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I honestly don’t think any of DJT’s prose ever implies anything, it is literally all surface text and if he means to say something he will do so, explicitly and clumsily.
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This is a good post and I think I need to refine my take a bit. While the official, state-sponsored version of Islam in many Arab, Gulf, and South Asian states provides a scaffolding of intolerance and hatred for other faiths and minorities, it stops short at providing the motives and encouragement to actually become a militant or terrorist. Pakistan is a bit of a special example in that it is more willing to play with the hot stove of terrorism that most Gulf states have abandoned and views militant networks in Afghanistan and India as strategic assets even as it fights its own Pakistani Taliban. It is worth noting that the harshest forms of official Pakistani prejudice are aimed at unsatisfactory Muslims: the “apostate” Ahmadi and to a lesser extent the suspiciously tolerant Ismaili. But in all cases, state-sanctioned Islam, even of the extreme conservative bent, pulls up short of encouraging the type of nihilistic militancy of ISIS or AQ, for good reason: these groups have extreme hostility to the governments that don’t walk the walk and are pragmatic when dealing with the kaffir great powers. And proponents of ISIS-style militant Islam are not long for the world in places where an official Islam exists. Which leads to an odd situation where the most fertile recruiting and proselytizing zones for nihilistic militant Islam are in places where state power has completely collapsed OR inside of open, tolerant, secular Western democracies. They are uniquely unsuited for combatting it, and the paradox of tolerance absolutely comes into play. People would be jailed in Saudi or the UAE for delivering the types of Friday sermons heard weekly in Molenbeek. The most effective ISIS recruiter was an Australian convert who the Aussies struggled to jail until he finally followed through on his calls for jihad and tried to stage an uprising in the Philippines. And, Western authorities lack the nuance and community ties to differentiate between bog-standard conservative Islam (which presents its own issues to a pluralistic society) and the far more acutely dangerous explodey militant version. The great majority of Muslims, even devout or conservative Muslims in the West will do what most people of all faiths do, which is find ways to accommodate deeply held religious sensibilities with their new surroundings and norms. A much smaller number will be unable to do so, and will in fact be further inflamed because in this ideological worldview it is a humiliation for Muslims to be forced to seek material prosperity among non-believers. It is very difficult for Western nations to tackle this issue, not in the least because unhelpful rhetoric about civilizational clashes with all Muslims in the West and calls for absurd crackdowns clashes with equally unhelpful allegations of Islamophobia and racism when a more targeted and sensible approach is being sorted out.
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One of my blistering hot takes is that it is good when scumbags feel compelled to maintain a modicum of decorum and tact because to do so is in their narrow self-interest. It helps maintain discourse within non-sociopathic bounds and cumulatively, places actual behavioral boundaries on them. “Authenticity” is a morally neutral character trait depending on what one’s authentic self is.
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Witnesses to what? As indiscreet as they may have been, I’m doubting they invited other staff members to watch them knocking boots. At most you have people who “misinterpreted a close working relationship, and we see how that might give the wrong impression, we will certainly be mindful going forward. It’s unavoidable that we’ve developed a friendship but we understand the need to avoid even appearances of impropriety.” It is very hard to prove two people who don’t want to admit it are actually in the sheets with each other short of skullduggery that is off limits to 99.9 percent of employers.
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Diego Pavia - The Chihuahua that thinks he's a Mastiff
956 Worldwide replied to immamac's topic in Football
Closing this long apology with a line about the ReliaQuest Bowl is peak hilarity. -
LOL.
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It takes a stretch of the imagination to believe that a two year relationship went on without some level of mutual consent but HR policies are written the way they are for a reason. Let’s posit that she actually did pursue him aggressively. Moore has all the room in the world to just throw the brake with no fear of retaliation. “I need to be clear: I am not interested in an extramarital relationship with you and I will expect future interactions to be strictly professional. If that won’t be possible, we can discuss this with HR.” It was always within Moore’s list of options to do that. On the flip side, it’s not reasonable to expect that a vastly junior and younger employee can make the same statement without reasonable fear of retaliation from the most powerful and important man on the UM campus. And that’s why HR codes are written as they are. The most likely scenario is some mutual consent on both sides, but that an affair that seemed exciting and flattering at first became claustrophobic, sordid, and overwhelming as it dragged on and as it seems Moore became increasingly clingy. She wanted out, he got scared of what she had on him, and eventually telling the truth became less painful than status quo for her. Many such cases, but the flat spin he went into was a result of his own pilot error.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
956 Worldwide replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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These two men, if reports are accurate, are from Pakistan. If so, they and their families have never been subject to violence from Jews or “Zionists.” (Although from my time living there, I can attest that casual anti-Semitism and insane anti-Israel conspiracy theories run rampant despite Israel’s profound lack of interest in Pakistan and the local Jewish community numbering in the triple digits). In Pakistan, the Muslim majority regularly inflicts great legalized violence on religious minorities including Muslims who have an unsatisfactory theology. It is quite literally written into the legal code. At some point, they traveled over 7000 miles to a multi-ethnic, secular democracy, presumably because their home nation— which by constitution is established and exists for Muslims with others merely tolerated at best— offered fewer material opportunities. Some years later they carried out a family mass shooting of Jews celebrating a holiday at a beach. They are not the victims of generational violence committed by Jews or Zionists, and they are not mentally ill. The have willingly consumed a potent and vicious ideology that holds that all Muslims are victims of Israel and that Muslims have been unjustly dispossessed of their rightful heritage of political power over non-believers. This is not an interpretation of Islam that all, or even most Muslims adhere to. But it is also not completely insignificant and fringe, sometimes more so in emigre communities living in places where religious tolerance and freedom is a given. Many of its adherents and proselytizers find more freedom of action outside of Islamic majority nations because most of them use state power to ensure that political Islam colors within lines acceptable to authorities.
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Diego Pavia - The Chihuahua that thinks he's a Mastiff
956 Worldwide replied to immamac's topic in Football
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It’s not super odd; almost all right-wing or “mental health” shootings are lone wolves but Islamic/jihadist attacks are not always but frequently planned and carried out in groups. The radicalization process is also different, it is extremely likely that these two were connected in person and partially radicalized in a community; incels and right wingers do it almost all online.
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All he had to do was follow the script: ”I’m deeply embarrassed for my actions and how they have harmed my family, friends, and everyone who loves Michigan football. I know there will be consequences and I am prepared to accept those as I work towards rebuilding some trust and showing that this failure does not define me as a person. I’m here to help my successor in every way I can and will always be grateful for the opportunities this university gave me.” He’d have been an analyst on some staff probably before next season and a position coach within a couple years. Unfortunately breaking into houses and screaming about murder/suicide changes your future employment options.
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Since this was likely his first time taking two rounds while single-handedly disarming a deranged jihadist during a shooting spree, I’m giving him an A on the practical portion. A few more reps and he can get an A+ by killing the jihadi with his bare hands or using the gun to take down the other shooter, too.
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Dude, it is absolutely bananas to believe that UM powers that be wanted anything OTHER than for Moore to be a highly successful Black head coach. Have folks not been on a major university campus recently? The pretty pro forma investigation that went nowhere is fairly compelling evidence that no one on that campus was itching to ring him up for playing in the snow.
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File for me under “least surprising philosopher to be linked to Epstein.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/22/noam-chomsky-jeffrey-epstein-ties-emails
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Griz vs. Bobcats and Nova vs. (likely) Illinois State for the semis. Maybe biggest ever sporting event for Montana.
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I’m not buying the racist angle of this because we have a near perfect comparator case in Bobby Petrino. Bobby Petrino also nailed a blonde a few decades younger and then gave her a well-remunerated state job and he also got fired. I think we can all agree that Arkansas is several times more racist than Michigan and also Petrino won more games with less talent. Arkie fired him for this type of stuff. If Moore had simply crashed a motor vehicle into a phone pole and then given a presser in a neck brace he would be open to a redemptive arc and being interim HC one day but unfortunately he crashed out hard. It is what it is. Threatening to do murder and breaking into houses has bigger consequences, who knew?
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