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US Muslim leaders who supported Republican Donald Trump to protest against the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza and attacks on Lebanon have been deeply disappointed by his cabinet picks, they tell Reuters.

“Trump won because of us and we’re not happy with his Secretary of State pick and others,” says Rabiul Chowdhury, a Philadelphia investor who chaired the Abandon Harris campaign in Pennsylvania and co-founded Muslims for Trump. Muslim support for Trump helped him win Michigan and may have factored into other swing state wins, strategists believe.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    The lesson is that people don’t have the time or attention to fact check, and frankly I think we should have known that.

    Why bother to fact check any one thing when it means hunting for the single edible chocolate in a pile of rabbit shit?

    You can’t even fucking Google an answer anymore, as the AI generated response is trained on all the bad data that’s bloated the system.

    Objective morality in terms of universal human rights and behavioral science can be integrated into a better regulated social media, for example. It just has to be more appealing somehow and easier to access. It also has to be sexy and come with some status, and other benefits.

    I would settle for it being a view that won’t get you expelled from a college campus, primaried out of an elected office, or purged from a high profile business position.