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[holding a rose] Now hear me out... Sure, we did let them bring back slavery

[looking smug] But we negotiated that you can have longer and more comfortable chains this time around

[dropped the rose, still looking smug] We truly are defenders of the people

https://thebad.website/comic/moderate_left

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[–] nargis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

There are more slaves today than there were during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade (not counting indentured servitude, which was abolished only in 1917~1920 by the country that prides itself on ending the slave trade. Not counting serfdom either). Kevin Bales wrote a book on it - 'Disposable Peoples.' Salty libs downvoting the comic would benefit from some reading. Read 'Cobalt Red' by S. Kara while you're at it too.

Liberals are so efficient when cracking down on communists, purging them with ruthless efficiency from both the public sphere and the government then why do they go soft on fascists who abuse free speech with some silly milquetoast excuse? It's so obvious.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nothing more moderate than calling the moderates on the other side extremists.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your moderates gave us more Privatized Prisons than ever before. They looked at Reagan's legacy and decided that the problem was there wasn't enough profit being generated at the expense of the inmates, nor were there enough inmates.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can I say nothing is more American than immediately assuming people on the internet are Americans by default?

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I even put a flag in my display name and people still assume I'm american.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So your comment was even less apt, and I'm the dummy. That sure is some up-side-down logic. Call me when y'all have the highest incarceration-rate in the world.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I think u guys have cornered that market.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Still don't understand why these comics get ao many downvotes, this one us clearly about qhen "Radical Centrists" and free market liberals who claim to be leftwing compromise with faacists and right wing nutters.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

Too subtle for .world ig

[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Here's a few reasons:

  • Not funny

  • Not nuanced

  • Bad art

  • Comes off as smug/condescending (author)

  • Makes fun of/disparages broad groups of people

  • Assigns positions that people don't agree with to labels they identify with.

Etc. Etc.

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago

yep, that's about it.