In my experience here locally, rural area in the southern USA, I haven’t been hearing anybody harping on the Muslim angle in person. Certainly not even a tiny fraction of the amount these people did and still do with Obama. Now, I don’t follow these folks online to see what they’re posting there, so I’m going solely by the comments they are willing to take offline and say in person.
Obviously this is a fickle cult and the boogie-man du jour changes faster than I can keep up, but pretty much since primary season started, they’ve been going hard and heavy with “Communist”. Anything that’s in direct contrast to the Trump and Republican agenda, communism. Every problem in the world is due to communism. Well that’s a lie. But obviously the prior boogie-persons du jour are too (trans, immigrants, fact checking). Everybody that does not like what’s going on in this country is a communist.
There’s a DINO Republican running under the Dem ticket in a district close enough to mine that I get opposition ads online and in streaming stuff – they’re even calling him a woke Communist supporter. The Dems in his area aren’t terribly fond of the guy, his policies are all middle of the road centrist Republican aligned with the exception that he is a staunch Trump opponent. And yet that D beside his name on the ballot is enough that they’re trying to hang those buzzwords around his neck – woke communist.
Having said that, my new number had been added to some kind of seemingly Christian Nationalist text group (presumably prior to me getting it, but who knows?). I didn’t notice for a while because I just ignored the texts. Then one day I was cleaning out all the random mess and decided to look at what was being sent. Yes, those folks are very much anti-Muslim, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see the the “He’s a Muslim” being pandered to that crowd.
they tried that with mamdani, its not working anymore. people, that live in the real world know, that Muslims arent scary. Also its getting very old and overused.
And now on to our most important kitchen table issue: do you condemn Hasan?
…the streamer?
No, the bugs Bunny antagonist.
Hasan CHOP
Dude has become a zio loyalty test.
That’s kinda underselling it lol, he (and his massive audience) actively campaigns and phone banks for lots of leftist candidates. Fox News can’t stop talking about him, they’re terrified (and probably incredibly aroused) by him.
I agree with all the rest except for gas. And not because I want oil companies to keep making huge profits, but rather because our oil based economy is bad for the environment, for us, and in turn, for the future economy. It’s really sad to see politicians from nearly all horizons just promise cheap gas to everyone. We should free as much people as possible from the burden of having to pay for gas in the first place. We should have more affordable public transit and more protected bike lanes and paths, not cheaper gas. Fuck the oil industry. We should starve it, not encourage it.
While I agree with almost everything you’re saying, the reality is that too much of our infrastructure and peoples’ lives are based on gas. Removing gas subsidies and limiting production needs to be preceded by cost effective measures to allow people to move away from gas. This means better mass transit, a more robust electrical grid, more diverse renewable electrical generation and storage, and cost effective sustainable vehicles (both cars and semis.) There is a sharp divide between those that can afford electric vehicles and those who cannot. Those that cannot would be hit double hard by an increased cost of good that are transported by gas vehicles. Gas should be more expensive, but alternatives need to be more viable.
Of all the hypocrisies, I think I’m most bothered by the fact that conservative strategy these days is nearly 100% identity politics
Did you expect them to sell themselves based on their identity and then to come at their competitor with arguments based on ideology? Of course they’re making this about identity.
To an identity hammer everything is an identity nail
Always has been
I keep seeing this “word”, gottem. What does it mean?
Gif:
I think it’s “got them”
I just realized it makes even less sense that I initially thought, it’s ONE person, shouldn’t it be “gottim”?
Just spelling out the mumbling of words, like “gotta,” “wanna,” or “deez”
We already have an apocope for “got them”, it’s got 'em. You don’t add another consonant. I guess people are saving up their apostrophes for all the incorrect “it’s” they sprinkle everywhere.
Dude, don’t be such a nerd.
gotme
Thanks for “apocope”! I learned a new word today! It’s amusing to see such passion in what the correct usage of spelling should be for a word morphed by how it has been spoken. Would we be presumptuous, if not playful, to say that “gottem” in its multisyllabic form is without similar merit as got 'em?
It doesn’t even make sense. “Wanna” means “want to” where the “to” is elided to a final “uh” sound, just like gotta. “Gottem” makes you want to pronounce the T even harder and longer, what’s the point?
“a word morphed by how it has been spoken”
It’s not “a” word, it’s two words. Got. Them. The rule has always been to use an apostrophe, got 'em! Can not, can’t. At worst: got’em. “Gottem” makes no sense.
“Gottem” makes you want to pronounce the T even harder and longer
Yeah, like “bottom!” Er…
Jesus Christ what a thread this started.
I just wanted someone to ask what deez meant
It’s almost like language is this constantly evolving thing that can’t be nailed down to strict rules when spoken/used in the real world.
Jesus, the wealthy should count their lucky stars we only want to tax the motherfuckers.
Speak for yourself, a lot of us want the MoP.
I’ve tried, but I can’t figure out MoP. Not even with the help of the Internet.
Means of Production
Jesus how long have I been on Lemmy yet couldn’t figure that out. For shame me.
Give it time.
I agree with everything El-Sayed is saying with exception to getting rid of data centers. The first data center, in the USA, was built in 1946 and they will continue to be part of the infrastructure.
I think it’s reasonable to interpret the statement as referring to a very particular type of data center.
If by data center, you mean library, then yeah we should keep those.
I am from MI and still have alot of friends family, and aquentinces in MI. I can confirm the lonely, rural, BFE, swear he is a Muslim from Iran despite being a doctor from Dearborn, MI. They are terrified
Good. They should be. Their entire world view on socialism, caring for others, and brown people doing nice things is about to completely implode in real time. Everything they’ve been told, everything they’ve believed, everything they completely commit their every life to is about to change. They may have to gasp have some introspective on how they view the world outside of their bubble.
That must be fucking terrifying.
I read something somewhere… Sometime. The gist of it was that, to some people, their personal beliefs, they are so heavily vested in them, so completely inside a bubble, that anything that threatens that bubble evokes an emotional response akin to a fear of death, because in a sense, if they give up everything they ever believed in, they die. That self has to die to accept reality. And for some, for many, that deal is simply too tough to take, so they double down.
Sorry if I’m rambling, there was an interesting thought in there, if waxing a bit Freudian.
Oh no, you summed up what I was trying to say far better than I did. I wasn’t entirely joking in my comment. I was 100% serious (albeit with sarcastic undertones). But it’s genuinely a real thing. People would rather die than change or believe anything outside of what they have known or been told to believe for so many years.
Admitting you were wrong is a bitter pill to swallow under the best of circumstances.
Imagine if your life depended on keeping the lie alive…
What Lie? When did I admit I was wrong?
Are you even replying to the right person?
So? He can’t fucking screw things up worse than you christians.
Islam has its flaws: it oppresses women, for example.
I don’t see anything about Islam or women in El-Sayed’s platform though, so that’s irrelevant.
I was addressing the OC point.
Which is?
Look it up.
https://lemmy.world/comment/25433501Again, this only becomes relevant to policy if El-Sayed has said he plans to vote according to this or that Islamic ruling. To my knowledge he’s said no such thing.
I don’t think we can separate a politician from their beliefs and preferences. Even if said politician isn’t mentioning it in the agenda.
That’s patriarchy, not Islam. Inform yourself about christianity and you’ll find much the same. It’s just a different flavour of misogyny. In medieval times, arabic/islamic countries were the educated centers of culture and christian Europe was the barbaric part of the world. Now the scale looks tipped the other way. All the while, evangelical misogynists kill women by denying them life-saving treatments when they are suspected to be pregnant.
All religions are fucked up. If any of them was truly about belief, and not controlling people (and especially women’s bodies), there’d be zero need for an institutionalized belief system.
We’re talking about now.
And don’t use the “no true Scotsman” thing.I don’t see Mamdani talking about Allahs will every week. You see, it is not about religion, it is about educated people with good will. Now stop with this whataboutism
yeah, right now Christians, especially in the USA, opress women. row v wade was overturned as one of veeeeery many examples, they’re hell bend on stripping rights and bodily autonomy from women. for most Christian idioligist in politics women are reduced to breeding machines, totally dehumanizing them. so, what’s the track record of Muslims in american politics? or are you just scared?
idioligist
ideologist*
And about your message:
Should the USA trade bad for worse?P.S. One of you, poor bastards, went to all my recent comments in other posts and downvoted them.
One could only aspire to this level of pettiness 😀
@[email protected] , was that you?no, wasn’t me, I have faaaaar better things to do. also, what would even be worse then a religious extremist group controlling multiple states and influencing the president to opress non believers? Muslims have the potential to do similar things, but Christians are right now doing it. which is worse do you think? maybe you are just scared of things you dont know
Muslims have the potential to do similar things
I think they fully revealed their potential in, for example, ISIS and Afghanistan.
You’re obviously miserable from your self-loathing. Go get some help. Being a racist shithead won’t fix your life.
self-loathing
What are you talking about?
Being a racist
And how am I a racist? Do you even know the meaning of that word?
right, Christianity totally doesnt have these problems :D they not only also opress women, they also diddle little kids.
Do you think I would defend Christianity? I’m not a fan of it by far.
they also diddle little kids
In Islam the very prophet of it had a wife of 6 at marriage and 9 when the marriage was consummated.
you didn’t defend Christianity. but you’re still attacking a fundamental religious group which has nothing to do with the candidate. why would you do that, when it gives the impression of conflating Muslim believe and Islamism?
Because religion is a cancer.
Religious people tend to extend their restrictions to non-believers.and your solution is to restrict peopled believes? same thing bud.
To restrict religious beliefs.
I can’t think of a religion that doesn’t.
there’s nothing in Islamic scripture that says “thou shalt oppress women”. there may be cultural oppression but that goes for many societies irrespective of their religion.
“no true Scotsman…”
Nice changing the goalposts.
You said Islam oppresses women.
If your point is the cultural oppression of women why didn’t you open with that rather than rely on lazy stereotypes about Muslims?
My point is the same: Islam oppresses women.
I live in a Muslim area and you dont know what you’re talking about.
It doesn’t though, some Muslims do. Just like some Christians do. You got mad when someone else used a No True Scotsman argument, but “Islam oppresses women” implicitly uses the exact same argument. “Islam oppresses women, therefore any “Muslim” that doesn’t, isn’t practicing real Islam.”
It doesn’t though, some Muslims do.
I think they got the idea from islam.
What do you think?
The worst part is it works on a not insignificant amount people who identify with both parties.
yeah, fear is a very easy emotion to manipulate. the third Reich knew this and every despot after and before.
Republicans straight to point. It wrong, but straight.
Except when their Grindr match notification sound goes off, then not so much
The match rarely goes off, mostly just hounding, even if you have a completely blank profile, some 60 year old dude will message you, like no even if I were desperate, I could literally just holler in a Walmart parking lot for a bit.
As long as they aren’t evangelists I dont give a shit.
As long as they aren’t Republican I don’t give a fuck
As long as they’re not politicians in a genocidal empire concocted by enslavers… I don’t give a fuck.
This meme illustrates both fundamental campaign strategies.
Progressive Democrats offer a platform, some specific policies they seek out to move forward.
Republicans stick to slogans, culture war issues and demonizing political opponents with thought-terminating clichés.
Me: republicans are fascists.
There are no Republicans anymore, they’re all MAGAs now.
