• Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Either it was all white people, or the white people and black people wouldn’t sit together. I don’t know which is worse.

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      29 days ago

      The worse one is when black folx can’t even get into their own church because a flock of white fascists took it over.

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        29 days ago

        If I recall from the articles about this event. The pastor, who is black, invited Trump. In a funny twist as well, the former mayor of Detroit (also black) was there to speak about how great Trump is. Which is fine, except that Trump pardoned him at the end of his presidency because the man was convicted and guilty of: Obstruction of justice (x2), assault of a police officer, racketeering, tax evasion, extortion, mail fraud.

        However even at the event that Kilpatrick was attending with Trump, while singing his praises, didn’t endorse him.

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          Leave it to a religious leader and the Mayor of Ballmer to overlook the needs of their audience by pandering to fascists…

          When has it been any different?

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    28 days ago

    I’m sorry but should a church housing a political rally and supporting a political figure not be all sorts of illegal if theyre tax exempt?

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      28 days ago

      The claim was that it was a roundtable discussion that Trump was a part of.

      But of course, every Trump public appearance is a Trump rally.

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        28 days ago

        A claim that isn’t true and made knowingly is called a lie.

        But also any time his lips move and words are produced, they are also called lies.

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    29 days ago

    the fact this isn’t front page photo in every newspaper in the country tells you precisely how much the media wants the horserace, and not the best outcome for democracy. the fact trump keeps saying there’s “88,000” missing illegal aliens during bidens admin so he can keep repeating the number 88 over and over and over again, and THAT is not front page news how the presumptive Republican nominee for President is coding neo nazi slogans into his speeches says everything about how much the media wants the horserace, and not the best outcome for the democracy,

    there are some righteous journalists, there are some righteous media outlets, but they are too few and far between to drown out the incessant “both side” fucking nonsense which will see fascists come to power, and end their freedom of the press. the owners, and shareholders of these media outlets trade on the immediate eyeballs they can leverage into short advertising revenue

    once the fascists take power and start curtailing these media companies rights to free press, they’ll sell out, or simply abandon them, to go hide behind their walled communities, safe from the ruin they will have facilitated in the ruination our best effort egalitarian secular democracy

    and so it goes