Battlefield Earth (2000) is the infamous Scientology propaganda film commissioned by John Travolta. It is considered one of the worst moves ever made, but I'd never seen it before yesterday.

It is now one of my favourite films.

Literally everthing about this movie is hillariously bad. The sheer incompetence is awe-inspiring and I didn't want it to end.

Story & Writing

In Battlefield Earth, a species of 10-foot tall aliens called Psychlos (seriously) run a mining colony on Earth after conquering the planet a thousand years ago after a war lasting just nine minutes. Humans are now reduced to stone-age tribes in irradiated wastelands, or slaves of alien masters.

I can't really say much more except it makes no sense. The Psychlos believe "man-animals" are too stupid to mine for gold, but they already employ humans as a labour force in their city.

Also, how the heck did illiterate tribesmen learn to fly Harrier attack jets in seven days without electricity or fuel?

The film is filled with the most ham-fisted exposition I've ever heard. As an audience-member, can you understand what blackmail is? Yes? Too bad! We're going to tell you anyway in 90 additional seconds of dialogue!

The Acting

John Travolta stars the scheming Psychlo security chief named Terl (seriously), trying to earn a transfer off the planet. His nemesis is the human Johnny Goodboy (seriously), played by a wooden Barry Pepper, who must lead humans to freedom.

Travolta's (and everyone else's) performance is so far over the top, he can't see all the way down. He isn't chewing the scenery, he is engorging himself upon it. Hense my favourite line in any movie anywhere:

If you ever wanted to see John Travolta in dreadlocks and a codpiece shooting the legs off a cow, this is the film for you.

Even Forest Whitacker, who's acting talent is undeniable, is wasted with nothing to do except deliver terrible dialogue.

Cinematography

A "Dutch angle" is a filming technique where the camera is tilted off the horizon to portray a scene of uneasiness or tension.

Literally the entire film is shot in this way. It looks like the DP had a stroke.

Also, there are loads of corny slo-mo shots, an over-use of wipe transitions, and most scenes are shot with an ugly, sickly purple filter.

Pacing

Battlefield Earth is all over the place. Fast-paced action set pieces are inter-cut with corny slo-mo. Thematically important scenes are not allowed to breathe, but are immediately followed by more exposition or John Travolta overacting.

Special Effects

Honestly, for 2000, the special effects aren't half bad. It all looks ugly as sin, of course. But I think this was a deliberate choice rather than technical negligence.

Summary

This film is worse than I ever thought possible and lives up to its reputation. But it's so bad, it became a joy to watch. I found myself laughing many times at the sheer absurd awfulness of this movie.

If you haven't seen Battlefield Earth, I thoroughly recommend it. I love this movie.

Weed makes me paranoid/anxious so I don't consume BUT….

Weed is legal in IL and two summers ago @Takoyucki visited me. He liked weed so I ofc went to the dispensary near me and picked up some gummies etc so we could partake.

We went to the field museum (I was high af, pretty inexperienced with marijuana) and then to the taste of Chicago. The Taste of Chicago had really tight security and literally this security guard woman took me aside and was like “WE DON'T ALLOW DRUGS IN HERE”. I didn't have any on me (had just had edibles earlier in the day) but had no idea how the frick she knew I was high. Like….amazing call lady. I wasn't even giggling.

I’m sorry? What? @metpoliceuk

You are gaslighting Jews, telling us if we report on the prejudice your force holds against that we are the ones “making a further dent”

The guy was told if he stayed there he’d be arrested, when asked why, your officer basically said because… https://t.co/pTLc5hVU2U

— Kosher🎗🧡 (@KosherCockney) April 19, 2024

Original post: https://rdrama.net/h/sandshit/post/262608/marseybongcoplaser-oi-you-got-a-loicense

Deleted apology:

New apology for the apology:

Various sneeding:

https://twitter.com/leekern13/status/1781348219840045351

https://twitter.com/claire88424030/status/1781370948869910645

https://twitter.com/nicolelampert/status/1781398231118717150

Rightoids making hay:

https://twitter.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1781412930677817779

https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1781375302091849923

Actually important people (in Bong terms):

https://twitter.com/lucyallan/status/1781406960870416745

https://twitter.com/markjenkinsonmp/status/1781071114464092325

Reddit threads:

Post-apology:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1c847cj/met_police_earlier_we_posted_a_statement_about_a/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1c88wgb/met_police_apologises_for_openly_jewish_comment/?sort=controversial (warming up)

Pre-apology:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Jewish/comments/1c7i0g8/met_police_officer_says_that_it_is_unsafe_to_be/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/comments/1c806kg/shocking_moment_met_police_officer_threatens_to/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1c7pmx4/shocking_moment_police_officer_threatens_to/?sort=controversial

It was here: https://youtube.com/@StreetsnapsNightlifeWalks4K

Content was basically a woman (with a real vagina and stuff) going around filming young women on nights out in the UK, they had hundreds of thousands of views and the comments were full of coomers. Previews still show up on Bing:

RIP to the Sexy Indian dudes jerking off to bong foids, I guess.

Post: https://rdrama.net/h/toomanyxchromosomes/post/262594/10inbongland-foids-dont-like-their-skimpy

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I've climbed mount warning, in female company, more times than I could count. The only dangers are those inherent in physical activity of that sort. The idea that nativist mumbo jumbo dictates public policy and access to public spaces in the 21st century is ridiculous.

Thanks whitey

/u/Actual_Ebb3881 is barely trying and generating so much seeth

So they're trying to justify closing Mt Warning because imaginary spirits will make people sick? Yet continue to sink piss and abuse their kids and partners at a much higher rate than the general population.. can't be too concerned with health. Cultural or religious considerations shouldn't have any weight at all in decisions that impact everyone

Inter generational trauma is a terrible thing. Your comment is unkind, small minded and demonstrates your lack of knowledge around these issues. Shame on you!!! SMH 🤦‍♂️

eagerly awaiting an angry reply to this one

[removed] They want all the benefits of western culture while maintaining their "heritage". To lazy to create written language or defend their Home but more than happy to stand around with their hand out, "Sovereignty was never ceded" is "We lost and don't want to blame ourselves" you don't get to cede what was taken you stupid fricks.

Just want a fair crack bro, like the one you were born into

removed guy's username is /u/DeepAnalRape

/u/Actual_Ebb3881 with another banger

It makes perfect sense with the deleted comment above 👆🏾 what happened? Cause you've gone from king/queen fighters to convict/slave no choice something something. What will be the plight of whitey next comment?

What are you on about blackey?, there is no deleted comment or are you still learning english?

you wanted to talk about centuries ago so i talked about a slice of White history, Europeans have been fighting kings and queens since before the Romans, the Roman empire was more more advanced than the Aboriginals were at any point in there 40 thousand year history.

Bit rich coming from the guy playing the violin for the plight of some Hut dwellers running around without shoes.

these dudes would make the most racist american hicks blush

!strayans please educate us as to what these idiots are arguing about. i gather the rock is important to the abos and the chuds want to keep clambering on it? is there more to this?

Now, as you may instantly notice, the amount of stereotypes is so high that if someone from here made an account like that theyd get bullied and spammed with

Lets start our analysis

First the name:

Mx. Kestrel

Off to a good start, we have an unironic use of Mx. Lets keep going

Next, the pfp:

The flag in the background, the greasy hair, the unevenly shaved beard. All on a picture that is usually meant to look appealing. The stereotypes keep piling up

Next on: The BIO

Painfully queer.💀 White silence is white consent. ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿 Lead Community Manager for @PokemonGoApp. 🎲 They/them. Opinions are my own.

Are we certain this is not a parody?

Lets see their recent posts next

I LOOK SO COOL

Fat androgynous blob in emo dark clothing

Some angry pokechuds in the replies here, not much though.

Unsuprisingly, however, it appears the redesign was meant to accomodate xer and allow xim to self insert more easily. Because, say what you want, they/them surely nailed their look in game:

https://twitter.com/MxKestrel/status/1772787079488868796/photo/1

Click the post for a jumpscare of the guy next to xer. How do they manage to look like blatant bait while being completely unironic. Truth is truly stranger than fiction

And a recent feedback post. Suprisingly, not much pokechuds around here. Likely got them all blocked.

I've been reading and building notes, but I'd love to hear what folks think.

But you can find thousands of chuds seething abotu xem elsewhere, for example on the profile of a mexican neo nazi p-dophile Kaguya's Top Gal:

Look who is working at Niantic. What a shock

Never bet against the American consumer

"Red Lobster eyes bankruptcy option after $11M in losses from endless shrimp"https://t.co/OFLx0ocT25

— Jeremy 'adjusted for inflation' Horpedahl 📈 (@jmhorp) April 19, 2024

I'm not factchecking this, I choose to believe it

The IRS played in everybody’s face this year. You either owed or got a small amount back. Either way, most of us were all cheated.

— BLH (@_RareDefined) April 15, 2024

The Biden Admin has just officially abolished Title IX as we knew it. Now, sex = gender identity.

In a nutshell, the new rewrite means:
- men can take academic AND athletic scholarships from women
- men will have FULL access to bathrooms, locker rooms, etc
- men could be… pic.twitter.com/JfQVI9Yfph

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) April 19, 2024

!transphobes

You absolute sickos | #Helldivers2

🔗 Ace_Larrakin pic.twitter.com/ezKcONBsfZ

— HELLDIVERS 2 Updates (@Helldivers2HQ) April 19, 2024

1. What is fueling this bull market

As far as for influence in the S&P 500, the stock markets and risky assets in the US there's no international factors that exist but for war. If war kicks in, as we've seen with Ukraine in terms of its impact on oil, oil price and various other things, if China gets scary in terms of Taiwan, yeah, it might have an impact (negligible).

But that's more of a function of the fiscal changes that the US has to put on its books in response to the national defense. But as far as any sort of monetary change, they just don't exist. You could actually say that if you identify that there's such a thing as a global liquidity, that's a spurious correlation.

If you search hard enough, you can find indexes after the fact, even after the fact might be five minutes. But after the fact, you can get all sorts of neat indexes, like what's the coffee price influence on steelmaking in the United States? Everything comes in and out.

But the thing is, is what's the Federal Reserve up to in terms of its actual cash flow? There's no such a thing as a fed induced liquidity (no matter what wingcucks on either end of the political spectrum neolibs vs AnCaps tell you). The Fed and if you just deal with just the United States, the Fed, not since World War II (and they didn't even do it during this COVID period), has actually put money into the country.”

Regarding what they have put in, they're mostly a very small trim tab, which because of the law that divides mandatory discretionary spend from Congress does have influence. They can tighten, they can ease, but it's a small fraction of what the actual innate US economy is doing

Now, if Congress, like the Soviet Politburo, is tied up in a five-year forward plan of what they can spend and not spend, you can have some forward look in terms of what that's going to be, then yeah, the Fed matters.”

They can have an influence. Volcker proved it with what he did, but by the way, that's the only time the Fed's ever proven that they can handle inflation More on that below). They thereafter acted like a trim tab, where they just did a very small amount of tightening or easing, which influenced the market that gave the forward expectations thesis, that's the New Keynesian thesis, which has actually just gotten out of hand totally, which is that the forward expectations of what the Fed's going to do is all that counts.

It's the federal government's bank is what the Fed is. It was never a policy maker. What's happened is that given what happened with the GFC and the Fed moved to a completely, radically new way of operating, which is called Neo-Wixel-Woodford, or whatever you might want to call it, and there's a lot of material that started with Woodford's 2012 presentation at Jackson Hole, where the Fed just shifted to forward markets. (Attached - Michael Woodford's paper on Forward Guidance, presented at the Kansas City Fed Meet, 2012 in Jackson Hole. Read it if you want; I glossed over and rolled my eyes so many times within the first 10 pages I have no interest in going through the whole thing: https://www.kansascityfed.org/Jackson%20Hole/documents/6930/Woodford_JH2012.pdf ).

They can just set down the framing of what they can do. And that's supposed to be monetary policy. Well, that, from any rational point of view, means that the Fed has just given up and left the play field.

That, especially when there's an exogenous shock like COVID looming over and the Fed's not evolved, signals what their power truly is. They're always just a small trip tap, so if they actually expect that forward expectation management is all they have to do, well, sooner or later, people start to poke at it. And then more and more poke at it, and they say, okay, things are great two years from now or a year from now.

Yet sentiment matters, and the Fed is the principal definer of sentiment right now. And last week (after the markets held steady even after rates were not cut and there was an indication that it might even go up) was the start of the end of that grip on the market. It was almost like a near panic among Fixed Income hustle and bustle cels.

Yet everything the Fed did was clearly orchestrated. Everyone had like six talking points in front of them before they go out. There is no independence with all the FOMC and the regional Fed governors.

Unless there's like a two to three trillion dollar tightening that comes from, and at this point, only Congress can deliver that, the stock market has only one way to go. Now, it might be that the nominal growth might be inflationary, it might not, but the stock market is going to continue to go up.

2. But what is the Fed then?

What happened in the 70s, this is the fundamental object lesson of monetary policy is every time there was the slightest hint that the economy could be turning down, the Fed lowered rates and then inflation came back up and then they increased rates. And the issue is when the Fed doesn't look like it's resolute on inflation, inflation doesn't come back to where it was before, it comes to higher than it was before, which means that every time to fight it, you've got to take rates even higher, which means that the damage you do to the economy is even more. And so letting it, expectations spiral out of control, I think is just a very risky thing for the economy.

And that's not some theoretical model. People actually lived through in the 70s. Volcker buck broke the economy under Carter and Ford but neither of the trio get the recognition they deserve. 😞

The overall story that inflation is moderating is still the right story. But the not dumb people have long been of the view that inflation has been, and will be more stubborn to come back to 2% than everyone would like. And in particular, in the last half of last year, part of the reason the numbers came back so nicely was that goods turned deflationary and that offset still higher than normal levels of inflation on services and shelter.

Now, in the 2000s, there was healthcare inflation that was quite significant and much more than it was in the 90s. But goods price deflation came down. So the basket does shift and it's fine if it shifts, it just needs to get to 2% overall. Frick it, we ballin on averages, cuz.

And so that makes policy pretty straightforward with today's world, which is, you have restrictive rates and you want to be restrictive and bring inflation down.

Thus there would also seem to be a disconnect between a certain number of Fed officials who will say policy is restrictive versus looking at something like that financial conditions index, or even the amount of refinancing being undertaken by like the corporate bond market or the loan market recently. So there are many financial conditions indices. Some of them show looser than others. As it should. It's miscalculation and hand waving from them, it's almost a schizophrenia inducing cognitive dissonance among ABS/MBS and bond traders. They have no clue wtf is going on and how to interpret yield curves anymore.

3. WTF is a housing market bubble (Section only for zoomers and below 60 IQ) !r-slurs

But how much a restrictive policy today restrain the housing supply of tomorrow; whether it's like a multifamily house, where there has been recent data that new multifamily development has really fallen off quite a bit. And in theory, that means housing becoming more scarce in 2026

And when fed started raising rates, the country was in the middle of as frothy a period in the housing market as it could have gotten. On an average, 12 bids per house. Houses going for $40,000 over listed price.

As of late, single family starts are quite strong and much stronger than normal in this cycle, in part because I think availability of existing homes has been so low. And multifamily starts have come down a bunch, but that was from a very, very high peak.

And so they're not that far off today where they were before the pandemic.

If the economy continues to be as robust it is with rates where they are, that'll tell you something. (Spoiler - Housing will not come down)

A. Productivity would be a very simple way to explain the change. A higher productivity economy is a higher trend growth economy, which would do it. Something something solow model or sumthn.

But coming back to inflation. Why is it set around 2% by the Fed?

First: IDK.

Second: It has worked for 30 years

Third: It's a good number to measure deflation

A good example would be encyclopedias. I used to buy encyclopedias, so did you. (Pre 2000s born). No one buys an encyclopedia today. It's on your phone. And so it's out of the index. And so it's gone from being whatever it's price was, say $399 to zero. That's deflation, but it's out of the index. And so speaking more about tech, actually, you're not buying a camera anymore or film. It's taken a set of things out of the index, deflationary.”

If you set a target at zero and you don't hit it exactly, you're in deflationary territory. And deflation is where everything tomorrow costs less than it does today. So the incentive to buy today goes down, which means an economy tends to stagnate.

Really the major tool the Fed has is credibility.

Tl;dr - DUMBFRICKS STOP LOOKING AT THE FED NEWS AND RATES TO REBALANCE YOUR PORTFOLIO

!metashit !math

!accelerationists !chuds

https://old.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1c7f33g/i_dont_care_about_the_custodes_but_whether_you/?sort=controversial

There have been gradually more and more SRDine type posts on /r/Grimdank, with less memes and more shitlib gloating and preaching to their choir

LGBT trying not to use Slaanesh as proof of historic representation, a literal space-heck demonic manifestation of excess, degeneration and depravity.

"Yes but the imperium is EEEEVIL tooooooo"

Even other moderate liberals find this rapid hyper turbospeed charged circlejerk to be exhausting

https://old.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1c7f33g/i_dont_care_about_the_custodes_but_whether_you/l07nseh/?context=8&sort=controversial

OP is an especially cringe example of a turbo redditor

https://old.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1c7f33g/i_dont_care_about_the_custodes_but_whether_you/l07zpu1/?context=8&sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1c7f33g/i_dont_care_about_the_custodes_but_whether_you/l07yqwk/?context=8&sort=controversial

NOW FOR SECTION OF SHAME AND DOWNVOTES:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1c7f33g/i_dont_care_about_the_custodes_but_whether_you/l07tx2g/?context=8&sort=controversial

"Not really a good thing that the people who care about the lore are leaving. It only means that such consoomer attitudes will remain and GW is rife with them enough as it is"

"people who realy care about the lore dont complaing about such minor change"

"People who really care about the lore will complain about every single minor change. Its a hobby that rewards those who value attention to detail."

Incel gets downvoted

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"There is gonna be nothing fun left in this world is there"

"You are unhinged and evil"

"YOU ARE A LITERAL FASCIST"

"That's the price for my labor. It's so high because you're asking in bad faith." Actually funny leftoid

Anyways 1/3 posts on the front page is basically wokes gloating

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It also has nothing to do with millennials (51)

I would say that is incorrect seeing as how millennials have children who are in grade school now and potentially going to encounter this wild phenomenon that is plaguing this country currently (-31)

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Ngl I might vote Trump. Biden has been very disappointing especially with the recent UN Vote on Palestinians Recognition. Trump himself said that Palestinians wants peace. Joe just doesn't do shit. Frick you Joe. Palestinians are massacred because of you. I feel like Trump's Vision of America First makes lots of folks attracted to it. America's foreign policy should be independent yet lots of out Politicians are endorsed by AIPAC. I'm not anti semite, lots of Democrats & Republicans are sponsored by AIPAC which is the main Israel Lobby group. Trump himself proposed a Palestinian State with Tunnels connecting Gaza & West Bank. I feel like it's our only choice for a peace world. Palestinians have to accept the fact that some of their lands will have to be colonised forever by Israel. But, if it's to stop the bombings and killings, yes. I mean, Even If I vote dems it's not like we're gonna get socialist policies. They're all just lobbyist for corporations. Can't do much tbh. America mak... (-13)

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You're objectively a bad person.What makes one minority group more worthy of respect than another? Also, how can you refuse to read what other people say, and still consider your argument in good faith? (0)

LMAO you could have made ANY other comparison, quite literally an INFINITE amount of examples, but you chose to use a racist example because you're a racist. A racist calling me a bad person, that's rich. I won't be responding to you anymore, have the day you deserve. You aren't worth of respect, you racist POS. (0)

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Why is this even something you think about? This is like .01% of the population. (Both trans and an athlete) And of those, not many of them are even remotely successful. Furthermore. How invested are you in women's sports outside of trans people's participation? So if the answer is "not much" or getting defensive like "wow I can't defend the sanctity of blah blah blah" then I would posit that you have had your mind made up for you by talking heads and not based on the actual data that exists for these things. There are ways that exist that ensure leveled playing fields that leave room for being inclusive. And in these leveled playing fields, trans people can still win, and that's ok. (27)

Oh my gosh, I played 3 sports in high school back in the 70's after Title IX passed and on each team there were girls that some would claim were guys in drag. This shit never ends.Those that whined the loudest didn't even play sports but felt the need to let everyone know what their opinions on girls playing sports were (against it) and especially were outright against any female body that didn't conform to their standards, especially those whose bodies looked more "manly" in their eyes.They would also proclaim that the more "manly" bodied girls shouldn't even be on the teams as it wasn't fair to the other girls. Those that had naturally tall and built bodies were called cute butches, and some, were accused of being men in drag.What was different back then was there wasn't this amount of craziness on blast. The bigots got drowned out. We didn't listen to them and we did what wanted regardless if it displeased more conservative folks.The hyperfocus today on "trans" and sports smacks of the ... (7)

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I feel this is a stupid culture war thing and unless there is specific effect on your personal life wasting a bunch of time and resources giving a shit about it is useless. If less then 2 percent of people are trans and and even smaller percent of those group are a. Interested in sports and b. Female to male this statistically isn't an issue worth wasting this much energy on. Where is the outrage when a no skilled 7 foot 8th grader dominates women's or men's jv sports? This is a made up problem perfect for today's dumb butt Americans who have to demonize and politicize everything. (2)

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Domestic violence increases by 26% when the England football team wins or draws and 38% when they lose.

Watching the way this city fan celebrated his team scoring last night leaves me cold. I love football, but we've got to do something about this. pic.twitter.com/4ewdswvcVp

— Woke Lefty 🫣 (@SalfordMe2023) April 18, 2024

Some post about a dude going bonkers at a soccer game or w/e the sport is called gets community noted for linking fans to domestic violence.

Women offended in replies:

https://twitter.com/carbonsaveruk/status/1780992535428583440

Good god what is the matter with him ? Silly boy.

https://twitter.com/Mrs_R_Spectre/status/1780953252563149226

There is enough evidence there to arrest him and ban him for life

https://twitter.com/SlaggitySlag/status/1780949866304135386

I'm so glad my husband cannot be arsed with football & football culture.

https://twitter.com/Janana58/status/1780943441116983427

Nasty little thug. Make him famous.

Some right wingers in the quote tweets:

https://twitter.com/0xAlaric/status/1781143515658924382

White men having fun is the single most revolutionary act in The Culture today

It causes them to recoil in horror, circle the wagons, launch hapless screeds; literally nothing else bothers them this much.

https://twitter.com/lordkohl/status/1781084777757511941

The same women who support mass immigration from the 3rd world are upset over lads having a bit of spat.

https://twitter.com/vagrantwires/status/1781301282566791292

Dudes like this conquered half the planet, and handed the West the incredible legacy of a comfortable future. The bugman mind simply cannot comprehend why this is good. This masculine spirit of conquest lives on today only in tightly controlled outlet spaces (like sports), but even those spaces are under siege because the left knows how much of a threat such spirit is to their own vicious and effeminate power structures - once it breaks out of its gilded cage...

Teenage socialist chimes in:

https://twitter.com/BitterMarxist/status/1781258497448874126

Sports like football are the result of toxic and violent masculinity. It WILL be abolished under socialism.

It's an excuse for men to be aggressive without judgement, often rooted in misogyny and xenophobia.

Hot take, I know.

The only sane response to the whole thing:

https://twitter.com/CityGroundShelf/status/1781075722494185643

Lads being a tit at the football, but I'm not sure that means he goes home and kicks the women in his life in the head.

Proper weird correlation

In South Africa, chastity devices don't work as well as in medieval Bongland, because we are the R*PE capital of the work.

https://www.news24.com/news24/the-r*pe-capital-of-the-world-20140821

Back in 2014, especially during the reign of the Jacob Zuma administration, where our president had the worst controversy of him being a known male feminist following him, South Africa had developed the reputation of r*pe being endemic to its society, because our dysfunctional Police forces (SAPD) and justice system did not catch criminals, and especially did not catch or punish male feminists and sexual assaulters.

10 years ago, even beyond India (which itself had started to develop a strong negative reputation for countrywide r*pe being rampant), South Africa was being regarded as one of the worst places to be a woman in. While South African violent crime was not as bad as other 3rd world countries, such as Mexico's and South America's cartel and gang murder crimes - it would be smaller crimes like petty theft which had become the norm for its international reputation.

As a tourist you were very unlikely to be murdered, but you were exceedingly likely to be a victim of petty theft, and having you electronics like cellphones and laptops stolen right out of your backpacks in the airport, or your rental car highjacked. Still you were very seldom violently hurt unless resisting. This was because criminal activity for the past 2 decades was simply not punished, not in any meaningful sense. The police had become corrupt, complacent, lazy and incompetent on a nationwide scale, and the prison system was woefully inept, small and inadequate. The justice and court system had been packed with ANC loyalists and BEE hires, and had become intensely corrupt, where only the wealthy could afford lawyers.

Petty crime was simply not punished. But alongside the reality of the daily threat if theft, the uglier side of RSA would also surface - especially mass unopposed r*pe. And especially unpunished r*pe within the homelands of south africans.

Now it is very likely that other underdeveloped african nations, or places like India, or even places in South East Asia have much greater degrees of systemic r*pe on their societies, but South Africa has an unusually above average community of journ*lists who punch above their weight in reporting. South Africa also has a very large degree of Freedom of Information, we are not censored like autocratic nations like China, and most of all we are highly self-critical and honest with all of our shortcoming.

Compared to other nations, we basically record every single misstep and corruption. Just like Burgerland's extreme levels of self criticism, it is likely that places like Ireland, England, Western Europe also have comparative levels of societywide sexual abuse, but are not as excessively self critical as Burgerland and RSA, and have such a potent media presence as us.

https://theconversation.com/r*pe-is-endemic-in-south-africa-why-the-anc-government-keeps-missing-the-mark-188235

The ANC women's league wanted to enforce chemical castration of male feminists in 2022, but many people criticized this endeavor, as they felt this type of punishment did not address the underlying motives for why r*pe is so consistently rampant.

R*PE SURGE DURING COVID LOCKDOWNS:

https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/old-claims-about-r*pe-south-africa-still-being-shared-online

Back in 2020, r*pes would surge in terms of statistics, and into the national conversation again during COVID19 Lockdowns. This was because of so many people forced into the confines of their homes for many many months, and domestic disputes would be aggravated by cabin-fever on a national scale.

The r*pe rates were of such a magnitude that one publication claimed that 40% of Safrican women would be r*ped within their lifetimes. And these were not Tumbler-kin definitions of spastic autismo womyn claiming they would be r*ped when some dude catcalled her, or violated her with his eyeball-pressure on the train with a skeevy glance, but these were full on penetration hardcore sexual violence and sometimes brutal gangrapes being reported.

"A widely shared tweet posted in July 2023 reads: “In what is known as the r*pe capital of the world, it is estimated that over 40% of South African women will be r*ped in their lifetime and that only 1 in 9 r*pes are reported. It is also estimated that 14% of perpetrators of r*pe are convicted in South Africa.”

This controversial claim would be disputed by many NGOs who would investigate along with Interpol and United Nations women's organizations, and they would find the claim of 40% of RSA women being r*ped being so excessive that they would be forced to check the statistics to see if there was any truth to this alarming horror statisitc. This would not be easy tasks, as r*pe statistics are notoriously unreliable and chaotic, just as the nature of the act of r*pe itself. And approximate reports by RSA police stations were often less reliable than publications of private journ*list organizations.

Unsurprisingly they found the methodology of the 40% flawed, yet ironically the new remodeled statistics STILL would be an atrocious and alarming figure!

"It quoted a 2013 World Health Organization report which used data from the 2010 Global Burden of Disease study to estimate that Southern Africa had a 17.41% prevalence of r*pe. In other words, around 17.41% of women in that region would be r*ped in their lifetime."

https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/302733/retrieve

Again these are not minor westoid white women definitions of r*pe - but full on unsolicited penetrative s*x and gangrapings!

INCONVENIENT TRUTHS:

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/why-sexual-violence-so-endemic-south-africa-and-why-has-it-been-so-hard-combat-jessica

So errr....the thing about South African r*pes is that they are not equally distributed by demographic and ethnic groups in RSA. This subject has been avoided due to the maelstrom of race-politics in South Africa for obvious reasons. The main takeaway is that whites, coloureds, Indians and Chinese Safricans just do not commit r*pes to the same magnitudes of their black countrymen.

But what is even more, is that r*pes are not per capita proportional amongst all of black south africans, and between the various ethnicities. Comparing Sotho and Lesotho peeps, as well as the descendants of Khoisan coloured peeps, and even Venda peeps, they commit the least proportional amount of r*pes. Instead r*pes are disproportionally distributed amongst the most conservative members of Safrican black society, ESPECIALLY Zulus, Xhosas and Pedi.

Any broaching of such a sensitive subject is like stepping upon nuclear minefield, as you can well imagine. Much of the reason for these r*pe rates are consequent of the parallel societies of South African Homelands

https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft0489n6d5%3Bchunk.id%3D0%3Bdoc.view%3Dprint

Now during apartheid, the NP regime would forcefully remove many black peeps according to their ethnicities, to live in their allocated historic Homelands, as in where their specific ethnicity lived before the dutch and Bongs arrived on the scene

What made this move atrocious and cruel, was that over time many people of various ethnicities spread all over the country post-1900, and mixed and went to work in the big cities built by europeans for work. The forced relocation to their historic Homelands, basically forced black peeps to life where they did not want to, and where there were no economic development or work, forcing many black peeps into lives of impoverishment.

If a black women of Zulu descent had been living in Gauteng for 20 years, and considered it her home, then poof, suddenly the Apartheid police would force her to take her shit and make her live within KwaZulu Homeland, the residence of Zulus - but she had no modern attachment to that province, and would be deprived of her fiends and home.

Additionally in the modern era of post 1900, much of South Africa's wildernis had been devastated and culled. The wildebeest and antelopes of SA had been severely depopulated, and the amount of game available for hunting and subsistence living was no longer possible by 1950 as it had been in 1850, further aggravating the poverty within which SA black peeps had been forced to live in within these Homelands system.

When democratization occurred within the Mandela Administration in 1994, there was a shocking development in that many tribes like the Zulus and Xhosa had indoenas and chieftans who wanted to KEEP some parts of the Homelands system, and did not want to adknowlegde the white European system of modern South Africa's government, and wanted to keep their tribal system, as they would lose their power of Customary land rule.

Indoenas and chieftans had a lot of sway within their fiefdoms, and did not want to lose their influence. The Mandela Admin did not want to alienate this critical voterbase, and would promise to supplement his overhaul of the white government, with additional Acts in parliament which would respect the cultural rule of Indoenas there.

These acts are flowery but the summary is that a lot of autonomy would be given to modern homelands, for example like the KwaZulu region as ruled by the modern Zulu king, and acted as both a reserve and unofficial province within South Africa. It basically ended up as a sort of ghost province and parallel society, which proved to be an extremely complicated arrangement in terms of enforcing law and determining where the municipal/provincial government reach began, and the Zulu-indoena authority ended!

This would perpetually be controversial within South Africa, as the ANC promised equal rights between all south african demographics, yet here was the Mandela administration allowing a semi-feudal state system within the confines of the country! Yet the very culturally conservative Xhosas and Zulus, WANTED this. So the ANC allowed it, as any Xhosa or Zulu person was free to leave and enter the modern Homelands as they wished if they did not want to live beneath the rule of their tribal leader or Indoena, so they were never trapped there.

Yet just like the Mormons in Burgerland, leaving your entire family to exit the stifling rule of a conservative douchebag chieftan wasn't as easy as packing your bags and going, you might cut off your entire friend circle, family and support. This would be criticized by feminist Zulu women.

ZULU KING ASCENSION DRAMA:

https://qz.com/africa/1985840/south-africas-next-zulu-king-will-have-to-modernize-the-monarchy

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By Norma Young PublishedMarch 19, 2021

The Zulu dynasty has almost been felled numerous times by trials, trysts and tragedies, but has stood steady through the centuries. The largest ethnic group and nation in South Africa today, counting in excess of 10 million people, the Zulus have a family tree with roots stretching as far back as the migration of the Bantu people from their origins in West Africa throughout the continent several hundred years ago.

They now face a challenge that threatens their growth and relevance. The late King Goodwill Zwelithini, who was laid to rest this week after serving for almost 50 years, leaves a legacy that is admirable, but not replicable.

With South Africa's next national elections set for 2024, the new Zulu king will maneuver through tricky political terrain quite early in his reign. This is particularly significant in the kingdom's home province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), which has seen decades of simmering tensions between the ANC and IFP political parties, who both have deep roots in the province, and therefore compete for votes.

King Zwelithini was reminded of this in 2012. At an event commemorating the Battle of Isandlawana, he sparked controversy with a statement that same-s*x relations are “wrong,” “rotten,” and not part of Zulu tradition. (South Africa legalized same s*x marriage in 2006.) Following condemnation from then President Jacob Zuma, the South African Human Rights Commission, and LGBT rights groups, the Zulu Royal Household walked back his comments.

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This article was just to showcase how vague and murky the influence of tribal leaders and the king of KwaZulu rivals that of the ANC within the province, and how defining power of the government is not absolute, when competing for the support of people in the KwaZulu-Natal province.

https://theconversation.com/what-the-zulu-kingship-judgment-tells-us-about-the-future-of-south-african-customary-law-178786

====(from article) [my commentary]

Following the death of AmaZulu King Goodwill Zwelithini on 12 March 2021 in South Africa, the royal family convened on 24 March 2021 and appointed Queen Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu as regent. Although the king's third wife, she was his great wife – a royal consort who, by Zulu law, births the king's successor. The king had five other wives.

Before her regency was gazetted by the premier of the KwaZulu-Natal province, as required by South African statutory law, the queen died on 29 April 2021. On 14 May 2021, the royal family unanimously nominated her firstborn son, Prince Misuzulu, as the successor to the Zulu throne.

[And oh yeah, to showcase just how much was at stake in this rulership, there would be infighting within the Zulu royal family the Zulu king had tremendous influence upon South African politics and power, especially within the KwaZulu-Natal province!]

Later that month, various members of the royal family, notably Queen Sibongile Dlamini, the late king's first wife, challenged his will, and the validity of Prince Misuzulu's nomination as his successor. On 2 March 2022, the High Court in Pietermaritzburg found that Prince Misuzulu was appropriately identified and nominated as the undisputed successor to the Zulu throne. By dismissing objections to his nomination, the court paved the way for his coronation as the king.

There are 10,7 million isiZulu speakers in South Africa, about 22% of the population, according to the 2012 census. [Yes 1 out of every 5 peeps in RSA is a Zulu person; they are the most populous ethnic group within the country, and thus hold tremendous sway over the running of the country, which is why I always harp upon them in particular]

Why was this dispute adjudicated with “the white man's law”, thereby questioning the authority of the AmaZulu Royal Council, whose dispute resolution mechanisms ought to be respected by all Zulus? What is the significance of the ruling for matrimonial property rights under customary law?

[Now this ascension was incredibly controversial within Zulu society because the current king basically used the RSA court system to validate his claim, instead of relying upon the Zulu custom law! AKA they used the mayo system]

Firstly, the royal family's resort to the courts confirms an uncomfortable truth: African customs and traditions are subject to state courts. Importantly, these courts – both procedurally and content-wise – are replicas of the colonial justice system bequeathed by the Dutch and the British.

Lest we forget, although European colonialists allowed Africans to continue observing their indigenous customs, they smartly subjected the validity of these customs to European standards and procedures. Moreover, colonial schools, churches, and work systems were configured to reflect European culture. So, in essence, African elites, especially judges, are philosophical clones of Europeans because they carried on from where their colonial masters left off.

[Basically the author is hardcore sneeding about RSA constitutional and court law being based upon previous dutch and Bong judicial systems, and that the Zulu king had abused the white man's system to solidify his authority]

The Sithole declaration is radical because indigenous African laws lacked binary notions of equality in marital property division. Due to the agrarian nature of precolonial societies, income was generated by the family as a group through farming, hunting, and artwork. Individual rights were muted, while group welfare was paramount.

Thus, women's property rights were confined to items of adornment. In rare cases of divorce, they were reabsorbed into the welfare system of their parents. Thus, their matrimonial property rights were unproblematic.

[HAHAHAHAH, this cultural wingcuck is trying to process the contrast of how his beloved Zulu cultural laws have been turbo cucked by the national constitutional laws, and is trying to Doublethink himself in that Zulu women being relegated as 2ndary citizens in past and modern Zulu cultural law was totally a good thing! ]

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I highlight this article to showcase the bullshit of Zulus who defend their cultural law within their modern Homelands, aNd how they basically are very resistant to national South African constitutional justice-systems to "meddle" within their affairs. The Zulus are not the only ones to resist enforcement of national law upon their custom laws, Xhosas and Pedis are also mega conservative and many wish to preserve their parallel feudal societies within South Africa, usually against the principles of equality which is the constitutional declaration.

This is important to the r*pe epidemic story.

Some comments beneath the QZ article

And guess what? The reason why there is a Zulu-Kingdom independence movement, similar to the Western Cape Independence movement, is because many Zulus are so turbo nationalistic and conservative, that they believe the ANC meddling in their affairs, AKA trying to implement gender equality, and put a stop to gender violence in the province, is seen as an affront.

YES, in this case the ANC are the good guys!

"This article appears to be in support of a ethno-traditional nationalist paradigm, arguing for traditional law to trump constitutional law." Yeah uh that's exactly what it's doing lol

THE REASON FOR R*PE CULTURE IN SOUTH AFRICA:

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/why-sexual-violence-so-endemic-south-africa-and-why-has-it-been-so-hard-combat-jessica

Why is sexual violence in RSA specifically so hard to combat? Because of culture, and political forces to actively preserve ultra conservative customs within factions in South Africa, specifically the ethnic group ultra-nationalists such as Zulus and Xhosas.

The desire to create parallel societies, governed by customaty and cultural law have created murky legal grey zones, where police are not always permitted to patrol or hold station. Where internal customary law is dependent upon the whims of the local Indoena and chieftan, and if that individual doesn't consider r*pe a punishable offense, then it will not be punished - thus creating a culture where r*pe is normalized, in a society where women are 2ndary citizens, in spite of what the actual constitutional laws are within the country of RSA.

And the women of these ultra conservative societies, especially Zulu women, actively participate and enable it. They grow up within these conservative customary tribal homelands, and believe it to be the normalized experience, and don't report it to the police, creating a chain-reaction where more and more peeps within these Homelands, especially men consider s*x to be their right to take whenever.

=====(FROM ARICLE) [my comments]

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/why-sexual-violence-so-endemic-south-africa-and-why-has-it-been-so-hard-combat-jessica

government legislation which is meant to protect women's rights, arguing that the legislation itself is progressive but that the implementation of these rights is significantly hindered for numerous reasons.

Firstly, the example of Zulu culture and the r*pe trial of President Zuma (2005/2006) will be used to show the justification and acceptance of sexual violence, particularly with the re-traditionalisation of South African culture. [ANC Women's League would attack feminists during the famous Zuma R*pe Trial, in support of Zuma, showcasing how even amongst women, r*pe was acceptable if done by their preferred leaders]

Generally speaking, the constitution and laws of South Africa are very liberal, yet the reality is that “beneath the heroic façade of the constitution”¦a vicious cocktail of violence, sexism and hatred brewed” (Hassim 2009, 57).

he realisation of the rights promised in the constitution is limited for several reasons, such as lack of political will and cultural beliefs. There have been attempts to combat sexual violence by legal means but the issue appears to be deeply embedded into South African culture which is a difficult obstacle to overcome. The realisation of these rights are hindered by certain barriers.

The first example used will be the importance of traditional cultures present in South African society and the patriarchal systems which they establish. This has been made particularly relevant in contemporary South Africa due to the 2005/2006 r*pe trial of (then, Vice-) President Jacob Zuma.

Prior to colonisation, South Africa was made up of many tribal cultures such as Swazi and Zulu. However, it appears contemporary South Africa is made up of a ‘patchwork of patriarchies'- women being subordinate in the majority of Southern African societies, subject to their chiefs or heads of the family (Bozzoli 1983, 149).

Whilst many cultures have helped to make up contemporary South African society, this section will focus specifically on Zulu culture due to the 2005/2006 Zuma r*pe trial in which he used his Zulu culture as a significant part of his defence. Moreover, Zulu cultural traditions still hold influence, particularly in isolated rural areas, such in the KwaZulu-Natal province where government services are less effective than in urban areas. [Very Importante ]

Whilst many cultures have a patriarchal structure, Wright highlights that Zulu society incorporates ideological controls which “served to socialise females into accepting a position of inferiority” (Bozzoli 1983, 150), limiting them to the traditional roles of mother, wife, daughter, accepting themselves as ‘second class citizens'. This idea of women as second class citizens has been carried through into contemporary society; in general, society conditions women to believe themselves at the disposal of men.

However, during colonisation in the late 19th century, Christian missionaries attempted to stop ‘backward' practises, in particular, as many colonists found sexual subjects' offensive to discuss. Therefore, throughout colonisation and into contemporary society, many traditional Zulu practises lost their popularity, such as polygamy. However, the patriarchal structure remained throughout society.

Zuma was accused of the r*pe of the daughter of a family friend. He argued that earlier in the evening the complainant had been wearing a Kanga; a traditional African cloth which usually symbolises modesty and respectability. Throughout the trial this was“sexualised and transformed into an object of seduction” (Robins 2008, 415). Importantly, the use of the Kanga within the trial can be used to “entrench stereotypes and the r*pe mythology that dress is a key marker in the potential for r*pe”

Importantly, Zuma especially, has made an attempt of ‘re-traditionalisation' within South African society. As Harrison indicates the “re-legitimisation of cultural pride has fostered belief that returning to past traditions can resolve contemporary problems” (Harrison 2008, 177). These traditions, such as polygamy or ‘virginity testing'[1], are symbols of an unbroken connection with the past.

The r*pe trial revealed many within the country openly sided with Zuma. On the opening day of trial, Zuma supporters were more than 1000 strong. His support was mostly organised by the ANC Youth League. (Kapp 2006, 718) This highlights the attitudes of those within South Africa, especially the youth who, generally speaking, tend to be the ones to push through liberal reforms and fight for change. Their support highlighted that many viewed “the accused [Zuma] to be considered a ‘victim' and the complainant to be viewed as an ‘accused'” (Reddy and Potgieter 2006, 520). The complainant was heavily scrutinised and following the trial, she was forced to leave the country. Zuma was acquitted of the charges against him. These attitudes against r*pe victims highlight key difficulties in overcoming sexual violence.

Moreover, general police incompetency further implants the reasons why women do not rely on the justice system. On the surface, the police are ineffective due to budgeting problems, resource issues and failure to properly train personnel but there is general lack of will by the services to address sexual violence. It is estimated only 14% of perpetrators of sexual violence are sentenced.

Moreover, the police do not just fail over women's rights but, also, 80% of murders and robberies go unsolved (Anderson 2000, 792). This is a shocking figure, showing that structural issues are also problematic in the general fight for justice. Sadly, the police are seen as “more likely to engage in crime as to solve it” (Anderson 2000, 820).

After consideration, it can be viewed that South Africa is a society of profound contradictions, particularly between the promises of the constitution and the realities of contemporary society.

It is essential to combat the violent legacy of apartheid but the encouragement by Zuma of re-traditionalisation only further entrenches the patriarchal system of governance.

====(End Article)

R*PEX:

The r*pe epidemic had become so extreme, that in 2010, some Safrican white woman had the ultimate white woman moment and prototyped a device called R*pex.

"This is R*pex, an anti-raping device for women. The woman inserts it like a tampon, with an applicator, and any man who tries to r*pe the woman impales himself on the barbs and must go to an emergency room to have the R*pex removed."

https://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/06/20/south.africa.female.condom/index.html

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Ehlers said she sold her house and car to launch the project, and she planned to distribute 30,000 free devices under supervision during the World Cup period.

"I consulted engineers, gynecologists and psychologists to help in the design and make sure it was safe," she said. After the trial period, they'll be available for about $2 a piece. She hopes the women will report back to her.

"The ideal situation would be for a woman to wear this when she's going out on some kind of blind date ... or to an area she's not comfortable with," she said.

The mother of two daughters said she visited prisons and talked to convicted male feminists to find out whether such a device would have made them rethink their actions. Some said it would have, Ehlers said.

Critics say the female condom is not a long-term solution and makes women vulnerable to more violence from men trapped by the device.

"It not only presents the victim with a false sense of security, but psychological trauma," she added. "It also does not help with the psychological problems that manifest after assaults."

However, its one advantage is it allows justice to be served, she said.

Various rights organizations that work in South Africa declined to comment, including Human Rights Watch and Care International.

Critics have accused her of developing a medieval device to fight r*pe.

"Yes, my device may be a medieval, but it's for a medieval deed that has been around for decades," she said. "I believe something's got to be done ... and this will make some men rethink before they assault a woman."

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As critics pointed out this device was both impractical and dangerous, as it would most likely turn a r*pe into murder. Also women who prototyped the thing gave feedback that the R*pex device was pretty uncomfortable....

It was only a prototype and the government had refused to fund it. The media also mocked it.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-r*pe-condoms-picture-will-jagged-teeth-deter-world-cup-s*x-assaults-r*pe-axe-hopes-so/

Anyways I don't have anything else of substance to say. Basically please don't r*pe anyone, GOOD NIGHT

My mom was surprised to learn that Italy wasn't on her side and her dad was a Marine in Japan who came home mostly deaf from the gunfire.