• morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    Did something change with the babylon bee? Sudden surge of actually decent content all of a sudden

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      8 hours ago

      Right wingers are starting to act non/anti-christian more prominently from power, it seems. So Babylon bee has material from the right to make fun of. Or maybe not, it kind of always existed, now thinking.

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          He converted in 2022 to boost his standing in Dubai with crypto traders

          The funny thing is, Muslims will absolutely discipline their own, and most tend to not like abuse of women, especially how Tate does it. There’s morally allowed abuses of women in some sects, but they have to be seen as justified in some regard - eg rejecting a MARRIAGE proposal might result in an acid attack. A man preying on women to sleep with him, no marriage, like how Tate does it and speaks about it, goes against everything I’m aware of in the Quran and could result in a jihad response afaik (not violent jihad per se).

          He’s just so disrespectful and arrogant he thinks no one will touch him.

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          14 hours ago

          I assume he’s about as much a Muslim as trump is a Christian (ie only when it’s convenient, and he probably doesn’t know what all those words mean in that order, anyway)

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        I definitely get that vibe from that headline. It’s not that the US reached out and said “touch not one hair on my precious scumbags”, it’s that they did it for someone who scumbags who also claim to be Muslim and fail the melanin deficiency test.

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    17 hours ago

    Is there any one quality that more of the people surrounding Trump share than being serial sex abusers?

    I can’t think of one.

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    This is not the onion, but Desantis might go after him. It could all be a stunt, of course.

    https://www.salon.com/2025/02/27/zero-tolerance-desantis-says-andrew-tate-is-not-welcome-in-florida-as-maga-celebrates-release/?in_brief=true

    From the Miami Herald article:

    But Tate’s claim that the Romanian case against him was dismissed in December isn’t true. While a Bucharest court ruled that the first criminal case could not proceed due to legal and procedural irregularities, the charges against the Tates remain in effect. What’s unclear is how further cases will proceed now that the Tates are back on American soil.

    https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article301122934.html

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      14 hours ago

      If he does, this will be the one and only time I ever root for that piece of shit. Desantis that is, not the other pos.

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      Head of the minister for women and gender equality, an obvious choice.

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      Ehh. They are rapey enough but don’t you think they look well, a little on the brown side? Doesn’t seem like there’s any reason to compromise when there aren’t DEI rules in place and there are plenty of rapey whites that are well qualified.

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      I mean look at all the fake-ass christians infecting the world, is it so hard to believe that there are plenty of fake-ass muslims too? I was friends with a Palestinian/Jordanian guy and he told me it was commonplace in Jordan to have a group of men drinking tea at a cafe, except the tea pot was full of liquor. I don’t know if it was meant to hide it from other people, hide it from god, or both.

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        10 hours ago

        I mean. The only place to get alcohol past midnight in the Canadian town I grew up in was an all night tea house. But we were just trying to hide it from the cops.

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    Real news is more oniony than The Onion now. They ought to start doing super bland fake stories like “Cat Stuck in Tree, Saved by Local Fire Department.” Kind of like a form of eye bleach.

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    Is he an actual Muslim? Or did he convert just to lessen the heat on him?