Bad dog.

Oh. He wants to hunt to the sheep. He wants to create them, let them loose, and then hunt them.

I was imagining the sheep would be his hunting companion, like he’s a modern day Paul Bunyan with a giant sheep instead of an ox.

Ghettoes were neighbourhood where Jews were forced to live in Nazi Europe, so I’d say that sounds worse.

uninhabited rocks in the middle of the sea

Well, part of the issue is that they technically aren’t uninhabited anymore.

The largest naturally occurring island in the area is occupied by the ROC. A grand total of four civilians live there (and 220 troops). It has an airport that occupies the entire length of the island.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Island

Is four people enough to claim an island? Taiwan seems to think so, and they are a vital US ally.

Also Taiwan is claiming to be China and all that because the PRC wants to keep the status quo.

Taiwan actively asserts its ownership of the South China Sea.

https://en.mofa.gov.tw/theme.aspx?n=1462&s=40&sms=294

China’s claim is the same as Italy claiming the whole Mediterranean as their own because at some point the Roman empire claimed it

The claims of both the PRC and the ROC are based on their continued and historical use of certain islands in the sea. Vietnam makes the same claim. The tribunal ruled that those islands are too small to count. (Vietnam accepted the ruling. The PRC and the ROC both rejected the ruling.)

The Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei base their claims to the sea on the concept of an Exclusive Economic Zone, which under international maritime law extends 200 nautical miles from their shores.

How can this story not be true? I heard about it on facebook from someone who says she heard about it from her neighbour, who heard about it from her daughter, who heard about it from a friend.

This stranger’s neighbour’s daughter’s friend saw Haitians carving up her cat with her own eyes.

Do people honestly have no ability to spot a bullshit rumor? She didn’t even claim she saw it with her own eyes, or that she knows someone who saw it with their own eyes. She literally says it was a friend of a friend of a friend.

the only hope the world has

You mean the only hope Israel has.

Hey, guess what? Accusing people of being shills doesn’t actually fix any of the Democrats’ problems.

No, but she does seem to be the president of Israel’s cheer squad.

The forecast isn’t a poll. 538 analyzes data from polls to create their forecast.

If you don’t want to read the article, you could at least read the headline, which is also the title of this lemmy post that you’re commenting on right now. Look at the top of your screen. It says “forecast”.

Arab-Americans in Michigan care, and it’s going to cost Harris Michigan.

Harris’s lack of action on Gaza is the reason she’s sinking in the forecasts.

She should help Gaza to help herself, if for no other reason.

“Do the weave”? I wonder if he meant to say “duck and weave”. Like a boxer.

And you know off the top of your head the chapter and verse of a random ayat recited by your imam (in Arabic)?

Also, you seem rather negative about Islam for a person who attends asr prayers.

One of the four quls (which Muslims are encouraged to memorize, and which are usually used in salah) says:

O Al-Kafiroun [non-Muslims]! I worship not that which you worship, Nor will you worship that which I worship. And I shall not worship that which you are worshipping. Nor will you worship that which I worship. To you be your religion and to me my religion.

It’s in the article I linked above.

and that’s the job of imams

Usually people do the five daily prayers in their homes or places of work with no imam around. They might go to a mosque once a week on Friday and hear an imam lead the prayer, and yes, the imam could decide to recite sura al-Baqarah (if the imam doesn’t mind trying the patience and stamina of the congregation, who would have to stand in prayer for an hour while the imam finishes reciting it), but that would be unusual. And even if that did happen, it’s not happening five times a day.

It’s more likely that Muslims would hear sura al-Baqarah once a year, during Ramadan, when the entire Quran is read over 30 nights.

idk what mazhab you follow are you a shia?

I didn’t say I was a Muslim.

I don’t know where you got the idea that reciting sura al-Baqarah is a common part of salah.

Reciting a sura from the Quran is part of salah, but usually the reciter will choose one of the short suras from near the back of the Quran (known as the quls).

Sura al-Baqarah is the longest sura in the Quran, being 286 verses long, and it is quite rare to recite it during the five-times daily salah, because no one has time for that, and not many people know it by heart.

now, anyone wants to talk about how many times do muslims curse non-muslims (and that too idol worshipers) in their daily 5 prayers?

I’m pretty sure the answer is zero.

The 5 daily prayers (called salah) follow a script, and none of it involves cursing non-Muslims.

(Salah is different from dua, a form of prayer where a Muslim requests something from God. That doesn’t follow a script.)

I had a feeling that the polyamourous Oregonian who watches Supernatural and campaigns for ranked choice voting might be a fan of Bernie.

I hoped I might be eligible for Irish citizenship through my grandfather, and recently found out that I’m not.

My visa runs out soon and I have to return to the imperial core.