@Devon_Eriksen_@Will_Tanner_1 Ultimately bans were simply an exercise of domination. This can be seen in how they immediately went after vaping, to which none of the arguments for the bans applied. People were continuing to do something that looked like what they said you couldn’t do, and they hated it.
Denmark publishes crime by country of origin, not nationality. I looked at 2021-2025 data.
Overall: Somali-origin 7.8x the Danish rate. American-origin 0.34x.
Thread of Top Five and Bottom Five.
@jphayes21@RealConnieLee There are three reasons that you don’t see it:
1. There aren’t enough of them in most of the US to implement their laws - they do it when they can.
2. You’re ignoring the obvious evidence, like hijab and terror attacks.
3. Data is not generated and is not reported when it is.
@jphayes21@RealConnieLee Pretty hard to do that when their religion requires theocracy and unequal treatment under the law; makes rape, incest and pedophilia legal rights; explicitly states that women are inferior to men; makes homosexuality a capital crime; believes one day they’ll kill all the Jews…
@RachelMoiselle As an American who thinks Biden was one of the worst presidents in US history, two things:
1. He was still a president and this attack was an insult to our country.
2. At this point he’s an old man and clearly of diminished capacity, and to do this to him was simply indecent.
@jphayes21@RealConnieLee It’s a great analogy. Islam is no better than Nazism and we should treat it no better. But when we criticize it, always some fool says something like “that wasn’t AMERICAN Muslims,” as if by magic Islam is different here and now than it has been everywhere else for 14 centuries.
@jphayes21@RealConnieLee No American Nazis were involved in the Holocaust. Despite that, a wise person would consider Americans in his neighborhood wearing swastikas, and gathering weekly to read Mein Kampf in Nazi Community Centers, to be a threat.
Same with Muslims.
@ConceptualJames Unfortunately, nationalism was abandoned and demonized by liberals, leaving it in the hands of disorganized patriots and the organized collectivists who prey on them.
@Devon_Eriksen_ It’s not really that complicated - the property taxes provide the local benefits. And they would be massive benefits. It’s not that people are stupid, it’s that they’re economically illiterate.
@GaiusLatine@EveKeneinan Maybe, but I don’t think this pressure is the cause. The spiritual emptiness of modern culture affected them too. Cut off from meaning, they became patrons of meaningless art (abstract painting, discordant music, plotless films), then understandably got bored with it.
@EveKeneinan That’s true enough. However, it may be possible for such things to originate from something besides an aristocratic class, perhaps a sophisticated bourgeoisie. Arguably that’s the case for 19th century America, and Edo Japan.
@Rep_Grijalva@PeteHegseth Held accountable for *checks notes* following the orders of the President
Are you sure you understand how our government works?