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:marseyhmm: :marseyhmmm: Is it normal to give your mom Valentine's Day gifts? :marseythonk: :marseydetective:

I was talking to @PegMeMommy about Valentine's Day. I was telling him about how me and my siblings got our mom flowers and stuff for Valentine's Day. During the conversation he said he had never heard of kids getting their mom something for Valentine's Day, and he doesn't know anyone who does this. For me, this is the opposite: Where I'm from, everyone gets their mother something. Now both of us are wondering which is normal.

Decided to make a poll!

Do you buy your mother something Valentine's Day?

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indigenous woman who is also a vidya designer, on the "indigenous" section on CBC:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738535042xLgI-VGYUxwIwA.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/1736985021_Y0gDvOzFFprVQ.webp

Neighbor why are "indigenous" and "aboriginal" activist foids always like the Whitest motherlovers on the planet? :marseyxdorbit:

When the video game Custer's Revenge first came out more than 30 years ago, a successful boycott eventually caused it to be pulled from store shelves The controversial video game, made for the Atari 2600 by Mystique (now defunct), depicts indigenous women tied to trees and cacti and r*ped.

https://external-preview.redd.it/til-in-1982-a-game-called-custers-revenge-was-released-for-v0-6WyhtVQFAC-f5KhVztxZMVzJpBJRTfNOCrdRDnRRwb0.jpg?auto=webp&s=34f410f92f86a2bcdd3db36d7d54e8c1dae66a2c

When indigenous game designer Elizabeth LaPensée found out this game was again available for play online she took to Twitter to voice her outrage.

"The game reinforces systemic violence against native women," said LaPensée.

Daniel Starkey, a Chickashsha Nation game journ*list, was researching a story about Native American representation in games when he came across YouTube videos of Custer's Revenge. Starkey spoke with LaPensée about his find. The two of them were able to find several game-play footage videos on YouTube, but it wasn't until Starkey dug deeper that he actually found a playable link to a remade version of the game.

"I'm not in a position to go to that link, download it and play it. I don't know how far back that would put me in my personal healing," said LaPenśee from her home in Oregon. But Starkey did download the game to prove that it can be played.

"[It] made me sick to my stomach and brought me to tears," said Starkey. "I respect its right to exist, but it's almost impossible for me to figure out how anyone could consider the game of cultural value to anyone." :marseyfrozenchosen2:

B-WORD THIS IS A FRICKING ATARI GAME FROM 1982

1 9 8 2

IT WAS ALREADY BOYCOTTED WHEN IT CAME OUT

THE COMPANY THAT MADE IT DOESN'T EXISTS ANYMORE

THE DEVS WHO CREATED IT ARE IN THEIR 70S OR 80S IF THEY ARE STILL ALIVE

ARE YOU GONNA CALL FOR THE BOYCOTT OF SALÒ AND ERASERHEAD NEXT? :#bruh:

LaPensée is a former game journ*list turned game designer. Until now, LaPensée had not spoken out against violence against women in video games. The gaming industry has come under fire for its sexual harassment against women and female game designers and journ*lists have had their safety and lives threatened.

LaPensée said she has stayed quiet for this very reason.

"If anyone were to attack me in that way, I just don't have the allies in the game industry who would help protect me and look out for me, I have the native community too," said LaPensée.

For me stepping out isn't just about the game industry, it's about personal experiences and having to be the voice of someone who is part of a statistic, that a game like this is reinforcing what creates that statistic.

  • Elizabeth LaPensée, video game designer

LaPensée, who designs games that promote indigenous heritage and healing, said her decision to speak out now is based on her career's work.

"This has been my whole life's work, starting off as a g*mer and then looking at native representation in video games. And finding the places that we can step up, and step in and define our representations ourselves," said LaPensée.

"For me stepping out isn't just about the game industry, it's about personal experiences and having to be the voice of someone who is part of a statistic, that a game like this is reinforcing what creates that statistic."

In the last 24 hours, since LaPensée`s initial tweet and the follow-up Twitter conversation, several videos of game-play footage have been taken down. Starkey added the footage violates YouTube's terms of service by containing explicit content and uncensored nudity.

LaPensée said that even though a game like this exists, the indigenous community can change the narrative by replacing the content with positive messages.

"We can make games too. We're completely capable of it. The cowtools are much more accessible, the technology is much more accessible than it used to be," said LaPensée, adding a lot of her work is responding to a game like this.

Holy fricking shit, imagine sperging out about a game that was 31 years old (now 41) by the time this article was written, this is even more pathetic than the Brapzilian Pentecostal TV channel in 2011 sperging out against Duke Nukem 3D :marseyxdorbit:, this is like if Jack Thompson came back from the shadows and started to shit on Doom and Doom 2 30 years later :shyyt:

!foidmoment !g*mers

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Marsey Meets a Raccoon (REAL, NOT AI!)

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:marseydisgustnotes: COMMUNITY NOTED Tax evasion is okay again - Joey B to pardon Hunter r/politics reacts

					
					

Hunter statement

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1h4icoo/president_biden_pardons_his_son_hunter_biden/

Few more - the most active across Reddit right now

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskALiberal/comments/1h4hwnr/megathread_joe_biden_to_pardon_hunter_biden/

https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1h4hvqu/president_biden_set_to_issue_a_pardon_of_his_son/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1h4i08c/nbc_president_biden_to_pardon_son_hunter/

https://old.reddit.com/r/YAPms/comments/1h4i1a4/biden_pardons_his_son_hunter_biden/

https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1h4i3ft/president_biden_set_to_issue_pardon_of_his_son/

https://old.reddit.com/r/centrist/comments/1h4i2pf/president_biden_set_to_issue_a_pardon_of_his_son/

https://old.reddit.com/r/inthenews/comments/1h4i3rr/president_biden_set_to_issue_a_pardon_of_his_son/

https://old.reddit.com/r/centrist/comments/1h4i2pf/president_biden_set_to_issue_a_pardon_of_his_son/

https://old.reddit.com/r/inthenews/comments/1h4i3rr/president_biden_set_to_issue_a_pardon_of_his_son/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1h4i8g5/breaking_president_biden_pardons_hunter_biden/

https://old.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1h4i7vc/president_biden_set_to_issue_a_pardon_of_his_son/

https://old.reddit.com/r/moderatepolitics/comments/1h4i9bl/president_biden_set_to_issue_a_pardon_of_his_son/

https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1h4hz1z/cue_the_maga_global_meltdown/

https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1h4icg6/fully_support_this/

Community Note by @forgor

Debunked: tax evasion has always been okay

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:marseyflagrwanda: vs :marseyflagsouthafrica: - Apparently the RSA peacekeeping mission to Congo not going so Ayoba right now :marseyfacepeel:

https://old.reddit.com/r/DownSouth/comments/1idqqg9/rwanda_vs_south_africa/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78w1ze7v25o

!africans !brics

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Musk should get the wall

Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) 2025-01-31T23:16:36.450Z
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Chad finds a workaround to high drink prices

					
					

>be Jared

>Show up

>Get daydrunk on Founders All Day IPAs

>Piss everywhere in the men's room

>Leave

>Drunk drive a stolen Kia with no plates and 17 parking tickets on the windshield

>Sideswipe a Waymo

Just another day in Ancap Paradise

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[🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘] Men who have rejected a woman before, why was it?

					
					

Most Based Comments

Basedness: 🔥🔥🔘🔘🔘

I have. We were both single so no issues there either. But she was also really drunk and kept sexually assaulting me. Tried to stick her fingers INTO me more than once, grabbed my genitals etc, just generally a lot of unwanted touching in a social situation in a bar with a large group of us.She was very attractive, it was no strings attached, but getting repeatedly sexually assaulted is quite the turn off, even from attractive people. (83)

Just come out the closet buddy. This is a slam dunk for 99.9% of men. (-58)

Basedness: 🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘

She told me that "this is the hand I masterbate with" and wouldn't let go after we shook hands to greet each other. (137)

That's a green flag dude what the frick? (-18)

Basedness: 🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘

She was airheaded, unstable, and egotistical. (212)

Everyone with the valid ones and I got my petty onesgirl looked old in certain lightings one of my friends said "ewww" when someone joked we would make a cute couple, then a bit later actually wanted to be more than friends but that "ewww" always stayed in my mind so I couldn't see her that way anymore girl was really bad with money, taking trips over using the money for important stuffI took a girl to a comedy club (she was black I am not) and the comedian said some funny race jokes our way and she felt offended so I was put offa friend did a bit much pda while dating other guys, so I couldn't shake it off once she was singlea friend talked a bit too much about her sexual history, so I couldn't shake it off once she was singlea girl defended her friend talking during a movie a girl went along with her friend's stupid ideas too often without questioning them (-16)

Angriest Comments

Angriness: 😡😡😡😡😡

We were not compatible, had very little if anything in common, and she stalked me.Others I was not attracted to at all, and they had zero boundaries. The one woman is incredibly self centered, almost narcissistic, goes into massive debt, love and s*x bombs, treats her family horribly, hangs out with hard drug addicts who she should have ended the friendship with decades ago, and just makes very bad life choices like getting pregnant on purpose to illegal immigrants who are using her and their kid for a visa or to try to get citizenship and are deadbeat dads neglecting their kids.Another woman had zero goals or ambitions, dropped out of a university, dropped out of a local community college, smoked and used drugs, could have inherited a highly successful business and ran it but refused, has zero self confidence, got with an abusive ex and then got with a sugar daddy who she drained (pun intended) baby trapped and married this abusive man and feels trapped and they are broke.I also re... (1)

Angriness: 😡😡😡😡😡

One I rejected was, had an instant red flag. We hung out one night but the next day I was sick. I was sick for the next week. We were talking and texting the entire time. Everything seemed normal. Just out of the blue she texted and said if I didn't come over now, I don't care about her. I instantly blocked her without a reply. I was still sick. Another one I rejected had ex, 'trying to commit suicide.' She went over there. She was telling me about it the entire time it was happening and I told her it was not a good idea and that she needed to call the police. If he was willing to hurt himself, there's no telling what he might do to her, I said. She still went, she found herself locked in the bathroom calling me up to get her. I did, but that was the last night I seen her. (1)

Angriness: 😡😡😡😡😡

Pre COVID I used to have women sneak up on me and play with my hair to flirt with me and that's an instant rejection.  It's a crappy person who touches a stranger's afro. (124)

My husband had a fro as a young man, and he also hated that shit. He said it was an easy litmus test; if a woman touched his shit without permission, she was obviously a dumb b-word and he had no interest in anything with her.And before anyone says anything about "dumb b-word", if a man were to walk up and touch any part of me without my permission I would immediately consider him to be a stupid butthole, so I think that's a fair comparison, if we're going to insult people of either gender who do dumb shit. (2)

Biggest Lolcow: /u/Personal_Insect_7590

Score: 🐮🐮🔘🔘🔘

Number of comments: 3

Average angriness: 🔘🔘🔘🔘🔘

Maximum angriness: 😡😡😡😡😡

Minimum angriness: 🔘🔘🔘🔘🔘

NEW: Subscribe to /h/miners to see untapped drama veins, ripe for mining! :marseyminer:

:marppy: autodrama: automating away the jobs of dramneurodivergents. :marseycapitalistmanlet: Ping HeyMoon if there are any problems or you have a suggestion :marseyjamming:

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[🤓🤓🔘🔘🔘] Should I cancel my trip to Canada?

					
					

Most Based Comments

Basedness: 🔥🔥🔥🔘🔘

No-we r bright enough to know he doesn't speak for all Americans 🤷‍♀️ (108)

"r" you really? (-19)

Basedness: 🔥🔥🔥🔘🔘

I hear you, I have cancelled my plans to visit the US and won't be going until maybe 2028. (37)

You did that because USD is 1.43 CAD. Not for ideological reasons, be honest. (-17)

Basedness: 🔥🔥🔥🔘🔘

As long as you're not being an butthole no one up here will care at all (25)

Even if he is, it's not like anyone will do anything about it. We have a lot of butthole new immigrants who face zero consequences. (-15)

Angriest Comments

Angriness: 😡😡😡😡🔘

Bait-y statement to try and prompt emotional responsePrimes reader for anger response and justifies it by calling it righteous. And that "I am, too" seems too formal for the sentence.Prompts for feedback based on two statements that have no relevance to this question. Nor is any actual concern listed.This post screams bot or a troll. (2)

Angriness: 😡😡😡😡🔘

We're kind of in disbelief about the absurdity of American voters and the level of stupidity and maliciousness on full display, but we're also absurd. We can dislike a population without disliking the individuals. You're not going to be harassed just because your country is acting aggressively stupid. (2)

Angriness: 😡😡😡😡🔘

Canadians aren't angry at average Americans. You're our neighbors and closest allies. The issue is with your government disrespecting our politicians and sovereignty, not with the average person. Most people here understand that the general public isn't to blame for this. Unless someone comes in spewing nonsense and supporting a "takeover" of Canada, there's no real problem. You might get the occasional comment about it, but our frustration is directed at your male feminist tyrant, not Americans as a whole. (1)

Biggest Lolcow: /u/TwelveBarProphet

Score: 🐮🔘🔘🔘🔘

Number of comments: 3

Average angriness: 🔘🔘🔘🔘🔘

Maximum angriness: 😡😡🔘🔘🔘

Minimum angriness: 🔘🔘🔘🔘🔘

NEW: Subscribe to /h/miners to see untapped drama veins, ripe for mining! :marseyminer:

:marppy: autodrama: automating away the jobs of dramneurodivergents. :marseycapitalistmanlet: Ping HeyMoon if there are any problems or you have a suggestion :marseyjamming:

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Official rDrama mods statement We are banning the discussion about banning discussions about banning twitter links. Praise the Gods :marseypray:

It has recently come to my attention that we, as a community, are wasting too much time discussing the ban of the discussion about the ban of twitter links. To prevent a dip on drama contracts being carried out and keep the marleycoin economy of the town flowing, all discussion of any kind of ban discussion is banned.

I would love to cast blessing of light on all of you, brothers and sisters, to guide you on your path towards salvation and productivity, unfortunately I am merely a Lv1 Cleric, so I shall save it for the comment that needs me the most.

Thank you so much for your attention. May the Gods bless you all :marsey7o7:


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Current Mana: 150

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Redditors turn out in droves to promise anuddahshoah

					
					

But it's ok because we know how to avoid the cattle cars and delousing now: just say no.

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i8kt6h/comment/m8ujiwp/?context=8

I was actually going to post a large collection of replies to this thread and dives into the profiles of those who posted them but I'm too tired. But here's a pooner with obesity, a drug addiction, and a job at an Amazon warehouse:

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i8kt6h/comment/m8urxfq/?context=8

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:marseyhappening:

					
					

!blueanon !khive

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TRIO OF BABIES IN THE SUN!

:marseyheart: :marseyexcited: :marseyjam: :marseyfluffy: :marseybow:

Going to meet plant friends today! :marseymidsommardani: :lofigirl: :marseyrosepink:

!animalposters !cats

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:#marseyretardchad:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17403744364Qs5r6BstTa7jg.webp

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The Atlanta Journal Constitution laid out some of the findings on Romain's group and their work with a Kremlin-linked official named Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov in a recent report.

From the AJC:

Romain left the group in 2018 and returned to Atlanta to form the Black Hammer Party, which they used to conduct often outlandish protests around the city, including an anti-vaccine protest outside the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the COVID-19 epidemic, and a demonstration with members of the far-right Proud Boys in front of the CNN Center. FBI investigators said Ionov funded a number of Black Hammer activities, including a demonstration at the California headquarters of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, in March 2022 over its policies regarding content about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The Justice Department said that in addition to protesting Meta on Russia's dime, Romain posted Russian propaganda to social media at Ionov's direction and sought Ionov's input on a news release from their organization that condemned President Joe Biden's support for Ukraine.

The other co-conspirators in this case are expected to be sentenced next week.

:marseysaluteussr: Russian election interference status: defeated!

Previous threads:

https://rdrama.net/post/300089/black-hammer-leader-gazi-kodzo-convicted

https://rdrama.net/post/164294/the-honkeys-are-coming-at-black

https://rdrama.net/post/92035/dramatic-black-hammer-cult-leader-found

https://rdrama.net/post/87457/political-prisoner-taken-gazi-kodzo-of

https://rdrama.net/post/45198/trouble-in-paradise-attempted-coup-of

https://rdrama.net/post/42886/the-black-hammer-boys-are-back

https://rdrama.net/post/30105/marseywholesome-black-hammer-proud-boys-form

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Ackshually, transgender vegan murderers are right-wing

					
					
					
	

				
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CBS News admits that they, and other journ*list scum, are the reason Kamala lost

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1735574238m-2igCbDnNLbBw.webp

Veteran CBS News reporter Jan Crawford dinged news organizations for not thoroughly covering President Biden's "obvious cognitive decline" this year until it became unavoidable during his disastrous debate against Donald Trump over the summer.

Crawford, the network's chief legal correspondent, insisted stronger reporting on the topic could have changed the entire election as she responded to a question from "Face the Nation" moderator Major Garrett about the most underreported story in 2024.

"Undercovered and underreported, that would be, to me, Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline that became undeniable in the televised debate," she said on the Sunday morning show.

further reading: https://nypost.com/2024/12/19/us-news/white-house-aides-hid-bidens-apparent-mental-decline-from-day-1-of-his-presidency-explosive-report-reveals/

tldr

Year 1: https://media.tenor.com/GElyvue_13cAAAAx/april-fools-joke.webp

Year 2: https://media.tenor.com/GElyvue_13cAAAAx/april-fools-joke.webp

Year 3: https://media.tenor.com/SjObhZ7tBOYAAAAx/fine-this-is-fine.webp

Year 4: https://media.tenor.com/a1QhvJTQf-kAAAAx/fine-this-is-fine.webp

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:marseydisgustnotes: COMMUNITY NOTED Drumpf :marseytrumpgrill: wants to cut defense :marseytank: budget in half, and work with China :marseyjewoftheorientglow: /Russia :marseyputin: on reducing nuclear :marseymacarthur: arsenals :

Libs ownership status: pwnd :marseysike:

:marseygroomer2: has no threads abput this lol

https://media.tenor.com/LPKfdTALpVcAAAAx/abell46s-no.webp

Edit: as per :marseyunabomber: note

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1iqwbok/defense_stocks_drop_after_trump_says_pentagon/

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1iorzko/defense_stocks_drop_after_trump_says_pentagon/

Community Note by @TedKaczynski

Despite OP's claim that there are no threads about this on Reddit, there are over 17 posts using this specific link.

Source: https://old.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2025%2F02%2F13%2Fdefense-stocks-drop-after-trump-says-defense-spending-could-be-halved.html

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ATTENTION MAGATS :siren: No, Trump Did Not Win in a Landslide—nor Did He Secure a Mandate

					
					

!trump2024 !chuds 5k updoots on /r/politics alone, read it and weep :soyjakanimeglasses:

:marseydetective: Let's check out the crossposts

https://old.reddit.com/r/KamalaHarris/comments/1gpzsdx/no_trump_did_not_win_in_a_landslidenor_did_he/

https://old.reddit.com/r/inthenews/comments/1gq1hhn/no_trump_did_not_win_in_a_landslide_nor_did_he/

https://old.reddit.com/r/sanepolitics/comments/1gpztcg/no_trump_did_not_win_in_a_landslidenor_did_he/

https://old.reddit.com/r/AnythingGoesNews/comments/1gq1o3g/no_trump_did_not_win_in_a_landslide_nor_did_he/

https://old.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/1gq1jsw/no_trump_did_not_win_in_a_landslide_nor_did_he/

DIRECTOR'S CUT BONUS CONTENT :marseyneat:

Here's a hugely engaged pre-election SRD smug thread!

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1encse3/kamala_harris_recorded_leading_trump_in_polls/

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1encse3/comment/lh5aww2/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1encse3/comment/lh5uw1k/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1encse3/comment/lh6b2xm/?context=8

Remember when DARK BRANDON embarrassed rightoids lol when will they learn

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1encse3/comment/lh9brgg/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1encse3/comment/lh5qb8n/?context=8

Ctrl-f "weird" in this thread and take a shot every three instances of a srdine gushing about what an epic own it was and you'll still die of alcohol poisoning

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1encse3/comment/lh749ks/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1encse3/comment/lh64yi5/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1encse3/comment/lh6fd0f/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1encse3/comment/lh9o1vo/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1encse3/comment/lh5cfro/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1encse3/comment/lh60cry/?context=8

Anyway back to the waxing smugological

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1encse3/comment/lh62ee3/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1encse3/comment/lh7mprd/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1encse3/comment/lh64q40/?context=8

This ran far afield of the original purpose but that SRD thread is a treasure. Have a scroll! Use crosstalk!

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Protip: some girls will do anything if you tell them it's for social media clout

For the next three months, they remained in contact, before she said the groom invited her to a "white party" in Sydney in December, the court heard. She said after arriving at the venue she was "shocked" to learn the man had "organised a wedding".

The bride said she became uncomfortable and wanted to leave, but the groom told her "it was a simple prank".

"He told me that he's organising a prank wedding for his social media. To be precise, Instagram, because he wants to boost his content and wants to start monetising his Instagram page."

In court, footage of the ceremony was played, showing the couple exchanging vows and rings.

While the bride appeared to "enthusiastically" participate in the ceremony, she told the court it was "all an act".

"We had to act to make it look real," she said.

She said she only discovered the "sham" wedding was legal after he asked her to add his name to her application for permanent residency. She said the groom told her he was not a permanent resident and he had "organised the marriage to help him".

But the groom – who has 17,000 followers on Instagram but denied he was a social media influencer – disputed her version of events.

He testified that immediately after they met, he had told her he was bisexual, and that she was "cool with it" and moved into his home.

>bby I'm a bisexual illegal immigrant but I am NOT an influencer :marseyraging:

"Precisely why she would participate in a civil marriage and not in a church marriage ceremony went unexplored. It made no sense to me that she would."

Stupid boomer judge, she did it for the 'gram!

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This is not unusual, I personally know more than one person who made low 8 figures.

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USAID is funding Internews Network which is controlling Reddit : conspiracy

					
					

https://media.tenor.com/d-CLcpHUYQgAAAAx/conspiracy-theory.webp


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USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has "worked with" 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training" over 9000 journ*lists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.

The operation claims "offices" in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN.

Bourgault's IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at . Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.

IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN's budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows)

4,921 media outlets

You ever wonder why sometimes when you seach for things you get 75 small bull shit news articles making it impossible to find what you are looking for

That was a design, not a bug

"Internews launches new $10M fund supporting independent media at 2023 Clinton Global Initiative"

https://instagram.com/p/C6glYyqrWpl/

USAID-funded Internews went from funding media organizations with George Soros to overthrow governments in Eastern Europe to calling for advertising boycotts to censor free speech online.

This is a textbook example of U.S. regime change tactics being redirected against domestic populism and American citizens.

In the 1990s, Internews partnered with the Soros Foundation to fund media organizations in post-Soviet nations, playing a pivotal role in the color revolutions of the 2000s in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine.

During Georgia's Rose Revolution, Internews funded and trained journ*lists at Rustavi-2 TV, the leading channel driving the uprising.

"Media was very good at informing the public about what was going on, and it had a huge role in calling people onto the streets." – Marc Behrendt, former Internews director for Georgia

By 2003, in Ukraine, Internews had conducted 220 media training programs, trained over 2,800 journ*lists, and produced more than 220 television and 1,000 radio programs. It also funded Telekritika, an online outlet that played a central role in the 2004 Orange Revolution.

After Brexit and Donald Trump's election in 2016, Internews—now working with the USAID-funded World Economic Forum (WEF)—shifted its focus to pushing advertising boycotts to suppress online dissent.

What was once a U.S.-funded operation to overthrow foreign regimes is now being used to silence American citizens and dismantle Trump's populist MAGA movement.

The Price Tag?

USAID has funneled over $470 million in taxpayer dollars into Internews.

More connections coming from Mike Benz, previously on Joe Rogan Podcast

I can tell you where the bodies are buried here. Beyond funding a parallel Mockingbird Media propaganda army of US state-sponsored journ*lists and media outlets, USAGM plays a major role in the censorship industry through something called the OTF, the Open Technology Fund.

Connection to Reddit

Anna Soellner, a Director at Internews Network, also serves as the VP of Communications at Reddit


https://media.tenor.com/q7F4uKAz_ZQAAAAx/alex-jones-shocked.webp

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