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Dan Gillmor
Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Michigan's Muslim voters were (rightly) pissed at Biden administration's Gaza policy, so many voted for Trump, whose anti-Islam bigotry was well known, and helped give him the state's electoral votes. And now they're shocked, shocked to discover how self-defeating that was. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/michigan-arab-communities-ice-fear

the Guardian

Detentions and disappearances: how ICE has driven fear into Michigan’s Arab communities

Arab Americans in Dearborn and beyond are being swept up by ICE at places of worship and work, with devastating consequences
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hiphopheaven
hiphopheaven
@hiphopheaven@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@dangillmor ice do not descriminate between a democrats and a republicans voterd but here you are celebrating ice arresting people based on the skin of color and ethenic and religious affiliations.

Shame on you

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Old Fucking Punk
Old Fucking Punk
@lwriemen@social.librem.one  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@dangillmor Where does hope lie for the disenfranchised in our society when neither party is willing to listen?
#genocide
#capitalism
#USA
#DumbAllOver

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hiphopheaven
hiphopheaven
@hiphopheaven@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@dangillmor Harris lost because of the economy not anti occupation people. Yiu are blaming everybody except yourselves

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Welkin
Welkin
@welkin7@mstdn.party  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@dangillmor Yeah this is the stuff that I dont get. #Trump was clear what he was going to do. #Tariff is the most beautiful word in the dictionary. They are eating the dogs, they are eating the cats.
So why this buyers remorse. You got what you asked for. That too with a crushing majority, both the electoral college as well as the popular vote.

People who voted for and supported #DJT have no right to complain now. There was an alternative that was not taken.
#USPolitics

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HTPC NZ
HTPC NZ
@htpcnz@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@dangillmor i guess they cared so much about Gaza, didn't have any energy left to care about terrorism coming for their "undocumented" neighbours .Always protect ones at home and them fight hard to save others.

If you don't protect the ones at hone, as they say when they finally come for you,there will be no one left to fight alongside. Same goes for trans community who are hung up about their right to play sanctioned sports over everything else, inc endangering own right to just exist.

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contrasocial
contrasocial
@contrasocial@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@dangillmor

Ask yourself this Dan, if these scary, savage brown muslims who didn't know better are to blame for Trump, how the fuck did our Democracy come to rest on a single election?

You racist fucking coward. Take some fucking responsibility for once in your life, look around you dumbass. How did we get here? Who has the power in our society? Who has the influence? Who has the priviledge?

No, it must be the ignorant brown people.

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Geoff Berner
Geoff Berner
@Geoffberner@zeroes.ca  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@dangillmor in the end, the more power you have, the more responsible you are. So it's the Harris campaign's choice to support genocide that caused this. The Dem leadership threw a presidential election because they were helping Israel kill children. That's what happened. Blaming voters for the failures of Dem leadership is counter-productive.

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Dan Gillmor
Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Geoffberner GMAB -- Democrats were wrong on Gaza but they weren't trying to elect Trump. I blame voters who elected America's monstrous government.

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Cake & Pudding 🌱
Cake & Pudding 🌱
@iwoakura@twit.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@dangillmor @Geoffberner I get that you want to blame your horrible neighbors. But why blame only a tiny minority (around 4% of the michigan population identifies as "arab-american") ?

Laser -focussing on some tiny percentage of voters without adressing the elephant in the room seems.... odd.

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hiphopheaven
hiphopheaven
@hiphopheaven@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@dangillmor @Geoffberner stop with thst bullshit and soft words. They are complicit with genocide same as Trump. Palestinians do not give a damn about your trashy country and your trashy 160 years old two party electoral system . All they know is that both unconditionally support Israel and the genocide

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