The Mind of a Political Cartoonist

  • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    The correct response is to become so angry you grab your representative by the collar and yell in their face until your vocal chords snap and bleed.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      Mine supports all of this, refuses to meet with constituents, and would have me put up on terrorism charges.

      Oh, and he’s definitely getting reelected.

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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        I remember going to a town hall with my many time incumbent and saying “I dislike this bill, it’s bad for your constituents, here’s why, what are you going to do about it”. He gave a nothing corpo-political speak answer back at me. He didn’t care one bit. He did the town hall because he had to, it’s his job. Reelected by a landslide and btw he voted for the thing I was against.

      • Zorque@lemmy.world
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        Did they? There’s been five “revolutions” since then, and their government is still falling apart. At best it moved the autocracy from one plutocrat to another.

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          They work for awhile.

          But you have to keep pruning the garden until you find a better solution.

          • Zorque@lemmy.world
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            Do they work, though? Sure, you don’t have a target for anger and hatred for a little while. But if that’s your entire focus for motivation, it’s just going to fester and rot until another target comes into view. Be it someone deserving or not.

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      Sadly, I’m represented by a Democrat, so kinda muddling through half-supporting the lighter end of fascism is - I am told - the best they can do. Any effort to lean on the Democrat to move leftward is greeted by local Biden-tier liberals screaming that I’m a Secret Russian Trump Supporter trying to lose the seat in the next election.

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      Yes, having someone yell in your face is totally a way to get you to think of their argument as well thought and worth considering.

      • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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        Sucks to suck. Listen to your constituency before it gets here. Serve the people not yourself. Otherwise you’re putting your own ass on a platter and I dont feel bad for what will happen when the masses you made wretched come for you. Its a tale as old as time.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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        It’s their job to be yelled at I better fucken hope they’d at least consider it. If not skip to step 2 and bash their brains out using a rock, the slower they die the fucken better.