2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI'm a coffin nail atheist but if a Muslim registry gets implemented you can add my
name to the list.
Fuck Drump and his Nazi implemented sign-up sheets.
no_hypocrisy
(48,825 posts)My brother is Muslim.
My neighbors are Muslim.
My mayor is Muslim.
I am an atheist and I will add my name to the list.
mahatmakanejeeves
(60,993 posts)Wait, that's not right.
shraby
(21,946 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,524 posts)HassleCat
(6,409 posts)Almost everyone I know is waiting to sign up. We have about three million Muslims in the U.S. so I figure the registry will hit ten million the first week.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)BTW, what's a coffin nail atheist? I'm an atheist but I never heard of the coffin nail variety.
kairos12
(13,248 posts)"afterlife" as they coffin nails designed to seal me in the box.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I'm not saying there aren't Trumpkins who wouldn't love to "register" all the Muslims in the US, probably all the Jews and Atheists and Liberals too, while they're at it.. but we should be clear, on terms, as to what is being described- because the media, too, doesn't do a very good job of explaining this stuff.
Trump has talked- inasmuch as he's clear either, which he isn't, I'm sure he has no problem letting his supporters think he really means "registering all the Muslims" - about reinstating a Bush-era program that was ended which tracked Muslims in this country on visas.
It's worth noting that Obama just did something to make that much harder:
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/12/22/Obama-Just-Made-It-Harder-Trump-Create-Muslim-Registry
Of the 25 countries named in the regulation, all but one, North Korea, were majority Muslim nations, leading to charges that the rule was discriminatory. However, the systems own flaws were its downfall. The program turned out to be expensive to implement, unwieldy in operation, and worst of all, redundant.
But, there is one salient point here, which is that the reality would be reinstating of a discredited and found-to-be-useless but apparently legal Bush program of tracking people visiting this country, as opposed to creating some highly unconstitutional registry of US citizens. So saying "add my name to the list" is meaningless unless you're here, say, on a visa.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Fuck that asshat.
MineralMan
(147,606 posts)We're worse than all the rest, you see...
kairos12
(13,248 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)shit, too late.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)We must stand together against this.