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My state already has sharia law, with clerics ruling over everything from sideburns to showing your hair. The extremists are 5% of births and doubling every twenty years; they are projected to be 80% of births by 2300, but they are so adept at politicking that they will have functional control over the state within 40 years. These extremists have so much influence that one of them born in my state has vetoed the president’s choice of cabinet for not settling matters in their sharia courts. This sharia extremist was a key voice in causing America to enter a disastrous war with no way out. The sharia courts rule that women are forbidden to divorce without their husband’s permission and forbidden to sing in public where men might hear. Artistic representations are largely forbidden, as is any socializing with non-extremists. They have so much power already that when they get caught engaging in large-scale welfare fraud, the state merely offers an amnesty program so that the cleric’s favorites don’t get jail time. I’ve seen them take over my own relative’s school board where they cut all funding for extracurricular programs because they only attend their own extremist schools. The sharia extremists engage in a variety of schemes to fund their operation. Feel free to swing by New Jersey and check out our sharia towns if you ever get the chance.
That was actually my pretty funny, I knew that Chris Christie was butt hurt about the whole sending, his dad to jail thing, but how absurd that he actually thought the Rabbis should’ve dealt with that.
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Is this... the origin story of @coffee_enjoyer?
By the way, I agree those people are terrible. I'm fully against desert tribes of all stripes having political influence anywhere where I live or might want to visit.
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And this has how much effect on people who don't live in their Jewish welfare ghettos? I've no sympathy for them, but it's not like New Jersey was going to give people a nice tax break instead of just wasting it on some other form of corruption, and it's not like they actually want gentiles in their weird communes.
They expand, and they also take advantage of anything in neighboring communities that they can. For instance, there's a zoo in my area. It sometimes has free days. The ultra-orthodox will come from long ways around to visit the zoo on free day (because they're both poor and cheap and have many children), and they park in the neighboring developments (because they're too cheap to pay for the zoo parking). Many also drive like shit even by New Jersey standards. "This is why we can't have nice things".
The basic problem, though, is we have a welfare system designed to transfer money to mostly-dysfunctional fools assisted by more-or-less average social workers, and it's completely defenseless against a population which has no moral compunction against exploiting it AND is uniquely genetically, culturally, and educationally optimized for rules lawyering.
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The communities expand, and when they take electoral control by becoming kingmakers in New Jersey politics, they will expand with little resistance. And they will probably decide to steal more money, like they’re doing with the federal security grant program. Or maybe they will force Rutgers to bend over backwards a la lawfare:
I imagine they will try to expand New Jersey’s K-12 holocaust education, to maximize the demoralization of the goyim and the special social privileges for Jews. Children already have to read books like this as part of New Jersey’s mandatory holocaust indoctrination:
Why shouldn’t your child read “White Antiracist Biographies” starting in Kindergaarten?
https://www.nj.gov/education/holocaust/curr/materials/docs/Holocaust_K2_Suggested_Activities_WhiteAntiRacistBiographiesEarlyGrades.pdf
In the part few years the Jews in New Jersey have already expanded the program and ADL and Gottheimer are looking to add even more guilt-based propaganda for your children to read before they can count.
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