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  • India’s numbers are vague, because they don’t even know how many people they have…

    But the low end of the estimate is 20% vegan, and Mexico is 19%…

    And while dishes based on Pakistani immigrants caught on all over, they were trying to support their families and just sold what people would buy

    But even if you call that “Indian food”, it has nowhere near the reach as Me Ivan cuisine, which is often vegetarian

    They’re doing the real heavy lifting if you want to clap someone on the back.

    Quick edit:

    Like, it’s just wild that those Muslims were driven from their home in the first place, obviously that was worse and the segregating of India to create Pakistan is waaaay more fucked up.

    But it really grinds my gears when India wants to claim that as a feather in their cap, when most of the shops were from people India’s government forced out due to their religion.




  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.worldThe FBI Director Is MIA
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    It started with an incident that occurred on April 10 when the FBI chief panicked after he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He behaved frantically and began calling aides to announce that he had been fired by the White House.

    Two people familiar with the matter described to The Atlantic that his behaviour was a “freak out.”

    The reports also alleged that a SWAT team had to once ask for breaching gear after Patel was uncontactable behind a locked door.

    That’s not alcoholism, he’s coked to the fucking gills…

    It’s really common these days with heavy drinkers, because it lets you drink longer. Eventually you crash and nothing can wake you up unless someone shoves a bump up your nose.

    Then you’re up and running for a couple more days doing crazy shit.

    The staying awake for days is why meth heads are so crazy, but you can do the same on coke if you have a key to the evidence locker…

    Shits gonna keep getting crazier too.




  • Set in 1917, it focuses on a 12-year-old girl being raised in a brothel in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans, by her prostitute mother. Barbara Steele, Diana Scarwid, and Antonio Fargas appear in supporting roles. The film is based on the true account of a young girl who was sexually exploited by being groomed to engage in prostitution as a child, a theme that was recounted in historian Al Rose’s 1974 book Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-Light District.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Baby_(1978_film)

    They could absolutely make that today, especially if casting an 18+ actor to play the lead…

    Like, who do you imagine stopping that unless you think it would require graphic and illegal material?


  • It’s not just that they replaced the OG…

    It’s that they went with a (completely competent) but insanely generic actress.

    Like, yeah it’s cool that they’re on 4th generation Jamie Presley clones and all, but if you’re gonna recast, recast for a reason.

    If she’s gonna be a “Young Avenger” and would need to carry a solo movie or two…

    They should have gotten a better actor. It’s not that she’s bad and I’ve probably seen her in a bunch of stuff, she just blends in.

    The original actor could handle anything the new one could, seems pointless to recast.

    Quick edit:

    Like, that’s all besides the point that she doesn’t like anything that would come out of mingling Paul Rudd and Evangline Lilly, the OG could plausibly be their daughter.

    And they swapped her out for a conventionally attractive blonde.


  • and inevitably someone else will disagree.

    Because literally any movie could be made today…

    Whether it would be shown in theaters or even assigned a rating is different, but anyone can make a movie about anything today.

    There was some valuable discussion to be had even just 20 years ago. But in 2026 anyone saying:

    That movie couldn’t be made today.

    Doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Like, they’re basically just saying they don’t understand what a film festival is…


  • “The difference is that the Strait of Hormuz - we know where it is and we know how large it is… the issue that we’re facing with Anthropic is that it’s the unknown, unknown.

    Someone get Donald Rumsfield his royalty check…

    I can’t believe people are still using that shit.

    Anyways,

    AI companies are saying it’s a huge danger but are ever so graciously willing to sell it to existing corps to fix the vulnerabilies it can supposedly circumvent…

    Before it circumvents them…

    Even tho the AI companies are also saying it will be able to circumvent anything regardless.

    And even if they tell people it can make something it cant also break (impossible) in 6 months they’ll repeat the process

    A never ending cycle where they sell the shiny new model and corps pay for it because eventually hackers will have it too when it’s publicly released

    And endless cat and mouse game where AI constantly accumulates more and more wealth.


  • I mean…

    He clearly can’t speak any English and then seems to get into an Uber/rideshare.

    There’s a very good chance he was just standing there on the corner waiting for the Uber that arrived less than a minute later.

    Dude seems to have no idea what Karen is yelling about or what the kids are saying

    The rideshare even explains why he keeps trying to show people his phone, if Karen had stopped fucking screeching for two seconds and tried to communicate, she probably could have managed to understand what was happening.

    I get reddit not being able to figure this out…

    But I guess I’m always overestimating lemmy. Especially when it’s mindless reposts from someone still using reddit…








  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldHasan
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    Instead of attacking Hasan, why not attack some of his messages? What do you disagree with? If your suggestion is that he needs to be dirt poor to be considered a “real socialist or communist” that is corrupt capitalist talk. Capitalists love to guilt-trip communists/socialists like that so they give up their money/capital and have no way to fight anymore. Hasan is not even that rich when compared to the richest 1%. His life, spending 8 hours everyday, including most sundays, dealing with hogs, MAGAs, and also people like you, is a life I’d never want no matter how much money they’d offer, to be honest. I rather be poor, but play videogames with my homies as much as I do.

    Who do you suggest we listen to or do? A news anchor? A podcaster? An author or artist? That’d be hypocrital. They are all paid and also seek views, because, just like you are a conglomeration of different teachers, voices and influencers that taught you in school or everyday life (and the good ones wish they have as many students as possible, because that’s the goal of teaching, especially those who are heavily underpaid but do it for love: spreading a message to many people as possible, which is what Hasan wants to do too, reach millions).

    What? I cannot just quit my job and go work for a non-existent Resistance or Community Group that you made up in your mind. If I stop going to work, work less or whatever, I’d be at a super high risk of becoming homeless and even starve and die and never be heard again, leaving you to think you were actually a genius who solved a problem. People like you always drop these really childish suggestions like “if you don’t like living here, just leave” “change jobs” “just leave”, but it’s never that easy when you’re genuinely poor. You might be a privileged middle class nepo baby who still has a big family he can rely on during hard times. The reality is that, that 50% of humanity that is still not connected to the Internet, do not have that luxury at all, dude. They are playing life on Hard Mode, you are playing it on Easy Mode. Just imagine. They still don’t have Internet. Around 60% of the entire world lives with less than 20$ a day, for everything, including rent, bills, food, entertainment (if they get any)… About 10% lives with less than 5$ USD a day, etc. People like Hasan strengthened my empathy toward these people, and you trying to attack that is what turns people’s fight or flight responses on, whenever they hear these unfair negative opinions about Hasan. It’s fine if you don’t like him, watch him, find him vulgar, as long as your heart and core ideas, of wanting to help all humanity, align. But when you try and smear his character like you did, to scare newcomers away, and then you admit you haven’t even seen a single one of his streams in your life, just snippets or clips, that’s evil, even if you are actually strengthening his community because it’s backfiring so bad. Even I tell people to watch Asmongold or Charlie Kirk first before talking with confidence about him, so they form their own opinion about him, so they experience their “vibe” and hear them say the things people say he said, but Hasan haters or you? No. You automatically try to convince people to stay away from him as much as possible.

    For example, thanks to Hasan, I now believe in this message: “Minorities, immigrants, women, people of color, LGBT…, none of them decided wages, healthcare or housing costs, or wars. People with capital did, and they love it when we fight sideways instead of up” stronger than before, when I was a capitalist supporter, when I used to think “capitalism good, communism/socialism bad.” I was fooled into thinking that communism and socialism meant rewarding lazy people, when that’s not true at all. I am aware though, that our biggest obstacle is human nature itself, greed, narcissism, ego. I never see MAGAs or MAGA influencers talking like this at all about systems or theories, they always talk about them like soccer teams, not tools we should analyze, evaluate and use properly to help everyone. Only Hasan does and I thank him for that. It’s right. Human nature is more problematic, and killing it won’t fix it, only education and providing safety and happiness, be it through free healthcare or affordable housing. 750k homeless people in America, 14 million unused housing units right now. Most homeless people in the world are the orphans who were never adopted and didn’t receive enough education to thrive, not really junkies or gamblers as you love to imagine to blame them and remove the responsibility or guilt off your shoulders. 20,000+ people lost every year to homicides and gun violence in USA. 30,000+ here in Mexico where I am from and live. We are the same. Our competence, in Europe and Asia, have an average of losing no more than 3,000 people a year to homicide or gun violence. Their homicide rates are 5x - 15x times smaller than ours, which means, you are up to 15x times more likely to die to random senseless violence in the USA and Mexico than almost any place in Europe or Asia. The only exception is Africa and you might know why. All those slaves that were exploited for so long, and yet MAGAs still blame Black Lives Matter or complain about them trying to express their anger that things haven’t changed in so many places, yet, that racism hasn’t left. You will never know what is it like to have 7+ children in average, a home at 19 years old or a stable nice happy family of 4 without a college degree like the AVERAGE baby boomer and some of our parents had. Both of my grandpas had a lot. One had 10 children, the other 7, both with massive homes. My uncles and aunts had no more than 2 children in average. My cousins and friends, 0, lol. They instead cry about RAM prices, living with their parents at their late 20s, no car, AAA videogames raising their price 10 or 20 mere bucks, housing costs, rent costs, healthcare costs, people preferring to live with a broken bone or die than go into permanent medical debt, our leaders are blatant pedophiles…

    Yet you are here. Attacking Hasan. Someone who wants to help us solve all these things, and he has repeatedly said he’s willing to pay the insane amount of taxes implemented by us, the people, not those pedophiles and current corrupt governments that will use that money to bomb and fuck children. So, why the hell are you still angry at Hasan? What the hell could go wrong about receiving or spreading messages like those unless you’re one of those greedy rich leaders currently sweating and shitting its pants because the working class is finally being educated or given awareness? It’s insane. That’s how it looks to us, people who have watched at least one or two streams of Hasan in their lives.

    When you reply like this:

    “He reaches millions of people with his waffling. That’s much more than you are doing by posting.”

    Crazy how Hasan fans talk just like Maga and uses the exact same logic…

    You actually come across as someone who wants us to keep fighting sideways. You are the one who actually sounds like a MAGA, because you never attack the messages, you always attack the messengers. That is a very efficient and powerful tactic republicans abuse, and also Hasan’s haters, like Ethan Klein fans who call others a pedophile repeatedly until their lives and careers are ruined, they do that without evidence and hence a reason he recently got sued by a billionaire and lost. It was the only way to stop him doing that, by having more money than him, because those who tried to sue him before would get stomped with capital. Asmongold fans do the same thing. Destiny fans as well. Zionists and pro-Israel media do it as well, and media is all about making money and getting views too, yet you focus on Hasan. They all agreed to spread the dog collar shock hoax, a lie to again, attack him and never his messages.

    I already made up my mind after dealing with so many people like you. People who doubt or criticize Hasan the way you did are a massive red flag. You might be a MAGA trying to act as one of us, just to be able to poison the water and cast doubt. It won’t work, dude. Hasan fans are very stubborn. They will keep providing the evidence to people to judge by themselves and realize that you tried to fuck them up in the ass, unsuccessfully. People who actually care about the truth, that is. I know there are so many people out there who will proudly support people who hurt them, so, to me, those people are already dead. They abandoned their humanity a long time ago, lol

    Uh, ok then…


  • Back in the day, certain slaves were “house slaves” who were still treated like shit and beat. But were “allowed” to do work in the plantation house instead of the fields.

    They were often more racist then the slave owners. The only way they could build themselves up was by tearing their brothers and sisters down.

    The worst the slave owner consider them, the better the ones in the house seemed by default.

    While Thomas should be aware of all that as a “legal scholar” who would have had to study shit like this for years…

    The mentality isn’t relegated to just slavery.

    Pick any random minority, and you can find a member who does similar.

    So he probably wouldn’t mind if slavery came back, because in his head he’d still be one of the “valuable exceptions” and has done the mental gymnastics to think he’d even hold onto his position.

    Understanding how they think is important to stop them.


  • The gross part is how they “recruit with daughters”.

    They raise their own daughters deep in the religion, then push them to do anything to get a young officer to marry them so they can convert them.

    Like, it happens all over, but nowhere worse than AF academy. In SC there’s a marine Academy and a Navy Nuclear school, they’re out on the prowl there too. Anywhere young military members are, you’ll find a disproportionate amount of young attractive evangelical women willing to go absolutely crazy and then pull a 180 after the wedding night.

    It’s like a psuedo rumspringer the Amish do. As soon as their daughters are 18, they’re given the green the light to commit any kind of sin to engrapt a husband for the cause.