In the class warfare of America, there seem to be an awful lot of parallels between typical Republican voters and Uncle Tom, a negro who was exceedingly subservient to his slave masters.
Everyone assumes that Uncle Tom was a character like Sam Jackson's Stephen from "Django Unchained" or Uncle Ruckus from "Boondocks". The character in the book is nothing like this. In fact, Uncle Tom is an admirable character. How this man's name became a slur is more complicated than it first appears.
The weird part about reading "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is that its advocacy literature, and most of us don't need much convincing that slavery is bad. But we need this context to understand that Uncle Tom was created by a white woman to appeal to a white audience because it's his tragedy that is supposed to persuade the reader. Uncle Tom didn't fashion himself to please some master like Calvin Candy, he was created whole-cloth as a device to awaken empathy of white audience. It's not his character, it's his raison d'être.
Try telling someone working 40 hours a week who can afford to go to Disney every year that they aren't.
The system is unfair, but that does not mean all unfairness is equally distributed. It also doesn't mean that all systems with unfairness are the same. Telling people that they are is lying to their face to try and justify your own inaction.
Telling people that they are is lying to their face
Democrats convinced 10,000,000 people that voting didn't matter by doing nothing about their economic suffering apart from spending three months of campaign time telling them to just be joyful about it. Of course those people chose a badly needed day's pay instead.
They told another chunk of people, who've watched their family, friends, and neighbors get bombed at will by Israel that they supported it by sending Israel more WMD's mid-genocide.
The liars are the people we elected to represent us who did an abominably shitty job. It's that simple. Will Republicans be better? Probably not, judging by their history, but for some reason no failure is failure enough to get people to change how they vote anymore. They just stop voting completely.
They clearly don't want to have any say in the matter at all.
No, the Democrats didn't do enough... but they're hardly alone in that. America is a country of "I want what I want, and fuck everything else". You can see it in the people who vote conservative against their own interest... but you can also see in the people who'd rather stay home than fight for something that's a little better instead of a lot.
No answer is perfect. And waiting for perfection to land in your lap so you can start acting on it is exactly what the GOP and Trump coalitions are capitalizing on.
The system sucks, but refusing to participate, or pretending you can change it by force, is only going to make things worse for you and everyone around you.
That's almost as bad as... "Dems aren't perfect, but."
Christ, I wish the Democratic Party had a shred of empathy left for workers. The minimum wage has been $7.25 for almost 20 years now, across two Democratic presidents who had control of Congress, and both made $100 billion-plus dollars appear out of thin air for war profiteers. The system gives these men all the power they need to make meaningful change, they just don't give a fuck about anyone who can't afford the $500,000 minimum it costs to buy a five-minute meeting at the Democratic National Convention.
Republicans stab us in the front. Democrats stab us in the back.
Drag ain't gonna do that, because it's not true, but drag is still gonna say living in a concentration camp is worse. Do you understand the concept of a bad thing being worse than another bad thing, or do you think all bad things are equally bad?
Most Americans are apparently oblivious to the state of affairs. The problem is the lack of accountability across the board. There are stupid policies of both parties. Taking away people's rights is no joke, though.
You've just described a majority of the Democratic party as well. Don't forget a majority here was certain that Joe Biden was more dynamic than he'd ever been, and later convinced that supporting Israel's genocide and neocons would win Kamala the election.
No. It takes a truly shallow mind to come to this conclusion. Most of us Democrats understand how politics work and knew it was Trump or Harris once Biden stepped down. That's it, no third option. Only a true idiot or a Trump supporter (same thing) would think not voting, voting this party, it voting for Trump was in anyway better for Israel, Ukraine, and America.
Not really. If your focus is beyond the next 4 years, you can argue letting Democrats lose is the best strategy to stop wars on the planet down the line.
In fact if Kamala was going to loose either way (as it happened) it's a good thing that she lost hard.
So if the camps were happening either way, better not to vote for the guy that says "vote me and the camps will have regulations in regard to human experimentation!" and strictly go for "fuck that shit".
I get people still being affected by the election topics, but it's not now.
Uncle Tom had his issues, but he was the opposite of hateful.
Swap Uncle Tom for Uncle Ruckus from Boondocks and it would be more accurate.
No relation.
Uncle Ruckus is a character from the Boondocks. He is an outspoken white supremacist and even claims to be an Irish-American who suffers from "reverse vitiligo”.
Everyone assumes that Uncle Tom was a character like Sam Jackson's Stephen from "Django Unchained" or Uncle Ruckus from "Boondocks". The character in the book is nothing like this. In fact, Uncle Tom is an admirable character. How this man's name became a slur is more complicated than it first appears.
The weird part about reading "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is that its advocacy literature, and most of us don't need much convincing that slavery is bad. But we need this context to understand that Uncle Tom was created by a white woman to appeal to a white audience because it's his tragedy that is supposed to persuade the reader. Uncle Tom didn't fashion himself to please some master like Calvin Candy, he was created whole-cloth as a device to awaken empathy of white audience. It's not his character, it's his raison d'être.
This guy reads.
It's not half.
It's 99%. Well, 98% after ten million voters realized neither party was doing anything for them and opted not to skip a day's pay last election day.
So you decided living in a fascist dictatorship is the same as neoliberal capitalism, to within a day's pay's margin of error?
It is, yes.
Try telling someone working 80-100 hours a week who still can't afford groceries that they're actually free.
Try telling someone working 40 hours a week who can afford to go to Disney every year that they aren't.
The system is unfair, but that does not mean all unfairness is equally distributed. It also doesn't mean that all systems with unfairness are the same. Telling people that they are is lying to their face to try and justify your own inaction.
Democrats convinced 10,000,000 people that voting didn't matter by doing nothing about their economic suffering apart from spending three months of campaign time telling them to just be joyful about it. Of course those people chose a badly needed day's pay instead.
They told another chunk of people, who've watched their family, friends, and neighbors get bombed at will by Israel that they supported it by sending Israel more WMD's mid-genocide.
The liars are the people we elected to represent us who did an abominably shitty job. It's that simple. Will Republicans be better? Probably not, judging by their history, but for some reason no failure is failure enough to get people to change how they vote anymore. They just stop voting completely.
People don't want Nazism, Fascism, or genocide.
They just don't want these neoliberal Democrats.
They clearly don't want to have any say in the matter at all.
No, the Democrats didn't do enough... but they're hardly alone in that. America is a country of "I want what I want, and fuck everything else". You can see it in the people who vote conservative against their own interest... but you can also see in the people who'd rather stay home than fight for something that's a little better instead of a lot.
No answer is perfect. And waiting for perfection to land in your lap so you can start acting on it is exactly what the GOP and Trump coalitions are capitalizing on.
The system sucks, but refusing to participate, or pretending you can change it by force, is only going to make things worse for you and everyone around you.
LOL
That's almost as bad as... "Dems aren't perfect, but."
Christ, I wish the Democratic Party had a shred of empathy left for workers. The minimum wage has been $7.25 for almost 20 years now, across two Democratic presidents who had control of Congress, and both made $100 billion-plus dollars appear out of thin air for war profiteers. The system gives these men all the power they need to make meaningful change, they just don't give a fuck about anyone who can't afford the $500,000 minimum it costs to buy a five-minute meeting at the Democratic National Convention.
Republicans stab us in the front. Democrats stab us in the back.
Drag ain't gonna do that, because it's not true, but drag is still gonna say living in a concentration camp is worse. Do you understand the concept of a bad thing being worse than another bad thing, or do you think all bad things are equally bad?
Good.
We're getting somewhere, then.
Trans people are GONNA BE Jews in nazi germany thanks to you people letting Trump become president
Why use that description of race? It’s the word used back then, but not today.
I believe its being used in the same contextual format as it would the time period of Uncle Tom, similarly to how quotes work.
You shouldn't censor history.
No, but it’s a shower thought. If it were a quote, I wouldn’t have said anything.
https://youtu.be/O7VaXlMvAvk
Most Americans are apparently oblivious to the state of affairs. The problem is the lack of accountability across the board. There are stupid policies of both parties. Taking away people's rights is no joke, though.
Oof Ouch my both sides
Can we just move on?
Sure this is a shower thought but it also is yet another politically changed thought.
Aww I know, it hurts to lose
You've just described a majority of the Democratic party as well. Don't forget a majority here was certain that Joe Biden was more dynamic than he'd ever been, and later convinced that supporting Israel's genocide and neocons would win Kamala the election.
No. It takes a truly shallow mind to come to this conclusion. Most of us Democrats understand how politics work and knew it was Trump or Harris once Biden stepped down. That's it, no third option. Only a true idiot or a Trump supporter (same thing) would think not voting, voting this party, it voting for Trump was in anyway better for Israel, Ukraine, and America.
So were you gaslighting yourselves about Biden's mental health or the rest of us?
Biden > Trump, bad mental health or not.
Exactly.
Not really. If your focus is beyond the next 4 years, you can argue letting Democrats lose is the best strategy to stop wars on the planet down the line.
In fact if Kamala was going to loose either way (as it happened) it's a good thing that she lost hard.
You can argue that. It is a stupid argument, but you can argue it.
Anyone who makes that argument has no idea how bad things can get and how fast.
but in the long term there's always a swing back the other way
Right. Germany got it's act together...
...AFTER THE DEATH CAMPS.
......after a couple of generations, with many years of misery.
There is at least one camp right now where genocide is happening and the Democrats are supporting and paying for it.
But not the Republicans? Their hands are somehow clean?
Yes?
So if the camps were happening either way, better not to vote for the guy that says "vote me and the camps will have regulations in regard to human experimentation!" and strictly go for "fuck that shit".
I get people still being affected by the election topics, but it's not now.
Accelerationist arguments always show that the speaker isn't nearly as smart as they think they are.
Because accelerationist arguments are always wrong.
some mother fucker comes here with a name like sun tzu and then starts with comment about "Lemmy normies"
fuck off
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