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[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 193 points 2 days ago (4 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.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 72 points 2 days ago (2 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

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

you can only have one of the three

or if you're rural, none of the above!

also, eliminate "fast" from fast food-- ~~cheap~~, ~~healthy~~, ~~delicious~~, ~~fast~~

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 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.

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 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!

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cava is the far superior Mediterranean casual place. If you've got one near, highly recommend.

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[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day 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

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day 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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[–] trager_bombs@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Sounds absolutely HORRIBLE, I can't believe you were expected to live like that 😭😭/s

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 70 points 2 days ago (3 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.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 54 points 2 days ago (3 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.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

/s because it's 2025.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 days 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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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean in this case "enemies" is just "brown people." It doesn't matter what they call them.

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 40 points 2 days ago

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

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 day ago (2 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.

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (7 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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[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

People are far too serious about their Bronze Age literature fandom

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gilgamesh and Enkidu could kick David and Goliath's asses.

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[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 34 points 1 day 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

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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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, don’t you remember? The Germans were Muslim immigrants.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What a weird fucking thing to post.

Racists are fucking weird, man.

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day 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.

[–] Soleos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day 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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[–] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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

I don't ever usually go to Murfreesboro but I didn't know this was there. Now I'm questioning if there is some decent restaurants that I have been missing out on.

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[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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

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[–] giddy@aussie.zone 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

I know right? It's kind of impressive how many layers of stupidity and ignorance are piled on top of each other here.

I don't think I could come up with something this dumb if I were deliberately trolling.

FWIW some Indians did fight for the Japanese in WWII. They were treated, um, unpleasantly when they were caught by allied Indian troops.

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?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (2 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.

[–] cannon_annon88@lemmy.today 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I only know it exists because it was in a Strongbad Email and he enjoyed saying Murfreesboro.

http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/caffeine

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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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[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day 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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[–] Mammal@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

As someone who doesn't like anything curry, I just want to say I have no problem whatsoever with Hinduism, they're cool by me

[–] Juice@midwest.social 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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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[–] tyler@programming.dev 11 points 2 days 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.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days 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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[–] MysticEdge@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

Murfreesboro."

-Strongbad

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