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After arriving in the United States from Somalia back in 2009, Fiqy never expected to be contacted by a major political campaign—yet Trump’s team reached out, asking him to help energize Somali-American voters before the election.

He took on the task with pride. But now, as a sweeping ICE operation targets Somali communities across the Twin Cities—and after hearing the president repeat harsh, blanket remarks about Somalis—Fiqy says his support has collapsed.

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Anyone who supported Trump in 2024 has a broken brain. Waking up just because he happens to specifically be racist again you is just…I don’t even know what say.

To bad, so sad…fuck off?

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago

“How could anyone have predicted this?!?”

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago

"They're not going to eaty MY face."

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Man, these comments.

It's one thing to recognize the irony of this situation.

It's another thing to make racist comments and repeat fascist memes about 'garbage people'. Take that shit somewhere else.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

you seemed pretty racist yourself, of how responded to other people.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

What?

My only other comment in this post is:

Wow, one article about one guy has got you quoting fascist memes.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

you're coming a long long way, fiqy. seriously!

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

And all the kittycats say:

"MUNCH! CHEW! NOM!"

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 138 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You're shocked the most openly racist president since Andrew Johnson hates Somalis, people from Africa?

[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

the most openly racist president since Andrew Johnson

That honor goes to Woodrow Wilson, especially since he was president during a supposedly more enlightened time.

[–] AngularViscosity@piefed.social 57 points 1 week ago

Everyone needs to be called out by name for them to understand, I guess. Put two and two fucking together, America.

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[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 102 points 1 week ago (2 children)

His comments on Haitians weren’t a clear enough signal? JFC, you dense assholes.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This person believes that Americans are a very wise and fair people who can see that Somalis are nothing like Haitians and no way would Americans just consider them both to be scary foreign black people. This is pretty much how all naive immigrants view the USA before they get a rude awakening.

Edit: Nevermind this person was here since 2009? They're just a shill who was paid to trick his own people into voting for their tormentors.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 12 points 6 days ago

He literally did similar comments DURING HIS FIRST TERM about Somalis as well.... But...people have the attention span of a TikTok Video these days.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Any black person supporting an outspoken racist like Trump is just fucking stupid.

Straight up. He’d already been openly racist, specifically against Somalis….and everyone fucking else.

At this point we should just admit we fucked up…conservatives are an incurable cancer, and just nuke the fucking thing from orbit. I have no hope when people are this stupid.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I know a gay Trump supporter. He's ecstatic about what's going on and I know I have better people to give a shit about if he ever gets hauled away.

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This doesn’t surprise me.

I got a job as a chef at a queer piano bar a few years back. Up until that point I had kind of put gay people on a pedestal…like…I thought all the adversity made them innately virtuous.

But while working there I had the stupidest revelation I’ve ever had: Queer people are, in fact, exactly like other people. What I mean by that is my big eureka was that some gay people that are terrible people, some are great people, and every shade in between. Some of the most openly transphobic people I’ve met, for example, are from the gay community.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This person is a family friend who I've, unfortunately, heard talk about his life. His family is incredibly toxic and he just normalized it. About two years ago, I heard him ranting about how Metrosexuals ruined his gaydar and I told him I hadn't heard anyone use that word in over ten years. He also hates lesbians, but trans people haven't come up. I doubt he cares for them.

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh yeah…in my experience gay men can be very mean to lesbians. I had a drag king dishwasher who was continuously sexually harassed by staff and customers…they said vile things to her on the daily. Some refused to call her by her “stage” name…despite having no problem with drag queens.

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[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 66 points 1 week ago

"Why, I didn't think the Nazis would round me up, the people who helped them!"

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The minorities who supported Trump need to be studied as the most fucking stupid, lacking any self preservation whatsoever, people to have ever lived.

The fact these people ever made it to voting age without forgetting how to breathe, or running to an electrical socket with a fork is nothing short of a reality breaking anomaly.

[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They think "Now that my family and I got in, let's pull the ladder and fuck the rest. As long as I am good, others can fucking die."

I.e. garbage people.

[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

They think “Now that my family and I got in, let’s pull the ladder and fuck the rest. As long as I am good, others can fucking die.”

That sounds like the voting pattern of US Hispanics.

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is true Leopards Ate My Face material. Anyone who supported Donny 2 Inches, and helped him gain power, CANNOT be hurt enough !

[–] butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Absolute fucking idiots. I used to live near Dearborn and a lot of the more conservative segments of the Muslim community gave me similar vibes. How dumb can you be? Kicking your asses out, at best, is the selling point of the candidate you're voting for?? Okay....

[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 6 points 6 days ago

It's usually becase of their stand on gay/trans issues.

Apparently what other people do with thier genitals is top of mind for many "conservatives".

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

I find minorities and women who support Trump generally are not only some of the dumbest fucking people you'll ever meet in your life, but also very often narcissistic and mentally/emotionally unstable.

Virtually all of them are mentally and often physically abusive to people around them, and they're constantly trying to control every situation they're in, even if they have no business nor authority doing so.

Trump is exactly that, so most see themselves in Trump.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have a very hard time feeling sympathy for a bunch of people who voted against their own best interests. Anyone who didn't see this coming, needs to wake the fuck up, and start paying attention. It's not like he was hiding who he was. Anyone with half a brain should have been able to see this coming all the way back to when Obama was still in office.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not defending the idiots, but I think social media played a far significant role in brainwashing people than we realise. The stupid social media algorithms corral them to seeing only certain contents and distort their world view. I wonder what social media showed to the non-white people to even support Trump. I hava poc colleagues who seemed to trivialise and have casual approach to Trump, with one stating "some of the things he says makes sense." I wonder what those things "makes sense" from poc point of view. Even before Trump 2.0 came, I have disliked him for being fascist-adjacent. Now, that the mask is off, people thought that he'd stay with his far-right adjacent policies in his first term, and they lived to regret fucking around and finding out.

[–] ferrule@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

sounds like you are defending them. it wasn't as if Trump was being coy about it. He created a muslim ban. He said "They are eating the pets."

All this stuff he said in public, live on TV. Using social media as a source of news just shows you are dumb.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

All this stuff he said in public, live on TV. Using social media as a source of news just shows you are dumb.

The number of people of tuning in to TV are decreasing as time goes. Social media is the new source of information, which sounds paradoxical because you aren't getting news if the information is curated and corralled depending on your browsing activity. And dismissing the role of social media sounds exactly like what I said in my initial comment that people underestimate its role in polarisation.

[–] ferrule@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

if a lot of people started voting by flipping a coin the fact a lot of people do it doesn't change that it's a dumb process.

I am not saying social media isn't used. i am saying that isn't an excuse for saying "we didn't know we were shooting ourselves in the foot." Watch the debates, watch the press confrences, listen to him live whenever he speaks. Trump doesn't hide his hatred for minorities and foreigners. If you go on social media and are told different then you deserve what you get.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Tell that to people, not to me. And there is a reason as to why there is a push to regulate social media precisely because of algorithms sheep-herding people.

People are already inundated and tired by the hecticness of modern life. They have to think about rent, or mortgage, putting food on the table, and their bills, and their family. They don't have time to do the necessary research. This fact is exploited by powers-that-be and the more tired a person is, the more susceptible they are to psychological manipulation. They go home tired and want to unwind by scrolling he social media or watch TV to kill time. They are tired, they don't have time to do due research, and they are easily manipulated. The people are merely exploited. While yes, people deserve what they get for voting against their interest, they are exploited. Would you lay blame squarely to trafficked immigrants who agreed to work undocumented and paid less than the minimum wage because of their predicament, despite already being well known that undocumented work never turns out well?

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

Coming next: Person buys bottled water. Is surprised to find water inside.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

You knew he was a snake when you picked him up.

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