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2025-03-24 05:13:08 UTC

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You're both right, actually. Religious indignation across the board was part and parcel of Biden's fall, and that of Harris, but it wasn't confined to just the charge of Palestine genocide. It was evangelical indignation that a woman was the choice against a man for office, and it was WASP indignation that she was both a woman and non-white....and I should add that devout fundamentalist Muslims believe that women should be excluded from high office.
This was an election that united the bigots.

2025-03-11 04:50:40 UTC

Trump isn't going to change his pro-Russia position over an apology.
[share author='Defending Ukraine' profile='https://mstdn.social/users/ukrdef' avatar='' link='https://mstdn.social/@ukrdef/114141985003564869' posted='2025-03-11 04:47:52' guid='a4cf39b1-36c3056f4bdd10af-1a86a145' message_id='https://mstdn.social/users/ukrdef/statuses/114141985003564869']KYIV INDEPENDENT:
Zelensky apologized to Trump for Oval Office clash, Witkoff claims
Zelensky "apologized for that whole incident that happened in the Oval Office. I think that was an important step, Trump's special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, said on March 10.
[url=https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-apologized-for-oval-office-clash-witkoff-says/]https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-apologized-for-oval-office-clash-witkoff-says/[/url]
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2024-12-01 16:28:02 UTC

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That bit about "taking them to Spain" caught my eye, and sure enough--the Wiki page puts the origins of this tale right around the time when Spain was ruled by the Muslim Saracen Empire, but also when Turkyie was ruled by Turks but before those two Turk tribes (and they're Asian in origin) became known as Ottomans. The Turks learned Islam from the Saracen Arabs and it's no surprise to me that the Turks and Spaniards (Cordovans, to be more precise) indulged in the same practice of abducting Christian male children to raise in Islamic practice.

2024-12-01 05:53:53 UTC

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My guess would be that's more of an indigenous story than Christianity-related, though, and in the same breath I'll point out that Roman Christianity has been notorious for co-opting, then Christianizing, locally held religions, rituals and stories. Romans had been doing exactly that ever since Romulus murdered his twin brother Remus, which is how the Roman Empire got built.

2024-11-22 22:27:50 UTC

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Right after I posted that comment I was made aware that Elon Musk declared it to be a terrorist organization for "doxing" so when the House should ever pass that bill against non-profits on the basis of terror associations, it's likely to come under heavy fire in January.
https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/politics/2024/11/19/elon-musk-calls-splc-a-criminal-organization-after-doxing-claim/76428624007/

2024-11-22 22:19:36 UTC

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Well, an obvious addition (USA) would be the NAACP and the ACLU, but there's one too often overlooked, and that's the Southern Poverty Law Center:
https://www.splcenter.org/

2024-09-26 22:21:46 UTC

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More like software difference anomalies. I'm using Friendica, which doesn't always "translate" to Mastodon. And if you think THAT's bad, just try interacting with Diaspora, ha.
Actually, you can't from Mastodon but you can from Friendica...in a limited sort of way. There are similar issues, like with Sharing, stuff posted in Diaspora on Friendica.