The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by Frownland

Pelosi, Dem leaders condemn Rep. Omar for 'anti-Semitic' language

I wish this story came out a couple of weeks ago for no particular reason.

What did she say that's antisemitic?

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

What did she say that's antisemitic?

This is the tweet that is/was being criticized

[Zhanteimi]

Allahu Snackbar!

[OccultHawk]

**** that dirty Hezbollah wannabe

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by elphenor

yeah, when you consider that the money has to come from other useless military projects this way, it's not so bad

I think it'll get held up in the courts to where construction won't start until Trump is at the end of his term anyway?

I'm not pretending to know what happens now though

All we know for sure is that democracy sucks the dong

[Zhanteimi]

Democracy works fine if you only let people who pass a civics test vote.

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by Frownland

This is the tweet that is/was being criticized

So she's saying that Israel is doing evil things and paying off politicians to keep their mouth shut. If it were any other country people would not care, but since she's criticizing Israel it's antisemitic?

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Zhanteimi

Democracy works fine if you only let people who pass a civics test vote.

I don’t agree.

Lots of people who understand civics are fascists

The problem is people making decisions for other people and that’s exactly what democracy is all about

[Anteater]

The U.S. ain't a democracy though...it's a constitutional republic.

[Zhanteimi]

My fascist(?) tendency is to think: Uneducated people shouldn't be allowed to vote. Voting should be a privilege, not a right.

But I think that's a wrong way to go about it. I'm not actually interested in politics, so I'm open to getting my mind changed about this.