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— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) February 20, 2025
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https://old.reddit.com/r/Dallas/comments/1i74v9p/hey_rdallas_xcom_ban_when/
Links to DFWScanner are highly utilized on both /r/Dallas and /r/FortWorth any time an accident/pileup/shooting comes up; it wouldn't make sense to ban it.
/u/Dallas-ModTeam appears to be scrubbing the sub of any mention of this. Based on that, I would say the answer is no, they intend to have no discussion about it.
edit: mods have made the decision to allow a platform that is a vehicle for disinformation and MAGA propaganda to continue to be used here. vote accordingly.
how do we elect new mods?
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The Tuxedo, 2x broken ribs, an injured paw, and some lacerations. After a night in the hospital, he is expected to make a full recovery. The same can't be said for the pibbles.
The velvet hippo wouldn't surrender its new play toy and turned on me when I tried to intervene. I gave the pibbles all 5 tines of a farmer's pitchfork. I lifted the bloody beast up and carried it to the barn. I wedged the handle in the dirt and pinned the velvet hippo to the barn.
It's like a Mortal Kombat fatality
With the pibbles elevated off the ground and skewered to the barn, it was no longer a threat. I then attended the injured cat.
The deceased pibbles had a collar. I notified the police. Animal control came out to make a report and take some pictures. The look on the officers face when she saw the pibbles pinned the barn was priceless. "Mother Fu*k, that's not something you see every day!"
The owner of the pitbull was charged for owning a dangerous dog at large and threatening public safety. Armed with the police report, I am now hiring an attorney and filing a lawsuit against the pibbles owner.
Also, I contacted the owner of the property whom I've known for decades. The tenants were not permitted to have a dog on the rental property. To avoid a second lawsuit, targeting the property owner, the landlord is evicting the tenants for violating the lease agreement.
I have no idea what the frick is going on at BPB lately. It used to have a stronger relationship to trolling (remember #PitBullDropoff?) before evolving into paranoid true crime foidery (would you rather meet a man or a pit bull in the forest?). At this point it just seems to be a place for surreptitiously getting off to animal violence. Lots of "pit bull gets kicked in the head by a horse" type videos. More recently people have started posting their badass 100% true stories about how they or their pets killed pibbles.
https://old.reddit.com/r/BanPitBulls/comments/1im0mac/pitbull_vs_tuxedo/mbzg8f7/?context=8
https://old.reddit.com/r/BanPitBulls/comments/1im0mac/pitbull_vs_tuxedo/mbzicqu/?context=8
OP continues to push it:
https://old.reddit.com/r/BanPitBulls/comments/1im0mac/pitbull_vs_tuxedo/mc0ztnb/?context=8
https://old.reddit.com/r/BanPitBulls/comments/1im0mac/pitbull_vs_tuxedo/mc148qy/?context=8
Kill pibbles. Behead pibbles. Roundhouse kick a pibble into the concrete. Skewer pibbles with a pitchfork.
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EFFORTPOST Historic moment, the last Rapport Koerant (most famous Afrikaans newspaper) printed its last final physical copy, likely ever. They'll continue only with digital news onwards, though their digital market is substantially smaller. This likely marks the end of weekly physical newspapers in Safrica.
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The Rapport had been the premier Afriaans newspaper for over 50 years, but like so many physical media over the world, they've taken a nosedive when confronted with the competition of instant access digital media,
which could broadcast stories instantly, and for no physical printing costs. Newspapers all over the world have also struggled with the competition in terms of people having become used to "free" news sites (with banner ads) versus a weekly/daily paper's upfront cost.
Additionally a lot of faith have been lost in mainstream media, of all countries - where the predominant pattern appears to be that ground level plebs tend to be more conservative/right-wing than than the more liberally oriented Journ*list class which had some hand in influencing national or international conversations.
This divide between liberal journ*lists and more conservative/rightoid laymen is hilariously apparent for ALL the fricking races in Safrica, but not in the way you would expect, or as similar as you would think as in Burgerland lol
Examples:
For black peeps, like the Zulus especially ( the largest ethnic tribe/group of the country), there has been decisive differences in public perception between the everyman, and the more liberal Zulu Upper Class.
Foreigners would make the mistake that because of the dominacy of the ANC, that liberalism/leftism is the dominant train of thought amongst black peeps, when in reality the conservative Zulus and Xhosas only support these parties/policies because it benefits them personally, like land grabs and gins, and BEE affirmative action.
But liberal notions like pan+African racial unity gets thrown out of the window πͺ when competition, when foreigners from middle Africa, like Zimbabweans, Mozambicans and Angolans are often frequently attacked by Zulus in xenophobic attacks, due to the desperation in a country where there's a near 30% unemployment since COVID.
The Zulu king got "in trouble" from the black national newspapers, because he had invited xenophobia and violence unto Zimbabwean refugees and migrants, yet the consensus amongst Zulus, those amongst the majority poor rural class shared in his opinion, stark contrast to the liberal journ*lists who condemned him.
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For the just under 1 million Indians in SA, they are the most self-segregating and anti-black demographic, with their upfront racism towards blacks going relatively unnoticed because majority of social capital spent against whites
For reference, look at @Sneedman's recent sneed about Indian racism
https://rdrama.net/post/321001/south-africa-and-the-indian-question
Oh yes, in Safrica, Indians are upper middle class, and look down on black peeps, the way Canadians look on sexy Indian dudes.
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For Boer whites you guys don't need introduction on how we are out of sync with the dominant global liberal orthodoxy, it's more Bongs in general whom are usually one standard deviation more liberal than average that's interesting π€
The fabled harmonious racially peace ποΈ βοΈ ful Rainbow π nation of past Mandela's dream, has failed to realize these past 30 years, due to entrenched ANC corruption and even these Bongs on average are now much more right wing than the average than the usual English journ*list.
Additionally English journ*lists have themselves been in the forefront with exposing systemic government corruption
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For coloureds, the coloured dominant Cape Town based media, like magazines and Newspapers, were utterly shocked this year's May 2024 election
When a monumental upset occured, with the ANC losing its supermajority, to the new Zulu Ultranationalist party MP, and the DA getting decent numbers, yet also being similarly cucked in the Cape Town municipality
By losing large blocs of coloured votes to the PA (Patriotic Alliance) a Coloured ethnic nationalist group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_South_African_general_election
Who felt that neither black nor white dominant parties of ANC/DA represented them. They often feel they were too brown for Apartheid and too light skinned for the ANC, as they get shafted by BEE - a legalized affirmative action legislation which can only exist in a nation state where one racial group vastly outnumbers the others.
The breaking and thus weakening of the DA caused intense sneed amongst coloured journ*lists who wanted a unified front against Anc corruption, and that they were surprised by those events are symptomatic of how out of sync their respective journos are with their ground level peeps.
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Point is every conceivable demographic in SA is hilariously more chuddy in some unique fashion, than the journ*list class from that demographic in SA.
As is similar in Burgerland and Europe, but what has made the divide between the global modern liberal orthodoxy even more extreme has been social media, especially Facebook which dominated Southern Africa, compared to twitter in the West.
Many dramatards here are likely more Reddit addicts than Facebook, which has a more boomer/3rd world demographic
In Facebook, even with so much banning and censorship, chudthink rise to whatever counts as the front page, in spite of jannies or Facebook sexy Indian dude mods
In these insane slapfiights, with people often under their ACTUAL IRL identity π, you'll find opinions which make 4chan and 9gag look meek ,and you'll find how decisively the everyman of Indians/coloureds/Boers/sothos/pedis/Khoisan/Zulus/Xhosas are all just one ragebait post away from chipping out and showing the veneer of civilization is a Journos fantasy π π
Thus trust in journ*lists/Media to represent the interests of every group appears to have eroded away the past decades, as social media proliferated along with cheaper internet and smartphones, allowing the bypass of media orthodoxy
During COVID the death knell of physical papers were sounded, as during lockdown people were prevented from going outside to buy their weekly papers, and even the technologically illiterate were pushed through boredom to buy large internet, fibre, or download news apps and join Facebook news groups
Many peeps were thus in a nation wide scale exposed to the convenience and ease of news on their smartphones or computers, and even when lockdowns lifted in 2021, sales never recovered across the industry.
Publications like News24 which jumped ahead with the rapidly changing events were the 1st to rapidly program the best apps and gained a large market share, and thus rode on fire chariots the change from physical to digital media, like Zoom became dominant instantly as the premier online meeting app/program for SA businesses.
Other papers like the Rapport reacted or realised too late the need to have a digital presence to survive in this new world and for the past 4 years have been chugging along on fumes.
The Rapport was hardest hit and most tragic, because it was considered the most impressive and prestigious newspaper in the country, even when democratisation in 1994, when English became the most common tongue, and 10 other languages because part of the recognized official languages.
The Rapport had the intergenerational experience, infrastructure and prestige.
Important world changing events were often sought after specifically in the Rapport, because the best journ*lists wrote there, even Bong journ*lists, because many SA Englishman can speak Afrikaans.
The weekly format actually gave the newspaper credence because unlike daily rags chasing the daily story to make ends meet ,the weekly format allowed the experienced Journos to really do their research and make higher calibre articles.
When the 9/11 attacks occurred the entire nation would wait for the Rapport to a make an extensive and in depth coverage of the events made understandable for plebse
Even English and Sotho newspapers would source or share the Rapport articles afterwards, due to it's influence.
Yet as the internet proliferated, the format of waiting a week to read substantial important news as much as a week later became untenable and unpopular
Independent online news publications became increasingly competitive and competent, and the BEE for forcing it's way into all institutions, meant that white new reporters would seek their fame online instead.
Worsening the cycle of decline was that the Rapport and other news papers became more expensive to make up for the decline in sales ,from 11rand to 20rand, to 30rand, to eventually 39rand, almost the price of a high grade magazine.
But worst of all was that the editors leadership went full r-slur, and began to focus on Daily Mail tier slop, the paper got a reputation as a gossip rag for SA celebrities, which even South Africa doesn't care about, when superior Bong/Burger musicians exist.
Thus the Uber prestigious reputation went to shit. There was a time when the Rapport had special editions with extensive and fabulous resourced articles, with sketches maps and diagrams.
Like their infamous coverage of the killing Saddam or Bin Laden, with extensive details about the special forces involved. Visiting yanks were so impressed, that they claimed the coverage of the events were better than American news networks which were sensational junk news, whilst the Rapport was measured and neutral.
By the time, 2020 pandemic arrived, there was no loyal reader based.
Now this doesn't mean that physical papers will forever be gone, perhaps only that weekly formats are likely in a permanent decline.
Additionally other papers are still going strong, and perhaps only because Afrikaans has declined as a language worthy of catering towards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_South_Africa
After all there's always gonna be peeps enjoying physical media, just like Kindles will never completely replace physical ππππππ books
But the fact remains that physical media is deeply in distress and only continually declining for various complicated reasons.
https://dailyinvestor.com/business/54653/plan-to-close-beeld-and-rapport-newspapers-confirmed/
Earlier this year in June the news went under the radar and most didn't even believe it
A shit load of publications are eating shit
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1033243152150182&id=100063935197932
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https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1idisls/comment/m9zzfkr/?context=8
Inside job!!
https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1idisls/comment/m9zyssb/?context=8
All religion bad, not just Islam!!! Islam
is not to blame
https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1idisls/comment/ma00d6f/?context=8
Mohammad peepee suckers trying their hand at spreading misinformation for the religion
of peace
https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1idisls/comment/m9zzr6d/?context=8
Muslims murdering people for Islam reminds me of Christians not being cool with abortion
as birth
control!!!
https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1idisls/comment/m9zz874/?context=8
DAE BOTH RELIGIONS ARE THE SAME? As an atheist on Reddit, I am euphoric
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2025
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An Indian travel vlogger visited Nigeria and she never wishes to visit again. She gave some reasons here. pic.twitter.com/saiIi4HNe8
— Lord Immy Kant (Eastern Exile) (@KantInEast) January 31, 2025
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The Nagus
The cold open drops more foreshadowing than sunshine on my butt: Sisko wants go to Bajor with Jake- he plans to visit The Fire Caverns (later revealed to be home to the Pah-Wraiths and they will be the site of Sisko's last confrontation with Dukat in the final episode)- Rom is acting like Rom and he quotes our first ever Rule of Acquisition (Number One, no less- "Once you've got their money, never give it back". As the episode progresses we get the sixth rule too- "Never allow family to stand in the way of opporunity")- we see Grand Nagus Zek, his weird staff and his huge manservant Maihardu. Loads of important shit gets shown for the first time this episode (EDIT NB: Because some r-slurs need it spelling out- the writers did not preplan anything in DS9 and merely returned to these ideas later on). This is also the first proper "Ferengi Episode"- a controversial concept as a lot of people don't like them. Although there were some rotten Ferengi episodes, there were plenty of good ones and I've always had a soft spot for them because they show a slice of Star Trek life from a different cultural perspective- a window into another way of thinking and existing within a setting we've only seen from one perspective in the past. Also, they're kind of like Fiddler on the Roof in space.
The Nagus has arrived on DS9, apparently on a cooming expedition. He intends to indulge in five of Quark's most popular holoporn programs. They would tone down the gooning implications in later seasons (and the holosuite would be used more for recreations of the Battle of Britain, somewhat-self-indulgent Rat Pack knock-offs and copyright infringing James Bond parodies- no seriously... Paramount got threatened with legal action by MGM after 'Our Man Bashir' in Season 5. How New Line's Austin Powers avoided this I don't know) but here in season 1, the message is clear as to what people are paying for in the holosuite:
They were together in real life btw: deal with it...
At least he's not really a Jeet
Zek invites himself to dinner at Quark's apartment. Side note- Ferengi use chopsticks and a lazy susan. There he explains his real reasons for the visit: he plans to use Quark's bar to host a biznez meeting to discuss Ferengi biznez, especially Gamma Quadrant biznez. He's chosen Quark's bar because apparently only Quark can arrange some uncomfortable-looking Ikea furniture in a room for short men with big ears to sit on. During the dinner Zek expresses disdain for BIPOC attending the hoo-man school so Rom tells BIPOC not to go there any more. BIPOC is less than happy about this and matters are not made better because Chief Obrien is currently teaching classes because the casting budget for this episode was already stretched by the Ferengi characters & would not cover Rosalind Chao's fee while Keiko is on holiday. This is the same Chief Obrien who literally had to fix every replicator on the station a few weeks back- now his wife's away he suddenly has all the time in the world to moonlight as a teachercel.
Getting back to the meeting: Nagus Zek explains that it's important that the Ferengi expand into the Gamma Quadrant so as to exploit a market where the unfounded reputation they have in the Merchant-phobic Alpha Quadrant can't ruin their chances.
Everyone agrees that this is an unreasonable goyim misrepresentation of a simple hard-working people.
But Zek feels he's too old to lead his people into this new frontier and he announces that he will now appoint a successor... Quark.
Nobody's impressed and spend the next few days low key threatening Quark- someone even tries to assassinate him. Compounding his woes, Zek suddenly dies leaving Quark without any support. Odo suggests doing an autopsy but everyone laughs as Zek's body is already gone- upon their deaths Ferengi are vacuum dessicated and the dishes of their remains auctioned off. One piece of Zek is worth 20 bars of gold-pressed latinum and is expected to double in value by the following year.
I'm not sure what Ferengi do with these powdered remains but those of great men like Zek sell for a high price and generally increase in value over time.
Quark tries to play it tough and act like he knows what he's doing which leads to this bizarre scene:
Turns out the bomb was Rom and Zek's useless son. They then try and blow Quark out of an airlock- something they're only prevented from doing by the reappearance of Zek who faked his death to test his useless son. A test his son failed uselessly. So Zek must remain Nagus and exploit the Gamma Quadrant personally, a task which will have huge implications in season 2. Far from being angry at his brother, Quark is just pleased he's not a complete failure as a Ferengi. For some reason Rom does not face charges for attempted murder.
There's a B plot about Jake teaching BIPOC to read which isn't worth getting into except for this bit where they goon over a hot Vulcan girl:
The first true Ferengi episode is... fine.
It lays the foundations for a lot of future Ferengi culture- their society is not one of true capitalism and free markets but rather a rigidly hierarchical one based on monopolies and price-fixing with the Nagus sitting at the center dictating everything and taking a cut of it all. Later we will learn of the Ferengi Commerce Authority which creates an impossible web of red tape in the Alliance which can only be navigated via extortionate bribes. This is why Ferengi have to gouge the life out of any non-Ferengi they do business with: their margins are so narrow due to all the bureaucracy and corruption.
Quick note on gold-pressed latinum: it's not a currency- it's a commodity and therefore it's price presumably fluctuates. Latinum is a metal, liquid at room temperature, which cannot be synthesised or replicated- hence it's intrinsic value. The latinum is traditionally pressed into sleeves of gold (which can be replicated and therefore has no real value besides looking nice) which are shaped as slips, strips and bars. Although the value of latinum fluctuates 100 slips make a strip and 20 strips make a bar. There are also bricks which are massively expensive but I don't know how many bars make a brick. I think that if you consider a slip to be worth about $1 you are in the right ball park. Other non-replicatable materials include dilithium crystals and possibly uridium (a fictional metal, originally invented for the 1980s vidya of the same name, from which starship sensor arrays are made) because the whole reason for the Cardassian occupation of Bajor was to strip-mine the planet for uridium. I suppose it's possible that different materials use different amounts of energy to replicate and it might just be more energy efficient for the Cardassians to mine the stuff. I suppose it's also possible that Cardassian replicators (which the show has established already as being a bit shit) can't do it but Federation ones can. Anyway...
Vortex
Jeff Lynne from ELO (or an alien who looks a lot like him) comes aboard DS9 and gets involved in some plot to rip off a Faberge egg thing Quark's trying to sell to a pair of twins (it is never explained why Jeff's involved in this). In the ensuing fight Jeff shoots and kills one of the twins and is arrested on suspicion of murder (although the twins fired first, it was Jeff who pulled a gun on them) while the surviving brother swears revenge.
I do wonder how they cast these twins and who got the decision on which one lives (and gets most of the speaking lines) and which one dies. Did they share both salaries equally? After all- they wouldn't have gotten the gig unless there was two of them.
Anyway, Jeff is one of those tricksy types who gaslamps Odo into believing he can lead the constable to his people- as proof he shows him a shapechanging butt-plug thing he keeps in a locket (why the heck was he allowed to keep this in his cell?).
Sisko and Dax go to Jeff's home planet and find them to be authoritarian buttholes but this week's interpretation of the Prime Directive demands that Jeff is returned to be executed without trial. Odo gets the gig to take him but re-routes to a nebula where Jeff says Odo might find his people. Of course he can't and it's just a stasis pod where Jeff has stashed his daughter (how did he get it here?). The shapechanging butt-plug is a key. He's a dissident, you see and was just trying to protect his daughter (from what? Are they a persecuted minority? We never find out).
The twin shows up in a sharp pointy-looking starship (must be a nightmare to dock) and there's a bit of action which, I'll grant you, does look nice...
...but this whole story makes no sense and Jeff's bullshit about the Changelings (this is the first time we ever hear Odo's people referred to as such) just feels like the episode itself bullpooping the audience into wasting our time watching this because we thought something important might occur. You might also notice a lot of "never explained" and "for some reason" bits in this review- that's never a good sign. There's also this bit where a rock falls on Odo's head and knocks him out- how the frick does that work? He doesn't have a brain.
It's all so disappointing.
Dramatis Personae
Another alien mind-virus has everybody on the station acting weird except for Odo. It was brought on board by a Klingon ship which asplodes after coming through the wormhole after cutting short their planetary survey mission into the Gamma Quadrant. I can't help but wonder how a Vor'cha class battlecruiser can blow into pieces right next to a busy star port and yet not cause any damage to any other vessels or the station itself.
One Klingon is successfully beamed over before his ship asplodes and mumbles one word before he dies; "victory". He carries his own personal logs which have suffered enough damage as to take a while to decipher (or maybe they got the logs from the cruiser wreckage, I can't remember). While this is happening Odo has a massive spazz in Quarks...
...but quickly recovers. This is never explained but is clearly his reaction to the virus. Quark also doesn't seem affected but his usefulness is restricted for reasons you'll see in a minute. Everybody else starts acting paranoid and weird and turns on each other forming into two groups- one loyal to Sisko and the other seeking to overthrow him, led by Kira. The Klingon logs eventually show that the exact same pattern of events occured aboard their cruiser but the significance of this is downplayed by Obrien (acting as Sisko's enforcer while Sisko hides insolently in his office and DNGAF) who, correctly, points out that Kingons tend to get promoted by assassinating their commanders. How the frick things like a Gamma Quadrant planetary survey mission get done under these conditions is unfathomable. The Klingons found some kind of ancient alien historical archive and it somehow causes people to reenact ancient historical events, presumably this was supposed to happen under more controlled circumstances than we see happening here.
There are two good things about this episode: the first is the subtle way the characters are afffected by the archive- they retain their sense of selves and their motivations seem consistent with their previously established characters. Kira's initial reasons for toppling Sisko is that she thinks he and the Federation are a threat to Bajor, Dax is an old man who is full of reminiscences and Obrien is a chippy and bad tempered Irish shit. The second reason is Kira being crazy hot. I never remember finding Nana Visitor this attractive before but, God-she is sexy AF and some of her antics in this episode are particularly coom-worthy.
God I wish I was Quark right here...
Avery Brooks is quite good doing Sisko's Nero act in this episode (Brooks was always better playing bad guys) and it causes him to make a strange alien clock instead of playing a fiddle. the clock was a really nice prop and we often see it in the background in his office during subsequent episodes:
Possibility of making a Starshit hole
I'm thinking we need to have a hole dedicated to SciFi TV and movies- particularly shows like old school Star Trek, Stargate etc. I'd be willing to put 50,000 DC towards it if other people could help raise the other half of the cost. I also have no ability with CSS or banner creation. IDK, what do you think?
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1. "imagine what blacks will become without white people's grace"
"reprobate"
2. "lol conservative, your entire MAGA ideology is built on being victims"
"Libtard lol"
3. "found his brother
"
"found yours
"
4. "I've detoxified myself from Afrocentric victim complex"
"crispy butt coon"
5. "lol imagine being African, stop complaining and go back to Africa"
"WE WUZ AMERICANS AND SHEEIT!"
6. "I have Neighbor stress syndrome"
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So let me get this straight...
— I,Hypocrite (@lporiginalg) February 6, 2025
Vaush
Aella
Richard Hanania
James Lindsay
Were all funded by USAID? WHO ELSE?
!jannies pin
https://datarepublican.com/officers/
None of these people received funding from USAID:
https://datarepublican.com/officers/?officer_kw=Ian+Kochinski
https://datarepublican.com/officers/?officer_kw=Rachael+Slick
https://datarepublican.com/officers/?officer_kw=Richard+Hanania
https://datarepublican.com/officers/?officer_kw=James+Lindsay
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why did you specifically have an issue with your driver being indian https://t.co/YXSozXoZ1Z pic.twitter.com/r5SepfdVPL
— ralph π³οΈβπ (@TheRocketRalph) January 2, 2025
LOVE a b-word that doesn't back down
tho she did delete the tweet but it's understandable when your account is just posting selfies and shit and then you end up being harassed by a bunch of losers :<
anyway I'm starving and waiting for my frittata to finish cooking so I'm presenting these without any sparky comments, just imagine them yourself
ok but really ugly scrotes i can understand they're always butthurt but there's so many pickme foids calling her racist and supporting death threats against her family as if they secretly wouldn't have the same fear
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President Donald Trump floated the idea of a three-way meeting with the leaders of Russia and China in which the countries would agree to cut defense spending in half.
Trump, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office Thursday, suggested repeatedly that he'd seek such a deal with Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, saying the money could be spent better elsewhere.
"One of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia," Trump said. "And I want to say, 'let's cut our military budget in half.' And we can do that. And I think we'll be able to do it."
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The new administration assembled by President Donald Trump boasts a combined net worth of at least $11.8 billion. The collective wealth of the potential 2024 cabinet is unprecedented for The Cabinet of the United States. Senate confirmation hearings are currently underway in Washington, D.C. β and the potential conflicts of interest for these cabinet members are a fraught topic. We dived into the financial reports and investing strategies of this new administration to understand their financial backgrounds and what this could mean for potential conflicts of interest and insider trading while in office.
Findings
Crypto Enthusiasts 
One finding is that President Trump's nominees are crypto enthusiasts. Data on the stock portfolios of Trump's cabinet nominees tells us that almost half of them have significant crypto holdings. Among the greatest is Sean Duffy, Trump's nominee for Secretary of the Department of Transportation, who holds up to $1.1 million in Bitcoin.
Media Wealth
The second, and less startling finding is that the wealth of the nominees is disproportionately from roles in media. Nominated Secretary of the Department of Defense Pete Hegseth made over $4 million in the past two years as a FOX News Host, based on a recent Office of Government Ethics filing. Nominee Tulsi Gabbard earned over $1 million this year from book advances and speeches β most of which for the Republican Party.
Notable Members and Controversies
Robert F. Kennedy Jr β Health and Human Services Secretary (confirmed)
Nominated in November for the position of health secretary
Cleared the Senate by a razorβthin 14β13 vote
Net worth is about $15 million
Controversial views scrutinizing the efficacy of vaccines
Received backlash for ties to Wisner Baum, an LA-based personal injury law firm
Holds a Bitcoin position worth over $5 million
Opposition from the scientific and medical communities persists
Pete Hegseth β Secretary of Defense
High-profile figure and Fox News co-host of "Fox and Friends"
Received over $4.6 million from Fox News as an annual salary across the past two years
Holds between $5,000 and $15,000 in Bitcoin income
Controversies for financial mismanagement and accusations of sexual misconduct
Tulsi Gabbard β National Intelligence (nominated)
Earnings in the past year have exceeded $1.2 million
Passed the Senate committee vote last week, approving her nomination
Main source of income: speaking fees and book royalties related to the Republican party
Nearly $300,000 from an advance on her 2024 book "For Love of Country: Leave the Democratic Party Behind"
Pam Bondi β Attorney General (confirmed)
Net worth of $18 million
Worked with the Trump administration for several years
Made more than $3 million from the recent merger of Trump's Truth Social platform
Disclosed owning between $2 million and $10 million in shares of Trump Media & Technology Group stock
Scott Bessent β Secretary of the Treasury (confirmed)
Net worth of at least $500 million
Wealth originates from years in hedge fund management
Holds over $50 million in ETFs and investments in major currencies
Holds between $250,000 and $500,000 in Bitcoin
Linda McMahon β Secretary of Education (nominated)
Estimated worth upwards of $3 billion
Earnings from co-founding World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
Holds significant investments in TKO Group Holdings and bonds supporting universities
Doug Burgum β Interior Secretary (confirmed)
Earned over $2 million last year from businesses and investments
Significant investments in technology stocks including Netflix, Alphabet, Apple, and Adobe
Sean Duffy β Secretary of Transportation (confirmed)
Recently pledged to divest from investments in technology stocks
Numerous investments in cryptocurrency, including up to $500,000 in Bitcoin
Howard Lutnick β Commerce Secretary (nominated)
Net worth of $2 billion
CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Group
Holds over 800 separate positions across various companies
Vocal supporter of cryptocurrency, particularly Tether
Where to Look Next
Public disclosure of funds allows us to examine the financial profiles for the new cabinet of the United States. Looking at the potential cabinet members holistically, it is apparent that they are united by holding large amounts of wealth. Some of this wealth, of course, will have to be divested if taking office. The Office of Government Ethics requires officials to divest from funds which may pose a conflict of interest β a move which many of Trump's nominees will see as costly.
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The account seems to be mostly focused on anti-miscegenation, calling black men "nakers" and putting out a narrative that because of yts girls getting BLACKED , the black race is getting BLEACHED
The profile pic is misleading because that's supposed to represent the disgustingness of BMWF couples
This is who she actually is:
I'm getting a Black Girl Magic vibe here, anyone else? She fine! Tell em, sis!
So here's one of her typical TRVTHENVKEs
JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJJAAAAAAAAAAA
This naker really said the line.
Anti-racism (pro-racism) vs pro-racism (anti-racism), who should you listen to when two Black women are arguing?
Anyway to lazy to make a big post about it, the account is a great follow for black woman seethe.
Here are some screenshots of her other posts:
- Homoshrexual : Mango Mussolini
- GeorgeFloydSoulLeftHimNah : I THOUGHT THAT THIS NEVER HAPPENS THOUGH. TRANS LIVES MATTER
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Most of the comments are typical reddit (WHAT ABOUT INTERSEX PEOPLE HUH? HUH? HUH?) but there's one thread of sanity that surprisingly has upmarseys.
One person even dares to say the thing you're not supposed to nootice out loud:
Note the number of trans healthcare professionals in the comments here. I believe they are likely overrepresented in this thread in comparison to real life.
Go through the thread and you'll see loads of comments starting with "trans ___________ here"
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His final post: https://wilkes888.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/my-final-blog-entry-love-you-all/
He seems pretty intelligent but somewhat neurodivergent. He conducted a "study" over 4-5 year period counting the number of white x asian couples and found that surprisingly 95% of the 10,000 he counted were WMAF.
This is the post that does a nice writeup if u dont want to read the whole blog :marseylongpost https://old.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/1il1kd5/the_life_and_death_of_a_lonely_asian_man/