Live long… and be happy?

The honor is mine. The glory is yours.

The only difference between Israel and a terrorist organization is PR and budget.

Still are. I got a phone book delivered a week ago, I shit thee not. Granted I’m on a small island and the book is small too. But like, you can pay to have your number removed from the book. Can you have it removed from this? Not to mention all the 2FA stuff that can be connected to the phone number. Someone clones your number or takes it and suddenly they’ve got access to a whole lot of your login stuff.

Well that’s not terrifying at all.

You’re either a troll or literally incapable of understanding that “some” means certain things I pick, not you.

Whatever the reason, the outcome is the same.

You seem to think it was a period of sanity.

Would you mind pointing out where I said that?

Go ahead.

I’ll wait.

Actually, screw this. Let me just cut this off now so I can get on with my life.

The country had one brief period of some sanity

The operative word in that sentence is the word SOME. Stop painting my opinions to be all or nothing, stop shoving words down my throat, and actually read what I have to say. I also did not specify the period I was talking about, only that Reagan drop kicked it out. You made an enormous amount of assumptions and pretended as if they were reality. They’re not.

If you are curious next time, the correct thing to do is ask for elaboration or clarification.

Please stop wasting my time.

You think the U.S. was great in the late 70?

Would you mind pointing out where I said that?

Go ahead.

I’ll wait.

Also… Oh nooo… I won’t get a response from you… oh noooo… Whatever will I do?

Bruh, I only knew you made a comment because a friend pointed out the silliness of it.

That’s what I meant in the description by two journalists in a single day.

This article is about Nick Stern, a british photojournalist, who was shot with a non-lethal round and had to have emergency surgery.

There is another article, with live video footage, of a cop in riot gear, completely unprovoked, shooting an Australian reporter in the back with a rubber bullet. Luckily for her, she was fine. Just sore. But make no mistake, that round at that distance could have caused considerably worse injuries or even killed her.

CIS/NCIS (mmm gibbs) really did fuck my expectations about resolution.

Unpopular Opinion: Y’all were never great. The country had one brief period of some sanity before it got dropkicked out the door by Reagan. The only difference between the United States and Russia is good PR and even better propaganda. The United States is offensive to common sense and human decency on every fundamental level, from it’s inception until today. Things are just more obvious now. That’s the only difference.

Exactly. They’re already willing to beat them to death on camera. What the fuck are they doing with so many of them flooding the streets and kidnapping people?

It isn’t complicated.

I responded to a dude who was being openly discriminatory and you responded in such a way to say “No, I’m allowed to discriminate because nonsensical reasoning.”

It is as simple as the fact that you are a hateful bigot.

Make up whatever narrative you want in order to protect your ego.

You’re just a bigot.

the other is a (potentially harmful) ideology, which you have the power to distance yourself from.

Tell that to every gay muslim who can’t speak out.

It’s so frustrating constantly seeing people use the “Muslims stoning gay men to death” thing while never thinking about those gay men other than as a fucking scapegoat.

As for your shit about one is a trait you’re born with that you have no control over… You think that doesn’t apply to religion? You think that a dude born in the middle of Saudi Arabia is going to get a say on what religion he grows up under?

Yes. Religion has problems. Many fucking problems. But handwaving it away as something that you have no control over is a minimization of reality and a fundamental demonstration that you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.

Don’t use us gay folk as an example for your hatred when you don’t care about the gay folks INSIDE of that group. Things are not as black and white as you want to believe that they are.

And all of that without bothering to point out that you’re being just as bigoted by acting like every single Muslim is absolutely the same.

Okay. Not sure what your comment has to do with me calling this dude out for being bigoted though. None of that is “permission” to be bigoted.

First, religion is not a race.

Might want to educate yourself on what racism is because Islamophobia is considered a subset of racism. Source 1, Source 2, Source 3.

Second, I’m from place where muslims (very secular ones at it) are significant minority.

Which is irrelevant unless OP lives in the same area you’re from. You also did not clarify that and spoke about Muslims as a whole, you did not clarify level of secularity.

Third, I’ve been in the situation outlined, and heard of similar from people in this situation.

I doubt anecdotal evidence from you personally is reflective of reality in your area, nevermind world wide.

Also there were at least two religiously minded honor killings that I know of one involved tatar (muslim) family, another cyhan (christian) family.

And again, anecdotal evidence from your specific area. That isn’t reflective of reality and it is racist as shit for you to go “My experiences reflect reality as a whole.”

So. I say again. What is this racist bullshit? Fuck off, dude.

Islamophobia is considered a subset of racism.

Source 1

Source 2

Source 3