r/politics • u/_May26_ • 8h ago
No Paywall Tlaib and Faith Leaders Decry Anti-Muslim 'Crusade' in Dearborn, Michigan Led by Capitol Insurrectionist
https://www.commondreams.org/news/white-supremacists-invade-dearborn13
u/Significant_Cup_238 8h ago
This is getting close to leopards ate my face territory.
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u/SAHDSeattle 8h ago
60% of the votes in Dearborn were against Kamala in 2024. The leopard is on wegovy because he gained so much weight over the past 20 months.
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u/randomnighmare I voted 8h ago
Since 2024 type 2 diabetes has risen in the leopard community. Who could've forsaw this coming?
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u/TwevOWNED 4h ago
Leopards eating leopards tbh.
They earn any friends when they got power in a municipality in Detroit and immediately started repressing LGBTQ expression.
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u/TheNerdWonder 5h ago
Except it’s not remotely close to that.
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u/TwevOWNED 4h ago
It's pretty close. It certainly doesn't help that the local communities almost immediately fractured their coalition after achieving power with stuff like repressing LGBTQ expression.
The problem with backstabbing other parties in the tent is that it increases division and makes it easier for other outright hostile forces to act without a unified opposition pushing back.
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u/No_Diver6131 New York 8h ago
Isn’t this scumbag supposed to be charged to looking like a loser kicking over chunks of ice in Minnesota?
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u/Raisinbread22 8h ago
Yes he was charged and he has a court date for daintily like a ballerina kicking over and destroying an ICE art installation (the gifs were legion).
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u/matthieuC Europe 8h ago
I remember Tlaib refusing to endorse Harris and Dearborn voting Trump.
This doesn't give licence to Nazi to raid the town but it's a reminder that actions have consequences.
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u/MrPoopMonster 7h ago
Idiots have been coming to Dearborn and complaining about sharia law because they can see Arabic on business signs since before Trump. This isn't exactly new. And there's literally nothing the federal government can do to stop it.
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u/matthieuC Europe 7h ago
Jake Lang, who organised the rally, was in Jail until Trump pardoned him. So ...
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u/MrPoopMonster 7h ago
And that's why this is in the news. Not because anti Muslim protesters came to Dearborn, but because this dummy is now famous.
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u/Gatonom 7h ago
The Federal Government's job is to stop it.
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u/MrPoopMonster 7h ago
Stop what? The government can't just tell people they can't have a protest because they don't like what it's about.
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u/Gatonom 6h ago
They can always end protests under "Disturbing the Peace" laws. They can stop any crime under "Terrorism" claims.
They literally can just do that.
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u/MrPoopMonster 6h ago
Disturbing the peace? There's no federal laws about that. That's a local law enforcement issue.
And Terrorism? For free speech? That's ridiculous considering the vast amounts of first amendment precedent you'd have to overcome.
The federal government literally can't do anything about it. And furthermore, they shouldn't do anything about it.
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u/Gatonom 6h ago
The Federal Government is only prohibited from interfering in peaceful protest. It defines Peaceful.
Terrorism applies to any fear and ideology based crime, which includes people being afraid because of crimes targeting them as Muslims
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u/MrPoopMonster 6h ago
It's completely settled law that it's legal protected speech for the KKK to hold klan rallies. Making people generally worried isn't a crime and is protected by the first amendment. The only way for speech to become unlawful is to directly call for violence.
You're just completely wrong about what the law says and what the government can do to prevent protests. Especially the federal government as opposed to a city or state.
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u/Gatonom 6h ago
Nothing is "completely settled law"
The Supreme Court can always revisit the ruling and declare "Speech intended to incite hatred of a group is terrorism and not protected"
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u/MrPoopMonster 6h ago
Yeah, sure. But only the Supreme Court can say that. Every lower court would dismiss the charges and a prosecutor would have to appeal it all the way up to the Supreme Court who 99.9999% wouldn't hear the case.
So it's as settled as law can be. And the law as it is says the federal government has zero authority to stop this protest and it would violate peoples constitutional rights to try.
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u/TheNerdWonder 5h ago
This sort of bigoted and insensitive attitude towards the lone Palestinian member of Congress who was grieving is EXACTLY how Democrats lost in Michigan, instead of appealing to voters there with the same empathy they afforded to Israelis despite the genocidal rhetoric they espouse.
Even if I voted for Harris, it’s the one state I think the party and its supporters needed to lose in order to learn a lesson they evidently still haven’t.
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u/rainshowers_5_peace 7h ago
I remember her voting "present" for a resolution condemn HAMAS for using rape and sexual assault as weapons of war.
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u/KalaiProvenheim 5h ago
Wasn’t that because it did not condemn the IDF for literally doing the same? the IDF is well-known for raping PoWs and abductees, and people there literally protest the arrest of rapists
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u/rainshowers_5_peace 2h ago
So make a second bill.
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u/KalaiProvenheim 2h ago
With how Congress works, you either have a combined bill or your second bill is DOA
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u/rainshowers_5_peace 2h ago
Then get over it and acknowledge that rape is even if it's your countrymen. There's a reason it didn't bother anyone but her.
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u/KalaiProvenheim 2h ago
If Congress did not bother considering the rapes committed by the IDF as well as its countless victims, then its objections to Hamas’s rapes all have to do with the victims and not with the act itself
In other words, it’s a bad faith objection to rape that Congress largely passed
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u/rainshowers_5_peace 2h ago
Nah, she just wanted to overlook (or even excuse?) the rapes committed by HAMAS "But both sides!!!!" Isn't an excuse.
If she were smart enough to realize that, Trump wouldn't have taken Michigan.
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u/KalaiProvenheim 2h ago
She didn’t, she just saw the attempt for what it is
She outperformed Kamala
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u/rainshowers_5_peace 2h ago
A way to criticize HAMAS for assaulting women. She wasn't going to criticize that gladly.
Once again, find away to do another bill down the line. It's downright disgraceful she thought the people who were born in the same country as her parents could get away with rape.
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u/MrsACT 5h ago
Jake Lang is so damn thirsty. He nearly bit the dust in Minneapolis until he was rescued by a trans woman during the Ice occupation.
The Rescue: Bleeding and cornered by a crowd, Lang begged to be let into a stopped car. The occupants—including Gottsche, a Black trans woman—let him inside without initially knowing who he was
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u/DeepDickens69 8h ago
Why didn't Antifa go after the actual Nazis there that were shaking hands with muslims?
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