... proceeds to make the flimsiest arguments ever

!coomers !2dgooners

As everyone now knows Nick lives in Berwyn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(Phone rings)

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

Oh, excuse me, is this Cigars and Stripes?

Yes it is.

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

Hold on.

(Man picks up) Hello?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://instagram.com/cigarsandstripesbbq

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

The end stage being complete corporate capture of all three branches of the government, and total gutting of state run safety nets, education, and infrastructure in favor of eventual privatization of such services. This is all far more in line with ancap fantasies than any genuine historical example of nationalist socialism or fascism. Ironically enough, "socialist" China is the one economic model currently existing that is closest to Italian fascism, in some regards.

They get too hung up on the popular definition of fascism being the marriage of the state and capital into one, without understanding the nature of the relationship between the nation-state and capital in fascist economics. In America, the nation-state is subservient to the interests of capital. In an ideal fascist state, capital exists solely in subservience to the nation-state. America perverts this like a dog walking a man, and not the man walking the dog. China has the balls to imprison billionaires. If Trump or Elon were genuine nationalist socialists, we would see them doing shit like creating jobs via public work projects to improve infrastructure and build nuclear power plants, desalination facilities, etc. They aren't even a tenth of the statesmen pre-war Adolf and El Duce were.

!deathtomicks

In short, OP talks about interviewing candidates and being heartbroken at how many have psychology degrees followed by unemployment or low-wage employment in an unrelated field. With this experience, they offer a word of warning to those who wish to pursue this degree. Sure, psychology is interesting, but it's not a reliable career to pursue if you hope to become financially independent.

OP isn't wrong. According to Harvard, psychology is a top 3 most popular degree and it's not a surprise. Many people are interested in psychological topics and they pursue the degree at a young age without considering much concerning the job market or retirement or anything of the sort.

According to a Niche ranking, psychology was the third most popular major among college students in the classes of 2022 and 2023. The share of college students majoring in psychology now hovers around 6 percent, up from 4 to 5 percent in the 1980s.

https://summer.harvard.edu/blog/why-choose-psychology-as-your-college-major/

The number of people with psychology degrees far outnumbers the available jobs. Unfortunately, Redditors don't want to hear it. They love their precious degree and they'll defend it to the death, darn it.

They survived by tricking others into getting a useless degree

If you aren't going to become a psychologist, why spend hundreds of thousands on a psychology degree?

If anyone young is reading this, please don't listen to this fart. We live in a capitalist world. Rid your mind of this nonsense of "chasing your dreams". You're at university to set yourself up to make money, not to pursue your passions. There is nothing remotely passion-provoking in a university.

Bullshit!

One of the few based takes.

This is massive cope. You can literally do the MIT psychology course for free online.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/9-00sc-introduction-to-psychology-fall-2011/

The truth is that if you're curious about psychology, there is no need to pursue a degree in it. Everything you could hope to learn is online, neatly organised, waiting for you to access it for free. It's a stupid reason to go to university. If you're trying to get money, the psychology degree is still useless. So, in short, avoid the psychology degree.

I hope we hit back so fricking hard it gives Trump a stroke.

No tax up to 12 lakhs, insanity.

Cannot believe jokers cosplaying as “middle class” have forced the government in such a corner that it felt it had to do this.

— Rishap Vats (@VatsRishap) February 1, 2025

Findom enjoyer genocide

Nah indirect taxes are better even at progressive taxation. Taxing income is stupid.

The middleclasscel will kiss his robber's feet for leaving him a little more and he will be happy.

Madarchod NRI I hope some wignat screwdrivers your fat gut.

These mayos have no sense of humor

Context

Some nasty witch made a post about her trans pikachu or something and posted it on /r/pokemon. They didn't like it as confirmed by unddit:

• removed comments: 132/322 (41.0%) deleted comments: 21/322 (6.5%)

Anyway, as I'm the chad type (and they are the crying soys), I've noticed that like a majority of trans positive comments are downmarseyed to oblivion due to bots and/or brigaded by right-wing extremists and the reactions are too funny:

/r/Gamingcirclejerk - G*mer couldnt stand seeing anpikachu and a trans flag in the same pic [sic jfc]

Anyway, the thread got posted to our friends over at /r/gamingcirlejerk by the gorgeous Oktavia - whose beauty only reflects their orthographic skills - and it's a crysis-just-got-released-in-2007 situation. Most comment chains got jannied clean but undelete has them saved:

https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/Gamingcirclejerk/comments/1hmdiu5/_/m3tgpsh/#comment-info

https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/Gamingcirclejerk/comments/1hmdiu5/_/m3v0u8o/#comment-info

https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/Gamingcirclejerk/comments/1hmdiu5/_/m3u95sw/#comment-info

https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/Gamingcirclejerk/comments/1hmdiu5/_/m3tq5oz/#comment-info

https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/Gamingcirclejerk/comments/1hmdiu5/_/m3tgwoj/#comment-info

Anyway, transphobes got btfo'd by lore accurate pikachu:

Ash's Pikachu has canonically crossdressed by taping a piece of yellow paper to the end of his tail, which is directly referenced in the photo.

Shockingly the CPI (customer prices index) has risen again to 3%, nobody in the country could've predicted this happening.

Of course, this doesn't mean much of anything when prices seem to be entirely arbitrary, as seen by this monstrosity

Alongside non-existent wage growth

Results entirely in the obvious choice to get out of this country as fast as I can. But the next vote will fix things surely.

Canada, as it turns out, isn't broken. That was the message coming out of Pierre Poilievre's big rebrand rally, where he tried to reposition himself as a champion of Canada's virtues rather than just another critic of its failures. And while Liberal partisans will look skeptically on this attempted political metamorphosis, the biggest doubters might actually be some of his erstwhile fans: the freedom convoy.

Right out of the gate it clearly is a hit piece on Pierre.

Check the social media accounts of any prominent convoy participant, whether it's Tamara Lich, Pat King, or their dedicated transcriptionists in the alt-press, and their sympathy for Donald Trump and antipathy towards Canada becomes immediately apparent. "Your sudden, newfound, fake patriotism is truly indicative of how stupid you think we are," Lich said. "The entitlement of certain Canadians is humorous," fellow organizer Chris Barber wrote. "If we had leadership in Canada who cared about Canadians like Trump cared about Americans … we wouldn't be in this situation."

Yes the !leafs who like freedom want to be part of a country that unarguably has more rights and freedoms.

They insist the real problem isn't Trump's ongoing threats to our sovereignty but Justin Trudeau's continued existence — and, of course, the injustices and affronts that were inflicted upon them by his government. Rupa Subramanya, one of the most sympathetic chroniclers of the convoy's exploits, suggested that "Canadians have bought into the lie by politicians across the board that Trump wants to annex Canada, when what I believe is that he really wants Canadians to get rid of the Liberal government and have greater economic integration and cooperation with the US."

Trudeau drove the country into the shitter. He is why it sucks here. I don't give a frick about Trump and his "threats", "threats" which amount to "We'll make you a full state and give you all full citizenship in the best country on the gods green earth"

That's right: for these folks, public health orders aimed at protecting them and their fellow citizens are a greater threat to their liberty than an American government explicitly threatening their liberty. Policies like vaccine mandates and mask regulations — most of which, it's worth reiterating, were implemented by provincial governments — are worth resisting, apparently, but unjustified economic warfare is best met with submission and docility.

Yes forcing me to wear a mask that doesn't stop the spread (inb4: well you shoulda worn a kn95! No I don't care they were sold out everywhere and tons of the one in circulation were fake!) and get vaxxed to be able to buy food (This was seriously floated and why I finally gave in, well that and being able to work) is and was a massive threat to my freedom.

Getting to be American is the opposite of a threat to my freedom.

In some respects, the convoy's refusal to join the rest of the country in its fight against Trump's repeated provocations isn't all that surprising.

The convoy is over. It ended years ago. This is some g*mergate in current year shit.

What brought them to Ottawa in 2022 wasn't love of their country but hatred of the government in charge of it

No shit r-slur

hich helps explain the very conspicuous presence of American flags, Trump flags, and even Confederate and Nazi flags. It's why they plotted, at least in the beginning, to overthrow that government. And it's why, in a moment where the country they claim to love is being actively threatened with economic and political subjugation, they're rooting for the person doing the threatening.

I'm getting a stars and bars shirt just to piss off this jslu

They're welcome to believe whatever they want, of course. That's one of the virtues of living in a free and democratic society: you can pretend it's a woke dictatorship if that makes you feel better about your life choices.

"Dear subhuman filth"

!dramatards !ranchers

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Stressed so I've been taking photos like crazy

!animalposters !cats

Trump frees another neighbor from the tyrannical Dems

The letter notes "independent reasons" as to why Adams' case was being tossed — including that the case was retribution for him speaking out against the Biden administration for its handling of the migrant crisis.

"It cannot be ignored that Mayor Adams criticized the prior Administration's immigration policies before the charges were filed, and the former US Attorney's public actions created appearances of impropriety…"

https://old.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/1imksh1/justice_dept_to_seek_dismissal_of_federal/

https://old.reddit.com/r/newyorkcity/comments/1iml2n0/justice_department_to_drop_federal_corruption/