Their Bible talks about farmers leaving the gleanings of their fields for the homeless and the immigrants, meaning God's Will was for immigrants to walk your land and search for food if necessary. WITHOUT GETTING DEPORTED OR SHOT.
I've always been a centrist it's the populist right who have become increasingly selfish, greedy and unable to tolerate others who are not in their tribe. So now I'm called woke 🙄. ...Which is apparently a bad thing.
Same. I was never political. I didn’t pay any attention until Covid hit and I saw the damage that was done his first term. The fact we are here in a second term is just devastating.
Man technically I'm an independent/centrist. In the past 15-20 years I've watched the GOP descend further and further into fascism and now according to those loonies I'm a paid actor or something when I show up to events call them out. It's crazy how much they hate Americans.
I'm not saying that we could achieve some progressive utopia, but given modern agriculture, infrastructure, and supply chain technology, the only reason children are starving is because billionaires want them to.
...and the "poor people should starve" people are people who consider the Bible to be their gospel, you know the book that's filled with "do unto others..." kinds of lessons. 🤷♂️
The establishment has told us since we were children that compassion, sympathy and caring for the less fortunate are communist principles. All done to protect their power and money.
Welcome the world where questioning "Line Go Up" exponentially via grift & theft makes us bigger Communists than Lenin who should be taken out behind Stephen Moore's $1.3M USD Maryland house and shot.
Most of my life I rarely pondered whether I was Left/Right/Whatever, I just thought in terms of ‘Right & Wrong’, but since the 🍊Turd’s ascendancy I’ve discovered I’m Woke, I’m definitely Left & that there is a new Fascism rising. Empathy & caring for others is our strength, & their (MAGA) weakness.
I’m woke. Have been all my life. Still consider myself a moderate Dem. I believe in food, housing, healthcare, education, civil rights, and clean water for all. I believe in saving the planet. I’m a Deist.
But hey, I’m a Boomer Centrist, they tell me I suck. So it goes…
Nah you don’t suck. (There are a few too many ‘Give me everything I want or nobody gets anything’ type voters out there. You know, the ones who say Kamala was a ‘bad candidate’ & that it’s HER fault Trump is President, again? I can’t even with them. I’m a Gen X moderate, so I must suck too) 🤔
Is this when we use the childhood "I know you are but what am I?" at them? I got called a Nazi yesterday for advocating for the constitutional right to due process. These folks seriously aren't very bright.
I think you can tell the difference depending on whether you think it's "only" a moral obligation (which makes you empathic) or you think that a society without starving people is better for everyone, incl those who aren't starving
Name calling is trendy. Right, left, or woke one should fit in the square, apparently.
I don't fit any square I never will.
I'm a decent, honest caring human. That's it. Educated and knowledgeable, room for improvement.
I'll continue to walk my line and not fit in.
I'll continue to look for goodness
I think that what made the difference in the past was that the rich realised it was cheaper to allow the poor to live so they could work. Now the super-rich have no such calculations.
I am explicitly far left. And this sort of thing is *foundational* to far left thought. It's the literal antithesis of the imperial and fascist trajectories most western countries are currently on.
I'm not indifferent to this argument but Americans spend about $200 billion a year feeding the hungry and that excludes foreign aid (what's left of it) and that support comes from all political corners.
Correct. The rich always wind up on top, trying to squash/control everyone else. Eventually they get removed (often in ways that are bloody), and for a while things are okay. Then the pattern starts all over again until the rich are on top.... Over and over and over.
American conservatism is essentially liberal—until there's one deal-breaking issue that halts the conversation. Usually something moral, tribal, or imagined. Then the bridge burns.
the overton in america is so far rightward that the conservative corporate military police state supporters who beat student genocide protesters with all their new cops was the "left" choice
someone should be along to blame all this fascism purely on 2024 voter blocs tho
They automatically call us the far left because they are at the extreme.
It's mildly left to be a social Democrat and expect a correctly taxed upper classhelp pay for social services for any country. Public education and health care the two most important needs "for the people" #OntPoli
They watched mad max and said, hey I wanna be like the bad guys. The only problem is after one day they would go., this isn't fun anymore, where's my recliner??? Too late!
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God is happily welcoming you back ... anytime.
No, not to those christo-fascists. They are fake.
(He does some weird trickery to get us back on track. Tell me!)
I'm also an atheist. We don't believe in deities. They are illusions created by 1) desperate people, 2) those who need some explanation for things they don't understand, and 3) people in power who need an easy way to control everyone else.
What created all the animals you like to take pictures from?
The "Force of Nature" maybe?
I call it "God" and talk to it. And my religion helps me a little bit with that. Religion has lots of practice / experience to offer.
Humans are spiritual beings. They want to believe in something.
Economy, politics, science, etc. do not provide answers in this respect. Religion does it. Not saying they are perfect or that they can't be misused. But that applies to anything, right`?
- the "god" of money is not going to save us. (is more of a devil anyway.)
- the "god" of science neither. (lots of responsibility for messing up)
The "god" of democracy is failing right now.
Yeah, let's talk about ... illusions ... and your 1. - 3.
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The closest I come to reviving my belief is when I’m condemning all those bastards to eternity in flames. Then I remember oh yeah, I don’t believe in all that.
Yes, poor people don’t deserve to starve. Particularly when we have the means to prevent their starvation and the alternative is to allow food to spoil and go to waste.
What the right calls "far left" is ideologically closer to Reagan-era conservative, than to even being progressive, we've regressed more than we have progressed.
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*Anti-deep state, anti-corporate, anti-globalization, anti-war, anti-pharma, anti-surveillance, partial to natural medicine & food, & worried about over-population.
"I grew up poor, so white privilege isn't real."
But they've given in to their hatred for DEI, and now programs that helped them survive are gone.
Their "sempathy" will change as they see the things they care about dismantled.
It’s about how that is achieved.
*By this I mean the media.
But hey, I’m a Boomer Centrist, they tell me I suck. So it goes…
I don't fit any square I never will.
I'm a decent, honest caring human. That's it. Educated and knowledgeable, room for improvement.
I'll continue to walk my line and not fit in.
I'll continue to look for goodness
You would reach more people, when you add a good description into the Alt-text field.
That is pretty easy, especially, when your image just contain text.
This way, you support visually impaired people and everyone else, who rely on a good filled Alt-text.
#accessibility
Painful to watch others suffer. Especially those that never had a chance.
Ten years ago and moved Right for security and $$$
The far left would vote for Jill Stein.
2022
https://www.editorialboard.com/should-the-democrats-claim-a-middle-ground-thats-emerging-between-gop-putinists-and-the-anti-american-american-left/
How many more days until you are no longer muzzled?
someone should be along to blame all this fascism purely on 2024 voter blocs tho
It's mildly left to be a social Democrat and expect a correctly taxed upper classhelp pay for social services for any country. Public education and health care the two most important needs "for the people" #OntPoli
One question to ask them is, Are you in favor of crime? Almost everything Trump is doing is against the law.
And if appropriate ask, Are you a follower of Jesus? Nothing being done comports with the Gospels.
God is happily welcoming you back ... anytime.
No, not to those christo-fascists. They are fake.
(He does some weird trickery to get us back on track. Tell me!)
The "Force of Nature" maybe?
I call it "God" and talk to it. And my religion helps me a little bit with that. Religion has lots of practice / experience to offer.
Economy, politics, science, etc. do not provide answers in this respect. Religion does it. Not saying they are perfect or that they can't be misused. But that applies to anything, right`?
- the "god" of money is not going to save us. (is more of a devil anyway.)
- the "god" of science neither. (lots of responsibility for messing up)
The "god" of democracy is failing right now.
Yeah, let's talk about ... illusions ... and your 1. - 3.
☺️
I know my stances are the same they were when they were still labeled liberal right, mut now every political compass tells me I'm liberal left 🤷♂️
That made me tired.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/opinion/trump-usaid-evangelicals.html