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Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Jill Stein surges ahead of Kamala Harris among Muslim-American voters in key swing states01·11 months agoI half agree. They are small in number but they have a huge advantage that they primarily live in swing states where all votes matter. If they lived in a blue state you would be completely right.
I just don’t think Democrats will do anything to chase Muslim voters. They’d rather help Republicans eliminate them.
In the end it really comes down to whether Democrats feel enough pressure before the election to take action. If Trump keeps flopping and crashing in the election they hold little power. If the polls are super close there’s a chance Democrats will be forced to take action just like how they dumped Biden.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Jill Stein surges ahead of Kamala Harris among Muslim-American voters in key swing states01·11 months agoDemocrats don’t want to waste money on a loser
Yes thats my point. They will only respond and appeal to voters when they drop in the polls.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Jill Stein surges ahead of Kamala Harris among Muslim-American voters in key swing states01·11 months agoDonors did everything they could to keep Biden in. Even after Biden ‘beat medicare’ in his debate with Trump he got backing from the establishment.
The establishment ditched Biden solely because had no shot at beating Trump. No matter how much he was the perfect ghoul puppet, if he can’t win there’s nothing for his donors to control.
Both parties are trying to sell votes to the highest bidders. Their goal is to sell out as much as possible while still winning the election. But they are now straddling so close to that line that they need to make compromises.
Many immigrants tried to vote Democrat in 2020 only to be met with “build the wall”. Muslims loyally voted Democrat and were met with Genocide in Palestine. When politicians don’t get punished for going against their voters interests they only learn to keep doing it. After all why should they listen to their base if they keep voting for them
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Jill Stein surges ahead of Kamala Harris among Muslim-American voters in key swing states01·11 months agoOf course, they all got together to do Islamophobia in unison after 9/11. But what the Bidens ousting proves is that Democrats cannot literally just do whatever they want. There are limits to how hard they can sell out.
Those limits are set by the amount of people willing to vote for it. The DNC would have 100% ran Biden again if they could manage to get their skeleton puppet re-elected again.
Democrats changed Biden for the simple reason of people not willing to vote for him. Nobody will get what they want by simply caving for the DNC and voting for them unconditionally. Democrats did not want to change Biden they were forced to listen for votes.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Jill Stein surges ahead of Kamala Harris among Muslim-American voters in key swing states0·11 months agoDemocrats only have so much leeway before they have to crawl back and appeal to voters. Especially since the elections are so close and minority groups hold significant voting power.
Biden got replaced because Democrats realized he was going to lose to Trump. Not because the establishment didn’t want to run him.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Jill Stein surges ahead of Kamala Harris among Muslim-American voters in key swing states0·11 months agoI’m saying that voting Democrat does not gain them any immunity from being racially profiled by Democrats.
They have already appealed to Democrats and got nothing in return.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Jill Stein surges ahead of Kamala Harris among Muslim-American voters in key swing states0·11 months agoPossibly but they’ve already shown to care little about brown people while the Muslims did vote Democrat in 2020. They even refused a Palestinian speaker at the DNC.
In the end when the propaganda machine decides it’s time to go it goes and targets whomever needs to be dehumanized. And most people from both sides will accept the propaganda without question.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Jill Stein surges ahead of Kamala Harris among Muslim-American voters in key swing states0·11 months agoOn the contrary if they withold their votes Liberals will have to start appealing to them to win them back.
On an entirely different instance. Since so many people enjoyed it I felt compelled to share it here as well.
You sure know a lot about my posts for an account that posts so little.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.ml•I’m 18 — and facing jail because I won’t fight for Israel0·1 year agoBased. Maybe she can get political asylum from Fascism.
Refusing to be complicit in Genocide? Believe it or not, Jail.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter1·1 year agoWhich is conveniently the real reason they are trying to ban abortion. Because poor kids without options are easy to recruit as cannon fodder
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPto News@lemmy.world•Meta Considering Increased Censorship of the Word “Zionist”32·2 years agoI have no idea what Teva has to do with this but sure, I can dunk on israeli big pharma scum while we’re at it.
Opioid Maker Agrees to Pay Oklahoma $85 Million Over Claims Company Helped Create Addiction Crisis
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. agreed to pay $85 million to settle an Oklahoma lawsuit claiming that illegal marketing of its opioid painkillers contributed to a public health crisis in the state.
Oklahoma said J&J and Teva helped create a public-health crisis from opioid abuse that killed thousands of its residents. The state, in its lawsuit, accused the companies of overstating the painkillers’ benefits and understating their risks, which created a “devastating cycle of over-prescription’’ that was “built on addiction, dependence and a market saturated with misinformation regarding the benefits and safety of those drugs.”
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPto News@lemmy.world•Meta Considering Increased Censorship of the Word “Zionist”2·2 years agoWell they have this rule already that seems similar (from the article):
Meta’s internal rules around the word “Zionist,” first reported by The Intercept in 2021, show that company moderators are only supposed to delete posts using the term if it’s determined to be a proxy for “Jewish” or “Israeli,” both protected classes under company speech rules.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPto News@lemmy.world•Meta Considering Increased Censorship of the Word “Zionist”9·2 years agoBoth are violent extremist groups which ignore 99% of their holy book to focus on a few lines ripped out of context that talk about killing infidels/Amaleks.
Anyone that knows anything about those respective religions can tell you in half a second why their credo is based on lies.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Biden Sharpens Criticism of Israel, Calling Gaza Response ‘Over the Top’21·2 years agoJust click the video it’s like 30 seconds. Biden paused for quite a while before making such a massive mistake.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPto News@lemmy.world•Meta Considering Increased Censorship of the Word “Zionist”131·2 years agoHave you ever stopped to think what dumping on
IsraelISIS means to aJewishMuslim person though?ManyFew loveIsraelISIS. Do you think just because the two are different that you are going to endear yourself to them by saying essentially that it’s OK to beJewishMuslim, just don’t loveIsraelISIS? A charge of hatred might be too far, but you really aren’t making the argument you think you are.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPto News@lemmy.world•Meta Considering Increased Censorship of the Word “Zionist”112·2 years agoWell no, this is just israel lobbying propaganda from ADL.
From Wikipedia
Jonathan Greenblatt is an American entrepreneur, corporate executive, and the sixth National Director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.
From The Guardian’s article in my comment above:
“Anti-Zionism is antisemitism,” Greenblatt said in a speech to ADL leaders. He singled out Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace as groups that “epitomize the Radical Left, the photo inverse of the Extreme Right that ADL long has tracked”.
The Anti-Defamation League CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, sparked controversy in 2022 when he placed opposition to Israel on a par with white supremacy as a source of antisemitism.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPto News@lemmy.world•Meta Considering Increased Censorship of the Word “Zionist”282·2 years agoPeople are starting to learn that Judaism and Zionism are two entirely different things, which Zionist lobbies aren’t fond of
In the months since October 7, staunchly pro-Israel groups like the Anti-Defamation League have openly called for treating anti-Zionism as a form of antisemitism, pointing out that the word is often used by antisemites as a stand-in for “Jew.” The ADL and American Jewish Committee, another pro-Israel, Zionist advocacy group in the U.S., have both been lobbying Meta to restrict use of the word “Zionist,” according to Yasmine Taeb, legislative and political director at the Muslim grassroots advocacy group MPower Change. In his statement, Chambliss responded, “We did not initiate this policy development at the behest of any outside group.”
Biden won. Trump is not in Jail. Biden and Harris are committing Genocide.
I’m not sure where you “realized you were wrong”. If anything you were right to vote for Howie.