You can improve the comic by removing the labels on the peasants’ shirts.
Pretty much it.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by bearboiblake@pawb.social to [deleted]
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kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
yakko@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I have read an entire book about authoritarian personality research. This meme is accurate as labelled.
Probius@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
If the intent is to convey a political message and contribute in a small way to changing some people’s minds, removing the labels could result in some right-wingers giving more thought to the actual content of the comic instead of automatically seeing it as an attack on them and ignoring it.
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
I sympathise with the part of this shitposting community who would rather find shitposts and not commentary on political parties.
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
One of the first things Trump did his first term was gut the USDA’s rural investment arm. Why? Because if his supporters were made poorer and more frustrated they would blame it on someone else and be more likely to turn out to vote. It worked. Probably doesn’t help Fox didn’t report on it.
udc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yea. It’s like some kind of masochism but like without the self awareness.
Knightfox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I doubt Trump was thinking that far ahead. It’s far more likely that he did it simply because big Ag was backing him and they don’t need the subsidies to survive like small farmers do.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah the homeless are buying his ballroom, nametags for existing institutions, and his crypto scams
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
the problem extends much further beyond trump, sadly!
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yep. At least 535 heads deep just at the capitol
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Parties who label themself as “left” and “right” always serve the rich class.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Can you explain how?
Banana@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I think what they’re referring to is how the ruling class likes using the “right vs left” rhetoric to distract us from the “ruling class vs. Working class” / class consciousness rhetoric. It’s a good way to keep us divided.
That being said, the right wing people are being used as pawns by the ruling class to sow that division whereas the left-wing people tend to be more class-conscious. What this person is specifically referring to, though, is the tendency for the democratic party (a capitalist party) to be called “left” when they are not.
Correct me if I’m wrong tho
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Left” and “right” are not synonymous with “democrat” and “republican.”
GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You have the IQ of a shoe
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Damn, not even a pair of shoes.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Two sides of the same coin
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Me as a centrist misanthropist watching both sides bring each other down while elites benefit every single time
bearboiblake@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
the left is the side that fights the elite. centrists and right-wingers serve the elite. just so you know
AffineConnection@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Mark your edits as to what was changed.
n4ch1sm0@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Your enlightened centrism and unequivocal both-sides-ism serves nothing, except maybe the elite because of your inaction. You’ve got some research to do if you believe anything right of center is designed to benefit the working class. Pick a side or gtfo of the way.
blinfabian@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
bothsideism? he literally said he supportd the left and doesnt like the right. he clearly picked a side
legolasfanboy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I guarantee you that it’s both the left and the right.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Do you mean that the democrats and the republicans are both owned and controlled by the ruling elite? I’d agree with that, for sure. If that’s not what you mean, what do you mean?
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I guarantee you that you think unhoused and immigrant folks are the reason for all your problems.
legolasfanboy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No. The government is the problem. They enable everyone to act in their own worst interests.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Holy smokes these comments
orioler25@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Once again associating sexual submissiveness with immorality and stupidity. Y’all really just can’t say they’re bad people for who they are for some reason, it’s always about reaffirming attacks on other groups. It’s misogynistic, it’s queerphobic, and it says so little about what the actual problem is.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yes daddy isn’t always meant to be sexual. It’s something they literally said themselves, like "Daddy’s home!” and “Daddy Don!” at a rally. See theguardian.com/…/tucker-carlson-trump-rally-span…
In this case we mean it more like childlike belief that your “daddy” is always right and a big strong hero who can’t lose. Usually people grow out of it, but a lot of the right don’t seemed to have matured in this way. People like Alex Jones also associates the “daddy” as his rightful place as a ruler of a household, and has gone into rants during the pandemic because some vaccine commercial dared to suggest the children might understand something better than “daddy” and may teach “daddy” something.
Atheists use the term in a similar way when they say “sky daddy.” Do you also think that just means a sexual submission kink?
orioler25@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Incredible how many men online I meet who confidently explain shit to me they don’t know about. Even if what you’re saying is correct, which would be irrelevant as that is not how it’s interpreted in the comments, could you explain why you think that patriarchy is seperate from your construction of children’s deference to their father? You fucking people man, seriously.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Are you really offended by this meme on behalf of subs? Thats pretty far from the point dont you think?
orioler25@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m sorry that you live in a world where things are related to other things and you can’t just think what you want without responsibility, it does suck. What is demeaning about this position? It’s not on behalf of “subs” and of course even if it was, how do we gender subs in our culture? I know most people aren’t too stupid to understand the connection, so I think it’s safe to assume you’re just mad about not being a good person just because you make fun of billionaires and their supporters.
khanh@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s not sexual submissiveness—it’s blind agreement. The “Yes daddy” is just for humorous effect.
solok333777@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Man this is such a moserable position to take
Smaile@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
lol what are you crashing out about?
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Very rarely, if ever, have I seen someone whip themselves up into a frenzy this hard. It’s actually jarring. I hope you find peace.
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Because it’s never about money. If we take each billionaire and distribute their wealth equally, I’ll be like $1000/person. It could be life changing for some, but in reality it won’t change much.
how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
US billionaires have $1.5 trillion in assets. Firstly if distributed across 350m Americans this would be $4.2k.
But in no way would the assets or wealth be liquidated in such a stupid manner.
Taking a percentage of this would provide universal health in the US whilst maintaining the golden egg.
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Don’t forget that the wealth was and is extracted not only from the US, which leaves everyone with nothing
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Here’s the good shit you might not be ready for: Money should be abolished completely.
Money is basically a tool we use to allocate finite resources, but we can come up with a much better alternative.
To begin with, food, shelter, healthcare, water and education should all be provided to every single person of the world as a matter of priority. There is no practical reason for these things to be artificially scarce, we already have enough for everyone, but the profit motive gets in the way.
For things which are genuinely scarce, we could handle in a lot of different ways. We could centrally manage it, (which personally I wouldn’t really recommend, as that centralizes power) or we could have a series of industrial unions which are responsible for the management and distribution.
Money is a completely failed conceit of distributing our resources and labor to where they are most needed. It actively prevents the flow of resources to where they are needed. Capitalism is an evil system and it has to go.
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
@grok perform reality check
Capitalism is an evil system and it has to go.
Yes. And?
Smaile@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
this is why were beginning to disregard the right.
GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
One retired medicare recipient had $800m of our money (on paper, not in actual fact).
brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
What? XD
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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orlyowl@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
I’m partial to this version:
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MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That guy must really love Cookie Clicker.