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[–] 205 points 1 year ago (21 children)

I lived in a city with a big Hindu temple and lots of Indian diaspora.

You know what that did for my standard of living? It gave me a lot of cheap, healthy and delicious places to eat.

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    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

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    Question, why are there no fast-casual Indian places?

    I would love the Chipotle of Curry. I'd be there as often as my middle-aged white-boy digestive tract would permit.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not sure if its national, but in the Midwest, we have Naf Naf Grill, which is like the Chipotle of middle eastern food. Delicious by fast food standards, and I don't get why middle eastern / mediterranean food isn't bigger in the US. And to your point specifically, Indian food seems like it would fit the same template really well!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    They exist. They’re just not chains.

    It’s common to have a lunchtime buffet that simply puts out curries and charges for access to the table. Just not convenient for takeout since curry is tricky to transport.

    I once heard about a system around Mumbai where one village routinely cooked lunches (curry, rice, etc), and ferried them via metal tankards by train to a neighboring town/city where people were working.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    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

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The good, cheap places you kind of had to hear about from people in the know.

    There was one food truck on a university campus run by an amazing, nice guy from southern India. He gave you enough vegetarian, delicious food for two meals for the price of Big Mac (this was in the 1990s). He would give you food if you were broke. Sadly, he died pretty young from cancer, I think it was.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Sadly ironic. Makes you think why bother eating healthy.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    Personally, because it makes a lot of life better. I feel like shit when I eat like shit

    I've found my own version of the middle path that involves exercise, decent food, and going out drinking. I may not live as long as others or as well as some, but I live to live not just to optimize health or pleasure

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I have always had that attitude.

    My best friend used to bitch at me for being so careful all the time when I was younger. “Bro, fucking just look at this snake! Quit being afraid of everything. Someone could run your ass over with a car on the walk back home and you’d bleed out wishing you had done something.”

    He died at 18 in a car accident.

    I mean, well, I always speak that attitude. I’m still not going around looking for danger. I do what I enjoy, which is modest by any standards, but if I wanted to eat nothing but ice cream and weigh 500lbs I would do just that.

    No matter what I do, I’ll die. No matter how much I loved or hated it, I won’t remember any of it.

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  • [–] 74 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    What's really funny is that 25 years into the War on Terror the writer can't tell the difference between Hindu and Islamic faiths. I mean 'know your enemy' is basic military training.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    "Freedom" is the right to act exactly like I tell you to.

    /s because it's 2025.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It really makes you pessimistic about human nature that you can build a society where freedom is widely celebrated as the highest ideal, yet somehow still have it be incredibly oppressive.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    It’s not a new concept.

    Though it’s quite amazing, with the level of access to information we have today, how effective such propaganda is.

    Though I suppose if you are manipulating that information to spin your agenda, maybe it’s not so surprising after all.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    freedom is always a balancing act: freedom from (persecution), freedom to (do what you like)

    too much freedom from and you’re protected from making bad decisions and can’t do anything you want to do

    too much freedom too and you get people persecuting their out group because it’s their right

    imo america really has the freedom to as the only freedom a lot of people care about, and a lot of people have no understanding that freedom from is just as important; they champion freedom like that, and in some sense it’s kinda true

    there’s an empathy barrier for those people: they’re not persecuted, so there’s no need for the freedom from (despite what they say about “christian persecution” this is freedom to discriminate and other shit wrapped in a freedom from facade)

    (i’d also argue that american capitalism/corporatism is the anti-freedom-to: money gives you freedom to, and the dire economic state of the majority means most americans have token freedom to rather than actual ability to do what they like)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Unfortunately, it does make sense through a neo-nazi lens. “The wrong side won WWII” and similar sentiments are getting a lot of traction on twitter, facebook, etc. right now. The OP in the image is sarcastically “glad” that the Allies won. He would have preferred that the nazis had won so the global third reich could protect Murfreesboro, TN from people who are different than him and fulfill whatever other twisted racist fantasies exist in these people’s minds.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago

    Sorry we didn't carry on the crusade against fascism at home after dismantling Nazi Germany.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    People are far too serious about their Bronze Age literature fandom

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    When I was homeless, I ate many free meals at my local Sikh temple (gurdwara). I didn't even know my city had a gurdwara until I heard it recommended as a place to go food. I remember when I first turned up, I felt super awkward (a common feeling if you're often having to rely on the charity of others), but I was made to feel super welcome and it's something I reflect fondly on in what was otherwise an extremely dark period of my life

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  • 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".

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    The right has a very funny relationship with Indians and their diaspora. On one hand, India's far right (Hindutva) has been a model for western white supremacists. On the other hand, Indians are still brown-skinned "others" so they have to hate them too.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    An Indian friend whose family was Christian said that it used to really cook other kids brains when they would ask him what Caste he was and he'd say he didn't have one

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If they lived in India, I'm pretty sure they still had one even if they didn't acknowledge it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    They would have had one prior to conversion. Social stratification is not an easy thing to shake off and was codified during the colonial era as European powers strongly believed in hierarchies, especially racial / colorist ones. The British in particular gave institutional power to those that were higher caste and criminalized those that were lower caste in a way that was not common prior to that era.

    I am familiar with several South Indian Christian communities and there is no persistence of caste there though social stratification does it exist as it does universally.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    often ones who’s families were converted in the colonial era, not in ancient times

    Kerala (southern-most state in India) is about 20% Christian and the community dates to long before the arrival of the British.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Colonial Portugese Catholic missionaries attempted an inquisition on Kerala Christians via the Synod of Diamper in 1599 which failed, culminating in the Coonan (Crooked) Cross Oath in 1653, the peoples rejection of Western Catholic imposition upon their beliefs and traditions.

    To their credit, Anglican (British) missionaries did not attempt to force conversion. In fact they were pivotal to translating the Bible into the local language (Malayalam).

    Kerala Christians were largely converted by Syrian missionaries in the 4th century based on archeological records.

    Its interesting because many in North India and other Hindus in India associated Indian Christianity with aquiescence to colonial tyranny but there is a rich history that predates that predates colonists.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What is he even thinking? That WW2 was some sort of holy crusade for Apple Pie and Jesus?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What a weird fucking thing to post.

    Racists are fucking weird, man.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    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

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is so on point with something I saw recently.

    I've been rewatching Stargate SG-1, and last night, I watched "the other side" (S04E02).

    For anyone who hasn't watched it recently and either hasn't memorized every episode, or can't be bothered to look it up, the people they encountered were fighting for survival, with dreams of pushing back their enemy and eventually eradicating them. Through the course of the episode, everything seems fairly normal, it's just a war, right? Then you realize that everyone they deal with is white, everyone they're trying to help, in stasis or otherwise, is white, and they've asked O'Neil to not bring back Teal'c when he says he's returning to the SGC....

    Turns out, though they didn't say it, it was a race war. As soon as they discovered that, they actively sabotaged their efforts to defend themselves against those who "breed without any regard to genetic purity", then promptly bail, letting them get destroyed.

    Because the point was made without explicitly stating what was going on, it was a very clever episode. They were all ready to be on good terms with these technologically advanced people, then discovered that they're racists and promptly set in motion the events that would end their lives.

    If that's not social commentary, I couldn't tell you what is. Especially with shit like the OP floating around.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Having just been in Murfreesboro a couple days ago, lemme tell ya, that temple adds a lot of much-needed class…

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In Sugarland, Texas, there is a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Hanuman. It features a 90' statue of the Son of the Wind out front.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I have been there, it’s epic! This was before the statue, when I was a Mormon missionary in that area.

    I dragged my companion along and one of the priestly types gave us a behind the scenes tour of temple operations, probably to keep us from freaking out the regular patrons. They were probably, rightly, worried about getting re-colonized.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    For some reason I'm not convinced that WWII defeated fascism.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That whole town is weird as shit.

    One weekend a year 80k hippies and college kids show up for Bonaroo, and locals fucking hate it. The rest of the year it's a deep red rural town with zero going on.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I bet all the local shops make their yearly profit during that short stint of time too.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    There's probably a split between the shopkeepers and say the farmers. I know that in the San Bernardino mountains there's a very defined split between the local hicks and the more recent arrivals in general. Also I can call them hicks I went to elementary school in Crestline and lived in a trailer park at the time, also my grandmother went to the Rim for school.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    A tragedy is the view count. 1.2M views!?

    The sooner a meteor hits Twitter from orbit, the better. It’s literally designed to make money pissing people off with stuff like this.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Fail to see how a Hindu temple in Tennessee is a negative. Does the poster not like Vindaloo curry or something?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "In addition to the cut of your gib, I likes the name of your town...

    Murfreesboro."

    -Strongbad

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I don't think they realise which side India was on

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  • 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?

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I don't understand. India was allied with Germany and Italy now? Is that what's happening?

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I agree it's unclear and took me second read to get it.

    Basically I think the op on the image is saying that hindu temples in tennese is bad, and "we won ww2" means they shouldn't be allowed to (for some reason).

    The person replying is saying they're right, we did win ww2, which let's us have religious freedom, like building non Christian temples in the US.

    The "sorry your side lost" is the replier calling the op a nazi. Nit siding with the op and implying the Hindus were on the losing side

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I think the first poster is being sarcastic, saying that the allies shouldn’t have won WW2 because Hindu temples are bad, and if the third reich had taken over the world, they wouldn’t be allowed. (Or he may mean that the US should have sided with Germany.)

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thank god fascism was defeated in 1945, now there's no more fascism anywhere, we live in a totally post fascism society because we definitely defeated fascism. I'm so glad I can say that without worrying that saying that is in sharp contradiction to the political reality of practically every industrialized nation on the planet, where fascist parties have already, or are in the process of seizing control, but aren't, because fascism was defeated 85 years ago, so long ago that there is definitely no more fascism.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I have no clue what either of these people are saying. Is JuliansRum being sarcastic? Who is “your side” that Zaid is talking about? Like there’s so many ways to read these tweets I literally cannot tell what the actual intent is.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    From context clues it would seem that JuliansRum is a MAGA cultist being sarcastic and bigoted, or at least Zaid thinks so.

    Given that the MAGA cult is fascist in nature, the side ideologically aligned with it indeed lost what Robert Evans insists on calling Dub Dub Dos.

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  • The first mosque in the US was built in the 1890s...

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    People need to talk more about hindu fascists. They are probably the 2nd or 3rd largest group of fascists on earth

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