Let them haz cake!

Liberal in what sense? Every country has slightly differing views on what "liberal" means.

Presumably liberal in the American use, as in "conservative with a slightly less shitty coat of paint"
- "Conservative but not Christofascist."
Those who claim to support minorities but act like minorities with no power even when they hold office.
Liberal means "not communist or openly fascist" to the far left

The plutocracy has sway over both sides of the political aisle.

Unfortunately Democrats are still leagues beyond republicans. There's not much choice at all.

Wut

They're making perfect the enemy of good and wiping away the good things that democrats do.
- Making perfect the enemy of good? What? You seeing the same thing?
- Like holy shit imagine the amount of cognitive dissonance you must need to defend democrats not doing anything while in office xD
- Democrats aren't good tho, they literally are the enemy of good. If they weren't evil they would do literally fucking anything about republicans and capitalists trying to take our rights and go full of fascist. But nope, it's always "waahhhh gop won't let us do anything :cccc" while letting republicans do literally anything they want

Jesus Christ. spot on in sentiment although I might shop around for a different format.

Why? What's wrong with meowpoleon?
- The scene in the painting is of Napoleon after he had definitely done something.
- Napoleon, despite the whole "overthrowing republic in favour of monarchy" thing is considered to be one of the main reasons the ideals of the Revolution managed to stick in Europe. Napoleonic Code was a piece of legislation far more progressive than most of that era, and continued to be used in many countries that were subservient to Napoleonic France until the 20th century.

ITT American liberals realize they're not leftists

~~Liberal~~ politicians

So…. Is it ALL of Lemmy that’s bOtH siDeS now, or just certain parts of it. I’d like to know if it’s time to go back to Reddit.

Most lemmy instances are overwhelmingly leftist. If you're a leftist, democrats and republicans are to the right of you. So, it's less "both sides" and more "these two things are on the same side, which is to the right of me."
- That makes a lot of sense. It’s deeply misguided and dangerous, but it makes sense.
Til criticizing democrats is centrist
- Rofl… you think this kid is a democrat?
Just this tokenboomer guy posting stuff like this. I swear on this sub, any time it's a crazy "but muh both sides" post, it's this dude. Idk if a troll or a plant or a true believer. But it's just so aggressively something that it does stand out as odd.
- Believe the Noble Lie.
- Good to know. I’ll just block him.

I'm glad my country is never ruled by just one party. The neoliberal party needs a coalition with better parties and they actually push some good stuff through. Last time we got free public transit within a county and this time we got same-sex marriage. The neoliberal party has been screwing with the economy though and we got like the highest inflation and highest rise in housing prices in Europe.

Lemmy discovers presidents are not dictators

Good point, there truly is no middle ground between doing nothing and being a dictator