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Holy
— Arsenal of Dememecracy 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🗽 (@gaymergir) March 3, 2025
Holy fuck
Holy FUCK pic.twitter.com/3RSXhVL2Yr
idk how you can see replies on truthsocial
Prepare yourself for +6 blue Iowa what the actual frick is he DOING
Ann Selzer coming out of retirement for this one
ok buddy you're doing too much
Soon the cartels will be smuggling Parmesan cheese, eggs and ozempic from Europe to America
ay tone when's the last time you saw those ducks?
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STOP WATCHING CABLE! USE PBS!
Oh wait nevermind they are also reporting news and not copium dont do that:
https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1j2x722/pbs_is_so_biased_in_favor_of_trump/
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- JDvanceisWEIRD : rwanada is in central africa dumbass
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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.
Did you know that Cleopatra VII (the famous one) was the only Ptolemaic Pharaoh to learn the Egyptian language?
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For the record, Shrek and Fiona chose to be ogres instead of white people. Let that sink in https://t.co/HMsCSnVPPU
— Headmistress Tallulah (@Tallulah_Chanel) March 2, 2025
One was a curse and the other was born an ogre and wanted to go back to what he was
— Taran Lathrop (@t3dansk3ds) March 3, 2025
Are you dumb or what?
Fiona loved being an ogre because she got used to it. Shrek was willing to be human because he loved Fiona enough to change himself.
— Alek Okie (@Conception_King) March 4, 2025
She chose to embrace being an ogre. So they both turned back.
It must be a unique way of living when you both can't hear the ceiling bird chirp…
oh, so now fictional characters mean something? didn't yall say "iTs noT rEAl" when they turned White Disney characters black or brown?
— 𝓡𝓸𝓼𝓲𝓽𝓪 / رزیتا (@earthtoroseyta) March 3, 2025
Shut up fat monkey
— 𝕎𝕆ℝ𝕋ℍ𝕐 (@FeelLikeWorthy) March 4, 2025
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In one week, Bitcoin will be above 100k dollars per bitcoin - 2,500 total betted
90-100 - 2,000 total betted
85-90 - 5,100 total betted
80-85 - 3,600 total betted
70-80 - 2,400 total betted
below 70 - 6,043 total betted
Current price is 84k dramacoin per BTC. I'll use Coinbase's chart to check and resolve based on the price whenever I get home from work next Monday. If it's within 1 dollar of the boundary between two options (eg 90000.56), then I'll flip a coin.
!bets !goomble !goomblers !goombling !coinboys
!remindme 1 week "resolve buttcoin"
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It all started with the AP News article "Trudeau to bring up Trump's threat to annex Canada in meeting with King Charles" being posted to /r/ModeratePolitics by the OP.
The OP posted the following starter comment:
Meanwhile, Trump has been invited for a state visit to Scotland, showing where Charles' priorities might be. The debate over the monarchy is growing, but scrapping it would mean a messy constitutional overhaul—one Trudeau likely doesn't want to touch.
If Canada is truly sovereign, doesn't running to a foreign king for protection ironically make it look weaker—even bolstering Trump's statehood proposal?
Should Trump ask King Charles to gift Canada to the United States instead of going through Trudeau?
...and, needless to say, Canadian users were not happy with OP.
To which a separate Canadian simply said: "I think this is the victim complex that really unites Trump voters."
Other Canadian user responses:
"'If Canada is truly sovereign'...is this an if now?"
Meanwhile, a few U.S.-based users further fan the flames:
"'If Canada is truly sovereign, doesn't running to a foreign king for protection ironically make it look weaker—even bolstering Trump's statehood proposal?' ...yes. The simple answer is yes. Trudeau has a very poor relationship with Trump. He misplayed his hand after Biden's win and put himself in a tough spot. As a result, he is going through proxies to get good connections with the current administration in Washington. Going to Charles is absolutely a weak move." (Note: This comment spawned an entire thread of drama.)
"Canada isn't a sovereign country because their head of state is still the King of England. They're not their own nation, and never have been." (Note: This comment also spawned even more drama.)
"didn't trudeau announce his resignation 3 months ago? why is he still in office, and running to His Majesty the King over something that's an obvious joke?" (Note: There are a bunch of angry Canadian replies to this as well.)
Did you know that the first modern e-cigarette to see widespread distribution was invented in 2003?
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Spoiler: only two people that I could see in that entire comment section know who Stonetoss is and yes, they said he's a
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"as a Christian, I have good reason to always aid Israel!"
2. "those who bless Israel shall be blessed!"
3. "I'm confused. Did he actually say this, or did someone else say it?"
"nah, just anti-Israel BS"
"you people terrify me"
4. "better than where it was going..."
5. "Yes, we support Israel and we should!"
Boomer literally has just learned that modern Israel is a byproduct of the British Empire........................
6. "I just learned that Israel is an extension of the British Empire..."
7. "anyone who is anti-Israel by default is anti-Jewish"
"shut the F up you Fing r-slur!"
"the F you gonna do, b-word?"
8. A collection of the random comments you can find on that page...
Did you know that Rick Harrison from the History Channel reality TV series Pawn Stars is epileptic?
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https://t.co/iRAeHiiUDV pic.twitter.com/SjTTrfUF6s
— GAL (@TweetyGAL15) March 3, 2025
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This is the first openly !Christians character to feature in a Disney film since 2007's Bridge to Terabithia. The film features young adolescent children Jesse Aarons (played by Josh Hutcherson) and Leslie Burke (played by Anna Sophia Robb), who in one scene attend church together, and discuss religion on the way home.
Only interesting tidbit from the article. To be fair other than Moana who is whatever indigenous pagan and it's a central feature in the story they just sidestep it altogether. I guess Coco and Up have physical churches in them? But no characters who talk about it.
The article title is clickbait for sure, the original plan was to have a Christian character and a separate trans character. It wasn't a 1:1 replacement.
Anyway this angers the redditor :
https://old.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/1j2uh1h/bruh_disney_introduces_openly_christian_character/
Darn everyone would really rather tell their kids about a guy who was nailed to a fricking cross before accepting that trans people (and kids) exist
As a Catholic, we do not worship Jesus Christ in the same way. In our beliefs Jesus is not god, he is the son of god. Which I think is different than what Christians believe (I'm Catholic, not "Christian" so I can't speak for sure on what other religions believe). That being said, we consider god to be made up of the holy Trinity (the father, the son and the holy spirit), so in a sense Jesus is not god but he is a part of god. But us Catholics do consider ourselves to be Christian even if other "Christians" don't.
/u/a205204 this is not what Catholics believe go talk to your priest please
That's certainly why Catholics see themselves as Christians.
Let's say you came back from work and someone moved into your house and legally changed their last name to match yours. Do you suddenly consider them to be your family? They believe they're your family, so why don't you?
/u/pikpikcarrotmon Your analogy works better in the opposite direction. When do you think the Reformation began?
I think it can be assumed some characters are but the only recent ones I can think of that have an identified religion are Mei in Turning Red and Anne in Amphibia who are both Buddhist.
There is a church and priest in Encanto so they are likely Christian but it never directly says they are.
If Marvel Animated studios counts then we also have
@Nightcrawler who is Catholic.
/u/jesuspoopmonster I am Catholic, yes. Come hang out with me on rdrama.net!
We're running with the shadows of the night
So baby, take my hand, you'll be alright
Surrender all your dreams to me tonight
They'll come true in the end…
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thread
https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1j2oz52/tim_walz_says_he_may_run_for_president_in_2028/
I think its kinda racist to announce this before Kamala has announced her canidacy
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40 cases of dysentery reported in Multnomah County, Oregon
— Outbreak Updates (@outbreakupdates) March 2, 2025
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ETH is even more fricked.
Let's zoom out. Each candle is now a day:
Let's take a look at how /biz/ is doing (they are coconutpilled now ):
Now lets take a look at twink link:
thanks for watching
also @Aevann thank god for adding the feature where drafting posts are saved when you close the tab
Did you know that the wings of a housefly beat in the key of F?
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There's something fun about old 80's drug PSA's. Seeing He-Man warn the kiddies at home about performance enhancing drugs, or G.I. Joe making sure we just say no. Cartoon All Stars To The Rescue showed us that anyone can beat drug addiction as long as they have a Garfield lamp and ALF lunchbox handy. But those didn't tell us the TRUE story of what it's like to be "WASTED". I had the fortune recently to stumble upon a Drug PSA that claims to be a true story of a real former pot addict who almost had his life destroyed by his addiction. Despite being mostly comprised of animated segments, this PSA is being pitched to it's audience as 100% legitimate spring fresh truth. Let's see just how much they live up to that promise, shall we?
1983's "Wasted: A True Story" (or is it?)
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The upload of this PSA on youtube starts with a logo for some forgotten old forum. Be a dear and give them the +9 website views they deserve. After all, it couldn't have been easy for uploader "L33T Guy" to upload this in between his grueling schedule of epix haxxoring.
We start off with footage of a bunch of kids playing a game of soccer and within 8 seconds we're introduced to the doped up dope we'll be following for the rest of the runtime. He looks like if Ringo had a even worse haircut.
0:08 -0:11
It's a long way back to nowhere from where I am today
In the park playing ball with the kiddies? I think I'd rather have the pot.
0:11 -0:14
It's hard to believe that not very long ago I lived my life for drugs
Even he knows he's a lousy actor
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"I was an addict. Not addicted to one thing, but to everything I could get my hands on."
So everything but some hair clippers?
And as you'll see throughout this cartoon, his 'addiction' really was just pot, gin, and the occasional cigarette. Considering he lived in a nice suburban neighborhood, that probably was all he could get his hands on. Still, it's no crystal meth or Angel Dust (the drug, not the fruity spider.)
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"A lot of people don't survive. But I was lucky. I survived. And today I live my life for me."
"That's right. I smoked....A JOINT. And lived to tell the tale. WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M NOT A VICTIM???"-
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"The first time I got high was 8 years old."
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reddit dramatic pause And this guy...he was a lot older than me.
Wait, you're telling me it wasn't a fellow 8 year old selling you weed? I'm shocked and appalled.
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And he turned me onto some pot.
I think I know another way he turned you on.
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And from then on it was really downhill.
Former drug addict who was saved from the brink years ago still has braces
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He was my brother he was my little brother and he was sweet and he was funny and he was real involved with his friends and sports and then one day he was different
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It's hard to watch someone you love destroy themselves and it's more hard to watch someone you love destroy themselves and pull everyone down with them
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When Tim started getting high and when his behavior changed and his attitude changed you know even his looks changed
I think you're describing "Puberty"
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His most intense-
-behavior was when he wasn't high
Welcome to Toon Town! Apparently weed turns you into a Mike Judge reject. Also there's no way she actually drew that.
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when he needed to get high we'd have to watch what we said around him he's like a time bomb you know
No, I don't know. How about you prattle on some more?
This is me when I don't have any dramacoins to blow at the casino.
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and this time he went into the kitchen we were both in the kitchen and we were yelling at each other and the next thing I know he had a knife in his hand
2:00 - 2:17
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he chased me around the house and then I went to the bathroom I locked the door and I pulled all the all the drawers so they would block the door in case he you know use the knife to unlock it
Knocking the door really drained him of his energy. That's gotta be the second limpest pounding he's ever done.
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I just sat down against the door and I just cried and I was shaking and I heard him throw the knife away I think at that point he realized what he was doing what his anger had brought him to do I think he totally freaked out
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It took a long time-
2:54 - 3:04
it took a long time for my mother and I to trust him again to really trust him again
he lost that. I loved him deep down inside because I was obligated to
he was my brother. but I didn't like him.
I hated him
3:04 -3:22
for what he was doing to us and himself
What, was he chasing himself with a knife too?
I hated him as a person because he was always...
WASTED
"Woah DUDE...that title drop got too REAL. But like, I'm not convinced yet. After all this could be a fake story-
"That settles it MAN, I don't wanna go stabbing my 4/10 sister BRO. I'm done with pot FOREVER."
...
"Thank god for the Hookah!"
Consider this all part 1. If there's interest in me covering the rest of the PSA I'll gladly do so but I figured it'd be good to see if anyone cared first before spending more time than I already had on it. In Part 2 we get to see the day to day habits of the weed smoker such as drinking gin, selling off priceless family heirlooms, and kicking puppies!
See you then kiddos!
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Now I know why I've gotten fat and ugly.
Unfortunately - r*pe is mostly about power. This is why it's wrong and victim blaming when people say "well she shouldn't have worn that skirt" or something similar, because it's not about sexual attraction at all. (Someone please correct me or add more if I'm wrong)
Edit: you already seem to know this, I'm leaving it here in case someone else doesn't know
I mean, it's not really all about power. It can be and is used as a means of 'total domination', torture, humiliation, or as a weapon in ethnic cleansing, but not always. From 1st person accounts and memoirs (from 2nd world war, for example) we know that soldiers would often specifically look for young, attractive women to SA - women who were in internment camps or hiding in basements, for example, recount soldiers walking around at night with a flashlight, illuminating women's faces to choose the one they liked best.
BUT in such situations sexual violence is also so endemic that it happens to women both young and very old, thin and fat, attractive and unattractive. So getting 'fat and ugly' is not a viable strategy, I'm afraid.
If that's not exactly what power is, then I don't know what else it could be.
Look like a dude or young man instead. Have shears to cut off your hair to male lengths. Ace bandage/compression shirt/sports bra to downplay any feminine assets. Male baggy and boxy clothing. No makeup or feminine anything including scents. They say when SHTF does happen you don't have daughters you have sons.
You really dont know much about how men are do you? They don't care about short hair and they will eventually sniff you out, based on your height, hand size, gait, mannerisms and voice especially.
OP asked for ways she could prepare. Yes, when SHTF if someone wants to attack you they will. This can happen to men too. Preparing is just about giving yourself the best fighting chance you have. Also these methods have been successfully utilized by women in history. Sometimes if you're a good enough actor it just might be the difference between life and death.
"it can happen to men too." Ooof. Big freaking oof. This isn't about men though is it? Why are you mentioning this? Fricking bizarre when like 90% of r*pe victims of stranger/danger r*pe are women and girls.
Also these methods have been successfully utilized by women in history.
Name one.
Sometimes if you're a good enough actor it just might be the difference between life and death.
Source please for this real life success of pretending and passing as a boy in a war zone.
In war, SHT and in some schools (big revelations now in France) male are r*ped.
The post isn't about men though, is it? OP is a woman asking about women. It's like saying you need to be afraid of insulin resistance as a non-diabetic to a post asking about what to do with diabetes.
Men r*pe men in different ways and in different scenarios - and stranger r*pe of men is very rare. It's usually among hierarchies, in prisons, and in institutional ways (like schools.) Men also can fight back differently, and they are not predated upon by gangs just for the purpose of r*pe. Just for the purpose of kidnapping for r*pes. The mass r*pe of women is a global phenomena and it seems like you're here just to distract from that.
The most realistic advice I've seen outside of self-defense is to become as masculine as possible - binders for your chest, baggy clothing, shaving your head, using mascara on upper lip hairs - or if you're a hairy girly naturally, let that fluff grow and fast.
You really think that will deter criminal men who come in as invaders from a battlefield? Or radicalized religious extremists who think you should be burned alive for not converting?
The idea is to make it less likely invading soldiers see you from 200 meters away and think, "oh an attractive woman." and decide to walk towards you because of that.
200 meters away? In such a no mans land type of situation they're going to go after you just because they need to identify you anyway, any costume is irrelevant. And not very rational. Better not be seen at all. If you're a man you're a potential combatant, they'll shoot you. They'll have orders to apprehend any person.
Most SHTF situations are occupation-type scenarios. Look at haiti, sudan, somalia, yemen. Rival warlords and gangs, street battles, lynchings, mass human trafficking. House to house shit.
And every situation is different.
You're arguing that any attempt at mitigation is what? Wrong because it might not be successful in some situations?
Or are you just assuming that the other poster (for whatever reason) had 100% confidence that would always work completely and you wanted to insult them over your weird assumption?
Are you appealing to "maybe it works" because what "every situation is different?" Thats like saying maybe you can make a car into a boat and survive a tsunami. Okay.
Okay give me a situation where this works.
I think this may be a communication issue because I can barely understand your comment in response to mine.
I don't mean this in a rude way, but is English not your first language? May be some subtle stuff getting mixed up here.
Also remember that not everyone is able bodied. Some people due to illness or accident can be in a wheelchair, have a prosthetic, so it's impossible for me as of right now to go to a martial arts class in my area because wheelchair jistu isn't a thing. Bear mace and guns are easy to use no matter what position you're in (sitting or standing or in the chair or at home on the couch) so that's what I deferred to.
I know about an evidence-based form of self-defense, backed by research in several countries across the world, but I'm also planning on conducting research on it and am not sure if it's safe to just put it out there for anyone to see (e.g. bad actors, etc.).
Any clues as to how I can inform myself of this evidence based form of self defense?
There's technically two, but they're variations of similar concepts.
One was created by an American national federation of non-binary people and women, for non-binary people and women.
Another came from a Canadian university known for its strong ties to the automotive industry.
Both are backed by randomized controlled trials, so there's little room for correlation instead of causation.
Might be worth finding some poison ivy/poison oak and rubbing it all over your nether regions and thighs. Sure it will be miserable, but looking disgusting and diseased might help dissuade some level of threat on top of everything else. I'd rather be in heck and miserable that way.
Everyone here talking about carrying and training with guns sounds great… but what about folks who suffer from severe depression/ideation and shouldn't keep them around?
This is my case. I prepare for the eventuality rather than avoid it and live my life fearlessly. I do not let the men have my future or life. You can read my reply above. Meeting violence with violence is not the only way. Sometimes a super power is simply to have mind over body, and endure until the men violating you mean as little as taking a shit.
They may have taken my body in the past but with will not take my present or my future and they will not capture my mind any more.
I'm not sure I follow… can you please explain your point in a different way?
Lots of tips here!
I mainly work with men and a few women. Here are my thoughts.
Never go alone anywhere with a man.
Don't flirt or make sexual comments. Like I know we are spouse to be free and safe to do "whatever we want". But I've seen it time and time again. That the ladies who make themselves extremely sexual are the ones who get SA'ed first.
Avoid overly trusting one man. Of course make friends with the men. But avoid a "work husband". My personal favourite is I like to often ask them about their families. Kids, grandchildren, wives, mothers. I feel like gently reminding them of those warm feelings towards women are a good guide on how they will treat you.
I know this might sound like a weird one. Just leave men alone. I've seen too many women try to too hard to befriend a man that just doesn't like them, and it not end well (non sexual). But if someone doesn't like you… just let them be. Hope that makes sense.
My favourite thing to wear is loose footing overalls with a belt. I find I don't even see the guys staring at me. Though I know they don't prevent r*pe at 100%. I feel like trying to undo the shoulder straps and belts is a big deterrent.
Steel toed boots with extreme grip are definitely a bonus. Atleast something you can run in.
I don't know what war you are preparing for. But wartime r*pe is not something you can prepare against. No gun is going to save you from 5 fully-armed and trained soldiers ready to have their way with you.
You can make them kill you while you shoot as many as possible.
Depends on the person, but plenty would much rather die fighting. To each their own.
Playing Tetris soon after a traumatic event has been proven to reduce the severity of PTSD.
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-03-28-tetris-used-prevent-post-traumatic-stress-symptoms
The problem that makes it worse is when women falsely use r*pe as an excuse to better themselves because it rapidly start to discredit women who are actually victims allowing abusers to get away with significantly more abuse. So in a SHTF situation get rid of problematic Karens so that the real problems can be addressed.
So I guess this might be where staying fat would help me? Hard to wrestle to the ground or get dragged off anywhere. Generally unappealing to most men (yes I know r*pe isn't about s*x for the most part, it's control and power…)
In all seriousness, fight like heck, ladies. Take self defense classes. Get a taser or pepper spray or gun. Or find another physical item as a way to defend yourself. Depending on the situation and location, find somewhere to hide and barricade in.
I'm already pretty masculine and often pass as a boy teen. If I feel unsafe I will dress more boyish and pretend to be a teen boy as long as I can, I'm growing my hair out now but if I feel danger I will shave it again. I know self defense and carry a knife I know how to use. I'd rather die than to be SA again so I will fight.
Actually, playing Tetris has been clinically proven to reduce the chances PTSD.
Women and nonbinary who capitulate, as they think it might help them or their families survive, receive little no help post war. Typically, if they live, they are kicked out of their home and countries as sympathizers, even if they work against oppressors and even as they were unable to consent on any level. War s*x slavery, on the whole, is seen as "prisoner light" compared to hard labor. Men who are used as s*x slaves often say they were just pow due to the lack of cultural and systemic support, erasing themselves from history.
The dehumanization that accompanies war, to help soldiers kill, usually means the level of brutality that the marginalized, and women in particular, face is truly obscene, whether or not the woman chooses to fight back.
I think the answer is the answer to all things. Understand that when the time comes the flight or fight response will kick in, regardless of any cold logic done in advance. Training will kick in next. Form a community, hope that community survives to support you if you survive.
I mentioned in another sub that I believe there will be another military draft soon & both men & women will be drafted. I know the current SECDEF really hates women & doesn't want them in HIS military, but I can see drafting them and making them work as "Comfort Women" like in other times of war.
The Peace Corps used to teach everyone to wear a belt at all times. It's the equivalent of putting bars on your windows—won't stop everyone, but it adds a layer of friction to slow/dissuade/redirect.
Can confirm that a belt did actually help me in at least one situation. I think in fact that this was a repressed memory until just now. Thanks. This is real advice!
I would think a leotard would cause a bit of delay as well
My tubes are tied, I have a heavy gate, a dog, bear mace, a boyfriend who's armed. I am working on getting my gun rights back.
I've thought about this a lot. I need to enroll in self defense classes ASAP.
Not for you specifically, but for men in your lives
Trigger warning
and in this is a nearly impossible situation to discuss rationally because of all the ego involved in all parties.. but if you are relying on your man, (in combination with yourself etc.) but in general he thinks he will protect you, and he is unable to do so, (either do to failure or impossible circumstances) and you are both left alive — there is a HUGE mess to contend with while staying with him. I had this happen to me personally, but there's a good episode in Reign where the prince was literally absent to protect his princess and still all the emotions were there. Now amplify that by being in the room - either overpowered or forced to participate - and see if he'd still be a man to comfort you afterwards. A lot of men absolutely cannot handle this scenario. And a lot of women are left to shoulder the blame they can't accept, or even in the best cases - can't be looked at the same again.
I'm 67 & invisible to men for the most part, but I did strongly consider getting a firearm after the country elected to be ruled by a male feminist & predator. Since I have a medical weed card, I can't own or purchase a firearm in Utah. I won't give up my card so no pew pew for me 😞 I rarely leave my home so I guess that's my main strategy to continue avoiding the freaks of the world as much as possible
I didn't renew my medical card last year so that I could get a LTC. I had hoped to visit Utah someday, but it seems as if the entire future I've been planning on and working towards has been stolen. I now expect to die young, but at least I won't die a traitor to my own country. Be safe put there ladies.
Find good places to hide. You will encounter
gangs.
If you have young kids or people that can't keep quiet, learn how to safely make them fall asleep.
Have booby trapped supplies. Food that is easy to find with "special ingredients".
This thread misses one of the worst parts - in many wars the r*pe is done with a knife, a gun, a broom handle, in front of your family, or on top of your dead family.
You need to prepare for the psychological fall out. You might have to let your body be destroyed to save your children. It is that bad and terrifying. Owning a gun will not save you from groups of men.
This comment needs to be higher
I'm getting a bisalp. But also, keep in mind that the US has the most heavily armed civilian population the world has ever seen, in any era.
I have my complaints about America, but fierce individualsm is part of who we are. I don't think Americans will comply with true fascism, though it may take civil war.
Get educated, get ammo, and get fricking armed. Learn safety, and get your concealed carry permit. Once you go far enough left, firearms come back into the picture.
I'm not from the US. I'm sorry, but can we please stop with the US defaultism on this sub, it's rampant
My apologies, I thought your concerns were a direct reference to the imment rise of fascism in the United States.
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Did you know that the first hot air balloon flight was performed in 1783?
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I’m being too robbed at gunpont
— Amouranth (@Amouranth) March 3, 2025
OP link is the tweet cwying fwor help.
Alswo, her husband was fwound in bwoxers and a buwwet pwoof vest lmao Meth addict arc. Guess the husband didn't beat her enyough fwor her two actuawwy leave him.
Updates:
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— Amouranth (@Amouranth) March 3, 2025
They kept shooting my bedroom door and then finally kicked it in pic.twitter.com/XTVwp1OYkC
— Amouranth (@Amouranth) March 3, 2025
3 gun men
— Amouranth (@Amouranth) March 3, 2025
He screams “I got shot I got shot” after
I’m not supposed to post the scene itself, nor the casing which are now evidence
They beat me before this video and pistol whipped me the pummeling felt like it would never end and I protected my head by putting my arms… https://t.co/kVlRJGWalx pic.twitter.com/vUSUVarobk
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This guy's gotten well known online for calling people gay r-slurs and now has redditors shaking in their boots over more of his shitposting and wingcuckery.
A bunch of "freedom loving patriots" are going to be completely ok being "ruled" ironic
You underestimate what this means... they're going to start lynching brown, black, and gay people again (and I guess just party affiliation too).
And constructing a community and judicial system takeover that allows it.
Pretty much the resurgence of sundown towns...
So you're saying "Democrats" = "brown, black, and gay people"?
I also don't see any reference to "Lynching" in here, or anywhere else for that matter... Hmmm
They didn't say democrats=brown black and gay people and they didn't say that this post specifically mentioned lynching.
They said removing any political opposition from the county will allow them to do things like lynching without opposition if they so choose.
Work on your reading comprehension before you attempt a "gotcha" like that, it's embarrassing.
Hmmm, ..the comment literally said "You underestimate what this means... they're going to start lynching brown, black, and gay people again".
Maybe you should also work on your reading comprehension.
Yes, their comment mentions lynching, but they never said the post does.
I teach adult literacy classes in my spare time, my reading comprehension is just fine.
As an armed Democrat, I say Come and Take It, MF'ers.
You're slightly outnumbered bud
Then go try it tough guy
lol I'm not a violent person just saying that sounds like a bad idea
I mean you're hinting at violence. You think it's a bad idea for this guy to defend himself?
That wasn't my intention I was referring to the number of armed local republicans. I'm not a gun owner and politically apathetic
I'm still not even sure what you're trying to say.
If you can't understand that sentence, go to college
No haha quit being a coward and beating around the bush college man.
The dims are a capitalist party. They have served their purpose. Does anyone seriously think that they're going to take away money and power from billionaires? Don't make me laugh.
What is wrong with you? Focus on what is ACTUALLY HAPPENING
I have been, for almost 50 years. Do you think the dims are unworthy of criticism? I don't.
Like the republicans aren't? You're part of the problem! We have to focus on the future! No more blaming, we have to work together.
I haven't voted for GOPedo republiladygardens since 1984. I was a union activist and officer here in Texas for 14 years. I've done gotv for decades. And I've watched the dims squander it all by running ever farther to the right. They're a corporate capitalist party. Why is that so hard to understand?
Then it sounds like neither party are worth a darn and shouldn't be in charge.
We can now see, from our current predicament, that Bernie Sanders was our last hope. The dims are gop-lite, nothing more. They joined the republiladygardens in repudiating the New Deal under Clinton. Then Obama gave the banksters trillions while millions of US citizens and taxpayers lost their homes and jobs. The result is fat shitler twice.
Jesus Christ, have you SEEN what sole republicans rule can do to a place?
Right?! Louisiana, Kentucky, etc. are the lowest ranked everything from education to infrastructure AND some of the biggest welfare states. They're such clowns.
Have you seen who lives in Kentucky and Louisiana???
[jannied]
That was the first thing that came to your mind?
This is the guy who got caught giving a bj in the steam room of his golf club, and is a single guy living alone after his wife left him who tweets in the morning and night about the threat of LGBTQ people, right?
How would you know that? None of the news outlets would report that unless it became the subject for a case in a civil court. If you have picked up some gossip why would you post it? I understand calling out hypocrisy but it is just tittle tattle unless you have proof. It would be libel if a newspaper printed it without proof.
This dude is such a POS
He regularly uses the R word in his social media posts. I can't believe he is the head of anything.
I saw that! It's his favorite word! Like 3rd grader.
Are they gonna paint David stars on all Democrat businesses and make every Democrat wear it, and then send them all to a ghetto with barb wire?
Where is he located? I live in Ft worth and I'd like to talk to him
Only white people can fix this. It's not meant to disrespect anyone but marching and protesting doesn't work. Neither does voting. It's those in power (or who have the majority power-white people) who will be pressured by their white republican and democrat counterparts that will have to fix this state America is in. Not just Fort Worth. Things only truly get fixed when white people step up. It's a country thst was made for white people and is ran by them. Latinx Asians and blacks can't fix it. Marching and voting only does so much when it's not white people doing it.
It's like the missing white woman syndrome. The big search parties only get sent out for missing white women/girls and then an answer is usually found— either she's found dead or alive or the suspect is found and convicted. Only white people go looking for the missing white Female. This is much like those situations. The issue is only pressed when more white people are affected and they hold those in power accountable. For a long time the government helped poor whites feel better by way of Jim Crow— poor whites and blacks were getting along until then because the rich saw they would be outnumbered but if they could race bait the poor whites into feeling better about themselves as not being black, then it wouldn't matter theyre still poor. Now there's more white people falling into poverty and their rights along with finances are at stake. They will have to fix it. People are waiting for blacks and Latinx to protest and riot but they aren't because this is understood in the black and Latinx community
https://old.reddit.com/r/FortWorth/comments/1j2nzaf/oh_boy/
One way to interpret this is he's having a spiritual battle with Trump and he needs us there to act as pylons for his long distance assault on the president's mind
That's how I first read this before I realized who the picture was! Felt a lot like "I'm about to do a spiritual battle with this guy, you better start praying for him!"
It's not a "spiritual" battle when there's an ACTUAL battlefront in Ukraine and another in Gaza.
Correction geno in Gaza
Dear God,
Please be with President Trump and give him the discernment to better our country and not destroy democracy.
Also, please be with those politicians that give secret blowjobs in country clubs. May they come to terms with their sexuality and give them peace.
Amen.
Bruh, are you "a radical left lunatic?" lol
… it's a joke?
I know. I was making fun of how they discuss anyone who is "against" them.
He'd be calling him "a commie tard" like he does people on X. 🤦🏻♀️
Spiritual battle Bo? Like when you slept around on your wife and she divorced you because of it?
Oh, you mean when he got caught blowing a dude in the rivercrest bathroom?
I'd take a blowie from him, idk glutton for punishment lol. 🤮