Al-Masri vs. Mileokovski
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  • 82 points ofekk214

    I still can't get over Hesbullah displaying their militants like fucking Supergoal cards.

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    27 points npb7693

    Peak mentioned

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    28 points Fine-Entertainer-507

    With Iran funding drying up we will be getting Hezbollah collectibles soon

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    14 points SmallPeePee6

    Please tell me this is wikipedia trolling(?) holy fuck HAHAHAHAHHAAH

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    8 points ofekk214

    Nope. Supergoal was (or is I don't remember, last time I saw them was 10 years ago) a real thing. Collectible cards of Israeli soccer players. Back when I was in elementary we'd trade cards and gamble them against one another.

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    6 points Ahad_Haam

    That thing is one of the biggest grifts ever created. These cards were really just a bunch of incredibly over priced stickers, but it had football players! And it was official! And shiny! And the company distributed free album stickers outside schools to trap kids in it.

    The stickers were sold in those shiny, expensive packages that were essentially loot boxes. Some cards were incredibly rare. In order to actually collect all the cards, you had to spend thousands of shekels. Then, if you did, it allowed you to be enrolled in a lottery, and the very few winners of said lottery got free tickets (and flights) to a football game abroad. Lmao.

    Now the worst part is that kids traded stickers with each other or played games to win stickers of other kids, so it was a social experience and if you didn't have a box full of stickers to trade or play with you were left out. I didn't even like football and I basically forced my parents to spend money on this garbage (although not in the thousands like some other kids, in fact I was one of the "poor" kids with few stickers). I completely understand why my parents hated the entire thing.

    I wonder how high their profits were. Must have been astronomical. I bet similar grifts are still ongoing to this day.

    Edit:

    Here we have a complete, full album specimen:

    https://youtu.be/sBqO60fqhyA?si=2rT_Uq9P3ELwf3ao

    Apparently 70% of the content in the album was ads. I didn't remember that part of the grift, it's incredible!

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    2 points barbos_barbos

    Lol, I still remember trading half of my stamp collection for this shit in the 90s. As a new Ole kid this is the only currency we had.

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    1 points npb7693

    Shit was crazy, every first day of school people will be waiting just outside of school grounds next to the gate and give away the albums for free with a free pack to get you addicted. The packs were sold in kiosks. So one side of the store was cigarettes, lottery tickets and soccer betting tickets and behind the counter they had supergoal packs for the kids.

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  • 54 points npb7693

    No joke, many of those Hezbollah posters did look like people I personally know in a kinda uncanny way

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    19 points FirmConcentrate2962

    J2-istan

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    12 points imokayjustfine

    At least half of them looked like they could be my cousins!!

    Which checks out since I’ve been learning more about ancestry. 🥲 Never ask Hezbollah supporters to chart closest populations to various Lebanese populations…..because they WILL see Ashkenazi Jewish populations much closer than they’d be comfortable with lmao

    Incidentally I’ve also been confused for Lebanese a couple times before, both of which have been. Awkward 😭

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    8 points makeyousaywhut

    Lmfao, when will people catch on that we are just more ancient Arabs

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    14 points okabe700

    I will always be the number 1 campaigner of Israel joining the Arab league

    https://preview.redd.it/chx2x5u2qz7g1.jpeg?width=524&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6805e3444d63a06dc14286d87d2795177d4029b

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    3 points Liavskii

    No thank u kind sir

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    3 points jaxonflaxxonwaxon

    The muslims from the levant are just the descendants of jews who thought mohammed was the messiah who'll build the third temple and converted to islam

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    13 points makeyousaywhut

    Eh, disagree, was probably more like “hey, you be Muslim or pay Jizya, be a Dhimmi, and maybe die”

    And some were like “well it seems worth it to convert under the pressure.” Some also were like “let’s not.”

    It’s called arabization and it’s a recognized form of colonialism.

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    3 points jaxonflaxxonwaxon

    Yeah ofc there was a lot of forced conversion, despite what the muslims keep repeating, mohamed and his friends killed a lot of innoceny people but i only said it because some jews actually converted and helped mohamed and his movement stay afloat when he was kicked out of mecca

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    1 points Liavskii

    Arabized*

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  • 13 points Immediate_Secret_338

    Cousins by chance, enemies by choice

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    1 points dupeygoat

    Lovers by instinct

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  • 7 points mohammeddddd-

    Shia with lastname Masri?

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    4 points SmallPeePee6

    One well-known Shi’a (Ismaili) figure sometimes referenced with that nisba is Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān, a major Fatimid Ismaili jurist. The Institute of Ismaili Studies describes him as the foremost Ismaili jurist and founder of Fatimid Ismaili jurisprudence,  and Shia-oriented sources sometimes refer to him as “Qazi Nu‘man al-Misri.” LOL🤣

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  • 10 points ReferenceBeautiful93

    the arabic text made me pull out my eyes and clean them (jk but fr i had to wash my eyes after seeing arabic BC I FKING HATE IT)

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    8 points SmallPeePee6

    Based fr*nch

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    7 points ReferenceBeautiful93

    hell yeah i love being called french

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    3 points realhayate

    We accept u 🫶

    though I'm not French by ethnicity too

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    1 points ReferenceBeautiful93

    hell yeah i'm evolving step by step

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    4 points MB4050

    What's the problem with the Mujahideen martyr Ali Shabib Muhsan?

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    2 points ReferenceBeautiful93

    his name is the stereotype of a habibi

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    1 points MB4050

    Ali Shabib Muhsan or Zain al Abhin?

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    1 points ReferenceBeautiful93

    habibi habibi, habibi habibi

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  • 4 points big_basher

    Is that markeplier

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  • 3 points apo--

    My great grandfather had exactly the same ears.

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  • 4 points Awkward-Minute7774

    Accurate!, they both do like to throw their own kind in front of the bus.

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    5 points floppy_flips

    I mean I don't think that's a reference to driving through Bnei Brak but low key true

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  • 1 points vigilante_snail

    Lmao it’s my twin

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  • 1 points thegreattiny

    Oh this is a funny joke. I wish we had more jokes like this on this subreddit.

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