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[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)
[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

patronizing is exactly the right word holy shit :(

i am not a single issue voter and i’m highly critical of those telling me to utterly ditch the blue vote. but i am very uncomfortable with this portrayal of the pro-Palestine movement and i hope you, the reader, are too

the artist of this should feel some level of shame i think

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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Just to remind everyone, the issue is that we're funding a genocide. FFS, I don't want Trump to beat Biden either, but how warped and hollow is your worldview that you can look at kids getting their skulls cracked open for protesting a genocide and think, "Wow, look at those entitled single-issue voters." Truly a deranged take.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

People who make these typa posts are the same people who wouldn't show up to a protest for any of these things

yall are actually insane if you think protesting genocide is somehow mutually exclusive from other issues, or that pressuring Biden automatically means you're voting for Trump

Both this community and Politics have some of the dumbest party shill takes ever.

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (11 children)

I am not saying we shouldn't vote for Biden, but acting like we shouldn't be protesting the genocide of Palestinians is bullshit. I know Trump would be worse, but it doesn't mean we should speak out against Biden sending weapons that directly aid in the death of children.

We can't just pretend he isn't complicit in war crimes just because the other option is worse. We should be able to speak out against the atrocities.

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[–] Juice@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No one I know who does serious work on Palestine is only working on that one issue, wasn't doing anything before and won't do anything after. Burnout is incredibly high among activist leaders right now. Cut us some slack please

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I think there's a lot of anger that anything is being tried at all. The expectation and goal is that nothing be done, which those in your opposition cannot help but reveal every time with their incessant brow beating.

[–] i_ben_fine@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

They won't cut you slack, because they actively support the genocide. "But Trump will do worse genocide" is concern trolling.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Wow, look at all those issues democrats won't actually do anything about, they'll just let republicans destroy those things so they can scream about them to get votes and continue to do nothing about them.

Oh, and democrats support genocide. No amount of whataboutism should disguise the fact that democrats are deep throating a genocidal apartheid ethnostate led by far-right war criminals.

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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

I'm deeply uncomfortable with the amount of people calling those wholly opposed to complicity in genocide as "single issue voters". Sure, if genocide isn't enough of a concern for you to oppose candidates that are complicit, then I guess you can call it "single issue".

We're talking genocide here, so I'm going to compare this to the most known genocide on the planet. Imagine if we knew about and could see the Holocaust occurring as it happened when it started, and FDR was funding the Reich including circumventing congress. Would you expect people to still vote for FDR, or would you expect people to oppose his candidacy? This caliber of rhetoric as well as this post has turned this leftist away from my plan to vote for Biden. Nice work folks. I'll be voting for Cornel West and trying to keep the liberal trifecta in my state legislature this year.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

The "if Trump wins" folks are angry at the implication that their vote is tacit support of genocide, but are fine with the implication that not voting for Biden is tacit support for Trump

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[–] blazera@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The comics making a point about how many crises we're facing. But Biden is already president. These are his crises.

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[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Why doesn't she have a sign that says "Stop genocide in Palestine"?

[–] splonglo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You SHOULD vote for Joe, but fucking hell this is HIS fault. Voters are a swirling mass of people. It might as well be fluid dynamics. Bad policies and apathy WILL affect support. It's going to. You can't stop it. You can't shame it back again either. You can't win back tent guy's vote by blaming him for Joe Biden's failures.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Okay making a top level comment after quite a bit of research.

The artist of this cartoon has literally never expressed criticism of the US’s participation in genocide nor apartheid—nor even of the involvement of the military-industrial complex—even once since October 7.

So if this post comes off as excessively patronizing to some, there may be a reason for that, as the tone here is not all that different from the rest of the guy’s work.

That does not mean that there is no valid concern from the artist here. Whatever your plans are for November, a Trump win is going to result in some non-zero excess harm against the vulnerable and the environment over what would be involved in a Biden win in the short run—that much most of us can agree on.

But the comic does this point in such a fucking tone deaf way? like hawt damn.

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[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Off course they are busy with such issue.

How much of an issue would it be if it was you running away with your family from place to another, starving and getting bombed, to realize the next morning, that you have lost your mom and have to burry your sister, your kids are under the rubble, one is limpless for life now, another is dead, another still missing.

How would you feel if the people selling and enabling your genocide, or the people who have the power to step in and help, are discussing school lunch and economy issues, while yours are non-existant. I bet you cannot afford to give half a fuck about the economy, or college tuition, or housing affordability, or nothing else.

War and genocide cannot simply be dissmissed as another issue. This issue is literally life and death, pain and torture, and every decision that causes it to happen is everything of someone's life.

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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah. Save the "democracy" which puts the whole force of the law on you when you protest for Palestine or against Cop City.

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[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess Biden better... Earn more votes.

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Don't worry, the folks who aren't voting for Biden over Palestine aren't voting for Trump either, so it balances out.

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