ARABIC numerals are being forced on NY children 😂

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A viral hoax fooled a buncha right wing influencers claiming that Zohran Mamdani, the incoming mayor of New York City, would force public school children to “learn Arabic numerals.” The satirical rumor was designed to provoke outrage, despite the fact that Arabic numerals—the digits 0 through 9—are the basic numbers taught and used every day in the United States. Many right-wing influencers either misunderstood or chose to amplify the claim as proof of radical educational policy or alleged “Islamification”.​

Among those who spread the hoax, Derrick Evans, a far-right activist and former legislator, tweeted: “BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani plans to mandate that all elementary school students in New York learn Arabic numerals. We must protect our children from forced cultural change!” His message was widely circulated and spurred similar reactions online. Laura Loomer, another prominent voice, commented, “He should certainly be denaturalized. Only in America can an Islamic immigrant… become Mayor of America’s most iconic city,” attacking Mamdani in the context of the hoax and implying a broader cultural threat. Ian Miles Cheong, a popular right-wing internet personality, wrote: “JUST IN: Newly elected NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani will be REQUIRING all K-12 students to learn Arabic numerals. They’re not even trying to hide it anymore,” reinforcing alarm and amplifying the viral misunderstanding.​

Their posts were soon joined by meme accounts and additional conservative influencers, such as Catturd and Libs of TikTok, who echoed outrage about the supposed mandate, helping the story snowball into a wider right-wing backlash. Fact-checkers and educators attempted to clarify the situation, pointing out the absurdity and revealing how quickly misinformation spreads when influential figures latch onto satirical content as if it were true.

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Wrong conclusion. They should have pointed out how quickly misinformation spreads when influential figures are stupid.

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Arabic numbers ?

What are they ?

They are in reality Hindi numbers. During the first great islamic flood (Ottoman Empire), they discovered the Hindi number. They are so superior to the Roman notation, so they adopt it.

And stupid people (or ignorant, but people from today are not that they are misinform people to make noise and get money and notoriety) says “It’s arabic numbers”…

Just like America name: an error at the beginning and > 600 years later the name is still there. The guy who propagate this name used America (from Amerigo Vespucci) instead of Christophe Colomb.

Check @ wikipedia…

PS:influential figures are not stupid; they do that to get noise, followers, success and money.

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I would be happy if I could say that some nazi guys from germany would not react like this. This kind of stupidity shows that education is the most important part. The fact that it is so is for this people not from interest by the way. I had a fundamental christian sitting beside me which told me, the earth is flat and is standing on 4 pillars like it is written somewhere in the Bible. I tried to tell this guy that this is not true. When he went home of course he used his navigation system. But still: the earth is flat.

Ignorance is a big problem this days and it was also before. But it is dangerous. Question is: when the first guy starts marching with a gun in his hands to end up this problem to protect americam childs from learning arabic numbers. Man. What a hell we are living in.

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That joke seems to do the circuit every time a brown person gets elected in the west :roll_eyes:.

The most common racism I see is lefty liberals putting on big performative, sanctimonious displays of how PC they are and unwittingly demonstrating they actually are racist in the process:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JGmKHrWKMQ

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I know. But since Europe got them from North Africa they are called and taught as ‘Arabic’ numbers (at least they were when I started school)

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Eyes wide shut? :roll_eyes:

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I think so, that’s why you’re keen to believe the “right wing influencer” and “prominent voice” narrative rather than the random fuckwit reality.

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The entire point is: this is racism and they try to get people upset with this. I still don’t understand how people can believe that this is something “new” and “muslimic”. But this people becoming upset. Education would help.

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In the US the Right fights a war on education. I followed since the 90s how especially the christian right took over school boards, banned the teaching of things they don’t like (eg evolution, sex education, gender vs sex) and pushed their narrative (eg ‘intelligent design’, ‘traditional’ roles, toxic masculinity (unsurprisingly more and more boys agree with “YOUR body, MY choice” and taunt girls with it). Trump was elected with the support of the christian Right, and that war on Education has massively increased under Trump with attacks on experts, pushing of conspiracy theories, putting anti-vaxxers in control of health, and calling anything they don’t like ‘fake’.

Education won’t solve the problem when you are being taught ideology and religious nonsense.

I always have to think of the quote “If you are used to privilege, then equality feels like oppression”. I think that is the basis for the Right’s rather absurd politics, and their decrying anything that tries to establish equality as ‘woke’. While the Left has certainly gone to far in some instances, the Right is just despicable.

Note that the US Middle Class is disappearing fast, and I can see another storming of the Congress and White House in the future - funnily enough by the same people as the last time after they realise they’ve been had … unless the democrats get back and can fix the damage (and yes, that is another of my long term predictions, so let’s compare notes on that in 7+ years time …)

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I have no other thinking about that, no question. The Trump Fans are dangerous. and yes, I guess it was not the last storm on capitol. True. Sad but true. we can see what will come up even now. America was and is a democracy in danger cause it is a two party system. One of them is owned by a moron. We all know that he is. And nobody can change that. I am asking my self if he will leave the white house or will there be a successor getting elected and saying no, I can’t, Vice President Trump, ou are the new president of united states. It is a problem in the constitution that a former president can be vice president. That is a real scenario. And I believe that this guy will not become a better human when he is 4 years older. He becomes more and more dangerous for the people around. In my eyes: dangerous for the world.

You can even see how dangerous looking on the economical games he is playing. That he can’t win against china he was not realizing until now. He will soon. And that makes even more problems.

I hope that nobody starts a nuclear war. Everything else we can deal with. I hope.

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Indeed. The Constitution has nothing in it regarding political parties. Their very existence was controversial at the time of the Founding (which we Americans capitalize :slight_smile: ) It is the lockstep party discipline that is leading to this dysfunction.

As to your concern that Scooter (for so I call him) could find a back door to a third term by becoming VP first, our Twelfth Amendment is clear that a person ineligible for the presidency may not become vice-president. His supporters, however, say that the 22nd Amendment only confers ineligibility to be “elected”, as if the Constitution is something to be defeated through loopholes. No matter; these days the Constitution is essentially being ignored anyway.

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Yeah it amazes me that things settled into just 2 parties so quickly there

Here were have 5 or 6 Federal parties & one of the nice things is we can get a minority government
So the one that wins the most seats can be invited to try & strike a coalition without other parties
It means they have to compromise to remain in government
otherwise they alienate their partners & we have a new election

TBH I prefer that type of government here as we then end up with more moderate governance and not extremes like seem to have gripped the US

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sounds a bit like in germany. Minority gouvernment is also possible. And yes, I prefere that from exactl the same reasons.

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And social medial platforms like insta, facebook and x amplify it!

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I would say it is the businessman in him that is getting the better of him.

One of the biggest mistake that Americans have committed is voting a businessman to power to manage their country. My POV is the businessman can only think of profit and loss but cannot think of welfare of fellow citizens.

This quote really hit me hard. It feels so perfect.

Education can help to an extent but any religion that breeds radicalized ideology is dangerous for mankind. One can observe the vice of religious radicalization in many European nations where many (read immigrants) are demanding double standards/laws for people following different religions. Such acts break the very fabric of any nation.

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Businessman ?
Trumps ventures have repeatedly failed
Most of what he has he inherited then licensed his name to others to stick on their buildings

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No businessman understands Trumps “negotiations” with Putin - twice now he needlessly gave away ALL the leverage he had and completely accepted the Russian position. Makes you wonder why (unless you are MAGA). While the Penguins on some godforsaken island got hit with massive tariffs, Russia didn’t face any - why? Oh, he ‘threatened’ tariffs repeatedly, but the only ones implemented were tariffs on ‘Aluminum articles and derivative products’ this year. I also strongly felt that the sanctions introduced were pitiful and more for show, and a hard-hitting bipartisan Russian sanctions bill threatening Tariffs of 500% that was introduced eight months ago was stuck in Trump’s drawer for 8 Months. Again: Why?

It is not in Trumps nature to roll over for someone like this - so the only conclusion can be that Putin has him by the balls.

In the 90s, long before Trump got famous, I saw a report (in the excellent foreign affairs TV show “Weltspiegel”) about a young developer who hired contractors, who build his skyscrapers (and had to buy machinery and lorries to deal with the project), but when it came to paying he demanded a 50% cut in price. When the contractors threatened to sue him he said: “Go ahead then - sue me. I have the best lawyers, and I can drag this out in court for YEARS - you’ll be long bankrupt before the trial even starts, and I will cheaply buy up your company. It’s a Win-Win for me.” … Trump and the USA in a nutshell.

How the MAGA crowd ever thought he cares about “the little people” is beyond me. NOTHING he ever said or did showed any hint of compassion - not even towards his own family.

Businessman? Nope.

Mob boss? You might be on to something.

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From what is available as public info, he is a real estate baron (sort of) and made is wealth from NY real estate deals.

He may have incurred losses but that is part of business. But making losses does not make one less businessman.

I agree with you to an extent but practically no war is sustainable. And Ukraine is fighting a war depending on external funds that is an amazing way…. don’t you think so. A one time standup comedian is motivating European allies and the US to fund the war!?!?

Trump seeded to Putin because he is looking at an opportunity in being able to get contracts (for his firms) to rebuild already devastated Ukraine. I feel he is seeing a business opportunity!

Oh! thanks for mentioning. But I am not MAGA. The very concept is shitty. How can you make a nation great when the nation does not have a necessary talent to replace imported talent. Just see recent surveys on education and literacy in the US and you will be stumped.

And it was the decision of the past US governments in the 1970 & 1980 to outsource all manufacturing to other nations (strategic alliance) and keep their environment unpolluted as well as inflation in check.

Because US is dependent on Russian for enriched uranium and plutonium. In 2024 the bill tabled by Russia was approx 642 millions and in 2025 it is estimated to go up by around 30% to 32%.

Check this article and you will see the dubiousness of sanctions on Russia by both (Western) Europe and the US.

https://www.reuters.com/world/three-years-into-war-us-and-europe-keep-billions-trade-with-russia-2025-08-05/

The world is trying but it is hard to replace China in the same way it is very hard for Europe and US to replace Russia.

:rofl: so true. I want say balls. But Putin is dangling a lollipop in front of Trump. :winking_face_with_tongue:

I feel he has never faced any hardship in his life, like not being to take treatment due to shortage of fund, etc. so he will never understand the hardships of the common man.

He is the most uncompassionate politician (businessman) I have see in the whole western world.

As for MAGA the false white supremacy (call it radicalized) ideology is pushing them to believe in and support him. It seem in near future US population will have to pay a heavy price for the faith they have put in this moron.

There is a theory that if the Republicans would not have won, the chances of a (kind of) civil war were very high but personally I do not believe it.

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Read up on his bankruptcies as well

And note that a few were closed due to being fraudulent (Trump U and his charity for instance)

So businessman sure

Successful businessman - debatable esp when you review how he came to be as rich as he is
There are a lot of sketchy details in his past

He seems to do a VERY good job

Britain did so when Germany launched its assault on them

100% grift and personal enrichment

Government definitely didnt stand in the way but it was businesses, like Walmart, that effectively forced manufacturers to provide the same items at lower prices. The only way to do that was to move production to less expensive places like Mexico, China, Taiwan etc

Government could have been the thing that prevented this sell out - but they didnt

Russia is a minor player. Canada and Kazakhstan provide more than 50%

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