I have seen this stupid fricking factoid come up every single time people are trying to make fun of libertarians ( which I am okay with ), but the factoid in and of itself is complete useless fricking bullshit and I know this for a fact.

Look at every single "backwards" 3rd world nation in the world and well into the 20th century most of them were marrying off their daughters at 13 or 14 or 15 years of age whenever there was an opportunity for the right price and status. Somehow. SOMEHOW! You want me to believe that WHITISTAN is the only place in the world which when it was living primarily on agriculture, and even centuries before there was any official attempt to have a legal age of consent for the world, with 3rd world tier quality of life, was somehow having parents go, yes I will wait for my kid to grow till they are 20 years old before marrying them off because we all know by 21st century standards that is the right time to marry them off, IS COMPLETE FRICKING BULLSHIT!

You would need a society so exceptional for that in their behavior and ideology that it does not match a single other society on the planet. STUPID R-SLURRED REDDIT FRICKS look at a case of some princess getting married off at 20 or some shit and go looookkk they knew what an adult age of consent was are those people fricking retarrded yes they fricking are THIS IS REWRITING HISTORY LIVE to match some contemporary bullshit moral ideals that pisses me the frick off.

EVERY FRICKING COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WHEN IT WAS LIVING LIKE POOR PEOPLE WOULD HAVE CASES OF SELLING THEIR DAUGHTERS OFF BEFORE They were 18 because age of consent is itself a modern contemporary concept!!

YOU DON"T SEE ANY OF THE CRUSADE ERA LITERATURE CALLING OUT MOHAMMAD FOR hAVING S*X WITH A TEENAGER!!! THEY LITERALLY CONSIDERED MUSLIMS TO BE DEMON WORSHIPPERS OR EQUIVALENT THEY WOULD HAVE GONE AFTER MOHAMMAD TO SLANder HIM WITh thAT if THEY ACTuALLY BELIEVED IN AN 18+ AGE OF CONSENT IN THOSE TIME PERIODS!!!!

THE CONCEPT OF TEENAGERS WASN'T EVEN A REAL COMMON THING UNTIL THE 20TH CENTURY!!!!!!

FRICKING REDDITORS! FRICKING REWRITING HISTORY TO MATCH MODERN VALUES BULLSHIT! FRICKING R-SLURS EVERYWHERE ONLINE!!!

I dislike liars and especially condescending moralist liars.

Conclusion:

Stop rewriting history to match your current day moral values. It is bullshit and ruins everybody's day.

The female Black Hawk helicopter pilot, Captain Rebecca Lobach, was not named until today. Was it so they could scrub her social media? Her Facebook page has been wiped. However, her Google+ image is below. If it turns out Lobach was a lesbian DEI pilot, I won't be surprised. pic.twitter.com/t8ShMR57dJ

— Joel Gilbert (@JoelSGilbert) February 2, 2025

!fellas what's the verdict?

- 96 votes

- 27 votes

in its time as one of the deadest( but best) esports of all time, competitive tf2 has had numerous dramas, some funnier than others. most of these are libertarian drama. one notable one occurred back in 2016

b4nny

Grant "B4nny" Vincent is the most successful competitive tf2 player of all time, having at least 30 tournament wins, 4 international tournament wins and numerous other meaningless trophies for his collection since 2008, racking up over 28,000 hours in the game. (no seriously) He is notable for being perhaps the only tf2 player to have made a career from streaming and for his enormous ego, creating numerous moments of hilarity.

(there will be more.)

one of b4nny's most redeeming traits (at least in the past) remains his penchant for tweeting.

his tweet game was so prolific that there is a 15 page thread on the main competitive tf2 forum compiling people's favorites

https://www.teamfortress.tv/32408/favorite-b4nny-tweet

some of these have caused immense seethe.

some of my favourites include:

(ok, this one is pretty funny, hes making fun of someone for not going to lan because of school or something lol)

despite his mastermind X antics b4nny has had a rough relationship with the community through the years.

initially starting off well liked, something seemed to snap in b4nny's heart, turning it cold.

maybe this was when he got cucked by his teammate and continued to play with him after finding out because he loves winning that much. Maybe it was his own teammate leaving mid-playoffs match due to him insisting on swapping the team's roles around for some reason, causing his team to get upset, get 3rd place (up to this point b4nny hadnt been either 1st or second in the top division for 4 years!) and disband immediately after. This also happened again like 7 years later but thats a different story.

B4nny immediately rebuilt his team with new up and coming players (including some who would go on to play in theoverwatch league (lolll)

all was well in b4nny's camp. He had recently met his funding goal to attend the 2016 international lan hosted in some shithole in england idk lol

one fateful day, b4nny decided to beat his liver and stream drunk. Clearly intoxicated, b4nny streamed on. meanwhile an up and coming top european player by the name of thalash decided to do some trolling by insinuating that b4nny was getting carried by his now ex-teammate who had cucked him in the past. B4nny's ego, already more inflated than the hindenburg (RIp crodies) reached nuclear meltdown levels. how dare a player who has never gone to LAN talk down on me like this!

b4nny also has a bizarre half-joking hatred for european players, berating their playstyle constantly for being slow and boring (true)

these factors lead to b4nny going on a legendary drunken tangent raving about europeans, accolades and how thalash is the equivalent of what someone might call a plumber or taxi driver driver in the UFC.

the most notable part of this autism fueled rant is b4nny's legendary statement that he requests his new found foe utter when he loses to him on lan(0:33 seconds in video 1 :) )

im sorry im not good i apologize for my ego please forgive me, im just europeean.

uh oh!

this sparks huge drama in the community, with some pointing out that thalash was provoking an obviously deathly drunk b4nny while others laughed at his ego about an already small esport.

august 26, 2016

b4nny has arrived in europe with his team to smite the europeeans once and for all.

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at his sexiest, he is ready to take the win and prove why blumpfkenstiltskin needs to stop giving aid to twink european panhandlers.

can you guess what happens?

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b4nny loses, becoming a laughing stock and likely killing some hobo in retaliation (he lived in la).

b4nny later returns to his uncrushable winning ways, winning every single major tournament in NA until 2021 and eventually getting his getback on thalash in 2018 and 2019 at lan, one being in NA one being in ingerland.

b4nny still plays to this day. i think despite his insufferable ego, its quite impressive hes been able to dedicate himself to this without roping or moving on to another esport. hes clearly a talented team leader and team builder.

ill probably never post again on this site but theres so much funny drama from this esport holy shit lol

Tay Tay don't frick no losers.

… in a subreddit for listing available federal job positions.

Many are upset about this and start arguing in the comments.

There's a literal fricking hiring freeze, what do you want from us?

To follow the rules and not try to start some uprising here?

What federal hiring process? No one is getting hired right now, and also, who would even want to join the government at this point? You'd have to be desperate or stupid to hop on a sinking ship…

People are still getting hired. Jobs are still being posted on USAJobs. So go on, delete your comment or edit it to admit you didn't think before commenting.

I did think before commenting and stand by my comment that anyone thinking of joining the federal government in this moment is either stupid or desperate.

Even if you do get hired, everyone received the mass "please resign!" emails and I doubt that trend will end any time soon. And if you get hired, you're likely probationary which is an awful spot to be in. No one's job is special or safe or can't be done by a Musk crony according to this administration.

I mean, if you're already trapped in fed gov, do you. But now seems like an especially bad time to hop around because what boss is going to bat for a new employee?

Plenty of people want to join. There are still posts on this very subreddit of people looking for advice, showing their TJO and FJO. You want to call them stupid or desperate? Fine, but don't try to subvert the reason for the subreddit existing. So both your points, that no one is getting hired and no one wants to work for the administration are rendered null by the facts.

Yeah, good luck to them 👍 I truly hope it works out.

Amen. My heart goes out to you mods, I can't even imagine how busy you guys have been sifting through the extra 100K new bots and their nonsense.

If anyone wants to really visualize why this is necessary then everyone's history is accessible.

ALL (no exceptions as of 43 comments) who want non-stop rage bait politics here have never before set foot in this sub prior to the EOs.

ALL who don't like off-topic nonsense and support the mods, hammered with downmarseys, are top contributors who've been helping the sub for months/years.

We are being brigaded by trolls and bots, the only people who can possibly abide are the trolls and bots.

Do remember there are a lot of feds who have created burner accounts in order to participate without issue. Does make it much harder to tell who has been here before and who is a bot or troll.

New accounts would support that possibility, but none of them are new - all long term /r/politics users never here before.

Plus burner or not wouldn't change the fact that it is off-topic on this sub.

Did Elon post this?

Removing posts about what is going on only serves the interests of the new administration. Reddit should be a safe space for people to converse about their reality as a fed, or anyone affected by these EOs. We should be kept aware as the general public so we know how to help and join the conversation. Silencing the voices of people who are worried or unaware of the situation is how we got here and how we make it worse—not better. The teaching and nursing subreddits almost never ban ANYTHING. Why? Because everything is relevant in their public facing jobs, everything reaches them one way or another, the feds are no different. Shutting down the conversation is wrong and leads to/is fascism. Stop upholding arbitrary "rules" that support it.

Post them to /r/fednews where they belong.

It doesn't even belong there, but rprz and the other mods are terminally chronically online reddit jannies who are ignoring rule #5 of their subreddit.

Rule 5 there states no politics, but you can discuss current policies. So discussion of the Fork in The Road, the other HR(at)opm.gov emails, the RTO memos, and notices to probationary employees should all be valid.

Given that our work has been politicized to a higher degree than at any point in the past, I don't think the Mods are violating their rules.

Rule 5 there states no politics, but you can discuss current policies. So discussion of the Fork in The Road, the other HR(at)opm.gov emails, the RTO memos, and notices to probationary employees should all be valid.

If that's what were happening I'd agree with you. However the 100,000x fold YoY increase in the usage of the words "Nazi", "Fascist", and "regime" to describe our democratically elected government suggest to me that reasoned discussion of government policies is not primarily what's going on. When subredditors describe what they're doing as "doomscrolling" that word seems to have a negative connotation, in my mind. When "Solidarity from Moldova" type posts are upmarseyd to the top of the subreddit, that doesn't feel like a well-considered policy analysis by an informed stakeholder.

Enjoy a dead Reddit for a while, then.

Amazingly we existed just fine from the dawn of Reddit until a couple weeks ago when the bots invaded. We chugged along even without an off-topic chicken little post every 5 minutes.

That's funny, you're going to chug along with what job postings?

Yeah, thanks.

That's part of the problem. This can't exist in a vacuum. Everything that impacts hiring needs to discussed.

Feel free to post anything pertaining to the federal application process (e.g. questions, concerns, suggestions, tips, experiences, etc.).

The day one purpose and rule 1 of this sub.

What about the application process has changed due to the EOs? Go ahead, I'll wait.

Nothing? Correct.

Fednews (and THOUSANDS of others) exists, until an EO fundamentally changes the application process it doesn't belong here.

You're extremely pressed.

Uh, no. I think—like many of us—he's just getting tired of the 24/7 complain fest that this sub has devolved into. Go complain to your family and friends. Some of us come here for useful information—not to read people's diaries.

Not much federal hiring practice activity going on right now…

checks usajobs, sees plenty of jobs posted

Gaslamping doesn't work when people have reality right in front of them...

They're not "gaslamping"

They said "not much" is going on right now which is very true. Just because there is some still happening doesn't mean that the majority of possible positions are under a hiring freeze

Thank you. The person accusing gaslamping is literally gaslamping lol

CHANGELOG:

Basically the title- how does one go about suing a non-elected rodent-adjacent party who has compromised the entire country's personal data? Edit: thanks all, looks like we're calling reps and beating our phone-anxiety down through sheer rage. I'd like to say something positive like "we've got this, ladies!" But best I can do is team-based void screaming.

Video is not necessary to watch at all and there are others, but I'm too lazy.

The comments however are fricking great

Elon has lost complete and total street cred with the most important demographic on the internet - !g*mers

Oh hey look it's Darkmatter2525, haven't seen that guy in like 10 years

Part 1

17 Nov 2018

r/ambien: It this for real help

Edit: I really dont like this medicine.
I guess 20mg is too much, I mean I'm suppose to take 5mg. And my wife, a really wonderful woman, counted my pills for me. I took 4 5mg accused my wife of Loving our dog more. Then asked her what concrete was made out of then got angry and sat in the pantry until she would tell me. I slept on the couch. She's really upset, but understands it was the influence of the medicine. I made this post last night seeking help more than likely while I was in the pantry.

18 Nov 2018

r/ambien: I accused my wife of knowing what concrete is made out of than accused her of loving our dog more than me.

She's in a bad mood. I need to sleep but i really don't like this medicine.

Part 2

22 Nov 2018

r/ambien: mywife is soft nd ilikeher

05 Dec 2018

r/ambien: my wiwwwfie wife is visting her mom and i miss her

she smells nice and is reall soft

Im wish she washere

09 Dec 2018

r/ambien: MY EWFIE IS HOME MY WIFE8

yes i lovd her you have to bewilling to love her and shelllove you

Part 3

19 Nov 2019

r/ambien: It's been a long time since I've posted here, but I want you all to know my wife is still soft and I still like her.

I completely forgot about these posts, and I got a message today that reminded me of them I went through and couldn't stop smiling. I got in a fight with her recently and after reading these I went into our kitchen and held her. I told her I loved her and showed her the posts. She said she loves you guys.

Part 4

19 Feb 2022

r/ambien: diforce

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Epilogue

20 Sep 2022

r/ambien: Not on Ambien today, but my Wife calls you all my "Reddit fans." She told her coworkers I'm famous on this subreddit because of how often I gush about her

Bonus Material

r/TheLastAirbender: [No spoilers] just a world building question in general. but be warned NSFW. Do you think water benders can be their own contraceptive?

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How is big sis going to freeze the whole entire patriarchy if she can't even freeze reddit jannies 😭

I'm not watching it because I'm an antipodean .

And because I don't even give a shit about actual football, let alone some New World variant where everyone dresses up as mattresses.

The face you make when the candy is ~almost~ bigger than you...😮

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— Big Lots (@BigLots) November 16, 2022

Bonafide Boomer living up to the name.

In Berlin, a decision has been made to sideline and silence the Iranian people and to appease the Islamic Republic.

At this important moment of change in Iran, I was pleased to be invited to take part in this year’s @MunSecConf. However, my participation in this conference has…

— Reza Pahlavi (@PahlaviReza) February 6, 2025

What did they mean by this

Dismal decision by Germany. They should back track. Western govts should firmly back the Iranian people and open the door to an important figure opposing Khomeini’s export of Islamist terror to the UK and around the world https://t.co/5LUHaJHp6R

— Lord Walney (@LordWalney) February 6, 2025

🔴 Unbelievable:

Germany has BLOCKED Iran's King in Exile from attending a conference in Munich, without specifying why.

Meanwhile they gladly open their doors to mullahs, regime supporters and anti-Western propagandists.@GermanyDiplo what is this insanity? pic.twitter.com/0iFP7aHGGi

— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) February 6, 2025

The shameful action of the German Foreign Ministry must be strongly condemned.
Prince Reza Pahlavi is the voice of the Iranian people and their hope for the liberation of Iran from the criminal Islamic Republic regime.
The refusal to allow Prince Reza Pahlavi to attend the Munich… pic.twitter.com/LA1jsx65QS

— Shahin Najafi 𓃬☼ (@shahinnajafi80) February 6, 2025

Shame on @ABaerbock, Germany's far-left Foreign Minister, who, despite the previous invitation to His Majesty @PahlaviReza for the @MunSecConf, has pulled strings to keep him out.

This is a blatant slap in the face to the Iranian ppl, the essence of democracy, and free speech,… pic.twitter.com/h5d27TrtUJ

— 𓄂✺Yaar - يار ‌‌قدیمی🎗️ (@YaarGhadimi) February 6, 2025

Why is it always the leftist/globalist western politicians who bow to and appease the terrorist Islamic Regime occupying Iran?

Germany's @ABaerbock is no different than Canada's @JustinTrudeau.

Enabling and appeasing a bloodthirsty Islamofascist Dictatorship is not a good look. https://t.co/OjtT4CfN0q pic.twitter.com/kItEoQ0EtJ

— Goldie Ghamari | گلسا قمری (@gghamari) February 6, 2025

.@ABaerbock @GermanyDiplo
You claim democracy and human rights, but you are allies with dictators and terrorists.
Shame on you.#WeRemember pic.twitter.com/H9Fd9HyGQw

— TIGER (@tanhayektiger) February 6, 2025

A later statement confirmed: "There has been a shooting at the school. Four people have been shot. The extent of the injuries is unclear. The operation is still ongoing.

That number has since been raised to five - while police also denied local reports that officers had been shot.

The shooting took place in a campus area which includes several schools for both children and adults.

It has been revealed that this whole mess was actually a massive unprecedented attack by both Russia and China on NATO. While other disinfo campaigns in the West happened, they were basically just a warm up for this, an overwhelming sudden attack that was supposed to completely decapitate the country and wreck the whole eastern flank of NATO (we and Poland are the main NATO allies here, so with our collapse both Poland and Ukraine would fail soon). This has been prepared for years (since 2016) and failed because these r-slurs severely overestimated the whole 'Romania is a western democracy and a member of NATO and EU' while horribly underestimating the 'Romania is a semi-autocratic eastern european shithole' part

Georgescu winning with the help of some secret services (yes the conspiracy theories were right) and generals and becoming a dictator was the main part, which failed because the idea of a democratic state cancelling elections while people were voting was preposterous (too bad nobody here cares about democracy). The backup plan was to either start a violent revolution with the supporters they gathered in all these years, or to at least cause so much chaos that the whole country will become ungovernable (too bad Romania is the laziest and most cowardly country in Eastern Europe)

The coup step by step

• after communism we never cleaned the country and the institutions of russian agents and sympathisers, so they just waited patiently for an opportunity to strike and bring Romania back into Russia's sphere of influence

• the attack was carried by Russia with China's help and with the contribution of some other countries (probably third world countries bot armies)

• during the peak of the electoral campaign Georgescu became the 9th trending topic on TikTok or something (don't use TikTok dunno how it works), and since no one really cares that much about Romania, this is proof that China was doing dumb shit with their algorithms

• other disinfo campaigns that Russia is accused of (like Brexit) were basically tests to see how western countries react to online manipulations. Brexit is an important part here because of the whole 'you can't overturn the will of the people, so if a referendum passes you must honour it' conclusion. Russia was aware that they can't take over a western country, so they just focused on destabilising them, but they want to take over Eastern Europe, so the attack here was actually meant to be a coup and not just stirring shit for the lulz

• this has been in the works for years, possibly since 2016; Georgescu has been living in Austria without a job all this time where he prepared for his esoteric messiah role and slowly gathered a following of conspiracy nutjobs

• two weeks before the first elections an army of bots started to promote Georgescu everywhere on social media and especially on TikTok. Some accounts were older than the current TikTok, created when it was still only a chinese site. They got millions of people to vote for him.

• the idea was to keep everything hidden until the elections, when Georgescu will be promoted suddenly and massively, and by the time the authorities will realize something is wrong he will have already won the first voting round, at which point no one would dare to do anything against 'the will of the people' (that part worked)

• (at this point our secret services actually realized something is very funky and asked NATO for help without anyone knowing it)

• the mysterious recount happened because the number of votes given to each candidate didn't match the votes that were presented on the election website and the authorities were worried that Russia somehow managed to get involved in the election process, but apparently they just hacked the website to mess with the numbers?

• anyway, since everything was fine, the first round of the elections was validated and the election season continued while multiple secret services, both ours and foreign were taking notes

• other weird things happened in the first voting session, like lots of ballots reaching the voting booths being already pre-stamped for Georgescu, but people assumed incompetency rather than foul play

• well, it turns out that a big part of our authorities, from secret service agents to politicians to cops and army officials, tried to stage a soft coup and manipulate the elections to get Georgescu elected as president (and his other friends into the parliament). They tried to hide evidence from their colleagues, tripped up their investigations when they noticed something was wrong, distracted people, lied etc. The only reason they didn't succeed was because someone was smart enough to notify Burgerland first and only then tried to sort through all this mess

• when they noticed the scale of the infiltration, the heads of some secret services tried to resign in shame but our president didn't accept because everything was already too chaotic and destabilised

• NATO came up with the 'cancel the elections' plan which was supposed to be a last resort if everything else failed

• two days before the last election round, when the diaspora was already queued up to vote (and a few hundred people already did), the elections were finally cancelled. Coup effectively ended

• surprisingly, despite being a corrupt shithole and despite all this chaos, we survived what is now described to be the worse hybrid attack on a NATO/EU country

• (but seriously, imagine the russian guys responsible for this. People were already voting, no democracy will ever do anything to disturb the voting process at this point, all pieces were in place, your agent was two steps away from winning. All these years of work will pay off handsomely. This was supposed to be the first type of all hands on deck attack and it was a resounding success, one NATO country down, Ukraine finished, whatever else... And then, casually and without hesitation the elections were cancelled and everyone was told to go back home. And there's nothing you can do to save your hard work from being trampled )

Funny detail. That burger plane I mentioned in my last post? The elections were cancelled just 40 minutes after it landed and most of that time was spent in traffic not in some meeting room Anyway, before that Merica also sent some specialists or something during these deranged weeks (and probably some CIA agents). Possibly the reason why the coup stated to progressively falter, there's one thing to fight our own secret services, a whole different thing to do this with CIA breathing down your neck Still, I have to give credit to our own (non-traitor) intelligence agents too, they fought with all they have and did their job well and managed to drag us all away from the cliff's edge

Yesterday evening, or night, another murican plane landed in Bucharest, probably to help us with the potential upcoming civil unrest and violence that will totes happen just because Putin wants it

The 'revolution'

Since Russia is a slav country surrounded by other slav and muslim countries they dumbly assumed that all these people that were convinced to vote for Georgescu would also be willing to get beaten up by the cops for him. Clearly they have no idea what country they're messing with

• obviously, all his supporters (and bots) were wiped into a frenzy because of the now lost elections, screaming about rights and democracy and fascism and communism and whatever

• on top of all this anger came some weird conspiracy theories: Biden wants to use Romania to drag NATO into war in order to remain a dictator forever, Moldova declared war on Transnistria and we'll join them with our army overnight, the state will start rounding up men to send them to Ukraine, martial law will be declared so our president will become a dictator etc. Anyway, lots of scary shit and these morons actually believed it

• a huge mass of angry and scared people are the perfect recipe for a nasty protest right? Add our actual nazi groups (armed and trained militias) and some mercenaries usually fighting in third world shitholes joining in and you get an actual revolution

• yesterday, the funniest shit happened, and that was the last part of this plan, the final moment before the bloodshed will start. Georgescu appeared in some livestream and said to his supporters that the elections weren't actually cancelled, because in some purely freeman of the land fashion, the decree from the Constitutional Court wasn't signed properly and wasn't published on their site therefore it's not an actual binding declaration. In fact, the globalist state is lying to them all, the elections still happen normally, just that his supporters are tricked to stay at home so he can lose the elections. So, they must all still go and vote.

• the idea here was: hundreds if not thousands of people gather in the streets to vote, they can't vote because the elections are cancelled, they get angry and the police (already tense due to the whole coup thing) panic and start beating up people, the nazis then jump to defend them with guns and swords and everything descends into violence

The actual results?

...a huge army of supporters have gathered to to vote for Goergescu! Fear them!

(notice that messed up flag)

• 20 in the country

• 100 at Viena

• 30 at Paris and Rome

They seem more confused than angry... yeah civil wars aren't exactly our thing...

In the meantime, all the hardcore nazis that came to Bucharest to fight the police were arrested before crossing into the capital As soon as the elections were cancelled the cops descended on all the known nazis (both the infamous ones and new r-slurs that posted threats on TikTok after Georgescu's rise to fame). They confiscated lots of weapons (mostly knives and swords because guns are rare here). And the ones that managed to hide have been caught now.

Even some actual militias tried to join. We have a relatively large number of mercenaries fighting in Africa and the Middle East for some reason (large for a balkan shithole that had nothing to do ever with other continents anyway). Some leader active in Congo has been arrested for trying to bring 'dozens of weapons, two guns and lots of explosives' into Bucharest during the night.

Here's the badass action hero guy:

And here is him obediently following the cops to the police station:

Mercenarul Horatiu Potra, saltat si incatusat de mascati pic.twitter.com/tBFqy1AE04

— aktual24.ro (@ak24ro) December 8, 2024

So, the whole thing was a massive failure and a huge waste of money, resources and time for Russia The authorities are still in high alert for tonight, but it seems that the worst has passed To our surprise, and delight, America reacted immediately when we called for help and held our hand throughout all this nightmare

Best part for the last In the most embarrassing turns of events ever our presidential candidates decided to all send love letters to Trump for frick knows what reason

First our nazi russian agent

Thank you @elonmusk for the "heck" you mentioned. We need peace and democracy and that's the "heck" they are upsest about, but - In God we trust! pic.twitter.com/5WG0lAvNmw

— Călin Georgescu OFFICIAL ACCOUNT (@CG_Romania) December 7, 2024

Then his gypsy nazi friend

What’s happening in 🇷🇴 is a disgrace, @DonaldTrumpJr.
Romanian people clearly chose a sovereignist, patriotic, and peaceful future. Yet, Soros globalists have other plans for us.
This spring we have one last chance.
We need your support - for #freedom! @DonaldJTrump @elonmusk

— 🇷🇴 George Simion 🇲🇩 (@georgesimion) December 7, 2024

And then our LGBT Soros feminazi candidate

President @realDonaldTrump, you have all my respect for the great things you have done, and will continue to do, to put America first and for your continuous fight for the American people. You are a true leader of the people, just like me.

I share your belief that the people and… pic.twitter.com/rEHgbHmb6w

— Elena Lasconi (@ElenaLasconi) December 7, 2024

I literally never felt such a bone deep second hand embarrassment since middle school The only parties who didn't pull such an r-slured move were our status quo parties and I think I'll vote for them next elections because they're the only ones who understand how diplomacy works in the first place

All in all, EU is pissed, NATO is worried, after all if such a hidden network existed here then other similar networks could be planted for other countries, all waiting to be activated at the right moment, and according to some diplomats even Trump is pissed. I mean, imagine starting your presidency with all sorts of ideas for your country's problems only to have to sort through multiple eastern european conflicts because Russia can't keep it's hand to itself

I remember when I first joined it was kind of cheeky and irreverent, and it still seemed plausible that women posted here. But it's become progressively more shallow and heartless. I mean I can't be the only one picking up on this, right? "The worst thing about DOGE is how soy it all is"? We can't just express outrage at immorality anymore, every criticism must be given through the lens of haughty indifference and framed around coolness or lack thereof. I think some people here have genuinely replaced their concept of wrong and right with cringe/not cringe and never stopped to consider how cruel and purposeless it could make them.

every criticism must be given through the lens of haughty indifference and framed around coolness or lack thereof

Quick question did you ever listen to the pod? Like even one clip or so?

People actually listen to Rspod?!

Gooooood, for the 100,000th time - this is a unique sub and one of the only decent culture/current events subs on reddit, the podcast sucks shit so most people here either never listened or stopped listening in 2019 (me). I used to like A&D but in the last five years one became a Fox News dork and the other is hawking a shit coin, they've changed. That being said, what drew me to them and this sub in the first place was their critique/thoughts on the overly woke/grifter left and establishment liberals. What I and many didn't know back in 2018 was A&D are insecure dorks who just adopt whatever ideology they currently find chic/edgy, and as soon as Bernie/progressive politics became boring they moved onto the next thing. But a lot of us here have beliefs based on morality/ethics/what we find to be true, so here we are

Tldr: "I have never and will never engage with the content this sub is about but here's how it should be run."

Anyways I thought this was a fun thread. The commenters even got OP to self delete out of shame.

!redscarepod

tldr: Obama created the USDS (united states digital service) in 2014 after the launch of the buearecratic nightmare that was Obamacare to streamline govt digital services particularly the busted Obamacare website. Drumpf didnt actually create DOGE out of thin air, and instead simply rebranded the USDS which is why he didnt need congress to approve the agency/appropriate funds/authority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service

!superheroes