Definitely yeah! If you’re just a regular person living in a fairly democratic country and you’re thinking about physically clogging your usb ports to avoid someone breaking in your room and tampering your device while you’re exploring Barcelona, or if you consider removing camera and microphone from your pixel phone that you use every day, you’re probably taking it too far.

OTOH I’m still having trouble getting people away from Meta apps and I think it’s absolutely crazy how little thought people put into the amount of data that Meta collects.

TBH even in many dictatorships you’re mostly fine just using a VPN and fake accounts if you have government critical opinions. But that’s just my personal experience. Goes without saying if you have a decent follower count or are some kind of journalist you should be very paranoid.

Anyway, the point is, it’s probably good to feel slightly paranoid because most people aren’t paranoid enough, but most of us are also not Edward Snowden or Saudi journalists, so there should be a balance between practicality and privacy.

You are stunning and brave

Mario

Sensei, I am a citizen now so I have every right you have. Are you saying that in western liberal democracy a good citizen speaks only English and German? Is French okay as well or is it forbidden? What about Spanish, Turkish, Dutch, Hebrew? Would you say this chart is accurate?

Seriously though are you okay? I’m legit having trouble following your line of argument and your strategy seems to be to completely overwhelm everyone with incoherent walls of text.

Btw I can also go through your comment history, don’t be a racist dick just because you have family in Israel. Maybe tell them to stop being genocidal maniacs and maybe stop being one yourself.

Unlike you, I won’t say that Germans by nature have an urge to commit genocide. I just think some people like you are giant dicks for supporting that and for all the hatemongering.

Yeah I had a really hard time fitting in. It was pretty difficult not to constantly harass women when I first arrived in Europe. My mom told me to treat women with respect but my Arab nature just makes it impossible.

My plan was to live from social benefits and steal jobs from people like you but I never received any benefits so I just ended up working because apparently no local was able to do that job (wtf are you guys doing?).

I also had a hard time fitting into liberal, democratic society. My natural urge to oppress women and dominate locals was only topped by my inability to accept freedom of speech.

When I went to an anti-genocide protest I learned that I’m not allowed to speak Arabic and that a Palestine flag is a terror symbol, which somehow makes sense again considering that Palestine is also a middle eastern country and it’s in our blood to be terrorists. On the other hand you can basically say that everyone in Gaza should be killed and it should become a parking lot and that seems fine? I’m still trying to figure out how freedom of speech works given that I have never experienced it before.

Maybe you can teach me how to become a proper citizen, someone as decent as you are sensei?

So make us drink water, say what you wanna say

Not what I said, bye.

Yeah that’s trivial to mention. I still care about why they shared the anecdote and you can repeat the obvious as much as you want but it won’t answer my question.

Why is everyone suddenly speaking German

Extra line please I don’t eat pork

If you move to a big city it’s fine, just don’t move to the countryside imo.

E.g. in Berlin I’ve visited a couple times, if you go to Sonnenallee (شارع العرب) you’re not gonna know you’re in Germany anymore. So there you’ll only be involved in all the racism among us but you won’t find any Germans to be racist :D

Thanks, this doesn’t explain why OP is sharing that anecdote and I still don’t know what they’re trying to say with it.

Are they saying Germans hate Muslims? Are they saying hating Muslims is justified?

What are you trying to say here?

Now do Israeli war criminals

How? We’ve been doing this for almost 2 years and the genocide is still ongoing

No thank you

I‘m literally just vibing and having good food like OP posted

I haven’t had anything but meth and bud lights in days what am I gonna say? Thank you queen

If you wanna get banned for being pro-Palestine go ahead :/

Fair enough, I don’t think you understand how different middle eastern societies are though from your individualistic American society. It’s normal to have 10 siblings and literally 100s of cousins and uncles/aunts. It’s normal to have family spread across the entire Middle East, the entire world actually. Our diaspora communities are huge, we have friends from all kinds of places and we talk a lot. In the end all I can offer you is a perspective, take it or leave it and most importantly enjoy your day!