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[–] elbiter@lemmy.world 28 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Ah, the double standards of fascists: they can be absolute cunts, but everyone must be super nice and considerate to them.

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 53 minutes ago (1 children)

the kind of respect that the right demands is the respect of an authority and superior. the maximum respect that the right gives is the respect of a human. but if you're in the out-group then more is demanded of you and less is given. it's very contradictory but also self-consistent because they truly feel superior, and truly feel you are subhuman. you don't need to bow down to subhuman logic if you are of the superior species.

[–] elbiter@lemmy.world 3 points 46 minutes ago

So... They're basically batshit crazy?

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 8 points 54 minutes ago* (last edited 51 minutes ago)

Let me quote your idol's second favorite book, Laura:

“good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.”

― Donald J. Trump, Trump: The Art of the Deal

You, your boy DJT here and hell, even Charlie Kirk himself, got famous by acting like complete fucking ghouls. "Making people famous" for acting ghoulishly won't have the effect you think it will.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 minutes ago

Respect is a Social Contract, not a Right.

[–] derry@midwest.social 2 points 26 minutes ago

Did she really spend her night doing that? Or maybe just downing a few glasses of wine and some prescription meds (wink, wink) and doing whatever nasty people do? We may never know. Why would she care anyway? Were they BFFs or something?

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 39 minutes ago (1 children)

People condemning "political violence" and sending "thoughts and prays" to Kirk are really telling on themselves that they only care when a peer who shares their class interests even if they occasionally cared dies.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago* (last edited 39 seconds ago)

It's not even sharing class interests. It's class worship and gullibility.

Most Republicans seem to still think that it's possible to live the American Dream (tm) and get rich through nothing more than merit, hard work, and effort.

When you point out the existence of the welfare cliff, boots theory, market capture made possible by under-regulation, and that the only way to gain wealth through merit alone is to have already started with more capital than your peers, they just start defending the rich because "they worked hard to earn their wealth" and calling you a socialist like that's a bad thing.

It's infuriating.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 42 points 2 hours ago

I'm sure she tweeted the same thing a few months back when those democratic politicans were assinated right? RIGHT?

[–] molestme247@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Ask this cunt all the shit she'd said about the Minnesota incident or the hammer incident, fuck this cunt. Imma turn the death of gop politicians into a death drinking game I have an idea

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 2 points 55 minutes ago

I'm going to make you wish you never opened your mouth.

I'm going out on a limb here and guessing she is a free speech absolutist

[–] ODuffer@lemmy.world 27 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Shot through the neck and you're to blame, you give Trump a bad name 🎶

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 points 1 hour ago

You played your part, and they played their game,

Charlie

You give Trump a bad name.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 249 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Shout out to Charlie Kirk for not saying anything racist for a whole day

[–] nozone@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

He also hasn't lost a debate in that timeframe. New personal best.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 hour ago

somebody needs to make that a website

days since he lost a debate

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 7 points 2 hours ago

Real time fact checking.

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Can someone with an account please comment that under there

[–] MrSilkworm@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 hours ago

I wouldn't comment on that platform, even if it was important.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 34 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 38 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

You're right, we know the moment he last said something racist with exact precision cause he was doing it as his neck sprung a leak.

Unless he managed to gurgle something racist at the paramedics, but I think that's unlikely.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 hour ago

"b-b-bullet...was...woke..." dies

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[–] deacon@lemmy.world 1 points 50 minutes ago

Listen, creature, it is very much already not in vain. There was never any question of that.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 74 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I gotta say, cheering on the death of somebody you hate is one thing. Cheering on the death of a poor drug addict murdered by police is a very special kind of evil.

[–] saimen@feddit.org 5 points 39 minutes ago* (last edited 38 minutes ago)

But he was black, so she was hating him as well.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 24 points 3 hours ago

She plays a similar role to Charlie Kirk in the whole fascist agenda and is about as approachable. She should be careful.

[–] Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 83 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

An important distinction is that George Floyd didn't wish harm on people.

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Didn’t he rob a pregnant woman at gunpoint?

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

More importantly, he tried to purchase something with a counterfeit $20 bill. Which we all know is far worse than all the deaths Charlie Kirk was directly responsible for.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 points 55 minutes ago

No he legally tried to purchase something with a 2 dollar bills. And the dumb fuck cashier or whatnot thought they were fake. That is the way I heard it.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

But did he wish them harm? Was the woman pregnant? Did he actually point a gun at anyone? What were the charges for his 5 year sentence? Does it justify being choked to death in the street by police?

Let's turn to our 8 panelists to discuss.

[–] marighost@piefed.social 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, but he was a criminal! So it's obviously worse. Hope this helps.

(/s)

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago

Don't forget that he was black, so a gang member too!

/s²

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 132 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

"Congratulations to George Floyd on being 5 years sober today."

Like... Really?

What the fuck is wrong with this broad? That's abhorrent.

Not to mention the 30,000 sickos who liked this of course...

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

It's worse and worse the more you think about it...

George Floyd was murdered by the police, a group that's supposed to protect and serve the public. George himself contributed money to their salaries (as we all do), and they killed him in cold blood as he begged for his life.

We don't know why Charlie was shot, but the biggotry and hatred he permeated far and wide into this country is his legacy. Imagine leaving this sort of quote (below) behind. What a legacy to leave...

"I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage."

  • Charlie Kirk (Oct. 12, 2022)

He then died in the middle of a "debate" where he was incinuating that all trans people are violent and disturbed.

[–] saimen@feddit.org 3 points 35 minutes ago

“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

  • Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials
[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 69 points 5 hours ago (6 children)

It's actually, sadly, quite easy. In her mind there are no shades of grey, no systems, no circumstances. There are people who are Good People and people who are Bad People, and which people are which is self-evident and not as related to their actions as you might think. It's just a case of identity. They're Good when they do bad things, and Bad People are bad even when occasionally doing good.

And so celebrating the death of a Bad Person is honorable, obviously, and celebrating the death of a Good Person is sickening and deplorable. Clearly.

And if I agreed that this was the way the world was, I'd probably agree with her. Unfortunately for me, that seems fucking nuts.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean this dynamic is not only found on the right. Many Lemmings seem to be caught up in the same mode of thinking.

I hope we can all agree that people suffering and dying, in isolation, is bad. Obviously the implications of a death can vary widely and that’s where things get complicated. But the basic moral principle should be widely shared.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

I think the current moral question society is wrestling with is along those lines. Something to the effect of, how removed from the outcome of a decision does one need to be in order to absolve themselves of responsibility for that outcome? Essentially, why is it OK for a CEO or a President to cause thousands of deaths by signing a piece of paper but not OK for that same person to go out and shoot those thousand people one at a time? The outcome is the same there's just more obfuscation along the way in the first case. The greed motivation seems to be the difference. The CEO isn't usually killing people because he wants them dead, he's doing it because he views them as acceptable casualties in his quest to make money.

Charlie Kirk is a great example of that phenomenon as well. He may not have directly shot anybody but he undoubtedly influenced people towards doing exactly that. To what degree should he bear the blame for their actions? He certainly didn't do it in complete ignorance of the possibility that people could die but does the separation from the actual crime make his actions morally acceptable? Does it make any difference if his motivations were money and power as opposed to bigotry and hatred?

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 39 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Charlie Kirk is dead!

Am I famous yet?

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I want to be in the screenshot too

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

The screenshot won't look right unless there's a PARTY under the comment full of happy people replying to each other nested so deep it looks like half of a CHRISTMAS TREE! Like the one we're gonna use to celebrate the blood sacrifice of a human man for the greater good of all!

[–] MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 51 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

So much for the war on cancel culture.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 22 points 4 hours ago

They have ALWAYS been hypocrites. Cancel culture, wokeness, the fucking national debt, inflation… these have only ever been applied to democrats.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 38 points 4 hours ago

No, no. You misunderstand. Cancel culture is when the left does it. When conservatives do it, it's just getting justice.

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