https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1cnymzy/suicide_squad_cost_warner_bros_200_million_in/?sort=controversial !g*mers

AND YET WB IS FRICKING DOUBLING DOWN ON THE LIVESERVICEFORTNITESLOP

ZASLAV-SAMA, I KNEEL

@RWBY

>You are supposed to start teaching your children how to read by age 3. The problem is, by the time a black child turns 2 and their "genes" start kicking in full throttle, their parent abandons them because they dont like what they see.

>I see people will ignore the largest elephant in the room. By the time you are asking for help from organizations, its too late. Organizations can be supplements NOT saviors or people who clean up after someones mess.

Is Lipstick Alley the new stormfront?

Our future king Barron Trump has entered the world of politics, and while he’s 18, he is already making a successful run for ambassador of Florida, a perfect start to one day assume the throne. pic.twitter.com/35m7zprGvj

— Gary Peterson 🇺🇸 (@GaryPetersonUSA) May 9, 2024

Once again proving the old adage

The seethe:

Of course I had to get in on the action

No way, really? That's crazy

These people make it too easy

Lmao dude had to fact check the revolutionary war four times to make sure that my idiotic comment wasn't real

There's so much more

It's a miracle! 'Not like us' went so hard that it made my nonverbal neurodivergent 7 year old speak!

My seven year old has severe autism and ADHD and cannot communicate verbally. But Kendrick must be this millennium's first patron saint because he got my kid going OFF on Drake 🤣🤣🤣 I'm so proud 🥲

Less seethe in the actual Argentinian sub: https://old.reddit.com/r/argentina/comments/1cn7hbz/milei_is_already_proving_the_leftwing_economic/?sort=controversial

!chuds foid shocked at seeing mayos in argentina

Argentina has historically been a country of failed governments, economic collapses, and debt defaults. Yet incredibly there are signs that – against all the odds – the bold, free market reforms of its libertarian President Javier Milei are beginning to work.

With inflation falling, interest rates coming down, and the Peso on fire in one market, Milei is already proving the global Left-wing economic establishment – addicted to bigger government and endless deficits – wrong. Indeed, it may provide a template for other countries to escape from zero growth.

First, what's changed in the country: inflation has fallen to 11pc and Milei predicts it will fall further. While a monthly figure (this is Argentina after all), price rises may be coming back under control after soaring above 300pc annually.

Argentina's economic growth has been volatile

Real GDP annual change

Last week, Milei announced that the country had recorded its first quarterly budget surplus since 2008, a modest 0.2pc of GDP, but still an astonishing achievement in such a short space of time, especially for a country that has run deficits for 113 of the last 123 years.

Then, earlier this week, the central bank, which Milei has not yet gotten around to abolishing as he pledged, cut interest rates for the third time in three weeks. While they are still at an eye-watering 50pc, that will start to feed through into the economy very soon. Investors have started to notice.

According to Bloomberg data, in the blue-chip swap market the Peso was the best-performing currency in the world in the first quarter of this year, and the bond markets are rallying as well.

It may also get better over the months ahead. With stabilising prices, and a rising currency, investment should start flowing again into a country rich in natural resources and hyper-competitive on wages costs.

If Milei can make good on his promise to unlock the country's vast reserves of shale oil and gas – using technologies that have proved safe and successful in the US – then the economy could even start to boom.

If so, Argentina would be defying a global economic establishment addicted to bigger government, more regulation, and rising deficits.

We keep being lectured, not least by the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, and by President Biden and his acolytes in the United States, on the need for an active state, an industrial strategy, and more borrowing to pay for investment, and that regulation is the key to industrial and economic leadership, not its enemy.

The IMF, meanwhile, was too often a huge cheerleader for the failed Argentinian administrations of the past, extending the biggest loans in its history to the country.

On Milei's election, he was dismissed as a madman who would be removed from office within a matter of months, if not weeks. In proving that narrative wrong, he would show that even after the short-lived catastrophe of the Liz Truss government, free market reforms are far from impossible.

So how is he en route to deliver such a massive shock to the stale economic orthodoxy? Fundamentally, he got three big calls right.

First, even without a majority in parliament, he has been ruthless. Whole government departments have been closed down overnight, regardless of the immediate consequences. The Ministry of Culture was axed, so was the anti-discrimination agency, and the state-owned news service. Only last month, he unveiled plans to fire another 70,000 state employees.

Milei hasn't attempted to cut gradually, to control budgets, or to ease people out with early retirement, or hiring freezes. Instead, he has, as promised, taken a ‘chainsaw' to the machinery of the state, yielding huge savings in the process.

Next, he has been bold. The president massively devalued the peso on day one, taking the financial hit upfront, and then tore up rent controls, price restrictions and state subsidies. He pared back workers' rights, reducing maternity leave and severance compensation, and allowed companies to fire workers who went on strike.

He ripped away fuel subsidies, even though it meant a temporary spike in inflation. Sure, there has been some short-term pain, but the results are now becoming evident.

Rents, for example, are falling by 20pc a year as landlords, freed from controls, put more supply on the market, instead of withdrawing it as they do in countries where the price is set by the government.

Finally, Milei has never stopped making the argument. He promotes freedom, liberalisation and a smaller state with a messianic zeal.

Many of the measures he has taken might be rough, but the president has never attempted to dismiss that, instead explaining patiently and persistently why the reforms are justified, and how they will create greater prosperity for everyone in the long run.

Much of the developed world, and the UK in particular, are gradually slipping into Argentinian-style stagnation before Milei came along.

Governments are hooked on subsidies and price controls, trying to buy their way out of every challenge with higher spending. Deficits are allowed to rise relentlessly, with no meaningful plan for ever bringing them down again. A corrupt, crony capitalism is allowed to flourish, killing competition.

But the Argentine leader is providing a blueprint for how to break free. The global economic elite keeps lecturing us on why we need more government and a more powerful state despite the painful lack of results. Argentina is challenging it in dramatic fashion.

It is just possible that it is starting to work.

[AHORA] Una estadounidense vino de visita a la Argentina y denunció que vio "solo dos personas negras": "Descubrí que erradicaron a parte de su población y el 97% son blancos, es muy triste haber gastado tanta plata acá". pic.twitter.com/3lypg6La6d

— ElCanciller.com (@elcancillercom) May 9, 2024

Lol

!latinx

Hey Boludos, did you know you apparently genocided all the Wakandans?

Reddit is on the case:

https://old.reddit.com/r/asklatinxmerica/comments/14ffqxn/what_actually_happened_to_black_people_in/?sort=controversial

Hi! Argentinian historian here! Let me answer your question!

To understand the "lack" of african-descent in Argentina, you first need to understand colonial history and only then argentinian history.

Colonial empires had two types of slavery: work slaves for the plantations of tobacco/cotton/sugar/coffee and household slaves. Work slaves made the vast majority of slaves in the Américas, hence the ammount of slaves in the southern states of the U.S., the northern part of South América and Brazil. Slaves were the main muscle behind the huge economies of the colonial empires. If you check ethnic maps of the Américas (i'm pretty sure in the U.S. they would be called "race maps", but we don't do that in South América), you'll find a correlation of the places colonial plantations were and the main groups of african descent. Once we understand this, the rest is pretty simple to get.

In colonial times, the spanish Southern Cone was an unimportant region of the Spanish Empire. This region was the southern frontrier of Spain's dominion, and the resources destined to the develop of this area were minimum. Economically speaking, this region depended from the centers of power in the Viceroyalty of Perú, and was inserted within the colonial economic structure as a subsidiary region for the silver production in Potosí. The main product of the Pampas was dry meat and pack animals. There were no plantations in this regions, hence there was no need for "work slaves". In fact, and as a historical curiosity, Buenos Aires and Montevideo lived mainly of contraband. In 1776, the Spanish Empire, after the new royal house of Borbón rose to power, went through a huge reform and this region became the Viceroyalty of the Río de La Plata (except Chile, that was a captaincy). The capital city of this new viceroyalty was set Buenos Aires, by all means the largest of the cities of the Southern Cone. By the time of the Revolución de Mayo (1810), Buenos Aires had 40k inhabitants, 1/3 of them being household slaves (there's a common missconception in the Internet that Argentina as a whole had 1/3 of african population, but, no, this number reffers to Buenos Aires). Since Buenos Aires was the biggest city, you can imagine how loosely populated this region was.

The newly formed Patriotic Government passed a Law in 1813 that stablished that every son of slaves would be free. Although Argentina was a Spanish colony, and Spain had a Caste System, here there was no segregation. Finally, by 1853, with the sanction of the Argentinian Constitution, slavery was formally abolished, although by this time there were almost no slaves still alive. People intermarried and mixed. This made the small population of african-descent to slowly integrate within the argentinian gene pool. By the end of the XIX century, massive waves of european migration began to arrive to this land, and once again people intermarried and mixed. We're talking about several millions of people, mainly from southern Europe, that arrived to a country with 3 million inhabitants. However, although you cannot "see" black argentines, there is a layer of african culture within the argentinian culture. There are "african festivals" in the province of Corrientes, and you can see african influence in certain types of traditional music.

TLDR: Argentina was a poor part of the Spanish Empire and it didn't have plantations. Since it didn't have plantations, there was no "need" for "work slaves", hence the small ammount of african descent you see nowadays.

TLDR, they got bleached.

So, genocide. Thx. https://tiktok.com/t/ZT8BK4jmN/

But that kind of genocide is a myth!

Bonus: Burger (Pocha) goes to Argentina and sees white people.

https://twitter.com/iberianamerica/status/1785676792545649054

https://twitter.com/richardhanania/status/1785790489763234303

Hello @PoliceRajasthan, child marriage is still occurring openly in Rajasthan. What actions are being taken to address this issue?

pic.twitter.com/fpWGFi9K74

— Divya Gandotra Tandon (@divya_gandotra) May 9, 2024

With that hairline too

Ara ara

Its over for me

Hot

!g*mers

I'm writing about a concerning situation involving another moderator. They have banned me and removed all my posts in numerous subs on a different account. The reason? I refused to relinquish my top moderator position on a subreddit on this account. They're essentially holding access to dozens of other subreddits they moderate hostage in exchange for my top mod role. This has been ongoing for several months now.

Here's the backstory: I became the top moderator of said subreddit when the previous top mod asked me if I wanted to take over due to my consistent activity and my interest in the sub. However, this other mod is now claiming I "stole" the subreddit from them.

I have Groomercord screenshots showing them promising to lift the ban and reapprove my posts if I hand over the subreddit they claim is theirs. However, they were never the top moderator there, nor did she ever do that much moderating in the sub to begin with and seems like it's just yet another power grab. This abuse of power feels outrageous. It seems like evidence outside of Reddit itself (like Groomercord messages) are not considered in these situations, leaving me stuck.

To make matters worse, they falsely listed me as "not being 18+" in the ban reason, despite knowing I am of legal age. Isn't this essentially them knowingly falsely accusing me of posting underage content, which is a serious offense?

I'm at a loss for how this behaviour is allowed to continue and I'm stuck. Any recommendations on how to proceed?

his mopping list:

• /r/anal

• /r/nsfwcosplay

• /r/YoungGirlsGoneWild

• /r/CuteLittleButts

• /r/homemadexxx

• /r/spreadeagle

• /r/Creampie_Porn

• /r/MoundofVenus

• /r/DildoRide

• /r/FeetToesAndSocks

• /r/gstrings

• /r/PetiteAndTiny

• /r/FrickTitles

• /r/HotAndBothered

• /u/RickSpanish

• /r/RealGirlsCameltoe

• /r/Cumfy

• /r/StuckInButt

there's apparently a well known coomer cabal

it is already well established that there are a set of nsfw subs all run by the same set of users and they have made numerous moves to get as many as they can under their umbrella.

some major janny

Normally, mods can ban you for whatever reason they like, but in this case, they seem to be banning you as retaliation for actions as a moderator which might violate the Mod Code of Conduct.

the other jannies don't like the harsh truth

[–] bookchaser💡 Expert Helper -18 points 12 hours ago

Any recommendations on how to proceed?

Don't piss off a mod who is above you in other subs. People in this thread saying otherwise don't quite understand. A mod with privs is allowed to not like you and remove you from his subs for any reason. Heck, the mod could de-mod you simply because he notices you participating as a regular user in another unrelated sub he doesn't like. Or because you like ketchup on hot dogs.

they want to reevaluate the mod code of conduct now that power janny banning has been used against them

I was banned a couple weeks ago from /r/justiceserved (a sub I don't subscribe to) because I posted a comment reply in /r/conspiracy after I noticed a legitimate news story I'd posted about elsewhere had been cross-posted to the conspiracy sub. I don't subscribe to the conspiracy sub either. So I returned the mods the favor in one of my subs they don't use.

Wait, you banned an entire mod team from some of your subs as retaliatory action because you got an automated ban in their sub? I think we should consider revisiting the ModCOC soon.

The comments:

The smell of cooking food is actually air pollution, study finds

Overall, researchers concluded that air pollution from cooking is vastly underestimated and could account for nearly a quarter of VOCs in urban areas. The problem is even more acute indoors and inside homes.

What this means for air quality management remains to be seen. Having the data, Coggon believes, is the first step.

You vill not cook the food to make it tasty, besides it is a fire hazard in your pod anyway.

.@AnnCoulter told me flat-out to my face that she couldn’t vote for me “because you’re an Indian,” even though she agreed with me more than most other candidates. I disagree with her but respect she had the guts to speak her mind. It was a riveting hour. The TRUTH podcast is back https://t.co/neVjKSs6e9

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) May 8, 2024

https://twitter.com/stone_toss/status/1788579979694952483

https://stonetoss.com/comic/disavowal/

does it make me malebrained if i would take it, turn it into crypto and go to thailand?

I was at the store buying quick steaks and beer and a pack of 18 yesr old girls I know were there and told me to buy these things and now we're going to the movies and I have like 30 of these thinfs