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oraxx's avatar

Once again we are seeing yet another example of being able to justify anything in the name of religion. Even human slavery.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

It worked here in the pre-civil-war era. It is at the heart of the foundation of the SBC.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Once again ... surprised? Not really. I have little doubt but that Trump wants to cootchie-coo Prime Minister Modi, and dismissing an investigation into a situation like this, where the abuse of the workers is so blatantly obvious, is one tactic which is all but an automatic for Donnie.

Still it's tragic. I mean, $1.20 an HOUR labor rate? GET SERIOUS! Even for India, that's ludicrous, though it's the kind of stunt that Trump would have LOVED to pull, himself.

What else to say, I don't know, other than this is one more travesty committed by an unfeeling administration that is more interested in influencing heavyweights than it is in serving ordinary people.

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Joe King's avatar

The NSGOP would like to get rid of the minimum wage altogether. Some would like to bring back full on owning people slavery. I would bet that some of them would call $1.20 per hour 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘴.

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Alverant's avatar

Again, there's no evil that can't be justified by rich religious people.

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

Since slave labor did such a bang-up job building Trump’s Dubai golf resort, he undoubtedly thinks that at $1.25 an hour the Hindus paid too much.

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Bensnewlogin's avatar

Isn’t it amazing how much money these religions have? Lucky for the BAP faps, they don’t have that pesky cheezus wandering around telling them to give Brie to the poorβ€”for their brioches.. In the immortal words of the Hindu Saint, Mordred:

It’s not the Earth that the meek inherit. It’s the dirt.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Upvote for the Mordred quote!

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

I bet the teleprompter worked too.

And, even if it hadn’t, he would have been able to recite his speech without insulting everyone in the room or threaten peons over it.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Obama is the class act that Trump will NEVER be ... and at one level or another, I'd bet money that that sticks in Trump's craw CONSTANTLY.

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Boreal's avatar

Trump obsesses about Obama 24/7 because trump is a insecure loser. Trump's klandaddy Fred apparently told Fatler what a failure he is all of his life.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Trump removed a White House painting of Obama and replaced it with...you guessed it...a portrait of Trump. Said painting depicts the attempted assassination of BLOTUS.

The Farter of Our Country is a bad-tempered child.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

I've said it many times: Trump is a child in a mansuit, pretending to be an adult.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

I will take that further and say that Mary Trump's book, Too Much and Never Enough, is a clear-eyed and detailed description of the mindset and motivations of Donald John Trump.

I think it is essential reading.

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Len Koz's avatar

Obama got laughs telling jokes about Mushroom Dick; he will never forget that nor forgive it.

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dammit barry's avatar

Toddler. My vision of a spoiled brat running around in an overloaded diaper.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

He was not entirely wrong.

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dammit barry's avatar

Watched Public Broadcasting in hospital. The differences between FDR and feckless asshole are glaring. FDR looked out for those who had too little. F.A. looks out only for hisself.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

He has a hand in his pocket instead of the guardrail ! It's scandalous ! Cancel his Noble Prize !!!

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Boreal's avatar

I don't know about that tie color either. πŸ˜„

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dammit barry's avatar

ICYMI, he moving handrail always moves faster than the escalator. I have not tested this in a few years. When younger it was a game with me to test escalators. ;^>

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Len's avatar

They probably move at the same speed until there’s weight on the stairs - ie, people. Then you have to catch the handrail

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

You're right.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Yup. I use escalators a lot. That rubbery/plastic handrail always moves at a greater speed than the steel steps.

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Boreal's avatar

That's the economic model maga loves: forced slave labor.

Tax the churches.

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Grant Jackson's avatar

Yeah-but they got that national threat-James Comey!

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

I hope Comey's defense team is loaded for bear. As I understand it, the prosecution's case is pretty thin, and was made despite protests from within the DoJ. It's entirely possible that this will wind up being yet one more embarrassment for them, Bondi, and Trump!

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Joe King's avatar

Trump doesn't care about actual crimes, he just wants to imprison anyone that isn't sufficiently loyal to him.

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David V. Miller's avatar

By now we should've long ago realized that you cannot shame the shameless.

Religiou$ Fanatics, Trumplings & MAGAsses are totally shameless. In fact, they'll gleefully, proudly boast of their shamelessness. For them HATE, IDEOLOGY & FAITH is all that matters.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Maybe you can't shame them, but you can sure make them LOSE!

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

"I expect to see more resignations at the DOJ and FBI based on this indictment. I expect to see the Comey case dismissed at some point.

"Comey is represented by renowned former prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, and Trump’s Virginia federal prosecution team is led by his former personal lawyer Lindsey Halligan, who has zero experience as a federal prosecutor or even as a trial lawyer. This will be like watching an NBA player in Fitzgerald go against a JV high school player in Halligan."

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/no-they-wont-silence-us

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NOGODZ20's avatar

The guy who helped Trump win in 2016. How soon Trump forgets.

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Boreal's avatar

But what has he done for Shitler lately?

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

I bet Mme Hillary Clinton is laughing her ass off.

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Kay-El's avatar

Lol, karma

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Len Koz's avatar

But he refused to pledge his undying loyalty to Shitpants McTinyDick, so he has to pay!

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oraxx's avatar

I don't really care what happens to Comey, but the authoritarianism behind this prosecution horrifies me. It is a case of a President using the power of his office to settle a score with a man who dared hurt his tender feelings.

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Joe King's avatar

π‘Šβ„Žπ‘–π‘™π‘’ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘π‘Žπ‘ π‘’ β„Žπ‘Žπ‘ π‘›β€™π‘‘ 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘ π‘œπ‘™π‘£π‘’π‘‘ 𝑦𝑒𝑑, π‘‘β„Žπ‘–π‘  π‘€β„Žπ‘œπ‘™π‘’ π‘ π‘Žπ‘”π‘Ž β„Žπ‘Žπ‘  𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 π‘Ž π‘β„Žπ‘–π‘™π‘™π‘–π‘›π‘” π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘šπ‘–π‘›π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿ π‘‘β„Žπ‘Žπ‘‘ π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘™π‘–π‘”π‘–π‘œπ‘’π‘  π‘§π‘’π‘Žπ‘™π‘œπ‘‘π‘Ÿπ‘¦ π‘π‘Žπ‘› π‘ π‘œπ‘šπ‘’π‘‘π‘–π‘šπ‘’π‘  π‘šπ‘Žπ‘ π‘˜ 𝑒π‘₯π‘π‘™π‘œπ‘–π‘‘π‘Žπ‘‘π‘–π‘œπ‘›.

Several takeaways here.

1. Religious exploitation and privilege is not limited to Christianity, or even the Abrahamic faiths.

2. Although Christian Fucking Privilege is paramount to the NSGOP, when other authoritarians are exposed, they will defend them.

3. Slavery still exists, even here in the US. And the current Regime doesn't care.

4. Here is yet one more example of how good people do good things, bad people do bad things, but it requires religion to for good people to do bad things.

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David V. Miller's avatar

Can sometimes? Correction: ALWAYS.

Religion is bullshit, therefore, by definition anything & everything they do is exploitative.

In of itself religion never produces anything. Like vampires, leeches & ticks it survives by sucking-off nourishment out of something & someone else.

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Kay-El's avatar

This kinda reminds me of how Trump’s buildings were built. Nonunion labor and stiffing the contractors.

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wreck's avatar

Don't forget fugly.

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

And plenty of undocumented immigrant labor.

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Runfastandwin's avatar

"You have to wonder whether Trump’s affinity for fellow autocrats like Modi had anything to do with his administration dropping this particular case. (While that’s purely speculation, it hardly seems out of the question.)" I don't wonder...

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

I'd say it's all but a slam dunk. Trump wants Modi in his corner, though that's no easy deal. Modi treats a LOT with Russia and Putin, and breaking up that partnership will take some doing. Dismissing the temple case was a move in that direction, but it will take a LOT more to influence Modi.

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Len Koz's avatar

Especially since Modi knows Trump is under Putin's thumb.

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Runfastandwin's avatar

Modi knows tangeranus will be gone soon enough, I doubt he wants to hitch his wagon to a lame duck.

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Sinanju06's avatar

See, its not just fundamental Christians that are scumbags.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

β€œWhile the case hasn’t been resolved yet, this whole saga has been a chilling reminder that religious zealotry can sometimes mask exploitation. While the BAPS temples, in New Jersey and beyond, may appear to be a monument to Hindu devotion, the lawsuit suggests that its marble faΓ§ade was built on the suffering of at least a handful of marginalized workers who say they were coerced into their roles.”

It’s tradition. Carry on, nothing to see here.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

β€œthe Defendants overseeing the Robbinsville temple construction then retaliated against workers who organized to demand, among other things, that Mohan Lal’s remains to be treated according to his β€” not the Defendants’ β€” religious rituals and that the Defendants improve working conditions.”

This here makes me question the explanation of the religious practice of volunteering claimed by the defendants. If these people were there to fulfill their religious obligations, that are part of the group’s religion, why would the workers demand different religious rites at death? The death rites would be the same, wouldn’t they?

Wealthy people lying about their abuse of the downtrodden? Never.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

"Worms."

Fuck the caste system.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

But... But it was abolished. It's why some Rajah live in the palaces of their ancestors, Brahmans maintain temples and Dalit find themselves grateful to have enough money to afford electricity.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

I thought they’d abolished it for a brief time. Nope. Still going after 3,000 years.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Seems religion and exploitation have been in a ghastly embrace since religion was invented,

Modi's an authoritatian. Trump admires that, just like he admires Erdogan (so much so that Trump is considering lifting a ban on the sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey).

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Len Koz's avatar

I feel pretty confident that religion was created to exploit people.

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