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This is the person who was being very evil pic.twitter.com/KQLg7aEXz6
— MaryShelleyStepOnMe (@_MSSOM_) February 17, 2025
on the one hand dasha weighed in and i want to frick dasha so im inclined to agree
She must be very unhappy, I'm sorry she is lashing out at you
— dasha (@dash_eats) February 17, 2025
but on the other hand the person who made the reddit post is called lana and lana is a hot name too
what is the correct take here
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He is kinda cute tbh
Anyways now they are seething that he boosted "YT supremacist" and "misogynist" content online
From USA Today:
a Berkeley-educated computer scientist who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online
Kliger is one of about a dozen men identified by Reuters and other news outlets who have been recruited by Musk and his DOGE office to reshape the federal government. Reuters could not determine the importance of Kliger's role at OPM.
In social media posts between October 2024 and January, Kliger has voiced controversial views and reposted content from white supremacist Nick Fuentes and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate.
In response to a post about New York Mayor Eric Adams possibly shutting down a migrant shelter in November, Kliger wrote: "Just leave them be for a few more months. Will be much more convenient to deport them all if they are in one spot."
Kliger has reposted comments from white supremacist Fuentes, who has at times been banned from social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for hate speech.
In the post on X, Fuentes mocks a post praising a photo of an apparently white couple pictured with two light-skinned children and a dark-skinned baby. In his post Fuentes referred to "adopted Black kids", denigrating the apparent interracial adoption. He also used the word "huzz", a pejorative term for women. Reuters could not immediately establish the identity or ethnicity of the people depicted. Fuentes did not respond to a request for comment on the post by email.
Kliger has also reposted social media influencer and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate.
The post, shared by Kliger, exhorts foreigners to "respect British culture, standards of hygiene and social norms. You operate within our parameters ... Problem? leave ... Multiple complaints of the contrary? Visa revoked."
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48th president of the united states
no trans women are women
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-biden-pardons-brother-james-biden-4-other-family-members
https://old.reddit.com/r/centrist/comments/1i5hoze/exclusive_trumps_day_one_executive_order_on_male/
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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:
(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
Summary of legal complaint from KG
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
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
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.
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as we all are aware, the prophecies clearly state that this is the last pope, ergo this sickness is a harbinger of doom
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Voter turnout for this election was 58%, which is about on par with every presidential election. Around 40% of the country never cares about voting.I know several people who are in this 40%, and asked them why, and it basically always comes down to the fact that they think their vote doesn't matter. (19461)
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Introducing your new Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. Congratulations to @TulsiGabbard on her confirmation. Now go give the deep state hell for what they’ve done! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/8JCiiFgEoM
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) February 12, 2025
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As we see here, even a brand new thread posted a paltry three minutes ago and about the most /r/AskReddit topic imaginable already had HOLY COW seven hundred and ten upchuds.
Don't believe me? See for yourself!
https://poal.co/s/AskPoal/747854
I refreshed and it's dropped down to a still respectable 291 uphitlers. I guess there's a lot of diversity of opinion on this site even for relatively banal subjects like giant robots. How cool is that?
The next thread is another very hot topic, very relevant and powerful Alaskan congressperson Lisa Murkowski:
1200 upTNDs on that bad boy in just 14 minutes. This one even has a comment. Let's check it out and see what Motte-level intellectual discourse goes on here:
https://poal.co/s/Twitchy/747853
Poal.co user ERROR; RNG_USERNAME_VAR_NOT_FOUND
offers some powerful insight into this with a not at all procedurally generated comment with very reasonable, intentional, deliberate and NOT random formatting to boot. No votes at all on that one yet, for some reason. Maybe the enormous userbase is all busy crafting lengthy polemics against or for his stance there.
The next newest thread is about Pompeo. Remember Pompeo? I don't besides the name, but several hundred Poal.co users remember him. Check these votes out.
Fluctuates like crazy every time I refresh. There seems to be an enormous but enormously healthy variety of pro- and anti-Pompeo sentiments there, going by how quickly the votes shift by several hundred. This thread even has TWO comments:
https://poal.co/s/Trump/747852
I don't know what they mean and I can't ask the users because there must be some bug from all the traffic preventing real users' real usernames from displaying.
Scrolling further down the bustling digital metropolis of poal.co, we see similar levels of activity, no matter the topic:
Pretty much all of their threads have many times our most upvoted posts' total votes. Even ones with no comments. It's inspiring and demoralizing in equal measure.
In closing I'd just like to remind everyone that you need to say nigger as much as possible to defeat the Jewish hydra.
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Yes hello I am treating myself to a low-effort post-trump post
I plan on leaving the country or offing myself when my birth certificate gets changed back
Very masculine response
I currently live in a blue state with a republican nut-job governor. He will likely take Trump's side with every executive order he signs that can be enforced by the state, so my birth certificate and gender markers are likely to be changed back to 'F'.
ahhhh shit neighbor they gon change a single letter on a meaningless piece of paper, better crash out
What happens then? When other countries realize the US's attack on freedom of expression, will they let us in? I'm considering my emergency fleeing options right now.
oh yeah you're going to 'flee' the US are you bud?
Thank you for pointing out that Afghanistan is a 'no-go' I had no idea
This person uses ChatGPT as a therapist, manly behaviour
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Please, I'd just like to talk.
Feel free to invite your enemies here as well. I would like to talk to them.
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We're playing the Dawn of Civilization mod for Civilization IV that replicates world history. !g*mers
We're getting into the Modern era endgame, which typically for Civilization is the point that you've already won and you're just mopping up dudes with longbows with tanks while you listen to John Adams. Dawn of Civilization attempts to avoid this snowball effect and is generally successful unless you've maintained a hueg empire like we have.
I've for sure hit the snowball effect here as I'm an era+ ahead of everyone with near 10x the military of the rest of the world.
We have researched Spaceflight and our vision of Romans on Mars is coming into view.
Mediolanum gets to work on putting our first satellite into space while Rome develops the internet.
Also working on the Empire State Building in Rhegium. Bros the wonder video for this is adorable. It's like 90s FMV I could probably post it here but I'm going to make you install the mod to watch it instead.
We're nearing the end of the tech tree. Now researching Globalism
It's 1838AD so we're 100+ years early.
The AI is generally at their appropriate spot in history, developing railroads and factories and shit. I would slow down research and allow the rest of the world to catch up and resume all this stuff in the 1950s, BUT I'm approaching Legendary culture in a number of cities so if I don't try to win it's possible I'd accidentally hit a Cultural victory instead of a Space victory. That would be lame.
We could pretty well win most of these original victory conditions at this point. I would just need to conquer 5% more of the world for Domination. Russia and America as my vassal provinces are likely going to accomplish a good bit of that on their own just through natural expansion. The United Nations is being built in Greece but I'm not sure about Diplomatic because a lot of the world hates me. Conquest would be tricky too but I'm sure it's doable.
Instead, I'm generously trading away techs to everyone just to make things a lil more interesting.
Some stuff to get out of the way.
Last game Sweden became Communist and we discovered a cosmetic bug where Sweden lacked an official title under communism. I requested something to rename them to.
Communist Sweden will henceforth be known as Bimothy. @BimothyX2 !friendsofbimothy
Portugal has restored itself as a Republic under Maria, top Dawn of Civ waifu next to Cleopatra.
It hurts my vassal Spain a little.
Ethiopia has collapsed, following our nuking of Aksum and conquest RIP bozo
Marrakesh has been my main naval center and since researching flight London has been my primary aviation center. Independent Scotland and Ireland have been hostile to me most of the game and the Scottish have now decided to poke some of my old musket-wielding mine-guarding military with sticks. I promote them to modern infantry and decide to deal with Scotland.
Ireland too. I'll remind you I liberated these ungrateful frickers.
Since these are independent cities I don't think I get any diplomatic penalties. Can't remember if there's something like base game's "Global Warming" effect from excessive nuking. I don't care anywhere, we're about to go to freakin Mars, frick Earth
Ireland reforms as a civilization shortly after getting nuked.
There's another missing String for the modern civilization, so instead of being the Republic of Ireland or whatever it's TXT_KEY_CIV_CELTS_REPUBLIC I'm gonna have to just let this one be.
Good luck with that land
We've hoarded enough Great People and I want to get our space projects moving so I have another Golden Age
With the Eiffel Tower we only spend 3 people max.
A Great Scientist is born during this golden age. Frick it. We'll have another one too.
20 turns of Golden Age now.
We've researched Satellites after putting our first one in space from Medioladum.
Satellites can join a city for a science, commerce, or espionage boost. Rhegium has become our new commerce city with a Central Bank and the Empire State Building while Rome has shifted to Great Person generation, so I'm starting to put satellites there.
With the research of Satellites we reach the Digital Age. Now the end of the tech tree is in sight.
Japan is working on putting our first man into space
The United Nations has been finished in Greece.
We are elected to head over Kangxi of the Great Qing. We don't even get the necessary votes but enough of the world abstained from voting, I guess because they hate both of us.
We can establish a single currency to boost trade.
Kyoto puts a man into space. The japs get to work on a Lunar Landing. Rome is developing an International Space Station.
We begin to experience the consequences of Sid Meier's 90s-early 00s "nuclear bad" environmentalist mentality.
And Global Warming starts to hit in England due to our nuking of the British Isles.
Once we research "Renewable Energy" we can build solar panels onto this Cornish desert.
Canada, the latest spawning unique civilization, appears in the 1860s
Peru enters the game too, but I believe this is just a resurrected Inca civilization. They go to war with Colombia.
Canada eventually pledges loyalty to the great Dragon along with Austria. Korea falls under the protection of Iran. My Mandebros accept fascism and become the "Military Committee of Mali". Bimothy is Bimothy.
Japan succeeds with the Lunar Landing and we're treated to another lovely FMV
It triggers ANOTHER Golden Age. Three consecutive so far! Japan is doing well enough that they can get to work on the Mars Mission as well. It will only be an issue if they suddenly declare independence.
Dorylaion in Turkey can get to work on sending the Golden Record
Once the japs make it to Mars we can start the real Space Race.
Similar to Base Game, we have to build a bunch of different components. The more we build the higher chance of success.
We're going to start building the Framing components in Australia, since it's not at risk of secession.
We're starting the Power Sources in the Italian mainland for similar reasons. Rome is working on a Lunar Colony, which will speed all of these projects up.
To quote once again:
For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defense and Science!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2019
More Great People born in Rome. We're able to trigger another Golden Age.
Croatia and our West Iberian cities are also safe, Spain doesn't mind us having them. These cities get to work on Mars Laboratories while Rome works on the second most expensive part, the Excavator.
Actually, we're gonna pause the Excavator for a minute. One more Golden Age from the Interstellar Probe will push us through to the end.
We get an incredible late game event. Sorry lolbertarians
-25% inflation is AMAZING in a game this long.
~500 gold per turn slashed like that We can (kinda) afford to fund science 100% now
The five habitats begin construction in 'Straya
Hydroponics centers start in mainland Italy. Even our dedicated military center Padua is repurposed
We're facing aggressive espionage harassment at this point. Buildings keep blowing up. There's a Great Firewall wonder we could build but our Mars projects are the priority.
Scottish r-slurs are throwing bombs at us now.
We're just gonna have to conquer them to get them to stop annoying us.
We've completed the tech tree. Transhumanism functions the same as "Future Tech" in the base game, spreading happiness and health. We can continue researching it to further improve the empire.
In Civ5 this improves your score. Who the frick cares about score? That game sucks balls, seriously.
Roma completes the Interstellar Probe, giving a final Golden Age. The extractor is built and we get to work on the final component, the Mars Control Center.
One more Great Statesman is born in Roma. We can use Diocletianus for a final government change.
We're going back to a Bureaucracy and embracing Multilateralism to speed up construction in our capital. It has poor stability compatibility with fascism but we're about to establish a new government on Mars. Don't care.
We are however sticking to unrepentant capitalism. Despite a large Capitalism Bad penalty from corporations, we have enough happiness to offset it.
I think the OH YEAH! is from Transhumanism
The production boost will allow us to complete the Control Center just as the golden age concludes.
We are ousted from our position as head of the U.N.
The rest of the world will regret this.
The golden age ends and our control center is complete.
We're going to space neighbors
13 turns left on this gay planet. The cucks stuck on Earth aren't gonna let us get away that easy. Morocco attempts to secede again. This may have been the fault of our government change dropping us from Solid stability. Luckily we didn't build any ICBMs here. ICBMs can't be moved from cities and I think they could have fallen into the hands of the secessionists
Our first real modern conflict
The Qing emperor attempts to frick us up by calling a vote to liberate Arabia
They fail.
These fools are going on a list:
Later they try to take capitalism away from us
Again, failed.
Often in base civ when you're close to victory everyone will declare war on you. They aren't doing that, maybe because I so obviously could destroy everyone, but they are annoying me with spies. Right before mission completion I complete the great firewall
Neat Would be cooler if we weren't already 2 turns to victory
I get to watch the history of my world now
Just one more turn. I have some unfinished business.
Nuking Canada
Nuking China
Nuking India
Nuking Iran
Nuking Bimothy
Nuking Brazil
Thank you all for reading!!!
Since some people seem to enjoy these I may make more condensed posts on individual games/civilizations in the future but this daily post thing will get old fast and this was more to show off this mod in honor of Civilization 4 week
Now I seriously need to touch grass
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He will! - 10 bets
He will not! - 45 bets
Joe Exotic and/or Trump and/or Aevann will die before the deadline of this bet. - 5 bets
Option 3 supersedes option 2.
!bets !goomble !goomblers !goombling !project2025 !tigerfrickers
Closed.
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We are now finally in an era where you can freely ‘virtue signal’ but with normal virtues.
— Staida (@staidaz) February 10, 2025
Tony from LC sign is the king.
He will be my first choice if I need a sign.
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A Statement from U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Edward R. Martin Jr. pic.twitter.com/XlEmzSlbBq
— U.S. Attorney DC (@USAO_DC) February 3, 2025
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REMEMBER YOUR OATH, BRAVE SOLDIERS!
"I'm feeling so defeated and depressed as a two fed family. I can't take much more of this."
"I have honestly cried most of the day today. ."
"I've been scared for myself and my friends/work family."
"I'm a middle school social studies teacher and everything I keep seeing just makes me think of 1930s Germany or 1950s Russia."
"I did not sign up to be customer service rep to die and compromise my health. I'm bordering suicidal and had to have my antidepressants upped today."
Jesus Christ, burgers, what the frick did Trump/Elon do?? Is this just about laying off federal employees??
link to the literal Command HQ of the Reddit army
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- Pizzashill_feet : German slide peepee
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I AM NOT THE GF! He is my exhusbands FRIEND
— Ada Lluch (@ada_lluch) February 14, 2025
All the replies to the original are just assuming she's a prostitute lol
how much
— digits (@digitalalpha_) February 13, 2025
he got that escort money
— vintermust (@vintermust) February 13, 2025
She’s lovely. How much you pay?
— Jay Ballentine (@ImJayBallentine) February 13, 2025
How much did she cost
— Toad (@TowerGangToad) February 13, 2025
Ian Miles be escortmaxxing.
— Jay 🦍 (@therealjayber) February 13, 2025
How much are you paying that lovely lady?
— alan ☀️🇺🇸 (@RayadoReal1) February 14, 2025
escort?
— CR (@christi10006880) February 13, 2025
Also, zoom in on his teeth lol
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!kino Ne Zha 2 might actually make over 2 billion dollars and be a strong contender against Avatar 3 later this year.
https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/1iqwxwa/in_china_ne_zha_2_grossed_an_incredible/