• human@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    23 days ago

    OK, hear me out.

    If he clearly has no idea what he can and can’t do as a US Senator, he might be just the guy we need taking up a Repunblican seat.

    • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
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      23 days ago

      Donald doesn’t understand what he can and can’t do as president. But I can’t say that’s worked out particularly well.

      I don’t mind the out-of-the-box thinking, though.

      Counter-proposal: good, smart people run as candidates. For both parties. It can only good happen!

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      22 days ago

      It’s just an appeal to pure Islamophobia. The electoral base he is pandering to get off on the idea that somehow Muslims will be converted/exterminated from the Earth.

      Get him in office? Capital H white people in Istanbul!

      …Is the tactic. Half because they hate Islam, half because they hate brown people, and there’s a bonus belief in triggering Armageddon and the Rapture sprinkled in.

  • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    This is literally the first time I’ve ever heard of anyone from the US actually giving a shit about the Hagia Sophia.

    Like it honestly took me a few seconds to fully realize they’re talking about the landmark in Turkey.

  • dizzle18@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I was very young the one time I visited South Carolina with my parents, so my memory is admittedly a bit hazy - this place is in Charleston, right?

  • Darthcapi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I didn’t know humans could miss something they haven’t experienced for 500 + years. Also, congress is laughably incapable of accomplishing anything.

  • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I’m… Very confused. Why does this guy think he can affect something about the Hagia Sophia in Turkey?

  • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I really feel like it should be disqualifying for a candidate to lie about campaign promises. I get that it’s not always straightforward to say what’s a lie, but in this case, it’s obvious.

    Not only has he said that he’s going to change something that the Senate has no power to change, but he’s acting like he personally would have the power to do it himself, instead of simply being 1 voice out of 100.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I mean…

    To make it a Christian church, they first had to remove over 400 pagan statues…

    A shit ton of religions have used it as a holy site, seems fucking stupid to argue to roll it back halfway.

    • dan1101@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 days ago

      These Christian Nationalist fucks will be the end of us if we let them.

      Your religious beliefs and rules are for you, not everyone else.

    • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Maybe I’m thinking of some other landmark but wasn’t this building explicitly built with the original intent of being multi-faith?

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        22 days ago

        Kind of?

        All those pagan statues weren’t to one god, it was just a shit ton of pagan gods.

        “Multi-faith” was the norm until the Abrahamic religions started insisting everyone follow one God and no other Gods were real. So pretty much every religious site pre-monotheism had some multi faith elements.

        So in early cities, they’d have a “city god” but also usually be accepting of earlier rural gods and the gods of friendly neighbly cities

        Like, it’s hard to explain how much Abraham fucked shit up when he started the precedent of not tolerating any other god except his personal Sky Daddy.

        But it’s still really new on the timescale of human history

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I’m thinking this guy is just a Civ player, and thinks that if we take Istanbul by force, it will give all of our missionaries +1…

    • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Ok but right now Ghandi is fucking me up with his Protestant missionaries and I really can’t afford to lose my religion this early in game