We need about 3% of Americans (about 11 million) go to on general strike. This has always been an effective strategy against fascism.

Our broad list of demands includes, but is not limited to: Climate action. Universal healthcare. Racial justice. Reproductive rights. LGBTQIA+ rights. Living wage / raise the minimum wage. Immigration reform. Education reform. Gun safety. Tax the rich. Affordable housing. Disability rights. Welfare and child support reform. Voters rights. Constitutional convention. Paid family and medical leave. Criminal justice system reform. Workers' rights. Permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

IMO we should be demanding that Trump rescind his EOs and resign by 2/22, or we take the economy down with us through sickouts, slowdowns, boycotts . . . whatever people can do to throw a wrench in the system.

this will happen!

Do NOT USE THAT URL! It may be a honeytrap. There is no need to sign a stike card or share your info. It is very dangerous to do so! A real strike will not require sign ups!!!

How did I just get the most golden clip without prompting... pic.twitter.com/K7qO0pmZLt

— DosXXMachina (@DuosEquis) January 30, 2025

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a lovely eurojank game where you play as a special-ed student who learns to swing a sword in Bohemia. It garnered attention upon its release for the lead dev's refusal to add Blak people to the game, for "historical accuracy", and he continued to play the chud after the game sold well. (Montage of various chuddy tweets from back in the day)

However, the upcoming sequel has been struck with disaster - a leak showing the darkest Muslim man in existence lecture the player about how good Islam is hit the web and created a frenzy. Additionally, there was a rumour about an unskippable gay love scene between the canonically straight main character and some random dude.

Naturally, this caused some panic among chuds. Was their hecking based Czech studio infiltrated? Where did it all go wrong?

They took to Twitter to pester the studio head, Daniel Vavra, to ask for clarification. Instead of an answer, they received non-responses in various forms

Turns out that we are once again in the middle of a rather bizarre "culture war", this time from the opposite side than usual :) So here's a statement, but I'd hate to spoil the plot of the game for the sake of it. pic.twitter.com/MDgbY7WD7A

— Daniel Vávra ⚔ (@DanielVavra) January 17, 2025

Finally, the silence was broken

5/10 KCD is an RPG, you are responsible for your decisions. If you want Henry to try a same-s*x adventure, feel free. If you don’t want to, you don’t have to. All affairs are (and were in KCD1) purely optional. The characters are perfectly aware, that it was a forbidden sin.

— Daniel Vávra ⚔ (@DanielVavra) January 19, 2025

Yes, there is a proud Kang, and yes you will frick the bussy, and you'll like it darnit!

Responses have been measured and reasonable

Claims abound of plummeting preorder numbers and de-wishlisting

Mark Kern has also become an enemy of the state, claiming the game definitely isn't woke.

I can guarantee that none of these r-slurs were going to play it anyway, particularly because I've not seen anyone mention this particular line from Kern's review:

Combat is similar but easier than the first game

The real goyslop is in making the mechanics dumber so that hecking valid enbys don't cry when forced to learn a moderately interesting combat system.

Kill all kiwiggers

No it's not about ketamine.

Introduction

In the west, Kpop is typically derided. Oftentimes this is because it is creatively bankrupt and consists of cookie cutter songs and artists. Other times it is hated for the immaturity/insanity of its western fan base (teenage girls, trannies, and neets.) Still more people hate it because of the oppressive nature of its industry. Whatever your reason, it is clear that kpop is slop. Goyslop, if you will. However, it is Goyslop of the highest order. Made to be agreeable to the largest audience possible's most base instincts. This combined with the nature of the industry (more on this later), means that it is ripe for drama; and yet I very rarely see kpop drama on this site.

Typical kpop fans

Now I don't like Kpop, but the drama potential of kpop became apparent to me a few weeks ago when I stumbled upon the news of Newjeans trying to cancel their contract. I spent 3 days gorging myself upon the news and it's associated buildup. To be frank with you, I became addicted to kpop. Not the music of course, but the drama surrounding it. I had a desire to post about Newjeans and share that delicious drama with you all; However there was a massive amount of background information to sift through and organize. I realized the full deets would require a series, and when I realized that, well, I started seeing DC in my eyes.

However, I am lazy. I don't want start a full series if it won't pay off, so I figured I would create a prototype, a pilot episode if you will. If you all enjoy this post, and I get my goombling funds, then I'll begin work on the Newjeans saga in earnest (with a few filler episodes thrown in, of course)

First off, a few warnings and disclaimers:

1. A lot of kpop groups have minors in them. I will be posting images and videos of various kpop groups throughout this series. If you see next to an image or video, that means it contains someone who is CURRENTLY a minor. You have been warned.

2. Kpop sucks from a musical standpoint, but it has ear worms. I will link to songs, concert performances, and music videos as part of this series, but I would avoid listening to the music if possible. Otherwise you'll end up like me and have Crazy by Le Sserafim stuck in your head for two weeks, a fate worse than death. Songs that I think are a big risk for this will be marked with a next to the link.

An example of these two points:

these ones are all over 18, I just wanted to provide an example

(Pictured above: 5 Korean shaman perform a sissification ritual on their unsuspecting male audience)

(The shaman's evil chant)

3. As I said earlier, I just started my research about a month ago, so I'm very likely to get things wrong. This will be compounded by the fact that the really juicy shit is found on Korean sites and forums, so I will either use Google translate, or the translation of random freaks on the internet. if I do get something wrong, don't worry, it's working as intended

Without further adieu,..

...Let us go down...

... The K-hole

The Drama

If you've made it this far and know anything about kpop, I'm sure you're wondering why I used an image of Twice. It's because they tangentially relate to this story. How? Well to understand that you need to know who/what JYP is.

Background

Jin-Young Park

JYP stands for Jin-Young Park, a South Korean singer who rose to prominence in the 1990's and parlayed his success into his own media conglomerate, which he humbly named JYP Entertainment (hereafter JYPE). JYPE is one of the 4 major companies that dominate the South Korean music industry. Their most successful artists are Twice, Itzy, and NMIXX (no not the sex cult).

For years JYPE has tried to break into the American market, with only middling success. Their most recent attempt was actually about a week and a half ago when Twice released a comeback that featured Megan THEE Stallion on the title track. One of their recent schemes has been to launch Kpop style American groups under a brand new division, JYP USA.

Strategy - Twice feat. Megan Thee Stallion

Now something you need to understand about the kpop industry is that in a weird way, it's almost like professional sports, having the following things in common.

1. Opportunities and success are largely based on God given talent. (If you're not a slim rice foid who can dance/sing/rap better than everyone else you don't have a shot.)

2. The window of opportunity is very slim, If you don't make it big by 30 you probably never will.

3. At the highest levels, there is a LOT of money at stake. (For example, the exclusive contract Newjeans is trying to get out of likely has a penalty of $200-400 million.)

For these reasons, kpop idols go through a sort of training period before they actually are put into a group and debuted. The idols essentially drop out of school and join a training program, where they learn how to sing, dance, rap, and be charming in front of a camera. Just like young athletes and their coaches trying to make it big, these schools have a very "whatever needs to be done attitude" to training, with horror stories abounding. This is considered standard practice in the industry, meaning that almost every kpop groups you see was carefully planned out years in advance.

JYP USA planned to continue this proud gook tradition with their flagship girl group VCHA, a group formed in 2023 from the winners of a web show A2K (America2Korea) on youtube, where JYP himself selected members to form an American kpop group. However, they ran into one small problem: The breakable American spirit.

The Lawsuit

Kiera Grace Madder, 17, (stage name KG Crown) was one of the lucky girls who won A2K and had her dreams come true of becoming a pop star. At least, that is what she thought before entering into the Korean style training system. In May 2024, after enduring months of abuse, KG decided she couldn't take any more, and requested out of her contract. JYP USA refused, citing. that she owed them over $500,000 for training and production costs. Seeing no other option KG filed a lawsuit on December 7th in the state of California to terminate her contract. The complaints of abuse are summarized below:

Now the interesting thing here is that none of this is illegal in South Korea, where JYPE is based. A court there ruled that idols were contractors and not employees, meaning that they were not entitled to protections granted to employees under South Korean labor laws. However, VCHA was based in California, which not only has strict labor laws, but EXTREMELY strict child labor laws, due to the history of child actor abuse in Hollywood.

The general consensus online seems to be that most of the allegations of abuse will go nowhere, but the complaints regarding working hours, denial of profits, and the $500,000 debt are likely to be decided in KG's favor due to California Labor laws.

The Reaction

/r/kpop reacts

IG post

https://old.reddit.com/r/kpop/comments/1h94lj7/vcha_kg_posts_an_instagram_story_update_regarding/

JYPE response

https://old.reddit.com/r/kpop/comments/1h9w7w1/jyp_usa_issues_statement_regarding_the_lawsuit/

/r/kpop_uncensored reacts

IG post

https://old.reddit.com/r/kpop_uncensored/comments/1h94n0n/kgs_instagram_story_reveals_she_has_filed_a/

Summary of legal complaint from KG

https://old.reddit.com/r/kpop_uncensored/comments/1h94z98/summary_of_document_detailing_jypes_mistreatment/

JYPE response

https://old.reddit.com/r/kpop_uncensored/comments/1h9w3k1/statement_from_jyp_usa_on_vchas_twitter/

Random gook reaction (translated by /mu/, retrieved from desuarchive):

Twitter Reacts

Based Twice fans reacts to calls for a boycott, VCHAcels sneed

>No you HAVE to boycott!

to be clear we have been boycotting for months because jyp is a zionist and the company has continued to do collabs with zionists and are continuing to boycott now also because of the recent news with vcha and jype's mistreatment of its artists

— JYPE FILES 📌 (@jypefiles) December 9, 2024

>Kpop?

Outro

How this will all play out remains to be seen, the most likely course of action in that JYPE realizes that this whole thing is poison to any future attempts to gain a foothold in the American market and just cuts the mayofoid loose without retardedly trying to recoup its "debt".

If you enjoyed this post let me know and I will begin work on the Newjeans saga.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/us-senator-wants-americans-who-use-deepseek-thrown-in-prison/

!codecels

!aichads

A foreign billionaire has seized the United States government.

— DCCC (@dccc) February 3, 2025

Is he a foreigner from Canada? Or Africa?

Bonus video here's Elon with his McLaren F1 and his ex wife of his child

Just go to the search bar and type in

"When I was 13"

"When I was 14"

"When I was 15"

"When I had s*x"

"I lost my virginity"

"I weighed around"

And sort by oldest

!metashit !dramatards

Thanks for that story carp

The situation on RTX 50 launch day looks dire. It seems that the few people who manage to find the cards in stock online will either be powered by fast AI algorithms or simply lucky to be near retailer servers.

We previously reported on the RTX 50 launch day lottery in Japan. The country is known for such draws, which, in order to prevent scalping, give everyone in line an equal chance to purchase limited-supply products. Only those whose tickets are chosen will be allowed to buy the product. While it's hard to call that a win, at least some participants don't leave empty-handed.

According to Japanese media, one of the lotteries at PC Koubou, which started earlier (around 15:00 local time), ended in chaos. People were seen climbing over the fence of a nearby kindergarten, and screams were heard. There's also a photo of a destroyed kingergarten sign (added above). The lottery concluded before many attendees even arrived, leading to frustration and disorder at the venue.

The PC Koubou Parts Hall has started calling for entries for a lottery to purchase the RTX5090, but the situation is currently in chaos.

Angry shouts were heard, and some people even climbed over the fence of the kindergarten next door.

@sarasteam0151 (translation)

Swedish retailer Inet confirms there may not be any RTX 5090 stock at launch. It seems they are waiting for an update from their courier company. Even if any 5090 units arrive, the retailer expects them to sell out immediately. The 5080, on the other hand, should sell "quickly."

According to a Redditor who compiled a list of MicroCenter locations and their expected RTX 5090/5080 stock, only 233 RTX 5090 cards were distributed across all stores in the U.S. Similarly, only 2,393 RTX 5080 models were allocated. This is an extremely low number of cards for launch day, though it's important to note that we cannot verify the accuracy of this list.

However, Tustin, California, appears to be one of the few locations where lining up might make sense. The queue is already over 300 people long show messages shared on Reddit, meaning that if the numbers above are correct, the last people in line won't even have a chance to buy a card.

While it's great to see such high demand for new graphics cards, it's difficult to understand why NVIDIA did not prepare a larger stock for launch. The company was not forced to release the cards this early, and there is clearly a significant supply issue. Nothing would have changed if the launch had been delayed by a month, allowing board partners to build inventory. This way, customers wouldn't have to rely on luck, fast reflexes, or being prepared to camp outside stores.

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In Madiba's modern rainbow nation there is a lot of intra-racism between the various races, and often it is forgotten how non-black-vs-white racism is still prevalent, and thus when such altercations does rear its head, the fireworks starts to fly, like it did this Christmas holidays.

During a FlySafair (an air passenger company which started in 2014) flight during 26 December, from the city of Durban to Cape Town, a black woman had a massive altercation with air hostesses, which was recorded on cellphones by other passengers.

The flight crew onboard a FlySafair flight didn't want to serve her more alcohol, in response she physically assaulted the air hostess and verbally abused passengers and the flight crew. Nobuntu "Nobs" Mkhize was then arrested for being unruly, once the airplane landed.

Now this happens about once every 6 months, but what made this particular incident riling up the Coloured population was what was specifically said by the black woman, to the Coloured flight attendant during the recorded altercation: "You're a coloured from Mitchells Plain, all these gold rings but no degree. Right now when we land, I'm going to take an Uber home. You don't even have a [driver's] licence. You don't even have a car."

Combined with the fact that she was an arrogant high level SABC (South African Broadcasting Corporation) employee, throwing her weight and position around, like typical ANC high level arrogant members, this really rustled the jimmies of our coloured population!!

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2024-12-28-sabc-employee-in-hot-water-after-allegedly-making-racist-remarks-and-disrupting-flight/

====(from timeslive)

In several videos that have gone viral on social media, the woman is seen in a heated altercation with flight attendants who are trying to calm her down.

In one of the widely circulated videos, she is heard allegedly making racially-sensitive remarks against the coloured community.

"You're a coloured from Mitchells Plain, all these gold rings but no degree. Right now when we land, I'm going to take an Uber home. You don't even have a [driver's] licence. You don't even have a car."

The SABC released a statement on Saturday acknowledging the woman was an employee and condemning her actions.

"The South African Broadcasting Corporation has noted with concern audiovisual material circulating on various social media platforms featuring a staff member travelling on a South African airline."

The woman also allegedly threatened to get the airline employees fired and the incident broadcast on SABC news channels.

====(end quote)

https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/nobuntu-nobs-mkhize-under-fire-for-alleged-offensive-comments-762edf59-610d-4045-8686-513b1b018e97

Now during her drunken spat, the Mkhize said a shitload of racist stuff, including coloured women are only good for "spreading their legs"

Thus the DA intended to take her to the SAHRC (South African Human Rights Commission) for racism.

"Mkhize, who is reportedly the brand manager from SABC, caused a stir when videos taken aboard a FlySafair flight to Cape Town went viral on social media as she was filmed labelling women from Mitchell's Plain as uneducated and unable to drive or own motor vehicles."

https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/you-cant-think-you-can-get-away-with-it-sahrc-to-take-flysafair-passenger-to-equality-court-20250103

This incident went so viral, that even the Patriotic Alliance ( the new ethno-nationalist party for Coloureds in Safrica, which was created last year during June 2024's election) submitted a complaint to the SAHRC (South African Human Rights Commission), to have her jailed.

Also completely fricking hilarious for me in this incident, was this one interview for the Deputy President for the Patriotic Alliance, who appears to me to be a Xhosa/Zulu dude, and lmoa this guy is fricking thirsty for coloured chicks, the way @Sneedman is for Holly

I don't know if the guy is 1st generation coloured, or if he was just raised in a Xhosa upbringing but he speaks in a total Xhosa accent.

During the interview he says "a beautiful Coloured Lady" which is so bizarre cuz it had zero bearing with the situation lmoa

Anyways comments sneed.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=925489679785507&id=100069734502518

For further context, in the past 2 decades there had been friction between Coloureds and mainstream ANC black peeps, for many reasons, but primarily due to BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) policies which promoted and gave preferential treatment of black peeps over coloureds in government positions or tenders, in a country with 25% unemployment this causes lots of friction. Whilst many whites are in the very least middle class, most coloureds are not, and thus this government mandated affirmative discrimination, which can only exist in which one racial group vastly outnumbers the others, have actively screwed over coloured populations, which in turn voted overwhelmingly DA for the past 25 years, and since the Western Cape the province of Cape Town, is dominated by the Bong and Coloured demographic, they have remained an island of DA, instead of ANC

Other sources of friction between coloureds, and especially ultra pro-ANC black peeps, have manifested itself when previously poor black women especially have lorded their power and status over coloureds. It must be understood, that while ultimate political, demographic and social power had transferred between whites to black peeps since democratization, coloureds have remained relatively as poor and 2nd class via sheer economic momentum in the Western Cape/Cape Town, and have not been enfranchised as drastically as their black peers, who they feel have excluded them deliberately through tribal wingcuckery.

A common theme is that coloureds feel they were too brown for the Union apartheid days, and now too light skinned for the ANC, so a powerful & influential black woman, lording her SABC job over an air hostess, a relatively meagre job, REALLY reinforces that salt in the wound of modern Coloured-VS-Black relationship in modern

Also of other hilarious note, is during the video of the altercation, the drunk woman, Nobuntu threw coke at the hostesses and other passengers trying to detain her in her drunken unruliness (cuz it was during a fricking plane flight mid-air), and this coke throwing is being sighted as ASSUALT by many publications and reports, which i find fricking hilarious!

OMG this racist b-word threw coke at me, this is assault ASSAULT!

Here's a chud-adjacent safrican griftoid commenter, making a massive mountain out of a molehill of the event

Interviews of DA coloured officials, and basically everybody is super upset.

"This Nobuntu must be arrested because what she did in that plane was pure terrorism. Imagine people fighting right inside the plane ." Lmoa

"As a white south african i am absolutely appalled at this element of racism that still exists in our country. Shocking"

"Me too😢" HAHAHAHAHA

"This is another clear demonstration how money, education and political privilege don't equate to intellect, etiquette even humanity. This coming from an whole brand manager! How tacky indeed.🚮🚮🤮"

"You can take them out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of them." random Boer boeing along

https://www.iol.co.za/mercury/news/flysafair-places-sabc-employee-nobuntu-mkhize-on-no-fly-list-after-flight-altercation-5b23f246-7d3f-47b7-9f56-dd32aed1ee48

And Uh, the IRL plane jannies perma-banned her from flying on the FlySafair airline.

And uh that's about it. ANC spokesmen condemned her, and lots of peeps were typing very angery comments on Facebook.

Meanwhile my dad was like: "as long as they are each other, they'll leave us alone for a bit" lol

!africans

OP has been asking chatGPT for therapy:

See a therapist. Talk it through and find out if you have a problem. A therapist can help you identify healthy outlets for your urges.

There are no Therapists where i live. My best option is chatGPT and it has definitely given some solutions but I have not seen any improvement. I think stopping porn will solve all of this

Enjoying these things is not turning you into a predator. There is a thing called CNC (consensual non consent) where women enjoy the fantasy of being SA'd. There is nothing wrong with that. When you begin to actual trying doing something to a girl who has in no way consented, that's when you become a predator. Lay off the porn a bit though. It unfortunately can be addictive and gives you a false sense of reality. Go meet a girl. You can also check bdsm dating sites for a girl you can act out your fantasies with without being a predator

""Progressive"" Redditors defending things would make the most misogynistic, anti-egalitarian rightoid blush.

You need to stop watching porn and go outside. Stop being so fricking weird.

I hate immigrants so much bros. Coming here and appropriating our culture. YWNBAA

Filthy English coloniser and schizo rightoid shows up, about woke mind virus

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Australians all let us rejoice. For we are young and free.

Young? People have been on this land since before it was even an Australian continent. It's old, old as can be.

Regardless of whether the lyrics are right or not, in the grand scheme of things our country is young.

Mate, the Australian grand scheme goes back 50,000 years. This is archaeologically and scientifically proven, why pretend otherwise? Be proud.

White people think everything started with them stealing it.

Those are two completely separate things. Australia being an internationally recognised country happened in 1901, colonisation happened 130 years earlier. There were people on this land before colonisation and there were things here before people even arrived but the country of Australia did not exist until 1901.

Hence "young" in the lyrics.

I am not pretending otherwise I am just saying that out of all the internationally recognised countries, Australia is one of the youngest. I am proud of the ancient history of this land however that history was not during the time that this country existed as a country.

It's both. But if you believe our national identity should focus on just one heritage rather than embracing ALL Australians, then go ahead and sing "young"—no one cares.

Wasn't Australia then though.

There wasn't an Australia in 1788 either, but that doesn't stop you from celebrating Australia Day. Funny about that.

That's when it was colonised and it became the country of Australia in 1901 when federation happened. Not sure why you mentioned Australia Day.

We are one and free

Nope and we never will be. Never forgot the people who built and died for this country sang "young and free"

Oh please. Go learn your history. That version of the National Anthem started in the mid 1980s. What people who "built and died for this country" are you talking about?

Woke PM Scott Morrison changed the word from young to one in 2021

These comments show that people just make up scenarios in their head then get mad at it.

Yeah, the Lefties.

They live rent-free in your head, don't they?

Absolutely they do. They've been tearing the Western world apart before our very eyes for the last decade and a half. In fact, if they don't live rent free in your head, I'm more worried about you than anything. Do you just simply enjoy casually watching the West burn at the hands of radical socialist nutters?

Average day for me

6:00 I wake up and remind myself to stay woke for the day

6:15 I make a fair trade oat milk latte and read Jacobin

6:30 Check my Centrelink (I have BPD and dysphoria)

8:00 Go to gender studies school

10:00 Smoke-o (actually, i vape, thanks)

10:15 Critical race theory class

12:00 Lunch (vegan) and a sit-in for Palestine in the cafe

1:30 Marxism lessons

2:00 Go home (I ride a bike, 3 abreast in the right lane)

2:30 Relax with some impossible nuggets and watch my favorite streamers

10:00 Bed time with my 2 transmasc boyfriends (we are a gay polycule)

This is the future all of us leftists want for Australia and you will be forced to assimilate

!nonchuds what have you done today to destabilise western nations?

It's funny how bang on you are, yet you're trying to be facetious. This is precisely what these nutjobs want. Watch a few of these ffs: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm4SIfXIAyzWD-R2yOQPmDtsvoBTtfzxz

I opened the link and then saw it was that right wing nutjob from Sky News and closed it. If you're going to try and prove an ideology is insane, Sky News isn't a good source

Yeah you're right, we didn't have major corporations at all trying to not even promote Australia Day. What a made up scenario, am I right?!

You think major corporations should be forced to promote public holidays?

The supermarkets stopped selling tacky Australia Day merchandise made in China because it wasn't profitable. That's the reason.

This exactly! If there was even a small profit still in the practice they would bleed it dry. Didn't one of the supermarkets even say that they had been throwing out thousands of dollars worth of Aus Day stock that no one was buying?

Yes it is but people will assume you're a right wing conservative unfortunately and is not a fair thing but just happens.

I'll only assume that if you drape it over your fricking shoulders like a cape.

I love seeing Asian-descent Aussies with the Aussie flag draped over their shoulders with Aussie Tatts on their faces having a barbie in the park etc Beautiful!

I went to a food factory a few weeks ago was sold frozen meat pies by the most bogan Asian I've ever met. Puts the whites to shame.

Who thinks that?

Lefties.

Maybe they assume that about you because you are a right wing nutjob?

I'm not right wing in the slightest. Also not a nut job. I subscribe to common sense, logic, and reasoning, of which the Left is barren.

We can see your comment history bro.

And? You're a complete nobody.

Here's what I think and where they align:

• Closed borders and strong border security (Centre)

• No uterus, no opinion. All life is an inconsequential accident of nature and abortion is not murder (moderate Left)

• No one should have access to firearms except trained professionals such as police and military (moderate Left)

• All religion should be officially abolished and should no longer be able to influence anything real (moderate Left)

• Free speech must be protected at all costs and covers ALL speech. "Hate speech" included (Right-leaning)

• LGBTQIA2+LMNOP nonsense has gone way too far and needs to be dialled back and restricted so that people with zero understanding of how the world works are not longer able to influence it (Right-leaning)

• Everyone should be able to shag whoever they'd like (Left-leaning)

• Promiscuity is not a negative thing whatsoever (moderate Left)

• male feminists, libertarians, and certain murderers should be hanged and made an example of (I have no idea where this fits on the political spectrum)

I don't see a whole lot of Right-wing nutjob there.

And that's relevant because..?

Because you're a nobody trying to tell me what I am or am not. I'm not Right-wing. I'm just not a complete idiot and can see what the Left has done to the Western world.

Dude…. As I said: your comment history is there for all to see. There's two options here:

1 You know you're a right winger but you're trying to pretend you aren't. That'd be pretty stupid given the aforementioned comment history.

2 You genuinely believe you're not a right winger. That would just prove you're stupid because your comment history shows nothing but right (or alt-right) talking points and socio-political leanings.

So which is it? Stupid or really fricking stupid?

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Your username is ApacheGenderCopter and you're pulling the ol "I'm just a common sense centrist" malarkey. Get better at lying

You Lefties came out with the 300,000,000 genders bollocks, I'm just the one taking the piss, so you really haven't got a leg to stand on here. Common sense tells us there are only 2 genders. Too easy.

The same common sense that says the earth orbits the sun? Just because you observe it through your biased lense doesn't make it true.

Given the post-invasion shape of this country was created by left wingers, it's funny that people think that's somehow unAustralian. So real Australian is right wing, except the born to rule mob who used to think they were British and now spend their time tugging their forelocks to the Septics.

Your first mistake was calling it an "invasion". You're welcome, by the way.

"you're welcome" too Yankee.

I'm English you mong.

Ok, Pommy, just wondering why you were using that typical Americanism "you're welcome" + passive-aggressive posturing. So your people invaded this country and you're experiencing hurt feelings because someone said so? I guess you're one of those who thinks Cecil Rhodes was a hero and the East India Company was the best thing that ever happened to all those brown people?

No one invaded this country. We found a large piece of unclaimed land, colonised it, created an actual civilisation, and even left the natives alive. That's more than can be said for the Spanish. You don't hear the Aztecs or Incas banging on about how their lives are so hard with all this modern technology. Oh yeah… there's none left to b-word & moan. I don't know who Cecil Rhodes is.

The only "East [____] Trading Company" I know of is based in Solitude, Skyrim. So I'll say it again: You're welcome.

It's not your country mate, even though your forebears invaded it. But pretty much confirm the stereotype of a flag-waving racist.

It is our country, though. That's precisely my point. As a Brit & and an Australian, this is my country. The indigenous themselves considered themselves "custodians" of the land and specifically not "owners" (considering they had no concept of ownership). That makes it free real estate. Sorry. Them's the facts, and the funny things about facts is… drumroll They don't care about your feelings.

Piss off pom.

There it is. The very thing you Leftists swear you're against. While it's not technically racism, it's certainly prejudice towards a specific nation. You people are all the same. Proper airheads, the lot of ya.

Shooting fish in a barrel. Can't you make it a bit harder, snowflake?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Keep yapping, lil bro.

I'm a lefty and I don't care. Even as a lefty I'd proudly display the flag.

Do you believe in 300,000,000 genders and that cis straight white males are the root causes of all problems in the world? Do you absolutely despise Donald Trump and think he's the second coming of Hitler? Do you believe we should be giving children hormone blockers and allowing them to "transition" into make believe nonsense, likely sterilising them in the process? If not, you're not a "Lefty". You're just a left-winger or left-leaning person. "Lefties" are radical socialists hellbent on tearing the Western world apart.

How much time do you spend each day being outraged by the woke mind virus?

Depends on who many stupid posts/comments I come across from dumb Lefties 🤷‍♂️ And I'm glad you acknowledged the woke mind virus. The infection's running rampant at the moment but it all stops in less than a week.

What's happening in a week? Something with the planetary alignment? It's supposed to peak in a bit more than a week though

Haha funny. You know exactly what happens. At least 4 years of no-nonsense America will have an incredible flow on effect to the rest of the West. People have already started to feel safe & confident enough to speak up again without the threat of being cancelled.

Do you sleep with Fox news on in your bedroom?

I don't have access to American television so I've never seen it.

You don't have access to brain cells, either.

More than you 🤷‍♂️

You're so terminally online you named an account ApacheGenderCopter to spew culture war shit, touch grass kiddo

I'm leftyish and I don't care.

Then you're not a Lefty. "Lefty" refers specifically to the socialist radical wokies pushing anti-Western agendas at every opportunity.

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Me for one I don't like it and would never do it but whatever - someone like the OP sounds like his heart is in the right place. Flag waving like this has not always been a thing here and I always associate it with the more rank displays of excessive American patriotism. No offence to the OP at all I'm glad he likes it here and wish him well and I love this place too but there's too much nationalist bullshit going on these days.

There's far too little nationalism going on nowadays. We're taught in our schools to hate our country and that our history is nothing but evil. We are told that there is absolutely nothing special about being Australian and that somebody fresh off the boat that disagrees with everything we stand for as a people is equally as Australian as somebody whose family have been here for generations.

Get real - calm your farm - none of that is true.

It most certainly is true. During my public education I was taught multiple times throughout high school of the evils of the first fleet, the stolen generation, how bad the white man was. Is somebody who has come to Australia and believes the opposite to us but manages to get citizenship an Australian in your eyes? Because they are to many. Is Australian an ethnic group and if not, what is being an Australian?

My mate's grandfather used to kidnap indigenous children. He was objectively a very bad man. My mate even tells me how horrible and racist his grandfather was. The people who used to kidnap indigenous children were often bad people.

When I was a child I remember crowds of white people gathering outside the house of an indigenous family on the next street to scream racist abuse at them well into the night.

That's what Australia was actually like in many places. There's no point hiding the truth. Kids need to know different parts of our history. That's very different to teaching them to hate Australia.

Okay, do you believe that we should teach the barbarity and cruelty of aboriginals before colonisation? Should we teach about the prolific infanticide? The cruel punishments of spearing people in the leg, often for them to then starve? Or should we be hiding that truth?

wtf are you on about?! I'm all for teaching the good and the bad.

But we don't teach any of the bad about aboriginals in public education in Australia. It is incredibly sanitised.

You could always leave?

Thats exactly the sort of comment I was expecting and points to the dogshit mentality that this can represent. It's as much my home as yours c*nt.

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That's conservative paranoia, bit like thinking someone's out there is banning you from celebrating Australia Day!

City of Greater Geelong 2022-2024 would like a word. Yes, some places have tried to stop people from having an Australia day.

Most of the inner city Melbourne councils too. Not sure about other states but the invasion day rhetoric here in Melbourne is fricking intense

Right wing conservatives aren't a things here we aren't America

There are no rightoids on rDrama.

If you want to celebrate the true Australia, don't fly that little British colonial flag. Fly or wear our green and gold, it's more Australian than the national flag and colours of Britain will ever be.

The Australian flag is our national flag you fly what you want to fly but don't start this colonial rubbish

"don't start this colonial rubbish" It's literally a British colonial flag. Its primary purpose was to appear British, not Australian. That's why it follows the same standardized template and color scheme as hundreds of other colonial flags throughout history—most of which now sit gathering dust in museums..

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Take it to /r/vexillology, flag strags

In a show of true German autism, Germoid shows up and posts enormous dossier on flag protocols or something. Idk I didn't read it. https://old.reddit.com/r/australian/comments/1i1t8me/hanging_flag_off_balcony/m7dyftu/?context=8

>name is actually "neurodivergent_blossom" lmao

It is also appropriate to burn it, use it to wipe your arse or wrap it around a rock and throw it through your local MPs office window.

im an immigrant but if u hate Australia why dont u leave? this is the best country on earth no doubt

Eat an actual darkie.

Rule 4 - Racism in any form is prohibited.

Nothing wrong with that! I'm an American and I fly the flag wherever I go. I have an American flag jacket, American flag jeans, and several pairs of American flag undies (those are only for the ladies to see, lmao). I fly a big American flag off my pickup truck. There's no greater country in the world than America, but your country is cool too, so nothing wrong with being proud of it, I guess

That's a bit excessive. Especially off your "pickup truck", it's giving wanker.

I can see why you'd be reluctant to fly your flag everywhere, given your country's history. But America has always been on the right side of history, so you can never have too much flag!

Ah, you're a troll. Shoulda guessed

Is this a hybrid British and Austrian flag? Am American

Not beating the stereotypes with that comment.

Hey now. We're not all stupid. 💪💪🇱🇷🇱🇷

Wrong flag mate. 🇲🇾 Here's what your looking for

It's literally a mix of the two, but ok smarty pants.

You know you can google what the Australian flag looks like right?

I don't trust Google.

It might have saved you some embarrassment in this case.

Just because I have a refined appreciation for privacy doesn't mean I have something to be embarrassed about.

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PAtRiOtiSm mAkEs mE sO PrOuD (feel like l'm in a US sub or something, thought this kind of stuff died over here 20+ years ago lol)

Is it wrong to be proud to be an Aussie? Should we be ashamed?

Nothing wrong with a little pride, keep it healthy and it'll be a pride we all can enjoy, although not a lot has made me proud in recent years. A fair bit of the opposite actually.

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The issue isn't pride in itself, it's how performative nationalism distracts from the real problems we should be confronting. There's so much in our history and present that demands accountability, change, and improvement. Wasting time patting ourselves on the back for some abstract idea of 'being proud' feels hollow when we could use that energy to actually make this country better for everyone.

You sound fun

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Do you feel the same about people who fly the aboriginal flag?

If you have nothing else to be proud of yourself, it makes sense you take whatever given, even the location of birth xD

I'm proud of a lot. I also love my country. Perhaps you can go elsewhere if you aren't.

Wont change the fact that I wont ever be mentally colonized by any country to feel proud of a "location" That's not particularly relevant to individuals, only people who lack self worth and try to leech it from things bigger than themselves or dead people's achievements

Yea go ahead and celebrate your colonization. Maybe hike to the top of Uluru to celebrate!

Lol. These comments are stupid.

No, your ignorance is, someone should crack an egg on your head, buddy

People will call you racist for that

Who?

The left

Says who?

Sky news

All the "invasion day" wankers.

I think it might be considered a hate crime in Victoria but everywhere else you should be right.

!strayans

I love her my special lil gal. She has begun giving more nose-kisses daily than Socks ever has the whole time I've rehabilitated that brown piece of flabby tabby they are going to fight so stupidly over sleeping with me once Sheila's fixed. We are close to the savings mark for her spay

!animalposters !cats

https://kick.com/jstlk/clips/clip_01JJW1WW8FJKVDX0XKZ8KGQS10

FYI /r/livestream jannies are tiny peepee riders so the fact that this is on lsf is a buck breaking moment.

I tried to upload the clip but the only kick downloader I could find pooped out a 200mb mp4

https://archive.ph/DgWuO

OP Q&N

Q: Did you steal some info from

A: Yes

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I kinda hate rationalists but I haven't heard a convincing counter argument on AI doom.

I wanna see videos of people who have used the hair dye I'm interested in