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[–] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 120 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Reminds me of a joke on a Bright Eyes song.

"There's a Communist and an Anarchist in a car who's driving? The cop."

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oooh. What song? The only thing I have in my list from Bright Eyes is At The Very Bottom of Everything.

[–] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have no idea. I just remember it in the intro of a song. Sorry to tease you lol.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 67 points 6 months ago (3 children)

“Do you know why people don’t like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so fucking smart, how come they lose so god damn always?” - Will MacAvoy, Newsroom

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Imagine having 4 years to prepare

With all the state apparatus behind them announcing day and night that Trump was "literally the worst human bean ever"

Basically all the universities and all the highly educated population by their side

With massive approval from their voter base

With huge sums of money for propaganda in the private media.

With all the considerably large powers of the current executive

Able to pass laws

Able to influence worldwide political movements to bash their opposition at any time through grants

Able to start or stop wars worldwide should the need arise

And they still lost to Trump LMAO 🤣

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 months ago

Democrats lost the 2024 election in the 2020 election. Biden was a moderate that solved nothing, making poor white people angrier.

The only ways to make poor white people less angry will make billionaires angry.

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 64 points 6 months ago (4 children)

A Marxist is stuck in a room with a liberal, a fascist, and an anarchist. The Marxist has one gun and two bullets. What does the Marxist do? Shoot the liberal and the anarchist.

(Based off actual historical events.)

[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 6 months ago (4 children)

If anyone disagrees:

Kronstadt

Spanish Civil War

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

The War in Ukraine

Etc.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The War in Ukraine

I'm confused.

[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Did you forget how all the MLs were rooting for Putin and performing apologetics about how Russia had "national trauma from its interactions with the west"? (actual quote, btw.) They pointed out how there were some factions in the military that were antisemitic and ignored the openly fascist policies of the Kremlin.

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[–] The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The Spanish Civil War is actually slightly inaccurate. The Communist Party were sided with the Liberal Republicans instead of the revolutionaries - like the anarchists, and other socialists - and later prosecuted those revolutionaries and accused them of being fascists while a lot of them were still in the frontlines fighting actual fascists. The Communist Party were just serving the interests of the USSR, which at that point wanted a liberal government in Spain (due to their relation to France, if I recall correctly) and not a workers' revolution.

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[–] Toribor@corndog.social 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Surely giving the gun to the fascist is a better decision. They'll just shoot themselves in the foot... Right?

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[–] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 60 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (25 children)

A leftist is stuck in a room with another leftist and a fascist.

The leftist has one gun and two bullets, and they must be used.

What does the leftist do?

Shoot the other leftist twice.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

... then claim the other leftist making an edgy joke at the age of 14 is a proof they were the real fascist.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 39 points 6 months ago (12 children)

And then blame the Party for not providing more attractive choices.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Our choices were Fascism or Corporatism. Why wouldn't we blame the parties?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I blame the Democratic party as much as anybody else for not being progressive enough, but nobody can blame a party for their own decision not to vote.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

I'm saving this one. Too on the nose.

"Christo-fascists are coming!"

They're already here.

"They're rounding up brown people and LGBT will be next!"

Been saying concentration camps and trains are inbound for years now.

"Give up your guns!"

Perhaps liberals should take a WWII history class?

"But they'll kill you if you defend yourself!"

Yes, that often happens when fighting fascists.

[–] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

People don't consider that there are worse things than going out in a gun battle. Much much worse.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

That's what I would do lmao. Fuck that guy

[–] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Of course they started with 6 bullets but the liberal and the fascist liked to pass the gun around and take pot shots at the marxist every so often so the marxist couldn't ever influence or overpower them. This is just the moment the liberal realized there were only two bullets left.

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[–] oce@jlai.lu 22 points 6 months ago (30 children)

What's a liberal according to Lemmy? Economically liberal and socially liberal? Social democrat? Obama or Bernie?

[–] Juice@midwest.social 14 points 6 months ago

It kind of has a double meaning. One side is someone who believes in like democracy, freedom, human rights, and the other side is someone who believes in private property. For historical reasons, the two tendencies are like joined together on most things, but there are differences.

A lot of leftists don't like liberals because they defend private property and capitalism, but a lot of liberals see themselves as leftists because of those progressive values.

Whether or not a liberal is left wing very much depends on the liberal. Every socialist was once a liberal, whether they were political or not. Conservatives are a kind of liberal, but with the progressive parts removed so it only defends private property.

capitalism is really good at like hiding away its injustice behind contracts and laws, a socialist would see those laws as unjust and want to do radical reforms up to and including overthrow of the ruling billionaires. a liberal might not see the injustice, or if they do, tend to want to stick to courts and reforms because it does contain elements of fairness and justice. liberal justice is more fair than feudal justice, but less than what many socialists would like.

The meme is a reference to the idea that social democracy, liberalism and fascism are all different aspects of capitalism.

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Fuck that shit answer. I'd shoot myself twice.

[–] nowherepenguin@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Are you sure? Bullets move very quickly and are quite hard. Might hurt.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If the Marxist is Russian, I'm pretty confident I'd be able to shoot myself twice in the head in that room.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is it a US liberal, or a "rest of the world" liberal (which typically means the opposite)?

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[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Shoot the lock to escape the room, and save the other bullet for whoever locked you up in there.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Okay, this isn't a movie, the bullet did nothing to the lock, and now you're bleeding from a ricochet sliver.

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago

Same result, but the liberal asks Israel who should have the gun.

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

shoot himself in the foot and then the face?

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Just crushingly depressingly accurate

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

I'd probably work towards getting out of the room tbh

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