ByteOnBikes"Sorry your side lost"
That whole town is weird as shit.
One weekend a year 80k hippies and college kids show up for Bonaroo, and locals fucking hate it. The rest of the year it’s a deep red rural town with zero going on.
I bet all the local shops make their yearly profit during that short stint of time too.
vaultdweller013There’s probably a split between the shopkeepers and say the farmers. I know that in the San Bernardino mountains there’s a very defined split between the local hicks and the more recent arrivals in general. Also I can call them hicks I went to elementary school in Crestline and lived in a trailer park at the time, also my grandmother went to the Rim for school.
I only know it exists because it was in a Strongbad Email and he enjoyed saying Murfreesboro.
PugJesusSorry we didn't carry on the crusade against fascism at home after dismantling Nazi Germany.
nymnympseudonymPeople are far too serious about their Bronze Age literature fandom
I hear there’s this one where they have wine and its some guy’s blood, and crackers where it’s some guy’s body. Why is this in our community?
Miles O'BrienGilgamesh and Enkidu could kick David and Goliath’s asses.
Well yeah, that’s a tag team going into a 1v1. Doesn’t matter how great either are, you are not going to win that fight especially not with two legendary figure even more ancient than you.
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.
LibertyLizardThere’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.
"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
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 just want the freedom to be left alone, I want to live as my forefathers did. In the woods with a hound and half insane before I crawl out in my mid 40s because it gets too rough at that point.
Not to mention colonies. Some gained independence after WW2
Unfortunately, it does make sense through a neo-nazi lens. “The wrong side won WWII” and similar sentiments are getting a lot of traction on twitter, facebook, etc. right now. The OP in the image is sarcastically “glad” that the Allies won. He would have preferred that the nazis had won so the global third reich could protect Murfreesboro, TN from people who are different than him and fulfill whatever other twisted racist fantasies exist in these people’s minds.
Their enemies are “Non-americans.” Even white europeans are targets for being socialist tho they are way farther in priority queue
The enemy is melanin.
...says the guy with the fake tan!
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
solsangraalyou can only have one of the three
or if you’re rural, none of the above!
also, eliminate “fast” from fast food-- cheap, healthy, delicious, fast
Also 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.
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.
Roti is pretty much the Indian Chipotle, but it’s so-so.
Closet I can think of is Masala
Curry up now exists. There’s not many but they are growing.
I just wish they wouldn’t put so much sugar in everything :(
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.
It’s called Tandoor.
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.
I have always had that attitude.
My best friend used to bitch at me for being so careful all the time wine 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.
Personally, because it makes a lot of life better. I feel like shit when I eat like shit
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
trager_bombsSounds absolutely HORRIBLE, I can’t believe you were expected to live like that 😭😭/s
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.
OhStopYellingAtMeYeah it took me a minute to decipher too. JuliansRum is apparently being sarcastic, but Zaid is agreeing with his sarcasm. At least that’s how I’ve interpreted it.
Having just been in Murfreesboro a couple days ago, lemme tell ya, that temple adds a a lot of much-needed class…
I don’t ever usually go to Murfreesboro but I didn’t know this was there. Now I’m questioning if there is some decent restaurants that I have been missing out on.
In Sugarland, Texas, there is a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Hanuman. It features a 90’ statue of the Son of the Wind out front.
porksnortI have been there, it’s epic! This was before the statue, when I was a Mormon missionary in that area.
I dragged my companion along and one of the priestly types gave us a behind the scenes tour of temple operations, probably to keep us from freaking out the regular patrons. They were probably, rightly, worried about getting re-colonized.
The real tragedy is the view count. 1.2M views!?
The sooner a meteor hits Twitter from orbit, the better. It’s literally designed to make money pissing people off with stuff like this.
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.
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.)
Don’t bother trying to understand.
SpiceDealerThe right has a very funny relationship with Indians and their diaspora. On one hand, India’s far right (Hindutva) has been a model for western white supremacists. On the other hand, Indians are still brown-skinned “others” so they have to hate them too.
There are a few Indian stand-ups that do “Indians are racist” bits.
Certain high caste (higher social standing) individuals made a living off of aiding and abetting exploitative colonial leaders and their descendants today aspire to do the same. There are also some Indians who are Christians (often ones who’s families were converted in the colonial era, not in ancient times) who feel that brings them closer to more the more regressive white people that run the US now.
Its a fascinating relationship but doesn’t how Indians in general feel towards rising white supremacy in the US. For every bobby jindal there are 5 ro khannas.
An Indian friend whose family was Christian said that it used to really cook other kids brains when they would ask him what Caste he was and he’d say he didn’t have one