Edit: the people in this comment section are so fucking stupid.

God if that doesn’t sum it up nothing does

Add to it, from my understanding of the general use of the labels. Liberals - we should go forward, but let up on the clutch only a little. We might roll back some, but we're trying. Leftists - rev the engine when you let the clutch out, let's go!

We should blow up the car - the rest of the world

https://piefed.social/c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world/p/2467991/spooky-scary-skeletons

Centrism is always the most favorable position, even if one side stands on truth while the opposition is solely on emotional attachment to some old tradition, all the while centrist inaction ends up favoring the latter.

edit: folks, it's sarcasm!

Personally I prefer "OK let's have half a genocide"

can't save everyone, might as well kill everyone

Considering the "left" in America, is just right-wing light, here it's more like.

"Left": let's hold the breaks down so we don't slip further back

"Centrist": let's let go of the breaks so we can stop when we get back to the right amount of racism

Right: let's cut the fucking break lines and just kill everyone.

Right these days is basically "Let's back over those children over there and set the car on fire while we're inside."

Following this metaphor, I see it as:
US Left: car's in neutral on a steep incline, foot is off the brake and they aren't sure if they're moving backwards or everyone outside is moving forward. Regardless they think they're doing a great job.

Center: same as above but they're complaining that everyone outside is going too fast that they may have even gone past their destination.

Right: same car, same place, but the car's in reverse and the foot is on full throttle. The center is still complaining about the speed but they're enjoying the view. The US Left is now fully aware of the backwards movement but it doesn't want to take the seatbelt off for the sake of self preservation at the cost of everyone else outside. The rest of the world is either steering clear or has been reversed in to like in one of rear-end insurance scams.

Driver changes every 4 years.

Or "day 1 has a genocide either way; but we can elect someone who'll listen to us and quit, and maybe also help us in so many other ways, or we can just elect the cast of Mad Max."

shoots the 3 occupants

hey look a free car

This one seems to be the most apt, since none of them are moving forward.

This site is delusional when it comes to leftists and how (in)effective they are.

There would be five leftists fighting about which forward gear they should be in while one lets the air out of the tires to help combat genocide.

Me: we should replace the car with a bike as it doesn't depend on eternally burning a dwindling fuel supply and it improves your mental and physical wellbeing.

I feel like the car should be facing left

Edit: apparently some people feel strongly that I am incorrect. Fuck me I guess

Edit: am I missing something about the fundamental message of the post or am I just being down voted without replies just because?

If by US left you mean the DNC, it seems more like they have their feet on both the brake and the accelerator, and they don't know which gear they are in [they are in reverse]. They are trying to figure out which pedal to lift first.

Bikes are not feasible where I live. Temperatures don't go below 40°C until after 10pm for 7 months out of the year. Just going into town for groceries is a 20 minute drive through mountainous terrain, too difficult to pedal through in the scorching heat if you're not an athlete. Not even an eBike can go further than approx 10 miles in this environment. Heat and all the elevation changes drain the battery rapidly. Bike lanes and public transportation don't exist here.

So Lemmy can hate on me and my car all you want, but I have no choice but to own one. It's not right. It needs to change. All in saying is don't hate people like me because I have no other form of transportation. Hate on the corporations that pollute way more in two seconds than my little Nissan Z ever will in its entire lifespan.

Sure, but most people don't live where you live. A bike doesn't need to solve 100% of problems to still be something to push for when it does solve like 90% of them.

Not even joking there, the VAST majority of trips people drive for here are stupidly short distances. Sure for the 1 guy going 200 miles to work each morning probably needs to just fucking move closer to work use a car, but for everyone else a bike would be fine and leave cleaner air.

Then looking at carparks where I live, there is no excuse here. By local geography, essentially none of these people live beyond a reasonable walking or cycling distance, our air quality is much worse because of it and we are one of the fattest towns in the country despite being as flat as the Netherlands. If they did live far away enough to need to drive, they wouldn't be coming here.

the right, accelerating to redline anyway: take that left! smell the carbon monoxide?! yeahhhh me too!

i think it’s more that in latin derived language at least left to right indicates progress, so the direction of the car can either indicate progress by facing from left to right, or comply with the lexically similar reading by facing left… but i think given that left vs right isn’t definitively progress, direction of travel being left to right is probably apt

(i didn’t down vote you)

I would add something like "Dumbasses: we NEED "extra drive"or we may as well just give up and throw it into turbo reverse."

You don't get it, we just need to buy time to build a new braking system. /s

I got to the part about being concise, realized it was correct, and stopped there.

"In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."

— Ayn Rand 🤪

I think you mean, "they should blow up their own car, I would totally do it if I was in that car"

A broken clock is right twice a day too!

Lemmy: Fuck cars!

Just because the US doesn't have a left wing party doesn't mean it lacks leftists. There's a lot, but leftists have never had political representation thanks to decades of suppression tactics from the conservatives (that includes liberals)

That's why the political machine is scared of people like Zohran and Bernie, because they exist outside of the allotted window

Thank you. I'm tired of people thinking Democrates are saints, they're scum too, just not as bad as the Republicans.

Yeah, we're all in the back seat in this analogy

Well, they're part of the same system as Republicans, neither party works in a vacuum, they enable the Republicans to get away with what they do. They're both equally as shitty, because they're just two halves of the same thing. All owned and operated by the same billionaires and corporations.

I would be too embarrassed to post an Ayn Rand quote.

Driving on the road and lefts want you to swerve leftoids and crash and rightoids want to swerve right and crash. Center left holds steady in the left land lane(left hand lane is good in this analogy) and things keep moving forward.

Accelerationists: You should turn the car around and floor it.

Far Left: Fuck you, and don't talk to me again until the car can fly.

Far Right: Fuck you, you wrong colored fuck ::cocks gun::

American politics: imagine car...

Zero Carz 🦔

They are fully aware of the gear they are in.

The "cashing out" gear.

(American) Lemmings: but also only ever vote blue.