence

I dont like her like I dont like airline chicken parm. Which is definitely equivalent to broken glass. 100%

[–] Oh_wll_whtvr_nvrmnd@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

And leftist voted against Trump by voting for Claudia De La Cruz. If you voted for Kamala, you have to spend the rest of your life knowing you supported genocide