El-sayed keeps his religion out of his politics as every politician should.
I don’t give two shits if he’s Muslim. Tbh I think better of him because he’s not another christiofascist. He wants us to have decent public services and decent lives; that’s good enough for me.
If he’s honest (and that’s a big if because he’s an American politician gaining traction in a country where anyone too moral gets fucked), then his beliefs (which, ofc, include ethical standards based on the Qur’an and previous messages of the Divine/words of previous prophets) are 100% behind his nice sounding words and prosocial actions. And if he’s not, then he’s using it to gather support, and ofc he doesn’t take God nor Islam seriously.
Christofascism is nothing but the logical conclusion of a “religion”/group of “religions” built on the image of a righteous, anti-imperialist man of the people who asked us to be loving and selfless to please God and avoid Hell, but based around the Paulian doctrines of “Jesus, the man, is God actually and if you believe this then your sins are forgiven automatically; oh, and faith/beliefs and acts are not connected”. What do you think was the faith of those who went from Western Europe to West Asia to colonise during the Crusades? The faith behind the genocidal Anglo Saxon settlers that installed themselves in North America? The faith of those who engaged in transatlantic chattel slavery, in Leopold’s Congo, in dropping nukes twice…? It’s all as expected, and they use this faith as a shield too, somehow…
El-Sayed never campained on anything Islamic and never addressed his religon of Islam during his whole campain. He is pro-capitilism and he wants every $$ to be spent in his state services.
That’s sad but not at all surprising. 😔
Obama fucked a lot of shit up…
But one thing he was willing to do, was tell Israel no.
It pissed Biden off so much, he publicly denounced Obama over it, because even till the day he left office from his first day as a Senator, Joe Biden always said: “The only way to negotiate with Israel, is give them everything they want”
That was his legitimate belief, so when Obama didn’t say “yes”, Biden shit talked him.
Even after he became president, Biden insisted you have to always say “yes” no matter what Israel asks:
Biden recounted in private that when he was vice president in 2014 and Israel mounted a military assault on Gaza, Obama and his staff rejected his belief, held for decades, that the best way to approach the Israelis is to hug them close but not criticize them, the people familiar with his comments said.
Instead, they said Biden has noted, Obama publicly admonished Israel’s actions and voiced concern for Palestinian civilian deaths early into the 2014 conflict. As a result, Biden has argued, Obama squandered any ability to influence the Israeli government as it invaded Gaza, said the people familiar with his comments.
The president’s private comparisons with his former boss subsided as outrage over rising civilian deaths in Gaza eclipsed the early praise for his approach, according to three of the people familiar with his comments. More than 14,000 Palestinians have been killed so far, according to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Department.
It’s a very low bar, so while I am might have been the “best” in modern history, doesn’t mean he was perfect or even better than El-Sayed or other new names.
I don’t know what your point is.
But my take away is Stephen Semler doesn’t know how to label an X axis clearly.
The obvious choice is every four years for presidential administrations, with a midpoint for Senate changes.
With labels not just for year, but presidents name and Congress majorities.
If people are going to use apss/sites to generate graphs at least put two fucking seconds of thought it
Like that Y axis?!
The only reason Im not positive Semler is a troll, is he didnt put a $, but the “B” alone is bad.
Maybe whoever made that app/site just didn’t know what they were doing
It’s insane how bad of a president Biden was. Truly, truly awful
He wasn’t as crass and openly imperialistic and overall amoral as Trump so he’s basically Jesus in the eyes of liberals. 🤷♂️
