"Libtard" said the scorpion

Can't wait to laugh my ass off when washington DC is split into east and west.

North and South? Mason-Dixon line pt. 2?
- East and west

Trump himself used a similar story about a snake in his own speeches. He was telling us who he is.

"Are you triggered yet, lib?"

dude... I'm the one who can swim for few minutes, you cannot..
- "Don't care, all I care about is triggering the libs. Is that triggering you? HAH! Triggeblub blub blub"

Not shown on the shore: hundreds of other frogs watching with full confidence that any scorpion they give a ride across the pond won't sting THEM.

The most accurate thing about this is the liberal allowing the fascist to get on its back in the first place.

Because, you know, it would just be SO RUDE not to.

Or rather, they really hope the scorpion isn't lying yet again.

Early 20th century Italian fascists had a popular slogan "Me ne frego", meaning "I don't care".

People don't really change.

Hmmmmm
What did Melania have on the back of her jacket that one time
- Some say Epstein’s cum
- I dOnt ReAlLy CaRe, dO yOu??1
The original Maga hat!
"Me no frogo"
Don't be the frog.
- Portland has taught me to actually be the frog

"lol", said the Scorpion, "lmao"

And Leftists see the Liberals as the scorpion.

Turns out when people stop benefiting from society, they don't care what happens to it.

And no, an oppressive police state who kills anyone who gets too poor or upset is not a "benefit" of that society. And when that's all the system has left, you can't blame people for not giving a shit.

And Leftists see the Liberals as the scorpion.
I see them as the frog. The stupid fucking frog that knows the scorpion's nature but gives him a free ride anyway.
- What wasn't seen before this was the scorpion gave the frog a big tax break and insider trading information.
That's not really a universal truth, Leftists hold a wide range of views on liberalism.
- Not on here it doesn't seem. On here a liberal to them is chuck Schumer or other neoliberals(neo being the keyword here). They think liberalism is about protecting capital. I would argue that socialism can be very liberal if we're going with the traditional meaning of the word.
  But what really bothers me about it is it feels like a wedge issue created to drive the two groups apart, and it seems to work on people that I KNOW are smarter than that. But I guess we liberals thought that about Maga as well
It is normally the fascists who claim that everyone they see not as one of them being a lefty, while the subgroups in the group of these "lefties” are more different to each other than they are to some fascist groups
Well, I think, I worded that not so well, but hope you guys still understand.
Tldr:
The “right” wants us to believe, that there is only a single line from right to left through the middle in politics, while in reality it is a multidimensional vector space
- Because the right's base doesn't understand half of the words you used in describing our predicament
- The “right” wants us to believe, that there is only a single line from right to left through the middle in politics, while in reality it is a multidimensional vector space
  Conway's Law: The structure of a system reflects the structure of the organization that built it
  Have a two-party system, get a two-party model.
More like Democrats see the progressives as the scorpion.
If giving up means you then screw over everyone else that says more about you, than anyone else. It may be reality, but it's no justification.
- Yeah, you can try supporting leftists, or you can keep stinging.
  Neoliberalism isn't a popular ideology anymore.

based on a true story

This is perfect

I always dislike this story because of the biological essentialism it implies and that allows racists and sexists to use it.

Do you also dislike stories with talking animals because animals can't talk?
It's a parable, and you seem to be taking it too literally and simultaneously not literally enough.
On the one hand, it's saying not to trust people who want to hurt you even if your interests are aligned. The soviets trusting the Nazis not to attack them just because they both gained by dividing eastern Europe and not fighting a war on multiple fronts. No amount of shared interest will keep a fascist from hating a communist.
On the other hand, you actually really shouldn't put scorpions on your back. It's actually fine to reduce the agency of an insect to a stereotype of their biology.
Not sure why you'd getting downvoted here but it's absolutely been used (a lot) to push racist ideas. I first heard it from an antisemite.
I think it's just a shit message - "people will betray you on surprising ways, trust no one"
- Isn’t the message that people will betray you in _un_surprising ways?
- Ofc you misunderstood the message.
- I've always preferred the monk and the scorpion one, but I guess it could be used the same way. Never thought about it, honestly.
- Unfortunately, alot of us lived to see that message play out irl. Not in the racist ways obviously, but still
- They got upvoted but should have been downvoted because they're just inventing a weird new sensitivity that you have to strain to even believe can exist in another person's mind.

This applies to maga as well. Trump doesn't give two shits about them.

Bold characterizing Trumptards as something fierce like a scorpion. I guess they are predators though....

This is what people don't understand about humans. We want to be on top of somebody else. If everyone was equal then nobody gets to be the best. That fundamentally goes against evolution.

We also aren't dumb monke. Those are the traits we need to cultivate.

No, that's not how evolution works. Humans are incredibly complex animals, and there are a ton of different evolutionary traits (some of which seem contradictory) at play that affect our social structures. Boiling it down to "humans want to be on top of someone else" is a huge oversimplification to the point where it's potentially harmful.
- It's just straight up wrong. One of the reasons humans have done so well is because we're extremely empathetic and cooperative. Selfish species tend to do poorly, with the majority of species being cooperative, even if not quite as cooperative as us.
- Being dishonest about all these civilizations that abused others is more negative and intellectually dishonest. All I said was that humans naturally try to conquer others once they reach a certain point. If you were correct about your assertions, well we wouldn't be having a conversation about what if.
I don't think MAGA believes or cares about evolution. And absolutely no one is going for being "equal". More equal and less extremes between wealth, yes, but not actual equality. I mean, running as fast as you can doesn't mean you're trying or expecting to teleport.

But you know in this story, the frog was actually taking the scorpion to safety, not waging wars and funding a genocide. Maybe next time if there is no bureaucracy in the party, and you see Mamdani against Trump , you'll see actual support from the left.

Why would it be mamdani vs Trump? I get the whole trump 3rd term idea and breaking the law to install a dictator but why would the Dems run Mamdani? As a Uganda born individual, he's not eligible to be president.
- just an example 😅
lol "Just one more purity test bro, then I promise I won't support the fascist"
- People with no standards really hate people with standards.
- What's really baffling is that even the fascist is doing a better job in the context of wars. And if I'm not wrong, those lefties targeted in the meme are just choosing not to participate in the vote, not to support some one. Forcing someone to choose least of two evils might just not be liberty.
I was literally going to reply to this pointing out that "protest voters" fit better as the scorpion than MAGA people. The MAGA people didn't know that Trump was an objective disaster. They just thought he would make a disaster for their enemies and leave them alone. The "I'm too left for Kamala" people did know, and they still decided Trump wasn't worth resisting, because they wanted to make their point. Or, as the scorpion said, it's in their nature, and they just felt really strongly that that's what they wanted to do.
And hey, now we're sinking! Thanks. Great.
- now we’re sinking!
  Always have been.
- The “I’m too left for Kamala” people did know, and they still decided Trump wasn’t worth resisting...
  Citation needed. I saw them actually resisting, unlike the liberals who paved the way for Trump's facism. But they claimed it was OK this time, but cause it was the "good guys" doing it.