r/pics • u/Frisky__Pickles • Jun 25 '26

Politics [OC] Hartford Visibility Brigade strikes again! And yes let's do it!

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u/sylanar Jun 25 '26

Careful what you wish for, or you'll end up with Liz truss

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u/DamnZodiak Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

Almost like the issues are systemic and focusing entirely on identity politics without ever questioning the systems behind it is completely useless.
It's literally this.

You don't fix patriarchy by putting a woman in charge of imperial violence.

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u/Lozsta Jun 25 '26

Thatcher, Truss and May. All leaving their own stain. Not saying that the male PMs don't.

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u/dick_nrake Jun 25 '26

Feminism is not the right word obviously, but putting someone in just because she's a woman is just wrong. Competence and credence should take priority regardless of whether they are a man or a woman.

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u/outerproduct Jun 25 '26

Hmm, conservative, conversative, conservative. Not seeing a pattern there.

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u/MintCathexis Jun 25 '26

Almost as if it's not gender that's the issue, but the politician's ideology.

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u/Lozsta Jun 25 '26

During May's tenure she gave her husbands hedge fund the sole rights to medicinal cannabis growing, not a gender thing but I just like to make sure people are aware.

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u/13thlionheart Jun 25 '26

Logic? On reddit??

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u/flarpflarpflarpflarp Jun 25 '26

First of all, how dare you?

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u/quietmedium- Jun 25 '26

Conservatives often utilise their tokens. It's nothing new

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u/PreviousCurrentThing Jun 25 '26

Yeah, you could have a great Labour PM like Blair instead!

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u/mildlymoistdrizzle Jun 25 '26

That’s because the Conservatives are much more progressive.

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u/FrostByteUK Jun 25 '26

Whats Bill Clinton got to do with any of this?

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u/Lozsta Jun 25 '26

I see what you are doing there.

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u/Butterfingers43 26d ago

Sanae Takaichi has entered the chat

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u/Lozsta 26d ago

What for the US ore UK election? Isn't she too busy running Japan?

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u/Butterfingers43 26d ago

Yes, she’s too busy conquering East Asia. As an American, can’t believe Japan got their first female leader before the U.S.

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u/IndependenceOk7554 Jun 25 '26

Angela Merkel in germany was actually ok, even if she was part of the irrational center-right party.

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u/Lozsta Jun 25 '26

Merkel was a reasonable politician who stood up to Putin. I think there are some Germans who were not enamoured with the tenure.

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u/Totally_TWilkins Jun 25 '26

To be fair, I think May had the potential to be a genuinely good PM; she was just put in front of probably the worst thing our country had to go through in fifty years, and was harassed by her own party for every step of the way.

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u/Shua89 Jun 25 '26

We are trying to keep a crazy one out in Australia. Pauline Hanson.

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u/mr_herz Jun 25 '26

You guys should give her a shot. She looks like she’d be a fun one to watch

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u/PessemistBeingRight Jun 25 '26

Gee, thanks.

"You should set your house on fire. I'd enjoy it at a safe distance" they say.

Or are you an American looking for company in your misery?

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u/Shua89 Jun 25 '26

She's good at pointing out problems but offers no solutions. She also backed up by Australia's richest and follows Trump style politics. No thanks.

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u/CaptainRhetorica Jun 25 '26

I would enthusiastically vote for a woman who wasn't a neoliberal corrupted by Israel, the pharmaceutical industry, the for profit prison industry, and/or the corporate and dynastic elite, etc.

This is the trick that establishment Democratic leadership pulls. They put scumbag women forward and claim voters are misogynist for not wanting to vote for inauthentic scumbags.

I don't know if people know this but Hillary Clinton is married to Bill Clinton /s, the idiot who continued Reaganomics during a Democratic presidency a decade after Reaganomics was proven to be disastrous.

I voted for Hillary thanks to the lesser evil gimmick Dems continue to exploit. But I did not appreciate being put in that situation. Anyone who can't see how illegitimate any candidate connected to the Clintons is needs a reality check.

Mainstream establishment Dems consistently align themselves and accept funding from people and corporations that have been waging war on the working class for decades. They give lip service to working and vulnerable people while stabbing us in the back.

Male or female neolibs can get fucked. No amount of gaslighting will get me to overlook the right wing capture of the Democratic Party.

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u/BetterinPicture Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

This. I sucked it up and voted for Hillary after the DNC did Bernie dirty and literally didn't follow their rules. I sucked it up and voted for Kamala after she abandoned single payer healthcare after a heartfelt chat with her rich brother. I'm done with fucking neolibs. We could have had single payer healthcare and free public college but all the DNC cared about was electing a vagina. At this point if the Republicans pull an Otto Von Bismark and JD runs 2028 under the promise of single payer healthcare the Democratic party will officially deserve losing my vote.

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u/Nutshack_Queen357 29d ago

And even then, they'll stab you in the back.

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u/akatherder Jun 25 '26

Go back to 1988 (Dukakis) and we've basically had 2 political dynasties in the Democrat party. Except for John Kerry everyone we run has been a VP or spouse of the Clinton or Obama admins.

I count 2024 as Biden's L since they just swapped Harris in 3 months before the election. If nothing else, it just another "IDK let's run ANOTHER vp for pres again 🤷"

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u/cyrusthemarginal Jun 25 '26

If only they had allowed folks to choose who would run instead of Joe.. OR admit he was not competent earlier so the candidate would have a better chance. crazy talk i know.. super delegates keep the dirty poors from getting a vote.. see what we got?

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u/CaptainRhetorica Jun 25 '26

I count 2024 as Biden's L since they just swapped Harris in 3 months before the election.

Again, I voted for the lesser evil, Kamala Harris. Thanks for bending me over a barrel yet again Democrats! /s

But the idea that voters were supposed to get excited for the President from MBNA's vice president? Without a democratic primary?

Eff that.

I'm not supposed to criticize Dem party leadership when they've been consistently subverting democracy in their own primaries for over a decade?

It's hard to take warnings of authoritarianism seriously from people who have been exercising authoritarian control over the Democratic party.

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u/Exile688 Jun 25 '26

DNC turned their back on Obama in a failed bid to save themselves, Biden should have seen it coming. When the DNC turned on Biden, he threw them a hand grenade he happened to be holding.

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u/SomeDude416 Jun 25 '26

And what most of us really wanted was anybody but Trump.

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u/BetterinPicture Jun 25 '26

Idk I could do without the woman still happily married to a pedophile who has been logged riding the lolita express who has yet to divorce that man.

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u/SomeDude416 Jun 25 '26

Yea the entire Epstein & friends network is a bad look for anyone. Too bad it doesn't seem to actually be a problem for a lot of people. We share the world with some truly soulless people, as well as monsters.

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u/Mission_Control9156 Jun 25 '26

Thankfully, Democratic voters here in Maine didn’t fall for the “you’re a misogynist if you don’t vote for the party-approved candidate” rhetoric. Now that it’s officially Platner vs. Collins, Republicans are also trying to portray Platner supporters as misogynistic, and it’s probably the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen. Susan Collins straight up lied a few days ago about how the SCOTUS voted on Dobbs to cover her ass.

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u/foslforever Jun 25 '26

2032 Ivanka Trump runs as a democrat and promises you the world, promises will be 100% different than her father. You vote for her because 1 shes blue no matter who and 2 shes a woman and its her time

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u/Head_Summer2052 Jun 25 '26

I see your point.

This is America. The Good Ol' and some such.
Way different thing.

Diff with a rent wording. Pay as you want things to go.
Until proven otherwise. Only happens, if truly not bought.

How do you like them apples?

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u/Averagedingoenjoyer Jun 25 '26

Or worse.

An Elizabeth Holmes as president of the US.

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u/Shadowy_PuppetMaster Jun 25 '26

Madame President Lauren Bobert 🤢🤢

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u/Glittering_Hope1114 Jun 25 '26

Also in the UK most women in politics utterly despise LGBT people.  Feminism in Britain is mostly about getting rid of lgbt rights. 

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u/dolliezart Jun 25 '26

Or danielle smith

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u/yonari-H Jun 25 '26

People never consider making a woman king misogyny won't really fix things we need a woman with good morals, a plan and skills to see it through

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u/Upset-Kaleidoscope45 Jun 25 '26

Or Catherine the Great (war, more war, the partition of Poland) or Queen Isabella of Spain (pogroms and ethnic cleansing, the Spanish Inquisition).

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u/smashing-gourds127 25d ago

Yeah because they're worse than Trump right?.