• Piment [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    10 hours ago

    Was almost sure this would pass, it did dog-screm hopefully groups like the ACLU can minimize the damage so every group that protests isn’t immediately regarded as a terrorist group, Democrats doing a fantastic job of making me somehow even less likely to vote next time around

  • principalkohoutek [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    11 hours ago

    Funny I was just reading about the Holy Land Foundation yesterday

    Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development’), originally known as Occupied Land Fund, was the largest Islamic charity in the United States. Headquartered in Richardson, Texas,[1] and run by Palestinian-Americans.[2] The organization’s mission was to “find and implement practical solutions for human suffering through humanitarian programs that impact the lives of the disadvantaged, disinherited, and displaced peoples suffering from man-made and natural disasters.”

    During the 1990s, American politicians, including Chuck Schumer and Eliot Spitzer,[3][4] alongside the Israeli government[5] and Steve Emerson,[6] lobbied the U.S. government to take action against the Holy Land Foundation.[7] In December 2001, the U.S. designated HLF a terrorist organization, seized its assets, and closed the organization. At the time it was the largest Muslim charitable organisation in the United States

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    12 hours ago

    Fifteen Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure.

    Imagine hating Muslims so much that you give your political opponents the tools to suppress you.

  • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    12 hours ago

    This is the kind of stuff you need to shove in the faces of liberals. They claim have to vote blue to stop le evil dictator Trump and yet what does their party do? Go out of their way to give him dictatorship tools. They cannot claim they’re anything but slightly nervous and reticent accomplices instead of any kind of resistance to him and therefore voting blue is not resisting, it’s just another form of enabling and deluding yourself.