If you think your church is doing good work, you give.
The church I grew up in closed for lack of funds. The preacher never lived large, they weren’t taking more than people wanted to give.
I would never give money to a mega church, but I have donated to UU churches as an adult.
Ameancow said it better, but I wanted to add that new York could be hit with a hurricane next year. Or a terrorist attack like 9/11. Neither of those are likely, but if it happens, Mamdani wants help from the feds and if trump is threatening to kill him every week that becomes harder.
Average maga voter wants to deport 15 to 30 million people. Yeah, there are nowhere near getting what they want.
This is heartbreaking as a trans woman. I remember living as a man. It was hard in a lot of ways. Then I learned how women have it hard. I can still have empathy for men. I walked in their shoes as a younger person.
True, my apologies to Charlottesville and VA.
We thought the same thing with Bush and the reublicans in his day, and then the Tea party happened. We thought it again with the Tea Party. Then Trump happened. I think the tiki torch guys from Charlottesville are more likely to take over the party than to slink back into the shadows.
Republican politicians aren’t leading their base into the crazy, they are holding the crazy back from the rest of us.
They are some bastards. We only know about what they were, but let’s be real, they still are.
He dropped defund the police from his platform back when he was campaigning. Did you miss that?
There is no one who could fight the feds in a civil war right now. They want domestic violence, riots, that they can crack down on to take more power and train people to accept domestic occupation.
Wars require combatants. The troubles in Northern Ireland was not a civil war, and the IRA was far more organized than anything that exists now here in the states.
They want a fight because they think they can win.
Well off working man warns the capitalist class the consequences of stiffing the working class.
One theory is that golden honmoon isn’t what Celine says it is. Celine was in the Sunlight sisters, their honmoon was gold because… Sunlight is golden. Huntrix finally stopped chasing last generations dream with the rainbow honmoon, but no honmoon is ever permanent.
We will see if the guardrails hold again.
Superdelegate have never swayed a primary. Not once. And since the blowback from the 2016 primary, they have changed the rules to ensure that they will never subvert the will of the voters.
The idea that there was some groundwell of support for Bernie that was discouraged from voting at all because the meanie superdelegates had announced who they supported is baseless. Bernie could have faught it out if he got more votes than Hillary. All those governors and former office holders that had those votes had not cast them yet and pledging to support a candidate is not the same as casting your vote at the convention. They might have thought twice about supporting Hillary if she was only getting 48% to Bernie’s 52. That would have been an actual thumb on the scale.
We will never know, because the primary voters wanted Hillary, just like the general election voters.
Fucked over the homeless in Cali, thrown trans people under the bus rhetorically.
He’s not wrong that he has signed a lot of legislation protecting trans Californians, but he’s been going into right wing talk show spaces and nodding soberly saying yeah, you have some good points about their moral panic about us.
Millennials are getting more conservative as they age, at least in the US. We thought this might be true during Trump’s first term when the age gap in voter behavior was so large, but millennials were delayed in reaching the wealth milestones like homeownership and to a lesser degree childbirth. We weren’t shut out entirely.
As millennials reach their peak earning power we will get more conservative still. The fact of the matter is that being poor shortens your life and being rich stunts your empathy. Individuals don’t change their politics much. As time passes the poor die off from the generational cohort and leave the rich conservative assholes.
Wealth concentration to the rich will push each succeeding generation left as a greater proportion of people are locked out of wealth accumulation, but that has a few generations to go before the limits and a tip into facism is always possible as we see right now.
Animation like that cannot be rushed.
All the good will in the world would collapse before the mathematical reality of single member districts.
Ranked choice voting can be done without amendments, and it might move the needle, but a true multiparty system cannot survive single member districts for representation.
Canada and Britain both have single member districts and functionally 2 party systems. Britain is in flux right now due to the collapse of the conservatives and Labor, but they will shake out with a 2 horse race just like Canada does.
Courts need to start having a plan B for when the legislature refuses to play ball. "Submit the new maps for review or the election happens with the maps from 1999!
States are not involved with collecting income taxes generally.
They could refuse to collect income tax from state employees, but that’s only a few billion if all blue states did it.
Yep, this is what they want. All cost of college but for an extra 12 years.