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[holding a rose] Now hear me out... Sure, we did let them bring back slavery

[looking smug] But we negotiated that you can have longer and more comfortable chains this time around

[dropped the rose, still looking smug] We truly are defenders of the people

https://thebad.website/comic/moderate_left

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[–] nargis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

There are more slaves today than there were during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade (not counting indentured servitude, which was abolished only in 1917~1920 by the country that prides itself on ending the slave trade. Not counting serfdom either). Kevin Bales wrote a book on it - 'Disposable Peoples.' Salty libs downvoting the comic would benefit from some reading. Read 'Cobalt Red' by S. Kara while you're at it too.

Liberals are so efficient when cracking down on communists, purging them with ruthless efficiency from both the public sphere and the government then why do they go soft on fascists who abuse free speech with some silly milquetoast excuse? It's so obvious.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

Still don't understand why these comics get ao many downvotes, this one us clearly about qhen "Radical Centrists" and free market liberals who claim to be leftwing compromise with faacists and right wing nutters.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago

Too subtle for .world ig

[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Here's a few reasons:

  • Not funny

  • Not nuanced

  • Bad art

  • Comes off as smug/condescending (author)

  • Makes fun of/disparages broad groups of people

  • Assigns positions that people don't agree with to labels they identify with.

Etc. Etc.

[–] bastion 2 points 4 days ago

yep, that's about it.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Because many people attribute their actions to stupidity, not malice.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

Neoliberals don't like when you pierce their veils

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nothing more moderate than calling the moderates on the other side extremists.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Your moderates gave us more Privatized Prisons than ever before. They looked at Reagan's legacy and decided that the problem was there wasn't enough profit being generated at the expense of the inmates, nor were there enough inmates.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can I say nothing is more American than immediately assuming people on the internet are Americans by default?

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I even put a flag in my display name and people still assume I'm american.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago

That is so east coast mentality

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So your comment was even less apt, and I'm the dummy. That sure is some up-side-down logic. Call me when y'all have the highest incarceration-rate in the world.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

I think u guys have cornered that market.