• Flying Squid
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    10110 months 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@lemmy.world
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      8310 months 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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        2310 months 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.

        • The Snark Urge
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          1610 months 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!”

  • stephfinitely
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    9910 months ago

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

  • Leraje
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    6910 months ago

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

  • @Custoslibera@lemmy.world
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    4710 months 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@lemmy.world
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    2110 months ago

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

    • @uriel238
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      310 months 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.

  • @JTode@lemmy.world
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    210 months 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!