- TrappyKong : Honestly? Would.
- StarSix : This thread is gayer than a goatse post and you're all turbo strags
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@Poj took this before leaving for chad in the uk !friendsofpizzashill !incels !truecels
- of_blood_and_salt : who
- Soren : no one cares, it was the jannies who doxxed you!
- whyareyou :
- BillAckman : Hallucinates on Ketamine, thinks it happened irl 😴😴😴
- PermaChudRanch : Most r-slurred cracker award 2024
- breakcore : his dads name? albert einstein
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Chiobu was able to find Krayon (sister toucher)'s actual Dad. His dad is a Pastor.
I called the phone number I found for him and we had a really wonderful conversation. His dad also prayed for me.
It turns out he was already aware of the situation. Krayon (sister toucher) got concerned and felt guilty when I said the doxxing made me suicidal and he went to his dad for advice.
Krayon (sister toucher), I forgive you. You are beyond blessed to have such a kind and loving father, I hope you know that.
I ask that no one bothers his father as he is already aware of what happened and asked me to contact him if this continues or happens again.
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- FreedomforIsrael :
- Soren : chibou is a known doxxer who doxxed woot
- X : t. r-slur
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First of all I'm going off on information about Krayon (sister toucher) that was already divulged by Carp and FroCho
This from the post here: https://rdrama.net/post/257327/apparently-the-user-who-dropped-users (Archive)
And this from the comment here: https://rdrama.net/post/257327/apparently-the-user-who-dropped-users/6185775#context (Archive)
So what we know know is that Krayon (sister toucher)'s allegedly named "Grant Simmons" and 952-378-7642 is his phone number
So we do a little reverse phone look up using https://www.numlookup.com/ for his number and we get "Patrick Simmons" who has the same last name. Probably a father or uncle or brother?
Area code for 952 is Minneapolis/St-Paul
When you do a search for "Patrick Simmons Minnesota"...
You get articles about some dude in St Paul who has a history of abusive behaviour towards his girlfriend stabbing her and setting her on fire killing her
Article: https://www.twincities.com/2022/03/16/woman-killed-in-st-paul-had-incredible-spirit-friend-says-in-fundraiser-for-3-daughters/ (Archive)
Simmons returned to his Bloomington home, set it on fire and drove away, the complaint said.
Co-workers went to Simmons' residence and discovered him parked nearby, and they flagged down police who were responding to the area. Officers arrested Simmons.
He had blood on his clothing, his face was covered in soot, and his facial hair and eyebrows were singed.
Simmons told investigators that Goodermont “was a witch and he did this to stand up for the babies being killed and sacrificed with witchcraft,” the complaint said.
He said he threw gasoline on Goodermont and lit it with his lighter. Police asked where he got the gas and he replied, “I got the gasoline at my house. So, yeah, it's premeditated.” He said he burned his house “because there was paranormal activity going on there.”
Last summer, Simmons was the subject of a petition for civil commitment and a court document said he was hospitalized for psychosis and receiving treatment at the time.
No attorney for Simmons, who is being held in the Ramsey County jail, was listed in the court record as of Wednesday. He is charged with second-degree intentional murder.
And if you really noootice they have the same hair colour, curly hair, facial structure and features:
We know from the articles that Patrick Simmons did a murder around March 2022
And Krayon (sister toucher) was texting FroCho using that number around September 2021 (Source: https://rdrama.net/post/14661/the-autists-last-sperg-krayon (sister toucher)-sister - Archive) when she was forced to post his "manifesto"
And based on his DMs to the jannies he seems hyperfocused on his daddy
So in a nutshell:
phone number he texted users on this site from is registered to a Patrick Simmons
area code shows Minneapolis/St Paul in the state of Minnesota
googling "Patrick Simmons Minnesota" gives you articles of some guy murdering his girlfriend by stabbing and setting her on fire
same hair colour, curly hair, facial structure, features
same brand of lunacy
Krayon (sister toucher) having daddy issues based on his DMs to the jannies
timeline fits
Please disprove me because
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Straight up cult — even with no contextual clues, it’s very obvious this is cult behavior. Never respect it. Never make excuses for it. pic.twitter.com/vbbzG2J7SB
— Mythinformed (@MythinformedMKE) April 22, 2024
What's with the masks? The hall monitor voice? The cult repetition? The marching? How the frick does this happen lmao?
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A drunk businesswoman who glassed a pub drinker after he wrongly guessed her age has been spared jail after a female judge said 'one person's banter may be insulting to others'.
Mother-of-one Joanne Dodd, 39, flew into a rage and attacked Carl Cooper after he suggested she was 43 in the beer garden of the Unicorn pub in Manchester city centre on September 9 last year.
Mr Cooper fled to the potty in a bid to get away from the heated situation, but when he came out Dodd ran towards him and twice shoved her wine glass in his face.
He was left with a four inch laceration to his face, narrowly missing his eye, and an injury to his thumb.
When quizzed Dodd, who runs a firm which organises children's sleepover parties, said she was suffering from 'low self esteem' at the time and said the banter was 'disobliging' towards her.
43?
- Solzhenitsyn : Wtf Aevann is white?
- CREAMY_DOG_ORGASM : R*pe
- Wuzizname : I see you're a mayo now, congrats!
- whyareyou : dumbass burgers dont know theres more than 2 shades of melanation
- FreedomforIsrael :
- Aba : alien fingers
- Grue : /h/slackernews
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Serious connection or Gold Digger
As an older man, I often run into a huge number of young women who say they want an older man to have a relationship with, but turn out wanting a "sugar daddy" or someone to take care of them.
I have even seen advice here suggesting young women promise men s*x and flirt with them to get gifts and money with no intention of engaging in a sincere relationship.
Without outright saying "I'm poor, you're going to be pulling your own weight." how should an older man seek out and make connections with attractive women that may be younger or similar in age?
If you are a woman, what attracts you to older men that is not money and "stability"?
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The right used to hate backwards women hating ideologies like Islam
— Lauren Southern (@Lauren_Southern) April 24, 2024
Now many “red pill” influencers are embracing it
Apparently all it takes is a couple extra 💰💰💰 to support the cultural decimation they used to warn about
Pathetic pic.twitter.com/jinV6vxnwd
https://twitter.com/joe_norte/status/1783071396714664361
Pre-Weimar Christianity was more like Islam than modern day Onlyfans Christianity.
men will pick their allies carefully and they will not be fooled.
https://twitter.com/H0US30FW0LV3S/status/1783353685122203777
Everyone in that photo genuinely looks inbred lmfao
https://twitter.com/joe_norte/status/1783354888015011903
so?
does most people around the world are inbred.
it is only in our cosmopolitan society where race mixing is celebrated and the norm
LMFAO rightoids want to RETVRN to inbreeding now !moidmoment !mayomoment
https://twitter.com/AvdullahYousef/status/1783537047598227907
Keep crying Lauren 👍🏻
Converting to Islam couldn't save that whiteoid's teeth
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What are you playing currently?
Previous Iterations:
2024
I'm aware the dates aren't exactly right but I like to keep things refered to their planned date. They are still weekly after all.
#1 --- 043 - [07 Jan 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #43 -- mayflyalt
#2 --- 044 - [14 Jan 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #44 -- lc
#3 --- 045 - [21 Jan 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #45 -- lc
#4 --- 046 - [28 Jan 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #46 -- lc
#5 --- 047 - [04 Feb 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #47 -- lc
#6 --- 048 - [11 Feb 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #48 -- lc
#7 --- 049 - [18 Feb 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #49 -- lc
#8 --- 050 - [25 Feb 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #50 -- lc
#9 --- 051 - [03 Mar 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #51 -- lc
#10 --- 052 - [10 Mar 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #52 -- lc
#11 --- 053 - [17 Mar 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #53 -- Ninjjer
#12 --- 054 - [25 Mar 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #54 -- lc
#13 --- 055 - [7 Apr 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #55 -- Ninjjer
#14 --- 056 - [14 Apr 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #56 -- Ninjjer
2023
I'm aware there are previous weekly or so megathreads and I'll eventually add them ( green = official, red = fake, yellow = misc, blue = losercel)
#0 - [22 Jan 2023] - some1 should make weekly vidya threads marseytf2spy
#1 - [28 Jan 2023] - Weekly "Whatcha Been Playing" Thread #1
#2 - [4 Feb 2023] - Weekly "Whatcha Been Playing" thread #2
#3 - [11 Feb 2023] - Weekly Gaming Thread #3
#3.5 - [13 Feb 2023] - [Weekly Gaming Thread 2] You will own no NFTs of video game microtransactions and you will be happy edition-- dramamine
#4 - [18 Feb 2023] - Weekly ‘What're You Playing?' thread #4
#4.5 - [20 Feb 2023] - Welcome to the new weekly vidya thread! Week 1 - 2/20/23 -- robotron2084
#5 - [25 Feb 2023] - Weekly “What're You Playing” Community Thread #5
#5.5 - [2 Mar 2023] - So, what do you dipshits play all day? -- horned waifu shill
#6 - [4 Mar 2023] - Weekly ‘What're You Playing' Thread #6
#7 - [11 Mar 2023] - Weekly ‘What're you playing?' thread #7
#8 - [18 Mar 2023] - Weekly ‘What're you playing?' Thread #8
#9 - [25 Mar 2023] - Weekly ‘What're You Playing?' thread #9
#10 - [1 Apr 2023] - Weekly ‘What are you playing?' Thread: #10: Whooaaaa Those are some HILARIOUS patch notes edition
#11 - [8 Apr 2023] - Weekly 'What are you playing' Thread #11
#12 - [15 Apr 2023] - Weekly ‘What are you playing' thread #12
#13 - [23 Apr 2023] - What're you playing thread #idk
#14 - [29 Apr 2023] - Weekly ‘What Are You Playing' thread #14
#15(1) - [6 May 2023] - Weekly ‘What're you playing?' thread #15
#15(1).5 - [10 May 2023] - marseyg*mer Gaming Thread - What are you playing this week? -- cynic
#15(2) - [13 May 2023] - Weekend ‘What've you been playing?' Thread #15 -- he fricked up the ordering here I'll just go with it
#16 - [20 May 2023] - Weekly "What Are You Playing?" Thread #16
#16.5 - [28 May 2023] - Weekly “What are you playing” thread -- carp
#17 - [3 Jun 2023] - Weekly “What have you been playing?” Thread #new one
#18 - [10 Jun 2023] - Weekly “What are you playing” thread #18
#19 - [17 Jun 2023] - Weekly ‘What're You Playing' thread #19!
#20(1) - [24 Jun 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are you Playing?' Thread #20: Modern Warfare III
#20(2) - [1 Jul 2023] - Weekly ‘What're you playing?' Thread #20: Summer Salestice -- same reason as above
#21 - [10 Jul 2023] - Weekly ‘What're you playing?' Thread #21: loli_esports forgot got chudded edition -- basad
#23 - [15 Jul 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are You Playing?' thread #I think it's actually 23 -- should be 22 but I'll go with his ordering
#24 - [22 Jul 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing?' thread #24: Lot of stuff coming out all of a sudden, feels like
#25 - [29 Jul 2023] - Weekly ‘What games have you been playing' thread #25
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#36 - [27 Oct 2023] - Weekly “What games are you playing” thread #36 -- tulpa
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#38 - [03 Dec 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #38 -- losercel
#39 - [10 Dec 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #39 -- losercel
#40 - [17 Dec 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #40 -- losercel
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Tournaments and more. I don't know anything about this hole. If @KangThaConquered gave me something to say about it, I would.
Last week's game: Lethal Company
Final Score: (10*0+9*0+8*2+7*4+6*0+5*1+4*0+3*0+2*0+1*1)/(0+0+2+4+0+1+0+0+0+1) = 6.25
All Previous Games:
[26. Nov 2023] Hades = 7.60
[3 Dec 2023] Rimworld = 8.93
[10 Dec 2023] Baldur's Gate 3 = 7.54
[17 Dec 2023] Age of Empires 2 = 8.59
[24 Dec 2023] GTA V = 6.62
[14 Jan 2024] Skyrim = 7.25
[21 Jan 2024] Cuphead = 6.97
[28 Jan 2024] Celeste = 5.27
[04 Feb 2024] Planescape Torment = 9.33
[11 Feb 2024] Palworld = 7.39
[18 Feb 2024] Nier Automata = 5.80
[24 Feb 2024] Might and Magic 6 = 5.33
[04 Mar 2024] Balatro = 9
[11 Mar 2024] Helldivers 2 = 7.3
[17 Mar 2024] Heroes of the Storm = 6.79
[25 Mar 2024] Dwarf Fortress = 7.81
[7 Apr 2024] No Man's Sky = 5.96
[14 Apr 2024] Lethal Company = 6.25
Game to Discuss?
This week, let's discuss SpaceChem, Zachtronic's classic zachtronic game. I'm sure with so many on this site, some of you have played it, and probably either hated it or it furthered you along the path towards a formal autism dianosis, a career in codeceling, and absolutely no bitches. Discuss below in the pinned comment
carp, capy, geto, donger pin please
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Harvey Weinstein's r*pe conviction overturned in New York
The disgraced movie producer was convicted of r*pe in February 2020.
The r*pe conviction of movie producer Harvey Weinstein has been overturned by New York's highest court.
The New York Court of Appeals, in a 4-3 opinion, overturned Weinstein's conviction on s*x crimes against three women, finding the trial judge "erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes."
The court said that testimony "served no material non-propensity purpose" and "portrayed defendant in a highly prejudicial light."
Weinstein, 72, was a well-known, powerful man within the entertainment industry and prosecutors said he abused his power to take advantage of aspiring female actors, like the alleged victims, to coerce them into unwanted sexual encounters. According to the prosecution, the quid pro quo of assisting them with their careers in exchange for sexual favors on demand was both common behavior and a well-known secret throughout the film industry.
Prosecutors said the testimony of women other than those whose claims formed the basis of the criminal charges spoke to Weinstein's state of mind to use forcible compulsion. The majority opinion, however, said that eviscerated the time-tested rule against propensity evidence, "which, in criminal cases, serves as a judicial bulwark against a guilty verdict based on supposition rather than proof."
Weinstein remains in prison. The Manhattan district attorney's office could decide to retry him.
Weinstein was also convicted of s*x offenses in Los Angeles and sentenced to 16 years in prison there.
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Writer Tracie McMillan claims being white has benefited her by $371,934.30
She argues that her family was able to save money because of white privilege
Her claims are detailed in her new book
A Brooklyn-based journ*list calculated exactly how much racism and white privilege has financially benefited her down to the last cent - coming in at a whopping $371,000.
In her new book, 'The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism,' author Tracie McMillan claims that being white has created a benefit worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
McMillan derived the number, in part, by tracing the amount of money she's received from her family over years, money she claims her family was able to save up over generations because of their whiteness.
Figuring largely into her final sum were educational loans that she received from her grandfather, totaling at $52,784.33.
McMillan, a graduate of NYU, where she studied political science, contends that her grandfather was able to give her this money because he had been able to accumulate wealth over years thanks to his whiteness.
She argues that her grandfather's wealth was rooted in benefits accrued from the GI Bill, a post-World War II piece of legislation that helped military veterans attend school and receive job training.
The Brooklyn-based writer argues that the GI Bill 'heavily favored whites,' and therefore benefited her grandfather at the expense of non-whites.
McMillan also received $40,384.72 as an inheritance from her grandfather, which, again, she contends was money that was owed to her grandfather's whiteness.
She also received $15,086.74 from her parents, which she referred to vaguely as a gift. McMillan, in a graphic posted on her website, fails to elaborate on why this 'gift from parents' was attributable to their whiteness.
The writer also cites 'avoiding foster care' as a consequence of her whiteness, which is an assertion that almost suggests that all non-whites are automatically in foster care.
She puts the value of avoiding foster care at $15,771.37.
But McMillan claims that the money she's received from her family is only one part of her 'white bonus.'
The NYU-graduate contends that her rent-stabilized apartment, has saved her $1,319.86 in costs due to discrimination that she never faced given the fact she is white.
Another white privilege was her 'job as a tutor with Maggie,' from which she claims she received $26,858.04 more than non-white tutors.
And McMillan also asserts that she's been spared $37,488.11 in credit discrimination when accessing credit.
Explaining her calculus to CNN, the Brooklyn Journ*list said: 'I calculate $146,000 from my family that probably they had because of racism.'
'I calculate $225,000 of money that I have had access to or equity I've gained probably because I was white. That's almost $400,000.'
Asked why she had written the book, McMillan said: 'I hope that readers who aren't White feel seen, too — that somebody out there who's White does see how this is happening.'
McMillan insists that her nearly $400,000 estimate only scratches the surface.
'All these are back of the envelope estimates. They are bare minimums.'
'The White Bonus,' McMillan's new book, focuses on how white privilege benefits the middle class because 'the middle class is really the fulcrum for White advantage in the US.'
In her book, McMillan lays out her argument that all white families in America have benefited because of their race,
'White people today do not understand — because this history has been hidden from them by previous generations — that somebody in their family got something because they were White.'
When McMillan announced her tour for her new book on X.com, formerly Twitter, some commenters criticized the book's premise.
One user wrote: 'Maybe we should re-label white privilege to “white, upper middle class” privilege. Since a lot of us that grew up poor didn't have the “bonuses” you enjoyed.'
Another commenter asked: 'Will you be donating all the profits from this book to black causes?'
And one critic observed: 'Money from inheritance, parents paying for college and loan from grandparents isn't a white bonus. It's a upper-class bonus.'
They continued: 'Go interview lower-class and middle-class white people and ask about their college, inheritance and loans from grandparents.'
- ULTRA-NIGMATIC-MEGA-HOMO : I just want to click buttons
- UncleAbortion : #FreeGrue
- AZZ : Link clicker genocide
- smolchickentenders : Badgemaxxerphobia
- BernieSanders : More than 60 r-slurs fell for this!
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TRULY
context: https://rdrama.net/post/263876/join-our-official-groomercord-server-and
trans lives matter
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An American dad faces 12 years in prison for having a tiny bit of hunting ammo in his carry on bag in Turks and Caicos.
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) April 24, 2024
He could miss his son growing up over this.
Do not visit there until he’s sent home. Let @TCIPremier know what you think about this! pic.twitter.com/ssOjS5sOPE
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1783131128922087840
Bruh it's just spare bullets, he didn't know it was illegal!
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1783146493731295429
Y'all
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1783145423978242252
https://twitter.com/shakoistsLog/status/1783271257628438555
Remember Brittney?
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Holy heck! He might be a security guard not sure but this filled me with so much joy that I can be running on this joy for a year.
The people laughing in the background
- FreedomforIsrael : Groomercord user
- X : Rule 4
- DaddyReagan : groomercord posting
- CHUDLORD : I HATE THE ANTICHRIST I HATE THE ANTICHRIST
- JollyJihad : Join our groomercord server and get AIDS and -ACK
- UncleAbortion : Wow it is so much better than the website! No annoying losers!
- King_K_Rool : #FreeGrue
- collectijism : Stupid link banned me. I hate this website. I can't wait to tell the fbi I
- Rankine_911 : this is entrapment
- IanMurdock : Where is my badge?!
- Konggles : I forgot what I'm reporting but i know there's some type of misia going on here I can feel it
- DickButtKiss : got every single one correct
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Cute pictures of her new velvet hippo Hickory:
Some of the typical comments:
Hickory is going to need lots of tennis balls!! I love him so much. Completely adorable! 🧡💙
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He's beautiful I love him 🥰❤️ congratulations!
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Honey still seems displeased.
Displeased? She looks like she's completely disassociated. Unable to comprehend the horror of the situation.
Only 3 hours later, disaster strikes!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
He's NOT a bad boy he's so sweet he only chewed on my dog's head a little bit
GOOD idea, there's too many toddlers in the world anyway
I can't be the only one who finds the juxtaposition funny between the sparkly hearts and the advice on how to stop your dogs eating each other
Bonus Post
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We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.
— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) April 26, 2024
If you want more real, honest, and politically INcorrect stories that’ll have the media gasping,… pic.twitter.com/bKhpUkchHV
I grew up on a farm but luckily it wasn't Kristi Noem's farm or otherwise I'd be dead in a gravel pit.
I'm not making this up when I say she brought a happy tail wagging 14-month-old puppy to a gravel pit and then murdered it in cold blood and threw it into a shallow grave rather than find it a new home. Everything I just said is true and something she admitted to thinking she would get votes.
She literally wrote this into a book and it's not the only animal she murdered in the story lmao
This is the puppy btw:
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To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to Balaji Srinivasan. Before you do, steel yourself for what's to come: A normal person could easily mistake his rambling train wrecks of thought for a crackpot's ravings, but influential Silicon Valley billionaires regard him as a genius.
“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I've ever met,” wrote Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the V.C. firm Andreessen-Horowitz, in a blurb for Balaji's 2022 book, The Network State: How to Start a New Country. The book outlines a plan for tech plutocrats to exit democracy and establish new sovereign territories. I mentioned Balaji's ideas in two previous stories about Network State–related efforts in California—a proposed tech colony called California Forever and the tech-funded campaign to capture San Francisco's government.
Balaji, a 43-year-old Long Island native who goes by his first name, has a solid Valley pedigree: He earned multiple degrees from Stanford University, founded multiple startups, became a partner at Andreessen-Horowitz and then served as chief technology officer at Coinbase. He is also the leader of a cultish and increasingly strident neo-reactionary tech political movement that sees American democracy as an enemy. In 2013, a New York Times story headlined “Silicon Valley Roused by Secession Call” described a speech in which he “told a group of young entrepreneurs that the United States had become ‘the Microsoft of nations': outdated and obsolescent.”
“The speech won roars from the audience at Y Combinator, a leading start-up incubator,” reported the Times. Balaji paints a bleak picture of a dystopian future in a U.S. in chaos and decline, but his prophecies sometimes fall short. Last year, he lost $1 million in a public bet after wrongly predicting a massive surge in the price of Bitcoin.
Still, his appetite for autocracy is bottomless. Last October, Balaji hosted the first-ever Network State Conference. Garry Tan—the current Y Combinator CEO who's attempting to spearhead a political takeover of San Francisco—participated in an interview with Balaji and cast the effort as part of the Network State movement. Tan, who made headlines in January after tweeting “die slow motherlovers” at local progressive politicians, frames his campaign as an experiment in “moderate” politics. But in a podcast interview one month before the conference, Balaji laid out a more disturbing and extreme vision.
“What I'm really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” he said, after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (“spiritual father” of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore). Balaji then revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in gray t-shirts. “And if you see another Gray on the street … you do the nod,” he said, during a four-hour talk on the Moment of Zen podcast. “You're a fellow Gray.”
The Grays' shirts would feature “Bitcoin or Elon or other kinds of logos … Y Combinator is a good one for the city of San Francisco in particular.” Grays would also receive special ID cards providing access to exclusive, Gray-controlled sectors of the city. In addition, the Grays would make an alliance with the police department, funding weekly “policeman's banquets” to win them over.
“Grays should embrace the police, okay? All-in on the police,” said Srinivasan. “What does that mean? That's, as I said, banquets. That means every policeman's son, daughter, wife, cousin, you know, sibling, whatever, should get a job at a tech company in security.”
In exchange for extra food and jobs, cops would pledge loyalty to the Grays. Srinivasan recommends asking officers a series of questions to ascertain their political leanings. For example: “Did you want to take the sign off of Elon's building?”
This refers to the August 2023 incident in which Elon Musk illegally installed a large flashing X logo atop Twitter headquarters, in violation of building safety codes. City inspectors forced him to remove it. This was the second time Musk had run afoul of the city in his desire to refurbish his headquarters: In July, police briefly halted his attempt to pry the “Twitter” signage from the building's exterior. But in Balaji's dystopia, he implies that officers loyal to the Grays would let Musk do as he pleases (democratically inclined officers, he suggests, can be paid to retire).
Simply put, there is a ton of fascist-chic cosplay involved. Once an officer joins the Grays, they get a special uniform designed by their tech overlords. The Grays will also donate heavily to police charities and “merge the Gray and police social networks.” Then, in a show of force, they'll march through the city together.
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You will never ever ever guess what subreddit shes active in. She also posted this
Seething roastie.
You hear about the shortage of ugly reddit r-slurs nowadays?
Nah. We'll stay. And women love us in your country. Seethe
Enjoy it but the fact you can't pull girls in your own country is pathetic 😆
It's not pathetic. Average men are repulsive to American women. I'm Average so I can't pull. Fortunately I don't have to. I can just travel and pull in Asian countries
It's pretty fricking pathetic man it takes like no effort to take care of yourself and go outside and talk to the opposite gender 🤦♂️
Cope lmao, American girls are easy af
They are easy for Chad. I'm not Chad. I have no game. And I don't need it. I just go to Asia. They are slimmer and better looking with more pleasant personalities anyway. Everyone wins
Asian girls will still leave you the second they find a guy who doesn't have a dog shit personality, you're gonna die alone and it's completely on you
I haven't experienced that. Projecting your reddit brainrot onto asian women doesn't really work in reality. Dating in Asia as an average American man is paradise. No amount of downvotes, insults or snark can ruin it
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You actually just have a warped view of gender and it leads you to believe lies about women. Youre living a fantasy in your head bro. "Chad" isnt real and there are girls that like average guys. You need therapy my guy you know an incel just went on a stabbing spree at a mall? This line of thinking is unhealthy and there is help available bro. There are vastly less differences between the sexes than youve led yourself to believe you just need some actual exposure, and to stop surrounding yourself with people spewing hateful, unscientific rhetoric. Its not about insults or snark your idealogy is harmful to yourself and the world around you. You are making your life harder on yourself, not women, not "Chad", but you alone. You are the maker of your own destiny. Youve got serious self hatred that youve projected onto women, now you think all women hate you and are out to get you. No you need to love yourself before you see yourself as lovable, because you are, you just need to escape this mindset and focus on the right things.
Nice buzzword waterfall. But it has no bearing on who I am, how I live, or the reality of most men and women in America openly admitting that dating and finding a partner sucks. You can't gaslight the entire world into thinking American dating is totally great and only wierd incels have a problem. Everyone can see its terrible all around. Therapy and using the right terminology won't fix it. Men traveling will at least improve their experiences
Its not a buzzword waterfall its facts. Its funny because the incel playbook is just regurgitating words that incite emotions rather than reflect facts "chad" "stacy" "x pill" all words with no scientific or sociological basis that are tailor made to trigger lonely men's emotions. You are parroting grifters my dude, grifters that make money off of lonely men. Who you are or how you live have no impact on reality, that dating statistically isnt as grim as you make it out to be. That there is no science to back your feelings up. Then there is far more you could do to improve your dating odds, which you reject. Your fragile emotions regarding women do not care about the facts. The fact that you can date, but you don't. The fact that your emotions are being taken advantage of by grifters. The fact you can go outside right now and see average looking dudes dating smokeshows. And the fact that people that share your mindset are causing harm to the world. Read some science and stop getting in your feels, make some change in your life and quit blaming other people. Once again, you are the maker of your own destiny. And if your destiny is that of a weak man who sees himself as stuck with society stacked against him with no way out, then thats weakness. Your weakness, your intrinsic self defeat and preassumed failure, thats why you arent getting laid my dude. Because you believe youve already lost, because grifters told you you already lost and you believed them.
Most people aren't scientists and don't use science in their daily discussions of dating or culture. All your demands for statistics and scientific sources for casual statements about dating sound spergy and insipid. Chad is short hand for tall good looking charismatic popular guy who easily gets women. People don't want to type all of that out every single time so they say Chad. This is how language develops and it's not proof of incel pathology to use or understand what it means. All your walls of text about my inadequacies have no affect on reality whatsoever. You are wasting effort and convincing no one
Ok well i just hope you get better lol
You hope I die a painful slow death, at least be honest
I really don't, I want you to go to therapy
Men in therapy are miserable, broke from the bill, and STILL celibate. Men who travel solve the problem instantly. I wouldn't wish therapy on my worst enemy
lol white girls just simply can't stand it when all of the attention is not on them
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"Calvin and Hobbes is Le most wholesome conic strip ever made!"
I'm not even being ironic or trying to troll. This shit was so unbelievably bland.
Can't believe people actually shill this shit lmao I read a few years worth of strips today and it was the most basic slop I've ever seen.
DAE society and technology bad? - a 6 year old sperg with no friends
Did you know Fattershit never licensed any mercy or tv show??? Based anti-capitalist!!