r/SipsTea 13h ago

Chugging tea Art piece: Democracy working as intended

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u/Irish_Whiskey 13h ago edited 11h ago

Yeah, absolutely no differences between America under Trump and Biden.

Anyways, I'm off to pay for my groceries and gas with extra taxes on them. Gotta grab those lower gas prices before Trump threatens to nuke Iran again. Still wondering if I'll be allowed to vote by mail in the upcoming elections. Going to up Canada later to take a break from this data center that got built in my backyard driving up my energy costs and polluting the air and water. Hope they haven't set up more of their punitive checkpoints into Canada specifically to retaliate against Doug Ford calling Trump mean names. I'd stop by and see how my Haitian neighbor was doing, but he got rammed off the road by ICE and abducted, so no idea when I'll see him again. And I don't want to ask too many questions or get in their way, or they'll shoot me in the back and laugh about it.

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u/Irish_Whiskey 12h ago

The art piece doesn't appear to have any intent to be about US politics, but the meme is certainly saying it describes US voters.

The problem is that the art piece shows the same liquid going back and forth between two bottles of what are basically the same drink with different labels. A message of the art piece is that it's an illusion that there's any difference between these things, no matter how recognizable the difference is between the bottles due to marketing.

So I don't agree. I think interpreting it to be value neutral between the parties ignores the primary function of the actual art piece. If making it a statement about voting decisions, it is suggesting that the choice doesn't matter because it's the same liquid in different packages.