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        I think it’s actually intentional because a thing asshats are trying is to make fun of how he isn’t muscular.

        … because you know… Lifting weights has so much to do with being Mayor…

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          deadlifts 350

          becomes mayor of a mid sized city

          deadlifts 400

          becomes mayor of a larger city

          This is how it works right?

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          The weirdest thing about this is given his build he could still be much more physically fit than 2/3 of his detractors. Natural muscle is not as prominent as modern media has made it out to appear and to be as crazy built as some folks look you simply have to use extra supplements and push your body far further than is actually necessary for any kind of day to day life. You can be skinny and still perfectly strong and healthy

          I bike about 100 miles a week, and every bike ride I stop at the outdoor fitness area for some water and do a few pullups to even put my build a little. I’m skinny and lanky as fuck and honestly built pretty similar to him

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            I suspect many people can’t even get to what the media says is “physically fit” without completely giving up any life or doing roids…

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            I’m a short “small” guy and I can’t tell you how many times I hear “wow you’re way stronger than you look.” It’s pretty frustrating lol

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      I actively disliked bacon looong before going vegan. It smells bad and the amount of fat that renders out when you cook it is just plain uncanny. Why is it never a high-quality french Jambon or Prosciutto with those people?

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        Why is it never a high-quality french Jambon or Prosciutto with those people?

        Because along with hating minorities, foreigners, and the LGBTQ community, there are few people American nationalists hate more than The French.

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        You shouldn’t render out all the fat of your bacon. Keep it in there!

        Also fuck Off with reduced fat anything. If you give me fat less bacon the cooking will not work unless I put some other fat in.

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    I find direct offensive racists really interesting, they clearly have problems in their life, and their response to these problems is to create MORE problems.

    I have enough problems in my life to try and actively stir up more of them.

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    They think it works that way because that’s the way it works for them.

    Show them a picture of Mecca and they freak right the fuck out.

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      Or talk about how you’re eating less meat/became vegan and they’ll act like you’re demanding them to become vegan too.

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        People clutching their ears and writhing in pain the moment they find out you’re trying to cut back on eating meat is always such a bizarre response.

        Imagine doing this to anyone going on a diet. Screaming and thrashing and trying to shield yourself with a fist full of candy bars the moment you hear “I’m cutting sweets out until I lose 10 lbs”

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        I once told someone I enjoy eating meat. Later they caught me eating tofu, because I enjoy eating that too. It was fun watching them implode!

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        Sorry i don’t eat meat.

        I NEED MY PROTEIN, I’M ALLERGIC TO VEGETEBLES, I GET ALLY MEAT FROM A GUY WHO TREATS HIS ANIMALS VERY WELL AND THEY LOVE BEING EATEN.

        Okay.

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        The War on Christmas is absolutely real and it is the height of ignorance to pretend otherwise. To be crystal clear Christmas is the 12 day season between 12/25 and 1/6. Anyone complaining about people not saying “Merry Christmas” outside of 12/25-1/6 is talking about the wrong season.

        Advent starts with the first of four Sundays before Christmas day. This is typically after American thanksgiving has taken place and is the actual season that is going on when people complain about “The War on Christmas”. The proper greeting for this season will refer to Advent and not Christmas because 12/1-12/23 is not Christmas.

        To sum up there is a War on Christmas and the aggressors are the ones bitching about people not saying Merry Christmas during Advent.

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          sometimes I see Christmas decorations in November!!!

          i saw stores putting a Christmas section, then taking it down for Halloween, then putting the Christmas section back.

          Christmas must respect the Halloween borders!

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              Although I didn’t wear the onion belt I did read the documentary on Onion John?

              I was there when the attack began on Thanksgiving!

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            I’m so grateful that we don’t celebrate Halloween or Thanksgiving here, because that means that stores actually start selling Christmas cookies in September. I was finally able to refill my strategic Spekulatius reserve this week.

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              i get the hate for American Halloween spreading around the world.

              i lived in Scotland for a while and that was a common sentiment, except from actually Scottish people because most Halloween traditions are Scottish, and now they get the English trying to stop them.

              that’s a traditional Scottish jack-o’-lantern

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                I have no hate for Halloween. We have a similar tradition here in northern Germany called Rummelpott (rumble pot): At new years eve, the kids dress up, go from house to house making noise with their rumbling pot and singing a song asking for treats.

                That custom does slowly fall out of fashion and gets replaced by Halloween, but I think the decline of Rummelpott started before and independently of the rise of Halloween, so no reason for hate.

                The only thing I really dislike is the aggressiveness of Trick-or-treat. With Rummelpott it was great if you got a chocolate, but if someone couldn’t give or didn’t want to, it was fine as well. But on Halloween you’re kind of extorted to give something. Some older kids have even committed malicious property damage with their “trick” part in the past, but I feel like that’s gotten slightly better since the news started reporting the criminal charges some of these teens were facing.

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                  I’m Scotland, my neighbour accidentally created our own tradition.

                  practically all the street goes together on a single group, adults and children alike, was so much fun. we never arranged it so, but we ended up doing that one day then it kept on growing.

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            I pulled into a Dollar General store yesterday (September 2nd) and they had a bin of Christmas wrapping paper for sale on the sidewalk in front of the store.

            It looked faded (like it was leftover in a warehouse from last year), and I think it was with the discounted summer close out stuff, but still.

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          There is a difference on how the holiday season go based on religion, but also based on country. Like f.e. in The Netherlands the gifts are more traditionally exchanged on the 5th of December because we have Sinterklaas then, which is basically based on the same Saint Nicholas.

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    Ah yes, Christian Nationalist attacks on other Abrahamic religions. How’s that poly blend mask fitting these days?

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    It’s projection. If you showed them a rainbow or a Day of the Dead decoration, they’d get super offended and bent out of shape. And because that’s how they react to things they don’t like, they assume that’s how everyone else reacts, too.

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    Speaking like a normal person and not a salesman is probably helping him quite a lot.

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      Dude, I fucking love halal food. It’s so goddamn good.

      Usually getting gyros, gyro platters, falafel, etc., but I recently tried a halal burger place and it was the best cheeseburger I’ve ever had at a restaurant. No bacon on it though, I don’t think.

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      Basturma (Middle Eastern pastrami) is also a wonderful thing. The intensity of flavor is incredible.

      And if those Muslims are Syrian, their whole cuisine is incredible. Even the Lebanese, who claim to have invented everything and to be the best at everything, will admit that the food in Aleppo is (probably was, after all the destruction) better than in Lebanon.

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      Ok, now I’m on a mission to try this. I don’t know how I’ve never heard of this before. I live in a large city and I often eat at places that are halal but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it.

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        It’s absolutely delicious. One of the halal places near me has it and it’s so good on a burger with sauteed mushrooms and cheddar.

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      I wish I did. We have a mosque, but only a few dozen seem to go, and I’ve only found a few halal restaurants, and they’re all Pakistani or Indian. The closest thing we had was am Israeli restaurant that went under after a year or two.

      Next time we travel, I’m definitely looking for this.

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    I’m remembering a paragraph of one of the Witcher books where a vampire is at a fancy ball at a royal court and while eating a garlic soup with his silver spoon he was explaining in great detail to a patron seated near him that vampires are deathly afraid of silver and the slightest touch of silver will immediately kill them

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    People seem to forget that Muslims are allowed to touch pork products, they’re just not allowed to pray after touching them unless they ritualistically purify themselves by washing their hands, mouth, nose, face, forearms, head, ears and feet (the order is different as well as what parts you wash in different schools of thought).

    Doing all that is a bit of a kerfuffle so a good number of Muslims just choose to avoid touching anything that could invalidate their purity, but the worst that can happen is they have to wash themselves again before they pray.

    Obviously they’re not allowed to eat it, but it’s nowhere near as bad as racists would have you think where even being in the presence of pork products is enough to make Muslims melt into the floor like the wicked witch.

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      even being in the presence of pork products is enough to make Muslims melt into the floor like the wicked witch

      Some Muslims really are like that. The ones who are, are usually from the more backward countries.

      But Islam also says that if you’re starving and pork is the only available food, eat the pork.

      Alcohol, on the other hand, is a hard no.

      Now in my view, I don’t see how any religion that forbids carnitas can possibly be divinely inspired.

      Even so, I’ve never met an Islamophobe who isn’t a raving asshole, but I’ve met a number of Muslims who are good people, even if I don’t agree with some of their religious prohibitions.

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          Yes, though it is preferred not to be the drinkable kind. Without giving a fatwa (religious verdict) the way to think of it is the goal is to not drink alcohol. In particular is highlighted to not get drunk or addicted to it, but of course there may be other subtending reasons too. Intentions matter greatly in islam; it’s generally very practical.

          At the same time the prohibition against drinkable alcohol in islam is so strong even the people who buy/sell, or even serve alcohol are considered sinning so best to stay well clear. That’s why there is such a distaste for the stuff in islamic culture, but for practical purposes as a chemical it can be extremely useful.

          It could also be argued that it naturally appears in some foods (like overripe bananas I believe), but of course those probably aren’t haram as you’re likely not going to suffer the same effects.

          Allah knows best.

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          Yes, it’s just consumption of alcoholic foodstuffs that’s proscribed. It might get murky if you’re dealing with some really regressive people and you’re also sanitizing with burbon, but otherwise it’s a pretty settled topic.

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            Interesting. My city has many breweries of local spirits so when we were low on hand sanitizers during COVID, the government allowed these breweries to make their own sanitizers.

            It probably would have been nice to include a warning label for our Muslim friends saying that these products might not be allowed for them to use!

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              If your local distilleries were anything like mine, the sanitizer they produced was denatured, even the most absurdly orthodox would have had shaky grounds to complain (naturally done too, they just didn’t separate the methanol when distilling). So no worries there!

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      Not to be that guy, but the ablution process is mandatory regardless of what you’ve touched. Unless you’ve touched some najis stuff then you gotta clean it first before doing ablution.

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    same fuckers that loose their shit when I tell them I prefer dog bacon but I’m also kinda sick of it because I just got back from visiting family in china and my family doesn’t cook much of the more well known dishes. we just eat wild/kennel dog and wild salad.

    then I ask them why they let heir government officials shoot dogs for misbehaving when they haven’t even been trained