i think demonstrating popular opposition to a flagrantly bought and corrupt administration which is being visibly puppeteered by one of the richest men in the world

I see. “Demonstrating popular opposition” that’s… Uh… Something, I guess. It might have been less disappointing if there was no goal to be honest. That aside it’s still missing the final touch; what are people meant to do in and after attending these rallies? Just… Exist?

It’s happened before so… Pretty okay.

I think I was pretty clear I was talking about the rallies and not their voting records. To me it seems like these rallies lack a coherent goal; they don’t actually tell their followers to do something other than call one’s congressmen. The whole thing just invited the question “okay, what then”.

Sigh.

Oh come on please no more undercover MAGA/Russian troll nonsense. Did you not learn anything from the election? What you’re calling covert Trumpism is and has always been legitimate criticism coming from your left. I’ll ask again: What resistance is happening in these “resistance rallies”?

Is it me or does neither of these two actually fight anything in these “fighting oligarchy” rallies?

“Free candy”

Should be the same for Christians and Jews, but for Muslims the answer is absolutely not.

I was wondering why this thread was so unapologetically anti-American until I realized this is dbzer0. Good stuff.

“Book from a whistleblower - titled ‘Meta’ - that was declined from being promoted is now a best seller on Amazon”

No? "Book from a whistleblower that Meta blocked from being promoted is now a best seller on Amazon ".

99% of cinnamon bun eaters die one bun before obtaining ultimate power!

To echo everyone else: You don’t. Multilingual countries just have many official languages.

I mean this is satire. This community is for articles that sound like satire but aren’t.

“who put fucking tomato on my fucking BLT?!”

Doesn’t the T in BLT stand for tomato?

Indians don’t look Middle Eastern, though; they look Indian. They’re a very different kind of brown. And either way do racist Germans really care enough to make that distinction? For all they know Muslims are brown people from the Middle East no?

Are you sure? Because to my knowledge most Muslims in Germany are Middle Eastern and therefore quite easy to distinguish from the white Germans around them.

But my question was particularly referring to that divide based on pure ethnicity because who you call “black people” are exactly as American as who you call “white people” with the only difference being having a different darkness of skin that doesn’t even have a determined line at which point someone is considered “white” and at what point someone is considered “black”.

So the short of it is that the wealthy classes in colonial North America created this divide to make white people feel better about keeping slaves from Africa even though they converted to Christianity. That’s it, it’s all a ruse by the ultra rich. However, the ruse has continued for so long that even after racism “ended” (it absolutely hasn’t) the system is very much racist, and that aside it’s just baked into the North American consciousness now. Being black or white or Hispanic is part of one’s identity and in many cases community.

It’s not quite the same as being a migrant group that brought a different culture from a different country.

Many minority groups in America do have different cultures than the white majority, though it’s not quite as big as the difference between Germans and Muslims. For example there are many Hispanic people whose main language is Spanish rather than English, and some blakc people have their own dialect.

Finally I want to add that despite all these details the crux of the issue is xenophobia. That’s why the things Americans say about minorities in general are very similar to the things Germans say about Muslims. Fundamentally it’s the same thing, and Germans and other Europeas will have to deal with many of the same issues America is dealing with now (to a lesser extent though, because of the lack of slavery)

White Americans feel about black people and other minorities roughly how Germans feel about Muslims. And I have to say, Germans do not like Muslims.

I mean yeah but it’s awkward as shit and might make your professor hate you, and no good can come out of that.

that practically no scholar in the last 200 years pays attention to.

This is an oxymoron. A (sahih) hadith that no scholar pays attention to literally doesn’t exist. I have also seen this particular hadith quoted before (that’s why I could answer with it off the top of my head), so yeah. Maybe you and your immediate community are different, but Islam as a whole does not accept the act of transitioning.