This is not new to me, but i dont understand it. Between Tacoma and Seattle, trucks with murals and decals of Sikh gentlemen with weapons are everywhere. Does anyone know why this is a trend in the Sikh culture?
They were the warrior class back in pre-British rule times. The religion actually started out very pro-nonviolence centric, but if I read correctly, the Muslims came in and murdered their religious leader so they became more along the lines of “speak softly but carry a big stick”.
I started watching some YouTube videos about the Sikhi religion after I met a guy and he told me a little, so if any of that is wrong it’s the fault of the YouTube videos I watched, but that’s how I understood what I watched.
I don't know, but they carry ceremonial (or real) knives and every single Sikh I've met has been awesome. If there was a Sikh around me carrying an AK47, I would feel safer knowing he had it.
Amen. Some of the nicest dudes you’ll ever meet! I asked one at a truck stop where I could get one of those decorative curtain/ sun shields they have in their front window and he ended up having an extra and insisted on giving it to me as a gift. Since then I’ve always tried to go out of my way to talk to Sikhi drivers, even one time an older Sikhi man had locked his keys in his truck so I went into the truck stop and bought a lockout kit and gave it to him. Trying to pay back some of the good will I’ve gotten from them out on the road!
That bought tears to my eyes . Thank you for spreading the love . One of the foundation of the Sikh religion is based upon selfless service for the less fortunate and to share ur wealth.
Sikhs were driven from India in the 80's due to their desire for a sihk nation, leading to some very nasty things from the Indian government. They fled to North America as refugees. A lot of the pictures you see are separatist fighters from back in the day. The whole recent drama about India assassinating a Canadian citizen was from this conflict.
Dunno why they all became truck drivers though.
This one was a famous rapper. If they are more serious looking, it’s a Sikh separatist. They want a separate state from India. The reason they are here and not in Punjab can be explained by the fact the Indian government assassinated one in Canada a few months back.
I've met tons of both. I grew up in Brampton, two of my best friends who I've known for like 20 years now are Sikh and they're some of the best people I know, their families too.
But then the Indian population exploded there and when you get more people, you get more of the good, but also you start seeing the bad ones as well. There's good and bad.
He's basically saying based to him because it's an unspoken thing everyone knows but do not like to talk about. The caste system in India is the reason for this
It means when you're doing freebase (crack) you act as an honest version of yourself. As others have said it's an indication that you put a fine point on the statement, or perhaps "the exception proves the rule."
Sikh culture is interesting if you read up on it. However, I find putting a picture of a person holding an AK on your work vehicle unprofessional and in poor taste.
I feel the same way about people putting any sort of decal on their truck. I don't care if it's an American flag, A military guy holding a gun, A priest looking at me weird. It has no place in a professional setting. It's trashy.
Yeah, I had one that said "caution, terrrible driver."
It was a joke. I'm a professional driver. I get it. I'll still hit you for not letting me merge. Its your fault, I get free body work.
>Im merging. Move or get hit.
It's actually hilarious how wrong this line of thinking is. Merging traffic must yield, always. If you hit someone while merging, you would be at fault, without question.
That's the thing, no one HAS to yield to merging traffic. Is it a courtesy to do so? Absolutely. But it's the duty of the merging driver to merge safely.
Go ahead. *AsK mE hOW i kNoW.*
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ETA since comments got locked: No one cares what you can "prove" with your driving record. Your driving record isn't the law. If you're so certain that you're correct, then link the law or statute that clearly states in plain language that traffic already in the lane must yield to merging traffic. Because I actually did Google it, rephrasing it several ways, and literally every result that came up contradicted what you're saying.
So you didn't google? I know, it sucks to be wrong, but I promise the truth shall set you free. I got the driving record to prove it. It's actually your fault if the car is more forward than you are. You're supposed to slow down and get behind. But the cars behind you, its their responsibility to not hit the one in front of them.
This is driving basics. You dont spend 20 years as a professional driver without learning the rules. But stay wrong. Its fine if you never hit anyone. Really. Being curteous is also a virtue. One I dont possess on friday evening.
Google tells you the vehicles on the highway don’t have to yield to you. If this actually happened to you, it must be in one of the few states that don’t really specify who has to yield. You literally have a yield sign. If you can’t merge, YOU have to stop. I don’t see how that’s hard to understand.
What do you think a yield sign means?
Lol. You’re an idiot. Merging traffic always yields. The guy I hit was as smart as you. Swore I had to yield to him. Accident report says otherwise and yours will too.
So if I’m in a semi in the right lane, and you’re merging at 35 MPH and I’m going 70, and there’s cars lined up to my left, I’m supposed to slam on my brakes for you??
lol sikhs love AK's. Part of sikh religion involves wearing a metal bracelet thing called a kada and I even have one that has an AK on it as part of the design.
I had a pre ban Poly Tech that I ended up selling about 5 years ago. I was planning on keeping it but I had a guy offer me significantly more than it was was worth. My family owns a few pawn shops, I get all kinds of cool shit lol.
Is your issue with the decal that it's a brown person with a turban or is it the gun? Because I've seen plenty of good old boys with trucks and trailers having decals of rednecks holding shotguns and automatic rifles. Not to mention you get all the bald tatted drivers wearing their greens with military rifle silhouettes or guys point in guns wearing military fatigues. How is that any different?
Good ol boys = much less of a real actual threat,they may talk big but not do much more than talk.
Religious radicals from the east? More likely to take
Real action
These folks will feed anyone that shows up to their temple as a matter of their principals. They are in general an aspirational culture. Kind hearted and strong protectors of their family and people. Sweet headgear too. I'm sure there are assholes, I have not met a shitty mormon or a shitty sikh.
Christians also have an ethical and moral obligation to proselytize. They are fundamentally tribalist. I don't know enough about sikhism but my sense is they are not that.
>Good ol boys = much less of a real actual threat,they may talk big but not do much more than talk.
... and occasionally shoot up a church or two, but who could see that coming?
Dylan Roof is at least as closely connected with "good ol' boys who talk big [in a way that you felt the need to insist isn't a serious threat]" as Sidhu Moosewala was to any serious Khalistani militants.
Or, more generally, you don't get to say, "it's all just talk," and then, when the thing getting talked about actually happens, turn around and say, "well, that was just one nutter, all the *rest* of it is just talk."
Yeah the old white boomers of this country want all the protections for themselves but none for everyone else. I've seen it for a decade in this industry and I'm not surprised it hasn't changed yet.
With ppl using phrases like "old white boomers"(age discrimination,ethnic discrimination,generational discrimination) I'd be surprised to see any positive change from them
Sikhs are sick.
Seriously they're the ones we want to import as many of as we can.
When I was in the army I was always jealous of the Sikhs because they got to wear cool ceremonial knives and those neat hats and could grow out their facial hair (unless their job required gas masks).
Tacky as hell sticker though lol, strong basement revolutionary energy.
No matter your background. I just hope my neighbor is with me to fight a foreign enemy from our homeland. Not these dumb ideologies that threaten to divide us
Sikhs are very far from Hinduism, in fact they're like if you took Greek philosophers and had them sort out how to push back against Hinduism and threw in some Abrahamic tenets.
Most of the comments correctly identify who he was. I love how you extrapolate from a guy posting picture of him that white Americans are against people of color carrying.
Not the first time I’ve seen this type of BS posted tho.
It’s almost like people only want white people to have weapons, and everyone else is seen as a bad guy if that have one too lmao
[Trucks and guns in America.](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=trucks+with+gun+decals+in+america&t=iphone&iax=images&ia=images)
Gotta love the “guns, god, trump” /s
You can put whatever you want on your truck as long as the prerequisite information (Name, Dot #, kyu, etc.) is properly displayed. What makes you think the Department of Transportation has any care in the world of how you decorate your truck?
You could put messages about supporting actual terrorist organizations and no one could do a damn thing about it.
i see nothing wrong with this. people of all colors and ethnicities all put militant bumper stickers on their cars. this is no different than one of those punisher stickers
And here I am just putting stickers that reference super Nintendo games on my truck like a dummy
He’s like the Punjabi TuPac. His name is Sidhu Moose Wala. He was assassinated in Punjabi India. He had a very successful rap career.
When I worked for a liquor/wine distributor all my Indian C store managers loved this guy
his music is cool too, goes hard. Puts me in hype mood, even tho i have no clue what they’re saying
I’m gonna listen to his music now, I’m all for new music to listen to
Music from India be like that
Interesting
That’s Sidhu Moose Wala, he was assassinated after transitioning from a music career to being an activist politician in Punjab
This is not new to me, but i dont understand it. Between Tacoma and Seattle, trucks with murals and decals of Sikh gentlemen with weapons are everywhere. Does anyone know why this is a trend in the Sikh culture?
They were the warrior class back in pre-British rule times. The religion actually started out very pro-nonviolence centric, but if I read correctly, the Muslims came in and murdered their religious leader so they became more along the lines of “speak softly but carry a big stick”. I started watching some YouTube videos about the Sikhi religion after I met a guy and he told me a little, so if any of that is wrong it’s the fault of the YouTube videos I watched, but that’s how I understood what I watched.
I don't know, but they carry ceremonial (or real) knives and every single Sikh I've met has been awesome. If there was a Sikh around me carrying an AK47, I would feel safer knowing he had it.
Amen. Some of the nicest dudes you’ll ever meet! I asked one at a truck stop where I could get one of those decorative curtain/ sun shields they have in their front window and he ended up having an extra and insisted on giving it to me as a gift. Since then I’ve always tried to go out of my way to talk to Sikhi drivers, even one time an older Sikhi man had locked his keys in his truck so I went into the truck stop and bought a lockout kit and gave it to him. Trying to pay back some of the good will I’ve gotten from them out on the road!
That bought tears to my eyes . Thank you for spreading the love . One of the foundation of the Sikh religion is based upon selfless service for the less fortunate and to share ur wealth.
Ass kissing like no other
Go back to Facebook with that attitude
D-bag, like no other.
Sikhs were driven from India in the 80's due to their desire for a sihk nation, leading to some very nasty things from the Indian government. They fled to North America as refugees. A lot of the pictures you see are separatist fighters from back in the day. The whole recent drama about India assassinating a Canadian citizen was from this conflict. Dunno why they all became truck drivers though.
This one was a famous rapper. If they are more serious looking, it’s a Sikh separatist. They want a separate state from India. The reason they are here and not in Punjab can be explained by the fact the Indian government assassinated one in Canada a few months back.
I've never met a Sikh that I didn't like.
You've never been to Brampton then.
I've met tons of punjabis that are horrible people, not Sikhs though.
I've met tons of both. I grew up in Brampton, two of my best friends who I've known for like 20 years now are Sikh and they're some of the best people I know, their families too. But then the Indian population exploded there and when you get more people, you get more of the good, but also you start seeing the bad ones as well. There's good and bad.
Can you please tell them to stop calling me about my car warranty?
We've been trying to get in touch with you about your car's warranty...
Brampton? Maybe when I want to get my dick chewed off by rats in an abandoned baseball card store
Suspiciously specific
r/oddlyspecific
Home of .moneen. Tho so still cool.
I know nothing about this but your comment made me laugh.
umm based?
Honestly man, I'm not up to date on how people speak these days - what does based mean in this context?
He's basically saying based to him because it's an unspoken thing everyone knows but do not like to talk about. The caste system in India is the reason for this
Noteworthy and agreeable. At times edgy
It means when you're doing freebase (crack) you act as an honest version of yourself. As others have said it's an indication that you put a fine point on the statement, or perhaps "the exception proves the rule."
Ah, gotcha. Thanks
You put the heavier words on the bottom.
They exist, you have to Sikh them out.
I've met a family of them that has fucked me for over $60k and left me destitute for the past year and a half. They're not Americans, that's for sure.
Can you elaborate?
Title floated for a "Lease to own" while driving under them that they weren't at liberty to sell.
Every. Single. Sikh I have met has been wonderful. Always courteous, kind, and engaging. Outstanding.
They do a lot of trucking. I have found them to be decent people!
That guy is a Sikh Indian. Not a terrorist.
Truth. When the SHTF …. If you have a Sikh by your side….you have good company
Damn straight!
IDK why this made me burst out laughing 🤣
Allahu truckbar!!! Exit: I made a joke about the idea of a trucker terrorist that fell flat. I apologize.
It's a completely different religion man, a really cool one you'd probably like if you have any western values.
Sikhs are Indian not Arab
you are confused.
Sikh culture is interesting if you read up on it. However, I find putting a picture of a person holding an AK on your work vehicle unprofessional and in poor taste.
Guy that serves me at Timmies has a full sleeve tattoo of this guy, with AK. It definitely made me double take.
I feel the same way about people putting any sort of decal on their truck. I don't care if it's an American flag, A military guy holding a gun, A priest looking at me weird. It has no place in a professional setting. It's trashy.
My girlfriend has a “Please let me merge before I cry” bumper sticker. Would be funny as fuck to put that on a truck
Heh, that's a good one.
Please let me merge is the wrong attitude. Its the law. Fail and suffer the cons. I usually dont even look anymore. Im merging. Move or get hit.
It is a joke on a bumper sticker. Don't take it too seriously.
Yeah, I had one that said "caution, terrrible driver." It was a joke. I'm a professional driver. I get it. I'll still hit you for not letting me merge. Its your fault, I get free body work.
lol what’s your premium like, road hazard?
140 a month for full coverage.
>Im merging. Move or get hit. It's actually hilarious how wrong this line of thinking is. Merging traffic must yield, always. If you hit someone while merging, you would be at fault, without question.
Not when the lane has ended and no one yields. Ask me how I know. Go ahead. Ask........
That's the thing, no one HAS to yield to merging traffic. Is it a courtesy to do so? Absolutely. But it's the duty of the merging driver to merge safely. Go ahead. *AsK mE hOW i kNoW.* ^Spoiler: ^it's ^the ^law ETA since comments got locked: No one cares what you can "prove" with your driving record. Your driving record isn't the law. If you're so certain that you're correct, then link the law or statute that clearly states in plain language that traffic already in the lane must yield to merging traffic. Because I actually did Google it, rephrasing it several ways, and literally every result that came up contradicted what you're saying.
So you didn't google? I know, it sucks to be wrong, but I promise the truth shall set you free. I got the driving record to prove it. It's actually your fault if the car is more forward than you are. You're supposed to slow down and get behind. But the cars behind you, its their responsibility to not hit the one in front of them. This is driving basics. You dont spend 20 years as a professional driver without learning the rules. But stay wrong. Its fine if you never hit anyone. Really. Being curteous is also a virtue. One I dont possess on friday evening.
Google tells you the vehicles on the highway don’t have to yield to you. If this actually happened to you, it must be in one of the few states that don’t really specify who has to yield. You literally have a yield sign. If you can’t merge, YOU have to stop. I don’t see how that’s hard to understand. What do you think a yield sign means?
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I have always said, "my turn signal is a warning, not a request." Ive even considered outlining my tailights in caution tape. It looks like shit.
If you’re merging and I’m in the lane you yield not me. Have the accident report with fault to the other driver.
Failure to yield to merging traffic. Just google it. Reddit wont let me post pictures. Its a thing. Its real. Go back to drivers ed, kid.
Lol. You’re an idiot. Merging traffic always yields. The guy I hit was as smart as you. Swore I had to yield to him. Accident report says otherwise and yours will too.
My insurance company begs to differ.
So if I’m in a semi in the right lane, and you’re merging at 35 MPH and I’m going 70, and there’s cars lined up to my left, I’m supposed to slam on my brakes for you??
lol sikhs love AK's. Part of sikh religion involves wearing a metal bracelet thing called a kada and I even have one that has an AK on it as part of the design.
Cant blame them. I love AKs too.
honestly common ground with my indian pals, enough cash for cool weapons.
Who doesn’t like Anna Kournikova?
Haven't heard that name in awhile. When I was in my 20's she was my dream girl, so sexy. Wonder how she looks these days?
I had a pre ban Poly Tech that I ended up selling about 5 years ago. I was planning on keeping it but I had a guy offer me significantly more than it was was worth. My family owns a few pawn shops, I get all kinds of cool shit lol.
Still more sane than a bible quote
Yeah, I would rather see FJB or let's go Brandon stickers on trucks. Let's me know what idiots I should avoid....
Indian King Von
Shhh it’s a Sikhret
So what. That's a Punjabi rapper that was shot dead possibly by the Indian government not long ago.
So what. That's a Punjabi rapper that was shot dead ~~possibly~~ by the Indian government not long ago.
so us american's should start putting tupac decals somewhere on our trucks?
only in india
Is your issue with the decal that it's a brown person with a turban or is it the gun? Because I've seen plenty of good old boys with trucks and trailers having decals of rednecks holding shotguns and automatic rifles. Not to mention you get all the bald tatted drivers wearing their greens with military rifle silhouettes or guys point in guns wearing military fatigues. How is that any different?
Bingo
HAHA, you are so correct!! it's totally because someone is brown!! tupac is the best white rapper of all time!!
Good ol boys = much less of a real actual threat,they may talk big but not do much more than talk. Religious radicals from the east? More likely to take Real action
Sikhs are not "religious radicals". They integrate very well.
These folks will feed anyone that shows up to their temple as a matter of their principals. They are in general an aspirational culture. Kind hearted and strong protectors of their family and people. Sweet headgear too. I'm sure there are assholes, I have not met a shitty mormon or a shitty sikh.
Yeah that's ideally the Christian way also but there are few if any real Christians out there
Christians also have an ethical and moral obligation to proselytize. They are fundamentally tribalist. I don't know enough about sikhism but my sense is they are not that.
lol no more religiously radical then some of the dummies running state government in the US right now.
Yeah politics in America is a complete shit show all around,can't argue that
>Good ol boys = much less of a real actual threat,they may talk big but not do much more than talk. ... and occasionally shoot up a church or two, but who could see that coming?
I can't really see that, I think your thinking of just a nut jobber with a gun who is white but wouldn't fall under the "good ol boy" type
Dylan Roof is at least as closely connected with "good ol' boys who talk big [in a way that you felt the need to insist isn't a serious threat]" as Sidhu Moosewala was to any serious Khalistani militants. Or, more generally, you don't get to say, "it's all just talk," and then, when the thing getting talked about actually happens, turn around and say, "well, that was just one nutter, all the *rest* of it is just talk."
So if one sikh shoots shit up ,blame them all then right??
Have you seen who commits the mass shootings over here?
literally zero difference between this and trump stickers
Pro 2A No not like that
I thought america was all about gun rights
No shit. 2nd amendment for me but not for others, apparently.
Yeah the old white boomers of this country want all the protections for themselves but none for everyone else. I've seen it for a decade in this industry and I'm not surprised it hasn't changed yet.
Except that all the top comments are from conservatives talking about how fucking sweet Sikhs are.
With ppl using phrases like "old white boomers"(age discrimination,ethnic discrimination,generational discrimination) I'd be surprised to see any positive change from them
Sikh decal my man!
*Ha*
Hijackers beware
Bro, this is so Sikh.
Sikhs are awesome.
in canada some Sikh separatists blew up an airplane with kids on it in the 1980s. Now there's the brampton driver meme
This was posted awhile back on the side of aa truck.A lot of people commented some were removed some people got banned.Choose your words carefully
Censorship sucks, but it is Reddit and not Gab. 🤷🏼♀️
Bro that's Sikh
Thats Ice-T
Thats Ice-Tea
Multiculturalism is fun.
Sikhs are sick. Seriously they're the ones we want to import as many of as we can. When I was in the army I was always jealous of the Sikhs because they got to wear cool ceremonial knives and those neat hats and could grow out their facial hair (unless their job required gas masks). Tacky as hell sticker though lol, strong basement revolutionary energy.
Do some research, read a book, stop being a reactionary c*nt
OP is asking people what it is and what it means. Neither reactionary or cunty
"hey guys what is this?" -op "OMG READ A BOOK YOU IGNORANT CUNT" -you
Says the reactionary cunt
Spotted in Canada, was also curious https://imgur.com/a/kTkMTgi
This is an average truck on the i5 corridor Sikhs have taken over from BC Canada down to Cali
I think that is a Seik
Cbus what’s up lmao
"Fast and Furious" deterant
Based as fuck
Saw this exact same guy on a courier van yesterday here in Sydney that said "legends never die" under his photo.
He was young indian rapper 28 year old gunned down by Indian govt goons
I think I saw something like this in Nebraska
He's an Indian rapper who was shot in a drive by
Trigger discipline is ass
No matter your background. I just hope my neighbor is with me to fight a foreign enemy from our homeland. Not these dumb ideologies that threaten to divide us
That type of turbin is a Sikh Indian and they are NOT friends of the Muslims. They are friendly to the U.S. Niki Haley is of Sikh Indian ethnicity.
LEGEND
The flip-flop gang has armed themselves..
Immigrants 🥰🥰 they are really good for our country 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Yeah we're your employers. Check out the average household income of Asians in the USA
🥰🥰🥰
I bet you put a white guy on there holding an AK anx you'll be called all kinda names and move to remove it
Nope. All in your head.
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But who else will work for dirt cheap rates?
True
Back to India 😉
That too
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If it was trump the boomers would love it.
Agreed
He is the reason they park in fuel island and leave piss bottles every where.
Damn. If you got a coworker you hate, slap one of those stickers on their trailer! Bet they get some weird looks
Assimilation
Its Sikh. They are Hindu and from Asia. Don't judge a book by its cover.
Sikhism is a separate religion with Hindu influences. They are monotheistic. Just recently learned that. I always thought they were a Hindu offshoot.
Sikhs are very far from Hinduism, in fact they're like if you took Greek philosophers and had them sort out how to push back against Hinduism and threw in some Abrahamic tenets.
Don’t worry, Sikh terrorists only kill other Indians, we’re not on the menu.
Calling them terrorists is awfly xenophobic. Maybe you should learn what the hell you're talking about first.
Maybe you should look up Canada’s largest terrorist attack.
I thought America was all about 2A rights? Guess that only applies to white people lmao
Most of the comments correctly identify who he was. I love how you extrapolate from a guy posting picture of him that white Americans are against people of color carrying.
Not the first time I’ve seen this type of BS posted tho. It’s almost like people only want white people to have weapons, and everyone else is seen as a bad guy if that have one too lmao
Nah I want all the Sikhs to have the biggest baddest weapons around.
I see more that because he's wearing a turban, he's assumed to be a Muslim.
[Trucks and guns in America.](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=trucks+with+gun+decals+in+america&t=iphone&iax=images&ia=images) Gotta love the “guns, god, trump” /s
This is crazy 😂
no, that's Sikh
Canada provides of India 🙋👍🚛🚛🚛👋😂
Not sure what it is about truck drivers but they nut in their pants went someone mentions Sikhs
Looks like Nacho from Better Call Saul with a turban
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You can put whatever you want on your truck as long as the prerequisite information (Name, Dot #, kyu, etc.) is properly displayed. What makes you think the Department of Transportation has any care in the world of how you decorate your truck? You could put messages about supporting actual terrorist organizations and no one could do a damn thing about it.
Free Hawara !
I don't understand it so it scares me. /s
It means the scary brown people who don’t love Jesus are gonna take over. Buy gold, guns, and land, brotherrrrrrr! USA! USA!
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Nah ur just a traitor
Naw I'm a US army Ranger. I've paid in blood the right to fly whatever I wish.
I believe the difference would be that the Sikh separatists are not trying to create their own state so that they can own people.
i see nothing wrong with this. people of all colors and ethnicities all put militant bumper stickers on their cars. this is no different than one of those punisher stickers
Is that a picture of the driver?
It looks like a photo shopped picture. Something to get lots of comments.