Majority of Muslims and Jews Are Democrats: Pew Research

Many more U.S. Muslims identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party than the GOP (66% vs. 13%), but the share who are Republican has held steady over the last 10 years, including after the election of President Donald Trump, according to a new analysis of Pew Research Center survey data collected between 2007 and 2017. In 2007, 11% of Muslims identified as Republican. The share changed very little in surveys conducted by the Center in 2011 (11%) and 2017 (13%). [2018]

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/11/06/republicans-account-for-a-small-but-steady-share-of-u-s-muslims/

U.S. Jews are still a largely Democratic and politically liberal group today, as they have been for decades. Overall, about seven-in-ten identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, including 68% of Jews by religion and 77% of Jews of no religion. Just 26% of U.S. Jews overall identify with the Republican Party or lean toward the GOP. [2020]

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/05/11/u-s-jews-political-views/

However apparently there has been a surge of muslims becoming Republican:

For much of the last two decades, Muslims have been far more likely to identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party than the Republican Party. But Pew Research Center’s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study shows that the Democratic advantage has shrunk considerably. Around half of Muslim adults (53%) identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, while 42% identity with or lean toward the Republican Party. [2025]

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/21/muslim-americans-share-political-attitudes-with-both-the-democratic-and-republican-parties/

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the quiet part out loud

St. Augustine's "The City of God"

HTML version: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1201.htm

PDF from "Great Books of the Western World" With a Couple Other Works: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126595/mode/2up

via Wiki entry:

On the City of God Against the Pagans (Latin: De civitate Dei contra paganos), often called The City of God, is a book of Christian philosophy written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century AD. Augustine wrote the book to refute allegations that Christianity initiated Roman decline and is considered one of his seminal works, standing alongside the Confessions, the Enchiridion, On Christian Doctrine, and On the Trinity ... As a work of one of the most influential Church Fathers, The City of God is a cornerstone of Western thought, expounding on many questions of theology, such as the suffering of the righteous, the existence of evil, the conflict between free will and divine omniscience, and the doctrine of original sin.

patriots are in control

"so, end the fed or something"

"by their fruits you shall know them" Matthew 7:16

meh, people live super unhealthy lives

possibly

of note, trump did this too (unless he took saline or something)

I think a lot of people have argued she was a jew putting out zionist disinfo

Pure capitalism includes the ability to inflict usury on one's fellow man, as an opposite extreme to pure Communism

It's not that capitalism is bad but it enables bad / wrong things when misused, which Rand doesn't go in to

(but she develops her own materialistic capitalist moral system of "Objectivism" which may be in contrast to Christian teachings at times)

"Then Jesus saith to him: Put up again thy sword into its place: for all that take the sword shall perish with the sword." Matthew 26:52

All gave some

Some gave all

good vid that seems to break things down in more detail than I have previously seen, thank you; it's at least worth asking questions about

(often when these things happen, there is messy speculation that isn't always right, which is fine, as we don't know what happened and are brainstorming to figure things out)

reposting a comment about Charlie Kirk with Erika Kirk vs. Candace Owens drama:

since [others were] propping up official narratives, I guess we should share how much info quickly came out that busted these after the event last year:

there were some substacks that tried to "expose" erika (search "erika kirk exposed substack"), I don't think this was the one but it has some of the same vibe: https://phantompain1984.substack.com/p/erika-kirk-and-the-ritualistic-assassination

Among things that were mentioned was that Erika associated with a nonprofit in Romania that people questioned if it had trafficked kids. Some strange networking connections were suggested with Erika's circle (and Candace too tbh). The linked article suggests Erika was proven to say some things that were incorrect.

Now as far as the actual event last year went, there were a lot of weird anomalies like the security making strange hand gestures before Kirk was shot, I think weren't they denied extra security that day for some reason, and wasn't there a video that showed some guy seemingly shooting a small handgun from the front to the left of the stage? Others speculated the microphone might have been rigged, on Charlie.

I ... [think] it's probably wise to be both skeptical of Erika and Candace respectively (Erika as promoting a false mainstream narrative, Candace as promoting a false "alternative" narrative)

Thanks for coming to the TED talk

Aquinas: Summa Theologica

Possible PDF: https://archive.org/details/st.-thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica/page/n25/mode/2up

New Advent HTML version: https://www.newadvent.org/summa/

Catholic encyclopedia on "Aquinas": https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14663b.htm

The "Summa theologica"-- This work immortalized St. Thomas. The author himself modestly considered it simply a manual of Christian doctrine for the use of students. In reality it is a complete scientifically arranged exposition of theology and at the same time a summary of Christian philosophy ... In the brief prologue St. Thomas first calls attention to the difficulties experienced by students of sacred doctrine in his day, the causes assigned being: the multiplication of useless questions, articles, and arguments; the lack of scientific order; frequent repetitions, "which beget disgust and confusion in the minds of learners". Then he adds: "Wishing to avoid these and similar drawbacks, we shall endeavour, confiding in the Divine assistance, to treat of these things that pertain to sacred doctrine with brevity and clearness, in so far as the subject to be treated will permit."

Something to jump around reading bits and pieces of, or like a piece a day for a while if you want to read the whole thing...

Unless nukes are " fake and gay"

AI on the other hand...

There's a lot of natural anti-cancer and anti-parasitic remedies

Not sure how effective they are but not sure how effective conventional or alternative treatments like this are either

disappointing

related: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/

these things happen when we deregulate and "de-tax" too though lol

(in other words the illegals are arguably not the problem, just "big government"; or, even if we had the illegal problem, with less regs and taxes we could still "live long and prosper")

is this a "dinosaurs never existed" theory or a "dinosaurs were separate creatures that didn't 'evolve' along with humans" kind of thing? I'm tending towards the former view maybe at times

Maybe something for a post but I was thinking a lot of leftists seem to like the psychological idea of "boundaries" and that maybe this could be tied to getting them to support borders

Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers

and other such American documents available for download and discussion: https://www.theconstitutionalistsociety.com/historical-documents/

This came up in a "canon of American writing" search (although is commonly known)

meh I don't think it's that deep in this case:

without physical disks, there is less resale ability and more control and it costs less to not manufacture physical media

maybe we could just push eco-friendly initiatives - that save money as a win-win - and that could placate them

(there are real environmental problems, but "global warming" is kind of vague and not necesssarily one of them. Real issues like: pollution, waste of resources, poisoning of ourselves via pesticides in food supply, etc.)

so, end the Fed or something...

tbh sounds like a cope

it seems like a loss but that doesn't mean we / Trump can't win long game

"Dear Boomer, 'capitalism' enriched you at the expense of future generations. Your lazy, entitled, participation-trophy generation failed capitalism. Stop blaming young people for your failures and promoting the illusion that you 'worked hard fair and square to earn what you have'"

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