#DEMOCRATS ARE RISING

[sher-ee]

[thoughtsbeewild]

Leave of Absence Director still employed?

So going through SOCIAL MEDIA, WHEN I LAST QUIT MY JOB. NOW A SECOND ROUND OF EMPLOYEE'S LEADERS HAS QUIT/RESIGN UNDER THIS EVIL SMILING FACEBOOK BITCH LEADERSHIP. TOTAL OF 10 GREAT TALENTED TENURE LONG TIME WORKERS MEANING 22 YEARS, 17 YEARS, 16 YEARS, 8 YEARS-11 YEARS, ALL BECAUSE THEY WANT TO KEEP THIS NEW HIRE- ONLY 1 YEAR WITH THE COMPANY SELFIE BITCH MADE LEAVE OF ABSENCE DEMONCRAT DIRECTOR HAPPY. THATS FUCKING CRAZY RIGHT? THE ORGANIZATION TRADING OFF TO KEEP PAYING 80K TO THIS 1 YEAR SELFIE MOM DIRECTOR, THATS WHAT THEY CALL A KEEPER..BET HER EX HUSBAND DONT THINK SHE A KEEPER, BUT HER NEW SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH AN EMPLOYEE AT THE ORGANIZATION IS TOTALLY ACCEPTABLE? USA VOTED FOR PEDOHILE AND CELEBRITIES ADVERTISING ITS OK TO DATE EFF A YOUNGER PERSON. BUT DAMN SHE GETS TO GET AWAY WITH SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH AN EMPLOYEE AND STILL GET TO BE A DIRECTOR. WOW WOW WOW WOW..THE WORLD HAS GONE MAD..

MAD...

LOTS OF PEOPLE TALK TO ME , WE WANT THE SAME THING , HER ASS FIRED.

The former organization is MARKETING ONLINE BULLSHIT THAT I CANNOT HIT THAT LIKE BUTTON TO SUPPORT. WHY? THE PEOPLE, LEADERS WHO WORKED FOR THAT ORGANZATION FOR MANY YEARS, THEY TRUST PEOPLE WHO JUST GOT HIRED, SO CALLED TALENT VERSUS YEARS AND YEARS EMPLOYEES LEADERS WHO HAVE DRIVEN THAT COMPANY TO SUCCESS. This President starts posting they were named TOP 100 ORGANZIATIONS TO WORK FOR. BUT NOMINATION WASNT BECAUSE OF THE NEW PEOPLE IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE FORMER PRESIDENTS, EMPLOYEE'S LEADERS WHO LEFT BROUGHT THE COMPANY TO SUCCESS. SO THIS NEW PRESIDENT CANNOT SAY THEY WERE THE ONE WHO MADE IT HAPPEN. TOTAL BULLSHIT

LIKE POLITICS THEY "INSTALLED THE PRESIDENT UNITED OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NOT VOTED BY PEOPLE, BUT WON BY CORRUPTED MACHINE COUNT BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IN HIS BASEMENT.

BUT since this Organization has taken on a NEW PRESIDENT, YA GOTTA WONDER HOW THIS NEW LEADERSHIP STYLE. THEY START PROMOTING ON THIER SITES, ABOUT HOW PEOPLE GOT PROMOTED. I THINK PEOPLE ARE NOT LOOKING AT THIS, WHO DID THEY HAVE TO BE FRIENDS BUDDY BUDDY KISS ASS IN ORDER TO GET THIER NEW PROMOTION AS TITLE DIRECTOR, NEW PRESIDENT, NEW MGR, NEW SUPERVISOR. PEOPLE INSTEAD CLAP BECAUSE US OLD PEOPLE WHO WORKED THIER KNOW THE TRUTH. YA DID'NT GET THIER BY HARD WORKING EFFORTS, YOU GOT THERE BY KNOCKING SOMEONE OUT THE GAME. HOUSE OF CARDS, PEOPLE WHO ARE RUNNING FOR THIS NEW ELECTION, PEOPLE WHO RUNNING FOR STATE GOVERNOR. BEING A NEW HIRE , YOU QUICKLY GOT PROMOTED, TOTAL BULLSHIT.

WHY THE FUCK THIS ORGANIZATION TRUST THIS SELFIE STUPID BITCH MOM DIRECTOR?

ANSWER IS: BECAUSE THEY HAVE A NEW PRESIDENT CEO COO THAT TOOK OVER THE COMPANY. THEY HOLD THE POWER, TITLE AND CONTROL. THIS NEW LEADERSHIP STYLE IS ABOUT TITLE CONTROL AND POWER. THATS WHY THEY ARE GETTING RID OF ALL THE TENURE LONG TIME YEARS OF YEARS SERVICE EMPLOYEES LEADERS WHO MADE THAT COMPANY NUMBER 1 AND THE NEW PRESIDENT PREFERS TO KEEPING NEW DUMBASS PEOPLE TO DO THE JOB AND REMOVE ALL THE OTHER EMPLOYEE'S. THIS FUCKING NEW LEADERS DIDNT BUILD COMPANY TO SUCCESS, THEY NEED QUIT MARKETING THAT BULLSHIT. IT WAS SUCCESS OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND ALL THE WONDERFUL LEADERS WHO MADE IT HAPPEN.

[poisonousquinzel]

"a dude in Texas legally changed his name to "Literally Anyone Else" and he's attempting to run for President against Biden & Trump" [source]

okay, but putting aside the comedic aspect of this, it is concerning the amount of people who are prompted to vote for candidates just because it's funny. I'm not the biggest fan of how his policy about the boarder sounds [Site], but I do implore anyone who is able to vote in the 2024 US election to please research other candidates.

The media is only going to continue pushing the idea it's inevitably going to be Trump vs Biden 2.0 and we have no other options, that we have to vote for Biden again because of Project 2025. Is that whole thing terrifying?

Yeah, fucking absolutely.

But voting for Biden will not solidify our safety from that. Biden is exactly like the rest of them. He always has been. You can't make the lesser of two evils argument when they're both just plain evil.

You cannot say that Biden is even mildly a better choice than Trump when he is currently directly involved in a genocide. That is not some little fucking thing. That in and of itself disqualifies him as a lesser evil. Biden is just as bad as him and he will not save us because he doesn't fucking care.

Cornel West [Site] is an Independent candidate running for President in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia [Site] are running for President and Vice-President as the candidates of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

There are options.

There are people trying to change the corrupt foundation our system is built on, but we have to help amplify them because the mainstream media will not.

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[referencees]

I cannot stand the ‘I won’t vote’ mfs who are still riding atop their high horses raining down their moral superiority over us all, and using the horrors of what has happened in Palestine to justify it all. If any of yall actually gave a single practical shit about the people in Palestine you would be knocking on doors and campaigning for whoever the fuck they put on the ballet as the democratic nominee. Are you really so deluded that you think a Trump presidency wouldn’t be WORSE for Palestinians (and basically every other person on earth)??? You think he won’t allow them to scale their genocide even more?

Anti-voters would rather refuse to participate in an imperfect system than acknowledge the true reality of plans of permanent Republican fascist takeover with Project 2025. Like truly they are a Republicans wet dream. Y’all bitch and moan about everything all day long but when it comes to doing a single thing to change those things y’all can’t be bothered.

If you won’t even consider a solution to a problem unless it is ‘perfect’ you will never have a solution. None of you will EVER find a candidate who passes all your morality checks and can practically be elected and make change. You will have to make compromises with people you don’t like. You will have to work with people you disagree with. Does that suck ass? Yes it does. Has that always been the reality of a functioning democracy???? YES IT HAS. Get off your asses and vote in November.

[galerymod]

How do you think everything could go down the drain?

Just vote for Trump, he'll privatise America completely without those pesky human rights and nonsense like equality before the law.

Is that somehow good?

Yes, of course, if you're rich as shit and your company is then treated like a natural person.

Or you're in the inner circle of the future despot, sorry president!

that doesn't sound so good!

He has said that he will only play the dictator for one day!

This is historically a problem, nobody plays a dictator for one day.

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What has become of the ideals when a man of his ilk without any morals or understanding of the law can become the top candidate of a former Democratic Party? A country without value based on equality and equality before the law can become America, but then China will rise so fast that the rest of our democracy will be dizzy.

China is better at dictatorship and also has all the raw materials and means of production.

America will become the keleptodracy of a nazism obsessed orange hairy old man and his minions and hangers on.

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[nostalgia-tblr]

far be it from me to suggest a diplomatic marriage but what if rhaenyra and alicent marry each other? either it ends the war or it doesn't but if not then at least they'd get to kiss each other on the mouth, right?

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Ryan Burge

Published: May 8, 2024

I've always been a bit fascinated by people who live with inherent tensions in their lives. For example, I reside in a small, rural town that will likely vote overwhelmingly for Trump in 2024—probably by forty points or more. Yet, there are some hardcore liberals here. I know a few of them. They advocate strongly for their beliefs, aware that their efforts might not significantly sway the majority. Many spend considerable time in St. Louis, about an hour's drive away, seeking a cultural environment more aligned with their values.

I’ve written about this before - people who are just in a weird situation. Most notable, I put together a paper about people who both identify as lesbian/gay/bisexual but also say that they are evangelicals on surveys. It was published with the title, “To be of one mind?: integrating an LGB orientation with evangelical beliefs” at Politics, Groups, and Identities. Long story short - these folks are more religious than other LGB people but not quite as active as non-LGB evangelicals.

We have a term for this in political science, it’s called being cross pressured. I consider this piece by Diana Mutz to be one of the foundational works in understanding the concept. The field of religion and politics presents me with a whole bunch of combinations of folks who would clearly fall into this cross pressured category. I wanted to focus on one today that may be the most incongruent - people who identify as atheist or agnostic on the religion question but then say that they are Republicans.

I don’t think I need to provide a huge theoretical justification for why this is a weird combination of factors. The Republican party is basically 85% Christians right now. So to be an atheist who also identifies with the GOP puts you in a really small subset of the population. Let me start by just showing you that - this is the share of Democrats and Republicans who identify as atheist/agnostic over the last several election cycles.

Even back in 2008, atheists and agnostics were much more at home in the Democratic coalition than with the GOP. Twelve percent of all Democrats were atheist/agnostic compared to only 3% of Republicans. Over time, both numbers have increased but the trajectory is completely different. For Democrats, that percentage has risen from 12% to 21% between 2008 and 2022. For Republicans, it’s much more modest - from 3% to 5%. One in twenty Republicans are atheists or agnostics. It’s one in five Democrats. There are four Democrat atheist/agnostics for every Republican.

I think part of the reason for this finding is not the fact that Republicans are just a whole lot more religious than Democrats, it’s that Republicans just don’t like that atheist/agnostic label that much. So, they may be functionally non-religious but they would never want to call themselves a term that they believe to be repugnant like atheist or agnostic. The empirical evidence for that is pretty clear when you limit the sample to people who report their religious attendance as seldom or never and then calculate the religious composition of those low attenders.

For Democrats who attend less than once a year, a majority are nones - 35% are atheists/agnostics and nearly the same share are nothing in particular. That percentage has grown by about ten percentage points since 2008. Only 27% of never/seldom attending Democrats say that they are Protestant or Catholic today.

However, those same figures for Republicans who are low attenders are much different. Among those who are seldom/never attenders, 56% of them say that they are Protestant or Catholic - that’s twice the share as the Democrats. Meanwhile, only 11% of low attending Republicans are atheist/agnostic - compared to 35% of Democrats. Pretty strong evidence here that when Democrats are far from religion, they have little hesitancy in embracing the atheist/agnostic label. Not so for Republicans.

But let me take that a step further and add another question to the mix - religious importance. I calculated the share of Democrats and Republicans who said that they were atheist/agnostic broken down by level of religious attendance and religious importance. This is where my thinking crystallizes quite a bit.

Obviously there’s not much happening in the top right of these heatmaps - those are folks who score both high on religious importance and religious attendance. Almost none of them say that they are atheist/agnostic. The real action is happening on the left side of the graph and the color coding tells a lot of the story. Look at the bottom left square, specifically. Those are people who never attend religious services and say that religion is not at all important. Among Republicans, 33% of those in this box are atheist/agnostic, it’s 58% of Democrats.

Those huge gaps are evident across a number of combinations of importance and attendance. For instance, among those Democrats who say that they seldom attend religious services and religion is not at all important - 40% are atheists/agnostics. It’s only 24% of Republicans in that same square. In fact, there’s not a single combination of these two factors in which a Republican is more likely than a Democrat to identify as atheist/agnostic.

Okay - I think it’s pretty well established that even if you control for other questions related to religion, a Republican is just less likely to identify as an atheist or agnostic compared to a Democrat. There’s some clear hesitancy there. But I was curious about something else - are Republican atheists/agnostics that different politically than the Republican party as a whole? And, just for the fun of it, I did the same thing for the Democrats. The area of inquiry was questions about abortion. That seems like a topic that could be deeply impacted by religious convictions, so I wanted to see if an atheist Republican was less conservative than the average member of the GOP.

The data on this is pretty convincing, atheist/agnostic Republicans are more moderate on abortion across a variety of scenarios. For instance, while only 30% of all Republicans would favor a woman having access to an abortion for any reason, that share rises to 51% of atheist/agnostic Republicans. Only ten percent of the latter group favors a complete ban on abortion, compared to 25% of Republicans in general. On the bottom two abortion questions, there’s a thirteen point gap. Atheist/agnostic Republicans are less willing to support a ban on late term abortions and less willing to favor a prohibition on federal funds for abortion.

There are gaps among the Democrats, too, by the way. Atheist/agnostics here are consistently more pro-choice than the party as a whole. You can see that especially on the question about late term abortions. About a third of all Democrats would support a ban after 20 weeks of gestation, it was only 13% of atheist/agnostic Democrats. My guess is that a lot of Black Protestants and Hispanic Catholics in the larger Democratic sample are skewing the numbers a bit there.

But do atheist/agnostic Republicans actually vote any differently than Republicans as a whole? Yeah, they do. That’s what is coming through when I calculated the vote choice of those two groups over the last four presidential elections. The gaps aren’t huge, but they are certainly noticeable.

For instance, McCain only got 82% of the atheist/agnostic Republican vote in 2008. But, Romney did a whole lot better in 2012. His percentage jumped up to 89%. However, Trump did really poorly with this group in his first campaign in 2016. He only got 80% of Republicans who identified as atheist/agnostic. It’s interesting that the remaining 20% was fairly evenly split between Clinton (12%) and third party candidates (8%). However, in 2020, Trump did much better with this group - getting back to near Romney levels. This may have something to do with the fact that third party candidates were not as viable in that election cycle.

Here’s what I know - there are going to be more atheist/agnostics who identify as Republicans in the future. It’s almost inevitable at this point. A group like the nones can’t get to 30% of the population by just drawing from the same segments of society over and over again. It will have to get more politically diverse in order for it to grow. How can the GOP be hospitable to this group, while still remaining the party of a whole of evangelicals? Time will tell.

I do think that Trump’s posturing on abortion is probably a good strategy in this regard, for what it’s worth. Making it a state’s rights issue is a way to sidestep the larger moral questions at the federal level and letting voters decide in those states is probably a pathway forward that doesn’t turn off many Christian conservatives and likely doesn’t repel the growing number of Republican nones.

[sher-ee]

Rise up people! Vote BLUE.

[nando161mando]

[vintageseawitch]

at this point if you're against Project 2025 while also being republican or libertarian, you're more than welcome to join all of us, liberals, centrists, communists, socialists, & anyone else. our country has an awful system but Project 2025 will rip it shreds in a way that will benefit no one but the ruling class. i know it feels like it's this way now - & in many ways it is - but the kind of state that will be created is not going to be good not just for US citizens, but for people across the world & the environment. Project 2025 is a real threat & needs to be taken seriously. please talk about this with everyone. i won't gatekeep you if you also don't want Project 2025 put in place. literally the only thing stopping is is making sure they don't get the presidency. i hate biden & what our government is doing but i hate trump more. how can anyone be proud of a vile rapist felon being able to run for president is brain rot i will never understand & frankly it's fucking embarrassing. please vote like not just your rights but your life no matter who you are. LEARN, BE ANGRY, & VOTE!!!

[porcelaintoybox23]

There is a time and a place for everything. Right now is NOT the time to be lecturing people on voting for Biden in 2024. I will vote for him next year, but with even more disdain than I did in 2020. “Lesser of two evils” is an option that dies more each day. The problems he was supposed to stop have persisted and now he openly supports genocide. I’m fucking disgusted.

Stop lecturing people when they are grieving and afraid. Humanity doesn’t disappear for an election. The dems need to get their shit together and probably pick someone who hasn’t explicitly supported genocide, but since the senate, including Sanders and Warren, agreed to a “humanitarian pause”, we’re kinda fucked regardless.

No one wants to hear from a white, not Jewish, not Palestinian, person on sucking up their privilege. Shut the fuck up

[green-cargaytions]

why does pete buttigieg have the bluest eyes ever to blue

[thisismenow3]

Jews are not Israel. Israel is an expansionist government committing genocide. There are people both Jewish and not in the country who dont support this. I see too many people backsliding into open anti semitism. And I say backsliding because the way it happens is similar to how people can’t just focus on what’s wrong with Trump and republicans, they have to call them fat, probably self hating queer, etc. Its an ‘ends justify the means’ mentality I think. But the ends never justify the means and part of that is how you go from overly focusing on one form of Zionism (the right wing Christian version that supports reactionary movements in Israel and strife everywhere) to saying all Zionism (even though some forms are merely about permanent safe space for Jewish people) to then saying certain kinds of Jews are the problem to then saying shit like they deserve to be attacked by Hamas and we can’t let a Jewish man be Vice President. Some of y’all were always this but some of y’all are too committed to ends justify the means, here’s a villain I’m allowed to do anything to and your old self would be appalled at what you’re saying and doing now. And some of it is based on whataboutism.

“Well, what about all these Jewish people here who refer to Israel as a Jewish state and say supporting Palestine is antisemitism? They say criticism of Israel is anti semitic!” Yeah, some people suck, but the way they suck is immaterial to your own bigotry. Your example is just someone who is wrong, and your response is to denigrate a whole demographic of people? A whole ass group just for the sins of a few people? Sounds kind of like the bullshit line the Israeli government is trotting out to justify what they wanted to do anyway.

The fuck man

[gaymothman]

if you have been convinced that not voting is the best way to prevent the rigged election of more corrupt politicians or ethically required of you to abstain from participating in the unethical things those politicians do, newsflash that you have been successfully propagandized by the riggers of the system. you are part of the rigging now, and they want it that way, the more people that actually vote, the harder it is to fake and trash those votes. you are more ethically compromised if you know this and choose not to do anything about it. inaction is not abstinence it's just inaction