There was an edit someone made where they stuck that face over Mussolini’s headquarters, the Palazzo Braschi, and I can’t find it anywhere. It was perfect.
The Spanish Inquisition was just the Catholics hoping that God had incarnated as another Jew so they could get double forgiveness by killing him again.
The upside of all of this nonsense is that the left finally, finally has a chance to be funny again.
This is purely based on vibes, but sometime in March, the right started talking like the cultural establishment, and the left started talking like the counterculture. This has nothing directly to do with economics or hard power, though it is heavily related. It's just my sense that despite all the Resist rhetoric about dismantling white supremacy or whatever, the left and libs had a complacent sort of position where they shouted slogans but enjoyed a relative position of power and honestly weren't that threatened.
Now the vibes are that the left and liberals have definitely lost control of the situation. The big institutions, the corporations, the so called legacy media, largely impotent.
Wokeism has definitely fallen off hard, and yes, in time (not yet), assuming things continue as they are, we will find the right in power of the culture.
Those who find themselves in power typically tend to be for authoritarian measures, and those out of power are for liberty and free expression.
We shifted from the religious right of the 90s and 00s to the woke left in the 10s and 20s. Which branch of rightism dominates in the 30s and 40s will definitely be insane tyrants, and the left will have the ability to meme once again.
MAGA is gonna end like Oktoberfest. Great fun while it lasts, but then you find yourself waking up covered in your own piss, throwing up, wondering why tf you ever thought it was a good idea.
At this rate the backlash against MAGA is gonna be even greater than the pendulum swing back from wokeness. I just hope this isn't an endless cycle of constantly overcorrecting back and forth
Don't cry, little PCMer! The American voter will make sure to vote in another president with a completely different ideology than the previous one, as they have since the beginning of the century. Washington! Get another populist on the line! The boy's hungry!
I just want a normal president that isn't extreme on either side and truly looks out for the American people. It really is too much to ask for isn't it?
I long for the days when we will have a president no one in the future will remember on top of their head. Like Anyone know who Chester A. Arthur is? I didn't until I googled who the 21st president was. Just give us a normal fucking year in politics please.
we used to be a proper community, dementiaposting about the dem president
if democrats were capable of winning something in 2024 then rightoids wouldnt forced to make memes of morons from the view or that one lady in congress that's a black klansman. im sure we'll get better quality in 2026
There's been a noticeable lack of right and specially auth-right lately but then again, with 100% of the US government being theirs, there isn't much to talk about, aside from occasional things from EU or smth.
They won everything so no need to meme anything anymore.
It will be interesting to see if it shakes out that way. this sub is still heavily right dominated even if rightoids are too pussy shit to talk right now
I would be curious what the numbers in this sub actually are, I don't think it's heavily right dominated, just one of the few places on reddit where it's allowed. I would guess that the numbers are fairly even.
there's been stats about this sub posted sometime ago. like someone doing an actual study even, and some posts breaking down amount of posts by flair etc.
nothing recent but maybe you can find them again if you want some older preelection data
can't remember when, within the last couple years at least, a poll or something that showed this place is actually majority left (in general), but a small majority, like 52% or something. And just the fact that it's not 90% left makes it appear like "a far right sanctuary". It's really not, it just looks that way compared to the rest of reddit. and i think there were more anti-left memes previously because it was the left in power. now, unsurprisingly, it's flipped
What is actually huge in this sub is antiestablishment sentiment and sentiments againds the democrats from both sides. Actually the dem liberals are the most underrepresented group here.
Because we all know deep down we need more like Luigi if we wanted our government to care what its citizens think.
Tons of protests right now and they won't do shit. One person made waves and united the people, and made our government controlled media go silent because they couldn't control the narrative.
Centrists have always been good at making memes, it's just now the focus is on Trump and the right. Leftists for the most part still suck at making memes. I will admit I use to be libleft back in 2016
Because we've run our working class into the ground, the annihilation of the Dow is met with a resounding chorus of ambivalence to outright joy.
You might say things will only get worse for them, when investment and production slows, and companies cut labor to save costs.
And for some of them, that is true. 65% of the country lives paycheck to paycheck. Some will hurt. Others just won't care.
It isn't that they are stupid. It is that they are beaten down by an unsustainable hellhole of an economic system.
The accelerationists must be extatic. I'm not one to revel in human suffering, but if this is going to go pear shaped, it is at least an opportunity to ask why our system has failed so utterly that a good portion of the working class applauds as Rome burns.
This is the perspective most fail to see. The majority of americans are completely divorced from the reality of wallstreet and the stock market and have nothing to lose , at least at the moment, so seeing the beneficiaries of the status quo lose their minds isn't going to move the dial much.
If this keeps up though and starts killing 401k's and employment than the R's will have serious problems
It is killing 401ks. You understand that 401k returns are based on stock market performance, right? I realize most of the people who think this is all fine are teenagers with zero assets but even as a teenager I understood that.
The stock market directly impacts 401k's. Which is going to be a much bigger deal if social security gets axed.
If it were just the stock market that would be one thing, because stocks bounce back eventually. But the actual tariffs are going to make things cost way more, and price increases are kinda a pandora's box situation. Once they go up, they don't come back down even when the underlying problem is solved, and don't even think wages will catch up.
Imagine if the economic devastation from covid was intentional. This is what we're looking at.
It's been this way for years. Right wingers see someone that disagrees with them, and go apeshit, even if it's a tweet with 2 likes and 0 replies. Yet if someone on their side is cringe, they have unlimited excuses for it.
90% of terrorist killings in the US are caused by right-wingers. Now maybe that is just because the right is better at doing terrorism and lefties are just as likely to be violent.
I miss the days when Hillary having an online super PAC dedicated to astroturfing that she could directly coordinate with due to loopholes was considered a big deal
Reddit was overwhelmingly pro-Bernie during the primaries. It was hard to find a single Clinton supporter. If there was astroturfing, it was getting buried.
Straight up facts. For some reason, this practice always seemed very popular among right flairs, not only in the past 2 weeks. "See, I told you libtardz are bad and I brought a screenshot of some random twitter schizo to prove it!!". But obviously you're disingenuous if you do the same
But have you considered that girl tied for 5th place with a Trans-girl in a swimming competition? That should give trump the right to fuck over the stock market!!!
This is how it is. The whole trans athlete thing that affects a specific dozen people is as important as the state of the whole macro economy…why? Time and attention given to some issues is beneficial to a constant divide. Which is why news media should be non profit by law 🤷🏾
If Dems were so concerned about the economy, they would have unhitched their wagon from the wildly unpopular trans athlete issue. Trump has been talking about tariffs for 30 years. They knew what would happen if he won. All they had to say was "yeah sorry that was stupid" and they probably win.
Instead they die on the hill and let Trump run one of the most effective "fringe issue" political ads of all time.
100%. Everyone is like "ugh why do Republicans care about the 10 trans athletes" but Democrats just surrendered a presidential election so those 10 trans athletes can keep winning swimming medals.
Kamala talked over and over about how bad the tariffs would be, she never mentioned her race, gender, or trans people during her campaign. But that didn’t matter, there was nothing to do when Republicans can just rile up their media sphere to focus only on trans people.
The right can't properly defend the tarrifs but they won't abondon him either so they have to distract people random bs.
Distracting people with culture war bs only works as long as normal people aren't majorly affected by the tarrifs. Maga doesn’t care but they are not needed for Democrats to win elections.
Have auth-right been kicked off of this sub? It’s been crickets from them for awhile. Maybe they’re lowering their heads in shame? Any auth-rights still lurking?
I actually upvoted this because of common sense. Nobody really treats politics seriously anymore. It’s really a war of memes and snarky comebacks than real economic policy discussions
The meme is cool but the “it’s just a very vocal niche of lunatics don’t cry about it” is one of the main factors for trump winning.
Instead of still belittling how a % of the population feels about an attack from a minority of lunatics, you should go the “oh I agree, these people are idiots and I don’t support them… can we please stick to this particular issue o want to debate”.
But no, people goes the “oh cry me a river they’re just a few bad apples, you fucking hating man baby loser” and get surprised that the same demographic voted against them.
Democratic voters are overwhelmingly college educated and wealthy, so, they always have;
Many in the middle class do suffer from stock prices plummeting (401k's and whatnot);
It's totally reasonable to use plummeting stock prices to dunk on the right when the right uses surging stock prices as an indicator that the economy is doing well; and
I do agree that stock prices don't actually mean shit, the stock market can be booming and that does not mean that people are actually thriving.
Democratic voters are overwhelmingly college educated and wealthy, so, they always have
They were the wealthy elite dunking on the working class all along?
It's totally reasonable to use plummeting stock prices to dunk on the right when the right uses surging stock prices as an indicator that the economy is doing well;
Using it to dunk on the right to point out their hypocrisy? Sure, absolutely valid. But so many people have just adopted it as the truth. Practically every comment from the left wing is saying how trump is destroying the economy while pointing at the DOW chart as evidence.
Trump is probably destroying the US economy, but using the stock market to show it is just as dumb as when the right wingers do it.
1 Will always lead to 2 as long as billionaires hold their wealth in stocks. All the increased taxes on billionaires (which I support btw) would lead to the stock market tanking as they're forced to liquidate shares, which leads to 2.
Until like a week ago, it didn't bother the left, or they didn't understand/pretend it's not the case.
This sudden care from the left about the stock market is completely fabricated. If it was a Democrat causing it, the left would be throwing parties about the rich losing money. You know it's true.
I’ve legitimately had people call source on me when I’ve been quoting the insane shit the president has been saying to me and it’s like people will seriously act as if a random tweet encompass the entirety of the left but won’t accept trumps schizoid rants .
The political “left” would have a much better time if they didn’t have bad optics and silly culture war.
Class analysis and the power dynamic between the classes was pretty great to read. The modern odd ball culture is wars from the.. I’ll say blue hair people is just sillyness with a political gift wrapping and a nice bow of shaming ontop.
Here’s a question for my Libertarian friends, at what point when a government threatens your retirement/investments/future wellbeing of your descendants does resistance become self defense?
Half of the memes on this sub are either news that makes the left look bad and their soyjak reaction posted by a center right or the same thing but right wing posted by a center left
i cant help but feel like there was decades of warning about how things will swing back to a strong man if you ignore the things on the right.
soy globalism for the benefit of everyone but the regular guy in the country leads to what we have now. its going to be funny to watch places like ireland and japan literally repeat what we did in the UK and act shocked
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Its cause Trump writes better memes through existing than anyone could do otherwise. He killed political late night comedy the same way.