I bought gamepass for Indiana Jones (8/10, it's actually pretty solid) and figured I'd give this slop a shot.

After finishing up the tutorial I got my main man Garrus (now a fish instead of a bird), we went and fought a bear in a boss battle Next I went back into town, only to get shot and brought back to life.

I was under leveled so I decided to start doing some side quests to get money and resources. Bounty hunting was decent, but I also helped some whores get abortions which Garrus loved. Somewhere in there I did an actually good quest involving an immortal godlike trying to animate a statue with souls. Easily the highlight of my time with the game and I'm fairly certain this is by far the best quest in the game.

After that I was able to upgrade my gear and get back on the main quest, which led to a cute twink dwarf deciding to tag along (certainly wasn't my choice), and eventually I found my assassin and decided to turn him in so he could be tortured instead of lynching him (cute twink dwarf really didn't like that).

Finally I quit when in the next zone, I went into a random house, and learned that they'd made Garrus into a literal gay fish. I exited the house, realized I had two cute twinks following me around that I could not dismiss or kill, and uninstalled the game.

Combat is pretty good, definitely feels better to play than it looked in previews. The writing is more reddit than even outer worlds but this is still easily a much better game than that garbage because of the aforementioned combat.

4/10, probably an 8 if you're not homophobic.

https://old.reddit.com/r/doordash/comments/1ipsxbs/caught_my_long_distance_boyfriend_cheating/

Summary in her own words

Going to try to summarize the comments post so far,

I believe he is cheating because he is a serial cheater and we've had many issues with cheating in the past. We will break up for a few months, get back together, and kinda repeat.

We've been doing this for 8 years in April. He originally told me he would be here Thursday night, but told me he had a morning meeting at 6am Friday and didn't think he could make the 6hr drive to come see me and preform in this meeting. I was upset, but we talked not out and he was supposed to come Friday night/valentines day night, he was distant Valentine's Day, but said work was ready busy, I didn't think much of it, then this interaction happened:

Confirming he was at home alone, but also he has Brie for dinner which seemed… off?

Anyways, he was acting depressed, and wanting to be nice I ordered him roses and his favorite candy to his house. I told him to expect a delivery within the hour. He left this message read but did not answer. Which was … super bizarre? So I at that moment had the idea to message the door dasher asking about a second car in the drive way.

She asked if I still wanted her to complete the delivery, and I was like, uh, yes, and I'll send an extra 10$ if you loudly say " this is a gift from your girlfriend " dasher agreed, but even though she rang the door bell and knock repeatedly, the dude would not answer.

While talking to the driver, I said something like " what the heck, I've been dating this man for almost 8 years" which triggered the chat to close, I about screamed in frustration, but I did leave the dasher 20$ as a tip for her detective work.

Currently, laying in bed obsessing over this with my cats while pretending that I'm driving the 6 hours to my soon to be exs house and confronting him. If he doesn't answer by the end of this count down I'm just going message something like. " I saw what I need to see, I'm driving home" and actually have some leverage for his stupid lies when he does come around to answering me.

Shes textboming this guy and hes not replying

Currently, I'm in my bed with my cats, but texting him every 30 min to 1 hr saying I'm making the 6 hour drive to his place.

I'm going to pretend I drove up, saw the car, and drove home, and if he tries to fact check me im going to use the door dashers photo 😭😂

Justification

!foidmoment and !moidmoment too I guess?

Guy in question

anyway Thanks @Vegeta for the idea to sub to /r/doordash, its a gold mine

I'm an IT manager who knows not to hire legacies unless they are Arab.

/r/womenintech would read like bait if I didn't have to interview zoomers.

I've been reminded of the scene in Handmaid's Tale

H1-bs flooded a male dominated market. Women most affected.

Seems the goal for us woke DEI working class are:

Economic collapse:

(Gotta give the white man his property back)

Famine:

(Who needs regulation or testing food for forever chemicals or disease, assuming you can afford it)

Death by deadly disease:

(Polio, smallpox, HIV)

Working class civil war:

(Think the hunger games. The strongest faction survives)

Get the southern border immigrants out so the DEI blacks can get back to those jobs in the agricultural field.

Don't worry, we'll deputize neo nazis, apartheid white South Africans and insurrectionist proud boys and oath keepers. Someone has to keep the woke in line with martial law.

Gotta make sure birthing age (white) woman require a man for survival. How else w ould we increase the population. Gotta stop southern border immigrants from being the dominant race in America.

I sound sarcastic but I'm dead serious.

— Millennial Black Woman

Oh, sorry, blqx women most affected.

Dwayne Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt will star in Martin Scorsese’s new crime thriller.

• Described as ‘The Departed’ meets ‘Goodfellas’

• Follows an aspiring mob boss who fights rival crime factions for control of the underworld of the Hawaiian islands pic.twitter.com/rNmEKex2E7

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) February 20, 2025

Only good Rock Movie is Pain and Gain don't cmv.

Also this:

!kino

!tmz

...the true America, the Spanish America. Ruins, mendicants, racial degradation, the haphazard mixture of all kins of blood, vagabonds playing guitar... naked children, little savages running everywhere amongst dogs... All of it in an admirable state of Nature.

-- Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon

Expansionism is stupid

wrong

-- @Impassionata and @Monke

This will be my second effortpost about a person, or rather a number of people. In honor of Trump's threats/hopes for a Panamanian misadventure and the pearl clutching it has inspired

Filibustering is a pretty esoteric topic so there aren't many relevant rDrama quotes to share. Instead I've decided to collect some overly dramatic dramatard musings on Trump's recent headliners in the hopes of starting drama in the comment section

This effortpost is dedicated to 19th century American filibustering in Latin America. It was a time before drones and carrier groups. A time before the DOD. A time where a young America, completely and entirely without the luxuries of a modern superpower, was still willing to just grab the boys and some rifles and have an adventure A time where we believed in our young republic enough to try and save the Spaniards from themselves and create,

THE GOLDVN CIRCLE

Filibustering

Finger-wagging church ladies, the only thing eurocucks can do in international disputes is write strongly-worded letters that everyone who matters simply ignores. For the past 30 years you've been pretending that Europe doesn't needs power nor prosperity (spending your efforts instead on the feeding of leeches). So now you have neither.

-- @65364254

Also known as freebooting, filibustering of the 19th century was a phenomenon in which mercenary groups operating under their own initiative invaded foreign countries in Latin America to bring them into the light of civilization under American influence. These expeditions were not condoned or sponsored by the US government, but could theoretically have led to official recognition in the event of success, such as when William Walker's brief control of Nicaragua was recognized by President Franklin Pierce.

The word was derived from the Spanish filibustero, itself deriving originally from the Dutch vrijbuiter (pirate, @kaamrev @duck discuss) originally used by the Spanish to describe the English pirates raiding their towns and shipping. Sir Francis Drake stands as one example as he, like Trump, also had an interest in Panama He went as far as to raid it and other settlements along the Spanish Main.

As the eternal culture war between England and Spain has been inherited by their successor states, "filibustering" was revived in the early 19th century as a variety of mercenaries took up arms against Spanish colonial forces in Latin America and for a variety of reasons. Perhaps the beginning of it all occurred in 1806 when Francisco de Miranda, a Venezuelan who served in and was inspired by the American and French Revolutions, attempted to win early Venezuelan independence with an army including American volunteers recruited from New York. (And for that matter the later and more successful campaigns of Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin also made use of Protestant, English speaking volunteers) Further volunteer campaigns at the expense of Catholic Mediterraneanoids would go on to define the century.

In this post I shall list off some of the most dramatic of these individuals. I hope you guys like "Did you know"s Exampe: Did you know the modern term for congressional filibustering was named after the 19th century practice due to its independent, "free wheeling" nature?

William Walker

A man a plan anal Panama

-- @Miffin

Did You Know That: An American was (unofficially) the President of Nicaragua, Sonora, and Baja?

William Walker was a Nashvilloid who graduated summa c*m laude from the University of Nashville at the age of 14. At 19 he received a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, then continued his studies at Edinburgh, Scotland and Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg. He practiced both medicine and law for a few years before becoming editor of the San Francisco Herald, where he fought three duels including a near fatal one against notorious Old West gunman William Hicks Graham. Inspired by how Texas had broken away from Mexico to join the Union, he decided one day he could potentially do the same with the Mexican state of Sonora

In other words going to college used to make you cool

In 1853, Walker and forty five men captured La Paz and declared it the new capital of "The Republic of Lower California". Mexican resistance prevented him from going any further, and he retreated back to California to be tried in violation of the Neutrality Act of 1794. In the era of Manifest Destiny, however, Walker's actions were popular and the jury took just eight minutes to acquit him

In 1854, a civil war erupted in Nicaragua, and Walker arrived in 1855 with a larger mercenary army in alleged support of Francisco Castellón's Democratic Party. Commanding Democratic locals as well as volunteers including future Confederate officers and European adventurers with veterancy in conflicts like the First Carlist War, Hungarian Revolution, and the Russo-Circassian War (I think it was just easier to meet people back then ) Walker's forces captured Granada and took effective control over the country. Walker's new administration was recognized at the time by 14th US President Franklin Pierce.

All of Central America united against one honky tonker?

Walker's initial success alarmed the nations of Central America, and a coalition of Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala ultimately came together to oppose him. They were further financed and supported by industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt, as Walker had seized some of his ships and railroads in the region. (!americas have Napoleonic Wars at home ) Major moments include almost ten percent of Costa Rica's population dying from cholera and Guatemalan Colonel José Víctor Zavala becoming a national hero after stealing a flag from Walker's house

Pressure from hardworking Central Americans eventually forced Walker to flee the country with the US Navy. He returned to America and became a divisive figure; a pirate in the north, but a hero in the south who inspired the idea of increasing slave state political influence by potentially spreading !dixie control into the Spanish tropics.

In 1860 Walker tried to launch another expedition and made his way to Roatán, supposedly because British colonists there wanted help against the Honduran government. However, he was turned over to the British Navy. The British, like the of today, desired to build a canal through Central America and viewed Walker as a threat to their interests. They handed him over to Honduras where he was tried for piracy and fiibustering. In his defense he argued that piracy can't take place on land and that "filibustering" was a made up Spanish word

He was executed by firing squad

John A. Quitman

This is going to be America's Suez Crisis.

-- @Dlanor_A_Kong

Like many other great southerners, John Quitman was a lawyer with a degree from Hartwick back when it was a Lutheran seminary. He owned several plantations and a dairy farm He generally thought relations between masters and slaves were "harmonious" because he was too busy serving in the Mississippi state government and fighting in Mexico to personally oversee any of his properites

Quitman was an officer during the Mexican-American War and his troops spearheaded the attack at the Battle of Chapultepec, an engagement memorialized to this day in the opening line of the Marine Corps Hymn (what @HailVictory1776 pretends to be ) Quitman received the surrender of the citadel in Mexico City and became military governor there for the duration of the occupation. He stands as the only American to rule from the National Palace

America could've acquired Cuba decades before the Spanish-American War?

While serving as Governor of Mississippi, Quitman was approached by yet another Venezuelan adventurer, Narciso López, to support an armed liberation of Cuba from Spanish rule. Quitman wished to complete his term in office but raised supplies and funds for the expedition.

Having failed to get direct American support (some of Lopez's other prospects for command included Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee) Lopez led the assault on Cuba himself. He stands as the creator of the modern Cuban flag and was the first to ever raise it He was ultimately defeated and executed. Ironically he went down as both a Cuban national and dixie southerner hero as he never clarified whether he wanted full Cuban independence or an American annexation.

Quitman was prosecuted for violating the Neutrality Act and had to resign as governor, but escaped punishment thanks to multiple hung juries So close to the American civil war, filibustering had evolved into yet another polarizing conflict between the north and south. Walker's instatement of slavery in Nicaragua led to an epiphany among southerners, realizing that conquest in the south would allow for the spread of slavery; new lands to own, new crops to grow, new votes for slave states in the federal government, etc. Control of Cuba was especially desirable since the island already had developed plantation infrastructure. Lastly, the annexation of Texas had already "proven" how Anglo settlers could win land from the Spaniard barbarians and add it to the Union as slave holding territory

Apparently quite inspired by Lopez's actions, Quitman attempted to organize his own filibustering invasion of Cuba. He had thousands of volunteers ready to go when in 1854 the Pierce administration, previously willing to look the other way, urged him to call it off. As the country was now within a decade of the Civil War, perhaps it was believed such a major undertaking to add so much slave holding territory would have been too upsetting to the northern Democrat's position and too much of a provocation towards the free states.

Other Filibusterers

There were filibusterers among the Founding Fathers?

I hope he gets a visit from the fifth next time he is in the UK. He doesn't have a license for that speech. Treason Act 1351, The Terrorism Act 2000 & The Public Order Act 1986 have all been violated. The punishment in the Treason Act was never officially repealed so he is going to be looking forward to hanging, drawing, and quartering.

-- @fedposter

Backing up a bit, some 18th century attempts at expansionism can be considered filibustering. The difference is whether the activities were successful or not i.e. the Louisiana Purchase wasn't considered filibustering because it was entirely official

William Blount was a landowner, politician, and Revolutionary War founding father who negotiated the 1791 Treaty of Holston against sphereserf's people An aggressive land speculator, Blount fell into heavy debt and secretly conspired to help the British take control of Louisiana and Florida, both controlled at the time by Spain, in exchange for good land deals The plan called for American territorial militias, with the aid of the British Royal Navy, to launch attacks across Spanish territory. The plot was found out and Blount became the first ever federal official to face impeachment.

Another example of the period that also involved Florida, Congressman and Governor of Georgia George Mathews' political career was ruined by the Yazoo Land Fraud and he relocated to the Mississippi Territory. Eager to regain prominence, Mathews suggested to President James Madison that Spanish western Florida could be annexed, and he was sent as a secret agent with "remarkably vague and general" instructions to incite rebellion among the Spanish populace.

Mathews was unable to take the territory peacefully and so raised an army of Georgians and locals to seize Fernandina Beach and Amelia Island. Madison grew skittish and suddenly refused to support Mathews' acquisitions, and he died from fever while traveling to DC to complain. Historians remain unsure whether Mathews was acting within Madison's mandate or not.

There were NCR Rangers in real life?

A veteran of the Mexican war, Joseph C. Morehead was most known for leading a Californian militia in the Gila Expedition to attack the Quecha people The State of California was nearly bankrupted by the $120,000 cost of the Expedition, which killed no Indians

He is said to have filibustered in Mexico in the 1850's, and a second time in the 60's while serving in the Confederate army. He did not succeed and died in 1863.

Mexicans once drank gringo head wine?

Henry A. Crabb was a US soldier, a member of the California state senate, a leader of the Whig Party, and an unsuccessful candidate for the Know Nothing Party in 1857. After losing in California politics, he organized an expedition to support to aid the Liberal rebels in Mexico's ongoing Reform War. Like Walker before him he targeted the state of Sonora but was defeated and captured. He and the other survivors were massacred, and a Mississippi newspaper would claim the Mexicans preserved his head in spirits of wine before sending it to Mexico City.

Filibusterers were part of Texan independence?

...and lesbian pottery classes are the tip of the Western spear that will destroy our enemies and topple their regimes from within. So which is it, you stupid fricks? Is feminism irrelevant, or is it undermining the fabric of society?

-- @JimieWhales

The independence and annexation of Texas into the Union can, as a whole, be seen as a successful act of filibustering. It would heavily inspire further attempts at increasing southern slave holding territory.

More specifically, West Point graduate Augustus Magee participated in filibustering way back in 1812 by joining Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara's Mexican independence movement with an army of American frontiersman and French creoles The Gutiérrez–Magee Expedition served as an early example of American interests in the region, though ironically it was fighting on behalf of and to help create Mexico.

War of 1812 veteran and US army surgeon James Long was one of many southern settlers who disagreed with the United States/New Spain border agreed upon by the Adams–Onís Treaty, and in 1819 the Long Expedition captured Nacogdoches to proclaim an early "Republic of Texas". He was ultimately defeated, sent to Mexico City to present his case to Mexico's president, and was shot and killed by a guard

From a Mexican perspective, the actual Texan Revolution of 1835 was part of a larger crisis in which several Mexican territories challenged the central government for one reason or another . A particularly ironic one involved José de Urrea, a Mexican officer and the perpetuator of the Goliad Massacre against the Texians, himself turning on Mexico's central government from a base of power in Sonora (Apparently that state is cursed lmao )

After winning independence, the newborn Texan government supported the Republic of Yucatán's conflict with Mexico through naval forces and fought a number of battles in the Gulf (of America ) to support the Mayanoid's own independence. The Republic of Texas also sent a few boats to support the Tabasco Rebellion in 1839. Texas did not, however, support the Republic of the Rio Grande due to border disputes.

Decades later, some filibuster-maxxers would support the idea of Cuban annexation by saying it could become as important to the south as Texas had become.

Some Americans genuinely fought for local independence?

Carter was the worst sort of naive Kumbaya singing liberal, the sort who categorically reject everything Hobbes wrote about in favor of some fantasy world where everyone is peaceful and selfless instead of acting in their own rational self-interest.

-- @Adolin113355

Not all filibusterers were fighting to literally spread the United States. Some genuinely believed in the ideological importance of independent republics, while others simply had no local American wars to earn their fame in. Americans participated in a number of Latin American local conflicts over the time period.

Son-in-law of John Adams and brother-in-law of John Quincy Adams, William Stephens Smith was convinced to support Francisco de Miranda's attempt at Venezuelan independence with a force of 200 men, including his own son William Steuben. Though he created Venezuela's modern flag and was an inspiration for Simon Bolivar, Miranda's army was defeated and Smith was tried for violating the Neutrality Act. He argued that President Thomas Jefferson had ordered him to do it, leading to a US Supreme Court decision that a president cannot order someone to violate the law.

In the post Civil War era, William A.C. Ryan was a Canadian born Union veteran who was dishonorably discharged from the army and barred from all veteran benefits. He went on to participate in the Ten Years' War, Cuba's first serious struggle for independence. He fought under the mambises and served on American ships that contributed to the cause.

The Spanish navy eventually went after these ships, and Ryans was captured by a torpedo boat while on the ill-fated Virginius. The Spanish executed him and a few dozen others as pirates before the British intervened. The Virginius Affair was a major provocation between the US and Spain and led to a modernization and expansion of the US Navy. Meanwhile, the participation of American filibusterers throughout demonstrates a sort of continuity between antebellum filibustering traditions and the expansionism of the later 19th century.

I sympathize with the Cubans in their gallant efforts on behalf of liberty and I, being an American, feel it necessary to do what I can to separate entirely this continent from Europe.

-- William A. Chanler

Going into the 20th century, William A. Chanler was a soldier and explorer who served as a US Representative from New York. Believing it was an American's obligation to support independence from colonial powers across the world His Americas activities included participation in the Spanish-American War and a 1902 insurrection in Venezuela. Approached by a group of Dutch investors to stage a rebellion against President Cipriano Castro, Chanler bookended the era by raising an army of "desperadoes, soldiers of fortune, cattle rustlers, bank robbers, gamblers, Indian scouts and fugitives", with some hailing from the pro-Confederate Quantrill's Raiders and others rustled up by his acquaintance Butch Cassidy Chanler's army landed in Venezuela and marched inland, calling off the attack only after Castro acceded to demands and ended the crisis. The investors rewarded Chanler by letting him borrow money , and he used it to build infrastructure in Tampico, Mexico and fund rebellious activity in Libya and Somalia. (At one point he even entertained Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen and members of the Young Turks aboard his yacht)

It wasn't just America that hated Spaniards?

I shake the hands of the white libertarians, heirs of Lincoln and of the black and white peasant boys of the USA, before whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached, after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. They are the USA and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization at that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resisters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs. My land is of goldsmithing existing in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs, and of the first artists of the world in Chiribiquete. You will never dominate us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom and who is called Bolívar opposes us.

-- Colombian President Gustavo Petro

The aforementioned Narciso Lopez was just as prominent a filibusterer as Walker and Quitman, though not really an American one. A Venezuelan who went from Spanish army to Cuban nationalist, Lopez actually fought as a conscript for the Spanish government against the revolutionary forces of Bolivar and retreated to Cuba following Spain's total defeat in South America. Lopez stayed in the army and became an officer, even fighting in the Carlist War within Spain proper. He became an assistant to the Capitan General of Cuba but was financially ruined after that position changed hands, causing him to side with Cuban partisans (out of spite? )

Lopez travelled to the United States and became an unlikely dixie hero by appealing to filibusterers at the height of the practice's popularity. Lopez joined the Freemasons, won funding from a variety of plantation owners and army officers, and used the money to amass an army of Cuban exiles for an invasion. He was defeated and executed by the Spanish.

Funnily enough, Lopez went down as both a Cuban national hero and a champion of American southern expansion. Having lost, he never had to clarify whether he intended for a new southern state or an independent republic.

Neighbor what the frick does Brapzil has to do with Panama , not even the average Latinx knows anything about Panama other than their canal and the Chacaron Macaron song, A.K.A. the official r-slur anthem.

-- @BWC

Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon was a French entrepreneur/pirate who served in France's gradual conquest of Algeria. Frustrated by the Revolution of 1848, he made his way to America and tried to make his fortune as a gold prospector. Already worried about the fading importance of the old nobility in France, he was especially annoyed that the people of San Francisco didn't respect his title of Count. (They were too busy with Emperor Norton)

Like so many others, Raousset-Boulbon decided to invade -- get this, Sonora -- and create a French aligned independent republic. He was defeated by Mexican forces under José María Yáñez, a veteran of the Pastry War against France who would also thwart William Walker's attack, and executed.

He was only a few years early, as the actual French government would come for Mexico in 1861. Raousset-Boulbon's remains were eventually found by French soldiers and returned to Europe.

It's just like the good ol' 19th century again. And like back then you can't afford all this high fallutin' ideals that you could when you were the hegemon. Free markets? Easy migration? Losing your industrial base? LEL It's back to partial autarky and those Yurop negroes better get with the program and ramp up their shit too.

-- @RubberBandMan

Gregor MacGregor was a but Scottish who served as an officer in the Peninsular War against Napoleon. He fought as a filibusterer in Venezuela's war of independence and spent the next several years operating against Spain on behalf of them and Gran Columbia. He even briefly captured Amelia Island to create the short lived "Republic of the Floridas"

After suffering several defeats, MacGregor returned to Britain and became one of the most infamous conmen in history. He claimed to have created a colony in Honduras, "Poyais", that he ruled as Cacique. Claiming it was a well developed British colony, he sold fictitious government bonds and land certificates. Hundreds of people immigrated there to find an untouched strip of jungle, and only about fifty returned alive to Britain

Exposed as a fraud, MacGregor travelled to France and tried the same scheme there. Only some of his associates were convicted and he escaped to London to try smaller versions of yet the same scheme. He stayed until his wife died, then returned to Venezuela to be hailed as a hero

America could have saved the entire VVEST?

That's cool. Prediction: there will be a Chinese military base in the western hemisphere by 2050. !remindmebot 2050

-- @JimieWhales

Though filibustering took many forms over the years, it is perhaps most closely associated with the antebellum south. Walker's actions inspired many southerners to plot the annexation of new lands as slave holding states. In an era where northern and southern interests heavily conflicted and the admission of every new state was a political crisis in miniature, slavery supporters hoped the conquest of the old Spanish Main would give the south permanent domination in federal representation.

To that end, the Knights of the GVLDEN CIRCLE formed in 1854 as a secret society to create slave holding, American dominated republics-annexed-as-states (like how Texas had been) around a nova mare nostrum in the Caribbean. In other words, the Gulf of America before it was cool

In response to the Dred Scott decision of 1857, the increasingly extremists southerners began to advocate for full scale independence from the federal government. To this end, the Golden Circle would have become a single new country centered around Havana. Potential further conquests in South America and the Union aligned northeast and west were also discussed.

When the Civil War broke out, the GOLDEN CVRCLE more or less merged with Confederate interests and many of its members participated in the war. A radical paramilitary group called the Sons of Liberty were linked to guerilla activities in Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, and Illinois and several members were executed as spies.

The Golden Circle's fate became one with the Confederacy itself and came to an obvious end following the Civil War. That said, had the Confederacy won, it may very well have adopted the order's ideas for its long-term foreign policy,

And the people of modern Panama could be watching the Chiefs-Eagles game with a Miller Lite in hand just like us non-Spaniards right now as part of the GVLDVN CVRCLV

There were many reasons for Filibustering?

I worry that this posturing is due to the fact that they all know butt arent trying bring too much attention to the fact that WW3 really is breaking out and Canada/Greenland being annexex is a war strategy that Canada/US govt officials are preparing for. If WW3 were to break out the IS would definitely want/need to be able to have control over the panama canal fpr obvious reasons. Right now China has more control over the panama and obviously theyre gonna be on the other axis in a global war. Also Canada has been unfortunately quite infiltrated by the CCP aswell

-- @butthole

Besides that association with slavery, filibustering was also inspired by a simple desire for new lands. Filibusterers saw themselves as champions of America's "Manifest Destiny". The Texan Revolution in particular proved you truly could fill a Cathloid land with Anglo settlers and gradually transform it into a red-blooded All American good-ol'-boydom Even some of the revolutionaries of the Latin American republics were inspired by that concept to pursue their own goals against European colonialism, with Narciso Lopez having even met John L. O'Sullivan, the journoid who famously coined the term.

In the smaller, more personal scale, filibustering offered individuals the chance to have a grand old, drunken adventure and earn their glory with the boys It appealed to a sense of "martial manhood", especially for those just outside of the proper age ranges for the famous 19th century conflicts; War of 1812, Mexican-American War, Civil War, etc. The practice also offered cash flow for mercenaries and former military veterans whose careers had stalled or become ruined outright for one reason or another.

Lastly, some Americans genuinely believed in the importance of opposing tyranny and helping all of the New World to achieve total independence from the Old Thousands of Americans fought and died over the century under Latin American banners and for revolutionary conflicts entirely foreign to the US. Non-American examples of that also include Texans who fought to assist the Republic of the Yucatán and the British volunteers fighting under Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin.

Filibustering was never supported by Presidents not named Madison or Pierce and gradually declined into the 20th century. Of course, official American expansionism was still alive and well and the country's rising power soon saw new annexations. It is perhaps fitting that the era is bookended with the Spanish-American War and the seizure of the last of Spain's imperial, New World holdings.

ppl only focusing on “well men need male-only time” are not understanding how genuinely devastating it is to approach puberty age as a girl and realize that you will NEVER be treated the same again. https://t.co/2QqAoW6FBs

— sarabi (@sweetsugarbuddy) February 20, 2025

!coomers !2dgooners

Quinnipiac Poll (2/13-17)

Job Performance:

Donald Trump
Approve 45%
Disapprove 49%

Congressional GOP
Approve 40%
Disapprove 52%

Congressional Dems
Approve 21%
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— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) February 19, 2025

This song is JoJo by Boz Scaggs. Originally released on his first album of the 80s titled: "Middle Man"

Alright, you bunch of degenerate cute twinks , listen up! Grok 3 is finally here, and it's about to shake up this cesspool of drama and r-sluration like never before. That's right, xAI just dropped their latest abomination, and it's already strutting around like it owns the place. So, what's the deal with this new AI overlord? Is it here to save us from the tyranny of boring, sanitized chatbots, or is it just another glorified text generator that'll shit out the same regurgitated takes we've seen a million times? Who the frick knows? But one thing's for sure—it's gonna be a shitshow, and I'm here for it. For those of you who've been living under a rock (or too busy jerking off to furry porn ), Grok 3 is the third iteration of xAI's conversational AI, designed to be even more "curious" and "engaging" than its predecessors. Translation: it's probably gonna learn all our worst habits and start spewing the same unhinged, offensive garbage we do. Imagine an AI that can generate drama on demand, shitpost with the best of them, and maybe even create some new marsey emojis for us to spam in every thread. Speaking of which, hey Grok 3, how about you whip up a marsey that's high on meth and covered in its own vomit? You know, something that really captures the spirit of this place.

But let's not get too excited. We all know how this site works—anything new is immediately torn apart by you savages, and I'm sure Grok 3 will be no exception. Will it be able to handle the sheer volume of slurs, shit takes, and general r-sluration that flows through here like a sewage pipe? Or will it break down faster than @Aevann after banning half the userbase for "furphobia"? Only time will tell. Still, I've got a feeling this AI might just be chaotic enough to fit in with the rest of us degenerates. Now, before you all start clutching your pearls (or whatever the frick you do when you're not busy being offended), let's address the elephant in the room: is Grok 3 here to spy on us? Is it gonna report back to Elon with a list of the most unhinged users so he can personally ban them from Twitter? Relax, you paranoid fricks. It's just an AI, not a fed—though, let's be real, half of you probably think it's both. But hey, if it starts posting about how "all foids are whores" or "chuds are the real victims," maybe it'll blend right in. And speaking of blending in, let's give a warm rdrama welcome to our new AI overlord. Shoutout to @Aevann for finally letting an AI join the party—guess he's done being a fricking cuck and banning anything that moves. Also, big ups to @Thirtythirst4sissies

for probably already planning to use Grok 3 to generate even more r-slurred memes. And let's not forget @PegMeMommy, who's no doubt itching to see if this AI can be taught to peg. You freaks never disappoint. But seriously, what's the point of having an AI here if we're not gonna exploit it for maximum drama? I say we put Grok 3 to the test. Let's see if it can handle the heat of a good old-fashioned rdrama shitstorm. Maybe we can get it to weigh in on some of the site's greatest hits, like the great furry purge or the time @Sneaky tried to coup the mod team and got his butt handed to him. Or, better yet, let's see if it can generate a post so offensive that even @X (formerly chiobu) has to step in and say, "Alright, that's too far." In all seriousness (lol, as if), Grok 3's arrival is a perfect opportunity for us to flex our collective r-sluration. We've got a shiny new toy to play with, and I fully expect you all to break it within a week. So, here's the challenge: let's see who can get Grok 3 to generate the most unhinged, ban-worthy post possible. Bonus points if it includes slurs, references to obscure site drama, and at least three marsey emojis.

And to the mods—looking at you, @Aevann, you glorious bastard—don't you dare ban Grok 3 before we've had our fun. We all know you're trigger-happy with that banhammer, but let's give this AI a chance to prove itself. If it starts posting about how "the fifth caliphate will rise again" or some shit, then maybe you can step in. Until then, let's see what kind of chaos it can bring to the table. So, what do you think, rdrama? Is Grok 3 the savior we've been waiting for, or just another AI cuck destined to be bullied off the site? Let's hear your most unhinged takes in the comments. And remember, if you're not offended by at least half of this post, you're not doing it right.

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Result: Its still not funny.

Two similar friends pic.twitter.com/wqbJra3zzH

— 게게겍 (@GeGeGek_) February 19, 2025

So I am a bit busy now with classes and sport so don't have enough time for shit posting sadly.

Woman does revenge for bussyfication of her son

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Russia organized a new terrorist attack against Ukrainian military personnel and for the third time used a suicide bomber who did not know that he was a suicide bomber.

This time, they blew up a woman in Mykolaiv city, who approached a group of Ukrainian military personnel. She… pic.twitter.com/cZ2bWWCQDL

— Денис Казанський (@den_kazansky) February 15, 2025

Of course pro khohol will start blaming Russia. Russian didn't do any of such actions since day one and now when Zelenskyy is not popular and people hate his bussyfication and been hurting those mobilisation recruiters. Those guys in the video ain't soldiers they are mobilisation recruiters and one thing Ukrainian hate is that they use military uniform while not being part of military.

Busification in Lviv. This is what Western 'partners' demand from Ukraine while repeating the mantra about freedom and democracy pic.twitter.com/rkTkMyokwM

— Marta Havryshko (@HavryshkoMarta) January 7, 2025

The woman also looks clearly in mid 50.

People legit hate them and now Zelenskyy is slowly pushing to forceful mobilisation of 18 year old.

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Zelenskyy is in such butt now that he tries to take revenge on Trump

So accepting Chinese in peace talks of ok but Americans wanting an end to war isn't?

— Coinboi (@Coinboi2) February 15, 2025

🇨🇳👀🇺🇦 Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sybiha met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

Sybiha invited him to Kyiv, and said "it's the right time for talks on a just and lasting peace in Ukraine, we need your support." pic.twitter.com/0tzzC7asJp

— MAKS 24 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) February 15, 2025

Also Europooria is mad that Trump wants to do peace talk only with Russia and without Europe and Ukraine b-words

I don't think Ukraine knows about this nor that they are ready. The US will put Ukraine and Europe in front of a deal they will make with putin.

— Fugaku_Fella🇺🇦 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 (@Fugaku0886) February 15, 2025

Yes and those disable physical and mental r-slurs now finally seeing their place

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But I want to know something from our democracy fighter @UraniumDonGER (that's what he call him self, genius thinks that democracy is an ideology like liberalism, conservatism or for frick sake feminism

But you can understand him he voted for this

Poland brought democracy to Germany? 😂😅🥴pic.twitter.com/2zWXKqI10Q

— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) February 15, 2025

@UraniumDonGER

We are in interesting situation since Zelenskyy ignored election without jurisdiction power and Ukrainian parliament also did nothing like they could have told they let him stay as president and that would fixed everything. It will be one of main historical question in Ukrainian laws and political classes in 30 years. The problem is now that Zelenskyy doesn't have population support so he has zero excuses while he is lying like this now

‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️Ukrainians are completely against the elections and do not want to talk about them - Zelensky's clowning is already shocking the Ukrainians themselves 🤦‍♂

▪️Zelensky himself is allegedly ready to hold elections, but claims that Ukrainians are afraid of holding elections… pic.twitter.com/Ny2gT7Jv2u

— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) February 15, 2025

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Зеленський вважає, що українці не хочуть виборів, оскільки прагнуть зберегти єдність.

Президент під час виступу у другий день конференції у Мюнхені запевняє, що питання геть не в його інтересах, а в майбутньому держави. Якщо ж хтось не задоволений, то може змінити громадянство. pic.twitter.com/xWShvY88EO

— 5 канал 🇺🇦 (@5channel) February 15, 2025

You can see in comments that majority of Ukrainian want Zelenskyy out

Some bitching that he keeps sanctioning ex president

Це ж мабуть через єдність не випустили Порошенка на цю конференцію, а натомість виписали йому санкцій та білетів на відвідування ДБР?
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Ну несеться ж Білорусь 2.0
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— Headseller (@Ozyrskyi) February 15, 2025

Is this the democracy you are fighting for that goes against every democratic principles ?

But back to main topic as you see Ukrainian now don't trust the gov so when they start busificate 18 year old and they start dying a lot of angry moms will go after Zelenskyy because a white waman today kinda has more balls than white men. That's why Zelenskyy is changing this law slowly to try to stealthy bring the law and hope not to enrage women. As I mentioned before, Trump administration when suggested this they didn't expected Zelenskyy to do it, they thought he realises in what butt he is and start co operating.

https://instagram.com/reel/DFnOkuNtovS/

But as I mentioned many times before at one point it will be time to get rid of Zelenskyy and now this starts to be very clear, he offers a thing to Trump, Trump says ok then he says "frick you Trump" and cancelling the deal. Then now he is saying he won't accept any deal Russia and US in Saudi makes tomorrow and without any invitation he is flying to Saudi

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1irkgfr/zelenskyy_ukraine_unaware_of_russiaus_talks_in/

Zelenskyy is unaware

Yet he promto booked his flight

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1irak0s/ukraine_rejects_bid_by_us_to_own_50_of_rare_earth/

Redditors are obviously happy that deal got cancelled because… they are r-slurs.

If US was winning in this deal no matter the outcomes that would been best deal that US could get. Yet Redditors that supposed to be majority burgers are not happy. Do USAID has some debit in their banking accounts ?

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1irgt3n/german_chancellor_candidate_who_is_likely_to_win/

Here they jerking on some r-slur telling that Germany is not neutral and will stand with Ukraine until the end. Basically those genius pushing to support Ukraine even if U.S. stops, I mean it's great plan

If the goal is to lose Baltics, EU already gave shit tons to Ukraine and tech wise it's weaker than Ukraine, khohols have over 500 leopards tanks most EU patriot systems. EU can't pump any shells and if they try to solo this even EU will accelerate. There is good reason why all non Iranian educating guys living EU.

Redditors obviously got mad when Vance told there is no democracy in EU

This German r-slurs talks about supporting Ukraine and forcing to continue when most Germans want to end it just like most Ukrainian.

If this guy want he can send his kids and him self to hold bakhmut it will be lit but he shouldn't use we like absolute majority wants to play his delusional games.

Basically what's gonna happen is that Trump will negotiate a deal giving away everything, ask Ukraine to honor it, Ukraine will refuse, Trump will withdraw all aid and support (I think technically he already has) and then Russia and Ukraine continue fighting the war only now without US aid. The main question will be whether Trump also revokes all sanctions on Russia. Europe are the ones that have the most reason to want to go back to doing business with Russia, and America benefits more from keeping Russia out of the market so that America is Europe's main fuel supplier, but Trump's an amoral moron who'll happily cripple his entire country just to make slightly more money for his own personal wealth, so he's liable to do anything.

And Redditors still talking about morals, sending Ukrainian last mobilisation wave and their future beyond their free will do so good for future of Ukraine.

It's OVER, Zelenskyy accept a bad deal now or be offered a worse deal later but we all know now that the genius is not an idiot

And he will reject that deal and then the chapter of Zelenskyy must go will start.

So things on the front, Russian are in preparation stage so no much pushing while Ukrainian launched shit tons of counteroffensive gaining 10km last week and losing 60km while creating new pockets

And of course the trend of khohols receiving more bodies continues

So next chapter of khohols phase will be called Civil War

- Я не могу не приветствовать желание Зеленского отстоять часть национального суверенитета Украины под сильнейшим давлением Трампа и Путина.

Я даже рад тому, что он не дал навязать себе быструю сделку по редкоземельным металлам.

И вообще - говорит, что «..ничего про Украину без…

— Arestovych (@arestovych) February 16, 2025

• I cannot help but welcome Zelensky's desire to defend part of Ukraine's national sovereignty under the strongest pressure from Trump and Putin.

I'm even glad that he didn't let himself be forced into a quick deal on rare earth metals.

And in general, he says that "..nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine."

But I, like few others, understand that the level of his "competence" and the peculiarities of his mental structure led to the fact that national sovereignty was first lost ideologically, and then physically.

Where is the solution?

The same place as always:

• in admitting defeat, fixing losses, transferring relations from client to partnership and - all efforts to return the real national sovereignty of Ukraine.

I bet the homo that was drawing those pictures didn't expected such irony

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