• Marleyinoc@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I thought his brain was just so addled that he fucked his speech up. He tried to say the Muslim Brotherhood caused all Muslims to stop contributing to society. He’s mentally ill and racist, basically.

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    14 hours ago

    Even if this total lie were somehow true, that there was something about Arab culture or Semitic people that magically made them unable to “produce culture” uhhh they’re still people?? Like they deserve exactly as much dignity and respect as any other people.

    But it’s also obviously a stupid racist lie.

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    he doesnt either. he parrots conspiracies that have been scientifically proven false

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      i object to your use of the word “either”. that gives him too much credibility.

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    Folks there really is no reason to go all the way back to the Islamic Golden Age to disprove this fool. There are many many Arab scientists and writers alive and kicking at this moment right now.

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      He is recycling the same islamophobic shit that flooded the internet in the two years after 9/11. The arguments are 100% 2001-2003 era.

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    17 hours ago

    What kind of numbers will we use if we want to express in writing a number of how many times this asshole has been wrong. Beware the number is probably not gonna be high enough.

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    The fact the average conservative can see and even hear this and say its not racist shows how silly the average centrist is for trying to meet them in the middle.

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    Odd thing to say, as the religion these people claim to follow (and the “book” attached to it) is a reworked and simplified (i.e. monotheistic) believe system started in what is now Iran and Iraq. And if it wasn’t for “Arab” maps and maritime science, Europeans would never been able to start their colonial sea expansion and, subsequently, the great-great-great parents of this scum would have reach the Americas … just saying.

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    That might be the most blatantly racist thing said by this administration. Well other than Miller. Which is saying something.

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    Watch them try to ban Arabic numerals and force everyone to use Roman numbers again.

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      I really REALLY want this to happen. It would be such a perfect example of how incredibly ignorant they are and the complete lack of understanding they have for the world around them.

      Like the time a city banned “di-hydrogen monoxide” for like a day until they realized it was just a fancy name for H2O lol

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        Like the time a city banned “di-hydrogen monoxide” for like a day until they realized it was just a fancy name for H2O lol

        That’s not quite the story…

        Viejo, California put a proposal on its agenda to ban plastic foam containers over the chemicals used in making them. In the proposal they listed “dihydrogen monoxide”, among other things, presumably because they likely added it to the list after failing to identify a satire website, and it went viral, mostly in right-wing circles that hate anything that protects the environment.

        It never got past the proposal stage, and the “dihydrogen monoxide” part wasn’t even the reason why. They never actually banned water and had to walk that back, a Republican lied to you to make you think that.

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          I think my high school chemistry teacher told us that as a reason why it’s important to know the periodic table or something, idk what their political motivations were.

          But I guess even before AI stories were getting twisted and changed to fit narratives or serve personal purposes. Thanks for the info tho, always good to know more info.