Sadiq Khan, who is known for previously describing terror attacks in his city as 'Part and Parcel' of living there , has recently invented something called 'The right to protest' specifically for Cheeto Hitler, despite allowing the Metropolitan Police to arrest and prosecute protestors who were a bit miffed that one of his Sturmabteilung killed Sarah Everard.

"We do, in fact, have free speech in this country, which includes the right to protest.

'The Right to Protest' was not something he brought up when he made it all about himself during the Southport riots, wringing his hands about how it felt 'unsafe' to go to a mosque shortly after three white kids were butchered by a Rwandan at a dance class.

Nor was it when he arrested the organisers of a pro-Tommy Robinson protest.

Despite this track record, bongs are about the prospect of larping as an antifa supersoldier, bravely... calling trump names on social media.

Londoners? I think people will be coming from all over the UK to protest that fascist piece of human shit.

Be interesting to see Trump and Co doing the mental gymnastics of whinging about people protesting while simultaneously claiming free speech is under threat in the UK

heh, sure got you in a bind now. No don't look at the guy we jailed for baring his teeth at police

This is, among so many others, the best reason to line the streets. Ideally get some football fans out, start making up songs.

This person is American.

Honestly tempted to go for my chance to call him a ladygarden in real life

I'm bringing eggs.

If this country doesn't almost burn itself to the ground during the protests for the Orange Tampon, we've lost our way.

Protesting because an imported BIPOC stabbed a schoolgirl eighty times

Protesting because trump exists

Frick that. I have zero interest in public property damage just to make a point that we don't like a visiting foreign president.

Damage and violence would just give fuel to the Deform lot over at Gbeebies and TalkshitTV.

guys we should destroy everything

no that'll make us look like we want to destroy everything.

I shall be going, I shall wear a Trump is a ladygarden T-shirt

Time for some 'Free Speech' eh? That thing JD Vance says we haven't got?

The truth they don't want to admit is we have free speech for everything but racism

oh so we don't have free speech, thanks for confirming.

This is also a lie

I flew to New York to protest Trump. I can hop on my bike to protest him in London.

You seem to have a lot of spare time and money.

oh my god someone with a job has infiltrated our unemployed marxist hugbox

You have money? Why? Shouldn't you be redistributing it to me?

Londoners will make more of an effort to make their voice heard than Americans. It should embarrass any Americans watching.

America has one of the largest regime protests in American history currently ongoing. All 50 states are protesting. The news just isn't showing it for... whatever reasons.

do those reasons have anything to do with it not happening ?

Anyway as usual nothing will happen and the 5 people who leave their homes for this 'massive protest' will have their phones stolen by BIPOCs and then arrested

Why do you think many people in the UK take pride in being stupid?

I lost my McDonald's job less than a month ago. And I figured his birthday was recently so I shipped a gift. Diet pills. Feels good.

As least the butthole sub believes in free speech

So on my last post it was about my ex boss wrongfully firing me at a McDonald's. I shipped him diet pills as a gift for his recent bday.

I haven't gotten rehired and shipped something to him again. I shipped a "get well soon" card so he knows I'm irreplaceable.

I feel this might hurt my reputation.

Did you sign your name on that shit?

Grow the frick up

Why's that? He fired me for no reason. And It's good to lose weight!

There had to have been a reason.

Take it further if so..

But sounds like you're just young, angry and stupid. You do realise that things like this could jeopardise any future jobs etc...

I still have a job. I'm irreplaceable

2 month update

So update. I shipped my old manager who fired me diet pills for his birthday. I kept trying to get hired back but was blacklisted from McDonald's. I figured out how to get it off and will be returning to McDonald's to be a manager.

Oh I hope not. Shoplifting at Walmart, sending diet pills bc you got fired from McDonald's, not a good look. How do you have money for these "gifts" without a job?

Also lying about one's age on tinder.

Oh and getting an uber driver to ICE bc they didn't get their food?! 🤣😂

Update to the update to the update

My ex manager marked me DNR

Do not rehire. He fired me for calling in and not covering even though I came in.

So I shipped him diet pills since his birthday was around that time. He mistakenly fired me.

Now come to find out, I'm not hirable. Because of him not wanting to be beat in competition.

Everyone knows the water is getting hotter. People don't want to talk about it, because we all just fight about why it is getting hotter and whose fault it is

Surely the people with their hand on the controls arent to blame though. Surely

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can we just not frick with trans people? for five minutes

That's what I'm saying. The country is already fricked by the people holding the leash, but I refuse to get along with someone who thinks others are less than them. Maybe the country does need to go down now that I think about it

Incidentally, that's the reason why some people wanted to vote for Trump the first time.

It's so bizarre. I may just be spiraling daily cause of the constant doomer feed from Reddit but man if I don't just wish the worst thing we could disagree on was how a tax should be implemented

/r/onejoke

Y'all rant about "Trump Derangement Syndrome" but the fact that trans people exist lives rent free in your heads

I was making fun of those people lol

TDS. Trans Derangement Syndrome.

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It's also that we live in a society where having any sort of political opinion polarizes you. Many people are closed-minded and instantly are offended if you have any opinion different from theirs.

For the record, it hasn't been this bad in a LONG time. The polarization was INTENTIONALLY PUSHED by Republicans.

"BUT bOtH sIdEs dO iT"

No, not to the same degree. Trump CONSTANTLY demonized half of the country. >> Every speech he gives includes some sort of attack on Democrats. The dude can't even send out a merry Christmas tweet without throwing in the term "radical left democrat thugs".

The polarization exists because Republicans got conned into hating their fellow Americans. And now they actively perpetuate it.

It was NOT like this before. Gen Z hear me when I say this ISNT normal. It's intentional.

Holy shit you're pathetic. You can't say Republicans caused polarization and then polarize the 'two sides' even more.

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How insightful

The republicans say the exact same thing about the democrats -- the division continues.

They say it but can't back it up. Again, the "bOtH sIdEs" people are either malicious or horribly uninformed.

There is no equivalent to the Dominion v Fox lawsuit on the left.

There is no equivalent to J6 on the left.

There is no equivalent to Republican lawmakers STILL refusing to acknowledge the 2020 election on the left.

I can go on, but you get the picture.

Go on a left leaning sub posting a conservative idea and see how welcoming they are 😂

I got banned from /r/conservative for advocating for gun control laws. Spare me.

I got banned for saying the price of avocados rising wasn't Trump's fault and I got banned. I also once asked if any right leaning opinions were gonna get banned in a sub unrelated to politics and I got instantly banned and muted. So no, I won't spare you 😂

Not dramatic, I just agree with it:

I've grown tired of talking politics because I've been arguing for the last 8 years, and I've changed nobodies opinion. I'm still aware of politics, but I've come to the conclusion that nothing I say will change the minds of people around me.

Me when I completely lie and make shit up. There are no naked parades, my rights aren't pandering (do you even know what that means???), and trans people were politicized by conservative culture war bullshit. Also why the frick do you care if there's a pride month?? "Wahh wahh the people we dehumanize and brutally murder all over the globe are celebrating that they have at least slightly more equality now! Wahhh"

you both sound like horrid people to be around, icl

Gee how dare I want to have basic human rights without being the political scapegoat of the country I live in. They are literally trying to outlaw my existence.

see what I mean? you're acting incredibly passive-aggressive for no absolute reason… and again, that goes for both of you, meaning you both sound irritating to be around

Yeah. People tend to be aggressive about defending their basic rights and existence.

note that I said passive-aggressive. nobody thinks passive-aggressive people are defensive of rights or anything, everyone just thinks they're annoying, reasonably so

Uh-huh. Okay, cool 👍

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2022 fraud: https://whyy.org/articles/trump-civil-fraud-trial-verdict/And you can justify it all you want… but he's committed fraud… he's misused campaign funds to cover up his cheating affair with a pornstar, just call it what it is. That's fraudulent. Idc if it's misdemeanor fraud, felony fraud, exaggerated, etc… if you care about removing fraud like you say, he's a fraud.Not to mention the attempted election fraud considering he still hasn't admitted he lost in 2020… talk about a reason for using the crying meme lol (1)

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Oofta, a paywallTry this one"A jury found that Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll but not that he r*ped her"https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-r*pe-e-jean-carroll-sexual-abuse-jury-judge-2023-7 judges, not Trump himselfHim taking credit for it doesn't mean he himself did it. What say has a former president, or president in general, over the SCOTUS? It's absurdWe never polarized our entire party into not voting for our candidate, costing said candidates election, and ensuring a dictator had an express track to the most powerful position in this country, one of the ones with the most nukesWe never did that, you guys on the other hand... I'm correcting lies because lying us his game, and sinking to his level has damaged your oarty, quite possibly, irrevocably for many years to comeI'm not sitting on the fence, I'm on the side of the people and what's best for themAnd you ain't it, chief (1)

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So what's everyone up to !kino !hatewatchers

@Aevann please pin

Womenfolx in r*pe fetishist outfits upset the Fort Worth chuds.

Democrats surrendered the women of Afghanistan to the Taliban. How can they ever pretend to support women's rights?

I don't think the people in this march "surrendered the women of Afghanistan". I'm guessing you consume a lot of right-wing media, in which case it may surprise you to learn that Donald Trump signed the agreement with the Taliban that removed US security forces from Afghanistan. It's called the Doha Agreement. And no, you didn't misread that, he signed an agreement with the Taliban, yet another of his esteemed allies.

But I am glad to know that women losing their rights bothers you. It bothers me too what is happening in Afghanistan. We'd better march and make our voices heard so that it doesn't happen here!

I also see you support all the other things right-wing media tells you too. Which means you support what Russian troops are doing to Ukrainian women. Next time you need to look at a hypocrite, try selfie-mode instead of reddit, could save you some time.

It may surprise you to learn that Donald Trump signed an agreement with the Taliban that included conditions for withdrawal. The Taliban met those conditions while Trump was president. They then stopped meeting those conditions after Biden was elected. And Biden withdrew anyway. It was because of this sudden and abrupt withdrawal that the forces we had trained in Afghanistan were completely unable to resist the Taliban who quickly regained control.

And, no, I don't support what Russia is doing in Ukraine as a result of Obama and Biden pushing NATO eastward and installing missile systems closer and closer to the Russian border. I am hopeful that an end can come to the conflict now that the free world has a leader again.

How's that kool-aid taste? Good I hope

They look exactly how you would expect

How so?

Ummm, like they do in the pictures, obvi.

I love the last one.

Me, too! Every time some chauvinist spouts off around me, I'm going to smile and say, "S.D.E." It's going to be glorious!!

Stunning and brave

Hypocrites

Where!?

All the protesters, it's OK when democrats protest, but when Republicans do it, it's bad.

Obvious troll is obvious, but...the only time anyone has been upset about conservatives "protesting" is when they were running through the capitol building, threatening to lynch the vice president, shooting cops, stealing stuff, and doing incredibly mature things like pooping on Nancy Pelosi's desk.

This is lawful peaceful protest in support of human rights. What have you guys been protesting for?

Nobody shot a cop during January 6th. The only person shot was a 35 year old woman breaching one of the doors, and she died.

Ashli Babbitt knowingly breached doors barred by armed officers. No one deserves to die, and it's a shame what happened to her, but if you act in violence, you should know what the consequences can be.

If I arm up with a mob and attack people, I would know there's a potential for me to be killed. It's part of why a lot of people haven't acted, out of fear of imprisonment, ostrasization, dying...because who talks more violent ish than conservatives? Who drives around with bumper stickers threatening to kill those that disagree with them? I'll tell you, it's not generally us liberal snowflakes. I want people to coexist. To try and understand one another. Exercise empathy. But I'm willing to stand by my principles and protect those I care about.

I'm sad that my schedule hasn't allowed me to join one of these protests, and I believe fully that we need larger scale events for true impact, but I appreciate every single protester and their conviction to stand up for what they believe in, and I have hope that the people continue to speak up for all of our rights, yours included.

TLDR

I was addressing the 'shooting cops' comment you made, and only that point. Ashli put herself in that position unfortunately

Go make me a sandwich

Get up and fix that plumbing.

That's not insulting. I fixed some plumbing yesterday.

Congratulations and I wasn't talking to you.

I'm sure this prime example of masculinity can stand up for himself.

I don't care who you were talking to. I'm talking to you, bud. Just pointing out that you're insulted by "go make me a sandwich" and tried to make an equivalent insult, only it's not an insult. 👍🏻😎

How is go make me a sandwich an insult then? Bud.

Seriously? That's a common "you're a woman" insult. What are you doing out of the kitchen, why is the dishwasher talking etc. look, I'm not going to argue with you. I'm really not trying to be rude. Look at the dislikes on his comment…they didn't like it lol.

So let me ask, why did you retort with "go fix some plumbing?"

The same reason he asked for a sandwich. It's not that deep.

Haha you're so hurt. Why don't you go make me a sandwich.

Why don't you unclog my potty welfare queen.

That was weak. You can do better than that.

You don't deserve better.

That's more like it 👍🏻

Great, so what is a woman?

Who knows? I'm not a biologist.

Look at those women trying to get rid of every shred of responsibility possible

I just find it odd how these women are claiming men are infringing on their rights, yet support men who infringe on their right to sports, jobs, and titles that belonged to women.

What are you even talking about lmao

Those scary trans people. You know, the group that makes up less than 1% of our total population of over 350 million people. Surely they're coming to take over /s

Always such on odd framing. We weren't the ones that started putting the <1% in women's spaces, y'all did that. The left insisted on these things, the left started this argument.

No one put "[them] in women's spaces". Trans people exist and should be respected like everyone else. If a coworker or friend or employee told me they were trans, I would do everything in my power to ensure they were included the way they deserved to be, and treated with equal and fair treatment to EVERYONE else, yourself included, even as hateful as you are.

The odd framing here is your own. LGBTQ+ people have existed as long as humans have existed. It's a part of human gender and sexuality. No one let anyone in anywhere. And maybe the left DID start the argument that...everyone should have the same rights and opportunities? Arguing against basic equality and human rights is not the high horse you think it is. You don't need to be "greater" than someone else to be a good person.

I didn't say that don't deserve respect or deny their existence. I am saying men, all men, shouldn't be allowed into Women's spaces. That is equal, that is fair.

What isn't equality is making women's spaces unsafe for women. Allowing men into women's bathrooms and sports does exactly that.

If someone is trans male to female, they are a woman. I have no discomfort with a trans woman in the restroom with me. I have no issue with a trans woman in my space, in the places I occupy. You are too caught up on gender assigned at birth. A person who is trans is not a woman or man choosing or pretending to be the other gender just because they can, or because they want to take something from someone else...they are people born in the wrong body for them.

I really think people need classes on this stuff. It would help, I think.

A man can never become a woman. I fundamentally reject that premise and refuse to play along with your delusion. Men can profess themselves to be "women," and they have every right to self-identify however they choose. But that does not mean the rest of us have to agree with them or treat them like women, such as by allowing them free access to traditionally women-only spaces.

Cringe

No one asked you to click lil bro

Democrats are a death cult and abortion is their religious sacrament. CMV.

This is hilarious I would of gone and laughed

The quality of these protests has gone way down. It's almost like these groups lost their funding.

Why aren't they in the kitchen?

Doubt they can even cook probably might hit up the nearest Golden Corral after this

Last photo is guts. Homie does not touch any vag not does he look like hes genuinely interested in engaging in said activities. Hes the wrong one to hold the sign that says "small peepee energy".

Maybe he has a lot of female friends.

I don't think any of the people in these photos are in danger of becoming pregnant, but facts might've changed again 🤷🏼‍♀️

I'm a little too old to worry about getting pregnant, but unlike a lot of my younger sisters, I'm financially secure and well-established in my career, so I can take off work and protest for their rights. Unlike you MAGA bootlickers, some of us care enough about others and about society as a whole to make a stand over issues that may not even benefit us directly.

Except for the babies cut their spines, crush their heads, and dismember them. Doesn't seem like caring when people are supporting that kind of medical treatment.

Look a lot like female version of neckbeards. Need to mix in some salads but at least they were on their feet for a few minutes so that was beneficial.

They could use the walking

It reminds me of the meme of only the XXL size handmade's tale outfits being out of stock. Sometimes the jokes write themselves.

What's the joke?

Just think for a couple seconds and I think you'll find it

Oh so you got nothing.

Not surprising.

Okay I'll explain it for you. The most common women believing that they're essentially being turned into s*x machines/slaves are the very obese. I hope that makes sense to you.

I served in the military to protect their right to present their ideas. Doesn't mean I have to pay them any attention. The finest women that I've met from different parts of the world have the same thing in common. They have a high level of self-respect and determination to succeed. They usually do. Like in most situations, people that spend more time marching and less time being productive remain in a causal loop of ineffective failure.

This is such a small thing to say. You say you served in the military? Good for you, but how much did you ACTUALLY protect? That statement would hold some salt if you actually went to battle for these women and while I don't know your military record, I don't need to in order to establish the fact that every conflict since Vietnam has had nothing to do with protecting our rights as citizens. So get off your high horse. The whole point of a protest is when no one is listening, you make them listen. Peaceful civil disobedience such as a march can lead to change by organizing like minded people for said change. Dafuq you think those civil rights marches in the 60's were about? Fun?

This is no different than MAGA thinking people are gonna go door to door for your guns

Omg! I almost went there today in my Handmaid costume! Praise be 🙏🏻

I hope the guy who hates him sees this

RIP young neighbor the streets miss you

Imagine mentioning this streamslop zoomer trash in the same discussion as The Godfather and The Deer Hunter lol

fricking zoomers can't stop jerking it

Oof plastic

!hatewatchers !gonks !ringbearers !WheelOfCucks @Vegeta

!chuds get a load of this

>don't post violence

>post violence in response and screech that it is literally 1984

Upmarsey this post if you love Luigi. Downmarsey if you love censorship.

I got my first warning message this morning. I've upmarseyd practically every comment in this thread. It won't be long for me lol

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I also love Luigi.

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Well, there goes /r/Conservative

Oh gods Elon is going to try and buy Reddit now.

I've actually been worried about our data being harvested from Reddit for a bit now

If places like /r/Conservative aren't gone within an hour of this being enacted then I call bullshit. In theory it should combat the violent rhetoric of the right-wing, but it will probably be fixed in a way that it doesn't.

It's probably to combat the violent rhetoric of the left wing peasants who are calling for 1789 France.

the combat footage sub is doomed then

Omg there's a sub dedicated to combat footage?

There used to be a sub called watch people die

I miss that sub. Some of it was just good Darwinism. (Not the other stuff)

Report them all.

I reported their disgusting bigotry and reddit banned me for three days. 😤

I pretty sure the reddit ceo is another of musks living peepeesleaves.

That would explain why when I made a throwaway a few months ago, "Elon Musk" was the only living person listed in reddit's choose your interests options.

I fully believe Reddit has been compromised by the fascist oligarchs at this point.  I got banned a week for just giving historical facts.

I wonder if sarcasm works. Or passive aggressive "I hope you have the day you deserve" I foresee lots of unaliving-like self-censorship.

People got real annoyed when others would use language like "unalive" on Reddit, but now it seems those self censoring had a good instinct, unfortunately

inb4 we find out that the "violent content" is actually:

• ⁠calling out nazis (like Melon Husk)

• ⁠talking about stopping nazis

• ⁠getting angry about the current political situation

• ⁠arguing against people supporting the nazis (so arguing against nazis)

• ⁠saying anything that hurts the feelings of the billionaire oligarchs/aristocrats

• ⁠saying that abortion isn't murder and is a human right

• ⁠er cetera

but calling trans women paedophiles/sexual predators, saying they just want to r*pe children in women's bathrooms, saying they're trans "just for attention", telling them to go kill themselves, saying that abortion is murder, saying that women don't deserve the same pay at men, saying degrading things about women (treating them as sexual objects...) etc. is tootally fine. If they actually wish to enforce this, /r/conservative would be gone in five minutes, which is clearly not going to happen.

God I hate being a woman (who is trans, not that that makes it so much worse) in this reality.

I got banned from so many subs recently for calling out men. I got banned from Black People Twitter subreddit (I was calling out another user who is a man; they were being sexist but they thought I was calling them out for being Black. I completely understand that ban.) After that, I got banned from other subs for calling out men. Now I just give up on trying to call out men's bad behavior on Reddit.

Ah so this is what they've been cooking since Luigi became the prince of the people huh

Somewhat related to this, how is this going to relate to news??

The Boston Bombers were caught so quickly because of the MASSIVE bolo/public effort.

Or what of any future tumultuous political events that require factual representation and the free flow of information??

Is Reddit essentially violating the ADA?

Do we still have an ADA anymore?🫠

Kock knock knock. "Hello, Sir? We're here because you liked a social media post. Please come with us. Here's your ticket to Guantanamo."

You joke but I think that is a highly likely next step.

Oh, I fully believe it.

Funny thing about this - they don't consider misogyny or ageism or any number of other things to be bad at all, but if you express unhappiness with Nazis, you're a bad person.

We have mapped the human cell atlas. We know the human body. We know where all the organs are. Incredibly enough, there have also been studies done of "squirting", and what this mysterious fluid consists of. To no one's surprise, it's pee. There is no magical girlcum-bladder

But anecdotal evidence trumps all this. Apparently that time your girlfriend pissed on you it didn't taste like pee, so of course there has to be a magical squirt organ hidden somewhere deep inside. This exists solely in the realm of sexual fantasy. And it's such a deeply held belief squirt-truthers will act indignant and react with anger if you confront them with the facts, you've just gone against their core beliefs.

It's very similar to the trans-substantiation that another group of people with deeply held beliefs asserts happens when they claim they are the opposite s*x. If you're a squirt-truther, you probably won't want to admit this

Lotta piss drinkers in there

I have found that hotels don't provide or allow coffeemakers in the rooms (yes, they liken them to "hot plates", as if they are a fire hazard, or as if people are making pancakes in their room).

Anyway, I fly with my $10 4-pound Wal*Mart cheapo coffee maker and ensure it's packed away before I leave the room for housekeeping. It's saved me from having to spend time looking for coffee and obviously saved money. It's also a great option when you see your booked hotel only offers Keurig coffee etc.

So rather than leaving your room and finding good coffee, this guy suggests bringing your own coffee maker, and then his "hack" is to pack it up when he leaves his room so that housekeeping don't find it. Is that a hack?

Even Redditors are calling him out for being dumb.

Stupid comment, if I'm paying a $40 resort fee then I expect free coffee.

lol

My direct boss at my workplace is a foid (yeah yeah I know, she really knows what she's doing thoughbeit which is why she has the position she does; I have a great relationship with her)

I need to convince her to lose weight immediately because she is liable to die of heart failure any day now, any advice?

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Polyarnye Zori joined the "Flowers for the Mothers of Heroes" campaign

The All-Russian campaign "Flowers for the Mothers of Heroes" has started in the Murmansk Region. It is being held on the initiative of the "Women's Movement of United Russia". The campaign covers 15 municipalities of our > region.

The executive secretary of the Polyarnye Zori local All-Russian political party "United Russia" Anna Makhunova, together with the representative of the "Defenders of the Fatherland in the Murmansk Region" Foundation and the head of the city of Polyarnye Zori Maxim Chengaev, congratulated the mothers of those sons who died in the line of military duty during the SVO on March 8.

The year 2025 has been declared the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland by the President. Our duty and responsibility is to surround the mothers of the Heroes of the Fatherland with attention and support not in words, but in deeds. We strive to be close to these strong women, share their experiences and provide assistance in difficult times.

Only together do we become stronger and bring our common Victory closer!

Dear mothers, thank you for your strength of spirit and the love you put into raising your children. Their feat will forever remain in our memory, serving as an example of courage and patriotism for future generations. Be healthy and happy! We bow low to you for your Hero sons!

So in the last 2 months or so I've become obsessed with East Africa (specifically Rwanda) and you guys will not believe the shit going down over there. It's real time warlord shit happening RIGHT FRICKING NOW.

This interest started after I saw a 4Chan green text about the Rwandan genocide.

I'm going give a quick overview of the Rwandan genocide for background and then explain what's happening now between Rwanda and the DR Congo.

The Rwandan Genocide

First, I highly recommend the book "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed" if you want a more in depth explanation.

In 1856 the first white person (a German) entered what is now known as Rwanda. Germany made it a colony but didn't really do much with it and turned it over to Belgium after WWI. At that time, it was a small area occupied by two tribes: a small number of Tutsi (who had cattle, were wealthy) and Hutu (majority population who were farmers and less well off). Tutsi generally ruled over Hutu due to their wealth but there wasn't really any ethnic strife between them.

Belgium took over in the 1930s from German which when race science was all the rage. Tutsi were tall, slim and wealthy (how I'm tryna be 💅🏻) so were put in charge of the country and ruled over the short stout Hutu majority. The Tutsi (essentially at Belgian gunpoint) forced Hutu to work long hours on public works (roads etc) to the point it resulted in deaths from famine due to neglecting their farms. This led to bad blood between the two groups which escalated upon Belgium giving Rwanda its freedom.

(Twa were Pygmy, 1% of population)

From the 1970s to 90s, the majority (85%) Hutu took over and made Tutsi second class citizens (for example, they were unable to access higher education). Small genocides (a few thousand Tutsi massacred) happened in rural areas as well.

In the 1990s, an anti-Tutsi political party called Hutu Power came to power. There was a civil war and many Tutsi fled to neighboring countries (Uganda, the DRC, Tanzania and Burundi). A military force of Tutsi was hiding out Uganda called the RPF/Rwandan Patriotic Front—led by a man named Paul Kagame (what we would consider a warlord). Essentially they were watching and waiting. Tribal relations were BAD.

At that time, most of Rwanda's GDP actually came from foreign aid (not kidding, like 60% of their GDP was aid) and there was increasing pressure to normalize relations with the Tutsi. A Tutsi Genocide in neighboring Burundi in 1993 further forced the hand of the Hutu Power president Habyarimqra to sign a treaty and make nice. Note: his wife was from a very prominent family of Hutu power supporters who wanted to genocide the Tutsi.

On April 6, 1994 his plane was shot down triggering the Rwandan Genocide. No one knows who did it but it was likely Hutu Power. They blamed the RPF (the exiled Tutsi rebels) and ignited the genocide. This was a 100 day spree which killed (maybe) 800k people—10% of the population of Rwanda. It was mostly Tutsi, Twa (pygmies who made up 1% of their population) and moderate Hutu who wouldn't participate in the killing. The genocide killed at a rate of 3x the Holocaust and was done mostly with machetes imported by the millions before it began. It was largely coordinated by radio station RTLM which read out names of Tutsi to kill each day. The national ID cards showed who was Tutsi and who was Hutu so roadblocks were set up and fleeing Tutsi were all killed. It was absolutely harrowing and I do not have the time to do it justice. Please consider reading the wiki page to get a sense of the violence.

Western powers did not intervene. Clinton didn't want to get involved because this was only one year after Black Hawk Down in Somalia. (Btw did anyone here see the Netflix documentary about it? It was really good) Belgium and France actually supported the genocidaires because they were the "legitimate" government. The UN fled and didn't return until it was over.

The genocide ended when Paul Kagame (the Tutsi warlord) invaded and bit by bit took over the country. He has been the dictator ever since. He outlawed tribal discrimination, updated the ID cards to exclude ethnicity and over the last 30 years Rwanda has prospered to become one of the safest and cleanest countries in Africa.

What the heck is happening now

After the genocide, hundreds of thousands of Hutu genocidaires fled to the Congo which resulted in the Great Lakes Refugee Crisis. Kagame allegedly invaded and killed several hundred thousand in revenge in what is called the Second Rwandan Genocide but we don't talk about that okay. Since then, most genocidaires (the ones who didn't flee to France 👀) have been hiding out in the DRC.

In the last several months SHIT HAS BEEN GOING DOWN on the border between the DRC and Rwanda. That area of the Congo has very valuable rare earth mines as well as a population of Congolese Tutsi who have been treated as outsiders for generations.

There are two groups that are fighting: a rebel Tutsi group funded by Rwanda called M23 and the Congolese army FARDC which has integrated the Genocidaires according to Paul Kagame. Kagame himself is playing coy about Rwandan support of M23 .

Per the Rwandan subreddit, there is a lot of disagreement. Some say Kagame is trying to get the rare earth minerals by supporting the rebel group M23, some say the Congo goes through this every 10 years and some are really incensed at how the Congolese Tutsi are treated as Rwandan invaders and they just want their rights.

Now M23 are not innocent at all. They have r*ped, pillaged and taken over mines in the eastern Congo. The FARDC has been unable to tame them despite a February ceasefire. Things are not slowing down at all.

This conflict has brought in other African nations with Seth Afrikan president (who was materially supporting the DR Congo) and Kagame were having a very public lovers quarrel just a few weeks ago.

Sec of State Marco Rubio was clear that the US wanted a ceasefire I mean it for real you guys I'm not kidding. The problem is that with the defunding of USAID Rwanda isn't really at the US' mercy about this. Trump is actually super popular in Rwanda but Kagame seems to be chill with escaping US influence.

I am unsure what will happen because I don't know enough about this part of the world to have good insight. I think East Africa is just doing East African things and M23 will take over a good bit of land and some mines but nothing much will truly happen or escalate. Rwanda will continue to prosper, everything will remain corrupt and war lords will continue to do warlord shit in the unstable areas. Nothing ever happens but it's very unstable and dramatic and thought I'd make a post.