As a Muslim, I don’t blame anyone for abstaining. The choices were genocide or genocide+. Trump at least went to meet with some Mosque leaders in Dearborn Michigan. Kamala couldn’t even be bothered to do that.

The Democrats demonstrably abandoned us to our faces. Trump at least acted like he was going to care (which anyone could tell you was a lie, but he did make a show of it).

My parents, aunts, and uncles all seriously considered voting for Trump because we all felt abandoned by the Democrats.

Don’t blame us, the Democrats abandoned us to our faces.

She’s definitely well above average. Have you walked around like anywhere in America lately?

My grandparents both lived with us for most of my life. Over the summers when I was a kid, my brother and I would stay up late playing video games and my grandparents would sit in the same room watching TV. My grandfather would make fun of whatever my brother and I were doing. My grandmother would tell him to leave us alone. It was gentle fun ribbing all around.

My freshmen year of college, my grandmother died suddenly while she was visiting my aunt in California. I didn’t even know she was sick. It was such a shock.

My grandfather was devastated. He used to tell my dad “I had no idea how much I needed her”. He was diagnosed with lung cancer a month after she died. My parents and my aunts and uncles all took turns taking him to chemotherapy. We all tried to keep him going, but the dude had given up. He seemed like he didn’t think there was any point in going on without her. We all tried to raise his spirits so he could keep fighting, but he just didn’t have it in him anymore.

My sophomore of college, my mom would call me periodically and tell me “I think Dada is going to die today.” It happened so much, eventually it just became background noise to me. I was home on spring break, I went to see him at the rehab center and he was telling me he could see grandmother. Being 19, I figured he was just delirious from all the drugs. I went home and went to bed. Next morning, my mom called me and said “Dada got sent to the ER, I think today is the day”. He had been sent to the ER so many times at that point, I was kinda numb to it and I just went back to sleep. I woke up an hour later and got my brother “hey we gotta go to the hospital and check on dada”. No rush, very routine at this point.

We get there and the doctor wants to talk to my dad like asap. So I called him and told him the doctor needs to talk to you. My dad rushed over. Doc tells us my grandfather had a GI bleed but he was too frail to survive the procedure to fix it. So there was nothing they could do.

My cousin came after that. So we sat there in the ER for hours. Looking at the heart monitor. Watching it slowly count down from 100. It took hours. The four of us silently sitting there. None of us knew what to say.

As soon as the heart rate monitor dropped to 0, we were all in tears. Nobody could speak.

I’ve never heard of Hexbear. Care to explain?

I think the first one is a parody of the Commissioner of the NBA banning Donald Sterling for life.

It’s one of those very dramatic headlines you might see on social media. Obviously the CEO of Sex is just a ridiculous title, but so is the entire headline.

I think you are confusing propaganda from the US with numerous investigative reports by reputable journalists and organizations like Amnesty International.

Cool I like to learn. Can you share a few of them?

They even self admit executing political prisoners.

Isn’t that better than not admitting to it? Like the US and it’s allies?

I often see dischenfranchised US citizens looking to other fascist countries like Russia or China for answers.

So you’ll have to back up calling China fascist. That sounds like being a useful idiot for the CIA if you ask me.

I have been involved in local, state, and federal politics. I have conducted numerous letter writing campaigns that have resulted in political prisoners release. I have been a community organizer and I have gotten laws and policies passed in my city to protect people.

So not in China right?

But you will trust anything China says when it denies its long history of human rights abuses?

So the problem with that is that all the accusations of human rights abuses come from the United States, so who am I supposed to trust? I know I can’t trust the US, so why should I take the accusations seriously in the first place?

I have studied human rights abuses for over three decades now. I can confidently say no nation except perhaps in ancient history can compare to the US levels of human destruction. If you count environmental destruction then no country in history can come close.

Oh that’s cool. What do you do?

I’m not on any nation team. I’m on the human team. If humanity can do better, we should. I live in America, and I’ve read mostly American history so I’m more aware of our crimes. I don’t trust anything our captured media says about the rest of the world.

Hey man it’s not my fault my taxes have funded genocide for decades.

China had a problem with violent Muslim extremism in Xinjiang 25-40 years ago.

China started reeducation camps for them.

The US has spent decades bombing and murdering Muslims creating more extremists.

Which one is a better response to violent religious extremism?

Maybe. This is all conjecture, but it seems convenient that Tupac who advocated for helping the poor in his music was murdered and all the black artists who popped up after him (Beyonce,JayZ, Kanye for example) are all about “get my money” music.

Of course, I have no evidence, but if you’ve read about all the various CIA psyops over the past 80 years, it doesn’t sound that far fetched.

The media is owned by capitalists. Anything that threatens capital needs to be snuffed out.

https://youtu.be/eXvBjCO19QY

This is Tupac who was murdered.

https://youtu.be/E58qLXBfLrs

This is Kanye West who is a professed Nazi and still alive.

These songs were within a decade of each other. I know that’s not enough data, but I think the differences in tone can be accounted for which was was more acceptable to power.

Thanks for sharing bro that’s super interesting.

McWhirter put a bounty on them. I think whatever motivated this is more complicated than they just killed people.

The userbase itself is preventing diversity by attacking anyone, often violently, who doesn’t agree with them.

People being mean to you in a text medium isn’t violence bro

I echo this sentiment. Reddit is just better for niche stuff.

My YouTube feed has a million videos on this game. Every major media outlet has done multiple videos on this game and the bugs and the launch. I’m pretty plugged into the games industry and I hadn’t heard of it until it launched but since then it has gotten a ton of press and I doubt it’s just “word of mouth”.

I just wanted to say that I disagree with your downvotes sir

Mars is red because there was enough oxygen to oxidize the iron.

There’s oxygen on Mars. Just not enough for us to breathe.