PMC_GENEI_RYODAN STANDS WITH ISRAEL

For context, if you use the progressive stack award, your posts are (temporarily) treated as if they have 2x their actual upmarseys. This was thought of as so powerful by the jannies that it costs 1500 coins for just 6 hours. Now, if you make a post that gets 140 upmarseys, and at the same time someone makes an effortpost that gets 30 upmarseys, or chud ragebait that gets 50 upmarseys, your post will actually be below them on the front page. In fact, since upmarseys are basically normally distributed (getting 30 upmarseys is pretty average, getting 90 makes yours one of the top posts of the day, getting 150 would make it the top post of the day), any sort of multiplier would change the content of the front page immensely, let alone a multiplier so large it treats mediocre effortposts and slightly above average chud ragebait as superior to the actual top post as chosen by users.

The fact that /h/chudrama is blocked by default is irrelevant, because most active users have it unblocked, so even if you block /h/chudrama every post you make is still effectively being deranked. And besides, there are plenty of people who want to read /h/chudrama and not have it be literally the only thing they see on the front page

!nonchuds

As the new head mod of this hole, I need jannies to help keep it alive. You must be a member of house !femboys

!lgbt !gaystapo

“Timhouthi Chalamet” was UNBANNED on Twitch

Apparently he streamed 21 days ago pic.twitter.com/C19Tb8qjRs

— yeet (@Awk20000) February 11, 2025

image of his two accounts, the second one he used to ban evade (which normally twitch would never even let you appeal after you ban evade lol)

Using AI directly is useless too it just tells me to reinstall when the installation itself is the problem then rewords itself to tell me to install repeatedly until it starts hallucinating

I hate the modern web I hate the modern web I hate the modern web

De minimus entries from China shut down effective Tuesday.

— Ryan Petersen (@typesfast) February 2, 2025

Maybe American Apparel can come back

seething soy bear vs the chad penguin

OP

USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has "worked with" 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training" over 9000 journ*lists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.

The operation claims "offices" in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN.

Bourgault's IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at . Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.

IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN's budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows)

USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over…

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 8, 2025

4,921 media outlets

You ever wonder why sometimes when you seach for things you get 75 small bull shit news articles making it impossible to find what you are looking for

That was a design, not a bug

"Internews launches new $10M fund supporting independent media at 2023 Clinton Global Initiative"

Removed Internews Network (IN) page of its chief executive Jeanne Bourgault at the Clinton Global Initiative (2023) pic.twitter.com/hKInv2i9m2

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 8, 2025

https://instagram.com/p/C6glYyqrWpl/

USAID-funded Internews went from funding media organizations with George Soros to overthrow governments in Eastern Europe to calling for advertising boycotts to censor free speech online.

This is a textbook example of U.S. regime change tactics being redirected against domestic populism and American citizens.

In the 1990s, Internews partnered with the Soros Foundation to fund media organizations in post-Soviet nations, playing a pivotal role in the color revolutions of the 2000s in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine.

During Georgia's Rose Revolution, Internews funded and trained journ*lists at Rustavi-2 TV, the leading channel driving the uprising.

"Media was very good at informing the public about what was going on, and it had a huge role in calling people onto the streets." – Marc Behrendt, former Internews director for Georgia

By 2003, in Ukraine, Internews had conducted 220 media training programs, trained over 2,800 journ*lists, and produced more than 220 television and 1,000 radio programs. It also funded Telekritika, an online outlet that played a central role in the 2004 Orange Revolution.

After Brexit and Donald Trump's election in 2016, Internews—now working with the USAID-funded World Economic Forum (WEF)—shifted its focus to pushing advertising boycotts to suppress online dissent.

What was once a U.S.-funded operation to overthrow foreign regimes is now being used to silence American citizens and dismantle Trump's populist MAGA movement.

The Price Tag?

USAID has funneled over $470 million in taxpayer dollars into Internews.

USAID-funded Internews went from funding media organizations with George Soros to overthrow governments in Eastern Europe to calling for advertising boycotts to censor free speech online.

This is a textbook example of U.S. regime change tactics being redirected against domestic… pic.twitter.com/JdNx1gb2FV

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 8, 2025

More connections coming from Mike Benz, previously on Joe Rogan Podcast

I can tell you where the bodies are buried here. Beyond funding a parallel Mockingbird Media propaganda army of US state-sponsored journ*lists and media outlets, USAGM plays a major role in the censorship industry through something called the OTF, the Open Technology Fund.

I can tell you where the bodies are buried here. Beyond funding a parallel Mockingbird Media propaganda army of US state-sponsored journ*lists and media outlets, USAGM plays a major role in the censorship industry through something called the OTF, the Open Technology Fund. https://t.co/evZ4SNvi4Y

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) February 8, 2025

Connection to Reddit

Anna Soellner, a Director at Internews Network, also serves as the VP of Communications at Reddit

Anna Soellner, a Director at Internews Network, also serves as the VP of Communications at Reddit. cc: @reddit_lies pic.twitter.com/XMFe7sn0t0

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) February 8, 2025

Those minnesota links are to a channel/playlist that just redirects to a channel (not an actual livestream)

right now some guy is talking about midwifes

>33 people watching

DRUMPF is finished

!africans

!brics we gonna kick some american military industrial class yanks ain't got shit on us

Map of homophobic churches in the Oaklawn/Turtle Creek Gayborhood. Information in comments. Something you could do.

Would be a shame if something...happened...to those churches.

No it would be a shame, since they would play the victim. Also, that can be used as an excuse to not do mapping.

"Won't someone rid me of this medelsome priest?"

Don't spaypaint swastikas on those churches. Definitely don't throw a brick through their pretty windows. Absolutely do not call in a bomb threat during service. All of these things are illegal, and I'll remind you that we are a country where laws are respected and followed.

/u/Own-Weather-9919 very feminine of you

In the past month alone, over 12M people joined Bluesky, with daily active users growing 10x. We received more reports in two days than in all of last year, and have integrated new systems and quadrupled our moderation team to try and keep up. Sometimes, we have to work quickly to correct errors.

— Bluesky Safety (@safety.bsky.app) 2024-12-13T17:53:07.524Z

"if you don't like it here go make your own site"??I deleted my other social media sites to be here and you're abandoning us all??

— jess m. ⛄ (@jametc.bsky.social) 2024-12-13T18:14:43.629Z

The community does not have the cowtools to ban Singal and prevent his followers from harassing us with death threats. It is up to you.Do your job or we will ensure you don't have one.

— With Boughs of Molligru 🏳️‍⚧️🦄 (@blahpers.bsky.social) 2024-12-13T18:09:48.990Z

It's not "Let your libertarian friends run rampant and threaten, harass, berate, & dox the trans community"? Huh, today @aaron.bsky.team should've learned.

— Sprint6864 (@sprint6864.bsky.social) 2024-12-13T18:26:30.374Z

So basically the takeaway is "We're a bunch of lazy cowardly fricks who wouldn't stand up for endangered minorities under any circumstances."Got it, great.

— Sekhi, Booper of Snoots 🏳️‍🌈 (@sekhithefops.bsky.social) 2024-12-13T18:13:06.158Z

Quick question, is having an account solely devoted to harassing trans people and regularly screenshotting people’s posts to incite dogpiles a breech of your TOS? Because if so, ban Jesse Singal.

— Andrew McGrae (@tgnprofessor.bsky.social) 2024-12-13T18:16:31.507Z

You have lost all and any respect I have ever had for this platform and its team. Thank you, New Elon.

— Penndragyn 37 🍉🌲 (@penndragyn37.bsky.social) 2024-12-13T18:05:42.960Z

"We're gutless shitheels who refuse to do our job and are allowing libertarians who harass the trans community here because we can't afford to admit @aaron.bsky.team is friends with libertarians too. We're just gonna pretend we didn't see anything"-Bluesky Safety

— Sprint6864 (@sprint6864.bsky.social) 2024-12-13T18:23:15.451Z

yet a trans girl makes a joke to matt yglesias about hammers and becomes the first known instance of someone being banned on here.

— ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ ΘΔ (@maff.scot) 2024-12-13T18:28:04.612Z

You could have just posted a photo of your cowering leadership team drinking a bucket of stale piss instead of writing all that.

— Ryan Jackson (@bigpossumjamboree.bsky.social) 2024-12-13T18:23:09.769Z

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Man, someone woke up and chose drama today (-36)

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Definitivamente making la gran uruguaya my go to now. Thanks bud (-13)

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It's not drama. I want to avoid places that don't align with my values. If the president gets to do that why can't I? (38)

Your choice to do so isn't drama.Your choice to engage in a discussion about it with Internet strangers on an anonymized site? Drama.But I could be wrong! Let's see if I'm wrong. (-20)

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Are you people for real? Jackson Heights suffers a lot from illegal immigration. 🙄 (-17)

Are immigrants the one raising our tax code, allowing racism to run rampant, spreading lies, releasing violent criminals, firing hardworking people because they're uplifting minority voices, defunding federal organizations which directly led to a plane crash and deaths of civilians, increasing tariffs that will only harm the average person, etc? (13)

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It's not drama. I want to avoid places that don't align with my values. If the president gets to do that why can't I? (38)

There are many things this President has done or gets to do that you will never be able to.I expect this to be a controversial statement in true Reddit fashion.EDIT: never change Reddit, I was talking about the fact that he got away with felonies, being a male feminist, a libertarian, an open racist, and somehow becoming President while simultaneously being the dumbest person I have ever had the displeasure of listening to more than any human deserves. Knew you guys would take it the wrong way and come with the pitchforks. (-11)

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As recently as last year Dan Cathy has publicly opposed marriage equality. (7)

So what? Why don't you go ask the local mosque if they approve of you? I don't care who approves of me or not. And doesn't matter if they oppose gay people being married, who cares? When I was a hateful leftist I used to say oh don't eat Chick-fil-A. I don't do that anymore. I eat Chick-fil-A. It's a great company. You know they just shot and killed an ex-muslim in Sweden? Sweden a progressive, western country. We need to take control of our borders and stop our country being overrun by people who hate us. (-4)

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UK weighs requiring households using only streaming services like Netflix and Disney to pay BBC license fee — Bloomberg

— NewsWire (@NewsWire_US) January 28, 2025

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Three is nyo experience mwore prue in my eyes. The hugner. I wnat my tires slahsed. I want knyvies thwown at me, I nyeed it aww.

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Sinecrewy,

A Bwidge in luv.

!attentionmaxxers !nooticers

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BREAKING: Republican Senator Jerry Moran just announced that he will oppose Donald Trump’s efforts to gut USAID. The aura of invincibility surrounding Donald Trump has just been burst.

— Democratic Wins Media (@DemocraticWins) February 8, 2025

A Republican. https://t.co/7fs7R9d1rM

— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) February 8, 2025

Everything under Trump must be blamed on him, just like what MAGA did with Biden. I don't make the rules. pic.twitter.com/yW6p357Ynv

— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) February 7, 2025

Donald Trump is going to HATE the new cover of TIME magazine pic.twitter.com/CZuPRUwozb

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 7, 2025

A federal judge—a Reagan appointee—blocked Trump’s “blatantly unconstitutional” executive order this week, stating that Trump sought to “navigate around or simply ignore” the rule of law “for political or personal gain.” And yet, it’s barely mentioned in the news, drowned out by… pic.twitter.com/qiKdRlwYUQ

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 7, 2025

I said what i said. Its the best and the only language i know. Cstrags and rustards can suck my peepee, sincerely - Lil B

!animalposters !cats

I can't believe USAID gave 10 million dollars to various girls to ghost, reject or break up with me

— Chairman (@LRH_Superfan) February 6, 2025

!Meowr !fakecels

>Frick you we dont take back our criminals

>You will NOT fly them here on your planes

:tariffs

>Okay you can fly them, but only to a nearby country

>We can pick them up ourselves sir

>Your higness master Trump of course you can fly them here, on your planes, sir

Frick all of you who said the tariffs are just a meme and wont work. Not even week into presidency and scoring wins