Ari clearly has the ick.

I can't get over Ari's hand She's posing like this is an annoying fan that wants a quick selfie, not the guy she fricked and destroyed two marriages to have.

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/vial-of-morphine-allegedly-found-in-bankstown-hospital-locker-of-sydney-nurse-ahmed-rashid-nadir-as-nsw-police-probe-antisemitic-video/news-story/15aea505cede20e4b0787856c8321116

Apparently the male also had drugs in his personal locker.

!jidf how long are we giving this rowdy buck

Original post in /r/protonmail, where the CEO responds to the controversy:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i1zjgn/so_that_happened/

Excerpt from Yen's comment:

This is not going to be a popular opinion, but on the specific issue of antitrust, Democrats fell short. In 2022, we campaigned extensively in the US for anti-trust legislation. Two bills were ready, with bipartisan support. Chuck Schumer (who coincidently has two daughters working as big tech lobbyists) refused to bring the bills for a vote. In the aftermath of this failure, great people like former Democratic rep David Cicilline left congress, leaving few strong voices for antitrust left in the Democratic party. In the meantime, at a 2024 event covering antitrust remedies, out of all the invited senators, just a single one showed up - JD Vance.

Redditors:

Today /r/privacy, in a removed post, Redditors continue to seethe.

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1id1lo5/proton_ceo_responds_to_backlash_after_his_post/

One particularly amusing comment chain where people are scarmbling to find a service that isn't in the hands of a chud:

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1id1lo5/comment/m9vi9tu/?context=8

Sardines with more soyseethe:

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1i2q6a9/comment/m7gq8v5/?context=8

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Excellent post about this guy

Tl;dr he bought a defunct company (Murfie) that held onto peoples CDs and vinyl and tried to move it to an impoverished shithole in Arkansas because property value was cheap. The town drove him insane and methheads robbed him daily but he decided to buy up 1000 more properties anyway, most recently a 7 story school administrative building with no plan on what exactly to do with it. He has also tried to run for mayor there as a Libertarian and got arrested for throwing a tantrum at a city council meeting when they said he couldn't turn one of his abandoned warehouse properties into a go-kart track. He represented himself in court.

All of the property of Murfie has been sitting in a bunch of shipping containers while he runs around Hell on Earth acting like a retard. To be clear the average customer of Murfie is like 70 years old. The business would take a CD or vinyl from you and for a subscription fee allow you to listen to your CD or vinyl over a streaming service the entire concept is like something out of the dotcom boom. All of his videos have comments like this from confused customers.

Most of them have had to accept that this inventory is gone, had this dumbass not gotten involved it would have all likely ended up at a landfill anyway because nobody in their right mind would have purchased this company.

However there is one guy who really, really wants his CDs. @PontifierAR on Twitter (Formerly Chuck's) has this pinned to profile and has been dedicated to harassing him for the past five years.

After nearly FIVE Years, I think this sounds reasonable. Do you, #Murfie Customers? I think this is only fair. #JohnFenley doesn’t seem to know how to apologize and change behavior, so I thought I’d help him. #pinebluff #murfie #crossies #pontifier #lino #libertarianinnameonly pic.twitter.com/wibu01eNCW

— John Fenley - RETURN MONEY AND PROPERTY NOW! (@PontifierAR) June 16, 2024

He has several wordpress sites raging against John Fenley and Murfie and a schizophrenic Youtube channel.

John is active on Reddit as /u/Pontifier. At some point this guy made a Reddit account and would reply with some every time John would post about something. Eventually he responded.

This did not satisfy him. He commented again, John apparently was having a bad day and decided to unload

This has completely set the guy off

Since this post he has tweeted at:

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The majority of these are reposts of John's comment with ranting

People that are assaulted are often blamed by the perpetrator as provoking it in various ways. This tactic is very common of perpetrators to their victims. I am the victim of #JohnFenley. He has the balls to blame me for what he did. #PineBluff #Murfie #Crossies #Pontifier pic.twitter.com/V2TLj8Pm8Q

— John Fenley - RETURN MONEY AND PROPERTY NOW! (@PontifierAR) December 1, 2024

THIS IS WHAT VICTIM BLAMING LOOKS LIKE!!!#JohnFenley #Pontifier #Murfie #Crossies #PineBluff pic.twitter.com/pryzKQaYUR

— John Fenley - RETURN MONEY AND PROPERTY NOW! (@PontifierAR) December 1, 2024

This could be interpreted as a threat or at a minimum letting me know he has the power to “lose” my disks. Either way he is now being crazy aggressive. He told me I would get my property and money back in 2020…it’s now almost 2025. #JohnFenley #Pontifier #PineBluff #Murfie pic.twitter.com/KEQjRShhYt

— John Fenley - RETURN MONEY AND PROPERTY NOW! (@PontifierAR) December 2, 2024

Get Your Very Own Asshat for #Christmas. It will show everyone who is the #asshat! I ordered mine and got the #BlackFriday deal! JohnFenley #PineBluff #Murfie #Crossies #Pontifier pic.twitter.com/CzG9LgcGun

— John Fenley - RETURN MONEY AND PROPERTY NOW! (@PontifierAR) November 29, 2024

I don't know what timezone he's in, but he's definitely American. His first tweets of the day are all around the same time. He is apparently waking up and thinking about the post first thing in the morning , seething about it throughout the day, and continues to well into the evening, likely shortly before going to sleep . It's safe to assume he dreams about this post as well.

There is hilarious schadenfreude in John's story but a lot of people here seem to root for him. There is something kind of endearing about his insane ambition even if it's delusional and extremely poorly thought out. But clearly his ability to make someone is unsurpassed. I have never made a post on the internet that upset a person as much as this one comment has. I kneel

FREE PUFF

— ye (@kanyewest) February 7, 2025

Holy shit it is bleak. There are three Harry Potter books in there and two Hunger Games books in there in the top 10 best books.

Then you compare it to the best books of the 20th century ( still one harry potter book in there in top 10 but they are still doing way better than the 21st century.

How did the quality of the "greatest" works fall down so quickly. It is like humanity has forgotten how to write anything with any depth anymore and it is all at the level of quality of teenage story writing.

Is it simply over for the writing genre as a whole or is it that the best quality writing is actually no longer being recognized as the best because it didn't sell enough copies nor got enough appreciation from writing critics, or is it that there is a complete disconnect between what the average person considers enjoyable writing and what is considered actually good high brow writing?

I think it is a shift in medium where all the people looking for depth and high quality in their literary works moved on to movies and video games instead and all who are still hanging around the writing genre are those who will pick a random niche and the general books based on lowest common denominator which is teenage angst or teenage wonderment slop.

What this means is that the writing genre is going to keep going further down in quality over time and we need to look at the possible extinction of reading one day if everything turns out to be possible to be done by video because people are clearly getting worse at appreciating literature while getting a whole lot better at their expectations and appreciation of better video entertainment content.

Conclusion:

In terms of ease of entry into the writing department this is the easiest time period. In terms of making money from it, likely one of the harder time periods. We can expect the quality of writing meant for general audiences to have reached the lowest floor and never rise above it again this generation. The Zoom zooms are too r-slurred when it comes to quality writing in just a book.

Also if you still read Harry Potter books, READ ANOTHER BOOK!

An Indian travel vlogger visited Nigeria and she never wishes to visit again. She gave some reasons here. pic.twitter.com/saiIi4HNe8

— Lord Immy Kant (Eastern Exile) (@KantInEast) January 31, 2025

America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 6, 2025

Prepare for liberation bongs. You'll get to be the 54th state behind Canada, Greenland, and Panama!

Everyone please warmly welcome the soon to be new members of the American empire.

Euros reactions

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1huu9cn/elon_musk_puts_up_a_poll_asking_if_the_us_should/

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1huv8d6/elon_musk_hints_at_us_invading_the_uk_to_liberate/

There are probably more but this is still relatively fresh.

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!metashit

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https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1idisls/comment/m9zzfkr/?context=8

Inside job!!

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1idisls/comment/m9zyssb/?context=8

All religion bad, not just Islam!!! Islam is not to blame

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1idisls/comment/ma00d6f/?context=8

Mohammad peepee suckers trying their hand at spreading misinformation for the religion of peace

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1idisls/comment/m9zzr6d/?context=8

Muslims murdering people for Islam reminds me of Christians not being cool with abortion as birth control!!!

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1idisls/comment/m9zz874/?context=8

DAE BOTH RELIGIONS ARE THE SAME? As an atheist on Reddit, I am euphoric (x24)

Also drew these with a mouse in MS paint while at work:

!animalposters

The embargo for reviews of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has lifted. We don't have a review on the site here at Polygon. This is not an editorial decision; we had hoped to review the game. On Jan. 2, Polygon requested a code for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 from Warhorse Studios, the studio behind the game, and received no response. On Jan. 7, we reached out to the PR firm working with Warhorse, who told us they were "not able to provide access. We'll let you know if this changes." We reached out to parent company Plaion on Jan. 9 as well — no response. On Jan. 10, we saw our peers publishing early previews for the game. We re-upped our request and were again told we would not be given access.

This was very unusual. But this was the situation that transpired with Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. It can be difficult to tell when a studio's decision to withhold a code from a publication is intentional and personal. That's due in part to the fact that the process for getting advance review codes is about as rote and administrative as it gets. Sometimes, PR firms working for studios send us codes unsolicited in hopes we'll cover the game in question. Other times, we request codes from the game's representatives ourselves, several weeks ahead of the release date, and we get those codes when and if they are available.

As part of our final request for code on Jan. 10, Polygon's editor-in-chief Chris Plante contacted Plaion and Warhorse's PR firm to get a comment as to why we were denied advance access to the game. He stressed in his message that our hope is that this decision wasn't due to any personal bias against Polygon, nor motivated by any of our previous coverage of games made by Warhorse or any other. In short, we wanted to know: Was Polygon being blacklisted?

On Jan. 10, we did receive a response to this request stating that we could get one code for the game on launch day, Feb. 4. We did not receive any clarification as to how this decision was made. Nor did we receive the requested clarification on why the developers of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 declined to provide Polygon access to the game.

Because we will not receive access to this game until its public release, our review is nonetheless forthcoming but will not be published in time for its release date. We look forward to telling you more about this game in the weeks to come.

KIA Gloats

And now, for the why. From Charlie Hall's review (12 February 2018)

https://archive.is/WqcZl

"The game is also not without its controversies. Warhorse is a team of more than 150 people, but the game's creative director has gone out of his way to rationalize his support of G*merGate, a loosely knit hate group that has devoted time to harassing women, people of color and journ*lists in the past. So outspoken is the studio's leadership on cultural issues that they have found it necessary to work with a German outlet to publish anti-fascist, anti-sexist and anti-racist statements prior to their game's launch."

Thank you for that completely unnecessary bank-shot that turned a poor review into a politically motivated hit piece. And you wonder why they weren't lining up for more of that?

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1igwh0w/polygon_whines_about_not_getting_prerelease_code/

!g*mers !chuds @kaamrev its G*MER GATE REVENGE TIME!

Literally crying.

!animalposters !cats

Rouge nukes and bird flu on my bingo for Musk/Trump incoming frickups.

I really hope Burgers will get cut off Medicaid and Medicare.

https://old.reddit.com/r/CleaningTips/comments/1hp8ezp/everything_in_my_house_is_turning_green/

The tl;dr is a woman notices shit in her house is turning green and a r*dditor helps her find out it's because her husband is cheating with a woman that wears jeans.

NPReddit reports on it like it's in the news. All of the articles are slop just quoting the thread.

https://nypost.com/2025/01/30/lifestyle/a-woman-learned-of-her-husbands-infidelity-because-of-this-house-cleaning-mystery/

Most obvious reddit slop reddit shit I ever saw. Clearly trying to ape that ancient carbon-monoxide post.

Let's take a look:

• She found out he's cheating because she snooped through his phone and just by "chance" he had dm's on Instagram from a woman that "happened" to be wearing Old Navy jeans on her page. https://old.reddit.com/r/CleaningTips/comments/1i2htjj/update_everything_in_my_house_is_turning_green/

• She has nine fricking cats https://old.reddit.com/r/pacmanfrog/comments/1iag4zz/comment/m9azbwn/?context=8

• It's a woman.

• She looks like this: https://old.reddit.com/r/PlasticSurgery/comments/16k14fy/lipo_360_295_cc_breast_implant_one_week_post_op/

I'm sure parts of it are true but this is the gayest shit I ever saw.

Now that we are freee, let's all admit that everyone loves titties. Titties are great. Hers are great. God bless titties.

https://boards.4chan.org/tv/thread/208713765#p208713765

I really want Elon to royally frickup Social Security, Medicaid, Medicaid, and piss off all old voters to go after the GOP.

I hope his zoomer twinks royally frickup and crash websites, block payments for months.