This is in fact incorrect: the right doesn't say corrupt government is the problem The right says trans kids and brown people are the problem. Because the right is dumb as a fucking brick, and the billionaires managed to brainwash the dumb right into hating someone other than themselves.

I know this is a shitpost, but I've seen people legitimately give this argument like it's a gotcha. It's like, okay? So if we get rid of the corrupt billionaires running the corrupt government, then the other corrupt billionaires will use their vast wealth to seize power for the billionaires again, so the problem is indeed the corrupt billionaires - we need to get rid of them all. It's like taking antibiotics - you can't stop when you start feeling better, you can only stop when you've gotten rid of the whole infection, or it'll just come back stronger.

so…. then it’s the billionaires. got it.

Fun fact! The picture of the girl in this meme comes from this video, (relevant portion about 3 minutes in) in which she's by far the calmest and most reasonable person involved. She's not even angry, she just has kind of an expressive face, and she looks like that for all of exactly one frame

Some psycho combed through this video frame by frame to find the least flattering picture of her possible. Rightoids need to die out man

therefore, corrupt billionaires are the problem

The left also thinks corrupt government is a problem

Meanwhile the right proudly advertises their love for corrupt billionaires

Its not like that at all.

The left is saying billionaire are the problem. Their existence is a sign of corrupt system.

The right is saying all the left is corrupt. They don't mind their corrupt politicians.

Also everyone should go check how this left meme started. The lady in the picture was actually very calm and reasonable. Perfect metaphor for how the right manipulates the media into creating stories out of nothing.

Corrupt billionaires is redundant. You cannot have billionaires without a corrupting influence on government. Even if there were such a thing as a "good billionaire", it wouldn't justify the risks posed by all the bad ones.

Why does everyone always miss the point that Tyler Durden is a fucking fascist.

Really changes what this meme means.

Ahh the 'enlightened centrist' take, how very boring.

The right elected the most corrupt government we have had so far.

This has to be one of the most boomer out-of-touch I'm-a-cool-smart-guy memes I've seen on here, and that's saying something.

Billionaires aren't corrupt, they're ethically bankrupt; they're the corrupt_ors_.
Government officials are corrupt because they've been corrupted by the billionaire corruptors.

Getting rid of the billionaires solves both problems at once.

It's always funny to me when people say to put the billionaires in charge, it's always just like

The farmer is doing a bad job because they just let the fox into the henhouse, so instead we should put the fox in charge of the henhouse. The fox is best suited for the job because they have a lot of experience with hens and they know all the problems with the henhouses.

I was curious about what the site attached to the watermark was like: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-mind-unleashed/

/r/im14andthisisdeep

The right in the US only says what their cult leader tells them to say. If he says the government is bad (which he often does when he's not the one running it), it's bad, but when he says it's good, (which he often does when he's the one running it) they say it's good.

Right, so the proper order of operations here is to get rid of the corrupt billionaires, so that we can clean up the corrupt government.

We really gotta stop using that girl in memes that make her seem crazy. She was the calmest most reasoned person in that video.

This is just acknowledging that the government wouldn't be corrupt without the billionaires. By the logic of your post, the left is correct and the right is not.

I just read that the English government is considering a Law that forbids politicians to lie. I actually thought that was the whole starting point of politics but somewhere down the road clearly they must have noticed that no-one cared, so they finally made sure we'd care.

A lil disappointing on the progression charts of evolution, but hey! We now can move on.

So that would put you on the left.

Read that again. Slowly.

Corrupt billionaires controlling the government in a fight to hoover up every last penny of the entire population of the earth are a substantial problem.

The majority of the right doesn't actually care about corruption as long as they see it benefiting them, or hurting the 'other team'. It doesn't actually need to benefit them it can even hurt them substantially, as long as it hurts the other side more and they are told they could have an advantage due to it.

In the end, the left politicians are as into the corruption as the right, they're just better at lip service and nothing is going to change.

I think that must be the most cold take anyone has ever had in the entire history of thinking. There were mollusks who already understood this. This isn't news to anyone.

So billionaires are the problem?

Pretty sure the Leftist there would agree

When someone wants to be an edgy centrist but ends up enforcing leftism

Way too much credit is being given to both sides of this. Everybody is just cheering for one team or another with their votes. Whatever they say aloud doesn't really matter because the result is handing over any choice or real practical discourse to a handful of people who are entirely at the mercy of their political parties and the party sponsors.

Choosing a lesser evil is always better than doing nothing but we really need more than two choices at this point. The massive PAC funding has to go and campaigns really need to have extremely strict regulation that is thus far unprecedented imo. We also truly need national ranked choice voting, strict term limits for all elected positions and honestly, age limits too.

Would be nice if we had more popular vote based levers as well to force certain policies or decisions, but the tyranny of the majority has some challenges too. Maybe congress and the courts should be expanded so that more people are involved in the representation of a country that had ~26 senators and ~65 representatives in 1791 when we only had around 4 million americans. We are close to 350 million people now which is 87.5x more than then, so shouldn't the have closer to ~2275 senators and ~5688 representatives? Would be a hell of a lot harder to keep this many people in lockstep with "loyal" party line voting like there is today in our completely fucked system especially with term limits that mean they don't have to worry about re-election (maybe it should be one term only, ever. Longer duration but the citizens of a district should be able to vote to trigger a new election cycle for what's remaining in a term.)

Oh and districts at this point probably shouldn't be based on drawn voting maps. Everybody's social security number should go into a pool and be randomly assigned to a district in every state that corresponds to the amount of representatives they have. The voting places could be the same local ones and the tallies could still be done, we'd just need a number of voting forms in each voting location that corresponds to each district based on the amount of voters. They could even print these out on demand on the day of to avoid waste if we want to avoid a digital solution.

anywho, feel free to dunk on all of it. These words don't even matter, this will never happen. The ones in power run the show and do not want to give up their power.

Soon there will be a critical mass of people who have nothing left to lose. In these times people instinctively, correctly, lash out at those who have the most.