US Muslim leaders who supported Republican Donald Trump to protest against the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza and attacks on Lebanon have been deeply disappointed by his cabinet picks, they tell Reuters.

“Trump won because of us and we’re not happy with his Secretary of State pick and others,” says Rabiul Chowdhury, a Philadelphia investor who chaired the Abandon Harris campaign in Pennsylvania and co-founded Muslims for Trump. Muslim support for Trump helped him win Michigan and may have factored into other swing state wins, strategists believe.

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    You are the reason I dislike liberals.

    You just look down on other people instead of trying to understand why they did what they did.

    Be more like AOC. She asked her constituents that voted for both her and Trump why they voted for Trump so that she could understand them.

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      Do you know anyone in your personal life that fell victim to a scam? Used car? Telemarketer?

      How many times would it take that victim being scammed by the same person before you called them dumb?

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        What does calling people dumb accomplish? Get them to hate you?

        Why don’t you do something productive like help them recognize scams?

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          It socially shames you into making better choices.

          If you were dumb yesterday, you can be not-dumb tomorrow if you admit to yourself that you were dumb.

          It’s called personal growth, you won’t see it anywhere on .ml or whatever cesspit you dragged your opinion from.

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            It socially shames you into making better choices.

            Honestly, I think this is one reason why the disinformation networks - hate radio, Faux Nooz, the bro-ed up magaverse online, etc - is sooo effective.

            It used to be socially painful to make stupid choices and to show fealty to really stupid things, like the Republican Party. Now, instead of these people having to go into a corner and nurse their wounds and maybe reflect, they flee into the irreality bubble these things provide, AND THEY ARE VALIDATED in there. They experience no painful shame, or at least not for very long.

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            See other post. I voted for Harris. I thought an insurrection was enough to convince the populate not to vote for a traitor and I was wrong.

            Socially shaming people doesn’t all work. It made me NOT vote for Clinton in 2016. What made me vote for Biden in 2020 and Harris in 2024 is every thing that happened during Trumps presidency. I learned my lesson then.

            Democrats’ attitudes at the time, much like the person calling Muslims dumb, was a big factor in me choosing not to vote for Clinton back then.

            I’m trying to prevent that same thing happening to other people - especially a voting bloc that can sway my state.

            There are paths to personal growth that don’t involve being a dick to others

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      I read some of the comments from AOC’s constituents. Many of them were not smart people either.

      If you want to learn what it takes to sway dumb people, you can run a very unethical campaign like Trump’s and get the Presidency.

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      She asked her constituents that voted for both her and Trump why they voted for Trump so that she could understand them.

      This is like asking someone to explain why they believe the world is flat or that we didn’t land on the moon.

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        When those people vote you need to know why. Or be snide, that’s worked out great for the Dems

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          “It’s real simple… Trump and you care for the working class.”

          Yep, real smart people there. Anybody who voted for both of them together is an idiot. They represent polar opposites of the political spectrum. She’s basically the most progressive politician after Bernie, and he’s the most regressive. She’s thoughtful in the way she expresses herself, and he spews verbal diarrhea and lies as if he would instantly die if he said anything true.

          Anybody who thinks Trump cares for the working class is fucking delusional. He’s shown time after time that he doesn’t care about anything that doesn’t directly benefit him. He’s a fucking monster and anyone who can’t see that has to be stupid.

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            Anybody who thinks Trump cares for the working class is fucking delusional. He’s shown time after time that he doesn’t care about anything that doesn’t directly benefit him. He’s a fucking monster and anyone who can’t see that has to be stupid.

            Yep. He had four years and the only thing he did was give away gigantic bags of goodies to the already obscenely wealthy. He didn’t do anything for the working class.

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      You just look down on other people instead of trying to understand why they did what they did.

      Strong anti-generalization assertion.

      Except

      You are the reason I dislike liberals.

      Ah shit, you opened with a cheesy generalization. Validating to see the"every accusation is a confession" thing holds.

      But let’s get into it.

      • one was bad but could be swayed

      • one was worse on all counts for all criteria, was only getting worse, can’t be fixed and would tear down all the checks and balances that make government work

      They picked the second option, overwhelmingly, despite the massive damage to the very fabric of the nation and the insanely worse prospects for them as a recognizable minority.

      Logic it out.

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        First off all, I didn’t vote for the orange turd. Let’s get that out of the way.

        Second of all, there is PLENTY to criticize on the conservative side but I don’t want to see another fascist in office so I’m trying to improve the liberal side.

        Muslims had a SIGNIFICANT impact on the results in my state. You are minimizing their core issue - getting democrats to actually support not killing Muslims in Gaza. Thats it

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          their core issue - getting democrats to actually support not killing Muslims in Gaza

          And by choosing that as the core issue they chose to have even more death in Gaza. Even if they convinced the Democratic Party to now shift on this issue entirely, they completely lack the power to do anything about it because they lost the election and control zero branches of government. It’s very difficult not to see this coming from an entire galaxy away.