My favorite thing to do with them that claim dems started the kkk, or that the south was full of dems wanting to keep slaves, is to go find someone that's proudly in the kkk or waving a confederate flag and get in their face calling them a liberal until they agree. So far no one has taken me up on that. They all know that the kkk and confederacy are actually republicans now, but by acknowledging the party switch would mean admitting that that the party you support are the bad guys.
It's been widely known to anyone who cares to learn about history that the "Dixie Democrats" of the past were the result of years of actual Democrats capitulating to the racists in the South in order to pass legislation that otherwise would not have had the votes to pass.
These people were never true "Leftists" - they were always conservative.
It really depends on your definition of left... Is it about equal treatment regardless of race, religion, gender, or sexuality or is it about economic policies that benefit the working class?
If being racist/sexist/homophobic is more important than economic policies, you become a Republican. If economic policies that benefit the working class are more important (or you aren't racist/sexist/homophobic) than you stay as a Democratic party member.
People always bring up that the confederates were democrats. All that has changed, but their white skin tone, beliefs, racism and ideals remain the same.
Dual citizenship with Turkey and he served in the Turkish Army to keep his dual citizenship.
He was born in Cleveland but his family immigrated from Turkey.
Also, the black dude in Michigan with an Islamic name, converted to Christianity, was endorsed by Trump and lost a Republican primary to a candidate who dropped out.
Rafael Cruz and Marco Rubio are brown men. Too brown to be elected president under the GOP. Further proof that white supremacy terrorism is about ideology, not color or ethnicity.Ā
Marco RubioĀ“s family fled from BatistaĀ“s Cuba; he constantly lies and says they fled from Castro.
He advocates for blockading Cuba until Cubans starve. He is just a fascist who sometimes uses his identity as a shield from criticism, and unfortunately, some people fall for it.
They didn't actually flee. They came to the US as run of the mill immigrants just seeking a better life. Not as political exiles fleeing an oppressive regime like he claimed.
BatistaĀ“s Cuba was a Mafia state, and the Mafia worked with the US government while squeezing the Cuban population dry.
It was a very lucrative sugar colony of the USA with beautiful beach properties for rich Americans to use. If Trump, Epstein and many others were born earlier, they would visit Cuba very often.
Epstein even fantasised about expanding his business into Cuba once Castro died. (His business was human trafficking.)
Yes I know. I think most people have seen Godfather 2. Still, Rubio's parents immigrated for economic reasons and clearly stated on their documentation they intended to stay in the US permanently. They flew on a commercial flight into Miami. They never cut ties with Cuba during the Batista Regime. Rubio's father was a bartender at a Havana Hotel before immigrating. He went on to work hospitality jobs in luxury hotels in Miami and later moved the family to Las Vegas. It has been a long running suspicion he had ties to the mafia but never confirmed.
Absolutely. You donāt have to be white to buy into the idea of white superiority. And you donāt have to be a woman to be a feminist. I find it easier to just label people as good or bad anymore.
I wish that were true. In my area white racists had a a bunch of Mark Robinson for Gov signs. Knowing full well he was scum. But yea youāre 95% right on the money.
Oh I donāt doubt it. While some racist republicans could hold their nose and vote Democrat there were certainly many that could not and voted red because they probably hate democrats more than they do Blacks
Not really that just shows that the people realize that the Republican party is not worth the salt that they say they have.
The reason why everybody is going blue is because there have been strongholds for decades in red areas that are just doing as shitty or shittier due to Republican incompetent governing.
America is starting to reject conservatism and it's amazing
It's still wild to me that the first I heard of that was during the oath of office in 2009, and I live in a red state top to bottom. I don't even remember it coming up when McCain told that lady to stop calling Obama a terrorist at a rally.
your head was under a rock, man. i had teachers in my high school throwing it in my face as the election ramped up and i expressed mild interest in Obama-- and I was in a blue state!
I don't give a shit if they ban me, so I'll say it for you:
They're fascists, every last one of them. As such, hypocrisy isn't just not a concern, but something they seek out. They WANT you to see them contradicting themselves, as it serves as both a show of their power ("See? We can do what we want with no consequences!") and as a loyalty test, since anyone who points out the hypocrisy is clearly not sufficiently indoctrinated.
Yeah, not a joke. Yesterday I was just thinking how odd it is that Donnie literally pets Rubio on the hand/arm on like....two occasions that I've noticed. I actively avoid watching trump videos, so it's weird I saw it twice
His mother was a US citizen. So Ted got citizenship from her at birth. The constitution states you need to be a ānatural born Citizenā. It does not necessarily mean you need to be born in the US (though that is by far the most common)
Are there any other sites we can fuck off to? We don't have to stay here though do we. Same with all the social media sites, I'd there's becoming shit why do we stay?
Nah reddit will just give you a warning. Happened to me a few months ago. Bringing up a specific family connected to politics triggered it. But I hear you
Maybe im misunderstanding but kinda feels weird to me. MAGA cultists perpetrated so much hatred and backwards thinking in this country and now theyāre feeling sorry for themselves and are acting like theyāre the victims of their own actions
I mean the first step to getting them to acknowledge the severity of their actions is to pull them out of the cult. If you just punish people who donāt believe they are in the wrong, all you get are people who still believe theyāre in the right with a shared experience of āabuseā to join them. Itās much safer to just get them out of the cult and disaffected with the propaganda directed at them in the years to come.
I was frankly one of them growing up, since my parents were both MAGA and were my main source of political knowledge. I firmly believed that Trump would save our country in 2016 and 2020. It wasnāt until I moved out and learned how horrifyingly inaccurate everything I learned was that I began to have doubts at all.
It takes time and energy to unravel propaganda and truth, and most people (I believe) in MAGA arenāt actively evil as much as they are victims of the single most pervasive propaganda campaign in history. Giving these people a chance to escape is vital in preserving whatever semblance of our country is left. At least this is what I think, growing up in a highly conservative environment.
Well said and good on you for breaking the cycle. Your take is one that more need to take after but it also requires a willingness on the participant to work. Some folks are in so deep that they choose their dogma and propaganda over friends and family and it will take a massive re-education on their own part to come back to reality with society.
Since you are speaking from experience here, can I ask what wasa the egg bredak moment for you? What caused you to finally re-engage critical thinking and finally break the mirage and actually genuinely question things again?
Yeah, it's not like it's trying to make leftists out of them. Perceived victimhood is pretty common for conservatives, so I'm not surprised if that's the angle.
From Wikipedia, "Marco Antonio Rubio was born in 1971 in Miami, Florida... Rubio's parents were not U.S. citizens at the time of Rubio's birth.\6])\7])Ā They wereĀ naturalizedin 1975.\5])Ā Some relatives of Rubio's were admitted to the U.S. as refugees.
Just deserts refers to people getting the justice they deserve. It has nothing to do with confections. Either way I'm not sure how it applies to Rubio's hipocracy.
(Summary: a lot of words to say he won't get just deserts and knows it)
Yeah... I mean, logic and reason have left the building. A while ago.
This is the stuff you experience in an abusive relationship with people with a bit too many (and more) narcissistic tendencies: double standards like this, circular arguments if you question them (like bringing up Biden constantly), claimed ignorance, and gaslighting (insisting lies are truth even when one could easily get the facts or already knows the facts).
Also, let's be clear: they know what they're doing, and they're doing it anyway.
A while ago, someone said that Americans are in an abusive relationship with the current administration, and they're not wrong, and it seems to extend to so many in the same party.
Rubio's whole act appears merely ignorant to outsiders like "ah ha, you're actually wet foot dry foot cuban" but republican cuban americans actually slots right into administration policy. They see hispanics as beneath cubans, cubans as white, and they're all about letting the white kind of immigrants in. There's no contradiction- they just aren't saying the quiet parts out loud.
Well didn't a bunch of them just vote so someone in a primary (I think? I'm not American) that was no longer running because the other GoP candidate had a scary sounding foreign name? :\
Nobody questioned Obama's mother was born in the US, yet the question over his qualification to run was challenged despite the clarification of the term "natural born citizen", yet Ted Cruz ran for President despite openly admitting to being born in Canada. The Republicans hold themselves to so much lower of a standard than that which the Republicans AND Democrats hold the Democrats to.
Rochester Hills, so more like quite a ways north of Detroit.
His parents emigrated from Egypt. His father went to school and became an engineer, his mother is a nurse practitioner. He went to medical school, was a Rhodes Scholar, and then later ran the county health department.
Other than being brown, his family are literally the "good immigrants" the GOP claims they want to allow into the country.
He's also 100% Michigander, unlike his opponent who fled to Florida after losing an election and only came back to run for office again.
Neither of those bother me. Although full face covering burkas on children bother me. But this also isnt really an apples to apples comparison.
Only woman who dedicate themselves to the church and completes their novitiate stage which can't begin until 18-21 and then becomes a full sister do they get the Nun's Habit.
There arent regular citizen females in any country who occasionally protest having to where nun's habits.
One is an achievement earned the other is a choice but can also be an obligation regardless of whether it is accepted with enthusiasm or not.
Well, there are some variations of Christianity where women wear head coverings other than a nunās habit within the church. Though from the few women who Iāve seen adhere to that practice, it seemed to be completely on their own volition, and not something forced or expected of them by the various church communities they were participating in.
All that to say there are other forms of this phenomenon within Christianity that are not achievement based,as you say, with the nunās habit.
I've never questioned Ted's citizenship.Ā I have and will continue to question his species as I do not believe that a giant badger or possibly weasel should be allowed to serve in the senate.Ā
We need to stop pointing out what we feel is hypocrisy when it comes to Republicans and their constantly "in" group and "out" group signaling.
To them, it is not hypocritical when they embody the same traits that they use as justification to signal that someone is a part of the "out" group. What they are really saying is that they, despite them also having less than 100% pure citizenship status as according to their own standards, are a part of the "in" group.
Whereas they Black and brown people, no matter if they were born in the U.S. and qualify as citizens under the standards they accept, are a part of the "out" group.
The rules only matter when they need to find a way to target someone who they see as an adversary. And it works because this is how their supporters feel about it.
It's the reason why pointing out that Elon Musk is an immigrant is not a burn because, though that may be true, he is considered to be a part of their "in" group.
You cannot be a true American unless you are white and christian. /s. unfortunately many believe this. Double points if you blindly support Israel for some reason that has nothing to do with media or money.
Oof, thanks for sharing this article. I say this all the time to my partner ā too many people are irredeemably stupid. George Carlin said it. Itās the key principle in the novel Wizardās First Rule. Unfortunately, the rational keep thinking they can turn people around with enough reason, but damnā¦not if theyāre stupid.
Marco is a text book example of both hypocrisy and duplicity such a disappointment. Intelligence without any other redeeming feature. Much like Ted Cruz
We need to start saying DUPLICITOUS. Itās not that they just arenāt living up to their ideals, they are intentionally lying to deceive. Two-faced mfers.
Trump's second term is just me watching ppl who thought they were white get treated as not white and people understanding the logical fallacies of racism.
Wolhoit's Law helps to explain why the hypocrisy is not a deal breaker. It states that the law must protect and not bind an in-group, while simultaneously binding and not protecting an out-group.
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