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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago

For an article titled, "Dearborn residents show remorse," it sure didn't feature a lot of, you know, Dearborn residents showing remorse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

reminder:

this election was lost on multiple fronts.

do not let articles like this, however truthful, and the inevitable spiteful comments underneath convince you that the next four years were caused by Arab-Americans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

Yeah, even if we won Michigan, where the Arab-American vote is strongest, it wouldn't have reversed our defeat in the electoral college.

This is just more sad "But I didn't think Leopards would eat MY face!" that is happening in all kinds of demographics of the US electorate right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

fine, fine, yes, it is multifactorial. Unity in opposing trump's ghouls is the most important, not infighting over losing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

thanks, and not trying to be combative here :) i just know how discourse molds and progresses and it’s just a few short steps from the comments and name calling i’m seeing here to “pro-Palestine caused trump”

when in reality biden/harris actively ignored the petitioning of multiple vital demographics including latino, young, and low-income voters—all of which played out very poorly. it speaks volumes that i haven’t seen a single post about these demographics yet and multiple about Arab-Americans.

just be careful yall! your neighbors need you

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

20-20 hindsight is better than nothing I guess, unless you get it when you're looking up at the rapidly receding cliff.

Americans have taken WAY too long to figure out Trump is a con man playing them. Very special insight.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago

I lived in Detroit for a brief period and my observation was that the Arab population in Dearborn was comprised mainly of people born into multi-generational wealth. I know that's anecdotal but if my observations were accurate then we're talking about wealthy people who are disconnected from real life struggles who are voting for Trump. Not about immigrants who have seen and experienced hardships.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

"All she had to do was stop the war in Lebanon and Gaza and she would receive everyone's votes here," Dearborn's Democratic mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, told the Associated Press.

Spot the mayor who has no idea what the job of Vice President actually is...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Depending on what they mean by "stop the war" in gaza, if they mean the current hostilities (which, yeah it's what she probably meant) or end the conflict in its entirety, that could be the biggest God damn ask I've ever heard.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago

Particularly since the US is not one of the parties at war.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Nope. Uh uh. No sympathy from me. My give a damn is broken.

You had SO many red flags

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago

You know the Sara Mclaughlin commercials with all the sad, sick, and starving puppies? Do you think there's a similar market for engorged, morbidly obese leopards?

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