MAGA and Christian nationalism: Bigger threat to America than Hamas could ever be
MAGA and Christian nationalism: Bigger threat to America than Hamas could ever be
Even Mitch McConnell is trying to push back against Mike Johnson and the MAGA lunatics. It isn't working
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Bit of a weird comparison
How? It's comparing one terrorist group against another.
Hamas, over in Palestine, focused on Israel occupation of Palestine vs American conservative Christians on American soil. Comparing how big of a threat they're to the US seems weird. It's a comparison that I wouldn't have thought about
You have to be young because post 9/11 the us was filled with fears that the biggest threat to our safety was Islamic terrorists. Understandably due to the scale of the attacks, but that's why it's important to point out to us citizens that our own terrorists are a bigger threat to us than those across an ocean.
I remember 9/11. Perhaps you are confused because you assumed I was American
I apologize for the assumption, but we are talking about American politics and sentiments, so it probably would have been prudent to point out that the fact you didn't think about the comparison might be because you aren't American. As an American who was an adult when 9/11 happened, it's seems pretty obvious.
Can I ask how old you are? I only do so because I "remember" things like the challenger explosion, but didn't quite grasp what it fully meant because I was so young.
Early 30s.
The idea that I'd have to specifically mention not being American seems funny, but in context, fair enough I guess
It's totally a perspective thing. Being a full on adult (well as much as an early 20 year old can be. Lol) it seems like a no brainer that they would make this comparison based on how much the fear was at that time that Islamic terrorists were all over the country ready to kill people at random. I can easily see why someone younger from another country might not be as aware of that
However, even at that time, I believe, right wing terrorists still had killed more over a period of something like 20 years, even with the 3k from 9/11.
They're responding to this
Ah alright. In the context it makes more sense, it just hadn't occurred me to make such comparison
The warning from the FBI was not about potential for attacks by Hamas, it was about attacka against America that might be carried out by Islamic extremists potentially from anywhere in the world. Basically, the word is that they're hearing more chatter about attacking American in the homeland than at any time since September 11th.
This I thought was in response to people on the right dear mongering about how dangerous Hamas is, and reminding Americans that people riding around the desert in pickup trucks with rocket launchers are not and never will be an existential threat to America.
You know, most of these violent extremists want America out of the middle east, usually with reference to Saudi Arabia and Israel. They are religious fanatics, and right now it's more or less about America's patronage of Israel which people from which version of sky daddy get to control the hours of operation and P.A. announcements at each other's shared holy sites. More or less.