Jentu

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[–] Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mix in some red food coloring and you’ve got yourself a good time

[–] Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's something to be said about how interconnected a lot of major issues in the world are. Many solutions to specific issues don't solve the underlying reason why that issue came about in the first place, laying the groundwork for the same issue to pop up again in a few years, which is why people push to fix systemic things. (Though I do think for the sake of accuracy and humor, the last line of the comic should be "No, that is too big of an issue to possibly change").

We just have to accept that some people are "give a man a fish" people and others are "teach a man to fish" people. I think the world needs both for things to actually get better. Then there's another group of people who just don't like hearing the cries of the less privileged when they themselves are perfectly comfortable with how things are (shown in the comic) and who often wears a mask imitating the "teach a man to fish" person. The "teach a man to fish" people and "please stop complaining" people might both target their complaints towards the "give a man a fish" people, but that doesn't mean that those two groups are the same or have the same goals. Pay no attention to bad actors who will try to prevent any movement towards a better world when it costs a bit of their own comfort.

[–] Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some people's lives are so bad they would rather focus on personal survival than electing the good cop over the bad cop, both of whom would likely make their lives either a little or a lot worse every single year. "Our country is at stake" only really matters if you have systemic benefits from this country- otherwise, it just seems like it's a plea for victims of this country to take your comfort into consideration above anything else. Sure, we're on the precipice of a fascist takeover where even the white people in gated neighborhoods could start feeling even fractionally as bad as people of color currently do, but it might be worth considering this perspective isn't just some petty or ignorant thing- it's a rotten system created by racist white men that might not be worth participating in because even if the system is perfectly fixed, there will always be people on top and people on the bottom. At least with Kamala, there is a hope of traveling farther away from that "racist white man who begs me for votes and never delivers on promises" trope, so it doesn't surprise me one bit.

[–] Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, but not only is it better than what we current have, but it goes against the whole "That’s a problem no matter how government officials are elected, and therefore irrelevant." claim you made earlier.

[–] Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

As opposed to the 50%+ we have in office now?

[–] Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 months ago

God I love Derry Girls. It's about time for a rewatch

[–] Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I feel like this reply is for someone else? We're both coming from a leftist position. Democrats only think they're being overrun with bots and propaganda because they aren't actually politically informed enough to know the valid reasons why people don't like them.

[–] Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You should research cop cities. Atlanta democrats voted to fund theirs.

[–] Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

If you don't know the answer to this already, I suppose the backlash against Biden from progressives might seem like bots or foreign propaganda.

[–] Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)
[–] Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

If history tells us anything, fascists love advertising that they're actually socialists and that you should definitely vote for them. And North Carolina got a little taste of what that might feel like last year.

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