It's time to wake up America

https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1ity7y2/last_night_trump_quietly_fired_all_the_head/

Visited Vietnam during the lunar new year and spent around $750 on lucky money . At first I was grumpy that I was expected to spend so much on people I don't know, but it made everyone so happy to get it. I started giving out notes to random people who still had to work during the holiday and felt like some rich philanthropist helping the working class. Next time I'll bring a ton and larp as saint helping the poor.

I was also wearing one of these for the festival, it's called an ao dai. People were staring at me a lot and talking about me behind my back. I don't know much vietnamese but I know the word for 'handsome man' . My wife said I can't live in vietnam because my ego will get too big. She is correct.

Also spotted some marseys! Our taxi driver had a bunch of these on his dash.

The festival in downtown Saigon was very pretty

All the districts of Saigon built different displays for the festival. I'm not sure if there was a competition, but I'm sure there was some way of voting for the best display. Apparently last year was even more impressive since everyone's favorite year is the year of the dragon.

Some more photos from around town:

This was the first year that fireworks were legal, so everyone went out and bought some. We were on the 30th floor looking towards the landmark building in the city center for "the display" but when the time came, everyone in the city lit off their own fireworks and created the biggest fireworks display I've ever seen, completely unplanned. It was absolutely incredible. There were fireworks across the horizon in all directions. We tried to take a video but it came out crap, so I had to look one up online:

https://instagram.com/reel/DFZvKSXvQOi/

Anyways, Saigon has some very beautiful parts, but when you travel between them you'll see the poor areas, where people are living in mud huts and thatch roofs. There's also the sprawling slums of recycled and rusty corrugated steel roofs. It's still a very pleasant place to visit for tourists. It's also very cheap to live in the nice areas, and pretty much everyone below the age of 40 speaks okay english, and everyone below 30 speaks good english.

I had a great time. It was fun hanging out with the in-laws and if you're a foreigner (white) then you always get amazing service everywhere you go.

A few moderators of the YouTuber named "gerg" have come forward and sent me screenshots of how he acted behind the scenes. More screenshots are below. pic.twitter.com/gyRRr3YIJW

— The Worst of Discord (@WorstDiscord) February 16, 2025

For those who don't know @BussyBoy is a semi famous minecraft youtuber. Recently he came under fire for making fun of a minecraft youtuber who died from cancer and everything has been going downhill for him since then. Just recently a Twitter thread dropped trying to expose his actions on groomercord which I've posted above.

All screenshots from the Twitter post:

This Drama has nothing to do with the Minecraft cancer kid that he made fun of and everything to do with the fact that he acted like a proper r-slur and made his groomercord mod team quit and "leak" these screenshots. A mod also released this statement:

That's a lot of words but basically from what I can tell people were a bit upset about the tweet making fun of the minecraft cancer kid, and got even more upset when he decided to frick up his minecraft server. A screenshot of hin saying the n word leaked and he nuked his groomercord after alienating the rest of his fanbase and mods.

A second mod release this statement:

It's basically nothing new except the fact that @BussyBoy is apparently a shoplifter also.

https://www.motor1.com/news/749660/tesla-sales-results-january-2025/

To explain Tesla's current situation, you can also look at what is happening in California, the largest electric car market in the United States. For years, Elon Musk and Co. dominated the market with ever-increasing numbers. But in 2024 they will see a decline.

In germany there is also a drop by 60% while all EV's sold 50% more. His german market share in new EV cars is now around 5%

https://old.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/1irzp3s/tesla_sales_collapsing_in_europe/

PLAGIARISM DISCLAIMER:

Greetings Dramatards

If any of these exact storybeats ever sound familiar, it's because I plagiarized most/all of it from a longform Afrikaans Calvinist article (which in turn probably plagiarized it from some more famous English sources), which my father had excitedly desired me to read during the 2024 December holidays. The vast majority of the article revolved around a Calvinist introspection about self-deceit, and how History and politics is shaped by how people record and perceive historic events both during and after key happenings. Very long and boring.

But the incredible and exciting part my father wanted to showcase me, was a chapter regarding the infamous Tulip Mania period, which occurred during 1634-1637 in Holland, during the zenith of Dutch colonial and economic power, when the Dutch was by far the most prosperous nation on earth, when taken into account their meagre population and size, due to the astronomical wealth generated by the Dutch, due to the infamous VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) or Dutch East India Company, perhaps one of the wealthiest private enterprises in all of human history.

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During the period, one of history's 1st and most well documented Speculative Bubbles occurred, when seemingly the entire Dutch nation state was beset by a fervent mania from all sectors of society. Rich merchants and poor farmers would buy the new fad, Tulips imported from Turkey & China, at increasingly outrageous sums of money, for the sake of selling these (at the time) rare imported plants, which the Dutch didn't know how to perfectly cultivate, so it wasn't a gaurantee that you could just make more of them once you bought rare tulips for literal prince's ransoms!

These tulips, which at 1st were bought, because they were the showing-off fad for the turbo wealthy new Merchant-class of the state, were then bought for the sake of selling at ever increasingly higher prices, which in turn made the tulip a fad for wealth accruement instead! Eventually, inevitably, as we can all predict, prices eventually went down, which burst the speculative bubble, and the prices went into freefall, and fortunes were wiped out of existence, as these once prince's ransom priced foreign flowers, became......priced at the rate of regular funny and unusual foreign flowers!

SHORT STORY INTRO:

When Tulips arrived in Holland, it was said that the !dutch completely lost their senses. There was an infamous story about a sailor whom had been at sea long enough, to have been completely kept in the dark about Tulip Mania in Holland, and having been out of touch with the latest political/social news of his home country, as many VOC voyages could take literally as much 2 full years to complete! Of course as the Silk sailing routes were established, these timeframes reduced to less than 1 year - but still long enough to be out of tune with the country's latest excapades!

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/or13xl/how_long_did_it_take_a_dutch_merchant_sailing/h6fovy7/?context=8

Anyways, the late 1630s a dutch sailor, whom had just disembarked, had went to the owner of the goods his vessel had transported, to notify him his shit had just arrived. Gratified by this good news, the merchant rewarded the sailor with a breakfast. On the large table on which the merchant had given the sailor his meal, at one end there had laid what looked like a red onion

The sailor took the onion for seasoning on his bread, and GTFO'd out of the merchant's storehouse to go and find a private spot to go eat his meal in peace. Never in his wildest imagination would he think this act would cause him such grievous misery. Just as the sailor had left, the merchant discovered to his horror, that an invaluable imported Augustus tulip bulb was MISSING which at the height of Tulip Mania was worth a whole commercial farm on its own.

The merchant and staff ripped the storehouse asunder in their angst, looking for the missing invaluable Augustus Tulip. Eventually someone remembered the sailor being the most recent stranger in the storehouse, and the goon squad proceeded rake apart the entire port looking for him

They found the hapless, luckless, unfortunate & clueless sailor having already eaten the fricking tulip bulb, and proceeded to try and strangle him alive He was imprisoned for his crime!

CHARLES MACKAY:

This infamous story, about the insanity of the Tulip Mania, comes from a very famous economic writer & journ*list Charles Mackay (27 March 1814 – 24 December 1889). In his magnum opus, the book called "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" he wrote about what he termed "Crowd Psychology" & "National Delusions".

The book consists of a series of short stories about a myriad of events in the past, but the topics are all united in the mass delusion or hysteria of crowds/nation-states, or mass adoption of fads and hysteria by groups of people. The stories covered things like the large scale witch-burnings across europe, the fad and obsession with the fake science of alchemy (turning iron into gold) and hysteria about haunted buildings.

!bookworms The book had become immediately successful, and continued to garner infamy well beyond Charles Mackay's death - he had a strong grasp of engaging storytelling. But the parts of "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" which really REALLY propelled Charles Mackay into infamy, was his chapters about Speculative Bubbles - specifically his 3 chapters of infamous about Speculative Bubbles known before his time.

Each of the 3 chapters revolved around a particulour economic disaster, brought about by lunatics overinvesting or speculating upon companies/stocks/products well WELL beyond their realistically graded values. They were the South Sea Company bubble of 1711–1720, the Mississippi Company bubble of 1719–1720, and of course the famous Dutch tulip mania!

THREE CHAPTERS ECONOMISTS LOOK UP TO:

While the rest of the book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" would be largely forgotten as interesting and entertaining reads for a book from 1840, the 3 chapters on Speculative Bubbles would reach such incredible infamy in the Economists world, that a very large amount of people would reference it historically.

Present-day writers on economics, such as Michael Lewis and Andrew Tobias, lauded the three chapters on economic bubbles.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-19th-century-book-that-helps-us-understand-the-allure--and-perils--of-social-media/2019/04/03/1879def6-5576-11e9-9136-f8e636f1f6df_story.html

====(from the WashingtonPost article)

C.S. Lewis once asked himself if anyone could actually write a story as magical as that title. To me, Charles Mackay's "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" possesses an almost equally evocative power. First published in 1841 and expanded in 1852, it chronicles some of the many varieties of human folly, obsession and self-delusion. Here, in fact, are the deep taproots of the credulity and lemming-like behavior that characterize today's social media.

More recently, economic writers such as Andrew Tobias and Michael Lewis have championed the book. Overall, one might characterize Mackay's work as popular history, conveyed in a tone of ironic, head-shaking amusement.

====(end quote)

Many people unironically considered Tulip Mania as a Classic for Economic History for the longest period. The book is so famous that non-historian economist-Journ*lists cite Mackay whenever there is a recent fraud or Speculative Bubble implosion occurring; like the recent Bitcoin and Shitcoin and NFT Bubble implosion which has dominated headlines in economic forums and newsfeeds, when FTX caused a chain-reaction of wiping out untold millions and billions of wealth out of existence.

https://www.esports.net/news/crypto-tanking-affecting-nft-industry/

https://fastercapital.com/content/Bagholders--From-Riches-to-Rags--The-Plight-of-Shitcoin-Bagholders.html

TULIP MANIA AND CALVINIST PROPAGANDA:

The only problem for this internationally critically acclaimed book about Tulip Mania? It's complete absolute total bullshit, or in the very least heavy propaganda! The short story about the Dutch Sailor mistaking the tulip bulb for an onion? Complete fabrication .

The issue for Mackay wasn't that he was a deliberate liar, but that he had taken his primary sources, which were overwhelmingly Dutch Calvinist propaganda leaflets and articles, at absolute face value. Many good historians go to great lengths to decipher primary sources, written during contemporary times about events, to determine how bias from the authors could fabricate or contaminate their view of events. Mackay literally straight up consumed Dutch Calvinist Propaganda leaflets as they were!

PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS:

So what exactly was the deal with Calvinists? What the heck do they have to do with anything? Well Calvinists were relatively conservative for their contemporary timeframe, and the feared the new era of Holland having accrued so much unthinkable wealth, more than any nation-state before had ever known to have accumulated so fast and in such an incredible short timespan.

They feared and believed that all of this wealth of the Merchant-class was rotting and decaying society. They feared that this new trend of consumerism and speculation on stocks was leading to societal downfall. Dutch society had underwent intense transformation in the past 100 years in that moment in time.

So they had created stories with near-comical carrecatures of people, where the common theme was greed and avarice being the downfall of everyone involved.

FICTION VS BORING REALITY:

According to Charles Mackay, which took the Calvinist Propaganda at face value, the Tulip Mania was so extreme during 1637, that all levels of Dutch society went completely batshit. Other sectors of the economy went neglected, and so much was invested into Tulip Mania, it was as if Holland was expending during a World War time economy! Everybody from nobles, to wealthy merchants, to poor farmhands, were borrowing recklessly to get in upon this wealth craze.

https://hcmwealthadvisors.com/market-insights/picking-tulips-or-market-insights-for-week-ending-aug-9-2019

According to Mackay those left holding the bag were either bankrupt, or even fricking worse - in deep debt!

In the book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" you can read of people losing their minds and selling their most valuable possessions to buy or speculate on a few Tulip bulbs. Mackay gives the example, in his story covering Tulipmania, of one particularly unhinged Dutchman, who exchanges 12 acres of land for ONE fricking Augustus Tulip Bulb!

The reality is much more dull - in fact the scale of the Tulip Mania, may have been completely fricking overblown due to Mackay's book, which has been in the public international consciousness for the past 200 years. No record of even ONE bankruptcy could even be confirmed by Dutch historians as due to Tulipmania, during the period of 1634-1637.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/

====(from Smithsonian)

Here's where the myth comes into play. According to this narrative, everyone from the wealthiest merchants to the poorest chimney sweeps jumped into the tulip fray, buying bulbs at high prices and selling them for even more. Companies formed just to deal with the tulip trade, which reached a fever pitch in late 1636. But by February 1637, the bottom fell out of the market. More and more people defaulted on their agreement to buy the tulips at the prices they'd promised, and the traders who had already made their payments were left in debt or bankrupted.

In fact, "There weren't that many people involved and the economic repercussions were pretty minor," Goldgar says. "I couldn't find anybody that went bankrupt. If there had been really a wholesale destruction of the economy as the myth suggests, that would've been a much harder thing to face."

That's not to say that everything about the story is wrong; merchants really did engage in a frantic tulip trade, and they paid incredibly high prices for some bulbs. And when a number of buyers announced they couldn't pay the high price previously agreed upon, the market did fall apart and cause a small crisis—but only because it undermined social expectations.

====(end quote)

In fact only a small fraction of Dutch society even partook in the Tulipmania, and usually only the upper-middle rich Merchant classes. Less than 5% of the whole population even bought a tulip at any point, and when the bubble burst, those whom lost money were those least vulnerable from bankruptcy. While losing half your wealth is a serious hit, these Dutch merchants were so filthy stinking rich by the mid 1640s, they literally didn't care!

Additionally, the reality was that most dutch Merchant-class bought tulips as a show of wealth, it was a demonstration of their cosmopolitan and urbane manner to show off amongst all of their straggy rich merchant friends. The majority of Tulip buyers and speculators never even expected to make money, it was like wealthy influencers and Hollyweird freaks buying branded crap like Nike shoes or Rolex watches to show off their wealth.

IN FACT, there exists something called the law of Veblen Goods, where things become sought after BECAUSE they are morbidly expensive, because they are literal "show-off" goods! (Rolexes, Ferari, ect)

Which is what some economists believe is likely what actually happened, rather than a true Speculative Bubble like Bitcoin and Shitcoin. Or even the other 2 Speculative Bubbles which Mackay included in his book, which were much closer in reality to nation wealth destroying events.

This doesn't mean that Tulipmania DIDN'T happen, or that many peeps lost wealth, but it has been vastly overstated, in large part BECAUSE of Mackay's book.

THE REAL DRAMA REGARDING CHARLES MACKAY!

Now the 2nd point of drama for Charles Mackay in recent times is the fact that despite his incredible infamy about his internationally successful book regarding mass mania and hysteria and fad following by crowds, and especially his famous chapters regarding Speculative insanity, was that he HIMSELF was likely a turbo midwit fool who fell head over heels for a Speculative Bubble in his own contemporary times, during which he lived!!!

Mackay was a popular economic newspaper columnist in 1841 when he wrote the book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds". And what's incredible is that not even one mention is made about what is likely THE most economically destructive Speculative Bubble in all of recorded human history so far, and which vastly outstrips the scale of even large bubbles like Shitcoin and even frauds like Enron and the Theranos fraud, which eviscerated billions and billions of wealth into nothingness.

Mackay our expert in Speculative Bubbles not only lived through the 1840s Britain Railway Mania, which destroyed wealth on an unfathomable scale, but never so much as makes a fricking peep about them!

1840s RAILWAY MANIA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania

By the time the 1840s had arrived, Bongland was at the height of its colonial power, and industrialization. And Bongland was leading European states in terms of industrializing its entire society and economy with new fabulous technologies. The most significant was the Railway and Train. A transport technology which completely terraformed society to the same degree as radio or the internet had done during their respective timeframes.

People understood how significant the wide adoption of Railroads were becoming, and the technological improvements to the steam engine continued every consecutive year. Entrepreneurs flocked to Railroad and Transport companies, as they correctly predicted that Railways would quite literally trailblaze the economy of britain and her colonies. The issue, is that they vastly, VASTLY overpredicted the actual economic output and influence railways & trains would have upon Bongland's economy, well beyond human reason.

https://www.focus-economics.com/blog/railway-mania-the-largest-speculative-bubble-you-never-heard-of/

====(from Focus article)

By the mid-1840s, the economy was improving and the manufacturing industries were once again growing. The Bank of England cut interest rates, making government bonds less attractive investments, and existing railway companies' shares began to boom as they moved ever-increasing amounts of cargo and people, making people willing to invest in new railways.

And at its peak, railway investment—which lagged a few years behind planning applications—surged to 7% of GDP, representing half of total investment in the economy at the time.

====(end quote)

But even MORE INSANE about our boi Mackay wasn't just that he DIDN'T foresee the Speculative Bubble of the 1840s Railway Mania, despite his book on Mass Hysterias, or that he cheerled the overspending on Speculating on Railroad bonds for his fricking readers whom trusted him implicitly in his articles for the Glasgow Argus, BECAUSE of his fame for the book of the book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", instead THIS MOTHERLOVER was even on the fringes of the extreme end in terms of being a nutjob Speculator for the Railroad bond market!!!!!!!!

The short story was that Britain is a relatively small island(s) and there just wasn't enough villages, cities, ports or key-points to connect via railway to make economic return upon such gratuitous overinvestment. These railroad companies would build connections between big cities and tiny Bongistan villages of like 50 people, which as you can well imagine, didn't exactly accrue trade to the scope of London to Paris.........

Just like modern China now finding out that they have likely overspent on infrastructure, where tiny villages have been connected to Beijing via 6-lane superhighways. When inevitably the grotesque overspending did not yield appropriate economic activity return from laying Railways across every square-meter of the entire fricking British Isles, the usual Bubble tanking underwent the usual market bottom falling routine.

An unlike the Tulip Mania, the Railroad mania DID influence the entirety of Bonland's economy and social fabric. Rich AND poor people alike invested recklessly, many upon fricking Mackay's advice, and many faced bankruptcy, and worse massive debt

https://ritholtz.com/2015/06/crisis-chronicles-railway-mania-the-hungry-forties-and-the-commercial-crisis-of-1847/

IN FACT, just to demonstrate how badly people got burned from the 1847 Railroad Mania crash, there was something called Company Scrips. Where for example you paid only 5$ for a Scrip in a 100$ share, and if the 100$ share doubled its value into 200$, you just made 100$ from 5 bucks Unfortunately for all the hapless midwits who bought into this terrible scheme, Scrips worked fricking BOTH ways. Many peeps put themselves into absurd debt for just fricking 5 bucks!

And uh that's about it for this incredible story, hopefully this story was as interesting for you guys as well!

!dutch !christians !calvinists !catholics !effortposters

Fiance and I were trying to get married in house and to have a court ceremony and a judge asked us for a 75$ donation fee if he were to perform it. Is this a thing? This hasn't sat right with me.

He asked over the phone and specifically didn't put it in writing which sounds sketchy. He said cash only and even said there's a machine in the courthouse if anything.

This user is active Vanderpump Rules & the "It Ends With Us" lawsuit subreddits

Some users take time out of their busy schedule of non-posting about a pathetic "Anti-Project 2025 protest" to reply

It's a thing. Do you expect people to give their time to you for free? What part doesn't sit right?

When a judge is taking bribes and donations yes it's wrong and illegal. If they're willing to break the law for that what else are they capable of. We expect judges to uphold the law, not break them when it's convenient.

Oh my sweet summer child

That's adorable you think you are getting asked for a bribe.

No he said donation, which I wrote right in that sentence. Reread it

Reread your own comment, you say bribe, not donation. Its right there.

You asked a question in your post. But then when others don't validate your opinion you argue and have all the answers. Again, it's a thing and many judges do it. Maybe get married on a boat then?

It was a question but they insinuated job title didn't matter.

I beleive Judges can perform weddings but it's not in their capacity as an elected judge.

I don't mean performing a wedding, I mean standing in the courthouse and saying I do after paying.

They are performing a wedding. Vows will be read, and if you have rings they will ask if you want to exchange those.

That's nuts, he needs to be reported. The list of allowable gifts for public servants is very short, and "tipping for service" is absolutely not one of them....

Idaho attorney here. That is strange. Judges cannot solicit for any fee or gift that adds to their salary--and there is no exception for weddings even if it were performed outside the courthouse.

the absolute state of Idaho "attorneys"

That being said, judges can receive donations to either their campaign or via unsolicited donation that they then pay a $5 fee to record with the state treasurer.

It is customary to contribute to the church of whatever pastor is marrying you. So, in this case, I suppose the judge is trying to nudge you to contribute here. It is improper and bad form, but I think he is trying to remind people of customs. In any case, you can report it to the Idaho State Bar. While I don't think it will get the judge removed, it would be helpful to have an attorney give the judge a reminder of what is allowed.

he's trying to get you to donate to his church REPORT HIM to the ethics board!

Octavian always knew he was going to have to deal with Antony. https://t.co/AbGqbfQ3Ie

— Jim Pacific (@pacificjimmy) January 20, 2025

https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fmikef141.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3liidpgwxnc22

They're still Redditors lol

Also I'm not sure if anyone posted this on here, but Kanye paid millions for a Super Bowl ad in the LA market where he was shilling his clothing brand, and the only item they sell is the swastika shirt.

https://yeezy.com/

@Kongvann i found some chud nonsense

!chuds !nonchuds

Wtf ís thís ? Hоmо hаd 3 уеаřs tо sеnd hís 10k tо khоhоļstаn аnd hе рřеtеnds hе ís řеаdу tо sеnd ít nоw

Thеn thоsе hоmоs wíļļ tеļļ tо аnуоnе whо dаřеs tо quеstíоn thеm thаt thеу аrе bоts

Wíth 700 bíļļíоns уоu саn buу аļmоst аļļ f35 аnd thоsе аřе thе mоst еxреnsívе míļítаrу jnuk sо rеаļístíсаļļу ЕU wоnt bе еvеn аbļе tо sреnd thаt mоnеу, ЕU саnt рrоduсе 1 míļļíоn shеļļs аnd thаt ís jsut 8 bíļļíоn bxux sо сļеаrļу thе gоаļ ís tо stеаļ thаt mоnеу just ļíkе Ursuļа hаs stоļеn соvíd vаxx mоnеу

Tаxxx thе říсh

Thоsе hоmоs аļsо míss ímроrtаnt роínts fírst, оnļу ļíkе 7 ЕU соuntříеs hаvе аvеrаgе nеt sаļаrу оf 1600 оr mоrе еuřо

Аnd рríntíng thоsе mоnеу wíļļ shrínk thе есоnоmу. Ιts sо роеtíс thаt ЕU wаnts tо kíļļ ít sеļf fоr рооrеst соuntrу ín еurоре wíth 23 míļļíоns

But сhаnсеs аrе thе рļаn wíļļ fаíļ sínсе mаnу соuntříеs bаíļíng оut ínсļudíng Роļаnd

https://instagram.com/reel/DGGOxSuoYdj/

Сhínа ís buуíng Gеrmаnу bесаusе thеу hаvе nо еnеrgу аnd hоmо thínks EU can run a lot new factories

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1isatxb/ditch_the_warm_words_time_to_deploy_british/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1is17xw/f_trump_and_his_deal_us_military_volunteers_in/

Whоļе 2 реорļе

"At California’s Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms." And at other parks: pic.twitter.com/y3ngZyncW2

— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) February 20, 2025

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freetraders and neolibs in shambles

Here's her dog shit nonpology

Other book tubers are now posting apologies.

One of her unlisted videos:

Thanks @QuadNarca for posting the mega thread.

Between 1914 and 1918 a bunch of inbred cousins thought it would be very meme to make 17 million of their slaves kill each other.

Even though each one of these countries had been scheming their war plans for decades, a group of them decided to blame it all on Germany instead of Serbia.

The most vocal were France and Belgium who wouldn't even let Germany attend the treaty it would be subjected to. They were still assmad that Prussia had defeated Napoleon III a generation earlier and that their current generation couldn't repel the Germans out of France.

They initially demanded reparations of $1 Trillion. Not an exaggeration. More specifically $1.093 Trillion in 2025 dollars. It was reduced to $442 Billion.

An important note to remember, this wasn't just paid by cash, but also paid by raw materials from mines and factories.

There were other stipulations in the treaty. Germany could not have a military greater than 100,000 men, and had to give up many of its field guns and all of its submarines.

France's economy was in the shitter, and shifted its economy to rely on payments from Germany to make ends meet. However with a depletion of a working force and bad economic conditions, sometimes German industrial outputs fell short of the quantities that France was relying on to buffer its own economy.

What was the smartest move for France and Belgium to get more money and raw materials from a country who had no money or raw materials or military?

Germany continued to default on payments. England wondered if they should be allowed time to recover and rebuild their industry so that they could make the payments after a few years.

Even though the German territory which contained their coal had been given to Poland as part of the same treaty, the Allies determined that

Germany was defaulting on their debts in bad faith!

England tried to get everyone to chill out.

But in 1923, knowing that Germany didn't have a military, France and Belgium invaded western Germany in order to force the citizens to work harder faster.

Above: France functioning at its highest IQ

German citizens felt that soldiers pointing guns at them to force them to work was slavery, so they passively resisted, and so France slaughtered 137 of them as a motivational tactic.

And yes, France billed the Central powers, including Bulgaria, for the privilege of being occupied

don't forget to tip your occupiers! (laughs in frog)

The US and UK were able to restructure the debt and gave Germany loans to stabilize it so the payments could be made. France and Belgium left their occupation positions.

Hitler, a combat veteran, watched this entire process so he decided to become the leader of Germany and make it so France and Belgium could never hurt them like this again and he succeeded.

He overplayed his hand and did some other stuff too, but honestly nobody should have cared about what he did to France and Belgium because they suck and they deserved it.

!historychads

But now women exist again and everything sucks

According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!

Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/ltb06VX98Z

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Woman sues fertility clinic for implanting wrong embryo — forcing her to hand over baby five months after giving birth

A devastated Georgia woman is suing a fertility clinic for implanting the wrong embryo inside her, resulting in the baby being "ripped away" from her five months after she gave birth and bonded with the child.

Krystena Murray, from Savannah, underwent in vitro fertilization two years ago and only discovered the fertility clinic's "reckless" mistake after she delivered a healthy baby boy in December 2023.

Murray and her sperm donor are both white .

She said she "knew something was very wrong" when the child was born because she delivered a "dark-skinned, African American baby," according to the lawsuit.

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