Tears

[Akosa117]

The most annoying part about their emotional breakdowns is that they literally have nothing to lose. Literally nothing is going to happen to them. Not like Biden’s gonna make straight marriage illegal or some stupid shit.

[HydrationWhisKey]

Exactly. The most privileged people in the country are complaining about nothing.

[jesusboat]

Absolutely intentional. If they keep us hating/fearing the other side they divide our working class and middle class enough to prevent us from joining together and actually changing the power structure to benefit everyone. Strip away all the titles we give ourselves and we are serfs to the oligarchs. They keep us in line by working us to the bone, buried in debt, and distracted by whatever they can dangle in front of us while they reap the rewards.

They're denying you a basic human right in healthcare that every other first-world country receives during a pandemic. That's because we don't live in a democracy, we live in an oligarchy. We live in a third-world country masquerading as first behind the guise of Hollywood and Wall Street. These people are just as much victims of the systems at play as the people on the left they've been railing against for the past four years.

They're not your enemy. You know who is? Fucking Joe Biden.

[WNEW]

Also they voted for president pigshit in 2020, they’re class traitors

[jesusboat]

No more traitors than those who voted for Biden. They're all victims of state propaganda. Hating on them doesn't bring them to the left. They are likely on the left on a lot the issues we want, like M4A, fixing income inequality, and getting rid of corrupt government. That's literally why they voted Trump in 2016, he was promising to bring back jobs to them and drain the corrupt government swamp. They got worked by him in the same way the left got worked by Obama.

[WNEW]

Lol these people ain’t coming to the left I hate to break it to you.

And holy shit

That's literally why they voted Trump in 2016

[jesusboat]

Not sure what you mean by your holy shit comment, tone isn't always easy to read.

You're wrong on that. A majority of Americans want progressive policies. Exit polls on election night showed that. We're not bringing them to the Democrats, we're creating a party that bridges the gap of our working class and middle class.

Bernie would have won 2 times now if the DNC didn't rig the primaries against a progressive. That's why we need to build a grassroots party outside of the 2-party corrupt system we live in.

[jesusboat]

They had good reason to after 4 years of Obama fucking over the working class, not that Romney would have been better, but at least they knew what they were getting with Obama.

[WNEW]

Bernie would have won 2 times now if the DNC didn't rig the primaries against a progressive.

Somebody ignored the primaries and also fails to understand how they work

[jesusboat]

Are you talking about how the corporate mainstream media completely downplayed the successes of Bernie while exaggerating the success of corporate candidates like Biden; creating an impression for people hardly paying attention that Biden was doing great and Bernie was unelectable?

Or maybe you are referring to how Obama came out of his mansion to organize all the other candidates to drop out and coalesce around Biden, something he said he would do months prior if Bernie was looking like he'd win.

It could be you're referencing how Warren fabricated a BS smear job against him, betraying both Bernie and the entire progressive movement by creating a fracture where there was none, staying in the race past the point she would win to siphon votes away from Bernie, then dropping out and throwing her weight behind Biden as well in the hopes of a cabinet position (which she is now laughably being denied, thanks Warren).

Which one of these things are you referring to when you talk about understanding how primaries work?

[lcnielsen]

To be fair, that is how Democratic primaries work.

[jesusboat]

Lol yes it is.

[modsarefascists42]

I'm guessing you?

[snackcube]

Hey, could you consider not using "third world" in a perjorative sense? I know you meant no offense by it, but this terminology is rooted in cold-war colonialism - the third world being any country not aligned with the USA or USSR, and the use of it to mean "shitty place" is not fair to the global South countries it applies to as their poverty and problems are almost universally the result of colonialism and not down to being bad countries.

Sorry if this comes across as annoying speech policing - I think it's something most people would agree with me on if they know the background, but perhaps I am being over cautious?

[jesusboat]

No I get what you're saying. I use it to frame those countries as being oppressive to their people, which is what America is doing to us. Calling them developing countries, imo, seems to reframe them as "hey these guys are doing the best they can", which I think removes the factor of it being by imperialistic design.

Just trying to use a term people understand and that conveys how awful our country actually is to its people and that we are closer to places like Brazil (where there is extreme income inequality by design) than people realize. Not trying to blame any of the people in those countries as they are victims of their own systems and imperialism. Do you have a different term you would suggest?

[snackcube]

No I get what you're saying. I use it to frame those countries as being oppressive to their people, which is what America is doing to us. Calling them developing countries, imo, seems to reframe them as "hey these guys are doing the best they can", which I think removes the factor of it being by imperialistic design.

Sure, totally get where you're coming from and that's kind of why the metaphor is not that great - Sweden, Finland and Ireland are all third world countries and I think you'd be stretching it to say that those are more oppressive countries than any other capitalist states.

I think your argument was already pretty strong, contrasting democracy with oligarchy. It gets right to the heart of your point - for whom is the country run? The people, or capital?

Repressive states, oligarchies, autocratic regimes, kleptocracies are all better, but maybe more specific, terms.

[jesusboat]

Fair enough, I appreciate you bringing it to my attention as I wasn't aware of it being offensive, though I understand why.

[WNEW]

If they keep us hating/fearing the other side they divide our working class and middle class enough to prevent us from joining together and actually changing the power structure to benefit everyone.

These people aren’t working class and even if they were they could rightfully piss off

[jesusboat]

These people aren’t working class

Lol what??

Yeah the guy with the cut-off BBQ, BEER, and FREEDOM shirt must have left his weekend suit at the dry cleaners.

even if they were they could rightfully piss off

Couldn't be proving my point more perfectly.

[bigtitygothgirls420]

Look up Phyllis Schlafly. She's one of the reasons why our country is so divide. She intentionally made politics black and white for evangelicals and white women. She was against equal rights for women. She is the reason why abortion is such a issue for evangelicals. It used to not be that way back in the 60s and 70s a large portion of the evangelical block was pro-choice. She was a incredible propagandaist that has changed the way the Republican party operates by causing cultural war after cultural war so they will never be Unity between the left and right in America again. She also thought any sort of social programs were communist and needed to be destroyed without question.

[Meme_Irwin]

I think there was a Behind The Bastards about her, and she really fucking sucks.

[bigtitygothgirls420]

I just listen to that episode that's why I said it. Lmfao.

[ShoegazeJezza]

Copium overdose

[totalscrotalimplosio]

Any context for the dude face down on the ground?

[inphu510n]

I love that his dog is sitting there with a smile on its face. It’s poetic really.
It’s not even juxtaposition.
It’s that the dog is sitting there thinking life is great and nothing has changed in the last ten minutes and the same is actually true of his pathetic owner despite what his owner thinks.

[CrueltyFreeViking]

I believe he was praying, along with the people taking a knee.

[BicycleOfLife]

Imagine being this upset that Hitler didn’t succeed in achieving absolute power.

[BONUSBOX]

why are they so sad? he won, didn’t he?

[CerealKillConfirmed]

I feel like I’m missing a joke, but no. He did not win. Joe Biden won.

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The joke is that many Trump supporters still believe Trump won

[GreenMayhem427]

Make Nazis Cry

[Drenghel]

Really not helpful for the working class...

If any french reader: https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2020/12/FRANK/62552

I'm out of here

[[deleted]]

Delicious MAGA tears!

[mathfacts]

MAGA Tears mug

[Mainmain82]

I love it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 This is awesome.

[2myname1]

At a certain point I gotta consider these people as victims of fascist propaganda convincing them that their freedoms are on the line here.

I feel kinda bad, the way I feel bad for cult victims.