• Asafum@feddit.nl
        21·
        5 days ago

        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…

        • jdf038@mander.xyz
          13·
          4 days ago

          deadlifts 350

          becomes mayor of a mid sized city

          deadlifts 400

          becomes mayor of a larger city

          This is how it works right?

        • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
          7·
          4 days ago

          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

          • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            3 days ago

            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…

            • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              Movies and TV have in recent decades really leaned heavily into a level of muscle that isn’t possible for the average person to attain without performance enhancements. This combined with gymfluencers who take performance enhancers and people who’s hobby is lifting so they spend many hours a week at the gym plus average people not having the time or money for the gym makes a perfect storm of most people not knowing what a healthy amount of muscle or a healthy build looks like

              Oh and expectations have always been for women to be overly thin so far too many women are led to feel that their healthy weight isn’t skinny enough

          • Asafum@feddit.nl
            4·
            4 days ago

            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

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    1601·
    5 days ago

    I find direct offensive bigots 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.

    • python@lemmy.world
      101·
      4 days ago

      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?

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        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.

      • Gladaed@feddit.org
        3·
        3 days ago

        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.

  • unphazed@lemmy.world
    33·
    4 days ago

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

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        Do these people who claim to be Christian even know their beloved book?

        Very, very few. It’s really frustrating when talking to them because of their ignorance of their own operations manual. As an agnostic, I’m embarrassed for them. I took the time to read it many many many times along with the Mormon text, Hindu religions, Janeism, Buddhism, etc and about 3 years ago I finally finished the English translation of the Quran. They can’t seem to handle one book.

        And I do not say these things from any moral high ground or superiority. However, if you come to my door and tell me I’m going to eternal damnation because I do not believe in the same way they do, their book, and their god, then they better bring their A game.

        America was founded by people fleeing religious persecution from the government installed in their homeland, official Church. They left us two principals to live by. Freedom of religion…that’s them, and most importantly, freedom from religion, that’s me.IMHO we can all coexist given 3 criteria are strictly met:

        • Lawful: that’s obvious
        • Peaceful: Another obvious
        • Stays out of my politics: One not so very obvious to a lot of people. That is by design. When ever you have a religiously dominated government, it always, always, always turns out bad.

        Give a man someone to hate and he’s bend over and spread his cheeks for your amusement. (Paraphrased LBJ)

      • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
        6·
        3 days ago

        I travel around my (deep purple) state with a satchel of various brassicas. Going out of the house in this area without a curated collection of cruciferous comestibles would be like going into a hot war without merely a sidearm.

        • Everyone knows that any green thing can ward off the common MAGA chud, but many are unaware that so-called “enlightened” centrists are actually attracted to broccoli. Don’t be fooled. For them, you must brandish brussels sprouts - preferably still attached to a long stalk. Then, launch into a cooking lesson, but do NOT DETACH OR BOIL THE SPROUTS. You will have your quarry at the first hint of Maillard’s reaction, and they will either join your cause or become total hermits.
        • Liberals will claim to favor kale, but I’ve had success presenting them with multiple diverse varietials while explaining that “Lacinato” and “Dinosaur” are both equally accurate and acceptable terms when used to refer to the bumpy, dark green kind. Your utter indifference to - and rejection of - their “correct” preference will eventually send them into a blind, self-destructive rage - if you’re patient and hold the line. Just be sure to stand outside their blast radius when they finally go.
        • You must be creative and self-assured when it comes to libertarians, but try showing off a fresh romanesco cauliflower while delivering a long-winded (but efficient) diatribe in which you logically interweave fractals, calculus, coastlines, cacti, psychedelics and concepts of cognitive sovereignty. Once they sense that you have more than a surface-level understanding of these topics, and genuinely care about how they each relate to objective, consensus reality, they pathetically slink away like old goats, having fired not a single round of reloaded ammunition out of their bespoke 3d-printed handgun.

        Good luck out there!

  • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    It’s always some kind of projection, these are the people who get triggered by the mere existence of LBGTQ people.

    They legitimately think their reaction is normal so these posts would trigger the muslims too.

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
    48·
    4 days ago

    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.

    • madjo@feddit.nl
      12·
      4 days ago

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

      • Masamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        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!

        • DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          3 days ago

          Their minds explode the moment they visit Japan, one of the least vegan friendly countries and simultaneously one of the most tofu loving ones

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        3 days ago

        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”

      • QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works
        111·
        4 days ago

        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.

        • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
          6·
          4 days ago

          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!

            • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              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!

          • optional@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            3 days ago

            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.

            • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
              1·
              3 days ago

              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

              • optional@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                3 days ago

                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.

                • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  3 days ago

                  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.

          • hdsrob@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            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.

        • Vinstaal0@lemmy.world
          2·
          4 days ago

          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.

    • Ajen@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      4 days ago

      Except everyone finds shit offensive, and I don’t think Muslims care about Christians eating pork. Pigs are not sacred to Muslims, it’s actually the opposite.

      It would be very different if they were sending pictures of steak to Hindus, for example.

  • Linkalee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    45·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • Drusas@fedia.io
    100·
    5 days ago

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

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      8·
      4 days ago

      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.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
      4·
      4 days ago

      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.

    • roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      6·
      4 days ago

      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.

      • ladytaters@lemmy.world
        9·
        4 days ago

        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.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      4 days ago

      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.

  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
    36·
    4 days ago

    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

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    685·
    5 days ago

    I literally believe an innocent, defenseless, sentient creature was systematicallty and needlessly tortured and murdered to make this and that my tax dollars paid to subsidize it. If this isn’t triggering to me, I can’t even imagine how fucking stupid this looks to Muslims who think God forbids it. Like should someone fire back a video of themselves disregarding the Sabbath and expect Christians to care?

    And isn’t pork haram predominantly because it was considered by people like Muhammad to be impure? So this sounds more like someone sending them a video of scraping gum off the underside of a desk and chewing it. You sure owned them.

    • Pyr@lemmy.ca
      702·
      5 days ago

      It was probably considered impure because pigs have a big parasite issue before industrialization and improper cooking often led to people getting sick or dying.

      A lot of religious “rules” can typically be boiled down to trying to keep people alive by making sure they avoid potential dangerous things, increasing their hygiene, or just making life easier and reducing hardships.

      It’s almost like people in charge realized that it would be easier to get people to do things if it meant going to heaven and avoiding hell instead of jail or something.

        • Contentedness@lemmy.nzEnglish
          19·
          5 days ago

          Super interesting!

          He shall kill one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot. Then he is to take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn and the live bird, dip them into the blood of the dead bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times. He shall purify the house with the bird’s blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet yarn. Then he is to release the live bird in the open fields outside the town. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.”

          Being a priest must have been a very different job back in the day.

        • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          5 days ago

          What kind of mould was this, I wonder? It sounds gross, and if such efforts went into eradication it must have been super toxic.

      • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
        17·
        5 days ago

        That and drawing a division between the in-group (who must follow the laws, but are protected) and the out-groups (who are filthy barbarians whom one does not fraternise with)

      • Saleh@feddit.org
        10·
        5 days ago

        The Quran does not specify the reason for the prohibition and this is the common theory. Other theories i have heard, but not from scholars, revolve around pigs being particularly social and empathetic animals. Although the same can be said for grazing animals and many hunted animals that are considered halal.

      • saimen@feddit.org
        4·
        5 days ago

        Or it’s like evolution. There were a lot of arbitrary rules and the ones which actually made people survive thus survived as well.

      • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        5 days ago

        The stated reason is because pigs are considered unclean because they’ll live in conditions we consider dirty, and will eat things we consider unclean.

        It can be very tempting to look at ways that modern beliefs and practices overlap with historical ones and find ways that make them “make sense” from a modern perspective. This can make it harder to understand what people actually believed, or see the framework they were using, pushing the “oddness” somewhere else, like a bubble under a piece of plastic.

        For parasites, we think of pork as carriers of parasites in the modern world because our supply chain has eliminated them from other commonly eaten meats.
        This lines up with 2/3 of abrahamic religions having a prohibition against pork: they must have gotten the right answer for the wrong reason.
        Except in the times those religions were developed pigs weren’t greater vectors than other animals.
        There were also other contemporaneous cultures that didn’t have that prohibition despite very similar circumstances. If it were a food safety issue we would expect to see other cultures have the same prohibition. Similar problems have similar solutions after all.

        https://archaeology.org/issues/march-april-2025/letters-from/on-the-origin-of-the-pork-taboo/

        • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 days ago

          we think of pork as carriers of parasites in the modern world because our supply chain has eliminated them from other commonly eaten meats

          Our supply chain has also eliminated them from pork at this point. As far as I know, most trichinosis in the US, at least, is wild game (bear and boar) and home-reared hogs not subject to the controls on commercial hogs.

          Also, I liked that article. It seems like the long story short is that the proto-jews and proto-muslims were pastoralists who wouldn’t have raised pigs themselves, and when they butted into neighboring peoples who did raise pigs, that difference became a cultural identifier, and its importance was magnified to the point of becoming an actual prohibition.

          • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            4 days ago

            Yup. And bobcat, of all things. Last I checked that was the last US confirmed case. (It makes sense since bobcat obviously can get trichinosis, but eating bobcat seems like such an unlikely thing to do)

            I didn’t get persnickety on the details there because common understanding hasn’t caught up with the reality of the food safety situation. It’ll take a while before people really accept that you can cook pork medium rare and be just fine, and longer still for tastes to adapt, since the guidelines only officially changed in 2011 and medium rare pork still feels underdone to a lot of people.

    • arrow74@lemmy.zip
      7·
      5 days ago

      I can’t even imagine how fucking stupid this looks to Muslims who think God forbids

      Truthfully it probably doesn’t matter to them that much. They are told not to eat pork because it is unclean. Why care if someone else does it? It’s not like it’s a sacred animal they were commanded not to eat. I think that’s a big difference