• Flying Squid
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    1031 year ago

    Many liberals celebrated when Hamtramck, Michigan, elected a Muslim-majority council in 2015

    Did they? I remember that happening, I don’t remember the celebrating.

    • @Red_October
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      851 year ago

      The celebration was assumed. See, Republicans always make a habit of hating anything that Democrats like, so the feeble minded journo with a looming deadline and no solid leads will assume the reverse is also true. Thus, because Republicans hate Muslims and want to eject them from any form of government, they’d assume Democrats must always celebrate whenever Muslims get majority control of some government body.

      I’m being less sarcastic than I would like to, here.

      • Flying Squid
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        231 year ago

        I’ll try to be generous and say that maybe some misguided people on the left were celebrating this, believing it was a win for diversity, but it sure wasn’t widespread.

        • @Gradually_Adjusting
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          181 year ago

          It’s like the homeopathy of progressiveness. Just the tiniest, most ineffectual dose imaginable. Like “Sure they’re far right theocratic zealots who want to crush women and queer folk, but at least these ones are brown!”

          • diprount_tomato
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            01 year ago

            Really hate the shitty way you Americans classify races. Like dude, you unironically divide the fucking world in 4 groups?

            • @Gradually_Adjusting
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              101 year ago

              Please try to understand that it was in fact irony. I do not.

              I appreciate but do not require an amateur’s help in mocking my countrymen.

  • stephfinitely
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    881 year ago

    Republican propaganda, liberals don’t feel betrayed. Liberals want separation on church and state that includes all churches not just Christianity.

    • downpunxx
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      this story is from the guardian, probably the most mainstream progressive news organization in the world. “republican propaganda”! go back to bed steph

    • diprount_tomato
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      So persecution of homosexuality? That’s what Sharia says

      • 10EXP
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        31 year ago

        …They just asked for separation of the two.

        • diprount_tomato
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          -31 year ago

          Banning the LGBT flag for religious reasons sounds like the opposite tho

      • stephfinitely
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        That’s quite a jump you made. I said let’s just separate church and state. I didn’t say I was backing any one person in this particular situation. No we should not persecution of homosexuality because there would be no basis to do so if we separated religion from the government.

  • Leraje
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    571 year ago

    It’s almost as if the answer is to stop voting anyone with a clearly abrahamic based religious agenda into power.

    • @Frozengyro
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      “It’s almost as if the answer is to stop voting anyone with a clearly abrahamic based religious agenda into power.”

    • bioemerl
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      anyone with a clearly abrahamic based religious agenda

      • RandoCalrandian
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        Exactly. There are plenty of cults pretending to be science instead of the religion they actually behave like

        Don’t elect cultist nut jobs

      • diprount_tomato
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        What does it have to do with a Muslim city in the US persecuting public displays of homosexuality?

        • SuperDuper
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          261 year ago

          It has to do with the consequences of electing politicians with a religious agenda, which is the topic of conversation in the thread you replied to.

          • diprount_tomato
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            -161 year ago

            Where’s the religious agenda in what you linked? That’s not imposing the laws of your religion, that’s massacring people

            • SuperDuper
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              81 year ago

              I didn’t link anything

  • @Custoslibera
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    471 year ago

    Islam is so clear in its hate for queer relationships you’d have to be a fucking idiot to think an honest Muslim is fine with someone being gay.

  • @hark
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    221 year ago

    Why would they feel betrayed by conservatives doing conservative things? Then again, democrats love “reaching across the aisle” to fascists.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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      31 year ago

      The establishment Democratic party is neoliberal which is not a far reach from the conservative Republican party (as opposed to the reactionary Republican party).

      That’s to say they Democrats are to the right of th American public, and most of the developed world. They depend on the GOP being consistently worse than they are.

      And neither atheists nor progressives have a voice in the US.

  • @Stovetop
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    161 year ago

    This article is from June. How is this news?

  • BuckFigotstheThird
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    101 year ago

    First amendment bitches. WAVE THAT FLAG. WAVE IT WIDE AND HIGH!

  • @JTode
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    -111 year ago

    Hey everyone, go drink a cool glass of water and think about the last time you laughed so hard you were afraid you’d either puke or pass out. Have fun!

  • downpunxx
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    -221 year ago

    some of us have been telling you people this for a very very long time ~ zionists