OP, you are either very uninformed, or a troll.
“Leftists” being put over an image of the FUCKING POLICE
Is always funny.
OP has brain worms and is a lib
All cops are bolsheviks, didn’t you hear ;)
OP do you legitimately think the people fucking shit up right now are on the left?
Like, it’s very vague, but I’m struggling to interpret this in any logical way, it just doesn’t make any sense.
I’m nowhere near LA but at least on BlueSky there’s been a lot of snide “oh, now they’re telling us to fight fascism by being nice!” Under any comment or post about not getting violent and not burning shit. I’m sure there’s some right wing provocatuers but I imagine there are also a bunch of kids who think lighting cars on fire is in fact fighting fascism etc.
Let’s be fair some of us are far more concerned with virtue signaling than actually making things better. Not all of us. I certainly wouldn’t lump all the left in on that. But there is a very vocal minority I would.
This is giving me huge, “shit libs say” vibes.
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Probably couldn’t be further from the truth on this one. Even her own station refused to blame the cops (“leftists” in this analogy). When have Democrats ever defended the left? Let alone when they’re harming their own personal chances. See: David Hogg trying to purge ineffective old guard and being crucified for it.
Even her own station refused to blame the cops
What? What does that have to do with it?
When have Democrats ever defended the left?
Okay see this here? This comment is a “rubber bullet” unless you want to give it context. Define “the left”, define “defended”, and we’ll take “the Democrats” to mean the Democratic Party, meaning elected Democratic officials and party employees of the DNC (unless you want to use a different definition).
I can think of a lot of instances of the Democrats defending the left. But maybe we’re not defining those the same way.
What does blame have to do with it? Everything. That is the entire problem with cops, they get away with literally everything, including shooting her and making her basically apologize to them for the story now being about her… Maybe your meme format should include one without an actual backstory if you want to invent your own.
The left being progressives – democratic socialists and socialists, the Democrats as in neoliberal leadership such as Schumer, Jeffries, Durbin, Biden, Obama… etc. Defended as in standing behind them when they’re blamed for nonsense or scapegoated as anti-American. Ilhan Omar comes to mind. Did any Democrat defend her when she was being called a terrorist because she’s a first-generation Muslim refugee with criticism of American capitalism?
Perhaps while we’re explaining obvious meanings, you can explain why the cops, who were not blamed for shooting a reporter live on camera because the cops have too much power over media for them to criticize, are equivalent to leftists, who are blamed for everything? Memes which are reaches to this extent seem desperate. I wouldn’t want to be in a mind so riddled with logical holes.
What does blame have to do with it? Everything. That is the entire problem with cops, they get away with literally everything
Well . . . I don’t disagree, but I still don’t know what cops have to do with the metaphor. There’s no cops in the metaphor.
The left being progressives – democratic socialists and socialists
Okay, so no anarchists, communists, or - other - just the Democratic socialists and socialists. I’m assuming you mean voters, non-office-holders and not national party leaders specifically?
Democrats as in neoliberal leadership such as Schumer, Jeffries, Durbin, Biden, Obama… etc.
Well, okay ‘leadership’ is good there, but the etc. kinda defeats the purpose of defining that, so - all ‘neoliberal leadership’ ever, say?
Also can you define neoliberal leadership? Like neoliberal for one, but for two is that officeholding leadership at all levels; federal, state, local, or just federal?
Defended as in standing behind them when they’re blamed for nonsense or scapegoated as anti-American.
“Standing behind them” as in literally like in a press conference, or do prior established positions count as “standing behind them”? Are you saying there should be a public statement like a press release or do you mean some equivalent amount of press coverage?
“blamed for nonsense”, I think you know I need that specified because - it’s very broad. “Scapegoated” is even trickier because are you talking about Fox News reporting or something more all-outlets-reporting? “Anti-American”, as well - you mean literally the phrase “anti-American”? Or something else?
Ilhan Omar comes to mind. Did any Democrat defend her when she was being called a terrorist because she’s a first-generation Muslim refugee with criticism of American capitalism?
Okay, good that’s a better example. Except Ilhan Omar is a Democratic leader, which doesn’t match the “left being Democratic socialists and socialists”. Unless Democratic party leaders can be “Democratic socialists and socialists.” I mean, if they can, then it’s a whole other question isn’t it. It’d be more like ‘Why don’t Democrats support Democrats’, right?
Perhaps while we’re explaining obvious meanings
“Obvious meanings” don’t scale well enough. That’s why science spends so much time defining things. Political science, in this case.
. . . you can explain why the cops, who were not blamed for shooting a reporter live on camera because the cops have too much power over media
Okay, again, cops have nothing to do with this discussion. Just - forget the cops for a second. In the picture, the figure marked “Leftists” is shooting the figure marked “Democrats”. Shooting with a non-lethal round. Something deliberate. Something stupid. And something which is designed to hurt the “Democrats” but won’t kill them.
Something like refusing to support them when they’re the only option against chaos and cruelty. Which was last November. That’s the metaphor. And here come the Midterms.
Ngl, this reads like an AI with the prompt, “Be as obtuse as possible.”
The metaphor fails because the story of the photo is already there. Posting a short story to get to the bottom of what you’re trying to say with it seems like it doesn’t serve the purpose…
Actually, after checking your account, I’m going to conclude that maybe someone with a year activity shouldn’t have 20x + more comments than someone who is already on Lemmy too much… Seems like the game is to waste maximal time or generate the most engagement with responses that are generated, in my opinion… Comments themselves seem low effort until this very specific topic. Idk, I stopped caring while typing this.
Lol
I don’t understand the meme but it seems to be making the tankies mad so I give it an updoot.
