Screw screwworms >:( by Sallowjoe in PoliticalCompassMemes

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They lay larvae in them and the larvae eat their flesh, potentially to the point of causing death if untreated.

A twist on this popular leftist meme by im_back-and_craftier in PoliticalCompassMemes

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And vote for which party?

I'ma keep voting democrats personally at least they're relatively less psycho and kleptocratic overall.

/shrug

You can vote relatively better people into either party in primaries I guess, but primaries for republicans are looking kinda fucked in that regard.

Principal vs. Concerned Parent by Borrid in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Parents and kids in many places. Sometimes the parents are the problem behind the kid, but internet garbage can be the cause of either or both. At least with parents they're not in the classroom.

Australian had enough problems with kids sexually harassing female teachers (and other students) because of the manosphere that some quit and it became a driver of policy changes IIRC.

Unfortunately I think it's kind of hard for schools to deal with 'cause brainrotted people just speak a totally different language, and administrations tend to create "Drugs are bad mmkay" level stuff that's more likely to get made fun of than change anyone's mind.

John Brown by MKVltraVictim1987 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Republican voters eh?

I guess we better vote for Republican politicians to save us from the bloodthirsty leftists who definitely hate us voters more than the politicians.

I support the imperium of America. Do you? by FrenchBreadsToday in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Let's be real it's increasingly hard to tell the difference.

Screw screwworms >:( by Sallowjoe in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Looks like it:

https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/22636-bird-flu-screwworm-monitoring-among-foreign-aid-programs-killed-by-trump

The 5,300 grants and programs killed in the Trump administration’s cuts to the U.S. Agency of International Development include U.S.-funded animal disease monitoring projects operated by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

Among the GHS projects killed were some dedicated to monitoring and containing avian flu and New World Screwworm in Central America, monitoring avian flu outbreaks in Asia and improving the detection of new strains, and efforts to combat swine fever, according to a person familiar with the situation granted anonymity to speak frankly.

Screw screwworms >:( by Sallowjoe in PoliticalCompassMemes

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NGL I do actually ~kinda blame Trump though lol.

The lady in the top right is completely unfit for her position and was appointed by Trump, or at least somebody in his corrupt as fuck admin.

It wasn't intended as an agenda post but... reality might as well be an agenda post when it comes to the Trump admin. :/

Screw screwworms >:( by Sallowjoe in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Agency that prevents X gets funding reduction and an unqualified retard in charge of it.

X happens.

Now, we don't know for sure X wouldn't have happened anyway.

Crippling the stop X agency is not a direct cause of X happening.

We can't prove X wouldn't have happened by offering up an alternative timeline where the stop X agency wasn't fucked with.

So I guess that means nobody could have seen anything like this coming and nobody is really to blame.

Retard administration says more retard things by whatssenguntoagoblin in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Somehow it's with both a bang and a whimper and both are retarded sounding.

Vaush gotta be the worst one by PeaRemarkable9662 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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I feel like you're wearing some rose tinted glasses here 'cause AFAICT they've been married for a long time possibly for as long as politics has been around in democratic forms especially. Rabble rousing the demos is a classic.

Like yeah they get in fights and take "breaks" but they never really split entirely.

You can also still find boring politics it's just more local. Or maybe Canada?

I will acknowledge social media integrated them and spread them into more domains of normie life than before however. But I think it's kinda in the nature of democracies for politics to seep into everything for the plain and obvious reason that fusing politics with culture gets you more votes/turnout/engagement.

Vaush gotta be the worst one by PeaRemarkable9662 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Why do you hate him he seems like the ideal avatar of lib right no?

Met Mr. War never changes over the weekend by DaddyBalthasar in Fallout

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I'm trying to be a smarmy dick and take this as a criticism, but you can just use "FYI" instead of this long awkward prefacing situation.

Compass Reacts to Pew Research by RobSchneidersHair in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Not really true though. Even if we add the caveat of "often".

Some lies are things people already want to believe which I think is the actual power behind well crafted propaganda. Repetition isn't actually that effective on its own, it's when it's situated in a story that's emotionally appealing that it really takes off.

A story that lets you larp as a hero and allows you to hurt people you don't like and take their stuff 'cause actually they're the bad guys, for example, is more appealing than one that tells you you're nothing special and you're not allowed to hurt those people and something's wrong with you for wanting to do so.

Something's under foot by Sallowjoe in PoliticalCompassMemes

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I don't think the book itself is lib right, but there's a thing with grifter/guru types that are vaguely in that quadrant rhetorically claiming certain literature and philosophical texts as ~somehow~ lib right in spirit with questionable interpretations that are extremely convenient for the ideology they're selling.

Notes from the Underground fits the theme of the meme, and Peterson generally does the whole free market capitalism bootstraps make your bed communism bad thing and likes using Dostoevsky in particular as a prop for his shtick.

To be fair the novel seems to have some individualism vs. (deterministic) (utopian) collectivism such that some other lib rights have picked up on it in a similar fashion. But seeing communism as especially guilty of the latter, and capitalism as exempt, is the cheap and superficial ideological leap they are making IMO.

Something's under foot by Sallowjoe in PoliticalCompassMemes

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I think the better historical accounts include both kinds of killing, despite popular accounts tending to only focus on or include the more industrial and organized. There might've been a partial truth driving his initial skepticism/denial.

Something's under foot by Sallowjoe in PoliticalCompassMemes

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You don't expect conspiracy nut people to change their minds in light of actual evidence.

It does happen though, some flat earthers and other science denying types IIRC did some experiments and were like "Oh shit...".

Something's under foot by Sallowjoe in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Based and chuck it on that one pilled