• peto (he/him)
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        464 months ago

        Their problem with daesh isn’t their politics or methods, just that they aren’t Christian.

          • @[email protected]
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            Oh that’s so not true. Vast majority of Arabs, especially in Syria, Iraq, Iran, and that region in general identify themselves as Caucasians/white

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              Anyone who’s been to the region can attest to this. While I was in iraq and kuwait most people I saw would be considered “white”. The only exceptions are people who work outside under the sun because tans exist.

              Here is a picture of Shayma Qasim an iraqi beauty queen. I’m dutch/irish/italian and I’m darker than her and considered white.

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                C’mon back in the day even the Irish weren’t considered white and they are some of the palest mf around.

                • teft
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                  Evidence #35910 in the case of race is a social construct.

              • @[email protected]
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                Back in college I had a few Iraqi, Syrian classmates (great fellows by the way). They used to always identify as Caucasian race every time the question would arise

                • @[email protected]
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                  I mean, it’s literally in the name. The Caucasus region is in the general vicinity of a lot of predominantly Muslim-Arab countries (in modern times, of course). One could argue that they have more claim to call themselves Caucasian than most white Americans do because it’s really doubtful that the majority of the white-skinned people in America who do identify as Caucasian actually bothered to trace their family origins all the way back to the Eastern Europe/West Asia region.

                  I 100% thought Caucasian was just a fancy/politically correct word for “White” when I was growing up until someone educated me more on it.

                • @[email protected]
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                  You open for feedback / alternative viewpoint on one particular part of your comment?

                  Just a friendly internet stranger helping others reduce micro-aggressions in their everyday language.

                  Edit: what’s with the down votes…I’m literally asking for consent to give feedback on something in the post instead of just jumping to the worst possible interpretation / most uncharitable way of reading what someone says.

        • @[email protected]
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          53 months ago

          I.e it’s not a method that puts them in control. You can very much bet if things were more Islamic here that’s exactly what they would be pushing instead. It’s not about god, it’s about control.

          • peto (he/him)
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            13 months ago

            For the politicians and leaders sure. For the rank and file useful idiots like those pictured? It’s tribalism, and the tribe is very much Christian.

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      The most telling part of all of it was from Trump’s first term where they interviewed some one who was upset with Trump and the response was “he isnt hurting the people he is suppose to”

      They dont care because they will believe they are the good ones until they are against the wall

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      103 months ago

      This, but also:

      Frequently claims to ‘not watch the news’ and/or ‘is not interested in politics’

      Almost exclusively acts in ways that are motivated by desire for attention, moreso than any kind of logical basis

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        43 months ago

        ‘is not interested in politics’

        The one thing people that say they’re “not into politics” or “don’t like talking about politics” looove not shutting the fuck up about is politics.

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      They hate what they’ve been told to hate, and love what they’ve been told to love. Any similarities or differences between the two are irrelevant to them - they don’t even think to look. These aren’t people exploring their options and picking what looks best to them, they’re just doing what they’re told, and thinking they’re smarter for it.

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          I probably will. They know I think it after many discussions but I haven’t said it. They are so dug in they won’t change or actually hear me. I’ve publicly called out their covid is a democrat conspiracy Facebook posts and unfriended (before leaving Facebook myself). I have told them to remember that I warned them 12 years ago that they are going down a path that’s on the wrong side of history

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            “Loyalist” would probably hurt more. Especially once you remind them that the loyalists were fighting against the patriots, thereby excluding them from being patriotic Americans.

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      Seems likely it’s similar. Aquote from a book I think everyone should read has been stuck in my head for years:

      In the years of its rise the movement little by little brought the community’s attitude toward the teacher around from respect and envy to resentment, from trust and fear to suspicion. The development seems to have been inherent; it needed no planning and had none. As the Nazi emphasis on nonintellectual virtues (patriotism, loyalty, duty, purity, labor, simplicity, “blood,” “folk-ishness”) seeped through Germany, elevating the self-esteem of the “little man,” the academic profession was pushed from the very center to the very periphery of society. Germany was preparing to cut its own head off.

      By 1933 at least five of my ten friends (and I think six or seven) looked upon “intellectuals” as unreliable and, among these unreliables, upon the academics as the most insidiously situated.

      Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45

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      That is the problem. For the first time in human history these stupid people have a medium where their caterwauling can drown out sane reasoning.

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      It’s easier to gun down people when you don’t have the mental facilities to think twice about it. There’s a reason morons and idiots always end up infesting authoritarian regimes.

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        Infesting? Or become tools of?

        Those pushing for this are hoping the stupid people jump on board.

  • @[email protected]
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    563 months ago

    I think a lot of this is just provocation. “I’m gonna put this on a T-shirt to own the libs.” I doubt they are even thinking about what it means.

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    553 months ago

    “Surely the leopard won’t eat our faces,” thought the women. “We’re white and Christian after all.” But what they never knew was that their Messiah didn’t care.

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    Sadly, the cult followers aren’t intelligent enough to know what they’re promoting. You could put his face on any slogan and they’d wear it, stick it on their truck or hang it from their house.

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      64 months ago

      and some of the cult leaders, who are intelligent enough to know what they are preaching, are taking advantage of the fact and make them do that !

    • @[email protected]
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      14 months ago

      Seeing you write the words “truck” and “hang” so close together just amazed me that no one has come up with a way to make Trump truck nuts yet.

        • @[email protected]
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          33 months ago

          That Trump nuts kit is exactly what I pictured in my head. I tried to get a few different AIs to make an image of what I was thinking, but struck out. Glad reality is even more ridiculous than fiction!

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          Imagine being so Christofascist that you cannot accept that LGBTQ+ individuals have the same basic rights to exist as you do, while also being unable to resist whipping out your credit card so that you may soon be able to handle a set of your very own TrumpNuts™.

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            I think the whole reason those people exist is because critical self-reflection is beyond their capabilities. They are fueled primarily by ignorant hatred.

  • @[email protected]
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    Fascists are so ugly and stupid. Ew. A rock is smarter. My goldfish from middle school was smarter.

    If only they knew how much Trump doesn’t care about them. I mean, even if someone told them, they wouldn’t understand the words.

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    Why are they so god damn stupid? I mean it, these people are the stupidest, dumbest, most idiotic morons I’ve ever had the displeasure of coexisting with. Jesus Christ…

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    Democracy is increasingly unpopular because the people who broke it say it can’t possibly work

    And unfortunately a lot of weirdo losers believed those freaks

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      Democracy is increasingly unpopular because the people who broke it say it can’t possibly work

      well put. and the people who broke it did so because they insist it never works (for them); it not working - for them - is actual evidence that democracy is functioning. They simply cannot accept that their ideas are bad, their platform polarizing, their attempts at reassurance outright ghoulish (only a day one dictatorship, it can be bloodless if the left lets it happen, etc.,) - and since they can’t have their way with a popular vote, they’ll choose tyranny, no debate, no hesitation.

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        Exactly. I’m firmly convinced that this is the ultimate goal of decades of Republican obstructionism. They get what they want or nothing happens. And what they want is never helpful and they don’t actually do much of what they do want when they can. Repeal and replace never happened. They just obstructed. How many people decided after that that democracy can’t work? I do not believe newt Gingrich believes in a republican or democratic system of governance. He wants a fucking oligarchy or dictatorship. As has all who followed him.

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      Republicans really do not give a shit about democracy. They’re absolutely fine with the idea of a dictatorship, as long as they think it’ll benefit them and hurt the people they hate.

      When you start to understand this, a lot of what they do makes sense. It’s why they were fine with McConnell refusing to confirm a supreme court nominee in the last year of Obama’s presidency but cheerfully confirming one in the last year of Trump’s term. They know its hypocritical, and they applaud it. To them, this is what “Winning” means; it’s about getting their way. That’s all that matters.

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            When you start to look deeper into the 2025 stuff you realize that so many of them will not only be impacted just as brutally as everyone on the liberal side. If you aren’t the right version of Christian you aren’t any different than any other religious or non religious group. If you are a woman you will lose even more rights to the point you can’t vote.

            They are literally supporting their own demise. In any other context that is a sign of an irrational and potentially broken mind. But in politics they are free to destroy themselves and us along with it cuz it’s too much to ask for basic competency.

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      Considering how often I have heard, “why can’t the president just [thing that is not within presidential powers]?!” in my life, I think a lot of people believe presidents already are dictators.