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  • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Exactly this.

    You start with "Biden bad." But everyone agrees he's bad, and this is a meme site, so you start meming about how bad Biden is. This flattens any sort of nuanced discussion about exactly how Biden compares to Trump on specific issues, because that's what memes do. Now Biden bad means Biden is at least as bad as Trump on every single issue no matter how badly that fails the sniff test on a given topic (see Iran, climate change, etc.). Toss in a little "you know Biden would actually be worse for leftist organizing than the guy stuffing leftist organizers into unmarked vans and egging on right-wing paramilitaries." Toss in a little "voting doesn't really matter, and if it does, it's just a political tactic and not a moral statement." Toss in a bit too much ironic detachment from the real-world impact of politics. At some point this will produce "unironically, vote Trump."