this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2025
123 points (96.2% liked)

politics

19930 readers
3750 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Summary

Arab Americans for Trump, a key voter outreach group, has rebranded as Arab Americans for Peace following Trump's comments about the U.S. "taking over" Gaza.

Chairman Bishara Bahbah stated the group opposes any forced relocation of Palestinians and wants to emphasize peace.

The group played a major role in Trump’s 2024 election outreach, particularly in swing states like Michigan and Arizona.

While they appreciate Trump’s commitment to rebuilding Gaza, they reject the idea of U.S. control over the territory and its inhabitants.

top 35 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 81 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Is it just me or does anybody else feel like watching a lot of serious sounding - and unfortunately dangerous - adults behaving like severely mentally challenged children all the time?

And I mean like everywhere. It's like the whole of society is essentially a lot of dimwits, from the White House to the streets of Bumfuck, Nowhere.

I guess Idiocracy really has become the reality now...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Results of the rights constant attack on education.

Knowledge is power, and that scares the crap out of Republicans...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

But in this instance, it's not about knowledge or education: a bunch of pro-something people vote for the guy who's obviously, overtly, loudly anti-the-same-thing, and then when the latter does stupid anti-that-thing, the former turn around and say oh-not-cool!

This is just dumb all around. It doesn't education to not be this dumb, it just takes, well, not being fucking dumb.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

Critical thinking and decision making is part of education, or at least it can and should be. Education is not only math, grammar and historical dates.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Except in idiocracy, we had a president that genuinely wanted to improve people's lives. And I'll take Camacho over Trump in regards to the conomy every day of the week.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Maybe COVID was actually doing brain damage all this time to the entire human population, even those that had no severe symptoms. Now we're all too stupid to be able to tell that everyone else is as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Don't forget the microplastics. They may end up being more damaging than lead.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago (1 children)

we supported a known liar and are now shocked that he lied to us

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Association of German National Jews on Wikipedia

A reason why some German Jews supported Hitler was that they thought that his anti-Semitism was only for "stirring up the masses".

[–] ramjambamalam 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

You have to listen to what he means, not what he says. It's all in his book, Der Deal der Kunst.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Oh my God don't tell me that will be Trump's Mein Kampf.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Kinda forgetting who oversaw and supported this genocide for the past year+... Kinda missing the libs who've been actively supporting this.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 days ago

All of the people who are so fucking happy that the Muslims they hate are suffering are the libs who have been actively supporting this.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Why the fuck did it take them this long?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Because anyone who supports Trump is an asshole with a lot wrong with them?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago

Or maybe they felt threatened by more than a year of genocide joe?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

These people corrected themselves in less than a month... Biden supported a genocide for more than a year without apology.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Oh, he had plenty of apologists.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh no, he did the tbing he said he was going to do

The only silver lining to this chaos is watching the leopards feed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The leopards aren't on them yet really. They still support Trump. The article says as much by omission.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

While they appreciate Trump’s commitment to rebuilding Gaza,

Fucking lol

They're just that stupid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I noticed that too. Do they think he’ll rebuild Gaza nicely and just hand it back with no strings attached…?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, he'll rebuild over the bones of murdered women and children.

[–] HikingVet 2 points 5 days ago

*with the bones

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

That's the equivalent of them being thankful for Israeli "investment" in building settlements after killing or displacing Palestinians and stealing their land. How anyone, let alone Arab Americans, could see it any other way, is far beyond me.

[–] HikingVet 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Damn, thise face eating leopards sure are looking a little fat.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 days ago
  1. Support genocide. 2. Blame everybody else. 3. $$$$
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Small price to pay for teaching Harris and the democrats a lesson.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Hey, what do you want? A WOMAN telling you what to do?!? I'll have my face eaten before I let THAT happen, thank you very much. -these asshole probably.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 days ago

At least you showed the anti-genocide wing of the party who is boss.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

We've reached the point in their grift where they have to pretend that they've found their line and pretend they never supported him while slowly building up their next project to do the same thing again in the next "election"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

What's worse than genocide? Genocide and losing your land at the same time. Drink it in, morons!