The sandwich has a point
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2024
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Screw this meme format that perpetuates the normalization and acceptance of christianity. Fixed it.
Would probably flow more naturally and avoid unwanted conversation if you used "on earth" or something else universally experienced instead of "in athieism" which leads to the same problem you were complaining about but from a different group.
I would like to normalize non-belief though.
Sorry if I'm being unintentionally obtuse, this is a genuine question, what's not normalized about it? I can't remember the last time I had a conversation about my faith or lack thereof. Could just be my location and circles I hang out with, but I don't know many people, especially my age or younger, who really care one way or another.
There's so much more to it, but the short version is that a huge portion of this country doesn't consider atheists trustworthy or even properly "American". God is on our money, the bible is used for official government ceremony, most of our public holidays are Christian, the word holiday and tons of others are explicitly rooted in religious culture. In-n-Out has a little bible passage on their cups.
Being openly atheist is a radical position in this country, one that will limit you professionally and socially.
Something that really impressed me with Bernie was that in 2015 he gave a speech at Liberty University.
Liberty is the among the most conservative of conservative "Christian" colleges. As surprised as I was that they allowed him to speak, I was more surprised that Bernie went. I was raised in Christian fundamentalism. I know how hard it is to break down the barriers between you and people who belive you're going to hell for A.) Being Jewish, and B.) supporting 'baby murderin'.
That's a wide gap but he tried to bridge it anyway and find common ground. I thought he did a damn good job. He showed more backbone than any other major player in the democratic party when everyone else thought it was a waste of time to talk to anyone who isn't a "swing state" voter.
It was one of the reasons I voted for him twice. It was clear that Bernie was/is interested in the welfare of all Americans and that he wanted to be president for all Americans. Even ones he might have significant ideological differences with. The Democrats can't whine about their dwindling support when they're too chicken shit to go talk to people in Red states. Trump is and will contibue to be a collosal failure as president, but he proved one thing for certain. The days of the "safe" candidate being a winning bet are gone.
Pretty sure only like 16 Million people voted in the 2024 Primary
Only like 36 Million in 2020
Instead of complaining about how unfair it is why dont people actually try organizing for a candidate and voting in primaries?
Or better yet, just give dems + indie a supermajority and they'll reform voting.
Also, this isn't exactly a fair statement since the primary was declared over before the majority of states even got to participate. Yes there is low turnout sometimes in states that get to participate, but there are many of us who would like to and can't, hence feeling like it isn't exactly a fair or representative process
The Democrats can reform their primary process any way they want any time they want. They are a private organization.
And they are. In Kansas and Hawaii since 2020 they've used RCV for DNC Primaries. Maine, a blue state, also practices RCV for the general election.
On the other hand, many Republicans have directly opposed RCV.
And the majority of these reforms are brought about by Petition, including the ballot measures.
They are, but not nearly enough. The entire primary system is setup to be easily manipulated by the party leadership and their puppets on cable news.
Anyone giving odds on whether or not they'll hold a fair primary in 2028?
There won't be midterms, let alone a 2028 election.
The only way I agree with you is if WWIII is underway. But that's already a possibility even before he takes office.
WWIII is already taking place and has been since at least 2020 and probably 2015. Russia has financed the conservatives for a long, long time. They've been behind the rise in podcasts, tiktoks, and youtube vids to influence the youth juat look at how the day after the election, grade-schoolers were shifting "your body, my choice at girls. They've broken us from the inside.
This time, well be Germany because we'll have the camps, and Russia will be Italy and Japan. It took a world War to break fascism hold the last time.
Tom Walz 2028
They'll just force us all to support Gavin Newsom. It's his turn.
Who is Bernie adjacent? Anyone?
Nah, Newsom is like, pretty cool at times. DNC only does uncool. It will be Pete butt
He supported criminalizing the poor and raising rents just this year. It's not going to go well for him in a national debate.
True and facts. I'm just saying he's marginally better than Pete butt.
He's wildly unpopular outside of his circle of influence. I think he even lost support in CA this year. That doesn't mean they won't try to force him anyway.
He didn't spend all that time vetoing progressive policies and harassing the homeless to sit on the sidelines while someone else runs against Trump's third term.
If anything that kinda lends itself to be more likely, as is tradition.
2008 DNC was oblivious to Obama until the caucuses started, cuz polling (except for one agency) was consistently missing his popularity with first-timers, so they didn’t get much of a chance to stop him.
This was also before Citizens United, so there’s that too…
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