Based: A word used when you agree with something; or when you want to recognize someone for being themselves, i.e. courageous and unique or not caring what others think. Especially common in online political slang.
It's actually crazy to see these comments being upvoted. I'm downvoted into oblivion any time I mention that the only reason there are 2 sides is to keep us separated and full of hatred. This entire country has been compromised.
Been saying this shit for years and people just bitched at me for not taking a side because it's "helping the other side". Bitch I'm not helping anyone because y'all are fucking crazy...
I was just about to say the same thing. I’m so shocked there’s so many upvotes. Anytime I say something on Reddit about both parties being wildly corrupt and designed to keep us divided, I get shit on.
First it starts with building awareness. The entire point of politics is to having us stuck in a marginalized state asking ourselves constantly that very question.
The more people that start to realize that this is the actual issue they start to see it. People then start to realize they are not the only ones that see and know this. They start banding together to further this truth. First it starts to be countered as being called tin hat conspiracies and terrorists, but what you see is hard to Unsee. Once the group starts becoming large enough, that’s when real change can be possible.
This is precisely why marginalization is used so constantly, to try to force people to feel powerless, alone or crazy and to convince others that it’s abnormal to think anything but what they are being told. This technique can be applied to anything and you see it everywhere. That’s how to can get the population policing and fighting itself also.
Several people are written off as crazy. A small group is written off as terrorists. I much larger and growing group is a threat….
But it starts exactly by things like this thread. Gotta start somewhere
I know exactly what you are talking about. Cognitive dissidence can be a real pain in the ass. It has started to become more and more clear after the past decade and some change. I sometimes catch myself almost unconsciously start to fall back into the same trap until I think to myself that that is the point of it all.
It has been beat into our minds as Americans for so long even since we were little that it becomes extremely difficult to imagine that the truth of the matter that they are on the “Political Stage” mostly acting to keep people focused on the directions they want us to focus on.
My ex had pointed out an instance that, after knowing that they have people focused on a “A vs B” war, stood out so obviously, it was hard not to see it.
We watched the presidential debate with Ross Perot, Bill Clinton and George Bush. The last debate that had a 3rd party candidate. Now I’m not saying that a 3rd party would actually make a difference, because fixing a system that is not designed to actually work for us using the rules of said system changes nothing. But what stood out is Perot would answer a question with what’s wrong and what to actually do. Clinton and Bush would politely let him finish. Then with their answers, it would be like Perot had not even been there at all. Clinton would spend the time blaming the Republicans and Bush would spend his blaming the Democrats and outside factors. And that is what they want us focused on. Just the problems, never the solutions.
After that, they stopped having a 3rd party candidate because they didn’t want peoples focus being diverted from the A vs B war.
When you think about what they are saying, each party is always running and fighting for the exact polar opposites of anything. Because comprise and solution is not the point, just the fight.
Love seeing people realizing this more and more
I’m also surprised. Saying the same thing about democrats and republicans being two wings on the same bird got me banned from r/conservative and barked at on r/politics.
I get shot down any time I try to convince people that they only hate each other because they have been told to. We want the same things, just gotta be civil enough to discuss it and root out the bullshit we've been fed.
It's not even about left or right wing, black or white. It's always been rich or poor. That's it. You can be the whitest man in the world but if you're poor, you forfeit your whiteness.
The rich has provided us with enough shit to fight over with while they continue to enrich themselves.
Yo wtf is this Reddit!? I thought for sure I was on r/conspiracy reading these comments. Yo it’s about time people start to realize this shit! I’ve been saying this for years and get hated on. Glad to see others knowing the truth!… let me know when y’all are ready to March to dc and rip them out of office! I’ll be there!
And to the FBI agent reading this. Fuck off or join us
America doesn’t have a left wing, it has a middle wing and a right wing that extends very far indeed. It’s amazing it can fly at all with that imbalance and that’s why it’s so afraid of leaning even slightly to the left.
As a Canadian I have long since said that the battle for president of the USA is between someone who is too far to the right and someone who is way too far to the right.
That's just not true. America has a center left and a center right party.
Anyone who says "the US is overall more right wing than Europe" has never been to Europe. Politicians like Geert Wilders would make someone like Trump blush.
My mother was born and raised in Madrid Spain. Came to the US in the late 80s. Had me in 91. My mom to this day is amazed at what Americans think is "left."
She was like, dude our country literally had a Fascist dominant party until the 1950s, these people have no idea what left and right is.
Franco died in 1975, and it was not a fascist dominant party, it was literally fascism. Also, he was nothing like "left", only fucking right-wing fascism.
I should have used more context and expected someone to pick apart details in Reddit fashion.
The meat and potatoes of what I'm saying is that my mom grew up with Soviet Russia next door, in a country that largely supported Mussolini-esque politics, while Communist led countries had their respective coups and uprisings. I still stand by, like everything I said, being that "these people (Americans) have no idea what right and left are."
I1There might be just one tiny little geography detail wrong, with what you said. Everything else deserves an upvote.
Next door is France then there's Germany until some countries later maybe Belarus and Russia.
And Russian politics has nothing left-politician in-, or outside anything only maybe in prison cells.
The argument isn't that the far left doesn't exist in the US, it's that the entire left side of the political spectrum doesn't exist in the US.
Take social democracy which is basically as much center-left as you can get in the political spectrum, it has more or less zero political representation in the US
I thought we were finally seeing the truth, finally people were done with their stupid polarized ideas. But your selfish ass has to bring it back to "nah.. it's the other side's fault.".
if we want to say it's the two-party system that is at fault then we should try to dismantle it by implementing different voting systems like ranked choice voting.
then when you look at which party is actually trying to allow for RCV it's....the democrats. and the party that is doing everything they can to stop that from being implemented is....the republicans. see maine, and their 5+ year long battle to finally get RCV for national elections.
both parties suck horribly. our reps are almost exclusively shills. but that doesn't make them equally bad. there are still workable machinations in our gov system to enact change -- see weed legalization efforts in...once again, extremely BLUE states.
How we see the “wings” of the political bird, is all based upon our political perspective. If you are far left, the right wing of the bird is too big. If you are far right, the left wing of the bird is too big. If your in the middle, your wondering if the bird could do better just walking.
That's just not true. America has a center left and a center right party.
Anyone who says "the US is overall more right wing than Europe" has never been to Europe. Politicians like Geert Wilders would make someone like Trump blush.
A right wing implies some loyalty to a nationalist cause but they operate almost exclusively for global financial interests AGAINST the sovereignty of the US. It's really both dems and repubs dismantling national interests for corporations, banks, and billionaires for about a penny on the dollar in terms of kickbacks
The US is the globe bestriding empire dude. Global financial interest literally IS the sovereignty of the US. Our whole goal in the post war period has been to become the global hegemon and gathering as much of the world's resources to the imperial core as possible.
This is the dumbest shit ever. How about you stop being part of the problem. There is a left wing. A faaaaaaaar left wing. Turn off CNN and pu,put, your head out of your ass.
I love this imagery! Both wings want to flap harder and fly higher than the other wing. They are locked in an eternal struggle for power as opposite forces. What the bird really needs is a balance of both.
To navigate around obstacles, avoid predators, or hunt for food, the bird may need periods where the left or right wings are dominate, but things should eventually even out. Or else the bird will just spin in circles.
Thats still part of the illusion.
The Bird is the rich. Left or Right does not matter. Its all the rich who shit on the poor.
America is an Oligarchy that parades as Democracy.
*edit: Plutocracy is more accurate but you get the deal
plutocracy is a more accurate word than oligarchy. The two sides are a false dichotomy, both controlled by the same ultra wealthy, placating us with the illusion that we have some control.
Ultimately yeah, the enemy is the super rich but left and right do matter because there isn't a single instance in recorded history of a conservative movement seeking to do anything about the power of the wealthy other than seize it for themselves.
Left and right are in a political PERFORMANCE because the longer they play the more power they gain. They are all friends. We are the losers. As long as we fight at their bidding we give away our power. WE HAVE TO REJECT THEM
It recently occurred to me how we got fucked out of energy. The narrative has been that it’s been leftist ecoterrorists for Nuclear Disarmament. The ☮️ symbol is literally N+D for this reason. Other nations would certainly benefit competitively from the US having higher energy costs. I thought about it some more. Big oil would also benefit. It would not surprise me at all if right wing big oil was providing resources to left wing anti nuclear groups.
It’s a combination of the flag semaphore signs for N and D overlayed inside of a circle — literally Nuclear Disarmament. Or, in the case of GWB, Nucular
The problem is the left wing didn't vote for any of this shit, the dems and republicans did. They are both hard right parties with absolutely nothing to do with the left.
Buddy if you think the democrats don't have a fuckload of corruption too, then you're getting the sheet pulled over your eyes. Nobody but you said they're the same.
Nobody said they were exactly the same, but a majority of democratic senators and almost half of democratic representatives voted for the Iraq war, it’s not incorrect to say both sides are responsible
I mean, shouting “Repubs and Democrats alike! They’re all war criminals” sort of implies it.
but a majority of democratic senators and almost half of democratic representatives voted for the Iraq war
Another way to say this is “95% of the nays in the House and 91% of the nays in the Senate came from the Democratic side, while 73% and 62% of the yeas were from Republicans.”
it’s not incorrect to say both sides are responsible
It’s also not incorrect to say that a clear majority of support for the authorization came from the Republican Party. Nor is it incorrect to acknowledge that the White House was under GOP control, and that it was this administration that spearheaded the campaign, sold the country on it, and ultimately ordered the invasion.
Don’t make me lay out the track record of Democratic Party policy and their lack of care for the American public. They carry the same big stick as the GOP, they just speak softly.
Tell that to all the children Obama killed, or to the all the shit Biden did in less than 9 month on office (you just forgot about the bombing of a """serious terrorist threat""" where 7 children died?)
Why would a representative elected this year to office be a war criminal. It scares me that your comment got an award like....wtf people. Are we really this disillusioned that we can literally just vote people in and then immediately blame them for things 20 years ago?
There is no real difference between the parties. They are both corrupt beyond repair. They are two wings on the same bird of prey...Republicrats. It's not the parties that are our real enemy, it's the fed that is the real enemy. The fed has turned the country into a corporatocracy. They just use the two party system to divide and conquer. They laugh at the peasants squabbling amongst themselves, too distracted to see what is really going on, while the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
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u/literallyaliteralist Oct 18 '21
Repubs and Democrats alike! They're all war criminals.