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It has been revealed that this whole mess was actually a massive unprecedented attack by both Russia and China on NATO. While other disinfo campaigns in the West happened, they were basically just a warm up for this, an overwhelming sudden attack that was supposed to completely decapitate the country and wreck the whole eastern flank of NATO (we and Poland are the main NATO allies here, so with our collapse both Poland and Ukraine would fail soon). This has been prepared for years (since 2016) and failed because these r-slurs severely overestimated the whole 'Romania is a western democracy and a member of NATO and EU' while horribly underestimating the 'Romania is a semi-autocratic eastern european shithole' part :marseytroll:

Georgescu winning with the help of some secret services (yes the conspiracy theories were right) and generals and becoming a dictator was the main part, which failed because the idea of a democratic state cancelling elections while people were voting was preposterous (too bad nobody here cares about democracy). The backup plan was to either start a violent revolution with the supporters they gathered in all these years, or to at least cause so much chaos that the whole country will become ungovernable (too bad Romania is the laziest and most cowardly country in Eastern Europe) :angryvatnik: :marseycopeseethedilate:


The coup step by step

  • after communism we never cleaned the country and the institutions of russian agents and sympathisers, so they just waited patiently for an opportunity to strike and bring Romania back into Russia's sphere of influence

  • the attack was carried by Russia with China's help and with the contribution of some other countries (probably third world countries bot armies)

  • during the peak of the electoral campaign Georgescu :marseyhitler2: became the 9th trending topic on TikTok or something (don't use TikTok dunno how it works), and since no one really cares that much about Romania, this is proof that China was doing dumb shit with their algorithms :marseyjewoftheorient:

  • other disinfo campaigns that Russia is accused of (like Brexit) were basically tests to see how western countries react to online manipulations. Brexit is an important part here because of the whole 'you can't overturn the will of the people, so if a referendum passes you must honour it' conclusion. Russia was aware that they can't take over a western country, so they just focused on destabilising them, but they want to take over Eastern Europe, so the attack here was actually meant to be a coup and not just stirring shit for the lulz

  • this has been in the works for years, possibly since 2016; Georgescu has been living in Austria without a job all this time where he prepared for his esoteric messiah role and slowly gathered a following of conspiracy nutjobs

  • two weeks before the first elections an army of bots started to promote Georgescu everywhere on social media and especially on TikTok. Some accounts were older than the current TikTok, created when it was still only a chinese site. They got millions of people to vote for him.

  • the idea was to keep everything hidden until the elections, when Georgescu will be promoted suddenly and massively, and by the time the authorities will realize something is wrong he will have already won the first voting round, at which point no one would dare to do anything against 'the will of the people' (that part worked)

  • (at this point our secret services actually realized something is very funky and asked NATO for help without anyone knowing it)

  • the mysterious recount happened because the number of votes given to each candidate didn't match the votes that were presented on the election website and the authorities were worried that Russia somehow managed to get involved in the election process, but apparently they just hacked the website to mess with the numbers? :marseyhmmm:

  • anyway, since everything was fine, the first round of the elections was validated and the election season continued while multiple secret services, both ours and foreign were taking notes :marseyfedpostglow:

  • other weird things happened in the first voting session, like lots of ballots reaching the voting booths being already pre-stamped for Georgescu, but people assumed incompetency rather than foul play

  • well, it turns out that a big part of our authorities, from secret service agents to politicians to cops and army officials, tried to stage a soft coup and manipulate the elections to get Georgescu :marseyhitler2: elected as president (and his other :marseyauthright: friends into the parliament). They tried to hide evidence from their colleagues, tripped up their investigations when they noticed something was wrong, distracted people, lied etc. The only reason they didn't succeed was because someone was smart enough to notify Burgerland first and only then tried to sort through all this mess :marseybigbrain:

  • when they noticed the scale of the infiltration, the heads of some secret services tried to resign in shame but our president didn't accept because everything was already too chaotic and destabilised

  • NATO came up with the 'cancel the elections' plan which was supposed to be a last resort if everything else failed

  • two days before the last election round, when the diaspora was already queued up to vote (and a few hundred people already did), the elections were finally cancelled. Coup effectively ended :lelolidk:

  • surprisingly, despite being a corrupt shithole and despite all this chaos, we survived what is now described to be the worse hybrid attack on a NATO/EU country :marseyletsgo:

  • (but seriously, imagine the russian guys responsible for this. People were already voting, no democracy will ever do anything to disturb the voting process at this point, all pieces were in place, your agent was two steps away from winning. All these years of work will pay off handsomely. This was supposed to be the first type of all hands on deck attack and it was a resounding success, one NATO country down, Ukraine finished, whatever else... And then, casually and without hesitation the elections were cancelled and everyone was told to go back home. And there's nothing you can do to save your hard work from being trampled :marseylaughpoundfist: )

Funny detail. That burger plane I mentioned in my last post? The elections were cancelled just 40 minutes after it landed and most of that time was spent in traffic not in some meeting room :marseylaugh: Anyway, before that Merica also sent some specialists or something during these deranged weeks (and probably some CIA agents). Possibly the reason why the coup stated to progressively falter, there's one thing to fight our own secret services, a whole different thing to do this with CIA breathing down your neck :marseysaluteusa: Still, I have to give credit to our own (non-traitor) intelligence agents too, they fought with all they have and did their job well and managed to drag us all away from the cliff's edge :marseyclapping:

Yesterday evening, or night, another murican plane landed in Bucharest, probably to help us with the potential upcoming civil unrest and violence that will totes happen just because Putin wants it :marseysmug:


The 'revolution'

Since Russia is a slav country surrounded by other slav and muslim countries they dumbly assumed that all these people that were convinced to vote for Georgescu :marseyhitler2: would also be willing to get beaten up by the cops for him. Clearly they have no idea what country they're messing with :marseygiggle:

  • obviously, all his supporters (and bots) were wiped into a frenzy because of the now lost elections, screaming about rights and democracy and fascism and communism and whatever :marseyraging:

  • on top of all this anger came some weird conspiracy theories: Biden wants to use Romania to drag NATO into war in order to remain a dictator forever, Moldova declared war on Transnistria and we'll join them with our army overnight, the state will start rounding up men to send them to Ukraine, martial law will be declared so our president will become a dictator etc. Anyway, lots of scary shit and these morons actually believed it :marseybrainlet:

  • a huge mass of angry and scared people are the perfect recipe for a nasty protest right? Add our actual nazi groups (armed and trained militias) and some mercenaries usually fighting in third world shitholes joining in and you get an actual revolution :marseyclueless:

  • yesterday, the funniest shit happened, and that was the last part of this plan, the final moment before the bloodshed will start. Georgescu :marseyhitler2: appeared in some livestream and said to his supporters that the elections weren't actually cancelled, because in some purely freeman of the land fashion, the decree from the Constitutional Court wasn't signed properly and wasn't published on their site therefore it's not an actual binding declaration. In fact, the globalist state is lying to them all, the elections still happen normally, just that his supporters are tricked to stay at home so he can lose the elections. So, they must all still go and vote.

  • the idea here was: hundreds if not thousands of people gather in the streets to vote, they can't vote because the elections are cancelled, they get angry and the police (already tense due to the whole coup thing) panic and start beating up people, the nazis then jump to defend them with guns and swords and everything descends into violence

:mar#seyputin:


The actual results?

...a huge army of supporters have gathered to to vote for Goergescu! Fear them! :marseyrise:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336693333326604.webp

(notice that messed up flag)

  • 20 in the country

  • 100 at Viena

  • 30 at Paris and Rome

They seem more confused than angry... yeah civil wars aren't exactly our thing... :tayshrug:

In the meantime, all the hardcore nazis that came to Bucharest to fight the police were arrested before crossing into the capital :marseyfluffy: As soon as the elections were cancelled the cops descended on all the known nazis (both the infamous ones and new r-slurs that posted threats on TikTok after Georgescu's :marseyhitler2: rise to fame). They confiscated lots of weapons (mostly knives and swords because guns are rare here). And the ones that managed to hide have been caught now.

Even some actual militias tried to join. We have a relatively large number of mercenaries fighting in Africa and the Middle East for some reason (large for a balkan shithole that had nothing to do ever with other continents anyway). Some leader active in Congo has been arrested for trying to bring 'dozens of weapons, two guns and lots of explosives' into Bucharest during the night.

Here's the badass action hero guy:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336693342552927.webp

And here is him obediently following the cops to the police station:

So, the whole thing was a massive failure and a huge waste of money, resources and time for Russia :marseysmug2: The authorities are still in high alert for tonight, but it seems that the worst has passed :marseyjam: To our surprise, and delight, America reacted immediately when we called for help and held our hand throughout all this nightmare :marseyblush:


Best part for the last :marseyexcited: In the most embarrassing turns of events ever our presidential candidates decided to all send love letters to Trump for frick knows what reason :marseypaperbag:

First our nazi russian agent

Then his gypsy nazi friend

And then our LGBT Soros feminazi candidate

I literally never felt such a bone deep second hand embarrassment since middle school :marseycringe: The only parties who didn't pull such an r-slured move were our status quo parties and I think I'll vote for them next elections because they're the only ones who understand how diplomacy works in the first place :marseyfacepalm:


All in all, EU is pissed, NATO is worried, after all if such a hidden network existed here then other similar networks could be planted for other countries, all waiting to be activated at the right moment, and according to some diplomats even Trump is pissed. I mean, imagine starting your presidency with all sorts of ideas for your country's problems only to have to sort through multiple eastern european conflicts because Russia can't keep it's hand to itself :marseyunamused:

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4cope thread that will be deleted soon and has jannies comments: https://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/696433012

Archived thread: https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/696433012

Mexicans on leddit react: https://old.reddit.com/r/StreetFighter/comments/1h7mje6/street_fighter_6_mai_teaser_trailer/

KiNeurodivergents chudlebrate: https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1h8l9sr/while_some_western_studios_are_struggling_to_keep/


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https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185129670856.webp

So she is the peak fanservice fighting character character that has an exposed fat butt in a 2024 video game, but are /v/irgins happy?


https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185131279845.webp

:#marseyitsallsotiresome: these neighbors will never be satisfied with anything


https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185132211328.webp

:#!hesrightyouknow:


https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185132639596.webp

:#chadno: https://i.rdrama.net/images/17016226881468322.webp Mai has the most BBC anal-coded butt in vidya history https://i.rdrama.net/images/1733102383126777.webp


https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185133199356.webp

:#speechbubble:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17333680936371212.webp


https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185133720417.webp

https://preview.redd.it/boy-i-love-m-e-t-h-v0-cxroud9sey9d1.jpeg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b8eb74837414827f50d1afdc710bf58473875681


Anyways, time to talk about the duality of the nu-4cuck:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1733618513458057.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1733618513516026.webp

https://media.tenor.com/7OiU3LE-RPAAAAAM/barack-obama-what-the.gif

Is this game globohomo jewish chad DEI poz wokeBIPOC shit or based gigachud hentaiGOD anti-woke aryan gemstone? :marseyconfused2:


Either way, some anons appear to have unveiled the reason behind so many AAA games going woke these days! :marseydetective:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185135764809.webp

:#marseytunaktunakinvasion: :#marseydarkxd:


https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185150036054.webp

:#marseyindiarentfree:


https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185151045299.webp

:#marseytruthnuke: :#marseytruthnuke: :#marseytruthnuke: :#marseytruthnuke:


Either way, since this is a thread about 4cuck reacting to Mai Shitranui, and not about the character herself, then I would prefer to spoil my effortpost talking about the background of the most famous PAAG in vidya history!

https://preview.redd.it/1pal0v8kz45e1.png?width=780&format=png&auto=webp&s=400f677308a5a7a495db89b747a9d7646877da91 https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185151459613.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/173361851557899.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/1733618516697506.webp

Also reminder that in 1994 there was a KoF anime where they fricking drew Mai's anus! :marseydarkxd: :!marseykneel: :marseychingchongsupremacy: :vegetakneel:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1684136844258959.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841368449772596.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841368457753625.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841368464189255.webp

And here is a rare deleted scene showing her tits while she was showering, as a response to the most famous scene in SF anime history where Chun-li does the same:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841368470626113.webp https://i.redd.it/v5gti7pkej3a1.gif

Either way, the history of Mai Shiranui:

Mai Shiranui is a certified and fact-checked ricebunny PAAG coal burner mudshark BIPOClover built for the most vantablack darkest BIPOCcoal sub-saharan African mandingo BIPOC BBC, they should change the name of the game to King of BIPOClovers, or Fatal BIPOC, or BIPOC Fighter 6, because of how much BVILT for the most vantablack BIPOCcoal sub-saharan African BIPOC BBC its ricebunnies are!, Mai Shiranui is BVILT for the most vantablack BIPOCcoal sub-saharan African BIPOC mandingo Congolese BBCs, she is THE biggest mudshark BIPOClover coal burner in vidya history, it is astounding how tiny-peepeeed Japs were able to handcraft and make character designs that screams "I FRICK BIPOCS!" more than that, her perfect coal burner butt coded for BIPOC anal, her exposing mudshark tits.... frick, it is unbelievable how much they intentionally made her look like a peak BIPOClover, not even the most BBC-obsessed Amerimutt would have come up with such explicit and perfect Ricebunny design that is undeniably coded for s*x with sweaty African Nigerian African migrants, I love when Mai get creampied by the most vantablack dark BIPOCcoal Sub-Saharan African BIPOC Congolese BBC, 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 them lick the remains from his BBC and then he takes these whores and shoves his meat inside their kitties and pumps them for an hour before he roars a jungle gorilla roar after he empties his balls inside them and lets his Mandingo seed fertilize their BIPOC-bearing wombs. Then he keeps them as his personal cumsluts were their lips are sealed to his BBC. Their bodies craving for a big, dumb, and violent gorilla BIPOC who will create BNWO with his BBC. White and Asian slutty women getting bred like farm animals by big black peepees that jackhammer their fertile pink kitties like there is no tomorrow. Furthermore, 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, these women were constructed in such a way that they conform to the rigorous set of building codes and standards that make them not only legally but also judiciously built for BBC. They are BVILT for BBC, architected for africans, erected for ebony, stacked for black, created for coal, materialized for melanin, slave for sambo, spawned for spades, anointed for BIPOCs, shaped for apes, toned for Tyrone, custom equipped, manufactured, artisan crafted, formed by nature, smithed, created and consecrated for BBC. https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185171894064.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/1733618517509286.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/1733618518039295.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/1733618518598639.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336220864686272.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185191418593.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/1733618525845238.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185267411332.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185283854373.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185200802557.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185220928323.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185244701872.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185289940753.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185324195824.webp

That was a whole lot wasnt it? :marseysmug2:, it took me two days to write this effortpost about her history!, let me see what you think of it!

And as one last surprise, I bring to you a rare unused sprite from KOF 98:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185341727154.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17336185344092727.webp

!coomers !2dgooners !fightclub @Christmas_waifus_shill

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EFFORTPOST How Quebec cucked Canada | A historical tale of how some french incel irrevocably shat on gun rights and promoted the federal funding of a group of feral white women to shit on them more :francenice:

Mutts know that Canada is cucked in regards to gun ownership, but can't comprehend the actual context behind it. hopefully this helps :marseyjam:

A long standing political tradition in Canada is milking the shit out of events, the most potent of this is the Polytechnique Massacre (pictured below) which has cuckolded canadian gun owners for well over a third of a century at this point.

:marseyblops2#cel: :space::marseytradragin#g::marseytradragin#g::marseytradragin#g::marseytradragin#g::marseytradragin#g::marseytradragin#g:

(this isn't an exaggeration, the resembelance is uncanny https://i.rdrama.net/images/17335281171328301.webp )

The shooting itself wasn't anything spectacular. it was Today (happy anniversary, i wish he got them all!) :marseyexcited:, all the way back in 1989. Some incel (named marc le pine :marseyxd!: ) was beaten enough as a kid to get literal brain damage to the degree where they were refused from the army for being antisocial :chudspin:, after failing to flunk out of school despite no effort in his studies :marseybigbrain:. Let's check his suicide note for some content :marseyexcited:

Please note that if I commit suicide today 89-12-06 it is not for economic reasons (for I have waited until I exhausted all my financial means, even refusing jobs) but for political reasons. Because I have decided to send the feminists, who have always ruined my life, to their Maker. For seven years life has brought me no joy and being totally blasé, I have decided to put an end to those viragos.

I tried in my youth to enter the Forces as an officer cadet, which would have allowed me possibly to get into the arsenal and precede Lortie in a raid. They refused me as [I was] asocial.

:marseybl#ops2celtalking:

Thus it is an obvious truth that if the Olympic Games removed the Men-Women distinction, there would be women only in the graceful events. So the feminists are not fighting to remove that barrier. They are so opportunistic they [do not][note 2] neglect to profit from the knowledge accumulated by men through the ages. They always try to misrepresent them every time they can. Thus, the other day, I heard they were honoring the Canadian men and women who fought at the frontline during the world wars. How can you explain [that since][note 3] women were not authorized to go to the frontline??? Will we hear of Caesar's female legions and female galley slaves who of course took up 50% of the ranks of history, though they never existed. A real Casus Belli.

:marseybetauprising#talking:

Of course, while this incel slop is innovative for the time (not really, everyone hates women), the shooting wasn't really that remarkable. It's not even the most deadly shooting in Canada, especially not nowadays. the actual impact of this is far worse: Feral white women.

And even worse: Feral french white women. Because women be crazy, and because an incel was the one shooting, Mister Mark Le Pine (:xd:) catapulted white women into relevancy. The survivors formed together like a bunch of maggots on a corpse to form PolySeSouvient, the single biggest contributor to every dogshit arbitrary gun law Canada has, up to and including reading off guns from a copy of guns and ammo to put on the list (there's a shared typo :marseyxd: )

The biggest example of this blatant foidery is Nathalie Provost, unremarkable white woman.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17335281171746511.webp

:marseyyikes: :marseyeggless:

She's the reason it's federally funded, as she's paid by the glowies to be on the gun advocacy board :marseydicklet: - of course, there's no conflict of interest here, and she can't be considered a lobbyist as she's not directly paid by the group she helped found :marseybigbrain:

Functionally every bill they've contributed to has been r-slurred in more ways than can be counted by man, with the literal only pushback being from the only group Canadians hold more dear than white women:

Heya Hoyas :marseycherokee#:

natives in this country LOVE huffing gas and LOVE gubmernemnt gibs, but the only thing they love more is god's chosen slav slop: the SKS, meaning that's probably the only gun Canadians will ever be allowed to have, which is for some reason considered less deadly than can plinkers like 22lr 5 rounders :marseyeyeroll:, thankfully the white women are on the case, and are going to carve out exemptions for our heya hoya friends :marseyletsgo: I love being a second class citizen! yipee!

To give context as to some r-slurred weapon bans that're explicitly named:

The Walther WA 2000: an 80k USD (so about 8 trillion CAD) semi auto rifle. there's only one in Canada and I don't think anyone was ever shot by one in north america :marseyxd:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1733528586435119.webp

The 22LR Kriss Vector (5 round mags :marseyxd: )

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1733528612683373.webp

Semi Auto Conversions of the PPSH

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17335286346963317.webp

The GSG-16

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17335283201083605.webp

And more dumb bans :marseyexcited: Keep in mind that they previously had to fit within magazine limits (10rds for pistols, 5 for rifles) and have maximum muzzle energy capped :marseyjam:

This is also on top of the mounties calling said GSG16 a semimachine gun :marseyxd:

Remember leafs! no matter how much you hate quebec and white women it isn't enough!

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The recent Destiny drama has been the gift that keeps on giving. Not only have we seen pictures of his gross peepee, video of him sucking someone else's gross peepee, and smoking gun evidence that he truly does frick every woman he associates with professionally even if he tries to be coy about it, but it also flared up a slapfight on Destiny's Kiwi Farms thread where most of these leaks first got posted, and the thread regulars had to deal with the Kiwi rank and file taking new interest in his thread.

Here we're focusing on one Kiwi Farms user by the name of Blav. He's by far the most productive poster in the Destiny thread, but he's also the most neurodivergent. His major highlights include:

  • Being the first person to really go into detail on how close Destiny got with Lauren Southern and speculate about their affair with substance, something that has now been almost certainly proven

  • Doxing the original Cuties respecter, mrgirl, by examining his videos for distinguishing house and neighborhood features, then combing through hundreds of house listings on real estate sites in his general area to find the correct address

  • Keeping logs of everyone Destiny follows on Twitter and Instagram so he can figure out who was staying at Destiny's apartment in a given week

  • Creating multiple sock puppet accounts so he could argue with himself :marseysockpuppet: :!carpsockpuppet2: because he believed Destiny was watching what he posted in the thread, and he wanted to throw off Destiny so he'd be more willing to publicly hint at his new girlfriend

  • Blocking at least a thousand people in a Groomercord server one by one because he was looking for a specific message

  • Getting bitched at by Null :marseynull: because he kept using random colors in his posts

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That's all one post, by the way.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17335210384746914.webp

Moving on to the drama in the thread. If you haven't paid attention, most of the leaked DM's and sextapes came from the same source: a Groomercord user named Rose that Destiny sexted and overshared with, who gave her account over to another Groomercord user named Solo. Solo joined the site under the name SoloTinyLeaks and posted all the videos you might have seen and has also teased a few tidbits of information, the most intriguing being that he knows Rose's real age and that she lied about being 19 when she and Destiny first started sexting. According to Solo she was actually underage at the time, but he won't substantiate that any further out of fear of helping someone dox her.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1733521038636671.webp

A lot of people in that thread, Blav included, think Destiny likes to target naive young women because they're the easiest to woo. Blav says outright he believes Destiny is an ephebophile but also starts mixing in the word libertarian. He gets baited by a longtime Kiwi shitposter named Dynastia\Dyn into explaining why people might call Destiny a libertarian.

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At this point he gets pissy and threatens to leave:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1733521040131094.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17335210402431712.webp

But of course he doesn't, since he has plenty of sock accounts he keeps signing in to new ones to argue with people in the thread. Will he actually leave forever? Who knows at this point, but he's managed to stay away from the farms for a whole 15 hours at the time of writing this.

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All while that's going on, Dynastia is baiting others into arguing over what qualifies as pedophilia, Null is trying to be diplomatic and redirect the thread's energy to the women who had porn of them leaked (a scandal of far bigger substance), and a thread semi-regular named Green Meanie b-words at Null for bringing r-slurs into the thread. This triggers Null to lay down the law.

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And that's about where we stand so far. The thread is a bit tense due to daddy Null having to scold people, but conversation seems to be returning to normal. No idea if or when Blav will return (he will), or if he's already back on a sock account no one has discovered yet (probably).

TL;DR the state of the KF Destiny thread:

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!ranchers @arsey

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The tone is dark, even angry.

"The situation is getting worse every day."

"We don't see the goal. Our land is not here."

I wrote multiple times that Ukraine is holding Kursk territory in hope that they get to exchange it for something.

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That what they roughly lost since they hold Kursk territory

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Kursk territory is more zoomed as you see on marks and there is literally nothing there except Sudzha had 6k people so no more than 10k lived in territory.

Kursk oblast has 36/km2 people and 2200/km2 in Kursk

Donetsk oblast 160/km2 its most populous oblast in Ukraine (Kiev is not oblast tho)

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And metallurgy wise Donbas is like super important to Ukraine

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Russian now reached shevchenko that means just a bit push to north and this will happen:

Oleksandr Kalenkov, head of Ukraine's steelmakers' association, said the loss of the Pokrovsk mine, the only domestic source of coking coal, could cause steel production to slump.

"We could make up to 7.5 million metric tons of steel by the end of the year and, for next year, we saw an increase in production to over 10 million," Kalenkov told Reuters.

"But if we lose Pokrovsk, then ... we will fall to 2-3 million tons."

It's very big deal because during conflicts, since metal and coke is used to produce weapons so wiping out 70-80% of your enemy metal production is big deal

"We don't know where to get coal if Pokrovsk is seized," he told Reuters. "It is difficult to bring it in by importing; today it is not so easy to bring it in by sea."

Ukraine produced more than 4.3 million tons of rolled steel products in January-August 2024, of which 66% were exported. EU countries accounted for 72% of the volume exported, according to the steelmakers' union.

So as you see it becomes costlier to support Ukraine. Now not only EU won't buy cheap steel from Ukraine but they also will need to support Ukraine with steel so they could produce weapons and it will be a b-word to do.

And Ukraine got in such situation because they decided to send all their elites to Kursk. Probably to capture the nuclear power plant because Ukraine also has problem with electricity so losing coal is extra damage. They failed at it, logical move would been to pull back when it was clear they won't capture it. So when best Ukrainian units were banzaing in Kursk oblast. Pokrovsk front got wrecked.

Almost four months after Ukrainian troops launched a lightning offensive into the Russian region of Kursk, text messages from soldiers fighting there paint a dismal picture of a battle they don't properly understand and fear they might be losing.

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They speak of dire weather conditions and a chronic lack of sleep caused by Russia's constant bombardment, which includes the use of terrifying, 3,000kg glide bombs.

The first week Ukraine lost tons of AD including multiple patriots. Around March Russian got new lancet drones that had more range than patriots so pulling AD close to the front line is easy way to lose it. So Ukrainian are in Russian territory literally without AD. So strategically Russia had no reason to rush pushing Ukrainian out. And that story about NK ended up being fake and only genius like @pizzashill believed in it. Reason for NK story was that west is running out of ammo and SK had tons of it so khohols politician who are clearly r-slurs and don't understand Asia thought story of NK would push SK supporting Ukraine but they recently closed all help to Ukraine and told them hard no.

@pizzashill here another shit you'll believe

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They're also in retreat, with Russian forces gradually retaking territory.

"This trend will continue," Pavlo wrote on 26 November. "It's only a matter of time."

Legendary high moral.

Pavlo spoke of immense fatigue, the lack of rotation and the arrival of units, made up largely of middle-aged men, brought directly from other fronts with little or no time to rest in between.

To hear soldiers complain - about their commanding officers, orders and lack of equipment - is hardly unusual. It's what soldiers often do in difficult circumstances.

Ukraine now losing in every front including Kursk and they pulling men out of other front much more important than Kursk. To hold some field in Kursk.

Also important note, this year was very green (grassy) so Ukrainian used the forest to attack Kursk oblast but during wonder leaves falls so they can't really hide or build fortifications.

Some questioned whether one of the operation's initial goals - to divert Russian soldiers from Ukraine's eastern front - had worked.

It absolutely has, pull more Ukrainian soldiers from all other fronts

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The orders now, they said, were to hang onto this small sliver of Russian territory until a new US president, with new policies, arrives in the White House at the end of January.

"The main task facing us is to hold the maximum territory until Trump's inauguration and the start of negotiations," Pavlo said. "In order to exchange it for something later. No-one knows what."

I'll comment about it later because it's just a bit to much of a

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President Zelensky indicated that both sides had the change of US administration in mind.

"I am sure that he [Putin] wants to push us out by 20 January," he said.

You know the beautiful part about Zelensky he always says that Putin want to capture X by some date

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Also he told about bakhmut and etc.

When we didn't got even a single time confirmed by Putin.

In an effort to help Ukraine thwart Russian counterattacks in Kursk, the US, UK and France have all permitted Kyiv to use long-range weapons on targets inside Russia.

It doesn't seem to have done much to lift spirits.

"No-one sits in a cold trench and prays for missiles," Pavlo said.

Wrong Redditors are praying from their desktop trench

In October alone, Russia was able to occupy an estimated 500 sq km of Ukrainian territory, the most it's taken since the early days of the full-scale invasion in 2022.

In November they took more :marseynails:

And high chances that December will be even more since 3 key cities are going gg

Toretsk is as good as gone

This is also a good proof since every time Ukraine is about to lose a city they crying about the city being destroyed

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Russian already captured Komar so Novasylka now has no roads leading to that city (western road is also cut)

The fight in Kurakhove is now in the power plant so at the outskirts of the city.

And despite weeks of reports suggesting that as many as 10,000 North Korean troops have been sent to Kursk to join the Russian counter-offensive, the soldiers we've been in contact have yet to encounter them.

@pizzashill where are north Korean troops ?

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"I haven't seen or heard anything about Koreans, alive or dead," Vadym responded when we asked about the reports.

The Ukrainian military has released recordings which it says are intercepts of North Korean radio communications.

Soldiers said they had been told to capture at least one North Korean prisoner, preferably with documents.

They spoke of rewards - drones or extra leave - being offered to anyone who successfully captures a North Korean soldier.

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They treating North Koreans like call of duty kill steaks

"It's very difficult to find a Korean in the dark Kursk forest," Pavlo noted sarcastically. "Especially if he's not here."

@pizzashill

Veterans of previous doomed operations see parallels in what's happening in Kursk.

From October 2023 until July this year, Ukrainian forces attempted to hold onto a tiny bridgehead at Krynky, on the left bank of the Dnipro River, some 25 miles (40km) upstream from the liberated city of Kherson.

The bridgehead, initially intended as a possible springboard for advances further into Russian-held territory in southern Ukraine, was eventually lost.

The operation was hugely costly. As many as 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers are thought to have been killed or gone missing.

The ironic part it was UK who planed this mission

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Military analysts insist that for all the hardship, the Kursk campaign continues to play an important role.

"It's the only area where we maintain the initiative," Serhiy Kuzan, of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Centre, told me.

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They just at start of the article told Ukraine is losing ground in that direction and showed maps and this guy comes and says they have the initiative :marseyclapping:

And here comes the BEST PART

You see Zelenskyy assumes Trump will come on January 20 and the whole front will freeze. He thinks Putin doesn't see Zelenskyy goal. But the reality is Burger politician basically don't work in December and January and then work very half assed in February. From January 20 to January 27 Trump will be just partying and receiving calls from different world leaders, then he will need to appoint a date to talk with Putin and Zelenskyy. Even if we assume Putin wants to freeze the conflict it will take MONTHS. But Putin don't need it and he has tons of buttons to prolong it and one important button is, Zelensky need to become legal before Putin would talk to him and that's not what Zelensky would want to play because there is huge chances he loses the power. So whole plan of holding Kursk territory to exchange it for something is giga low iq.

Zelensky was also angry last week at western media for saying Ukraine lost 70k men

More than 100,000 soldiers have been charged under Ukraine's desertion laws since Russia invaded in

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So Zelenskyy is still suggesting that Ukraine lost only 31k and most are civilians while at same time having over 100k deserters :marseyxd:

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Putin sees this, everything shows Ukraine is in shit. Wisest move would been if Zelensky told today hey we giving those full 5 oblast including parts that are under our control to Russia for peace deal.

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And giga jfl and ISW homos who were always telling us if Ukraine loses something that it ain't important and soon Russian advances will lose tempo

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This how Redditors now coping while

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This is the reality. But Zelenskyy needs nato but nato don't want Ukraine so nato is thinking about alternatives like making Ukraine like Germany during Cold War or bringing peace forces into Ukraine.

Those all are fantastic ideas but they are coming from homosexuals that planned the isolation of Russia and strategical defeat of Russia on battlefield.

So they don't realise Putin started it because he don't want Ukraine in nato or any nato soldiers in Ukraine. He survived the majority of EU hardware, giving Ukraine 600 Taurus won't do shit or Tamohawks

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Russian even planning to cross dniper.

This what homo that for 3 years been posting Ukraine is winning

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And seems like Biden team r-sluration didn't stoped with 11 years of pardon to Hunter

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They want to give Russian frozen assets to Ukraine that's literally stealing and giga low iq move. US is showing the world that its banks can't be trusted and they can change rules at will. But they ain't planning to do it they just want to sell bs to US citizens. They saying they giving that money as loan to Ukraine. In other words that's not Russian money, Biden team just gives Ukraine 50 billions as loan. Ukraine will never pay back and US citizens will be forced to pay Russian back.

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This is also good example why mobilisation won't work. Ukraine doesn't have many young boys and statistics like this always try to paint a more favourable picture for Ukraine.

Also do you remember how happily you were when Ukrainian women were refugees telling how they bring young women and children ?

We got more Ukrainian 35-39 post wall roasties than 18-30 year old foids and if we count 30+ post wall roasties it will be multiple times more than all younger groups. And you know what those roasties bring ? Economical damage. An average or below average 35 year old Pier, Pedro, Peter can easily get foid his age. So we got more goods that was already offered more than it was demanded

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This is like some overly complicated spy movie that developed over a month so it's pretty long, but literally nothing makes sense and things drastically changed from day to day so hopefully it's still an interesting read :marseyfsjal: I'll use the same marseys to distinguish between the candidates and their respective parties to help everyone keep track :marseyfluffy:


Quick background information that you should know :marseyreading:

Romania was never a democracy and it will probably never be one either, it's a known 'secret' that the country is controlled by our secret services. After the revolution we never disbanded the secret service responsible for all the horrible shit happening during communism, we just asked them to stop killing people and left them to do whatever they were doing. So they just rebranded under a different name, retained all the control they had over the country and shaped the new 'democracy' and it's political landscape to fit their needs. Per capita, Romania has the most known secret service agents in EU, but the exact number of people employed is kept a secret, we just know that there are more than the official number. We don't even know how many glowie organizations we actually have since some of them are completely hidden, we just know that more organizations exist out there but nothing else. The secret services have no transparency and answer to no one, they have to give a briefing to the parliament about their activities every now and then, but beyond that no one can actually check on whatever they're doing. Obviously, there are a frick ton amount of conspiracy theories surrounding them and they are blamed for every unusual thing that happens in the country. And this is exactly what I'll be doing here :marseywholesome:

Second thing, we're an extremely docile nation who accepted pretty much everything those in power did over our history. Even during the revolution we calmed down immediately after killing Ceausescu and his wife, meaning that no one else was made to answer for the atrocities that happened during communism. Which is why the former generals and politicians still remain in politics today and why the secret services still control the country. So while reading this just remember that the population barely reacted to everything going on, aside from bitching on the internet a lot :marseylaptopangry2:


On to the parties! We have three main political factions:

  • the classic parties (PNL and PSD) :marseysuit: They are the first parties established after the communism's fall and have people in all the state's institutions in order to control them. They are also known for closely working with the secret services and basically being owned by them. They make sure the glowie wishes are being fulfilled (for example it's accepted that the constant pro-EU and pro-NATO attitude Romania has has been enforced by the secret services) and in exchange they are allowed to steal as much tax money as they want. They have ruled for decades, each playing opposition to the other, while happily mooching money together. But they also neglected to do literally anything for the country so the population got increasingly fed up with them. While PNL started to fall to the side, PSD remains the biggest and strongest party in the country and is accused by every other party of manipulating the elections every single time. And yes, they actually do it every single time :lelolidk:

  • the woke parties (mainly USR) :chadleftoid: The party was created after people got fed up with the other parties for not doing anything to improve anyone's lives. They have modeled their program after the lib parties in Europe and America (mainly gay stuff but with some pro-Palestine messages too recently) but have libertarian tendencies. They infight a lot and split up in ever smaller parties all the time.

  • the far right parties (AUR, SOS, POT) :marseyauthright: Newest and the most untested faction we have. Parties of all sorts of -ists, generally pro-Russia and anti-EU and NATO. Also lots of antisemitism, this will be important later. They argue a lot with each other but still try to form coalitions. All of them have been accused of being russian spies.


And lastly the candidates!


Lasconi :chadleftoid:

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  • Exceptionally stupid, has no idea on anything going on in the world despite wanting to become president

  • Leader of the 'gay party' but tried to pretend to be trad and a christian. Nobody bought it.

  • Believes that Israel should do a ceasefire because Hamas and Hezbollah are fighting each other in Gaza

Georgescu :marseyhitler2:

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  • Massive schizo, internet conspiracy theorists could learn new conspiracies from him

  • Independent, but part of the far right faction

  • Believes romanian language was the one that created the latin language not vice versa

Ciolacu :marseysuit:

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  • Average Eastern Europe politician - corrupt and with no actual principles, will change opinions to keep his power

  • Leader of the biggest party in the country and the candidate with the most control over the institutions

  • Doesn't know english despite wanting to be president and meet other world leader

Simion :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright:

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  • Closeted gay gypsy. Politely doesn't mention he's a gypsy so we mostly pretend we don't notice

  • Leader of the AUR :marseyauthright: party

  • Yes, aur as in gold. Gypsies will forever remain gypsies :marseysigh:

Sosoaca :marseychonkerfoid: :marseyauthright:

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  • Very fat and vey angry all the time. Will fight literally everyone at any moment, even her 'allies'

  • Leader of SOS :marseyauthright: party, also yes named after her :marseychonkernoticeme:

  • The last two aren't that important on their own, but since Georgescu :marseyhitler2: basically didn't exist until voting started they were the most important :marseyauthright: representatives. Both fell to the side after Georgescu appeared


Before the elections :marseyclueless:

Quick note: we had two different elections recently, the presidential ones (in two parts) and the parliamentary ones. So, since we only vote on sundays, three weeks of voting in total.

  • At this point in time Georgescu :marseyhitler2: was completely unknow to anyone so the older parties :marseysuit: :chadleftoid: were expecting to fight only two :marseyauthright: parties, both ruled by loud and stupid leaders. :marseysuit: and :chadleftoid: parties have been mortal enemies for years while the :marseyauthright: are fighting both groups while also screaming at each other. Despite the rightoids slowly growing in power nobody thought they can do much in the elections.

  • Sosoaca :marseychonkerfoid: :marseyauthright: has been forbidden by the Constitutional Court to candidate for the president position because she made some 'unconstitutional' statements - anti EU/NATO and for some antisemitism. This is a huge breach of the Court's duties because they have nothing to do with how the elections are organized, other institutions are responsible for this. But the Constitutional Court answers to no one and their decisions are law (I'm sure you can see a pattern) so she got kicked out of the race despite all her angry screaming. The decision was later retracted but oops too late to rejoin the race :marseyteehee:

  • The Constitutional Court is made from judges appointed by different parties, mostly the :marseysuit: ones, so everyone was aware that :marseysuit: are manipulating the elections again. But since Sosoaca is annoying and since she's suspected of working with Russia nobody really cared.

  • In a rare public announcement SRI (main secret service organization for internal affairs) announced that the AUR party :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright: is suspected of having ties with Russia too. This wasn't news for anyone but it's nice to have an official confirmation I guess. But they also said the there is no proof of any external interference in any political candidate's campaign so they won't interfere with the elections in any way (it's still unclear if the last statement applied to Georgescu as well or not since he basically didn't exist at this point).

  • Ciolacu :marseysuit: who has been accused by everyone to work with Simion :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright: to win the elections reacted angrily to this. Basically, he'll support the :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright: party to reach the second voting session and there AUR :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright: will be this huge threat that will scare people into voting for Ciolacu in exchange of whatever political benefits he promised them after his win (like naming their leader prime minister). Anyway Ciolacu :marseysuit: accused SRI of overstepping it's boundaries. They didn't react to this. Everyone else was angry that PSD :marseysuit: is manipulating the elections again and even of risking Romania's security by working with a russian spy, while some even accepted that they'll manage to win. But beyond these points things moved on smoothly.

  • This section is mostly important as a contrast to how the secret services and other political institutions reacted to potential russian spies (keep an eye out, open communications, quick decisions) and how they'll react from now on.


First presidential election! :ivoted:

  • The battle was supposed to be between Ciolacu :marseysuit: and Lasconi :chadleftoid: Ciolacu should win most votes inside Romania but Lasconi could beat him with the votes gathered from diaspora.

  • A news article about a 'surprise' coffee house meeting between Ciolacu :marseysuit:, Simion :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright:, the other :marseysuit: party's leader and a secret service officer was written sometimes in the last weeks before the elections and someone rediscovered it. Lasconi's :chadleftoid: voters are annoyed. This is clear proof that PSD :marseysuit: is once again manipulating elections.

  • Voting happens and after that the counting starts. For awhile things were normal: Lasconi :chadleftoid: first, then Ciolacu, :marseysuit: Simion :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright: and on the fourth place some independent candidate nobody heard about, Gergescu :marseyhitler2: . Who is he and how the frick did he get so high?

  • Then Georgescu :marseyhitler2: climbed on the third place replacing Simion :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright: No seriously, who is this guy? Nobody heard of him.

  • Then he dethroned Ciolacu :marseysuit: from the second place. This was quite shocking because the idea of PSD :marseysuit: not ending in the last presidential election tour was unthinkable. This were the last results most people witnessed before going to bed. The counting will go throughout the night and the official results would be announced in the morning. Lasconi's :chadleftoid: voters were naturally overjoyed.

  • Morning came... and Georgescu :marseyhitler2: was on the first place, way in front of the other candidates. :marseywtf2: just happened?


The week before the parliamentary elections :marseysweating:

  • The parliamentary elections happened a week after the first presidential elections. Obviously it was a very busy week after such a weird turn of events :marseydizzy:

  • Everyone was confused as shit and started to search who the frick Georgescu :marseyhitler2: even was. Turns out that he was a complete nutjob: he believes in all sort of new age shit (mystical energies, crystals, communicating with spirits, natural healing bullshit) every conspiracy theory out there (moon landing is false, covid is a hoax, aliens, jews control the word, satanic NWO, you name it), is very against NATO and EU to the point where he wants to pull Romania out of them, and praises Russia at any given opportunity while hating Ukraine and considering it a fake country. He also praised our version of Hitler and called him a hero :lelolidk:

  • So, where did this schizo came from? All of his campaign happened on TikTok. No media appearances, no poster, no fliers, nothing. He just gathered a following on TikTok through his insane ramblings and convinced these people to vote for him. Since he was deepthroating Russia's peepee left right and center, and since Russia is known for manipulating social media through an army of bots, everyone (aside from his voters) started to get worried that he's yet another russian spy trying to overthrow our democracy.

  • Wtf are our secret services doing? What's the point of them eating so many of our taxes if they can't even defend the country from Russia? How could they miss this huge attack on our country? :marseyraging: But every one of them remained silent and didn't react in any way to all this chaos.


  • People started to get more confused and more videos of Georgescu :marseyhitler2: saying insane shit were uncovered. More and more voices started to scream about russian interferences, but a few people pointed out an uncomfortable truth - PSD :marseysuit: was always viewed as the party that supports the current political 'system' and USR :chadleftoid: as the anti-system candidates but that was when USR was founded. Now it's been years since then, USR won some important political positions and did nothing important with them or messed up... they've became part of the system just as much as PSD. The :marseyauthright: :marseyhitler2: are voted mainly for being new faces against institutional corruption rather than because people agree with their insane positions. How do you earn these voters back now that they're about to throw Romania into Russia's arms out of spite? :marseyveryworried:

  • Vote observers from small villages came forth and said that PSD :marseysuit: told them to count their votes to AUR's :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright: tally to propel them into the final round so he can have an easy win ("We fricking knew PSD is manipulating elections once again!" :soyjakanimeglasses: ). But it turns out that they were giving their votes to Georgescu :marseyhitler2: as well. Wut? Did they know about him?

  • Meanwhile Georgescu :marseyhitler2: declared that he received zero money for his campaign and that he also spent no money during it (this is important for later). This lead to people saying that this is proof that Russia financed him in order to destabilized the country. Also multiple people were fined for still campaigning on the voting day with is illegal, and to everyone's annoyance Georgescu's supporters, who were doing it too, were completely unaffected :marseyhmm:

  • Ciolacu :marseysuit: and the leader of the other :marseysuit: party stepped down from their leadership positions due to their embarrassing defeats (this will be important later on too).


  • Now some weird accusations start to appear :marseyglow: Sosoaca :marseychonkerfoid: :marseyauthright: accused Georgescu :marseyhitler2: of being a Mossad spy while an AUR member :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright: accused him of being a CIA asset instead. Both of these parties like to scream hysterically at everyone else so nobody really took them seriously. A former president known for his collaboration with the former communist secret services told everyone to calm down since there is no proof that Georgescu :marseyhitler2: was financed by outside actors. He was actually financed by individual inside the country. Wtf does this means? :marseyveryworried:

  • Research into Georgescu's :marseyhitler2: past revealed further oddities. Man was probably part of the old communist secret services (very few people were allowed to travel outside the country and despite being completely unremarkable he was allowed to go out multiple times), has been working with the KGB (to spy on them), has been a member of the Club of Rome (think tank for helping humanity develop sustainably or some shit, the important part that another romanian politician with ties to the secret services was there too), he was part of the UN and has been a freemason (for the last two he claimed that he left them because of all the evil shit happening inside the organisations). He also has been arrested in the past for his support of nazis but his cases were mysteriously closed with no explanation given :marseysquint:

  • A handful of r-slurs protested every day since Georgescu won the first tour but nobody cared :marseyprotestno:


The recount and the slow death of Romania's democracy :marseyflagromaniagenocide:

  • A few days after the official election results come in an independent candidate who only gained 1% of the votes decided to contest the elections despite having no chances to win. He wrote two different complaints, one against Lasconi :chadleftoid: and one against Georgescu :marseyhitler2: The accusation against Georgescu was rejected because it was made after the three days limit expired, despite the complainer's insistance that he made the contestation in time. But the accusation against Lasconi :chadleftoid: was accepted. His declaration stated that in three different locations the votes that were supposed to go to Ciolacu :marseysuit: were actually counted for Lasconi. The Constitutional Court once again overstepped it's boundaries and ordered for all the votes to be re-counted.

  • At this point people were starting to get worried. Half of them were accusing PSD :marseysuit: of preferring to burn down democracy rather than accept that they lost the elections for the first time (again, most of the judges appointed to the constitutional court came from the two :marseysuit: main parties). Basically, since you didn't vote for our candidate we'll remake the elections until Ciolacu :marseysuit: enters the final round. And since the difference between Ciolacu and Lasconi :chadleftoid: were really small while Georgescu :marseyhitler2: was way ahead of both of them, it means that Lasconi will get kicked out of the race in favor of Ciolacu, which means a landslide victory for Georgescu due to the anti-system voters.

  • The other half noticed that up til now everything happening favored Georgescu :marseyhitler2: He avoided every possible consequence despite multiple irregularities in his campaign unlike other candidates (for example Sosoaca :marseychonkerfoid: :marseyauthright: was pulled out of the race for saying milder shit than him) and all this scandal would further raise his popularity as the anti-system candidate. Is it possible that the secret services are actually protecting the nutjob? It would explain why they haven't done anything to stop him. They haven't even said anything to reassure the population that things are fine. Shit... :marseysweating:


  • Some politician made a petition for TikTok to be banned in Romania for the duration of the elections to prevent Georgescu from campaigning. People were torn between considering this yet another hit on democracy but enough of us were happy to do anything to stop Georgescu :marseyauthright: (same thing for the recount actually). The petition wasn't approved and later on he apologized for trying to shut down the funny videos app for everyone.

  • Our secret services still said nothing at this point, and the EU decided to finally do something in their place. They called the owner of the application and demanded explanations for the bot filled campaign. Georgescu's :marseyhitler2: voters got angry at this and said that this is proof that EU interferes in Romania's business and that we should distance ourselves form it. The investigation didn't reveal much, lots of bots, some russian but not all. No real proof of election interference :marseyshrug:

  • Our current president finally decided to react to the panic and said that the secret services hadn't given him any warnings about Georgescu :marseyauthright:

  • As a shock for everyone, Ciolacu :marseysuit: came out and said that he disagrees with the Court's decision and that he'll pull out of the race if he's declared winner after the recount. B-but all this was supposed to be his plan to steal the election to enter the final round, wtf is going on? If he doesn't want this then who does? Predictably, most people realized that he's bullpooping and that he'll walk this back if he actually wins :marseyunamused:


  • Now things get nasty. A weird facebook poster claimed that he was accidentally added to a mail list between multiple former secret service agents that were discussing using Georgescu :marseyauthright: to stage a coup. Basically the members of the former communist secret services were upset that the country distanced itself from Russia and wanted to forcefully bring us back into it's influence zone. One mail specifically said that we should become a satellite of China (?). Panic started to settle now, this was proof that at least some secret services wanted Georgescu :marseyhitler2: to win and since they control the country then there's nothing we can do to stop them :marseyscared: After this news people discovered that the :marseyauthright: parties (all of them) have the largest number of known former secret services officers as members, further cementing the conspiracy theories that our own secret services are dragging us all towards Russia :marseysad:

  • Oddly enough Georgescu started to soften his positions. He declared that he doesn't actually wants to take us out of NATO and EU, he just wants us to stop agreeing unconditionally with everything they decide (like helping Ukraine), that America is Romania's most important partner, and despite being an actual nazi, he started sucking Israel's peepee hard. He said that on the first day after he's declared president he will move our embassy to Jerusalem, declare the arrest request for Bibi as unconstitutional and that he'll invite him to visit Romania, and that he'll not only make antisemitism a crime (it already is just not really enforced) but that he'll expand the definition of it as well :marseywut2: You'd expect his nazi followers to be upset at that but they barely reacted at all. There were a few disappointed messages but they got over it in less than a day :marseyshrug: Leftists were more affected than them because muh war criminal muh genocide :soycry:

  • Anyway, moving on, we still have so much more to cover :marseyfluffy: After the Israel stuff some guys noticed a few odd things about Georgescu's :marseyhitler2: videos. He praised Orban and mentioned stuff about Romania tightening ties with Asia, which was also present in Orban's declarations. Since Orban, and a few other eastern european leaders, refused to arrest Bibi, since his speech mirrors Orban's, since he wants to remain an ally to Murica but wants to sever ties with Western Europe and since he has similar ideas of 'befriending' Russia as Trump, rumours started that Georgescu :marseyhitler2: is an american and/or israeli spy. Basically, Trump wants to break ties with Western Europe but still wants to keep control of Eastern Europe and get it closer to Russia and China, who America will become friendlier towards, and Georgescu :marseyhitler2: is meant to force Romania to play it's part in this plan. So, what where those accusations about him being a CIA/Mossad asset again? :marseydespair:

  • This didn't reassure anyone because Trump is already viewed as Putin's friend and OMG America is going to force us back under Russia, and how the frick is a shithole from Eastern Europe supposed to defend itself from the CIA and/or Mossad? Especially since our secret services, the ones supposed to protect us, seem to agree with all of this? At this point the general mood became depressed and fatalistic :marseydeadinside2:

  • Rumours started that RFK jr and Tucker Carlson will come to Romania to show support for Georgescu :marseyhitler2: Some journo even showed a letter from Murica's embassy in Romania with Trump's signature as proof. But nobody on murican side confirmed any of this. Later on, one of Trump's former campaign managers also hinted at coming to Romania for this but in a really vague way. Everyone was confused :marseyconfused:


  • A new :marseyauthright: party appeared for the parliamentary race, POT, considered Georgescu's :marseyhitler2: unofficial party. They had the exact same TikTok strategy as him, but if we can assume that Georgescu managed to hide long enough from the secret services through TikTok how did these guys slip through? Surely, at this point our secret services are aware of this electoral interference, right? Why aren't they stopping it? :marseyworried:

  • Leader of this new party visited Beijing at some point and promised that Romania will have closer ties with China if they win. Why is everyone trying to make us China's allies anyway, we didn't had much ties with them in the first place? :marseyconfused2:


  • Recounts start. Constitutional Court ordered all recounts to be done behind closed doors, with no camera or supervisors. Shit, it's happening, we're getting couped :marseydepressed: Ciolacu :marseysuit: entering the final round won't help anyone since his party is completely controlled by the secret services and he won't do anything to fight their plans. Basically between him and Georgescu :marseyhitler2: we're fricked no matter who wins :marseycrying:

  • Another handful of r-slurs gathered to protest but were quickly told to go home. Nothing else happened :marseylibleftgenocide:

  • Oh, and that part about Gerogescu :marseyhitler2: declaring zero donations and expenses? Turns out the institution responsible for checking up the candidates' campaign finances 'forgot' to publish the financial declarations for nearly a week, which is why his absurd declaration flied under the radar. Also, it's too late to do anything about it now, contestation time limit has long since passed :marseytroll:


  • But plot twists! Turn out RFK jr won't actually come to Romania, turn out Georgescu :marseyhitler2: wasn't even a member of the Club of Rome, just part of some affiliated organization, and the same thing happened with his UN membership. Wtf, does this guy even exists at this point? :marseywtf2: But wait! He was actually part of the UN... but no one knows who appointed him there in the first place :marseybeanquestion: Clearly this is some glowie shit and we already know he was a glowie and that he's supported by glowies :marseyglow:

The parliamentary elections :marseyridin:

  • These are actually the most important elections since the president barely has any power here. The parliament makes the laws. Candidate parties need to meet a certain voting threshold to win and the winners will make alliances with each other. While a dominant alliance that owns over 50% of the seats is preferred for a stable parliament we can have multiple smaller alliances negotiating each action, but that's a really unstable situation.

  • The recounts are still going. Everyone is stressed and demoralized. Why do we even bother to vote if the Constitutional Court will just throw away the results again? :marseytabletired2:

  • Turns out the other :marseysuit: party managed to get itself kicked out of the diaspora voting lists for not listing a woman candidate among their member lists. Funny lol r-slurs :marseylaugh: but once again, why is every happening favoring Georgescu :marseyhitler2: ?

  • Voting happens and the votes are counted. Because of PSD's :marseysuit: bullshit not everybody can vote in these elections (you need to vote in the place you live in, so students or workers who travel for their jobs are eliminated) and diaspora's votes barely count. So the results now are different. All three factions failed to reach a majority. No matter what, the parliament is split in three and they need to negotiate with each other to make a majority :marseyshrug:

  • Since diaspora's vote didn't count here PSD :marseysuit: got most votes and become the most important player. No matter what, they will join the ruling alliance, and again the parliament actually controls the country not the president. This could be good or bad depending on whether they are actually trying to coup the country or if they just want to keep being able to steal tax money (later one means that they won't pull us out of EU) :marseycapitalistmanlet: But if they ally with the :marseyauthright: parties and if Georgescu :marseyhitler2: wins the presidency and if Georgescu appoints Ciolacu :marseysuit: (or someone else from their party) as prime minister then together they will effectively control all parts of the country. And again, if the conspiracy theories with the secret services forcing us towards Russia is true then no one will be able oppose that plan :marseysulk:

  • Yet no one moved to make any alliance at this point since the recount haven't been finished and nobody even knows who can become president yet :marseywait:


Current situation! :marseymath:

  • The recounts are finally finished! :marseyyayyy: ...and nothing changed. All the panic and all the conspiracy theories were in vain. The second tour of the presidential elections will go without any changes - pro EU Lasconi :chadleftoid: vs pro-Russia Georgescu :marseyhitler2: Last voting session will still happen this weekend :marseyletsgo: But then what was the point of all this bullshit and chaos? :marseyhmmm: Best anyone can come up with is that PSD :marseysuit: tried to steal the first elections but either failed or waited to see how the parliamentary elections faired to settle on one strategy. And since they basically won the important election there's no point in remaking the first elections. Politicians :marseysigh:

  • Ciolacu :marseysuit: revealed that he won't actually step down as PSD's leader. What a surprise :marseyeyeroll: Everyone is waiting to see who PSD :marseysuit: will support both as president and as an ally for the parliament but they still haven't decided. Shit maybe they do actually want to ally with :marseyauthright: ?


  • Until this point our secret services still said absolutely nothing about the situation, so Lasconi :chadleftoid: finally gathered the courage to do something that should have been done since the beginning: ask them directly what the frick is happening here :marseyclapping: She made a petition for them to make public the files they have on Georgescu :marseyhitler2: Which they agreed (but only gave a rapport rather the actual files) :marseythumbsup:

  • It don't reveal much: some 'state actors' helped promote him on TikTok in a way that proved that they were very familiar with the algorithm and with how to keep themselves hidden from the state. The campaign had lots of similarities with the disinformation campaigns happening in Ukraine and the election interference happening in Moldova, both carried by Russia. But they don't name Russia as Georgescu's :marseyhitler2: backers directly. Still, it's clear that Russia was behind this right? The secret services just can't reveal everything and endanger national security, yeah? The cops have decided to finally start investigating Georgescu :marseyhitler2: and the media is calling him a traitor. Ciolacu :marseysuit: came out and officially said that he supports Lasconi :chadleftoid: for president and that his party will join with her party and the other :marseysuit: parties to form a pro- west parliamentary majority in order to block out the :marseyauthright: parties. It's finally over and Romania is saved :marseyrelieved:


  • Well, you see, it's too late to remove the russian asset from the presidential race since the contestation time window is over and we can't kick him out any longer :marseytroll: Yes, he might be a literal traitor trying to sell the country to Russia, so what? :marseydisconcerting:

  • Plus the files also revealed that the secret services were aware of Georgescu's :marseyauthright: campaign and his ties with Russia all this time. Good thing they aren't incompetent, right? I mean, they literally rule the country :marseyclueless: But then, why didn't they do anything until it was too late to kick him out of the race? Why the frick aren't them kicking him out now? He's a literal russian agent that betrayed his country to serve Russia and frick us all, surely there must be some exceptions to the 'too late' rule :marseyaware: The president knew too, and Ciolacu :marseysuit: (current prime minister) revealed that he was also aware of this but couldn't say anything since it was a state secret... but why didn't he at least throw his support for Lasconi :chadleftoid: earlier? He could have done this without revealing anything else... What is going on? Why isn't anyone doing anything? :marseywtf:

  • Besides, despite making an official alliance with the pro-EU parties, PSD :marseysuit: can still either break the alliance at a later date and join the :marseyauthright: parties, vote alongside the pro-Russia parties despite their promise, and even if Lasconi :chadleftoid: wins the parliament can force her out of her position and call for new elections. Plus the parliament is more important than the president and they have the biggest share of it... maybe those conspiracy theories were right after all? :marseydespair:

  • The police and other authorities said that they received no warning for Georgescu :marseyhitler2: no message or documents, nothing despite the secret services having files on him for who knows how long. They are just as shocked as anyone else. Even if they start investigating him now it might take awhile to arrest him. The elections might be done already. Sure, they could still cancel his mandate on treason charges, probably, but will they? And what does 'state actors' even means? It could just mean our secret services. And even if they specifically mean foreign state actors, we can go back to the CIA/Mossad conspiracy theory :marseyveryworriedfed:

  • Are we still getting couped? Do they care so little about our opinions that they will tell us straight to our face that we'll join Russia and that there's nothing we can do about it? :marseycry:


Today :hysterical:

I wrote all this yesterday, so here are the latest developments :marseydance:

  • Gergescu :marseyhitler2: is still in the race. Yes, there are hints that some secret services support Georgescu :marseyhitler2:, presumably the others are against him... hopefully :chudconcerned:

  • We have notified NATO, EU and our neighbours that there were hostile foreign interferences into our elections

  • A criminal investigation on him by multiple institutions has started, but it's unclear if it will help with anything. What will happen if he wins the election? :marseyquestion:

  • EU demanded TikTok to not delete his campaign data

  • The guy who demanded a recount came back and asked for both elections to be cancelled. Nobody knows what's his problem :marseyxd:

  • America asked us if we're ok. We still don't have an answer to this question.

  • No seriously, why aren't they arresting him yet? Why didn't they actually do anything all this time? :marseyveryworried:


So, this sunday I'll go vote in an election that might have it's winner already decided or might just get cancelled after the votes are counted :marseyexcited: An one of the candidates is an admittedly traitor to the country. And last week's elections might have been the last real elections I voted in, even if Georgescu :marseyhitler2: loses this is the perfect opportunity for PSD :marseysuit: to tighten it's control over the country even more :marseyfluffy: But the whole shitshow is still going strong so I'll keep you up to date :marseywave2:

Community Note by @sob

OP is a secret service glowie :marseyglow2: Do not engage

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I just read hundred of words about this shit noone in the world cares about :bruh:

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EFFORTPOST John Fenley the CD guy who bought half the city of Pine Bluff has provoked a stalker who is probably going to kill him :marseyopera:

Excellent post about this guy

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

All of the property of Murfie has been sitting in a bunch of shipping containers while he runs around Hell on Earth acting like a retard. To be clear the average customer of Murfie is like 70 years old. The business would take a CD or vinyl from you and for a subscription fee allow you to listen to your CD or vinyl over a streaming service :marseyconfused2: the entire concept is like something out of the dotcom boom. All of his videos have comments like this from confused customers.

https://i.imgur.com/k6MUlTo.png

:marseynetgrannytalking: :marseysad:

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

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

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

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

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17333315976798215.webp

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

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1733331737331389.webp

This has completely set the guy off :chudexplode:

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

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

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

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EFFORTPOST :marseydisgustnotes: COMMUNITY NOTED The curious case of the Chris Watts defenders - or, how someone managed to be so annoying on facebook that redditors will celebrate their tragic murder

Background

Chris Watts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_family_murders) is a family annihilator who murdered his pregnant wife Shannan and two young children 2018. They were a striving middle class family in a mcmansion, with Shannan being a a stay at home mother/MLM scammer/influencer, and Chris earning relatively large sums on the oil fields. They had no recorded domestic violence history, no real criminal history, and were famously white attractive. Case got a lot of attention because the police released a lot of information, including bodycam footage of the moment Chris is confronted with evidence that his wife couldn't have run away with the kids in the way he claimed. After a day or two of telling the media he misses his disappeared family, he confesses to the crime and hundreds of hours of true crime content is born. He gets fan mail from crazies in jail to this day.

The defenders

Who would defend such a man, you ask? To answer that, we have to understand the volumous internet presence Shannan had on social media up until her murder. She posted several times a day, including livestreams, in order to shill her MLM product and present a curated picture of her 'perfect' life. These posts and streams are a morbid curiosity to people because Chris featured often, and people say you can tell he seems disinterested and disengaged even back then (to me he just seems like a guy bored by his wife's incessesant posting and filming, tbh).

Here is a compilation of relevant social media videos from Shannan to give a sense of her tone online:

Because of how widespread this is, it's near impossible to gaze upon any discussion of the topic without noticing how many people seem focussed on how unlikeable Shannan is, how hard Chris must have had it. At least until recently, reddit had snark-style subs dedicated to pooping on Shannan's online presence (which seems like a dead end considering there is only so much content she will ever produce). Shannan's personality on social media is so fundarnetally annoying and unlikeable, apparently, that hordes of people are more compelled by that than the cold blooded triple murder by her husband.

From the comments of the video above:

>Chris did not like being on camera, you can tell.

>Did she really record these massively long videos and post them on Facebook? I feel like the average person would not watch the majority of these lol

>The first one is so cringe. Everybody trying to act like they're rockin' and rollin' to some shitty cover band with zero attendance. Ick.

>She is annoying but that doesn't warrant murder

>If you are constantly filming, I don't think you are truly engaged in the moment.

>This woman was so desperately addicted to posting everything about her life online that 3 hours of online silence was all her neighbor needed to know something was wrong

(this refers to the fact that Shannan's loved ones got police involved mere hours after her middle-of-the-night murder simply because she hadn't yet posted an obnoxious video or livestream on FB that day lol)

>The dude should have just left her, the constant filming would have been enough for me. Totally unhinged behavior, when I see families in restaurants all on their phones, I just think I'm so glad I'm not you. Zero parental skills.

>He should've got the balls to tell her that, "her job isn't real, social media isn't real and I think I'm falling out of love with you."

>Shes very dismissive of Chris making him look like he's really awkward.

>I can't imagine live in relationship when my partner record everything all the time and post it ...

And so on. This isn't even one half of it. And these comments are about a woman who was violently killed by her husband while she slept.

Reddit

Anyway, Reddit somehow has allowed a large community of Shannan Watts (murder victim) snark subs to thrive. Some key posts:

https://old.reddit.com/r/WattsFree4All/comments/16zkuoe/shannon_watts_and_the_ridiculous_shirts/

In this post, redditors mock her for tacky t-shirts and clothes she put on the children (before their murder)

https://old.reddit.com/r/WattsFree4All/comments/1g1s63h/lupus_shmupus/

In this post, Shannan is mocked for at one point saying she might have lupus but posting things on facebook that indicate she may not have lupus.

https://old.reddit.com/r/WattsFree4All/comments/1cigxc2/having_no_balls/

Redditors theorise to what extent did Shannan emasculate Chris, prior to her murder.

https://old.reddit.com/r/WattsFree4All/comments/16t49mb/i_thought_it_was_just_me/

A redditor rejoices at finding a sub of like-minded people who, like them, also hate the murder victim:

>When I first heard of this case, I was so shocked. But from the very beginning, what I learned of SW irked me. After watching the TV shows, including Netfix, I really disliked everything about her. But every media thing I read praised her. The videos I found showed her in a shining light, lol. I finally dropped it and moved on.

Lmao OP saw the coverage "woman and her two kids murdered in cold blood" and really laser focussed in how irritating the victim was.

Anyway, you can explore the sub yourself - search by top posts for most dramatic and angry redditors.

The point

I never promised I had a point. I suppose I find this drama-worthy because it's truly fascinating to me that this woman was apparently so annoying, and hit on so many of reddit's sore spots (fake disroder cringe, influence life) that it overrode the normal reddit instinct to find a female victim of her husband murdering her and her kids sympathetic. To be clear, none of these people met Shannan while she was alive or even saw her posts prior to her death. They have created an image of her post-mortem they find so infuriating they are posting about it six years later. Majority of the reddit users are women, which further excludes inceldom as a

primary motivator.

I, for one, strive to be such an annoying person that my eventual death by murder is the least interesting thing about me.

Happy hannukah!

Community Note by @sneedman

Chris Watts is an anal maniac.

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