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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by footfaults@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net

Inspired by https://hexbear.net/post/3661592.

The original meme has been floating around, but here's where I saw it recently

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[-] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 55 points 2 days ago

Might as well put Ukraine, BLM, and Islam up there while you’re at it. Near as I can tell, the only clear difference between the two parties is on abortion, and even then the difference seems mostly rhetorical. One side is saying “states’ rights” gleefully while the other side is saying “states’ rights” mournfully. Other than that, you’d have trouble telling them apart if you just looked at policy.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 50 points 2 days ago

And the Mexican flag given Klanmala's border policy stances.

[-] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago

I really don’t want Trump to win again, but it would be the best thing for the Democratic Party to lose again after tacking right.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

This is what I keep coming back to, is "Would we be in this position if they had been disciplined in 2016 or 2020"

[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

The party doesn't learn anything. Ever.

[-] SadArtemis@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

Agreed. Not an accelerationist but my take on it now is that whatever accelerates the internal destruction of the imperial cores is generally the opposite of acceleration- if anything, progressive development, in the broader global context- just like how Nazi Germany and any other such regime should have fallen sooner than later. With industrial genocide ongoing in front of the entire world's eyes, with the west marching towards WW3 on multiple fronts- this is just how it is.

If anything, Klanmala is probably the actual accelerationist (WW3) candidate anyways, and just as genocidal and fascist.

[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

It occurred to me afterwards that I should extend this, to add that

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Don't forget #metoo. Once people started coming forward about Biden, Bill Clinton, and so on, the democrats torpedoed the whole thing. It practically vanished overnight as it became clear liberals don't believe all women and turn into misogynistic sex pest apologists when someone on their team gets scratched.

[-] SadArtemis@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The Pakistan(?) flag as well. It wasn't Trump that used the military to oust Imran Khan, it was Biden. Might even be argued (if they actually do pursue peace) that Ukraine should only be on the Democrat's rail.

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago

also the intersex/non-binary duo flag i see there, seeing as antitrans bigotry rarely discriminates between such things. and that for many non-binary people that's a trans experience.

[-] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 43 points 2 days ago

You cant appease fascists by sacrificing groups of people to them. "First they came for the communists" and all that.

With the way the dems are swerving hard to the right, I could definitely see them becoming "lgb drop the t" terfs and the rhetoric currently used against Palestinians will be applied to trans people.

2024: "yeah they're doing a genocide in Palestine, but we gotta vote for them to protect trans people"

2028/32: "yeah they're persecuting trans people, but we gotta vote for them to protect gay people"

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago

It will be "protect lesbians" and prosecuting you for homophobia

[-] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 37 points 2 days ago

Let's not forget that Democrats threw BLM under the bus to appease the landlord class when it was no longer politically expedient to support protests. And how quickly they walked back every "defund the police" promise without even the slightest whiff of resistance.

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

"Defund the police" pisses me off because it was already a milquetoast downgrade from the real slogan: abolish the police. That was "too radical" and yet the compromise was still disregarded as extreme.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

It really was wild watching the liberal establishment extinguish the BLM demonstrations in real time.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 37 points 2 days ago

Someone should keep updating this like the former US allies in heaven meme

[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago
[-] Yor@hexbear.net 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

this is going to keep happening with democrats. all of the embarrassing trans libs who relentlessly criticise/harass people for taking a stand on palestine really think they're safe, but they're not. when the cost of supporting trans people starts to outweigh the benefit of more lucrative donors, we all know what's going to happen. it happened with BLM and ultimately increasing funding for many police departments, it happened with forcing everyone back to work despite a pandemic. they won't resist the pressure long and soon enough the cis queer libs will be arguing with the cis queer leftists that "we have to pick our battles or this will just hurt everyone else"

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

Dems couldn't even protect Roe v. Wade. If they won't even look after the cishet PMC women and their rights, they sure as shit aren't going to protect the rights of trans, non-binary, or intersex people.

[-] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

It's fucking rich to put the muslim only on the R side. All of this is rich, but that one just jumps out to me the most

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Well, we all know that if it happens outside the Continental US, it doesn't actually count. And if it happens in a ~~concentration camp~~ very moral, legal, and necessary temporary ~~holding facility~~ home, it also doesn't count. And if it happens under a Democrat, it also doesn't count. It only counts when it helps the narrative of the Democratic party. They are the oldest political party, so they should get to make the rules.

[-] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 20 points 2 days ago

Immigrants are also on the tracks alongside trans and Palestinian activists. Same with the environmental activists.

[-] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

The rail is just a loop.

[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not pictured is the track loops right back to those groups. The dems will throw the other groups under at the drop of a dime

[-] WertformProphetin@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

And even when they don't do this, once elected, their pathological need to "move to the centre" and be non partisan means you end up with Republican policies anyway!

Truly 4D chess.

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago

The lib who originally created this trolley meme thought it was the "Muslim flag"

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

Tbh dems did support a coup there (no concerns over jailing political opponents as well)

[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

The lib who made the original trolley problem meme at the top, doesn't know anything. Including how we do coups in Pakistan. Or where Pakistan is.

[-] Barabas@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

Trump is friendly with Modi? Seems like a reach though.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

I predicted this, but I figured they'd wait until a week in KKKamala's inauguration.

[-] stevatoo@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

Imagine getting rhetorically trapped by Ted fucking Cruz.

[-] Alisu@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Did reddit just auto-translate the post for me? Why? It makes the post harder to read because the translation sucks, what the hell are they doing over there

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