Ladies and gentlemen, you must understand that the problem is far more severe than many believe. For many voters, this is not a matter of choosing a better candidate. Most of the time, they do not know who they are voting for, or why. They vote by party alone: Republican or Democrat.
The ballot is divided along party lines, and they simply proceed down the list, checking every box for their chosen party.
They fail to comprehend that they are voting for individuals who act against their own interests. They assume that new Republicans are better than the old ones, without evidence or understanding. This is a profoundly failed system, and its dysfunction is self-evident
A massive factor in this schism has to do with our sudden isolation from each other and our abandonment of communities and socialization. Somewhere along the line, the minority of internet shut-ins became most people. Covid didn’t help with that, it cemented isolationism as a viable alternative to going out and feeling uncomfortable around other people with different views.
As a result, there’s no social pressure to be involved, to have knowledge about what’s going on in the world, no pressure to have educated opinions on society or the future. You can just have your own wacko, nutcase conspiracy-brain take to explain why you’re lonely and keep it to yourself and your small discord group or forum of like-minded shut-ins, each thinking they’re connected to others but they’re just reading their own text on screens.
This was leveraged HARD by specific forces to indoctrinate young men to the right. The relationship between straight men and women has been compromised on a very deep and insidious level, too many outside and inside influences created too much sensationalism around debating gender and our differences rather than how we can be happy and find joy in each other. This has led to incel-dom becoming a dominant kind of background philosophical framework for millions and millions of young men around the entire world.
Fascism has always been built on the back of sexually insecure young men. History is a flat circle. Awwshitsonherewegoagain.jpg
Loving all the Easter eggs in this. Bob Loblaw’s Law Blog, rats drinking and playing darts, beaker, my little pony tattoo, kpop demon hunters jacket, other guy up the tree, kid trapped in the window, all 50% off signs now 50% off… the detail is wild and I’m here for it - bet there’s heaps more too.
Yeah! The dude in the bar is wearing a hat that says UTI lmao
Church of Love with a list of people that can’t come in…
Also with a sign for a potluck, where things of different origins and tastes are literally mixed together
Putz Blue Ribbon
Money rapture, Tuesday potluck. They know they ain’t getting called to heaven.
So many people were frustrated at Obama for not doing enough about immigration. Obama, the president with the record for most deportations - one that Trump failed to break on his first term.
The crash out phrase was “Well, he apparently didn’t do such a good job if they keep coming back!”
There are only two ways to stop people from trying to come back. One: Make the whole world a better place so people don’t need to come to America. We tried that with USAID. They did not like that.
Anti-immigration voters took option two: Make America a horrible, horrifying place that murders innocent people in the street. (And no, that did not start this week)
Option three is: Don’t give a fuck, release your racism. That is, of course, worlds beyond their racist minds.
We didn’t try option 4: build the wall.
You know, the wall that was going to prevent the dirty Mexicans from coming in, and that Mexico was going to pay for. That one that would actually cost about $100 billion to build, but almost none of it was actually built because it’s such a ridiculous project? Oh, and the same one that didn’t actually stop people, because they were just bringing a ladder and some ropes and climbing it?
(Point being, the US / Mexico and US / Canada borders are so incredibly long that it’s basically impossible to secure the entire thing and stop determined people from entering the US illegally, so the only real options are to try to prevent them from trying, which comes down to the above two options.)
I remember that, and its failure, and it’s why I didn’t even bring it up as an option; but the reminder on history is appreciated.
This comic is painfully accurate. Read the exit polling from 2024, millions of Trump voters were Obama voters and Bernie supporters.
Our problem is not voter turnout, we had the highest turnout in US history in the last several federal elections. The problem is people are not thinking, they’ve been dulled and pulled in too many directions by too many propaganda campaigns each spinning the wildest takes on both sides of every issue until the average median voter who gets their news from facebook after working 6 days a week just rolls their eyes and moves on.
People vote on their comfort levels. People voted for Trump in mass numbers strictly about the price of eggs at the time, and they associated Biden with that egg cost, and Harris was “just more Biden.” (I mean, they weren’t wrong, but fuck.)
But the fact that they knew NOTHING about what Trump was going to do, screams volumes about how informed our population is. And it’s not a matter of giving them tools to learn, they have ALL the tools. People aren’t interested in being informed. Everyone is burnt-out, anti-social, isolated and depressed. We avoid each other because we only read the worst stories about each other so our communities dissolved and people just live in social isolation, no pressure to learn more and be more involved.
The median voter is batshit insane. This has been true since ~1787.
The best argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversation with an average voter.
And the best argument for democracy is a 5 minute conversation about every other form of government.
To paraphrase Churchill. Democracy is a terrible system of government, shame it’s the best we’ve created thus far.
Wow, that’s one of the worst paraphrasings of his quote that I’ve ever seen.
To paraphrase Socrates, The only true wisdom is you’re dumb.
Yet both my shit paraphrase and your shit paraphrase hold closer to the actual intent of the quotes than what people often imply with actual quotes. Like when preachers cherry pick the Bible or that one Tolkien quote about allegory.
Also true
That we’ve tried so far…
Don’t lose hope. There still may be better options yet to come.
Only that we have republics and not democracies.
What’s this?
Dildohat
My preferred outcome isn’t that these people now vote differently, it’s that they never vote again. I don’t want them to be banned from voting. I just want them to have the realization that they were completely conned and that everybody who tried to warn them was right. If they’re that easily misled about basic facts, the world would be better off if they never voted again.
@[email protected] They’re only upset that the policy affected a single person. Other than that single individual they see as human, they’re cheering.
And Carol is a worthy sacrifice for the potential to hurt the people they want.
Just a comic, but there is something to this. I think it comes down to what you see as an exception and what you see as the rule. Carol might be the “good exception” for them, while “ThE mEXiCaNS!,” in general, are evil and eat pets or whatever. Maybe Carol was even the “I’m not a racist, my friend is mexican” friend.
I even have people in my life (not that I chose to) who are immigrants themselves, came to my country for economic prosperity, and now hate new immigrants.
“The law holds that it is better that 10 guilty persons escape, than that 1 innocent suffer."
- William Blackstone, 1769
Apparently, they didn’t get the memo.
This comic is about Republicans not breaking their ranks over minor issues like economy or immigration. Trump can destroy the country but they will still vote Republican because voting Democrat is not an option for them.
My comment was about why they don’t see voting Democrat as an option
Regressives. Its regressive behavior to never change for the better.
Why Beaker hiding in that tree tho
No questions about the rat playing darts tho
They seem chill.
Bars are where you play darts. What is there to question?
And treeholes is where you hide.
They lack any capacity to care about any injustice unless it DIRECTLY effects themselves.
But if the rapture is on Monday, who’s going to the potluck on Tuesday?
Same bewilderment as adherents to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism express for the behavior of Democrats.
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It’s probably Carolina, but that’s too many syllables for some people…
