Political Compass Memes

Counterargument: Reagan. You probably already know what I’m referring to by that.

I can make a lot of connections there, but I'm legit not sure which is the one you most want me to make.

• Reagan making a phone call to stop Israeli retaliation against Palestinian targets in Lebanon during a ceasefire (as an example of how much power the president supposedly has over Israel; my counter is that it's not even close to the situation at hand - Israel lost very little by respecting the ceasefire other than a chance for macho chest-pounding, and Reagan threatened them with nothing; the Palestinian genocide, on the other hand, is a long-standing goal that Israel is now disgustingly close to completing, having been given both the excuse and a leader, in Bibi, desperate to execute it in totality to avoid answering politically for his domestic crimes)

• The sharp increase in support for Israel under Reagan (as an example that policy can change, quickly, and in a bipartisan manner; my counter would be that moderate bipartisan support of Israel had been the standard for a decade at that point, the policy change is not as sharp as sometimes thought, even if it is also not as enduring and eternal as sometimes thought by others)

• Reagan supporting apartheid against public opinion and his own party (as an example of going 'against the grain' which a president can do; my counter would be that it is not a reasonable thing to expect to happen, not that it is impossible)

• Any number of the dogshit decisions made by Reagan that involved compromises with Dems that ultimately undermined Dem electability (as an example of why bipartisan policy is often a dogshit choice; my argument is not against that bipartisan policy often IS a dogshit choice, because bipartisan policy often is a dogshit choice, simply that changing dogshit policy, even just for one party, is difficult to do on a dime without overwhelming consensus, which we did not and even now, at this horrific point, still do not have)

There are real reasons Trump won’t be able to put into action his Gaza plan, but as I said I can’t be assed to explain those anymore, so I’ll just leave it at this: If Trump manages to put his moronic plan into action, I’ll eat my words, but the misplaced schadenfreude can at least wait until it actually happens.

People With Tasty Faces: "Government needs to stop trying to help genocide! I'm going to let this leopard get into government who is openly professing how much he wants to help genocide!"

Leopard-run Government: [tries to help genocide even harder]

Us: "We fucking told you so"

What we said would happen is happening. The consequences have yet to shake out fully, but they are almost certain to be something along the lines of "worse than what we pleaded, cajoled, coaxed, pressured, browbeat, and begged these people to vote for".