Let’s go TACO, let’s go!!!
Update: Yes, the Dems have been pretty much useless but they can’t do anything when they have no majority in either the House or Senate and Don TACO is ruling by EOs.
But this is how you get him and them. Fuck the high road, hit them at their level. Call them names like weirdos and TACO. If anything induce strokes in all of them.
Good strategy. IIRC, this is how German citizens stopped the rise of Hitler.
Honestly, satire is pretty effective. Hitler was obsessed with projecting power, and humor especially the kind many Jewish people used to survive the camps was a powerful tool for undermining that illusion. Humour takes power away from a thing. It’s why it’s great against powerful entities but feels evil when used against the weak. If more people had mocked him early on, the myth of a strong, untouchable leader might never have taken root.
It’s always baffling when a leftist jumps in to argue that pointing this out is somehow pointless or juvenile. Maybe it’s a lack of social intuition, or just a failure to grasp the bigger picture but too often, the left underestimates the power of cultural resistance. Ridicule, art, memes, jokes these are tools that shape perception and cut authoritarianism down to size.
And these politicians you roll your eyes at? They’re not doing it for themselves. They’re calling out people like you, trying to shake you awake, trying to keep the pressure on. But instead of joining in, too many of you just sit back, waiting for someone else to fix it all.
What is there to join? They’re not doing anything.
The right certainly uses this tactic against the left. Look at all their cringe viral memes, online propaganda targeting generation z/α, & trashy displays on their cars & clothing.
It’s like saying, look at the other team playing to the crowd, getting people excited and generally captivating audiences. Don’t they know they’re supposed to use logic and reason.
Our desire to shit on them has only alienated us from what works to win politically. That divide is growing.
It’s effective if it’s combined with action. If democrats are, say, voting in enough numbers to help pass his spending bill, then this already overplayed tease is meaningless. Democrats don’t even try to obstruct. The least they could do is make witty satire instead latching onto anything with a hint of virality, beating it to death, and then beating the corpse.
I guess it’s like fucking. This is foreplay. It’s important. Don’t try to rush things. Don’t just rush in, fart on them a bit.
Don’t over think the power of just teasing these fucking clowns. You’re not going to get action anytime soon. Do what you can.
Oh, fetishizing action for action’s sake? Can i ask what kind of people are known for that?
If we take literally any action, we’re no better than the fascists.
Which thing do you want? Action or obstruction? Make up your mind!
This is beautiful, thank you.
Leftists are always against any actual action taken to oppose the right.
You sure you didn’t mean to say liberals instead of leftists?
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Famously yes, every time fascism has been defeated or delayed, it was because good steadfast liberals made tacos about it.
It’s why the fascists won the spanish civil war; not enough liberals, and the damn anarchists were so anti imperial they thought appropriating cuisine from their former colony was bad. Fucking wokeness ends with fascist victory every time!
That’s why the woke must be exterminated! In camps!
Most people don‘t know this, but the reason Steiner’s attack failed was because he had been to Taco Bell the day before and got the poopenfarten so massively it made his troops slip on the waste flowing from the toilets.
In before…
https://youtu.be/JutPp0Oc0JQ
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I get where you’re coming from, but are you actively attacking the government right now? Or just bitching about how other people aren’t doing enough?
Yeah, how dare he expect the Democratic National Committee to do something meaningful.
They’ve had all their power removed through a vote. They now can
That’s it. Right now they’re doing both.
This is what always annoys me about ppl going " wHy ArEnT dEmS DoInG MoRe?!?" They are but it has to be as non-violent as possible until they can flip seats and take back the house. We are dealing with an ego maniac who wants ANY reason to pass martial law. What do they expect dems to do? Start shooting ppl? Or storm the capital? They aren’t taking that bait, so Republicans can go “SeE?! bOtH sIDes…blah blah blah” 😑 There will be a time after tRump and he will go down in history as the dumb ass, rapist, fascist he is.
How about start by voting down all of Trump’s cabinet members and every Republican bill when they had the chance instead of constantly trying to meet halfway with fascists? How about Democratic judges deputising people to act as enforcement for the judicial branch when the Republicans keep ignoring court orders? How about playing all of the Republican’s dirty games to get policy through? How about refusing to take any corporate or billionaire money and run primaries against anyone who does?
On this we agree, if one half isn’t playing by the rules anymore why should the other? These are the proper means to get shit done that don’t involve violence.
What exactly can they do currently?
Maybe, like, one pro-worker policy? And maybe, like, one anti-genocide policy? That would win over a lot of people.
So you want them to do what will boil down to performative things, that will have absolutely no effect on anything?
You’re talking out of both sides of your mouth here. You want them to do something non performative… like performative things?
Have a list of promises to get people to elect you and an acknowledgement that you should have done it last time you were in power. If I saw them connecting not doing what people who voted in 2020, and not even stopping the Republicans to their 2024 performance, I might have have some faith. But no, all they can do is blame messaging and voters.
The point is they can’t even do performative politics because they are so uselessly bought and sold. It’s pathetic, really.
<.< The original commenter was (essentially) complaining that they were only doing something performative.
I was actually just making a joke that I found funny. That was all.
What they are doing right now is performative things that will have absolutely no effect on anything. They’re already doing it, and you’re defending it.
I think those who are part of the government have a greater chance of effecting change.
Moreover, I live in a red state (currently), and although our TST congregation is small, we do quite a bit.
Why not both?