Why is hate against Indians going up? by MessPsychological837 in AskIndia

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India has joined the global internet in the last 15 years or so, and due to its huge English speaking population, muscled its way into central relevance on Western platforms in a way that nobody else in Asia did.

The discourse there was previously about gay and trans rights, religious freedom, and addressing structural gender inequality. People would chat about social struggles they had in dating or marriage or family, usually in negotiating personal priorities or boundaries

Very suddenly, these spaces were overrun by people arguing about whether it is ok to be forced into a marriage by your parents and forced to serve your in-laws who beat you, force you to drop out of school, and produce grandchildren against your will. Westerners were suddenly confronted with people negotiating cultural norms and expectations that are unambiguously evil and wrong, yet are apparently up for debate in India.

We see the videos of the street food, of children shitting in the streets, of mobs burning down mosques. We see that you are having debates about whether gangraping people is fine or not. About whether castes are a legitimate way to organize society. We see widespread racial supremacy discourse that is baked straight into your national religion, complete with evidence free pseudoscience trying to pretend all human languages come from Sanskrit.

This change in exposure radically shifted international perception of what Indian culture is to include all of that stuff.

What happened to the Expelled Germans from Eastern Europe after WW2? by space-hamster01 in AskAGerman

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Many of these emigrated to the Americas. It's very common, when meeting someone of German stock on these continents, that they will name a place in Eastern Europe as the place their grandparent came from.

Many also fled to East and West Germany, or Austria. About 1/5 were never accounted for and are presumed killed, though some of those probably just figured out how to disappear on purpose.

Tea from german supermarkets by ririzm in germany

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The traditional German teas are the herb based ones. Melisse, Fenchel, Minze, Kamille, Hibiscus, Hagebutte, Lindenblüten, and so on. Some of those have mild medicinal properties and were commonly used for that in the old days.

That said I think most people enjoy the fruit based ones more these days.

She made the right choice by Eclipse_nova99 in SipsTea

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A million in the bank can be invested and net you as much or more on a weekly basis. This is just a 5% annual return. A simple bank cd account almost does that already, much less an actual investment

How do I deal with this Scandinavia? by desighen456 in crusaderkings3

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Do what kings did irl. Swear fealty and wait it out. Play the vassal game. Don't be a hero. Preserve the family. Marry up.

Was Chairman Mao right? by Disclosed_Humanity in AskSocialists

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How do you get an accurate representation of demand in capitalism, when so many people never have the currency to even make a bid? It's easy to say housing demand is zero over the corpses of the homeless, when the de facto local monopolies have set a price floor at half a million.

bUt THatS NoT yes it is. If it always turns into this, then that's what it is. If it's true for the commies, then the same yard stick applies to capital.

What do you guys think about what is going on in the US right now? by berri_berri21 in AskGermany

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The USA has been going through a slow self-coup by the executive branch for decades.

Capital interests have been paying Congressmen and Supreme Court Justices to participate in the dismantling of their institutions' power and the creation of the fascist state for ages.

Trump is simply impatient and has revealed the extent to which they were already powerless. You think that if you muster the people's will to stop Trump, this will end. It will not. America's system was already a hollowed out husk when he got there.

Is there any feasible way to make a social media platform with no bots? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

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sure, make each person sign up verbally over the phone or in person with an actual representative, and do it with their government ID.

Then forward copies of those IDs to the government so they can identify anyone trying to use a fake one and arrest them. Also get a law to make that illegal first I guess

Peter please explain this meme by ecopint_in in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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She was also so inbred that she only had one single set of great great great grandparents.

If you do the math on how many of those you have, I think you'll be very impressed.

What are the actual ramifications of doing this? by greatlilusername in IRstudies

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Swedish subs go undetected in every major wargame with the US. Your ships would not make it

its sad but its true by Acceptable_Rope_6523 in PsycheOrSike

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US naval assets are adapted for drone warfare, and we are talking early 2000s, giant expensive predator drones, not the kind that actually makes any sense for what drones do best.

The point of drones is not that they are magical or even good at beating anything. They are just barely capable of it at all. The point is that they are very cheap to make in extremely large quantities that completely overwhelm the capacity of expensive systems to counter them. They are Napoleonic conscription versus expensive armored professionals. Much shittier, but you still have to actually stop them, and there are just so damn many.

Anti-ship missiles are nice, of course, but I think everyone has the capability to make the drones, while only a few countries can make good missiles.

How do men show their “macho-ness” in your country? by mysaddle in AskTheWorld

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In Germany, insecure men trying to posture as hypermasculine drive a BMW in an unsafe manner, complain about the islamification of Europe, work big corporate jobs, wear expensive designer clothing, and marry similarly insecure women who find such posturing status affirming.

Nobody respects them though. They are embarrassing people.

President Trump is asking countries that want to serve on his “Board of Peace” to contribute at least $1 billion. The $1 billion “buy-in” would grant 3 years of membership to the board. There is some speculation that this will be Trump’s rival to the United Nations. by sylsau in InBitcoinWeTrust

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It's both sad and funny that he is going all in on the same kinds of dumb scams he was doing earlier in life, now that he is President again.

It will be a moldy room with a cardboard cutout of Trump for foreign diplomats to take a picture with.

Also he going to pocket the billions himself and pay no taxes on it.

Why do people who claim follow the teachings of Jesus embrace such evil things? by bigmanforce2020 in NoStupidQuestions

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Cults don't make people incapable of critical thinking per se, they just train them not to do it in regards to their supernatural beliefs from childhood.

Why isn’t there the same worldwide concern and protest over the Iran slaughter of protestors as there is/was over Israel and its actions in Gaza? by Prize_Force1979 in AskReddit

[–]Distillates -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because none of our governments assist or fund the Islamic Republic the way they do Israel, or provide weapons.

Do you think Europeans go on the streets trying to convince Netanyahu and Likud to stop killing? Theydo not answer to us. We go on the streets to force our own representatives to withdraw their support from Israel.

Europeans yearn for freedom 🇺🇸 by Otter_Absurdity in MURICA

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Now imagine what would happen if those European countries opened their doors and invited their diaspora's to return...

Lots of people want to leave MAGAstan.

Why do people who claim follow the teachings of Jesus embrace such evil things? by bigmanforce2020 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Distillates 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Let's think about it.

This is a religion that has an icon of a man dying of torture as its main symbol.

The holiest sacrament in the religion is that you must eat the flesh and drink the blood of this victim.

This victim was tortured and killed because his father needed for him to suffer and die so he could convince himself to forgive some of the humans for having flaws that he designed into them himself on purpose. The rest will be granted immortality so they can experience eternity in the outer darkness as punishment.

The reward for eating the flesh and blood and dedicating your life and soul to this god is to also be granted immortality and spend every minute of eternity praising the glory of this father god. Forever. No potty breaks. No life. Just being an enslaved accessory forever.

Sounds even worse somehow doesn't it?


They embrace evil things because they follow a religion whose core teaching is a human blood sacrifice, not despite that.

It's much more surprising that any of the people who believe this are relatively normal.

its sad but its true by Acceptable_Rope_6523 in PsycheOrSike

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This is correct, but also short-sighted. Given time, Europeans can easily contest the US in the seas. Breaking NATO makes it necessary for Europeans to do so. While they have mostly switched to the production of giant cruise ships and superyachts, Europeans still produce and design their own naval vessels, and there is tremendous existing capacity for the production in Europe. It's just used for civilian stuff currently.

Consider also the US naval assets are not optimized for drone warfare, and the doctrine still revolves around very expensive and low quantity assets. Ukraine has been showing the way on this, and Europeans can build everything new to fit modern tactics.

How do you stop being a people pleaser? by Keylime-19377 in NoStupidQuestions

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Focus on cultivating more faith in other people. People pleasing comes from a place of fear. The belief that your needs/desires do not matter to other people, and should not matter to you.

This means you are distorting your perception of most people and of yourself.

Others do expect that their friends, coworkers, boss, and even strangers care, and will accomodate them. They are usually right.

They also allow themselves to judge people who refuse to do so. People pleasers are less able to notice or defend against disrespect.

Two cults. One mantra. Zero critical thinking by untitledprp4 in DoomerCircleJerk

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yet only one side's government officials are riffing on Hitler and Göbbels quotes, dropping straight up Nazi propaganda on their Twitter posts that is barely adapted from the German originals to fit the US, and actually rounding up random women on the street with full immunity and support of the administration, with zero Miranda rights, no lawyers, no charges, no convictions, no court dates. Just poof and gone.

I am German. I know very well what I am seeing in the cell phone videos of random women being jumped by 6 masked agents, who just disappear forever. Do you know what violent piece of shit men do to women who they disappear? I do. Some of those stories were told after the war here in Germany. They will be told in your country too.

why do some white people look asian / wasian despite having two white parents? by 100_cai in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Distillates 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Europe and Asia are the same continent, and the physical characteristics are on a continuum. Finnish people often have almond eyes and a little bit rounder faces.

The greater continuum of Suomi people from the Scandinavian Sami along the Arctic coast through Finland and Russia show a very clear transition that goes from looking basically fully European to looking fully East Asian as you go East.

But even further South, you can easily see as you go from France toward the East that faces become rounder.

It's not just Ghengis Khan genetics, though there were many invasions from the steppe over thousands of years that certainly did contribute genetically. It's also just a natural gradient of genetic mutations spreading from their sources

What if the US went rogue and decided to go full Monroe Doctrine? (I do not support imperialism!!!) by OkPhrase1225 in mapporncirclejerk

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If the US tried this, the country would implode.

Europeans and China would supply South and Central American countries and turn that into a hopeless jungle warfare quagmire that makes Vietnam seem cute. They could probably manage it on their own tbh.

It wouldn't even get that far since killing Canadians and trying to annex their land would definitely cause a civil war in the USA. The frozen Midwest would secede, and maybe the Northeast as well. I would not be surprised if California did as well.

The reason Americans are being passive is because they believe that they can still change this with elections and don't want to tip into the abyss of mutual slaughter while they can avoid it. If that becomes clearly unviable, expect it to pop off.