I can understand being unwilling to vote for Biden because he’s supporting genocide. That, taken by itself, is perfectly reasonable.
Why aren’t those otherwise intelligent, thoughtful people looking at the bigger picture, though?
Don’t they understand that under Trump, things will be much worse? What’s their moral rationale for allowing fascism to take over America, and empowering untold numbers of reprehensible people? I’m trying to understand, but I just don’t get it.
The reason this meme works is that it's vague. If you zero in on a specific issue, you usually find the Dems helped drill the holes. Mass incarceration? Biden and Clinton led the charge on the largest expansion of prison-industrial complex in my lifetime. 2008 financial collapse? Clinton eliminated Glass-Steagall, which allowed banks to bundle and sell mortgages-backed securities. Iraq and Afghanistan? Bush may have started the wars, but Obama not only failed to end them, he created an unaccountable drone assassination program that killed thousands of civilians. Biden is rescheduling Marijuana, and that's great, but he also co-sponsored anti-drug legislation in '86 and '88 that gave us draconian mandatory minimums. Are we gonna pretend he didn't drill that hole?
Anyway, I'm not gonna sit here and pretend the parties are the same; the Republicans have been complete ghouls for my entire life, and now they're fascist ghouls. But let's not pretend that the Democrats are just well meaning idealists fighting against the Republicans and apathetic voters. They've done plenty to help sink the ship.
This is not very accurate, at least one of the dems would either argue with the republican and none voters, about it being their fault, or drill a bigger hole.
Accurate. No extra bucket, alleged "non-voters" guy isn't actually refusing to grab one, he just looks smug and isn't praising the Democrats. Dems aren't doing enough, boat's still going to sink. Democrats decided to bring two buckets instead of getting rid of the drill or the Republican. If "non-voters" guy stopped balancing the weight and came over to pat the Dems on the back like they want him to, they would just slide to the right and push their end of the boat under without having to wait for the hole to do it.
Not shown is the Democrats let the Republicans drill the hole and did not use the fact they had a majority to stop it.
I am not saying the Democrats aren't the better of two bad options, but we shouldn't settle for the lesser of two evils. We should expect more. With that said, it requires effort, coalition building and local effort.
If you are further left than Democrats, you should try running for local office, push the narrative to the left from all levels.
Not shown, the socialist who already swam to shore and is waving for them to join her.
The dems would be drilling more holes, just with a slightly smaller drill bit
Too few cops beating up someone with a bucket.
Maga can break every fucking law and do absolutely NOTHING to help their base and the cult backs them even harder.
Democrats get a lot done but not 100% of it and not 100% the most preferable way, and the entire left wing loses their goddamn mind.
it's so fucking infuriating. They can do literally ANYTHING and be fine but a Democrat must be jesus fucking christ himself or else they're painted as the goddamn devil
Ok, so I think I can see what you're trying to say, and yes you're right the dems aren't actually trying to fix anything or at the very least not succeeding. BUT, fixing one hole in a boat is bad enough without having to fix more. The best course of action is always to use the votes to reduce the damage done to the country and trying to fix it from a less fucked starting point.
Like my car lost all of the oil in the engine due to a cracked sump. You better believe I'm getting that fixed even though the rest of the car isn't anything to write home about. Because attempting to continue driving it would be retarded. Allowing fascism to fester is a bit like driving your car after all the oil has been drained from the engine.
Believe me if you allow fascism to take root in your country, you will have no choice other than to submit, or risk being killed. Take a look at history. Fascist dictatorships don't usually go away without foreign intervention. And who is going to intervene when the country with the strongest military is the fascist dictatorship? If you allow this to happen, you're taking the whole world down with you. No freedoms for anyone. Seriously fucking fix it you ignorant fucking gun monkeys!
Republicans understood something Democrats (and their voters) didn't. You can't just elect your president and that's it, problems solved. Biden could be an angel descended from heavens, but with hostile congress, ultra-conservative courts and no cover in local states' politics either, he can't do shit (again, he has a ton of flaws worth criticizing)
So what people need to realize is that the key isn't to vote, to choose anarchy or to throw their hands up in a final display of fatalism. The key is to vote more. Vote every chance you get. A school oversight election? I'm there. Local elections? At least know who the candidates are and show up. Presidential election? Don't wait until November to choose the lesser of two evils - engage with the primary system.
Now, obviously, this takes a lot of time that people don't have. It takes a lot of evergy on top of living your life, taking care of your family, working a job or several. Not to mention, if your state is late in the process, you might not even have that many candidates to choose from during your primary/caucus.
But this is why it's crucial for people who have that time, money and energy to do it. Do it for people who can't afford to take a day off to go to a school-board meeting or something.
Also, engage with your representatives. They are representing you. If you don't agree with the way they're voting, tell them. If they ignore you, keep the receipts and campaign for their opponent in the next primary.
And I fully realize this is a shit-ton of work. But the other side has installed fundamentalists closing down libraries and banning books, stripping women of their rights, even if you do 'the things outside of your state... they want to register pregnancies and clamp down on women who don't reproduce. They've elected people who will watch the world burn while their donors profit and the Supreme Court will make sure no harm comes to them.
Is this true for some democrats? Yes. Is this true for all Republicans? No. Both sides have the power to choose the best people. Make sure you do your part and inspire others to do the same.
We all float down here, Georgie.
Come play.
These "memes" irk me beyond belief. We need to stop blaming people who are uninspired or unmotivated to vote when it's grease-ball politicians fucking us over and complacent, spineless democrats who let them get away with it. It's their fault we're in this mess and we need to direct the energy and anger towards them, not the result of their machinations. Yes, voting is important, go vote, but this anger towards "non-voters" is wholly misplaced; you're just falling into the same divide and conquer strategy of the ruling class by turning on your fellow human.
Strip em naked. Plug the hole with the clothes. Dump the naked fucks over the side for shark bait
Grab some small floaty part and jump off.
My favorite thing about this comic is that even when reaching Ben garrison levels of caption, everybody is still achieving a different takeaway message.
The plan is very simple, vote for someone who is not corrupt. I will be voting for Jill Stein because that's how democracy works.
They should plug the hole with like, a scrap of their shirt, or a finger or whatever, and then throw the guy who drilled the hole off the boat. The problem with non-voter guy is that he isn't throwing the other guy off the boat or plugging the hole like they should be doing. I dunno though, maybe it's funny to sink the boat, I can't really judge the context of this practical joke. Are they in the middle of the ocean by some stroke of horrible luck where somehow this guy was able to drill a hole and everyone else just let him in like a crazy survival situation, and also he had a drill somehow, or are they in the middle of like, an inland lake on a fishing trip? I mean it would still be a major dick move to drill a hole in the boat, cause boats are pretty expensive even if they're just paddleboats like that, but it still might be a funny prank, I dunno, depends.
I dunno if you extend the meme more and think about it a little bit, does it get better or worse as a metaphor?
Dems provided the drill to the republicans
i like this one, it's funny.
A large part of the disaster we're in is because Obama didn't actually fix the causes of the 2007 recession, he brought interest rates to 0% which kept the economy staggering forward but was destined to cause another meltdown eventually.
Trump kept the ball rolling but was only president for 4 years, then biden kept the ball rolling until it started to deflate.
The reason nonvoters dont vote is because retard leftists refuse to take their share of the blame. You were a 16 year part of the problem while Trump was a 4 year one.
Inflation!!! Cutting taxes on corporations and billionaires has nothing to do with it. It was all Biden being president for 6 months!
This might have been true in the past, but Biden has been too busy putting rainbow stickers on the outside of the boat to use a bucket.
I’m not saying the recognition is bad, but ffs actually try to plug the holes. He was elected basically saying “I’m not going to make things worse” and he’s barely kept that promise. Don’t know why people thought he would actually make things better
