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Torrance Stephens's avatar

Just sharing: The Canary in the Coal Mine: Zohran Mamdani and his Push for Theocratic Socialism across America https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/the-canary-in-the-coal-mine-zohran

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antiart's avatar

my article is an honest pulse check on how young new yorkers feel and yours is just anti-Islamic fear mongering bro. You try so desperately to tie socialism to Islam to try to accuse him of implementing “sharia law”. Just because he’s a socialist who, though you cynically try to shrug it off, does seek dignity for every New Yorker. He’s not trying to implement sharia law, he’s allowed to practice Islam and run for mayor as a Muslim man, get over it, it doesn’t mean that he wants to make NYC some Islam Majority City. He’s never made a statement suggesting that he’s going to implement Sharia Law or any policies that even benefit his faith, if you have one I’d like to see it. Your example with Texas is weak considering it is a majority Muslim area in your words, so why can’t the laws provide public for funding for things like Mosques and community centers that literally the majority of the city use? People in the city get to vote and decide what their taxes go towards there’s nothing wrong with that. That’s called democracy, but I know fascistic lunatics like you forgot what that concept is. you call young people in NYC stupid. I’m a young person in NYC and I actually think people like you need to go sit in the cuck chair and let the younger generation move this country forward instead of living in the past, afraid of people with different religions, ethnic backgrounds and political points of view than you.

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Torrance Stephens's avatar

Not at all. Imo you were on point, just added, in so many words, hard to shake ones roots. I just extended the postulate to a questionable possibility.

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Torrance Stephens's avatar

Son, my essay is not anti-Islamic, but rather anti-Islamist. There is a difference between being a Muslim and an Islamist.

Have you ever lived or been to an Islamist country? I doubt it.

I am not anti-muslim, I am anti-Islamist. Being one advocating for the implementation of Islamic principles in government and society, often based on a political interpretation of Islam.

There is a difference. I observed this difference firsthand during the three months I spent in Pakistan. Have you ever lived in a country run by Islamists, or even been to one? I think not, otherwise you would know the difference between being a Muslim and an Islamist.

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antiart's avatar

We’re in America I don’t care about other countries and their laws. New York is not going to turn into some communist, Islamist, Sharia Law state. Zohran has never advocated for Sharia Law. He’s never advocated for “Islamism”. Your example of that city in Texas is a horrible example off rip because you say it’s majority Muslim. NYC is simply not and will never be. Your article is not based in reality or logic despite your cheap veneer of pseudo-intellectualism. You don’t even live in NYC, you don’t vote here and therefore your opinion is out of touch and doesn’t matter. Zohran is not “advocating for the implementation of Islamic principles in government and society” there’s no proof of this, no speech where he advocates for this or Sharia law. You’re mad a Muslim who’s also a socialist got freely elected by the democrats of NYC. Keep seething.

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Andrew Invergowrie's avatar

this little essay has all the craft and genuine insight that a 7th grade class paper provides.

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antiart's avatar

I’m sorry, did I ever market the essay as being politically insightful or was I shooting from the hip, expressing my POV as someone that’s tired of the status quo? Sounds like you have the reading comprehension skills of a 5th grader

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Andrew Invergowrie's avatar

I have a Master's Degree, and you are a malicious idiot.

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antiart's avatar

Nice appeal to authority of a degree rather than actually making any intelligent points about what I wrong. Idk what I’m saying that’s malicious, you’d have to be lobotomized to interpret that from what I said.

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Andrew Invergowrie's avatar

You need to learn to crawl away when you are down and coughing blood.

Your sauce is weak.

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Andrew Invergowrie's avatar

All he does is lie and say anything at all, there isn’t one spare dollar to fund his communist schemes.

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