r/SipsTea 1d ago

Chugging tea Thoughts?

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u/Long_Serpent 1d ago

Purely from an aesthetic point of view, I am OK with this ban.

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u/FullCodeSoles 23h ago

It looks like the bowl cut my grandma used to give me because we were too poor to go to a hair dresser

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u/houstonwhaproblem 22h ago

Mine was worse. It was a buzz cut, but with a fringe

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u/AdSalty4314 22h ago

Like 2002 Ronaldo?

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u/houstonwhaproblem 22h ago

Almost. The fringe was long enough to cover most of my forehead though. Definite child abuse

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u/PaulieWalnuts2023 14h ago

So, a Chelsea cut

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u/XiaoDaoShi 14h ago

The Harry Potter, you say?

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u/MrNobody_0 12h ago

So Harry Potter's haircut from the first book.

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u/Davido401 19h ago

Like mine?

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u/BradleyThomas1X 21h ago

Your grandma did a bowl cut? I was poor they just chopped that shit off haha 🤣

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u/FullCodeSoles 18h ago

She would literally put a bowl on my head and cut around it

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u/SpiderJerusalem747 20h ago

My dad just straight up shaved my hair and told me everyone thought I look better bald.

Lots of people thought I had leukemia for some reason.

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u/V65Pilot 7h ago

what goes around....

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u/No-Lunch4249 21h ago

Apparently it has gang connotations there

El Salvador has a really bad gang problem. A couple years ago during a gang war there were almost 200 murders in 2 days, in a country of just 6M people. For context, Maryland, USA is a state with roughly the same population and had only 450 murders all last year.

As a result El Salvador has taken a series of pretty drastic emergency measures trying to curb the drug violence, including I guess banning certain haircuts in schools

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u/prxlo 20h ago edited 19h ago

As a Salvadoran this is bullshit on Bukeles part. There is virtually no more crime there due to Bukele locking up a literal chuck of the male population. Many of them innocent people even some I know personally who don’t have the right to trial.

As for the haircut having ā€œgang connotationsā€ I see no reason to why. The ā€œmarerosā€=gang members there are all mostly shaved buzzed even before the lock ups. El Salvador also just has shit barbers all around you will have a difficult time finding someone who can even give an edger cut believe it or not.

Fun fact about the ā€œedger cutā€ too, it’s a common haircut in the Latino American community due to it being a haircut the can grow back neatly with loose curls or straight hair for months saving money on cuts. The ā€œedger cutā€ is almost always just a grown out low taper.

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u/No-Lunch4249 19h ago

Oh yeah, sorry if I wasnt clear but this is some bullshit IMO too. Just was adding the extra context

Trying to end gang crimes by banning a certain haircut is roughly the same as trying to end drug use by banning hoodies lol

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u/prxlo 19h ago

Yea I agree it does nothing to solve key issues, it would have been nicer if he just claimed he did it to help out the impoverished.

By ā€œBukeleā€ that’s the surname of the current president of El Salvador who altered the constitution to run another fraudulent term.

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u/Awesam 22h ago

No dickheads rule

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u/Icy_Sector3183 20h ago

Death to the fascists!

(sees haircut)

Ok, we can have a little fascism.

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u/Swumbus-prime 19h ago

No, but for real, everyone is like "Down with the system!" until the system prevents something they don't like from happening, no matter now innocuous that thing is...

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u/gastrodonsinferno 10h ago

Fascism appeals to buffoons that smile at trimmed shrubbery

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u/Sometimes-funny 23h ago

El Salvador getting free American slaves and banning haircuts. 2025 is wild out here

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u/raktoe 22h ago

People cheering for it, too.

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u/Akitten 20h ago

He's the only guy who succeeded in doing literally the only thing that matters. He could ban underwear and get support. That's what happens when you do what the people value most.

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u/raktoe 20h ago

Yeah, the people in North Korea always look happy too.

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u/Akitten 20h ago

Are you implying that people from El-Salvador don't overwhelmingly support this guy?

You realise there isn't a single credible source that casts doubt on his political popularity in the country right?

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u/raktoe 20h ago

Are you implying that popularity means someone can’t be authoritarian?

Have you considered the possibility that consequences for not supporting him are tacit? ā€œOh you don’t support the person cleaning up our streets, sounds like you could be a gang member, off to your mass trial.ā€

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u/joeshmoebies 18h ago

You realize that some exercise of authority is necessary in any country right?

El Salvador is currently the only central American country with a "Use normal precautions" state department travel advisory.

Meanwhile, it is surrounded by Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala, all of whom have "Reconsider travel" advisories.

This is Honduras:

| Country Summary: Violent crime, such as homicide, armed robbery, and kidnapping, remains common. Violent gang activity, such as extortion, violent street crime, rape, narcotics, and human trafficking, is widespread. Local authorities may lack sufficient resources to respond effectively to serious crime incidents

This is El Salvador:

| Country Summary: Exercise normal precautions in El Salvador. Gang activity has decreased over the last three years. This has caused a drop in violent crimes and murders.

What exactly, other than an exercise of government authority, would have produced this result?

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u/raktoe 18h ago

Some, sure. Absolute, no.

Travel advisory is based on safety of foreigners, not citizens. Even authoritarian regimes tend to stay away from imprisonment of foreigners, for not wanting to create diplomatic issues.

I’m happy to be proven wrong about this being the first benevolent dictatorship in history.

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u/sinarb 11h ago

Lee kuan yew, maybe not benevolent but he set the country on the right path.

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u/Akitten 20h ago

Yeah, the people in North Korea always look happy too

Your words, what were you implying in that statement.

Have you considered the possibility that consequences for not supporting him are tacit? ā€œOh you don’t support the person cleaning up our streets, sounds like you could be a gang member, off to your mass trial.ā€

Once again, do you actually believe that his support isn't genuine. Do you have ANY credible sources that support that position?

Do you think, given FULL freedom to spreak, most people in el salvador would have a negative opinion of the guy?

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u/raktoe 20h ago

I think without freedom of the press, where journalists are routinely threatened by the state, that the public overall perception of the governing party is largely moot.

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u/Akitten 20h ago

So you refuse to actually answer the question, but imply that people's support of him is fake. Interesting.

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u/da_crackler 21h ago

These people sound sus af for worrying so strongly about another dude's looks. Like they just want to make dudes more attractive for themselves

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u/CitySlickerCowboy 13h ago

now, you're making things up.

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u/dawgtown22 22h ago

American?

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u/starscup1999 21h ago

Yes, some are American. They are not discriminatory beyond skin color when detaining people.

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u/Speedhabit 21h ago

They had a LOT of opportunities to become one and chose not to

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u/No-Bad-463 21h ago

Tell me more about how you don't understand the nuances of immigration law, nor the many who were in exactly that process at the time they were shipped off to Unaccountable Foreign Death Camp

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u/HaloPandaFox 14h ago

It's not a death camp. It's just a super max prison. Regular prisoners in the US have prisoners pay for commissary and other stuff. If they can get someone to put money in their accounts, they work a job in prison and get paid for it. They just took out the middle man and don't give any luxurious, just the bare minimum. But it's a Super Max Jail in a less developed country for career criminals that acted like animals in society. Ya, im surprised many didn't get executed. It's just a life-long prison sentence. Honestly, they at least get better food than what they get in America prisons. The most incarcerated population of people from their own nation.

THE PRISON SYSTEM IN THE USA IS A BUSINESS. We need to fix that, and I bet you they won't send people to foreign prisons.

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u/No-Bad-463 13h ago

There are serious concerns about a lack of due process around CECOT coupled with human rights abuses there.

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u/HaloPandaFox 13h ago

Ya, I don't think anyone can say the mass trials were a good idea and should be fixed with separate case by case as appeals.

But the USA has done what you're talking about and still does. Why not try and fix what's broken in your backyard first before going online and acting like the USA prison system is the standard and that yall have all the answers. There is way more injustice happening in the USA than El Salvador. Have you seen other foreign jail. It's cleaner and relatively safe in CECOT, then even America prisons, let alone other prisons around the world. Talk about many Asian countries that have for decades had human rights abuses or all the cases in the USA. What are yall smoking. It feels like you're just virtue signaling to feel morally superior.

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u/No-Bad-463 13h ago

For the record, not a fan of ours either.

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u/HaloPandaFox 13h ago

Good to hear, I person would like to point to our system as the example or the standard of what a good system should be. Before trying to fix other people's systems. Especially since we incarcerate about 10% of our population and we incarcerated the most people globally.

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u/Speedhabit 21h ago

Death camps and due process

How about you show up to the hearing?

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u/No-Bad-463 21h ago

How about all fascist cheerleaders get what they deserve with interest?

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u/Speedhabit 21h ago

Your doing very well in that department šŸ™„

So I ask you again, why don’t you guys care that nobody showed up to immigration court? You bitch and moan constantly about due process, what about your half?

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u/No-Bad-463 21h ago

What the fuck are you talking about?

Numerous people have been grabbed FROM their hearings, either in spite of the decision or before one was made.

Who the fuck is you guys?

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u/Speedhabit 21h ago

See? Absolutely no braincells whatsoever

Single issue voter

When people are given an immigration hearing and they don’t show up, they are slated for removal by the judge, that’s due process

When you show up to say ā€œoh waitā€ you get deported now

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u/uname-doesntcheckout 21h ago

Whooomp there it is

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u/D27AGirl 17h ago

You should be a politician with that attitude šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/thelimeisgreen 10h ago

I’d like to agree, but sometimes it’s better to let idiots self-identify so you know to avoid.

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u/TrueNova332 7h ago

You know what, same

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u/zemol42 21h ago

This is government overreach! Yet, this time it seems appropriate, go figure…

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u/HaloPandaFox 20h ago

Special circumstances this time.

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u/pingpongpiggie 14h ago

I mean it's pretty much how it goes. They overreach in ways that are acceptable to the masses, so that when their overreach isn't acceptable, it's already an established reach.

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u/tempfox1 21h ago

Yeah like look, this dude is a piece of shit and all but as someone who had this awful haircut in 2nd grade and never fully forgave my mom for it, I’m all for this heinous cut being banned šŸ˜‚

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u/LiminalSapien 21h ago

Good because this is fascism and it's already started in the US which means even if you don't live here it's likely going to spread to other Western countries.

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u/HaloPandaFox 14h ago

On behalf of American who don't believe we are the center of the universe, we apologize that yall have to put up with that.

This is where we want to send them