So, this is a bit late, I celebrated Thanksgiving a week early so didn't have time to play, so let's pick up where we left off.

So it's well known that, at some point, this game was planned to be a live service title. You can see a bit of that in the faction areas.

You earn rep, there are rep grinds, and unlock rep tiers, to get new items from rep merchants. Kinda like Destiny.

The Veil Jumpers want us to find their missing remembers a check in on a town that's gone dark. All your current party members (4) come with, which makes me wonder why they reduced the party size to 3 . On the way to the village the game takes the opportunity to show case 1 of the only 2 thing your party members are good for. Puzzles, kinda, will get to that later.

I'll say this about the art direction of it really does take the bite out of the mysticism and grandeur of a lot of thrse places we've only heard about in the previous games [emphasis on games]. I guess that's an inevitability when it comes to AAA soulless slop

The blighted village segment is another talkie hallway, I guess they were trying to build atmosphere here m, but the lighting is too bright and the cringe writing prevents anything from seeming eerie like blighted infestation used to be.

It ends with what a lot of people are calling a moral quandary, it's not really as rook is hard coded as good in their background, but yeah you get to choose to either free the mayor or leave him to die.

We return to the Veil Jumpers to report that the mystery neighbors have control of and are spreading the blight. Nostalgia then makes a cameo

I saw a crow flying around throughout arlathan and suspected it was her. As one would imagine, since near not a darn thing carries over from the previous games her appearance boils down to "Remember me tis I Morrigan, witch of the wilds, I'm important!"

We're nudged to return to the ritual site to find a mcguffin. At this point the skill tree is made available to me.

It creates the illusion of depth, lots of increase by 5% and all that crap, not much in the way if actual abilities and what little there are pretty underwhelming, and doesn't nothing more than scratch the enemy. I suspect this is largely due to me playing rogue. I felt all the promotional materials leading up to the game and the stylistic choices when it comes to abilities were encouraging to player to play a mage. The mage, from what I've seen, seems to have the most thought put into it as well. You get 3 mage party members in this game though so frick that.

We encounter more new darkspawn, look how they massacred my hurlock boi. At this point enemies become more spongey, particularly the Hurlocks that engage in spear chucking. The bow is this game low key kinda shit. It's like a shitty version of the Kingdoms of Amalur bow, particularly because Veilguard combat is largely dueling, like stellar blade, where as Kingdoms of Amalur is more action packed and the bow is meant to integrated into combos with other attacks, same can't be said for the Veilguard which results in one-sided sniper battles. The ranged units aren't any softer upclose either, and the game's parry system shits itselfif a ranged enemy is compelled to shoot you point blank.

After traversing the rest of the ruins we finally corner the ghoul who to Solas' mcguffin. This boss fight was kinda tedious, not a fan of bosses dipping out for a bit and summoning henchmen to distract you especially in multiple phases. After the first phase Harding pick up the mcguffin and turn into bullshit. I DID like how she girl bosses you out the way though.

This is when the game introduces the only other feature that companions are good for, combos.

This pretty much the extent of the combat usefulness of your party members, which is what I suspected would be the case when I saw the companions didn't have health bars in the gameplay reveal. I really hated this aspect about thw mass effect games, squadmates by and large just felt like dead weight compared to party members in other RPGs and you have even less control over your party in the Veilguard, and not only that their abilities are a on a global cooldown as well, so you're resigned to watching the spectacle of your party member leaping around launching impotent attacks dramatically while doing something actually worthwhile once every 60 seconds or so. Rook's abilities are fortunately not constrained in this manner, at least on the rogue.

So we beat the boss, retrieve the mcguffin get a scene with tge mystery neighbors, which I got to say, Ghilan'nain looks pretty cool. With the mcguffin in hand you now can use it to emulate any unlocked companions unique puzzle power, making them even more useless We return to the lighthouse and I decide to change my Rook's hair.

Have another conversation with Solas and then set off following leads on the mystery neighbors around Thedas this leads us to the crossroads

which is a sort of hub area between the various zones in the game. It has side content of its own, which are mostly flashbacks of Solas' rebellion against the gods

He had hair back then. These are kinda shit, narratively, so far, they do really portray the world Solas described at the end of trespasser and as of now are only focusing on the two currently free mystery neighbors and not the rest pantheon. From the crossroads we can unlock Treviso and Dock Town for now.

Treviso is

Seems they didn't completely nerf the cake in this game The Qunari military has invaded Treviso for some reason. Antiva has now standing army, just the reputation of it's infamous assassin's guild, a reputation that's changed for the altruistic. This once pragmatic league of assassins have now take on responsibility of protecting the citizens from the qunari and disturbing le heckin' wholesome shelter and welfare.

The crows tell you of Lucanis one of their mage killers that's locked in a underwater prison. Like most underwater sections in my experience, this place kinda sucks, it's boring and tedious to navigate through (yes I'm aware it is a circle, but it's a lumpy disjointed circle. Lucanis doesn't preform any better as a melee character than the, thus far range party members I've been working with so far. The final boss of the area is the most bullet spongy enemy I fought so far and he's protected by a barrier which I'm apparently supposed to use my rubber band arrows against. After about 25 minutes of peppering this dude I finally beat him and get lucanis as a companion.

Next stopDock Town

I get Dock Town is a slum but it really doesn't live up to the hype of tevinter that the 2018 showed off with all the magical neon signs and such.

Here you help the shadow Dragons fighting off venatori and learn they can control the darkspawn courtesy of the mystery neighbors.

This mission ends in another mage boss fight, though thankfully not as bullet spongy, just henchman spamming. With these two missions complete the game opens up and let's you engage in side missions.

I decided to help out neve in Dock Town. This turned out to be another talkie hallway mission, and there's a pattern here, as all companion's first missions are like this.

Decide on ripping the bandaid off of the black character immediately, and went on the mission to recruit Davrin.

So far he's okay on his own, and I really like his interaction with shrimp fried rice, a good depiction of elves from the sane culture, but different clans and circumstances in life, for this game at least. I didn't realize however that recruiting Davrin would immediately railroad me into a major choice involving the fate of two major cities and the side quest with in them .

I spring for Neve's city and was confronted by the spongiest most bullshit boss fight thus far.

After finally chipping away at enough of this b-word's hp to trigger her retreat the gang heads back to Treviso to find it fricked up. Lucanis is surprisingly level headed about things, but leaves the party for a bit and is hardened. I'll pause her for now and hopefully pick up sometime later next week. So far the game suffers from the same slow start inquisition did, but doesn't have the mechanical depth or the filler to experience it in of that game. There are few plot hooks however the motivate me to keep on trudging along.

May 22nd, 1960. At 15:11, near the town of Traiguén, located at what nowadays is the Region of Araucanía, tectonic rupture occurred. The result was a powerful earthquake, it scored a magnitude of 9.5 Mw, the highest ever recorded in human history. The earthquake triggered a tsunami wave, around 30 ft tall traveling at a speed of around 95 miles per hour. The earthquake also moved the Earth's axis by 3cm.

The Valdivia Earthquake (names after the town of Valdivia) ended up destroying most of the towns in Southern Chile. On May 28th the local newspaper "La Cruz del Sur" published a preliminary report on the victims. 962 killed, 1410 missing, 140 injured, this as far as the authorities were aware up to the date.

Welcome to the Republic of Chile

Greetings dramatards, as promised here starts or journey into what would become one of the most famous dictatorships of the Americas, the Chilean Military Junta. But before getting into the story of our infamous General and his Junta de Gobierno, first it's time to cover the basics of how Chile came to the point of democratic rupture. So let's start giving some context.

By the early 1960s Chile was a poor country. It wasn't the poorest in Latin America and while it fared better than most of the South American continent, the fact remained that it lagged far behind Argentina and Uruguay, the only countries which by that time counted with a large middle class. Chile was highly unequal and a significant portion of its population was still rural with peasants moving to the outskirts of Santiago forming what was known as "campamentos", basically shanty towns, favelas.

Chile's upper class what still composed by a few selective families from the colonial period (mostly of Basque origin) and rather new families of 19th century immigrant background (mostly from Britain, Germany, Croatia, etc) which also made up a big part of its small middle-class.

Despite all this, Chile was still a robust democracy. The constitution in effect at the time was the 1925 constitution which leads us to the Chilean government of the early 1960s.

The then President of Chile was Jorge Eduardo Alessandri Rodríguez.

Born in Santiago de Chile in 1896, he was the son of the late politician Arturo Alessandri Palma (1868-1950), who also served as President of the Republic between 1920 to 1925, and then again from 1932 to 1938.

Jorge Alessandri was elected President in the 1958 election. Under the 1925 Constitution the President of Chile was elected by a majority of 50%+ of the popular vote, if all candidates failed to achieve the 50% threshold, then Congress would elect the President, which is exactly what happened in 1958.

Alessandri was an independent, but he was supported by a coalition of right-wing parties

The results of the popular vote of the 1958 were:

Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez - 31.56%

Salvador Allende Gossens - 29.85%

Eduardo Frei Montalva - 20.70%

The resulting vote in Congress was Alessandri getting 147 votes and Allende getting 26. Salvador Allende was the candidate for the Socialist Party of Chile and a coalition of left-wing parties, while Eduardo Frei Montalva was a candidate for the PDC, (Partido Democráta Cristiano) or Christian Democratic Party which was a socially conservative but economically centrist political party.

Alessandri's style was what he nicknamed "gerencia" or "management", the point of which was to manage Chile as if it were a private company. By the early 1960s Chile was in dire need of reform, and the Valdivia Earthquake wasn't of help. After the earthquake Alessandri went to the US and got aid thanks to President John F. Kennedy and his "Alliance for Progress" program, which included 422 million dollars to help the damaged of Chile. The Chekhov earthquake also triggered the arrival of another important actor of this story later on…

The Alliance for Progress programs also promoted certain policies, among the most important of them, land reform. In 1962 which was also the year where Chile was host of the World Cup, Alessandri signed the first land reform bill which was rather modest on its reach. By the end of his term he felt like Chile needed deeper structural reforms if they were to develop as their agriculture was lagging behind, he also oversaw projects of public housing in urban areas. However Alessandri's disapproval increased while left-wing parties grew stronger.

The 1964 Presidential Election

By 1964 there was a growing fear of Allende being elected. The Conservative Coalition was unpopular and of the top of the recent Cuban Revolution, left-wing guerrilas began to sprang up in Chile, like the MIR (Movimiento Revolucionario de Izquierda). Due to this, the rightoid candidate of that year, Julio Durán, decided to withdraw from the race and support the based centrist Eduardo Frei Montalva.

Eduardo Nicanor Frei Montalva was born in Santiago in 1911. He was the son of a swiss immigrant, Eduardo Frei Schlinz, and a Chilean woman, Victoria Montalva Martínez. After getting support from Durán he unknowingly got another ally, the United States of America and the CIA

In order to help Frei Montalva's campaign, the CIA secretly funneled 2.6 million dollars to his campaign, along another 3 million dollars on anti-Allende political propaganda. This was done according without his knowledge lmao.

The final results of the 1964 election were:

Eduardo Frei Montalva - 56.09%

Salvador Allende Gossens - 38.93%

Julio Durán Neumann - 4.98%

Frei Motalva was sworn in as President of the Republic on November 3rd of that same year.

Back then the President of Chile lasted 6 years in office and couldn't be consecutively re-elected. This becomes important later on

Frei Montalva begin what he called "Revolution in Liberty", placing an emphasis in improving education (over 3,000 schools were built during his presidency), social housing (over 130k units) and unionization. Union membership in Chile rose from 270,000 in 1964 to 550,000 in 1970 (by the latter date Chile had a population of around 9.8 million inhabitants). Another achievement was the reduction of child mortality from 103 per 100k to 79 per 100k.

He nationalized electrical companies and electrical input in Chile increased 50% during his presidency. There was also a huge investment to develop the steel industry (steel production increased from 620,000 metric tons to over a million).

Finally we arrive at other strong points of his administration, land reform and the nationalization of copper. Frei Montalva signed his first land reform bill in 1966 (expropriating and distributing 3.5 million hectares) and proceeded with a process called "chilenización" or chilenization of copper.

Copper to this day Chile's most important and valuable export , back in the days the mines belonged to American multinationals. Frei Montalva created the "Corporación Nacional del Cobre" (CODELCO) and implemented a partial nationalization. The idea was to buy Chilean mines or to expropriate and indemnify multinationals to a point where the Chilean state would own 51% of the copper. Chilenization began in 1965 and the partial nationalization in 1969.

The year 1969 was the stage of a minor insurrection by the army against the government, due to poor equipment and salaries, showing some clashes the armed forced already had with the government along their dissatisfaction.

The 1970 Presidential Election

In the year 1965 the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR) was founded, with the goal of overthrowing the government by means of armed struggle in order to install a communist regime. Salvador Allende however kept insisting on getting power through legitimate means. In 1970 his coalition was the Unidad Popular (Popular Union) or UP. It was composed by the Socialist Party, the Communist party and other minor leftoid parties of Chile

Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens was born in Santiago in 1908, like most of the Chilean politicians, he belonged to an old money family with roots going back to the colonial era, the Allendes. He studied medicine at the University of Chile and was part of the founding of the Socialist Party of Chile in 1933

The rightoid candidate that year was good old Jorge Alessandri who by then was 74 years old and was suffering from some health issues. People mocked his ability to govern while Allende and co criticized Frei Montalva for not going far enough with his reforms (a.k.a. going full commie).

Alessandri was accused by leftoids of being senile and having early onset parkinson, meanwhile the PDC candidate was Radimiro Tomic , a centre-leftist who had an informal pact with Allende.

The campaign was a bitter one and the everyone was concerned about what would be the military's position if Allende was elected. On an interview with the rightoid newspaper "El Mercurio", the then commander of the Chilean Army, General René Schneider pointed out that that the army would stand and abide by the Constitution regardless of who the winner was.

The CIA didn't support any particular candidate against Allende that year, except for funneling 350,000 dollars to Alessandri's campaign. A CIA report informed that Cuba spent 350,000 dollars on Allende and after the end of the Cold War declassified documents from the KGB showed that the Soviet Union sent 400,000 dollars to Allende's campaign through the Cubans.

Finally, election day came on September 4th, 1970, and the results were:

Salvador Allende Gossens - 36.63%

Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez - 35.29%

Radomiro Tomic Romero - 28.08%

Chilean chuds got into panic mode . Technically Congress could elect anyone as President if they failed to break the 50% threshold, but in practice they would elect the candidate who got a plurality of votes.

Alarm bells also ringed at Washington DC, where President Richard Nixon ordered to stop it from happening. The CIA then devised two plans known as "track 1" and "track 2".

Track 1 consisted in making Congress elect Alessandri, who would then proceed to immediately resign. This would trigger a snap election where the current and rather popular president, Eduardo Frei Montalva, could run again and win. This plan however failed as the PDC supported Allende on the October 24th Congress voting. This was due to an informal gentleman's agreement between Allende and Tomic, whereby one would acknowledge the other's victory if the difference was above 5,000 votes, and would only acknowledge a potential Alessandri victory if the latter won by a difference of 100,000 votes.

After this failed, track two came into scene. Meanwhile the KGB had instructions to help Allende be sworn in. Track Two consisted of creating a climate of political instability as to allow the armed forced to intervene and stop Allende from becoming president. Henry Kissinger was personally involved in the main operation which consisted of kidnapping General Schneider, the commander of the Chilean army, as a trigger for intervention (a leftoid guerrila would be blamed). General Roberto Viaux was in charge of the operation, however it failed as Scheinder resisted and he was killed. His assassination however paved the way for a different leadership in the army.

Salvador Allende was sworn in as President of the Republic on November 3rd, 1970. His government plan was one of complete nationalization of copper, but without compensation, raising wages, freezing prices, and continue mass expropriation of land but with a more aggressive approach.

In order to pass his nationalizations, he based his decrees as being authorized by the short lives 1932 "Socialist Republic" (a bogus commie government which lasted for a few months). Nationalization of copper however was passed by congress with unanimity as it was a process which was bound to happen.

The US responded with a boicot and denial of credits for Chile, however Allende managed to get gibs from the Soviet Union.

According to former KGB General Nikolai Leonov, the USSR provided financial aid in the form of 100 million dollars of credit, 3 fishing boats, new factories, 3,100 tractors and 74,000 tons of wheat.

By 1971 deficit skyrocketed from 3.5% to 9.8% and by 1972 inflation kicked in as the government began activated the money printing machine a year earlier. Then came scarcity of goods and the rise of the black market along rationing.

The increase of money circulation was of 173% in 1972 and 413% by 1973, and with it also an economic recession. Allende blamed it on hoarders. Meanwhile guerrilla groups like MIR which by then felt empowered by government and had amassed almost 100k members were pushing land reform by themselves, with the government doing little to nothing to stop them. MIR took over factories and land properties while the government refused to send the carabineros (police force). Polarization and political violence characterized his 3 years as President. Allende tried to get the USSR to invest 400 million dollars on Chile through factories and infrastructure. However by late 1972 the Soviets denied Chile any further aid requests

In the mist of chaos, by the year 1973 a plot was being developed within the high command of the Chilean Navy, along other conspirators of the armed forces and some help of Burger glowies

!historychads !anticommunists !neolibs !latinx

Who would you have voted for in the following elections

1958 Election

1964 Election

1970 election

Our story begins with a whore called Em Indica, who decided to make a list of whores in the porn industry who support Trump, obviously intending to have them blacklisted.

You can immediately see the problem with this list. Namely, it is more appropriate to call it a "List of people who have said something that made me in any way upset on the internet", as is usually the case.

Naturally, the whores being called out didn't take this lying down.

CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT TAKE THIS DOWN. @

I'm so fing grateful for the fans on here guys, thank you.

THIS POST IS HARASSMENT

LMAYO 🤣

Yo, what is @BlizzieMcguire trying to say here? "Loser Mayo"?

In all seriousness, it is obvious that Ms. Indica is trying to start a witch hunt here, and to pretend otherwise is r-slurred.

I'am French ! I can't vote in your country You're ridiculous.

This isn't about who voted, its about who's expressed love and admiration for trump. Which you have 🤷🏻‍♀️

ou're free to think what you want and so am I. Is it a trial ? I don't think what you you're doing is really legal …

Correct, and you pissed some people off. That's the consequences of your own actions

No? Where in that is it a threat?

You are telling me that I'am gonna face some consequences, I want to know what consequences are you talking about ? What's your point?

Yeah, some people aren't going to want to work with you because you support trump. That's just the way it is.

So you're telling me that her point is to make me loose my job ? Make me loose money? em_indica do you agree ?

There are people that don't want anything to do with trump supporters. It would be like someone putting you on their no list.

Wouldn't it be funny if the Trump whores decided to make a list of people who support this list and then have them counter-blacklisted.

I'm proud to be on the list 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 #MAGA

Follow please I'm retired from the biz and veteran proud thanks peace and love to you. Met ya at avn a few times,

Darn, that's one thirsty boy.

Hey dumb munchkin face skank…how did we not make your commie list?

Fun fact, I once made a post about this guy and y'all seemed to like it.

I'm an extreme alt right?! 😱😂😂😂!!! RFKjr is an independent 🙄

You've literally praised Trump when he won. Sit down.

When? So people deserve to be put on a gestapo list?

So apparently you're slow too.

The future is going to be bright from Elon??!! Okay dude! And JFK slogan. Apparently your not bright.

Yeah. On a photo of him with Trump. Don't let go of that last brain cell there.

TDS!!!

Are you mad mommy might get deported?

How do you deport ashes? Asking for a friend!

You toss them over the wall? 🤷‍♂️

im sorry but do you have no life lol ? like to sit here go and look up other people to put them on a list its giving creepy AF and also you made yourself look really ignorant

True

Remove me from this list immediately

I'm not even a porn star but thanks for the inclusion

It's so nice when big creators give a shoutout to the small creators

em_indica would you mind adding me to the list please? Ty

Real interesting to see ♠️ people for trump, makes you think!

Yeah, a lot of these galls are findommes and hotwives. That just proves how diverse the MAGA movement truly is.

I'm about to stick a lawyer so far up your butt remove me right now

Am I supposed to feel bad for being on this list or something 🤣🤣

I mean, seriously.

This b-word tried to put forth another girl for the list but was too much of a kitty to @ her.

And she gets rightfully called out for that.

But then, somebody casually drops that SHE MIGHT BE THE MOST BASED WHORE IN HISTORY:

NOOOOOO WHAT ?! omg. Baddie down

Shes been an issue for a while from what Ive known. Didnt she light a sub on fire?

She also faked being trans on omegal as a "prank"

I had no idea about this jfc

Yeah I unfollowed her shortly after that and for her "jokes" about fricking her finger monkey

HOLY SHIT DRAMANAUTS! WE NEED TO FIND OUT EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS QUEEN!

It might all be a giant nothingburger though.

She's gonna lose a lot of money with that pledge

If this girl weren't sperging out at the Trump whores throughout this whole thread, I would have thought that she was being sarcastic.

Anyway, let's get back on track:

This completely unethical and unacceptable. Take this down. Perpetuating hate is not the answer. Ffs

Honestly, it's such a red flag that you think it is hateful to provide information like this that I am unfollowing you and will be adding you to my own list of people to not work with or trust.

NOOOOO! HOW DARE YOU NOT BE AS UNHINGED AS I AM!

I wonder if any of them were paid by the Trump campaign and/or Russia

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You are a NAZI. I look forward to DOWNMARSEYING and NOT RECOMMEDING YOU on the 40 plus sites I am a proud #P4YP member of. WOW Hateful is one of the words you are. Also insane, take a breath. rethink this maybe. SHAME on you.

You tell her, hoss!

I don't think you have to really worry about pressing the thumbs down for this one she won't cross your feed often 😂

next you should make a list of all ur fans/followers who voted opposite to your political beliefs, & block them. because why stop at being partially absurd.

Another good point. How come she's only blacklisting people who don't throw money at her?

One of the biggest lolcows in this drama is a girl called @Betty_BouncePSO, who went out of her way to bring up Project 2025 in almost every reply:

Enjoy it while you can project 2025 will ban all s*x work and porn, y'all just killed your own industry 😆

You're a weird b-word for voting for the candidate that will implement project 2025 which will ban all sexwork and porn, you killed your own industry to vote for a male feminist. 😆😆😆

Project 2025 will ban all porn and s*x work, 😆😆

Educated? Project 2025 will ban all sexwork and porn, you just put yourself out of a job 😆

Project 2025 will ban all s*x work and porn, you just voted to kill your own industry 😆😆😆

Another big lolcow is @KandyKittyXXX who absolutely sperged out at every opportunity she had (at least I think it's a "she"):

Wow the trash is really coming out probably today isn't it?

How dare you think this is about opinions. Oh right, I forgot, you're an idiot.

As I remembered I had to be a coalition to make sure that the fascist party didn't get into power in France. Being French doesn't absolve you of anything. In fact it was pretty much guess which way you voted in France.

Oh my God we got another one that makes me listen to stand how bad Donald Trump's economics are. I failed to see how your educated when you don't see how a 60% tariff is going to impact your wallet not his.

Because if their religious beliefs include bigotry, we are just as entitled to know when someone believes in a sky daddy to justify their insanity.

You know the best thing about you voting for Trump, because I know you'll continue doing porn hoping that you won't be the one arrested for it. Which means you'll be the first to be arrested for it.

The irony of your tweet coming from somebody who just supported a man who literally perpetuated hate.

How is this unethical? I want to stay as far away from these people as possible especially as I work in the industry. To me it's a blacklist that is tremendously helpful.

I don't recall her attending a rally that literally attacked every minority you could name in Madison square garden. If this is the case please show us.

To the surprise of no one, this is what she looks like:

There are several more of these lolcows, but you get the gist of it.

Apparently, there was at least one failed attempt at defamation already.

"Ummm maybe you shouldn't joke in BAD TASTE sweaty."

Here's a blog that lists porn stars accused of sexual assault as well as acting like chuds on the internet. Clearly the same thing. it is somehow connected to this list. Don't ask me how, I have no idea.

This article points out that a person who helped co-author this list, porn star Michael Vegas, is a known abuser in the porn industry. Who would have thought?

It also helps summarize this whole drama. So there.

Hello, I've got 2 hours before work is done, and I'm too lazy to do anything productive so I'll write this quick post discussing the Indian Question in South Africa. It makes me sad that I even have to write this post because I love all races and I want to live in a multicultural rainbow nation. Unfortunatey, there are some people who are more concerned about tribal in-group bias than unity.

Indians in South Africa

As you can imagine, Indians are not native to South Africa. Yet the country has an Indian population of close to 1.7 million. Furthermore, the South African city of Durban is one of the largest ethnically Indian-populated cities outside of India.

Indians first arrived in South Africa in 1860, during the country's colonial era. The first lot of Indians (approximately 342 of them) were brought in on a ship called the Truro, and the intention was to use the Indians as indentured workers on sugr plantations in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. Indians were originally taken from Calcutta and Madras, but eventually labour was taken from other areas of India as well. Colonial workers generally didn't give a shit about keeping proper records. Consequently, many Indian last names in South Africa are corruptions of their proper Indian last names.

Under Apartheid, Indians were subordinated, though they enjoyed better treatment than the Blacks did. Due to forced removals, Indians were forced into their own ghettoes. It is during this time that Indians started gaining the reputation of being "Jew-ish". Much like Jewish populations, they formed insular communities, small businesses, and they stopped relying on the government for services, instead building their own schools and temples. To this day, Indian-built schools produce some of the best students in the country. Consequently, a lot of wealth accumulated within Indian communities, which naturally attracted jealousy.

Anti-Indian Racism in South Africa

Anti-Indian discrimination was certainly present during Apartheid, and it was not uncommon for Indians to be referred to using the racist term "coolie". Blacks were also racist towards Indians, and this is seen through the Durban riots of 1949 in which South Africans took to the streets to loot Indian businesses, stone Indian vehicles, and break into homes. The riots, which lasted for days, were extremely violent and involved acts of assault, r*pe, and murder. In total, 142 Indians were killed, and there were several suicides following the riots due to families being destroyed. This marks the second-deadliest massacre during Apartheid.

Naturally, one would question why the massacre happened. It's generally theorized that there was already animosity between the Indian and Black populations in Durban, and this peaked on January 13 when Harilal Basanth, a 40-year-old Indian shop-owner, smashed 14-year-old George Madondo's head into a shop window.

Do not see Indians as eternal victims, however. It's also important to note that violence during the riots wasn't one-sided and several Zulus were assaulted by Indians. Furthermore, they created the racist term "bululu" to refer to Black people. There's a new term for chuds who want to fine-tune their racism.

The EFF and the Indian Question

Post-Apartheid, South Africa has dealt with problems of racism, but for the most part, ordinary South Africans get on with life in a multicultural society in a mostly peaceful manner. Problems arose in 2018 when the South African communist party called the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) raised the Indian Question. The EFF is led by Julius Malema, who many have foolishly been led to believe is South Africa's president. No! He was the head of the ANC's Youth League (the ANC is the African National Congress which is South Africa's ruling party since democracy was instated in 1994). During his time in the Youth League he showed himself to be a hothead not afraid to speak his mind. Here he is telling a mayo BBC to frick off with his "white tendencies".

He proved too much of a hothead to be controlled by the ANC, and he eventually formed his own party, the EFF. In the 2024 elections, they earned 10.80% of the votes. In 2018, he declared that the majority of Indians are racist.

This was met with pushback from the media and the Indian population who declared that Malema is being racist. As it usually does, the party did not back down and instead released a long statement addressing the "Indian question".

https://www.facebook.com/economicfreedomstruggle/posts/on-the-indian-question-in-south-africa-a-response-to-mob-psychologists-by-the-na/1143818679092596/

The Chairperson also released an explosive article defending Malema's comments on Indian people. Some choice quotes:

It is a historical fact that Indians arrived in the political territory we call South Africa today as indentured labourers from 1860 onwards. This automatically disqualifies them as indigenous South Africans in the same way whites, who had arrived earlier than the indentured labourers are not indigenous Africans.

Indians were brought to South Africa during the indigenous Africans Wars of resistance, and there is no record that they fought on the side of Africans. On the contrary, prominent Indian leaders like Mahatma Gandhi recognised and worshipped the colonial empire and spread ideological and political gibberish that "whites and Indians were bonded by an Aryan bloodline that had no place for the African" as empirically proved in the book The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire by Desai & Vahed, 2015. The intellectual honesty that defined these two authors while writing about Gandhi's racism escaped one of them in the immediate aftermath of calling out the Momoniat racism.

Even though Indians and whites make up the smallest sections of the population, combined they own and control more land, deciding on the racial and apartheid spatial planning. It is one thing to expose and reflect on already existing racial divisions, and it is another to divide a country that is already racially divided. All the EFF has done since its formation in 2013 is to expose these societal contradictions. It is not possible to further divide such a deeply divided country, but we can only move towards eradicating such inequality by honest and frank engagements.

There are many instances of reported anti-African racism from the Indian community in the stores, workplaces, homes, schools, which do not get reported on. Those who are recipients of Indian racism are often of subjugate economic standing and as stated in the perspective here, economic subjugation of the African majority is the root cause of anti-African racism from both white and Indian communities.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2018-06-21-on-the-indian-question-in-south-africa-a-response-to-mob-psychologists/

Pushback came in strong:

and even this annoying DEAD cuck Eusebius McKaiser decided to comment.

Conclusion

Unfortunately, racial relations between Blacks and Indians have not improved and in 2021, there were more riots that resulted in 20 deaths. Clashes between Blacks and Indians took place in the suburb of Phoenix.

So what do you think? Are Indians in South Africa victims of anti-Indian racism? Or do Blacks have genuine reason to fight against Indians? I'd love to hear your opinion. Sorry for the relatively shitty post.

Greetings. I hope you are well. I've been doing a lot of research on fascism lately and I've been left utterly terrified. I can see the power the political ideology has thanks to its reliance on a palingenetic rebirth myth that is very effective at uniting people and bringing them under a charismatic strong man. This shouldn't be surprising, as human beings think in terms of stories, so if you're able to tell a good story and piece together archetypes in aesthetically pleasing ways, you can make billions or rule a nation.

The problem with fascism is that it brings with it war, violence, and the death of human rights. If fascism were to take root again in the West, it could lead to another World War and this would affect everyone. I don't want mass death, nor do I want to be conscripted into the military. I'm scared of what will happen to BIPOCs, LGBT folks, and immigrants in such a scenario. The third world isn't safe either, there are dictatorships in Africa with strong militaries and these nations are teetering close to fascism, including countries like Eritrea. The Second Congo War is just a taste of how deadly things can get, as this war led to over 5.4 million deaths within 4 years, the deadliest war since WW2.

South Africa isn't exempt from the threat of fascism and there have been very active fascist parties in the country. This makes me so, so scared because I don't want civil war. Our government has enough problems to deal with. Consequently, I believe that this is the most important longpost I have ever written. Within it, I'd like to outline what fascism is and how it took root in South Africa and almost collapsed democracy before it started.

This is the first part of a two-part series. In this post we'll look into the background of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging and in the next post we'll delve into the life and death of Eugene Terre'Blanche.

Before we begin, I'd like you to complete this poll.

Do you believe your country is currently at risk of fascism?

What is Fascism?

I have outlined a brief definition of fascism in a previous post, but I'd like to redefine it here in a little more detail. The first instance of fascism can be found in 20th-century Italy under the regime of Benito Mussolini. Benito was inspired by the works of Nietzsche and Georges Sorel. The movement arose while Itality was going through political and economic hardships. Mussolini, after returning from war, believed Italy needed a dictator to lead the nation to greatness. To do this, he would need a myth to unify the people.

He coined the term Fascist which he derived from the Latin term "Fasces" which refers to a bundle of wood. Individually, each piece of wood can be broken with ease. However, when they are bundled together, they become unbreakable.

Pictured above is the Italian fascist symbol used by Italian fascist uniforms. Mussolini rose to power in Italy thanks to his energetic speeches and his ability to tune into the anxieties of the masses and exploit them. For the sake of time, I won't go deep into the history of Mussolini's rise to power, but it is important to know that by 1925, he was the country's dictator and he enjoyed widespread support.

Fascism was exported to Italy's colonies, including Eritrea, which may explain the far-right, dictatorial bend the country has to this day (it is often termed the North Korea of Africa). It also spread through Europe, eventually reaching Germany where Adolf Hitler would establish a dictatorship of his own. When fascism is mentioned, Nazi Germany is usually what comes to mind first. This shouldn't be a shock, as the Third Reich is easily the most powerful fascistic State the world has ever seen. If we are lucky, fascists will NEVER acquire that much power ever again.

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

Hitler was directly inspired by Mussolini, though he also drew from philosophers like Nietzsche and scientists like Charles Darwin to advocate for social Darwinism and eugenics. Hitler was also strongly anti-semitic, a position which Mussolini would also adopt in Italy. With this said, hatred of Jewish people isn't the defining characteristic of fascism. In fact, as Israel is proving, it is possible to have a fascistic State that isn't anti-semitic at all. This raises an important question - what makes a fascist?

How to Identify Fascism

Defining fascism is no easy task, and it is among the hardest political ideologies to adequately categorize. We know it is right-wing, authoritarian, and ultra-nationalistic, but other political movements have these traits as well. Saudi Arabia would be a good example of a country that is right-wing, authoritarian, and ultra-nationalistic but not quite fascist. After doing some research, I've identified the following as the key traits of fascism. If you think I've left anything out or gotten anything wrong, I'd like to hear it. It is important to note that while a nation can exhibit some of these traits and not be a fascist nation, but when they occur altogether, the word fascism starts becoming more appropriate to use.

1. Support of political violence

Unlike liberal movements that were gaining popularity in the 20th century, fascists do not believe that violence is inherently bad and it is viewed as a healthy part of political life. This viewpoint is in part inspired by ideas of social Darwinism which championed the concept of the "survival of the fittest". Hence, it was only right that the strong should subjugate the weak. Violence is also the means by which social hierarchies are reified. I'll touch on it more in the next point, but violence is also an integral part of fascist masculinity. Violence is used to eliminate opposition, undermine democracy, force people into compliance, and expand the borders of the nation.

2. Support of strict gender roles and social hierarchies

As I've stated, fascists believe in social hierarchies, and that some people are more deserving of life and power than others. In Nazi Germany, this viewpoint led to the mass involuntary euthanasia of huge swaths of the population that were disabled either mentally or physically. The most appalling example of this can be found with Germany's Aktion T4 program that claimed up to 300,000 lives.

There are also strict gender hierarchies in fascist nations. Fascism generally takes on a patriarchal shape with a "strong man" leading the nation. Women are expected to remain subservient and to serve a reproductive and domestic role in society. In contrast, men are expected to take to the frontlines of the army and participate in violence and war for the sake of the greatness of the nation. For this reason, you'd be hard-pressed to name a female fascist leader.

3. Belief in a palingenetic rebirth myth

This is perhaps the most important aspect of fascism. The fascist leader will convince the people that they were once a great nation but they have been subverted by outside forces i.e. Jews, communists, immigrants, liberals, etc. The populist fascist leader claims that they are the only ones who can restore the greatness of the nation and rescue the people from economic and political hardships, as well as from the threat of decadence and degeneracy. The palingenetic rebirth myth is reliant on a scapegoat to blame for the nation's decline and to give the people a common enemy to unite against.

4. Opposition to any initiatives or institutions that are racially, ethnically, or religiously diverse

The fascist leader will often create an "us" vs "them" schism. Those in the in-group are the true inhabitants of the nation while those in the out-group are invaders that dilute the blood of the land. One of the slogans used by Nazi Germany is "blood and soil" which illustrates how the regime tied race and nationality together.

Don't be fooled, however - a fascist nation does not need to be racist. The founder of fascism, Mussolini, stated the following:

Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five percent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.

However, he did also create an "us" vs "them" schism by scapegoating communists and Jewish people.

So there you have it - four pillars of fascism. If all four are present in a political system, you may be dealing with a fascist nation. I'd like to discuss a fifth possible pillar - isolationism. It appears that a lot of fascist nations aim for an autarkic economy and espouse ideas of isolationism and strong borders. The reason why I do not add this as a pillar of fascism is because scholars generally agree that there is no economic system that is essential to fascism. A sixth possible pillar concerns the use of lies and irrationality. This is seen with both Mussolini and Hitler but I hesitate to add it as an essential element of fascism because quite frankly all politicians lie - it's just a matter of degrees.

The nature of fascism is that it strives to gain power. Consequently, it manifests in varied ways depending on the context. This can make it hard to determine when a nation is fascistic. This has become increasingly true in the modern world where wannabee dictators are aware of the stink of fascism and therefore cloak their ideology using more palatable terms such as "nationalism" and preach about the restoration of "law and order". This isn't always the case, especially with the group we're going to look at today - the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, also known as the AWB.

Apartheid in South Africa

I'm sure the topic needs no introduction, but I'll quickly define apartheid. It was a system implemented in South Africa from 1948 to 1991, and it was led by the National Party, which was an Afrikaner ethnic nationalist party.

Pictured above is the National Party flag and the apartheid South African flag. In short, apartheid is a system predicated on institutionalized racial segregation, and it favoured the White minority. Segregation was achieved through forced removals and the creation of townships for Blacks, which had the secondary effect of creating a cheap source of labour. The government also used pass laws that required black South African citizens to carry passes when travelling outside their homelands. This was enforced by Acts such as the Natives (Urban Areas) Act of 1923 and the Black (Natives) Laws Amendment Act of 1952 that deemed urban areas "white". If 'non-whites' were found travelling in urban areas without passes, they faced the possibility of arrest. As you can imagine, interracial marriage was also banned.

The "heyday" of apartheid occurred during the 1960s and 1970s, but the National Party soon began facing strong resistance from the ANC and condemnation from the international community. Consequently, in the 1980s, some of the petty laws of apartheid were repealed, including the law banning interracial s*x and marriage (the Race Relations Act) and the mixing of the races (Group Areas Act). The government also provided limited political rights to Indians and Coloureds, though it wouldn't be until 1994 that South Africa would have its first democratic elections which were won by the ANC, allowing Nelson Mandela to rule the nation.

So, was apartheid South Africa fascist? No. Importantly, the movement lacks a palingenetic rebirth myth. Nevertheless, there were fascist movements bubbling in the country, with the most popular easily being the AWB.

The Birth of the AWB

As apartheid laws were slowly repealed, some liberal White South Africans saw this as progress. However, there were huge swaths of the White population that did not agree with the increasing liberal influences on the country's politics.

One individual who opposed the direction the country was going in was Eugene Terre'Blanche. We won't go too deep into his history (there will be a separate post dedicated to him), but all you need to know for now is that Eugene was born in 1941 and he expressed Christian Afrikaaner nationalist sentiments from a very young age. In 1973, he called a meeting with several men where he complained of the increasing liberal influence in the country under the leadership of Prime Minister B. J. Vorster. He also feared the increasing influence of communism, and as a response, he formed the AWB, with him as the leader.

The AWB is an extremist far-right party that strives to create an independent Afrikaaner state (Boerestaat) separate from the rest of the country. Is the AWB fascistic? Yes! The group is openly fascist, and is strongly influenced by Nazi Germany. Consequently, the group is anti-semitic, and it uses a flag featuring a "triskelion" which is a three-armed swastika.

It also exhibits all four of my pillars of fascism:

1. Support of political violence

The group has used significant violence since its conception, and it remains committed to using violence to bring about the Boerstaat. It is responsible for many terroristic attacks during apartheid, especially in the 80s and 90s. Notable episodes of violence include:

• The Battle of Ventersdorp in 1991 which saw the AWB go head to head with the South African Police Force, and resulted in three deaths

• The Storming of the Kempton Park World Trade Centre in 1993 which involved 3000 members of the group storming the World Trade Center in Kempton Park

• 1994 bombings which resulted in the death of 20 people

The violence did not stop after apartheid ended. In 1996, the group planted a bomb in a grocery store, killing four civilians. Eugene Terre'Blanche also served time in prison for beating a petrol station attendant until he had brain damage (more on that in the next post).

The AWB is violent and aggressive. You can see it in this Louis Theroux clip featuring the documentarian speaking with Eugene who gets annoyed with Louis and squeezes his hand.

2. Support of strict gender roles and social hierarchies

The AWB uses Christianity to justify its gender roles and social hierarchy. They are insistent that the Bible says that Blacks and Whites must live separately, and they wish to bring about a patriarchal, pastoral Boer society.

3. Belief in a palingenetic rebirth myth

This runs strong in the ideology of the AWB. Their fall from grace comes with the Second Boer War which brought about the end of the Boer republics of South Africa. The party promises to restore these republics and bring about the great Boer empire once more.

4. Opposition to any initiatives or institutions that are racially, ethnically, or religiously diverse

It goes without saying that the AWB strikes for a homogenous society. They do not want Blacks, Jews, or communists in their Boer republics. They scapegoat the ANC, immigrants, and Black people as their enemies.

Unfortunately, the AWB had a huge following and at its peak, it boasted a membership of close to half a million. It also caught the attention of the international world, including Nazi sympathisers. Consequently, the group is quite prominent in right-wing literature, especially alternate history fiction novels such as Gun of the South. I've read the book and I quite like it. This is my favorite quotes from the text:

The AWB in Modern Day

Since South Africa became a democratic republic, the AWB has only shrunk in size, but its supporters remain passionate. One of the topics they rally around is the issue of farm killings, which they frame as a white genocide. They will often protest by shutting down highways and waving Old South African flags as well as the Nazi triskelion flag.

The group is still concerned with creating a Boerstaat, and they have their eyes on the Transvaal and the Free State but they haven't had much success claiming land. In one video worth watching, a member of the AWB tries arguing his case on television, and he threatens the Black female, leading to an altercation between him and the male host who warns him not to touch him on his studio.

Perhaps the biggest blow the group has experienced occurred in 2010 when he was killed by two of his own Black farm workers! He was beaten to death with pangas (machetes) and pipes. The murderers claimed that Eugene was buckbreaking them, though no evidence of sodomy was found.

Today, the group has about 5000 members and it is a shell of its former self with no political teeth at all. So is there any reason to fear the AWB?

Does the AWB still pose a threat?

YES! The AWB is actively recruiting the youth and trying to grow its numbers. It is doing this through the use of social media to spread its message. Several scholars are warning about the rise of fascism in South Africa and it's terrifying me! I'm so scared of fascism, I feel I have to do everything in my power to stop it. Unfortunately, all I can do is longpost. If they win, the races will be separated, then I'll NEVER have a white gf.

https://www.cfr.org/blog/transnational-white-supremacist-militancy-thriving-south-africa

The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement), founded in 1973 by noted white supremacist Eugène Terre'Blanche, also remains active today. The group apparently boasts around 5,000 members, and in 2010, members of the group were arrested for plans to attack Black townships in the wake of the murder of Terre'Blanche—which some claimed was racially motivated. The plotters, based in Pretoria, had also threatened foreigners and players traveling to the country for the 2010 World Cup. And in 2002, a far-right group calling itself the "Warriors of the Boer Nation" claimed responsibility for a series of blasts targeting the township of Soweto, in which one woman was killed.

https://www.ru.ac.za/perspective/2012archives/theleftsfailuretoresolveglobalcrisisgivesfascismroom.html

Last week at the 24th Socialist International (SI) congress in Cape Town, a similar warning about the threat of fascism was issued. However, this referred to a global danger. And this week, as the local mining industry faced turmoil, National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) spokesman Lesiba Seshoka also raised the spectre of fascism.

Conclusion

I hope you join me in my next post when I discuss the life and death of Eugene Terre'Blance. It is a long, sometimes funny, but always frightening story. Look, I'm just searching for a way to stop the chuds from winning. I will NOT live in a segregated nation, I will NOT have my vote taken away from me (even if I don't vote), and I will NOT live in a fascist country. Videos like this absolutely frighten me:

I don't know how Americans sleep at night when they have a proto-fascist about to take the wheel. FASCISM BAD!

!africans !nonchuds !effortposters !mayomoment

My father and other lunatics near his farm has had the bright idea to start a hobby farming into cattle

For the past 4 months they've been building a dipping kraal, or a medicine application bead/holding, which is just basically a pre-built fence or passage where cattle/cows/goats/bucks or any other form of domesticated bovines are herded through, preferably one-by-one to apply veterinary care,

like spraying their fur with anti-lice or anti-parasite poison, or injecting them with vaccinations or whatever the particular situation requires.

This dipping passage system, can be technologically sophisticated

or locally rurally primitive - as has been done 100 years ago

https://www.farmersweekly.co.za/farming-basics/how-to-livestock/a-career-in-veterinary-nursing/

Large commercial farmers can even have hardcore systems to separate cattle into groups while applying medication, prior to selling for auctions or butcheries

THere's even companies which build custom, but pre-fabricated pens and dipping-passages which have proven to be very effective for commercial farmers

https://www.facebook.com/taltec.co.za/posts/tal-tec-se-sirkel-drukkraal-uitleg-is-n-kraal-om-jou-beeswerk-maklik-en-vinnig-t/4105574749474093/

all looks very complicated, but what it boils down to is to aid in the driving on of domesticated animals, without hurting cattle or ranchers themselves, while also leaving easy access to the animals for medication care. There is no definitive surefire method or structure, they are as variable as there are farmers and stock.

Some act as multi-purpose structures, where once vaccinated, cattle are thenafter driven onto ramps, up to transportation trucks

which again can vary dramatically, from humble specialized trailers, capable of being pulled by any pick-up truck with sufficient power, to gargantuan commercial grade trucks capable of transporting a 100 bastards at once

Anyways, the nutjobs near my father's farm had started to construct a homemade dipping kraal/passage, by using manual labour and a generator bolted onto an shopping trolley's wheels! (this was from a month ago)

The dipping enclosure were to have wooden beams with giant rubber strip lengths surrounding the enclosure, to protect the cattle from harming themselves when they bump into the wooden beams, a the soft rubber softens the blow like the softened corners of a wrestling ring.

These giant rubber strips were pulled tight around the wooden beams with a specialized fence-wire pulling tool, which utilized leverage onto chains with a clamped with each segment

This "Draadtrekker" or "Wire-Puller" has this teethed mechanism, to consecutively "climb" onto a chain, to pull a wire clamped onto it's tail end, and uses leverage to strengthen the pull onto each consecutive chain link. It's operation is very hard to describe into words. But it basically "climbs" onto the chain, with the teeth hooks.

It's soft of like like a ratchet wrench type device but not really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_(device)

The idea is to pull a wire or other material as taut as possible, to strengthen the wire's structure, usually for farm fences.

Saturday and Yesterday, my father had discovered that the 6 beeste had severe eye infections, to the degree that they were borderline blind. Their eyes were swollen and inflamed, and the cause uncertain - as they are supposed to be the type of local Safrican breed hardened against this climate and its parasites and illnesses. Regardless the cattle were really rough looking

TTheir eyes so swollen that they could barely see more than a few meters ahead of themselves.

One cow which was so angsty and evasive, literally ran away from my father in panic as it could not recognize my father - mistaking him from some other predator or whatever, despite usually running at speed whenever my father appears in the veld towards him, because my parents regularly feed them lettuce and carrots to make them used to humanity

This brought alarms to everyone, and soon he had called me from across the farm with dogshit 3rd world cellphone signal - i only noticed a "missed-call" in my SMS, and realized my father's intention. I had to run in 33 degree heat and gather the two Lesotho laborers currently building the unfinished kraal, because the 6th cow was being so evasive, that it would require a multi-man concerted effort, to corral this beest into the dipping passage, in order to closely inspect wtf was wrong with it.

after lots of sweating we managed to not just gather the blind-beest, but also the other 5 beeste, into the unfinished, but luckily fully enclosed kraal, i had to run like hooligan and ram pipes into the exit of the dipping passage , to block off the exit, and ensure the 6 cattle corralled into the dipping passage, would not just exit like water from a funnel so tired.

Then once they were within the kraal, structure we could clearly see at point blank, just how fricked up their eyes were. All 6 had problems, 3 of them had tears running down the sides of their faces endlesslly - it appeared that they had great aggravated suffering.

To compound this horror and bad luck, my father had enlisted the services of a farm animal vet, but he had decline to doctor them for eye and other parasite related shit, because he had stated that it was useless to apply medicine before symptoms showed well now 2 weeks later we were all staring at blind 6 cattle with dark black tear streaks in obvious suffering.

We were all tired from the corralling efforts in a humid crushing 33 degree heat (which is nothing i know compared to the 40 degree heat in actually hot places in the country), so we decided to start lunch while my father made a decision.

We made boiled eggs and noodles, and my mother shared the same for the 2 Lesotho men (many SA employers can be ruthless and let men work without break in the sun, nor ever give them food)

After lunch my father had decided, we cannot wait even a week for a vet to come again, and that likely if these cattle were not treated, they could form permanent cataract-like debilitating ailments, or just become blind. He still had eye-treating medicine stored in his shed. And OH BOY did i not yet realize what we were in for!!

The next stage was to corral the 6 cattle from the outer kraal, into the dipping funnel passage, and to our woes, the structure was not yet finished, additionally the 6 cattle were spooky and uncooperative and we found it impossible to fricking separate them, thus we were only capable of herding all 6 into the funnel passage at once, so that they were squashed tightly.

This was not done for the sake of animal abuse, but because it was decided if we did not treat these animals here and now, blindness would follow - and we were without all the cowtools we needed, the passage was unfinished and we had not fricking vet with us.

Ironically, the fact that the cattle had squashed themselves so tightly, meant that they could not bump their heads in erratic spontaneous movements and hurt themselves.

We were supposed to have a headclamp ordered, but it was still a city away and had not yet been delivered, but this was an emergency, and again we could not fricking wait

Thus we had to also make to with the only pitiful rope we had - which the Lesotho men tied around the nearest wooden beam, and then the horns/mouth of the specific cattle we wanted to treat, in order to keep their heads still and unmoving - and once again this was not done for the sake of animal cruelty

Cattle/cows are unbelievably strong. You often see videos of city-slickers and people who've never encountered wild animals or even domesticated farm animals before and tourists dangerously approach large animals into their comfort-zone, only to get mauled/hooved and their body battered.

Cattle have necks with the thickness and strength of ten men's arms - i've seen before how careless ranchers or farmhands have their hands crushed and their bones splintered from just one spontaneous movement of a cow's head, pinning a man's hand next to a wooden bean, or alternatively bending backwards every fricking digit of a man's fingers because the usually docile and pleasant cow gets spooked and have no idea of their own strength compared to a human's, and unintentionally can cause tremendous bodily harm to its owners. Just one random jerk of an unaggressive cow's head can gore the arm of a reckless man.

The 6 cattle were stuffed and jampacked into the funnel dipping passage, and thus we placed two pipes at the entrace to the passage to block them in! i had to literally push the last cow in with all the force of my strength along with the two Lesotho men, while a 3rd pushed in pipes between the wooden beams to lock them inside!!!

From here on out we had to apply two types of medicine (which i cant spell or pronounce): One was a bottle of teardrop type medicine which was applied by lifting up the lids of the target cattle, and squeezing it onto the area of irritation/inflammation. The 2nd was an injection via needle which, as per the instruction of the vet, had to be injected into the eyelids of the cow!!!! But a cow's eyelids are very thick and filled with blood-vessels, and much larger when compared to a human's

As you guys can imagine, no animal likes to have their fricking eyeballs messed with and manipulated, especially after they are hurting and highly irritated by whatever infected it, like a human's red-eye.

This was why we had been forced to stabilize the cattle's head, by tying it up, lest it hurt itself or us, in it's panic or pain.

Of course i personally was too much of a b-word butt wimp to personally handle the medicine and eyeball needle shit, so i balked at that part but my father is giga hardcore and wen to great lengths to be gentle and shit.

finally after like 40 minutes, the poor cattle could dazedly and with stiff legs get the frick out of the cramped dipping funnel

we pulled out the pipes blocking the funnel exit, and they skedaddled out of there

what a nightmare

slice of life shit

Some mielie/maize bread baked by mother next to braai (open fire)

giant unused ordinance - from WW1, WW2 and 1899 boer war.

sister feeding cattle lettuce and carrots

Khoisan maize/corn/wheat giant mortal and pestle stones - smooth stones used to grind any edible grain or mielies into food capable of being baked into starch or other food like pap

im not nearly as cool as that other dramatard which built his whole fricking porch, but hopefully some of you found this at least somewhat mildly amusing

!africans

INTRO:

Greetings Dramatards

Yesterday on my father's farm, while we were busy vaccinating cows, by injecting medicine directly into their eyelids and eyeballs, I then had a moment to read an Afrikaans article about Elon Musk's incredible rise in stature, where he had managed to make powerful friends with Trump, and had managed to secure great power and influence by becoming the head of a newly created Department of Efficiency in USA - a newly created organization, which would endeavor during Trump's tenure to investigate Federal spending, and cut bloated or mismanaged funds by the American Nation State.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/13/trump-names-musk-and-ramaswamy-to-head-new-government-efficiency-department

Supposedly, this was because of Elon's cost-cutting measures which he had done, when he decimated Twatter's bloated workforce by something like 50% in the 1st week, and eventually by 80% overall by the end of the year he bought it. His appointment has been met with positivity by Magatards and the crowds, with the belief that he would endeavour to reduce the annual budget - and he had even made a campaign promise to slash the Colossal yank annual spending of 6 Trillion$, by 2 Trillion$ - video of which has been making rounds

When doubts had been raised by other rightoids of the feasibility of this grand feat, or the reliability of Elon, Magatards had just shouted them down

I'm here to explain why I believe Elon is a horrifying appointment

AMERICAN RIGHTWINGERS MISS THE DANGER OF MUSK:

The Afrikaans article was from a local Economist short paper and they like my own, have their biases to Rightwing type views. While the majority of criticism against Elon has been my lefties, communists and welfare leeches, which poisons the conversation about this significant event. Commies despise Elon for his Libertarian standing, and the fact that Billionares even exist as a concept - so the loudest people whom had opposed this announcement on Twatter had been fricking commies afraid Elon would slash their Neetbux instead of any policy or ethics criticism - which further poisoned the well of this discussion.

Now pissing off leftoids is always a GOOOOOD THING!

But many other rightwingers, like Patrick Boyle - who's a Libertarian Mick

have been criticizing Elon hard for his business acumen, his professional and public behaviour and his staggering corruption. And we'll get to that corruption.

The article I read went to such an extreme, as to calling Elon Musk's appointment, the equivalent of a Gupta appointment.

https://rdrama.net/post/162984/marseyflagsouthafrica-south-african-theme-park-racism

Basically the context is that during the infamously corrupt Safrican president Jacob Zuma's 10 years in office, he had esentiallly sold the very grounds beneath the feet of south africans, to the criminal Indian Gupta family, by giving them nationscale nepotistic appointments to their companies via tenders - and allowing the Guptas to pilfer the national resources of the country - in what was termed State Capture.

Elon Musk has similar degrees of monstrous conflicts of interest.

FEASIBILITY OF MUSK'S CAMPAIGN PROMISES:

Now there are a great of inefficiency which Musk can tackle

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/

Chances are even that it's even feasible that Musk and Trump could cut the annual 7.5 Trillion Budget by as much as 1 Trillion per year, by cutting off all of the Governmental bloat - like the top heavy Educational boards of urban schools filled with parasites, or in the very least make the Pentagon to a national audit see all the various black holes in which yank Federal funding are disappearing into (an audit alone would make Musk's new department worth it alone)

The issue is not the feasibility or the degree of feasibility of Musk curbing Government spending, but that there are phenomenal, PHENOMINAL conflicts of interest!

ARTICLES EXPLORING DEVIOUS CONFLICTS OF INTEREST:

A New York article written 3 weeks ago goes into how much US Tax dollars have been paying to various tenders obtained by companies owned by Musk's corporate conglomerates.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/us/politics/elon-musk-federal-agencies-contracts.html

https://archive.ph/kUw8W

The obvious answer would be SpaceX, Musk's space ship building organization, which has worked with, and in may ways supplanted NASA as the premier Space Rocket launching hub in the Western World - due to the fact that SpaceX has been able to organize itself in such a way as to superiorly run entity, and drive space related projects cheaper and with greater skill than the floundering modern NASA.

This world-famous and generally positively viewed symbiotic relationship, by both sides of the aisle in burgerland, between NASA and SpaceX, has been very VERY lucrative for Musk. However NASA is just one fraction of the government tenders SpaceX receives, since the Burgerland Department of Defense has come to rely on SpaceX the company, to launch all of its new military-related satellites!!

The non-space related shit in honestly not that many, but his influence on other shit, like the department of transportation is wild.

But much much more concerning that all of these tenders for !Burgers, is that over the past 10 years, Mush has been fricking embroiled in no less than TWENTY investigations from USA government oversight and Safety-Inspection organizations!!!!!

And these aren't just junk no-nothing investigations, they have large impact on the wider industries they influence in which Musk's various conglomerate companies are a part of.

Example:

=====(from NYT article)

His entanglements with federal regulators are also numerous and adversarial. His companies have been targeted in at least 20 recent investigations or reviews, including over the safety of his Tesla cars and the environmental damage caused by his rockets.

But he has thrown his fortune and power behind former President Donald J. Trump and, in return, Mr. Trump has vowed to make Mr. Musk head of a new "government efficiency commission" with the power to recommend wide-ranging cuts at federal agencies and changes to federal rules.

That would essentially give the world's richest man and a major government contractor the power to regulate the regulators who hold sway over his companies, amounting to a potentially enormous conflict of interest.

........multipronged business arrangements with the federal government, as well as the violations, fines, consent decrees and other inquiries federal agencies have ordered against his companies. Together, they show a deep web of relationships: Instead of entering this new role as a neutral observer, Mr. Musk would be passing judgment on his own customers and regulators.

Already, Mr. Musk has discussed how he would use the new position to help his own companies.

He has questioned a rule that required SpaceX to obtain a permit for discharging large amounts of potentially polluted water from its launchpad in Texas. He also said that limiting this kind of oversight could help SpaceX reach Mars sooner — "so long as it is not smothered by bureaucracy," he wrote on X, his social-media platform. "The Department of Government Efficiency is the only path to extending life beyond Earth."

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........But the Federal Aviation Administration held up this most recent test launch for weeks, in part because of questions about harm SpaceX has caused to wildlife near its Texas launch site, a delay that infuriated Mr. Musk.

Last month, the F.A.A. started the process to fine SpaceX $633,009 for disregarding license requirements related to two of its Florida launches last year that may have compromised safety, the agency said.

This was a shift for the F.A.A., which in past instances had not imposed fines when SpaceX ignored the agency's direct orders. Marc Nichols, the F.A.A.'s chief counsel, said in a statement last month that "failure of a company to comply with the safety requirements will result in consequences."

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened five investigations of Tesla, including for complaints of unexpected braking, loss of steering control and crashes while cars were in "self-driving" mode.

Tesla has tried to block at least two rulings from the National Labor Relations Board, including one punishing Mr. Musk for tweeting that factory workers would lose stock options if they joined a union.

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Mr. Musk in recent years has particularly attacked the Securities and Exchange Commission, which in 2018 charged him with securities fraud for a series of false and misleading tweets related to taking Tesla private. Mr. Musk had posted on Twitter that he had planned to take the company private at $420 a share, and that he had "funding secured" for a transaction. As part of a later settlement with the S.E.C., he stepped down as Tesla's chairman and Tesla paid a $20 million fine.

In a 2022 TED Talk, Mr. Musk lambasted regulators, calling them "bastards."

=====(end NYT Quote)

As you guys can see our turbo neurodivergent has been every bit the morally bankrupt billionare as you would expect.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-list-government-subsidies-tesla-billions-spacex-solarcity-2021-12

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-11-14/elon-musk-conflicts-of-interest

=====(from LA times article)

Tesla:

Trump's policies could reduce the sales of electric vehicles, but with Musk's influence, his administration's policies could boost Tesla — though not with federal funding.

For example, Trump, who tempered criticism of electric vehicles after Musk backed him, might end a $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicles. That would hurt Tesla's unprofitable rivals that rely more on the tax credits to lure customers.

This year, Tesla received at least $2.8 million from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation through a federally funded program to deploy EV charging stations.

From 2022 to 2024, Tesla and its subsidiaries were awarded at least $631,800 in federal contracts mainly to provide vehicles for the U.S. embassies in Singapore, Iceland and Thailand, the data showed.

The Boring Co.:

Fed up with Los Angeles traffic, Elon Musk launched The Boring Co. with two tweets in 2016, promising "to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging."

However, at Trump's urging, congressional representatives could earmark local transportation projects to the benefit of Boring Co.

=====(end LA Times quote)

SUPER PACS:

Point is his new political influence would give him the capacity to disrupt investigations into his companies, by Health-and-Safety departments and regulators, or worse and most likely enable him to inject bias into the national procurement procedures, to net tenders for only his conglomerate of companies.

Now in the past, staggering corruption has existed. Yanks have appointed business tycoons into ministerial levels of power, or bought the Departments of regulators through influential lobbying by corrupt industry political interests, often through obscuring disguise called SUPERPACS

https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/super-pacs/2024

Like fossil-fuel industries, like coal-mining or offshore-oil-drilling conglomerates to bribe politicians in congress, senate or Presidential admin, to cut regulations in their favor. (Must has also done this for Trump BTW )

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-america-pac-trump-d248547966bf9c6daf6f5d332bc4be66

But often these corrupt businessmen would be separated by a degree of control, by the corrupt politicians they aimed to control or influence - Musk would have not even ONE degree of such separation, and likely no fricking oversight.

MUSK'S VARIOUS BUSNINESS INTEREST'S SOAR IN VALUE ON STOCK MARKET:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/11/22/elon-musks-net-worth-hits-record-high-thanks-to-57-billion-post-election-windfall/

The corruption is SO flagrant that investors on the stock market have gone crazy in investing on in his various businesses, out of the sheer EXPECTATION that Musk will now use his considerable influence and political position to favor his corporate conglomerates!!

https://fortune.com/2024/11/11/elon-musk-donald-trump-election-tesla-auto-industry-carmakers-market-value/

MUSK IS A GEOPOLITICAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST:

Other geopolitical commentators had also mentioned that Musk is by sheer virtue of his Chinese and Russian connections, an astronomical military risk.

https://apnews.com/article/spacex-ukraine-starlink-russia-air-force-fde93d9a69d7dbd1326022ecfdbc53c2

Our boi had on various occasions cut off internet access for Ukraine forces, as they had utilized Starlink in the underdeveloped internet-infrastructure of Hohol-land, which had further degraded during the war, through constant missile barrages on Ukrainian civilian areas. Starlink internet was invaluable to guide GPS areal and naval missiles, as well as connect commercial drones to drop grenades unto enemy trenches

====(from AP article)

SpaceX founder Elon Musk's refusal to allow Ukraine to use Starlink internet services to launch a surprise attack on Russian forces in Crimea last September has raised questions as to whether the U.S. military needs to be more explicit in future contracts that services or products it purchases could be used in war, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said Monday.

Excerpts of a new biography of Musk published by The Washington Post last week revealed that the Ukrainians in September 2022 had asked for the Starlink support to attack Russian naval vessels based at the Crimean port of Sevastopol. Musk had refused due to concerns that Russia would launch a nuclear attack in response.

However, in the months since, the U.S. military has funded and officially contracted with Starlink for continued support. The Pentagon has not disclosed the terms or cost of that contract, citing operational security.

But the Pentagon is reliant on SpaceX for far more than the Ukraine response, and the uncertainty that Musk or any other commercial vendor could refuse to provide services in a future conflict has led space systems military planners to reconsider what needs to be explicitly laid out in future agreements

=====(end AP quote)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/world/europe/elon-musk-starlink-ukraine.html

Even if Musk's pro-Putler tendencies weren't such a dangerous hot-point in the Ukraine-Russia conflict, the sheer fact that a USA-based private-enterprise would balk in the support of USA allies, out of fear of commercial retaliation of USA enemies, laid a lot of concern for Burgerland military leaders.

Then there is China, which in my opinion, and many geopolitical analysts, is a substantially LARGER threat, in terms of making Musk a cabinet weakness!!

Musk has substantial parts of his collective wealth tied to Chinese Factories:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3287323/elon-musks-china-ties-profound-threat-us-national-security-senator

====(FROM scmp)

Elon Musk's involvement in the incoming Donald Trump administration is drawing scrutiny over possible conflicts of interests, with a senator warning that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO's business ties with China could jeopardise US national security.

Tesla manufactures half of its vehicles in China, which also accounts for one-third of its sales, while the US Defence Department and other government agencies are increasingly reliant on SpaceX.

Musk's close business ties with China and some of its most senior officials, including Premier Li Qiang, have prompted reports that he could be considered by Beijing as a backchannel to Trump, especially in the early days of the transition period.

"It's a very, very difficult position for Mr Musk to be in," said Fish, adding that Beijing "loves to use corporate leverage" over US companies and individuals to advance its national security interests.

"Frankly, I don't know how Mr Musk can balance the interests he has with the US government, with Tesla and with SpaceX at the same time. It's very, very challenging," he said.

====(end scmp article)

Meaning China could literally threaten Musk with actual bankruptcy (for Tesla), if they try to put the squeeze on him to get him to do something for them, or to threaten Musk directly, if they want to hurt USA directly - like saying if USA provides some stuff for Taiwan, like Starlink antennas - they would just go straight to turbo cuck Musk!

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/10/why-does-elon-musk-still-have-a-security-clearance/680434/

Anyways that's all i have to talk about. Chances are that cutting the bloated yank Budget is entirely feasible - but I personally believe Musk is at all the appropriate candidate for such an astronomically difficult undertaking, despite the vast popularity he enjoys from Libertarians, rightoids and Magatards

Must is such an extremely bad fit for his position, that I think many americans have genuinely missed his obvious and extreme conflicts of interest, and how the cultural-wars and identity politics of Kamala and shitlibs have obfuscated such possible future Gupta tiers of corruption!!!

Like i hate commies as well, and i enjoy Musk dunking on filthy shitlibs, but that sure as shit doesn't garantee he'll be a force for good for Burgerland

!effortposters !africans

Some choice quotes from the top food scientists of reddit

/u/Brujo-Bailando writes

>We drank it growing up and didn't get sick....Flys were a problem in warmer weather and you would have to pick them out of the milk...Sometimes it had cow poo on it.

Make Americans drink poop milk again!

/u/ahifun writes

>Been drinking it for years, I still drink it when it is a bit old and goes a bit sour after 1-2 weeks. There is no health risk, it is all cap to protect the interests of large dairy producers...it reduces the enzymes and good bacteria, it reduces nutrients and makes it taste worse...Raw milk goes sour faster but even if it goes sour there is very low health risk. If a milk is cooked/heated and then it goes sour, that is where you get the toxic bacteria.

Milk souring is a separate process from spoiling, as it occurs when lactose splits into different acids. But with that falsehood out of the way, I'm sure this genius knows a lot about microbiology. He could definitely name the good/bad bacterias he's talking about straight from memory, doubly so for his nutrients and enzymes.

/u/KT0QNE jokerposts his milkifesto

>A commercial food producer gives listeria or e-coli and recalls multiple product lines and nobody bats an eye. But some small farmer who has everything to lose tries to sell raw milk and everyone loses their mind.

People have been drinking raw milk for thousands of years.

People have been eating fermented milk products for thousands a year, leading some, not all, to develop a gene that prolongs their infantile ability to break down lactose based on the trace amounts found in processed milk. Dairy producing countries pre-pasturation did not have raw milk drinking cultural traditions outside of farmland, as refridgeration to slow down the growth of bacteria of raw milk didn't exactly exist.

/u/teatsqueezwe

>Raw milk actually has good and useful bacteria as well as vitamins and nutrients that get destroyed in the Pasteurizing process.

Such as? What are they? How much is lost?

A true blue fentposter /u/Cliphdiver adds:

>Ive been drinking raw milk since 1972, you whippersnappers. And Ive lived on a farm all my life. The raw milk scare began when factories started operating near farms. Google it. When the Govt got involved, they decided to kill everything in milk, no more problems. Now your drinking white water for $4 a gallon. (With some vitamins thrown in) You dont need any fancy equipment. Just a healthy cow and a bucket. BEWARE: make darn sure you double filter it (straining) to catch anything that may have fallen in the bucket during milk process. ENJOY and f"@K the FDA!

Is it safe or does it need to be strained? I hope they have a strainer from the future that can filter microbes smaller than milk's existing fats.

/u/Vinlands

>There used to be underground markets selling raw milk because it was so sought after. Imagine actual swat teams showing up to raid the shops to "protect" us. I'm not on either side of whether its safe or not; I just don't understand why the government would interfere and say raw milk is illegal.

Past ignorance does not somehow make the repeating the same stupidity less ignorant. The police comes because raw milk farmers are a threat to society, and honestly they should be shot where they stand so we don't have to hear them whining that they can't profit off selling people dangerous bullshit. Libertarians can't comprehend this because they're stupid enough to be libertarians in the first place.

/u/huntsvillekan posts the following legitament historical account detailing why you can't trust dairy farmers not to kill people, ergo why they must be regulated by force under capitalism: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/surprisingly-intolerant-history-milk-180969056/

Some highlights: 8000 yearly deaths in NYC from unregulated milk farmers, "The Greeks castigated barbarians for their gluttonous desire for dairy...in Rome, milk was widely regarded as low-status food because it was something only farmers drank," "

It would take both technological innovation and a change in social mores to popularize animal milk...milk was one of the first foods to be truly affected by industrialization"

So is mass milk drinking thousands of years old and ubiquitous, or a product of the industrial revolution. Anyway...

/u/chobbs2006 comes in explaining how raw milk is their latest schizo-cure to the new in-vogue hypochondriac illness: GERD!

>I've been drinking Jersey A2 raw milk for about 10 months, in addition to my plant-free diet. I add in 2 to 3 oz of heavy whipping cream into 8 to 10 oz of raw milk. It's been amazing so far! I feel like it's healing my gut. I used to have really bad gerd, what's the diet took mostly care of, But now I am able to have a little bit of fruit or honey if I wish and not get heartburn anymore. What makes it unsafe are too primary things, how it is harvested, ie the hygiene and sanitation of the farm, and the cold chain. But I'm also about to make some raw kefir, can't wait

It's like these fad-diet chasers come out of a factory somewhere

Most of the remaining commenters of note just have anecdotes about living on a farm, drinking raw milk, and using a fricking cheesecloth on their already contaminated milk to get the shit-chunks out.

Happy drinking!

It's a sad morning. I can't think of anything but the numerous rejections I've faced throughout my life. Women don't find me attractive, they've told me this in uncertain terms, and I don't know why it's taken me almost 30 years to finally get the message. In this post I'll share all the rejection I remember.

2006

My first rejection was a relatively mild one. It occurred when I was in 5th grade and I thought this girl in my class was cute. She was a Black girl and she had dated a friend of mine. I bought her chocolate and she rejected it completely and would not take it from me. After that it was awkward for the rest of year because we were in the same class and she knew I had a crush on her.

2007

In the 6th grade I had a crush on another Black girl in my class. I sat next to her, and she was a somewhat bigger girl. During camp, I admitted to my friends that I had feelings for her and they told her. She made it clear that the feelings weren't reciprocal. More awkwardness ensued as I had to sit next to her for the rest of the year.

2008

In the 7th grade the girls in my class made a "Hot or Not" list. Predictably, I was on the "Not" side. The list was passed around in class so my shame could be publicized. Right here, at age 13, when an entire room of girls could unanimously agree that I'm ugly, this should have been the moment when I accept that no women would ever find me attractive. Unfortunately, I had far too much hope.

2010

In the ninth grade, I dealt with my first major rejection. I had a crush on a girl in my class. She was Indian, and she was a good friend of mine. We'd hang around together a lot and she was nice to me. I wanted to do something nice for her when I asked her out so I learned HTML and I made a website dedicated to her. I brought my PSP to school and I showed her the website which ended with me asking her out. She rejected me and it was so painful it plunged me into depression. I had never felt heartbreak like that ever.

This wouldn't be the only rejection I suffered in 2010. I was part of a cohort that had an academic scholarship, and we were taken on a camp together with students from other schools who were part of the same scholarship. At night, the girls came to our dorm and fetched some of us because they wanted to play spin the bottle. What ensued is an evening of crippling shame. Every time the bottle landed on me, the girls would look upon me with abject disgust when they realised they had to kiss me. It became a running joke that I was the ugly, unwanted creature there giving women the ick. It was made abundantly clear to me that in no way did any of the women present find me remotely attractive and in fact they were positively repulsed by me. I will never forget this night. Brutal humiliation in front of my peers.

2011

I finally got a gf! She was a short, Black girl that seemed affectionately enough. However, she was cheating on me, she ignored me, and she constantly asked me for money. I knew she was cheating on me but I turned a blind eye because I finally had a gf, but it hurt me immensely and I couldn't take it anymore. I broke up with her in 2013.

2013

There was a girl, Black, who approached me and wanted me to help her with Physics since I was good at it and she wasn't. She started coming to my Physics afterschool tutorials with me, and because she was a poorcel, I paid for her lessons. I eventually developed feelings for her and I wrote her a love letter. She turned me down. It was emotionally brutal.

2014

In university, the girls in the cafeteria would make fun of me and call me a 14-year-old because I was short. I eventually stopped going and just ate food in my room in my third year until I moved out into my own place. Even the warden of my residence called me the "short one".

2016

This is the year I tried online dating. Got no matches on any of the apps. I chatted to one girl on Fetlife but when she saw my picture she started bullying me. This was also the year I gave up and started identifying as an asexual. I wove my past into a story of "compulsory heterosexuality" forged from ideas by feminist scholars such as Adrianne Rich. "I never wanted to date girls, I had simply been socialized that way!" The cope helped to alleviate the pain but as you all know, the delusion didn't last forever and I eventually gave up the asexual label and accepted that I was an incel, but that would take years.

One good thing came out of this, which is that I joined AVEN (Asexuality Visibility and Education Network) and met Sarah who would become a close friend of mine.

2023

After years of identifying as asexual, I got back into the game. I had a collossal crush on Sarah, and I couldn't hold it in anymore. I told her about it and I got brutally rejected. I wrote about it in this post.

https://rdrama.net/post/224434/i-told-my-friend-i-have

This rejection affected me immensely, and I fell into dangerous self-harm. I even ended up spending time in the psych ward in part because of the heartbreak. I couldn't handle it.

Conclusion

These are just some of the more notable rejections I have suffered. I've felt hate from teachers, police, and random looks of disgust in public. I've had babies in public comment on how dark I am, and people are shocked I'm old enough to drive. I'm stuck in forever childhood. I am a beast, a cretin, I am Frankenstein's monster. I was born at the bottom of the totem pole in terms of race, and I have been cursed to look up at everybody for my whole life. Do you know how brutal it is to have everybody looking down on you? My life as a five foot one blackcel has been a string of bad memories and rejections, and the truth is that it's fricking awful. Moving through society is hard as a five foot one black male. The strength it takes to go outside... sometimes I don't have it.

When normies are rejected, it's usually for something that they can improve upon. "I don't like shy guys", "we're not into the same things", "I like buff guys". When incels are rejected, they are usually experiencing genuine forms of prejudice and discrimination. We are shunned because of things we cannot change - we're short, or ugly, or dark-skinned, or the wrong race.

If you failed because of those factors in any other endeavor in life, and you expressed pain and trauma, you would be completely heard and sympathized with. e.g. if you lose a job because you're too shy, well that's a geniune reason to not hire someone. If you lose a job because you're ugly, EVERYONE would understand why you're hurt and traumatized by that. Yet, for some reason, people pretend to be oblivious to the source of our pain when we explain that we're being rejected and discriminated against because of ugliness, height, and other factors we cannot change.

If you were black and you couldn't get a job no matter how much you studied, the horror of your life would be obvious to all. If you're short, and you can't get a gf no matter what you achieve in your life, there is seemingly no reason for you to be upset, according to normies.

This is the reason why I will NEVER act on my feelings for women EVER AGAIN. If you've ever been redpilled you must have heard some variation of this advice: "Rejection is nothing bro! I challenge you to get rejected by 100 girls! The more rejection you experience the easier it gets!" It's not true. Rejections beat you down more. They crush what little self-esteem you have left. Nothing good comes from rejection. It is good to avoid rejection, it is an act of self preservation.

I'd like ONE (1) single biological woman here admit that they would date a 5'1 male. Be HONEST. It's OVER and we all know it. If you're about to turn 30 and you've experienced nothing but rejection your whole life, it is highly unlikely that fate will suddenly change on my 30th birthday and I'll suddenly become a Chad. The biggest predictor of the future is past patterns, and women have made it clear that they don't want me. I accept that, I hope to accept it as maturely as possible. I don't hate women, I don't think they're bad, and I don't blame them for not being attracted to me. However, I can't deny that it hurts like heck.

As you should be able to see, I started my post with a variant of the "Did Vaush just BTFO" copypasta (!soyteens you should recognize this), which was changed to be about Byron Hall, the creator of the infamous rpg FATAL, responding to a very critical review of his game. Byron's response did not disprove every claim in the review, but for the purposes of bait, I pretended that it did. Here is the copypasta I created:

Did Byron Hall just BTFO all of rpg.net's moralstrag arguments?

>https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/FATALReviewRebuttal

>Points out that Darren refuses to offer counter evidence against FATAL being difficult and complex; indeed, Darren also admits the game is difficult and complex as part of his "criticism"

>Points out that boss monsters such as Cerberus are still possible in FATAL

>Explains the origin of "where the dice never lie"

>Explains that Darren is overgeneralizing all of FATAL's possible gameplay when he calls FATAL the "date r*pe rpg"

>Points out that Jason's responses are more juvenile than the language used in FATAL

>Explains that FATAL has potential for much more varied gameplay than Vampire, and has more realistic combat too

>Explains that concepts like ether and physiognomy do not have to be accepted by the author of a role-playing game to write about them, just as a designer of a game with magic does not have to believe in real-world magic

>Explains that a woman can be nearly any class in the game, rather than only a prostitute as the reviewers claim

>Explains that FATAL's averaging rolling method emulates the normal distribution of real-world stats more accurately than games which use a single flat roll

>Explains that the standard deviation of intelligence scores is different between men and women, but changing the standard deviation does not require changing the mean

Where is YOUR evidence to back up your ridiculus claims about FATAL being the worst RPG? By all means, read the entire rebuttal, i promise you that you can't debunk it.

>inb4 I get told to shut the frick up by someone who hasn't read the review and is triggered

>inb4 someone posts the anal circumference chart without context as an "argument" and without an analysis of WHY Hall included it in his game

>inb4 someone uses anecdotal evidence

>inb4 someone says 5E is better

>inb4 someone defends Sartin & Mclellan's safe edgy humor

>inb4 someone links to 1d4chan

As you can see, this copypasta should be immediately recognizable as bait since it omits important information that was stated during the review, is a modified form of an already existing copypasta, indirectly defends one of the worst RPGs without directly praising any mechanics less generic than dice rolling, arguably lies about every claim being disproven, has intentional errors and, most importantly for both this copypasta which I created, and the original "Did X just BTFO" copypasta, It lists valid arguments in the inb4 section to prevent people from using said valid arguments. The copypasta also has 2 intentional errors which only users who care a lot about detail would notice, which are that I said "just BTFO" to preserve the original copypasta's title even though the rebuttal was made decades ago, and that I said ">inb4 someone links to 1d4chan" even though 1d6chan exists and 1d4chan is down, since many 4chan olds dislike 1d6chan removing content that violated miraheze's TOS, however in hindsight it would likely have been a better idea to reference 1d6chan for additional possible replies.

To give /tg/ credit, one poster immediately accused me of being a "contrarianist troll", but this didn't kill the thread:

https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/94402739/#q94403061

Nice baby's first contrarianist troll, but the game's only relevant worth is being a subject of mockery, plain and simple. And I can summarize why with one single sentence: When the simple act of making a character and playing the game is such an unbearably boring waste of time, then that alone is enough to condemn any game even before you get to the r-slurred and the shitty charts. Cause at least the autism in fricking GURPs serves some kind of purpose. FATAL is just unpleasant as a whole.

This reply would be expected when posting bait on 4chan, however the poster also included an anime reaction image, which may depict a character from 40k, but it is unofficial fanart outside of the style of the game. Another user called out this act of extreme oldery:

https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/94402739/#94406623

Consider the following!

anime reddit meme reaction image

No point of substance, just bitching about not liking character creation

2 other users replied back, one of them saying that 40k is board culture, however the user who replied replies again, dropping an off-topic about anime reaction images:

https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/94402739/#94407438

That's not 40k, it's some gay little anime fan image of 40k. Stop being disingenuous and misrepresenting your arguments to worm out of them.

Furthermore, you've yet to present any arguments that aren't complaining about your own personal preferences

This didn't seem to discourage other users from replying to me, Another user accuses me of being Virtualoptim, a namestrag best known for this image:

Another reply which I partially expected due to my inclusion of ">inb4 someone defends Sartin & Mclellan's safe edgy humor" was a response stating that Sartin & Mclellan's humor would have been considered extremely offensive, given that rpg.net underwent a similar transformation to somethingawful (in this case, rpgcodex is the obligatory SASS equivalent)

rpg.net btfo'd themselves. The cute twinks who did this review turned out to be total cute twinks themselves and if someone else were to post stuff like this in present day they'd have a meltdown over it and ban them forever.

I did try to interact with the thread to keep up the pretense of my bait, however this was unsuccessful. First, when another user (https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/94402739/#q94403095) said that the game can't calculate swing force, I immediately remembered that one of the only non-horrible combat mechanics was fulcrum range, which actually does calculate swing force, and replied stating the page number on the online pdf of the rules I had used a search function to find fulcrum range in. Unfortunately, the user I responded to was using a different pdf of the rulebook, and did not find fulcrum range on that page. Secondly, I tried to reply to a user stating that everyone who has played FATAL has hated it by linking to a Kiwifarms letsplay of the game, which I found from this post: https://rdrama.net/h/traditionalgames/post/315746/fatal-and-kiwifarms-a-match-made, but I was banned from all of 4chan for 13 days since my post contained banned text (likely the kiwifarms link). This prevented me from correcting the error made by the user who could not find fulcrum range

The rest of the thread is relatively boring, but some users seem to be unironically defending FATAL as a response to users who responded to my bait, and one user, or potentially a collection of users, began rolling up a character just to prove how bad the character creation system is.

The thread theme, often described as sounding like "Cookie Monster chasing a drum set down a stairwell" is the greatest thing to come from the worst role-playing game ever.

With politicians news Trump and Musk called Putin

Trump just called Putin.
Peace is in sight pic.twitter.com/3ooTyJhEnV

— Skscartoon (@skscartoon) November 10, 2024

Putin team later denied that call happening

Then later Olaf the Scholz called Putin despite Zelenskyy telling Scholz no

🇩🇪🇷🇺🇺🇦 “Please don’t call Vladimir, my Snookums”
— Zelensky asks Scholz not to call Putin pic.twitter.com/DAVfZJQg1P

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) November 15, 2024

So later Zelenskyy started crying about it

Chancellor Scholz told me that he planned to call Putin. His call, in my opinion, opens Pandora's Box. There may now be other conversations and phone calls. Just a lot of words.

And this is exactly what Putin has long sought. It is critical for him to weaken his isolation, as… pic.twitter.com/zcTydmnxsM

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) November 15, 2024

Scholz basically don't want that Putin wiped out the electric infrastructure during winter since a lot of refugees will go to Germany and that will kill even more his election so he reminded Putin that he didn't gave long range missiles to Ukraine.

Ukrainian politician started crying that Ukrainians returning to occupied areas

"At least 30% of Mariupol residents are returning to the occupied areas, some for good. An even higher percentage is going back to other occupied cities and towns, where the destruction isn't as severe," Andriushchenko said.

He also provided statistics from the past year since Russia introduced a single entry point at Sheremetyevo airport for those returning to the occupied areas.

"At least 350,000 Ukrainians tried to enter. Of these, 100,000 to 130,000 were allowed in, while the rest were turned away. About 40% of those who entered left again after registering their property under new Russian rules and picking up their belongings. However, around 50,000 to 60,000 Ukrainians returned to the occupied areas for good," Andriushchenko said.

These 4 million were left to survive without housing, compensation, or any help. The largest wave of departures happened in February and March, not just from returnees but from others as well. This senseless government decision pushed people either abroad or into the occupied areas. Why? Try living on the street with a family of three. Can you survive? Or with a minimum wage of 10-15 thousand hryvnias – is that enough? Probably not. That's why many refugees went to places where they at least have a roof over their heads. It's hard to blame someone for not wanting to be homeless," Andriushchenko wrote.

Did Reddit posted this story ? Of course not. Since it's going against their soy worldview.

Then Zelenskyy been non stop switching his position from Trump plan good we want peace to Trump plan bad we will fight

Musk made fun of him and it hurt a lot of soyboys

Volodymyr Zelenskyy: “Ukraine is an independent country. The U.S. cannot force us to sit and listen at the negotiating table.”

Elon Musk: His sense of humor is amazing. pic.twitter.com/uNQcHogYgb

— Ostap Yarysh (@OstapYarysh) November 16, 2024

On front line news this video shows best how this week was

A soldier in Kurakhove being interviewed by some foid.

Guy: Situation is meh but controlled

Foid: yes just like in the meme everything is under control, we will show the map again, I am not military expert, but what we seeing isn't danger of being cut out ?

Guy:

……

…Foid: I think our guest just froze

Guy: no I am here I am here just bad internet.

So point of this example is that Ukraine been hiding frontline changes hard this week and even clown Julian been playing a long

#NewsMap
The Russian invasion army advanced more than 1 km inside Western #ChasivYar abd almost reached the center. Russian soldiers were enganged by FPV drones, not Ukrainian ground troops ... pic.twitter.com/h9AGtXeQjw

— Julian Röpcke🇺🇦 (@JulianRoepcke) November 16, 2024

From some strange reasons he showed how bad things in Chasiv Yar got.

As you see liveuamap doesn't shows it.

Russian forces have penetrated deeply in the canter of Kupyansk. pic.twitter.com/erFaq5BABi

— KalibratedMaps (@Kalibrated_Maps) November 16, 2024

Russian pushed 12 km into Kupyansk and cut its main road. Now Ukrainian will be forced to leave Russian river bank of Oskol river.

Then Russian also captured huge chunk of Toretsk

Geolocated footage indicates that Russian forces have restarted offensive operations in the Zabalka district of Toretsk and have made progress in the direction of the Terykons.

Following Ukrainian advances in the district which led to them pushing Russia from it entirely,… pic.twitter.com/HtxyeB5YZv

— AMK Mapping 🇺🇦🇳🇿 (@AMK_Mapping_) November 17, 2024

And after Russian pushed Ukrainian out of Avdiivka, ISW was saying, Russian won't have much power left to continue pushing and at most what they could archive this year is push to Chasiv yard or to Kupyansk or to Toresk but it's highly unlikely

So of course those frontline changes doesn't matter in world of Reddit

https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1gsgxr7/how_does_a_war_like_the_one_in_ukraine_actually/

The guys are focusing on winning where it's important and if they ignore all other places where Ukraine is losing then those losings never happened. Even tho Ukraine is also losing in Kursk but they can blame it on Korean that are still nowhere to be found after more than a month now

2/ Russian forces recently advanced near Kupyansk, Toretsk, Pokrovsk, Kurakhove, and Vuhledar. pic.twitter.com/EYs1oLWtXM

— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) November 16, 2024

Jfl ISW confirmed Kupyansk event but Julian still holding on his cope

3 days later

Good to see Putin is deescalating after German Chancellor told him to …#not https://t.co/MsQIEffOLD

— Julian Röpcke🇺🇦 (@JulianRoepcke) November 17, 2024

This is his newest post

"Good talk Chansellor, now what was I doing? Oh yeah, genociding Ukrainians, my favorite"

— Ania_In_UA 🇺🇦 (@Ania_In_UA) November 17, 2024

Billions genocided that they are trying to return to their cities that are under Russian

And seems like Putin didn't listened to Scholz in the end because today a huge part of Ukrainian infrastructure was wiped out and many cities including Kiev lost electricity

⚡️🇺🇦 Air defense forces destroyed a total of 144/210 air targets.

⚠️ — 42/90 UAVs, another 41 UAVs were lost in location due to EW;
❗️ — 85/101 cruise missiles Kh-101/55, "Kalibr";
❗️ — 5/5 Kh-59/69 aviation missiles;
❗️ — 4/4 Kh-22 / Kh-31P missiles;
❗️ — 0/1 Iskander-M… pic.twitter.com/mfSgMGn0Fl

— MAKS 24 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) November 17, 2024

Don't worry everything shoot down

🫡🇺🇦 Natalia Grabarchuk destroyed a cruise missile from an "Igla" MANPADS. pic.twitter.com/vj05EL5lDz

— MAKS 24 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) November 17, 2024

By this babuchka

What 7/9 nuclear power plants are off ?

⚡️🙏 "The power plants did not suffer significant damage. Damaged facilities will be restored within 2-3 days," - People's Deputy Nagornyak. pic.twitter.com/A9xvWElVQY

— MAKS 24 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) November 17, 2024

Weak damage they get fixed in months no biggie

⚡️🇰🇵 North Korea may deploy as many as 100,000 troops to aid Russia’s war on Ukraine if the alliance between Pyongyang and Moscow continues to deepen, according to people familiar with assessments made by some Group of 20 nations, - Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/xUbvx75JP3

— MAKS 24 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) November 17, 2024

It's fault of billions NK soldiers ! That's still haven't entered fight after over a month has passed since Zelenskyy told tomorrow they star fighting NK

‼️🇺🇦 Ukrainian officials said the attack looked like an emphatic response by Putin to moves from Kyiv’s allies to seek a peace deal after Donald Trump’s election victory this month, - WSJ

💡 A new wave of bombings has caused massive damage to the energy industry, although… pic.twitter.com/QXdAjxDcj8

— MAKS 24 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) November 17, 2024

Now the damage to infrastructure is massive

So this week will be remembered as week when Ukraine does its hardest to downplay Russian success

Thanks for reading. I still awaiting update from Julian about Kupyansk

Here is my current physique. I took these photos last night.

I am around 200 pounds now. The current routine I'm running is the Candito 6 week that I have modified slightly because I don't really need rest days, so I add a day in to focus on weakpoints. I do BJJ and Muay Thai for cardio. I do not track calories, I pretty much eat whatever I want which is why I am around 15 percent bodyfat. Once I fill everything out a bit more I will cut and go for ~12 percent bodyfat. Currently I am probably around 15 percent. I have decided to take a picture of my physique at the end of every 6 week cycle.

Personally I am not happy with where I'm at. My lower body in particular sticks out as being particularly awful (even though I am wearing the worst kind of shorts for a leg picture) as I have been taking it easy on my legs ever since I hurt my back going for a 505 pound deadlift. To remedy this I will start adding leg exercises to my "weakpoint days" as long as I don't have a full leg day the next day. I will also switch all my leg accessories to the 8-12 rep range and go to failure while keeping my squat and deadlift strength focused.

What I am happy with are the changes that have taken place in my life because of my pursuit of vanity. The increase in testosterone has given me the drive to get out of my parents houses and move across the country for a job (that my father's friend got me) after rotting for years. I have also been slept with five different women since August after a near 1.5 year dry spell, I've been experimenting with dating apps for the first time since I was in college. and it feels like I don't even have to try anymore. I have had success from simply posting a shirtless photo, or inviting them out to go "ghost hunting" with me.

I think a large part of my success is I moved into a much more populated location. I'm getting so many matches with just a lazy car selfie. I have also noticed that there are way less fat women here. I'm really happy with my move.

Now you are probably wondering if I am just posting this all just to brag. The answer is yes I am writing this because I like to brag and I really like attention, but that's not the entire reason. A big part is that I have been telling lies, and I need to get them off my chest so that I can finally move onto living a sincere life.

Most of you aren't aware of the years I spent as a NEET. I posted pictures of my messy room and my physique at the time, and my physique was pretty bad. I was in a really dark place the first time I posted it and just didn't care anymore. But I gained some slight amusement from the reactions people would have to how depraved my life was so I leaned into it and began to exaggerate. I added over a decade to my age to make it seem like I had been a NEET for a longer period of time. I pretended to be a virgin even though I did very well in college. I pretended to be proud of the fact that my parents gave me an allowance because of how it would upset the poors. Ultimately I exaggerated and played a character online to mask my struggles.

I obviously was not happy though. A happy person does not fall into the hole that I did. And it was especially painful because during my time at college I had everything. I was a college athlete, I had a lot of friends, and I was successful with women. The only issue I had was I would withdraw a lot because having friends was exhausting. I started withdrawing for a week at a time. Then two. I would lose friend groups during those periods, then I would come back and make more and lose them again. I had friends who tried to keep up with me but I ghosted them because I just didn't have the energy to respond.

It is a unique experience, to go from someone who had everything to having absolutely nothing. Due to my rich parents I didn't even have a struggle to motivate me, it was like I had entered into some sort of purgatory. I started to get all of my social interaction from trolling people on the internet, because due to my inability to be sincere I couldn't even make internet friends. I covered up negative thoughts with research chemicals and THC, which actually worked pretty well and is probably why I spent so much time in that hole. It was only when I tried to quit that I started to suffer, and since I had an infinite money glitch there was little reason for me to quit. I eventually I moved onto posting my peepee in anger just because I truly did not care anymore. That was probably simultaneously both my greatest and worst moment at the same time. Looking back at that photo now with my messy and dark room in the background I see a broken man, but at the same time I see one who didn't lose his pride. I was literally at rock bottom and I did not care. It was around that time that I began my ascent into egoism which is ultimately what helped me confront my insecurity and allowed me to begin rebuilding myself physically and mentally.

There are a few quotes from Miyamoto Musashi that accurately depict the period of my life that followed. "A shinobi would know the difference between honor and victory" as well as "Seek nothing outside of yourself". I took those to heart. There was nothing I wouldn't do for power. All of my attention went to improving myself and my own skills. I continued to use my physique to troll, it was funny to see it get better and better each time I spammed it at whoever I was arguing with. My training also started to feel good, the pump was euphoric, I started walking and getting around 10-20k steps per-day which cleared my thoughts. I took full advantage of my parents resources and sustained my body with the finest food and supplements. I used people like Zyzz and the Tren Twins as inspiration and started listening to hardstyle and ego-phonk all the time. I saw myself as a castle that needed to be fortified, and the rest of the world as potential attackers.

That mindset, of course, clashed with the side of me that enjoyed trolling. It also will not help me grow long term. It helped me out of this hole but now I need to adapt to my new situation. I don't think the solution is to abandon my ego, I think it will be to embrace, but in a way that does not cost me my sincerity. As I build a life that people genuinely want to be part of, I'm finding I have no more need of insecurity. My focus now is only on my art.

Which is why I am going to be starting a new project. It will be a spideymemes twitter account that is targeted at the growing Indian demographic. I will create a script that will take a spideymeme, apply hindi to it, and then automatically post it to this twitter account with tags that draw in the 1.5 billion sars. I will use everything I learned while making my trollstation to pull this off without a hitch and then probably get hired at Google.

https://x.com/rdramaspiderman

I will buy twitter premium so that my memes get more exposure, with the ultimate goal being to start gaining ad revenue. As I have no need for money, all of this ad revenue will be used to purchase marsey bucks which will then be transferred to @Spiderman. He has been a true friend to me, and is one of the only people who stuck with me through what I consider a dark period of my life.

I am also planning to finally get on steroids for real this time instead of just lying about it as a joke. My plan is probably to blast 500mg for a 12 week cycle. I want to run my current program for a few more months before I start so I will not be starting for 3-4 more months. I want it not just for the physical benefits, but for the drive it will give me in my career. I am doing a lot more than I used to do, so I am starting to get tired.

Also I will be meeting up with @Bridge irl after Christmas. We will go to Burger King and review their menu, and we will also get a few of their crowns to keep as souvenirs. Thank you for the attention. I will be marking this as an effort post to maximize the attention I gain from this post. Please follow the twitter account, I am too busy to start on it now but in the next few months after I make sure I can handle my job without getting fired I will be able to give it the attention it deserves.

Until the next time my friends. If you read all that you're gay.

https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2024-06-09-manhunt-for-about-20-thugs-who-blew-up-cit-van-stole-money/

The private security firms operating CIT trucks have semi-auto weapon wielding ex-military, or ex-Southern African military afrikaans men driving them from places like the Congo. They deliberately randomize their driving patterns and time tables, and often, depending on the scale of their clients like banks or shopping mall centers, call in to come collect cash on odd and unpredictable hours, so as to deliberately avoid bandits not being able to ambush or predict their driving patterns.

CIT trucks are the highest paid and most prestigious positions for mercenaries or private-security personnel, do to the obvious and extreme risk of targeting by gangs, thieves and highway bandits

https://www.g4s.com/en-za/what-we-do/services/cash-in-transit

The most infamous CIT truck company is G4S, because they serve the "smallest" small businesses as well, like singular restaurants or chain stores and groceries. Safricans will often see the famous G4S CIT truck parked in odd and unpredictable hours in front of your SPAR grocery store, or Shopping Mall, with two heavily armed mercenaries, in bullet-proof vests and semi-autos like R4 rifles flanking the truck as lookouts, while a 3rd man is doing the unloading or loading of cash alongside the shopowner or whatever.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php/?story_fbid=327197606071992&id=105789421546146

But there's much more specialized private CIT companies servicing larger retailers and banks with much more hardcore trucks

https://www.armoredcars.com/armored-vehicles-f or-cash-in-transit/

"Why Choose The Armored Group

The Armored Group began manufacturing armored vehicles back in 1992. Since then, we have amassed the knowledge, experience, and certifications that make us a leading armored vehicle supplier for countries around the globe. Our original focus when forming TAG was on cash-in-transit vehicles and providing our clients with higher levels of security. To this day, we proudly remain a producer and seller of high-quality CIT trucks that help keep personnel and valuables worldwide safer during transport. "

So how did a CIT system even begin to exist in the 1st place - it's because since 2002, the SA Police has been less than useless, and any place that needs to transport or banks large cash deposits from the week's revenue like gas-station shops or restaurants, were becoming incresingly vulnerable and targeted by robbers and gang syndicates.

Police would just never arrive, and private security companies would fill the void left by the government - combined with many white ex-military men being expulsed by the ANC regime, this led to an industry becoming the norm in South Africa by 2005.

https://www.iol.co.za/weekend-argus/news/inside-the-beating-heart-of-the-cash-in-transit-industry-36e89c43-5c81-4480-a89c-ef62c2c2c299

On the other hand, CIT robberies has also become commonplace in South Africa, making CIT guards, the most dangerous job in the country by any metric.

====(from iol article)

It's a thankless job for the guards in armoured vehicles who make the trips, sometimes through life and death situations, to top up the cash supply at your neighbourhood ATM.

They are also responsible for the money at pension payout points and retail outlets. Cash-in-transit heists have become so common in South Africa, with daily shootings and bombings, that security experts are calling it an epidemic.

Last year was a particularly bad one for the industry. At the start of 2020, there was nearly one heist per day. In many cases, the armoured vehicles were bombed.

This year's figures also make for grim reading. *29 heists nationwide in September alone *7 robberies so far in October *14 cash guards were killed on duty since January 1

Cash guards, despite their extensive training, state-of-the-art vehicles, and accompanying air support, know they are the targets of sophisticated syndicates.

Guards are aware that theirs is one of the riskiest jobs in the world. Still, there are at least 7 000 directly involved in cash deliveries and collection and are the beating heart of this multi-billion rand industry.

=====

Another cash-in-transit guard who spoke to Weekend Argus on condition of anonymity, recalled an attack on his team by heavily armed men who sprayed their armoured vehicle with bullets.

The criminals made off with several boxes of cash. He lay on the ground shot. "My life flashed before my eyes."

He said his company trucks transport between R4 million and R6m per vehicle per day, and that figure swells to R10m at the end of the month.

"And you do have banks who deposit even bigger amounts," the guard said.

Latest crime figures show a decrease in cash-in-transit robberies.

Brigadier Vish Naidoo from the South African Police Service said: "The rate of cash-in-transit heists has gone down substantially because of the interventions that we have put in place.

=====(end quote)

Some examples of CIT trucks/vehicles bombed previously

https://www.citizen.co.za/rekord/news-headlines/2022/04/12/cit-truck-bombed-in-atteridgeville/

"afetee hy's vol kak"

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https://www.arrivealive.mobi/news.aspx?i=54216&s=0&page=cash-in-transit-incident-along-the-r556-rustenburg

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https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/manhunt-for-gun-toting-robbers-who-blew-up-cash-van-in-kzn-made-off-with-the-money-fa08f193-4b3c-4594-8048-d4297f1a0184

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https://www.snl24.com/dailysun/news/thugs-bomb-cash-in-transit-truck-in-eastern-cape-residents-collect-scattered-money-20240528

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CIT transports have become so ubiquitous to Safrican business, that many warning signs had popped up to tell robbers that the Safe keys are not kept on premises

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Multilingual-English-Afrikaans-isiZulu-sign-at-Pretoria-station-Johnson-2018_fig1_368469310

they are explicitly only given to CIT companies, to further the safety of workers at places like gas-stations or convenience stores.

As everyone now knows Nick lives in Berwyn

Berwyn is a boring suburb a stone's toss from Chicago. The only significant things about it in order: Filming the car spike (which has been torn down, RIP) in Wayne's World, being the home of Nick Fuentes, and Cigars and Stripes.

Anyone who is planning a pilgrimage to your groyper holy site should stop by for a meal after you get pepper sprayed. Cigars and Stripes is a great and strange place. It is typically a host to bikers , misfits , and all sorts of other weirdos .

And now a quick ad for Cigars and Stripes's wings before we get to the drama. They are still the best I've ever had. He has huge smokers with hundreds of wings slow cooking all day round. They are meaty and juicy , and served over lightly toasted white bread to soak up the flavor

If you didn't watch the ad above , Cigars and Stripes is owned by a dude named Ronnie Lottz. He is a fan of old school pulp horror , wrestling , BBQ , and Cigars . He is also extremely eccentric and possibly a recovered coke head . Ronnie used to be a wrestling manager back in the day and hosts some amatuer events. I attended a event that was a lot of fun, but not everyone appreciated it

https://chronicleillinois.com/news/cook-county-news/wrestling-event-berwyn-draws-ire-little-people-group/

But the noteable drama happened a couple of years before that. As mentioned, Ronnie is a huge fan of classical horror. Every Halloween he hosts a spookie week where he invites freak performances and builds some decorations and pratical jokes around the bar.

One of these practical jokes involves a two way mirror he installed in a door by carving it out, which revealed a monster on the other side when you flipped a switch . Well, one day Ronnie made the biggest mistake of his life. He let a foid perform on comedy night , and she did not appreciate this mirror. Why? Because it was in the women's bathroom .

Ronnie hated the accusations that he was a deviant, but being a former pro wrestling manager, loved the attention and the chance to play front man again. He would give commentary to any journo who asked. One of my favorites is from Jezebel, it is too long to post here, but here's the intro:

(Phone rings)

(A woman answers.) "Bathroom mirror, how can I help you?"

Oh, excuse me, is this Cigars and Stripes?

Yes it is.

I'm calling in regards to a video posted about a two-way mirror in the bathroom—

Hold on.

(Man picks up) Hello?

Hi, I'm with Jezebel, and I'm calling about the two-way mirror in your ladies' restroom.

What does Jezebel do? I've never heard of her. And yes, absolutely: we have a two-way mirror in there, yes, yes; we've had it since 2001.

Okay. So, I'm just wondering why it's in the ladies' room?

Young lady, I have in my beer garden—I have a 10 and a half-foot hole. Did you know that it's haunted. Did you know that a man fell dead. Do you know that we do seven days of Halloween. Do you know that mirror's been there for the longest time. That woman opened the door. I mean she opened the door, there's nothing in there. Open the door and pee and do what you want. Quite frankly I'm enjoying people calling, because I'm selling chicken wings. Look, this woman is looking for a viral video. There's a big movement in reality TV to be outraged about feminism. I've been in professional wrestling. So yes: come see my mirror; eat my wings—I don't know what to tell you, honey.

And you're going to keep the mirror in there?

I will burn this fricking place to the ground before I get rid of that mirror. Do you know how much joy that mirror has brought to us? We're synonymous with Halloween. We do a freaky family fun day, and all the kids look in the mirror. This is a fun house, honey, and if you don't like the two-way mirror, go frick yourself; and if you come on my stage, have something to say. Everyone needs an angle. My angle is: I do barbeque; I promote it, and I break my butt for the local comics in Chicago. I pay them. I try to make them into rock stars. They do nothing, except for this. One girl said she wanted to pull her pants down and show her clitoris to me, and they all came and ate the wings.

https://www.jezebel.com/woman-uncovers-two-way-mirror-in-a-bar-bathroom-owner-1700336259

At the time it made national news and there were dozens of reddit posts about it. The 's video got over 3 million views . Facebook was filled with posts from foids all across Chicagoland declaring they would never go there again.

There was a post on SRD filled with no fun havers , but I can't find it. I don't know if it's because of reddit's terrible search function or because the SRD mods delete everything that is interesting outside of poweruser slapfights.

That's all. I have more stories about Ronnie and the other characters I've met there, but they probably aren't interesting unless you've been there. You can enjoy more of Ronnie's antics on Instagram:

https://instagram.com/cigarsandstripesbbq

Any of you !chiraqis go into the burbs for some wings and a peep at girls peeing?

It's been 2 years since Russian retreat from Kherson. There are a lot of "technically" stuff like it wasn't a battle, Wikipedia don't call that event a battle, Russian retreated from Kherson earlier and etc. But if we go very technically we will end up with Ukraine winning 0 battles.

So it's been 2 years since last time Ukraine liberated a something bigger than a village

What makes this even more special that it was before Ukraine got all the game changers nato stuff.

Like first leopard enter Ukraine in March 2023.

Let's remember some hype

The first shipment of Leopard 2 tanks from Germany has been sent to Ukraine, the German defence ministry says. Eighteen cutting-edge main battle tanks were delivered after Ukrainian crews were trained to use them.

Since the Ukraine received around 300 leopards 2 tanks and around 500 leopards 1 tanks that Ukraine for some reasons doesn't use much.

Abrams didn't had any fancy stories. Only interesting story is that when Russia captured like 10 of those and there was visually confirmation of more than 20 of those destroyed it was announced that Australia is about to give Ukraine 49 more.

https://www.minister.defence.gov.au/media-releases/2024-10-17/australia-provide-abrams-tanks-ukraine

So it's clearly gov don't tell the real number to public.

Like for example people still believe Ukraine has only 108 Bradley. But early this year it was already assumed Ukraine got way more than 300 of those

Kyiv also has 31 Abrams tanks — a fraction of the more than 300 Bradleys it has received as of early July, according to Pentagon data.

Popular believe is also Ukraine getting old junk.

This is false since stuff Russian captured showed all the tech got deep modernisation and very recent one like Bradley's Russian captured in 2023 had 2023 date of modernisation.

For stuff like artillery and AD, Ukraine gets those straight from factories.

Many countries in east Europe like Poland gave majority of its stuff to Ukraine.

Last time Ukraine captured a village was during legendary spring counteroffensive, they liberated back then exactly 1 village and couple of hamlets. They lost it all since then. Lazy to check exactly dates but it's been over a year since they captured and lost.

This is how map looked when I left in August

This is how it look after my return

Added deep state map since its official government and military sponsored and it shows things even worse for Ukraine

So what we see Ukraine is losing ground at increasing speed and speed faster than Ukraine been losing ground in April 2022 or March 2022. A sign that attrition starts playing a role.

Western media now doesn't hide that Ukrainian don't want to fight and that Ukraine has hard time finding men

https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-draft-female-conscription-valerii-zaluzhnyi-zelensky-1970608

Redditors been telling Ukraine should mobilise women for month tho

So since my absence Ukraine lost multiple towns and cities as you can on the map (they also lost stuff in other directions) and now about to lose Kurakhove an strategic city because there are barely anyone defending it and since Russian are already near Pokrovsk.

@Cobra_Cranberrymander <- this homosexual been telling me Russian won't reach Pokrovsk until 2028 because he calculated Russian movement with his epic math. I told him he is homosexual.

Russian would be able to relatively easy capture Pokrovsk and mirnohrad (combine their population is 160k) since there won't be any danger to get hit from flanks for Russian and after they capture pokrovsk there is nothing on Russia way until Dniper river since Ukrainian didn't build any defensive lines. Why because they are at media war where them building in dnipor region defensive lines will be seen as losing.

The offensive in the Kurakhove direction is being carried out from three sides by three groups of troops: "Center", "South" and "East".
Map progress - the last 10 days: pic.twitter.com/BJkMSfB39J

— -- GEROMAN -- time will tell - 👀 -- (@GeromanAT) November 11, 2024

They losing huge chunks there

The Russians have blown up yet another dam, one that was crucial for cooling the Kurakhove TPP.

History is repeating itself because Russia has faced no consequences. In fact, it was emboldened by a person who recently received power.

This act of ecocide is intended to make… pic.twitter.com/kKsfJ9RGXE

— Victoria (@victoriaslog) November 11, 2024

They of course love to lie since why would Russian blown up something that they without doubts will capture, they could had destroyed it long time ago but according to Ukrainian statements it happened in last days of that city being under Ukraine

So the main question becomes what's Ukrainian goal in Kursk oblast. As you see in the maps, that place has no named settlements beyond Sudzha.

We heard their goal was to capture NPP, didn't happened.

To trade some soldiers, happened but Russia ended up capturing more Ukrainian soldiers in that Ukraine did and exchanging all their conscripts and now have an no prisoners rule in Kursk. Reason for it that Ukraine wants to trade only their elite soldiers and far rights.

Then other goal was to pull Russian soldiers from Pokrovsk, also didn't happened and it's seems they pulled soldiers from North Korea.

Then to humiliate Putin, that's a childish argument especially when Putin act like the good guy. Ukraine send all their elite stuff to Kursk to capture some 5k people town and ended up losing all its mines in Pokrovsk and from country that export coke/coal to a country that will import it. On top of it giving Putin an example that Ukrainian ain't good guys since they been telling about defensive war and then invade.

Western media in September already told Kursk invasion was a mistake and Ukraine should pull out side they are at hard disadvantage and wasting their best soldiers against Russian cops and soon against NK.

So why they still in Kursk ? Just to save face. Or mb hoping to hold it until Trump will be official president and get some trading chip. But it won't work out especially when Republicans showing sign they want election in Ukraine. Putin also pointed he won't deal with an unelected person.

Zelenskyy is mad at Trump because Zelenskyy won't survive without a war. The peace deal will be for Ukraine worse than one from 2022 and people in Ukraine already questioning why he didn't signed it.

But Trump is saving Ukraine because Ukraine now has no power to stop the grinding and no weapons will do it. Zelenskyy still has one fantasy though, getting nuked since it mb can bring burgers boots to Ukraine.

But last time I ended my long post with

About them doing something stupid.

So here my favourite story since my absence

Guy named: Captain Oleksiy Mes, call sign 'Moonfish'. He was one of top Ukrainian pilots that did some excellent performance during first days of this circus he basically became the proto ghost of Kiev

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

He became the poster boy for demanding f16 and like long Ukrainian tradition, after coming from Burgerstan he died on his first mission. Ukraine gov refused to comment saying oh he crushed but we will find the real reason and got rid of that case. But many saying it was friendly fire.

And that's why I believe in Khohols. Who destroyed first Leopard, first Bradley, first Abrams, first challenger ? So of course they destroyed the first f16 so Russian couldn't flex

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

Ukraine basically lost all their best pilots from friendly fire and crushing

The situation is also extra stupid because Ukraine got Israeli modified mig29 that can use all f16 arsenal and more, those jets are better than the f16 they got so they waste their best pilots training for inferior jet just for propaganda reasons

It's just a bit sadly that pro Ukrainian ignoring this big day, since it stopped being a celebration day and more of reminder that they had 0 success since then with all their high hopes

Thank you for reading

Deep Dive: /r/ADHDparenting

[Link to the subreddit.](https:// https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHDparenting/)

[Link to the WIKI.](https:// https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHDparenting/wiki/index/)

General overview:

/r/ADHDparenting is a smaller subreddit, about 10k members, dedicated to medicating their children (appears to be from as young as 1 year old to teens) and discussing the backlash that arises from medicating their young children with stimulants and anti-psychotics for… acting like children?

Medications Determined to be Safe and Effective by /r/ADHDparenting:

Methylphenidate:

o Brand Names: Ritalin, Rubifen, Concerta

o Drug category: CNS Stimulant

o Common side effects: Euphoria,Excitement, Xerostomia (Dry mouth), Insomnia, Tachycardia (Resting heart rate above normal), Heart palpitations (Abnormal heart beating), Anxiety, Hyperhidrosis (Excessive sweating), Anorexia, Weight loss, Headache disorder, Nausea, Upper abdominal pain, Nervousness, Acute abdominal pain, Irritability, Thrombocytopenic disorder (Low blood platelet count), Hypertension (High blood pressure), Angina (Chest discomfort when blood supply is restricted from the heart muscles), Pharyngitis (Inflammation of the throat; dry, scratchy, pain when swallowing), Upper respiratory infections, Urticaria (Chronic Hives), Arthralgia (Joint pain/Arthritic symptoms), Aggressive Behavior, Addiction, Depression

Amphetamines

o Brand Names: Adderall (IR and XR), Dextrostat, Dexedrine, Zenzedi, Vyvanse, Focalin, Desoxyn

o Drug Category: Amphetamine stimulants and derivatives (D-amphetamine, L-Amphetamine, Methamphetamine)

o Common side effects: See side effects for methylphenidate listed above

Atomoxetine

o Brand Name: Strattera

o Drug Category: SNRIs (Selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors)

o Common side effects: See side effects for methylphenidate listed above

XR Guanfacine

o Brand Name: Tenex

o Drug Category: Non-stimulant, Alpha 2A-andrenergic receptor agonist used to treat high blood pressure and ADHD in patients 6 to 17 years of age; mechanism of action causes decreased heart rate and allows blood to pass through the blood vessels more easily

o Common side effects: Xerostomia, Drowsiness, Dizziness, Insomnia, Nausea, Hypotension (Abnormally low blood pressure that can cause dizziness, blurred vision, and tiredness), Sedation, Lethargy, Weight gain, Fatigue, Acute abdominal pain, Acute cognitive impairment, Constipation, Headache disorder, Vomiting, Heart palpitations, General weakness, Irritability, Dehydration, Easily bruised skin

XR Clonidine

o Brand Name: Catapres

o Drug Category: Non-stimulant, Alpha2A-andrenergic receptor agonist used to treat high blood pressure, ADHD, opioid withdrawal, alcohol withdrawal, nicotine withdrawal, and tics

o Common side effects: See side effects for XR Guanfacine listed above

Further reading in the WIKI:

"Where ADHD symptoms are causing significant impairment. After careful professional, expert considerations: First-line medication for children 6 years and over should be stimulants. Same for adults. Stimulant treatment for ADHD does not increase the risk of substance use disorders compared with people who do not access stimulant medication."

My question for this subreddit: Where ADHD symptoms are causing significant impairment for WHOM? As I am reading through this subreddit, it appears that a majority of the parents are not looking to help their children, but are looking to subdue their children as they are incapable of handling the children simply ACTING like children.

This is not to attack those parents who are dealing with their children having violent outbursts at school, or legitimately cannot function without harming themselves or others. This is to call out those parents who simply cannot handle having a child who cries, plays too loud, screams, runs around, throws some toys, has the occasional tantrum, etc. etc. You are unfit to be a parent if you believe that your child acting merely as a child should is too much for YOU to handle. Grow the frick up and stop reproducing if you're going to just medicate these young humans and ruin their brain development while they are learning to function in this world, causing them to be dysfunctional and mentally unstable adults.

NOTE:

WHY is medication a first-line approach to any ADHD symptom? Is raising your child away from an iPad too much to handle? As you go through this subreddit, notice how many of these children are just now turning school-aged. Notice how this coincides with many "hands-off" parents having to take away their kids' iPads, tablets, games, etc. etc. Coincidence? Psht, yeah right.

Examples of posts:

6 year old waking up at night, unable to sleep due to medication.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ADHDparenting/comments/1go6am2/sleep/

6yo is on 2mg guanfacine at night and 2.5mg adderall IR in the morning. The first few days of starting guanfacine and then increasing dose, he slept beautifully. But it doesn't last. He cannot go back to sleep when he wakes up-- just "closes his eyes" for a while (according to him) then when it doesn't work, gets up and plays. Plus he gets scared at night and I think his nervous system is just on high alert. Last night he slept 7pm-2am and just...didn't go back to sleep. The meds seem to be helping a lot with his disposition generally, but I am disappointed guanfacine doesn't seem to be helping with sleep once he acclimates to it.

You give your 6-year-old child stimulants and hypertension medication to help his "general disposition", and you're surprised that he can't sleep at night. Frick off, b-word.

Parent is shocked when 4-year-old acts like a 4-year-old figuring out her world.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ADHDparenting/comments/1gnw4cz/are_45_year_olds_this_noisy_and_fidgety/

My soon to be 5 year old is so noisy! She talks all day, narrates what she's doing and all her thoughts, ask the same questions over and over or says the same word or phrase over and over. If she runs out of tings to say she makes up words or just makes random noises. It makes it really difficult to do things like getting dressed, getting out of the house etc cause there are no natural pauses to say things like "put your shoes on please" and she does not stop talking when asked to.

I have nothing to say.

She seems unaware of her surroundings. Runs into things, trips and falls. Knocks things over. Pulls clothes down from hooks. Picks on things without thinking about it. Touches everything. Goes in to cabinets and drawers and scatter things about. Empties all the toys on the floor without playing with them. Our house gets so messy and it is so difficult to get her to tidy. > She seems to need an extraordinary amount of adult attention and is unable to play by herself for more than a couple of minutes. It is so difficult to get chores done while she is awake.

Notice the mention of "It's so difficult to get MY stuff done while my child is being a child!" Abhorrent.

The comments in this subreddit are an echo chamber for these people. "Yep, sounds like ADHD! Get them to the doctor!"

9-year-old son whines and complains. Parent is annoyed.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ADHDparenting/comments/1gmz6yo/whine_complain/

Why the frick are you even posting here??? THIS IS A 9 YEAR OLD LITTLE BOY. PARENT YOUR FRICKING KID!?

6-year-old in constant pain and is REFUSING to take his medicine.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ADHDparenting/comments/1gmm9pr/refusing_to_take_meds/

My six yo son has been medicated for well over a year and every single day it's a fight to take his medicine. Today he absolutely refused to take it whatsoever and off to school we took him. I'm at a loss. He says he hates the taste of it (it's a pill he swallows) we've tried the chewable ones and he hated those. He also complains it hurts his stomach. I've talked to his dr and they just say be consistent. It's so hard.

YOUR CHILD IS TELLING YOU THE STIMULANT YOU ARE FORCING HIM TO TAKE IS CAUSING HIM STOMACH PAIN, A VERY COMMON STIMULANT SIDE EFFECT??? AND THE DOCTOR SAYS TO "BE CONSISTENT"!?

Opinions encouraged here. Frankly, I'm fricking disgusted by the way these people are ruining the future population.

I was replying to a post and one thing led to another and I wrote this. It happens sometimes. Maybe someday I'll clean this up, reorganize it, make it more coherent, and do some actually good writing.

Korea

We went to Korea and trained their guys. Within a couple years in 1953 they had infantry as good as ours (Ridgway himself said this) and they were learning to use artillery. By then the Americans were doing most of the technical stuff (communications, artillery, armor, certain engineering tasks) but with our help the Koreans had built up the 4th most powerful army in the world and taken responsibility for most of the front.

Vietnam

We go to Vietnam. We're there for 15 years. We give them all kinds of training and equipment. Many ARVN units are brought up to US standards. They're flying jet fighters in combat ffs. Somehow they lose. This is some political problem in Saigon, not what's happening at the front. They had the same problem as Ukraine with draft dodgers who they wouldn't crack down on for political reasons. You can't win a war when the people who are supposed to be doing most of the fighting are playing a bunch of inscrutable oriental Fu Manchu games with each other. Apparently Ukraine has the same basic problem, except the Vietnamese fought for 15 years and they're already throwing in the towel.

Somehow we don't have a Fu Manchu marsey yet.

The Vietnamese were treacherously stabbed in the back like Trump is going to do Ukraine. Kissinger made a deal with the Chinese where we'd make sure South Vietnam was destroyed in exchange for them turning against the Soviets. The media presented this like it was a genius move that only he could make. Frick. Frick this b-word. The Chinese already hated them and were in extreme fear of a Soviet invasion. We didn't need to give them anything. I could have gone over and accepted them begging us for help. Mao was a total fricking psycho but he was willing to do business.

The US mostly pulled out in 1971 (Old Man Redactor was one of the last) and completely in 1973. But to the consternation of imbecilic wingcucks on both sides, South Vietnam didn't immediately collapse.

I hate hippies

Leftoids were shocked as they imagined that the with the Americans gone, the Vietnamese didn't all rise up and beg for the communism they always wanted? They were supposed to be cute communist teddy bears (George Lucas has proudly and openly said the Ewoks are based on what he imagines Vietnamese people are like) and follow Jane Fonda's lead. In my entire experience with leftoid boomers (keep in mind this about 75% of my teachers, lots of family members, etc.) I have never once heard them mention ARVN once. I think most of them honestly don't even know it existed. So there's this extreme cognitive dissonance between their idea that America was fighting all the Vietnamese and it turning out that most Vietnamese were on our side.

B-word, you are not going down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a major highway, in the rubber sandals they imagine on college campuses. You know why? Because it would be dangerous with so many trucks going by.

You ever notice that the "Anti-War Movement" never gave a shit about ending the war? After 1971 they had zero interest. Curious. Their hearts bled for all the brown people being killed by US imperialism and all of the sudden they don't give a shit what happens. I've had conversations with people who were adults in the 1970s and I have to explain to them what happened because at the time that's how little they cared about all those brown people. (I know Vietnamese aren't brown, I'm talking in terms of how these people saw them.) I'm not saying we should have gone to Vietnam. I'm not saying we should have stayed in Vietnam. Throughout this post I am not giving any military or government policy advice. But the "Anti-War Movement" was entirely self-serving, trying to keep upper middle class people out of the war. This is the real moment when the Democratic Party began shifting upward. Republicans dodged the draft too, but the Democrats became identified with the social class that could and did to that. A generation later it should be no surprise what peoples' party affiliations are.

This is one of the best episodes. When the hippie dies because he's walking around barefoot I always curl up in laughter. I guess this planet has a "no shirt, no shoes, no service" policy.

Chuds are no better

The rightoids were equally embarrassed. They were supposed to be so badass and they lost a war against a weaker opponent. How does that work? Some blamed the Vietnamese "we cared more about fighting for their country than them!" and a lot them made it a racial thing. A couple moments in time from Old Man Redactor's memory: Standing there in the base and realizing that everyone in his unit was either drunk or high. Everyone. Every single one. Other memory: Old Man Redactor turns on the TV. Now you've been told over and over again that "Vietnam was the first war on television, where people at home could see what was really happening". He's flipping the channels and he gets on South Vietnamese station. They're showing their journos' footage of the fighting. And right away he can tell that this is actually not staged, these people really are in combat, because they're fighting but at the same time they're scared out of their minds. You notice Walter Cronkite never aired any of that footage on American TV. The audience might find out his Vietnam War entertainment product wasn't really authentic.

You ever notice that our "racist grandpas" watched our Chinese allies fight but you never see our allies today (except white Europeans). It's probably because of internalized whiteness or something.

The stab in the back (unlike Hitler's, this one actually happened)

So the ARVNs kept on fighting. In America both leftoids and rightoids had massive cognitive dissonance. A South Vietnamese army that could hold it's own in battle? This can't exist in either of their world views. (You had to try really hard to not notice the ARVNs existed. (Old Man Redactor paraphrase: "The Tet Offensive is when they found out that in a real war the South Vietnamese would beat them.")) The leftoids especially were absolutely fuming that South Vietnam didn't roll over and die immediately like their professors at Dartmouth promised. Should they learn and adapt their thinking to the real world? Of course not. We're talking about rich white women. So the US Congress got together and cut off artillery ammunition for South Vietnam.

Is that the narrow gauge railroad he told me about that went along Route 1, the Street Without Joy? Notice the relationship between the ARVN commander and the advisors. At this point in the war they're throwing out suggestions but this guy may have been fighting 12 years. He'll consider that but he's the one in charge.

Old Man Redactor says they used 130mm guns to blow shit out of Quang Tri province, the one on the border just north of where he was. The ARVNs had no shells. They couldn't shoot back. Things disintegrated pretty fast after that. The US had trained and equipped a really strong powerful army to fight like Americans. Americans (especially then) rely a lot on artillery. So they're overrun.

Impossible. The Viet Cong (who totally still exist 7 years after the Tet Offensive) only fight with goofy wooden traps and carry everything on their backs. American soldiers can wander around unarmed alone because... the teddy bears are waiting to spring their traps. They would never use an 8 ton gun that is among the heaviest artillery in the world. It's just not sporting. Only imperialists do that.

The war is over!

Meanwhile the "Anti-War Movement" doesn't notice. They're too busy smoking dope and giving each other gonorrhea to care. There war is over. The North Vietnamese send I dunno how many people to "reeducation camps". (I guess it's better than Tet where they murdered all the teachers in Hue on the grounds that they're paid by the government.) They help their Cambodian puppet army take over Cambodia. Their puppet does their own thing, which is genocide. Now genocide isn't a problem for the Vietnamese commies. They aren't Anne-Marie Slaughter weeping about the "responsibility to protect". But a power struggle between the pro-Russian and pro-Chinese factions is fought out and the pro-Russians win. Pol Pot sides with China. So Vietnam invades Cambodia. Pol Pot's guys run into the jungle and do guerilla warfare. You thought the Vietnamese commies were good at guerilla warfare? Well they're sure not good at being on the receiving end of it. They quickly realize that they can't accomplish anything by fighting, so they just cut off food to areas controlled by the Khmer Rouge. Now huge numbers of people are dying of starvation. This only ends when the Cold War does. Like so many wars across the world it was fueled by the Russians and Chinese fighting over who is the better commie. As soon as that ends, all these wars do too.

*Border skirmish between China and Vietnam in 1984. Did the Anti-War Movement care about this? A bunch of asian people got killed. That's they're raison d'etre, right?"

You ever ask an "Anti-War" boomer how they felt about the genocide in Cambodia? I'm not saying they're responsible for it (they had virtually no impact on any decision making in the war) but like... did you ever wonder what happened in the end? Ever? All those people you cared about so much before. And then they stammer and piss their pants and say "It was... It was Immoral! It was an immoral war! I know because I saw that napalm girl! That's when I knew I had to fight against the war!" And then I say "b-word please, that photo is from 1972 when virtually all Americans were home. For you the war was over. There were no Americans involved. A South Vietnamese plane dropped napalm in support of a South Vietnamese unit on the ground. The more I think about it, the more I notice that the "anti-war" boomers would systematically ignore the whole existence of South Vietnam through the whole war. I wonder who coordinated this.

So I had to logout from this site because my spring exams were shity so I had to redo them. I aced them. One day had 3 exams, university statistic is like 10% success rate to pass 2 exams in one day and I aced 3 Basically the first time I failed those exams was because my ps5 broke and I was dedicated to fix it. It also got me reee that local repair centres (Morrocan those who bashed Jews supporters last night) had no fricking idea what a FUSE was the only thing those kankerholebi do is clean ps5 for 120 euro, replace the power supply for 200 euro and replace hdmi for 250 euro.

So at that point I was like:

So I bought a microscope and fuses I needed to replace and fixed it and recovered my save files.

After receiving my exams results I decided to take couple more weeks off and then decided to return when I fix all my daily life problems all related to foids incompetence including helping mossad elect Trump.

One of problem was there was a bug with my university account. It took me more than 2 months 100's emails send to the university (student administration, faculty, IT service and etc) until finally my mail reached a man that fixed my account in 5 minutes. Bros, pain was real.

I legit tried not to be judgmental. One day I even visited IT office, thinking mb in person I would been able to explain my problems better. But there was a 16 year old looking Indian girl working there that didn't even speaks Dutch

And I encountered 100's of such foids moments and I thought foids are at worst when you date them but no. It's when you have to deal with them in your daily life. They are like gatekeepers. It's like everyone puts them to the front(secretary) so nothing will be done.

Also went with couple of different girls out during that period. Somehow had success with tinder this time. Of course all of them were epic r-slurs. Most interesting was one ugly neurodivergent Asian girl.

If simp /r/truerateme rating this girl as 4,5/10

https://old.reddit.com/r/truerateme/comments/1gkz073/21f/

Then that Asian girl would been below 2/10.

She told me her type is "Jordan Barrett".

I was like how da frick did she knew who he was and it's legit over when even ugly girls want top tier guys. I first learned about this guy from /r/braincels I never thought I would encounter a girl in real life who knew who this guy is. And since the girl is true neurodivergent she brought up that guy out of nowhere, like randomly told me who her type was when I didn't even asked this.

Now I regret I didn't told that flat Asian girl what's my type in response jfl. To lift her ego.

Other interesting girl I had a fun encounter.

I was watching this:

Then decided to check tinder.

I got a like from a girl that was cosplaying Misa from death note.

It was such hilarious coincidence almost like Putin decided to gift me a petite goth gf

But I consider myself more of L than Kira

But regardless I couldn't let such flex opportunity go so invited her to an con event

I also asked her who would I cosplay well, she told me Yoruichi. I have no idea if it's an L or an

But I am legit impressed how AI improved since AI could easily tell what was she cosplaying and another example I matched with a girl. That girl told me she has no bf.

The girl is fine, her boobs are top tier.

I added her on FB.

FB offered me to ad her bf as friend .

I asked her if that guy was her bf.

She started telling me no that he is just her classmate and etc.

She thought that guy profile was closed.

But no it was open and he posted their pictures together and calling her his babe.

But honestly her bf was some special kind of ugly.

He had similar phenotype of riddler from Batman 2022 but more manly and balding, had some psychopaths vibes so the girl is legit trash, dates an inkwell and cheats on him.

And one girl tried to use me as backup man, she ghosted me in August and couple of days ago replied. Hoe has an business instagram account and a telegram channel where she post everything about her life and basically guy she was dating lied about his wealth so she is looking for a new bf

https://instagram.com/reel/DA0pGkWBR1H/

Foids are evil, bros. And it's no nut Novembers bros.

Stay strong and good morning

Liberal women are abstaining from having s*x for the next 4 years. pic.twitter.com/VHLrhh26Im

— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) November 7, 2024

Powerful pic.twitter.com/e0z3rpffQE

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) November 7, 2024

Edit: just checked instagram and instagram offers me to ad that girl bf also now jfl

This is MAGA country. You're just living in it.

As of writing, the election isn't over yet. While Trump has won, there are still states yet to be counted - but it would take a miracle to alter the map. MAGA has won the hardest it has ever won since being established. More EVs then 2016, the popular vote, Senate seats flipped, and likely the House is staying red. After needing a lucky break from Comey in 2016, getting crushed by a Blue Wave in 2018, losing in 2020 and the Red Drizzle in 2022 that saw the Dems gain in the Senate, Trump has finally achieved a total victory. America looked at what Trump offered, and it collectively decided that Trump had the stuff. For this little longpost, I want to first observe why I think Trump beat Harris - what Trump did right, what Harris did wrong, then analyse the results of this crushing victory.

The Campaign Trail

Trump's campaign, by most standard metrics, has been butt and fries . He had far less money then Harris , even with Musk's backing, a much worse ground game and was always held in a lower personal estimation then Harris. He was generally agreed to have lost the debates , and his surrogates Vance and Musk are some of the few men to be less liked than Trump . And christ, Vance deserves his own section discussing why he was such an awful choice - Rubio and especially Burgum would have been far better choices. But he was clearly doing something right, as can bee seen by his tremendous margin of victory. I believe his strengths can be tied to 5 big things;

1. The media game

Be it going on livestreams with Zoomer dipshits or going on podcasts, Trump was tremendously cunning about his media outreach. He was sure to stick to mostly friendly interviewers, only attending one neutral to hostile interview with Vance, and cashed in on the good will of the various dipshits to earn credibility to a mostly untapped demographic to win the election.

Vance proved himself a capable campaigner on this front as well. While Trump was fricking with Adin Ross, it was Vance that'd be on TV and getting into details with interviewers. Vance's approval rating was the lowest in the entire race, and he was a constant punching bag for basically anyone with eyes and ears - but this actually worked in his favour, I believe. When the voter hears about this sick freak that fricks couches and wants battered wives to stay in abusive marriages, and sees a fairly articulate and affable conservative, Vance sprints over and leaps over a bar set in heck. Perhaps they don't like Vance, but they don't loathe him like they may have expected too.

He's still r-slurred btw

2. Constant association with policy

This is a slightly esoteric one. It's not the policy itself, but the fact he was constantly addressing policy gave him a real sense of legitimacy. Be it his 20% tariffs on everything, planned deportations, states rights on abortion, his constant rejection of Project 2025 and No-Taxes-On-Tips - the actual policy doesn't matter, voters simply felt comfortable with a man discussing issues. I want to go a bit deeper into this when I talk about Harris' weaknesses, but the short version is that Trump isn't the "Frick You" protest vote he was in 2016. He's considered a legitimate politician, and the policy discussions enhanced this image.

3. Memories of 2018

Trump's greatest strength was long considered to be his status as an outsider, but the problem with that is that you can't be an outsider after you win and govern like a pretty normal Republican - he didn't really drain the swamp, he cut taxes and failed to end Obamacare. However - times were decent in 2018. Prices were low, Afghanistan was less a current occupation and more a memory, and the rest of the world seemed at peace. The Trump Presidency was many years ago - what's remembered, it seems, is that the President made mean tweets while times were good and Joe Biden was a nice r-slur that fricked everything up.

In essence, the outsider's new strength is his status as an experienced insider.

4. RFK Jr and the nutjobs

But you can never forget your roots. Kennedy Junior's Quixotic adventure ended with him becoming one Trump's top guys, being given some kind of Health job in the future Trump administration, did a lot to rebuild bridges with Trump's insane person base. Now, they always made up Trump's base, but for those disillusioned with Trump following his presidency, Kennedy throws them a lifeline. Tulsi Gabbard does something similar, to a lesser degree.

5. Having a weak opposition.

Why Kamala lost

Because Joe Biden is unpopular.

There are other reasons I'll get into, but that's the main one. She couldn't define herself as an agent of change, and that killed her stone dead. Joe Biden is associated with high prices and global instability, and as his Vice-President she was linked inexorably to that. No election is ever decided by a single event, but if it was, then it was this..

Definition was Ha-Ha Harris' problem in general. She never stuck to her guns on anything except abortion. She's the Democratic warrior fighting to ensure "We're not going back!" while promising to put a Republican in her cabinet, she loves policing and was prosecutor but don't worry she supports reform, she wants to crackdown on the border but in a progressive way unlike mean old Trump - it was just a mess of a talking out of both sides of her mouth. The consequences were simple - progressives were depressed by her flip flopping from her 2020 stances, while Independents she was courting were turned off by her flip flopping without an actual plan, and the conservatives she was courting by touting that fricking Cheney endorsement were worried about her 2020 stances.

Her lack of commitment meant that she was very easy to paint. Dropping Joe for Kammie could have been more than swapping an r-slur for a less r-slurred r-slur, but the Republican's admirable messaging discipline (they managed to go from President Biden's inflation to Vice-President Harris' inflation very smoothly) and her lack of concrete positions let the Republicans paint her as anything they liked.

Her Vice-Presdential pick was perfect - Walz remained the most popular person in the race, and honestly he was underutilised. He's fine giving speeches, but if Harris was refusing to give interviews, then it should have been Walz. Maybe picking Shapiro could have saved Pennsylvania, but even if it did, that still doesn't get her past 270 while pissing off other states even more.

As for the Gaza shit in general - to the degree it mattered, it ties back to Joe Biden. The average voter vaguely supports Israel, but isn't that invested in the war. The war is like Afghanistan - just another example of Biden causing problems where there were none before. The specifics don't matter. Not at all, as I'll get into later.

The question emerges from this - could Harris win? Was Trump's victory certain? The answer may surprise you.

The Results

The results are bad for Harris. She's the first candidate to lost the popular vote since John Kerry in 2004, who was the first to lost the popular vote since Dukakis in 1988 - and unlike Kerry, Kammie doesn't have an excuse like 9/11 to justify her piss poor results. The main reason Harris lost the popular vote are her poor results in safe blue areas. For comparison;

• Biden won New Jersey by 57%, Harris won it by 51%

• Biden won Illinois by 57%, Harris won it 53%

• Biden won California by 63%, Harris won it by 57%

• Biden won New York by 60%, and Harris won it by 55%

And despite what leftists hope , this can't be tied to Jill Stein and the Greens . Of the above mentioned states, Stein was only on the ballot in California and New Jersey, and she didn't do so well in the states that she managed to frick up her margins. While the precise results are being counted, looking at the key swing states;

• The difference of votes between Trump and Harris in Pennsylvania are 130,487, Stein won 33,544 votes

• The difference of votes between Trump and Harris in Georgia are 130,487, Stein won 18,162 votes (which means she came in 4th, after Chase Oliver)

• The difference of votes between Trump and Harris in North Carolina are 130,487, Stein won 24,289 votes

• The difference of votes between Trump and Harris in Wisconsin are 29,634, Stein won 12,266 votes and came in 4th after RFK Jr

• Even in Michigan, Stein's best state, the difference is 81,750 and Stein only got 44,642 votes.

• The difference of votes between Trump and Harris in Arizona are still being counted, and has technically not been called for Trump, but as of now Stein is also behind Oliver there.

These results are a horror story. Harris is losing popularity in her safest spots, the left didn't cost her anything - the American people just liked Donald Trump and his platform a lot more. It looks like a devastating defeat for Harris at first glance... but what if, for fun, we add just 2% to Harris, in every state. Just a small upgrade. How does she do?

A measly 2% does not change the shocking collapse in safe areas. But it does massively alter the electoral college - Harris actually wins with just a 2% change, while still in all likelihood losing the popular vote. Despite the seeming dominance Trump's victory has presented, the coalition he's built is a bizarrely fragile one. It's difficult to see this coalition surviving social media and 24 hours news cycles... but that's J.D Vance's problem.

I've still got hope that !khive will win this, but it should not be this close. I'm sorry but I've got a few things to say.

I must express the profound disappointment I feel—disappointment that, after all we've been through, after all the progress we've made, after all the ideals we've fought for, America has voted for the wrong choice. It voted for Donald Trump over Kamala Harris, and in doing so, it has failed to honor the promise of a more just, inclusive, and forward-thinking society.

I feel like I'm witnessing the death of democracy and the end of history as a story of progress. No, it has become quite certain that our species is capable of going backwards and if serious steps aren't taken, that it is the direction we will backslide toward.

To see Kamala Harris underperforming amongst women is despicable. To see Kamala Harris underperforming amongst Latines is despicable. To see Kamala Harris underperforming amongst Blacks is despicable. Don't get me started on the younger generation. They were supposed to save us. I don't know anymore, I'm just so heartbroken.

I'm at work right now and I can't focus. I keep thinking about what kind of world we are leaving behind for future generations. One where bullying an hate can get you into the White House?! One where we don't support women striving to break the glass ceiling? If you're a parent, what do you tell your daughter as they witness the country choose misogyny over women's reproductive rights?

Despite how competent Kamala Harris is, racist America has decided that Trump is superior. Frick that. Donald Trump, the man who incited an insurrection, who constantly undermined our democratic institutions, who sowed division and hate for four years in office. Donald Trump, the man who has shown, time and again, that his interests lie in personal gain, not public service; who has consistently exhibited a disregard for the truth, for basic decency, and for the values that this nation was supposed to stand for.

The decision to vote for Trump is, in many ways, a vote for regression. It's a vote for returning to the days of inequality, the days of turning our backs on the most vulnerable in our society. It's a vote for stoking the flames of racial division, for undermining the rights of women, for denying the existence of climate change, and for dismantling the social safety nets that so many Americans rely on. It's a vote for a future in which the wealthiest continue to grow richer while the rest struggle to keep up. It's a vote for a future where truth doesn't matter, where facts don't matter, where the very fabric of democracy is left in tatters.

Sam Harris is disappointed

George Soros is disappointed

Charli XCX is disappointed

Beyonce is disappointed

Eminem is disappointed

Barack Obama is disappointed

Zelensky is disappointed

Palestine is disappointed

Doug Ermhoff is disappointed

Bill Gates is disappointed

Selena Gomez is disappointed

Hillary Clinton is disappointed

Puerto Ricans are disappointed

Black women are disappointed

@CoconutNarca is disappointed

@Aevann is disappointed

Martin Luther King Jr is disappointed

LA Times editorial staff is disappointed

Resetera is disappointed

Trigglypuff is disappointed

Hollywood is disappointed

Europe is disappointed

Feminists are disappointed

Abortionists are disappointed

Vaccination scientists are disappointed

Climate change scientists are disappointed

Transpeople are disappointed

LGBTQIA2S+ is disappointed

Contrapoints is disappointed

PhilosophyTube is disappointed

/r/politics is disappointed

/r/pics is disappointed

To the !khive, let's not lose hope. However, we must never forget what the USA has shown us. It has become clear that a good percentage of the population don't want freedom, democracy, and equality. They want authoritarianism, oppression, and hate. We can't let them win. As Margaret Thatcher would say, "don't let the bastards grind you down".

I think today, November 5th, there's only one thing people want to know about; how Harry Truman was a crook that stole a bunch of money. That's the relevant Presidential stuff, right?

In February 1975, the band Chicago released a song called "Harry Truman". Posthumously dedicated to President Truman and written in reaction to the Nixon resignation, the song laments the state of American politics and opines for President Truman's brutal honesty.

We'd love to hear you speak your mind, in plain and simple ways. Call a spade a spade, just like you did back in the days.

A slight issue emerges when you understand this is bullshit, hilarious and blatant bullshit. Harry Truman ran one of the most audacious scams on the American people in history, creating a public image of a humble man trying to get by when he was in truth very wealthy - through rather dishonest means.

If, like me, you enjoy popular history, this may surprise you. It is a popular fact that Truman left the oval office a poor man. Like U.S Grant before him, Truman sacrificed so much for his country yet was walked away from the White House with nothing but a $112 pension per month (roughly $1300 for inflation) for his military service. He would not give talks or degrade the office of the Presidency, and was happy to rely on the charity of friends to just barely scrape by.

It's a sad, somewhat pathetic, story - the most powerful man in the most powerful nation in the world reduced to all but begging to survive. A slight issue emerges when you find out that not a single word of this story is true.

The Grain of Truth

Truman's haberdashery business in 1919.

In all great scams, there's an element of truth in them. Truman did struggle with finances for a long time in his life - he became a haberdasher in 1919, but his business went bankrupt in the 1921 recession and trapped him with debts for nearly 15 years.

Truman would become a Judge in 1922 and a salesman 1926 after losing re-election, but his time as a judge had allowed him to establish connections with the Missouri Democratic machine boss Tom Pendergast. Pendergast would get Truman some more jobs, and eventually he backed Truman for the U.S Senate after Pendergast's preferred options all declined.

Truman was blessed to be running against a Republican that opposed the New Deal, and while he ran for his office and a banker named William Kemper, a longtime friend of the Truman family and enthusiastic Democrat, would pay for Truman's debt (likely to avoid Truman being shamed as the broke butt Senator from a broke butt state).

This really wasn't much of an upgrade for Truman. Sure, being a Senator paid a lot and he managed to get out of some of his debts thanks to it, but the Senate didn't pay that much. Adjusting for inflation, it was the low end of triple figures, and he also had to buy a new house to live in both D.C and Missouri. While not broke anymore, he was still pretty far from a rich man.

Harry Truman's good luck

"Is there anything I can do for you?" - Truman

"Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now." - Elanor Roosevelt, informing Truman of Roosevelt's passing.

Franklin Roosevelt was going to die soon in 1944. Everyone knew it. Roosevelt knew, Dewey and his comments about "tired old men" knew it, and the Democratic party bosses knew it. While Franklin Roosevelt liked Henry Wallace, the powerbrokers didn't, and they pressured Roosevelt to swap Wallace for Truman - someone who had been making a name for himself by cutting government graft during the second world war. Roosevelt didn't particularly like Truman, and as a Senator Truman was frequently ignored by the President, but with Roosevelt's death looking imminent, the future was bright for Truman.

Becoming Vice-President didn't alter Truman's fortune notably. The Vice-President is President of the Senate, so he got less of a new salary and more of a nice pay raise, and he had some rotten luck when Congress passed the Congressional Pension in 1946 - after he had joined the White House. So while he was likely grateful, this really didn't change much about his life.

Things changed on April 12th, when Franklin Roosevelt suddenly passed away following a massive and sudden hemorrhage. Truman's fortunes changed dramatically, to say the least. He immediately started earning a salary of $75,000 - which when adjusted for inflation, becomes an eye watering 1.3 million dollars a year, and he got an additional $50,000 in expenses (roughly $800,000). According to Bess Truman's personal papers, made public in 2009, he walked out of the White House in 1953 with around $650,000 or $7.6 million when adjusted for inflation. While the expenses would later become taxable, which means that the President would also need to prove that he had actually used to the expenses money to pay for expenses, for most of Truman's Presidency they weren't so Truman sort of just… took the money. He even wrote to his wife to confirm that they had nearly $200,000 ($2 million today) in the bank from the expenses.

And that's before we get onto his post-presidential ventures - he released a really shitty biography in a publishing deal for a good $600,000 ($7 million), and would go on TV to give an interview where he claimed that former Presidents are "just allowed to starve", for $25,000 (nearly $275,000) in 1958…

Truman's begging

Harry Truman and Edward Murrow. While being interviewed by Murrow, Truman claimed "The United States government turns its chief executives out to grass. They're just allowed to starve (...) If I hadn't inherited some property that finally paid things through, I'd be on relief right now."

Truman's begging was a sad and pathetic sight. The Commander-In-Chief was on TV telling people how poor he was - but that pails in comparison to the begging he was doing in Congress. He was sending letters to the Democratic leaders of Congress, explaining he was barely keeping his head above the water by selling a farm he inherited from his mother (she had lost her land in 1940), and while he totally wasn't begging for a presidential pension, he was going to have to try and cash in on the Presidency more then he already had by going on TV and writing books.

Truman explained in his letters to Rayburn and McCormack that while his book deal was worth $600,000, thanks to darn taxes he actually only got $37,000 ($400,000) from it while he incurred $153,000 in living expenses sitting on his butt and doing nothing but "writing" a shitty book. This is a lie - he actually got $300,000 (3 million) from the book deal, and when adjusted for inflation Truman is claiming that he was spending more then $1.7 million dollars. In these same letters, he says while feeding Congressional leaders this sob story "I don't want any pension and never wanted any because I'll manage to get along."

His obvious begging would pay off - the Former Presidents Act would pass Congress and be signed into law by President Eisenhower in 1958, earning the inflation-adjusted millionaire Truman an extra $20,000 pension ($220,000). The only other living President was Herbert Hoover, who didn't need, claim to need or want a pension but accepted it anyway to avoid humiliating Truman any further then Truman's begging had humiliated himself.

Moral of the Story

Defrauding the government for no reason is awesome

Truman with the Japanese Surrender.

Before I begin, I would just like to thank rDrama.net for this one, because I became aware that his foid existed due to this very post in here 2 years ago on her Xweet that went viral!

https://rdrama.net/post/55885/can-we-make-this-into-a

Anyhow....

Meet the future of Western Christian Conservatism

Imagine the most gorilla looking mandingo BIPOC you ever saw, blackest gorilla BIPOC ever, big, dumb, and sweaty with a meaty BBC tittyfricking this slut and spraying his load all over her. Making her licking the remains from his BBC and then he takes this whore and shoves his meat inside her kitty and pumps her for an hour before he roars a jungle gorilla roar after he empties his balls inside her and lets his Mandingo seed fertilize her womb. Then he keeps her as his personal cumslut were her lips are sealed to his BBC. Her body craving for a big, dumb, and violent gorilla BIPOC who will create BNWO with his BBC. White slutty women getting bred like farm animals by big black peepees that jackhammer their fertile pink kitties like there is no tomorrow, I've been a union contractor for over 20 years now and I have the experience to say just by looking at those pictures without a doubt, in my expert professional opinion that, that woman was constructed in such a way that she conforms to the rigorous set of building codes and standards that make her not only legally but also judiciously built for BBC.

!chuds !lutherans !coomers !weebs

(given how much buck broken by consumerism and xwitter grifting, I give 10 years until we start seeing Right-Wing Chrisitan porn studios and hentai artists popping up )

Here she is on generic GooberGate/ComixGate/WeebGate podcasts:

Anyways, who is this?

Totally sounds like what you would read on the Xwitter bio of an Asuka cosplayer!

She is a Lutheran:

But Lutherans are no longer terminally online based and redpilled Asuka enjoyers, and so she is now "just Christian":

But wait she still claims to be a Lutheran as recently as 30 October

Israel LE BAD because.... BECAUSE IT JUST IS OKAY?

I have seen more White people collectively defend Israel in the past 48 hours than I have ever seen defend their own existence. Really makes you think.

— Mack (@kenzietuff) October 8, 2023

They unironically think I support Israel, it’s quite hilarious.

— Mack (@kenzietuff) October 15, 2024

Unironic "my ancestors :)" posting:

My ancestors carved out Appalachia and my husband’s ancestors were on the Mayflower- can you say the same, anon? Or do you prefer calling heritage Americans Jews because they don’t edge-post as much as you want despite them clearly agreeing with you? Piss off.

— Mack (@kenzietuff) October 2, 2024

Zxister, I do not think that your Hyperborean WASP ancestors who built Appalachia () are proud of a descendant that is known for playing dress up as oriental cartoon girls at age 36 in softcore pornography, while spending the majority of her life shitposting about saving the white race through internet memes and copying Japanese society.

:

Cracking up. Pictured below: literally me

Mfw no Hoppean anarcho-capitalist Kurisu Makise Dr. Pepper loving Nazi wife pic.twitter.com/Y3NGVuHZn4

— Mack (@kenzietuff) May 18, 2024

Despite being a turbogigachuddette MAGA lady, she is quite sympathetic towards the majority-White majority-Christian and highly-nationalistic nation of Ukraine , even though she opposes sending aid to it

Every Ukrainian citizen is a Nazi? “Free thinker” in bio being challenged in the head undefeated. pic.twitter.com/NsDvQYuQbW

— Mack (@kenzietuff) January 21, 2024

I wish no one in White countries had to die, but I’d certainly not look at them and tell them to quit fighting, no. It’s interesting the narrative doesn’t ever swing towards Russia should stop, always Ukraine should give up. And I have Russian extended family 🤷‍♀️

— Mack (@kenzietuff) July 27, 2024

It looks like you didn’t like when the United States bombed hospitals in the Middle East, but you said this about a hospital in Ukraine being bombed with children. Curious, I wonder what the difference is here for you. https://t.co/uZvUZfYdnP pic.twitter.com/Q5jy46h5WR

— Mack (@kenzietuff) July 14, 2024

Because he jumped on the CRT is racist train? Where is his post calling for the military to be sent to schools preaching anti-White rhetoric to children? He won’t send money to White Ukraine but he’ll sure as heck send it to Israel.

— Mack (@kenzietuff) April 22, 2024

Ever since Ukraine figures allegedly on the Dissident Right have been shilling Dugin + many RW anons are non-Whites protecting their own interests over the past few years.

— Mack (@kenzietuff) March 22, 2024

That's fine, but I have far more in common with Christians in Ukraine than with Jews in Israel.

— Mack (@kenzietuff) October 30, 2023

Ukraine has one of the lowest vaccination rates in Europe as of the end of last year- and you're using the current horrific situation for the citizens to push lockdown propaganda. Absolutely disgusting. Talk about "selfish." https://t.co/Gr3XGJDRfG

— Mack (@kenzietuff) February 26, 2022

To be expected, she really loves the Honorary Aryans of Japan (but obviously not their moids tho )

When I went to Japan there was a ton of stuff flavored like this it’s amazing

— Mack (@kenzietuff) October 8, 2024

I’ve been to Japan and cosplay Japanese characters, she’s got no excuse

— Mack (@kenzietuff) August 20, 2024

The United States could absolutely be like Japan by embracing two words: physical removal https://t.co/Jg2ugY7SvT

— Mack (@kenzietuff) April 4, 2024

This one takes the cake in its low-IQ foidbrain take doebeit:

Anime is quite literally a tool used to promote families and breeding in Japan + seethe more + post physique https://t.co/knEASm3JGS pic.twitter.com/Jgim9Iu54E

— Mack (@kenzietuff) July 9, 2022

TRANIME IS PRO-NATALIST PROPAGANDA TO MAKE PEOPLE WANT TO MARRY AND HAVE CHILDREN

Zxister, if Tranime is a Jap psyop to make people go outside and have children, then it is the worst fricking psyop ever created in human history, it has resulted in the opposite effect to an unprecedented extent, because causing incels to out and turn into hikikomori gooners is surely how we will increase birth rates or something

More White foid nneeding at how Huwite men are incapable of lusting after Asian foids:

NOOOO YOU JUST CAN'T MARRY ASIAN WOMEN YOU FRICKING JEWISH CHAD ZOG CUCK GLOBALIST RACE TRAITOR, YOU MUST US MARRY ONLY US CHAD JAWLINE HAGS BECAUSE.... THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WYPIPO CAN'T MARRY ASIANS OR SOMETHING, YOU CAN APPRECIATE ASIAN FEMALE BEAUTY AND CONSUME JAP MEDIA 24/7 BUT YOU MUST NOT MARRY ASIAN WOMEN BECAUSE..... BECAUSE YOU JUST CAN'T OK-AAAAACK!

ALSO HOLY CHAD JAWLINE BATMAN, IS ZXHE ACCURATELY COSPLAYING WESTERN FOID VIDYA CHARACTERS NOW?!?!

!foidmoment

Yep, this is going to my "List of White Nationalist Tradthots with face "

Anyways, a redscarecel said this:

Does anyone knows what video that is?

Furthermore, she is probably smart enough to know that if she got anywhere near close to the "Dissident Right" Trad Christian anime avatars, she would been subjected to non-stop harassment and unsolicited peepee pics from groypjeet gooners desperate for a Neo-Nazi cosplayer waifu to send aryan vegene and bobs sar pls, even doe she is 36 years old and already married

Some posts of her mocking Groypoids and "Dissident Right" loli catboy hard-working Americans for being cute twinks:

Even doe she sided with Hard-working American Straguentes two years ago, before the mass p-do leaks in the Groypjeet "movement" became common knowledge:

New safe haven from censorship platform GETTR almost immediately banned Nick Fuentes btw 🌎🤡

— Mack (@kenzietuff) January 4, 2022

Anyways, right after I finished writing all of this autism, @Eleganza has said that she has disowned cosplaying and has now grown up (), so yeah, if you know any more cool stuff about this peak current year foid moment, be sure to post it here! !ranchers !trump2024 @LainClowningAround

MORAL OF THE STORY?

TWFD

ASUK-ACK! LOST

M-ACK! LOST

NEON GENESIS EVABIPOCS LOST

WMAF WON

BWC WON

I stumbled upon a post on /r/NPR of the voot bloo no madda who black trans lives matter ultra-wokeoids getting cannibalized by their own listeners, because they do not hate Drumpf enough and are being "unfair" towards Biden , and well, I just clicked on the profile of a random commenter, called /u/Knower_of_somnothing who calls himself a "mega-progressive" to see how much reddit has been affecting the mental health of terminally online antisocial urbanites in the 2020s.

However, I was shocked to see that this leddit user is a Progressivecel version of Anders Breivik , the user is very obsessed with IQ points, constantly mentions 4chan, and hates jannies, something uncharacteristic of the average redditor with /r/politics brainrot, and very likely an inside job of a Dramanaut, KiwiFarmer, Sharteen, or 4chud.

So deep inside, I hope to Allah (SWT) that /u/Knower_of_somnothing is just a shitposter from /pol/ making fun of redditors during election season.... but this seems unlikely, since he has been non-stop posting his mass shooter manifestos for over a year, and has very upmarseyd comments, let a user like this be put on the museum of 2020s internet brainrot, a cautionary tale for future generations who might start to rebel against social media and culture war doomposting:

1. Anyone and everyone who tries in any way to frick with the election should be hanged until death like the law states.

2. I am definitely a mega progressive, I hate republicans, fascism, russia, and any kind of hate. So when I hear NPR being soft on trump, I question why more people let them slide?

3. Nobody wants to unify with garbage nazis. What do you not understand about that? You are a shitty loud minority, and we will progress this country without you all. You all lost all respect years ago; lucky for you, you will benefit from the progress. Best thing to do is just shut the frick up after the election, but we all know you'll go smear shit on the walls of some government building and get arrested.

Ledditor version of the "you sound like a seething jewish chad, Trump won, get over it" copypasta

4.

5.

Why are both leftoids and rightoids so much obsessed with the IQ points of people they believe to be subhumans worthy of death?

6.

A MAGNeurodivergent wants to leave the MAGA cult? you would expect that ledditors would let their inner Evangelical take hold and welcome new Democrat voters with open arms, but no lol, to this future mass shooter, there is no forgiveness for the unforgivable sin of being a Drumpflermort supporter, once a RethugliKKKan always a RethugliKKKan, your only form of mercy is getting choked before you burn to death at the stake

7.

Once again, my post is not a "lol look at this crazy libtard amrite fellow MAGA pedes? ", this guy is a genuine schizo mass shooter in the making who hates even Democrats who despise Trump, it does not matters even if you are a hardcore vote blue no matter who Black Trans Lives Matter Trump 4 Prison Kamalabro, this guy still fricking hates your guts for existing, and wants revenge against those who he feels wronged him because he is an r-slur that is likely already on a mass shooter/Trump assassin FBI watch list.

He just uses culture war politics and faux-Progressive/right-side-of-history lingo to justify his emo edgelord misanthropy and fedposting straight out of 2004 VampireFreaks, the "everyone is welcome in our movement, we do not discriminate" doctrines has led to countless charlatans, grifters, predators, manipulators, outright malicious and violent people to infiltrate Progressive/faux-Leftist/Gaming/Animation/Geek circles in the past decade or so, politics and working for your friends and community be darned, they just want what benefits them and themselves only.

8.

9.

To be expected, he actually despises Palestine, and is honest about why he does not gives a shit about it..... because he heckin christofascist MAGA bigot chud Paleschudians hate LGBTQIAP2S folx

10.

!schizos !grillers !fedposters !reportmaxxers

Darklands Series

1 - Darklands LP Part I

2 - Darklands LP Part II: Charles Bronson Edition

3 - Darklands LP III: Nuns and Coins

4 - Darklands LP Ep IV: Introduction to Equipment & Combat

5 - Darklands LP Part V: We finally briefly go out into the dark lands

6 - Darklands LP VI: We actually start a quest!

7 - Darklands LP VII: We reach our destination

8 - Darklands LP VIII: Raubritter confrontation & learning how combat works

9 - Darklands LP IX: I'm not giving you my goddarn alchemical materials

10 - Darklands LP X: We actually do some alchemy!

11 - Darklands LP XI: The Main Plot

The Witches' Sabbat

It's Halloween today, October 31, 1402, so it's time to take on the forces of darkness once again.

In our last episode, we finally made it to the witches' Sabbat, basically ComicCon for Satanists. Day one has a bit of an amusement park feel, but they seem to be building up to a big event tomorrow. We're going to do what we can to ruin their fun. But hopefully we won't have to slaughter everyone here. Even these people can still be saved if they repent.

Let's start out with the food. It's what Anthony Bourdain would do.

It's not ideal, but let's at least give these babies a quick baptism while we can.

We really do not want to attract too much attention, so we better be careful the next place we go.

Okay, let's see what's going on by the stream. Ugh. This is no good. But I'll try to give these people a chance. I'll boost Sasha's Speak Common and Charisma even higher and have her try to persuade them this is wrong. St. John Chrysostom is an obvious choice. One of the most important figures in the development of the early church, he was renowned for his oratory. Chrysostom literally is "Golden Mouth", exactly what we need now. Sasha now has 99 Speak Common but you can never be sure of success in dangerous situations like this.

As demonstrated here. Looks like these guys are gonna have to die.

They're very poorly equipped and no trouble to beat, but I expect we'll get in multiple combats before the Sabbat is over and we won't have a chance to heal between them, so any damage done here will add up. That cultist with his flail turns out to be more dangerous than I thought and Redactor gets hurt a bit.

We've drawn too much suspicion to ourselves. This busybody is going catch us eventually if we don't do better. I'll use the "yeah, I'm up to something" line, hoping to confuse him for now.

Let's check out the broom-riding and see if this really is as cute as they make it out to be in childrens' books. Oh no, it's actually awful.

Sasha still has her Speak Common boosted so maybe she can at least convince these people. She fails again and we have to kill these people too. I've consistently been getting really bad luck throughout this. Maybe Halloween isn't my lucky day.

Let's see what's going on at the altar. So that's what this is all about. They're summoning a demon. Satanists are so lame. It really is a ripoff of Burning Man.

We're under a lot of suspicion but there is absolutely no way I'd ever consider engaging in this kind of blasphemy.

My party has pretty terrible Stealth skill, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at failing this check.

Despite screwing up everything we tried to do, we managed to get by using brute force. Our party is hardly even injured. That chainmail really makes a huge difference when going up against a mob of poorly-armed enemies.

The fortress monastery? What's that? I guess we'll find out someday.

I have Sasha try to win over the baptism crowd and she fails yet again. Then it's summoning time. So that's where the Fortress Monastery is. I always knew that the Danes were Satanic.

We've got practically no injuries and most of our Divine Favor left. And for this special occasion I'm going to break out the alchemy. I'm passing out:

• Hardarmor - One for everyone. This will increase the quality and boost the effective thickness of the armor by +2, better than even plate without alchemical enhancement.

• Fleadust & Arabian Fire - Two for everyone. The offensive potions you want to spread around through your party. If one guy is carrying them all he might be engaged and unable to throw.

• Essence of Grace - The healing potion. There's no mechanic in the game to stop you from just chugging these constantly, which isn't really a fun way to play, so I'm going to arbitrarily limit us to three per person for now.

I won't bother invoking saintly aid to improve our weapon skills since they're already into the 80s. Okay, let's do this.

The demon turns out to be pretty weak. Am I over-prepared for this battle?

Now is the hard part. The high witch will be tossing potions and her minions have flails, which with 4 penetration would match our chainmail if it wasn't alchemically enhanced.

The fight is tougher than we've had in a long time, but not too challenging. The enemy can't penetrate our armor so they do very little damage to our Strength, but there's a lot of them and they land a lot of non-penetrating hits that do a few points of Endurance damage. Sasha takes an Essence of Grace to keep from getting knocked out.

The second wave is just like the first, but this time I'm a little smarter about defeating them in detail. Nathan manages to slip past the cultists to get to the high witch but she hits with him Fleadust or something, greatly reducing his skills, so he has trouble hitting her, but it's over soon enough.

We now have a clear mission ahead of us: Go to Denmark and assault the Fortress Monastery!

Sorry for this being so anti-climactic. I didn't realize how powerful my party had become and I wanted to make sure to explain all the main systems of the game before going forward with the main plot. Don't worry, it gets much more difficult.

Happy Halloween!

Darklands Series

1 - Darklands LP Part I

2 - Darklands LP Part II: Charles Bronson Edition

3 - Darklands LP III: Nuns and Coins

4 - Darklands LP Ep IV: Introduction to Equipment & Combat

5 - Darklands LP Part V: We finally briefly go out into the dark lands

6 - Darklands LP VI: We actually start a quest!

7 - Darklands LP VII: We reach our destination

8 - Darklands LP VIII: Raubritter confrontation & learning how combat works

9 - Darklands LP IX: I'm not giving you my goddarn alchemical materials

10 - Darklands LP X: We actually do some alchemy!

One of the few weaknesses our party has now is Sasha. She's not well armored enough and her longsword is pretty useless against most of the enemies we're starting to run into. I head back to our old home turf in Westphalia. I know Paderborn makes good weapons and Soest makes good armor. I buy her a poniard, basically a dagger. That might seem like a big step down as it has a base damage of 5 down from the longsword's 12 but it has 4 penetration (matching chainmail) and is much faster. With the poniard we should be able to get her into full chainmail eventually.

Level Scaling & The Main Plot

Darklands does have level scaling but don't jump to the conclusion that it's a bad thing. Some games like Oblivion are notorious for doing this the wrong way. All the enemies in the world are pegged to the same level as you, so theoretically if you could teleport to the end boss at the beginning of the game he would be at level 1 and the fight would be no more difficult than if you had played the whole game out to being level 20. In Darklands it calculates how strong it thinks your party is (I'm guessing based on skills) and as you get more powerful it upgrades the enemies, I believe twice. For example those street thugs who fought at the beginning of the game used to have just ordinary clothing on their limbs. Now it's padded armor. Presumably their attributes and skills are boosted too. But it still matters who they are. We're still going to slaughter those guys. But now a raubritter's henchmen will actually have some decent armor and are a challenge to us again. Since we're playing out the same quests over and over again, this is a way to make sure they don't get too stale.

Another thing that's triggered by your party growing stronger is an event calling you to stop just wandering around and take on mid game challenges. This definitely should have triggered by now. Either there's a bug or I got my saved games mixed up. So let's pretend it just happened now.

Well now we've got a real quest. Not from some banker or mayor but from God. Let's get on it.

I happen to be outside Magdeburg again. Let's check out this castle.

Oh it's not a castle. Yuna prays to St. Dorothea for guidance and we get this result.

Okay, let's go in.

(They act like I've already been here before. This must be a bug. She's an enigmatic astrologer who can see fleeting glimpses of your destiny. The first time you go here, she should either tell you that you're too weak and need get stronger or that you're ready to take on the Satanists at their Sabbat.)

Investigation

The Sabbat is where the pagans meet to celebrate their obscene rituals on one of their holidays. But when and where will it be this time? What would Crockett and Tubbs from Miami Vice do if they were hunting down a vast Satanic conspiracy in 1400s Germany? They'd start by picking up a low level Satanist and find out who his boss is.

We go to another Satanic village (there's quite a few) and slaughter everyone without even taking a single hit. Now what's this? Southeast of Goslar on June 21? It sounds like something important is going down. We should check it out. Today is June 5 but Goslar happens to be very close by so I should be able to get there in time. We'll want to avoid all combat if possible because we don't want to lose time healing wounds.

On the 15th we find this interesting Stonehengey type place southeast of Goslar. As we approach the music turns from adventurous to ominous.

I haven't been to a place this disturbing and depressing since I quit reddit.

A severed finger

I was thinking yakuza but actually Satanists would make more sense. So we've found the place we're looking for. There's not much to do but camp out here and wait a few days for them to show up. Maybe Redactor can stir up a few more potions. We're going to need them.

Nothing Happens

Somehow I missed them. Maybe I got the dates mixed up or something. Happens to me in real life all the time. Whatevs. We go to another Satanic village and get the next date: SE of Teschen on Halloween. Teschen is in Silesia near the border between Bohemia and Poland. It's pretty remote, but I think we've got plenty of time to get there.

Along the way we run into this place. It's a good reminder of just much history already existed back then. Germany had been Christian in Roman times but was then conquered by pagans who eventually were converted. This whole process took centuries, so there's ancient Christian ruins now that are long forgotten. In terms of the game, somebody probably sent us on a fetch quest here and I never bothered to go because I was far away at the time. But if we get his item maybe we'll run into him again someday.

See, I told you those Thunderbolt potions would be useful someday. I use one to blast open an entrance.

There's gotta be skeletons in every game.

This is the first time we've been in a long multi-part combat. There are groups of enemies around this dungeon and if I run into them I'll have to fight, but between fights we can walk around and go wherever we want. I'll have the party travel in single file so we don't get stuck every time we reach a doorway. But wait, Sasha, our weakest fighter, is pointman. I change the party's marching order so Nathan is in front. Now it's time to search for an exit.

Well that was easy. I find some stairs guarded by just one skeleton. He goes aggro on us when he sees us, kind of like a pod of enemies does in Nu X-Com. We make short work of him and walk off with the ancient crown.

I go after another one of these evil castle lords. For the first time we run into enemy archers. Everyone does fine except Sasha. Their armor blocks most of the damage, so it's only about 3 points for each arrow. A 3 point hit probably will only hurt endurance, not strength. Most of your lost endurance is regained after each fight so that's not huge problem. Restoring strength requires either rest, prayer, or alchemy so it's much more serious. Did I mention that when strength goes down to 0 your character is dead? Like completely permanently dead and you have to replace them with a new one.

I got plenty of time to kill before the Sabbat so I wander around the region, doing my usual thing, learning new saints and new formulas. In Pressburg the local alchemist trades to me the formula for Essence of Grace, the most important in the game as it's the healing potion that restores lost endurance and strength.

Teschen

Here we are. It's October 11, so that gives us plenty of time before Halloween to find the site and do some alchemy while we wait for the Satanic horde to show up. It's supposed to be SE of Teschen but Teschen is at the extreme eastern edge of the map. It must be this place. Yuna knows St. Raymond now, who can boost Redactor's Alchemy skill up to 99, so he can make huge batches of common potions. We'll settle down and let him do that for now.

Today's the day. Let's see what they're up to. WTF? This better not be Burning Man. I'll slaughter everyone if it is.

I'm going to chat up some of arriving weirdos and try to blend in with them.

Well obviously there's only one answer to this. They're a bunch of goths after all.

See, I still know my high school subcultures.

Uh oh. Instead of bomb-sniffing dogs for security they have Christian-sniffing dogs. Fortunately we don't have to try to bluff our way through. St. Aidan will help us. He was an Irish monk who converted the Anglo-Saxons of northern England and also really liked animals.

Good dog.

What in the heck have we gotten ourselves into? We'll find out in the next episode.