US politcs as seem by Europeans: Image
Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip to workreform@lemmy.world
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slaacaa@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
except blue is more like “we’re strongly opposed to diarrhea forever, but this undercooked fish should be good in the fridge for another few days right?”
victorz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As a European, to me it looks like blue is a free puppy, like the picture.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is that a “both sides” argument?
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not just Europeans. Pretty much every other country in the world with a functioning government.
Gaslov@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe even alien civilizations look down with disgust!
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m sure Europeans everywhere are offended at you referring to their colonies like that.
FE80@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Both pictures should be the guy on the shitter, but label the blue side “Diarrhea Forever Apologists”.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Forever? How dare you! We just need diarrhea for this one most important election of our lifetimes. I refuse to acknowledge anything beyond a single iteration.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Is it because instead of trying to improve the lives of people in a meaningful way. They think giving everyone a puppy will be the solution?
While not once realising that 350 million puppies is going to require some serious imports, quarantines, vacinations, construction of holding facilities (i guess they could repurpose their concentration camps), employees to oversee the puppies while in quarantine, vets to administer vacines. Janitors and cleaners to maintain the premises.
So… instead of just giving everyone universal healthcare. They’ll spend twice as much on puppies. That sure does sound like the US in a nutshell
teuniac_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I totally get the point. But to be fair, the US has such a high GDP that it could afford all of this. But, it would require taxing the wealthy a bit more.
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
70% of Americans support universal healthcare
This is not a Red vs Blue issue.
This is a class warfare issue
TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Puppy is right, not really a solution, good PR, and not diarrhea forever. And in the comments, you can even begin to guess who would be claiming that they are not a real solution so you should vote against free puppies and vote for diarrhea forever to shake up the system so they offer something better next time even though next time everyone’s toilet and sewer system is going to be backed up and in need of dire repair by then as well because and also, everyone is suffering from diarrhea forever now as well.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
us outsourced thier diarrhea from a farm in the south of the us.
CalemitousVariantK@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Regrettably this is sold as “The government steals your money to buy immigrants puppies” vs “Your freedom to choose which self-regulating corporation’s food you buy–free market in action!”
And more regrettably people believe it against all evidence.
protist@retrofed.com 3 weeks ago
Corey A. DeAngelis is an American advocate for school choice.
DeAngelis was an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. He worked for the American Federation for Children, a conservative education nonprofit group founded by Betsy DeVos, from 2021 to 2024.
He joined the board of directors of the Liberty Justice Center in 2022. He has appeared on Fox News multiple times to as a commentator on education policy.
DeAngelis has described school choice as “a winner for Trump”. He contributed to the Project 2025 document, in the section discussing education and the dissolution of the U.S. Department of Education.
In 2024, he released the book The Parent Revolution.
This guy’s literally done nothing his entire life besides get paid by right-wing think tanks to undercut public schools
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Why do people in the US equate “choice” with destroying other people’s protections?
- “School choice” = removing teacher’s work protections.
- “Health care choice” = no healthcare unless you can pay through the nose.
- “Food choice” = some of the worst food standards in the hemisphere.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Almost all of it is, or at least originates, from racism, at least with schools.
When public schools allowed racial integration , school choice became a mechanism for racists to pull their kids from mixed schools.
It grew into things like charter schools that are private, often religious, schools that get public funding and maintain segregation.
SarahValentine@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
It’s a classic conservative propaganda technique to name things the opposite of what they actually mean. If it contains the word “freedom” it’s about tyranny. If it says “protect” it means persecution, and if it says “children” just mentally append “fuck” in front of it.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Because of all this competition we have in the market! With many schools near your home, they compete for your conforming child’s business. What with the labor shortage, we have all these employers with that good health insurance competing for our time. And of course, small farmers are doing great and supply our many competing food markets.
Brimstone@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It’s the I can afford it so screw your individual short term thinking.
It assumes they’ll never need help themselves especially as they get older.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Because they are idiots and evil politicians and news media spin it that way.
Soup@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Conservatives hate teachers because teachers don’t need to work when kids aren’t in school for the summer. That’s the only complaint I’ve ever truly heard from them. Meanwhile, those same teachers are up stupid early, on time every fucking day, dealing with over-filled classes of every type of child, and then doing even more labour in the evenings as they aren’t officially given much of any time to create plans or mark work.
LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They also do work during the summer, making lesson plans, teaching summer school, working a second job, etc.
But if Republicans made policy decisions based on reality they wouldn’t be Republicans.
moustachio@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’re not detached from reality; they work on behalf of the Epstein class the most aggressively to keep the working class desperate and divided.
They just don’t care about “reality,” they want to inflict maximum pain.
Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Their pay is insanely low as well, and they can either not get paid for summer, or take their pay even lower per month to cover summer too
PissMissile@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s plenty more that they complain about with teachers. They complain that they are ineffective, promote progressive ideals, target their children’s shitty behavior, aren’t held accountable, and the whole “those who can’t do, teach” bullshit.
I used to be a teacher. I’ve seen it all, heard it all.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Conservatives hate teachers because they educate the masses and an educated populace doesn’t vote Republican.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Since COVID some Conservative people I know have become like those animals that can’t comprehend things that didn’t happen right in front of them.
My kid is a teacher (in Canada so they are paid really well). But its solely on them to develop all the lessons and gather everything needed. They are working to do this after hours and weekends.
WudgieLore@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
In the USA we’re indoctrinated in schools. Faje history and other b.s. Im not maga or republican but I also cant side with more bullshit from schools that dont actually teach. Glad you guys up north get it. Teachers matter even if they are doing the work of multiple people. At least you get paid.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Also plenty of blue collar professions that conservatives profess to respect… also work seasonally.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
You can tell Trump has dementia: in the retirement home my grandpa was in at the end of his life, they also labeled the different rooms for when the residents got confused and lost.
not@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Trump shouldn’t work in the Oval Office, he should be in the Offal Orifice.
victorz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There actually experts who openly make this claim as well. I’ll believe it.
QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Why would you admit to that?
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because Republicans hate education. Most of the maga crowd will cheer this as a way to get back at the “wokes”, or “intellectual elites”.
QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I can’t think of anything dumber than labeling intelligence as evil….
So of course Republicans do that
krashmo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m not sleeping or functionally retarded. I am the boogeyman
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
biggest threats to conservatives are educators, professors, teachers,etc.
guitarfosec@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
There’s a reason that authoritarian revolutions typically have a “kill all the eggheads” phase. That type of arrogance isn’t compatible with someone saying, “Hey guys, I’ve studied this my whole life and what you’re saying is incorrect.”. Fragile egos can’t deal with the idea that they might be wrong about something, so they just hulk smash anything that might cause cognitive dissonance and move on.
ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
My dad is maga. The reason he would say is the teachers union protects bad teachers and just shuffles them around.
Don’t agree with it but that’s the talking point.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
My dad is maga
Well, you can’t choose your parents…
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Are people really upset at… bad teachers? with everything else going on?? Like I also had a few bad teachers as a kid, but I also had a future with a biosphere that can sustain life. Maybe we should focus on the actually existential one here.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
he seems to be confusing it with catholic priests? they shuffle them around for sure, and also any evangelical pastors too.
bus_factor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Where “bad teacher” is “teacher who taught the kids critical thinking and science so they started asking uncomfortable questions”.
el_twitto@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I think he’s confused them with police unions.
BillyClark@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Teacher’s Unions aren’t perfect and there have been some valid complaints about them, but that’s basically every union. Honestly, my biggest complaint is that teachers have unions and they’re still not paid enough.
But at any rate, this is typical conservative rhetoric. “We’ve found (or invented) one thing we can complain about, so rather than having a rational, calm discussion about the state of things and how we can improve that thing, we want to cause the most drama, scare everybody the most, and tear everything down, while promising to replace it with something better, a promise that we’ll never, ever, in a million years, deliver on.”
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
they arnt, even in blue areas while thier wages are much higher, the hcol kinda negates it, unless you somehow can make it to 10+years as a teacher, usually teachers often supported by thier SOs most of the time.
Maeve@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
Soon it will be illegal to teach the masses to read, write, add, subtract, multiply and divide.
nonentity@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
And broke.
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Great so teachers have no support, and people wonder why we have a shortage of teachers
bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s by design.
Once upon a time, the USA had a strong middle class. Billionaires got taxed heavily, and our public schools were the envy of the world. Well funded and produced a lot of great students.
But educated people are difficult to control and even harder to dupe. The GOP realized that if they can gut public education, the masses will become malleable again. Meanwhile, the children of the rich can continue to go to expensive private institutions for their own education. So the rich stay educated, and the poor’s go in the gutter.
Damage@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
Only problem with that is that a society like that becomes very unsuccessful, lowering the standard of living for everyone, including the rich.
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It should also be noted that they must be malleable beneath the threshold of the GOPs competence. So to effectively manipulate, the GOP need ms a population more ignorant than the DNC does. The left can afford smarter ppl because the leadership itself is more competent.
iocase@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Also cutting education now has no effect for about 25 years or so. Their short term brainrot is so bad they would abolish education entirely in a heart beat and coast on those miniscule savings for a few decades until the world rips itself apart…
Also, my pet conspiracy is they all know the world is going to devolve into chaos due to global heating and climate destabilization anyways so why should they care about education when its not going to produce anything worthwhile when the chaos hits…
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I can top that.
They are capturing and selling horses off to slaughter, at a severe loss. They spend up to $3,000 to capture wild horses then sell middlemen for $25. Those dudes then sell the houses abroad to slaughter plants for $750.
There’s absolutely no fucking reason to do this. They tried to buy gas chambers for to kill the horses faster.
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 3 weeks ago
It makes sense when you realise it’s practice.
MML@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I assume the reason is to siphon more money
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My conservative civics teacher once said that all unions, with the exception of Teacher Unions were obsolete. I wonder how he’s feeling right now.
bejergalbam@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“All unions are bad except my union” is the much more consistent application of inherently hypocritical conservative values, compared to what they can say to a broad audience through right wing media. Hilarious.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Anyone that doesn’t like unions is very stupid, or very rich.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
danekrae@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Walk the walk.
zane@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Similar to beheading flock cameras, I hope this also goes viral.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
If unions are bad then let’s start with the armed one: Police Unions.
apftwb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Those public school teachers have had it too good for too long.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Reminder that the Republican party are traitors to the United States of America who work tirelessly to weaken our nation and harm our populace.
And that makes anyone who still supports them traitors too. Ignorance isn’t an excuse.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I know this is by far the least objectionable thing in that picture, but does anyone find it weird to fly four identical flags right up next to each other like that? Just somehow feels tacky to my mind, like they’re so bunched up that not any one individual one of them is able to actually function as a flag. Maybe just me idk
el_twitto@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
That is a sack of shit in a blue coat. He can fuck right off.
bstix@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
Why doesn’t he just do it himself?
Asking people to join his team seems like he’s trying to organize a union.
BillCheddar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I never understood why they burned witches but now I see how that would be a satisfying conclusion to some events.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Who is the one dweeb who showed up for this photo op?
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’ve done the decades of work to turn people against unions, convincing MAGAts that unions are proto-communist organizations that extort unfair wages though dishonest practices while sitting around not working. They have people looking over at them saying “how come you get paid so much?” Instead of “I should get paid that much too.”
People are dumb. Whatcha gonna do.
TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I wonder if they feel the same way about police unions, or wait no I don’t wonder.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
I already support unions (in one) and adore teachers because I pretty much worship at the church of education. They have one of the most important jobs in society. It’s kinda hard to make me more sympathetic to their plight, but hey, you did it.
PissMissile@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That guy beats his wife and kids, I guarantee it.
KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’m putting together a team to dismantle this man’s skull. Who’s in?
rothaine@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The weakest union with the lowest paid members? Clearly doing the Lord’s work here
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I bet his google search history is amazing.
bequirtle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
WE’RE ASSEMBLING A TEAM TO TRIPLE WORLD HUNGER!! BE TGERE OR BE SQUARE!!
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Next the ones who think we are on their side. We will do firefighters first and cops last of course.
martti@suppo.fi 2 weeks ago
We’re assembling a team to dismantle Gaza! Are you in? At the White House
oyzmo@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I wonder what happened during their childhood, really do, for all the people in Trump’s government and his superrich supporters. There must have been some serious traumatic stuff going on. So much anger, hate, selfishness and lack of empathy.
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If they want to dismantle a union, start with police unions. But I’m sure that’s the one and only union they would support. Tells you something about these assholes. And police.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Counterpoint: Unions who break up strikes aren’t unions
yakko@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Police aren’t working class, I don’t make the rules
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
except police unions arent true unions, just a mafia/gang that can strongarm a city to give it what it wants for protection.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
that’s what an ideal union is
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
All public sector unions should be disbanded.
Comrade_Squid@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I work in the public sector working in health and fitness. Should my union be dismantled?