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    5 months ago

    Xi Jinping is a fascist, and I don’t think it was liberals that enabled him

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          5 months ago

          Did I say that all authoritarians are enabled by liberals? What agenda are you trying to push by misconstruing my words? Like seriously what point are you trying to reach here?

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            5 months ago

            fuck fascists and the liberals who enable them.

            I think it was this part where you link fascists to liberal enablers.

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              But that =/= “every fascist is and always has been enabled by liberals.”

              They’re saying that it’s very common for liberals to side with a rising fascist over the left in a misguided attempt to maintain the status quo. They’d typically rather move to the right instead of giving any quarter to the left, because the left wants to upend the structures of oppression, while the right wants to bolster them—while scapegoating an out-group.

              Look at what macron is doing in France right now. Moving to the right to build a coalition with them to go against the majority left coalition that won the election.

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                Ah I see. Your point would have been clearer if it was “ fuck the fascists and the any liberals who enable them”

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                  Eh, that doesn’t change much. “The liberals who enable them” specifically targets at liberals who enable fascism. If you removed ‘the’, it would be liberals in general

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                    5 months ago

                    The liberals, the Democrats, the Republicans, can all mean the whole group. That’s what’s unclear.

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        5 months ago

        Do Arabs get to vote in the US?

        Or if you mean Arabs that chose to go live in the US, I don’t think they care too much about a country that, well, murdered all the natives

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          Yes, Arab Americans do and are enough to swing elections in Michigan and a few other states

          In Michigan, for example, Biden won in 2020 by 154,000 votes. Census estimates put the state’s Arab American population around at least 278,000.

          Biden won Arizona by 10,500 votes. The Arab American population in the Grand Canyon State is estimated to be 60,000.

          Biden took Georgia by 11,800 votes. The Arab American population there is at least 57,000.

          https://www.axios.com/2023/11/29/arab-american-voter-defections-biden-2024