People need to talk more about hindu fascists. They are probably the 2nd or 3rd largest group of fascists on earth
For some reason I’m not convinced that WWII defeated fascism.
Its like polio. When you stop vaccinating it comes back.
Yeah, sadly the only vaccine for fascism is delivered at 3000 fps.
I’m a believer in the value of lead therapy for fascists.
Thank god fascism was defeated in 1945, now there’s no more fascism anywhere, we live in a totally post fascism society because we definitely defeated fascism. I’m so glad I can say that without worrying that saying that is in sharp contradiction to the political reality of practically every industrialized nation on the planet, where fascist parties have already, or are in the process of seizing control, but aren’t, because fascism was defeated 85 years ago, so long ago that there is definitely no more fascism.
There is no facism in Ba Sing Se!
Fail to see how a Hindu temple in Tennessee is a negative. Does the poster not like Vindaloo curry or something?
As someone who doesn’t like anything curry, I just want to say I have no problem whatsoever with Hinduism, they’re cool by me
I don’t understand. India was allied with Germany and Italy now? Is that what’s happening?
I agree it’s unclear and took me second read to get it.
Basically I think the op on the image is saying that hindu temples in tennese is bad, and “we won ww2” means they shouldn’t be allowed to (for some reason).
The person replying is saying they’re right, we did win ww2, which let’s us have religious freedom, like building non Christian temples in the US.
The “sorry your side lost” is the replier calling the op a nazi. Nit siding with the op and implying the Hindus were on the losing side
So…yes. That’s what’s happening.
Don’t bother trying to understand.
I think the first poster is being sarcastic, saying that the allies shouldn’t have won WW2 because Hindu temples are bad, and if the third reich had taken over the world, they wouldn’t be allowed. (Or he may mean that the US should have sided with Germany.)
When I was homeless, I ate many free meals at my local Sikh temple (gurdwara). I didn’t even know my city had a gurdwara until I heard it recommended as a place to go food. I remember when I first turned up, I felt super awkward (a common feeling if you’re often having to rely on the charity of others), but I was made to feel super welcome and it’s something I reflect fondly on in what was otherwise an extremely dark period of my life
When I was a starving graduate students, I ate many meals provided by the local Hare Krishna temple. Lunch from them was nominally $1 but if you didn’t have any money they would feed you anyway. It made me feel very bad for all the times I referred to them as “hairy fishnuts”.
I’m glad you were able to get through those dark times. I hope you’re doing well.
Be well.
What is he even thinking? That WW2 was some sort of holy crusade for Apple Pie and Jesus?
Yes, don’t you remember? The Germans were Muslim immigrants.
I mean it’s really easy to misspell Nazi Germany as Muslims when the basic literacy rate is only 15 points above 50.
Sorry we didn’t carry on the crusade against fascism at home after dismantling Nazi Germany.
I lived in a city with a big Hindu temple and lots of Indian diaspora.
You know what that did for my standard of living? It gave me a lot of cheap, healthy and delicious places to eat.
You know what that did for my standard of living? It gave me a lot of cheap, healthy and delicious places to eat.
Completely un-American, you can only have one of the three
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food.
Question, why are there no fast-casual Indian places?
I would love the Chipotle of Curry. I’d be there as often as my underwear drawer would permit.
It’s called Tandoor.
Roti is pretty much the Indian Chipotle, but it’s so-so.
Curry up now exists. There’s not many but they are growing.
They exist. They’re just not chains.
It’s common to have a lunchtime buffet that simply puts out curries and charges for access to the table. Just not convenient for takeout since curry is tricky to transport.
I once heard about a system around Mumbai where one village routinely cooked lunches (curry, rice, etc), and ferried them via metal tankards by train to a neighboring town/city where people were working.
Not sure if its national, but in the Midwest, we have Naf Naf Grill, which is like the Chipotle of middle eastern food. Delicious by fast food standards, and I don’t get why middle eastern / mediterranean food isn’t bigger in the US. And to your point specifically, Indian food seems like it would fit the same template really well!
Cava is the far superior Mediterranean casual place. If you’ve got one near, highly recommend.
I’ve had plenty of fast casual falafel wraps…but I would love some line-service curry and rice. And somosas.
I grew up near a Thai Buddhist temple in the panhandle of Florida, and it was about the same. They did a charity cookout type thing every weekend, which was open to the public and they did a bunch of cultural and religious ceremonies right next to or right there in the little marketplace they set up for the cookout. It was a great way to kill a few hours on a sunday; $5 or $6 for a plate of pad thai and a skewer of thai bbq pork, see some cool ceremonies, sometimes end up talking with somebody from the temple for a bit. Absolutely blew my mind that a religious gathering could be so actively enjoyable after I grew up going to mass
Sounds absolutely HORRIBLE, I can’t believe you were expected to live like that 😭😭/s
I wish Indian food were cheap around here. We have a healthy number of Indian immigrants and several restaurants, but they’re pricey. Delicious, worth it, but not cheap. And come to think of it, not terribly healthy, at least the way I order.
The good, cheap places you kind of had to hear about from people in the know.
There was one food truck on a university campus run by an amazing, nice guy from southern India. He gave you enough vegetarian, delicious food for two meals for the price of Big Mac (this was in the 1990s). He would give you food if you were broke. Sadly, he died pretty young from cancer, I think it was.
Sadly ironic. Makes you think why bother eating healthy.
Personally, because it makes a lot of life better. I feel like shit when I eat like shit
I’ve found my own version of the middle path that involves exercise, decent food, and going out drinking. I may not live as long as others or as well as some, but I live to live not just to optimize health or pleasure
I have always had that attitude.
My best friend used to bitch at me for being so careful all the time when I was younger. “Bro, fucking just look at this snake! Quit being afraid of everything. Someone could run your ass over with a car on the walk back home and you’d bleed out wishing you had done something.”
He died at 18 in a car accident.
I mean, well, I always speak that attitude. I’m still not going around looking for danger. I do what I enjoy, which is modest by any standards, but if I wanted to eat nothing but ice cream and weigh 500lbs I would do just that.
No matter what I do, I’ll die. No matter how much I loved or hated it, I won’t remember any of it.
“Don’t take life too seriously, nobody makes it out alive, anyway.”
Versions of that have been attributed to various famous folks, and also versions have been in movies and other media.
This is so on point with something I saw recently.
I’ve been rewatching Stargate SG-1, and last night, I watched “the other side” (S04E02).
For anyone who hasn’t watched it recently and either hasn’t memorized every episode, or can’t be bothered to look it up, the people they encountered were fighting for survival, with dreams of pushing back their enemy and eventually eradicating them. Through the course of the episode, everything seems fairly normal, it’s just a war, right? Then you realize that everyone they deal with is white, everyone they’re trying to help, in stasis or otherwise, is white, and they’ve asked O’Neil to not bring back Teal’c when he says he’s returning to the SGC…
Turns out, though they didn’t say it, it was a race war. As soon as they discovered that, they actively sabotaged their efforts to defend themselves against those who “breed without any regard to genetic purity”, then promptly bail, letting them get destroyed.
Because the point was made without explicitly stating what was going on, it was a very clever episode. They were all ready to be on good terms with these technologically advanced people, then discovered that they’re racists and promptly set in motion the events that would end their lives.
If that’s not social commentary, I couldn’t tell you what is. Especially with shit like the OP floating around.
Watched this episode after reading your comment… loved the episode and identified the next series to watch.
Shoutout to SG-1! I grew up on it and it has a special place in my heart. They had their stinkers, but boy did they have range, from black comedy gold to action adventure to existential awe to solid political commentary, and with a fantastic ensemble of characters.
"In addition to the cut of your gib, I likes the name of your town…
Murfreesboro."
-Strongbad
What’s really funny is that 25 years into the War on Terror the writer can’t tell the difference between Hindu and Islamic faiths. I mean ‘know your enemy’ is basic military training.
The enemy is melanin.
…says the guy with the fake tan!
I mean in this case “enemies” is just “brown people.” It doesn’t matter what they call them.
There’s absolutely nothing about the original tweet that makes sense. India was a major contributor to the allied war effort, albeit not entirely voluntarily. Though I suppose the same could be said for most countries due to conscription and even the cancellation of elections.
Not to mention colonies. Some gained independence after WW2
“Freedom” is the right to act exactly like I tell you to.
/s because it’s 2025.
It really makes you pessimistic about human nature that you can build a society where freedom is widely celebrated as the highest ideal, yet somehow still have it be incredibly oppressive.
It’s not a new concept.
Though it’s quite amazing, with the level of access to information we have today, how effective such propaganda is.
Though I suppose if you are manipulating that information to spin your agenda, maybe it’s not so surprising after all.
freedom is always a balancing act: freedom from (persecution), freedom to (do what you like)
too much freedom from and you’re protected from making bad decisions and can’t do anything you want to do
too much freedom too and you get people persecuting their out group because it’s their right
imo america really has the freedom to as the only freedom a lot of people care about, and a lot of people have no understanding that freedom from is just as important; they champion freedom like that, and in some sense it’s kinda true
there’s an empathy barrier for those people: they’re not persecuted, so there’s no need for the freedom from (despite what they say about “christian persecution” this is freedom to discriminate and other shit wrapped in a freedom from facade)
(i’d also argue that american capitalism/corporatism is the anti-freedom-to: money gives you freedom to, and the dire economic state of the majority means most americans have token freedom to rather than actual ability to do what they like)
What a weird fucking thing to post.
Racists are fucking weird, man.
I made a tiktok account to shit talk cons and my feed was quickly filled with white supremacy stuff, shitting on Indians just for existing in Canada. super disappointing
edit: also whenever I open the app, it’s that fucking Kiki account with the AI Trump girls
I have no clue what either of these people are saying. Is JuliansRum being sarcastic? Who is “your side” that Zaid is talking about? Like there’s so many ways to read these tweets I literally cannot tell what the actual intent is.
From context clues it would seem that JuliansRum is a MAGA cultist being sarcastic and bigoted, or at least Zaid thinks so.
Given that the MAGA cult is fascist in nature, the side ideologically aligned with it indeed lost what Robert Evans insists on calling Dub Dub Dos.
I don’t think they realise which side India was on
FWIW some Indians did fight for the Japanese in WWII. They were treated, um, unpleasantly when they were caught by allied Indian troops.
I know right? It’s kind of impressive how many layers of stupidity and ignorance are piled on top of each other here.
I don’t think I could come up with something this dumb if I were deliberately trolling.
Both ww1 and ww2. India sent over a million soldiers to Europe during ww1. Can you imagine those guys traveling back time, joining the German army (like they would be accepted!) Only for them and their unit to get wiped by some dark-skinned guy from Calcutta who doesn’t speak any English?
