***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[rexanglorum]

As soon as I saw the top quarter of this picture, my mind put down the NT Dipset Filter.

 

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[Nike Jordan]

These clowns always tell on themselves.

 

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[frink85]

the answer is pretty obvious

 

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dwalk31

 

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[gry60]

Opinion | The Day My Old Church Canceled Me Was a Very Sad Day

There is a difference between peace and capitulation.

www.nytimes.com

Two things happened that changed our lives, however, and in hindsight they’re related. First, in 2010, we adopted a 2-year-old girl from Ethiopia. Second, in 2015, Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign.

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There was no way I could support Trump. It wasn’t just his obvious lack of character that troubled me; he was opening the door to a level of extremism and malice in Republican politics that I’d never encountered before. Trump’s rise coincided with the rise of the alt-right.
I was a senior writer for National Review at the time, and when I wrote pieces critical of Trump, members of the alt-right pounced, and they attacked us through our daughter. They pulled pictures of her from social media and photoshopped her into gas chambers and lynchings. Trolls found my wife’s blog on a religious website called Patheos and filled the comments section with gruesome pictures of dead and dying Black victims of crime and war. We also received direct threats.

The experience was shocking. At times, it was terrifying. And so we did what we always did in times of trouble: We turned to our church for support and comfort. Our pastors and close friends came to our aid, but support was hardly universal. The church as a whole did not respond the way it did when I deployed. Instead, we began encountering racism and hatred up close, from people in our church and in our church school.

The racism was grotesque. One church member asked my wife why we couldn’t adopt from Norway rather than Ethiopia. A teacher at the school asked my son if we had purchased his sister for a “loaf of bread.” We later learned that there were coaches and teachers who used racial slurs to describe the few Black students at the school. There were terrible incidents of peer racism, including a student telling my daughter that slavery was good for Black people because it taught them how to live in America. Another told her that she couldn’t come to our house to play because “my dad said Black people are dangerous.”

 

[gry60]

Macron calls snap elections after historic far-right gains in European vote

The Rassemblement National, led by Marine Le Pen's lieutenant Jordan Bardella, dominated the election in France, winning 31.5% of the votes, according to initial estimates. President Emmanuel Macron called snap elections that will be held on June 30 and July 7.

www.lemonde.fr

 

[gry60]

EU election results: The main takeaways

More than 360 million people were eligible to vote in 27 countries, in the four-day election that will shape the European Union's direction over the next five years.

www.lemonde.fr

 

[gry60]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/06/03/tax-dollars-religious-schools/

 

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[Public Enemy]

Aint no way (aint no way im supporting trump as a person of color)

 

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[rexanglorum]