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Tiffany Henyard (the scandal-ridden Chicago suburb mayor) gets into a brawl in the middle of a town hall event

This is how she actually conducts herself during meeting :marseyxd:

Here's some of her prior controversies highlighted by rdrama (I highly recommend reading these- this woman is one of a kind):

https://rdrama.net/post/231797/a-marseykween-chicago-suburbs-mayor-who

https://rdrama.net/h/chudrama/post/234825/-

https://rdrama.net/h/chudrama/post/243910/-

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Hey dramafoids, want to ride in my $610 Chinese aluminum/plastic car :marseysteerchingchong:

!cars !asians

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Codecels seething that their robot slave won't come up with a final solution to the :marseytrain: problem for them

It also stops with trans while I was referring to Transactions πŸ’€πŸ’€

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738929348rro0Gd0RE1yxGw.webp

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Professor of fat studies feminism dies at 42

					
					
					
	

				
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!bookworms last week GRRM wrote an update on the new HBO schlock adaptation of his Dunk & Egg novellas.

Did I just read the words "Finish" and "Winds" in the same sentence? Am I dreaming? George? Are you promising me personally that WINDS OF WINTER will be complete by end of fiscal year 2025? In time for the holidays? Did you say that? I'm just going to go around believing that now.

OMG, A TWOW MENTION :#soyjakwow:

I can feel some new year optimism from George. I'm super excited for the Dunk and Egg adaptation, it looks good.

THIS TIME FOR REAL GUYS

https://old.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/1icwbb4/am_i_crazy_for_believing_grrm_about_twow_spoilers/

No. The super-cynical posture some people take here that he's not working on it at all, is some kind of fraud, etc. is just a perverse form of copium. It's just a way for people to not get their hopes up. It's pretty obvious that he's trying to get it done but he's slow, it's hard, and he has a lot of other things going on. But it's pretty obvious that he's been working on it and probably has a ton of material at this point. What that means about him being close to an actual release date or anything like that is less clear.

Asoiafbros, will Dany finally leave Westeros? Will Ser Robert Strong kill the faith of the cucks champion? Is Aegon fake? Is the pink letter real?

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Are hardcore BDSM practitioners mentally ill?

A recent discussion I had about AGP got me thinking about which fetishes cross the line into psychological disorders and it occured to me that every Masochist I've ever met has been self destructive outside of their BDSM shit and every sadist I've met has been sadistic outside of their s*x life too so the idea that the whole thing is a LARP isn't very convincing.

Granted, I'm working with a small sample size but the one hardcore sadist I met IRL was a huge bully in his teen years who did all his "roleplay" with severely depressed chicks and also liked hurting people or watching them get hurt for the fun of it outside of his s*x life and had other antisocial traits. He was also into the really extreme shit like crying and bleeding.

I've met several women into it and unsurprisingly all of them had really low self esteem and depression.

Thoughts?

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blaming women for every crash is insane - but it is valid.

this is the natural conclusion of diversity politics. when you elevate foids and every other demographic to positions on the basis they are foids or whatever else, people become less trustworthy.

was this woman a competent pilot? probably, but it doesn't matter - diversity politics ruined any respect she might have.

i've been reading a lot of sirpings blogs and learning a lot from him, and I think he might be a genius.

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The obsession with neurodivergent women needs to stop

Seems like lately the internet has been deluged with posts that are along the lines of "I NEED an neurodivergent gf" or "me and my neurodivergent gf" etc.

As someone who actually dated an actually neurodivergent girl for about a year I can promise that it actually sucks. Sure it's cute the first few times she infodumps about her favorite musical or something else, but after the 15th time of her saying the same stuff she did last time for an hour it gets annoying.

It's also really hard to talk to her about anything that's not one of her interests, and even harder to have any serious conversation with her since she just doesn't understand or relate to anything you're telling her.

Maybe it was just her but intimacy was also a no-go. One time we walked past a lingerie store and she had a pretty exaggerated reaction to it being gross. Another time we were at a local art museum looking at a porcelain exhibit they had and there was this beautiful piece depicting nude, muscular men ala Renaissance/Greek statue styles and she had the same exaggerated reaction.

I'm sure all that makes me sound like a peepee but I really did try to be sweet and nice to her and be a good boyfriend in general. I just ultimately couldn't see her as my wife or mother to me children.

Of course everything I just typed is most likely meaningless since they mean the quirky doesn't like going out tiktok autism and not real autism.

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BREAKING: Ross Ulbricht has been pardoned by President Donald Trump UPDATE: He Walks! FREEDOM!!

If you don't know who Ross is

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1737506297iIwhxO4LiXxL_A.webp

FREEDOM!!

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1737554043xAqRfwtb7Krt6A.webp

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Truth nuke on my commute :marseytruthnuke:

Are you nerds going to let someone driving a Subaru mock you?

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I bought Lily a cat bed to keep her off my computers

As cute as she is when she falls asleep on my desk, she'd fall asleep on the mouse, keyboard or the laptop. The new cat bed has worked really well.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738099085cDwX4mtXvXB4yA.webp

She's asleep

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738099453BYZUVMtc4n-T8Q.webp

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New Horsey Toss

Musk and his minions march on

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1739051673Bjb3rvgZACfcJw.webp

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I can't sleep!

You know what that means? Time... To... GOON!!!

https://media.tenor.com/E6mn8u1AWCAAAAAx/that%27s-awesome-awesome.webp

https://media.tenor.com/1EezDZQRqNkAAAAx/goon-goon-sesh.webp

https://media.tenor.com/vuuEtEZ06v4AAAAx/armaan-goon.webp

I got a mild tummy ache but I'm still going to GOON because I'm too lazy to go take a shit but I'm not too lazy to GOON. Sheeit it's the weekend so I can GOON all night and then SLEEP all day on Sunday. If you're tryna GOON and you need some COOMpacks hit me up (Whatsapp only).

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738450923cSwsa6fs_Xn0mA.webp

It turns out, I wasn't the first to think of this shit. And the lil GOONERS have perfected it. I can COOM easy knowing that this time honored tradition will be upheld by future generations.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738450922uV0SHimLji9wIg.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738450922iMfBvbQd-oWALw.webp

https://media.tenor.com/WVgiQZeUeewAAAAx/steve-brule-orgasm.webp

https://media.tenor.com/aXP7E7R0_70AAAAx/kermit-the.webp

Ready to GOON with no headphones.

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Drunk :chudjakasianfoid: does an Elon. :soysnooseethe: ensues from Streamer Drama Enjoyers

					
					

Streamer Emiru threw a Lunar New Years Party so all the lonely :marseycoomer2:s that watch her can pretend they have friends. At one point a newer streamer named itskatchii who was quite drunk does a "heart goes out to you". Emiru's mods have quietly tried to push it under the rug, but none can stop the weaponized autism that is terminally online streamer drama enjoyers.

Here's a clip of the salute in question: https://i.imgur.com/salute-GcZquYx

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I hope we hit back so fricking hard it gives Trump a stroke.

:#soysnootypefast:

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Honestly this may have made TWD more interesting.

Spotted by ScreenRant and posted within The Walking Dead Deluxe #105's Cutting Room Floor pages, Kirkman briefly mentioned Garth Ennis' Crossed comic as one more brutal series, in terms of apocalyptic exploration, than his own. This led Kirkman to discuss a line he wouldn't cross when mapping out Negan's tour of the Saviors' camp for Carl, in a plot to intimidate him. Kirkman revealed he nearly had Negan, "undress down to his boxers and say to Carl, 'What do you want to do next?'" This isn't the first time the bat-wielding villain drove the narrative into a darker place during the comic's development process, as Kirkman also recalled another controversial Negan topic during The Walking Dead's story in the same issue of the colorized reprint, regarding the antagonist's "wives."

You know between this, and Coral almost getting r*ped that time and Alpha pimping out her daughter. I think ol' Bobby here might be a Libertarian.

Sauce

https://g*merant.com/the-walking-dead-negan-carl-storyline-originally-much-darker/

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Tesla :marseyelonpaypig: Insurance offering 10% Discount for Using Their Self Driving :marseysteer: BETA :marseyxd:

This totally won't backfire lol

https://www.tesla.com/support/insurance/fsd-discount#available

Related discussion:

https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/tesla-insurance-now-offering-10-discount-for-owners-who-use-fsd-for-50-or-more-of-driving-miles.35591/

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17386199351BOjFtEo_oqgdQ.webp

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BROCK POSTING

Recovering with the cats. Shout outs to people who are doing important stuff today, unlike bums like myself :marseyxd: :marseycry:

!animalposters !cats

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EFFORTPOST Apologia Glowica: The Iran coup, 1953

The coup and counter-coup in Korea right now vaguely reminds me of Iran in 1953.

You may have read in A People's History of the United States when your pinko high school history teacher assigned it to you, and what you've heard from every midwit in the media, that Mossadegh was overthrown in a coup plotted by the CIA to put the Shah into power because the oil companies wanted to make money. All of these things have a pretty big kernel of truth but way more important stuff was going on.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1736853428855HkBZJ5BHoEw.webp

The Abadan refinery in 1950. At the time it was the largest in the world.

(I'm just gonna summarize this part really quick because it's undisputed: In 1951 Mossadegh nationalized the oil industry built and owned by Britain because they were just stealing it all and not paying royalties. The British together with the big (mostly American) oil companies organize a boycott so that other third world countries don't see this and get uppity. After two years, Iran is suffering badly because of the lack of money from oil among other things.)

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17368534283dgsydabjOjiSw.webp

Mohammed Mossadegh. He did this strange thing where he would say he was sick in bed and do his business from there. He did it even when visiting America. Maybe there was some meaning to it in his culture but if there was is it went way over everyone's head here. Or maybe it was just an extreme passive aggressive thing. You can understand why negotiating with this guy might be frustrating.

The oil nationalization thing was the big issue looming over everything, but not in the way you might think. Pretty much everyone across the different factions supported it, but there was infighting over whether Mossadegh was doing it competently. As well as a billion other issues. Iran was one of the more democratic countries in the world at the time and people had all kinds of different beliefs and things to fight over. Obviously the religious thing that blew up in 1963 with Ayatollah Khomeini didn't come out of nowhere.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1736853429ix3SYgD-jB0LUw.webp

Part of the fleet review for the coronation of Elizabeth II, 1953. This is the overwhelming power they were threatening to use.

Besides the situation in Iran, there was another crisis in a troubled country. Britain was still trying to figure out what its identity was after they lost India. A lot of people thought they should continue running a global empire. This wasn't some weird fringe Tory belief. Across the country there was deep resentment that they were losing their place in the world to the Americans and their anti-imperialism. Britain had been exploiting Iran's entire oil industry for about 40 years based on a deal they got through bribery and threats and paid only a tiny fraction of their profits to Iran. So Mossadegh nationalized it. The British went apeshit and told the Americans that they would have to invade because they couldn't dare lose face in front of the Orientals. So the US is trying to solve this situation without two allies going to war with each other. It's been two years now and it's deteriorating rapidly.

So Eisenhower eventually relents and orders the CIA to implement the coup the British had been begging for and partly planned. So the CIA gets together and plots with various army officers and politicians they think will back it. You can guess how well that goes. Other factions are tipped off and get their army units in the streets to put it down. The Shah flees the country into exile, presumably forever. Ironically, the whole reason why Eisenhower ordered the CIA to do all this wasn't because they wanted Mossadegh out. He was a pain in the butt but they could live with him. It's because Eisenhower was afraid the increasingly unstable, unpopular, and dictatorial regime was vulnerable to being overthrown by the communists and then everything would really go to heck. So the idea was that we would do it first.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1736853429nVQrwZBUclc25w.webp

Stuff like this was happening but with multiple factions.

But the failed attempt caused so much chaos, with tanks and various angry mobs from different factions roving around the streets of Tehran, that Tudeh (the commies) decided now was their chance and they tried their own coup, but that failed too. At the end of this game of musical chairs, Gen. Zahedi ended up in power, the guy the US had wanted all along. It's hard to say exactly how much American support helped him. The CIA was bribing newspapers and influential people in the time leading up to it which may have had some influence on events, but the actual coup they totally fricked. This all happened in 4 days.

Epilogue

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1736853429pZ9qdqh5LcVC6w.webp

Ashraf Pahlavi. Once at dinner in front of several foreign diplomats she yelled at her brother "Are you man or are you a mouse?" about some policy issue and stormed off. Would.

The Shah returned with Zahedi's permission, like a browbeaten cuck coming back from his shed. The Americans had never liked him. The CIA considered him to be a spineless coward and preferred dealing with his sister Ashraf, who was much more strong-willed and exerted a certain level of dominance over him. But something surprising happened over the next couple years. The Shah managed to lever Zahedi out of power and make himself an autocrat.

After the coup, BP was forced into giving up their monopoly of Iranian oil. They had been shamelessly screwing over the Iranians, using tactics like claiming that they couldn't pay anything because they weren't making a profit. The oil industry remained nationalized but Iran made a contract with the world's big oil companies (the "Seven Sisters") to operate it for them as a consortium. For various complicated reasons that are certainly way above your head, this meant that the Iranians got a way bigger share of the profits. It paved the way for them taking real control around 1970 and OPEC actually getting some teeth in the following years, under the leadership of the Shah to a large extent.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1736853429Ei7GGuPL7KkKhg.webp

I dunno why monarchs these days always have to wear military uniforms. Your dad became famous for killing a lot of bandits with a machine gun when he was young, but who are you kidding?

The Shah would go on to be denounced as a puppet controlled by the US. I wish. The CIA said he had a (actual quote) "pathological fear and hatred of the British". He'd been brought up this way by his father, who had been deposed by the British. Delusional megalomaniac? Definitely. Somebody looking to be a puppet? No. CIA wasn't even allowed to spy on Iran. In the late 1970s he got cancer which he hid from his "puppetmasters" until it was too late and was overthrown. But that's a story for another time.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1736853940IQkiubE6eAfuqg.webp

This is the only image of paratroopers landing in that war that Google will return now. Serious 1984 shit.

Britain, having been cockblocked out of invading Iran, was still desperate to use its (still very potent at the time) military power to thrash some wogs to show they were still dominant. This led to the disastrously r-slurred invasion of Egypt in 1956 in which the Americans spanked them and put them back in bed, ironically proving that Britain was no longer a global power that could do incredibly stupid evil stuff without American permission.

Addressing your whining

But Redactor! It was a rogue CIA operation!

:#marseysurejan:

Just like how sending Gary Powers out on that U-2 was a "rogue operation" until Eisenhower admitted he ordered it. This is an excuse that politicians use to protect themselves. Please grow up and don't be so naive.

But Redactor! He was democratically elected just like Allende! That should trump everything! :soycry:

And then when things got tough he made himself dictator. Park Chung-hee was democratically elected. DeGaulle was democratically elected. Nixon was nowhere near a dictator but you're butthurt about him and he was democratically elected. Trump is too r-slurred to know when he's breaking the law and he's been democratically elected twice. It's funny how it's only people lefties want to identify with are the only ones who get a lifetime pass for being a dictator because they won an election once.

But Redactor! This is the reason why they hate us! :soycry:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1736853940zr9JKGMTFHjYUA.webp

I know who obscure musician Sahba Motallevi who plays the tar is, which proves I must know what I'm talking about.

Give me a fricking break. Do you know any Iranians? They're some of my favorite people in the world but they are batshit insane about some things. I'm not usually into "Human Biodiversity" but I think they might have a genetic predisposition toward being paranoid. These are people who, when JFK Jr's plane crashed, their first question was who assassinated him. Where the Cinema Rex fire was so obviously done by Islamic militants that it must be a false flag. Where Jimmy Carter is a ruthless thug who secretly wants to stomp all of humanity under his jackboot. Where a really smart well-educated person asked me if Saddam Hussein had really gotten executed several years after it happened. They would have blamed America for something if we never did anything.

Also it's a country with a deep sense of persecution by foreign powers because they were basically colonized by Britain and Russia from ~1800-1945. Except it wasn't done openly. Everyone knew what was going on but it was behind the scenes. The kind of thing that makes you suspicious of foreign superpowers.

This kind of animosity isn't sparked by a single really complicated event. It gets into all kinds of really complicated psychology. Look at the left in South Korea and their reasons for hating America:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17368539409KDj9EsNTEUe6g.webp

I wonder if a single one of these tards has ever even realized that they must have been wrong because the beef genocide never happened.

  • We were really the bad guys in the Korean war. (Yet literally about 90% of people who actually lived through that think we were the good guys.)

  • There was a traffic accident once and a little girl got run over by accident. (Car accidents never happen in Korea. Ajussi is totally fine to make it home after a few bottles of soju.)

  • American beef has prions in it that specifically target the brains of Koreans and give them mad cow disease. (This was a real thing I'm not even exaggerating. It was a huge national issue and there were massive riots over it.)

I can't even begin to list the number of cases of people irrationally hating America when we did nothing wrong:

  • British leftoids like John le Carre who were obviously butthurt that they lost their empire to America, so now they call us imperialists.

  • That whole thing in France in the 1960s-1990s where their foreign policy was all about hating America.

  • Indians who lived off of rice donated by America but were butthurt because we reminded them of the British or something.

  • Canadians. I think that speaks for itself.

In Iran especially, their culture requires them to have a Britain to blame for their problems, so that's going to be the USA. And in South Korea they need a Japan to blame for their problems, so that's going to be the USA. (I mean seriously, hating Japan has turned into this pathogical need where some of them can't live without it.) !asians

Was it the right call?

So should we have done it? That's the $64 question, isn't it? :marseyboomer:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1736854676ZbUoJTnPxwj7NQ.webp

Eisenhower with the 101st Airborne chads before D-Day. This guy lived in a world where he had to make some extreme choices and they weren't just when to upmarsey or downmarsey.

Imagine being in Eisenhower's shoes. Stalin has just died a few months ago and presumably his heir is going to be like him. You were in a legit shooting war with the commies in Korea up until... :marseywait: 24 days ago. You're 8 years from leading a war on a continental level against another totalitarian regime and having to order the deaths of hundreds of thousands because that's how real shit was. There's a bunch of crises going on all over the world now. This one is especially dangerous because of the extreme strategic importance of Iran. Europe, the place you spent so much of your life fighting to protect, is dependent on Iranian oil. That war would have been a heck of a lot worse if you didn't have more oil than the other side so you know just how important this is. Given the information he had at the time and the imminent danger of WW3 breaking out, I think his decision was fairly reasonable.

:#marseymonk:

Here's my view in hindsight: I don't think they should have done it. I think if there was a better understanding of Iranian culture they would have realized that there's such a large majority who will never accept communism that you don't have to worry about that unless they get invaded. They had a large portion of the population who are conservative Muslims (especially in rural areas). The educated elites liked freedom and democracy. There's actually a democratic tradition going back pretty far and while it was far from perfect it wasn't a complete joke. Beyond that, look at the virtually total failure of communist subversion throughout the Middle East. In the entire Cold War the only truly commie state they managed to take control of was South Yemen. These countries have a really good immune system against communism. Also they really really are not sympathetic toward Russia. You hear it to this day when somebody makes a deal with America and they say "It's another Treaty of Turkmenchay! :soycry:!" And they are extremely nationalist. They are not interested in world socialism.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1736853429Me_mD7NHn-fvPA.webp

But don't take my word for it!! We have access to an actual honest assessment from within CIA about what happened.

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The NFL says Racism is back for the super bowl, baby :marseyracist:

At his annual Super Bowl news conference Monday, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell strongly supported the league's policies designed to promote diversity at the club-employment level and said they would continue.

But during Super Bowl LIX, and with President Donald Trump apparently planning to attend on Sunday, the NFL might be making another kind of statement on the Caesars Superdome field itself. According to two league sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the discussions, league officials recently changed one of the slogans expected to be stenciled in the back of an end zone from "End Racism" to "Choose Love."

The game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles will mark the first time since February 2021 that "End Racism" is not included as a message in the back of a Super Bowl end zone.

The switch, conveyed internally to high-level employees earlier this week, could be perceived as a nod to the current political climate. Following the lead of Trump, who was inaugurated last month, many corporations and institutions are abandoning their diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Goodell did not follow suit when asked about the league's policies on Monday, saying he was "proud" of the league's diversity efforts.

"We got into diversity efforts because we felt it was the right thing for the National Football League," Goodell said. "And we're going to continue those efforts, because we've not only convinced ourselves we've proven it to ourselves β€” it does make the NFL better."

!mensfootball discuss

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Obama Bin Laden
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