Ok, good! My point is imagine being someone scared, directly at bodily threat right now, and hearing someone else casually remark on the internet right now “well, why would we stop the Republicans when they are fucking up so bad?”.

This is the kind of thing that makes people hate you, people are DYING RIGHT NOW. Yes, I know that is because of the other side making things horrifically bad, but that doesn’t give you the right to be flippant about it, to not resist in any way you can, and most importantly not to consider the lives of people who can’t just wait it out as Republicans continue to destroy their lives and kill them.

but also why stop MAGA when they’re fucking up this badly?

Hey imagine if you had a baby inside you, and then something catastrophic happened and the failed pregnancy now was threatening your life.

Now imagine you heard someone saying some dumb shit like you are now saying while you were wondering if your doctor was going to be able to operate on you before it was too late as you sit waiting to get close enough to death to be saved…

Now imagine the Democrats over decades and decades pretending like they were going to fight to stop this kind of insane cruelty towards women, raised countless amounts of money on that narrative, and then proceeded to do next to NOTHING to stop the overturning of Roe V. Wade, to put the brakes on ths descent into fascism at all?

Now shut the fuck up.

You can do this thought experiment from the perspective of an immigrant who has watched the Democratic party totally adopt a rightwing framing on immigration and lean into dehumanizing immigrants, but they would talk about it in a nicer way… (I mean look at Biden’s record on immigration, it is downright conservative)… and imagine right now you hear someone saying something like you just did as the entire country collapses into a crisis over whether immigrants should be treated like human beings or not.

The place to fight was to never accept these horrendous framings that are so twisted they are violent threats to our loved ones and the people that make up our communities, shame on you for having the smallness of vision to see how badly the Democrats failed and are failing to meet this moment by and large.

No, there is so much more they could have done and they could be doing, and many of them aren’t because they are actually fine with this along with every damn Republican.

People are not motivated to vote for the lesser of two evils.

Neoliberals and centrists need to get this through their firewall of condescencion towards leftists, no matter how much y’all hate leftists (and laugh at leftists with your more conservative friends) you need to understand the average person in the US hates you and your leaders far more than than they hate genuine leftists that actually fight for the working class instead of spitting on them and publicly calling them stupid.

I wish that were true

Besides the lame masculinity part (history is surely full of far more men who were cowards as leaders than women) it is true.

There are many reasons turn out was crap, primarily people didn’t want Biden shoved down their throat again and Harris didnt have the time or space to differentiate herself.

sounds like kids are evolving into their final form, woke beyblades

We just need more police reform right?

Hey liberals who joined in against the chorus of condescension in response to Black Lives Matter and Defund The Police, how are you feeling right now?

Do you regret gleefully helping dig your graves while laughing at us with your republican friends who definitely won’t betray you?

Nah we had the chance to fight and liberals already happily helped crushed that opportunity, fascism and police state is what we get.

If you ever said “we just need better training and more funding for police”, this is what you ordered and specifically I want to tell you, fuck you for throwing away my countries last remaining civil liberties to the wolves and then daring to lecture leftists about it.

The laws written down are merely the highwater mark of how democratic a society is in theory, or they are the lowwater mark of what the ruling class has been allowed to get away with in public in terms of brutally oppressing the lower classes, but they never represent a true accountability of the rich, merely a record of the struggle between the ruling class and the rest of society, a reading of the balance of scales at any given moment that the rich no matter what can still bat away ildly like an annoying fly in their face unless we take the fundamental issues with capitalism and wealth inequality seriously.

It is illegal

Ok, I don’t mean this is as specific criticism of OP, this is a general gripe…

but come on y’all. this is science memes and nobody bothered to link to the actual press release from the organization?

https://schmidtocean.org/thriving-antarctic-ecosystems-found-in-wake-of-recently-detached-iceberg/

Stop lazily sharing images of cool sea creatures without bothering to share the source of them, especially since this particular organization livestreams their ENTIRE dives on youtube, they have HUNDREDS of 5+ hour or so long recordings of their ROV dives all publicly accessible.

https://www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean/streams

It is really starting to piss me off that people will share an occasional meme-ified finding/photo from this ROV/organization and be like “wow so cool” and no one bothers to share the youtube of the organization that is literally livestreaming HD definition video of them DOING THESE DIVES. This extends from people who show me memes made from images from these ROV dives all the way up to supposedly professional news organizations lazily writing an article on something this organization found and not linking to the public video archive, stream and source of the content. Seriously, am I crazy? Why isn’t the fact that anybody can watch these dives and see all the cool sea creatures being discovered by scientists for themselves repeated in every article by a news organization about something the ROV discovered? They are amazing and the camera on the Subastion ROV is insanely good, the footage is gorgeous.

I am mad because this is super fucking cool and people would rather just clip a picture or too and be like “ooooh deep sea” while not linking to one of the only organizations on earth and one of the only ROVs on earth, doing these dives regularly and sharing the info… while the deep sea is about to be strip mined by deep sea mining companies before we even understand it.

Please do better y’all, share and watch the fuck out of the deep sea, but I challenge you to stop being superficial about it.

The horror of the deeps meme is a funny one I guess, but it is boring, it is boring to call the deep sea “alien”, it is no more alien than we are. What is alien is our sense of disassociation from these places that are as much a part of earth as anywhere else on this dying planet…

Science is under such incredible threat, as are ecosystems especially ocean ones, show this shit to your kid, watch it yourself, this is incredible stuff and it makes awesome background TV!

Nah dawg, this is exactly the kind of attitude that loses to fascism.

What you do is mercilessly make fun of Chuck Shumer until the end of time, you make his name synonomous with a fake performative opposition to terrifying evil. You make his name synonomous with being a phony coward.

No, why the hell would we let this slide? These are the moments that we must make sure are marked and understood for history both in history books and in the collective conscious of everyday people. Chuck Shumer threw away the last bit of resistance, snipped the last brakes on the fascism train and he did so with incredible smugness.

Nope, lol, we don’t move on from this, I mean we do, but we move on with our new found love of making fun of Chuck Shumer for being the worst kind of dangerous idiot.

I think you underestimate how important this moment was and how thunderously pathetic chuck shumer was in his meeting of that moment.

There are plenty of fascist republicans like jd vance, trump, bannon steve miller, that are obviously hated because they caused this, but the truth is, and even I can admit this as a leftist, chuck shumer is even more pathetic than they are.

I am not bothsides-ing things here, fascist republicans are the clear threat and cause of this, but by far and away I despise chuck shumer more, he wanted immense responsibility and power but apparently is utterly incapable and unwilling to use it to stop a literal coup.

It is like the rich kid demanding the lead role in a play that other more talented and driven kids wanted and then proceeding to utterly half ass the role so it ruins the play even though everyone else on stage is pouring their hearts into it.

Chuck shumer spit in the face of everyone who is still fighting that is why he will go down in US history as one of the most made fun of US political figures by people across the political spectrum.

and that will be precisely the moment historians mark as the point of no return for democracy in the US, fuck you Chuck Shumer

Chuck Shumer is a worthless piece of shit and will likely go down in US history for being one of the most widely despised and made fun of politicians in U.S. history.

Especially not after the AUMF

The silver lining to this descent into fascism is how pathetic it is, make sure to keep laughing, it is an acid that eats away at a forced serious tone of fascism.

Days Since Someone Divided By Zero In Workplace

What a joke

This was always the inveitable end result of the cancerous growth of fear mongering around terrorism to a hyperbolic degree post 9/11.

This was always the inveitable end result of the Authorization Of Military Force which broke the brakes on this train.

Liberals helped normalize this, Obama drone striking US citizens, liberals scoffing at pardoning Snowden, the list goes on and on.

Further it is a very disengenous read to act like the FBI hasn’t always been like this, they just weren’t stupid enough to publically advertise their soft spot for conservative political and cultural authoritarianism in the past.

Conservatives deserve the bulk of the blame, but we have to be careful to also blame those that pretended to be in opposition to this kind of thing while slowly normalizing dangerous rightwing narratives.

is this still a question in the minds of anyone who doesn’t have brain worms?