Really? Muslim = religious person? Can you perhaps explain why I as a life long atheist am always called a Muslim because of my west asian heritage? Or why my Lebanese christian friends are always labelled as Muslim? How do you think people who always harp on sending Muslims back to where they came from are planning to identify a Muslim? Presumably, it's not gonna be written on people's foreheads whether they're religious or not, and there aren't any registries that identify religious people. So how would that work, if not by identifying Muslims based on where they are from geographically? If Muslim equals religious, then Israeli equals religious.

"The teacher stands in front of the class, but the lesson plan he can't recall. The student's eyes, don't perceive the lies, bouncing off every fucking wall. His composure is well kept. I guess he fears playing the fool. The complacent students sit, and listen to the bullshit that he'd learned in school.

Europe ain't my rope to swing on. Can't learn a thing from it, yet we hang from it. Gotta get it, gotta get it together then, like the motherfuckin' Weathermen."

Adding one more that speaks to me alot at the moment, even if it's not an all time favorite:

"All at once,

the world can overwhelm me,

there's almost nothing that you can tell me,

that would ease my mind.

Which way will you run?

When it's allways all around you.

The feeling's lost and found you again,

the feeling that we have no control."

I was solely referring to the equation above my first comment, that Muslim means religious while Israeli doesn't mean religious. My point was, you can't have one but not the other. Obviously, I disagree with Muslim meaning religious, as my experience is muslim in western society generally refers to a brown person from west asia, irrespective of their religion or how religious they are. Therefore, I also disagree with Israeli meaning religious, since there are plenty of non practicing Jewish Israelis. Furthermore, even accepting that Muslim equals religious, I don't see why that would explain the answer google gives in the post to call 911.

I'm also well aware of all the non Israeli Jews, particularly in light of the most prominent anti-zionist people I know of being Jewish. A lot of my political views of Israel have been informed by Chomsky and Finkelstein. So I hope my comment didn't come across as me being anti-jewish, and I apologize if it did.

Interestingly, a reply to my comment asks if I 'present' myself as being muslim when I meet people. Very revealing, as I don't know how someone presents as Muslim, beyond being brown and vaguely west asian. There isn't exactly a Muslim uniform that I'm aware of. But that's the environment we live in. Be brown, be west asian, and you're Muslim no matter your religion or lack thereof. Be an Indian Muslim or an Indonesian muslim, and you won't be 'presenting' as Muslim.

Here's me 'snorkeling' with a bunch of cichlids in god's fishtank, Lake Malawi, in 2005. Your photo reminded me to go back and check my old photos, which has been a fun experience. They were everywhere. This was in a nature reserve part of the lake, and the fish were completely unafraid.

Also, I discovered that I'd picked up the parasite Bilharzia doing this when I returned to Sweden. First case in 25 years they told me. Fortunately, it's easily treated by medication if discovered before major organ damage occurs.

Can you point me to a source for that figure? I've been trying to follow the news pretty closely, and all the reporting I've seen has stated that Japan spent around 85 billion dollars, with the US adding about a third or fourth of that sum. So if the trillion dollar figure you stated is correct, they absolutely have done an incredible job masking it in the media reporting.

Japan is supposed to be the largest holder of US Treasury bonds in the world, and the total amount of the holding is regularly reported to be just above 1 trillion. I don't really see why the US would bail Japan out to the tune of 1 trillion in order to stop japan from dumping its US holdings valued at around the same amount. It doesn't make sense to me, but I'm admittedly no expert in finance so maybe I'm missing something.

Jets are definitely not bigger than zeppelins. The Hindenburg was 240+ meters. No jet has ever come close to that size.

Is that why Apple has got the US by the balls because people want to avoid the dreaded green bubble in iMessage? I'm not from the US so that might be me misunderstanding the situation, but I've been told that even many adults in the US view that as a valid reason to avoid anything that's not an iphone, because of some social stigma attached to the green bubble.

If everyone you encounter is an asshole, guess who the real asshole is.

Grace is one of a kind, such a fantastic artist. Her cover to "Island Life" is one of the greatest album covers ever, has been on my wall for years.

Getting a dog. Also the most value for my money I've ever gotten for any purchase in my life.

Article 66.4 of the same disciplinary code: “A sending-off automatically incurs suspension from the subsequent match. The FIFA judicial bodies may impose additional match suspensions and other disciplinary measures.”

They already ratfucked Iran by making them travel 12 hours by bus from Tijuana to Seattle and back on match day, and by cancelling a winning goal for a supposed offside. Dallas police attacked the Egyptian coach in the airport. This tournament has been the nail in the coffin of FIFA. This is just blatant hyper corruption, sort of a US style UFC-isation of football that the rest of the world will have a difficult time to digest.

Now that the Supreme court has approved of deportations to third countries, this is actually feasible. Maybe Uganda would like to welcome them. Or perhaps Libya.

The embassy in South Africa has been particularly good since the war started. Funny thing is that Iran always was very stale, buttoned up and intellectual in it's communication before this war. Former president Khatami infamously referenced Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic work Democracy in America, remarking that it was a text he was "sure most Americans have read" in a CNN interview in 1998. Now they've realized that most Americans can barely read, so it's been memes and Lego videos during this war, and they've demonstrated that they are better at braindead propaganda too. Quite impressive.

This clown just defended Israel's genocide with a straight face while calling October 7 a genocide. How can anyone take this kind of person seriously?

Really? Have you not seen Stephen Miller? Ok, maybe for him we should go that final inch too.

Then your mind will literally explode if you listen to "Computer Love" by Zapp & Roger, released in...... 1985!

Kind of reminds me of this beautiful poem:

"...And I will leave. but the birds will stay, singing:

and my garden will stay, with its green tree,

and its white water well...

Many afternoons the skies will be calm and blue,

and the bells in the belfry will chime,

like they're chiming this very afternoon.

The people who have loved me will die,

and the town will burst anew every year.

And in the corner of my green, flowering whitewashed garden,

my spirit will wander nostalgic from tree to well.

And I will leave,

and I'll be lonely, without a home,

without a green tree, without a white water well,

without calm and blue skies...

And the birds will stay, singing."

-"El viaje definitivo", Juan Ramón Jiménez

A joke, it indicates a joke made by a stand up. You know, comedy. It's not a confession of deeply held beliefs, jfc.