Cocaine "is no worse than whiskey" and is only illegal because it comes from Latin America, said Colombian President Gustavo Petro, whose nation is the world's biggest cocaine producer and exporter. https://t.co/eeOHBPcXP0

— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 6, 2025

Enter BetAt least one of the following people will be murdered or critically injured in a murder attempt on or before March 4th, 2025: Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran - 7 bets

Enter Betno, but we'll have some other murder/terrorist attack related to DOGE within the next month - 35 bets

Enter Betnothing ever happens - 174 bets

500 marseybux bounty for sending me the link when it happens.

If nobody sends the link, I'll spend a few minutes looking !remindme march 5th ":marseybeandoge:"

!bets !goomble !goomblers !goombling !project2025

closed

https://archive.ph/eF9xx

There was this !dutch violinist/ orchestra director who became famous worldwide, by having these "informal" classical music concerts/shows, where peeps in the audience would dance in the aisles, or even the musicians or André himself would walk down the aisles themselves, while celebrating famous classical music.

This was considered radical for Boomers, who found the dour and sour and uptight classical music conformity of Europe to be to too stifling. People like my parents were pretty excited to watch his shows and performances on DSTV, which had become more common in Safrica, and appreciated his musical acumen, whilst having much more lighthearted tones in his shows.

Here's a bull attacking a woman!!

He also looks like an eccentric mad-scientist nutjob with his hair!

In 2010 he had a tour in

https://www.andrerieu.com/en/about-andre/my-biography/2010

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2086692/The-room-didnt-stop-spinning-months-Hit-crippling-ear-virus-violinist-Andre-Rieu-needed-quick-cure.html

Unfortunately his weak !dutch genes were no match for the filth and garbage of Safrica, and he got a debilitating ear infection mid tour.

DRAMA!

Drama had however occurred over time in the 2010s when André Rieu obtained the notable quirk, in that he REFUSED to speak the Colonizer language of Afrikaans!!!!

This caused a lot of seeth for Boers, who ironically made the lionshare of his fandom in the country, even beyond the large Bonglish CD-buyers in Cape Town. This social media drama has been largely purged by time and linkrot (omg this like 15 years ago ) But it was pretty big drama.

In his tours of 2010 & 2012, he had repeated numerous times that he had been disappointed in the demographics makeup of his shows, which as can be predicted, were always overwhelmingly

He was especially disappointed to find Safrican black peeps didn't really give a shit, despite his massive catering towards them in all his Safrican tours, whether in Cape Town or Suncity. Especially in his "My African Dream" shows, which he tailored to include lots of black opera singers, local black dancers, and it was still 99% mayo

https://www.news24.com/life/andre-rieu-refuses-to-speak-afrikaans-20110318

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André Rieu, King of the waltz and musical hero to many South Africans, still refuses to speak a word of Afrikaans or even Dutch onstage.

Last year already many of his fans asked why Rieu did not speak a word of Afrikaans or Dutch on stage.

He has toured across the globe, always making an effort to speak at least a word of the language of the country in which he is touring.

Rieu is aware that many of his fans in South Africa are Afrikaans speaking and that they are able to understand the Dutch heard on the DVDs.

Country's demographic

When Volksblad asked Rieu in an official enquiry why he does not speak Afrikaans or Dutch onstage in South Africa, he said: "No comment."

"He wanted to make it easier for his fans to travel to the show, because not everyone will be able to travel all the way to Sun City. He also hopes to then see an audience that is a better representation of the country's demographic."

Rieu has said that he would like to see an audience that is 50% black and 50% white. Last year, he asked the Bloemfontein Children's choir to perform with him in his hometown of Maastricht in the Netherlands. His condition that the choir should consist of 50% black members, was heavily criticised.

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Watch Andre Rieu talk about his South African tour in 2012, with a lead black singer to a white-only audience, and why everyone was in tears. https://t.co/ZNosC0yEvK

— Seema Chishti (@seemay) December 26, 2020

I tried really hard to find old twitter about drama when André Rieu stated in front of his 99% mayo audience how sad and disappointed he was that so few black peeps had come to his Cape Town and Suncity shows, and with many people stating how full of shit he was, because if he wanted a primary black audience, he should have hosted a show in Soweto stadiums (he didn't cuz it was unsafe )

Like holy hells there was scores of drama - you guys don't appreciate how linkrot has culled so much drama of our forebears

Like I remember newspaper articles about the drama and events but that shit is now banished to the shadowrealm i literally cannot find anything on the face of the internet to prove what I'm recounting to you guys, it's information just gone into the ether

RANDOM BONUS DRAMA: Reddit thread about André Rieu's detractors

https://old.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/jxoo3m/anyone_else_cringes_at_andr%C3%A9_rieu_performances/

how it feels to lift after Trump won pic.twitter.com/DsqXeMwmcB

— Volnost (@jejwizard) February 7, 2025

https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1ii66gj/the_adam_friedland_show_subreddit_has_been_banned/

Is it over for !redscarepod next?

Or can it be reopened?

Same thing just happened to /r/Wordington (zoomer shitposting sub, actually was funny)

https://old.reddit.com/r/reclassified/comments/1ii6625/rwordington_has_been_banned_for_being_unmoderated/

Is a great purge underway?

Jannies discuss

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1ii67mt/communities_are_banned_again_for_being_unmoderated/

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1ii6gbk/mass_sub_bannings/

The Jeet gays have fallen

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1ii6576/hi_i_got_my_subreddit_rdelhigays_banned_how_can_i/

/r/WhoreDaughter is gone. It's truly over now

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1ii6p9n/our_subreddit_was_banned_by_mistake/

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

The followup:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Adulting/comments/1ij2pq9/time_stamp_vol_2_more_context/

/u/No_Excitement5215, you were fired for being a peepee, not for being late. I've done this too with people. It's way easier to fire you on a technicality than to go through the rigamarole of HR bs. Your former coworkers are probably thrilled you're gone. I feel bad for your preggo gf. Judging by your posts, you're going to split the second she shits that thing out.

🚨 This is the biggest scandal in news media history:

No employee at Politico got paid yesterday. First time ever the company missed a pay period. This is a crisis.

Now we learn Politico — a “news company” — which spent the last 10 years trying to destroy the MAGA Movement was… pic.twitter.com/DwHqEp6gjp

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 5, 2025

This is the email Politico sent to all employees yesterday. No one got paid. Politico’s corrupt management blame this on a “glitch” and not their government gravy train ending.

State propaganda collapsing pic.twitter.com/mIDWGmOkZ9

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 5, 2025

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1887152245931692317/photo/1

!chuds

You are free to tell the truth here that punching Nazis like Elon Musk and his DOGE script kiddos is a good thing.

The “remember what they took from you” memes were literal… https://t.co/moRgKQMBdM

— 🦅McKrowComics🦩 (@KellyLovesBirds) February 6, 2025

IT WASN'T A MEME THEY TOOK THIS FROM US, THE GOVERNMENT PAID A CORPORATION TO REMOVE SOVL FROM OUR FAST FOOD!?!?

This is the blackest pill imaginable.

What did he mean by this??

Built like the average Hasan fan too

— bofaboy (@bofaboye) February 3, 2025

average Hasan fan :::) https://t.co/gnS3FxNLgV pic.twitter.com/sAo6284wrE

— ˖ ࣪lili⊹ (@s9001986850734) February 5, 2025

One more for the average Hasan fan pile https://t.co/sHMUy6CNth pic.twitter.com/35PGifUPSr

— CrazyDescent 🍉 (@crazy_descent) February 6, 2025

Average Hasan fan here https://t.co/SigAdzKM6w pic.twitter.com/zOQgsSOaYL

— Dokai25 (@dokai25) February 6, 2025

https://x.com/bby_lvngs/status/1887439727869223420

https://x.com/BMPharrell/status/1887232600583835649

Average Hasan Fan ova here 🤌 https://t.co/pTicj9TvqN pic.twitter.com/cobwIkFPsW

— GioFoRio (@DrBoscoPHD) February 6, 2025

Built like the average Hasan fan too https://t.co/DIxBFSbbJL pic.twitter.com/W8HZ7Uzjsk

— snat (@natisbroke) February 5, 2025

https://x.com/jizzvacuum/status/1887333312114409555

Now time for the freaks:

Average hasan fan build 😘 https://t.co/t3mxjK2ERy pic.twitter.com/pPShTqtKGt

— helena (@sainthe1ena) February 6, 2025

average gay hasan fan https://t.co/HMdXgyq9YT pic.twitter.com/FOwbVCwq2n

— namonai 🏳️‍⚧️ (@namonaai) February 6, 2025

https://x.com/JoJoFett95/status/1886948363116921273

Why does he have hotter foids than rdrama tho;

average Hasan fan :::) https://t.co/gnS3FxNLgV pic.twitter.com/sAo6284wrE

— ˖ ࣪lili⊹ (@s9001986850734) February 5, 2025

Built like the average Hasan fan too https://t.co/DIxBFSbbJL pic.twitter.com/W8HZ7Uzjsk

— snat (@natisbroke) February 5, 2025

https://x.com/gryffinwhor3/status/1887293958939689096

Lol https://t.co/AbEjl8DAEl pic.twitter.com/wS2ErNRi4T

— Nyma 🇮🇷 (@vyvanse_user) February 4, 2025

yuh and we’re all fine https://t.co/NyizOmDwwR pic.twitter.com/jMqRzS77E4

— maliuuu☄️ (@mcristiana3) February 5, 2025

Average hasan fan build https://t.co/A12J9p4L3q pic.twitter.com/qszKlV4dqM

— marie (@itsbloodymarie) February 6, 2025

!chuds

!nonchuds

There are more if you wanna browse.

!meowr

🚨🇺🇸 U.S. GOVERNMENT’S ANCIENT TECH GETS A DOGE UPGRADE

Elon just rebranded US Digital Services to US DOGE Services to drag the government’s outdated computer systems into the 21st century.

Despite spending $90B a year on IT, 80% goes to maintaining relics—some over 50 years… https://t.co/dFroVGkcYj pic.twitter.com/NKrPuwn4aG

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 5, 2025

SO EVERY TIME THE FAKECELS OF !INCELS REJECT MY APPLICATION I CAN INVITE THEM TO !FAKELARPERCUTE TWINKCELS

"The American Flag gives me the ick"

https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXPreppers/comments/1igugaw/the_50501_protests_are_looking_more_and_more/mas4hph/?context=8

Even if it isn't a trap, ya know what? POC think I'm one of those white people and white people have, unequivocally, down to a one, every single time thrown me under the bus first. Sometimes just for funsies. My husband, who was just calling me hysterical not too long ago can pout all he wants that Mommy won't take him to The Protest. Frick no, I won't go.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXPreppers/comments/1igugaw/the_50501_protests_are_looking_more_and_more/massx7c/?context=8

Horsefrickers in Wa. find excuses not to go outside:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Washington/comments/1icmujl/50501_protest_lets_do_this/

take:

https://old.reddit.com/r/WitchesVsPatriarchy/comments/1ieon3k/american_witches_join_r50501_if_interested/

The Jannies of the South explain why this particular pile of shit ain't worth mopping (i.e. reddit tier organisation):

https://old.reddit.com/r/Georgia/comments/1igeqfz/50501_advertisement_posts_are_temporarily_not/

/r/Antiwork asks why they aren't protesting?

https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1i9lshc/why_arent_we_protesting/

Answer:

Amazing thread attempting to create a narrative with 40k upkongs and just 900 comments, so you know it's legit.

Comments are mostly as expected: Yeah, but Amazon is cheaper, ships faster, and has ez returns.

Note: Amazon doesn't make much on it's retail ops anymore, so they probably dgaf if people shop there or not.

Notable zero-pointers

2 weeks later no package arrives, no answer from support, regret not using reliable Beszos

Amazon is Amazon for a reason

Yeah but usually there products are marked up 25% compared to the Amazon listing so bezos gets my money🤷.

Nah I usually want the shit I ordered faster than 1-3 business months

The Pivot attempt and rebuttal

The main difference is Amazon offers free shipping and free hassle free returns. Other retailers charge you to return products you order from them and usually charge you shipping to get them

fyi hassle free returns = products go directly in the garbage (cheaper than sorting through the products) and Amazon bakes the cost into higher prices for everyone due to the high volume of returned items

FYI the exact same thing happens when you return it to the manufacturer.

The only difference is that it's substantially easier to return a product to Amazon vs most manufacturers.

https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1iir4uu/newegg_just_restocked_5090_via_6000_bundles/

Not only JewEgg selling a $2K card for $6k Bundles

The AIBs have decided to join in the scalping game

MSI

https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1iii706/msi_just_raised_all_5090_prices_on_their_website/

And ASUS

https://old.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1ij34aj/msi_and_asus_increase_nvidia_rtx_5090_and_rtx/

And CaseKing

https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1iioc0s/caseking_still_no_supply_but_raised_the_prices_by/

!g*mers are currently

Me with my 4070