Huh, I wonder if any of those refugees they keep murdering might have been able to do some work?

I get the sentiment… But what we want is justice… Rape can never be justice… And jokes about raping someone just make you look… gross.

Remember… THEY are the monsters… Not us

Rather pay $600 million to jail them than 600k to help them ~conservatives

Okay, I get this… Hell I FEEL this, even though I only scroll through Lemmy. But let’s say I do want to stay informed, but don’t want it to just be info about the bad stuff: does anyone know of a good source that aggregates all the good stuff people are doing? Like what’s the squad up to? Who’s fighting to take back power from the corporations? Who’s fighting and winning? Who’s inventing ways to stop climate change? That kind of stuff… Not so much the cutsie “I have a crush on my husband” stuff

This is kinda how I feel when liberals keep arguing for Biden. What I hear them saying is “Vote for Biden because at least he’s only making THEIR life miserable… Trump will make MY life miserable! (And I might actually have to start caring!)”

It sucks that people only care about the world’s misery when they are personally threatened, but since that seems to be the way it is, maybe letting Trump make everyone miserable will speed things along a bit/get more people to wake up and fight back?

(Mostly playing devil’s advocate here… I do think we should be trying to stop Trump… Just wish the DNC was trying too)

10-15% of household in the US are “housing insecure”… There’s 127m households… So about 15 million housing insecure families. I think we should go with that. You’re probably right that the 600k is street homeless. Many people are “homeless sheltered” meaning they can couch surf, or the state is putting them in a motel, or whatever.

The “O” face

Forgot medical bills and student loans… Suddenly it’s the 99% 1% 0% rule

Oh good… There’s a list… Let’s make sure we get that list for the revolution

Mental health crisis clinician: dementia is not considered a “mental health” issue

Also, we can’t force people to get help just because they are acting wildly “crazy”… Even if it’s clearly psychosis, mania, etc. Even if the cops are getting called everyday because the person keeps trashing stores or harassing people. (And, in my state, the cops aren’t allowed to arrest them either, BECAUSE the behavior is due to mental illness).

There’s some serious issues with our mental health system in the US.

I think an easier solution would be to expand section 8. The government should have tons of housing units built, and then families can “pay them off” with section 8 funding. Right now section 8 money just goes to slumlords. Instead that money could go to the people who actually need it. This would increase housing supply, so prices would come back down, plus allow people to build equity and ownership in their home allowing them to start raising themselves out of poverty.

I mean… At least a black guy got it, so he can defend himself from, you know, the rest of the church

That seems to be the theory… Any sources for it though? Why are they allowed to be single issue voters, but not progressives? Why isn’t Joe out there saying stop the genocide or we’ll stop all support of Israel, and then sending in the meme team to harass the shit out of pro genocide centrists? Something like “it’s the most important election ever, how could you possibly be thinking of voting for Trump, don’t you know he LITERALLY supports Nazis? So you think Nazis don’t still hate Jews? Don’t you know that not voting or voting 3rd party is basically voting for Nazis??”

Seriously, what are the stats? I just don’t believe there are that many people who would be like “well I was going to vote for Joe, but then he came out as anti genocide, so I guess I’ll just hold my nose and vote for Trump… Sure he’s a Nazi supporter, but at least he’ll keep the genocide going”

You can’t really vote for the Green party in a Democrat primary though. Just as an example.

I do agree the primaries are where these things are really decided and should be taken much more seriously. I’d argue that even more important than that are the elections for Party members. Turning the Party progressive would do more than turning the president progressive, and like 5 people vote in those elections… They are relatively easily winnable for progressives. But sadly most people don’t even know how Party politics work.

I’d also point out that it’s the Dems who are assuming progressives will vote for Biden instead of actually courting them. An awfully big assumption of them for such an important election wouldn’t you say? Don’t be so hard on yourself. If the Dems choose to go after the right instead of the left and it backfires… Again… That’s on them

Illuminati? No… Corporate donors? Yes… Insane to think they don’t

I think the Dems might be working off old numbers. I think there were far fewer progressives in the 90’s, and the party hasn’t caught up with the fact that the majority of the younger generations are far left of them now. Maybe not on social issues, I think the Dems have made a lot of progress there, but fiscally they’re still protecting the interests of the rich at the expense of everyone else.

If they’ve done the research, then let’s see it.

I appreciate you.

To be fair, Joe is 1000% safe in my state, so I’ll likely vote 3rd party, but if you’re in one of the states that actually matters then I fully support voting against Trump (for Biden). I’ll also vote Democrat pretty much all the way down the rest of the ballot, which I’d argue is even more important than voting for Joe.

Oh, little buddy’s got big feelings today… It’s okay big guy, deep breaths

Is it really too much to ask for some evidence that going after the center right is a better move than going after the left? Seems like a no brainer to me… But then again, so do you

Does anyone have any statistics on how many people are likely to vote for Joe because he keeps moving to the right? Like, how many people are ACTUALLY on the fence between Biden and Trump? Compare that to how many people won’t vote or will vote 3rd party BECAUSE Biden keeps moving right.

Seriously, if they’d just come out and say “look, we’ve run the numbers, moving right gets us 10mil center right votes while losing us 1mil progressive votes, but moving left would only get us 5mil progressive votes while losing us 4mil center right votes” I’d get it and support the math. Gotta do it in good faith though… Assume progressives are not supporting Genocide Joe unless he moves left, not that they can be bullied into changing their minds.

We could try to math it. Say you invested $1m into the whole thing. Now you’re doing great and bringing in $1m/yr, but you’re turning people away. In order to make more money you need to hire people. So you hire those 2 you mentioned. You pay them each $100k/yr after benefits and insurance and whatnot. They in turn allow the business to make $1.5m/yr or $300k “extra” after you pay them. You can think of that $300k “extra” as wealth they are creating and then “investing” back into the company. After 4 years they will have “invested” just as much into the company as you ever did, and should probably have an equal say in the decisions, and probably start getting an equal share of the profits.

He should be getting in front of a camera every day and saying “here’s what we’re trying to do. Here’s why it helps you/society. And here are the assholes standing in the way”. And if those assholes are Democrats, kick them out of the party and support a better candidate to run against them.