"Purity politics and single issue voters are so toxic! All I said is we need to support an active genocide, fund more wars, keep kids in cages, ignore COVID, and do nothing about the cost of living going up with wages going down. Why does the left want to alienate people like me?!"

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 45 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

DEMS: You have to understand we need to eat the shit. If we dont eat the shit the other guy is going to smear it on your face and the faces of your children. So, you see, eating the shit is necessary so that we dont have to smear it over more people's faces.

Me: how the fuck are the only choices shit? Why dont we just not eat the shit and not have everyone horrified of us?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

They've somehow managed to convince a stunningly large number of gullible USians, that you need to eat shit to survive, or that its harm reduction or something..

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 9 hours ago

Harm reduction is eating 15 pounds of shit, because the next guy will make you eat 16 pounds of shit. If you want a dental dam, you're unrealistic.

[–] BigRigButters@lemm.ee 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Because someone has to eat the shit

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 16 points 14 hours ago

*the poors must eat the shit.

Trickle Down used be called "Horse and Sparrow Economics." As in the horses eat the grain, and sparrows peck their meals from the horseshit.