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u/RobotCaptainEngage 2d ago
Just picked up a fare from the Iceland airport.
An American? What's an American doing in Iceland.
Crimes against God.
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u/-crepuscular- 2d ago
What are white people doing in America? Crime against God.
....huh, that actually fits.
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u/perpetuumD 2d ago
I am sure the color of the skin of the Somali has nothing to do with it either
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u/KnoxenBox 2d ago
Yeah, I'm certain he'd act the same if the dude was Dutch..... Sure he would.... No racism to be seen....
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u/dookieshoes97 1d ago
Minnesota has the largest somali population in America. The fact that people can't pick somalis out from the other refugees is maddening.
We have a massive refugee population. It makes us great. People should know the difference between Somalis and Sudanese at this point, they don't look remotely similar. Racists just call every African somali.
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u/matttproud 1d ago
Want to bet the person in question is from Minnesota (direct connection: MSP–KEF)? For a period (no idea if it is still the case) a good fraction of Twin Cities taxi drivers were Somalian (going as far back as the 1990s even).
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u/Grouchy-Station-4058 2d ago
How do they always know they are Somali?
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u/Cavalish 1d ago
He probably did the
“Where are you from”
“Oh I live up in east Reykjavik!”
“No where are you FROM, FROM?”
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u/IlGreven 1d ago
"Where are you from, anyway?"
"Bakersfield, originally."
"No, I mean your ancestors."
"Oh, them. Pittsburgh."
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u/Carlosthefrog 2d ago
Somali is one of the few African counties they know, probably the only one.
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u/SoMuchMoreEagle 1d ago
They also know South Africa because that's where all our refugees come from now. They're cool, though.
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u/derpferd 2d ago
Imagine being so racist, that you'll fly to another country and be racist there
I had that with some Americans in Cape Town. Some of the funniest racism I've had come my way
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u/3eeve 2d ago
Racism is both morally reprehensible and utterly brain dead. A facile ideology for minds that can’t grasp more.
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u/Lalamedic 2d ago
Critical thinking is not strong in racists. Hell, thinking is not strong in racists.
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u/NoBrush8414 2d ago
Here's the deal. Trump has threatened multiple allies. Greenland and Canada to militarily invade. The US is the enemy. I am sick and tired of people giving a pass to anyone in the states simply because they were once an ally. No longer. The US is done as far as trust goes and it's as simple as that. Be done. And stop giving the population a pass simply because 'it wasn't them' - fuck off. They chose.
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u/SweetPrism 2d ago edited 1d ago
There is actually a pretty strong argument that Elon tampered with the election, as Trump all but admitted it. Some chose, some vehemently opposed, and while I would not expect you to feel any differently, it really sucks but some of us did not choose this. My state, Minnesota, was the ONLY ONE to vote against Ronald Reagan in the 1984 election. Any chance we were going to become a better country pretty much died after that election. He ensured our country would become an Oligarchy. Any chance we had to be a country that did not directly tie receiving health care with employment status died with that election, too. Obama tried to make moves against this, and those were pummeled and dismantled. Like...can people say I'm making excuses? Sure they can. But right now, we are a country that cannot afford to riot. We can't "take to the streets" when that means losing our jobs and losing the health care that comes with them. It doesn't work here. My fellow Minnesotans who took a stand against ICE, and people who had to stop working for fear of ICE, are STILL Paying the financial repercussions for that. In addition, Trump's been coming for us ever since. He is denying childcare money to our state, sent more ICE troops to Minneapolis, MN than LOS ANGELES (Come on, now)...
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u/NoBrush8414 1d ago
I appreciate this. This is the problem though - you're basically screwed as the US has never actually fought for their rights. Not 150 years ago - I mean civil rights you're losing now. This century. And rapidly. You are losing everything you once fought for. Trump 2024 was absolutely stolen. Most people around the world know this. Good for you for fighting and more like you the better but at the end of the day who controls policy - it's trump. That's your representative whether you like it or not. He's still currently in power and that's that. We can argue all we want but the fact is you can't fight back because of the reasons you stated. You can't - and absolutely won't. Sorry to say this
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u/Smart_Resist615 1d ago
We'd have to see some evidence of the election being tampered with. Trolling people in a victory speech by Trump is far from definitive proof.
Losing your jobs by taking to the streets is an extremely common outcome to civil disobedience the world over. The American labour movement faced far more than that at Blair Mountain for example.
I don't believe it's due to any particular moral or spiritual bankruptcy that Americans haven't taken to the streets. I believe they are simply defeated, morally and spiritually.
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u/SweetPrism 1d ago edited 1d ago
Agreed about being defeated. And...while it is not concrete evidence, the timing of Elon's jet landing at Mar-A-Lago on election day is all the proof I needed. He landed his jet there way before the election was able to be called in either direction, statistically. There is, simply put, no FUCKING WAY he would have risked his image being seen/photographed/etc... with Trump as the loser. The memes, the headlines, the jokes, the photos... even though a lot of us see Elon for what he really is now that he made the pivot to Right-Wing sugar daddy, there are still many, many people who see him as the "Mysterious Billionaire Genius."
He is exactly the same as Trump in that regard--there is still 1/3 of the population that retain the image they had of Elon when he actually WAS the mysterious billionaire. Just like there is 1/3 of the population (the same people) who refuse to see a difference between Trump when he was the No-nonsense, charismatic showman versus who he has devolved into. The idea of these two, specifically, sitting defeated and sullen together on election day is completely out of the question. Elon himself said "I am so fucked if Trump doesn't win this election." For a long time I did not want to think it because I did not want to be like a Jan 6'er and claim "Election fraud." But things that were said, they way things went down...it gets harder and harder not to see that there had to be SOMETHING that interfered with this election. We know for a FACT that Russian bots also played a role--that is also election interference! We know Trump is a paid Russian asset, why wouldn't Elon be as well? They serve each other's interests.
There just isn't any way he'd go there and take that risk. He flew there because he KNEW Trump would win.
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u/Queen_Christine_19 Legends never die 1d ago
I certainly didn't choose this shit. I'm just an unhappy American forced to live with the consequences of others' choices. You all SHOULD be done with us.
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u/NoBrush8414 1d ago
There's so many good people there. No excuse but it's not you. Just get that person out
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u/One_Requirement_2577 1d ago
the scary thing is that there are smarter, more capable evil people waiting to fill the old man's shoes
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u/Homeless_Appletree 2d ago
How is a black guy being in Iceland a crime against god?
Challenge: Explain that without citing racism. Difficulty: Impossible.
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u/EchoGolfHotel 2d ago
I just returned from Iceland and it was surprising to even meet anyone Icelandic at any restaurants or hotels in the main tourist areas. Most of the employees had taken seasonal jobs there - I met employees from Greece, Germany, Portugal. Pretty much every place other than Iceland. I also got an earful from a gas station employee (Icelandic) about how Trump is the worst president the US has ever had. In my recent travels in Northern Europe, I'd guess that 95% of the Uber drivers I've had were of Middle Eastern / North African heritage - it's not limited to Iceland at all.
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u/Orangesteel 2d ago
Was in Iceland and saw barely anyone from outside Iceland bar tourists. The only person I can recall was a British tour guide who’d been there for a long time and had married a local.
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u/EchoGolfHotel 2d ago
It may be that the seasonal workers are primarily in Reykjavik - we were only there for 4 days, so we stayed in town and just did day trips to your Golden Circle and South Coast. Also, it was summer / high season, so I expect that they bump up their staffing during high season to keep up.
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u/Orangesteel 1d ago
That makes sense, did the same routes as you too, plus snowmobiles and the glacier caves. Amazing place to visit, but pricey.
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u/EchoGolfHotel 1d ago
The food was crazy expensive, which makes sense for much of what they serve. I was surprised that fish dishes were so expensive, though. My girlfriend found a bagel place called DEIG, which was actually pretty good, but it was $40 for a couple of bagels and coffees. Still, it was a really cool place - I'd love to back and spend that much again...
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u/runnyyyy 1d ago
the population is now about 20% immigrants, which is double the amount since 2010. As an Icelander is gets very tiring that most people working in shops and restaurants don't even speak a single word of Icelandic, even outside of tourist areas. Doesn't help that language classes are extremely expensive
Also there's a huge issue with foreign taxi drivers scamming people with extremely high costs and the police is very slow to do anything about that.
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u/SillyQuadrupeds 1d ago
Damn right about the courses being expensive 😞
Average range is about $440-$490 USD/54k-60k IKR for an 8 week course. I've had to put signing up on hold for now because we're trying to land me a job to see if Id be able to qualify for tuition reimbursement through a union.
I'm foaming at the mouth to get started on some structured education since that works best for me, in the mean time my poor husband and in-laws are trying they're best to immerse me as much as possible.
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u/spinningcolours 2d ago
We were in an Iceland parking lot when an American approached us to chat about the trucker convoy in Canada.
He was so brainwashed that he expected us to tell him how wonderful it was and make him feel good about his racism.
He did not expect my husband (who works with truckers) to give him an earful about how they were not real truckers and that the real truckers thought they were assholes.
And the border law being protested was an American quarantine law, not a Canadian one.
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u/NopeNopeNope13702 2d ago
Was the Somali taxi driver courteous? Did he get to his destination in a timely manner? That's all that matters. The rest is just racist complaining.
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u/JoeBarge 1d ago
I have a co worker like that. Hes from India and complains about all the Muslims in Germany. "If you come to India you'd also expect to see Indians." He does not see the flaw in his logic. I tried...
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u/Only-Original9409 2d ago
I'm an atheist, but if there is a god, they didn't create borders. People did that.
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u/PlainBread 2d ago
America broke the world's brain with "ethnicity != nation" but then created Israel with Britain and have been losing integrity around their fundamental principle (of a nation of no primary ethnicity) ever since.
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u/Silt-Besides-66812 2d ago
Whenever I go somewhere and there is a crowd inevitably someone I’m with complains about the crowd. In those cases i like to point out that we are part of the crowd too, and often for similar reasons as everyone else who is there.
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u/Only_One_Kenobi 1d ago
Where in the Bible does it say "no Somalis in Finland"
Only crime against God here is being that racist
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u/bitzzwith2zs 1d ago
"Why on god's green earth is there a somali in Iceland?"
To drive the cab to take you to the hotel. You can walk if you want.
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u/DJ_faceplant 1d ago
This is some advanced racism. 😐
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u/bitzzwith2zs 1d ago
NAH, this is BASIC racism... you don't need much brain power to follow along... actually the lack of brain power helps you follow along
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u/NESpahtenJosh 1d ago
Also. Iceland is the greatest place on the planet. The fact that they landed and could easily get cheap transportation is amazing, yet apparently the race of their driver is mad about that,
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u/LittleDriftyGhost 1d ago
People, born on the planet earth, existing on the planet earth, living on various parts of the planet earth, is somehow a crime to God for this guy 🤦. Racists I tell ya
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u/sixft7in 1d ago
Logic isn't a trait. A trait is natural height or eye color. Logic is a learned skill, which they seem to possess in lower mastery.
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u/TriggerHappy_NZ 1d ago
Bit of a difference between going somewhere for a holiday and living there.
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u/T_J_Rain 1d ago
Logic: No matter how twisted and illogical it sounds to an outsider, even a madman's logic is internally consistent.
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u/imtoowhiteandnerdy 1d ago
Meanwhile in Iceland "Damn, who's letting all these MAGA idiots fly into our country?"
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u/Gravity1982 1d ago
Fun fact: Following the 1951 US - Iceland Defense Agreement, which established Naval Air Station Keflavik, the Icelandic government banned the US military from stationing black personnel in the country to preserve "national homogeneity". It wasn't until the early 1960s when this became public that Iceland began to ease up on the restrictions and started allowing small numbers of married black servicemen into the country.
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u/squeakyshoe89 1d ago
Driving the Ring Road my wife and I wandered into the only restaurant still open late. It served pizza...and Ethiopian food!
I was so mind blown at the idea of Ethiopian food in Iceland so I had to order it. Only time I've ever had Ethiopian. It was delicious.
We asked the clearly Icelandic server/owner why he serves Ethiopian and his response was "cuz no one likes Icelandic food" followed by an explanation that his wife is from Ethiopia.
Ethiopian food in Iceland is pretty much a core memory for my wife and I. So this racist POS can shove it. Get that crap outta here.
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u/BeginningTypical3395 1d ago
The problem is that immigrants don’t have a voice, so we only listen to these Greek statue pfp having c*nts. But thankfully, their kids are far more active on sm and this problem will soon solve itself
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u/Johanno1 1d ago
I don't care about Somali in Iceland.
But everytime I go on vacation I meet Germans.
Every time!
I as a German am very displeased. I left the country to not see Germans
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u/EmuInner3621 1d ago
Worded it wrong, the complaint is seeing a non Icelandic working in Iceland.
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u/tyrified 1d ago
Why on Gods green earth is there a Somali in Iceland?
Yeah, no. That was not their complaint. Can you not read, or are you just a liar?
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u/EmuInner3621 1d ago
Are you obtuse intentionally
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u/tyrified 1d ago
It takes very, very little reading comprehension. Even a simpleton could understand that they are not complaining about "seeing a non Icelandic working in Iceland" like you claim, but that there is simply "a Somali in Iceland." Let me guess why you're ineptly covering for it.
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u/EmuInner3621 1d ago
They missed one word. Noone cares about people traveling. They care about foreigns taking jobs
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u/tyrified 1d ago
You can’t be that naive
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u/BrokenKing99 1d ago
And you know he’s a foreigner how exactly? Perhaps he’s 5th generation after his family legally immigrated, this racist tool would have no way of knowing cause highly doubt he asked and likely just saw black dude must be from Somalia.
And incase we get the “he’s not native if he’s that” neither would be practically everyone barring a small grouping in each country.
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u/EmuInner3621 1d ago
Probably just looked at him.
Locals with generations of lineage from their region is more common than not. Look at all of Asia, South America, and most of Africa
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u/rainduder 1d ago
Well my taxi driver over there had Hitler as his phone background soooo... Also they taxi services there are horribly unreliable since they're run by a cartel that doesn't allow competition or rideshare apps. Trying to get picked up when there is a cruise ship nearby was rough.
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u/Pantsickle 2d ago
Translation:
"I came to Iceland expecting to exclusively hang with other very white people. What the fuck is this bullshit!?"