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[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

He’s got a position in The Terrorist Party whenever he wants it I’m sure. This, along with having fucked a kid are the only qualifications he needs.

Christofascist prayers to supply side Jesus are fine, though.

[–] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 99 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

spoilerI'm an anti-theist, who profoundly and especially despises the Abrahamic religions, but I'll bet good money this is not about prayer calls and "Islam taking over".

This is about him being a brown immigrant socialist.

It's because, still in 2025 in the US, if you want publicly funded social programs for better individual outcomes in a capitalist economy, and you're anywhere left of the fucking Einsatzgruppen, you're a commie pinko who loves getting Eiffel-Towered by Stalin and Mao.

Being honest, though, I would say this a very American mentality, but since I immigrated to the Netherlands from the US in '22, I'm sad to say, it's infecting Western Europe.

I'll never understand the perverse allure of this type of thinking. I've had it explained to me. I've read The Righteous Mind by Dr. Johnathan Haight. I get it on paper, but it still seems very alien to me when people go on about "the <insertEthnicSlurHere> breathing up all our air and taking all our jobs and making things easier for the wrong people."

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

Out of date.

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Infecting Europe? Lol who do you think America learned it from?

[–] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I should clarify.

I'm an American not of European descent. I'm not "white". I'm perfectly aware that I live in a country (one of several) that enslaved my people during the colonial era of western Europe.

When I was growing up in the eighties and nineties, my impression was that Europe's lower and middle classes had largely evolved past the marriage of conservative economics, might-makes-right, and "fuck-the-brown-people-if-they-get-too-much-money" thinking behind. I'm certainly aware that "god, glory, and gold" did not start in the United States.

When I moved to the EU, in the Netherlands, I was right about my estimation but I was taken aback by some people's parroting the conservative religious nationalist talking points that's destroying the US currently. It's just that it was much more than I expected.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 0 points 18 hours ago

The parroting originates in the same Russian bot farms.

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Then you didnt do any reading then. There's a reason ppl want to piss on Margaret Thatcher's grave. Plus you got economic colonialist France and Spain's dictatorship ending in the 70s. Also the amount of blackface they claim that totally isnt racist. Fuck Zwarte Piet

Europe is like Canada, they just have good PR. There's a fuckton of skeletons in their closet and they havent changed as much as ppl like to think. Im an black American living in Germany and I clocked immediately its exactly the same as America. They just dont say the quiet parts outloud as often

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They just dont say the quiet parts outloud as often

You also don't 'currently' have to worry about your kids being abducted from school by ICE in Germany. The quiet part out loud was annoying, but the shit actually happening is horrifying.

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah casual racism is just "annoying".... Not like it leads to other things down the road or anything...

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

yeah, me pointing out the ICE shit is just circumstantial, not my entire point or anything...

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The lack of racial diversity in Europe is what makes it look like there isn't as much racism as in the US. There just isn't as much opportunity for the racists to be racist.

Side question for a black person in Germany: is "black music" a common term in Germany? I was on a bus going from Freiburg to Strasburg and saw a poster for a bar playing "Black Music" on Friday nights. I didn't know if that was supposed to mean rap or jazz or blues or what.

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Black music usual just means afrobeats. In this particular case "black music" advertisements usually means the club or party is full of fat white chick's looking for African dudes

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, it does make sense if you have a tribalist worldview. Less people means more resources for your tribe, after all.

And, if you make it so that ‘other tribe’ has some kind of easy identifier they can’t change, like skin color, then you know who to throw out on sight!

Some people are just more tribal-minded than others. They’ve done studies and it’s pretty consistent that republicans/conservatives have a far more tribal mindset. Which tends to go hand-in-hand with a desire for a ‘strong leader’ and a strict tribal hierarchy.

Unfortunately that tends to translate to whoever bullshits the best because they’re reacting off instinct rather than thinking about things, which makes it easy for scam artists like Trump that talk a big game to appeal to them.

[–] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It never stops.

Once the "others" outside of the tribe have been eradicated, the various sub-groups within the tribe will take the place of the "other", and so on, and so forth.

Conservatism is a cancer.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 69 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am not sure City Hall playing Muslim calls to prayer is different from public schools posting the Ten Commandments in every classroom and forcing every student to read the Bible.

In other words, it's not Muslim fundamentalism that is the most pressing threat. It's the Christian fundies that are doing irreparable harm to both the Nation and their own religion.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is not different at all. It's wrong in both cases, as well.

Jefferson wrote that there should be "a wall of separation" between the state and religion. We have a high speed conveyor belt instead.

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 15 points 2 days ago

The major difference is that one is happening and the other is a fever dream from the perpetrators of the first.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 64 points 2 days ago

I wasn't aware Hitler made calls to prayer mandatory during the Third Reich...

When I was a kid - admittedly a long time ago - people who didn't go to school for very long tended to avoid talking for fear of looking like fools. Today, people are proudly ignorant and confidently open their trap to say any old nonsense with zero concept of shame.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 days ago

Literally because it's what they would do.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Oh no how unfortunate.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 days ago

Hitler was huge into Muslim prayer.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 days ago

Panzer hit reply-all, writing: “Is it just me, or does this sound eerily similar to what much of Germany and Europe said about you know who back in 1938?”

If you're going to say something obviously inflammatory, the least you can do is not sound like an enormous moron lmao. If that comment was about Trump & co, sure. There are plenty of documented similarities between the two. Comparing a socialist to the Nazis is just hilariously ignorant. It's like dude heard that they had socialist in the name, and his brain turned off right there. What a fucking idiot.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is there no better source than the garbage NY Post?

[–] aarch0x40@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

It’s what the Post is known for!

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago

Downvote for the NYPost. We don't do that here.

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Why are people so scared of the call to prayer? It’s no different to church bells ringing.

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

“Call to prayer” is to christofacists what “suuuuuuwweeeeee!” is to pigs.

It’s an invitation to feast.

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It's also not going to happen. No indication whatsoever he intends to force any particular religion on anyone.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 15 points 2 days ago

Maybe they think that when Muslims hear Allahu Akbar they immediately explode?

(It's bigotry).

[–] blave@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I’ve had Muslim roommates, and even they weren’t that good about their prayer schedule. This xenophobic bigotry is just bullshit made up. Besides, you can hear it playing around Brooklyn if you really want to.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 days ago

Turns out that Muslims are like everyone else. There are the high-riding Qu'ran thumpers and the chill dudes who drink and smoke weed and everything in between, just like everyone else. Some are good people, some are not, just like everyone else.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Muslim prayer schedule is like the Christian's: if you're crazy enough - or dumb enough - to be strictly observant, you deserve to have a miserable life from which a sizeable number of years will have been pointlessly wasted to religious mumbo-jumbo by the time you kick the bucket.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Tbh, I think most people would benefit from taking ten minutes five times a day to just meditate, so depending on how you pray, I could see that being a positive.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Zohran “Antifa Hitler Jihadi” Mamdani

[–] JailElonMusk@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago

These pearl clutching realtors need to calm down and realize, it's not like Zohran's a Republican Governor or AG.

He won't try and put the ten commandments in schools, or wait I'm sorry I meant play prayer songs because he understands the separation of church and state.

However I expect the full support of the GOP to defend his right to put a Koran in every school right next to the 10 commandments.

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

Some important news right here!
USA never surprises me lol.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

Seems like he was fired for the Islamophobic nature of the comments, not being hyperbolically opposed to Mandami. Or maybe more realistically he was fired for publicly talking back to his boss, regardless of content.

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Everybody do the Nazi!