deepseek tell me about aipac
deepseek tell me about aipac
Not really much to bulldoze
Well, there’s some left after the decades of Trump’s predecessors chipping away from it, then democrats barely building any back due to fear of alienating moderate republican voters.
The only thing really left to bulldoze is to tax the ever living shit out of these ‘churches’ and make it official.
Then we bulldozing the churches right back
So? The Founders weren’t Perfect (except when it came to Defending School Shooters, then they WERE Perfect!)!
Mandatory Church attendance?
We’re already paying to subsidize churches without taxing them, including the ones that keep getting caught trying to hide clergy guilty of SA from law enforcement
https://www.keranews.org/news/2024-08-05/north-texas-pastors-step-down-amid-controversies
Multi-year investigative reports out of 2023 in Illinois, 2024 Maryland, etc
Remind me to get a technicolor coat if so
He doesn’t have to bulldoze it, Biden already paved the way.
Over like 50 years of politics he never showed away from saying “god” drove him and he follows Catholic teachings…
It’s almost definitely why he did absolutely nothing to protect abortion rights.
When’s the last time you heard a Dem talk about removing “god” from our money? Or any other part of our government?
If you don’t look religious, you won’t get elected.
Is it Cherry season?
This “All or nothing” bullshit helped put that asshole back in office, and it needs to stop.
Harris got shit on because there was always MORE she could have done. Simply not being a rapist felon should have been more than enough to win that election, but we kept nit picking about everything on our wish list that she couldn’t do, and helped convince the country that she wasn’t good enough for us, and now look where we are. We got NOTHING on our wishlist and are likely to lose a lot of what we had before.
A full blown anti-theist candidate would scare too many people. They would be even easier to vilify than Biden or Harris. We need to take little steps in the right direction, not just sit and watch democracy fall apart because the only person who could have stopped it “didn’t threaten to bomb Israel enough” or “never mentioned changing what gets printed on the money”.
Like a child that throws a tantrum about not being able to get two desserts, so they get nothing at all.
Honestly, we’ve had the “little steps in the right direction” off and on for eight decades now. Look where it’s gotten us.
- When was the last time a powerful politician gave a damn about the poor rather than going on about the “middle class”?
- Where have all our Unions gone?
- Has the federal government ever done anything even approaching the scale of change needed to address Climate Change?
- What’s happened to our infrastructure?
- Where has our freedom gone? Has it taken peace with it when it left?
We’ve already lost everything that could be said for the United States being good, setting aside any claims of greatness entirely, and have lost almost everything that would qualify it as decent. The politicians have realized they can get the votes of some of the people who want change by branding themselves incrementalists and then putting indefinitely many increments between what we have now and meaningful change.
Contrast with history. When has incrementalism ever worked for us? We got the New Deal from one President who knew how to lead. He didn’t give us a 1/2*Xth measure of making the American economy work for the workers. No, he got as much as possible then died wanting to do more.
I won’t disagree with really any of that, and I’m not completely against the idea of total revolution, but revolution requires people.
In November, 30% of people didn’t bother to vote at all, and another third voted for fascism.
How bad will it have to get before people care?
How much worse than THAT, will it take to get MAGA to realize they fucked up?
At that point you might have enough people to actually do something, but also the restrictions on freedom will have gotten stronger, and there will be strong measures in place to prevent dissent.
It may be inevitable, but I don’t want to live in that country. And if I can hold it off long enough that my children don’t have to live in it, maybe they can turn things around. I see a lot of potential in these kids. They can do a lot of good once the Boomers die off.
Let’s slow the bleeding as much as possible before going straight to amputation.
I appreciate that you’ve got some hope for our rotted out system. I don’t. The only hope for the future I see is a present in flames.
That being said, while I don’t think there’s any hope of reform the point I was making was that incrementalism has brought us tRump while bold action, not even revolution, almost a century ago staved off fascism for this long. If I’m mistaken and reform is possible I find it wholly inconceivable that it would be brought by the incrementalists, rather it would come by some stroke of luck that someone like Sanders… probably a bit harsher than him would attain high office and force positive change like FDR did.
I don’t think anyone wants the conditions of a revolution or the immediate aftermath thereof but it is a question of how bad would that be in the short-term verses how bad will it be in perpetuity, barring revolution at some later date. As is I couldn’t morally justify bringing kids into this apocalyptic hellscape.
The people of Vietnam rebelled against their French overlords with effectively nothing but their chains to begin with and then fought off a superpower to keep their independence. The people of Cuba deposed a fascist tyrant from similar destitution. It’s not easy but it’s entirely possible no matter how totalitarian the state is.
Yeah… I liked his God stuff. I thought it made the party more relatable. Have any Dem presidents not mentioned being Christian ever?
I don’t think so. They’d be too afraid of being labeled a heretic. The most common position seems to be “I’m religious, but not THAT religious.”
Dude, this been going for decades. But it’s all Biden’s fault, of course! How did I not see that?
Trump is responsible for his own actions. Not Biden. Not the Dems. Trump. But keep crying, it’ll change reality! For you, at least…
Wrong everyone knows time started in 2021 when Joe Biden got sworn in
/s
In the beginning there was biden?
