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I don't believe this story for a second.
You're claiming there's an ATM card containing $5,000,000 waiting for me, yet somehow nobody can afford to ship a one-ounce piece of plastic. International shipping for something that size costs very little, even with tracking and insurance. FedEx, UPS, DHL, and USPS move items like that around the world every day.
More importantly, if the card truly contains five million dollars, then simply deduct the shipping cost from the balance and send it. There is no rational reason for me to pay anything up front.
It would be even easier to transfer the funds directly through a bank, PayPal, Venmo, or another recognized financial service. The fact that this has supposedly become complicated over shipping fees raises serious doubts about the legitimacy of your claim.
Until I receive independently verifiable proof that these funds exist and legally belong to me, I will continue to assume this is not genuine.
#ATMWiningsScam #AdvancedFeeFraud
You assume too much.
I've had beef bacon, turkey bacon, and even vegan bacon. Trust me, I've done the comparison testing.
Pork bacon and beef bacon are both fine. Turkey bacon is what happens when bacon has a disappointing midlife crisis, and vegan bacon is an interesting science experiment.
As for the price, $8.99 is a bit steep. I can usually find beef bacon for around $4.99.
You'd be surprised what I'm aware of.
The problem is that you skipped right past my point and went straight to a completely different argument.
The post asked whether Muslims would demand I choose between bacon and my neighbors. My answer was that, in my experience, they don't.
I've had Muslim friends. I've eaten bacon in front of Muslims. I've ordered pork in restaurants with Muslim families sitting nearby. Nobody cared.
If you want to discuss immigration, integration, crime, demographics, or European politics, that's a separate conversation. But that's not the scenario the meme presented.
The meme invented a conflict that most people, Muslim or otherwise, simply don't spend their day worrying about.
First, women aren't all the same any more than men are. People come in different shapes, sizes, personalities, preferences, and life experiences.
Second, men cheat for many of the same reasons women cheat. Some do it for the thrill, some because they're bored, some because they're unhappy in the relationship, some for validation, some for revenge, and some because they simply make bad decisions.
The real question isn't why men cheat. It's why people cheat.
I live next to a used car lot in the Bronx that's owned and operated by a Muslim family.
Every night when they close up, they let three or four guard dogs run around the lot.
So that alone pretty much destroys the claim that Muslims are demanding everything be dog-free.
Like most of these posts, it takes a stereotype, pretends it's universal, and then gets angry about it. Meanwhile, real people are out there running businesses, raising families, and in this case, trusting dogs to guard their property.
I wasn't agreeing with it. I was pointing out the absurdity by taking it to its logical conclusion.
The joke wasn't "Sure, let's check IDs."
The joke was that I'd be standing there dumping every document I've accumulated over 52 years onto the table, including a birth certificate, Social Security card, ordination papers, ancestry report, and probably a blood sample, while asking if we're done playing this game yet.
Compliance can be satire when the requirement itself is ridiculous.
Your reply is a little off-topic, but since you brought it up, the data generally doesn't show Muslims as uniquely prone to domestic violence.
Domestic abuse exists in Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, atheist, and secular households. It's a human problem, not a uniquely Islamic one.
If we're going to judge entire religions by the worst behavior of some of their followers, then no religion is going to come out looking very good.
The better question is whether abuse is being condemned and addressed, not whether the abuser belongs to one religion or another.
@EastEndJoe If he took off his helmet he wouldn't be standing on the moon he'd be gasping for what little bit of oxygen he could trying to get that helmet back onto his head before everything goes dark
The first Black members of Congress were Republicans. That's true.
The part these memes always leave out is that political parties are not frozen in time. The Republican Party of the Reconstruction era and the Republican Party of today are not the same thing, just as the Democratic Party of the 1860s and the Democratic Party of today are not the same thing.
Over the decades, especially during the Civil Rights era, the parties underwent a major ideological realignment. Conservatives gradually concentrated in the Republican Party, while liberals increasingly aligned with the Democratic Party.
History is more complicated than "my team good, your team bad." If you're going to tell the truth, tell all of it.
No. That's propaganda.
The four greatest threats to America aren't socialism, liberalism, conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, or ordinary voters.
They're corruption, disinformation, extreme wealth inequality, and political tribalism.
A country can survive disagreements. It can survive competing ideologies. It can survive elections.
What eventually breaks a nation is when people are taught to hate their neighbors more than they question the people profiting from that hatred.
Honestly, if you're serious about those hours and that paycheck, becoming an OnlyFans model might be your best bet.
There are people making well over $5,000 a week posting pictures of their feet, while the rest of us are working full-time jobs wondering why we chose the harder path.
I grew up a conservative Christian. These days I'm probably closer to atheism than anything else, but I've studied Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hindu traditions, and a number of other belief systems.
I've found wisdom, beauty, and worthwhile ideas in all of them.
There's nothing wrong with being open to other religions, learning from them, or even deciding one speaks to you more than the faith you were raised in. That's a personal decision nobody else gets to make for you.
If her studies led her to Islam, that's her choice. The whole point of religious freedom is that people are free to follow their conscience, even when others disagree.
Oh, you're upset about one dog in a shopping cart?
You definitely don't want to run into me.
I'll have a python around my neck, a squirrel on my head, a sugar glider in each pocket, twelve raccoons and a possum following behind me, four dogs on leashes, a cat riding in the basket, and somewhere nearby a cow, a horse, a pig, and probably a puma that nobody remembers inviting.
The dog in the cart is going to be the least interesting thing happening in aisle 12.
I'd probably keep walking too.
That sign doesn't make me feel sympathy for the servers. It makes me wonder why the restaurant is publicly announcing that it refuses to pay them a decent wage.
I tip well for good service, usually 20% or more, but that's my choice. It's not my job to subsidize a business model that depends on customers making payroll.
If your employees only make $3.50 an hour, my first question isn't "Why aren't customers tipping more?" It's "Why aren't you paying your staff better?"