they're following some other twisted ideology that uses the Quran as an excuse,

Fun fact: The Quran doesn't feature into these, not even as an excuse. My reply to the parent comment has more details, but people who do these vile acts take "honor violations warrant death" to be an axiom on its own, just as a birthday warrants a celebration and a sick family member warrants a visit. I mean, there's a reason the words "Islam" and "religion" feature exactly 0 times in the article.

Note: There is exactly zero religion involved in honor killings; this is a 100% cultural act. Here are some choice quotes from Wikipedia:

Honor killings are primarily associated with the Middle East, the Maghreb and the Indian subcontinent, but they are also rooted in other societies, such as the Philippines, Northern Caucasus, Latin America, East Africa, and historically in Mediterranean Europe.

In French culture, stories about such homicides were romanticized and featured prominently in French literature of the 19th century, and "In literature as in life, unconventional women needed to be severely punished lest their defiant attitudes inspire further acts of rebellion".[33] In Corsica, there was a strong custom of vendetta, which required Corsicans to murder anyone who wronged their family honor. Between 1821 and 1852 approximately 4,300 vendetta killings were perpetrated in Corsica.[34] France also had a strong culture of dueling meant to uphold honor, and France was called by the National Geographic "the dueling capital of Europe".[35]

Though it may seem in a modern context that honor killings are tied to certain religious traditions, the data does not support this claim.[95][93] Research in Jordan found that teenagers who strongly endorsed honor killings in fact did not come from more religious households than teens who rejected it.[93] The ideology of honor is a cultural phenomenon that does not appear to be related to religion, be it Middle Eastern or Western countries, and honor killings likely have a long history in human societies which predate many modern religions.[96] In the US, a rural trend known as the "small-town effect" exhibits elevated incidents of argument-related homicides among white males, particularly in honor-oriented states in the South and the West, where everyone "knows your name and knows your shame." This is similarly observed in rural areas in other parts of the world.

Provocation in English law and related laws on adultery in English law, as well as Article 324 of the French penal code of 1810 were legal concepts which allowed for reduced punishment for the murder committed by a husband against his wife and her lover if the husband had caught them in the act of adultery.[101] On 7 November 1975, Law no. 617/75 Article 17 repealed the 1810 French Penal Code Article 324. The 1810 penal code Article 324 passed by Napoleon was copied by Middle Eastern Arab countries. It inspired Jordan's Article 340 which permitted the murder of a wife and her lover if caught in the act at the hands of her husband (today the article provides for mitigating circumstances).[102] France's 1810 Penal Code Article 324 also inspired the 1858 Ottoman Penal Code's Article 188, both the French Article 324 and Ottoman article 188 were drawn on to create Jordan's Article 340 which was retained even after a 1944 revision of Jordan's laws which did not touch public conduct and family law;[103][104][105] article 340 still applies to this day in a modified form.[102] France's Mandate over Lebanon resulted in its penal code being imposed there in 1943–1944, with the French-inspired Lebanese law for adultery allowing the mere accusation of adultery against women resulting in a maximum punishment of two years in prison while men have to be caught in the act and not merely accused, and are punished with only one year in prison.

-Wikipedia

So yeah, this is a big problem in many parts of the world and if your reaction to innocent women losing their lives is to make a tired and irrelevant point, then please don't.

I mean... no? Like, like it or hate it the Quran is pretty clear about this. If you disagree, then give me a verse number.

that same prefix (o) is for better versions of things in Japanese.

Puts on nerd glasses well ackshually it's used to elevate the status of something, such as with people, objects or other entities of social or religious significance (for example other people's family members in a polite situation). It's more honored than better.

As if nature won't just fucking figure it out.

Nature will figure it out, but it won't necessarily figure it out in a way that's good for us (or whatever we want to prevent from going extinct).

I get many of the red countries, but what's so controversial about Egypt?

What the fuck does that have to do with the article?

How is this news?

Because something new that plenty of people care about happened? Like, I do think it's ridiculous but there are more than a billion Catholic people out there who do care what this guy says.

I mean, he passed those two bills (C-2 and C-5 I think?) so he's a conservative even before slashing anything.

Welcome to: the point.

Like I have aforementioned, appealing to people’s fears and prejudices isn’t something new or special.

It's not, but establishment politicians on the right stuck to certain limits to keep their image as respectable moderates. Trump doesn't give a shit about that, so he could say things like "they're sending us rapists and drug dealers" and promise nonsense like a Muslim ban. The idea nothing new, but he's a clear escalation on that feont.

MY point and my question to American voters is why they feel that putting a man in a position that he is completely not educated or competent in would be beneficial for anyone?

And my answer is that the people who are educated and competent have done fuckall to make things better, so people who want change now have decisively shifted towards Trump.

We already saw this type of behavior with Hitler. Appealing to people’s fears and prejudices.

Exactly. Hitler appealed to people's fears and prejudices, yes, but he also appealed to their economic uncertainties.

even though he basically flat out lied to his supporters faces, they still support him. Why?

Because he's hurting the people they hate, just like Hitler did. It's the classic fascist playbook; appewl to people's prejudice and economic uncertainty, then keep playing up the former to distract from the latter.

we gotta give him a fair shot.

Why?

What the fuck? Is your hate boner for religion so big that you forgot how to fucking read?

So you are telling me that Donald Trump is a credible attempt to take a sledgehammer to the status quo because he is politically retarded and the left doesn't have someone who is politically retarded so that increases the right-wing pull?

The political retardation isn't necessarily viewed as a bad thing, but that's not the point. Trump is actively, uncompromisingly picking a fight with "them". Draining the swamp, taking on the "deep state," "telling it like it is," et cetera, these things signal change to Trump voters; Trump gives his base the impression of someone who acknowledges that things are bad, promises to fix them and is willing to pick fights with people they despise to make good on that promise. Due to the American Left's parasocial relationship with neoliberals, all major leftwing figures in America hilariously fail number three. Bernie's fight oligarchy rallies that were apparently so significant they kept making national news? To Trump that's just Tuesday. Because apparently that needed repeating: Yes trump is retarded, but that's not the point.

Trying to justify their bajillion-dollar AI investment I see.

Probably an East/Southeast Asia thing.

Prime Minister Netanyahu is also going to lend us a few members of his military to train our brave ICE agents on the best way to subdue a population.

It's the police rather than ICE, but other than that this is literally already a thing. Also I hate myself for laughing.

I mean, that's exactly why presidents have staff to brief them on things.

Isn't it Ba Sing Se?

Because the clowns running the show weren't willing to even entertain the thought of fixing the deeply broken status quo. When Trump, a political outsider, came and promised to take a sledgehammer to the system he was welcomed with open arms by many of the people who were most hurt by it. Of course Trump is, if anything, an escalation of the worst excesses of the system, but he was still a perfectly positioned straw to people who had nothing to hope for from the status quo. There's simply no equivalent sledgehammer coming from the left, so even people who would be predisposed to progressive politics flock to the only credible attempt to take down the system. What's going to replace it? They don't fucking care; nobody is out there selling the communist utopia so they're flocking to the all-white ethnostate.

PS: To anyone who feels the need to say "but Trump is bad!!!", yes but that's not the point.