Nah, this is some “both sides are bad” bullshit. One side tried to get rid of student loan debt and the other side said no. One side is fighting for equal right for all races/genders/color etc and the other side says no. It goes on and on like this. Give me a break.
Abortion rights were repealed under Democrats, trans rights are being repealed under Democrats, police budgets have increased in response to BLM, and non-stop war is completely bipartisan.
Both sides ARE bad, just because one of them sometimes offers tepid opposition doesn’t make them good. Democrats are not on your side either.
Republicans only accomplishment since taking the house was to block loan forgiveness taking millions out of the working class economy every month to give to banks. But both sides am i right?
Someone starts complaining about some rotting systems and crises or other, libs nod along, then the magical C-word comes up and they’re like “WAIT, NOT LIKE THAT! That’s not how capitalism is supposed to work, that’s bad bad evil bad corporatism. We can fix it with proper legislation an stuff and things!”.
The Russia bit makes me think that a right-winger actually drew this, but the first three panels are pretty on point with my social media experience. It really reminds me of 2016, where basically the democrats felt they had license to just phone it in because Trump was so despicable that they didn’t see why they should bother. He’d never actually win, right? The loop for 2024 goes:
-Someone shares a gaslighting article about how Biden actually fixed the economy/healthcare/the war in Ukraine/higher education/whatever and just nobody noticed.
-Someone else says that that doesn’t align with their experience
-OP or others come and accuse them of being a Trump supporter or otherwise dismiss their concerns (either “anecdotes don’t count” or “well, it doesn’t matter because Trump is worse” usually).
And to be clear, Biden has done a lot, at least relative to US Pol. Probably more than Obama did in his eight years. I’m a huge, huge fan of his rail revitalization efforts. But the conversations about his accomplishments and challenges aren’t being handled in the same ballpark as honest, and I’m seeing enough parallels between now and 16 that I’m starting to get uncomfortable. If the democrats try to take “we don’t have to try, Trump is not a serious electoral challenge” to the bank again, I’m going to write a book about political Darwin awards and make them the fucking headline. Jesus Christ, it’s like being driven around by someone who’s previously been hit by a train, and they look at you and go “I bet I can beat the train across the tracks.” It’s horrifying, under the circumstances.
I guess this is just leading up to a “government in exile” sort of position for Ukraine, where Russia puts pro-Russian (or at least neutral) factions in power and the nazi ones flee to the west and claim to be the “real” government of the country, recognised only by the western powers and no one else.
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