RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0

I've known Muslims who were borderline radical. I've known Muslims who have close to zero interest in their faith. I've known Muslims who were devout and austere. I've known Muslims that I'd run into at the club sloshed on Jack and having just blazed a big fat blunt. I've known conservative and progressive Muslims. I've known rational and emo Muslims. Muslim women who were strict and those who were most partiers. I've known Muslims who couldn't stand the slightest criticism of their faith and those that agree with criticism and those that aren't very religious but see anti-Muslim rhetoric as attacks on a grandfather or mother or sister or mentor.

Me personally, I wouldn't hold Americans as responsible for following the teachings or practices of Washington or Trump or Kim Kardashian. People are complicated and have their own views on their country or their religion and most take the good things they like and hope the bad things they don't will change. 

Bad analogy. If someone tells you they are American, you don't know anything about them except that they were born there. If someone announces they're a Muslim you understand that they have decided to follow at least some of the teachings of that religion. Otherwise people say things like 'I was born a Catholic, or 'I was raised a Muslim.'     

Mainly I'm glad Aristocrat presents his ideas so articulately and powerfully. Sometimes it feels like I'm reading Kierkegaard or something. I'm also glad he's South African, a welcome change from the typical Afrikaner buffoonery I'm used to seeing from my countrymen.

My only question is, why aren't you a lawyer? 

Cheers, boet

I'd probably get fed up and quit after a few years, I'm actually incredibly lazy when it comes to work.

And now for something completely different:
People who leave the wet tissue pack open. Close it for f@cks sake.

And now for something completely different:
People who leave the wet tissue pack open. Close it for f@cks sake.

 

Bad analogy. If someone tells you they are American, you don't know anything about them except that they were born there. If someone announces they're a Muslim you understand that they have decided to follow at least some of the teachings of that religion. Otherwise people say things like 'I was born a Catholic, or 'I was raised a Muslim.'     

I'm pretty sure "I'm an American" has followed at least some of the teachings of America- democracy, free speech, etc.

Really? if you meet a young American person nowadays, they're just as likely to be anti-free speech and democracy.

Really? if you meet a young American person nowadays, they're just as likely to be anti-free speech and democracy.

really? they're just as likely to be what? fascist? communist? that's a massive, massive leap. the vast majority of americans of any age are pro-democracy. i'll admit that there are definitely more fascist wannabes than there used to be

really? they're just as likely to be what? fascist? communist? that's a massive, massive leap. the vast majority of americans of any age are pro-democracy. i'll admit that there are definitely more fascist wannabes than there used to be

the far right (fascists) and the far left (tankies) are both on the rise, but I'm a bit more worried about the fascists because tankies are comically inept. the far right in general is more threatening if only because they actually have a bit of unity whereas the far left is just 30,000 vaguely different political orientations typing paragraphs at each other

really? they're just as likely to be what? fascist? communist? that's a massive, massive leap. the vast majority of americans of any age are pro-democracy. i'll admit that there are definitely more fascist wannabes than there used to be

Anti free speech, as in wanting to bring in laws against hate speech is pretty par for the course thesedays among the US youth. Fair enough anti-democracy less so, though look at the support for the marxists BLM. Anyway it's irrelevant to my original point that just being American doesn't mean you hold any particular beliefs, while announcing that you're a muslim would suggest you do.

the far right in general is more threatening if only because they actually have a bit of unity whereas the far left is just 30,000 vaguely different political orientations typing paragraphs at each other

also have you ever seen an actual tankie? not on reddit, but i mean in real life. i've seen a few fascists with their SS tattoos at protests, but i've never actually met a tankie who actually wants to do some direct action. it's mostly just people talking online, which your post kind of gets at. on the other hand, the fascists are out there forming militias and shit

also have you ever seen an actual tankie? not on reddit, but i mean in real life. i've seen a few fascists with their SS tattoos at protests, but i've never actually met a tankie who actually wants to do some direct action. it's mostly just people talking online, which your post kind of gets at. on the other hand, the fascists are out there forming militias and shit

I knew a few in college. You can pretty easily find tankies, anarchists, etc. all grudgingly gathering together under the Antifa's banner, since their respective ideologies don't have enough individual traction to actually achieve anything, so instead they all get together to march around and whine about Shapiro or Crowder or whoever the conservagrifter of the week is. Chaz is probably the closest the far left has gotten to "direct action" and predictably its basically just a worse version of burning man.

The far right was much the same for a while, but they really screwed themselves with Charlottesville. The big danger with the fascists was never that they existed, they've always been around. The danger was that they were getting pretty optical and you had people like Richard Spencer somehow being allowed on CNN. But after Charlottesville they've been pushed back to the fringes. 

i wish there was more steel manning on this website
(read: i wish there was less straw manning on this website)

also have you ever seen an actual tankie? not on reddit, but i mean in real life. i've seen a few fascists with their SS tattoos at protests, but i've never actually met a tankie who actually wants to do some direct action. it's mostly just people talking online, which your post kind of gets at. on the other hand, the fascists are out there forming militias and shit

They’ve done a great job of infiltrating this small website.

They’ve done a great job of infiltrating this small website.

Agreed, the lefties are all over the show in here.

Man, takes all kinds to make the world go round.

Some guy asked an expat community last night "I had some info about a sushi restaurant in Hongdae that was 13 000W . Anyone know what it is?"

So, first off, that is pretty bloody general, hahaha. But I wrote..............

  Looks like you shoulda "have."

  What?

  You wrote "had," so if you have then you would know it. Just a bad language joke. Hope you figure it out.

This takes the cake.

  Why can't people be nice? This is bullying. Why are you bullying me?

BLOCKED ME

Like, I get that people have different tolerances, and people are different and that's fine, but how do these people form friendships, or bonds, or leave the house. If he'd said I was wasting his time, hell, I'd have agreed with him. But bullying? And then blocking me? Holy hell, like............ does he get mad at the wind for blowing against him when he walks?

Some people, Christ.

 

 

Man, takes all kinds to make the world go round.

Some guy asked an expat community last night "I had some info about a sushi restaurant in Hongdae that was 13 000W . Anyone know what it is?"

So, first off, that is pretty bloody general, hahaha. But I wrote..............

  Looks like you shoulda "have."

  What?

  You wrote "had," so if you have then you would know it. Just a bad language joke. Hope you figure it out.

This takes the cake.

  Why can't people be nice? This is bullying. Why are you bullying me?

BLOCKED ME

Like, I get that people have different tolerances, and people are different and that's fine, but how do these people form friendships, or bonds, or leave the house. If he'd said I was wasting his time, hell, I'd have agreed with him. But bullying? And then blocking me? Holy hell, like............ does he get mad at the wind for blowing against him when he walks?
Some people, Christ.

There's now only one possible thing that you can do: do an exhaustive search and procure the information he's looking for... and then post it directly under his comments.
Then you can sit back and enjoy the fact that he's now the only person on that entire thread who does not know where to find 13,000 won sushi in Hongdae. 

"I had some info about a sushi restaurant in Hongdae that was 13 000W . Anyone know what it is?"

Probably the strangest sentence ever written

There's now only one possible thing that you can do: do an exhaustive search and procure the information he's looking for... and then post it directly under his comments.
Then you can sit back and enjoy the fact that he's now the only person on that entire thread who does not know where to find 13,000 won sushi in Hongdae. 

I can't, it's his post. hahaha He blocked me so I can't even see his post, nor his profile anymore.

This whole thing is a pretty good illustration of why I've avoided expat communities like the plague. I do wonder if I should join one of the Facebook groups every now and then but always think better of it

I had to block a guy cuz in Oink, regardless of what I wrote or said, he would bring up some adult stuff that I'd seen on reddit, months prior. I blocked him because it was just foolish.

I get made fun of a lot in OinK and EKM because I ordered an Americano and got an iced one and I thought that if you didn't specify hot or iced, the default should be hot. And I got made fun of for that. Whatever, I posted it in OinK, people disagreed, and even now people will ask "Well, does this make you as angry as getting a surprise iced coffee? huhuhuhuhuh"

That's fine. I can take my licks. But dickless OinK boy would always say shit like, "You should see what he commented on in the Asian Porn subreddits."   Like, dude, F off. He even screenposted a few comments under an earth sandwich OinK post that I hadn't even shared in there. Someone else had shared the photo cuz it's Korea related. The pic of my comments was up a whole half day before it got deleted.

a) I didn't share the photo
b) the comments are not even from facebook/expat groups
c) get a life.

I blocked the guy on facebook, but I have a feeling that that loser is still lurking around somewhere on the internet. He may even be here on waygook.org.