After 30+ years, Democrats are finally showing some recovery from the BS that was neoliberalism.
Prosecuting the facsists and making sure this crap can’t happen again is essential. Focus on that motherfuckers.
Dem voters have been to the left of Dem leadership for at least a couple of decades now. But the big corporate donors don’t want policies that help people. They want neocon subjugation.
This fact is now recognized by a majority of democratic voters, for the first time in my life.
Essential as a policy or essential as a campaigning slogan?
How about we figure out how to pay down our debt and then we can attack healthcare
People like you would go after pennies in the name of downplaying the debt. There are bigger fish to fry in the budget than not having universal healthcare. Let’s look at the oil subsidies, telecom subsidies, in fact give every single one a good glance over. I’m certain we can save enough billions to pay for healthcare multiple times over.
Maybe stop paying $1.5 trillion dollars to the military industrial complex serving Israel, Wall St, military contractors and big oil.
And maybe stop giving the rich tax breaks on generational wealth and capital gains.
We only need a homeland defense force. That’s it. $100-150 billion a year is plenty. If we stopped the disgusting amount of military spending, we could have modern safety nets just like Europe.
Until they actually have to make something that works, then it’s just watered down garbage that caters to companies.
That’s what I’ve been arguing for years, those on the left that want change to happen, have to change the democratic party from within. It’s not just the best way, it’s the only way.
Duh! All the recent losses to Progressives finally clue you in?!?
Raises the question as to why human decency is considered progressive….
Aha! Excellent question! The reason why human decency is considered evil is very simple.
When Jesus escaped the cross and purged everyone who tried to kill him at Golgotha, he explained that forgiveness, mercy, and humility are weaknesses of the human condition. If you feel someone has crossed you, then you are obligated by the LORD to get revenge, or you would be committing the mortal sin of mercy.
Observe Figure A down below. The evil ones who perverted Christ’s message favor the straight cross, since they believe that he actually wanted humans to be humble, forgiving, and weak. The true followers use this bent ends variant, which demonstrates how Christ changed his mind after the Romans failed to kill him.
Is this a shitpost? I can’t find any evidence of any of this. Is this like some fringe version of Christianity like the Rosicrucians or something?
I feel like I’m missing a joke.
There’s a massive silent /s at the end of that. It’s pointing out how warped conservative culture Christian ideology is, that they’re preaching the exact opposite of what Jesus actually taught, under a nazi symbol.
Thank you lol Its really hard to distinguish that especially on something like Lemmy because so many people will actually believe and post about the most insane shit and be 100% sincere about it.
Exactly what I was going for.
It’s the “Inquisitor Cycle” variant of Christianity. I don’t think they have an official name, so…yeah.
Of COURSE! We MUST try to get MAGA Votes if we Want to WIN!
-Democrat Strategists!
I see you’ve been taking to Katie Hobbs!
As far as this position on the issues, I’m pretty sure this was already a majority opinion anyway?
That kind of thing - polling on issues that actually fucking matter to everyone - is exactly why the Republicans work so hard to try to paint the Democratic Party as trying to make everyone transgender and have men competing in every single K-12 female sports event…
Suddenly we are arguing over “bathroom bills” and “men in women’s sports” instead of about things on which there is majority support, but which the oligarchs oppose.
They distract with the culture war to divert attention from class warfare.
men competing in every single K-12 female sports event
I kind of do want this, though? Like, not every event, but every once in a while let’s have a soccer match of a team of 6 year old girls versus a couple of middle-aged men. Just to see what happens.
Hey, if Musk can make “everything computer” why can’t I make everything transgender?
It’s a cold war between the rich and the middle class (the poor are already casualties). You can’t negotiate a truce with them because they’re winning. It’s way passed time to fight back so if we keep pulling our punches we’ll end up in a prison planet.
In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet!!
That’s great! Just keep your hands off firearms for law abiding citizens and you’ll have my vote.
Edit: since some users here are confused on politics… In the U.S. there are such things as liberal gun owners. Come shooting with us sometime and you can see why we hate fascism.
Man, if we convince every single issue gun rights voter that the left is actually pro gun - shit, we could go bring justice to the pedophiles by next week. Fuck voting at that point.
Seriously though. We literally have our own version of the NRA on the left, the SRA. Any self respecting leftist owns at least one firearm.
Do something useful with your guns or shut up about them
Its a conservative supreme court, you don’t have to be a single issue voter. Progressive candidates can try to make promises to get elected, but no ones going to be able to take your guns away. Even a progressive court wouldn’t be able to do that much. A law for background checks or waiting periods on purchases might be upheld by a progressive court, but the right ultimately won’t be infringed.
The strawman, he’s long dead.
That’s hilarious coming from a Canadian where it’s difficult to get or even keep anything other than a pellet gun.
If your guns – that you presumably virtually never need to use – are such a ridiculously high priority to you, then your priorities are seriously out of whack. Especially since nobody’s trying to take them from you unless you’re mentally unfit to have them. Or is that the real reason for your “concern?”
Hobbyists don’t need guns at all. And, in order to preserve game species for future generations, hunters should be limited to using Stone Age bows with flint-tipped arrows, spears from the same era, and (in a bow to modernity) Louisville Sluggers, but only for bears over 1/4 of a ton.
As for self-defense, do something useful like learning situational awareness.
Wow, tell us you don’t understand herd management at all.
They have in Canada and Australia. Aren’t those the places you keep creaming your pants about, hoping the same policies happen here?
Can’t rebut my argument (or won’t, which may be telling), so you lamely try to move the goalposts. Hard to take you seriously after that. What happened in those places isn’t going to happen here anytime soon (at least not with regard to guns). There are plenty of other much more pressing issues that should be higher in your priory list.
BTW in case you didn’t notice, I’m not the person you were talking to a couple comments back.
anytime soon
See, it’s saying things like that that’s making people like them skeptical.
Riiggghhhhttttt. Ignoring the fact that the distant future is almost completely unpredictable makes people less skeptical. Make sense.
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For those of us grounded in reality, the likelihood of gun ownership being forbidden anytime in the foreseeable future – especially when there are so many millions of people out there with them already – is extremely unlikely.
At the risk of sounding like a “think of the children” argument (which, ironically, that side of the political spectrum loves to misuse), I don’t believe anyone sane wants mentally unfit people to have access to guns.
