The Mamdani Act would amend existing immigration law to prohibit the admission and naturalization of any noncitizen who is or was a member of, affiliated with, or advocates for a Chinese communist, communist, socialist, Islamic fundamentalist or other totalitarian party—or any organization that advocates those ideologies. Under its deportation provisions, a noncitizen already in the United States could be removed if they engage in advocacy for socialism, communism, Marxism or Islamic fundamentalism, distribute or publish material promoting those ideologies or hold membership in affiliated organizations at any point after admission.
You know he is a much needed anti-toxin, especially when they name a bill after him. Let the healing begin.
So republicans are Publicly trying to end social security. Got it. start running those ads.
The Democrats won’t because their donors won’t let them
There should be a negative consequence for proposing obviously unconstitutional bullshit with no chance of passing just for publicity
This is going hard in the direction of the Nazi Germany “Enabling Act” of 1933.
Or McCarthyism. Don’t forget that one. Another classic.
We are so back, baby! [to one of the worst times in modern human history]
Mamdani is the closest thing to a left wing politician America has been exposed to (to my European eyes he seems center-left), and the whole of the US is going completely ballistic about it.
The rich/racists are going ballistic, but many see him as a ray of hope.
A fortnightly somewhat comedic podcast also recommended that progressive politicians should follow his campaign style, focusing mostly on economic policies to help everyday policies. I wouldn’t call them experts or anything, but they claimed a few other politicians doing the same thing had promising results (they didn’t state specific examples).
But yeah, lots of Americans do like at least some of what he’s doing, but those usually aren’t anyone near power.
“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?”
Reminder for anyone still confused. American conservatives are actual, real-life fascists.
I got a better bill idea.
The Trump-Epstein act: which mandates the death penalty for pedophiles.
Don’t pay attention to this, it’s going nowhere, it’s weak propaganda to distract from the Epstein Files and the ArmerIsraeli War®.
it’s weak propaganda
Chip Roy is running for AG in Texas. It’s less “weak propaganda” and more “a policy he would like to implement if elected to statewide office.” If I was a Muslim in Texas, I’d be keenly aware of what he was proposing.
Fortunately, even the corrupted judges seem to have trouble assailing the First Amendment directly so far. What would really be nice, though, would be if these laws could be stopped on the drawing board rather than having to be challenged in court every time. If a high schooler could win the court case, it should not have to be one.
I dunno, seems kinda like something to pay attention to. Do you guys do anything? Or is sitting on your hands making up reasons to ignore shit like this just more fun than I thought it to be?
“any organization that advocates those ideologies” is so god damn unconstitutional, it is not even funny
any organization that advocates those ideologies” is so god damn
unconstitutional, it is not even funny-Republicans
Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.
White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.
Mccarthyism round two, let’s go! Screw learning from your mistakes!
“I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.”
“Or maybe it’s 57… or 10… maybe.”
Oh they learned, hence why we have Fox News and half of the government that will refuse to hold the worst US President ever accountable for his blatant acts of fraud and embezzlement.
They see McCarthy’s mistake was giving up.
Not just “giving up”, there are large portions who think McCarthy’s mistake was not simply murdering everyone who appeared before HUAC. My own father-in-law doesn’t really want these to be any form of actual “we wanna know what’s going on” trials, he just wants this to be all but a summary execution.
Banning socialists is some real commie shit these fucking pinko politicians
Banning socialists
Not just socialists, “Islamists”. This guy is running for AG in a state with Muslims making up around 2% of the population. Many of them are highly educated professionals looking to form full blow communities of like-minded people.
Unless the Commies themselves are socialists
We MUST deport ANYONE who DOESNT like having Sex With Children!
-Republicans!
You say that like someone isnt going to immediately jump in and point out that Aisha was 9 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisha?wprov=sfla1
We live in a fucked up world, and it turns out we always have. Sad stuff, man.
The youngest royal brides in history
https://www.theroyalforums.com/threads/the-youngest-royal-brides-in-history.17081/
What the fuck did I just read? She was 6 at the time of marriage and 9 when it was “consummated”.
He would often just sit and watch her and her friends play with dolls, and on occasion, he would even join them.
🤮
Yup. Maybe someone from that religion can explain to you how they make it OK in their head, if they want to. Of course, nobody has to defend their religious beliefs to anybody else, so i hope it doesnt come across like im pressuring anyone.
I can shed some light as an ex-Muslim. There are a bunch of common, disgusting excuses: “times were different”, “girls used to mature faster”, “it was common back then”.
There’re more interesting possibilities though. It’s true that it was a political marriage that was basically forced onto Muhammed. But an extension of that reasoning is that the consummation never happened either.
It’s been a while since I looked at this stuff but I remember that there’s actually also a surprisingly compelling case against her ages being 6 and 9. But it would still be 13 to 16 IIRC. The historical side of this is pretty interesting (like how hadith was compiled vs the quran), but not really worth discussing here.
Anyway, yeah, like every other religion, just a cult that grew too large. Anything but admitting that they’re wrong.
Thanks for the perspective. It’s interesting that the disgusting excuses still exist alongside the “consummation never happened” and “they got the ages all wrong here” excuses. Zealots be zealoting in every religion.
It’s a bit weird in Islam. So some important context first.
Basically all of Islam’s rules/laws and stories come from two sources: the Quran and Hadith. You probably already know of the Quran but it’s what they believe to be God’s words verbatim. Hadith, on the other hand, is basically everything the prophet said or did, as recorded by different people.
The Quran was compiled almost immediately after Muhammed died. But Hadith was compiled 2 centuries after that.
To get to the more positive conclusions, you would need to deny a very specific Hadith narrated by Aisha herself. But we only know that she said that because her nephew said so to his students, who then said so to others… So it’s a matter of the verifiability of that chain of trust. But if you believe that Hadith to be false, it would cast doubt on the rest of Hadith and people are not a fan of that idea.
So instead, most Muslims just accept that he’s a pedophile but get offended when you call him a pedophile.
I’m sure there are a lot of people in that religion that don’t find that acceptable.
I meant “make it OK” like how I was raised Roman Catholic and the church abused/raped children and lied about it, but many of my fellow roman catholics still believe the church to be “of God.” They dont condone the abuse, but despite knowing how systemic it all was, they still remain devout. They somehow make it OK to continue being Catholic.
The name of this bill is how you know they are terrified of him.
