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Michigan city elects an all-Muslim city council
Residents of Hamtramck, Michigan, elected a Muslim mayor and an all-Muslim city council last week, a testament to the city's changing demographics, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Why it matters: It is likely the first U.S. city to elect a Muslim mayor and an all-Muslim city council, the Council on American-Islamic Relations told Axios.
The city, which boasts a population of just over 28,400, was once known for its sizable Polish Catholic population. Today, over half of the city's population claims Arab or Asian ancestry, according to the Free Press, citing census ancestry data.
Over two-thirds of residents speak a language other than English at home, per Census data.
The newly-elected mayor and three newly-elected council members will begin their terms in January. Five of the council's members will be immigrants, and one is a convert to Islam, the Free Press noted.
What they're saying: "The historic election ... will usher in the first city in America to have a Muslim mayor and completely Muslim city council," Dawud Walid, executive director for the Michigan chapter of CAIR, told Axios.
https://www.axios.com/michigan-city-elects-muslim-council-90ba20e0-950f-4b96-b579-3598ad4db527.html
Why it matters: It is likely the first U.S. city to elect a Muslim mayor and an all-Muslim city council, the Council on American-Islamic Relations told Axios.
The city, which boasts a population of just over 28,400, was once known for its sizable Polish Catholic population. Today, over half of the city's population claims Arab or Asian ancestry, according to the Free Press, citing census ancestry data.
Over two-thirds of residents speak a language other than English at home, per Census data.
The newly-elected mayor and three newly-elected council members will begin their terms in January. Five of the council's members will be immigrants, and one is a convert to Islam, the Free Press noted.
What they're saying: "The historic election ... will usher in the first city in America to have a Muslim mayor and completely Muslim city council," Dawud Walid, executive director for the Michigan chapter of CAIR, told Axios.
https://www.axios.com/michigan-city-elects-muslim-council-90ba20e0-950f-4b96-b579-3598ad4db527.html
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Cool cool cool.
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Robert J Sakimano wrote:very cool.
The Hamtramck city council is now all Muslim primarily due to concerns over promotion of an LBTGQ agenda by the past council. In addition the long standing mayor was defeated 2:1 by a Muslim political newcomer. The previous mayor cast the deciding vote to fly the LBTGQ flag over city hall.
Evidently our local liberals are fine with homophobic behavior as long as it comes from the Muslim community.
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RQA wrote:Robert J Sakimano wrote:very cool.
The Hamtramck city council is now all Muslim primarily due to concerns over promotion of an LBTGQ agenda by the past council. In addition the long standing mayor was defeated 2:1 by a Muslim political newcomer. The previous mayor cast the deciding vote to fly the LBTGQ flag over city hall.
Evidently our local liberals are fine with homophobic behavior as long as it comes from the Muslim community.
Do you live there?
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RQA wrote:Robert J Sakimano wrote:very cool.
The Hamtramck city council is now all Muslim primarily due to concerns over promotion of an LBTGQ agenda by the past council. In addition the long standing mayor was defeated 2:1 by a Muslim political newcomer. The previous mayor cast the deciding vote to fly the LBTGQ flag over city hall.
Evidently our local liberals are fine with homophobic behavior as long as it comes from the Muslim community.
Yeah the Mayor was the last holdout. The council had 5 or 6 other mulism before. 3 mulisms voted for the LGBTQ thing and the mayor broke the tie if I remember correctly.
I don't have sympathy for anyone against the rights of others. Dearborn is a bit more left learning cultural than Hamtramck where they tend to be more conservative.
Anyway to say that city leadership was taken over by all mulisms from an LGBTQ flag is false.
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A majority of voters elected the people they want. But it’s not ‘Merica if they aren’t white Christians.
RQA has a long history of complaining about places where he doesn’t and won’t ever live.
RQA has a long history of complaining about places where he doesn’t and won’t ever live.
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NigelUno wrote:RQA wrote:
The Hamtramck city council is now all Muslim primarily due to concerns over promotion of an LBTGQ agenda by the past council. In addition the long standing mayor was defeated 2:1 by a Muslim political newcomer. The previous mayor cast the deciding vote to fly the LBTGQ flag over city hall.
Evidently our local liberals are fine with homophobic behavior as long as it comes from the Muslim community.
Do you live there?
No, but I have family and business in Hamtramck and spend time there almost every day. It's a vibrant and upcoming community full of great people.
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RQA wrote:NigelUno wrote:
Do you live there?
No, but I have family and business in Hamtramck and spend time there almost every day. It's a vibrant and upcoming community full of great people.
Do you support or oppose gay marriage?
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Pervis Muldoon wrote:
Do you support or oppose gay marriage?
Does this site have a yawn emoji?
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RQA wrote:NigelUno wrote:
Do you live there?
No, but I have family and business in Hamtramck and spend time there almost every day. It's a vibrant and upcoming community full of great people.
Doesn't sound like you think all the people there are great.
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RQA wrote:Pervis Muldoon wrote:
Do you support or oppose gay marriage?
Does this site have a yawn emoji?
Since you clearly don't want to answer my question, I'll just state the fact: you adamantly oppose gay marriage because you believe it to be "bad for society". People in this thread should be aware of that view, since you've warned about the "homophobic behavior" of others.
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Pervis & RQA miss Wells so much they have to Wells up the Swill ...
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TrapperGus wrote:Pervis & RQA miss Wells so much they have to Wells up the Swill ...
Kindly fuck off, Trapper.
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Pervis Muldoon wrote:TrapperGus wrote:Pervis & RQA miss Wells so much they have to Wells up the Swill ...
Kindly fuck off, Trapper.
Dude,
You and RQA fucked each other on Wells, do you really need a repeat performance here?
edit - You surely know what is said about wrestling with a pig?
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TrapperGus wrote:Pervis Muldoon wrote:
Kindly fuck off, Trapper.
Dude,
You and RQA fucked each other on Wells, do you really need a repeat performance here?
edit - You surely know what is said about wrestling with a pig?
You got into daily slap fights with RQA and the rest of the Wells righties. And when that creepy and dishonest mod Rook started his mass perma-bans of longtime posters, many of us on the left and right stood up for each other while you kept telling him what a fine job he was doing. I'll continue posting as I wish, and you're free to do the same.
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Pervis Muldoon wrote:I'll continue posting as I wish, and you're free to do the same.
tSwill moto. Should make shirts.
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AvgMSUJoe wrote:Pervis Muldoon wrote:I'll continue posting as I wish, and you're free to do the same.
tSwill moto. Should make shirts.
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AvgMSUJoe wrote:Pervis Muldoon wrote:I'll continue posting as I wish, and you're free to do the same.
tSwill moto. Should make shirts.
Better run it by the Angry Clique on the secret board first.
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Pervis Muldoon wrote:TrapperGus wrote:
Dude,
You and RQA fucked each other on Wells, do you really need a repeat performance here?
edit - You surely know what is said about wrestling with a pig?
You got into daily slap fights with RQA and the rest of the Wells righties. And when that creepy and dishonest mod Rook started his mass perma-bans of longtime posters, many of us on the left and right stood up for each other while you kept telling him what a fine job he was doing. I'll continue posting as I wish, and you're free to do the same.
Wells degenerated from when Trevor started it to keep non sports discussions off the sports board until he shut it down.
Back in the day we had discussions about ideas and facts, not about posting styles.
As it degenerated, driven by people attacking each other instead of debating ideas, everyone's posting style followed that trend.
My comments here are an attempt to keep tSwill from following the same path.
Do what you want, just be aware that currently you are turning tSwill into Wells, which is not a good thing.
peace
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TrapperGus wrote:
My comments here are an attempt to keep tSwill from following the same path.
Your comments have been to tell fellow posters to "F off". But you are doing so for the good of the board, right?
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RQA wrote:TrapperGus wrote:
My comments here are an attempt to keep tSwill from following the same path.
Your comments have been to tell fellow posters to "F off". But you are doing so for the good of the board, right?
You haven't noticed that tSwill has no language filters?
I'm using the words people understand, yes, to try to keep your silly slap-fests off the board.
edit - I told no one to fuck off.
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NigelUno wrote:AvgMSUJoe wrote:
tSwill moto. Should make shirts.
Better run it by the Angry Clique on the secret board first.
lol lol!!!
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NigelUno wrote:AvgMSUJoe wrote:
tSwill moto. Should make shirts.
Better run it by the Angry Clique on the secret board first.
There is a "secret board"?
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Gotta know the handshake.
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AvgMSUJoe wrote:Gotta know the handshake.
meow
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TrapperGus wrote:Pervis Muldoon wrote:
You got into daily slap fights with RQA and the rest of the Wells righties. And when that creepy and dishonest mod Rook started his mass perma-bans of longtime posters, many of us on the left and right stood up for each other while you kept telling him what a fine job he was doing. I'll continue posting as I wish, and you're free to do the same.
Wells degenerated from when Trevor started it to keep non sports discussions off the sports board until he shut it down.
Back in the day we had discussions about ideas and facts, not about posting styles.
As it degenerated, driven by people attacking each other instead of debating ideas, everyone's posting style followed that trend.
My comments here are an attempt to keep tSwill from following the same path.
Do what you want, just be aware that currently you are turning tSwill into Wells, which is not a good thing.
peace
It degenerated when Rook perma-banned good posters while letting one semi-literate turd use the board as an outlet for his penis drawing obsession.
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Pervis Muldoon wrote:TrapperGus wrote:
Wells degenerated from when Trevor started it to keep non sports discussions off the sports board until he shut it down.
Back in the day we had discussions about ideas and facts, not about posting styles.
As it degenerated, driven by people attacking each other instead of debating ideas, everyone's posting style followed that trend.
My comments here are an attempt to keep tSwill from following the same path.
Do what you want, just be aware that currently you are turning tSwill into Wells, which is not a good thing.
peace
It degenerated when Rook perma-banned good posters while letting one semi-literate turd use the board as an outlet for his penis drawing obsession.
IMO it was a gradual process which started when the economic beliefs of conservative posters turned out to be erroneous after the 2008 crash. More and more of these posters stopped trying to present their ideas over time. By the 2016 election most of them no longer posted, however the discussions at that point were still fact based with personalities being a annoying noise from time to time.
After Trump's election his style of dominating the discussion of facts with bluster and lies was picked up on by many posters until it became the dominate mode on Wells. It became harder and harder to actually discuss reality as few would engage in those discussions.
Wells went down the famous "slippery slope" to become 80% trolling. My concern is that people who bring their Wells conversations to this board will cause it to follow Wells slide down to the hell it became.
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Pervis Muldoon wrote:TrapperGus wrote:
Wells degenerated from when Trevor started it to keep non sports discussions off the sports board until he shut it down.
Back in the day we had discussions about ideas and facts, not about posting styles.
As it degenerated, driven by people attacking each other instead of debating ideas, everyone's posting style followed that trend.
My comments here are an attempt to keep tSwill from following the same path.
Do what you want, just be aware that currently you are turning tSwill into Wells, which is not a good thing.
peace
It degenerated when Rook perma-banned good posters while letting one semi-literate turd use the board as an outlet for his penis drawing obsession.
True.
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TrapperGus wrote:NigelUno wrote:
Better run it by the Angry Clique on the secret board first.
There is a "secret board"?
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Wells went down the famous "slippery slope" to become 80% trolling. My concern is that people who bring their Wells conversations to this board will cause it to follow Wells slide down to the hell it became.
Your problem is that you consider any posting of a conservation political opinioin "tolling". At least Wells had some interesting characters that made the place an entertaining place to visit.
When I sign on here and see every thread ending with a post by you I quickly find better uses for my time.
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AvgMSUJoe wrote:Gotta know the handshake.
Handshake… not be a douchebag… same thing.
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RQA wrote:TrapperGus wrote:
Wells went down the famous "slippery slope" to become 80% trolling. My concern is that people who bring their Wells conversations to this board will cause it to follow Wells slide down to the hell it became.
Your problem is that you consider any posting of a conservation political opinioin "tolling". At least Wells had some interesting characters that made the place an entertaining place to visit.
When I sign on here and see every thread ending with a post by you I quickly find better uses for my time.
Still waiting for this.
Serious though, I think it got to the point on Wells where it wasn't even worth bringing news of the day up. (btw, I haven't been on for like years and years, but even back in the day)... No real thoughtful debate, just the same dbags talking the same shit. You throw out points to discuss and they shit from a mainstream source. They shit on that and make up their own reality. Never once saw "proof" of supply side economics doing anything but making the rich, richer... and that is a central tenant in the party. (also, more guns means safer areas. Let alone the hypocrisy on abortion/death penalty... and now vaccine.) It's a fairy tale world they live in, what's the point.
I always did enjoy slaying OldWiseOne and Bee in all things bible.
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AvgMSUJoe wrote:
Still waiting for this.
Serious though, I think it got to the point on Wells where it wasn't even worth bringing news of the day up. (btw, I haven't been on for like years and years, but even back in the day)... No real thoughtful debate, just the same dbags talking the same shit. You throw out points to discuss and they shit from a mainstream source. They shit on that and make up their own reality. Never once saw "proof" of supply side economics doing anything but making the rich, richer... and that is a central tenant in the party. (also, more guns means safer areas. Let alone the hypocrisy on abortion/death penalty... and now vaccine.) It's a fairy tale world they live in, what's the point.
I always did enjoy slaying OldWiseOne and Bee in all things bible.
There are times, such as right now, when the supply side of the economic equation is constraining growth. However, right now, and for years and years, it hasn't been because there hasn't been the financing to expand supply, which is the real argument a serious supply side economist would use. More often than not it is the financial guys refusing to spend the money they have to increase the supply. We have that right now where the financial guys will not provide funding to well drillers to drill new wells in the US, thus driving oil prices up and allowing the financial guys to reap windfall profits on the existing investments.
I guess I am agreeing with your assessment, mostly.
Supply side economics is all about providing easy money to investors, pretty much what caused the 2006 - 2008 crash. The Laffer Curve ignores the behavior at the extremes while providing the excuse for creating those extremes.
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RQA wrote:TrapperGus wrote:
Wells went down the famous "slippery slope" to become 80% trolling. My concern is that people who bring their Wells conversations to this board will cause it to follow Wells slide down to the hell it became.
Your problem is that you consider any posting of a conservation political opinioin "tolling". At least Wells had some interesting characters that made the place an entertaining place to visit.
When I sign on here and see every thread ending with a post by you I quickly find better uses for my time.
Just a comment about many of the threads on page 1 having me as the latest poster.
Look at how many per day, not that many, typically 4.
What you are seeing is that tSwill runs at a crawl, fewer posters and most don't say something unless they have something substantial to say.
I hesitated in replying at all to this post, and probably shouldn't have, as replying to your personal attacks is a waste of everyone's' time, but for this point there is a logical explanation.
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Handshake… not be a douchebag… same thing.
It's cool. The Mean Girl's Club needs a safe space.
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NigelUno wrote:Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:
Handshake… not be a douchebag… same thing.
It's cool. The Mean Girl's Club needs a safe space.
Well they have Trevor's sports board.
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TrapperGus wrote:NigelUno wrote:
It's cool. The Mean Girl's Club needs a safe space.
Well they have Trevor's sports board.
Arnold's a little butt hurt. He needs his daily dose of attention and drama. Stay tuned. You can set your watch by it.
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kingstonlake wrote:TrapperGus wrote:
Well they have Trevor's sports board.
Arnold's a little butt hurt. He needs his daily dose of attention and drama. Stay tuned. You can set your watch by it.
You just slayed irony.
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