Political Memes

TBH I'm okay with folks admitting they were lied to. Just help us fix this now.

Trump literally spouting hate, absurd deportation rhetoric, and insane tariffs while on the campaign.

I didn't know he would do that! ~~It wasn't supposed to ruin my life just the other Average American people!~~

Republicans are the stupidest racists on the planet, they can't even recognize when they're about to get robbed after being told they're going to get robbed by the robber.

Seeing a Hispanic Virginia citizen that voted for trump get arrested by ICE without warrant is the full circle stupidity that I've attributed to uncle Toms and log cabinors in the past. You voted so ICE would roll up on people and just grab them off the street because you wanted to be a pick me. Well they picked you up dumbass.

It's the same shit I see when "moderates" get all surprise Pikachu faced when the "fiscal conservatives" they wanted, piss on them with trickle down economics.

Yes, but don't let your self righteousness turn a budding class war back into a culture war.

If Republican voters are suddenly waking up and thinking "this isn't right" smacking them down with "this is what you voted for" is not going to help your cause.

"Yes, you're right, this shouldn't be happening and we should work together to stop it."

They were so happy they got to screw over everyone they disagreed with. They considered themselves apart, separate, better, than those they disagreed with. They were the Real America™, the rest of us weren't part of that. They completely overlooked the fact that, for now at least, we are all still Americans, living in the same country, under the same economy, and the same rules. So they suffer the consequences of their hubris and myopic exceptionalism.

I'd love to here from the "project 2025 isn't real." folks right about now.

"A nazi walks into a bar, and is welcomed at a table by his nine friends. How many Nazis are at the table?" Anyone who sides with fascists, even tentatively or for differing reasons, is themselves still a fascist.

The German Nazis didn't gain power purely from support of other nazis; they gained power largely from various other parties, business leaders, and wealthy elite, who thought the Nazis would be a useful tool they could use and control to their own ends. The "why" of their support is far less important than the fact of the support itself, and the fact those people were responsible for helping the Nazis commit their crimes.

No, they knew what it was. They just didn’t think it would affect them.

I also blame the 90M eligible voters that abstained from the election. Think about that for a second. There were 13M more people that did nothing, than all of the people that voted for Trump.

Welcome to adulthood. Make a choice or one will be made for you. If you stand for nothing, then you’ll fall for anything.

after WW2 and the horrors of the Nazis came fully to light....people kept asking....how did the German people let this happen? how did they let it continue until disaster fell? how could they have allowed such cruelty and degradation to occur?

THIS was how. by not paying attention. by ignoring the growing inequities and terror going on in their midst. BY PRETENDING EVERYTHING WAS OK.

and now WE are doing the same. it's easy to ignore right now....it isn't TOO bad....not TOO many people are being affected...yet.

we need to stop ignoring and start paying attention to exactly what they are doing.

No one read it. There were plenty of more obvious warnings.

I'm sure the millions and millions of conservatives who use Lemmy are going to read this and really rethink their positions.

A lot of Rep voters approve of Project 2025. His approval isn't that low. Approval of certain policies, like tarriffs are low, but overall approval isn't. What's scary is his most evil policies (the immigration policies) have some of the highest approval.

here's another useful one

The people who voted for Trump are only angry that they are being hurt. Even if they read Project 2025, they'd assume they'd be exempt and that it'd only hurt the right people.

There is no reason to engage in smug gloating to shame them into repenting or trying to gently reason with them. You shouldn't even be talking to them. You should seek to undermine them at every level possible. They need to be kneecapped.

https://www.project2025.observer/

Thing is, we're all going to burn together. The one bright spot in the coming years will be that moment when maga realizes they are going down along with everyone they wanted him to hurt.

It won't fix everything, but that schadenfreude will keep me warm in my final moments.

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice" - Rush, 1980

Not only did they vote for this.

A lot a lot of them only voted for trump on the ballot and no downticket names or state questions.

They literally voted for specifically this.

Im having a grand time pointing it out as often as possible. Oh you had to skip on lunchables because they went up this month? glad your vote is working out. Gas still the same price? wonder who is doing that now. Oh you didnt get your bonus check, due to increased business costs? I wonder why.

Why do you even assume they can even read in the first place ?

they'll then tell you that he disavowed project 2025 because he doesn't lie every other sentence.

you're preaching to the choir.