You're a good writer - with a bit of editing you could get some work published (not an attack, I'm a writer and editor myself). I've also done a fair amount of research and had some journ*lism published around the topic of johns and the type of people they tend to be, albeit in a different country to you - I agree with you, it really is horrifying

Nice write-up, I like your writing style. The first third of your post almost sounded like a Pavement song lmao.

I've never really understood the "female empowerment" angle of strip clubs (not exactly a unique thought on this sub). Even if women feel empowered doing it, their customers obviously see it through an objectifying and purely sexual lens. And, obviously, strip club owners operate like large-scale pimps, with the same exploitive relationship and habits with their dancers that pimps have with their prostitutes.

...do RS girlies have no taste whatsoever and equate length with quality? Like if it's banging painfully into the metaphorical cervix of your brain, that must be a darn hot post?

I was replying to a post and one thing led to another and I wrote this. It happens sometimes. Maybe someday I'll clean this up, reorganize it, make it more coherent, and do some actually good writing.

Korea

We went to Korea and trained their guys. Within a couple years in 1953 they had infantry as good as ours (Ridgway himself said this) and they were learning to use artillery. By then the Americans were doing most of the technical stuff (communications, artillery, armor, certain engineering tasks) but with our help the Koreans had built up the 4th most powerful army in the world and taken responsibility for most of the front.

Vietnam

We go to Vietnam. We're there for 15 years. We give them all kinds of training and equipment. Many ARVN units are brought up to US standards. They're flying jet fighters in combat ffs. Somehow they lose. This is some political problem in Saigon, not what's happening at the front. They had the same problem as Ukraine with draft dodgers who they wouldn't crack down on for political reasons. You can't win a war when the people who are supposed to be doing most of the fighting are playing a bunch of inscrutable oriental Fu Manchu games with each other. Apparently Ukraine has the same basic problem, except the Vietnamese fought for 15 years and they're already throwing in the towel.

Somehow we don't have a Fu Manchu marsey yet.

The Vietnamese were treacherously stabbed in the back like Trump is going to do Ukraine. Kissinger made a deal with the Chinese where we'd make sure South Vietnam was destroyed in exchange for them turning against the Soviets. The media presented this like it was a genius move that only he could make. Frick. Frick this b-word. The Chinese already hated them and were in extreme fear of a Soviet invasion. We didn't need to give them anything. I could have gone over and accepted them begging us for help. Mao was a total fricking psycho but he was willing to do business.

The US mostly pulled out in 1971 (Old Man Redactor was one of the last) and completely in 1973. But to the consternation of imbecilic wingcucks on both sides, South Vietnam didn't immediately collapse.

I hate hippies

Leftoids were shocked as they imagined that the with the Americans gone, the Vietnamese didn't all rise up and beg for the communism they always wanted? They were supposed to be cute communist teddy bears (George Lucas has proudly and openly said the Ewoks are based on what he imagines Vietnamese people are like) and follow Jane Fonda's lead. In my entire experience with leftoid boomers (keep in mind this about 75% of my teachers, lots of family members, etc.) I have never once heard them mention ARVN once. I think most of them honestly don't even know it existed. So there's this extreme cognitive dissonance between their idea that America was fighting all the Vietnamese and it turning out that most Vietnamese were on our side.

B-word, you are not going down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a major highway, in the rubber sandals they imagine on college campuses. You know why? Because it would be dangerous with so many trucks going by.

You ever notice that the "Anti-War Movement" never gave a shit about ending the war? After 1971 they had zero interest. Curious. Their hearts bled for all the brown people being killed by US imperialism and all of the sudden they don't give a shit what happens. I've had conversations with people who were adults in the 1970s and I have to explain to them what happened because at the time that's how little they cared about all those brown people. (I know Vietnamese aren't brown, I'm talking in terms of how these people saw them.) I'm not saying we should have gone to Vietnam. I'm not saying we should have stayed in Vietnam. Throughout this post I am not giving any military or government policy advice. But the "Anti-War Movement" was entirely self-serving, trying to keep upper middle class people out of the war. This is the real moment when the Democratic Party began shifting upward. Republicans dodged the draft too, but the Democrats became identified with the social class that could and did to that. A generation later it should be no surprise what peoples' party affiliations are.

This is one of the best episodes. When the hippie dies because he's walking around barefoot I always curl up in laughter. I guess this planet has a "no shirt, no shoes, no service" policy.

Chuds are no better

The rightoids were equally embarrassed. They were supposed to be so badass and they lost a war against a weaker opponent. How does that work? Some blamed the Vietnamese "we cared more about fighting for their country than them!" and a lot them made it a racial thing. A couple moments in time from Old Man Redactor's memory: Standing there in the base and realizing that everyone in his unit was either drunk or high. Everyone. Every single one. Other memory: Old Man Redactor turns on the TV. Now you've been told over and over again that "Vietnam was the first war on television, where people at home could see what was really happening". He's flipping the channels and he gets on South Vietnamese station. They're showing their journos' footage of the fighting. And right away he can tell that this is actually not staged, these people really are in combat, because they're fighting but at the same time they're scared out of their minds. You notice Walter Cronkite never aired any of that footage on American TV. The audience might find out his Vietnam War entertainment product wasn't really authentic.

You ever notice that our "racist grandpas" watched our Chinese allies fight but you never see our allies today (except white Europeans). It's probably because of internalized whiteness or something.

The stab in the back (unlike Hitler's, this one actually happened)

So the ARVNs kept on fighting. In America both leftoids and rightoids had massive cognitive dissonance. A South Vietnamese army that could hold it's own in battle? This can't exist in either of their world views. (You had to try really hard to not notice the ARVNs existed. (Old Man Redactor paraphrase: "The Tet Offensive is when they found out that in a real war the South Vietnamese would beat them.")) The leftoids especially were absolutely fuming that South Vietnam didn't roll over and die immediately like their professors at Dartmouth promised. Should they learn and adapt their thinking to the real world? Of course not. We're talking about rich white women. So the US Congress got together and cut off artillery ammunition for South Vietnam.

Is that the narrow gauge railroad he told me about that went along Route 1, the Street Without Joy? Notice the relationship between the ARVN commander and the advisors. At this point in the war they're throwing out suggestions but this guy may have been fighting 12 years. He'll consider that but he's the one in charge.

Old Man Redactor says they used 130mm guns to blow shit out of Quang Tri province, the one on the border just north of where he was. The ARVNs had no shells. They couldn't shoot back. Things disintegrated pretty fast after that. The US had trained and equipped a really strong powerful army to fight like Americans. Americans (especially then) rely a lot on artillery. So they're overrun.

Impossible. The Viet Cong (who totally still exist 7 years after the Tet Offensive) only fight with goofy wooden traps and carry everything on their backs. American soldiers can wander around unarmed alone because... the teddy bears are waiting to spring their traps. They would never use an 8 ton gun that is among the heaviest artillery in the world. It's just not sporting. Only imperialists do that.

The war is over!

Meanwhile the "Anti-War Movement" doesn't notice. They're too busy smoking dope and giving each other gonorrhea to care. There war is over. The North Vietnamese send I dunno how many people to "reeducation camps". (I guess it's better than Tet where they murdered all the teachers in Hue on the grounds that they're paid by the government.) They help their Cambodian puppet army take over Cambodia. Their puppet does their own thing, which is genocide. Now genocide isn't a problem for the Vietnamese commies. They aren't Anne-Marie Slaughter weeping about the "responsibility to protect". But a power struggle between the pro-Russian and pro-Chinese factions is fought out and the pro-Russians win. Pol Pot sides with China. So Vietnam invades Cambodia. Pol Pot's guys run into the jungle and do guerilla warfare. You thought the Vietnamese commies were good at guerilla warfare? Well they're sure not good at being on the receiving end of it. They quickly realize that they can't accomplish anything by fighting, so they just cut off food to areas controlled by the Khmer Rouge. Now huge numbers of people are dying of starvation. This only ends when the Cold War does. Like so many wars across the world it was fueled by the Russians and Chinese fighting over who is the better commie. As soon as that ends, all these wars do too.

*Border skirmish between China and Vietnam in 1984. Did the Anti-War Movement care about this? A bunch of asian people got killed. That's they're raison d'etre, right?"

You ever ask an "Anti-War" boomer how they felt about the genocide in Cambodia? I'm not saying they're responsible for it (they had virtually no impact on any decision making in the war) but like... did you ever wonder what happened in the end? Ever? All those people you cared about so much before. And then they stammer and piss their pants and say "It was... It was Immoral! It was an immoral war! I know because I saw that napalm girl! That's when I knew I had to fight against the war!" And then I say "b-word please, that photo is from 1972 when virtually all Americans were home. For you the war was over. There were no Americans involved. A South Vietnamese plane dropped napalm in support of a South Vietnamese unit on the ground. The more I think about it, the more I notice that the "anti-war" boomers would systematically ignore the whole existence of South Vietnam through the whole war. I wonder who coordinated this.

WOOP WOOP

Living Pod by David Green

originally from Archigram

Mizrahi Jews hate being labeled as 'Arab,' a term that reflects the cultural homogenization imposed by Zionist ideology. This erasure of their diverse identities and Jewish-Muslim coexistence was replaced by a manufacture unity rooted only in Arab rejection and Islamophobia. https://t.co/1KuwDjtpUg

— Yoav Litvin (@nookyelur) September 7, 2024

Years ago I ripped the DKD soundtrack off YouTube by searching various things + also took requests from people here and then I renamed the files to basic, ordered numbers because that seemed to make the most sense. You can see this here:

https://fsdfsd.net/MarseyWorld/MarseyWorld/src/branch/master/files/assets/events/DKD/music

However

I want to add the Now Playing to the bottom of the page, a really small footer with a cute lil equalizer graphic or something beside it. This will apply to all holigays. But it's DKD right now so let's tackle that.

Identify the tracks, include a link to the youtube video it came from to prove you're not full of shit. 500 per track identified. Obviously tell me which file the link corresponds to.

Do as many or as few as you want, some are actually really easy like the fricking DKC Funky's Flights theme.

Be first or be broke.

Thank you me because this is all happening as I have had a tab open since yesterday morning with some sort of Kong remix playing and I need to know what it is because it's SO GOOD.

Op was wearing this outfit

Nobody tells the OP his outfit is absolutely ridic, just hugboxing in comments and a lecture on how "punks" are ackshually good, so don't call transphobes punks. Though I do credit a few trains for saying don't chase kids around the mall…because apparently this needed to spelled out for him.

The smartest guy at my highschool, a legitimate genius that got into both Oxbridge unis but chose to go to Manchester b/c of their nuclear physics department and got a job offer from CERN halfway through his degree dropped out to play WoW, turned trans and launched a porn blog https://t.co/gxCBRGHv7Y

— Adam Wren (@G0ADM) January 22, 2025

https://rdrama.net/log

Tips please

Steven Pinker

Otherwise, no refrigerator would be full, no car would be full of gas, no child would be dressed and at school on time. So our species is still capable of rationality, by which I mean the use of logic while taking probabilities into account to achieve a goal.

Bertrand Russell

The conscience, however, can easily be seen to depend mostly upon education, as for example common Irishmen do not consider lying wrong, which fact alone seems to me quite sufficient to disprove the divine value of conscience. And since, as I believe, conscience is merely the combined product of evolution and education, then obviously it is an absurdity to follow that rather than reason

Karl Popper, Durant (to a lesser extent),

There is an archetype of High Status Science Explainers who seem uncanny to me. This is how they speak, and yes "what about other context?" nevermind the other context, it's all the same way

Every word is sedate and measured, but you can tell they're seething misanthropes every time they talk. They're like RATs but, you know, actually intelligent and socially adept.

being brought up in education institutions makes them eternal educators. They can't think beyond the logic of the page assignment submission experiment etc and externalize this very very isolated ecosystem's logic to encompass the whole world. It's how they understand the whole world.

When they talk about humanity, justice, and "higher concepts" It's always tinged with the university, I don't believe they believe it, except as proxy for formal logic.

Perfect example was a movie I can't remember the title, where a layman walks around an abandoned city and asks secular scientist foid "what humanity should do" about x, y, z, and she'd reply these matter-of-fact insipid, rational answers and, to "why don't we do that", a wry, knowing nod to the fallibility of man, as if she were above it.

"If only you'd listen to us! Why don't you?

Why don't you?"

Because there's something sinister at the bottom, this hidden misanthropy that they don't see in themselves. Some will say it's simply Ivory Tower alienation but I disagree - yes, we're alien to them, but that's not the end

a lot of them, not all, but a lot, a lot of them want to see you and me dead

I offered to have both of them on my show to provide YOU, the average dramatard, with yet another piece of epic and enlightening rdrama content. @WootFatigue, despite being a jobless bum with literally nothing better to do, has refused this call.

Questions for wootstrag-tigue:

1. What "free content" would you be gracing me with? This is for the good of the website, for the enjoyment of the common dramatard.

2. What else do you have to do? You're already spending hours a day fighting pizzashill, why are you scared to do it over the airwaves?

Use this thread to bully w00t for cucking the content. That being said, if you change your mind, I will be fair to you as I've been to all my guests, despite our prior spats. I won't take sides!

!metashit !grillers !friendsofpizzashill

Let's say this is possible, in a hypothetical and Reddit could police anonymous-esque accounts out of existence. Would people stop using Reddit? And maybe they had that feature the gram used to have so you can see that your friends post elsewhere. Would it be more civil? Less weirdos??

I think maybe you'd be less inclined to read some opinion of a fat. But at the same time, I've seen white girls using the n word under reels and notgaf.

!crossword

We will work on this week's crosswords next Sunday in a special double edition. I will also (hopefully) have a surprise to announce at that time too

Why the hell are they written this way? You losers can't understand that a writer wrote the story with purpose and if wasn't some natural evolution. That is literally writing them to be evil just cause. This is essentializing that says genes dictate this shit.

— EagleLeft🇵🇸🇵🇰🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦🇴🇲 (@eagle_left) February 15, 2025

!anime !kino

Also found /r/arethecisok seethe thread about this comic .

https://old.reddit.com/r/AreTheCisOk/comments/ueivvy/what_in_the_actual_frick/

So there is chances that he was the one downmarseying Baldurgayts

https://rdrama.net/h/vidya/post/325620/chinese-players-reviewbomb-baldurs-gate-3

Feng Ji emphasized the significance of their four nominations, marking it as a first for a Chinese game, despite ultimately winning only Best Action Game and Players' Voice

Winning gaymers vote as Chinese is same as fat girl having boobs

He voiced frustration over the unclear criteria for Game of the Year and noted strong dissatisfaction among players regarding the award outcomes.

I don't like that gaybot got the award but it doesn't mean blackkong should been awarded

If looking legit fairly than this year has an easy goty and that's Metaphor.

FF7 rebirth is full of fan service (non erotic one ) tons of mini games the game is also more geared towards the fans of original and extended universe of ff7, an first timer won't enjoy that game as much as someone that already completed the og game and crisis core. The whole Zack element is out of window to them and the game kinda lacks og romance between cloud and Tifa (Aerith still loves Zack in this remake but not in og) so to fully enjoy the game you need experience beyond what the game is offer.

Silent hill 2

It's a GOTG game, 100+ of research papers are wrote about that game

It's artstrag shit. You can't name more story telling impactful game as it. MGS2 was also important but the game aged we are post mgs2 future so you have to be very knowledgeable to understand it's sociological concept. But silent hill touches eternal topics that were 2000 years ago relevant and will be relevant until the end of humanity. So remaster had a such solid fundamentals so the only thing piljaks had to do is not frick up graphic and gameplay, everything else was done already. Giving them goty would been unfair.

Ji also highlighted that their game's success was not a fluke, attributing it to Chinese culture, talent, and the gaming industry's growth.

The game was good but come on, chunks do a Wu Kong game ? That would be if Iraq does Aladdin game. But in Iraq case we don't have that much Aladdin game when we have billions of Wu Kong games

Coolest was obviously Enslaved.

Would been way cooler if they made Water Margin game

China is basically Wukong and gaymance of 3 kingdoms. So even if they made commie game it would been more interesting than non stop riding those 2 topics

It seems Game Science's CEO isn't happy their game, Black Myth Wukong, didn't win the highly-coveted

>Nooooooo mayos boomers didn't gave me goty me do senpoko

Apparently, that wasn't enough, as Game Science CEO and the producer of Black Myth Wukong, Feng Ji, just went on a tirade on Chinese social media platform Weibo, where he questioned the award-winning body's decision process.

Those homos didn't even noticed the only 2 true Japanese games that got goty are Zelda and Elden ring ? They were never going to give weeb game win. Or when Geff gave award to his friend Syrian Joseph that hyped the show for Geff ? "Frick the Oscar's" ?

He should be a man and accept his fate

Also the game award is an private event it has no legitimacy like BAFTA or DICE since those two events are a bit connected to gov and presented them self more than just entertainment event

First fight: is it a 'scam' if Black folx are the gentrifiers?

what part about this is a scam

Ghana is not the home of all people of African descent. They are taking advantage of diaspora black people's confused cultural identity to convince them to move to a poorer country with a poorer standard of living so that they can increase their population of educated foreigners (and foreign currency). Unless you believe it's an inherent good that Black people live in Africa, it doesn't make sense for diaspora black people to do this.

I think black Americans they can do what they want. I don't think they'd be making the most facts and logic decision by moving there, but still failing to see how this is a 'scam'. Unless you believe black Americans are inherently incapable of understanding what looks like a fairly straightforward arrangement.

I don't think very many African Americans will fall for this because they are "capable" of understanding the arrangement, but that has no bearing on whether or not it is a scam. This might blow your lib mind, but black people are regular humans who can be tricked into doing things outside of their best interest, and people can exploit that capacity.

I very much doubt you would similarly describe white Christians getting scammed by Russia to move to their anti-gay paradise or American Jews having to move to Israel to defend the "Jewish homeland" as being able to "do what they want." I think you would immediately understand those are scams without discussing inherent capabilities.

Second fight: do racists like it when Black people leave, or hate it when Black people get free stuff?

This has been a thing in various African countries for years. This has been a thing that racists in America inexplicably seethe over for years. I refuse to elaborate, but I'm sure /r/redscarepod will have a very even-handed and respectful discussion on the issue!

Wouldn't racists like it??

They're still mad about Rhodesia. They don't want any kind of home when it comes to black people, just servility.

You are completely beyond lost if you think American racists are anything but pro-remigration.

Why you telling me that? Tell the commenters I was responding to.

I'm speaking to you. White racists are not mad about Rhodesia's fall because it "gave a home to black people". They're mad (and this is their take not mine) that whites were violently dispossessed of their country they earned by conquest. I would charge you to find a single white racist who is opposed to blacks going back to Africa l. Listen to how silly that sounds.

Cameo by rdrama's very own diaspora /u/snallygaster make aliyah to your chosen people.

!poll_voters

I(27F) screamed at my husband (28M) over his hobbies, and now he's changed and i don't know how to fix this.

Hey everyone, I need some advice about a situation with my husband. I'm 27F, he's 28M, and we've been married for 4 years. He has a room where he keeps all his hobbies—sim racing, aviation setups, soccer analysis cowtools, LEGO sets, music production equipment… basically, it's his sanctuary. He's super analytical and loves writing down and dissecting things, from sports to politics. He's slightly on the spectrum and very introverted, so he doesn't have close friends. I'm really the only person he shares everything with.

He's always inviting me into his space to be part of his interests. I love him and appreciate that he wants to include me, but sometimes I just need some time for myself. Recently, I snapped. I yelled at him, saying some hurtful things that I didn't mean, like how his interests bore me, that he needs to get a social life, and even questioned why I married him. I regret every word, but my anger got the best of me, and I couldn't control it in that moment.

Since then, he's completely changed. He stopped spending time in his room, moved to sleeping on the couch, and barely talks to me. He even ignored our usual tradition of watching our home nation's soccer team play, something he'd never skip before. Instead, he was working on his laptop, breaking our "no work at home" rule. When I asked him about it, he said he didn't care about the game and mentioned that maybe he should be more like his father, who's a workaholic and whom my husband idolizes. He even added, "I don't blame him for divorcing at that age now."

I've apologized multiple times, but he just says, "It's okay, maybe you're right," and shuts down any attempts I make to talk about his interests. I'm terrified he's considering divorce. I know I messed up, but I don't know how to rebuild trust and help him feel valued and loved again. I don't want to lose him, but I'm unsure how to approach this and make amends. Any advice?

TL;DR: I criticized my husband's hobbies, and now he's pulling away. I've apologized, but I'm worried he might be considering divorce—how do I make things right?

She has likely ruined this man's life and made his social anxiety even worse lol.

She basically confirmed the worst fears of every neurodivergent person straight to his face and he'll likely hyper fixate on what she said for years, while the things which gave him joy remind him of how much the world hates him.

Luckily most of the comments are btfoing OP.

How it feels reading women's posts on reddit:

WELL THIS IS THE LAST STRAW I WAS HAPPY UNTIL SOME COUNTRY I CANT POINT TO ON A MAP WONT BE GETTING ANY MORE FARRARIS FOR THEIR POLITICIANS