Muslims who voted for Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet picks
Muslims who voted for Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet picks
Summary
U.S. Muslim leaders who supported Trump to protest Biden’s stance on Gaza and Lebanon now feel betrayed by Trump’s pro-Israel Cabinet picks.
His appointments of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel, and Elise Stefanik as UN ambassador have drawn sharp criticism, with some accusing the administration of pursuing “Zionist overdrive” and “neoconservative” priorities.
Rabiul Chowdhury, a Philadelphia investor who chaired the “Abandon Harris” campaign and co-founded “Muslims for Trump,” and Rexhinaldo Nazarko, executive director of AMEEN, feel betrayed by broken promises of peace.
“It’s like he’s going on Zionist overdrive,” said Nazarko, adding, “it does look like our community has been played.”
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Sure seems weird that this level of glee over predictable bad things happening seem hyperfocused on the racial out group with the best reason to vote emotionally.
Then maybe they should have listened when they were told that this was the exact literal consequence of voting emotionally.
So they should've listened to Bill Clinton instead, who went to Dearborn and essentially said Israel can do whatever they want to their faces? There were no good options to vote for.
My dude, nobody said there was a good option. The choice was a bad option, and a much worse option. Bill Clinton doesn't matter since he has nothing to do with the government. Harris at least paid lip-service to stopping Israel; Trump said he wants Bibi to "finish the job."
And the kicker is, one of those two choices was going to win and if you don't vote for the bad option, the much worse option wins by default.
Unfortunately, this whole election can be summed up as: everyone not named Trump voted against their best interests.
When it comes to this issue, you can't really say that Trump is that much worse. Either way Gaza and the West Bank were heading to oblivion. Rhetoric aside, there is no evidence that Harris would have ever stood up to Israel in any meaningful way.
When it comes to this issue, you can't really say that Trump is that much worse.
Oh my sweet summer child... It can always be worse.
You're in for a rude awakening.
I didn't think Bill Clinton could run for a third term.
He was a campaign surrogate.
And he's also a human being with his own opinions.
Maybe they should have listened to the woman running for president instead. I'm not sure why that idea didn't occur to you.
If the campaign didn't want Bill Clinton there, he wouldn't have gone. This was their campaign strategy, along with hanging out with Cheney.
The Democrats ran an awful campaign again, and they need to stop blaming the voters for reacting negatively to this.
You asked who they should have listened to. I told you the person they should have listened to. The person actually running for office.
I have no idea why you think they should have not paid attention to what the person running for office said and just took for granted what her surrogate said agreed with what she said. That's a pretty ignorant thing to do, not take a few moments to check and see what her actual beliefs on this are and if they're being represented accurately.
So I guess we'll put you down on the "pro-ignorance" list. I guess that's why you seem to be okay with Trump winning.
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It's like they were trying to lose Michigan.
Again. You asked who they should have listened to. I told you. All you are doing is telling me that you think they're all ignorant.
Fuck Bill Clinton. Who the fuck cares what he said days before the election. You should already have educated yourself enough to know exactly who you're voting for by then (and as a Muslim, that shouldn't take very long given the options). This is such a bullshit excuse.
But again, fuck Bill Clinton, that was such a shit show
And people in the community were warning for months that this was the consequence of refusing to denounce genocide. But somehow you only want to blame the racial and religious out group who can't even be credibly blamed for losing the election. You guys were claiming for months they weren't important and should be ignored, and now that the election is over and the thing Democratic leaders were warning of happened, suddenly it's all their fault?
And people in the community were warning for months that this was the consequence of refusing to denounce genocide
And they were told, repeatedly, that Trump would be worse. Guess what happens now?
But somehow you only want to blame the racial and religious out group who can’t even be credibly blamed for losing the election.
Trump improved his margin across nearly every single demographic, so there's plenty of blame to go around. But in a comment thread about Muslim voters feeling buyer's remorse, I'm not going to talk about the white men who get fed shit from the manosphere podcast space, or the ghost of Phyllis Schlafly infecting women across this country to vote for the party that wants to take their rights away, or that when Trump was talking about Latino immigrants he was talking about them and not those other immigrants. It's called "context."
You guys were claiming for months they weren’t important and should be ignored
Nope, didn't say that. I said that when your choice is token lip service about maybe stopping Palestinian genocide, and making the genocide worse, that you should vote for the former, because otherwise you'll get the latter. Which is what happened. Congratulations, you told the Dems you weren't going to vote for them, and now are surprised they ignored what you wanted.
Congratulations, you told the Dems you weren’t going to vote for them, and now are surprised they ignored what you wanted.
This is such a completely broken and backward way to think about politics, but even so, the entire time representatives from that community (Democrats trying to get Harris elected) were trying to get them to do anything to head this off. At no point was there a "well, we're just never going to vote for you so look elsewhere", but that didn't stop the campaign for prioritizing literal Republicans over previously Democratic constituencies with unsurprisingly bad results.
And I am a non-Muslim Harris voter, but this liberal tendency to blame minorities for the failures of existing power structures cannot be suppressed.
I personally agreed with undecided in principle and was sympathetic that Harris largely ignored them. The problem is that trying to leverage their position for actual good policy outcomes made for this nasty prisoner's dilemna situation where both parties chose the bad option.
I honestly thought that they'd eventually come around because of just how bad Trump was going to be for democracy, and moreover for the people they cared about. Sadly, they were so devoted to their game of chicken that some of their loved ones will pay for it.
I also don't think it's that callous to engage in a little bit of "I fucking told you so."
Most people I saw here were just trying to achieve the most favourable outcome, given the reality at the time.
I honestly thought that they’d eventually come around because of just how bad Trump was going to be for democracy, and moreover for the people they cared about. Sadly, they were so devoted to their game of chicken that some of their loved ones will pay for it.
The problem in this is that you can substitute either the Harris campaign or the Muslim voters for "they", and far too few people are applying it to the people with power. It seems inconceivable to these people that politicians actually need to address the concerns of the people they want to vote for them. They're like some sort of unknowable force without agency or responsibility. It's always the little guy's fault for not coming around to the whims of the politician.
What makes it all worse is that on one side you have a population with good reason to be acting emotionally and the other you have someone just making a calculation that they just didn't think they were worth it. Everyone shares blame for this result, but I get acting emotionally when you're being ignored by power while they send weapons to kill your families. I don't have any grace for sociopathic Democrats who would rather chase Republicans than take a moral stance for a constituency that voted for them in the past.
The problem in this is that you can substitute either the Harris campaign or the Muslim voters for "they"
Lol! You're absolutely right. From my point of view, though, the democratic party is so fully captured and out of touch with actual issues that they're beyond being reasoned with, so it should almost go without saying who I'm referring to. And yes, I acknowledge how completely fucked that is.
They've created this absolutely monstrous situation where we always have to choose between letting people we care about get hurt, or a tiny glimmer of hope of something better, and even though I pushed to avoid the former, I'm fully sympathetic to both sides.
I think the masses of voters who are much less easy to influence. They're not on Lemmy debating the topic or waiting for a community leader to decide the strategy. They probably didn't even do any sort of deep game theory about playing chicken and scaring the Democrats. They just got more pissed off as the news came through, as the Democrats made excuses and acted like nothing needed to change, and as people in their community reported deaths. We can debate and shout and rationalize here all we want, we can suppress the topic for the greater good, and all that will have zero impact on electorate-level perceptions. They're not here, there are too many for us to individually convince to change their mind, and they're probably not even open to listening to a coldly rational argument about lesser evils and other topics.
Even the people organizing these campaigns didn't have the influence to change their votes. Uncommitted endorsed Harris! But the whole thing was never in their control. They can only report the temperature they're feeling in the community and suggest moves they think would help get people back into the tent. Those Democratic operatives and elected officials should have the potential to influence Harris. They have names people know, and phone numbers to people of importance. If she was so corrupt and blocked off that even they couldn't reach her then we kind of do need the reckoning that could come from such an abject failure to keep the coalition together. There's no "push her to be better after the election" in that case.
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My dude my feed is literally just leopards eating faces right now. It will continue to be for the next four years. Trump’s presidency only benefits the worst of our society, it will just take some voters longer to feel the pain than others
In my feed this story has shown up multiple times (more than any other group), each with a cavalcade of engagement, and "haha, more genocide" statements show up on every story about Palestine. They're the group with the best excuse for "well that was dumb, but I get it" (their families are literally being killed by American weapons), but despite being marginalized as small and unimportant for months are now being covered as the post facto cause of failure, without anyone even recognizing that this was being predicted by Democratic party members well in advance as the obvious result of just trying to ignore the genocide.
but despite being marginalized as small and unimportant for months are now being covered as the post facto cause of failure,
Where are they blamed for the failure of the campaign here, again?
without anyone even recognizing that this was being predicted by Democratic party members well in advance as the obvious result of just trying to ignore the genocide.
The obvious result was that a not-insignificant part of the country is stupid enough to vote for 'more genocide' instead of less?
The whole premise of this being a news story, and a story that receives reliable engagement and gets injected into every story about Lebanon and Palestine is that these votes of these people have meaningfully caused the problems we're all going to experience. A similar amount of ink is not being spread about any other group, and certainly not about all the mundane white assholes who have been voting for the people who harm their communities year after year.
And be honest, we're looking at like 5% more genocide than Biden. We aren't exactly going from Gandhi to Hitler on this issue. The Harris opportunity was always a secret hope that she was better than what she was willing to say. And like, a hope is better than none at all, but if she just followed what she said and didn't change anything, none of us would be seriously asking ourselves how we could have missed the signs.
The whole premise of this being a news story, and a story that receives reliable engagement and gets injected into every story about Lebanon and Palestine is that these votes of these people have meaningfully caused the problems we’re all going to experience.
That's a lot of reading in to a common post-election story of buyer's remorse that's all over the place, about multiple demographics, right now.
And be honest, we’re looking at like 5% more genocide than Biden.
Lord.
Junkies'll do some crazy shit for some o' that sweet, sweet righteous indignation...
There are over a million Gazans still alive. That is a very large number of people barely hanging on from starvation that can still be mercilessly wiped out. You really sure about that 5% figure?
I'm more disturbed by the fact that they think that 5% figure is irrelevant. Even if they're right, that's 5% more innocent people. That's literally thousands of people.
Biden literally isn't stopping the starvation tactic now. There was a red line, they crossed it, and he said "nevermind". So what exactly is going to be different under Trump? From another story, Trump is going to release the 2000 lb. bomb shipments. It's literally the only thing Biden has denied them. I'd estimate 5% is the difference is between killing people with starvation, disease, and 500 lb. bombs and starvation, disease, and 2000 lb. bombs.
I hope I'm wrong, but I expect the difference being going from a small handful of aid trucks a day to zero aid trucks a day. That would be a big difference to the people of Gaza.
And be honest, we’re looking at like 5% more genocide than Biden.
Let's say that's true. I don't believe it's true, but let's say it is... that's worse, right? Would you go to Palestine and tell people there "only 5% more of you will die now that Trump has been elected, so it's about the same as before?"
What a crazy bit of hand waving away a huge problem of your own admission.
I'm not counting bodies, I'm saying the relative dedication to genocide is not significantly different in impact. The material difference from Biden is literally just the 2000 lb. bombs, with an unquantifiable and unreliable hope that Democrats would snap out of it and start doing better. Hope meant it was worth trying for, because a change could be a big deal, but very likely the real difference in death come January 20th is going to be minimal compared to the death that Biden has already overseen and allowed.
I’m not counting bodies, I’m saying the relative dedication to genocide is not significantly different in impact.
That's literally counting bodies. Even if your 5% figure is right, that's a difference in thousands of deaths.
Again, would you say such a thing to someone in Gaza? That thousands more dead than there would have been otherwise is not significantly different in impact? Would you say it to a parent who's child was amongst those thousands?
It's not a "right" figure, it's an expression of small differences. Stop trying to do math and just read what I'm writing. 99 vs. 100, 99.9 vs. 100, really bad vs. slightly more bad, whatever expression you'd prefer. The difference in impact is limited because Biden has presented practically no restriction or resistance.
I think you are the one who needs to do math, because you're going from a 5% difference to a 1% difference to a 0.1% difference (which I don't think you have realized) and I am saying that if you asked anyone in Palestine they would say that even one less death would be preferable. Especially if that one less death was their child.
Every life lost is a significant impact. Every human being in this world has a potential to make a massive difference.
And I'm sad that you don't seem to understand that.
You need to keep reading my posts until you get it through your head that I didn't pick 5% or 1% or 0.1% because there was an estimate of increased casualties, it's just an expression of the degradation being marginal. None of the numbers mean anything. One is worse (Trump), but on this issue not by a lot, and when someone is voting emotionally because they know people who have been killed, they may not be in the head space to see a small difference as more important than their anger.
You can talk about passionless objective voters calculating death percentages all you want, but that was never the topic of conversation. I'm not in that population, I made my calculation and a little less death is worth it, but I don't blame anyone who lost a relative, watched Harris and Biden barely even give lip service to them and their community, and then told them to go fuck themselves. Haha, leopard sure ate their faces, what idiots.
In my feed this story has shown up multiple times (more than any other group), each with a cavalcade of engagement, and “haha, more genocide” statements show up on every story about Palestine.
Well that certainly isn't happening on Lemmy, so maybe you should stay out of such a toxic environment. It's Twitter, isn't it?
Can you please link to and quote one of two of the people you think are laughing about more genocide?
That's what I did. Here's two in easy form:
Topic: "Israeli drones shooting children in Gaza deliberately 'day after day', UK surgeon tells MPs":
You know what would help this situation? Letting a fascist become President of the United States. Again.
Topic: "Continuing 'Ethnic Cleansing' Campaign, Israel Blows Past US Deadline for Gaza Aid"
Don’t worry, just like how it was only fair that Ukraine and American minorities get genocided if Gaza was going to get genocided, abstaining voters have likewise decided it’s only fair for the West Bank to suffer genocide if Gaza is going to suffer genocide.
Current genocide happening, but let's instead talk about how it's somehow going to be worse in January because the real importance is the election.
Neither of those people are laughing about more genocide. In any way. You do know the difference between laughing about something and cynicism, right? Because those are both the latter.
"Hey, I hear an absolutely horrible and heartbreaking thing is happening, time to get in some election commentary" isn't cynicism, it's "told ya so".
"I told you so" is also not laughing about more genocide, which is what I asked you to provide quotes of. I think you need to stop trying to pretend you said something else and just admit you can't produce such quotes.