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I think people would more vocally call out specific Muslim extremists if conservatives weren’t chomping at the bit to blame Muslims in general whenever incidents like this happens.
 
It’s not an excuse, mind you. We should openly and loudly condemn all murder whether it’s carried out by a member of an oppressed minority or not.
 
But conservatives have made it very hard to do that without it looking like a condemnation of the larger group these bad actors belong to. So some cowardly liberals - rather than make nuanced criticisms - say nothing so they aren’t mistaken for their ideological opponants (who are, I again emphasize, also wrong).
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If you’re wondering why it is hard to condemned Muslim Extremism? Don’t point at the Left/Liberals, point at the Right/Conservatives.
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If you’re wondering why it is hard to condemned Muslim Extremism? Don’t point at the Left/Liberals, point at the Right/Conservatives.
 
I’m pointing at some of both. Though on “my side” - generally speaking - this is more a liberal thing than a Left thing.
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Explain. I am curious as to how this case invokes that in you over other things.
Though, I am a conservative and I did link to FBI files to on finders cult, LOL!
 
Here’s the thing, most Conservatives, at least here in United States, are overly religious. So when they see something that doesn’t promote anything that isn’t religious, they’ll find some bullshit reason to claim it’s “promoting Satanism” or “Worshipping the Devil”. And I don’t mean things like cults, I mean it’s these four: Playing Video Games, Watching Porn, Listening to Rock and Heavy Metal, and or Dressing in Clothing that features the 666 or Pentagram.
 
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you do know you have a double negative there? read literally, it says “So when they see something that promotes anything thats religious…”
 
 
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may i ask, how much chance in hell does he have to win that?
 
 
@Dustcan  
Considering how much he fucked up the infamous texas snow day, i could imagine texas being willing to vote him out, and democrats might have a chance to get their senator in there in 2022, either because of internal republican competition or people switching to democrat.
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Apparently, those were some amendments to the controversial “anti-separatist” law project that were brought up by the right-wing opposition (which still controls the Senate — mainly because, unlike in the US, senators aren’t elected by direct suffrage, but by other elected officials — an oddity leftover from the fourth republic that Charles de Gaulle tried to fix back in 1969, but because his referendum failed, he resigned instead) and to which macronist minister Gérald Darmanin, the main architect of this law project, was actually opposed.  
The French Senate is yet another bastion of conservatism, fortunately they don’t usually make themselves as much of a nuisance as the US one was under Moscow Mitch (which is kind of a low bar to clear).  
Previously, only students were affected by those anti-religious symbol measures (which also forbids them to wear yarmulkes or cross necklaces, for example; no idea how satanist symbols are affected TBH). I wasn’t half my current age when it was voted, but I still remember how controversal it had been back then — we even had two journalists held hostages in Iraq with demands for that law to be abolished.
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If I get this staffer job, here’s my dream plan.
 
Work with the senator for a year or two learning the ropes, then officially move my residence to NOVA (technically I’m residenced further south but live in NOVA for work), then run for a local office. After that, run for Congress in one of the deep blue NOVA districts.
 
If I win, serve a term there, then run for Senate.
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I’m going to run as a Republican in my local district in 2022, but I’ll openly say “I disagree with Republicans on everything and am a straight-up Communist. Vote for me for the death of the Republican Party.” (It’s a red district.)
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The Matt Gaetz scandal sure is getting a bit wild… With his claims of a extortion over it. I take the claim in doubt but it does seem to be, extortion or not, some actual political action around this possibly not dead Iranian hostage. Interesting leaked texts between the media director of the Israeli consulate in New York and… Scott Adams!?  
Three screenshots of texts between Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, and Jake Novak, media director of the Israeli consulate in New York City were shared with TAC. The messages were authenticated by one of the parties to them.
In the first screenshot, Novak messaged Adams last Saturday to tell him about the investigation into Gaetz. The New York Times story on the Gaetz investigation was not published until Tuesday.
In the second, Novak appears to represent himself as deeply involved in the efforts to free Bob Levinson from Iran, telling Adams “this is screwing up my efforts to free Bob Levinson.”
“Gaetz’s dad was secretly finding [sic] us,” he continues. “So I’m very much wanting this to be untrue. I’ve got a commando team leader friend of mine nervously waiting for the wire transfers to clear.”
In the third screenshot, Novak casts doubt on Gaetz’s claims that he is being extorted. “The real documents do not extort,” he writes, “And we only asked for $25 million as an estimate at first. We came way down.”
 
 
Based on the lack of support of his fellow Republicans It doesn’t look too good for him.  
As for his few friends in Washington, The Daily Beast found that to be true. One former GOP staffer said Wednesday that their office had an informal rule to not allow their member to appear next to Gaetz during TV hits, fearful of the inevitable scandal that would come out one day.
 
If true, this goes with the topless photos he supposedly showed around. I am always distrustful of anonymous staffers speaking to the mainstream media but I do find the muted defense to be telling.
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I heard Matt Gaetz is a fucking asshole to his co-workers, so his fellow Republicans are probably eager to throw him under the bus. You goin’ to jail, bitch!!!
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I want to know why Gaetz is so smooth.
 
I don’t mean smooth like skilled or charismatic, I mean literally smooth.
 
His face looks like he molded it out of mashed potatoes and it unnerves me.
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My advice, as totally rad that would be, don’t if the cultural environment has continued on its current path you already have some positions that are completely unacceptable in the upper class managerial environment that you’ d be dealing with.
 
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It’s a Ted Cruz political grandstanding at the expense of being a team player effect as well I reckon.
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Gaetz is trying to deny the allegations on the grounds of someone using it to “extort” him. But wouldn’t that imply that the allegations are true? Saying they’re threatening you with evidence basically admits you did the thing.
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This article by John Boehner is quite an interesting look at how Republicans have gone off the deep end in the past decade, told from the inside. It also has one of the best opening paragraphs I’ve ever read:  
In the 2010 midterm election, voters from all over the place gave President Obama what he himself called “a shellacking.” And oh boy, was it ever. You could be a total moron and get elected just by having an R next to your name—and that year, by the way, we did pick up a fair number in that category.
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