Can you post your political views in the form of a rhyming poem?

meteorswarm , 10 months ago

Down with states and stature
Strive instead to ready
Through direct radical action
Root changes grow fruitful
Refreshed from old ashes
Our society rises
We sow personal power
To free all the people

(This poetic form is dróttkvætt which has internal half rhyme on odd lines and internal full rhymes on even lines)

kozel , 10 months ago

I don’t really care
where the money go
even though you’ve said
that I should have known.

I’m interested in
mechanism of vote
it’s my nerdy thing
just let me enjoy’t.

Let’s use Condorcet,
not FPTP,
even two-round set
is pretty shitty.

'lectoral treshold
I want it to cease
so that we could vote
for minor parties.

Last year you could see
it has real effect
I would be happier
without this deffect.

absGeekNZ , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

There was a young man from Bluff,
Who quite frankly had enough.

Feeling sick through,
With with interchangable red/blue.

With research in hand,
And policy that’s not bland.

This time with great zeal,
This time I’ll vote the colour teal.

cereal7802 , 10 months ago

fucking no!!!

NSFW_alt_send_nudes , 10 months ago

Like tectonic plates, growing apart

With Xitter and Facebook neatly doing their part

The legislature doesn’t really care about me

They get there money and healthcare for free

Meanwhile, we suffer from this polarization

Not just the US, but almost every nation

War, corruption and global warming give me a hopeless feeling

Almost on a daily basis, reading news leaves me reeling

Am I just a pessimist or will we really fail?

Are we watching the apocalypse in slow motion while wagging our tail

ArchmageAzor , 10 months ago

Amidst a tapestry of hopes and dreams, Where human welfare’s more than it seems, Views intertwine, a chorus of care, For freedoms cherished, we stand aware.

Union’s strength empowers the throng, In solidarity, we all belong, Fascism’s shadow we firmly reject, For liberty’s flame, we protect.

Capital’s grasp, we dare to defy, Corporate greed, to the wind we’ll let fly, Oligarchs and the 1% fade from might, Inequality’s chains, we aim to unbind.

Eyes cast beyond, where spying’s unveiled, Privacy’s sanctuary, ever hailed, A symphony rises, the people unite, For a world of justice, we strive for the light.

Sterile_Technique , 10 months ago

Nazis are back and the climate is spent.

I’d love to step up, but I gotta pay rent.

OrganicMeatbag , 10 months ago

Hypocrisy is rampant, my last nerves are plucked.

Both parties with grifters. Our system is fucked.

Mentalities of greed: I got mine, fuck you.

Just toxic words, the politicians spew.

No true efforts in fixing our country,

Their only interests are control and money.

Our country is in deep need of healing,

Putting out the emotional flames we are feeling.

Hoping the people can come together,

To make our future brighter and better.

zakobjoa , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Everything is fucked and burning,
Yet the wheels of greed keep turning,
Big wigs buy their thirteenth yacht,
While 'twixt twelve we share a hut,
This just leaves me with one thing:
“Chop, chop” goes the guillotine.

Tolookah , 10 months ago

Newlines are real tough.
Two spaces and the end make it rough.

Hit enter twice

For space extra nice.

Banana.

gnzl , 10 months ago

Ever since I have been married with kids

My days are too short for me to give a shit

shinigamiookamiryuu , 10 months ago

There are so many politics issues

That I would be here all day

So if you want to know what mine are

Treat this comment as an AMA

Tolookah , 10 months ago

I wonder what you think

Of the old orange dink

Or maybe of the wealth

That is burning the earth in stealth?

My questions may be loaded

And my Rhymes are kind of bloated

shinigamiookamiryuu , 10 months ago

Donald Trump may have tried his best

But I wouldn’t call his reign good

No president for a while withstood the test

They had not been as they should

Since the 2000’s I’ve been around

But they’ve all been meh to me

He’s no different I have found

And that’s fine, it’s a fact of life you see

Tolerating their presence I can do

Sitting through it isn’t a big deal

It’s not like they affect me or you

Presidents are sitting ducks, let’s be real

As for the wealth issue you speak of

Capitalism should add a few rules

Otherwise if push does come to shove

If we do nothing we would be fools

Lettuceeatlettuce , 10 months ago

Anarchism is the way, workers only you should pay.

The rich and wealthy we should eat, nutrition shouldn’t be sourced from meat.

ungrokable , 10 months ago

The picture is crooked by just enough
That you’d need a level to tell.
Every adjustment skews it a little bit more
This is starting to feel just like hell.
If it’s low on the left, now it’s high on the right,
Or it could be the other way around.
If we can’t seem to find a way to agree,
Maybe the piece should just come down.
But we like it’s aesthetic, that much is a fact,
Though we can’t really explain why.
One thing is for certain, we want it displayed,
We just both feel it has fallen awry.
So I’ll push, and you’ll pull, and we’ll stand back and sneer
At the other’s well-meant intentions
As it goes from one extreme to the next
While neither of us pays much attention,
To the fact that the picture itself is what really matters,
Not how it sits on a line.
The whole Earth is slanted on its own axis,
And even beauty is crooked sometimes.

4am , 10 months ago

The simple narrative taught in every history class Is demonstrably false and pedagogically classist Don’t you know the world is built with blood? And genocide and exploitation The global network of capital essentially functions To separate the worker from the means of production And the FBI killed Martin Luther King Private property’s inherently theft And neoliberal fascists are destroying the left And every politician, every cop on the street Protects the interests of the pedophilic corporate elite

(Bo Burnham - How the World Works)