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[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Will you fight? Or will you perish like a dog"

love that part, goes hard, always like seeing this meme/copypasta

now read it in his voice

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

Or will you perish like a dog?

"Gawrsh, Mickey, are you talking about me?"

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

Saving this the next time a lib demands I vote for Joe Biden.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My brain reads this in Mickey's voice and that cracks me up

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would honestly switch the word bubbles around on these two. Donald Duck is a bit of a shitbag, but I would sooner see him as a comrade.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

His uncle though...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

American liberals fetishize the French every time they burn some trash on the streets and shut down roads over labor violations, but then scold you for suggesting a strike at home because it’ll hurt the Supreme Leader’s chances of re-election

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (17 children)

Looks at primary driver of positive chance over the past 30 years Huh hey look at that, all the positive change we've experienced has been due to electorialism and non violent protests. I wonder how all the violent revolutions have gone?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Remind me what happened on Labor Day again?

Remind me how women got the vote?

How African Americans got the vote?

Who cares if it was longer then 30 years ago, show some respect.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Brainstorming positive changes...

Roe v wade ending

Citizens united

Patriot act

Iraq war

Afghanistan war

Syrian war

Yemeni war

Bombing of Yugoslavia

Complete rejection of coronavirus mitigation

Children in cages

Border wall

Decreasing literacy

Abu ghraib

Guantanamo bay

Sanctions targeting the poor

Growing wealth gap

Anyway vote

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What are these positive changes (over the past 30 years) you libs want to take credit for? curious-sickle

[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 months ago

Positively declining the life expectancy in the US

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I wonder how all the violent revolutions have gone?

It goes great until the US deploys counter-revolution and sanctions. Or just invades.

Electoralism has a similar problem, every time progress is made the US deploys the Jakarta method to destroy democracy.

The solution is pretty obvious 😏

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

Electoralism has a similar problem, every time progress is made the US deploys the Jakarta method to destroy democracy.

Yeah, this is what Fidel Castro was trying to tell Dr. Allende

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or coupes, can't all of the ones us has done.

Have there been any successful, for the people of the country not wealthy, ones done by the US? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's the Jakarta method; pay off the military and promote a strongman within the country to destroy the socialist democracy and install a dictator to hunt down socialists for execution or torture. It was the precursor to Operation Condor.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Numerous countries on this earth that have successfully undergone violent people's revolutions and just about all of them have better quality of life and life expectancy than the US lol

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The irony of saying this as the US is currently committing a genocide is really something

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

Be careful, they might condescendingly tell you that Trump will be worse than Biden for Palestinians

In an imaginary scenario they've concocted where Trump nukes Gaza or something

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

Are the positive changes in the room with us now?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago

smuglord : Stupid commies, don't you realise that violence never achieves anything? Miss me with all that talk of revolutionary collective action; real progressivism is when you vote for nice, intelligent Democrat politicians so that they can bestow upon the American people positive socioeconomic policy changes like NAFTA and the Affordable Care Act.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago

Calling up the King family to tell them there was no violence in their protests

Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

nkrumah-baffled

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is a bit right? Almost no change ever in favour of workers was won without the blood and sweat of workers, who had to face horrible violence from the state and many times had to resort to violence themselves. You really think asking nicely and voting ever got us ANYTHING? If it wasn’t the blood of workers in your country it was the blood of workers in another province of the Empire.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If simply peacefully protesting and voting could cause material change, capitalists would have made sure both were banned

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I mean countries like US or Germany do arrest people for even peaceful protests against genocide right now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

True; I think it's probably because they fear it being a runway to less peaceful protests about it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Yeah, if you read their justifications it's always some "slippery slope" or " broken windows" nonsense

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

You’re misunderstanding the post imo

It’s not that it’s impossible to make change with non-violence/playing fair…

it’s that making change against something as violent and unfair as the system is, with non-violence and fairness, literally impossible.

The tolerant need not tolerate the intolerant.

Your chances of wining fairly against an opponent who’s allowed to cheat and change the rules of the game decrease the more your opponent wins.

Vote for who you believe in, protest against those you don’t. Hedge those bets, everyone else is.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Would you personally meet violence directed at you and yours with nonviolence? If so, then are you hoping for mercy or compassion? If you would respond with violence, what makes your violence morally superior to the violence you see in protests?

As an aside, do you think Derek Chauvin would have been arrested if people didn't take to the streets?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Looks at the utter lack of positive change over the past 30 years Huh, I guess you're right. All of the positive change we've experienced has been due to electoralism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Civil rights came from people of colour fighting for their life's against police and clansmen. These rights were begrudgingly granted and only after immense conflict, without which nothing would have changed.
Gay marriage was legalised after decades of intense political action that often involved physical conflict (stonewall was a riot) without the people fighting for these rights democrats wouldn't have given a shit.
The weekend was won by unions and they didn't ask nicely. The 8-hour workday likewise.
I struggle to think of anything where the democrats have been the drivers of positive change rather than begrudging portiers slowly opening a gate they'd rather keep shut.

Going further: The United States were created as a result of a violent revolution. One day they might be a functional nation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I'm a duck.