494
"We're totally different sides!"
(lemmy.ml)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2025
494 points (74.2% liked)
Memes
51691 readers
1901 users here now
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
The fact that there are so many dislikes proves how propagandized the average American is. "How dare you call both sides the same" Well, they ojectively are pretty much the same with few exceptions.
You must be very privileged or very ignorant to see things this way.
The Democratic Party is somewhat conservative and stand firmly behind capitalism. But they aren't fascists. Not at all.
Uhhhhh yes they are lmao. They just have an insignificantly smaller out group. They consider the rest of the world fair game for death camps, torture, starvation, and everything else Republicans do, and they even agree with most of their most fascist shit (like the children in cages and the Patriot Act, which were not only not stopped but expanded with Dems at the helm).
They just think gay people and people of color are a sizeable demographic, but not sizeable enough to stop the violence against them, just kind of pretend they're the only allies.
They keep doing that because idiots keep buying it. I don't think Mussolini would have been much better if he copped black slang for his propaganda material and was ok with gay people in the military.
Yeah they're the same except one of them wants me dead
Both of them want to kill you and your friends. One is just stupid/racist enough that they're willing to do away with your labor power ASAP while the other would rather let their billionaire masters squeeze every penny out of you in debt peonage for the rest of your life (hopefully less than 65 years).
However, I'm far less interested in what they want to do to other gringos than the fact that they've been workshopping even worse than this brutality on the rest of us for centuries and y'all were okay with it. You'd continue to be okay with it if there wasn't a dang Cheeto in the white house or whatever the fuck.
Let me rephrase: one of them is willing to let me and my friends die because they're more interested in making money than providing for our needs, and one of them wants to shoot us in the fucking heads for being queer. But yeah the ones who hate us for being queer aren't actually worse than the ones who simply don't care about us
They also want to shoot you in the head for not being white. But yeah, no worse than the ones who simply don't care about your wellbeing. In fact, the latter deserves even more of your ire, for some reason
"Sure, they may be committing a modern Holocaust, but what about MEEEEEEE"
Western liberals are the most self centred people alive, you literally don't see foreigners as real people.
Meeeeee, and also all of the other non-cishets, non-whites, and non-men
You're right though, western liberals are the worst. I'm going to take your advice and become a western conservative, and will be doing my best to actively hurt people, because you think it's better when American women and gays and nonwhites die than when they don't
Once again, we are reminded that western liberals literally don't conceptualise foreigners as real people.
By all means, the difference is entirely performative; conservatives are just more honest about it.
One willing to do the bad thing while the other not willing to do anything about it (and resistant towards any change) is just voting between the Uvalde school shooter and the uvalde cops that prevented parents from going in and saving their children.
Nice ahistorical analogy, but the democrats have proven very capable of literally killing people abroad for the crime of being brown and desiring autonomy, as well as turning a blind eye when cops and the national security apparatus murder people on a whim at home. So forgive me for not seeing them as polar opposites.
Especially for non-Usian people, doubly especially for those on the working end of US "diplomacy" - bombs, coups and sanctions come regardless of which US administration, there is literally no difference whatsoever.