Skelly

reposter of things

[SYSKUSA @syskusa]

When we were preparing to go to Iraq in 2005 we had an Iraqi who had fled Iraq, and ended up in the employ of the CIA briefing us on culture, and Ramadan came up.

One of the senior officers in the auditorium spoke up quickly, and started to say we should not drink, eat, or smoke in front of Iraqis during Ramadan, to respect their culture.

This CIA dude immediately locks eyes with this officer and asks very loudly

“WHY?!”

The officer was a little caught off guard, and before he could answer the CIA guy started explaining.

“You are American, you are Christian, you DO NOT celebrate Ramadan, and if you don’t carry on as an American during Ramadan it will be seen as weakness. It reinforces their idea that their god is the only true god, and that all others will bow before Islam.

If they don’t offer you a drink when you come to their home, ask for one, during Ramadan!

Make them respect you, or they will attack you more because they see you as weak.

They are asserting their dominance, and if you falter in the slightest they see you as less than them.”

That stuck with me, and it was true.

You could see they didn’t respect the guys who went out of their way to accommodate them, both in the way they acted towards American troops, and in the number of attacks on US Forces in the areas.

Eat, drink, and be Merry, even during Ramadan.

FREEDOM ! 🇺🇸

Keep That PMA 🇺🇸

[HowlingMutant @Howlingmutant0]

Does no game studio have the courage to purge these people from their staff? It’s not 2015 anymore, Anita sarkeesian can’t hurt you anymore

[Gabriel (COMMS CLOSED) @gabriel_linf]

>"Our interest in their world was purely for the betterment of mankind"
>Doomguy stares at a guy's corpse inside the elevator, likely killed by a demon

The irony in this scene will never not amuse me; this intro is perfect

[Doc Strangelove @DocStrangelove2]

My culture is not your costume you surveillance state piece of shit.

[Lateralus @SpaceAgeMantis]

@realKalos I took a class about Arab/Middle Eastern culture and we spent two entire weeks learning about how many excuses they have to fuck a dude under Islamic law. Everywhere from Morocco to Afghanistan is chronically DL

[DAKKADAKKA @DAKKADAKKA1]

The white man is the only one that can coral third world savages into cleaning up their own messes. Of course only with his fat stack of American Dollars.

[~disden-talhes @GlueWear]

This guy is supposed to be some genius investor but couldn't foresee his kid leveraging an all access money printer to continually stay in school forever?

[Neeraja Deshpande @neerajadeshp]

I’m sorry, I’m so sick of the Dubaification of America. It used to be that men with the means to drive a Porsche would brag about driving a 2003 Honda Civic and DIY things they could have easily outsourced. Women were at least expected to pretend they didn’t care about a man’s money, and to have some pioneer spirit of “we can build together.” These weirdos on social media have not only undermined those much healthier attitudes, they have warped everyone’s expectations in all aspects of life. I find this especially appalling when it comes to dating, because this BS actively impedes men and women from pairing off and starting families. These days—I don’t mean to sound like a total MRA incel—I feel like I regularly hear otherwise normal, educated women saying insane things about filtering for a man’s money and status that would have been gauche to admit even just a few years ago. It’s the sort of stuff that I previously only heard ethnic aunties say when they were arranging marriages for their children or friend’s children and finding suitors. I think we lose something very special about America when we promote this sort of thing and idk it just makes me sad at this point.

[Defence With A 'C' @defencewithac]

I'm perhaps in the minority here in that I believe this should be treated as attempted murder. The person in the car can be under no illusion that if they hit a pedestrian at that speed they will almost certainly kill them. Life in prison.

[Jaylor Rana @UnpaidPhilosphr]

Everyone romanticizes the single life until they're eating alone at 60 with a passport full of stamps and no one to call family. Money loses its thrill, travel becomes routine, and books don't answer back. Marriage or being in a relationship isn't the answer to everything, but neither is solitude. Every life extracts a price, you don't escape it, you only choose how you'll pay.

[uzi 🖤 @UziWya]

People asking why we don’t do this anymore and it’s because there’s freaks who record you and then will make fun of you online for having fun

[Will Quinn @willquinnart]

I've had multiple people saying the bunnies vanished from their feeds around half a year ago! Some sort of algorithm change...

I don't really feel like adjusting how I post for visibility, but it's nice that this one somehow breached containment and popped off! thanks

[Mack @kenzietuff]

“Every single drink moves you closer to death a little faster.” Everyone who drinks alcohol: “We know.”

[Longshanks @Sir_Longshank]

No one hates 3rd worlders because they “look different”. That’s a classic strawman. We hate them because they do shit like this. Had Trump not won in 2024, this would be all over America.

[Jason A. Staples @jasonstaples]

The presumption that "I, the interpreter, am more likely to be misunderstanding a classic author I find uncompelling than that the classic author was an idiot" is one of the most important methodological starting points to take as a critic.

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

A man incites panic in public yelling “Allahu Akbar.” He laughs and seems to think this shows that Islamophobia is a serious problem.

If I ran into a subway car shouting “praise Jesus” nobody would think I was going to kill them.

Islam did this to itself. People are afraid because Allahu Akbar has been a Muslim calling card for mass murder and will be again.

[Pigeon @PigeonGoGaming]

The funniest part is, this isn't a comparison to Bungie.

This is a 343 game compared against a 343 game from 2015

This studio is actually cooked man 💀

[Fake Wizard @RealLifeFakeWiz]

“Life will always be hard. I understand this better than most. Yet, despite it all, people of every faith believe there is a God who loves them. Can so many be wrong?

… Would it hurt so much to see the world through different eyes?”

>> Hate.

[🌘ʀᴇᴠᴇɴᴀɴᴛ⚡ @revenant_MMXX]

Pistol optics bros have no answer for this

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

About 30–42% of domestic violence victims in the Western world are men and boys. Domestic violence against males is severely underreported, and they don't have domestic violence shelters not because they don't need them, but because feminists have actively worked against, and have spent decades spreading false narratives about the nature of domestic violence. For example, you probably didn't know that more than 70% of all non-reciprocated intimate partner violence is committed by women, or that lesbians experience domestic violence at rates far higher than heterosexual women while gay men experience the least.