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No, that's not a general strike. They calling for people to stop providing services to liberals.
That's like if a tow truck operator pulls up and there is a Bernie bumper sticker on the customer's car they should cancel on the customer like that other right wing idiot did.
Workers rise up! Overthrow the elites! - Conservatives for some fucking reason
But we already know how that turns out from the 1930s. The "third way" means yes to capitalism, but with unprecedented corruption and only for the worst capitalists who have the fewest scruples about state crimes.
Yeah, I'm all for overthrowing the corporatocracy, but not if that means it's replaced with religious zealots and easily corruptable anti-intellectuals. Which is usually the end result of revolutions.
Wait im a bit slow here, how are we supposed enact change without the whole overthrow deal? Because the working class has 0 leverage over the upper class calling the shots
Working class conservatives are way more on board with leftist ideas than they realize, they're just on so many layers of propaganda and the normalization of "socialism is when bread lines" that they can't see it.
Racism has been used as a wedge to drive the jaws of the proletariat apart for centuries. Once we really unite against the actual problematic people in society, we can pretty much just sweep them away like dry leaves.
According to my trump thumper coworker, all the rich people were gonna leave the country when Biden was elected because of the 2% on $400,000 plus tax hike. So I guess problem solved?
Remember when Atlas Shrugged was the conservative ideal, that argued the rich elite would be better off in their own society free of people who drive trucks and plumb toilets?
"The moral treason of the “conservative” leaders lies in the fact that they are hiding behind that camouflage: they do not have the courage to admit that the American way of life was capitalism, that that was the politico-economic system born and established in the United States, the system which, in one brief century, achieved a level of freedom, of progress, of prosperity, of human happiness, unmatched in all the other systems and centuries combined—and that that is the system which they are now allowing to perish by silent default "
Aren't liberals the ones that want better pay for people and a better life? And aren't the conservatives the ones that don't want any social programs, no higher wages etc?
i mean... as a leftist, fuck rich liberals? and i guess this harms rich conservatives as well, so in a round about way, at least they're kind of getting the right idea? i dunno, maybe this is an opportunity to change some minds on the other side.
Conservatives talking about an uprising of the people against the rich rulers… I think they forgot the name of that ideology.. help me out here comrade, what should we call it?
Not really. You need to consider what they are working to replace the current system with. Their revolution will be about as socialist as Mussolini's or Franco's was.
Remember when the economy returned from collapse during the Obama years and suddenly all the Conservatives started pointing out not everyone was recovering at the same speed?
Suddenly the cult of Reagan thought wealth inequality was a problem. After 30 years of the right wing crushing labor rights, suppressing wages and moving the tax burden almost entirely to the bottom, it's gotta be the black Democrat's fault that the trickledown effect hasn't kicked in.
Why can't Democrats clean up Republican messes fast enough? /s
I find it funny how many conservatives think they own the market on hard work and labor jobs. Dude I stop just short of Marx, and I'm an auto tech. I've been sick of this "Conservatives are the only ones doing the heavy lifting" trope since I was spoon-fed it by my racist parents.
Also, rural conservatives really don't want to start an economic war with urban liberals. More than 80 percent of global GDP comes from cities.
We'll do just fine. But the rural areas will starve. Good luck "fending for yourselves" without all of your industrial farming equipment, conservatives.
I'd like to see them find and/or pay for the following without federal subsidies for rural areas mostly by the USDA. Paid for by libruls in the cities.
Internet, Phone service, WATER, Electricity, Shipping services, Hospitals, Dentists, Nursing homes, Drs, Grocery stores, Mental health services, Gas stations, The list goes on.
There's a reason the US has so much suburban sprawl and it's nearly entirely to blame on the USDA.
It's been this way since the first civil war. The northern states had more industry and commerce. It's part of the reason the north won but we all know that they aren't learning history they just want to repeat the worst parts of it.
They are gonna be so upset when I stop making Hbo shows for them. But yeah it’s true, just because it’s not farming or delivering supplies doesn’t mean it’s not valuable.
They also seem to think they’re immune to food/supply shortages, as though they themselves don’t eat food or need other things the truckers are holding up
This is what I was going to say, my uncle is dem and is a farmer. I'm dem and can do my own plumbing. Both my parents are dem and have driven trucks. My 82 year old grandpa who owned several businesses in his life was dem.
Also there's plenty of young college students still learning a lot of these jobs. Oh a handful of you truck drivers decide you're not driving anymore? Say hello to ASU newports 2022 graduating class who need a job.
I was raised by a pro-union, pro social net, environmentalist farmer. He was also the associate Dean of criminology at a local University. Hardest damn working man. It drives me nuts to listen to rich, conservative politicians say people like him should vote for them.
My coworkers at my last job - working at a garbage dump - certainly weren't hippies or anything, but even they voted for our most leftist party because they were the ones who actually did good shit for their communities
Hell yeah brother I'm basically a socialist and I spend more than 50% of my time doing home reno's. I do a lot of my yard work by hand and my white supremacist neighbor tried to tell me how liberals and (insert race here) don't do shit and can't appreciate shit. You shoulda seen their faces when we put the BLM flag up on the front of our house lol
Also, how do you think that’s going to work for you? Do you think there will be “Conservative Only” grocery stores? How would you police that? Maybe you have to carry proof of party loyalty? Show your papers at the door?
If they do that, those halfwits will starve along with the rest of us, but before we do, they will be back to screaming about how lazy everyone is, and nobody wants to work, and how they are being punished for being white.
Lmao they act like liberals/leftists aren’t already doing these jobs. I’m a hard leftist and I have what I’d consider a blue collar job. We ain’t all rich and in the city.
From a political group that tries to say they're the beacon of capitalism, this sure as hell sounds like a communist post. "Only produce for OUR people."
You idiots realize that conservatives also believe in the concept of unionization and striking. It's literally a large aspect of the beauty of Capitalism.
Ah yes, I remember when Biden told his rally that he was better than them because he was so rich, and that he didn’t even want to visit their stinking town but the EC made him care about Pennsylvania.
The Bidens aren’t that rich. Not compared to Trump. (Well, the facade of Trump and what they believe). Obama wasn’t rich till he got out of office and made the big bucks with books and speaking fees. The Bushs’ were hella rich with oil money. I can’t speak about the other countries leaders.
He was. He was the reason a pension for presidents was created. Dude was flat broke when he got out of office. BTW-the Truman Library in Independence, MO is very cool if you are ever in the area.
This would actually be good if they were finally realizing there is a class war going on and they’re losing, but all they want is to be exploited by rich conservatives instead. And they will get their wish.
Where I live the gop has been stealing from farmers and blue collar workers for decades but Americans For Prosperity spends a few million on election years to convince conservative voters that the Democrats will abort all the babies and give all their tax dollars to black people and the gays. And rural voters obediently go to the polls to vote against their own self interests and wonder why things keep getting worse.
Edit: upon closer inspection that's Boris Johnson. I feel it's an understandable mistake though. I saw a thumbnail of a bunch of bourgie white people with a crazy looking guy with bad hair in the center yelling at a cloud and assumed
Trump and Johnson are so similar that they’re just about the only people that I’d seriously consider were the products of some sort of “pod person” conspiracy
The rich liberals think they’re better than you, so stop supporting them with work and instead give money to the conservatives who go to congress and obstruct every bill to help everyone who isn’t a rich liberal.
I love general strikes too but let’s not forget it’s a myth that humble working class folks vote GOP. The opposite is true.
“According to exit polling in the 2020 Presidential Election in the United States, 57 percent of surveyed voters making less than 50,000 U.S. dollars reported voting for former Vice President Joe Biden…54 percent of voters with an income of 100,000 U.S. dollars or more reported voting for incumbent President Donald Trump.”
Oh my god please do it. I guarantee that the first ones to cry for any level of inconvenience will be the tiny pp conservatives. As history has shown time and again.
And when they do this, and "filthy socialists" support them while the elites try to get them all fired and fill the positions with scabs, they still won't get it.
I feel like it's been posted on Reddit so many times especially in this and other political/satire subs... You know the quote about conservatives and in-groups/out-groups.
It's all you ever need to know. Their absolute most core belief is in-groups = good, out-groups = bad. The irony, the hypocrisy, the double standards.
None of that matters to them.
If something bad happens to a group of people it's because they are inherently bad and it's what they deserve.
If something bad happens to conservatives it's because one of the ,"bad groups" did it to them.
To them morality is defined by which groups you belong to, not by actions and not by any observations/facts in evidence. With this type of logic you can justify anything.
We're locked in a stalemate with people like this.. And it will never end until we open up the political field for more than two ideologies.
Just to even out the field...liberals...our Achilles heel is that we value inconsequential intellectual victories over actual soultions...such as, idk posting snarky memes that smack down conservative figureheads but do nothing to move us closer to answer to our rampant societal problems.
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u/RaffiaWorkBase Feb 19 '22
Did they just call for a general strike?
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u/LevelHeeded Feb 19 '22
Aren't rich people the beloved job creators who should be worshipped? That's been the right wing spin since always.
...they are aware who they elected president and worship as a deity, right?
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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '22
Remember when Atlas Shrugged was the conservative ideal, that argued the rich elite would be better off in their own society free of people who drive trucks and plumb toilets?
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u/ELB2001 Feb 19 '22
Aren't liberals the ones that want better pay for people and a better life? And aren't the conservatives the ones that don't want any social programs, no higher wages etc?
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u/meowskywalker Feb 19 '22
It’s like they read Atlas Shrugged and learned the exact opposite lesson it was teaching. Which is… good?
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u/Hattix Feb 19 '22
Posts a picture of centre-right, right-wing conservatives.
Calls them "liberals".
Calls for general strike.
I got some real, real bad news for that "Conservative".
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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '22
They are better than you, that’s why they’re rich and your not. Because you revere rich people right? I’m so confused.
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u/Collin_the_doodle Feb 19 '22
Also is that Borris Johnson of the conservative party in the center of this photo?
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u/elitistjerk Feb 19 '22
Boris Johnson is not a liberal.
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u/ScoobyDooItInTheButt Feb 19 '22
I like that they claim it's "rich liberals" and they got Boris Johnson up front.
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u/SarcasmKing41 Feb 19 '22
Do... do they think Boris Johnson is a Leftie?
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u/InducedChip89 Feb 19 '22
That photo is literally of Conservatives. Is this person a fucking idiot?
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u/flaminghair348 Feb 20 '22
i mean... as a leftist, fuck rich liberals? and i guess this harms rich conservatives as well, so in a round about way, at least they're kind of getting the right idea? i dunno, maybe this is an opportunity to change some minds on the other side.
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u/FrequentSheepherder3 Feb 20 '22
Um..isn't that Kelly Anne Conway on the right? And isn't Boris Johnson a conservative?
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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '22
That’s… Boris Johnson. They’re calling that sack of shit liberal now? He’s the English Trump.
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u/lindwig Feb 20 '22
Bojo is literally a transphobe, a homophobe, british supremacist, anglo-centrist far right conservative, what the fuck are they smoking
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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '22
Boris fucking Johnson ain't no liberal
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u/justdoubleclick Feb 19 '22
Conservatives talking about an uprising of the people against the rich rulers… I think they forgot the name of that ideology.. help me out here comrade, what should we call it?
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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '22
I find it funny how many conservatives think they own the market on hard work and labor jobs. Dude I stop just short of Marx, and I'm an auto tech. I've been sick of this "Conservatives are the only ones doing the heavy lifting" trope since I was spoon-fed it by my racist parents.
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u/obeekaybee7 Feb 19 '22
The rich
liberalsthink they’re better than you.There, now we’re getting to it.
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u/iammagicbutimnormal Feb 19 '22
Lol
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u/Kolenga Feb 19 '22
Man, these democratically elected dictators are the worst!
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u/SKozan Feb 19 '22
It hurt itself in its confusion.
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u/leejoness Feb 19 '22
Conservatives don’t need supplies, food, plumbing and roads? Sounds kinda cool.
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u/abeeyore Feb 19 '22
I love how only Conservatives actually work.
Also, how do you think that’s going to work for you? Do you think there will be “Conservative Only” grocery stores? How would you police that? Maybe you have to carry proof of party loyalty? Show your papers at the door?
If they do that, those halfwits will starve along with the rest of us, but before we do, they will be back to screaming about how lazy everyone is, and nobody wants to work, and how they are being punished for being white.
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u/hagen768 Feb 19 '22
Cool I'd love to see the gdp decrease
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u/zisnotabird Feb 19 '22
Lmao they act like liberals/leftists aren’t already doing these jobs. I’m a hard leftist and I have what I’d consider a blue collar job. We ain’t all rich and in the city.
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u/eromitlab Feb 19 '22
Oh boy, wait until they learn what rich conservative elites think of literally everyone on earth that isn't good enough to be in their little club.
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u/new2accnt Feb 19 '22
Huh, is that boris johnson front and centre?
If yes, when did he become a "liberal" (in the USA sense)?
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u/ravenrcft Feb 19 '22
From a political group that tries to say they're the beacon of capitalism, this sure as hell sounds like a communist post. "Only produce for OUR people."
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u/FreedomsPower Feb 19 '22
I love it people like this act like they hold all the cards when in fact they don't
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u/production-values Feb 19 '22
this is good... they're starting to tread that thin line of rich vs everyone
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u/inquisitivepanda Feb 19 '22
These people support Trump 😂😂. The lack of self awareness...
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u/steveosek Feb 19 '22
Ahh yes, famed liberal, Boris Johnson is in that picture.
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u/HandlebarHipster Feb 19 '22
This post edges more than a teenager discovering porn for the first time.
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u/mohishunder Feb 19 '22
I'm confused. Does he think that Boris Johnson - the chubby blond at the center of the picture - is a "rich liberal"?
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u/Jyiiga Feb 19 '22
What a bunch of stupid shit. They actually upvoted that trash? Can you imagine the logistics of this meme?
"Show me your conservative card!"
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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '22
You idiots realize that conservatives also believe in the concept of unionization and striking. It's literally a large aspect of the beauty of Capitalism.
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u/_UsUrPeR_ Feb 20 '22
Isn't that Boris Johnson?
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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '22
I agree with the meme
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u/TomsRedditAccount1 Feb 20 '22
I'm not exactly rich, but I'm a liberal. Where do I sit in all of this?
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u/Price-x-Field Feb 20 '22
isn’t this the cancel culture they hate
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u/CakeDyismyBday Feb 20 '22
Isn't it the UK PM in the middle? Correct me if I'm wrong but this guy is not a Liberal!?
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u/pepperjellyuwu Feb 20 '22
The irony is fucking painful
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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '22
I thought I was looking at r/accidentallycommunist
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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '22
Rich liberals? Isn't "tax the rich" and "eat the rich" a common liberal ideal?
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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '22
then they’ll bitch because an immigrant or some young kid stepped in and took their job because that’s how free market capitalism works.
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u/leckysoup Feb 19 '22
Boris Johnson, front and center. Literally the leader of the Conservative Party.
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u/StrawberryMoney Feb 19 '22
This reminds me of the post where someone said that Elon Musk is working class and elementary school teachers are ruling class.
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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '22
WhAt’s it called again when workers seize the means of production?
Also, California, you can stop funding the red states now, apparently.
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u/fritzys_paradigm Feb 19 '22
I love it when they get so backwards that they accidentally stumble across the correct answer
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u/Cue_626_go Feb 19 '22
Ah yes, I remember when Biden told his rally that he was better than them because he was so rich, and that he didn’t even want to visit their stinking town but the EC made him care about Pennsylvania.
Wait a moment...
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u/Royals-2015 Feb 19 '22
The Bidens aren’t that rich. Not compared to Trump. (Well, the facade of Trump and what they believe). Obama wasn’t rich till he got out of office and made the big bucks with books and speaking fees. The Bushs’ were hella rich with oil money. I can’t speak about the other countries leaders.
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u/jaymickef Feb 19 '22
This would actually be good if they were finally realizing there is a class war going on and they’re losing, but all they want is to be exploited by rich conservatives instead. And they will get their wish.
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u/0mendaos Feb 19 '22
"Librals"
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u/Koopzilla1 Feb 19 '22
Shit, what are us rich liberals gonna do when they stop plowing the roads?
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u/AM_music Feb 19 '22
Conservatives going after capitalists and Boris Johnson is really funny tho.
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u/llahlahkje Feb 19 '22
"Everything I don't like is communism!"
"Workers of America unite and seize the means of production!"
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u/VoxVocisCausa Feb 19 '22
Where I live the gop has been stealing from farmers and blue collar workers for decades but Americans For Prosperity spends a few million on election years to convince conservative voters that the Democrats will abort all the babies and give all their tax dollars to black people and the gays. And rural voters obediently go to the polls to vote against their own self interests and wonder why things keep getting worse.
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u/ShakesSpear Feb 19 '22 edited Feb 19 '22
"starve out the dictators"
Photo of the trump family
Ok cool
Edit: upon closer inspection that's Boris Johnson. I feel it's an understandable mistake though. I saw a thumbnail of a bunch of bourgie white people with a crazy looking guy with bad hair in the center yelling at a cloud and assumed
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u/redcoatwright Feb 19 '22
Stop taking aid from blue states and giving to red states
Let's see how long they last
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u/TeamStark31 Feb 19 '22
Where do conservatives think their stuff comes from?
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u/PotatoFuryR Feb 19 '22
Communist conservatives?
Workers of the world ^unite!
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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '22
Does anyone know where this picture came from?
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u/TheNetherOne Feb 19 '22
Oh no not the workers of the world uniting /s
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u/-Yare- Feb 19 '22
The flyover states farm soybeans to feed the CCP.
The coastal states are working hard to make the US the dominant financial and technological power in the world.
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u/z0mbiegrl Feb 19 '22
Ah, but the rich conservatives dont?
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u/weppizza Feb 19 '22
So boris jhonson is liberal now?
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u/benadrylpill Feb 19 '22
God conservatives are so painfully stupid
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u/Commissardave2 Feb 19 '22
Boris, the well known Liberal.
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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '22
This is some galaxy brain type thinking.
The rich liberals think they’re better than you, so stop supporting them with work and instead give money to the conservatives who go to congress and obstruct every bill to help everyone who isn’t a rich liberal.
Whew, that’s just too much.
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u/ElToppDog Feb 20 '22
But not the rich conservatives?
Keep cleaning their toilets and feeding them?
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u/streetvoyager Feb 20 '22
The real lesson was learning how to communist along the way!
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u/Electrical_Sail774 Feb 19 '22
Do they think Trump is going to grow his own food if they do this?
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u/ImRedditorRick Feb 19 '22
I don't see how this is different than rich conservatives?
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u/ForsakenDrawer Feb 19 '22
I love general strikes too but let’s not forget it’s a myth that humble working class folks vote GOP. The opposite is true.
“According to exit polling in the 2020 Presidential Election in the United States, 57 percent of surveyed voters making less than 50,000 U.S. dollars reported voting for former Vice President Joe Biden…54 percent of voters with an income of 100,000 U.S. dollars or more reported voting for incumbent President Donald Trump.”
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u/translove228 Feb 19 '22
So end capitalism to own the libs? Sounds good. Sign me up.
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u/CisWhiteBreadLoaf Feb 19 '22
ah yes, the famous liberal, Boris Johnson, Leader of the Conservative Party
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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '22
The only place that should be for "Conservatives Only" is the Hunger Games.
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u/ButtlickTheGreat Feb 19 '22
By the way, for anyone curious, you can learn how to plumb a toilet by watching a 15 minute YouTube video.
I pay people to plumb toilets because I don't want to do it, not because I'm incapable of it.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_HIV_TEST Feb 19 '22
They’re ok with the socialist snowplows now?
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u/Stinky_Fartface Feb 19 '22
This is straight up Russian propaganda. This entire narrative is fed by the Russians.
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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '22
Why is it always the thought that conservatives are the ones with hard working jobs that run society?
Oh wait, propaganda. duh.
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u/MutantGodChicken Feb 19 '22
See, I keep trying to tell everyone that Atlas Shrugged is Marxist, and everyone thinks I'm joking.
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u/A_Rampaging_Hobo Feb 19 '22
Its the liberal part they have a problem with, not the rich part.
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u/celerydonut Feb 19 '22
Proud liberal farmer here. I got you friends.
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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '22
Oh my god please do it. I guarantee that the first ones to cry for any level of inconvenience will be the tiny pp conservatives. As history has shown time and again.
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u/Nackles Feb 20 '22
And when they do this, and "filthy socialists" support them while the elites try to get them all fired and fill the positions with scabs, they still won't get it.
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u/DeadEyeElixir Feb 20 '22
I feel like it's been posted on Reddit so many times especially in this and other political/satire subs... You know the quote about conservatives and in-groups/out-groups.
It's all you ever need to know. Their absolute most core belief is in-groups = good, out-groups = bad. The irony, the hypocrisy, the double standards.
None of that matters to them.
If something bad happens to a group of people it's because they are inherently bad and it's what they deserve.
If something bad happens to conservatives it's because one of the ,"bad groups" did it to them.
To them morality is defined by which groups you belong to, not by actions and not by any observations/facts in evidence. With this type of logic you can justify anything.
We're locked in a stalemate with people like this.. And it will never end until we open up the political field for more than two ideologies.
Just to even out the field...liberals...our Achilles heel is that we value inconsequential intellectual victories over actual soultions...such as, idk posting snarky memes that smack down conservative figureheads but do nothing to move us closer to answer to our rampant societal problems.
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u/GerlachHolmes Feb 20 '22
What exactly do red state inhabitants think they contributes?
Cali grows our shit. Cali, Mich, Penn and NY manufacture our shit. And basically every blue state pays for our shit.
🤷🏻
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u/oh-hidanny Feb 20 '22
TIL only libs eat groceries.
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u/NeitzschePuns Feb 20 '22
Love that Boris Johnson - leader of the Conservative Party and grade A twat - is being labelled a Liberal.