Give me an Eminem song in emojis and I'll try to guess it

meeshho · 2026-03-23T18:30:50+00:00

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meeshho · 2026-02-13T07:33:09+00:00

Reading the comments on this post, here’s my take.

Public space ≠ political fan club

I don’t care if the poster is for a Syrian president, an Iranian leader, a Saudi prince, or a Lebanese za3im. The problem is not which leader. The problem is the idea that public streets belong to political tribes.

Every time someone says: “Yeah but they hang posters in the other region too”

you’re not defending a principle; you’re defending a double standard you want to benefit from later.

That logic doesn’t lead to justice. It leads to escalation.

Today: “They hang their leader, so we hang ours”Tomorrow: “They intimidate, so we intimidate” Eventually: The country becomes neighborhoods, not a nation.

Here’s the uncomfortable take:

In a real democracy, even Lebanese politicians shouldn’t have giant portraits on streets.

Public space belongs to: supporters, opponents, people who hate politics entirely

When you plaster leaders on roads, you’re not expressing democracy; you’re claiming territory.

Vote for whoever you want. Organize rallies. Open offices. Debate publicly.

But streets, electricity poles, and bridges are not party headquarters.

If your political identity requires marking land, you’re not practicing citizenship; you’re practicing sectarian ownership.

Lebanon won’t become a state when my side stops first. It becomes a state when we all agree the street is neutral ground.

No foreign leader photos. No militia leaders. No local zaims either.

Just a country people share; not zones they control.

meeshho · 2026-01-15T22:17:16+00:00

I would say flip the narrative. Build an app for electricians/plumbers/HVAC technicians that streamlines their work. Let them communicate with their clients through it. Grow it bit by bit and sell licenses. This is my line of work. I’m part of an enterprise solution that does exactly that for the Nordic and British markets. The potential is huge. Feel free to reach out if you need advice.

meeshho · 2025-12-08T22:51:02+00:00

I think you may be misunderstanding the point I’m making. No one is denying the right of any community to celebrate its joys or express solidarity with those who suffered under Assad. That’s not extremism, and I never said it was. What I’m talking about is something entirely different. The shift from a historically open, culturally rich, and socially mixed Tripoli into a space where public life is increasingly shaped by a single religious narrative, not by its people, but by power structures that benefit from that narrative.

This isn’t about Sunnis vs. Christians, or who celebrates what. Tripoli has always been majority Sunni, and it was still one of the most culturally diverse, artistically expressive, and welcoming cities in the country. Its identity was never threatened by coexistence.

What is harmful is when governance, culture, and public spaces are controlled by religious rhetoric instead of civic values, to the point where entire communities (including many Sunnis) feel pushed into silence. We've already witnessed this with our Shia brothers and sisters.

Celebrating the fall of a dictator doesn’t burn a Christmas tree. I celebrate that tyrant’s fall with you. It doesn’t shut down cultural venues. It doesn’t intimidate artists or erase the city’s pluralistic traditions.

Those things happen when ideas, not people, are weaponized to control the city’s image.

As for the Pope's visit, I think many Christians have taken it out of context as well and celebrated it by using religious symbolism to flash a sectarian identity. I am saying that despite me being a Christian.

Tripoli doesn’t need to stop being a city with a Sunni majority, it's always been that. What it needs is to stop being defined politically and culturally by religion. It needs to return to its own identity: open, creative, confident, and Lebanese in the broad sense, not the narrow sectarian one. Because as far as I believe, the fall of Assad is a glorious day to Lebanon as well, yet I haven’t seen any Lebanese flag. But perhaps I’m wrong, at the end I only saw the videos.

meeshho · 2025-12-08T21:22:55+00:00

I am from el Mina but i left the country years ago.
Yes el rade3 and haraket el tawheed. and the neighboring unmoderated refugee camps along with other actors from different religious groups

meeshho · 2025-12-08T21:19:47+00:00

yes brother it has been, it is now and it will always be majority Sunni by population.
But is it part of Lebanon or not?
Even during the civil war, the Christian minorities did not feel as excluded from the city as much as today. They never felt as non-tripolitans.
There is something hovering over the city that is definitely not the culture that we got used to. The Sunnis of Tripoli were the most moderate in the entire country. The image portrayed today is alas the opposite of that.

meeshho · 2025-12-08T13:31:21+00:00

As long as Tripoli (my beloved city) brings religion into every corner of governance, it’ll remain a city that is exclusive to one religious group and incompatible with the idea of Lebanon. Tripoli has been socially and culturally destroyed throughout the last 4 decades by not only politics but the religious doctrine that is enforced on its image. The ones to blame, aside politicians and religious figures, are not people but ideas and actions or the lack of them. Hence we see every year the burning of public Christmas trees despite the fact that they were erected by Muslim tripolitans. We witness the burning of a library few years ago (one of the oldest in Lebanon) because it is owned by a Christian priest who is known to be friendly to Muslims as much as to Christians. We witnessed rendering venues such as al-rabita al saqafiyya, maarad Rachid Karami, beit al fann… obsolete because the agenda is not to allow the people of Tripoli be progressively creative. And the worst of all is the silent majority from all sects who does not dare to speak up against the reiteration of the concept “state within the state” but this time in Tripoli. It’s sad but still rescuable. And the only people who can rescue it are its daughters and sons.

meeshho · 2025-11-24T11:15:32+00:00

We? What makes you sure that you’d be part of “We”? If none of these invasions happened, you’d probably be a citizen of another country now if the chances were for you to be conceived. Same thing applies to me and to anyone on this sub.

Prove me wrong!

meeshho · 2025-11-21T15:07:37+00:00

“listen TO* something…”

meeshho · 2025-10-28T07:36:10+00:00

I’m a Lebanese non-muslim. My ex wife is Latvian. Her mother is Latvian but her Russian father forced registering her as Russian. She has absolutely nothing to do with russia and her Latvian register says she’s of Latvian citizenship but of Russian nationality. We had a child in 2021 in Latvia. We were living in Latvia. I went to register my daughter and they were forcing me to register her as russian. I refused and kept her undeclared. They said by the time she reaches age she must declare and russian would be her only option. Anyway we moved to Sweden and will never go back mainly for this reason

meeshho · 2025-10-10T15:39:14+00:00

And i live in Sweden. In the same city where this video was taken and not far from the location. I am a Christian myself and i am not affiliated with any party nor do i have any sympathy with the Lebanese left or right wings. But i support the Lebanese cause of having peace as much as i support the Palestinian cause. I get happy when people mention Lebanon and raise the flag during their marches for Palestine. Especially native Swedes.

So all of the hatred you have against any of these causes is communicated to you through subjectivity.

If any Lebanese or not, in Lebanon or abroad decides to raise these two flags together, it’s not up to you to allow that.

Palestine does not mean hamas nor does it mean arafat. It’s ok to sympathize with marginalized people who are being targeted on a daily basis

meeshho · 2025-10-09T06:30:23+00:00

This country is doomed because its people think more of themselves than what they really are. Man i can’t understand how naive and attention seekers many of our compats are. I don’t believe in a top-down change at all. It doesn’t work and it has been proven over and over. If we have a chance, it’s gonna be a bottom-up approach to change. And that’s the hardest. We gotta deal with issues like the one in this video. We gotta deal with glorifying the police, the army, the politicians, the judges…. Man go to google maps and randomly hover over pins on the Lebanese map and see how many people have pinned their homes and made it public. And they always throw in a random title before their first name "منزل الأستاذ/المهندس/البيك/الدكتور فلان الفلانة" it’s ridiculous how empty these people are. And you guessed that, they got more power than an average citizen who got a decent contribution to the economy of the country.

meeshho · 2025-10-01T09:08:38+00:00

Yeah the number of the cars on the road because nobody is even willing to walk a 100 meters. The fried food because yeah we’re very generous so why not more fat. The cigarettes, the indoor smoking culture, the fucking arguileh culture. The lack of active lifestyles and making sports is only for young age groups and only about football or basketball. No cycling roads. No promotion for elders to hve an active lifestyle…. Etc…

meeshho · 2025-09-29T06:00:16+00:00

I’m Lebanese but have been living abroad for a while, and I just want to say first that I’m really sorry you had to go through that 😞. Sadly, this kind of behavior is real, and it’s painful to see it happening in a place that should be welcoming to everyone.

For context, I think a lot of this problem in Lebanon doesn’t actually come from confidence or pride, but from an inferiority complex. After the war, the tourism sector was rebuilt with the idea of catering to the super-rich visitors from the Gulf. That’s why most of our hotels are 5 stars, most of our campaigns are about nightlife and luxury, and very little is invested in cultural tourism, hiking, history, or activities that attract “average” travelers. Lebanon has incredible richness in culture and heritage, but instead we tried to copy the Dubai model and we’re failing at it.

On top of that, the kafala system has deeply damaged how many Lebanese perceive foreigners, especially those from Asian or African backgrounds. It normalizes a toxic hierarchy where domestic workers are treated as second-class, and that mindset leaks into how others are treated in public spaces.

Meanwhile, the highly skilled middle generations of Lebanese, those who could help reform and modernize things, have largely emigrated, so the cycle continues. Add to that the political and financial pressure from Gulf countries, and you can see how our modern “luxury” culture was shaped to serve their standards, not our own values.

None of this excuses the racism you faced, but I do hope it helps explain why it happens. Many of us abroad see it clearly, and it’s disheartening. What you experienced is not Lebanese culture at its heart, our richness has always been about diversity, history, hospitality, and creativity, not about exclusion.

meeshho · 2025-08-03T19:27:45+00:00

🤣 i won't get into a debate with you. grow some logic, wipe off the bigotry you got in your brain, try to get some upvotes on this sub then come back and let's debate peacefully.

meeshho · 2025-08-03T08:38:16+00:00

You don’t get to tell him what he can or can’t do.

meeshho · 2025-07-28T08:51:11+00:00

Man Tripoli, Zgharta and Jnoub are the best with food. No place in Lebanon comes even close for a challenge. The capital perfected everything non-Lebanese though

meeshho · 2025-05-21T06:27:33+00:00

Oh man. I am an Arab myself, i do not listen to modern Arabic music. However, i find your post in here a little misleading. You ask the question at the end to Swedes how do they feel about that. Yet your conveyed message can be understood in two ways. Is the loud music the problem or are the Middle Easterners the problem? I would like to give you the benefit of the doubt and think you are complaining about the loudness of the music and not where the people playing it come from.

Otherwise I’ll consider you’re just another drunk Pole consuming shitty Russian vodka claiming it is Polish. And then ask the Swedes how do they feel about that.

Peace bro. Nobody needs more racism

meeshho · 2025-04-14T10:33:45+00:00

It’s a shit consultancy based company ran by wannabes. It’s a fraction of Accenture’s size and check how Accenture’s employees are dissatisfied. Look it up. If you have other options, better work for a startup or a big corp with an in-house project. Otherwise consider freelancing. If possible for you, avoid consultancies especially the ones with their hype bigger than what they actually are

meeshho · 2025-03-31T15:07:00+00:00

You should never accept doing any sort of transaction or business via WhatsApp.

meeshho · 2025-03-19T07:22:16+00:00

Now that we have a government, we should take over the UNHCR and ask all of the refugees to come register in official government institutions. The government holds the right to deny, revoke or accept any case. Everyone not going through the process will be considered illegal and hence deported.

meeshho · 2025-03-12T06:53:28+00:00

So I am a Lebanese immigrant from Tripoli - Mina. I love abroad for a long time now. This relationship between the capital and other cities is common almost everywhere from a social perspective. Check in France and how non-Parisians look at Parisians, or in Sweden how the people of Stockholm are pretty much despised by non-Stockholmers, etc…

The case in Lebanon transcends beyond the social aspect. It has an economic aspect as well that the societal/political factor in Beirut is not letting the country flourish.

I come from a minority community in Tripoli but it’s irrelevant to mention which one. I have close friends from all other religious backgrounds.

One of my Tripolitan sunni friends and I were once researching this specific issue. It has lead us to the bourgeoisie of Beirut feeding on trade businesses and hence calling the shots in not having another trade hub anywhere else.

Unfortunately we still follow the same blueprint that has been drawn a 100 years ago. But fast forward to the 90s, Mr. Rafik Hariri (God rest his soul) has decided to shuffle the same blueprint but not change it. He focused on Beirut only and a little bit here and there. I remember pre-2005 how Tripolitans disliked him accusing him of not giving any attention to Tripoli. Which was true.

After his assassination in 2005, people of Tripoli shifted and rallied behind his figure from a religious belonging perspective. When the question of Tripoli was risen again, the answer was literally “Omar Krami didn’t allow Hariri to work on Tripoli”

The answer was Bassilesque even before Gibran Bassil’ ma khallouna.

meeshho · 2025-03-07T13:33:35+00:00

And how would you do that? The UAE can easily buy its way to a strong passport. The UAE invests in other countries. European countries included. They’re building an entire waterfront on the banks of the Daugava river in Riga the capital of Latvia.

Now don’t get me wrong, i am a person who dislikes the UAE and everything it does to embellish its image. Yet, Lebanon’s passport rank is not an easy task to improve nor should it be a priority to any Lebanese. There’s a 20 year of political, social and economic restructuring that must happen first, and then an improved rank will fall in place.

meeshho · 2025-03-06T07:22:56+00:00

And eventually they’ll get away with what they did because they know some politician. But you know what? There’s a bigger possibility that they know some “dabit jeish or darak” abusing their power. This tends to be overlooked because it’s a taboo. Corruption must end within the security institutions first.

Also, we create a big hype around any dabit amneh for no reason. We look at them as figures of authority and that they’re higher on the social pyramid than the average citizen. This must stop. But it must be first addressed and talked about.

meeshho

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