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.
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
I have seen so many memes like this about people not voting for Biden cause he is awful, but none saying we shouldn’t vote for him. Or any comments from people saying they won’t vote for him. This is starting to seem like the Vegan people meme.
“We need bigger buckets, we’re sinking too fast!”
“So what youre saying is, we need to empty the boat?”
“OBVIOUSLY”
*sparta kicks bailer from the boat
“That should do it, and with the weight we cut, we can drill more holes!”
As a representative of the world outside the US. We root for the Republicans. Not because we like them. We just see that the world outside US Is better of that way, the US not so much, but we just waiting for the empire to crumble.
Republicans drop less bombs on us than Dems do.
Republicans drop less bombs on us than Dems do.
This is definitely true for Russian conscripts in Ukraine ;)
Idiot.
Lol want to do statistics? Burn baby
Sure, I called you an idiot twice.
Good you can basic math . I guess that’s as far as the US education system gets you.
Yea , wonder who the idiot is. Obama has the record. Bidens genocide is catching up though , trump was not even close.
Yea , wonder who the idiot is. Obama has the record. Bidens genocide is catching up though , trump was not even close.
Interesting way to write dumb shit. Almost like you’re russian, or something.
I have a better plan. Plug the hole.
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.
My favorite thing about this comic is that even when reaching Ben garrison levels of caption, everybody is still achieving a different takeaway message.
Too few cops beating up someone with a bucket.
Just saying PugJesus you’re fighting the good anti propaganda fight over here. The thread is rife with em.
Lol this post is literally neoliberal propaganda.
Why aren’t the libs doing anything about pedophiles?
This is how you combat bullshit like a pro- “don’t answer the question you get, answer the question you wish you had gotten”.
Found the non-voter.
Found the useless neoliberals who thinka scooping out a cup of water is better than plugging the hole.
Do tell how we plug it then.
Get a politician to stick his “finger” in the hole, while the rest of the politicians bail out the water.
The govt is for the people by the people. If politicians dont serve the public interest, then they are by definition Traitors. Hang’em, shoot’em doawaywith’em voteout’em.
All this “Non-Voter” bullshit is really depressing when in the US you guys dont seem to want take ANY action at all.
Ya totally, we’ll just do a quick leftist Jan 6th. I’m totally sure the police will be nice and respectful to us and not immediately shoot everyone on sight. It’s totally a real possibility for a handful of regular leftists to kill all the politicians they don’t like and the government totally wouldn’t immediately send in the troops and use it as an excuse to ban being left of Clinton for the next century.
I swear to God you people are more delusional than the “gotta keep my Walmart brand AR in my bedroom in case the feds try to kill me in my sleep” kind of conservatives.
This guy plugs holes.
The only holes you’re plugging are your ears ;)
But sounds like we’re all better off with you not voting. Thanks for letting me decide what your tax dollars are spent on!
There are elections where you can afford to send democrats a message, and others where the price is too high.
Trump has said he’ll only be a dictator on day one. What he means by that is that Project 2025 and the Heritage foundation already has the list of hires and fires drawn up, as well as several laws.
They already know who to pay, and already have the Supreme Court loaded. What he means is he’ll only need a day to institute Unitary Executive theory and he only needs a day to put it place legally.
After that it will be a legal dictatorship… And irreversible.
So all you have to do is weigh up the cost of not voting.
This is all the more reason for Democrats to listen to progressives. They could easily win this election with no issues if they just listen to progressives. So if the stakes are so high, then why are they not compromising?
Because “easily win the election with no issues if they just listen to progressives” is not a known statement. We don’t know how it’ll work. If we knew that’d be the case, I’d be all for it. But right now on the West Coast, progressives are losing to Republicans in city district attorney races.
Does that mean progressives are guaranteed to lose nationally? Not at all. But it isn’t a given either way, and we shouldn’t pretend it is.
I pretty much disagree with what you’re saying. I would caution people though to not mix up “i’m not voting for joe biden” with “i’m not voting at all”. There is a Green party. There are independents. There are congressional races to vote in.
A lot of people here want to vent their valid frustrations against the biden administration, democrats and the DNC, etc. It doesn’t always mean that they won’t vote, or even that they still won’t hold their nose and vote biden.
I would say though, that anyone not voting because they are fed up with both Republicans and Democrats, I hope you have a plan of action to help create change and make things better. Hell, I hope we all get an action plan together, because no matter how this election goes, we are going to need drastic change in this country in order to survive.
Please don’t! Look up what happened in 2000, setting the stage for unprecedented misery under the Bush and Cheney years. All because some people thought Gore wasn’t their ideal candidate.
It’s missing Biden leaning over the side of the boat to beat a pregnant Palestinian woman over the head with an oar while she struggles to swim to shore.
Hey democrats, try plugging the hole.
This is honestly the perfect microcosm of liberal thought. Just continuously posting low effort shitposts that literally state in the meme how ineffective and in-bed with fascists liberals are.
We have OP coming into the comments acting like a holier than thou liberal, repeating the same vapid bullshit over and over.
Meanwhile, Democrats just keep dumping one little bucket at a time as the boat gets lower and lower while screaming in tears at the guy trying to find the fucking life raft.
“And fuck no, I’m not voting for you in November”
Liberals in fucking hysterics throwing a tantrum about why leftists comprising 1% of the vote don’t like their blue MAGA instead of targeting the 60% republican vote with actual popular policy
Lmao fuck liberals, y’all deserve to lose.
“There is no genocide in Gaza”
Yes, yes, we get it, you find the idea of American minorities being murdered thrilling, and support all the aid to Israel Trump can muster. You can stop crowing about it from the top of every roof.
Are we forgetting that biden is currently the president and loves genocide so much that he refuses to stop supporting it, even though it’s costing him votes? If the best you can offer is “not the other guy” then all you’re telling us is that things will get worse no matter what.
If the best you can offer is “not the other guy” then all you’re telling us is that things will get worse no matter what.
Oh, okay, I didn’t realize the protection of minority rights was ‘things getting worse’, thanks for the self-report, I guess.
I guess you love genocide. Thanks for the self-report.
I guess you love genocide
For trying to stop as much of it as possible? Weird definition of love, but considering you spend all your time working towards ensuring as many Palestinians are killed as possible, I shouldn’t be surprised.
‘It’s literally impossible for Biden to stop supporting the genocide’
Oh fuck I had no idea
Sending billions in weapons and denying any genocide is going on is a funny way of trying to stop genocide.
It’s the over-the-top sarcasm and insincere indignation that galls me
Then they’ll inevitably try claiming that yea, it’d be nice if we had someone with better politics but NOW’S NOT THE TIME TO MAKE A FUSS
insincere indignation
Yeah, how dare those uppity minorities get agitated over the prospect of becoming legally second-class citizens or outright murdered. If only we knew our place, quietly accepting the Principled Stand of the Privileged in our honor!
over the top sarcasm
Yeah, I’ve never denied the sarcasm. Sorry that you find tone policing more important than genocide.
Idk really seems like a stretch too suggest your impassioned defenses of the guy supporting the genocide is an indication of your outrage
“Wow, I don’t understand how you can defend the guy who doesn’t want to commit genocide in the US, and is less gung-ho about the ongoing genocide in Gaza than the opposition?”
It’s weird. I know, I should apparently support all genocide, everywhere, as often as possible, to be a good leftist according to these new standards, but for some reason, I keep gravitating towards the “Let’s not start up death camps in the US and run sorties over the West Bank and ensure as many Ukrainians are murdered as possible” option.
Very strange, I know, seemingly incomprehensible to the Very Serious Leftist Brigade here on Lemmy.
With what shall they plug it
A bit of false hope, a dash of inaction, sprinkle in some corpo lobbyist dong sucking, and top it off with a “at least we’re not the other guy”.
I’m voting democrat, because at least they’re not the other guy, but this meme is fucking bullshit.
Looks like there’s a Republican
Shit, perhaps? Perhaps the shit sandwiches which we have all packed for lunch, apparently?
They’ve pledged to plug it over the course of the next 20 years.
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?
The only thing its missing is Biden being down in the deep end of the boat drilling more holes.
B b b b Biden bad!1!1!
Biden ate my baby.
And my ass!
Your hurr durr raisin brain level of analysis seems to miss that I actually want Biden to win.
I just want him to actually make the job of getting him elected fucking possible instead of doing shit like this:
Yet strangely you focus on Biden instead of his opponent’s stance… Your hypocrisy is showing.
Bidens opponents stance is irrelevant. You smooth brains keep painting this as if its a choice along a spectrum.
No one who would is voting for Trump is going to vote for Biden, and no Biden voters are going to move to Trump. Maybe an irrelevantly small portion, but so small that we can and should ignore them. The voters are locked into their preference, but they aren’t’ locked into showing up yet.
Both candidates are competing only between themselves and staying home. Both Trump and Biden are in a race to the bottom to see who can convince more voters to stay on the couch in November.
Maybe someday you’ll develop some semblance of political acumen to actually understand how and why elections are won in lost, but if you have any, you and the rest of the apologists sure aren’t showing it. We’re in an age of populism. The center did not hold. Obama was wrong. You win elections in a post 2016 world by people out to vote for you. Its not that complicated.
Biden’s opponent in this election isn’t Trump.
Its Biden.
No one who would is voting for Trump is going to vote for Biden, and no Biden voters are going to move to Trump. Maybe an irrelevantly small portion, but so small that we can and should ignore them.
Around 7% of all votes cast are swing voters whose presidential preference by party is unpredictable election-to-election. Surely a teensy, tinsy amount. Nothing to worry about. I’m sure US presidential elections aren’t decided by much smaller percentages.
Biden needs to get Biden voters to show up. Period.
Biden doesn’t need to be worrying about an unreliable 7% when he’s lost a reliable 10%.
These aren’t a “maybe he’ll win, maybe he’ll lose” 10% of voters.
These are a “Biden CAN NOT WIN THIS ELECTION without them” 10% of voters.
Fuck the swing voters. Biden can’t get enough reliably democratic voters to vote for him. That’s an issue ORDERS of magnitude larger than trying to capture swing voters.
People aren’t writing in “uncommited” because of Trump. They are writing in “uncommited” because of Biden. Nothing Trump does is going to change them because its not like they aren’t flipping from Biden to Trump. They are flipping from Biden to “I can’t in good confidence vote for a guy who supports the whole-cloth genocide of a people”.
To the primacy that started this thread:
Criticism of Trump is irrelevant because its not Trump hurting Biden in the polls.
Its Biden hurting Biden in the polls.
Ah, yes, everyone in the uncommitted campaign in the primary is now going to not vote, or vote third-party.
They are flipping from Biden to “I can’t in good confidence vote for a guy who supports the whole-cloth genocide of a people”.
Oh, cool, then they’ll in good confidence ensure a guy gets in who supports the whole-cloth genocide of multiple peoples, including the ones they’re supposedly protesting against. Great. I’ll thank them from the camp showers.
More like maintaining the current flow of water thru plugging and drilling additional holes.
Its at least a 5:1 ratio of making more holes versus plugging.
And there is only one hole he needs to plug to be back in this, and its the US relationship with Israel and their ongoing genocide in Palestine.
He sure isn’t making the job of the people trying to carry water for him easy:
“We elected him once and our boat isn’t flying!1! Why isn’t he doing anything?!?” (/s)
Like, fuck, Biden was like, my third least favorite pick in the 2020 primaries. And he’s risen to maybe middle-of-the-pack by his actions (that is to say, I wasn’t expecting much, but I was mildly pleasantly surprised), compared to his 2020 peers. I’m not exactly his fucking fanboy, I just recognize that he’s not a Republican fucking ghoul. But the way people seem to judge actions in complete ignorance of how our government works, or of how fucking byzantine the processes even just for passing, much less implementing, legislature is… it’s exhausting, frustrating, and infuriating.
The way people talk around here you’d think the president was a monarch. I know that’s the way Trump and his sycophants want it or believe to be true, but Biden is only 1/3rd of the entire government.
If we could get people to turn out to vote in local elections, we might actually see some reforms over a period of couple years that could lead to lasting change, at least on a local level, but long term planning is impossible to sell when everybody demands a strongman who can solve every problem or issue on the federal level right now.
It’s a simple understanding that absolve them of having to think critically and take a stance. And it’s not even that hard it’s just they don’t want to consider that they might be lacking something within themselves.
Like, fuck, Biden was like, my third least favorite pick in the 2020 primaries.
Behind Bloomberg and DeLaney.
DeLaney wasn’t even on my radar. I apologize for being an ardent Bernie voter with Warren as my second choice; I understand that basically makes me a conservative in the eyes of Lemmy’s Very Serious Leftist Brigade.
Bernie voter with Warren as my second choice
If you say so.
Cue Aamon’s Punished Bernie.
Oh well, now we get to choose between stagnation and decline or a fairly rapid fall into christian nationalism.
Anyway, fun thing I learned: It only costs $400 USD to apply for a residency permit to Ecuador, all you have to do is prove you have over roughly $1500 of reliable income a month.
You can rent a fully furnished studio apartment for $350, like a modern apartment, kind that goes for thousands in Sea, SF or LA. A few places have very reliable public transit for a quarter, groceries cost something like a third or less than they do in the US. Also, Ecuador features a diverse range of microclimates where you can almost certainly find something you will love.
Downsides: Youre going to need to learn at least some spanish, do not go to Guyanquil, and be prepared for the power and internet to brown out with some regularity. Also in many places you will probably want a water filter.
Though for many in the US, unreliable power, internet and water likely won’t be that different.
In a world full of ‘flying boats’, asking why we aren’t also flying is valid
Nobody reasonable is asking for the impossible, we’re asking for what those who are “worse off” financially have
It’s not a world of flying boats. It’s a world of a sinking boat, see meme.
A little later:
“Okay SURE the boat is flying but as a strong leftist advocate I really think it’s problematic how he’s treated the underpaid people who build flying boat motors, and I think we need to focus more on what Biden should be doing better to convince me to vote for him against the hole-drilling-and-baby-punching club, because I think probably I’ll sit this one out”
you guys are commiting a genocide. there ain’t no flying boats here.
Israel is committing genocide, and that’s not the only thing happening in the world right now.
the us is funding it and propping it up. they recently went as far as threatening the hague for saying so.
Also “sure, the boat’s flying now and we aren’t drowning, but what we really need is to get to land, being in a boat doesn’t even make sense. So I’m going to sit this one out because both parties want us in the boat. What’s that? The other party’s trying to sink the boat before we get to land? I don’t care, it’s about the principle of wanting to be on land!”
“I don’t see the boat flying, see this is the whole problem with the Democrats is that when people tell them they’re HURTING they just break out all these figures about altitude and tell you to stick your hand out the boat and see if you can touch the water, that’s super condescending and not very productive and unresponsive to criticism, it’s like a cult man, blue MAGA amirite, so anyway I’m definitely not voting for them NOW because now you hurt my feelings.”
Wait I’m confused by this digression, is the boat still stinking? Do I need to keep baling water?
Unsure if confused by digression or still playing into the typical confused centrist satire bit replied to.
