I’m in 100,000 dollars of debt from this movie. It will eventually be on streaming.

I get it, I used to torrent, but this was an indie project made by a bunch of broke trans people. If you steal this film or torrent it, you’re actually actively hurting the queer community https://t.co/fmh4QOwyhw

— Vera🃏 (@VeraDrew22) April 28, 2024

!kino

https://twitter.com/riddiodrome/status/1784653794623500650

https://twitter.com/zoesnotaposter/status/1784653633482547556

https://twitter.com/typejnegative/status/1784815941563437338

https://twitter.com/Venssae/status/1784782948195283139

https://twitter.com/newtypefool/status/1784708270881456217

https://twitter.com/cyberdogalex/status/1784794658532458497

https://twitter.com/Rayve_777/status/1784808799842247093

https://twitter.com/vivvian_Strange/status/1784695644906774841

https://twitter.com/positivelaser/status/1784659093652647957

https://twitter.com/atadblue/status/1784970181342585124

https://twitter.com/clementineultra/status/1784685763944198627

https://twitter.com/AmericanFilmAFI/status/1784953602924032434

If you've never heard of The People's Joker it's an indie parody of that's been going round film festivals lately

The film unofficially parodies characters from the Batman comics, and the main character is a transgender woman based on the Joker, played by Drew. The film also features Scott Aukerman, Tim Heidecker, Maria Bamford, David Liebe Hart, Robert Wuhl, and Bob Odenkirk in supporting roles

In a dystopian world monitored by Batman, a young child grows up in Smallville, Kansas idolizing the performers on a sketch comedy program, UCB Live. The unnamed protagonist's mother is disturbed when her child asks, "Was I born in the wrong body?" and immediately books a session with Dr. Crane of Arkham Asylum, who prescribes Smylex: a drug that forces its users to put on a happy face, even if they feel depression, anxiety, or gender dysphoria.

They set up in an abandoned warehouse at a dilapidated carnival and are quickly joined by a number of law-breaking comedians with their own deliberately unfunny and uncomfortable acts. One of these is Jason "Mr. J" Todd, who dresses as a Joker of his own and tells Marxist observational humor. Mr. J and the hero immediately strike up a bond and go on a date that includes Mr. J's revelation that he is a transgender man who recently left an abusive relationship. This helps encourage the protagonist to articulate that she is a transgender woman and the two plot to have her dive into a vat of estrogen to gender transition

As the duo evade guards at the chemical plant, a retired Batman appears to stop them and it leaves Mr. J shaken. While the protagonist finally feels happy for the first time after emerging from the chemicals, Mr. J reveals that his ex is Batman. The crimefighter adopted orphan Carrie Kelley and trained her to be his sidekick Robin, even assisting with a gender transition to the identity of Jason Todd, but their relationship became toxic and sexual, in spite of their large age difference and the fact that Batman was a father figure to the seventeen year old.

I've been watching cop cam videos lately so naturally this video came up in my recommendations:

I saw the dislikes and my rightoid sneed radar went off. Low and behold this is the top comment:

So !nonchuds join me as I venture into the Youtube comment section in search of rightoid seethe and r-sluration.

Well let's start off by looking at the replies to the top comment:

Jesus that's a lot of chud

>Nooo stop calling these mayo gang members with swastika tattoos white supremist that's media brainwashing

Alright I'm starting to think a good chunk of these comments are from family of Brotherhood members.

Ok the Chad avatar caught my attention...

>Trapchad

Every fricking time lmao

>you guys put things on these sites you know nothing about.

When will they learn?

>Arkansas

What a surprise.

You can't make this shit up.

Agreed. Does this look like the symbol of a racist group?

I think not.

What the frick is he trying to tell us bros?

I should also point out that "World's Most Evil Prisoners" is the name of the series.

I guarantee you this guy first heard about Operation Mockingbird from a History Channel program.

I set the comments for "New". I wonder if the video got posted to a rightoid circle and they're just now pouring in.

Alright I decided to Google ol' Jayyy here and of course he's an idiot that uses the same name on every website.

He also left a review on an assisted living website so now I know what state he lives in lmao

This has been a reminder to use a different name on every website you use.

rentfreedemocratstalking

And that's it for me bros, my brain can't take any more of this.

Hope you enjoyed the ride.

I didn't actually watch the video lmao

Maya, 24, San Antonio

Personal Stuff:

• Full time student timestamp

  • Gets a "Chapter 35" from the VA, her mother is a "totally disabled" veteran so she gets a stipend for all the months she's in school?

  • Gets $1488 a month

    • Will last 36 months

  • Taking 12 credit hours this semester

  • Doing her first sophomore semester right now - took a 5 year break from college

• Dropped out of HS at 17 years old

• Started working at 19 - "partied" for two years

  • Got a job at Taco Bell, promoted to manager at 21

• Bought an RV to move out from her mother timestamp

  • She'd moved back in with her after a long-term boyfriend didn't work out

  • "I talked the RV down to 4000"

  • "1993 Fleetwood Flare"

  • Sold it for 6'000, all that's gone now though

• Why don't you have a part time job? timestamp

• Owns a pet, there's a Petco transaction on CC 1

• Got her eyebrows waxed before coming on the show timestamp

  • "Like you can't tell because - [words words words]"

• Studying "Neuroscience premed" timestamp

  • "I never plan for the future for anything"

  • "There were a lot of times where I was genuinely unable to get a job" - "I just wasn't allowed, physically wasn't allowed"

  • Confusing story idk what this means?

• Over the summer worked at Six Flags, "passed out multiple times" because they would not let her drink water timestamp

• Family Deets timestamp

  • Mother in San Antonio

  • Father in San Diego

  • Divorced when she was little, father raised her and sister alone - mother left to San Antonio in 2011 - first reached out to mother during the RV arc - father is very poor, won't be able to help with much

  • Has had to help father with money a couple times

Financials:

• No Savings

• Both cards' balances have gone up, gone up more since the papers shown

• Self-scored financials 3/10 - timestamp

• Credit Card 1 (quicksilver) ($7'494) timestamp

  • Paid $247 off on this

  • $141 in new purchases

  • Accrued $182 in interest

  • "I kinda girl math myself a little bit"

  • Can't cancel a $60 a month subscription because it's "complicated" timestamp

  • Tiktok shop timestamp

    • "I see stuff on Tiktok and I'm like that looks like a good thing to purchase"

    • "I put a 30 minute timer on it because I'm on there so much"

    • "Just Delete it"

      • "But then how am I supposed to send my friends memes"

  • 30% interest, she thought it was 25%

• Some vet stuff, two cats, kitten got neutering botched and cost another $400

Marseypicker ate the last half of this somehow and I'm not retyping

High points without timestamps-

• 1000 shortfall in her budget

• Tried to kill herself with vodka and ibuprofen wandered over to the police station and called the suicide hotline

• Yugioh deck worth of medical bills from doctor shopping about her a "pain in her right side"

  • Female doctor gave her more tests for no result which she thinks is somehow better than the male doctors telling her to go home because nothing's wrong

• She's got a simp paying for her groceries and her car

  • She goes grocery shopping with this simp and he buys her stuff

• Had sugar daddies a year or two ago while living out of an RV

• Roaches are living in the microwave at the apartment she shares with 3 roommates

erpvp roundtable discussion17:04

• Real talk, he's drinking yellow monster today. It's juicied and takes like yellow.

• Would you play Elden Ring if you played with sexy goth babes? the answer is yes.

• Jinxthinker saw a streamer on Twitch who he suspected of being a . HE WAS CORRECT 1:00

• Women are failing him by not playing Elden Ring; you basically need to make your own GF these days

• 2025 it will be concentration camps for women under the Biden Regime (election called for Biden, I guess), heterosexual persecution will intensify. Women partially to blame because half support incels and Muslims 2:00

• In his Firefox he has open a page about Taylor "" Swift! This may explain his turn to incelesque blaming of women for everything now 2:54

• We need to watch a twitch stream because this guy is a dog (he's pooping on Elden Ring) 3:00

• We look at stupid butt chatters in the chat. An ignorant r-slur gets banned. 3:40

• We listen to the streamer man tell people to get good internet and rewatch it. Jinxthinker says "oh yeah" many times because he's been validated. 5:00 The best comment of the night was the streamer complaining about not having enough time to get moves off. This validates that Jinxthinker is right about Elden Ring 6:30

• Rants about Elden ring until at least 8:40 when the AI goths come back

• Lots of "oh yeahs" ~9:20

• A p-dophile/homo test is revealed (It's his AI pictures). Small peepeeed Aryan/Algerian/Egyptians called out 10:10

• Rapid switching back and forth between why Elden Ring is shit and why women are great

• God sexually designed women to be sexy.

• Song time 12:50

• DSP update- Phil was playing some bullshit butt games. Jinxthinker will still watch because Phil is a sexy b-word. Phil should undress on camera and start a porn career. Egyptian peepee mentioned again! 13:20 **

• Back to complaining about Elden Ring 15:00

• Hail DSP + rewatching the Internet speed comment 16:15

!jinxthinkers What will your job be in the real women concentration camps?

It bothers me that a queer Black kid is held accountable for calling for Jews, sorry, Zionists, to die but all the rich white kids saying the exact same things face no accountability.

— Alex גדעון בן װעלװל (@JewishWonk) April 28, 2024

It bothers me that even after you've seen the danger of progressive identity politics up close, you still don't understand how destructive this ideology is. It's long past the point where you have to re-evaluate whether this thinking is constructive. His identity is irrelevant. Only the content of his character, which is hostile and rotten.

All politics are identity politics. They aren't "progressives", they're left-wing populists who engage in left-wing white identity politics. They appropriate and weaponize Black identity politics even as they complain about "weaponized Black idpol". The right does the same thing.

>White progressives are secret white nationalists

>This is what center-leftists believe

It bothers me that you're such a racist social justice warrior you think he should be treated differently due to his skin color or sexual preferences.

Incredible takeaway 0/10

I've been sounding the alarm over this

These Black and queer kids openly advocating for terrorists that would kill them need to know that their fellow protestors feel similarly dismissive of their safety, and utilize similar tactics like human shields.

Like look at the girl they have starting fights with counterprotesters to create selectively edited propaganda. She's a Black woman. That's not a coincidence.

Just another example of what our Black parents meant when they stressed to us "You can't do what they do."

We've tried to tell our Black & POC kids that this how the world works and how white Gentiles actually are.

I think it's about time we retire this absurd idea that the Free Palestine movement, and the left more generally, is the product of an affluent white vanguard, and therefore all responsibility must be laid at the feet of white ppl alone.

This conception - whereby everything is recapitulated as a representation of white rapaciousness and exploitation - actually reinforces the very structure of critique that got us here.

So what, he gets a pass? This venomous sociopath who livestreamed himself calling for the murder of Jews gets a pass? Why? On what basis do you exculpate this hateful little demon?

The queer Black kid is out front precisely because it bothers people. It's plot armor. Same reason environmentalist crazies started putting young semi-attractive blonde girls up front and pretending the girls were leading the movement.

4 years now it's been “shut up, white lefties and let minorities lead” but now it's “look at these white lefties getting away with quietly doing what louder minorities will be punished for.”

Ha ha!! One thing I agree with the Left about, there's nothing worse than white lefties!

“Queer and Black” is more authentic and credible; therefore the threats are more authentic and credible. Your rules, not ours.

Have you considered therapy or a journal

Maybe not so very smart in the long run to direct all your simmering resentment towards the world's least anti-Jewish groups (evangelicals, WASPs, Scandinavians, Northwestern Europeans) when all non-white groups hate Zionism and despise "anti-Semitism"

Frick off Nazi scum

I said from the start these were the same white folks who smashed windows, started fires, flipped over police cars: then spray-painted “Black Lives Matter!” everywhere before ducking back to their dorms and gentrified enclaves. They dgaf about Palestinians or anyone else.

Khymani James called for the the deaths of Jews and Whites who disagree with him ('Zionists and all White Supremacists')

If Jewish people want continued support fighting Antisemitism, at least acknowledge his secondary targets and condemn that as well

He sees us as the same.

They really can't help themselves

Lakewood underground facility calls for this specimen…

What the heck is wrong with these people? It's like their hatred of white people overwhelms any sense of self preservation they have .

Their fundamental fear is us, and they identify us with their doom as far back as Hadrian or the first expulsions in Europe. We are "Amalek". They refuse to give this up even when many whites are duped into supporting them, and will continue to seek our destruction

Among every antisemite I've met, young or old, crude or educated, sane or insane, none have held a disdain for jews that has ever reached close to the pure, unbridled hatred jews have towards whites.

It was a class argument but your Nazi-addled brain struggles to formulate anything approaching a coherent thought once you see a Jew speaking

If it was about class why didn't you say a poor black kid? It's concerning that your first response to a black person saying something antisemitic is to turn around & demand punishment of White people

We. Tried. To. Tell. Them. Oh well they think fat meat aint greasy and that we're “too harsh” on the Black youth who are navigating a world THIRSTY to swallow they asses whole. I honestly feel bad but I dont. My stance has always been a hard head make a soft butt and welp.

Idk if that's really a useful framing of the situation. He's the leader of the Columbia protests. Going on a tirade in a disciplinary hearing about how all Zionists deserve to die is really his own doing.

To me there's no meaningful distinction between a "leader" (it's a bunch of leftists in tents, what does leadership mean here?) and everyone else involved calling for Jews to die.

They are not all far leftist. They are far right wing communists. They are working together.

This is as dumb as rightoids who think Hitler was far left

They'll have dinner parties, "oh, remember when I spray painted 'die Zionists' on the dorm building while I was camping out on the quad, I was so radical back then."

Future repubs

Lmao you people are delusional, enjoy the fruits of your beliefs

It's more of the general top down belief structure but the longevity of “liberal Zionism” seems to be a bit shaky …

this is an inspiring synthesis of two annoying belief systems

The majority of anti semites in the GenZ generation are black and brown who think Jews are just white people with money and that Israel is a white supremacist ethnostate. The only people who have ever defended you are white conservatives and you throw them under the bus

Rich white kids are taught to say these things more carefully.

This is by the way another reason why non-privileged folk should be careful. The white privileged core of the movement uses them as an airbag.

Yup

I noticed today you're completely separate from white people. You talk about them as though they're different from you. But in the past you've called yourself white.

Get lost

In the Soviet Union I was not white. In America, I am treated as white for things like how cops, employers, and access to education treat me. But when Nazis decide someone needs to die I am again not white. A more curious mind would wonder why it is a Jew may not identify with that label.

Half the tweets I see are people insisting all the pro Hamas protesters are rich white kids and that non-whites who participate in them are at best dupes or possibly agency less puppets.

Where's a rich white kid saying the exact same thing and facing no accountability?

Inside his head.

White people are held "accountable" every day in America for the blood libel you people have spewed against us. It's time for the Jewish community to be held accountable for once.

Your life is so hard, what with all the Cheetos on your keyboard

(https://twitter.com/HenryEvery1695/status/1784930732005065039)

This is an interesting look into how Jews view the protesters. This Jew doesn't take the gay black protesters seriously, and is even sympathetic to them. He knows their presence is an artifact of race ideology. He is more worried about punishing the White kids.

Also goes to prove Jews will never leave whites alone. Those rich whites he talks about will go the full 9 yards for jew causes like immigrants, multi culturalism, homosexuality, & antifa, & yet the jew STILL throws them under the bus. Always the whites fault w/ these orientals

Jews are insane. Hordes of browns calling for violence against them and they can only get oppose it if they pretend it's White people doing it. Pathetic cowards

[It's the American way. Just like we as Jews are so threatening to white supremacists. We can hide among them while we secretly advance all the other groups they are so scared of.]

Not anymore, jew.

Lol. It's obvious what you're doing here, Jew.

Yes. They did make him their leader, however, no doubt hoping his queerness and blackness would serve as just such a shield.

If you google this guy‘s name, you can see he seeks the limelight, has been covered in the media throughout his high school career, and craves the spotlight. He pursued that leadership role more than anybody pushed him into it.

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The problem is that execs hold power, and can use their perception of the issue to possibly prevent new SP games from getting funded, or to simply get cancelled. This is what happened to Star Wars 1313 for example. (1)

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Lmao let's see how /r/indianauniversity feels about it

What about my son wearing a Kippah on campus and the anti semitism he's experiencing from the “peaceful “ protestors?

What antisemitism? Please be specific and simply chanting “from the river…” doesn't count

What about signs that say “Final solution” or “globalize the intifada?”

Nazi or Pro-Palestinian protestor you decide

Not concerned one bit. My kid will be nowhere near those illegal tents. He's busy studying for finals.

I have no idea why these kids are even doing this on one of the last weeks of school. Your protest does nothing and most of them don't even know why they are “protesting”

most of them doing even know why they are “protesting”

I doubt that's true. We literally wrote our demands on a sign. When we're not getting beaten up we talk about it, watch movies, read, dialogue with Palestinians, listen to speakers.

There's a lot more going on than just what makes the news

i can't wait until y'all graduate and realize performative bullshit for views and likes doesn't translate to the real world.

How are you dividing the “real world” from what's going on here? Are you saying when these kids become adults? Is adulthood more real than the non adult world or smn?

Yes, being a professor and watching hundreds of people you know go into the job market each year means you are totally detached.

Decades of talking to alumni across their careers mean I am an out of touch liberal.

Conservatives who are running a man who ran a fake university for president really know what is going on.

Did I say professors are out of touch? No, I said college campuses, you know, where students outnumber professors by a factor of 30 or more.

Besides, I'm not sure how watching students graduate or talking to some of them after graduation means you have the same perspective of people outside of academia. Academia has the reputations it does for a reason.

They actually think that academia is in touch with reality this shit is beyond parody

What !nooticers will find is that anyone with an alumni flair ain't happy about the protesters

Anyways 200+ comments sneeding in there

CONTEXT:

For many South Africans and Burgerlanders there are often cross-cultural shock when they realize each other's nation have legally-enforced or conversely the absence of, what is known as Gas Station Attendants.

Similarly many safrican tourists, those wealthy enough not to have their rands r*ped too harshly by the powerful bad exchange rate of the Rand-to-Dollars $ - instead find out that not only is it normalized that yanks fricking pour into their tanks their own petrol/diesel, and that they are pretty much expected to do so on their own!

In Burgerland, there are often videos about stupid women trying and failing to pour in petrol into their vehicles

This is something which few Safricans would ever witness, as official petrol-station employees are the ones who fill up your gas and shit.

FILLING STATION ATTENDANTS:

Now in Burgerland, Gas Station Attendants are officially instead called "Filling station attendants". And their slang term for them are "gas jockeys" or at least so in North America. I'm told Canadians also use the term Gas Jockeys, but I can't confirm that, some Leafs dramatards will have to confirm.

Now what's notable for Burgerland is that Gas Jockeys do exist in the modern day, but are very rare, and only exist in a select few States or municipal regions (yanks call these Counties).

Now just like modern day South African Gas Station Attendants, these gas jockeys would basically do services outside of just accepting payment (which are done usually by lone gas-station attendants just accepting cash if even cards aren't swiped on the yank petrol-pump itself). These other services would be stuff like cleaning windshields, checking the client's remaining oil and water levels, pumping their tires for air on request, or in really fricking old vehicles/trucks cranking the shafts, and other stuff which franchise petrol-stations offer services to attract customers to their specific branded petrol-stations.

Now Gas Jockies used to be more prevalent in Burgerland, but their utilization would decline by the time the 1970s arrived, punctuated when Burgerland would have a gas-shortage crisis

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1970s-gas-shortages-changed-america-180977726/

Consequently the businesses most hardest hit by these gasoline-shortages would be the stations themselves, which suffered decades long layoffs and cost-cutting with intensity, within 10 years the american culture of widespread gas attendants would basically cease. Many "Full-service gas-stations" would close, aka those stations with Gas Jockies, and basically in the majority of Burgerland states only "self-help stations", aka the modern most widespread gas stations in Amerika, would become the norm. In most of the West like Europe, "self-help stations" are pretty much the norm also, and it is in fact the "Full-service gas-stations" (the stations with attendants) which are the outlier and aberration, ESPECIALLY in america.

There are as far as I can tell, only two states in USA where "Full-service gas-stations" are still in widespread use in modern Burgerland. The yank states of New Jersey and Oregon.

The histories I don't know why, but basically both states had local municipal laws in the 1950s enforcing that "self-help stations" would be illegal, and thus were the only two states which survived the death of the "Full-service gas-stations" culture in the 1970s gasoline shortage crisis, as "self-help stations" were not legally allowed to outcompete them.

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It is a common joke and stereotype that peeps from the state of New Jersey don't know how to fill in their own gas, as their particular municipal regions have banned "self-help stations", and consequently arrive clueless as to what to do in all the other adjacent States' petrol stations.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/22/why-you-cant-pump-your-own-gas-in-new-jersey.html

https://old.reddit.com/r/newjersey/comments/t8aw3t/can_someone_explain_the_nj_people_dont_know_how/?sort=controversial

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/05/new-jersey-drivers-pump-gas-00014339

SOUTH AFRICA!

Now hilariously the modern Republic of South Africa is only one of the only 3 nations upon this earth which have legally recognized working occupations known as a "Gas Station Attendants".

Or to put it more specifically, it is one of the only 3 nations on Earth which have governmental law which influence or ban the use of "self-help stations" within their Nation State in some form or another!

Combinations of "self-help stations" and "Full-service gas-stations" do exist on other parts of the globe, but these are driven by the economic or social trends and conventions of their respective nations, where there are both found even in modern places like Western Europe, and are not directed by the laws of their nation states.

These nations are Burgerland (the 2 mentioned States), South Africa........and Brasilia!! !macacos

For South Africa, this was enacted back in the 1990s, during the Nelson Mandela Administration and the Thabo Mbeki Administrations for the sake of Job Creation, as there was intense levels of joblessness even back then. The Western liberal democracies' sanctions against the Union of SA's Apartheid State had crippled the country, and had obliterated the wealth of many businesses and farms, unfortunately sanctions tend to be a blunt instrument and all races were equally economically traumatized by the sanctions from the 1980s to 1992.

As part of their initiatives of job creation by the ANC, many new jobs were deemed to be created on the most compulsory industries, such as anything related to the fuel industry.

Many Mayos would b-word about these new Job Creation initiatives, as they believed that many peeps were given junk jobs just to fill out uniforms and create nonsense jobs - jobs which maybe paid for the new employees of the state, but added no benefit to the economy or aided the new nation. Most criticized of these new types of jobs was the Gas Station Attendant, once again because Mayo Boomers were used to pumping their own shit, and now had to have someone do it for them?? What a useless job!

"Full-service gas-stations" had existed before, but they weren't a nationally legalized requirement. None were more pissed by this ruling than Petrol Station owners themselves, as they suddenly found themselves with massively exorbitantly increased labour costs involved.

In fact the nature of South African Petrol Stations would drastically change due to this nationalization of the Gas Station Attendant job. Before 1990s, many individually owned "Mom-and-Pop" Gas Stations existed in SA, but these new regulations would mean only national scale chain and franchise Gas Station companies would be able to afford continual operation as Gas Stations, especially as Petrol Tax would also increase under the new ANC regime.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/momandpop.asp

In fact for modern Gas Stations, they basically make ZERO profit via the sale of petrol alone, and all Gas Station franchise basically make their money via their convenience-stores and road-restaurants and shops attached next to the sets of gas pumps. All "Mom-and-Pop" gas stations would go extinct due to the creation of the Gas Station Attendant job, or be bought out by massive conglomerate chains such as Sasol, Shell, Total, Engen, and BP

Yet in spite of all the bitching, most Petrol Station companies and owners would pivot to preferring the use of Gas Station Attendants as South Africa would become increasingly more dysfunctional and crime ridden, and the Police became increasingly more corrupt and worthless, by the time 2005 rolled in, and the corruption of the ANC became rampant.

Basically it would become financial suicide to ever operate "self-help stations" as they would be robbed blind within a fortnight, or their utilities and equipment destroyed by douchbags and malcontents. Minibus taxis and crime syndicates would prove themselves especially prone to fricking stealing petrol wholesale by literally pumping out the petrol of gas stations right out of their pumps via portable generators and tanks.

https://businesstech.co.za/news/motoring/604708/new-fuel-theft-trend-to-look-out-for-in-south-africa/

A very common form of theft, especially in places like Cape Town with limited parking behind fences in the cramped city, is for thieves to bust open the petrol-cap, and literally suck out the petrol/diesel right out of your vehicle in the middle of the night, and for the poor luckless owner to climb into his car, and realize to their dismay their fuel gage is fricking empty overnight!!

Thus modern RSA Gas Station owners and companies basically very much prefer to have their own employees pour gas, as the average South African is absolutely untrustworthy to not be a thief, or just a Tsotsi delinquent who'll frick up your pumps and equipment after single use!

Basically it's unthinkable for South Africans to live in world where Self-Help Stations exists such in Burgerland, and Safricans tourists get culture shock when the visit, not because they can't figure out how to pump their own gas, but because they are like: WHAT IF SOMEBODY STEALS THE GAS WHEN NOBODY IS WATCHING

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/is-sa-ready-for-diy-petrol-stations-1575915

From a Job Creation, to a modern necessity, Is SA ready for DIY petrol stations? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

====(from iol article)

Cape Town - The nationwide petrol attendant strike has seen calls for big oil companies to consider installing self-service pumps at their petrol stations.

But while the move would put South Africa in line with First World economies such as the US and UK, industry experts have warned that adoption of the pumps locally could result in widespread unemployment.

Self-service pumps were first introduced in the 1970s. Initially the system was built on trust, with motorists filling up before paying at the station's shop.

But this quickly made way for the credit card-based system which has been proposed for South Africa. According to the Cape Chamber of Commerce's Michael Bagraim, the “swipe system” would be best for the country. This would see pumps activated by the swipe of a credit, debit or dedicated petrol card before motorists could manually refuel their cars.

The US has almost unilaterally adopted the same system, and over the past three years, stations in developing countries such as India, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates have begun rolling it out.

Temporary petrol attendant Craig Felix, who has been filling in during the strike, said self service was a massive safety concern.

“I wouldn't like to have to get out of my car to put petrol in. It's not safe in some areas.”

Avhapfani Tshifularo, executive director of the South African Petroleum Industry Association, said self service would simply not work in the country. “Nobody is allowed to fill up his own tank at a petrol station according to the law which protects 70 000 jobs at a retail level.”

For Mxolisi Ratsibe, head of employee relations at the National Petroleum Employee Association, the debate boiled down to one glaring downside. “Jobs, jobs, jobs.”

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https://www.news24.com/fin24/aa-urges-motorists-not-to-pump-own-petrol-20130910

Translation: South Africans on average are fricking r-slurred and even without theft concerns, are likely to break and destroy Fuel Pumps on their own, which tend to be very flammable and dangerous

Now hilariously, in the past fricking Gas Jockeys would be TIPPED lmoa. Yanks are genetically predisposed to tip for everythang!

Often yank tourists suffering cultural shock when they visited Safrica about 15-20 years ago would wonder if it was customary to tip petrol attendants, since yanks were used to pour their petrol/diesel themselves and didn't know how to properly interact with such a bizarre difference in their everyday actions.

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-customary-to-tip-petrol-attendants-in-South-Africa

Now yank tourists would tell each other to tip in RSA, but this absolutely wasn't the custom for SA locals, especially since most SA white boomers were themselves used to pour in their own gas, just as yanks were pre-democratization, and now suddenly they were expected to fricking tip some doofus doing a basic manual labour job they had easily done themselves in the past

This false view that gas attendants were only spread around by yanks because of the extremely low wages of Gas Station Attendants and the pittance yanks paid with their powerful dollars, and how shocked they were at the feeble wages south africans obtained in their daily lives.

However, even RSA tourism boards would end up dissuading yanks and other foreigners from feeling obligated to tip, because Gas Station Attendants would alter their behaviour and performance upon the expectation and receival of tips. And since local safricans, including local safrican car owners were just as relatively dirt poor, and could absolutely not afford fricking tipping upon rising petrol/diesel prices, and having lazy Gas Jockies give shit service because locals don't give tips was not something tolerated for long, and Gas-Station owners would make it clear that future behavior would have to be independent of tips henceforth.

Stupid modern yank tourists still tip in places like Cape Town, but it's not been a common thing by the late 2010s.

FINAL NOTE:

Also apparently Brasilia is equally cucked by their commie government and had implemented laws to create Gas Station Attendant jobs of up to 300 000 peeps in 2000!

https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/paineldoleitor/2015/02/1593346-ministro-aldo-rebelo-comenta-artigo-sobre-baixo-crescimento.shtml

Unite! Beware AmeriKKKa! The 3rd world is coming to R*PE U!

!birdposters !furries the thought of more birds in socks was inflicting massive psychic damage

so I set to work on making it real

but this isn't right... america would never keep its citizens safe

so I needed another creatura

what better than a leaf national animal: the moose

this one is a foid _{^{(see the eyelashes?)}} so I can ship the two in my beautiful dark twisted fantasy after marsey canonically ghosts

neck might still be too dark I can't tell between 2 monitors

Proudly stolen from Autodrama

Must be the nice weather causing socially awkward losers with no friends to try and venture out into the nearest cheap shithole to eat with no friends.

One in /r/Cleveland

https://old.reddit.com/r/Cleveland/comments/1cflbyn/places_where_its_not_weird_to_eat_alone/?sort=controversial

I moved to Beachwood a little over a year ago and I'm still struggling to scope out places that don't look at me weird / treat me poorly for dining alone (during non-peak hours). I'm just One Dude and often don't have people to go with me to get food. Recs closer to the Beachwood area preferred, but I'll hear anything out.

Update: I've learned that it's REALLY not a big deal and the bad experience I had that scared me away from it is actually just that place being Terrible lmao

And another in /r/Detroit

Hello people of Detroit! I am currently here on a contract job, staying in the Troy area and working around Royal Oak. I've never been one to eat at restaurants much, but since my meals are reimbursed I've been very much taking advantage of it. I'm loving the food around here, especially ramen and sushi. But I've been craving hot pot recently. I've only been once since it is generally out of my budget, but it definitely seems like a group activity. I have pretty bad social anxiety so I may be overthinking it. Do you know of any hotpot in the area that would be cool with a solo diner? Definitely willing to drive a bit for good food. Thanks for any help, and all food recommendations welcome!

https://old.reddit.com/r/Detroit/comments/1cfiq3s/hotpot_for_solo_diner/?sort=controversial

!grillers

I saw this article on facebook dot com. Some of the people involved seem a bit rude, but I thought it might give you a laugh.

Love you and god bless.

A similar Isreali counter-protest from 2017:

!goyslopenjoyers deep fried onion from texas roadhouse

look at that calorie count

i’m in an elementary school and a student did a simply gorgeous rendition of the chad meme pic.twitter.com/E7wUYWojsV

— quasimatt (friendship agriculturist (f/ag)) (@quasimatt) April 28, 2024

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— Radar🚨 (@RadarHits) April 29, 2024

Was pretty proud of this one because I'd made that fake duckling bill from a rats tail.

Such villa probably will cost couple of hundreds million buxx. So who is owner ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhii_Kivalov

Just ex parliament member who held his position from 1998 till 2019 and now 5 years is retired and can pay tax and other bills for such house also best part Parliament members salary was around 1000 buxx and most of times less

рядовой член комитета (обычный народный депутат Украины), может рассчитывать примерно на 45,4 тыс

Salary today is 45k hrivnya that's 1050 +/- euro so easily to afford an big butt villa next to warm sea and before being Parliament member he was lawyers

https://dumskaya.net/news/vo-vremya-udara-po-odesse-postradal-eks-nardep-s-183700/

And khohol website says he is wounded and comments are:

Карма — то дивна штука…

Karma is a beautiful thing

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Reddit and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race pic.twitter.com/NTj2E8tVjP

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everything is reddit

!male feminists

Didn't see any drama threads about this. Governor Newsom signed a bill that would raise utility bills for Californians based on income.

Under $28,000 income — $24 per month

$28,000 to $69,000 income — $34 per month

$69,000 to $180,000 income –$73 per month

Over $180,000 income — $128 per month

This is on top of current utility rates.

Commiefornia Redditors in the thread explain they're happy to pay the increases while others are screaming for the heads of PG&E execs (and a few for the legislators who actually passed this lol)

Solar users are irate that they are also going to be charged regardless

https://old.reddit.com/r/TeslaSolar/comments/145guxv/california_rate_changes_will_screw_rooftop_solar/?sort=controversial

Bay Area malding

https://old.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1algswt/the_pge_sucks_megathread/?sort=controversial