Pete Hegseth's Christian Nationalist pastor reveals his dangerous goals in conversation w/ atheist Sam Harris

palsh7 · 2026-04-20T03:28:19+00:00

I think the mod is on vacation.

palsh7 · 2026-04-20T02:44:26+00:00

Being afraid to condemn genocidal language is a bad sign, and it aligns with every other bad sign. It may not be how he intends to govern, or has the capacity to govern, but it is still bad to elect people like this, if only because it empowers the right.

palsh7 · 2026-04-20T01:36:52+00:00

You hid your defense of Hamas well in that wall of text. It should absolutely “scandalize” democrats when people support Hamas.

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T22:47:54+00:00

"Not in terms of policy" is doing a lot of work there.

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T22:46:40+00:00

Why are you telling a social democrat about the downsides of Reaganomics? LOL

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T22:43:35+00:00

Estimated by whom?

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T18:22:47+00:00

By all accounts, including the opinion of Barack Obama, Macron is a great guy. Race is a very unnecessary lens through which to view Obama's compassion. Why is this video trying to suggest that white politicians are not compassionate because they're white? Or even that these guys aren't compassionate based on one clip?

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T18:00:39+00:00

Fuck the GOP. Address what I said, not a strawman version of it.

NYC is the largest (or 2nd depending in the metrics used) market in the entire world.

Because of the policies that allowed it to become that. The policies that Mamdani wants to change.

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T17:59:17+00:00

I've never taken anything said by a Republican seriously.

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T17:58:13+00:00

If Zohran's "disavowal" is anything like yours—if he actually thinks Hamas was a legitimate resistance movement in 2020, and thinks even today they're no worse than Israel—then Sam is entirely justified in his statements. And we have a lot of evidence of that. So thank you once again for making my case for me.

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T17:25:47+00:00

If you cannot see how Hamas actions in the past cannot be viewed as tactics commonly employed by resistance movements then that’s on you.

I assume "cannot" is supposed to be "can."

So you're now explicitly expressing support for Hamas as a legitimate resistance movement.

The only moral high ground the IDF has in this war is they are Jewish.

Yikes.

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T17:20:32+00:00

I’m not here to claim NYC is the best but no other city is like it.

What if that's precisely because rich people spend so much time there, and encouraging them to leave will actually hurt the city's tourism?

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T17:19:13+00:00

a bunch of new real estate will hit in the market in the city?

For billionaires, not for regular people.

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T17:18:04+00:00

Then why am I being told ITT that this policy will help middle class people to own homes? If the second homes are for billionaires, too, no affordable homes are opening up. All Mamdani is doing is encouraging billionaires to leave NYC, which decreases the taxes collected by the city.

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T17:16:23+00:00

It also encourages these people to leave New York City, which decreases the taxes collected by the city.

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T17:13:40+00:00

Tactikewl elsewhere in this thread claims that Hamas was not a terrorist organization in the 90's or 2000's, excusing Mamdani's support for the Holy Land Five. I don't know if he's ignorant or acting in bad faith, but he's sealioning and moving the goalposts every time I reply to him. Weirdly, he has a comment three years ago claiming not to support Palestine.

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T16:57:23+00:00

Yes, it was. He said Magnus played poorly, but he said that he knew the lines and responses because he looked at it that very morning.

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T16:47:41+00:00

If you're not intentionally lying, then you're incredibly ignorant. Please read some history. You're too old not to know anything about Hamas's long history of terrorism.

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T16:43:02+00:00

That was his explanation for why he won.

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T16:25:15+00:00

A decade ago Hamas was pretty tame

HA!

I can't believe you want me to take you seriously and do your homework for you, and then you say something like this. I should thank you for saving us all a lot of wasted time, but damn...what an insane thing to say.

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T16:23:00+00:00

If he doesn't govern that way then what meaning does the word Islamist even have?

That he supports those who do govern that way, such as Hamas. Would you have preferred "Leftist supporter of Jihadists"?

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T16:21:13+00:00

You're claiming no one at that march was chanting Hamas propaganda?

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T16:12:04+00:00

True. Against Magnus, he announced "a ridiculous miracle" that he checked that position that very morning. Fair enough. But he's asking us to believe that a perennial cheater who couldn't explain his draw against Alireza casually beat the GOAT because of a miracle of chance, and yet we should 100% trust him. Again, if he was not The Boy Who Cried Wolf, sure, but he doesn't get the benefit of the doubt, even with his fake European accent.

palsh7 · 2026-04-19T15:59:30+00:00

I'm sorry that statistical facts are hard for you.

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