This is in fact incorrect: the right doesn’t say corrupt government is the problem The right says trans kids and brown people are the problem. Because the right is dumb as a fucking brick, and the billionaires managed to brainwash the dumb right into hating someone other than themselves.
Just give me someone to vote for who is normal
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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 1 hour ago
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
It’s an issue with definitions. When the right says the government is corrupt, they mean socially corrupt. When the left talks about the corrupt, they mean fiscally corrupt.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 58 minutes ago
No, the right is also morally and legally corrupt.
SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
The “right” isn’t a monolith anymore than the “left”.
While it manifests in different ways the American “left” has been just as willing and happy to sacrifice brown, trans, woman, etc. persons because they are equally dumb and brainwashed.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 minutes ago
“If we don’t let Israel burn down Gaza we might lose votes and if we lose votes then Trump will win and if Trump wins then it’s your fault when minorities are hurt.”
TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
Why does everyone always miss the point that Tyler Durden is a fucking fascist.
Really changes what this meme means.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 30 minutes ago
Probably the same people who thought RATM went political in the mid teens…
marcos@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
He’s not a good person’s identity, by any means. But he’s not fascist.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
He wants to return to a past that never existed by tearing down the current system. He promotes the idea that men must return to being warriors, and something about the modern world has made them “weak.” He promotes that such strength must be used to dominate, and claims it can be used to improve people’s lives, as he claims with Raymond K. Hessel, despite the fact that Hessel is most likely left devastated with trauma and unable to move forward due to fear of being murdered.
But sure, he’s not a fascist.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
Tyler Durden is not the good guy holy shit
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Its not like that at all.
The left is saying billionaire are the problem. Their existence is a sign of corrupt system.
The right is saying all the left is corrupt. They don’t mind their corrupt politicians.
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 54 minutes ago
The right in the US only says what their cult leader tells them to say. If he says the government is bad (which he often does when he’s not the one running it), it’s bad, but when he says it’s good, (which he often does when he’s the one running it) they say it’s good.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 43 minutes ago
Way too much credit is being given to both sides of this. Everybody is just cheering for one team or another with their votes. Whatever they say aloud doesn’t really matter because the result is handing over any choice or real practical discourse to a handful of people who are entirely at the mercy of their political parties and the party sponsors.
Choosing a lesser evil is always better than doing nothing but we really need more than two choices at this point. The massive PAC funding has to go and campaigns really need to have extremely strict regulation that is thus far unprecedented imo. We also truly need national ranked choice voting, strict term limits for all elected positions and honestly, age limits too.
Would be nice if we had more popular vote based levers as well to force certain policies or decisions, but the tyranny of the majority has some challenges too. Maybe congress and the courts should be expanded so that more people are involved in the representation of a country that had ~26 senators and ~65 representatives in 1791 when we only had around 4 million americans. We are close to 350 million people now which is 87.5x more than then, so shouldn’t the have closer to ~2275 senators and ~5688 representatives? Would be a hell of a lot harder to keep this many people in lockstep with “loyal” party line voting like there is today in our completely fucked system especially with term limits that mean they don’t have to worry about re-election (maybe it should be one term only, ever. Longer duration but the citizens of a district should be able to vote to trigger a new election cycle for what’s remaining in a term.)
Oh and districts at this point probably shouldn’t be based on drawn voting maps. Everybody’s social security number should go into a pool and be randomly assigned to a district in every state that corresponds to the amount of representatives they have. The voting places could be the same local ones and the tallies could still be done, we’d just need a number of voting forms in each voting location that corresponds to each district based on the amount of voters. They could even print these out on demand on the day of to avoid waste if we want to avoid a digital solution.
anywho, feel free to dunk on all of it. These words don’t even matter, this will never happen. The ones in power run the show and do not want to give up their power.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Right, so the proper order of operations here is to get rid of the corrupt billionaires, so that we can clean up the corrupt government.
SoupBrick@pawb.social 1 hour ago
I was curious about what the site attached to the watermark was like: mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-mind-unleashed/
yesman@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
/r/im14andthisisdeep
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
So… Anyone up for Corrupt Socialism? It’s not looking so bad these days, eh?
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 45 minutes ago
Find a local politician that is working class and normal, then support them.
mrmacduggan@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Pretty sure the Leftist there would agree
Signtist@bookwyr.me 3 minutes ago
I know this is a shitpost, but I’ve seen people legitimately give this argument like it’s a gotcha. It’s like, okay? So if we get rid of the corrupt billionaires running the corrupt government, then the other corrupt billionaires will use their vast wealth to seize power for the billionaires again, so the problem is indeed the corrupt billionaires - we need to get rid of them all. It’s like taking antibiotics - you can’t stop when you start feeling better, you can only stop when you’ve gotten rid of the whole infection, or it’ll just come back stronger.