Duh! All the recent losses to Progressives finally clue you in?!?
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2026
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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.
Exactly what I was going for.
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.
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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?
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.
And therein lies my hope.
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!
Don't worry, theres still plenty of time for the democratic party/DNC to fuck everything up in favor of the republicans-from-40-years-ago democrats.
THESE are the Things that Democrat Voters WANT and will WILLINGLY vote for? Well I GUESS we have NO Choice but to TRY and Court MAGA votes!
-James Carville!
It should just be the progressive party. I'm so done with the bullshit that changes nothing of the status quo that everyone is unhappy with.
This is the best time for it to be implemented. The next president will have the biggest opportunity to make huge sweeping disruptive changes. I just don't think the democrats have the balls to force it like they will be able to with the sweep.
Prosecuting the facsists and making sure this crap can't happen again is essential. Focus on that motherfuckers.
I am sure they just mean democratic voters not actual democratic candidates.
Democratic candidates will campaign on retaking both houses and then promise to work across the aisle for common sense tax reform.
Our oligarchs still largely fund politicians, so our politicians naturally tend to favour the belief system of their funding.
In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet!!
Essential as a policy or essential as a campaigning slogan?
Wait are they seriously listening finally?
No this is just the people saying it not leadership saying/part of the dems platform
Because nothing could be more objectively and obviously true
Yeah they see it, but the standard Democratic politician will not do shit about it. Vote for the Progressives.
After 30+ years, Democrats are finally showing some recovery from the BS that was neoliberalism.
I can't access this site because of a Datadome block.
I'll give you the first paragraph of each section.
Introduction
Liberal Democrats now make up a clear majority of their party and view universal healthcare, greater abortion access and higher taxes on the rich as essential political positions, underscoring how Democrats have moved leftward in recent years, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
String of Victories
Insurgent left-wing candidates this year have racked up a string of primary victories over more centrist Democrats, many of whom were backed by the party establishment. They have gone beyond New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's election last year in a deeply liberal city to vie for office in more politically divided states.
Divisions on Israel
Only 16% of Democrats support military and economic support for Israel, while 57% oppose it, according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll. Among liberal Democrats, more than 80% said reducing or eliminating that support was either important or essential for any liberal; only 18% said it was not important.
And this is the poll of interest:
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.
The polls have been consistently showing progressive policies have been popular for quite a while. It’s the party that wasn’t going along with the wishes of voters.
While I'm in favor of increasing taxes on the rich if given the option, it's always felt like such a bandaid measure. Our society should be structured in a way that doesn't produce these people in the first place.
Yeah but taxing the hell out of them helps with lowering production of them. The highest bracket tax rates used to be >90%
I'm aware of this. The problem I have is that it basically means they are subsidizing large segments of our economy, making us more dependent on them. More dependence gives them more leverage, and eventually only continues this back and forth we have now.
I still support it, as I said previously. But it's never going to solve the root problems, which are executives and corporations as institutions. They need to be supplanted.
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