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im further left than whoever made this, so dont take it the wrong way but this is a fucking stupid meme. Surely the libs can do better than this... whatever this is... right? Like... this is some boomer-tier stuff
See that's my only problem with other people on the left.... Conservatives will always support other conservatives. They'll vote for them regardless.
Liberals, Progressives, leftists, they'll kneecap other without hesitation because they can't stand simple progress. They want radical change. And if you can't provide that, then they won't vote, they won't support anyone, they'll talk absolute shit about candidates, ideas, etc.
God forbid anyone tries to sell progressivism to the public... You can always guarantee a leftist will come out of the fucking woodworks to poo poo on it because it's just not left enough for them. Assholes.
I don't consider anti-liberal and Tankies as left like at all. Hexbear and ML literally supported Trump ffs.
Agreed 100%. And I'd expand it further (and more impactfully) many moderates would rather let the country delve into fascism than the mystery box of progressivism that (in their mind) might eventually lead to fascism or higher taxes when they finally become a billionaire.
Moderates and progressives need to agree on a candidate (primary), then both sides need to support them.
We agreed on a candidate. (Bernie)
And the Dems decided to railroad the other candidate through anyway. It makes absolutely perfect sense why progressives think liberals are full of shit.
Hell, Dems are fighting harder against Mamdani right now than they are against Donald, a literal fascist president.
You forgot to tell the voters in these yellow states.
A leftist correctly critized me today. I guess we can't ever have nice things anymore.
Liberals are not on the same end of the political spectrum as leftists. That is why leftists don’t like dealing with them or joining forces with them. Because 9 times out of 10, on issues leftists care about, liberals will side with the right wing.
It's talking passed eachother. Something any of us can do. No one here should have a problem with what's in the meme. Liberal in general conversation is a good thing. Everyone wants liberal amounts of freedom. Or liberal amounts of butter on their toast. Etc Etc Etc.
The average person is so ignorant they don't have an understanding of any political structures to have anything of value to say. So most don't. It was never intended as liberal as in economic liberal, or neoliberal both basically meaning capitalists. Chances are they all have similar gripes to us about capitalists. But simply have no understanding of how to voice it in an educated way. And this sort of behavior certainly isn't going to fix that.
As anarchist I would have plenty of places I might disagree with someone who would self describe as liberal. But I know we have far more places we might agree. That neither of us identify with elected officials. That we both feel trapped in this system. That we both want it to be more answerable and representative. We might disagree on how and how much. But we'd both benefit working together against the system. And in the interaction. Perhaps they learn something new and become a proper new ally.
. . . So what's a "RHINO"?
Rightists turn on each other for purity tests all the time. Especially amongst the racist ones.
You've seen that acronym so rarely that you spelled it wrong.
They keep each other in line but they don't 'cancel' each other. A lot of it is just plausible deniability really.
Your last point isn't correct. You can find people like that on any side of the political spectrum.
Regarding the first and second part, it can be simply due to Conservatives all being in a cult while being uneducated, while Liberals/Progressives/Leftists are mostly all educated and tend to have their own opinions.
You kinda just proved the bro's point by bitching and moaning about the details and ignoring the substance.
I don't think so. I've nearly just pointed out some lies and inconsistencies in his logic. I also agree that Liberals will never unify and keep fighting each other. But the way he phrased his point was that Conservatives had their shit together and Liberals don't. The truth is neither have their shit together, but for different reasons.
Bro had a Reddit ahh comment and I had to reply
Did liberals unify in 2020?
It's also just a lie. Conservatives are constantly in a crabs-in-a-bucket-esque power struggle. The only thing ensuring cohesion on the right is the cult of personality surrounding trump. They all want their particular flavor of oppression to be the one at the top and are happy to stab eachother in the back as soon as the opportunity arises.
Left unity is similarly a myth. The left is full of diverse ideologies, many of which are fundamentally incompatible with one another. We've already tried the "left unity" thing before, it lead to the Bolsheviks purging anarchists the second they had the chance, and there's no reason to believe that left unity would play out any differently nowadays. And while I'm at it, liberals are center right at best and "leftists" should stop concerning themselves so much with what libs think about our politics
Such as? Just curious.
Oh. Nm.
Me too but hey, if this resonates with some boomers I'm all for it.
I can never really tell how un/intentionally memey the boomer aspect is anymore, but my brain might be broken. It's definitely a meme by libs, for libs though.
shitlibs? Bourgeoise?
I don’t know if that’s what it means though. I took it as the normal things everyone is taught in childhood, that conservatives agree with teaching, is now thought if as “left”
After seeing a bunch of tankie memes on Lemmy, I've become a bit more aware of the popularity of low quality "picture of text" memes that confirm you are correct and others are wrong. It's fine to have beliefs but saying you have them because you paid attention in school is silly.
The point was that conservatives base their beliefs on lies and emotions, not information. And that's true.
“Well I went to middle school also guns bad”