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It's the dunk tank.

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[–] EndMilkInCrisps@hexbear.net 111 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Biden literally called Mexicans illegals the other day. Has done nothing to protect trans rights or abortion rights. Is literally putting off peace talks in Ukraine letting more people die until after the election. Has increased police budgets and militarization. What world are these people living in?

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 47 points 8 months ago

Whaddya mean Biden did nothing for trans people? We're draft-eligible again baybeeeeeeee

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 27 points 8 months ago

What world are these people living in?

The Society of the Spectacle debord-tired

[–] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 97 points 8 months ago

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a genocide is a good guy with a genocide.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 85 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Someone's driving that trolley.

Would be a shame if something happened to 'em...

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 45 points 8 months ago

"No! Not like that!"

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 83 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We have to support the genocide over there so we don't have a genocide over here! maybe-later-kiddo

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I often wonder who else liberals would sacrifice before drawing the line.then I stop wondering because the answer is depressing.

deeper-sadness

[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 74 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I would simply blow up the trolley niko-cocktail

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 66 points 8 months ago (3 children)

HAMAS! HAMAS! THIS GUY IS HAMAS! MODS! MOOOOODS!

[–] Smeagolicious@hexbear.net 25 points 8 months ago

MODS HAMAS SPIL MY JICE i-spil-my-jice

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[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago

Seriously if you look at this picture and your reaction isn't "we should all be working together to destroy the trolley" you're a fucking psychopath

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[–] pooh@hexbear.net 73 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

fixed

This is but a simple non-serious meme and the ideas hinted at are only in jest, of course :)

[–] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago

in Minecraft :)

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 61 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 50 points 8 months ago

The CIA meme department is so shitty

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 47 points 8 months ago (1 children)

smuglord "It's just like Thomas Jefferson said, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots...". You may not like it, but splattering a disadvantaged group of brown people fighting for their right to exist is the only way we can be free!"

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 47 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's just like Thomas Jefferson said, ~~"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots..."~~ *"Damn, my wife's 14-year-old slave-half-sister is smokin' hot. I should buy her from my father-in-law and take her to France to have sex with her."

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago (7 children)

i wonder, besides JB-shining-aggro has there actually been a good white american? The more I learn about them the less I care about the continent, which isnt fair, considering the hwites stole that land.

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 27 points 8 months ago

some of the Quakers might've been ok

[–] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 8 months ago

Robert Gould Shaw and his father were pretty based, see also the Radical Republicans

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago

Jonas Salk was pretty good. He refused to patent his polio vaccine

Milton Wolff was probably also solid. He led the Lincoln Battalion, an antifascist volunteer force in the Spanish Civil War

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[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 46 points 8 months ago

liberalism There are only ever two choices and the only way things will get better is to accept that nothing will ever get better

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 45 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If liberals are willing to genocide one group, they're willing to genocide all of them. And they will do so, over and over again. One group at a time.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 44 points 8 months ago

This is why I hate fucking liberals more than anyone.

They're literally admitting that yes, they are doing a genocide and they're still acting fucking smug about it and like they're the moral ones.

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 43 points 8 months ago (1 children)

with quick thinking and an icey resolve, you pull the lever to save the most lives possible. before the trolley reaches the junction, joe biden walks up, gives you a slap on the back and a smile, and pushes the lever back.

biden-troll "thanks for the vote, jack!"

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

like i can't get over it, the only flag-person there that biden has done anything at all to benefit is ukraine, or rather, zelensky specifically. he hasn't done anything to end the war of course.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

the only flag-person there that biden has done anything at all to benefit is ukraine

Before Joe Biden was president, that country barely had any landmines in it. But now!

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[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 39 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Derail the trolley then...

I don't accept your system!

Abas l'Amerique! America delenda est!

sankara-shining

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 39 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Genuinely curious why they threw Mexico in with all the groups they're going to 'save' with more Biden

[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

I noticed that too. I think they're just racist and are using the Mexican flag to represent all hispanic immigrants.

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 37 points 8 months ago

Biden and the dems are like a rabid dog with their teeth around the neck of Palestine and somehow that's fine.

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 37 points 8 months ago

i think i'd rather die in a camp than endorse a genocide

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 33 points 8 months ago

It's great that it's a singular choice made in a vacuum and there aren't any other long-term consequences to think about. In the future, we will get more chances to support the lesser evil (forever) but these have no connection to our previously supporting the lesser evil unconditionally.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"Well yeah, we're genociding brown foreigners; but if you don't vote for us, we're going to let the Klansmen we're doing nothing about keeping away from the ballots do the same to you without getting in the way! In fact, we're the ones who'll report you-- and if you don't believe us, check out that reddit thread where we floated passing Palestinian-sympathetic names to the FBI!" /lib

Death to Amerika.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 32 points 8 months ago

"An injustice anywhere is just an injustice over there and supporting the people backing it definitely won't lead to more injustices against other people" - MLK Jr probably.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Taking the Trolley to Omalas.

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[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago

you have to be a psychopath to post something like this

[–] TC_209@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago

Since this meme is about prioritizing groups, I can only assume that Democrats will sacrifice Mexicans/Hispanic immigrants in 2028 and trans folks in 2032.

Death to America.

[–] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 27 points 8 months ago

genocides are okay if they happen to someone else ig

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago

And what have the dems done to protect people in red states?

[–] axont@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago

It's great how liberal democracy is choosing how many people to genocide and how many of them are foreigners

And you shouldn't look for any options outside of that

[–] mango@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago

Libs acting like enthusiastic support for genocide is somehow going to save queer people in the west??

Also, I love that this trolley meme keeps getting posted because the obvious answer is organize and do everything you can to topple the fucking trolley. But mah lesser evil

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

"I think the dirty browns should be sacrificed for my personal (illusion of) security"

[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 8 months ago

I hate how these fucking ghouls continue to insist that voting for the Democrats will save all of these minorities when anyone who payed attention to Biden's politics know that he don't give a fuck about them and will let the right do whatever they want.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They really lowkey quoted Neil Peart.

This sentiment technically isn't wrong. However, it's too bad that voting for libs isn't actually going to protect any of those other groups on the Republican side of the track. They will still all suffer under liberal BS, as we've seen Biden do jack shit and even practically agreeing with Republicans on many of their oppressive stances.

They're performative as fuck and don't give a shit about the genuine liberation of POC, LGBTQ+, women, and religious minorities. Like all politicians, they want power to abuse us and will push us around if they need to do so to further their corrupt agenda. To see "leftists" actually believing that they do anything for genuine protection and promotion of the rights of the oppressed just tells me that people take the bait way too fucking hard.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They sure love this quote.

I know I made a decision. The decision is that I don't support genocide.

If that's too high a bar for dems to clear maybe they should take a look in the mirror and evaluate some of rhe decisions they made.

Like if they care more about continuing a genocide than winning an election.

[–] neroiscariot@hexbear.net 20 points 8 months ago (3 children)

How did they get Palestine on the tracks...twice?

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