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To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I'm back at reading "Metropolis" by Ben Wilson and I had left it unfinished months ago.
@Merryvann pls
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Hey r-slurs!
Got a new calendar for you to make ugly this holiday season. The happiest season of all, I love Christmas so much! The tradition, the music, the decorations... what's not to like.
Make your submissions for the first entry below, reminder that upmarseys AND downmarseys count equally towards point totals. The post with the highest number of points gets on the calendar, the cutoff happens whenever I decide to stop being lazy and make the calendar.
GIFs are allowed but won't be visable on the calendar until the end.
Good luck sweeties.
Here are the past 2 years of calendars <3
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My younger brother's(38M) personality for as long as I(41F)can remember has been Reddit. Personally I've been off and on it for about 10 years but usually only come back with a specific purpose and then get disillusioned with it very quickly and leave at the first sign it's more a negative experience than positive.
My understanding currently is that he is not a big redditor because he has moved on to some sort of mod position on the split off site rdrama which led him a position overseeing another site that I won't even name. We haven't spoken in months, which isn't unusual but usually it's because I shut him out, usually because of the kind of person he's become living in an online troll world. But this time it's because I, hypocritically was asking him for his advice on just the kind of Internet thing that I don't think he should really be doing and ended up emotionally insisting that he stop participating in all of this online stuff that he drop it because it's hurting him and damaging his life.
In asking for advice on how to troll a troll, I heard some things from him that made me really sad and also really aware of why he is the way he is, socially at least. I can't say that I haven't been sucked into situations where it was hard for me to turn my Internet off and look away from the screen, but listening to how good he is at what he does and imagining this is probably pretty normal, idk it's gross. I enjoy a light troll like anybody else but we're living in a world now where there are people, like my brother, where this is the real world and they can't put it down and if you troll somebody who is in that vulnerable position it can really be damaging, no wonder there's so many fricking people mentally fricked up from the Internet.
Anyways, I'm always the one that cuts him off but he responded so angrily to me suggesting that maybe he needs to leave this all behind that he hung up on me sent me some horrible texts bringing up some really hurtful things and then blocked me. I still really think his life would be better, so much better if he could do that and I would even do it with him if he wanted to try. I know it's hypocritical but am I the butthole?
- Iforgotmypassword : NSFL
- Wojak : For once gayporn = funny
- ticktocktrainbuteepy : "small man has s*x with dozens of women and men, somehow this is cringe" - gay cat site
- SnibetiSnab : This is illegal. Admins stop fricking around or the site could get shut down
- sob : Only someone without easy access to s*x would think having random s*x is cool. KEEP YOURSELF SAFE
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The blue haired cute twink IS sucking peepee somewhere in there.
You can watch without a Kiwi account
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Only a few days left, get your entries in before Monday if you want to win a prize.
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DEAD RUSSIANS
SPLODY PAGERS
CAPTURED CITADELS
INVADING TURKS
WHAT THE FRICK IS GOING ON
Around 2014, shortly before I went to prison, the civil war in Syria was very fun to follow - the Ukraine or Israel of its day but less normie. It was in the sweet spot between these wars - very well reported, slow, and with a couple of cohesive factions - and jiggaboo hijinks in Africa where there are dozens of factions, zero cohesiveness, minimal information, and rapid butt movements and upsets because Russians came or a white man got mad.
Then I got out and shit was boring again. ISIS was gone, the rebels were cucked, and Assad had mostly won. How'd that happen?
2011-2012: Humble beginnings
Bashar Assad, the Alawite leader of Syria, had brutally oppressed his people for many years. In Arab fashion, it took American glowies on X (at the time known as "twitter") to galvanize them into rebelling, which they did, mostly ineffectually, over 2011-2012.
Though their achievements were minimal, with every massacre and atrocity, Assad's grip over the population and business establishment weakened. This emboldened individuals and factions, and everyone (perceiving weakness) shifted from keeping their head down to aiming for a piece of the Syrian pie.
2013: Shit gets real
Red is Assad, supported by the Alawites (inhabiting the coast, mostly), secularish and nationalist Syrians, certain classes of society like Sunni businessmen who supported him pragmatically, various Sunnis in his patronage network, and regular people either coerced or cajoled into it.
He was backed by Iran in exchange for further influence, an open lane to supply its Shiite proxies, like Hezbollah (via Iraq), and as a geopolitical ally and counterweight to the western gulf states. Also, to a lesser extent, by Russia (who operate a port in Syria), China and other contrarians.
Green is almost everyone else: dozens of armed groups with grandiose names and wide-ranging political views, from moderate Islamists to hardcore Islamists. You think I'm kidding. No joke, every single Sunni Arab anti-Assad group at the time had some flavor of Islamic flavoring. The "moderate" guys wore short beards, listened to music and took American funds while beheading Alawites whereas the hardcore guys beheaded music listeners and moderates too
The rebels held the suburbs - but not centers - of Damascus (capital) and Aleppo (second biggest city), the rural north (Sunni and neglected under Assad) and various positions in between. They were supported by wealthy gulf donors, Turkey, who gave them a free hand to cross the border and engage in commerce, and western powers like America and Europe. Like any non-state group they engaged in their fair share of smuggling, petty crime, taxation and tolls.
Yellow are the Kurds, who varied politically and religiously but always put their Kurdishness first. Initially, they were anti-Assad due to years of oppression, etc. but seeing how the Islamists treated them turned them more pragmatic. Poor guys, nobody except Israel likes them :(
There were also some Druze in the south, under the green faction for convenience.
2014: Rise-is of ISIS
Some ex-al Qaeda members in Iraq, battle-hardened and bored, saw an opportunity in the power vacuum to free Sunnis from Assad, which in practice became freeing them from their more lenient Sunni overlords (rebel militias proving an easier target than a theoretically professional army). Within a few months, they bulldozed most of the Syrian rebel factions in the east, turning their sights onto and humiliating Iraq as well.
At their height that winter ISIS was wrecking Arab armies everywhere and about to demolish Kobane / Ayn al Arab (one of the three Kurdish cantons). They did so much nasty shit there's no point in mentioning or cataloging it. IIKYK, if not, have a listicle I haven't read from google. Many locals felt some kinda way about their behavior but couldn't do much without getting beheaded. However, besides a huge number of foreign volunteers from shitholes like Chechnya and Tunisia, they also had local support from true believers, Shia-haters and those who appreciated unified governance over the mess of squabbling factions which had preceded it.
The Western reaction was wholly negative, so much so that even stodgy bureaucrats, Assad opponents, and kumbaya-singing libcucks from cowardly first world nations were galvanized into action. In September, 26 countries met in Paris and agreed to started bombing ISIS heavily; the US also bullied Turkey into letting the Kurds take their shit back.
2015: Meh
Not much changed this year. Besides Kurdish successes, the rebels took Idlib and consolidated in the south with the Druze. Most of the rebel-Assad line of battle was very low intensity, like Ukraine today. Neither side had the manpower, weaponry or supplies to engage in a more serious manner. In Iraq, the jihadis suffered multiple serious defeats by Shiite paramilitaries and the army.
I'm mostly not covering other name and branding changes in this article but (since it might come up later) in exchange for American support the Kurds accepted some token Arab groups and rebranded as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in October.
2016: Two more weeks
There was a ceasefire most of the first half of the year, everyone focussing on beating ISIS. You'll notice a large green swath in the south: a Jordanian-trained, Western-aligned, U.S.-led opposition group. When the greenbacks started coming in, they spun off from the Allahu Akbar brigade, traded bobbing their heads 5 times a day for a pair of raybans and never looked back. No bullshit, check the article, their predecessor organization was literally called that. 'Moderates'
They remain there to this day.
The latter part of the year offensives ramped up against the jihadis.
2017: Bye-SIS
Mainly Assad and the Kurds benefitted from pushing ISIS' shit in, with the exception of that small green slice up north: Erdogan's belated decision to establish a direct Turkish proxy instead of broadly supporting the opposition. That said, progress was slow as mutual enemies proceeded cautiously. That changed in July, when America and Russia agreed to a ceasefire to focus on the jihadis. Crucially, America agreed to stop funding and supplying most rebel groups. By then, ISIS had lost the north side of the Euphrates and many key positions, but still retained their capital, Raqqa, and significant territory within Syria and Iraq.
By the end of the year that was gone too. The terrorists were defeated, and all they'd accompished in the long run was a transfer of Sunni Arab land to Alawites and Kurds.
2018: Tits-urkey and Butt-ad
Turkey was pissed off at the success the Kurds were having and the fact PKK (Kurdish rebels from Turkey) fighters were a large part of the Kurdish army. Also, 3 to 4 million Syrian refugees had fled to Turkey, where they were causing societal issues !chuds and !nooticers might recognize. Consequently, they invaded Ifrin (the leftmost canton), kicked out the Kurds and resettled many refugees there.
Meanwhile Assad took the opportunity to wipe out any rebel pockets left south of Idlib/Aleppo. By and large, he seemed the biggest winner of a multi-year debacle which had left hundreds of thousands dead, an economy destroyed, and many millions fled in all directions, but Assad still in office and in control of the majority of the country and its population, and in negotiations with the Kurds, who'd earned some crucial respect and were angling for autonomy (obviously, independence was a non-starter, given the small size of Syrian Kurdistan, hostile neighbords, lack of port and the presence of Arab factions within the SDF).
2019: Sunni shenanigans
You'll notice a splotch of c*m on the green; over the course of the year, HTS (a Salafi Islamist group that had, unlike ISIS, renounced global jihad) mostly subdued other rebels in the Idlib area. I haven't mentioned inter-rebel fighting in the interests of brevity and sanity but you should know Wikipedia acerbically calls this the "fifth inter-rebel conflict." Keep that in mind when @sandkwinn and other 80-iq antisemites call for pan-Arabism, peace with Hamas, and the like. Arabs couldn't peacefully unify in a single PROVINCE while having 1. the exact same ideology, religion and langage and 2. least two, maybe four serious external enemies in common including a bloodthirsty tyrant and the world's worst terrorist organization.
Also, Turkey expanded their foothold in the east to a 30-km "buffer zone." The Kurds reacted by letting Assad's troops in to reestablish their presence alongside SDF forces throughout much of northern Syria. Notably, throughout the whole war, Turkey refused to consider a full invasion of Syria or direct, serious confrontation with Assad (for boring reasons), so this was basically ensuring an end to Turkish incursions in exchange for letting Assad back in the hen house.
In October, Trump's Navy SEALs capped Baghdadi in Idlib. The world rejoiced.
2020:
Assad, with serious Russian support, pushed up on Idlib, and the Kurds let him operate in even more of their territory. Dozens of Turks got merked by the Russians (probably on accident), causing a diplomatic rift and retaliatory bombing of Syrian gov't positions.
2021-2024: Nothing ever happens
The frontlines stabilized and fossilized, most direct conflict ending.
Sanctions of Assad's economy caused him to increasingly rely on the production and distribution of Captagon (meth / adderall type stim) to the gulf for foreign currency. Deciding their shit wasn't fricked enough, G-d sent them some earthquakes.
The Kurds mostly acknowledged Assad's suzerainty in case of a war with Turkey while retaining their militias and local administration. Occasional skirmishes against the Syrian Army and between Kurds and Arabs within the SDF continued.
HTS "unified" Idlib - in the bare minimum sense that the 11 other factions there acknowledged their superior position while remaining independent - and started professionalizing their army, integrating drones and shit.
The American proxies sit in the desert guarding a CIA listening post and the only direct road from Baghdad to Damascus.
Everyone got bored and stopped checking r/syriancivilwar.
UNTIL THIS WEEK
Wednesday, November 27th
Neighbors in the loop saw on X that HTS had launched a small offensive in the villages west of Aleppo, catching a mostly-demobilized Syrian army by surprise and capturing a few bases, some dozens of soldiers, vehicles and equipment commensurate with a raid of that size.
Ah, the famous West Aleppo HTS T-90 is returning to the area (mildly different owners to last time) pic.twitter.com/sso4Bhw5Bh
— Cᴀʟɪʙʀᴇ Oʙsᴄᴜʀᴀ (@CalibreObscura) November 27, 2024
This footage of regime soldiers running away from their positions was taken at 36.269153, 36.958279, just to the east of the town of Qubtan al-Jabal.
— Thomas van Linge (@ThomasVLinge) November 27, 2024
This confirms initial reports Syrian rebels have captured this town in theb western #Aleppo countryside.#Syria https://t.co/yf083BTbKW pic.twitter.com/HTjqGQmCR5
قوات الأسد يسقطون أسرى بالعشرات وأحدهم يوجه رسالة إلى الباقين في جيش الأسد#ردع_العدوان #إدارة_العمليات_العسكرية pic.twitter.com/SAV6WfYaTB
— قتيبة ياسين (@k7ybnd99) November 27, 2024
Most tweets are already deleted but there were some fun vids of them beating captives, a dead Russian or two, spoils of war etc. Nobody thought anything of it. We're all used to these shitty little propaganda raids from two-bit outfits in BIPOC parts of the world like Myanmar and Ukraine. You'd have to be mainling copium to expect anything more given the shit performance of the rebels the past decade and a half... right?
Thursday, November 28th
I was busy mowing the lawn, trimming trees and hedges, weeding, cleaning out the AC drain and, like all Americans, having Thanksgiving dinner. Turkey, not Syria, was on my mind.
Turkey was on the Syrian National Army's mind too, which is to say they were grateful Turkey did not take advantage of the fact HTS was overrunning their entire shit west of Aleppo, maybe the only bright side of the debacle so far. It seems the consolidation of the past few years paid off - HTS used better equipment, were better trained, and had drones and operators never before seen in sandshit outside Israel. The advance showed no signs of stopping.
Suheil al-Hasan was spotted near the front - the pro-Russian commander of the "elite" Tiger Forces and somewhat of a civil war celebrity.
HTS managed to swiftly advance into Khan al Asal - after fierce clashes, HTS manages to seize and secure the city/suburb
— ScharoMaroof (@ScharoMaroof) November 28, 2024
They are now at the gates of Aleppo and are carrying out artillery strikes on Aleppo https://t.co/BOblD6Uh5D pic.twitter.com/sFJAAFkYfA
They reached within 7km of Aleppo's center, killing and plundering on the way. Many Syrian army guys got caught with their pants down - an Arab specialty, to whom discipline outside of active combat is a foreign concept.
It looks like they knocked off an Iranian general...
NEW: Syrian rebels managed to kill IRGC’s Brigadier General Kiyomarth Porhashmi in Aleppo during the latest offensive, Iran’s SNN agency reports
— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) November 28, 2024
He is described as the the commander of the Iranian advisors in Syria pic.twitter.com/7febUeRdm2
Meanwhile the Turks and Kurds got spooked...
🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- Russian airstrikes are getting closer and closer to Turkish military presence. Footage shows Russian attacks against Arihah, just 2km from the Turkish base at Kafr Lata. pic.twitter.com/qTRjO1nYQL
— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) November 28, 2024
🔴 Suriye Milli Ordusu, Halep Operasyonu’na katılmak üzere kuvvetlerini seferber ediyor. pic.twitter.com/NKT5hOHzIV
— Conflict (@ConflictTR) November 28, 2024
HTS and SNA media channels have started to post this - so we can do now too.
— ScharoMaroof (@ScharoMaroof) November 28, 2024
SDF is moving as well - SDF reinforcements are being deployed into Manbij. https://t.co/cYTHwBoBxQ pic.twitter.com/3nABfj9Iar
Friday, November 29th
HTS continued their excursion in Aleppo:
#BREAKING #Syria JUST IN: Video footage shows Syrian rebel forces in the Al-Furqan district of Aleppo. pic.twitter.com/b22deYQ6xM
— The National Independent (@NationalIndNews) November 29, 2024
Freeing their neighbors (and some hos) from the torture prisons:
Capturing mad shit:
Opposition forces inside #Aleppo city have captured a whole stock of MANPADS.
— Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) November 29, 2024
Sources tell me more tanks, BMPs, anti-tank guided missiles & more have been seized in multiple weapons stores left behind by fleeing #Assad regime forces. pic.twitter.com/eCYD2wUJp8
And the police HQ:
https://old.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/1h2v880/hts_fighters_captured_the_aleppo_police/
Laughable showing by Assad honestly.
Most importantly, THEY TOOK THE CITADEL! This dumb butt castle or something was held by the regime the entire fricking war. It's almost unbreachable (by middle eastern standards) if properly defended. Big propaganda coup for the rebs.
History.#Syria opposition fighters pose in front of #Aleppo's citadel tonight, as the city falls from #Assad's control. pic.twitter.com/rhsHHhHAbY
— Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) November 29, 2024
The future...?
Are Islamists (HTS), Turkey (SNA) and the Kurds (SDF) - the most unlikely allies - really going to campaign together against Assad? After 13 years during which zero cooperation took place between anyone, including at times when a slight intervention by, say, Turkey or Israel would have toppled the dictator? Or is this all hype and nothing ever happens? Will Assad counterattack with Russian or Iranian help and kick these neighbors back to Idlib?
No one knows
P.S. @DWHITE___________DYNAMITE please teach your mans how to spell drumstick
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just found out that elon has been paying this woman an obscene amount of money via twitter blue (20k isn't even remotely achievable for big accounts) in an attempt to not only make the subscription seem more lucrative than it actually is, but also to probably sleep with her https://t.co/WdJcF7pQTd
— Neb | 🏳️🌈 (@NebsGoodTakes) November 27, 2024
oh my god i love 𝕏 so much. i’m so grateful. 😭 pic.twitter.com/zcw4LVlrRs
— Tiffany Fong (@TiffanyFong_) November 22, 2024
Og post where she supposedly got 21k for a single month
she mentions here how she was getting payouts of around $40-$60 which is normal for an account of that size (I get a frickload of engagement and my payments are a little less) until it jumped to tens of thousands for no apparent reason pic.twitter.com/z0MnFSTbtQ
— Neb | 🏳️🌈 (@NebsGoodTakes) November 27, 2024
She was getting 40-60$ with the same interactions then it suddenly jumped to 20k lol
I’m not gonna have sour grapes over some random getting paid more than us on Twitter lol
— Jacob (@JacobFisherDF) November 27, 2024
But… it’s so obviously rigged to certain creators when her metrics are like 1% of ours and she’s getting paid literally 1000% more than DF got paid in that 2 week span. https://t.co/ykspbS3yZb pic.twitter.com/7QWxMz5kr4
Despite being 11k on ranking she's getting 10 times more than the #5 account lol
— Neb | 🏳️🌈 (@NebsGoodTakes) November 27, 2024
Ok and here's the funny part which is gigasimpery from Elon with seemingly no response
https://x.com/Angelica_Reed1/status/1861891122609500557
This link doesn't seem to work for some reason so here's the screenshot
Direct link to the search: https://x.com/search?q=from%3A%40elonmusk+tiffanyfong_
Man's could get any prostitute he wants yet he makes pathetic Sexy Indian dude-tier thirsposts towards a onlyfoid
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Top Drama
Score | Post | Subreddit | Ratio | Comments |
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔘 | AITAH For canceling six figure plumbing job because MAGA | /r/AITAH (3M) | 59% | 17759 |
🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘 | MMW MAGA will try to start a war with Mexico | /r/MarkMyWords (129K) | 59% | 750 |
🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘 | What are the benefits of having female friends as a guy? | /r/AskReddit (50M) | 48% | 437 |
🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘 | To those who say I don't know what I'm talking about. I sure do. I ... | /r/CanadaPost (27K) | 56% | 465 |
🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘 | Why Canadians hate Canada Post | /r/CanadaPost (27K) | 49% | 353 |
🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘 | If Republicans can run on an extreme platform, why can't democrats? | /r/Askpolitics (36K) | 48% | 340 |
🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘 | I've lost all respect for you guys | /r/CanadaPost (27K) | 51% | 353 |
🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘 | Moving for tax reasons | /r/SameGrassButGreener (89K) | 51% | 314 |
🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘 | Does this subreddit not understand Kamala's campaign? Like are we d... | /r/Askpolitics (36K) | 46% | 282 |
🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘 | AMA: I worked on AGI drones for the DoD and DoE | /r/UFOs (3M) | 53% | 306 |
Relative Drama (takes into account the size of the subreddit)
Score | Post | Subreddit | Ratio | Comments |
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🤓🔘🔘🔘🔘 | To those who say I don't know what I'm talking about. I sure do. I ... | /r/CanadaPost (27K) | 56% | 465 |
🤓🔘🔘🔘🔘 | Why Canadians hate Canada Post | /r/CanadaPost (27K) | 49% | 353 |
🤓🔘🔘🔘🔘 | I've lost all respect for you guys | /r/CanadaPost (27K) | 51% | 353 |
🤓🔘🔘🔘🔘 | Driving around town and seeing signs against the wind farm makes me... | /r/OceanCity (12K) | 49% | 128 |
🤓🔘🔘🔘🔘 | I've never seen a worker base so arrogant in my life | /r/CanadaPost (27K) | 48% | 257 |
🤓🔘🔘🔘🔘 | If Republicans can run on an extreme platform, why can't democrats? | /r/Askpolitics (36K) | 48% | 340 |
🤓🔘🔘🔘🔘 | Does this subreddit not understand Kamala's campaign? Like are we d... | /r/Askpolitics (36K) | 46% | 282 |
🤓🔘🔘🔘🔘 | According to CP workers in the Canadapostcorp group anyone who disa... | /r/CanadaPost (27K) | 53% | 228 |
🤓🔘🔘🔘🔘 | Firefly's YouTube trailers | /r/QueensofStarRail (4K) | 46% | 24 |
🤓🔘🔘🔘🔘 | Interacting with people here is all you need | /r/CanadaPost (27K) | 50% | 190 |
autodrama: returning jobs to dramneurodivergents. Ping HeyMoon if there are any problems or you have a suggestion
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BIG: Massive Assad regime convoys reportedly withdraws from Hama city centre to Homs.
— Clash Report (@clashreport) November 30, 2024
Assad regime’s defence lines completely collapsed.
HTS has already passed the Hama defensve line
aaaand they're past the SAA defensive line (as much as it existed) https://t.co/TgdwYFFs8o
— Cᴀʟɪʙʀᴇ Oʙsᴄᴜʀᴀ (@CalibreObscura) November 30, 2024
HTS attacking Kurds
HTS and units of the Turkish led SNA have launched an attack on the Kurdish neighbourhood Sheikh Maqsoud in Aleppo.
— ScharoMaroof (@ScharoMaroof) November 30, 2024
Moderate rebel moment (NSFL) https://old.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/1h3addv/rebels_executing_5_saa_soldiers_on_camera_very/
Assad in Moscow https://www.reuters.com/world/kremlin-says-it-wants-syria-swiftly-restore-order-after-rebel-attack-2024-11-29/
Fact check: 90% of strategic bombing campaigns stop right before they're about to break the will of the enemy civilian population: https://x.com/ThomasVLinge/status/1862844581458346341
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Ozempic is going to make the last decade of body positive media very funny. Like rats off a sinking ship https://t.co/0LzzAR99ex
— Brendan Fraser Crane (@bf_crane) November 29, 2024
!r-slurs !chuds Don't miss out on this generational investment opportunity.
Communism is finally here. Equity redistribution for every man. We are all going to make it.
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Anyone who saw the fall of /r/drama recognizes when that fat c*nt Chtorrr is harassing mods about posts.
This sub has gone full rightoid insane wingcuckery, and I predict it will get quarantined (do they even do that anymore?) and eventually banned. It's not quite /r/CringeAnarchy, but it's getting there.
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Jannie of 11 years posts a post about people moving because le dRumph .
Redditor posts a reply about how le free speech doesn't apply to social media .
Jannie replies with le relevant xkcd
Random redditor replies like a master rusemen .
Jannie , magnanimous in xeir wisdom , leaves the reply up as a warning to other wrong thinkers .
Locks and pins the thread.
The Jannie's account is /u/Amonette2012, don't bother trying to ping xem, they have 300k karma and has been on Reddit for 11 years. This is a capital, hard R Redditor (derogatory).
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- sob : NOOOOOO I THOUGH UKRAINE WAS WINNING!!!!
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NEW - Ukraine's Zelensky said he is willing to cede territory to Russia to end the war for the first time.https://t.co/pcFRxIIqV7
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) November 29, 2024
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I'll try to avoid spoilers, but I was impressed by Wicked. I hate musicals (reason why I gave it 4 stars), but it wasn't too bad and I enjoyed the storyline. There is definitely some "fight rahhcism" stuff and they made the Wicked Witch of the West's sister a cripple Not sure how they will tie that in but you never see her sister in the original Wizard of Oz.
Glenda's character was funny. It's a mix of Elle from Legally Blonde with Cher from Clueless and Regina Gorge from Mean Girls.
If you got kids, I think it's a great watch. Some of the kid stuff I have to watch is boring af IMO, but I enjoyed this movie.
Part 2 comes out next year!
eta: Haven't been to an actual theater in yearrrrrs but it was fun! I said I'd never go again because why when you have home equipment now, but I forgot that it's fun to go to the movies together as a nice weekend thing to do.
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Attention Jews.
— 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐫 𝐊𝐰𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐞 (@badazn) November 29, 2024
We understand your Parasitic Code now. pic.twitter.com/61Eeikvwkt
EFFORTPOST COMMUNITY NOTED Ukraine monthly update |||~~ Gold-toothed and ruddy faced, he squints through +9 prescription glasses, and his ill-fitting body armour flaps unfastened over a short, stocky frame. Grigory admits he was as surprised as anyone when he was enlisted; he did not expect the officers to mobilise someone who was half blind.
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But he has got used to handling firearms. "Anyone can shoot," he says. "It's hitting the target I'm not so good at."The situation on the front lines is widely accepted to be as difficult as at any time since the early days of the war, with many fearing a significant Ukrainian retreat may soon be inevitable.
That guy has some top tier humour
I always find it wild that there are people who claim to be "pro-Ukrainian" but completely ignore the reality of the situation ( just go to worldnews). I was shocked reading a story ( in the Kyiv Post!) about how at least ~100,000 Ukrainian civilians have returned to occupied territory. They fly to Russia then go via land back home.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/42704
In the literal article it explained the reasons why people were returning because it interviewed the people returning. And mostly it was due to them just not being able to live in Ukraine. Nowhere to live, no support from the government and skyrocketing food prices
So they moved to Russia because it's simply easier to live there for them.
It's interesting seen Redditors realising things ain't looking good for Ukraine
And as always when bodies are traded
🇺🇦🇷🇺‼️🚨 502 vs 50 Ukraine and Russia exchanged the bodies of fallen soldiers.
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) November 29, 2024
Russia handed over the remains of 502 Ukrainian soldiers, Ukraine - about 50 Russian.
According to the Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War:
- 397 died in the… pic.twitter.com/4ykJnWh9M7
Ukraine gets way more bodies like every single exchange.
Here previous exchange
Ukraine and Russia have again exchanged the bodies of killed soldiers. The two warring nations’ latest repatriation of remains sent home the bodies of 563 Ukrainian soldiers and 37 Russian soldiers. https://t.co/BJhc9Lvt5n
— Meduza in English (@meduza_en) November 8, 2024
Meduza is pro western
This is from October
But best part Biden administration now telling Ukrainian to lower the mobilisation age to 18
I wrote before that at one point khohols will hate west more than Russian and it's slowly happening.
Ukraine was promised by Boris Johnson that they will win. But now Ukraine is in worse situation than in 2022 and it desperately trying to regain 2022 March situation to sign a peace deal. Than west telling them to kill them self by mobilising their future that they already almost lost. Just look objectively, boy that is today 18 was 15 when it started, his parents probably brought him to EU where he is finishing school/starting college. So age group 18-21 has huge hole and after the first time to mobilisation age was lowered, desertion went up and now there are daily attacks on mobilisation organisation.
Also they tried to get help from Korea even by creating that story of North Koreans are about to attack Ukraine at any moment for 2 months now.
🇰🇷🚫🇺🇦 South Koreans remain widely opposed to directly supplying arms to Ukraine, recent polls show, despite renewed international requests from Kyiv and allied capitals after North Korean troops were reported to be helping Russia, - Reuters pic.twitter.com/Jehl8JpV1H
— MAKS 24 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) November 27, 2024
Majority of Ukrainian now are ready to sign a deal with Putin and don't want to fight anymore.
Kurakhove is good as gg. Ukraine did put some of its elite soldiers to hold it but it made Velyka Novosilka weaker
Russian will turn this city in to a FOB
Russian will get this territory with ease under its control and go after Pokrovske (don't confuse with Pokrovsk) capturing of Pokrovske will cuck Zaphorochie city and help Russia isolating it.
In north Russian crossed oskol river in multiple points
Basically annulation of the great Kharkiv counteroffensive greatest achievements
Chasiv yar is also in shit
Toretsk is last true OG fortress under Ukraine and things don't look good
Zelenskyy even fired his ground force general today and replaced him
🇺🇦 Zelenskyy appointed Mykhailo Drapatoy as the new commander of the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) November 29, 2024
In 2022, he was in charge to capture the right-bank Kherson region, and in 2024 to defend the Kharkiv region and to stop the Russian offensive.
Drapatiy is a combat… pic.twitter.com/oCWcMlaGcP
Ukraine now is in giga shit situation. Ukraine in their best case scenario with lowering mobilisation age can get 250k men. When they lowered from 27 to 25 they expected 500k men. There was some logic behind why in 25-27 are more people than in 18-25
Their demographic is frick up.
But let's assume they decide to do it and it's absolutely best case scenario. For Russian that means 250k Ukrainian man till total attrition war victory. Russia will get whole Ukraine.
They fricking dreaming about 2022 March deal now. But western media tries telling them it was bad deal
So Trump peace deal won't work. Zelensky can't sign a document that will officially give Russian Crimea. Putin won't agree on anything other than official recognition. Giving Ukraine more weapons won't do shit, they got over 1000 tanks from west, ammunition they are getting are straight out factories, they got like 80% of western air defence ammunition, we now don't even get reports what Ukraine is getting because probably over half of m777 are in Ukraine and over 800 Bradley's no other nato country except US is as well equipped as Ukraine yet they failed to liberate a single town with all that gear.
Also west now don't tell what Ukraine is receiving so guys like this one can cope
When simple Wikipedia that shows the absolute minimum. States clearly more than 167 leopards 2
It won't be a surprise if Ukraine operates the most leopards per country. But for people like that guy it's easier to cope that if Ukraine receives its 38rd leopard it's going to win. With abrams the situation was more r-slurred, Russian captured like 10 abrams and visually fully destroyed 30 so -40 abrams and Ukraine officially only got 31 so they decided to bump it to 80 but it's clearly over 100.
So giving more weapons won't change anything Russian are now stronger they drone mog Ukrainian by x20. Ukraine won't liberate anything. Their main problem is they are out of men. For a lot of Ukrainians now it's even better to live infer Putin than die under Zelenskyy.
They kinda have no way out. If they decide to sign a July 2024 Putin deal, Putin will offer a new deal that they can't sign so it's grinding time for them.
The moral of story, it's important to know when to stop gambling. Defeating Russian in Kiev was already a miracle for them. But they thought it was their skills and they will defeat Russian
There is a saying
/ Otto von Bismarck
Beautiful that it was posted on September 2023
When @pizzashill coped with counteroffensive
Edit just now
This is also interesting cope.
500 Patriot missiles that were build this year went straight to Ukraine for free so in some ways the money went to Ukraine and to weapons factories owners and the losers were tax payers
Great, so Congress is taking money from poor Americans to give it to rich Americans—who happen to own a piece of the military-industrial complex https://t.co/bN56DUisdd
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) November 29, 2024
Like for real how did media and gov was able to sell this bs as something good it's like average citizen knows nothing about economy
Our fact-checkers have determined that this user is a known schizo:
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Don't get me wrong, my life has improved greatly from transitioning, but I'm still having trouble with the simplest of things. I have a great deal of mental issues, I used to talk them out, but nobody wants to hear that shit anymore.
jeez I feel so unloved. If I felt like nobody cared about me before transition, well darn well ain't nobody care about me now.
Neighbor forgot how easy life was in female mode
It's a lot of "help yourself and shut up, do your work now and you can't ever be upset, if you cry you're not a man and if you get angry you're a threat."
Even the most effeminate gays hate a whiny gollum like creature
The stress is so much to me, I get to points where I'm just waiting to hit something. I can barely cry due to testosterone
Shoot up your elementary school, Audrey Hale
As long as I am upset, I will not rest and I need to do something about it, I can't just talk about it so I have to workout, which is difficult as is because I have fatigue issues and am paranoid about things lurking in the darkness of my basement
I feel like I'm growing increasingly more paranoid, stress and fatigue are driving me mad, the fact that no one cares drives me more mad.
But it would help if people at least showed some sympathy for me, I get their caught up in their own issues, they don't have to hear the whole story or give me advice just at least say like "that sucks". Idk man
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You might get your hormone levels checked. If fatigue, paranoia, and the detachment is out of the ordinary, if could be low testosterone plus mental health issues and stress.
That's it. Time to increase your T even more
It's true there's less social support for men than for women, but this sounds like there's something else going on. Hallucinating due to fatigue isn't a common experience for men.
OP: I did talk about the fatigue to my therapist, I've been going to the doctors to figure it out, they suspect it's due to low oxygen
This is OP:
You think they pass for a teen boy but then you see her in a natural setting and yeesh
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This post was stolen from another hardworking dramatard: https://rdrama.net/h/random/post/321517/how-much-copium-do-you-have
All jannies are bastards
Jannies are allowed to steal, other rdramatards' posts, it's one of the perks.
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"Son,
I have tried to keep quiet about your character and behavior, but after listening to the way you made Samantha feel today, I cannot stay silent. And as a woman and your mother I feel I must speak out..
You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.
I am not a saint, far from it.. so don't throw that in my face,. but your abuse over the years to women (dishonesty, sleeping around, betrayal, debasing, belittling) needs to be called out.
Sam is a good mother and a good person (under the circumstances that you created) and I know deep down you know that. For you to try to label her as "unstable" for your own advantage is despicable and abusive. Is there any sense of decency left in you? She did not ask for or deserve any of what has come to her by your hand. Neither did Meredith.
I know you think this is one big competition and that we have taken her side… bunk… we are on the side of good and that is not you. (Go ahead and call me self-righteous, I dont' care)
Don't you dare run to her and cry foul that we shared with us… that's what babies do. It's time for someone (I wish it was a strong man) to stand up to your abusive behavior and call it out, especially against women
We still love you, but we are broken by your behavior and lack of character. I don't want to write emails like this and never thought I would. If it damages our relationship further, then so be it, but at least I have said my piece. [Redacted]
And yes, we are praying for you (and you don't deserve to know how we are praying, so skip the snarky reply)
I don't want an answer to this… I don't want to debate with you. You twist and abuse everything I say anyway. But… On behalf of all the women (and I know it's many) you have abused in some way, I say… get some help and take an honest look at yourself…
Mom."
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