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Those awful right-wing Facebook pics your friends/family share
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Jim from The Office looks exasperated.
Thunder Monkey
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We saw his election as a sign that maybe our people were growing up.
That we could finally start putting our painful history behind us. They just flipped the fuck out that a black guy got true power.
We had to be the voice of reason and meted criticism. Because reason left a good chunk of our countrymen/women behind.
Gordon Shumway
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So..they admit it!! "America: As bad as mooselems!"Aw, guys, quite pokin' fun at good simple small town folk.
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just saw this one come through:
um, hmm...
Unpacking everything in this one would take hours.
So they are agreeing that right-wing gunizens Americans = ISIS?Aw, guys, quite pokin' fun at good simple small town folk.
I see.
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um, hmm...
Or one image that shows the massive republican voting base in Louisiana.
So my half-brother's half-sister is the type of parrot those and the views of those around her, without really thinking about said views herself. While my half-brother is a reasonable enough Republican (as in 'not fucking crazy extremist right-wing', at least on Facebook), and only really posts stuff about veterans, she goes off the deep end and posts some shitty stuff. This is in between the posts of "OMG LIKE THIS NOW AND YOU'LL GET $100!!!!" and Minion posts.
Animals can forage for food? In most places in the US "foraging for food" means eating squirrels. It's not feasible in most places. I guess cutting food stamps make sense... in an ideal world where food wasn't super expensive.
I wonder how she'd feel if she found out I used food stamps when my 35-hr job wasn't paying me enough to eat and pay the bills.
Actually, now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure she uses food stamps? :/
That's not how these things work. Also millions =/= trillions.
I agree that tax evasion is shitty though.
I... what???
Enjoy.
I know a lot of the other posts are a lost worse, but it's all I got after I unfollowed the people on the feed that were acting shitty about gay marriage
(sorry if some of this has been posted already)
I think Jake Jacobs need to take a Xanax or fifty and calm down.
dr3upmushroom
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just saw this one come through:
um, hmm...
Git er dun! Did he say that?
Toy Soldier
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Have no idea. Hope not though, apparently that dude is really smart, and his dumb redneck hick thing is a big act.
I don't think it was serious, because everyone was loling it and treating it as a big joke. Still, it's fucked up, even commented "that's fucked up...".
Miles Quaritch
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Looks super Jihady.
David Incorporated Esq.
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Not sure which:
Not going to lie, I absolutely love this.
harriet the spy
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In that despicable quote, cajuns= white republicans, democrats who can't swim = black people. What a fucking vile quote.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Not sure which:
That tank obviously took a right
I don't think there's any typical housewife imagery on the picture. But even if there is, I don't think communism is a great idea of a revolution.
And in the comments of the picture you see a lot "she's thinking about the power in the hands of the workers!" and stuff like that.
shadowsdarknes
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Lol I love how the tea party meme just admitted they share striking commonalities with "the enemy".Aw, guys, quite pokin' fun at good simple small town folk.
You seem pretty sheltered for a Brazilian if that is shocking to you. In Europe, this is common left-wing fare, and that's not a defense of Stalinism. Power to workers is not a shocking statement.
pretty much... the difference between "power to the workers communism" and (let's call it) "real life communism" is pretty huge. If people ask for a communist revolution, I'm pretty sure they don't mean the stalin kind. (and the picture makes that pretty clear actually... - although hammer and sickle are kinda tainted as a symbol)
travisbickle
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Some people in this thread have been asking for stupid leftwing memes. Well, good news everyone! Just google "Israel memes" and you get both stupid leftwing and rightwing memes!
Left:
Right:
Not sure which:
I don't think political cartoons should be considered the same as facebook memes. They're legitimate acts of political voice, predominantly signed by an individual as a personal view of a current situation.
Apart from being signed they're not that different, you could switch any of those drawings for a picture and get the same message. The only reason these opinions are given the space to become political cartoons in the first place is because the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is so polarized that what are quite frankly rather ridiculously extreme opinions are more accepted.
I chose those images because they're equally bad: both of the cartoons with the cities shooting rockets at each other are silly because they vastly exaggerate either side. I shouldn't have to explain why directly comparing Israel to the Third Reich is offensively stupid or why painting IDF soldiers as gleeful child killers is idiotic. Neither should I have to point out that Hamas doesn't hide behind women and children or use them as shields in the way those cartoons claim or why that's both malicious and moronic. I also avoided the ones that are even worse because I don't want to spread that kind of racist hatred.
Facebook memes, as simple as they are, are also legitimate acts of political voice and are directly used by the people sharing them as an expression of their individual view of a current situation. The reason we mock them is because of the content, not the medium.
It continually amazes me how so many people think there can only ever one kind of communism. I guess stalin really did wipe trotsky from the records.
I had to recently unfriend a person because they were a cluster-fuck of sexism, racism, and homophobia all in one. I had no idea because someone I knew originally told me their friend wants to follow my Facebook because they really liked my artwork, so I thought nothing of it but then I saw a post from them that was really racist and it all unfolded from there. This guy was an older biker dude who is also white and has a handlebar mustache, so basically a caricature of the republican stereotype...and he lives in Canada....
I try to call out people that post ignorant things on facebook, but this guy was just too much, it was literally every post was something shitty and hateful.
I try to call out people that post ignorant things on facebook, but this guy was just too much, it was literally every post was something shitty and hateful.
What would a contemporary communist revolution even look like though? If you don't take power in a violent revolution, impose a dictatorship of the proletariat, transfer power of industry to the workers and forcefully redistribute capitalist property, does it even qualify as communism? Because all of those things are kind of central to the ideology and goes back both to Trotsky and all the way to Marx.
Aaron Strife
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What's really funny is that both sides complain about the same thing, that the other side barrages them with bombs/rockets and no one cares until there's a minor retaliation. It's almost like the truth is somewhere in the middle!Some people in this thread have been asking for stupid leftwing memes. Well, good news everyone! Just google "Israel memes" and you get both stupid leftwing and rightwing memes!
Left:
Right:
Not sure which:
I say almost because it's mostly Israel
Those damn transgendered people and their easy, comfortable lives!
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
Talk about cis-privilege.
This part makes me sad because a lot of trans-women want this and are envious of cis-women because of it. The bold hurts me the most because it's the very things that keeps me up and crying at night. I want to have the ability to give birth, I want the experience of being able to be a biological mother, all the pain and joy, but I can't and it hurts me to the point where I just want to die sometimes. I feel so neutered and empty.
The "ignore=Terrorist wins" cracked me up
ScottSullivan
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This...what...I can't even read it!
What certainly isn't required is the relentless bureaucracy, the almost right-wing hierarchical nature of the soviet establishment, and the rampant suppression of self-expression. Oh and mass murder is usually superfluous.
Marx himself had no problem peaceful reformation of the capitalist system when he saw that some monarchies were giving way to democracy. So that throws the violent revolution part out the window. He even said to his son-in-law, a devoted revolutionary "If that is Marxism, then i am not a Marxist."
I don't even identify as a communist, but when people try to reduce it to authoritarian Stalinist bullshit it just feels gross and it really speaks for the state of political discourse in the west.
just saw this one come through:
um, hmm...
DAMN
It's not shocking, it's pretty common in Brazil. The current government is left-winged. And I know what, theoretically, "power to the worker" means, but it's pretty hard to see things positively considering our current situation and past socialist/communist experiences throughout the world, but I don't want to start a discussion about this in this thread.
Never ceases to amaze how selfish these sorts of people are. Religious freedom means the lack of a national government and an areligious code of law.
Amibguous Cad
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EDIT: beaten like a rented mule
Wasn't America also founded on the principle of the separation of church and state?
Supposedly. Yet it's the places with a state church that often end up with a more secular population.
The Right Wing, threatening violence when their strawmen stop working.
Joking aside, this reminds me of some of the insane stuff Pat Robertson and Ralph Reed used to say, about "Godly Fumigations" and putting people in body bags.
I think you're confused. The military intervention BS comes from conservative lunatics.
They are people who run for profit wedding chapels. It's akin to running a business in Vegas that marries people.
Yes technically you are "ordained," but while working at your for-profit chapel you aren't working for the religious organization.
These businesses can declare themselves to be religious institutions, but that changes how they can run their business as well.
speculawyer
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just saw this one come through:
um, hmm...
Damn, that is HARSH.
But at least it is kinda clever.
Oops, a sentence is missing in that post, sorry. I meant that the worse I saw from right-winged people was the military intervention thing, and most of the awful stuff is from the left-wing. I know military is conservative, and I really don't want another military dictatorship here.
Lys Skygge
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Ugh...
Isn't that a picture of the shah of Iran who the U.S. Installed into power?
Because that doesn't look like the current leader of Iran to me
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