- cross-posted to:
- comicstrips@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- comicstrips@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/45502817
[purple, speaking]
We could fix everything
[purple, proudly]
It’d be easy actually, we have most of the political power
[purple, smug]
But we won’t
[zoom on purple’s face, smiling creepily at us]
https://thebad.website/comic/could
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“There is plenty of time for that later” turned into “we don’t have enough time”.
Mamdani entered his office on his first day on the job, and when he moved all that stacked up paperwork from past Mayoral Bums, he found a red button that said Something Good. He pressed the button, and Something Good happened. So he pressed it again. And again.
Any previous mayor could have pressed that button, but they just didn’t. Furthermore, there’s a button like that on EVERY politician’s desk. They could press that button at any time, but they just choose not to.
Mamdani is showing what happens when politicians choose to press that button. We have to convince a lot more politicians to start pressing that button, and it seems like they are starting to hear the message.
The corporations are in charge
Ahem only the rethuglicans are allowed to use executive orders and ignore the Senate Parliamentarian to enact policy the claim to support sweaty
There is no saving your system because it was rigged against you from the beginning. Got to bring it all down and start anew. Shouldnt be too much, considering how americans pride themselves on their independence revolution against oppression?
Shouldnt be too much, considering how americans pride themselves on their independence revolution against oppression?
It’s been engineered (deliberately and accidentally) to be as hard as possible: https://edgnts.substack.com/p/why-americans-dont-just-do-something
There is probably some positive way to break the system too and it would likely work much better than what i originally thought. I think the clue is in what the oppressors have spent decades in brainwashing the people to hate.
Either that or complete chaos and burning it all to the ground
My system?
well, i assumed you are american as you post american political memes. But i mean the political system in place there, the whole stupid republicans vs democrats thing. That whole thing has to go
I agree with you about pointless electoralism. But no, I’m not American, I just have a vested interest in what happens there, as do we all.
So you post a meme about nothing changing? Seems weird for someone with a vested interest in what happens. You must be one of those right wing agitators that show up around voting time.
“Everyone I disagree with is a right wing agitator.”
Really though, I’d like nothing more than for you to prove me wrong, and for the Dems to actually hold the fascist oligarchs and politicians accountable, once they win both houses. Do it!
I’d love for you to become SLIGHTLY less ignorant, but that ain’t gonna happen, clearly.
Bye now 👋
Haha nice one.
Edit: You’re saying we’ve got to be ReALisTIc!? omg shoot me
These comics fucking suck, man. Like some edgy teenager that just learned about politics just making sarcastic points with no substance. Zero effort made on any of this shit. They’re not nice to read, not nice to look at, and don’t make anyone think.
but my smug centrism
and don’t make anyone think.
Well then why don’t you show us an example of your work that does make people think?
I’d love to be proved wrong, there’s no excuses if they win back both houses.
There will always be the rotating villain Dem that won’t support the party and allow them to get away with not even attempting to do anything.
If you’re ignorant how it all works, sure. A Government 101 class would help disabuse you of that notion.
Put some thought into your work.
People don’t wield power. Power wields people.
If your model of change is focused on the behavior of individuals instead of systems, you’ll never get anywhere.
Yeah, focusing on the system is important. But there are very clear an obvious examples of individual people who could have worked on making things better, and chose not to.
It’s important to point out their unwillingness. Some might even say that to focus on why they keep doing that, is to focus on the system…
