New York Magazine literally cropped all the black people out of this cover photo and then complained that “the entire room is white” https://t.co/gCatY1lZzG pic.twitter.com/VhoaiJhqg1

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Going to meet plant friends today!

!animalposters !cats

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Hmm, my dogs don't shit or puke on the floor unless they are sick. They don't ruin anything. They don't shed or make a mess. One of my guys is a bit of a barker, but he makes less noise than the neighbors motorcycle. It's fine for you to not like them but your reasons are stupid. (-22)

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At least they're useful, unlike cats. You have my upmarsey.Edit: Downmarsey me all you want lol. Whether you like it or not, dogs are far more useful than cats. (-30)

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Clearly you haven't met a dog that loves you unconditionally and is your best friend. Dogs are awesome (-36)

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I've owned dogs for most of my life. My family had rescue greyhounds & stray mutts. All wonderful, sweet, well-behaved animals. Dogs are a lot of responsibility, from training, proper socialization, regular bathing & general health care. Not everyone can handle that responsibility, and some are piss-poor at it. There are a LOT of people who should not own pets, dogs in particular, because they refuse to train them & care for them properly. That being said, I loved dogs up until my mid-30s, when I lived with roommates for a few years. They were pet hoarders & had snakes & cats that they barely cared for. I took on the responsibility of caring for the cats, but I was scared of the snakes. After one of the cats died, one roommate insisted on getting a beagle puppy.Living with that dog was absolutely terrible. They refused to train it, barely walked it, and I had to eat in my room to keep it away from me during meal time. It cried all the time, bayed constantly, shit & pissed everywher... (1)

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Sounds like you have a bad experience with bad owners?I'm not a dog person, but some of your claims aren't correct. I do have a dog though.They don't scream for no reason. Don't shit on the floor except when baby puppies learning to go outside. If a dog is pooping inside, that's a failure on the dog owner to train their dog properly. Same with jumping on people. Cats puke on the floor, not dogs. Barking pisses me off massively, a neighbour half a km away has yappy dogs that never shut up. My dog barks at cars going past which is his job, not many cars as it's country area on a dead end dirt road. Another neighbour has big dogs and I never hear them. Definitely prefer cats. Would never get another dog. (1)

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I wouldn't say I "hate" babies, because hatred is reserved for things I'm morally opposed to. I wish nothing but the best for all babies. I would never hurt a child. But if I went the rest of my life without meeting another baby, I'd be okay with that.My biggest problem is hygiene. It's crazy to me that people keep a little human who has no reservations about spitting up or having diaper accidents on the floor. And even if your baby is perfectly potty-trained, they still bring all sorts of outside germs with them. So you have to sanitize everything constantly or else risk having grime around your living space. Plus, the smell is a real and seemingly unavoidable consequence. Literally every house I've ever been in with more than one baby has it.They're also very loud. They cry and scream for no reason. It's like having a permanent toddler, if your toddler needed constant attention and could destroy your furniture. Someone walking by your house? Crying. Another baby? Crying. Sirens in... (1)

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But it's ok because we know how to avoid the cattle cars and delousing now: just say no.

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i8kt6h/comment/m8ujiwp/?context=8

I was actually going to post a large collection of replies to this thread and dives into the profiles of those who posted them but I'm too tired. But here's a pooner with obesity, a drug addiction, and a job at an Amazon warehouse:

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i8kt6h/comment/m8urxfq/?context=8

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@Redactor0 grandpa confirm what I got wrong

Nothing fam. Just like I expect from you. Let's see if there's a few points I can elaborate on slightly.

USA Navy forces were not immediately aware of the ramifications the Battle of Midway would have upon the momentum of the Pacific Theatre

Keep in mind that both sides didn't even know how what ships the other had. They were getting bullshit intelligence from their own pilots all the time, so for example the Japanese were overestimating how many carriers they had sunk and had no idea we still had 3 left in the Pacific at that time.

the sheer dominant magnitude of the influence an aircraft carrier would as a weapons platform would supercede even the wildest prewar speculations

I gotta push back on this just slightly. Battleships were going obsolete but it wasn't completely over quite yet. Notice how important they were at Leyte Gulf on both sides and that was near the end of the war. This is one thing where I actually got some insight from computer games. Like so often, that comes in the form of actually getting the geometry involved. A battleship at flank speed could get about as far overnight as a carrier-based plane could fly (I'm oversimplifying here, but you get it). So you could actually dash in and catch them with a little luck. Especially if there were a few clouds out.

But it was really marginal. At the end of the war the proximity fuze for AA shells came out which helped the battleships a lot but also jet engines and guided bombs. And just planes that could fly farther. So it was really obvious by 1945 that within a few years they would be totally useless for fighting other ships.

the Royal Palace in hue

The bastards got there before Old Man Redactor could take pictures of it. But there was a lot of beautiful stuff left in Hue even after the battle.

this upcoming deafeat would be the greatest blow dealt to the US for the entire war

That's a really good way of putting it. You must have some angloid DNA.

It was the single greatest massacre of VC forces to the extent that they literally ceased to fricking be a political power within the communist sphere in Vietnam entire and Cambodia. From then on the North Vietnamese had near absolute control of military operations.

The VC were never really an independent force. At least not at the top level. There were lots of commies in South Vietnam at the beginning of the war of course, but the leadership was always directed from Hanoi. What was really changed by Tet is that all these low-level commies native to the South got killed off. After that, there was no longer any pretense that this was a guerilla war. By the time the old man got there (I think 1970) it was completely a conventional war between the North and the South fought with advanced high-tech weapons. He wasn't hauling an M-16 around when he was on his photography trips to old historical buildings in Hue because there weren't any guerillas to be scared of. Those people were all dead.

The Phoenix Program was also very helpful here. Just using basic 1960s police and office work they rooted out the commies in the villages. This was basically just turning the tables on them. Going after everyone who is on the enemy side. Except we didn't use terrorism the way the VC did, chopping off the head of the mayor's kid and shit like that. The cops just arrested people in 90% of cases. (Statistics on the Phoenix Program are quite interesting, something to go into more detail about someday.)

The US and ARVn performance was absolutely spectacular, perhaps one of history's great battles like fricking Cannae or Waterloo or something

Let's not suck our peepees too hard here. Old Man tells me a story second hand of a guy who had been in some big base around Saigon during Tet. He complained that he never got to shoot anybody because they were all slaughtered by .50 cal machineguns before they even got close enough. This wasn't Hannibal or Wellington we were dealing with.

us Air Cavalry (helicopter troops)

My dad will swear up and down that he hated everything about the Army but this is exactly the kind of comment that would draw him out. The 101st was airborne, it was NOT cavalry!

the lies and deception of the military a and 2 administrations about how good the war went

That's what the real crisis was. If it wasn't Tet it would have been something else to trigger it. They kept saying the war is about to end and they were clearly lying. This is a generation that wasn't beyond sacrifices. Everyone's parents had been in WW2 in some shit job sweeping asbestos off the floor of a shipyard or on the side of the world fighting. A lot of them never came back. But there was a purpose. People will sacrifice a lot for a purpose, but if they're getting jerked around, they notice real fast.

Old Man's story about this is listening to the radio where Nixon is saying that we're not bombing Laos and he's looking up in the sky and there's planes above him heading west. It didn't take fricking Descartes to guess where they were going.

unexpectedly brought low USA civilian morale to continue to send their sons overseas into the meatgrinder

A lot of the conventional wisdom about this isn't always right. We had something like half our casualties after Tet. (One third, I dunno.) And popular support for the war wasn't really eroded all that much if you look at the polling data.

Keep in mind that there's a certain class of people who dominate the discussion of the Vietnam War. Specifically: Guys who dodged the draft so they didn't have to go there and know anything about it. There's an extreme level of self-serving bullshit they claim. Like that the "Anti-War Movement" (lol you sure cared about the Vietnam-Cambodia war) had any impact at all on anything other than being so disgusting they helped get Nixon elected in 1968. These are the last fricking people on Earth you should ever believe. I trust the guys fighting on the other side 1000x more than them.

By the time 2023 arrived the most critical munitions would be basic artillery shells

So my two things I was saying going into this is ATGMs are gonna be important (because of experience in the Middle East in previous decades) and basic b-word artillery shells. There was this cult of precision munitions from Desert Storm. The thing I never heard anybody explain is: What if you don't know exactly where the enemy is tho?

Unironic WW1 bunkers and trenches also came to dominate the southern and eastern parts of Ukraine from Donbass to Crimea, with static artillery war and massed charges for both sides being the most popular strategy, on a grinding stalemate similar as to the ending phase of 1952s Korea War.

The last full-scale war we had between two opponents that was a fair fight was the Iran-Iraq War and it was a heck of a lot like this. I keep telling everyone, but nobody believes little old Redactor. I guess I gotta post more Chronicles of Victory.

!historychads !anticommunists

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This (on the right) is PirateSoftware

He's otherwise known as Jason Thor Hall - or more importantly - as Maldavius Figtree, his online Fursona when he played Second Life.

He rose to fame by (ab)using YouTube Shorts. In these he shares his outlandish knowledge on a plethora of topics ranging from computer science (hacking), running a ferret rescue operations to working at blizzard. In fact, he will mention at least one of the topics within 10 seconds. He's also a game developer and a streamer. The sad reality - he has no clue about anything. People tend to believe his words as he appears wise and smart and stuff. His KiwiFarms Thread has 160 pages of people rightfully hating and collecting his r-slurred statements. He's god's gift to mankind - and he'll make sure you think so too.

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He's also a self-proclaimed "top-tier" World of Warcraft player with years of experience and an actual history of working at Blizzard - and then wimped out on his hardcore (permadeath) streamer guild OnlyFangs, getting multiple others killed as he ran away from a very survivable encounter. To clarify, various streamers are currently running a hardcore classic world of warcraft guild called OnlyFangs. The point of hardcore is that you only have one life, if you die at any point of the game, you have to re-level which may take at least 120 hours. So unlike regular classic which is piss-easy baby mode, dying is a big deal. That's why you need to trust your teammates in a dungeon or raid, as your in-game life depends on them NOT fricking up. Pirate did frick up. In fact, he fricked up so bad that the entire streaming world sans his paid shill buddy Asmongold is pooping on him. Rightfully so. Not only did he frick up, he also refused to acknowledge even a modicum of accountability, and instead iteratively double triple or quadruple downs on his original statements. The entire /r/LivestreamFail subreddit is full of threads pooping on him and it's genuinely the most endearing thing I've ever seen. Not even universally hated child male feminists are as despised. Never mess with !g*mers:

I won't go into more detail here because most of these threads are just hating for the sake of hating or other known streamers giving their extremely valuable opinion but

this is the original thread that started all of it - containing the now infamous clip.

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Does he deserve the death penalty&&

A foreign billionaire has seized the United States government.

— DCCC (@dccc) February 3, 2025

Is he a foreigner from Canada? Or Africa?

Bonus video here's Elon with his McLaren F1 and his ex wife of his child

The subreddit is up in arms, many people are asking for refunds, or hysterical that their microtransactions can no longer be accessed

I had a dream last night where I had a boutique that sold shit like this and other super high end audio stuff and I had a super cute wife that worked there too and would sit on my face whenever I wanted. Then I woke up to my normal bullshit.

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Sounds right up Reddit's alley (39)

Uhh no, we believe in democracy and free and fair elections unlike MAGA who did Jan 6. (-16)

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The dems ran a terrible campaign and a lot of people were definitely caught up with genocide Joe. I want to laugh about people searching what is an oligarchy. This country is sooo cooked. (12)

Yup. Hoping all his advisors fail to keep tRump in check because I want every fricker who refused to learn their lessons and voted for this moron to feel immense amounts of personal and professional pain. And the left for doing such a shit job etc being the left. At this point I'm all for tRump destroying the place. We're not gonna be at a place for any sort of actual revolution till the body count is atleast a few million given how quick these morons learn. And if we're incapable of reaching a point of revolution, it's be better for everyone for the union and it's states to just stop existing (-14)

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Ok so you don't call voting democracy? What's the point of being this pedantic?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy (9)

What was the point of you going to school (assuming you did) ? Maybe you should have paid better attention (-7)

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And you all say that Trump supporters are violent and racist and all this bullshit but yet not ine has vomited out the hate and disinformation and delusional false comments like you all have just to get your way and when that don't work you lash out even worse...it's annoying and embarrassing to be honest anything is better than Joe Biden and his bullshit he didn't do shit but focus on more gun control which don't do shit and we have proven that calling for more control does nothing but give more access to criminals and harder for us law abiding Americans and turns more people into criminals you all just need to grow the frick up already and the more hate you preach the more you look exactly what you call us we don't say shit to you but we are the violent ones? Sounds legit.... not.. (0)

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The dems ran a terrible campaign and a lot of people were definitely caught up with genocide Joe. I want to laugh about people searching what is an oligarchy. This country is sooo cooked. (12)

Yup. Hoping all his advisors fail to keep tRump in check because I want every fricker who refused to learn their lessons and voted for this moron to feel immense amounts of personal and professional pain. And the left for doing such a shit job etc being the left. At this point I'm all for tRump destroying the place. We're not gonna be at a place for any sort of actual revolution till the body count is atleast a few million given how quick these morons learn. And if we're incapable of reaching a point of revolution, it's be better for everyone for the union and it's states to just stop existing (-14)

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Hey! I too am expecting him to govern as he campaigned. Just stirring up fear and hate, name-calling and violent rhetoric, and lying and lying and lying. Oh and financially we will be in great shape as long as he runs this country like he runs his businesses. Go bankrupt. Walk away. Repeat x 6. Sure will be fun to have a president who comes up with an idiotic name for every single person he doesn't like. It's like we will all be back in second grade again. What fun!In reality though, who the frick does that?! Do you just call people childish stupid names as you go about your day? Just lie your face off because you can? Even when you're clearly flat wrong? Or say things like "I don't think science knows everything." Pro tip: science is literally universal truth. It explains literally everything. There is nothing more reliable.Oh. And your statement about billionaires is a bold faced lie. So unless you have actual numbers to back that up, stop being just like Trump. I don't care who y... (0)

Stop illegal immigration and deport the ones that are criminals. Cut government waste. Bring manufacturing back to the US. Stop the war in Ukraine and keep us out of more endless conflicts. It's Morning in America once again. (3)

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Its time. weather you're 16, like me, feeling unrepresented by the state, tired and ready for change, or a middle aged father or mother struggling to make ends meet. this is not left vs right, this is up vs down. this is their heel, versus our throat. Wake up. its time for real resistance. Peaceful protesting does not work, asking does not work, the truth, if we do not strip them of all other options to lie, will not be enough. it will take the POWER of the PEOPLE. which we have. Do NOT fall to infighting. Do NOT focus on stupid fandom or community discourse, like "male lesbians" because in the end, someone elses identity is unknown to us, ans as a huma, is it not or moral obligation to help our fellow person, no matter who they be? Who do we become when we deny basic of rights to those we dislike, yes, even those we claim immporal, such as prisoners? These people are tyrannical. DOWN with musk, DOWN with meta, DOWN with google, DOWN with microsoft. LINUX. PROTON. VPS. PIRATING, PHYSICAL MEDIA, FARMING, SURVIVAL, COMMUNITY, HARM REDUCTION, LOCAL LIABRARIES, SIGNALING, OGANIZED GROUPS.

STOP FOCUSING ON THE UNIMPORTANT. THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW. THEY WILL NOT KEEP US LONGER. FRICK THIS FACIST SYSTEM.

what a treat

Dems aren't going to save you. Join a leftist party. And the civil rights movement wasn't won by marching. It was won by rioting.

powerful stuff

At launch, Starfield was celebrated but it didn't take long before a hate campaign began against it and people started posting tons of negative reviews of the game. They complained about ridiculous things like the lack of vehicles (plenty of games don't have vehicles), and the lack of things to do (this is false, there is plenty to do).

The truth is that people had unrealistic standards. They wanted 1000 individually crafted planets and when they realised they were procedurally generated, people lost their shit without realising what an immense undertaking they were asking for. Starfield manages to provide a good variety of games and exploration always rewards you with amazing sights and plenty of opportunities to take photos. At the end of the day, Starfield provides more content than 99% of games out there. It is better than No Man's Sky @BILLYBIGBOLLOCKS. How you can you visit places like Neon and Akila and complain that the game is empty? There are so many settlements with an incomprehensible amount of content. There is also a host of lifeforms to discover and they all behave differently, making it exciting to explore the wild parts of planets.

People complain that many of the missions are fetch quests, but they fail to understand that much of the fun of the game comes from the journey. Traveling to different places, speaking to different characters and discovering new things is exciting, and fetch quests expose you to new content.

What I find strange is that people complain about the writing and the story. This is the best writing in a game recent. It's so fun talking to different characters because they all feel so different and they have varied motivations. I can't wait to meet new characters and it's exciting to pick what I'm going to say to them. I enjoy the persuasion situations where you have to pick the right thing to say to convince a character to do something. These are high stakes situations and I don't save scum so I deal with the consequences of my actions.

I will admit that the game is not perfect and there are some flaws. For example, there are a lot of loading screens. Secondly, 60fps mode isn't particularly stable. However, none of these shortcomings tarnish the game in a major way. Furthermore, Bethesda has listened to fans and updated the game to give players plenty of the features they have been asking for, making the game even better than it was at launch. That is a beautiful thing to do, and not many developers would do that. Thank you Todd Howard.

The hate campaign against Starfield was started by CHUDS who were mad that there weren't many conventionally attractive women in the game. You could see it on /v/, and it eventually spread to Reddit where chuds latched onto the narrative.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/16c0z6n/why_are_all_the_girls_ugly/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/16g935o/why_are_the_npcs_so_darn_ugly/

Of course, this discourse spread to Steam where a bunch of reviews started complaining about ugly NPCs. You can tell its chuds writing these because they use terms like "woke".

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1716740/discussions/0/4035850502436992213/

From here, it became easy to just call the whole game "woke" and the kinds of criticisms that came from this were ridiculous. People were mad that you could choose they/them pronouns!

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1716740/discussions/0/3824173464657206483/

So with all this needless hate gathering around Starfield, it became a hot topic in the culture wars which led to the torrent of bad reviews. That is why there is a negative perception of the game. However, for those of us who know what the game is trying to be and are playing it with a pure heart, we recognise that Bethesda has bestowed a masterpiece upon us. This is a beautiful game with so many twists and turns. It's innovative, unorthodox, yet so effortlessly fun.

I'm feeling quite sad right now because @ToeBeans ignored me cruelly and I don't know what I did to her to deserve this treatment. However, I'm about to play Starfield and it's going to make me feel much better. I might not have true friends online, but when I'm playing Starfield, Sarah Morgan and Sam Coe are my best buddies and they'll never desert me. Here are some of my favorite screenshots from the game. Looking at them helps me feel better.

https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1htyw7w/insert_2_hour_long_video_essay_on_how_gen_beta_is/

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