How it Feels to Read Any Political News these Days
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Like most good memes the degree of vagueness lets everyone read their own thoughts into the message.
It’s an interesting question though. What does this switch represent?
Problems caused by outsiders.
That a bunch of our problems are self inflicted, and could be stopped simply by saying "no, we're not doing that anymore," and removing the traitors.
Immigration, demographics, foreign entanglements, wages and economy, health, take your pick.
The switch isn't just one thing; it's the idea that you could just stop a bunch of these things.
That makes a ton of sense, and also explains the “cope” nature of all the responses in the image
I suppose a problem with this reductionist "You can just do things" meme is that an individual can say "No".
But it really takes collectivist action to actually do anything active, such as "removing the traitors".
Which sort of circles back to contradict the Switch/Just Do Things meme because there exists zero collectivist orgs on the dissident right that one could join to actually decide to "Do Something" as the meme implies even as an awake sigma motivated individual.
True, absolutely. But the issue is no one is even saying "we should press the button," or even acknowledging the existence of the button.
The people in the position to push the button won't, and will lie to our face. Your or I can't bush the button - at least not that button - but there are people who could...and, to you're point, they aren't even saying "no," they're pretending they can't see the button, and haven't even ever heard of it and, actually, you're totally crazy. Why are you being unreasonable?!
To be fair, removing the traitors is the most complicated of the examples I gave. And, even that...the popular will is there. If Trump wanted to...holy shit, people would be ecstatic. People are fed up. So even "remove the traitors" is a button that could be pushed, by the right people or person.
The button isn't for us, the people. It's about the people at the top, who we elected to push the button, and they pissed on us instead. Like I said, I can't push the button. If I could, I would. You can't push the button; I assume you would if you could too.
Trump could push the button. Obama could have pushed the button. Certain other high-profile people could push some buttons. Zuckerberg or Musk could push some buttons. Stuff like that. But they all serve different masters.
Ironic, because I saw the switch as a mockery of people who say things like "we aren't deporting 300000 per day, Trump has betrayed us" as if there is just a switch he is refusing to hit out of pure Evilness that'll instantly fix the country.
Its a good meme in this case, if we can all pull what we want to see from it even if they are very opposed.