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My 2 pennies: Living in a secular society where religion plays a reduced part on the individual, compared with 50 years ago. People now fill the gaps with other banners to fly and differentiate themselves with.
My perception of the mindset of the typical liberal in the past was that it was more about making change for the benefit of everyone in the country (don’t worry conservatives , this will work out for the best). Now it is more about making change that benefits some at the expense of others (screw you conservatives). In order to push political agendas like this, political opposition needs to be more negatively portraye…
The big ticket, agreed upon progressive priorities are still for the benefit of all: Green New Deal, Medicare for all, accessible higher education. I find it more difficult to find policies for the common good coming from conservatives these days. Does anyone have examples?
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That is an offensive, inaccurate and entirely unproductive comment. We are proposing a wide range of changes that would break or weaken the hold of the two party system in America. Our political system of pure winner takes all regional representation in partisanly gerrymandered districts strongly encourages negative partisanship and decreases the actual voice that voters have in how their country is run.
You can do that and also not date people who are against LGBT rights?
Honestly, the 2016 presidential broke me. Then around 2018 I decided my relationships were more important than being right. For instance, it was our turn to do eldercare (and other family emergencies), so I had to cooperate with my family. Because that's what's best for our mom. I definitely iced out the more toxic individuals (eg "Obama's a Muslim!") who just wanted to fight.
Ask me again in 10 years, after our mom's passed, if I made the right choice.
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Without taking on the challenge of falsifying your claim (I think it’d be pretty hard), I see things a little differently. A key moment in the development of the current conservative mindset was Goldwater’s 1964 campaign, nearly 60 years ago by now. Goldwater (and every Republican who succeeded him) has used the same rhetorical lynchpins: the media cannot be trusted, it’s the coastal elites against the heartland, &c.…
I can see no reason aside from lazy malevolence to downvote your comment woodruffw.
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Without taking on the challenge of falsifying your claim (I think it’d be pretty hard), I see things a little differently. A key moment in the development of the current conservative mindset was Goldwater’s 1964 campaign, nearly 60 years ago by now. Goldwater (and every Republican who succeeded him) has used the same rhetorical lynchpins: the media cannot be trusted, it’s the coastal elites against the heartland, &c.…
Goldwater himself wasn't a fan of the increasing courting of religious folks in the 80s, nor their policies, and leaned libertarian as the years passed.
This would be a good thing if it were true. Politics is not a product where your choice of whether to consume the red, blue, or green thing is an irrelevant expression of your personality or style. It's always life or death, and that fact is disguised when it doesn't mean your life or death. This survey is also corrupted by self-reporting. People like to pretend that they're more tolerant than they are (especially wh…
People on this site like to mindlessly parrot the “we’ve become too partisan and divided these days” narrative, but what are they actually proposing? Oh wait… https://twitter.com/rottenindenmark/status/14326439023229255...
Between not having any idea who the participants are, and the horrid experience of reading Twitter (I presume the intended reading order is quoted tweet > tweet > text in picture?), I have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on. Nor can I be bothered to care for something so irrelevant.
Twitter "discourse" is like a virus, infecting everything it touches.
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No, I grew up going to church three times a week. I believe in God but not religion for the reasons mentioned. All my family is religious. They post the most hateful judgmental things on FB. My one cousin is gay and her direct family won't talk to her because she is a "sinner". I don't see the so called Christians acting like Christ and when they do it is mostly on spreading the word. Even the churches and mission th…
I think it depends on which Church, which cultural groups, what generation etc. I know the "judgemental Christian" cliché, but I also know it to be very much an American WASP (specifically Evangelical, I think?) stereotype.
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No, I grew up going to church three times a week. I believe in God but not religion for the reasons mentioned. All my family is religious. They post the most hateful judgmental things on FB. My one cousin is gay and her direct family won't talk to her because she is a "sinner". I don't see the so called Christians acting like Christ and when they do it is mostly on spreading the word. Even the churches and mission th…
I think it depends on which Church, which cultural groups, what generation etc. I know the "judgemental Christian" cliché, but I also know it to be very much an American WASP (specifically Evangelical, I think?) stereotype.
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People on this site like to mindlessly parrot the “we’ve become too partisan and divided these days” narrative, but what are they actually proposing? Oh wait… https://twitter.com/rottenindenmark/status/14326439023229255...
Not picking on you, but...for how little sense this makes to me, it's practically an inside joke. Between not having any idea who the participants are, and the horrid experience of reading Twitter (I presume the intended reading order is quoted tweet > tweet > text in picture?), I have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on. Nor can I be bothered to care for something so irrelevant. Twitter "discourse" is like…
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>Where are these opportunities If the stats on where most immigrants from foreign countries wind up residing are any indication, not in coastal California or NYC. The people who move to SV or NYC to get rich on tech or finance are generally Americans born to parents who are college educated or credentialed professionals, and you can see this in the demographics of the companies where these people are working and gett…
Silicon Valley tech companies as a whole are 71% foreign-born [1]. Cupertino itself is 57.4% foreign-born [2]. I've been on teams at Google where I was the only U.S. citizen, out of 10 (the others were from Iceland, the UK, Vietnam, Taiwan, 2 India, and 3 China). Canada is another big contributor as well - out of my immediate neighborhood of ~60 coworkers, 5 were Canadian. The largest groups within SV tech are actual…