Saleh
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- Comment on Anon shares a family moment 1 day ago:
What is he going to do? Call the cops and tell them he got roughed up by a f-word?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Man what is it with people these days?
"Hi, nice to meet you. Honestly this is the first time i go on a blind date and i am a little nervous. Anyways, did you arrive well?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Well, they managed to find someone. So at least in their time and place they managed to do something right.
- Comment on Seeing shit like this kills me. People are so ignorant. 2 days ago:
For example, most religions tend to accept suffering and poverty as a given, as a test or as something that in general is by design. Assigning virtue to being oppressed …
Islam acknowledges poverty and wealth to be given in the sense that it is not by the virtue or failing of the individual that he or she is rich/poor. This is contradicting the neoliberal mantra, that it is totally the individuals fault and thereby justified.
Furthermore it is the duty of the rich to help the poor and it is the right of the poor upon the rich to be helped by them.This is why mandatory donations for the wealthy are an obligation equal to prayer and fasting.
God tests people with poverty and with wealth. Also Islam with its prohibition of interest is incompatibile with capitalism. Christianity and Judaism also prohibit interest, but a millenia long effort to twist the prohibition away eventually suceeded.
If in millennia every religion ever has been used to crystalize a power hierarchy in humanity (from the clergy to caste systems), maybe there is a reason. And the reason is that religious thinking and mindset inherently enables these hierarchies.
Again you are describing institutionalization. On the contrary if someone is steadfast in their belief, they will obey God and not the worldly leaders, if those demand something in violation of the faith. This also creates a measure for the legitimacy of leaders that cannot be set by the leaders themselves. So what the historical and current leaders are doing is to try to corrupt existing religious institutions or build institutions so they can be corrupted. The hierarchy is inserted into the religiom by existing hierachies.
To further argue that point. What became of Soviet Russia? Maos China? Eastern Germany? All the other Warsaw pact countries? All of them were hostile to religion on a range from surveillance and coercion to death squads murdering clergy by the tens of thousands and razing places of worship down to the foundations.
Authoritarianism finds any tool to impose unjust hierarchies. And it creates its own idols to worship. Be it the market, the great chairman, the 5 year plan, the supreme race, the expanding imperium…
All these idols share one crucial aspect. They are geared towards material aspects in this world. And this is a great weakness of communist revolutionary thought. It chains itself to compete with the capitalists in the struggle for capital accumulation and distribution. Thereby communist thought is enslaving the working class to remain producers and consumers.
- Comment on Seeing shit like this kills me. People are so ignorant. 2 days ago:
As i have written:
What we have seen over the last century is the result of deliberate meddling by outside imperial forces that promoted wahabism and other extremist strands twisting Islam into being a tool of oppression and riddling it with hypocrisy.
Religion is a form of institutionalized control and oppression, and as such is a fundamental enemy of the working class.
A common argument is that Jesus would be a socialist by todays definitions, condemning the corruption of the rich and sitting with the poor. The prophet Mohamed, blessing and peace be upon him, was persecuted by the polytheists because Islam was challenging their business model surrounding the idol worship and they tried to coopt him into furthering their economic agenda. Moses was liberating his entire people from enslavement under the Pharaoh. The Abrahamic prophets all fought injustice and corruption in their society.
I agree with you that the institutionalization is an issue, but that is an issue of the particular institutions, not the religion itself.
- Comment on Seeing shit like this kills me. People are so ignorant. 2 days ago:
you have mosques kicking off every morning,
Have you ever been to Southern and Central Europe? Churches ringing their bells every day. Villages being mostly dark at night, with the church being shined on with a dozen spotlights. Religious festivities including parades around holidays. Priests and Nuns casually walking in the streets.
Islam is noticeable in everyday life everywhere (to the extent that I feel that you have a substantially higher religious freedom in Europe as a muslim),
As you can see with the statement above, the fact that religion is “noticeable in everyday life everywhere” has nothing to do with religious freedom.
and if you do something that is socially (and therefore religiously - as there’s a nonexistent division between church, states and culture here) risque, you can also gtfo. so what?
Islam is quite accommodating and tolerant to other religions. Religious minorities enjoy protection and are allowed to practice their ways even when it contradicts Islamic law, such as Christian being permitted alcohol. What we have seen over the last century is the result of deliberate meddling by outside imperial forces that promoted wahabism and other extremist strands twisting Islam into being a tool of oppression and riddling it with hypocrisy.
Also we see how religious minorities are instrumentalized to start divisions and civil wars in places like Syria and Lebanon. Areas where Christians and Jews have lived for Millennia and built vibrant communities, with religious tensions being the rare exception. Or looking at Iberian Peninsula, where the Jewish community fared well for centuries under Islamic governance, until the Christian conquerors slaughtered them and forced them into conversion and hiding like the Muslims.
Finally the western nation state model is incompatible with Islamic governance, but again was imposed upon Muslim majority countries.
- Comment on Seeing shit like this kills me. People are so ignorant. 2 days ago:
About 20-30% of the people enslaved and deported to the US were Muslims.
The “Christians” brought Islam to North America by force.
- Comment on Vibe check! 4 days ago:
I am dissapointed that noone came up with ACDC yet.
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- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 5 days ago:
It is a bit more complicated than that.
First of all the social security system in Germany should not be tax funded. It is a mandatory insurance which should finance its activities through the insurance rate collected on income. However with demographic shifts and the like it is notoriously unstable, in particular the pension fund. So what happens is the social securities being cross financed from tax money.
Like with climate change, we are talking about the issue since more than 30 years, the problematic effects are becoming ever more apparent, but no government is willing to address the fundamental issues, instead kicking the can down the road, until the system will collapse.
Then another issue is that the government activities are far from sufficient and it is en vogue to attack social security further. Especially in the last years we saw an unprecedented rise in people relying on food banks as unemployment checks and the equivalent for refugees, who are prohibited from working, are insufficient. But rather than adjust the payments to reflect the rising costs of living, we see a distraction debate about people “refusing to work” which make up only a tiny minority of people receiving benefits, but the goal is to abolish unemployment insurance.
Then another issue is that nonprofits are often used by rich families to circumvent inheritance tax. This year there will be an unexpected windfall of 4 billion Euros to the inheritance tax, as a rich family failed to set up their construct in time. Furthermore “nonprofits” by industrialists are often used for lobbying for more capitalism. In particularly infamous is the “Stiftung Familienunternehmen” (family run businesses trust). You would think this represents your local bakery run in the fourth generation. Instead it is run by “family businesses” such as Henkel (washing ingredients, chemicals) whose owners are billionaires.
Finally, Germany has the whole range of non profits which follow purposes that genuinely follow causes that benefit humanity and the environment and they also receive billions in donations in Germany every year. Overall the donations to nonprofits in Germany amounted to 12.5 billion € last year, or about 150 € on average. This includes a wide range of purposes. For instance sports clubs are usually nonprofits and donations to them are usually tax deductible. So it might be the father of one of the kids in the football club donating a new set of jerseys.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 5 days ago:
Which then needs someone in the real economy to make goods and services to back up the value of that money.
They are basically printing YOM instead of IOU vouchers.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 6 days ago:
So, if you set a bios password either way, which benefit does secureboot give?
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 1 week ago:
Weren’t these coaches a thing in the 19th century US, from which time the term comes? From what i could find quickly, Highway robbery became less of a thing in the UK and mainland Europe by the end of the 18th century.
- Comment on Why is levomethamphetamine less controlled than levoamphetamine? 1 week ago:
Think of the receptors as keyholes and the molecules as keys.
The “correct” side is the right sided keys (D). The Meth-Key is larger and fits the hole nicely. The normal Amphetamine key is a bit smaller. This way it fits less well, but it is easier to fit the “wrong sided” key (L) because it is also smaller.
Now obviously what happens on the molecular level is different, but maybe this helps illuminate, why for one stereo-isomer the one substance is more potent and for the other stereo-isomer it is the other way round.
- Comment on What a shocker! 1 week ago:
I still enjoy TF2. You can play seriously, or do some completely whacky stuff. even when you get steamrolled you can have fun. In TF2 i never minded having a good K/D or so. just going for hilarious kills, even if they only work one out of five times makes the game awesome.
- Comment on Stop acting entitled and just live your own life 1 week ago:
God rewards the effort, not the outcome. In the same wake we are both tested with hardship and with ease. When things are easy for us it shows if we are extending that blessing to others and remain humble.
- Comment on beaver girls rise 1 week ago:
What about the vulture girls?
- Comment on beaver girls rise 1 week ago:
Gendering bacteria is a bit difficult though.
- Comment on Pretty but pointless 1 week ago:
Arent they supposed to also double as heating the house, or at least the main room?
- Comment on Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me? 1 week ago:
This can’t be judged well from afar imo.
My wife and i also got together two months before she was supposed to move to a different city. If people genuinely love each other, commuting and making things work is possible and people have done it before. In the case of my wife the different city didn’t work out after all. When we got together it started with us trying to talk ourselves out of it, because of all the reasons why it should not work. Now we are going strong since more than 5 years.
Life reality doesn’t work in terms of “now i will date and now i will find a suitable partner” or “now is not the time”. People who limit or push themselves like this end up sabotaging themselves imo.
You will have to trust your guts on this. It is set that you will move. If he is serious, he will find a solution for this. If he is that rich and he is unhappy where he lives now, there is no reason why he shouldn’t be able to make it work that you life in a different city. If he doesn’t, then it isn’t meant to be.
The age difference is an issue though in the sense that his life experience makes it easier for him to control situations and make promises not to hold up, than the other way round. This does not mean that it has to be the case. You should see to judge him by his actions, not by words.
- Comment on Planet of the apes: Beginning 1 week ago:
how many monkey can you fend off with a squirt-bottle?
- Comment on Planet of the apes: Beginning 1 week ago:
Slinging back “as per my last email”.
- Comment on True Motivation 1 week ago:
There is also the whole thing of the CIA smuggling Cocaine into the US and fueling the crack epidemic to undermine the civil rights movement and fund fascist terrorists in Central America and fuel weapons into a brutal war in the Middle East.
en.wikipedia.org/…/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_coca…
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- Comment on I'm sure this would work out fine 1 week ago:
At demonstrations in Europe people shout something that sounds like “Visa Visa Palestina”. The IDF, ADL, AIPAC, EJC and others quickly dismantle that Terror payment system!
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 week ago:
You guys use them for actual credit? To me it seems that in Europe they are mostly used as a debit card directly charging your account, but compatible with the global payment processing of them.
- Comment on relaxing 2 weeks ago:
So i checked it out. It is real and it is just the dude whispering in his microphone and making random noises out of the thing. I am skeptical, if it is actually a launcher and not a replica though, as it looks very much like a replica.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 2 weeks ago:
There is video game museums already:
- Comment on Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks 2 weeks ago:
Here is the “recent” update talk from the group who uncovered the whole thing.
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From how they describe it, it seems to be a typical SLAP lawsuit and the company has pulled a lot of ridiculous stuff in meetings at the parliamentary inquiry group, but at the same time they seem to have backing from a relevant number of corrupt politicians.
- Comment on US education 2 weeks ago:
Actually there is also religions promoting science and research.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Islamic_attitudes_towards_scie…
A number of modern scholars such as Fielding H. Garrison, Sultan Bashir Mahmood, Hossein Nasr consider modern science and the scientific method to have been greatly inspired by Muslim scientists who introduced a modern empirical, experimental and quantitative approach to scientific inquiry. Certain advances made by medieval Muslim astronomers, geographers and mathematicians were motivated by problems presented in Islamic scripture, such as Al-Khwarizmi’s (c. 780–850) development of algebra in order to solve the Islamic inheritance laws,[18] and developments in astronomy, geography, spherical geometry and spherical trigonometry in order to determine the direction of the Qibla, the times of Salah prayers, and the dates of the Islamic calendar.[19] These new studies of math and science would allow for the Islamic world to get ahead of the rest of the world. ‘With these inspiration at work, Muslim mathematicians and astronomers contributed significantly to the development to just about every domain of mathematics between the eight and fifteenth centuries"[20]
Many Muslims agree that doing science is an act of religious merit, even a collective duty of the Muslim community.[61] According to M. Shamsher Ali, there are around 750 verses in the Quran dealing with natural phenomena. According to the Encyclopedia of the Quran, many verses of the Quran ask mankind to study nature, and this has been interpreted to mean an encouragement for scientific inquiry,[62] and the investigation of the truth.[62] Some include, “Travel throughout the earth and see how He brings life into being” (Q29:20), “Behold in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day, there are indeed signs for men of understanding …” (Q3:190)
- Comment on US education 2 weeks ago:
From your source:
Germany
In Germany, religious defamation is covered by Article 166 of the Strafgesetzbuch, the German criminal law. If a deed is capable of disturbing the public peace, defamation is actionable. The article reads as follows:[53]
§ 166 Defamation of religious denominations, religious societies and World view associations (1) Whoever publicly or by dissemination of writings (§ 11 par. 3) defames, in a manner suitable to disturb the public peace, the substance of the religious or world view conviction of others, shall be fined or imprisoned for up to three years. (2) Whoever publicly or by dissemination of writings (§ 11 par. 3) defames, in a manner suitable to disturb the public peace, a church existing in Germany or other religious society or world view association, or their institutions or customs, shall be punished likewise.
In 2006, the application of this article received much media attention when a Manfred van H. (also known as “Mahavo”) was prosecuted for defamation for distributing rolls of toilet paper with the words “Koran, the Holy Koran” stamped on them.[54][55][56] The defendant claimed he wanted to protest the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh in 2004 and the London bombings of 2005. Beyond the sentence he also received death threats from Islamists and needed a police bodyguard.[56]
What is called “Blasphemy law” here is just protection of religious people, in particular minorities against persecution and incitement of hatred. You know, because last time when it was en vogue in Germany it led to millions of people being exterminated for their (alleged) religious affiliation.
If such a protection is called “Blasphemy law”, the same would have to be said for laws protecting LGBT, disabled people, ethnic minorities and other vulnerable groups.
- Comment on Does trump know he cheats at golf? 2 weeks ago:
Imo. golf is the sport where it is the most absurd. It is made up so rich people can stand together, many meters away from anyone else to make shady deals. The entire game is just a McGuffin.