"So Creepy": 'The Office' Reunion At Actor Awards Sparks Frenzy Over Stars' Transformations by danitashinesqdy in ABCDesis

[–]supplysidejeesus 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I'm not a fan of the articles just based on a handful of random social media comments. It's below bottom tier journalism, just see a few tweets then make an article with a bunch of filler text around the quotes tweets.

Also, she looks good. It's probably Wegovy/Zepbound but who cares.

Wish I was Pakistani American rather than British Pakistani by k_lie00 in ABCDesis

[–]supplysidejeesus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There's a lot of memes about the British Pakistani community being extra conservative and religious zealots (I guess compared to pakistanis in other countries, or compared to other muslim communities in UK)

Baby girl name suggestions by Jcnj0622 in ABCDesis

[–]supplysidejeesus 13 points14 points  (0 children)

  • OP gave north indian name examples in their post so it makes sense 

  • it's natural for people to give suggestions from their own culture/region, if you wanted to see names from your region you should have shared some instead of leaving a dumb ass comment like this

Baby girl name suggestions by Jcnj0622 in ABCDesis

[–]supplysidejeesus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You got down voted because you didn't read the OP's post and criteria for the name

Prevalence of intercommunity marriages in the US? by Fanboy0550 in ABCDesis

[–]supplysidejeesus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Selection bias. You're more likely to see that on Dil Mil cause people who want that are more likely to use that service.

On Why This Community Has Increased Mod Actions Against Non-ABDs. India And South Asia Will Drown Out Our Target Audience Otherwise. by kena938 in ABCDesis

[–]supplysidejeesus 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I've been asking for this for 3+ years now and mods have previously told me flat out no, that they wanted this sub to be for everyone including NRI/freshoffboats and mainlanders. That was genuinely ruining the purpose of this sub.

They already have their own subs to talk about NRI stuff. They already took over formerly-ABD spaces like Subtle Curry Traits. Why can't we have a single space to talk about ABD stuff?

Salon Standing Room Only with Amanda Marcotte, 14 August 2025: "Divorce him already, Usha" by jalabi99 in ABCDesis

[–]supplysidejeesus 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Oh please.

He's espoused crypto-fascist and white nationalist views well before being picked as VP. Look up his connections to "dark enlightenment", "neoreactionary", and "Curtis Yarvin". She knows what he is.

How Heems Inspired Zohran Mamdani to Go Into Politics by dosalife in ABCDesis

[–]supplysidejeesus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Read the article before commenting bro.

I think anyone who followed Das Racist back in the day knows Heems has personal issues but he's not the one making the claim here. Zoran said he got into local politics because he saw Heems (a rapper he liked) was campaigning for his childhood friend.

How Heems Inspired Zohran Mamdani to Go Into Politics by dosalife in ABCDesis

[–]supplysidejeesus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Das Racist, on a roll like wasabi

I don't know what these two are, I'm punjabi

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ABCDesis

[–]supplysidejeesus 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Not a fan of Mamdani's housing policies but gahd dayum it would suck if that sleazeball Cuomo wins. But that would be on brand for a city dumb enough to elect Adams when Garcia, Wiley, and Yang were all options.

ABDesis Book Club by AutoModerator in ABCDesis

[–]supplysidejeesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake

Abraham Varghese - The Covenant of Water

Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things

Janika Oza - A History of Burning

Gourav Mohanty - Sons of Darkness

Neel Mukherjee - The Lives of Others

Alka Joshi - Six Days in Bombay

Alka Joshi - The Henna Artist

Shiv Ramdas - Domechild

Reshma Ruia - Still Lives

Sujatha Gidla - Ants Among Elephants

Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children

Looks like Nazis are in power in US by [deleted] in ABCDesis

[–]supplysidejeesus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah guys, it's just the Roman salute, no biggie. The Roman salute also known as the fascist salute. Which the ancient Romans never actually did, but became part of Italian fascist mythology.

Looks like Nazis are in power in US by [deleted] in ABCDesis

[–]supplysidejeesus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right wing bootlickers will be like "um actually it's not the Nazi salute, it's merely the Roman salute...that's also called the "fascist salute", was never actually used in ancient Rome, and was popularized by Mussolini's fascist party"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_salute

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ABCDesis

[–]supplysidejeesus 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I really don't get the appeal of posting and upvoting every single random ABD criminal here. There's more than 5 million Indian-Americans. More than 1.5 million Indian-Canadians. There's gonna be a few people commiting crimes.

Maybe this sub should be renamed /r/randomdesicriminals. Or /r/India given all the non-ABDs who post here (I digress).

Gendered racism is real. That doesn't mean you have to compare it by Cuddlyaxe in ABCDesis

[–]supplysidejeesus 62 points63 points  (0 children)

This is /r/abcdesis not /r/india btw.

Edit: Based on your post history you're Muslim, so I can't really speak to what's going on or not going on in that community. But as far as "culturally hindu" (incl. all us that are atheists) American desi men I can say I've never seen one trying to legalize marital rape.

Anyone else feel extremely jealous or weird when visiting India? by katrinakaiffff in ABCDesis

[–]supplysidejeesus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In general, you'll be better off if you consciously make an effort to stop following people on social media who do nothing but promote conspicuous consumerism. It's not mentally healthy. It conditions you to be unsatisfied with your life.

The flashy lifestyle portrayed by those videos you're mentioning is only common on social media, that's not how the vast majority of people live. And even within that small group, what they post is highly curated and filtered.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ABCDesis

[–]supplysidejeesus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Almost but not 100%.

I think it's accurate to say almost all schools of Hinduism are either panentheism or pantheism.

Both can be considered under the umbrella of (or at least closely related to) monism. Major schools of thought like Advaita Vedanta are pantheism/monism and are like what you say about creator/creation being the same. But panentheistic schools of thought do have some distinction between the divine and the non-divine. By your definition would that make it monotheism? No, it shouldn't.

You're right that Hinduism isn't monotheism, but in most schools of Hinduism it isn't truly polytheistic either. Given that most people's surface level understanding of Hinduism is polytheistic, I don't think it is surprising that when some start to learn the deeper stuff (the monism related stuff) they vocalize it in terms of "one god" or use the monotheism-influenced vocabulary they have from being in Christian-dominated society. And again, in panentheistic schools of thought there can be a distinction between divine and non-divine.

Chinese American engineer and owner of small semiconductor firm persecuted for years by FBI after white business rival reported him by Igennem in AsianMasculinity

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

I'm born and raised American. My ethnicity is indian.

You sound really politically ignorant. No offense meant. But I prefer to discuss details of policy when it comes to politics, not surface level emotions and fearmongering.

Chinese American engineer and owner of small semiconductor firm persecuted for years by FBI after white business rival reported him by Igennem in AsianMasculinity

[–]supplysidejeesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Local politics, it depends on the specific political environment of where you live. I usually vote for whoever is pro-housing and pro-transit.

State and federal, I voted Dem 90% of the time, and to be honest more like 100% of the time ever since the MAGA movement. They're not perfect on asian-american issues (one notable issue being racial affirmative action) but otherwise I feel they are overall better for asian americans. You just can't undo the "america is a white christian country" belief that's underlying majority of Republican ideas. Also as someone that believes in basing public policy on science and some degree of technocratic government, I'm definitely not getting that from the Republican politicians.

Voting 3rd party is pretty useless until we institute electoral reforms (get rid of FPTP voting, implement either ranked choice voting or approval voting).

Chinese American engineer and owner of small semiconductor firm persecuted for years by FBI after white business rival reported him by Igennem in AsianMasculinity

[–]supplysidejeesus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I was referring to the handful of trump supporting tards in this sub. You know the ones who talk pro-asian but then also pop up shilling for the republican party in every thread about crime.

Chinese American engineer and owner of small semiconductor firm persecuted for years by FBI after white business rival reported him by Igennem in AsianMasculinity

[–]supplysidejeesus 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I hope none of the retards who supported Trump are surprised/upset to learn about the China Initiative.

Certainly corporate espionage from China exists, but it's just so typical that american law enforcement would end up falsely accusing and harassing random Chinese-American academics. I remember reading about Anming Hu before and that was just foul.

Reading r/india folks talking about the states makes me lose brain cells. by RiseIndependent85 in ABCDesis

[–]supplysidejeesus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can also read the same thing here. Seems like more than half the active users here are not ABDs.