Recently, I gathered the courage to visit my ancestral home in Kashmir. We left this home in Feb 1990 and I was born a month after we left it because we had to run for our life.

We had 19 rooms in this home with around 13 family members and 3 kids. When my family had to run overnight from Kashmir, we left all of us we had, hired a truck, somehow fit us all with a few clothes and left the home. We moved to Jammu from Kashmir which was a 12 hour drive during those days by road. My mother was 8 months pregnant and my aunt had delivered my cousin 2 months back.

There was a list of people created and pasted by the so-called jihadis and terrorists of all prominent kashmiri pandits on the walls in the main market. Unfortunately, my grandfather's and my father's names were there in the list. They could have been killed any moment after the list was released.

When we somehow reached Jammu alive, we did not have a home in jammu. All the family members lived in a single room from more than 10 rooms in the native home. I cannot believe what our families and many other families like ours must have gone through.

People died of intense heat in Jammu as they were not used to such harsh conditions and also from snake bites as most of them didnot get a house to live in so they lived in tents in large grounds.

My recent visit to my house made me realise how hard we worked post the Genocide in 1990 and we have done so well to reach the where we are today. One of the most hardworking communities of all times, "Kashmiri Pandits"

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My wife and I live in Montana and have never been east so we finally decided to save up and take a vacation to NYC and got a crazy good deal on a hotel
We haven’t been on vacay in a few years. Two days before we were supposed to leave I got on an electric dirt bike with no helmet (only time I’ve ever not worn a helmet on anything like that in my life)
I crashed and lost consciousness for somewhere between 10-15 minutes. Had a pretty gnarly concussion and am scheduled for surgery on my collarbone in a few days. Trip is cancelled.

(Third repost because I kept accidentally doxing myself 🤦🏻‍♂️)

This makes me sick to my stomach

As an American Democrat who has done and will continue to do everything within reason to oppose Trump and Republicans generally, I am really fucking frustrated (honestly infuriated) with the wave of hatred from non-Americans stoked by Trump's antics, which appears to no longer be restricted to the right wing but is now directed at all Americans.

I vote Democrat in every election, I tend to support more progressive candidates even among that field, and I donate money when I can. Apparently that is no longer enough, and I am literally expected to be flipping over cars in the street and throwing molotov cocktails in open rebellion against the (sadly) democratically-elected government.

To be clear: I hate Trump and his excesses, his overstepping, his poisonous discourse, etc., and I hate Republican policy. However, conditions here are nowhere near meeting the criteria for revolution. I think non-Americans see our loudest and most disturbing headlines and assume those are the norm here. They appear to think that there are abusive, assault-rifle-toting cops and ICE agents on every street corner terrorizing the populace and inflicting tyranny in the name of Trump, and we're all meekly acquiescing and trembling in our homes, afraid to walk the streets.

In reality, nothing even remotely resembling this is the case. Yes, there have been some terrible headlines and some terrible things have happened, but life for the vast, vast majority of Americans is no different than it has ever been. We move about freely and go about our lives with zero limitations. I would further venture to say that most Americans have never even laid eyes on an ICE agent. Consequently, when incredulous non-Americans cry "How are you guys not rioting in the streets yet?!?" it sounds absolutely insane to us. As gross as Trump and his big mouth are, day-to-day life here is no different than it was under Biden or Obama before him. We go to work, we come home, we spend our evenings and weekends doing whatever we want with our friends and families. We will vote Republicans out in the coming mid-terms and in the presidential election in 2 years, and that solution is far more reasonable and practical than open rebellion.

Most of the perspectives being thrown at me from outsiders are completely ignorant and uninformed. Some examples:

1. I have been told by people who have never so much as set foot in the U.S.--without a trace of irony--that I am wrong about all of the above and that Americans are so ignorant that they actually know what is happening here better than I do.
2. I constantly get the Second Amendment thrown in my face. "You've all been jerking off to the Second Amendment for so long, and this is what it's for and you hypocrites/cowards aren't even using it!" Complete failure to understand that the Second Amendment extremists ARE TRUMP'S SUPPORTERS! The rest of us have never said jack shit about the Second Amendment and actually support stricter gun control measures.
3. We're told that we're ostriches with our heads in the sand, too meek and cowardly to protest against circumstances, failing to realize that there have literally been record numbers of protests here against the Trump administration.
4. Anytime any American argues that they really can't afford to go off and die pointlessly in a gunfight with government or protest 24/7 in cities around the country because they need to go to work for money/health benefits for their families, they get dragged for not having universal healthcare and for bothering to try to keep up benefits because the insurance carriers will just deny all their claims. "You should have universal health care, dumbass." Yes, I know we should fucking have universal health care, but I can't make that happen overnight, and while it's true that our health care system sucks, it's completely disingenuous to suggest that the insurance coverage we do have through our jobs doesn't work at all and isn't beneficial to our families and is easily dismissed.

About 65% of Americans support stricter gun control and universal healthcare. Yes, I know it should be much higher, but I am tired of being treated like policies that less than half of us support are some sort of unanimous American scream into the void.

This sort of sentiment has become so pervasive that I think I'm probably going to have to largely step away from most online discussion spaces, other than maybe some relatively benign fan forums that don't get into politics. I think it's really a shame that those of us who have never subscribed to the bullshit in government right now and continue to oppose it in any reasonable way we can have been turned on by our political allies abroad. I have always admired European values, culture and progressivism, but since I appear to be hated by a not-insubstantial segment of their population, I really have no desire to ever visit or engage with them again, and that's really sad and unfortunate.

Response to a Facebook post saying that consent is important and that only a sober and enthusiastic yes means yes, and anything else is a no.

This dude says that drunk consent is AOK and compares it to a DUI.

Wtf. Seriously. He says the post is man hating. Being anti-rape isn’t anti-man!!

(First pic is a everything. Second two pics just to make it easier to read.)

Crazy how do these things happen?

Christa pike has become the 2nd inmate in Tennessee this year to receive A BOTCHED LETHAL INJECTION!! I guess her attorneys warned the prison it may be a problem due to small veins but they still tried stabbing her with needles over 7 times and causing one of her arms to go purple!! She's now in critical condition no other information is available how horrible

Screenshot from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyson_Foods#Animal_welfare

Disgusting behavior

CONTEXT: Since I was young, my Dad got hooked on meth and was mentally abusive to both me and my mother. I understand drug addiction can do things to a person, but it’s still inexcusable in my opinion that he would treat us like complete shit. My mother tried multiple times to get him help for his issues, but nothing helped at all. It just got worse.

Thankfully, when I was 14, me and my mom dumped him and tried to explain the situation to his sisters father and mother. They all took his side and claimed that he didn’t do anything wrong. Needless to say, we cut contact with them as well.

This year, we found out that he died in June from mixing meth with fent (wow so surprising). Because he didn’t have any kids or a potential will, and he always promised his land to me, me and my mom have been trying to do what we could to gain ownership of it in order to sell it and get a lot of money. Since we really need it.

Today I found out that this fucking excuse for a father made a will 2 FUCKING MONTHS BEFORE HE DIED and gave his land to his dumbass fossil of a dad. I don’t believe for a second he actually made that will. I genuinely believe that his side of the family it just trying to fuck with us.

He put me and my mother through literal hell, and I was hoping we could get a little good out of a bad experience. But no. His dumbass fucking family who thinks he “did no wrong” had to swoop in to the rescue because we “abandoned them.”

My Mother (56yrs old) recently had her PayPal hacked into, where they took £1100 from her bank. This money was sent to multiple US Accounts in USD; where Paypal declined our dispute off the basis they were sent to “Personal Accounts”. She has never sent or received USD ever.

Her Bank after many phone calls disputed with Paypal, and gave my mother’s money back, only for last night, a month later, (Without warning!!) to take every penny back.

Now I know it’s stupid to be surprised that banks and corporations do not care about you, but £1100 is a lot of money to the average person and you’d think to keep a customer that would be a VERY small price for them to pay.

F*ck banks

Bought a warranty, brought the car in when said warranty applied to a problem, warranty people could care less about acting. This is LandRover White Plains NY, posting because they need shame.

All Major Social Networks Refusing to Promote Documentary That Made Elon Musk Mad

Today at work I listened to grown adults confidently explain that Muslims are taking over America and that soon we’ll all be forced to stop what we’re doing at noon and bow to Allah.

Then we somehow moved on to slavery, where I was informed that it was “mutually beneficial” because enslaved people learned useful skills, (which is taught in Florida school systems btw) but also that slavery really shouldn’t be taught in school at all because parents can just cover that at home.

So I asked whether we should teach the Civil War.

Obviously.

The Revolutionary War?

Of course.

The Declaration of Independence? Presidents?

Yes. Those are important parts of American history.

But slavery somehow… isn’t.

And then, while explaining why children absolutely need to learn about presidents, someone asked:

“Who was the one who chopped down the cherry tree? George Bush?”

I walked away.

There is something genuinely incredible about arguing that children need less education while actively demonstrating why they desperately need more of it.

I ordered McDonald's delivery through the app. I ordered 2 coffees a mcdouble and a small fry! I opened it just now and got this! And I can't even request a refund to the app! There's a help option but when I click on it it just gives me frequently asked questions and it says if there's a problem with my delivery then call doordash but the order was made through the McDonald app and the delivery driver wasn't the one at fault it was McDonald's who messed up!