Political Memes

Yes, even on Lemmy, seems to be a lot more of that.

I think there should be more focus on what politicians stand to represent, their history, their associations, and what they voted for.

Policy changes are extremely important as well, but it gotten more and more complicated over time. Sounds good on paper, but turns out to be a market grab for corpos.

Then you have people like Charlie Crist... The I will be whatever party that will make me money. He was a republican and now he's a democrat. Right

i'll save this image for when you liberals argue that enemies of israel are just as bad as israel

Not as much once I started ignoring a bunch of .ml instances.

As we're seeing with Ed Sheeran, people are under the misapprehension that not taking a "side" is the more comfortable position. The reality that 'silence is still speech' hasn't yet sunk in for them.

To me, we on the left reinforce this idea that both sides are the same when we sink to their level. We don't need fake videos or out of context clips of him to prove he's a terrible person. It's there for all to see in his unfiltered words and actions. Same with the slop about Musk that does the rounds. We don't need fake stories to spread the word. It's self-evident in his actual, real life behaviour, and only serves to weaken the truth.

I wouldn't call it inconsistent with the political season. People are going to express their politics before the election, especially leading up to election day.

I'd be more concerned if people were so disengaged they had nothing to discuss.

Jamille Bouie gave a (brief) deep dive into the similarities and differences between the two parties (here on YouTube).

Both parties have a history of being influenced by business interests over public interests (especially after Reagan, and lobbyists and special interest groups were legally given access to elected officials).

However, the Republican party is openly and deliberately trying to unmake elections in the US at federal and state levels to gain a permanent majority all three branches of government, to turn the US into a one-party autocracy. Meanwhile, the Republican led government is borrowing money at an accelerated rate and funneling it into the pockets of plutocrats and conglomerate megacorporations through government contracts and subsidies.

(And once those plutocrats are done financializing the US into ruin, they will move on to the rest of the developed world, which they can alread easily afford to do. We're seeing signs of it already.)

ETA One morning later, it occurs to me when Republican rule is secured, it's in the interests of the oligarchal plutocrats and businesses to then shrink or eliminate the legislature, say by forcing them to sign an enabling act.

Fewer officials means fewer bribes. It also means fewer lobbyists. (According to How Money Works, the lobbyists and lobbyist-like employees in Washington number in the six digits, a veritable army compared to the officials they're there to petition.)

So it's actually in everyone's best interest to approach single-party autocracy but not actually achieve it. Especially since part of the bribery scheme is to hire retired officials as lobbyists.

I wonder if they collectively have this foresight, or are careening towards their own obsolescence like fossil fuel industrialists towards climate destabilization.

How my stupid, loose, hyporcrite, ,whore wife is about EVERYTHING.