"Stop being intolerant that I'm a fucking asshole!"
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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This is my attitude whenever someone complains about there being too much 'politics' in everything.
Everything touches politics, but we only notice it when it adversely effects us. The people who take as granted that politics is it's own thing are usually the people who are the most privileged by it.
I think I can explain the bad taste the comic leaves in my mouth regarding politics (and generally a lot of the discussion). It's not that everything isn't politics, it's that everything is being framed as "two-sided politics", black/white, red/blue. An argument can be made that with "the system"(america), yes voting action can be viewed that way. But it's subjugating the entire conversation 100% of the time.
For instance, what policy is this comic critiquing and bringing awareness too? It feels like the lowest effort-bottom of the barrel attempt at a political cartoon for the clicks and ragebait. It's not calling attention to any individuals or organizations involved, it's a satirical stabbing for communities that are really hurting.
I agree. The bad taste is not that while not wrong per-se, it's just reduces a complex issue into "red bad" while wholly failing to acknowledge that Democrats have been complicit in facilitating the Overton Window this far.
"Progressives" are really hard on the "REPUBLICANS DID THIS!" and never really pick up on the "and Democrats met them half way."
This blue no matter who reduction hopes to hide liberalism is the slow road to fascism.
The problem isn't meany racist MAGAts. It's the entire system spending decades working overtly toward fascism with a bunch of clueless fucking rubes staring complacently.
Idk, I think it's VERY SPECIFICALLY about trans rights, but I just can put my finger on why...
Anti Trans bills running totals
656 bills
49 states
13 passed
621 active
22 failed
I know the media will never report on most of this if any of it, but it's no secret the party that currently has control of three branches of government, including the most blatantly corrupt supreme court in US history, is actively trying to make trans people illegal, illegal to exist, or to be recognized, illegal to be publicly trans, and legal to deny medical treatment towards.
I don't blame you if you missed this movement happening right now, as it's not widely reported, but it's a huge problem and the cartoon is explicitly a MAGA republican stabing a trans person and calling it ''just politics'' and telling them to not take it personally.
Isn't it totally obvious what the comic is critiquing? There are too many people out there who vote for racist parties that want to eliminate people in their social circle and that are totally butthurt when they get called out for that and are bitter when those people don't want to have anything to do with them afterwards. "It's just politics"
You don't have to be RUDE to me, I just want your abuelos rounded up and deported/ in a prison/ forced labor camp/ disappeared what's the problem here!?
We really need a deadly plague that's easy to vaccinate against.
That would be cruel, as it would cost countless innocent lives of those who cannot be vaccinated because of preexisting conditions, allergies or whatever.
I'd be interested in the cost analysis of lives saved from MAGA's hate crimes vs lives lost to inability to vaccinate.
Fortunately it's just daydreaming as no one has control of this runaway cart.
My sister has lost several friends when they voted MAGA and showed their true, horror selves. My sister is a hero.
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