https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/1bb83dg/dont_be_vermin/

https://claytoonz.com/2024/03/08/protest-vote/

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  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    The comic is literally just "Stop caring about the Palestinians or else you'll share their fate"

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      "First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a communist. Then everything turned out fine for me, because sacrificing others to save my own skin totally worked."

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        9 months ago

        We're on like

        • They came for black men
        • They came for undocumented people
        • They came for asylum seekers protected under US law
        • They came for indigenous water defenders
        • They came for some people who didn't want a "School of the Americas but for Cops" built in a park
        • They came for trans people
        • They came for Palestinians

        There aren't many fucking people left but the Libs haven't taken the message yet.

        • Magician [he/him, they/them]
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          9 months ago

          I'd say they're like rats on a sinking ship, but I don't want to insult rats. If they had the ability to stop their ship from sinking, they would do so.

          • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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            9 months ago

            Rats will help other rats escape from an uncomfortable situation even if they have to sacrifice immediate gratification (treats/food)

            I'm not so sure about a lot of liberals

    • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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      9 months ago

      This is the exact argument my aunt busted out.

      First of all, that's not true. But second of all, I kinda wish it was true because at least then people would actually fight back.

      I can't understand why people don't care about people their own government is genociding.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        9 months ago

        at least then people would actually fight back.

        I sincerely doubt they would. Most libs don't seem capable of even recknoing with the idea.

      • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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        9 months ago

        Whatever, she and I both live in a red state so it truly could not matter less who we vote for for president.

  • Doubledee [comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    Hey man, where did those scary guys with guns come from? Spontaneously generated by Joe losing?

    Imagine knowing there is already an infrastructure in place to lock up undesirables and thinking that the bad thing would be liberals ending up in one of said already existing camps.

    • Magician [he/him, they/them]
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      9 months ago

      Seriously. Why do we have a society that can immediately genocide after an election? That speaks to such a shitty system where a single vote can do that. There are so many worse problems at play than which racist old man holds the nuclear codes.

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        29 days ago

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        • aqwxcvbnji [none/use name]
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          9 months ago

          I second @footfaults@hexbear.net 's point: read the Jakarta Method. The most eye-opening thing about that book was how in every country where it happened, the people living here had the same idea "something that is so outrageous can't happen here".

          • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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            9 months ago

            In Indonesia specifically, the communists were already armed and willing to fight for the liberals’ democracy. They rejected the offer and as a result, the communists were massacred and the country’s fragile democracy was crushed.

      • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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        9 months ago

        Why do we have a society that can immediately genocide after an election?

        Because we have people who expect no consequences for enabling it before an election.

    • plinky [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Joe biden could appoint provisional head of dhs rn, who will fire everyone from under him. edgeworth-shrug

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    9 months ago

    Wow, if the US is that close to fascism, I sure hope it's geopolitical rivals are powerful enough to place a check on it. Imagine if the US was both fascist and the world's sole uncontested superpower. Critical support to China in its struggle against the about-to-be fascist US, right libs?

    • What_Religion_R_They [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      china is a nazi state and xi jinping is literally hitler and they are currently doing the holocaust but 2x worse because it's 12 million uyghurs (more than 6 million) xi-god-emperor

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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        9 months ago

        Fortunately, we can rely on the soon-to-be-fascist state to give us accurate information about it's geopolitical enemies. Otherwise we might have to start thinking for ourselves!

    • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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      9 months ago

      This is the same logic that made me support the SMO in Ukraine. I understand the reflexive anti war stance a lot of people have, but ultimately if Russia did not go in it guaranteed WW3 would be locked in later.

  • Maoo [none/use name]
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    9 months ago

    We're about 6 months from seeing things like this posted unironically on hexbear dot net so prepare yourselves, nerds.

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      4 months ago

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          4 months ago

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      • VILenin [he/him]M
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        9 months ago

        I am requesting full admin privileges to thaw the peaches of those who would promote electoralism on MY hexbear

      • silent_water [she/her]
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        9 months ago

        rat-salute-2

        I've been fighting this fight since everyone was convinced Bernie could win the nomination. no you fucking libs, the bourg were always going to unify to prevent him from ever taking the presidency. and harm reduction is an eternal game where history just began and only the present matters.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    9 months ago

    I always love how helpless liberals are

    Even as their world crumbles around them, they can't even imagine actually doing something

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    i know a bunch of chuds who also believe they'll be thrown into camps if Biden wins. In both scenarios though, the losers are prepared to blame the left for their circumstances. We're such a specter on their minds. Leftists hold basically no power in the USA and yet we're constantly blamed for everything

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      Leftists hold basically no power in the USA and yet we're constantly blamed for everything

      There's a funny reason why to liberals leftists are both very weak and very powerful hitler-detector

    • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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      9 months ago

      i know a bunch of chuds who also believe they'll be thrown into camps if Biden wins

      The libs are coming for your guns any fucking day now! This time it'll happen fr fr

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        9 months ago

        It is extremely easy to get most chuds to say there's currently an ongoing Holocaust in America against suburban white people

            • Scew1 [none/use name]
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              9 months ago

              I try not to listen to them as much as possible. Have a growing fear that stupidity is contagious. although I could probably find a facebook to glance at xD

              • silent_water [she/her]
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                9 months ago

                it's not but it sure fucking hits the brain like whiplash before you start laughing. I find myself less and less willing to take that first hit, like avoidance of pyschic pain before the utter stupidity overwhelms you with mirth.

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        9 months ago

        This is especially funny this year. Usually gun and ammo prices skyrocket during election years, but right now it’s still about the same price. Maybe ammo is slightly more expensive. But overall no one actually believes Biden re-elected will do anything.

    • VILenin [he/him]M
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      9 months ago

      Just like red MAGA, blue MAGA is drowning in histrionics about being rounded up into internment camps, and just like red MAGA, blue MAGA's lives will not meaningfully change should the enemy win and they will face no significant material consequences.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      The left must act the way the conservatives and liberal think we are. They keep imagining all of this power and intrigue from us - we might as well make sure their imagination doesn’t go to waste.

    • silent_water [she/her]
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      9 months ago

      again and again I return to the Eighteenth Brumaire

      the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare upon the minds of the living

      no matter how many of us they kill, we never truly die, and come back again and again to finally complete the revolution. for our dead and for the living. for those who are not yet born.

  • Parzivus [any]
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    9 months ago

    Stolen from the thread

    I saw a theory that a Republican psyop has convinced libs to be as annoying and preachy as possible to leftists to ultimately make leftist want to not vote, and it checks out

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    9 months ago

    “Conservatives will put you in concentration camps if they get into power, that’s why you need to vote Team Blue so they can come to a middle ground compromise with those conservatives.”

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Meanwhile when you say "We need to stop the GOP" libs immediately start shitting and pissing and stammering "You're advocating for violence against the people I sincerely believe would put me in a concentration camp?!!?!? That's horrible!"

      Liker first off, yes, but I didn't actually say it, you just assumed. And second, say what you just said out loud, but slowly.

      • RedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]
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        9 months ago

        Well, if we used power to stop the people who want to genocide us, then we'd be as bad as the people who want to genocide us. The better alternative is to dick around until our enemies gain enough of a foothold to genocide us and then let them genocide us. That way, we're noble.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      Oh, I'd vote for Biden if he was putting conservatives in camps.

      Follow along with me here:

      1. We have a Republican candidate who will (and will have the power to) supposedly genocide a mass of undesirables if he takes office (something we were promised the first time he ran for office too by the way)

      2. We have a gigantic group of undesirables (Republicans) who want to put such a person in office (a person who, as I've already stated, will gulag a ton of people on the usually Democrat side of the aisle)

      3. Democrats would also have that power equally themselves, cause otherwise the other guy couldn't have it

      4. Knowing point 1 and 2, why doesn't the current president do what the other guy would do, but to that guy's voter base? If they (republicans) gain power, they're allegedly going to literally do this themselves; why aren't they being shoved in those very camps? Is the whole point to just play keep away with Republicans eternally? If so, not only is this system a joke, but Democrats are a joke too for treating this as a game.

      • silent_water [she/her]
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        9 months ago

        the only victory the care about is the moral one. and even then, moral only means preserving the rules of the system, even as it collapses down upon them.

  • Anne_Teefa
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    9 months ago

    Oh look vote or die 2.0

      • Anne_Teefa
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        9 months ago

        My depressed azz as well please

    • silent_water [she/her]
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      9 months ago

      2.0? they've been iterating on this for every election since 2000. it's vote or die 6.0, at least from elections where I was politically aware.

      • Anne_Teefa
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        9 months ago

        Only was politically present for 2016, and then it was it's her turn bs

        • silent_water [she/her]
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          9 months ago

          team Blue has been calling team Red nazis (and vice versa) for a whole generation lol. "they're going to throw us all in camps!!!" has been whip the entire time.

  • laziestflagellant [they/them]
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    9 months ago

    They don't believe this, and they know they don't believe this, otherwise they would be calling for their friends and like-minded individuals to get armed and start training for militias.

    They already know that in a Trump election they'll just shrug their shoulders as certain minorities continue to get their rights eroded in the boring longwinded democratic process way and the civilized law and order police brutality way

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      9 months ago

      I really don't think they could ever organize meaningfuly resistance, armed or otherwise. It just doesn't exist in their universe. The system is too holy, the US military is too invincible, it'd all be too uncivil.

      • Magician [he/him, they/them]
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        9 months ago

        I think a lot of people would rather believe the government wouldn't kill them than acknowledge the fact that their government would kill them if they had a reason to.

      • silent_water [she/her]
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        9 months ago

        it did bring energy and purpose to the left last time around. there was an unreported clash between the fash and antifa in my city where a force 1/5 the size of the fash (maybe 1/10) managed to corral and ultimately route the fash with nothing but shields while occupying the police in a wild goose chase. that kind of thing just doesn't happen any more. rallies with thousands of people in all black and prepared to throw down were routine until Biden took office. part of it was a successful discreditation of the leaders of those rallies by more liberal factions, but the air seriously got sucked out of the room. so I don't really care about the libs ability to organize -- we kind of went on ice and we're only just starting to thaw because of Palestine.

        the next round of clashes will be much more severe and we will absolutely need to iterate and improve on the tactics we learned last time. my dearest hope is that we can build a real org this time to preserve the momentum.

    • VILenin [he/him]M
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      9 months ago

      When Trump won last time these people's - white liberals' - lives were completely unaffected. If Trump wins they'll continue to live the same lives they do now, except there'll be more CNN articles about how Drumpf is over. People who stand to face actual consequences don't post shit like this.