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So many white knights in here perpetuating princess behaviour.Reason already flew out the door when she decided to pack irresponsibly, and now some people are saying she shouldn't be held accountable for her actions and the man has to pick up after her because she's sulking.Giving in is how you make the rest of your life with her miserable FOR YOU. (56)

Exactly, on the part of OP:Shut up and stop being a petulant child. (-25)

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Oh look, another one.A gentleman would help a lady carry her bags.She'd have to be a lady to deserve it. (22)

If you think "saying 'partners should help each other'" is white-knighting and "getting a 'win' over your wife/girlfriend because reddit thinks it's cool" is the correct approach, you deserve all of the unhappiness which ever comes your way. (-11)

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No.You told her not to overpack, and she ignored you. And because her suitcase is heavy, it suddenly becomes your problem.Naturally, her solution is to sulk like a petulant child.Women demand equality until it's inconvenient for them. (48)

Some* women. Not all of us! (-17)

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I'm sorry for your pain, but anger doesn't seem like the right response. In the end, in this equation, the common denominator seems to be you. Maybe change your attitude, so people are comfortable around you. You scare the shit out of me and I don't even know what you are like in person. I wouldn't want to know. (2)

Exactly he scared me too. He seems to have an extreme hate against women. And his reasoning is that women hate him or use him or won't choose him. Hmm I wonder why they won't choose him?I'm single too. I can admit I have my own faults. I haven't found the right person yet and I'm 28. But I've learned from every relationship & I've never taken my hurt out on 50% of the population simply because they share the same chromosomes as someone who hurt me. He is very, very angry and that level of anger is terrifying. He reminds me of this guy I went on a date with who was really pressuring me into s*x and getting incredibly angry with me that I wouldn't and started calling me absolutley vile shit. Like just so incredibly full of anger towards women not giving them what they want. (2)

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Just this week a post from askwomenover40 showed up on my feed.The woman was asking why a man she dated 20yrs ago would contact her. She said she checked his fb account and he was recently divorced. The lovely ladies of Reddit, in their infinite wisdom, said it's because he wants to frick her. I didn't read all the comments but the top rated comments said just that. Me, being a man over forty, having real, actual insight as to what a man over 40 might think commented. My comment was basically this, "I don't know the circumstances of your break up 20yrs ago, but it's possible he liked you then and figures he might like you now. Now that he's single he might be interested in a relationship with you. Or, he might want to frick you. There is only one way to find out."My comment was removed and I was banned. I received a message from the mods that it was a women only sub and "males"(that's right "males") are not allowed to participate. I had no idea that was a thing. Women constantly comme... (1)

That's pretty shitty. I'm not in that sub. I actually don't know why this one showed up on my feed, but I was initially enjoying the fact that everyone was nice, for the most part, and gave me hope that the awful hatefulness on both sides over the past several months was possibly easing off. The problem is that on both sides, the hateful, angry people are the loudest. So, people automatically expect the worst and assume disrespect or whatever from every statement. Then you get folks using these sweeping generalizations about "all women" or "all men," which just make people even more defensive, and the spiral continues. The thing about that is that it only punishes the angry person because they just have all this angst building up and nothing to do with it besides throw it at other people. That makes them less personable and more likely to encounter people calling them names, further perpetuating the spiral. I'm purposely using spiral rather than cycle because it's bringing us as h... (0)

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YTA. I'm not huge on gender roles, but the one thing you do as a man is carry heavy shit. Y also TA for trying to tell her how to pack. This is her vacation too. It's insane to ruin your vacation over this, and of all the things to concern yourself over in a relationship, this is not it.I've seen a lot of bad advice in this sub, and all the people in here saying NTA might be the worst advice I've seen yet. Carrying heavy shit is the easiest brownie points you can get in a relationship. Just do it. (7)

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1) I have a lot of sympathy for gov’t employees: I, too, have not checked my email for the past few (hundred) days

And I can confirm that being unemployed is a lot less relaxing than it looks

— SBF (@SBF_FTX) February 25, 2025

Chud replies with facts and logic and gets downmarseyd into oblivion

https://old.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/1hxarvc/genuinely_curious_why_this_even_needed_to_be_asked/

It's over Ukroids

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 20, 2025

January 1st, 1:30am. I text her "happy new year A". She leaves it on read, then at 11pm, almost 24 hours later she replies back, "happy new year [my name] !!". I only saw it after mysteriously waking up at exactly 3am. Life felt so good for a moment there. Watched the sunrise, listened to the birds singing, etc etc. We haven't talked in a while so it was definetly a surprise for her.

I'm not texting her ever again unless she does it first which is unlikely. Though I can't help but wonder why she decided to respond and why I woke up at exactly 3 o'clock.

Congratulations to the new Director of the FBI, @Kash_Patel! pic.twitter.com/JsANV0s9cP

— Dan Scavino (@Scavino47) February 20, 2025

recovered edgelords and others that almost fell down the rightoid pipeline, how did you escape it? Im curious

— ·ᛚᛐⲁ𝚌𝚑𝚒·ᛚᛐ𝚘𝚛𝚒· (@MachiToons) January 28, 2025

i actually talked and listened to girls

— space cadet🐝 (@neurodivergentastronaut) January 29, 2025

Funnily enough I joined the army and it changed my views on everything, now I’m a non-binary hoe

— GEHRMY (@Gehrman1987) January 29, 2025

'transed by the military' kinda goes hard as a backstory i wont lie....

— ·ᛚᛐⲁ𝚌𝚑𝚒·ᛚᛐ𝚘𝚛𝚒· (@MachiToons) January 29, 2025

i watched filthyfrank, idubbbz, pewdiepie, etc and never fell down any sort of right pipeline, which is weird cause ive seen a lot of ppl say theyre like “babys first right content”

— skibidi potty no egg 🍋🎰 (@honkedspleen) January 29, 2025

filthyfrank is one of those great satirical characters imo
too many dumbfricks laughed -with- this intentionally vile creature than -at- him like intended, which is why...

— ·ᛚᛐⲁ𝚌𝚑𝚒·ᛚᛐ𝚘𝚛𝚒· (@MachiToons) January 29, 2025

amazing friendship with trans man

— Zariah (@Zariahcat) January 28, 2025

Lmao imagine getting radicalized by Ben Shapiro tho:

My high school biology teacher explained how s*x and gender are different and I was like “oh that makes sense”

— Kasey 🚬🦈 (@sodastoque) January 29, 2025

my high school biology teacher once said "i have nothing against gays but i find it unnatural" (germany, btw)
lucky you lol

— ·ᛚᛐⲁ𝚌𝚑𝚒·ᛚᛐ𝚘𝚛𝚒· (@MachiToons) January 29, 2025

High school biology education is so often really failing the students. We need biology teachers to at least make one class to talk purely about how almost nothing is binary and about how beautifully messy biology is 😔

— Seviel (@Sumeru_Sevi) January 30, 2025

Thought everyone was joking, one day realized not everyone was

— Bored_FritzYT (@BoredFritz) January 29, 2025

You're a sp00k enabler. Should have fallen down the rightoid pipeline. You love sp00ks and you ought not to. Sp00ks don't like you - the rightoids are a bulwark against said sp00ks. Sp00ks will not show you the same respect you show them. Sp00ks will do sp00k things

— Orange_DYE (@OrangeDYE2) January 30, 2025

I'm actively fighting against falling down the pipeline so I occasionally say things that some people might find "edgy".

It's mainly because I tend to lean to the economic right, but for social issues I support progressivism.

— SpaceWalker (@SpaceWalkerReal) January 29, 2025

i think that a country that has to pay taxes and calls itself the "richest on earth" should also get something in return for said wealth, things that benefit everyone, like a functional public transport system and medicine, things declared as "radical, socialist" in the US

— ·ᛚᛐⲁ𝚌𝚑𝚒·ᛚᛐ𝚘𝚛𝚒· (@MachiToons) January 29, 2025

I started working full-time and didn't have enough time to watch hours and hours of youtube essays. So I just slowly drifted away from that ideology. I'm so glad I got out before TikTok was a thing because I know I would be cooked

— Culti (@CultiZk) January 29, 2025

I escaped it by going to college. Leaving my small town and actually experiencing life and other people from different backgrounds, I understood that empathy is better than being making edgy jokes. Getting to meet other people who are different from you teaches so much

— Sycamore’s Source (@sycamoressource) January 30, 2025

In high school the only kids who were kind to me were queer kids. So I started sitting at their table. I had already been repressing my own trans side for years and being around them let me break free and be more of myself.

— FemboyFishing🏳️‍⚧️🎣 (@FemboyYt) January 29, 2025

https://x.com/hontologies/status/1884807384805060618

I fell down the Anti-SJW pipeline cause of a bunch of YouTubers. I climbed out of after I found myself disagreeing with them more and more and hearing them just get meaner and more extreme over time until eventually I just kinda went "why tf am I watching this?"

— Zestful Maple (He, Him) 🏳️‍🌈 (@ZestfulM) January 29, 2025

I was very anti-woke starting in like 2013, 2014. It seemed illiberal, unfair, and anti-meritocratic. I never went full Trump but I certainly was anti-left.

I think some combination of AI progress, the political pendulum swinging, and a better understanding of how power is…

— noah (@nkreu113r) January 30, 2025

started seeing my mom differently in the eyes of mgtow and it hit me like a truck that i’m following something sinister

— str_br (@Teller038) January 29, 2025

!nonchuds

Adding drama......

Yes

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1hewgwy/a_guy_in_rnicegirls_posts_a_text_exchange_with_a/m270s2h/?context=8

NiceGirls unlike niceguys is an incel sub full of fake texts

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1hewgwy/a_guy_in_rnicegirls_posts_a_text_exchange_with_a/m26t2h8/?context=8

Read what I posted again. If you can't parse the difference between women posting about creeps and guys just being misogynists, then I don't know how to help you.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1hewgwy/a_guy_in_rnicegirls_posts_a_text_exchange_with_a/m26uphb/?context=8

I don't think she is all that crazy, if it's real. "She rejected him because he only listens to white musicians" is pretty disingenuous. She rejected him because of several incompatibilities, and she perceived in him an ability to become abusive.. which he proved correct.

He asked for the reason he was rejected, and instead of introspecting on it a bit he jumped to insulting her and then sought validation for it on Reddit of all places. She was right. Guys a walking red flag. Again, if it's real.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1hewgwy/a_guy_in_rnicegirls_posts_a_text_exchange_with_a/m26zzwc/?context=8

Half the stuff posted there is just women being peepees, too. There's no 'nice' about it. A 'nice guy' is a man who's a huge peepee despite claiming he's 'one of the good ones', but there's not really a widespread female equivalent so most of that sub is just making shit up lol

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1hewgwy/a_guy_in_rnicegirls_posts_a_text_exchange_with_a/m26xwop/?context=8

I'm convinced 90% of the people who circle jerk here are women who can't admit some women are crazy, so their losing it mentally.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1hewgwy/a_guy_in_rnicegirls_posts_a_text_exchange_with_a/m273nco/?context=8

She dodged a bullet

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1hewgwy/a_guy_in_rnicegirls_posts_a_text_exchange_with_a/m26vjeb/?context=8

I saw this post and had the same thought as the comments saying, "don't ask questions you don't want to hear the answer to." She's allowed to reject him, even if he doesn't agree with the reason. She doesn't owe him anything.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1hewgwy/a_guy_in_rnicegirls_posts_a_text_exchange_with_a/m26vkvj/?context=8

Fake stuff is fake. Just a sub for women haters to make up stuff to hate women more.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1hewgwy/a_guy_in_rnicegirls_posts_a_text_exchange_with_a/m26w086/?context=8

He probably is. No non-racist has only white guys in their playlist

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1hewgwy/a_guy_in_rnicegirls_posts_a_text_exchange_with_a/m270ohr/?context=8

I'm struggling to see what exactly OOP did wrong here

He racist and posted DMS where a woman is acting stupid

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1hewgwy/a_guy_in_rnicegirls_posts_a_text_exchange_with_a/m26trb6/?context=8

Appearing in court virtually from his Mar-a-Lago home Friday, President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced for his crimes in the New York "hush money" case, to unconditional discharge for his 34 felony counts, released with no restrictions. Justice Juan Merchan had earlier indicated that he was inclined to give Trump unconditional discharge, a sentence that includes neither jail time nor any other restriction that might impede Trump after his inauguration on Jan. 20.

🚨🚨🚨 DEMOCRATS ON SUICIDE WATCH 🚨🚨🚨

thats it thats the post. didnt get a pic cause i was too shocked

Great news for neurodivergent zombie game enjoyers - after like 3 years the new unstable build was finally released today. I'm sad because I keep getting black screens on game start which freeze my computer (seems to be a common problem I later learned), so I decided to check out the subreddit to see if anyone else is having the same issue. No joke there are dozens of threads of just over the 3 new loading screens. The mods are censoring most of the sneeding but you can see more and more threads on new for a few mins before they get nuked. Apparently the indie store groomercord is going ballistic too and there are "people" posting massive essays of schitzo shit over the AI slop. They are SO mad at anyone that disagrees with them. Supposedly this is the same artist that did the main menu art in 2011 which is kind of weird.

https://old.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/1hgs1q6/blatant_use_of_ai/

https://old.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/1hgtg7h/yall_are_all_missing_the_forest_for_the_trees

https://old.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/1hgn14t/the_main_menu_and_loading_screen_art_were_not/

https://old.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/1hgspq1/the_new_splash_screens_use_ai_i_am_a_professional/

https://old.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/1hgnzwb/every_loading_screen_from_build_42_and_the_new/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/1hgv529/the_art_is_busted_this_is_level_of_crappy_mobile/

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Isolating U.S. companies from cartel activities could be almost impossible given that the criminal groups operate in sectors like agriculture and tourism, leaving some American businesses vulnerable to sanctions.

>Offerings of flowers, candles, photos and dollar bills at a shrine to Jesús Malverde, a "narco-saint," in Culiacán, Mexico, the stronghold of the Sinaloa cartel. ^{Credit: Meridith Kohut for The New York Times<s/up>}

President Trump's executive order designating Mexican cartels and other criminal organizations as foreign terrorists could force some American companies to forgo doing business in Mexico rather than risk U.S. sanctions, according to former government officials and analysts — an outcome that could have a major effect on both countries given their deep economic interdependence.

The executive order, which Mr. Trump signed on Monday, is intended to apply maximum pressure on Mexico to rein in its dangerous drug trade. The designation, more generally, also gives his administration more power to impose economic penalties and travel restrictions, and potentially even to take military action in foreign countries.

Yet, disentangling cartel operations from U.S. interests in Mexico could be immensely complicated. Mexico is the United States' largest trade partner of goods, and many American companies have manufacturing operations there.

Even more complicated, these criminal networks have extended their operations far beyond drug trafficking and human smuggling. They are now embedded in a wide swath of the legal economy, from avocado farming to the country's billion-dollar tourism industry, making it hard to be absolutely sure that American companies are isolated from cartel activities.

"This has come up in previous administrations across the political spectrum and from members of Congress who have wanted to do it," said Samantha Sultoon, a senior adviser on sanctions policy and threat finance in the Trump and Biden administrations.

"But no one has done it because they have looked at what the implications would be on trade, economic and financial relationships between Mexico and the United States," she added. "They have all come away thinking that such a designation would actually be super shortsighted and ill-considered, though prior administrations viewed the U.S.-Mexico relationship far differently than the incoming Trump administration appears to."

The foreign terrorist designation could lead to severe penalties — including substantial fines, asset seizures and criminal charges — on companies and individuals found to be paying ransom or extortion payments. U.S. companies could also be ensnared by standard payments made to Mexican companies that a cartel controls without the American companies' knowledge.

Some extortion payments, even if made under duress, could be considered "material support" to cartels, said Pablo Zárate, senior managing director at FTI Consulting, an American firm that released a report laying out some of the risks of the terrorist designation.

Former U.S. officials and analysts pointed out that it would be nearly impossible to identify which business may employ or be affiliated with cartel members given the tens of thousands of people involved and operating in various industries, including the hotel and agriculture sectors. Cartels use the legal economy to launder money, which could mean that unwitting employees working at a resort or an avocado packing company could technically be on the cartel payroll but not know it.

As a result, companies in the risk-averse American financial sector may simply refuse to wire money to a Mexican factory, for example, to facilitate cross-border production and trade, or to wire money between personal accounts.

"Banks may turn away customers, because they may not think they are worth the risk if they have links to Mexico," said Eric Jacobstein, a former State Department official in the Biden administration.

Banks could ultimately decide to avoid entire sectors perceived as high risk, said Fabian Teichmann, a Swiss lawyer and expert on terrorist financing. Mr. Teichmann singled out Mexico's avocado trade, where cartels have drastically expanded their operations, as one area that could come under greater scrutiny.

"Banks might say, 'We don't want to be anywhere close to those who are considered to be terrorists, so we want to avoid that risk,'" Mr. Teichmann said. "From a banking perspective, that will be a very reasonable decision."

Other types of financial institutions that facilitate payments between the United States and Mexico could also be affected, such as Venmo or PayPal, which Mr. Trump's close confidant Elon Musk helped found.

The terrorist label could also push big parts of Mexico's economy further into the shadows, where cash is used instead of electronically traceable transactions, making it harder for investigators to examine the cartels' financial structures, Mr. Teichmann said.

"If people can't bank legitimately, they escape to so-called underground banking systems," Mr. Teichmann said.

In 2024, the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico surveyed 218 companies and found that 12 percent of respondents said that "organized crime has taken partial control of the sales, distribution and/or pricing of their goods."

The multinational banana producer Chiquita Brands was found liable in 2024 for killings by a Colombian right-wing paramilitary group that was designated as a terrorist organization. Chiquita Brands said that it had been extorted by the paramilitary group and forced to make payments to protect its Colombian employees. Plaintiffs, however, argued that the company had paid the paramilitary group to run out residents to buy land at depressed values.

The terrorist designation would also hurt American companies that are firmly north of the border but rely on Mexican labor. The designation is so broad and vague that ranches in Texas or farms in California could be swept up by the penalties if their employees send remittances to family members in Mexico who are involved in organized crime.

If money transfer companies like Western Union also stop transactions to Mexico over worries about properly vetting Mexican clients, it could affect the remittances the country relies on. That would be devastating for the Mexican economy, which received $63.3 billion in remittances in 2023, nearly 5 percent of the country's gross domestic product.

waow

The foreign terrorist designation could also pave the way for the United States to deploy forces inside Mexico against criminal organizations without the Mexican government's consent, as it did in Afghanistan and Syria.

But Afghanistan was occupied by the United States, and Syria's government lost control over much of its territory in recent years. That gave Washington some cover under international law for the American military to deploy troops and launch special-forces operations to kill or capture terrorist leaders in those countries.

Mexico, however, has built up cooperation with the United States for over 30 years to counter the cartels. Mexico could threaten to halt cooperation if the United States is seen to be violating Mexico's sovereignty. When the U.S. federal prosecutors office arrested Mexico's former defense secretary during Mr. Trump's first administration, the Mexican government halted all cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

"Unilateral action would be catastrophic," said Craig Deare, a former U.S. military attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico in the 1990s.

>A fentanyl cook for the Sinaloa cartel at work last month

>A fentanyl cook for the Sinaloa cartel at work last month

>A fentanyl cook for the Sinaloa cartel at work last month

>Meridith Kohut for The New York Times

"It would dismantle any collaboration and decades of Republican and Democratic efforts to build a defense relationship with Mexico," he said, adding, "If you don't like cooperation now, wait until Mexico cuts all ties."

On Tuesday, President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico issued a stern warning to Mr. Trump during her daily news conference. "We will always defend our sovereignty," Ms. Sheinbaum said. "We all want to fight the drug cartels, that is obvious. So what should we do? We have to coordinate efforts; we have to collaborate," she said.

"May they know that the president of the republic will always defend Mexico above all else," the Mexican president added.

A correction was made on Jan. 22, 2025: An earlier version of this article misidentified the organization that conducted a survey of 218 companies. It was the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico, not the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.