Attention USA: “When Are More Americans Going to Speak Up?” - Mocking MAGA all day every day is not “Speaking Up” about the mockery, it is being a part of the total mockery. People are unable to be serious.

https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/cory-booker-america-needs-moral-leadership-and-not-political-leadership

“This is a time when America needs moral leadership, and not political leadership.”

“And so as much as we want to point a finger at people who are elected to positions, which is justified, I also want to ask a lot of other powerful people in this country who are remaining silent. We’ve seen what many corporate leaders are doing right now—instead of speaking up and speaking truth, they’re kowtowing for their own private deals.”

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    “Moral leadership”, as he takes money from Israel in the form of PAC money, and only half-heartily voted against some of the arms sent to Israel. Yeah, no thanks. He is still a fake progressive.

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      He is still a fake progressive.

      The problem is that the whole Untied States of America nation is not progressing, it’s going backwards very fast in anti-progress anti-goodness values (I think largely driven by social media mass dehumanization attitudes and Twitter-think values, that Neil Postman was correct in year 1985).

      He is still a fake progressive.

      So would you say it is fair that the entire USA is “a fake progressive nation”?

      “Moral leadership”, as he takes money from Israel in the form of PAC money, and only half-heartily voted against some of the arms sent to Israel.

      I think we need to address the moral leaders of Israel directly, the Torah clergy, the Synagogue leaders, and Palestine too, the Quran leaders, the Mosque clergy. I’m offering !RemedialMorality@lemm.ee Remedial Morality lessons.

      I spent two years in Amman Jordan studying morality of the Middle East socities, and they have a serious problem of preaching hate and dehumanizing of out-groups, "the others’, when they encounter problems. This has been going on for hundreds of years, really thousands of years, and I think it is every person in the world’s civic duty to start teaching them remedial morality and catch them up that you can’t use modern weapons with 3,000 year old concepts of science and compassion.

      “Moral leadership”, as he takes money from Israel

      Why aren’t people listening to Malala from Swat Valley, Pakistan, - she seems a better morality teacher than any of the politicians and clergy people are electing in the Middle East / Levant conflicts.

      “I couldn’t understand what the Taliban were trying to do. “They are abusing our religion,” I said in interviews. “How will you accept Islam if I put a gun to your head and say Islam is the true religion? If they want every person in the world to be Muslim, why don’t they show themselves to be good Muslims first?” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, October 8, 2013.

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      100% this

      The writer of this article can fucking blow me. Let’s stop pretending Booker, Jeffries, Schumer, or any of the dem leadership has any semblance of sense. I’ll give a shit what they have to say when they stop being idiots waving their hands. It’d be nice to see them actually do something.

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        100% this. The writer of this article can fucking blow me.

        So your idea of democracy is that anyone who disagrees and expresses ideas you don’t like should bow down and be your sexual slave and give you blow-jobs as you rule over them? That is Donald Trump’s values of a democracy, being expressed right here on Lemmy social media systems in April 2025.

        Let’s stop pretending … any of the dem leadership has any semblance of sense.

        So the problem to you in USA is “the democratic party leadership”, and no criticism of the Republican Party that is in mass psychosis which nobody is identifying or organizing treatment and education.

        We have hundreds of millions of people in mass psychosis and the denial is as thick as concrete.

         

        “MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL”

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M

        I’ll give a shit what they have to say when they stop being idiots

        So you want them as sex slaves bowing down to you giving blow jobs, you clearly give a shit to dominate and insult American people and call them idiots. But you don’t want to face that hundreds of millions of people are in mass psychosis and don’t give a shit until everyone stops “being idiots” in mass psychosis?

        Do you think if we turn them all to blow-job sex slaves that the situation isn’t gong to keep getting worse as it has every single day since March 2013?

        If you are an American, I can’t comprehend why you feel it is a good thing to take people with brain damage and in psychosis and want to make them your blow-job sex slaves and worsen the situation.

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          “When Are More Americans Going to Speak Up?”

          Preach! PREACH!! Spread the truth.

          is that the truth you are agreeing with, that more American people need to speak up? And not just react-comment and insult Americans, but speak up asserting goodness?

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            Yes, I am motivated by your words, and yes, more American’s need to speak up. Sorry that was confusing.