Political Memes

Its like polio. When you stop vaccinating it comes back.

There is no facism in Ba Sing Se!

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.

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

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.

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

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?

Yes, don’t you remember? The Germans were Muslim immigrants.

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

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

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.

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.

The enemy is melanin.

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.

I mean in this case "enemies" is just "brown people." It doesn't matter what they call them.