I had a dream about fricking writing a drama post.

You've probably heard the mantra before: "R*pe isn't about s*x, it's about power". I have and I fully disagree with it. In this short post, I'd like to explain why.

SUSAN BROWNMILLER

So where did the theory that r*pe is power come from? It was originally used in Susan Brownmiller's text titled Against Our Will where she makes the declaration that “r*pe is about power, not s*x.” She argues that r*pe is an attempt for men to seize power and control over women, making it a deeply misogynistic act. To Susan, r*pe is like lynching to blacks.

KATHARINE BAKER

To begin my argument, I'd like to point you to an article by Katharine Baker and published in the Harvard Law Review. The article is called "Once a male feminist?" and it investigates why male feminist do what they do. She begins by pointing out that the use of violence doesn't equate to a desire for power. It is a natural human behavior we are all guilty of (because it works):

She also points out that when men try to r*pe, they are often trying to have s*x. They have no interest in power - they genuinely just want to coom:

Katharine also finds that in a culture where s*x is commodified, r*pe is tantamount to theft. That is to say, one r*pes with the mindset of a thief - you are simply taking what isn't yours.

She has evidence to back up her claims. She argues that “thirty-nine percent of convicted male feminists were caught in the course of a robbery. As many of these men conceded, they r*ped because she was there. They were already breaking the laws of trespass and ownership- why not take one more thing?” In other words, the commodification of s*x leads to s*x being part of the loot that can be grabbed alongside jewelry and other valuables. The desire here isn't power, but s*x itself.

She also points out the biggest factor that contributes to r*pe - alcohol. This has been known and studied for ages.

• At least 50 percent of student sexual assaults involve alcohol.

• Approximately 90 percent of r*pes perpetrated by an acquaintance of the victim involve alcohol.

• About 43 percent of sexual assault events involve alcohol use by the victim; 69 percent involve alcohol use by the perpetrator.

• In one-third of sexual assaults, the aggressor is intoxicated.

https://alcohol.org/health-effects/sexual-assault-college-campus

Genuinely unironically, if you want to not be r*ped avoid alcohol and people who drink. As Katharine writes:

https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/79433623/viewcontent-libre.pdf

On a somewhat unrelated note, Katharine Baker also has an article about why r*pe shouldn't be a crime and it's a good read.

https://www.minnesotalawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Baker_ONLINE.pdf

RICHARD FELSON

Richard Felson directly looks at the claim that r*pe is power. He argues that this is not the case, and that male feminists are primarily coomers. As evidence, he begins looking at the average age that women are r*ped. It just so happens to align with their peak attractiveness. A sexual motivation explains this, not a power-based one.

Thus he comes to the following conclusion:

Sexual offenders of all ages prefer young victims. Even elderly offenders target 15-year-olds the most. Also, men who commit sexual assault tend to be considerably older than men who commit other types of violent crimes. The relatively high rate of sexual offending by older men is likely due to the fact that they have become less attractive with age while their sexual attraction to young people is undiminished. The men and women they find most attractive are not attracted to them. Some of them use force to get their way.

On a side note, Felson also points out an interesting fact. The biggest determinant of whether you will be r*ped is your age, not gender. A teen boy is more likely to be r*ped than a woman in their 40s.

Sexual assault is as much a crime against young people as it is a crime against women. A 15-year-old male is more likely to be a victim of a sexual assault than a 40-year-old female.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210225113056/https://quillette.com/2016/01/02/to-r*pe-is-to-want-s*x-not-power

CONCLUSION

This isn't complicated. I don't know how a simple topic got so twisted.

>I don't want you alive, thus I kill you

>I want what you have, thus I steal

>I want to coom, thus I r*pe

The idea that someone can achieve a full erection and copulate yet not be sexually motivated is ridiculous. And this applies to prison r*pe as well. Those male feminists are GAY or at least BISEXUAL. Are there sadists out there who r*pe simply because they enjoy the pain of others, or because they hate women? Of course they are. But to characterize r*pe as a whole as a crime of power as opposed to a crime of s*x is unfounded. IT'S A S*X CRIME.

Tune in next time when we discuss Holly Willoughby's queuegate.

˚༺☆༻*ੈAN ANALYSIS OF THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS CHRIST ˚༺☆༻*ੈ

Who is the most famous historical figure? Who altered the path of human history forever? Who is the most quoted man ever, who is the most worshipped, who has made the biggest contributions to world philosophy? Only one name can be given as a genuine answer - Jesus.

In modern times, many have turned their backs on Jesus and his teachings, but his influence has yet to wane. I am here today to demonstrate that the story of Jesus is not a boring one. Instead, it is filled with plenty of drama, betrayal, humor, lust, and heroism. We'll be mainly looking at one event - his death - but to do this, we'll need to discuss the sociopolitical conditions that led to the Jew being crucified. To close off, we'll look at the medical side of his death to hopefully determine just what precisely killed him.

Our tale will involve the following main characters:

• Jesus

• Simon

• Peter

• Judas

• Pontius Pilate

• King Herod

As you understand, the Biblical story of Jesus Christ's life is steeped with supernatural beliefs and religious claims (some of which contradict each other). Consequently, it is hard to separate fact from fiction. To the best of my abilities, I will rely on secular historians, though, as you'll see, I have some problems with their research as well.

Enjoy!

Part One - Setting the Stage

Who is Jesus Christ?

The individual we will be discussing is named Jesus. During his lifetime, Jewish individuals typically had one name, and if there was a second name it was related to their birthplace, father, or occupation. Hence, Jesus would have been called Jesus of Nazareth, or Jesus of Joseph, or Jesus the Carpenter. Commonly, he is referred to as Christ, which is derived from the Greek word Christos meaning “anointed”. The title references the fact that Jesus is believed to be an anointed Messiah.

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Quick notes from Holly!

The story of Jesus' life spans four books in the Bible: Matthew, John, Luke, and Mark. Though they agree on some pain points, they also present wildly differing claims at times, with some claims contradicting the claims of other Gospels.

Matthew, Mark, and Luke are typically grouped as the Synoptic Gospels because they contain mostly the same narrative. John differs a lot, contradicting the Synoptic Gospels at many points. Was this a case of writers drawing from different sources? Have we been fooled by forgeries? You'll have to come to your own conclusions.

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His parentage is debated. It is widely believed that his mother is Mary, a Jewish woman from Nazareth. Jesus' earthly father is Joseph, a descendent of King David. Biblically, it is believed that Jesus was conceived via immaculate conception, and Mary had not known a man when fell pregnant.

It doesn't help that the Bible offers differing accounts of Jesus' genealogy across the four Gospels (more on that in a bit). In the Book of Matthew, we are treated to a patriarchal genealogy that traces Jesus' ancestry all the way back to Abraham and Sarah. However, in the Book of Luke, we find a longer genealogy that traces Jesus' ancestry back to Adam. It is as such:

• Adam

• Seth

• Enos

• Cainan

• Mahalaleel

• Jared

• Enoch

• Methuselah

• Lamech

• Noah

• Shem

• Arphaxad

• Cainan

• Shelah

• Eber

• Peleg

• Reu

• Serug

• Nahor

• Terah

• Abraham

• Isaac

• Jacob

• Judah

• Perez

• Hezron

• Arni

• Admin

• Amminadab

• Nahshon

• Salmon

• Boaz

• Obed

• Jesse

• David

• Nathan

• Mattatha

• Menna

• Melea

• Eliakim

• Jonam

• Joseph

• Judah

• Simeon

• Levi

• Matthat

• Jorim

• Eliezer

• Jesus

• Er

• Elmodam

• Cosam

• Addi

• Melchi

• Neri

• Shealtiel

• Zerubbabel

• Rhesa

• Joannan

• Joda

• Josech

• Semei

• Mattathias

• Maath

• Nagge

• Esli

• Naum

• Amos

• Mattathias

• Joseph

• Jannai

• Melchi

• Levi

• Matthat

• Heli

• Joseph

• Jesus

We know that Jesus was of Jewish ethnicity, and likely had black hair, brown eyes, and brown skin. It is also somewhat certain that Mary gave birth to him in Bethlehem during the reign of King Herod.

So let's entertain the idea of a virgin birth for a moment. In modern times, this is possible without an issue through artificial insemination. Even in the past, however, Joseph could have easily impregnated Mary without having s*x with her. If they shared the same bed and he had a nocturnal emission, or if they practiced non-penetrative forms of intimate contact.

The other possibility, of course, is that Mary had s*x with someone other than Joseph, and then claimed immaculate conception. The most common form of the argument claims that Jesus' father was a Roman soldier named Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera.

I tend to not believe this, mainly because it seems to be the case that most people did not believe Jesus was of virgin birth. In John 6, we hear the crowd say:

They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven'?”

My argument is that it would have been just as ridiculous then as it is now to make such a claim. If one fell pregnant, it would almost certainly not be the first excuse you jump to.

Did Jesus exist?

In my opinion, yes. Jesus did exist and he was the son of Mary. His father is unknown. One of the best sources of evidence for the historicity of Jesus is Tacitus who was a Roman historian and scholar. In his text Annals, he writes of the crucifixion of Jesus and the rule of Pontius Pilate. The following verse in particular has been taken into focus (translated from Latin):

>Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judæa, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their center and become popular.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_(Tacitus)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_Jesus

This is considered a non-Christian confirmation of the crucifixion of Christ. However, it should be noted that the authenticity of Annals has been contested by scholars such as Richard Carrier (who advocates for the theory that Jesus never existed and is pure myth), but it is generally accepted that it is authentic by most scholars.

Pontius Pilate and King Herod

Pontius Pilate was the governor of Judea, and he served under Emperor Tiberius. His rule was marked by tension between him and his Jewish subjects, historians note. The Jews, with their own God and culture, were offended by Pontius's desire to remove the Jewish imperial standard and replace it with Ceaser's image. The people revolted, and Pontius sent his soldiers to kill them, but they did not flinch. Thus, he discovered that he would have to negotiate with the Jews if he was to rule over them effectively. Strongarming wasn't going to work against a population who did not fear death.

He was enemies with King Herod, the ruler who called for all children under the age of 2 to be slaughtered, causing Mary and Joseph to flee. As you'd imagine, historians consider him to be a cruel, bloodthirsty, and tyrannical ruler.

These two figures, separately, had reasons to not like Jesus. This would have deadly consequences.

Part Two - Killing the King

Jesus starts some drama

I do not wish to dwell too long on the life of Jesus and the events that occurred during his 33(?) years on Earth. Instead, I'd like to focus on the last days of his life, and the circumstances which led to this (mostly) peaceful man being nailed to a cross.

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Quick notes from Holly!

Jesus had predicted his crucifixion many times prior. Of particular note is Mark 30-32 which states the following:

Then they departed from there and passed through Galilee, and He did not want anyone to know it. For He taught His disciples and said to them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. And after He is killed, He will rise the third day.” But they did not understand this saying, and were afraid to ask Him.

Kind of an edgelord thing to randomly say without any elaboration.

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After raising Lazarus of Bethany from the dead, Jesus returns to Jerusalem and this is about the point where the true drama begins.

The miracle of the resurrection of Lazarus had drawn more believers to him than ever, and he was able to draw crowds wherever he went. He arrived riding a donkey which his disciples had gathered for him. Upon arrival, the crowds greet him with palm leaves, for they believe him to be the Son of God.

Not everybody was happy about this. Religious leaders, political leaders, and scholars felt threatened by the growing numbers turning to Jesus. Also, claiming you're the son of God is incredibly blasphemous. Most people would have been thoroughly offended by anyone making such a claim. Now imagine how a religious scholar would feel seeing a poor man drawing more crowds than a Rabbi while making those blasphemous claims! Hence, by the time Jesus arrived in Jerusalem, there was already tension.

It should be noted that Jesus wasn't particularly quiet about his arrival in Jerusalem, nor was he doing much to appease the authorities whom he knew despised him. He continued to preach his message, he publicly criticized those in power, and he kicked up a storm when he flipped tables in the table as he cursed those who had turned the place of worship into a moneylending spot. These were not the actions of a man who feared authority. It was positively suicidal.

The drama escalates

In the week leading up to the crucifixion, Jesus had the Last Supper.

During the Last Supper, Jesus is seated with his 12 disciples. These disciplines (also known as apostles) are:

1. Simon (also known as Paul)

2. Andrew (Simon's brother)

3. James

4. John (Brother of James)

5. Philip

6. Bartholomew

7. Thomas

8. Matthew (the tax collector)

9. James

10. Thaddeus

11. Simon (the Canaanite)

12. Judas

Now back to the Last Supper. Jesus breaks bread and says "Take, eat, this is my body.” He then pours wine and says “Drink from it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you, I will never again drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.” These actions form the basis of the Holy Communion which is practiced globally every Sunday. I have performed it several times, both as a believer and non-believer. Have you?

Jesus then predicts that he will be betrayed, with some Gospels specifically fingering Judas. Matthew 26:23–25 states:

He answered, “The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me. The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born.” Judas, who betrayed him, said, “Surely not I, Rabbi?” He replied, “You have said so.”

Jesus also states that Peter will deny him three times, which Peter denies. However, before the sun rises, Peter will be proven a liar. In the Gospel of John, we also get an account of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples.

Following the feast, Jesus goes to Gethsemane Garden with his disciples. There, he prays to God, begging that he does not meet the terrible ordeal that is coming his way. In Matthew 26 we read:

And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.” And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, “So, could you not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.” And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. So, leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words again. Then he came to the disciples and said to them, “Sleep and take your rest later on. See, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 46 Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.”

It is one of my favorite verses in the Bible. You can feel the fear and tension building as Jesus begins to lose his cool and gets desperate. Despite this genuine fear, his faith does not falter and he continues with the mission.

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Quick notes from Holly!

I hear you baying: "But what about Richard Carrier!" Frick him. Richard Carrier is a quack and a charlatan and he is widely discredited by fellow historians and scholars. Stop listening to pop intellectuals.

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Judas arrives with an armed mob and kisses Jesus which identifies him to the mob who then take custody of him. Many scholars and Christians have asked why Judas had to identify Jesus - couldn't they simply recognize the famous Messiah who was recognized by regular citizens when he entered Jerusalem? I have no answers. Not all his disciples abandon him, and some attempt to fight the crowd, but Jesus insists that they let him be taken peacefully.

He is then taken to Pontius Pilate, and the crowds demand his crucifixion. This is when the real drama starts. The drama didn't just occur during the trial of Jesus, but continued until today, resulting in us having quite a skewed view of what occurred when Jesus was crucified.

Jesus is put on trial

Once Jesus was under arrest, the guards blindfolded him and then beat him while telling him to prophesy who hit him. He is then taken to Jewish court where he is questioned on his claims of being the son of God and the king of Jews. Luke 22 reads:

As soon as it was day, the council of the elders of the people met together, both the chief priests and experts in the law. They brought him into their Sanhedrin and said, “If you are the Christ, tell us.”

But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe, and if I ask you, you will not answer me or release me. But from now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

They all said, “Are you then the Son of God?”

He said to them, “I am what you are saying.”

Then they said, “Why do we need any more testimony? For we ourselves have heard it from his own mouth!”

After this point, we arrive at yet another contradiction in the Gospels. Some claim that Jesus was then taken to Caiaphas the high priest. However, John's Gospel claims Jesus was taken to Annas. Regardless, we know he was questioned by the priests regarding his blasphemous claims. Jesus didn't say much, perhaps knowing that nothing he said would change fate.

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Quick notes from Holly!

While Jesus was being beaten and questioned, there was also attention directed toward the followers of Jesus. Some remained loyal to him, including Simon who helped Jesus carry his cross.

Peter, on the other hand, deserted Jesus and denied him three times, just as the Lord had predicted. When he remembers the prophecy of his betrayal, he weeps. Jesus forgives him following his resurrection, but Peter's betrayal isn't what makes me uncomfortable about this story.

Instead, I'm vexed by the idea that one can prophesize the actions of another. Does Peter have any free will? Was he doomed to deny Jesus three times specifically? Was there any chance that Peter could do otherwise, or was it the unchangeable plan of God? I have no answers.

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The next morning, Jesus is taken to Pontius Pilate. Most readers probably believe that Pontius was a meek man who respected Jesus. He did not want to crucify Jesus, and in fact he famously “washed his hands” of the matter.

Well, that's not the whole story. There is no reason to believe that Pontius would be even vaguely against the idea of Jesus being killed. He was probably the one person who stood to gain the most from it. As we've previously discussed, Pontius was attempting to instill Roman rule over the Jews, and to have them recognize only Roman emperors as the highest authority. This was proving to be difficult due to the religiosity of the Jews, and brutality wasn't doing the trick. The more he disrespected the culture and religion of the Jews, the harder it became to control the population.

Hence, Pontius was in a position where he needed to get rid of Jesus without making it seem like he wanted to get rid of Jesus. It had to look like the people themselves wanted Jesus gone! The first step of this plan was to send Jesus to King Herod to be questioned. In doing so, he would gain favor with the King who he was enemies with, granting him greater political power. We learn this in Luke 23: 12

That day Herod and Pilate became friends—before this they had been enemies.

King Herod had wanted to see Jesus for a long time, not because he enjoyed his teachings, but because he wanted to know just who was brave enough to undermine his authority by claiming to be the Son of God. To discover that it was a mere bastard carpenter! Jesus did not answer King Herod's questions, and his soldiers mocked Jesus by putting a robe on him. This isn't just a random move. They were literally dressing him up as a king of Jews before he was to be crucified. This wouldn't be the death of just Jesus, but the death of all Messiahs.

Jesus was then returned to Pontius, who was ready with the next step of his plan. You see, it was Passover, and it was the tradition that the governor would free one prisoner during this time. So he appeared before the crowds and presented Jesus along with a prisoner named Barabbas. He then asks the crowd to choose who must be slaughtered.

This was a trick! Barabbas is referred to using a term that means “terrorist” or “rebel”. Barabbas was likely an individual rioting against Roman rule. The majority of the crowd would be sympathetic toward him! There was no choice here.

Secondly, Jesus was presented with a robe and he was called the king of Jews. If the Jews were spared, they would be saying: “Yes, our king is a beaten bastard.” Of course, they denounced him, he had been humiliated and condemned by even the priests! Pontius knew this. He wasn't giving them an option - he was merely creating a situation in which the crowd would be electing to kill Jesus, not him.

In John 19, we see how Pontius directs the crowds to Jesus' kinghood specifically, goading the Jews into demanding the murder of their own savior:

“Here is your king,” Pilate said to the Jews.

But they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!”

“Shall I crucify your king?” Pilate asked.

“We have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests answered.

Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.

A little later, we see the significance of the sign:

Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews. Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,' but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.”

Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

I'd argue that Pontius isn't as innocent as he is typically portrayed. He didn't wash his hands of the situation, and he wasn't pressured by the Jews. He made a deliberate political move, and he did it in such a way that it did not seem like he was acting against the will of the masses.

Thus Jesus was set to be crucified.

The crucifixion of Jesus Christ

It is believed that Jesus was crucified on a Roman cross. This would mean his arms were outstretched. Typically, he is depicted with nails driven through his hands, though it should be noted that this would not support the human body, and a nail would rip through the soft flesh of the hand unless he was also fastened with rope. A nail was also driven into his feet, one on top of the other.

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Quick notes from Holly!

The ordeal did not begin with the crucifixion, far from it. Jesus was first flogged with a scourge. This alone killed many prisoners before they could even be crucified. Following this, Jesus was made to carry his cross to Golgotha. It has been estimated that a cross could weigh up to 135kgs, which makes it nearly unbelievable to consider that a tortured man could carry such a weight all the way to Golgotha.

Jesus is unable to, and eventually, Simon does the heavy lifting.

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Jesus was placed between two Jewish criminals. In some versions of the Gospels, they jeer at Jesus with the crowd, while in other versions, one of the criminals repents. This marked the beginning of Jesus' ordeal on the cross.

There are seven sentences attributed to Jesus on the cross, and they're scattered throughout the four Gospels:

1. Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.

2. Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in paradise.

3. Woman, behold thy son! and Behold thy mother!

4. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

5. I thirst.

6. It is finished.

7. Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.

Jesus died relatively quickly (about six hours), and his legs did not have to be broken. To verify that he was dead, a soldier drove a sword into his side.

Thus Jesus died.

What were the mechanisms of Jesus' death?

So if you were a coroner, what would you claim is Jesus' cause of death? Well, he's had nails driven through his flesh, so many would assume blood loss, but that's not the case. In fact, he wouldn't have lost too much blood from the nails themselves. Most healthy adult males could survive that just fine for 6 hours. If he did die from blood loss, it would have been from the lashings he received prior primarily.

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Quick notes from Holly!

It was not like Jesus was unaware of the threat of crucifixion. Romans had frequently used crucifixion as a means to humiliate detractors and to strike fear into the masses. Crucifixions took place publicly, and they were designed for maximum pain and suffering. The bodies would then be left there for weeks and months until scavengers picked off the flesh and blood dried.

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Crucifixions on their own aren't particularly deadly. Yearly, folks voluntarily crucify themselves for six hours to experience the passion of Christ, and they are fine afterward, all things considered. If you were crucified as a healthy young male, it would take you days to die from exhaustion and thirst on a Roman crucifix, which is what happened to slaves who met that fate.

The most popular theory is that he died of asphyxiation. However, more recent research suggests that this wouldn't be the case with the Roman crucifixion. You can test this out for yourself. Stretch your arms out in a Y shape and breathe in. Now try again with your hands outstretched and held together above your head. You'll notice it is harder to inhale if your hands are above you.

I am of the opinion, as many modern scholars are, that Jesus' death was a combination of both blood loss from the scourging and exhaustion from being crucified. As Edwards and Hosmer summarize:

>Jesus of Nazareth underwent Jewish and Roman trials, was flogged, and was sentenced to death by crucifixion. The scourging produced deep stripelike lacerations and appreciable blood loss, and it probably set the stage for hypovolemic shock, as evidenced by the fact that Jesus was too weakened to carry the crossbar (patibulum) to Golgotha. At the site of crucifixion, his wrists were nailed to the patibulum and, after the patibulum was lifted onto the upright post (stipes), his feet were nailed to the stipes. The major pathophysiologic effect of crucifixion was an interference with normal respirations. Accordingly, death resulted primarily from hypovolemic shock and exhaustion asphyxia. Jesus' death was ensured by the thrust of a soldier's spear into his side. Modern medical interpretation of the historical evidence indicates that Jesus was dead when taken down from the cross.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3512867

Lastly, it should be noted that the nails used to crucify Jesus were likely reused on other people, as metal was very valuable at the time. They likely recycled Jesus's nails, as his clothes were also sold, as we learn in Matthew 27:35 -

When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots.

Consequently, we don't have too many relics of crucifixions in modern times, as the nails (and perhaps even wood) would have been recycled.

CONCLUSION

So that is the story of Jesus' death. There was plenty more drama that came. Women wept, saints rose from the dead, and darkness fell over the Earth (at least if you believe the supernatural claims of the Bible).

Of course, this isn't the whole story, and there are plenty of gaps that have been left. However, this should be sufficient content to help you wrap your head around this historical event. It should be clear at this point that I do believe that Jesus existed, and that he had a large following, and that he was crucified. I think the historical evidence is sufficient, and that claims to the contrary are often motivated by a desire to ridicule the Bible.

If you made it this far, thank you. These posts are my only means to communicate with the outer world. I get so lonely in my apartment that it feels like my heart is going to rip out of my chest. I don't know why I'm alive or what's the point of waking up every day when everybody hates you and you've been rejected. Emotions get too much, and I don't know what to do with myself. Then the blood flows.

Tune in next time when we FINALLY discuss Holly Willoughby's queuegate.

Greetings Dramatards,

about 2 weeks there was a lot of excitement during the Rugby World Cup, when RSA managed to squeeze out a win with exactly 1 point for 3 fricking consecutive times!

But that's irrelevant, what is relevant to us is the Dramarama which occurred in the meantime.

Today we will talk about some RACISM DRAMA when during the Semi-Finals (i think 22 October? ) when RSA faced off against Engerland in the 3rd Anglo-Boer war of 2023.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/oct/22/tom-curry-accuses-south-africa-hooker-bongi-mbonambi-of-using-racial-slur

Basically a b-word mayo complained that the black giga-chad kang player Bongi Mbonambi, used a racial slur against him in the match during an altercation when the ball was being manhandled in the typical chaos when men beat each other up in the desperate hunt for the egg

Basically the pansy Tom "Turbo Cuck" Curry, moaned that Bongi had called him a "wit kant" or a "white c*nt" during the scuffle, and this made him very upset and hurt his feefees

Now unlike the plebe sport of soccer, where a lot of douchebags fake their injuries and racial slurs are a bit more common, the Rugby Union International organization very super serial seriously, so stuff like this can make news.

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Curry can clearly be heard on a recording via O'Keeffe's microphone making the allegation of a racist slur to the official in the 28th minute of the match. He said: “Sir, sir , if their hooker calls me a white c*nt what do I do?” The New Zealander responded by saying: “Nothing please.” He goes on to add, after a short pause: “I'll be on it,” though it is unclear if he is referring to the specific incident. There is no audio available of the alleged comment by Mbonambi.

Curry was visibly shaken after the match.

When asked if something was said to him by Mbonambi, he said: “Yeah.” Pressed on what had been said, he declined to say but asked if the matter had been resolved at the end of the match – Curry appeared to go to shake hands with Mbonambi but the South African seemed to push his hand away – he added: “No. It doesn't need to be talked about. I'm not talking about it now.”

SA Rugby soon issued a statement, however. “We are aware of the allegation, which we take very seriously, and are reviewing the available evidence,” it read. “We will engage with Bongi if anything is found to substantiate the claim.”

The Springboks clinched victory with a 78th-minute penalty by Handré Pollard and at the full-time whistle one of a number of flare-ups between the two sides ensued. The England captain, Owen Farrell, clashed with South Africa's Willie le Roux but afterwards attempted to play down the incident, insisting it was just a “misunderstanding”.

If Mbonambi faces disciplinary action he could be handed a suspension in line with law 9.12 which states a player must not verbally abuse anyone. World Rugby regulations prohibit abuse based on, but not limited to “religion, colour, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation”. World Rugby could also intervene on the grounds of “bringing the game into disrepute”.

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LOST IN TRANSLATION:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/oct/24/was-an-afrikaans-rugby-term-used-by-bongi-mbonambi-lost-in-translation

So the moment this came out we aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll knew the Bongoloid was completely full of shit, and making mountains out of morehills.

You see black people in South Africa do not often use english slurs or curse words at alllllllllll. They much more often use Afrikaans slurs and curses, as the Afrikaners had had such a more profound effect on their lexicon. The very english word c*nt isn't used very much normally at all, especially by black peeps here. If someone here wants to call someone a c*nt - they'll use the afrikaans variant "Poes"

Additionally, all rugby players communicate in afrikaans during play and can speak it reasonably fluently , including all the black and coloured players whom all were usually influenced by afrikaans dominated rugby institutions and schools. This has had the added benefit that few people on earth can speak or understand afrikaans, meaning their have inbuilt secret code which the opposition can't understand, which can be very useful in certain plays if the opponents cannot understand you, like often throwing in the rugby ball from the side into liners.

Additionally, "kant" which is pronounced very much the same as "c*nt" means side, and as you can imagine is used very often in a sport where communicating direction between players is important. Bongi very likely said something along the lines "left side, right side, back side" to indicate to his fellow players where to receive a passing ball, and our r-slurred bongroid interpreted it in the noise as "%&*& C*NT"

Additionally there are white lines on the sides of a rugby field, which also likely could have been what Bongi had referred to.

https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-mbonambi-rugby-world-cup-1390e406c1ba87935342fc9f1f7c382a

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-12721675/South-Africa-star-Bongi-Mbonambi-denies-racial-slur-Tom-Curry-World-Cup-hooker-claims-speaking-Afrikaans-slams-England-unprofessional.html

Rdrama.net is, for many of us, a very special place that is unlike the rest of the Internet. It has the soul of the old web, and it's own brand of humor that can't be found anywhere else. The site's main jannie, Carp, is genuinely hilarious and adored by the community. Despite the constant shit flinging and sneeding, there is a deep feeling of unseriousness here that is refreshing in a world that takes itself too seriously.

This article is not about this gay butt site, however, it's about another site that took the internet by storm in the early 2000s and was the genesis of many extant aspects of Internet culture. It's the story of the man who made it possible, and how his internet fame ruined him.

In November of 1999, a man by the name of Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, a dropout from Vanderbilt University, would get fired from his job as a quake gaming journo for making fun of an old r-slurred coworker of his. With his newfound free time, he would begin to write articles and publish them on his fancy new website,

SomethingAwful.com.

SA began as a sort of ripoff of Maddox's "best page in the universe" with edgelord articles being posted nearly daily to the front page. SA had a forum where readers could comment on the articles, and it quickly drew a large following of the early denizens of the Internet, which were mostly neckbeards and edgelords. In a few short years, the forum had become more popular than the front page, with a very active community of "goons" that would create content in the forums that would feature on the front page. In 2002, Rich began charging users a $10 fee to access the forums, and the users obliged, as the fee deterred trolls and stupid children from pooping up the site. You also had to pay 5 bucks for a profile pic, but you could anonymously spend 5 bucks to change another users pfp as well, which was funny. Lowtax also banned l33tsp33k on the forums and required people to write in complete sentences.

The community became a massive success, and eventually grew to over 100,000 users. Memes, raids, "let's play" videos, and even 4chan were born from SA. Lowtax was making six figures just off of registration fees, and at this point, was still in his 20s. He had money, time, and a massive community that loved him. What could a man with so much potential do next?

Lowtax decided to start banging the female users of the site, known as "Goonnettes." In 2005, he got one of them pregnant and got married to her shotgun wedding style.

In 2006, Lowtax would have a year that would begin the downward slope of his life. Two major events would change his relationship with the site.

In March, Lowtax posted a thread to "General Bullshit," SA's general discussion board, talking about a particular brand of juice that he liked. It was a brand of "Mangosteen" juice (A mangosteen is a small purple fruit from southeast Asian btw). The users quickly realized that this was an affiliate marketing link and teased Lowtax, who reacted by throwing a temper tantrum, calling everyone cute twinks, and then deleting the post and banning everyone that made fun of him. This really soured many users of the site to Lowtax, who before this time was seen as a lovable goofy site admin.

Things got worse later that year when Lowtax would publicly accused a shitty movie director named Uwe Boll of being a child molester. Uwe had been organizing an event to box the critics of his shitty movies, and asked Lowtax if he wanted to box him. Lowtax agreed, and the two would meet in September of that year, in a shitty events center in Vancouver. Lowtax would get his butt kicked in this event, which would stream to 7000 viewers (which was unheard of in 2006. he would then sneed in the parking lot after the event in a post fight interview.

Between this incident and the Mangosteen debacle, Lowtax would post much more infrequently to the site, as he wasn't really able to live those two things down. He would begin renting a shitty strip mall office, which would be the HQ for SA. He supposedly rented the space to run the site, write articles, and make content with animator and best friend, Shmorky. Usually though, Lowtax would mostly go there to get high and stay away from his wife, who now had two children with him.

Lowtax's wife was devoutly religious, whereas lowtax was a neckbeard atheist. As Lowtax spent less time with the family, his wife would begin teaching Sunday school, much to the chagrin of Lowtax. The two would fight about religion, Lowtax's lack of doing anything other than being a drunk r-slur, and the tension would culminate in a physical altercation in 2010. At this point, his first wife would file for divorce.

The site itself, SA, was beginning to lose it's relevancy as other platforms rose in popularity. The company that went on to buy reddit offered Lowtax 14 million for the site in 2007, but he turned it down, as this site was his life's work and the community were HIS people, right?

Back on SA, the makeup of the community had begun to shift dramatically. Starting in 2008, a Kenyan man named Barack Hussien Obama ran for president against crippled war hero John McCain. The goons that supported McCain decided to wager their accounts on the election results, and after McCain lost, many of the goons that supported him (chuds) were banned from the site and never returned.

Then in 2010, a game called Dangan Ranpa released. It's an anime game about murdering teenage girls, so naturally, it was a smash hit with the s on tumblr. SA was one of the first places on the web to feature "let's play" videos. Lowtax was pissed that these tumblrites were watching his premium SA content for free, and put the "let's plays" behind a paywall. Tumblrinas needed to buy a forum membership to view the "let's plays," and many of them promptly did and never left. The word "" comes from the words and goon, and originated on SA. There was also a dedicated politics board called "Laissez Faire," but the users from this board would brigade other boards (especially the chud board, "FRICK YOU AND DIE," or FYAD), so Lowtax decided to delete the Laissez Faire which was essentially a leftist containment board) and thus, a somewhat apolitical forum culture was permeated with a leftist political slant that continues to this day.

As for Lowtax, he wasn't doing so good. He had started a shitty gaming channel called "gaming garbage" that never took off. By 2014, registration fees had dropped significantly and would not recover. His site was still running on 2002 era software, and he was too fricked up all the time to really address any issues with it. Also in 2014, Lowtax fired Shmorky, as he was starting to trans out and was doing shit like wearing a cape and a yarn wig and speaking with an extremely creepy high pitched voice. He had a schizo gf as well, and posted a video of her having an actual schizoid attack to SA, which caused the community to disown him.

In 2016, Shmorky was outed as a diaper furry scat fetishist p-dophile (really) and disappeared from the internet forever (people think he killed himself). Lowtax was beset with anger, as he had allowed Shmorky, a man who was once his best friend and someone he trusted, around his children. He took to the SA forums to talk shit about Shmorky, as he needed the cathartic release of bullying this wierdo, but the users mostly defended Shmorky because he is "non-binary" and if someone is LGBTQIAA+, cannot be made fun of even for being a sick frick.

Lowtax had realized that he had lost the community that he cared about. These new users were gay r-slurs and not cool and all the real neighbors left long ago. At this point, Lowtax decided to make a change and fix the site, but the rot was so deep it couldn't be cut out at this point. He did weird shit like segregate all the black users to a board called "negrotown." (Lmao)

In 2016, Lowtax would go to Canada to frick another goonnette. While there, he would meet Ashli, his soon to be second ex-wife. He flew her back to his hometown in Missouri and the two would be wed shortly thereafter. Lowtax wouldn't bother to complete her residency paperwork, making Ashli technically an illegal immigrant.

Ashli was not a goon, but she believed in Lowtax and though SA could be great again. He made her a mod, which pissed off the other mods, but the users seemed to actually like Ashli. She recommended that Lowtax make a patreon to raise money for SA. He already had one, so he marketed it on the forum and was began making like $15k a month from his paypigs (who could give a shit about Lowtax but like using the site.) She really wanted to light a fire under Lowtax's butt, but much like his first wife, found herself caring for a lazy, drug addicted manchild who spent his time and money on dumb shit, like rented sports cars and luxury cakes. He chose to bask in the success of his youth, which had already faded, and a rift began to grow between the two. In 2019, Lowtax would take a "business trip" to frick a 25 year old BPD slut for a month. He would leave his wife and child in the midwest, with no money or car, in the middle of the coldest time of year. When he returned, his house was empty, as Ashli had escaped to a woman's shelter with the help of Lowtax's first wife. Lowtax made an angry facebook post accusing his soon to be ex-wife of kidnapping their child, further drawing the ire from his community. His eldest daughter contacted him asking him what his problem was, with Lowtax telling his teenage daughter to go frick herself. This would be the last time they spoke.

The slut Lowtax hooked up with was a piece of LA BPD trash named Logan Day. She and Lowtax tried to claim repeatedly that their relationship was strictly professional, but the users of SA knew this was bullshit.

His patreon was bleeding about $1000 a month until he got down to about $7000. Later that year, in july, Logan would accuse Lowtax of hitting her in a strange Facebook post, and by that time, his community was done with him. His patreon collapsed in a matter of days, and he was left with only a couple hundred a month. With mounting legal depth and no more future income, Lowtax had to make a very painful decision. Below is a picture of his patreon:

In late 2020, Lowtax would sell the site to some twink named Jeffrey of YOSPOS, who was supposedly a crypto millionaire. He got about 400,000 for the site, a bit less than the 14 million he was offered earlier in 2007. Jeffrey would then auction the right to ban Lowtax to a lucky user, and Lowtax, shortly after selling the site, would be banned from his own forums, never to return.

At this point, Lowtax had almost no money, no income, and was in a legal dispute that was costing him thousands. He had lost most of his friends and his family. It was now 2021, and Lowtax was 45 years old with no assets, skills, and with poor health. He turned to doing streams on gaming garbage, his dogshit youtube channel, which would only attract around 12 or so viewers, and he would show up on stream fricked up and incoherent. He did streams where he would eat meat sticks for money, barely making more than a couple hundred at most.

Below was his last stream, Nov 6th, 2021

On November 7th, 2021, the judge in Lowtax's court case against his ex decided the following:

-Lowtax had deliberately spent the 400,000 in 14 months in order to not pay it to Ashli

-Lowtax had physically, emotionally and verbally abused Ashli

-Lowtax had failed to pay the Guardian ad Litem (this is sometimes required in a custody battle, where the child has to essentially be cared for by the court. The guardian ad litem in this case was named Dana Outlaw, which is a cool name)

-Lowtax told Ashli ahead of time that he was going to move Logan in to the house and expected her to "be OK with that."

-Lowtax was ordered to pay Ashli a lump sum of $92,000 (which had been seized by restraining order so Lowtax couldn't spend that too)

-Lowtax was also ordered to pay Ashli $6,500 a month in spousal support for 2.5 years

Two days later, on November 9th, 2021, Lowtax would shoot himself.

His death was announced to the users at SA by Kevin "Fragmaster" Bowen, a longtime admin and best friend of Lowtax. His forum mostly dunked on him, and he is remembered for being a colossal piece of shit who stumbled into greatness and squandered it all away.

His family was left with basically nothing. He blew everything on games, luxury $70 pies on goldbelly.com (which is like etsy for baked goods) and rented sports cars. He also spent tens of thousands on mobile games. He also rented his house and had no assets other than something awful, which he had already squandered the proceeds of.

These days, most people don't know who Lowtax is. The only people who currently discuss him are on kiwifarms, and its just to sneed at how much of a piece of shit he was. He really was, too. He left three children and two mothers without a father, and was buried by his mother who was dying of leukemia, and passed away about 4 months after Lowtax did. His oldest daughter Lauren was especially haunted by his death.

He was once seen as a figurehead of internet culture back when it was niche, and nerdy, and kind of a counterculture.

SA is now a dead mall of the internet, with a front page that hasn't been updated in three years.

If you've made it this far, thank you so much for reading this. Today is the 2nd anniversary of Lowtax's death and I wanted to say that I love this site (rdrama) because it reminds me of the spirit of early Something Awful.

The Marvels embargo finally lifted, so it's time for another BOT harvest There were two embargos, first a social media one (random fanboys who are always as positive as possible) and the actual critics one that lifted a day after. This part is about social media reviews since the post was too big, I'll comb through the rest of the thread in a few hours.

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There are some reviews on letterboxd. Most people are surprised by how much they liked it

This was before the social media embargo fully lifted and people were still optimistic here

This adds a new wrinkle onto the ongoing meltdown situation. Maybe we can expect good legs from the positive reception. Unless they're fake.

They're all from me. I have so many emails right now. 😬

Marvel shill number three, notice the smugness.

Idk what lettrboxd does for curation, if any, but it does seem more credible than say IMDB which is basically a madhouse

Since our friend Zatt has stopped posting after complaining about my 'hit piece', we are left with this guy as the main Marvel shill, and a small army of second hand soyshitters like the guy above

Really want the reviews to be positive for Brie and Nia. Especially Brie coz that poor woman needs to be validated after the last 5 years of absolute shit that IncelTube has given her.

She doesn't deserve “validation” if she turned in another dull as dishwater performance though. Why do we just ignore that the first was massively successful for reasons that really had nothing to do with her? She already has gotten insanely lucky in reality with this franchise (the Internet is not reality). I'm just tired of the narrative that the toxic online discourse pertains to the GA at large. The vast majority of people who saw the first and are rejecting this one are doing so for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with the toxic online backlash.

Even BOT is smelling the blood in the water at this point

I equally don't think anyone should feel sorry for DaCosta. She chose to go into the MCU machine for a paycheck, despite numerous examples of "movie making by execs, not by directors". She could have walked at any point over "creative differences". She seems quite content with this assignment strictly for the money. I still don't think the reviews will be terrible, more middling, and the floppage will be attributed to overall brand fatigue, strikes, etc. DaCosta will be available fine in any case.

(simp nr. 1. I feel like it would be pretty darn hard for an up and coming young female ethnic minority director to just say “no” point blank to an opportunity like MCU. She could have gotten herself in hot water for getting future good opps turning down something like that as a relative “nobody”. So I'm willing to cut her more slack, even if she did go in knowing she was just a part of a machine and wouldn't have much creative control. Or even if she did have much creative control and is the reason the movie might not be very good.

(simp nr. 2. (also ) Do you realize how hard it would be to pass on a chance to direct an MCU movie? Up until now it was a pretty safe bet. Even if you won't do another one, an MCU movie will put your name out there and if the movie is successful (like the vast majority of MCU movies) then it will open a lot of doors for you. So I think saying "she chose this" is pretty harsh. Also, she couldn't walk away "at any point". You might think you're on the same page with everyone but things can change during filming and post-production. Now she'll be forever connected to the worst bomb in the most successful movie franchise.

No, black women have no agency and can't be criticised ever

I really don't see many doors opening for up-and-comers that do these sorts of movies. It's usually directors that have other credits or well-developed upcoming projects that come out alright. The proper inexperienced ones end up chewed out and spat out, whether it's Marvel, DC, Star Wars or whatever. It's very much a financial decision and - like any adult that chooses to invest in something or take a job - it's 100% on her. You're making it sound like she was strong-armed or something. Give me a break. She'll be fine anyway but this handwringing is over the top even if she did get thrown under the bus. You can't be all "yas queen, I love you, you're so strong and powerful" and at the same time "oh no, poor woman HAD to say yes or she'd be blacklisted".

I think people saw that one quote from DaCosta where she said "this is a Kevin Feige production" and took it as something much bigger than it actually was. She's also said multiple times that she felt she had a lot of freedom in the production, and that she felt they were very supportive of her vision. The Narrative that this is "movie making by execs" is basically just a fan theory.

This guy accidentally threw DaCosta under the bus in his haste to defend Papa Feige

I noticed TV shows never get as many IMDB ratings as Movies. Makes me think movies always get more wider audiences then tv shows.

Yeah, no shit

Me, logging on for the first time today. ”I wonder how the forum is doing. Oh, there's 60+ new comments in ‘The Marvels' thread. How fun, I'm sure none of these are ridiculous, redundant or off topic!”

Well I wasn't necessarily thinking about box office so much as how much people were into those characters. I feel like nobody liked Thor until Ragnarök.

Now he's throwing former Marvel movies under the bus in desperation

(some critic) "You best get yourself some tickets before the social media embargo lifts at 12am est and there's a rush"

I smell sweet victory.

it's coming. vindication

Oh, it's coming all right

This is completely unexpected, she's been hating this movie on her channel since day one

If you aren't familiar with Graces channel: she was absolutely not biased towards this movie in any of her coverage.

Come on let's not get our hopes up because of Grace Fing Randolph and a cryptic tweet.

When even other Marvel fans are telling you to calm down

Well all we have to go by are these responses, and so far theyve been positive. Including one from someone who's consistently been on the same track as critics saying it's good, and someone who's been very, very, very negative about the movie leading up to now indicating she liked it a lot as well. Obviously a small sample size, and could easily swing the other way, but this is what we have so far.

(some other 'critic') We just saw #TheMarvels - full review tomorrow, but it's one of the most surprising movies of the year, bringing fresh air to the MCU, as well as some jaw dropping moments that will have audiences screaming. Don't sleep on this movie! - Connor Webber/Attractions Magazine

This just keeps happening. It's not Just Grace. It's all over the place. And, idk why you say grace wasn't hating on the movie. I'm a big Grace Randolph enjoyer, and I've kept up with everything she's said about The Marvels. She is mostly critical. Been throwing doubt on it for a while now.

And this is the point where the social media embargo lifted.

alright. Time to rewatch Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, and WandaVision.

Even as a potential joke this is

Okay. Honest opinion time: #TheMarvels is a great movie. You don't even notice that it's only 105 minutes long. Nia did an amazing job. The fight scenes are literally out of this world. Choreography on point!! And the end credits scene… I screamed. Go watch it. I'm serious

NO CAP…Tain, 😏 the #TheMarvels isn't the train wreck the media has been pushing it to be. Sure, the story can be uneven at times & the villain isn't memorable but #MsMarvel and #MonicaRambeau carried this film and also made #CaptainMarvel a more interesting. This is better

The Marvels reviews are pouring in on Letterbox and they're phenomenal make sure you get your tickets for #TheMarvels while you still have a chance #CaptainMarvel #MsMarvel

Lemme hear y'all haters now lmaooo #themarvels in Theaters this FRIDAY!

I'm glad other fans enjoyed #TheMarvels as well. I hope people gave it a chance before hating on it for no reasons. Easy top 5 mcu film! Anyways, I'm on my way to watch it for the 2nd time w/ family. Go get your tickets now! I'm dead serious.

#TheMarvels    is a solidly fun and entertaining time at the movies. The chemistry between Carol, Monica and Kamala is the best dynamic of the movie. There are some inventive action sequences and Iman Vellani steals the show. That ending and mid credit scene are 🤯

I'm happy to report #TheMarvels is really good!! Iman Vellani is sooo much fun as Kamala Khan she absolutely kills the role even more then she did before. Brie Larson actually get much more to do this time around and show off her vast range of acting abilities! The runtime is perfectly fine to go along with Nia DaCosta's directing everyone involved did a tremendous job. AND OMG THAT POST CREDIT SCENE!!!! #TheMarvels #Marvel #MCU

Just watched #TheMarvels, and it was an absolute BLAST thanks to an unbeatable trio and flerken fun! Oh, and that mid-credit scene!! 😳MarvelStudios Alright, #THEMARVELS is fantastic, Nia DaCosta needs all the praise. The story is heartwarming, but just in general, this movie is so darn good. Review for houstonstyle soon come 🫡

I am still not seeing any negativity. Just going through the Hashtag

These are all randos on twitter and this guy is already creaming himself (I didn't wanted to include the actual reviews at first but the longer it got the funnier it become) He keeps going on by the way

I'd be immensely surprised if this ends up fresh, especially since no big critics even weighed in yet. We'll see!

Cause big critics respect embargos lol. These dudes are desperate

As always I will wait for the actual reviews with Marvel/comic book movies in general.

BvS flashbacks

The veterans are already circling

posts some more reviews

First one is ironic

Almost all of these are random people and the F-word [fantastic] is used by all of them. Yeah, I'm waiting for actual critic reactions before making judgment. They should be up in 40 or so minutes from now.

40 minutes, some people are breaking the embargo

We're getting closer

are we getting psy-oped?

Yes

"#TheMarvels is a fusion of light, color, and sound. Action scenes are accentuated with rumbling bass if the theater is so-equipped. DO NOT LEAVE BEFORE THE CREDITS END, make sure to stay seated and appreciate everyone who made the movie."

one of the weirdest reviews i've ever read seems like everyone decided to put on their kid gloves tonight

What's weird about it? Sounds like it was a beautiful visually stunning experience for them.

Stunning and brave

Reading a few of them, they seem pretty lukewarm. Ouch. At least they're not as bad as Quantumania I guess. It'll probably end up in the Love and Thunder range. Which is basically a kiss of death in today's landscape.

Honestly, didn't read the actual critics yet but reaction from these influencers etc (that counts for RT anyway) are actually pretty good. I didn't find that sense of blase that was all over Quantumania reactions at least until now. And it seems like the “expecting nothing” vibe kinda help it, lots of people saying they expect something bad and get a very entertaining thing

I'm not seeing where the sense of a 70-79 (RT score) is coming from. I'm still only seeing positive. Even the person. Who said it was "objectively trash" said they liked it. (Personally I hate when people call something they like "objectively bad". It's dumb)

Didn't people immediately start talking about how bad Love and Thunder was? This sounds like a decent film that just about everyone enjoys. To get in the 70s on RT, you have to make a sizable portion of the audience not enjoy the film

I wouldn't say lukewarm. Quantumania was for sure lukewarm. The Marvels is more "its surprisingly fun" and reactions seems to be skewing positive. Let's see how other people reacted once more tweets start to pop up.

A disappointing opening seems like foregone conclusion at this point but if reviews/WOM are positive then there's no reason why it can't find staying power over the holidays, especially when it's going to be around until mid-December looking at the schedule and this being one of the lightest holiday slates in (2020 aside) years with no Star Wars/Spider-Man/Avatar-style titans anywhere in sight.

Yeah these reactions are basically " went in with low expectations, but found it enjoyable ,not top tier marvel or anything". Thinking 60s RT . Villian is meh and plot is meb but fun. It's middle of the road MCU is what I'm getting.

Sounds like Love and Thunder. Heck these reactions are less enthusiastic than they were for L & T

Aaaand hope effectively ended

idk people on reddit are doomposting and expecting a rotten score...Maybe we are missing something? A fresh score may not be a given

Idk if it's been posted here yet but they're saying audience scores in Korea are lower than Ant Man 3

2.5⭐- Hong Kong

LMAO

I don't doubt this but given South Korea's issues of misogyny, hard to take at face value

Fitting comment for a guy with a Will Smith avatar

Captain Marvel got a 91% on CGV while Black Widow has a 96%.

No, South Korea is just as misogynistic as the arabs

Honestly? Feels like Thor 4. There are people genuinely loving it, but a considerable amount that thinks is a mess but not a complete disaster. Yeah, i think it'll be fresh on RT even if barely and in it's 50's in MC. I mean, it could be worse, really don't know why Marvel treat it like some Fantastic Four (2016)

This is feeling like a 60s or 70s. Not enough to really move the needle. Giving me Flash reviews vibes honestly.

Personally I feel like I'm interpreting higher levels of positivity. Like this review using language like "expertly" feels really strong to me. Or this one calling it a "breath of fresh air" implying it's better than recent MCU films

To be fair to BOT users, they are slowly adjusting their opinions as more reviews drop, aside from the newest Marvel champion of course.

Also an interesting thing i noticed: female posts seems more happy than the male ones

SHOCKING 🤗

To bad women aren't actually watching the film then

"Really dug #TheMarvels. Not perfect, but a breezy 1 hr & 45 full of laughs (courtesy of Kamala + her fam) and clever action sequences boosted by the film's body swapping. Iman Vellani is the MVP. The film does an excellent job setting Ms. Marvel up as the MCU's next leader."

That's actually wild, all this Ms marvel love considering people in here were just talking about how nobody cares about her

Within the last few years Ms.Marvel will have been the star of: A massive failure of an Avengers game that bombed, The least watched MCU show, And now what looks to be the biggest bomb of the MCU

Truly the leader Marvel deserves from here on, I hope they keep her

Putting this on Ms. Marvel is ridiculous when she was barely featured in those trailers.

Yeah, it's probably a coincidence that everything else involving her bombed

This is just not true unless you stopped paying attention after 1 single trailer. Other than that original E3 trailer she is featured heavily in the trailers

Ms. Marvel was the least of that game's problems and you know it. What was even the point of bringing it up.

What's the point of a poster lying about Ms. Marvel being featured in trailers and you giving it a thumbs up? https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/22/why-kamala-khan-was-chosen-for-marvels-avengers-protagonist-role It was well known she was the main character. I can post lots of trailers and articles easily disproving that lie. She was the lead character of a game that lost the publisher over $100M. She had her own TV show that barely anyone watched. And now she's a co-lead of what is going to be a bomb. At a certain point you have to call a spade a spade. People aren't interested in the character in a mainstream sense. It is what it is. If Marvel wants to keep pushing the character that's fine but it'll likely result in people tuning out, as evidenced by a game, a TV show and now a movie. I was merely listing examples to back this up, nothing more, nothing less.

Franky I'm surprised to hear the game bombed, someone on reddit told me it was a huge success and one of the best Marvel games out there, whatever that means

The E3 trailer that pretty much everyone blames for killing interest in the game? Come on dude, you know what you're doing.

And what am I doing?

An obvious dogwhistle which you're not very good at masking.

Yeah no need to continue this conversation when you need to jump to pathetic things like that accusation because some comic book media you like got criticized. You lied, I called you out on it and now you resort to that. Sad stuff.

There's literally no reason why you'd bring up a game she was far from the main focus of in the marketing as the 'reason it failed' unless you had an ulterior motive. If you've paid attention to my posts, at all, I've been far from defending the MCU. You're just being pathetically petulant because someone refused to humor you.

You're arguing in bad faith!

"I went in hoping it wouldn't be TOO bad"

"It's not for everyone but low expectations can help"

Banger quotes.

RED FLAG

Overall it definitely seems like the movie is definitely not the unwatchable wreck so many anticipated.

some critic posted a rotten review despite the critic embargo still being up

STOP THE COUNT

This is the 'banger quotes' guy and he's been pooping on the movie from the first pages of the thread.

After reading some reactions from some reactor channels I know, I'm thinking this gets a Rotten Tomato. They're saying they wished they had taken the free alcohol option during their screenings. Shit, I wouldn't be surprised if this goes below Morbius at this point.

Wait…the free alcohol in that other post wasn't a joke?

“The film was fine. Everything about it was terrrible” God I'd love to grift as a reaction junkie.

Don't let your dreams be dreams

Still early but The Marvels has a 3.3 on Letterboxd right now which isn't a great starting score for it.

But posted some screenshots of 9 and 10 letterbox reviews earlier in the thread, are you telling me they were all just paid shills?

I don't take anything from that because the general public largely has not seen this movie.

Letterboxd is international and it's out internationally. Going by the numbers, that lines up.

Rekt

To be honest these reactions are actually more positive overall than I recall the Captain Marvel ones being, which were a lot more muted. Though of course there are times where the actual reviews have a very different take than the early reactions, but so far the consensus is a fun but kinda messy in some parts romp.

At this point they're even throwing Captain Marvel under the bus

That right there is a problem. If a frickin family is the best thing about a SH movie than wires crossed somewhere. It should be dynamic between SHs or SH and the villain not some side family or cats unless cats are the protagonists. Anyway, main takeaway, reactions are standard bland passing grade gibberish (lots of fun, lots of heart, I went in with low expectations but was pleasently surprised, please stay for post credits cause they make the whole thing important, most hyperventilating character is the MVP, script problems and weak villain but charm did I tell you about charm). Nothing new. All the buzzwords that mean the movie's totally mid without saying it's totally mid.

At least they aren't saying the movie is boring.

yeah nothing is more darning than boring. And at only 105 min it really would need a miracle to be.

This guy is a and he's duking is out with the best of them

Kamala has a strong fan base but thats not translated into viewers.

Yeah, twitter 'nerds' who would never be caught dead buying an actual comic book

Social media reactions are just terrible to me. Remain unconvinced they drive anything towards the film

I don't think the arguments ever been that social media reactions drive tickets, it's that they're a strong bellwether to the films reviews, and those do drive tickets.

Good reactions and reviews are not and won't be any suprise. Just like with the first one.

Good reviews would have been a miracle at this point...

they didn't really do a good job forcing that phrase/tag line. It's so awkward while “Wakanda forever” feels so much more smooth.

Yeah I don't think the tagline caught on at all.

Tagline is Higher. Faster. Further. Together. And it's not true that it never caught on, it caught on very well on the boxoffice subbredit who has been very busy mocking it to heck and back for the past few weeks

The overwhelming consensus so far seems to be "fun but flawed": not as great as Guardians, but not Quantumania. It sounds like a lot of people went in expecting something awful but ended up having a good time.

He just keeps repeating the same thing over and over, who knows maybe it will come true eventually?

So many “it sucks but thumbs up reactions”

Can't wait to see them put the"it's terrible but it works" quote in the "accolades" tv spot.

Seems a lot of folks want to treat Disney/Marvel with the cushiest pair of kid gloves they can find.

As usual, critics are protecting Disney movies as much as they can

French reviews are horrible, 2.6/5 on Allocine and still early so it can drop and match Quantumania's 2.3/5. French audience reception also horrible, similar to a C cinemascore. Korean audience reception horrible and worse than Quantumania

Not that this will save the movie

For context, a C cinemascore would be truly disastrous, and I don't think any Marvel movie managed that. For a blockbuster anything below a -A is bad.

I don't think the idea of "Marvel Bias" holds up after Eternals, Quantumania, and Secret Invasion. I think it's just Occam's razor; the reason they say the movie is enjoyable but messy in parts is because...that's how they feel about the movie. Maybe you could make the case that the negative coverage lowered expectations going in, but there's a clear consensus across these reactions.

No, critics were never overly kind towards the Mouse, all those stellar reviews were fully earned

2 negative reviews on RT now.

You'd think Disney would be powerful enough to hold some of these reviews back until the embargo lifts... Also why is RT allowing this before the embargo lmao

I mean it lifts in half an hour, it's not that ridiculous a few got in early.

So many comments and only 10 minutes passed

Does it? By my count we're still 3.5 hours away from reviews dropping (9 AM PT).

Some might actually be on drugs already, or just drunk

Oh SHOOT, i forgot i'm in a different timezone... I really thought we had a few hours left...

There are no brakes on The Marvels train

My bad, I misread it as 9 est and not 9 Pt

You were correct, actually. Embargo lifts 9AM PT/12PM ET)

Plot twist!

I know people on here were clearly rooting for a Morbius type routing, but based on these reactions so far that just doesn't seem likely. It's more middle of the road to generally positive.

I don't think any reasonable person expected Morbius level reviews (one of the worst-reviewd comic book movies ever). But it will still likely end up rotten.

Hey Guys :) I am new hear as a member. Silently reading along for a while now. I just decided to contribute here. So I am from Germany and the reviews for the Marvels are pretty good. Like not masterpiece good but good. I checked newspapers and youtube reviewers and 95% of them gave a score that would translate into a fresh score at rotten tomatos. I know they won't contribute to that score, germans do not post on RT but to my surprise most people like it here. Will it help overcome the terrible presales here in germany ? Maybe not but it seems interesting to me. France for instance killing this movie 😵

Further proof that krauts aren't human

Get ready, this will be one for the ages. John Carter's record as the biggest bomb of all time may, after eleven years, finally go down.

I think John Carter was unofficially dethroned by the latest Indiana Jones and even The Marvels will struggle to go lower than that, since Indy had a huge budget. Notice how the biggest flops ever are all Disney movies...

“a ton of fun and I can't wait to see it again!”

……………. 7/10

yup, we're in for one of those RT runs.

Gotta give it a fresh review to keep the woke credits!

Can't get over that “just go in with low expectations!” Tweet

I can't get over that “they gave us alcohol” Tweet

4th review on RT, ant the 3rd rotten one

RELEASE THE HOUNDS!

At this point we can consider the critics embargo lifted, it's not like they care about it

someone started the 'Ms Marvel was never a successful character' discussion again

Iman Vellani wasn't even involved with the game...? A lot of people fully taking their masks off right now. Yikes.

Yikesorino!

The stans overreacting and declaring victory based on the first flood of reactions from the Funko accounts was the climax this thread needed and deserved.

Back when the hope was still fresh and feelings could still be validated

I think this is like Major getting a lot of praise for Ant Man. Its just the only nice thing they have to say about the film.

Not really though. It's just the most common one across everything, but the general reception, so far, is that it's a messy fun romp.

Should be interesting if messy fun romp ends up around the lower 40s or higher 60s on RT. Will critics be generous with their scores?

Well I can only go off of what I've seen so far, not hypothetical ones, but from what I've seen the critics that usually follow the bellwether of critical consensus are mostly positive.

He says this while there are 4 rotten revies and a single positive one

Paris numbers are lower then morbius

I'm sure whatever's about to happen in the next five minutes on this board will be met by a totally reasonable response and not a bunch of trolling bullshit.

It's like watching the countdown at a New Year party

It's time

Critics embargo officially lifted

There are nearly 30 pages left past this point, so you know they've been busy. Tune in for the next episode

Also, Aevann I broke the character limit again, had to break my post in multiple parts when I reached a 49.996 count

Greetings Dramatards

I have to do a contours job this Monday, and i told boss I know how from the Software course I took earlier this year, but it's been 7 months and I forgot everything. I'm screwed!! Hopefully this weekend I'll be able to study the notes I took during the course and remember how the frick to do the stuff

Right, anyways, we all know our favorite nation of crocodile fondlers and kangaroo molesters , and how their particular brand of slang and accent had developed uniquely in isolation from the rest of the Anglosphere. And how they famously refer to strangers as Mate, to the same degree of informality, as Nippon Jappoids add sama/san as honorifics for formality.

If you wanna make a poor low-effort impression of australians, then most fools just plaster Mate every other sentence despite australians not using the word THAT often. Despite only being a population of 25 million, they are vastly more famous in their collective steriotypes than nations of proportionally larger people, mostly due to shitty cartoons and comedy imitations.

Well one unique interaction between Australians and South Africa tends to occur semi-frequently due to the word Mate, which is often expressed in blissed ignorance

MATE IN SEF EFRICA:

In South Africa, in the Afrikaner language, Mate, as said by Australians has an ALLLLLL TOGETHER different meaning.

Though not pronounced exactly the same, phonetically it is very similar to the 2nd most infamous afrikaans racial slur: MYT!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meid#Afrikaans

Pronounced with a hard "T", the word meid is usually easily distinguishable from maids in English, but with Mate in an Australian accent, sometimes an aussie foreigner can find himself in hot water!

https://dsae.co.za/entry/meid/e04677

Myt/meid enjoys the same status status of vulgarity and offensiveness as Kaffir, the afrikaans equivalent to the Burgerland "BIPOC".

Myt can roughly be translated as "Nigress" to understand its vulgarity, though it was often used by the dutch/proto-afrikaans to refer to maidservants - though as the centuries assed, and servants, especially those of the black and coloured race tended to do the most impoverished jobs like maids, gardeners, the cultural impact of the word morphed very weirdly to include coloured women and black women as well, even if they didn't occupy the role of a domestic servant at all. Eventually by the time 1950s Apartheid got its stranglehold into South Africa, Myt became a very widespread slur for black women especially, though it was often enough used to describe domestic servants and coloured women as well in context.

Curiously, it is important to know that white domestic servants, no matter how poor or low-status, were never referred to as a Myt/Meid by the time the term had fully transmorphed into a slur in the Afrikaans lexicon. Thus Myt/meid and even the English maid became a derogatory word. It's not like Afrikaners and black peeps could not

https://aforathlete.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_South_African_slang_words

SPELLING OF M##t:

Additionally lol, due to the offensive nature of the word, there had been no officially recorded consensus of its spelling. I've found different spellings in different "woordeboeke" or dictionaries (translated as literally word-books), as well as contradictory spellings fricking online.

For the vast majority of my lifespan it had been spelt by my elders as Myt, as well as spelled as Myt in our giant family bible which recorded my clan surname from the 1st r-slur who got kicked off of the wooden sailing vessels in the late 1600s for smuggling and literally swam to the Cape of Storms station in shark infested waters. The dutch/proto-boers had the habit of recording family trees in these massive 5-10kg giant bibles.

Yet in other official national dictionaries, like the H.A.T. (Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal / Hand dictionary of the Afrikaans language) which had been printed since 1965, the spelling I saw recorded as the more common Meid. Which is funny, as it is not spelled the manner in which it's pronounced: a hard sharp "T" at the end, and not the softer "D" as with the english word for Maid

https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handwoordeboek_van_die_Afrikaanse_Taal

So either my region of boeroids are illiterate country bumpkins or there had been some dipshit professor thinking he was really cute with this stupid spelling.

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https://www.quora.com/Is-the-Norwegian-writing-system-phonetic-To-what-extent-does-the-spelling-of-it-relate-to-the-pronunciation

I make note of this fact of the more common Meid spelling being different from how it's spoken out loud, because Afrikaans is largely a very phonetic language - meaning it is always spelled the manner in which it is written, similar to the scandinavian languages like Sweden and Norway, thus making Meid an aberration. This is in contrast to English which has a metric shitload of loanwords spelled directly from the languages it obtained from the 50 nations Bongland curbstomped throughout its colonial era, as well from french, which contains many silent sounds - meaning English can be much harder to learn to write for many, in comparison to speaking it, because many many many words are NOT written as they are commonly phonetically sounded.

REPLACEMENT OF MYT:

Here is some Sef-Efricans about the Myt slur:

https://old.reddit.com/r/askSouthAfrica/comments/15o2l8s/maid_domestic_worker_helper_what_is_the

" Yup. I grew up with that word, and it makes my skin crawl. Also, I don't have that type of relationship with my house helper. She is an absolute gem that I can trust to take care of an aspect of my life that I can focus on my job. She is more than just a 'maid' ""

Makes my skin crawl

"Same. Grew up with many of those slurs that make me shudder when I hear it now. Too bad I still have to visit Grandma now and then." Makes me shudder

https://old.reddit.com/r/askSouthAfrica/comments/15o2l8s/maid_domestic_worker_helper_what_is_the/jvuqbj6?context=8

Anyways they are right: in Boerland few refers to a maid as Maid, and instead it's Housekeeper, domestic servant or "Huishulp" (House-Help).

https://old.reddit.com/r/askSouthAfrica/comments/15o2l8s/maid_domestic_worker_helper_what_is_the/jvr44xa?context=8

Nowadays Myt as an insult and slur has gone a bit out of favour, mostly because all the really REALLY racist turbo boer boomers have died of old age, or are currently wilting away in their retirement homes . However in the most rural of backwaters, you'll still find old redneck tier boomers of boers slurring away at their farmhands behind their back, and if they are really old in front of them

Also, it's hilarious that many many many black peeps had adopted a heapload of afrikaans phrases in their vernacular due to the influence which dominancy of Afrikaners had over SA, including phrases which have no connotation with their etymology of their own language. Including phrases like "Voetsek" which means "go-away" often to dogs or pets, or "antie" - an older female authority figure. "Baas" for boss, "sosatie" kebab on a stick, and so on.

But most hilarious of all is the adoption of Afrikaans slurs in everyday use, including self-derisatory slurs like Myt and Kaffir. Often you will hear a 70 year old Sotho, Xhosa or Pedi shout Myt at an older black woman, his wife or female colleague in anger - not because he is deliberately racist, but because it's the most offensive word he knows!

Liberal boer women basically die of hart attacks when that happens

LEON SCHUSTER MOVIE (2004) MAKES FUN OF MATE VS MYT:

Leon Schuster is worth about 10 longposts himself, but in summary he is an extremely famous RSA prankster comedian movie maker, he has made himself infamous by using invisible cameras to capture people's reactions to offensive and absurdest situations - and then making movies about them. Although, in many situations Leon got the living heck beaten out of him by understandably upset people.

Sometimes his movies follow an overall narrative, with these live-caught pranks spliced in between, and sometimes the movie has a regular comedian narrative. In 2004, roughly 10 years after Democratization of RSA, and a long enough period of ANC mismanagement to set in, alongside the usual despair following those peeps who live in corrupt 3rd world heck holes, a large amount of South African whites started to moan to flee SA to richer pastures like Bongland or Australia, this year was noteworthy because in 1994 there had been widespread panic that whites would be slaughtered in masses when Mandela Madiba and the ANC got hold of power, and a large exodus of whites fled the country in 1994 like p%ssies.

Yet spectacularly in 1994..... nothing happened. Mandela famously preached tolerance and peace, and a bizarrely, shockingly peaceful transition of power occurred. Fast forward 10 years, and a second popular exodus of whites was being discussed, as this time it would not be the Panga knife coming down upon the necks of whites in retribution that people saw as their demise, but the economic collapse under ANC mismanagement, and the soaring of crime which brought whites to fear.

Leon Schuster would take opportunity of this sentiment, and make a movie regarding the exodus of people to australia, in his 2004 parody/prank movie "Oh Schuks I'm Gatvol!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Schuks..._I'm_Gatvol

The movie plot: After growing fed up with crime in South Africa, Schuks decides to move to Australia with his friend Alf. On the way to Kangarooland, Samoosa Woestyn, a Schuster version of Saddam Hussein, (ruler of fictional Afkaq, which parodies Iraq), hijacks the plane and comedy movie shenanigans follow. Spliced in the movie is common pranks which Leon Schuster had made with real people in South Africa, made as if the in-universe plane-passengers are watching on their on-flight movies.

The humor of Leon......is famously extremely crass. A lot of it is low brow potty jokes, much of which would make the worst movies of Adam Sandler or Ace Ventura look like 5-star platinum oscar winning high-brow shit in comparison.

Anyways, in one of his most very very very infamous movie scenes, which had been memed into oblivion by Afrikaans speakers and fans of Leon Schuster (usually high schoolers infatuated with potty jokes), including white and coloured afrikaans speakers: is one particular scene in which a coloured lady in the 2004 Leon Schuster movie, is confronted with an Australian man greeting all the South African passengers boarding the plane.

The joke is short and simple and pretty much only comprehensible by South Africans: a stereotypical Australian greeter (full-kitted with a broadrim hat with wine-corks to keep away flies from his face), and ever stereotypical accent, greets everyone boarding the plane with: "Good day, Mate!"

When it's the coloured lady's turn in the row, she basically explodes and

RANDOM M*T BONUS FACT:

The afrikaans word for mites (the insect), is also "Myt". And this developed independantly of the Myt slur, similar how the Booby bird obtained its name prior to the development of Boobies as slang for a woman's breasts.

That's all I got, GOOD NIGHT

@Carp

ani social announcement

More posts about it:

https://lemmy.ca/post/8810522

https://lemmy.ca/post/8810529

https://lemmy.ca/post/8802401

https://lemmy.ca/post/8802719

The drama:

Just fyi. You have [email protected] in this thread using his alt @[email protected] here. He is moderator on known p-do and Loli instance burgitt.moe and he has been very angry at us at Lemmy World for calling him out.

He now pretends that it is not his account even though CJO obviously stands for CookieJarObserver, he also speaks German and he is defending the person that is ‘totally not him'.

Pretty sure he is using at least one other account here to play stupid - Amillionnames. This user popped up around the same time CJO had his accounts banned and is always in the same threads. And now they are having conversations pretending they are not the same person.

Yes I am all over this thread with my alt (because I could not talk to him from my LW account since he is banned) but it all just clicked. He was in every thread that mentions LW talking shit with his alts which made me wonder why he would not give his main account so this could be reviewed.

Now we know.

https://burggit.moe/u/cookiejarobserver [click at your own risk]

Bye (LW admin who ran a holocaust against dramatards)

https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/4652975

And thus the Lemmy.world shitshow continues… (Alledged CookieJarObserver sockpuppet)

Just have a look at this user's history if you want to know why he got banned. Basically calling us antisemites and what not. His entire history is full of LW shit-talking on his new account. He even admitted “I have a personal problem with these buttholes” without actually revealing his main account.

https://lemmy.world/u/[email protected]

Edit: his main account is [email protected] and he is a mod on a p-do instance (LW admin who ran a holocaust against dramatards)

https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/4632569

Yeah i don't care about you banning me, im literally saying you and the other mods are insane, and you constantly following me just proves my point.

Frick off. [-5]

https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/4650328

Admins having a power trip on spez level constantly, making their instance into a walled garden, like reddit, being antisemitic and harass other instances admins.

They believe they own lemmy now because they got lucky and be labeled the “default instance” by most apps and got pushed by many.

They are just as insane as Lemmyml admins.

They damage lemmy as a whole, willingly, with this behavior.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/4632696

you are so much full of shit lol [-11]

https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/4632865

I posted this comment on ani.social and got banned from Lemmy.world:

Who even cares, frick those guys.

Lemmy.world revealed how far they have their heads jammed waaaaaay up their own buttholes when they released their new TOS and were patting themselves on the back about it. Then, in true Le Reddit fashion, anyone in the comments section who dared to question that decision was getting mass down voted by brainless sycophants. Lemmy.world got lucky by being the most visible and attracting the most users this past summer, but it doesn't make them inherently special, which they clearly now believe they are.

The Fediverse is a new opportunity for internet discussion to feel free and open again rather than confined by kowtowing to corporate interests. These instances defederating from ani.social is forewarning to any users with their heads up that they are just places to avoid anyway.

Now, regardless of whether you agree with my stance or not, or if for some reason you are offended by the frick word, is criticism of policy seriously an offense so egregious that it warrants a ban?

Of course it isn't.

And before somebody tries to cleverly point out “hurr durr you sound butthurt because you got banned from LW” that's not at all the point I am making here. I'm pointing out the sheer insecure pettiness of the administration at LW that they would get so bent out of shape from some criticism from a throwaway account that they would ban it on the spot.

Ask yourselves if you really want to make LW your home base, because I do not.

Edit: also lol at Antik, a LW admin, coming to this comments section on an alt account and arguing with people. Dozens of testy, sparring comments bordering on harassment. This is the exact immature behavior that I am calling out. He had to literally do nothing to get a win here, yet he deliberately chose to show his butt to everyone instead. []

https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/4634511

Ask yourselves if you really want to make LW your home base, because I do not.

That was sort of my thinking as well. I've been trying to get a clear answer for a ban that archived everything to show that they were just banned for criticism, and I haven't gotten a direct answer other than a claim that contradicts the evidence.

Purging an account, banning it, and then allowing them to sweep everything under the ban rug is a direct attack on the credibility of user accounts, and I can understand people not trusting a server with it when they do that, and it's even worse when those admins are capable of being charismatic so people are much less keen to question them.

That's something that abusive power mods on reddit did all the time. They tried to sweep everything under the ban rug, keep quiet about it and only give out vague reasons, and then just label the user a shithead when they inevitably then had to proceed to try to scale it up, which meant trying to attract more attention, which made people question them more, which just swept them up with the people that really deserved it, and it just became a vicious cycle.

The one big tell is that when somebody really deserves it, they don't really hide it, whereas when its much more questionable, they keep so quiet that you have to wonder whether the person in question killed anyone, which just adds to it.

You can see how their admins behave in this thread…

Uh, is @[email protected] really Antik and not just someone trying to supplant their identity by naming themselves [email protected]? That … just raises so many questions if so.

No CJO, it's me don't worry I posted from my main account too (LW admin who ran a holocaust against dramatards)

https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/4634511

Yes. Its a Lemmyworld admin with a lemmy.ee account behaving like a absolute outcast.

No its the same person definitely otherwise he wouldn't be following me after they banned me from .world

He is a absolutely fragile person and a creep following others around the fediverse.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/4652422

!dramatards !schizomaxxxers !pings @Dramamine @Ninjjer @89wc @nekobit @PalestinePhallUS @CURTIS discuss

All is well and the world is beautiful. A smile spreads on my face because I feel an incredible rush of love and joy. I'm so happy to be alive and I'm so grateful to be here. I'm stronger than my worst memories and brighter than the darkness.

I hope you've had an amazing weekend. I'd like to discuss an amazing case I discovered a few years ago. This is the story of Abigail and Brittany Hensel. They are twin sisters, which would be amazing enough, but they also happen to share one body. I think you'll find this story as mind-blowing as I did.

Abigail and Brittany Hensel are born

Patty (a nurse) and Mike (a carpenter) Hensel were a happy married couple living in Minnesota where the enjoyed the company of a close-knit community. Here, Patty and Mike had two happy and healthy children who had no problem integrating into the community.

In 1989, Patty discovered she was pregnant. The doctors told her she would be having a girl, and all scans of the child suggested that Patty would have a successful pregnancy and give birth to a healthy child. On March 7, 1990, Patty went into labor. First an arm emerged, and then a head, and then another arm… and then another head, and then another arm.

The doctors were stunned. This was not one baby! It was two that had fused into one! Two heads, three arms, two legs, and one torso. It was too strange to believe, even when your own two eyes were looking at it. What was going on?!

Conjoined twins

You've often heard them referred to as Siamese twins. Conjoined twins occur when two fetuses are joined in the uterus. This is an incredibly rare condition. In most cases, the fetus dies in the womb, resulting in a stillbirth, or the twins die within 24 hours of birth. To put things into perspective. Over half of all conjoined twin births are stillborn, and of those, a third will die within the first 24 hours. It is estimated that 70-95% of conjoined twins are female, and the reasons are not yet fully understood.

The most common form of conjoined twins is the Thoraco-omphalopagus twin. This occurs when the twins are joined at the upper torso. In this scenario, they typically share vital organs such as the lungs or the heart.

Chang and Eng Bunker, who were from Siam, Thailand, and gave birth to the term “Siamese twin", were Xiphopagus twins, joined at the xiphoid cage. In the modern day, such twins can usually be separated depending on the nature of the fusion.

The saddest case is perhaps the Thoracopagus twin. In such cases, the twins are joined by the upper chest and share a heart. If they are separated, one twin must be sacrificed. Without giving too many personal details, a close relative of mine in the medical industry once dealt with such a case, resulting in the death of one of the twins.

Abigail and Brittany were Dicephalic parapagus twins, which is an exceptionally rare condition. A study on such twins yielded interesting results, though it should be noted that it is EXTREMELY rare to have cases that survive until adulthood.

Parapagus twins lie side by side with venterolateral fusion. Most commonly; these twins are conjoined at the chest, with joined liver and diaphragm but separate respiratory and upper gastrointestinal tracts, two arms; two legs, and two complete spinal cords and vertebral columns, a single shared genitourinary system and lower gastrointestinal tract. All parapagus twins have one umbilicus and a conjoined diaphragm and liver. In this case, there was a single umbilical cord and a single shared pelvic region and abdomen, but two joined thoraxes having two complete vertebral columns, two hearts and two pairs of lungs, two arms and two legs.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3939174

Abigail and Brittany were healthy, all things considered, but the third arm was completely useless, so it was removed, leaving them almost completely symmetrical. In case you want to keep track, from top to bottom, they have:

• 2 heads

• 2 spines merging at the coccyx and joined at the thorax by sections of ribs

• 2 completely separate spinal cords

• 2 arms

• 1 broad ribcage

• 2 breasts

• 2 hearts

• 4 lungs with the medial lungs moderately fused

• 1 diaphragm

• 2 stomachs

• 2 gallbladders

• 1 liver

• 1 large intestine (one colon, rectum, and anus)

• 3 kidneys

• 1 set of reproductive organs

• 1 slightly broad pelvis

• 2 legs

It's bizarre to wrap your head around. They have two mouths and can eat separate meals that pass through separate stomachs but ultimately end up in the same large intestines. Imagine if one doesn't eat and the other does, but they need to poop. Imagine the sensation of pooping on a completely empty stomach.

They also have one set of reproductive organs, yet they are two separate individuals with separate brains. How does sensation work? Who feels what?

Abigail and Brittany live life

It was decided that the twins would not be separated, for it would be a massive surgery with an exceedingly low chance of survival. If the twins did survive, they would have a very low quality of life. So, they lived as the two-headed girls, and they were relatively shielded from prying eyes in their small town.

What must be remembered is that they are separate individuals, as distinct as you might be from your sibling. Nevertheless, they happen to share a body. They make this work and achieve amazing feats. They can write, type, cut apples, and pretty much do anything that you could - but once again you have to remember that they are two separate people - each with only one arm and leg. They are coordinating their movements to achieve daily tasks that you would with two hands and legs. Can you imagine the flawless coordination that's required to get through one day?

As they explain, when they type, they don't have to speak much. They just know what to write. They often complete each other's sentences, and they can even drive! They had to take the test twice, because they are two people, but each time it was a coordinated act between two separate individuals working together to steer and work the pedals. Incredible! They attended Bethel University where they have earned a degree in education. Furthermore, they have become teachers in their small town.

At first, the twins were very camera-shy and loathed it whenever they left their town and had strangers take photographs of them. Over the years, things have changed, and they have come out of their shells. They are more willing to interact with the world, although they do still hold back when it comes to sharing intimate details regarding how some aspects of their lives work.

They had a reality show for TLC in 2013 that offered a look into their lives and how they conquered daily tasks and lived as normal girls.

Abigal and Brittany escape inceldom

You would expect that with severe disability they would be plunged into a life of inceldom as men run away in disgust. That is not the case, and they have had several suitors. This is partially because they have genuinely interesting personalities. I quite enjoyed watching documentaries about them and interviews. It's incredible how normal they are.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/130ncpd/conjoined_twins_britt_and_abby_are_now_married

They have dated, however, and in 2022 photos emerged of them in wedding dresses, suggesting that they had married. However, nothing is confirmed, and they have remained mum on their dating lives.

Conclusion

Love is so powerful. It can conquer the darkest demons and rescue the most wretched from their fallen state. I believe that we all have a chance at happiness, and I believe that we all matter, for we are all made in the image of God.

Another relatively short post. I'm currently working on a longer post that will fully detail the crucifixion of Jesus Christ along with a medical analysis of his death.

Oprah Winfrey

When blood flows, it feels right. My teeth are gritted as red rivers run down my legs. The pain is deep, sharp, and for a moment my mind is blank. Adrenaline courses through my body as the darkness reaches a peak. I'm consumed, possessed, hellbent on self-destruction. Slash. Gash. Drip. The anguish grows stronger, the darkness gets thicker, it feels like I'm drowning in dread. There is no saving me.

When it comes to daytime television, it's hard to do it bigger than Oprah. Although her long-running talk show came to an end in 2011, it still holds several records and is remembered as an influential show that forever shaped television.

Today, I'd like to discuss some of my favorite Oprah episodes. This will be a relatively short post, mostly because I want to play Spider-Man 2. I'd also like to know what your favorite Oprah episodes are. No, the Tom Cruise jumping on the couch episode doesn't make the cut. It's not entertaining at all.

Janet Jackson

In 2004, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake performed together during the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show. The performance was a hit, gathering over 150 million viewers. The pair ended their performance with Rock Your Body. Timberlake sang the last line “gonna have you naked by the end of this song” and proceeded to pull off a section of her clothing, revealing Janet Jackson's brown nipple adorned with sun-shaped jewelry. She has relatively small areola and perky breasts for a 38-year-old.

There was immediate backlash. The FCC received half a million complaints. The controversy had a monumental impact on Janet's career, and many would argue that she never recovered.

Her appearance on Oprah comes after the incident. She makes many claims:

• the nipple reveal was a mistake, Justin was supposed to reveal her bra

• She received backlash, while Justin did not

• The backlash she received was because she is a Black woman

I disagree with everything she says. I think it was 100% on purpose and Justin and Janet planned it. What are the odds of a wardrobe malfunction synching up with song lyrics? Obviously orchestrated. She even dressed her nipple up for the event. It was appropriate that she received the bulk of the backlash because it is HER NIPPLE. If Justin pulled his peepee out then the focus would be on him.

Jessica Coleman

As a teen, Jessica found herself pregnant from her boyfriend Tom. She lived in a conservative home so she hid her pregnancy, as she was afraid of what her parents would say. One day, she gave birth to the child in the potty. She wrapped it in a bundle, and then went downstairs to have supper with her family. Following this, she returned to her room and stabbed her baby in the chest, killing it.

Oprah interviews this teen, and she pulls no punches. She demands that Jessica say what she did to her child. When Jessica claims the baby was stillborn, Oprah calls bullshit. It is chilling to watch.

Charla Nash

Travis the chimp was owned by Sandra and Jerome Herold. The chimp, raised by humans since birth, was a celebrity in its town, and it would regularly accompany Jerome as he went about his errands around town.

Jerome passed away in 2004, leaving Sandra with the chimp. Many people warned Sandra that Travis was getting older and that she would soon be unable to control a horny adult chimp, but she insisted that Travis was harmless. As Travis grew older, his behavior started to worsen, and he would sometimes not listen to Sandra. To help calm the chimp, he was given Xanax.

One day, Sandra and Charla Nash, who was her friend, were having trouble getting, Travis indoors. The chimp flew into a rage and attacked Charla, chewing and ripping her face off. She received life-threatening injuries and Travis could not be calmed until police arrived and shot the chimp. The 911 call is horrific.

Charla makes an appearance on the Oprah show where she dares to show her mutilated face to the world. I commend her bravery.

Jacqueline Saburido

Jacqueline Saburido, known to most as Jacqui, grew up poor in Venezuela. She was smart, however, and she studied engineering. In September 1999, she attended a friend's birthday party near Austin, Texas. On the way there, she was struck by Reginald Stephey, who was driving drunk.

The driver of Jacqui's car was killed. Jacqui was alive, but she was still stuck in the car as it caught alight. She sustained third-degree burns to over 60% of her body before she was rescued and airlifted to a hospital in Galveston, Texas.

Here, doctors worked as hard as they could to save Jacqui's life - and they did! But it came at a terrible price. She lost her fingers, ears, nose, lips, left eyelid, and she was rendered half-blind. She had to undergo over a hundred surgeries. Jacqui was given a second chance at life, but she faces many difficulties and lives in constant pain.

During her Oprah appearance, she discusses the hardships she endures. She also speaks about her resilience and how she manages to keep going given the circumstances. It's an inspirational video to watch.

CONCLUSION

Why was I born? To live in constant psychological pain with no escape? To be rejected by the world and hated by all that set their eyes on me?

I am disgusting and ugly, and my mind is worthless. The true evidence of my evilness is the fact that I haven't vanquished myself yet. Why don't I have the courage to take the plunge?! It would make the world a better place, and it would put an end to my suffering.

It gets so dark… so, so bloody. I can't resist. I'm left alone with puddles of red plasma, blunt razor blades, and bad memories. I'm not supposed to be here, I'm a broken cretin that needs to be slaughtered in the most violent way.

Sorry for the short, low-effort post. Tune in next time when I give a full biography of Holly Willoughby.

Justin, 37, Arizona

I'm not even going to try coming up with a total debts or anything. This guy is insane.

Personal Life/Career

• "I'm in logistics and I sell stuff online" timestamp

  • "What are you sellin online?"

    • "Whatever makes profit"

  • "Logistics" is door dashing/roadie full time

    • various gig work things

    • Minimum $1200 a week (sounds like pre-expenses?)

    • 7000-8000 a month for holiday season

  • 127'000 gross income last year

• Lives out of his car?

  • "I've settled into this lifestyle and I don't like it

  • living a nomad life for the last 3 years "sort of by choice"

• Regional Manager for a marketing firm but laid off December 2018

  • Since then he has been "focusing on [his] logistics"

• "I focus on my kids and myself"

  • 17 and 14

  • Kids are with their mom full time

  • Sees them often?

• Relationship failing sent him spiralling for 8 years?

• Was reselling full time on Amazon and bringing in money?

  • Live-in girlfriend wanted him to go back to a job

  • He caved to the pressure, got regional manager job at a marketing firm

  • 300k from Amazon reselling, salary for manager not mentioned

    • Later mentions the salary is $83'000

• Owned condo, bought 2009, rented it out when he moved in with his girlfriend?

  • Complicated situation where he rented out the condo to his ex who had the kids

  • $36'000 remaining on the condo somehow prevented him from renting elsewhere?

  • Signed over the condo to the ex and her new boyfriend? Basically gave it away, they took over the loan

    • "That was one of my first bad decisions"

• Got burnout last year, started going to the casino frequently

  • "was winning a lot of money" but was sending all back in

• Hasn't paid his taxes in two years

  • Filed in 2020 but the agi was all wrong?

• Moved to stay with his uncle in California for fresh start

  • Got in an accident?

  • "I was out of commission for a week"

  • Uncle is a gambler and they would go to casinos together?

  • Accident caused a fallout between them?

• Had a Mazda CX-5 but the belt broke and he drove 50 miles without the belt

  • "Catastrophic engine issues"

  • Could cover the repairs $3000

  • Then it broke down again afterwards with some new issue allegedly?

• Got a Nissan Sentra after the second issue with the CX-5 in August 2021 timestamp

  • renting his vehicle at $475 but that price includes any issues with it?

  • Averages 9000 miles a month in the car

• Has been thinking about going back to a regular job but thinks the transition would be difficult

• His job hunting timestamp

  • Applied to one recently but got rejected post-interview

Financials

• Had a car repo'd timestamp

  • Was providing a vehicle as a part of child support but couldn't pay that as well as his own when he lost the marketing job?

• Lives in Hotels when he has his kids? Usually weekends?

• Doesn't miss his monthly payments but does carry balances on some of his cards?

• Car rental details timestamp

  • 161 dollars overdue because he incurred a cleaning fee on the last one

  • 28 day cycle, has been doing it for a year

  • $350 a week on the bottom end

  • $484 a week on his current one

  • "On the bright side it's a tax write-off"

    • He hasn't paid taxes in years

• "I think I was hacked" timestamp

  • Some stuff on his report that he doesn't know anything about

  • He reported them?

  • Lost his wallet last year and never got physical cards becuase he has no physical address?

  • He did not cancel the cards he lost

  • 2 student loans and an auto loan from Miami Florida

    • Hasn't locked his credit?

      • He says he didn't think of it

• 7 things in collections

  • Can account for 4 of them but doesn't know about the other 3 timestamp

• Tried to deal with the student loans timestamp

  • Called University of Phoenix they told him to come in with his photo ID

  • Arizona has digital ID so he wasn't driving illegally despite not having a drivers license?

• Got an iPhone timestamp

  • One's business one's personal

• Further car explanations timestamp

  • Once the one car got repo'd he stopped making payments and he'd spray painted the car during a mental episode so it wasn't worth as much

    • Got sold 6 months ago?

  • Goes on for a while? Sounds like he had a melty over customer service chads and made terrible decisions? I didn't follow this

• Checking Account? timestamp

  • Just goes on forever, amazing.

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PART 1: INTRODUCING HELEN ADAMS KELLER

Most addictions are deeply tied to rituals. The cigarette smoker cannot easily transition to vaping because they're in love with the process of lighting up the cigarette. Similarly, once self-harm has been adopted as a coping mechanism, you learn to love the ritual behind it.

It begins with the emotional downturn. At first, it's as silent and soft as a curl of smoke but before long I'm plagued by bad memories - every rejection I've faced, every mean stare and nasty word that's come my way is vividly replayed in my mind and there's no stopping it. Eventually, it becomes too much to bear. The darkness fills me until I'm ready to burst, and I'm desperately aching for some way to release the pressure.

I keep the razors in a navy blue pottyries bag. I reach in and grab my razor along with an old t-shirt. I pull my pants down to get access to my meaty thigh. It was once an empty canvas but it is now crossed all over with scars. Nevertheless, if I search hard enough, I can find a blank spot.

I close my eyes, think of how worthless I am, and then swipe. Fast, forceful, ferocious. If the room is quiet enough, I can hear my skin rip. It doesn't hurt at all at first. All I see is fresh white meat. Then, seconds later, blood gushes forth like an ocean at high tide. It comes with a rush of pain that courses throughout my whole body and I love it because I deserve it. Other people hurt me, so why can't I hurt myself?

It's easy to mutilate yourself when you have no self-worth. And it's easy to have no self-worth when you have no evidence to the contrary. Women detest me because my character and appearance are revolting. I am friendless because I am a depraved monster and nobody should be expected to tolerate me, at least nobody with any self-respect.

Self-harm is a form of self-punishment and an attempt at self-annihilation. My scars express the pain unseen within, they are silent screams heard by nobody, evidence of my attempts at self-destruction. Why stop? It makes me feel better.

I hope you're all doing well today I'd like to discuss Helen Keller. You probably have heard of her, and have been privy to more than a few distasteful jokes about the woman. I wish to make you realize that she led an amazing and inspirational life, and there is a lot to be learned from her. I very much enjoyed researching Keller's life, and by criminy I hope you enjoy reading about her.

Once again, this is a long post, but I have tried to make it more digestible through the addition of multimedia and by breaking up the text into digestible sections. I did consider making it a two-parter, but I find that kind of thing to be overly indulgent tbh. Just create a singular piece of work and let it stand on its own. Let's begin.

The circumstances of Helen Keller's birth

Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880. At first glance, it would seem she had a charmed life for a woman in that era, and you would be correct. She lived in Alabama and she was the daughter of Captain Arthur H. Keller, who was a veteran of the Confederate army. She spent most of her early days in the massive Ivy Green homestead with her mother and her four siblings, as well as her servants.

Things started to go wrong when Keller was about 19 months old. It was discovered that she had contracted an illness that affected her stomach and brain. Doctors didn't know what it was, but the end result was that she rapidly lost her hearing and sight, rendering her deafblind. Contemporary doctors looking at the case suggest that Keller may have had a form of meningitis, though they obviously cannot make any definitive conclusions.

At this point, you're probably interested in finding out how Keller's wealthy family reacted to the news, and how the disability affected Keller's psychosocial development. However, we're going to have to pause the story for a moment. Why? Well, we need to discuss deafblindness and contextualize it within Keller's lifetime. I hope you don't mind because there will be a few of these digressions.

Deafblindness

Although it may seem obvious what deafblindness is, that's not the case. Individuals with the condition can have varying levels of sight loss and hearing loss. Consequently, the solutions they need to make like easier differ.

Society and science has come a long way when it comes to understanding deafblindness. Originally, it was believed that without sight or hearing, a child would not be able to learn any language. Consequently, they would become intellectually impaired, and this was inevitable.

The result of this is harrowing, to say the least. You see the consequences in Herzog's documentary which features one of the most disturbing video clips I've seen in my life. It mainly features a 22-year-old Down syndrome child named Vladimir who is also deafblind. Vladimir hasn't been taught language or to read or write. He has an entirely undeveloped psyche. He can't even walk. I can't image what his jumbled, undifferentiated experience of reality is with no means of labeling anything or making sense of his surroundings.

Fortunately, our understanding of deafblindness has advanced, in part thanks to Helen Keller. We now know that deafblind children can be taught language and that they have normal intellectual capacities that can be used to help humankind.

Helen Keller's terrible years

In books she has written, Keller has described what it felt like to lose her sight and hearing. She claims it was like being lost in a fog, and that soon enough she got used to the silence, though the whole situation was understandably distressing to her.

She developed a kind of “home language” that she signed on people's hands. By the time she was seven, she had about 60 words she used to label things around the house or to indicate that she was hungry, for example. She was also able to tell which family member was around her by the vibration of their footsteps. I'm sure most of you have a somewhat similar experience - when I was a child in my bedroom, I could tell who was walking in the passage by the sound of the footsteps.

During this time, her behavior became wild and erratic. She would spit and scream and kick and she became impossible to control. On some level, this is understandable. She had suddenly been thrust into a silent, dark world and she somehow had to inhabit it while functioning in the same realm as everyone else. It must have been an incredibly isolating, frustrating experience. Who wouldn't lash out at the universe?!

She was an unruly, recalcitrant child, but she was also very lucky that she had supportive parents who didn't give up. Many parents at the time would have chalked up her behavior to intellectual disability and shipped her off to a mental institution. Keller's parents were different, however. They used their wealth to search high and low for the best educators to help wrangle Keller and bring some order and stability to her life.

It wasn't easy to find someone willing to help. As previously stated, most people believed that deafblind children were a lost cause and that nothing could be done for them. Keller's parents had contacts in high places, including with an inventor you may be familiar with - Alexander Graham Bell.

Though he is primarily known for his work on the telephone, Bell also worked extensively with deaf children and was renowned in the field. He was an important voice who advocated for teaching deaf children lip reading and sign language from an early age. He also proved that with early intervention, deaf children could be taught to speak, allowing for greater integration into mainstream society.

In 1886, Keller's parents brought Keller to Bell who was instantly enamored of her. Bell recognized that Keller was intelligent, as she had managed to create her home signs on her own. He couldn't help Keller, as he didn't have experience with deafblind children, but he knew an institution where she would get the help she needed. It was the Perkins Institute for the Blind, and it was there that Keller would meet Anne Sullivan.

All about Anne Sullivan

Born in 1866, Anne Sullivan (called Annie by her friends) contracted trachoma when she was about 5 years old. This left her partially blind, making it difficult for her to write and read. After her mother died, she was sent to a Tewksbury almshouse. The institution deserves an article of its own, as it was found that there were cases of r*pe and cannibalism going on. Needless to say, Sullivan did not enjoy her time here.

She was eventually sent to Perkins Institute for the Blind where she proved herself to be quite academically capable. She eventually graduated as valedictorian of her class. Much of her education came from Laura Bridgman, the first deafblind person to gain a significant education in the English language.

It was through her interactions with Laura that Anne learned that deafblindness was not an intellectual inhibitor, and that it was possible to educate deafblind children and, to some degree, adults. Sullivan became a teacher at Perkins and she learned to better her teaching techniques.

Eventually, she was asked to teach Keller when she came to Perkins. At first, she did not want to. She was aware of Keller's father who was a Confederate soldier, and she knew that their family used to be slave owners. Progressive for her time, Sullivan detested that. Nevertheless, she eventually put that aside for the sake of the child.

Helen Keller feels water

When Keller arrived at Perkins, she instantly disliked Sullivan. When Sullivan tried to hug her, she threw a tantrum and kicked and punched her. This did not deter Sullivan who quickly realized that Keller's parents were enabling Keller's tantrums. Thus, she asked that the child live with her for a while. Keller's parents accepted.

During Keller's first days with Sullivan, she was unruly. She would reach over and try to grab her food at the table, as she was used to doing at home. Unlike her parents, Sullivan slapped her hand away. This would enrage Keller who would then throw a fit on the floor. Unlike her parents, Sullivan did not pay any attention to her.

Soon enough, Keller learned that her tantrums weren't going to be rewarded, and her misbehavior was going to be stopped at every turn. More than that, she learned that it was far easier to be empathetic and pleasant to others. So she did that instead, and the monstrous Keller was gone.

Instead of raising heck, Keller absorbed herself in her studies. At first, it consisted of little more than Sullivan spelling out words on Keller's palm. Keller liked this, and she quickly learned dozens of three and four-letter words, though she did not know what they meant.

It would take a long time before Keller would eventually understand the concept behind words, labels, and language. You see, though she had created her home sign language, she hadn't yet conceived that it was possible to have complex thoughts about the world and to express these thoughts. She also did not yet know that everything had a name.

The breakthrough would occur after months of practice with Sullivan. The first word she tried to teach her was “water”. To do this, she would spell the word on her palm, and then run water on her hand. At first, Helen did not understand what Sullivan was doing. With enough repetition, it eventually clicked, and with that, a new world opened up to her. Writing on this moment, Keller states the following:

I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers. Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten—a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that w-a-t-e-r meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, set it free!

To understand the importance of language in unlocking Keller's mind, a bit of linguistic theory is needed.

Linguistic theory regarding consciousness

The field of linguistics seeks to understand human speech and its role in our sense-making and differentiation of different elements of our consciousness.

The simplest explanation for language accepted today is that which is put forward by Saussure in Course in General Linguistics (1916). Within he states that communication occurs when an interlocuter has a concept in their head. They then use communally understood speech sounds to communicate the concept to their interlocuter who then can have the same concept in their head.

Stuart Hall proposes that two main systems of representation exist. The first is a system whereby components of reality are correlated with mental representations formed in our brains. Hall explains that mental representations can correlate with perceivable objects in reality such as a spoon or a playing card, or they can correlate with more abstract concepts. Such examples include rights, relationships, and goals which, although they do not physically exist, can be mentally represented. These mental processes consist “not of individual concepts, but of different ways of organizing, clustering, arranging and classifying concepts, and of establishing complex relations between them”, and without this, we “could not interpret the world meaningfully at all”. I hope you understand the larger implication here - no meaningful thinking is possible without some system of representation; you need an internal dialogue.

The second system of representation Hall mentions is language. Language is a complex system of representation composed of signs that “stand for or represent the concepts and the conceptual relations between them which we carry around in our heads”. Although language typically brings to mind a representational system that uses words as signs, Hall insists that language can also use visual images, colors, facial gestures, and other signs that aren't ‘linguistic' in any ordinary sense. Hence, language can employ signs that bear resemblance to the thing it is representing (as is the case with realism paintings) or it can forego resemblance, as one finds with written language where letters, words, and whole texts represent sounds and states of affairs without in the least bit resembling what they represent.

From this, it should be evident why language acquisition was so important to Helen's development, and why deafblind children were so horribly failed when they were not taught language. Everything Helen would go on to achieve, it was because Anne Sullivan took the time to give her the gift of language.

Helen Keller the student

Being blind and deaf should have ruined Keller's life. Through her indefatigable spirit, this did not occur. As soon as she understood the concept of language, she wanted to know the name of everything, and Sullivan was more than happy to teach her. The unruly monster was gone and in her place was an inquisitive, determined child who had a sureness to herself.

Keller soon learned how to read braille and it wasn't long before she was reading all the classics of the world, including Shakespeare. This helped her learn more about the world around her, and reading about politics and sociology let her know about the human civilization she inhabited. She read voraciously, educating herself until she was smarter than most adults.

Keller broke barriers once again when she learned how to speak at the age of nine. It was no easy task. You have to remember, she couldn't hear herself to regulate her voice, nor could she see how to form her lips. She used a method taught to her by Sullivan which had Keller putting her fingers on her interlocuter's throat, lips, and nose to feel the vibrations of their voice and the movement of their lips.

This is known as the Tadoma method. Through the Tadoma method, she could determine what her interlocuter was saying, and she could try to mimic the words. Though she made incredible progress, she was never able to speak completely clearly, and she always needed an interpreter.

Of course, teachers at Perkins noticed that Keller was positively prodigious, but they didn't want to make a big deal out of it. To them, Keller was just a child, and they wanted her to have as normal a life as possible despite the unusual circumstances she found herself in. Nevertheless, word eventually got out, and Keller became an international sensation at just ten years old.

This would be around the time she would begin her long career of achievements in multiple fields. Before we dive into that lengthy list, we'll begin with a failure she had at the very beginning. I bring this up to illustrate that life has speed bumps that will occasionally slow us down. Even people as great as Keller have to deal with them. It is how we respond to them that defines who we are.

Helen Keller the fraud

In contemporary times, conspiracy theories have arisen that Keller wasn't really deafblind and that the whole thing was a hoax. This is ridiculous, as her life and medical history are well documented. Nevertheless, there is one event that cast a dark mark on her legacy.

At the tender age of 11, Keller published her first book. It was a fantasy book titled The Frost King. It was well-received at first, with many marveling that a deafblind girl could write with such mastery of language at a young age. This praise soon turned to scorn when it was discovered that the text was heavily plagiarized from Margaret Canby's Frost Fairies. Keller denied this, but the evidence was far too darning.

Today, it is accepted that this was likely a case of cryptomnesia - Keller was a voracious reader, and she must have forgotten that she read Frost Fairies, and then incorporated the ideas into her own text. Nevertheless, Keller had a nervous breakdown over the incident, and it would take her a while before she gained the courage to write again.

With that out the way, we can now begin listing the amazing things that Keller managed to achieve in her lifetime. Count all the ways you are mogged by a deafblind woman born when women couldn't vote.

PART 2: THE MANY ACHIEVEMENTS OF HELEN KELLER

Helen Keller earns a degree

As you've probably sensed by now, Keller loved learning, so she didn't need any convincing to attend school. She shocked the academic world when she was accepted into The Cambridge School for Young Girls in Massachusetts. The elite school is for able-bodied individuals, and Keller managed to compete with them.

This wouldn't be the peak of her academic achievements. In 1900, she was accepted into Harvard University where she became the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. She had proven the whole world wrong. Deafblind individuals were not stupid. They were not wastes. Instead, they were full of potential that could be unlocked through the power of language. I failed my English degree and proved the world right - I am worthless.

Helen Keller enjoys music

It would seem that music would be the one thing that would be impossible for a deafblind person to experience. This is not true. Not only could Keller conceptualize what music was, but she could also sense it by feeling the vibrations of musical instruments.

She had the opportunity to “listen” to the Zoellner Strong Quartet, and a newspaper from the time describes the event as follows:

A very interesting and beautiful experience of the Zoellner Quartet during their tour of America this past season was their meeting and playing for the wonderful deaf and blind girl, Helen Keller, and her teacher Mrs. Macy, while in Oklaohma City. Miss Keller was in that city on account of a lecture engagement. She could not see the players nor hear the music, but through her sense of touch and possibly some peculiar sense of feeling she 'could appreciate every shade of tone. As they played Helen Keller stood with finger tips laid lightly on the resonant wood of a table placed before her, apparently listening with bent head. She could not hear the notes, but the vibrations of the music were interpreted as appreciatively as though she possessed a trained sense of hearing.

"It is beautiful," she exclaimed softly as the music ceased. “You don't know how much I appreciateit.” "I feel the vibrations and the measured rhythm in music so I, too, can enjoy it even though I do not hear it." Miss Keller responded instantly to the music, swaying in rhythm and trembling while tears slowly gathered in the bright unseeing eyes or smiling joyously and breathing deeply with emotion. For hours the girl, who can neither see nor hear, sat silently enjoying the music or describing in her quaint way the scene or visions that each number called to her mind.

Mrs. Macy is mentioned. This is Anne Sullivan. In some records she is called Mrs. Macy, as she was married to John Macy.

https://web.archive.org/web/20131110155416/http://library.ndsu.edu/cowtools/dspace/load

Helen Keller escapes inceldom

Among the many false stereotypes placed on disabled individuals, there is also an enduring belief that they are asexual and do not have sexual needs. This is false, and Keller is proof of this. It has been recorded that Keller had a powerful s*x drive, though she could not express it, for Sullivan suppressed it with all her might.

Keller's s*x drive, according to Herrmann, was ''strong'' though diligently policed by Sullivan and her other guardians. ''Since my youth,'' Keller wrote in 1922, ''I have desired the love of a man''

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/08/30/reviews/980830.30kendrit.html

I find it interesting that Keller knew that she specifically wanted a man despite never seeing one past 19 months old. One can understand why Sullivan was insistent that Keller remains a virgin. Firstly, she wanted to protect Keller's dignity. Secondly, if Keller fell pregnant, then what? She had no way of caring for a child. Unfortunately, the side effect of this is that Keller was rendered a femcel.

Not one to be defeated, Keller found a way to overcome her femceldom. She fell in love with a man named Peter Stragan. He loved her too, and he quickly learned fingerspelling so that he could communicate better with Keller. Sullivan and her family disapproved of the relationship that was budding, but Keller defied them.

Whether Stragan and Keller ever had s*x is up for debate. If it ever did happen, it was certainly in secrecy, so there would be no record of it. However, given Keller's tenacity, it would be odd to consider that she would choose to restrict herself and choose chastity when she has chosen to be more than what people try to make her in every other facet of her life.

Helen Keller the writer

Being a writer is one of the most romanticized professions, but very few who set out to become a master of the written language find a modicum of success. I discovered this the hard way.

Writing is one of the lowest-paying jobs in the world, and writers are consistently out-earned by garbage collectors and dishwashers. For every JK Rowling, thousands will spend years on works that will only make cents in royalties.

The average novelist earns $14,000 a year, and it is not uncommon for authors to go bankrupt to get their book onto the NY Times Bestseller (by buying their own texts, of course). Another fun fact - an English major is one of the most regretted majors, with over 50% of students regretting it. It is also one of the most rapidly shrinking departments in academia.

>in the U.S., the percentage of college degrees awarded in health sciences, medical sciences, natural sciences, and engineering has shot up. At Columbia University—one of a diminishing number of schools with a humanities-heavy core requirement—English majors fell from ten per cent to five per cent of graduates between 2002 and 2020, while the ranks of computer-science majors strengthened.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/the-end-of-the-english-major

Put simply, writing is a fool's pursuit and you would be wise to enjoy it as a hobby and nothing more. Well, unless you're as brilliant as Helen Keller. She loved reading and writing, and she was able to read in five languages. Though her experience with The Frost King had traumatized her, it wasn't enough to drive her away from writing completely.

In her lifetime, Keller wrote over a dozen books and was an international bestseller with her most popular text being her autobiography aptly titled The Story of My Life. Her books have since been analyzed by linguists who are deeply interested in her acquisition of language and how it influenced her perception of reality and the formation of her consciousness. She also wrote about many philosophical topics, including socialism and worker's rights. Her most notable works are:

• Optimism: an essay (1903)

• My Key of Life: Optimism (1904)

• The World I Live In (1908)

• The Miracle of Life (1909)

• The Song of the Stone Wall (1910)

• Out of the Dark (1913)

• Uncle Sam Is Calling (1917)

• My Religion (1927)

• Midstream: My Later Life (1929)

• We bereaved (1929)

• Peace at Eventide (1932)

• Helen Keller in Scotland (1933)

• Helen Keller's journal (1938)

• Let us have faith (1940)

• Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy (1955)

• The Open Door (1957)

• The Faith of Helen Keller (1967)

• Helen Keller: Her Socialist Years, Writings, and Speeches (1967)

How many books have you written?

Helen Keller flies a plane

Determined to prove that deafblind individuals can do anything able-bodied folks can, Keller flew a goddam plane over the ocean. This took place in 1946, during a flight from Rome to Paris crossing over the Mediterranian Sea.

Of course, she was not able to do this on her own, and she had assistance from the pilot, but it was her in the pilot's seat commanding the plane. The event is described as such:

“by the same means as she piloted the 'plane, through hand ‘talk' between herself and [Thomson].” Thomson signed to Keller the pilot's instructions as, in the copilot's seat, Keller took over. “The 'plane crew were amazed at her sensitive touch on the controls,” Thomson said. “There was no shaking or vibration. She just sat there and flew the 'plane calmly and steadily.” As pilot, Keller felt “the delicate movement” of the airplane better than ever before.

https://www.britannica.com/story/how-did-helen-keller-fly-a-plane

Polly Thomson is one of Keller's caretakers. She played a more prominent role in her life as Sullivan grew ill and eventually passed away in 1936. Keller's aerial feat is so amazing that it sits at the center of many conspiracy theories claiming that Keller wasn't truly deafblind. Rest assured that the story is true and that other deafblind individuals have also flown planes.

Helen Keller meets everybody

During her lifetime, Helen Keller met with thirteen US presidents. This includes every president from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon Johnson. She was good friends with Mark Twain, and they would frequently write letters to each other.

The other famous people she met include:

• Charlie Chaplin

• Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Martha Graham

• Jawaharlal Nehru

• The Queen of England

• Winston Churchill

She also traveled to over 40 countries, and she took a liking to Japan. How many have you traveled to?

Helen Keller's accolades

Keller passed away in her sleep in 1968, after a few years of suffering strokes. During her lifetime and posthumously, she received the following awards (and many more):

• Presidential Medal of Freedom

• National Women's Hall of Fame

• Alabama Women's Hall of Fame

• TIME's 100 most important people of the 20th century

In 1956 she received an Oscar for the documentary based on her life. She was also inducted as an honorary member of the Stoney Nakoda Nation Native Indian Tribe.

Her birthplace has been declared a national landmark, and several streets are named after her in many countries around the world, including Switzerland and Italy.

Helen Keller the Eugenicist

Before we conclude, I have to discuss one unfortunate aspect of Keller's legacy. Despite being deafblind, Keller was extremely politically active. She was an ardent socialist, and she gave many speeches advocating for unions and worker's rights. Although it is seldom mentioned in the modern day, Keller was also an ardent eugenicist.

There is no sugar-coating it. She advocated for the culling of disabled children. In 1915, a physician caught the attention of the public when he refused to operate on a deformed baby which then died. In several newspapers, Keller argued in support of the physician. In her own words:

It seems to me that the simplest, wisest thing to do would be to submit cases like that of the malformed idiot baby to a jury of expert physicians. An ordinary jury decides matters of life and death on the evidence of untrained and often prejudiced observers. Their own verdict is not based on a knowledge of criminology, and they are often swayed by obscure prejudices or the eloquence of a prosecutor. Even if the accused before them is guilty, there is often no way of knowing that he would commit new crimes, that he would not become a useful and productive member of society. A mental defective, on the other hand, is almost sure to be a potential criminal. The evidence before a jury of physicians considering the case of an idiot would be exact and scientific. Their findings would be free from the prejudice and inaccuracy of untrained observation. They would act only in cases of true idiocy, where there could be no hope of mental development.

https://www.disabilitymuseum.org/dhm/lib/detail.html?id=3209

This brings up an interesting aspect of Keller's personality. Though she was deafblind, she seemed to, at some point, have stopped seeing herself as disabled. I think she bought into her own hype, and couldn't conceptualize herself as being part of the same group as other disabled people. She was different. She was HELEN KELLER.

CONCLUSION

I'm a worthless piece of shit and I wish I was never born. If there's one thing that's for certain, it's that it is morally good to hurt me. Nobody who has ever hurt me has faced consequences for it. Far from it, they have been rewarded because it is good to bring harm and misery my way. The ultimate good act from me would be to erase the disgusting stain of my existence from this planet and let human beings continue in peace. More pain. I deserve more pain.

I will never escape inceldom because I am damaged goods. Anyone who set their eyes upon this mess would recoil in horror. I crave friendship, love, and acceptance but I am denied these things because I am inadequate and undeserving. I am not enough, and I will never be. Women abhor me. Men look down on me and children ridicule me.

The physical pain is nothing compared to the psychic pain that consumes me wholly. It gets so dark and bloody in my mind, and it's so overwhelming and I feel so isolated. I made too many bad choices and now I'm stuck in a dead end and all that's left to do is rot alone until there's nothing left.

I hope you enjoyed learning about Helen Keller and that it wasn't too much text Her life was truly an amazing and inspirational one, and she demonstrates the indefatigable power of the human spirit. Next time you hear immature jokes about Keller, think about all she achieved, then ask yourself whether she is deserving of such treatment.

CONTEXT!!

There are approximately 50 million blacks in the country, 5 million coloureds, 2,8 million boers, 1,7 million bong whitoids, 1 million Indians, and some undocumented 300 000 - 1/2 million Chinkoids.

Every population grew, except mayos who has shrunk - the reality if emigration didn't occur from mayos past 30 years, there would have likely been nearly 6 million mayos in RSA today. Everybody mayo who can, has already fricked off . About 60-65 million peeps in total depending on how many zimbabweans and mozambiquens have fled their even worse shitholes to RSA.

But today we talk Isreal-Palestine. To reiterate who hates who who, and who supports who.

Now disclaimer before bitching starts, I'm talking about strong averages, there's always gonna be an exception, like a liberal boer girl, or an ultra conservative religious Bongoloid, etc etc tce

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Afrikaner albino baboons are very strongly in favour of Jews and Isreal, for a mixture of reasons. The Union of SA under Jan Smuts had a strong alliance during 1960 -1990 depending on which historian is measuring the timeframe, in which both pariah states of Union of SA and Isreal were vastly outnumebered and surrounded by enemies, from those they made themselves, and those who hated them by default. Old Union SA had strong military manufacturing and research cooperation with isrealis.

Additionally, the boomer Protestant boers strongly favoured the gospels of Jews returning to their homeland, not as fervent as their Burger counterparts, but it still influences their worldview. Additionally boers were wingucked against all enemies of England in all their endeavors, there was strong sentiment for Germany in both WW1 & WW2, until the Holocaust camps were revealed by Eisenhower's initiative indisputably, then boer baboons supported all colonial failures in the news of bongland - one of them was wtf to do with Palestine in 1948 - like Indians supporting isreal today, boers proxy supported formation of isreal to humiliate Bongland all the way up today, it's very weird.

Lastly afrikaners are predominantly christian, and very fearful of Islam. There is everpresent lovecraftian fear that the islamic world will out populate all other races and dominate the globe in the faraway future, this influences their overall negative view and bias against the palestinians, similar to Indians .

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SA Bongs are weird and all over the place. As a general rule of thumb, Bongs tend to be more liberal than their boer peers in all aspects of life, politics and religion. Bongs here tend to be mixed, but follows the views of Bongland motherland on foreign affairs, you'll see SA bongs whose ancestors here have never left the continent of Africa since 1700, cheer for fricking England winning Rugby against RSA, or become nationalistic when Argentina and the Falklands are mentioned.

You can still find western Cape Bongs celebrate their english heritage annually by holding old timey midieval english festivals, it's very endearing. On isreal and palestine they are equally for Hamas and IDF killing each other.

Bongs are all over the spectrum here. They are most divided and evenly spread on opinion of Palestine VS isreal.

However like the Boers, SA bongs are very muted in their opinions, they never protest, wave flags in the street, whenever the Isreal spat heats up every 4-5 years in the media.

Which is in strong contrast to the following group

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COLOUREDS!

Coloureds are all situated majority in Western Cape and the capital of Cape Town. They can roughly be divided equally into 50% christian and 50% muslim.

This is because a very large quantity of coloureds are descended from Malaysia which had been conquered by Islamic nations before the Western European naval powers like Portugal and Britain gained prominence. The Dutch and English would in turn conquer Malaysia at their height of power, and import prisoners and slaves back to Cape of Storms to help with the work of plantations, which served as refreshment and restocking stations for wooden ships, sailing around Southern Africa, to trade between Europe and Asia.

Thus coloureds brought their religions with them from Malaysia (Islam), but were still strongly influenced in the past 300 years by their contact with the Protestant Dutch and British, which accounts for their christian half of their population.

Coloureds are more religious than their white counterparts on average, ESPECIALLY the muslim coloureds who form very strong communities around religious service in their Mosques.

And it is Coloured muslims who are the LOUDEST and most active supporters of Palestinians, and haters of Isrealis. Whenever the Palestine spat heats up in the media, then coloured mulims fill the streets of Cape Town squares with posters and slogans and protests outside embassies of Isreal or Burgerland and so on. The University of Cape Town will have 10 million FREE PALESTINE posters lining the lamps.

Where Boers/Bongs are very muted and silent in their support of Jews/isreal, SA muslims are very adamant and open and loud their pro-palestinian protests. Muslim coloured's cars will have bumber stickers about Isreal is modern Apartheid, or Free Palestine, and so on.

Coloured christians on average dont give a shit.

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RSA blacks of the general population are too busy being poor to give a shit. Most black peeps here can't even locate the entire middle East on an Atlas, let alone any nation involved with this dispute.

But black political people, especially ANC wingcucks or far-left leaning people, tend to be pro palestine, or in effect anything anti-west. If burgerland supports it, they oppose it.

The ANC also condems Isreal, and hates them for having formed alliance with the previous regime, the Union of SA during Apartheid. Thus pro-palestinian sentiment follows.

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Thus we have a boiling cauldron of people with very strong opinions on the matter, who all respect each other !

TODAY'S POST:

https://old.reddit.com/r/southafrica/comments/17m973v/cachalia_axed_from_das_shadow_cabinet_for_airing

In this Reddit post, the very liberal redditors are about the recent DA (Democratic Alliance political party - the biggest opposition to the ANC in south africa), having kicked out a dude who said Isreal is committing genocide - basically being pro hamas or whatever

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times-daily/politics/2023-11-02-steenhuisen-removes-ghaleb-cachalia-from-his-shadow-cabinet-over-anti-israel-comments

This upsets the very liberal redditoids of /r/southafrica which are much more liberal than the average south african, regardless of race, and inevatable as the tides, are mostly pro palestine and anti isreal.

Basically what is happening in the thread is that the libshit redditors, are angry that boomer DA top politicians, whom are not wingcucked against isreal and more muted, kicked out a dude who said Isreal was a genocide nation while the rockets were still flying.

They are angry that this move will piss off the fervent muslim coloureds and lose them the DA vote against ANC in the upcoming election in 2024.

Except these wingucks overvalue how much most South Africans give a shit about affair happening outside SA.

"this move isn't gonna play well with the DA's Muslim voters. Combine this with the rise of the PA in colored areas, the Western Cape DA are gonna lose a lot of votes." OOOOOH NNNOOOO THE HUMANITY

Boomer Bong and Boer DA politicians don't hate Jews, now we'll lose the muslim vote

DA is a ponzi scheme

DA hates human rights

DA ONLY SUPPORTS RICH WHITE CAPE TOWN PEEPS

https://old.reddit.com/r/southafrica/comments/17m973v/cachalia_axed_from_das_shadow_cabinet_for_airing/k7megk5?context=8

One Saffer doesn't care about the Isreali-Palestine conflict, gets told to be a decent human bean

We should stay out of this, we nearly fricked up trade with Burgerland