im further left than whoever made this, so dont take it the wrong way but this is a fucking stupid meme. Surely the libs can do better than this… whatever this is… right? Like… this is some boomer-tier stuff
See that’s my only problem with other people on the left… Conservatives will always support other conservatives. They’ll vote for them regardless.
Liberals, Progressives, leftists, they’ll kneecap other without hesitation because they can’t stand simple progress. They want radical change. And if you can’t provide that, then they won’t vote, they won’t support anyone, they’ll talk absolute shit about candidates, ideas, etc.
God forbid anyone tries to sell progressivism to the public… You can always guarantee a leftist will come out of the fucking woodworks to poo poo on it because it’s just not left enough for them. Assholes.
Liberals, Progressives, leftists, they’ll kneecap other without hesitation because they can’t stand simple progress. They want radical change.
Agreed 100%. And I’d expand it further (and more impactfully) many moderates would rather let the country delve into fascism than the mystery box of progressivism that (in their mind) might eventually lead to fascism or higher taxes when they finally become a billionaire.
Moderates and progressives need to agree on a candidate (primary), then both sides need to support them.
And the Dems decided to railroad the other candidate through anyway. It makes absolutely perfect sense why progressives think liberals are full of shit.
Hell, Dems are fighting harder against Mamdani right now than they are against Donald, a literal fascist president.
Liberals are not on the same end of the political spectrum as leftists. That is why leftists don’t like dealing with them or joining forces with them. Because 9 times out of 10, on issues leftists care about, liberals will side with the right wing.
Liberals are not anti-capitalist Capitalism is on the right. Liberals are on the right. It really is that simple.
The fundamental difference between the left and right is and has always been preservation of the current form of political economy (the right) vs progression to new form of political economy (the left). During the days of feudalism the right wanted to preserve feudalism and was represented by the landed aristocracy while the left was represented primarily by bourgeois revolutionaries pushing for a capitalist system. Today those bourgeois are on the right because they are trying to preserve the current system that sustains them while communists and anarchist are on the left because they recognize that this system does not work for them and are trying to build a new one. Liberals stand in the way of that and are therefore on the right
Look, it’s super-simple: Liberals want to tax the rich, Healthcare for all, Environmental protections, and publicly funded Education.
You can say that’s impossible because of worker oppression or whatever but that’s simply not the case. It’s a matter of enough people voting for officeholders who will do the work to implement those things.
Your socialist language is a pitfall and a barrier to practical, actual change.
Taxing the rich, healthcare for all, environmental protections, and publicly funded education are not socialism. They are things that socialism and socialists value sure but they are not socialism. Socialism is an organization of production. Who do I vote for if I want to own the means of production in common? How would a politician ever get elected on that platform and survive? Are you actually suggestion that we can vote business owners out of existence and they’d just roll over and let it happen? You say we just have to vote for the right people but the right people aren’t allowed on the ballot.
If you got the vast majority of votes, yes. Technically.
But more to the point, as you’ll probably get asked in one of the first public appearances, what’s the plan to completely remake the economy? I mean, immediately switch to bartering? Capturing the 1% wealth and everyone gets a big check?
Also, can’t the workers own the means of production, like, now?
If I am honest with you I am not the guy who gets on the podium and explains an entire economy to the people. The exact details of how a socialist economy should function under the material conditions of the united states are still up for debate. I could do the leftist thing and send you an entire book that no one reads if you want but anyway. What I would like to see is the owning class (landlords and business owners) stripped of most of their assets. All the homes they don’t need, all the machinary they use to enrich themselves. This is going to require violence unfortunately. You can’t vote for this. I would then want to see those resources distributed amongst the people. I want those homes given to people who don’t have a home. I would want the state to give jobs to workers who do not have them using the means of production that has been recently expropriated. I want those workers to produce goods for workers who need them at a price those workers can afford since the need for shareholder profit has been eliminated. I would like to see the people’s wealth be used for the benefit of the people in the form of healthcare and education rather than war and subsidies for private businesses. Most things would stay relatively similar to how they were for quite some time. We wouldn’t switch to bartering, thats an inefficient system in the modern era for large scale production. We wouldn’t just give everyone one big check, we would permanently increase the value of their wage but removing the vast majority of surplus value extraction that business owners call profit. A lot of bullshit labor that exists specifically for the purpose of making the rich more rich would be eliminated and in exchange the people as a whole would have to work less. I can tell you what socialism intends to achieve and how it intends to achieve it broadly but I am no political-economist. I can’t give you all the details. It gets way more complex as you approach international trade. China’s model is worth looking into with its mixture of private and publicly owned business
Edir: also no, we can’t own the means of production rn. Not as a whole. You can own some means of production in like, a co-op as a small group of workers but you will always be outcompeted by a formally structured capitalist business that can exploit its workers for profit in a way that a co-op can’t
I mean liberals think they are until an issue that actually matters arises. Having enough decency to not think minorities should be killed off doesn’t make you a leftist automatically. Thinking the world shouldn’t be run as a Christian fascist autocracy doesn’t by itself make you a leftist. And you can’t just have those two insanely low bars in common with leftists and then be confused when they won’t side with you every election without question.
lol say whatever intentionally ignorant crap you want but the upvotes/downvotes agree with me. Until liberals understand that they’re not going to be able to functionally ally with leftists.
Downvotes from “AngryCommieKender” and “10OhmResistor”? Lol yeah you’ve got a huge plurality of the fourteen votes proving your point.
Leftists are pants-wetting screaming babies who can’t be arsed to do the simplest thing to help get us out of this insane chaos they helped get us into.
I disagree entirely with the Democratic strategy to reach out to “moderates” for votes, but I sure as shit understand it. Why bother moving left if leftists are arrogant self-absorbed navel-gazing buttmunchers that can’t get their shit together to run ONE fucking candidate for ONE office much less form a national political party that can gather 5000 signatures.
Please. If you want to pretend Communism as practiced by the Soviets is super cool, great - just stay out of real discussions about politics.
Leftists have run candidates. Many times. But liberals would rather vote for a right wing candidate than a leftist. Which is also why leftists no longer see a point in working with them. You’re just proving my point.
On a personal note, I also don’t like working with noodle armed wieners who are ignorant to the fact that they’re siding with fascists anyway. I have more self respect than that.
It’s talking passed eachother. Something any of us can do. No one here should have a problem with what’s in the meme. Liberal in general conversation is a good thing. Everyone wants liberal amounts of freedom. Or liberal amounts of butter on their toast. Etc Etc Etc.
The average person is so ignorant they don’t have an understanding of any political structures to have anything of value to say. So most don’t. It was never intended as liberal as in economic liberal, or neoliberal both basically meaning capitalists. Chances are they all have similar gripes to us about capitalists. But simply have no understanding of how to voice it in an educated way. And this sort of behavior certainly isn’t going to fix that.
As anarchist I would have plenty of places I might disagree with someone who would self describe as liberal. But I know we have far more places we might agree. That neither of us identify with elected officials. That we both feel trapped in this system. That we both want it to be more answerable and representative. We might disagree on how and how much. But we’d both benefit working together against the system. And in the interaction. Perhaps they learn something new and become a proper new ally.
Your last point isn’t correct. You can find people like that on any side of the political spectrum.
Regarding the first and second part, it can be simply due to Conservatives all being in a cult while being uneducated, while Liberals/Progressives/Leftists are mostly all educated and tend to have their own opinions.
I don’t think so. I’ve nearly just pointed out some lies and inconsistencies in his logic. I also agree that Liberals will never unify and keep fighting each other. But the way he phrased his point was that Conservatives had their shit together and Liberals don’t. The truth is neither have their shit together, but for different reasons.
It’s also just a lie. Conservatives are constantly in a crabs-in-a-bucket-esque power struggle. The only thing ensuring cohesion on the right is the cult of personality surrounding trump. They all want their particular flavor of oppression to be the one at the top and are happy to stab eachother in the back as soon as the opportunity arises.
Left unity is similarly a myth. The left is full of diverse ideologies, many of which are fundamentally incompatible with one another. We’ve already tried the “left unity” thing before, it lead to the Bolsheviks purging anarchists the second they had the chance, and there’s no reason to believe that left unity would play out any differently nowadays. And while I’m at it, liberals are center right at best and “leftists” should stop concerning themselves so much with what libs think about our politics
Conservatives will always support other conservatives. They’ll vote for them regardless.
That’s not true. But I can’t compel myself to waste time providing evidence when you won’t read it in the first place. So fuck it, and fuck this community.
I can never really tell how un/intentionally memey the boomer aspect is anymore, but my brain might be broken. It’s definitely a meme by libs, for libs though.
I don’t know if that’s what it means though. I took it as the normal things everyone is taught in childhood, that conservatives agree with teaching, is now thought if as “left”
After seeing a bunch of tankie memes on Lemmy, I’ve become a bit more aware of the popularity of low quality “picture of text” memes that confirm you are correct and others are wrong. It’s fine to have beliefs but saying you have them because you paid attention in school is silly.
im further left than whoever made this, so dont take it the wrong way but this is a fucking stupid meme. Surely the libs can do better than this… whatever this is… right? Like… this is some boomer-tier stuff
See that’s my only problem with other people on the left… Conservatives will always support other conservatives. They’ll vote for them regardless.
Liberals, Progressives, leftists, they’ll kneecap other without hesitation because they can’t stand simple progress. They want radical change. And if you can’t provide that, then they won’t vote, they won’t support anyone, they’ll talk absolute shit about candidates, ideas, etc.
God forbid anyone tries to sell progressivism to the public… You can always guarantee a leftist will come out of the fucking woodworks to poo poo on it because it’s just not left enough for them. Assholes.
I don’t consider anti-liberal and Tankies as left like at all. Hexbear and ML literally supported Trump ffs.
Agreed 100%. And I’d expand it further (and more impactfully) many moderates would rather let the country delve into fascism than the mystery box of progressivism that (in their mind) might eventually lead to fascism or higher taxes when they finally become a billionaire.
Moderates and progressives need to agree on a candidate (primary), then both sides need to support them.
We agreed on a candidate. (Bernie)
And the Dems decided to railroad the other candidate through anyway. It makes absolutely perfect sense why progressives think liberals are full of shit.
Hell, Dems are fighting harder against Mamdani right now than they are against Donald, a literal fascist president.
You forgot to tell the voters in these yellow states.
A leftist correctly critized me today. I guess we can’t ever have nice things anymore.
Liberals are not on the same end of the political spectrum as leftists. That is why leftists don’t like dealing with them or joining forces with them. Because 9 times out of 10, on issues leftists care about, liberals will side with the right wing.
Bullshit.
Liberals are not anti-capitalist Capitalism is on the right. Liberals are on the right. It really is that simple.
The fundamental difference between the left and right is and has always been preservation of the current form of political economy (the right) vs progression to new form of political economy (the left). During the days of feudalism the right wanted to preserve feudalism and was represented by the landed aristocracy while the left was represented primarily by bourgeois revolutionaries pushing for a capitalist system. Today those bourgeois are on the right because they are trying to preserve the current system that sustains them while communists and anarchist are on the left because they recognize that this system does not work for them and are trying to build a new one. Liberals stand in the way of that and are therefore on the right
Okay Vladimir.
Look, it’s super-simple: Liberals want to tax the rich, Healthcare for all, Environmental protections, and publicly funded Education.
You can say that’s impossible because of worker oppression or whatever but that’s simply not the case. It’s a matter of enough people voting for officeholders who will do the work to implement those things.
Your socialist language is a pitfall and a barrier to practical, actual change.
Then why do they keep electing people who do the opposite of that?
Examples please. If you’re going straight to Obamacare, don’t bother: asked and answered.
Taxing the rich, healthcare for all, environmental protections, and publicly funded education are not socialism. They are things that socialism and socialists value sure but they are not socialism. Socialism is an organization of production. Who do I vote for if I want to own the means of production in common? How would a politician ever get elected on that platform and survive? Are you actually suggestion that we can vote business owners out of existence and they’d just roll over and let it happen? You say we just have to vote for the right people but the right people aren’t allowed on the ballot.
If you got the vast majority of votes, yes. Technically.
But more to the point, as you’ll probably get asked in one of the first public appearances, what’s the plan to completely remake the economy? I mean, immediately switch to bartering? Capturing the 1% wealth and everyone gets a big check?
Also, can’t the workers own the means of production, like, now?
If I am honest with you I am not the guy who gets on the podium and explains an entire economy to the people. The exact details of how a socialist economy should function under the material conditions of the united states are still up for debate. I could do the leftist thing and send you an entire book that no one reads if you want but anyway. What I would like to see is the owning class (landlords and business owners) stripped of most of their assets. All the homes they don’t need, all the machinary they use to enrich themselves. This is going to require violence unfortunately. You can’t vote for this. I would then want to see those resources distributed amongst the people. I want those homes given to people who don’t have a home. I would want the state to give jobs to workers who do not have them using the means of production that has been recently expropriated. I want those workers to produce goods for workers who need them at a price those workers can afford since the need for shareholder profit has been eliminated. I would like to see the people’s wealth be used for the benefit of the people in the form of healthcare and education rather than war and subsidies for private businesses. Most things would stay relatively similar to how they were for quite some time. We wouldn’t switch to bartering, thats an inefficient system in the modern era for large scale production. We wouldn’t just give everyone one big check, we would permanently increase the value of their wage but removing the vast majority of surplus value extraction that business owners call profit. A lot of bullshit labor that exists specifically for the purpose of making the rich more rich would be eliminated and in exchange the people as a whole would have to work less. I can tell you what socialism intends to achieve and how it intends to achieve it broadly but I am no political-economist. I can’t give you all the details. It gets way more complex as you approach international trade. China’s model is worth looking into with its mixture of private and publicly owned business
Edir: also no, we can’t own the means of production rn. Not as a whole. You can own some means of production in like, a co-op as a small group of workers but you will always be outcompeted by a formally structured capitalist business that can exploit its workers for profit in a way that a co-op can’t
I mean liberals think they are until an issue that actually matters arises. Having enough decency to not think minorities should be killed off doesn’t make you a leftist automatically. Thinking the world shouldn’t be run as a Christian fascist autocracy doesn’t by itself make you a leftist. And you can’t just have those two insanely low bars in common with leftists and then be confused when they won’t side with you every election without question.
What the hell are you talking about.
Is this one of those things where you’re mad at/about the Bolsheviks again or something? Are we gonna lose our chains again?
lol say whatever intentionally ignorant crap you want but the upvotes/downvotes agree with me. Until liberals understand that they’re not going to be able to functionally ally with leftists.
Downvotes from “AngryCommieKender” and “10OhmResistor”? Lol yeah you’ve got a huge plurality of the fourteen votes proving your point.
Leftists are pants-wetting screaming babies who can’t be arsed to do the simplest thing to help get us out of this insane chaos they helped get us into.
I disagree entirely with the Democratic strategy to reach out to “moderates” for votes, but I sure as shit understand it. Why bother moving left if leftists are arrogant self-absorbed navel-gazing buttmunchers that can’t get their shit together to run ONE fucking candidate for ONE office much less form a national political party that can gather 5000 signatures.
Please. If you want to pretend Communism as practiced by the Soviets is super cool, great - just stay out of real discussions about politics.
Leftists have run candidates. Many times. But liberals would rather vote for a right wing candidate than a leftist. Which is also why leftists no longer see a point in working with them. You’re just proving my point.
On a personal note, I also don’t like working with noodle armed wieners who are ignorant to the fact that they’re siding with fascists anyway. I have more self respect than that.
This is false. And no I won’t humor your endless arguing about it.
It’s talking passed eachother. Something any of us can do. No one here should have a problem with what’s in the meme. Liberal in general conversation is a good thing. Everyone wants liberal amounts of freedom. Or liberal amounts of butter on their toast. Etc Etc Etc.
The average person is so ignorant they don’t have an understanding of any political structures to have anything of value to say. So most don’t. It was never intended as liberal as in economic liberal, or neoliberal both basically meaning capitalists. Chances are they all have similar gripes to us about capitalists. But simply have no understanding of how to voice it in an educated way. And this sort of behavior certainly isn’t going to fix that.
As anarchist I would have plenty of places I might disagree with someone who would self describe as liberal. But I know we have far more places we might agree. That neither of us identify with elected officials. That we both feel trapped in this system. That we both want it to be more answerable and representative. We might disagree on how and how much. But we’d both benefit working together against the system. And in the interaction. Perhaps they learn something new and become a proper new ally.
Your last point isn’t correct. You can find people like that on any side of the political spectrum.
Regarding the first and second part, it can be simply due to Conservatives all being in a cult while being uneducated, while Liberals/Progressives/Leftists are mostly all educated and tend to have their own opinions.
You kinda just proved the bro’s point by bitching and moaning about the details and ignoring the substance.
I don’t think so. I’ve nearly just pointed out some lies and inconsistencies in his logic. I also agree that Liberals will never unify and keep fighting each other. But the way he phrased his point was that Conservatives had their shit together and Liberals don’t. The truth is neither have their shit together, but for different reasons.
Bro had a Reddit ahh comment and I had to reply
Did liberals unify in 2020?
It’s also just a lie. Conservatives are constantly in a crabs-in-a-bucket-esque power struggle. The only thing ensuring cohesion on the right is the cult of personality surrounding trump. They all want their particular flavor of oppression to be the one at the top and are happy to stab eachother in the back as soon as the opportunity arises.
Left unity is similarly a myth. The left is full of diverse ideologies, many of which are fundamentally incompatible with one another. We’ve already tried the “left unity” thing before, it lead to the Bolsheviks purging anarchists the second they had the chance, and there’s no reason to believe that left unity would play out any differently nowadays. And while I’m at it, liberals are center right at best and “leftists” should stop concerning themselves so much with what libs think about our politics
Such as? Just curious.
Oh. Nm.
. . . So what’s a “RHINO”?
Rightists turn on each other for purity tests all the time. Especially amongst the racist ones.
You’ve seen that acronym so rarely that you spelled it wrong.
They keep each other in line but they don’t ‘cancel’ each other. A lot of it is just plausible deniability really.
That’s not true. But I can’t compel myself to waste time providing evidence when you won’t read it in the first place. So fuck it, and fuck this community.
Great argument you changed my mind.
Yeah? OK dont read these then:
https://mediarelations.gwu.edu/media-tip-sheet-gop-infighting-threatens-upend-house-majority
https://apnews.com/article/republicans-house-leadership-chaos-states-infighting-bb5d9287214cd5aa0a1fdf03b56bebcb
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/project-2025-author-challenging-sen-lindsey-graham-in-gop-primary
Bro I already said that you changed my mind.
😆
Oh sure they “fight” all the time, they just ultimately end up voting for whatever trump (or Bush or whothefuckever) says. i.e. “support”.
Largely because they all believe in the imaginary construct of White Jesus, or a worldview that is compatible with it.
Me too but hey, if this resonates with some boomers I’m all for it.
I can never really tell how un/intentionally memey the boomer aspect is anymore, but my brain might be broken. It’s definitely a meme by libs, for libs though.
shitlibs? Bourgeoise?
I don’t know if that’s what it means though. I took it as the normal things everyone is taught in childhood, that conservatives agree with teaching, is now thought if as “left”
After seeing a bunch of tankie memes on Lemmy, I’ve become a bit more aware of the popularity of low quality “picture of text” memes that confirm you are correct and others are wrong. It’s fine to have beliefs but saying you have them because you paid attention in school is silly.
The point was that conservatives base their beliefs on lies and emotions, not information. And that’s true.
“Well I went to middle school also guns bad”