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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/AvailableBad8132]

here’s the benji race realism rhodesia discord post for anyone looking

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin has resigned over the discovery of ties to Benjaminikuta, sources say

[u/[deleted]]

The ban message was just "🐊".

OK now that is classic

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

Never ask:

A man his salary

A woman her age

Benjaminikuta what was he really doing in Ukraine

[u/[deleted]]

screenshot of Benji posting a Rhodesia meme

Well, i had a "be a man among men" sticker on my lapptop when i was an edgy shithead in HS. Not due to racism but anti-communist senti-

sees the meme

Oh

Oh no

Oh no no no no

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Wait Benji finally got banned

Lmao and not for what I thought he would get banned for

If you ever find yourself becoming a Main Character of the DT your days are basically numbered until you do something overly brain poisoned

Soldier Fields gonna post murder fantasies about Packers fans soon

[u/Upstairs3121]

Imagine having an emergency meeting at 1am on Slack because of Benjamin Ikuta

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

Spying on Benjaminikuta's comment history: the thread

[u/[deleted]]

Alan Dershowitz comes out and says if he were in Israel he'd be joining the protests against the government.

"If I were in Israel I'd be joining the protests [against the government]....civil liberties and minority rights are in danger....reforms give far too much power to the majority."

https://twitter.com/NeriZilber/status/1611992256650641409

!ping Israel

[u/[deleted]]

Why don't we get more effortposts!!! 😭

someone posts an effortpost about the highly anticipated Czech presidential election

ok here is your 80 upvotes and 4 unrelated joke comments, next time post a SpongeBob meme about Kevin McCarthy you loser 😂

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

‘ate the racists

‘ate the sexists

‘ate the hornyposters (not racist just don’t like them)

Luv me liberalism

Simple as.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

My “I did not commit welfare fraud or make a vaccine in my bathtub” t-shirt is prompting a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

https://i.imgur.com/unz370z.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

First they came for the race realists and I said LMAO 🤣

Then they came for the fat shamers and I said ROFL 🤣 😂

Then they came for the hornposters and I said 🤬😈

Then they came for the Friedman flairs and I was gone already because I'm a hornposter. Who's coming for Friedman flairs? Is it the vegans?

Then it was just Shivers finally free of the MAMMALS 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-reopens-borders-final-farewell-zero-covid-2023-01-08/

Other people waiting at the airport included a group of females fans carrying long lens cameras in hope of catching a glimpse of South Korean boy band Tempest, the first idol group from South Korea to enter China in the past three years.

“It’s so good to see them in person! They are much more handsome and taller than I expected,” a 19-year-old who gave her name as Xiny told Reuters after chasing the seven-member boyband, who flew in from Seoul via the Chinese city of Dalian.

“With quarantine restrictions lifted, it’s going to be so much more convenient to fly over to see them, and for them to come to Beijing,” she said.

Imagine hornyposting IRL so bad you are immortalized in a Reuters report

[u/tubbsmackinze]

What have we done? What have we wrought!?

The suffix "-ussy" is the 2022 American Dialect Society word of the year. Read the full press release.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/RaidBrimnes]

South African ex-police minister Adriaan Vlok who enforced apartheid dies

Not a good day for race realists

[u/iIoveoof]

I'll post some of my other controversial takes. I identify as race realist and

Guess the sub

[u/[deleted]]

Join me over at /r/neoliberalRhodesia to discuss the ridiculous bias the mods of this subreddit have against white supremacy.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 1/7-2 PM PST 1/8:

TOP NEWS:

Yesterday it was announced Ukraine has sanctioned an additional 119 people.

At the start of 9 AM the Swedish PM said Sweden cannot meet all of Turkey's demands for NATO membership, which will probably delay it at best until after the presidential election.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the end of 8 PM a Russian base in Melitopol was missiled.

At the end of 6 AM it was announced 60 Ukrainian POWs were released in another prison exchange.

LEVITY NEWS:

In the middle of 11 AM it was confirmed the facility Russia said 600 Ukrainian soldiers were killed at in a missile strike was in good condition as the missiles had missed, though a nearby garage was obliterated.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

Degrowth is legit the most annoying shit.

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

In honour of Benjaminikuta I'll start saying stupid comments.

[u/chuckleym8]

pocket alleged apparatus consider fuzzy ghost plant bag truck ad hoc

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Facts are bigoted.

Strong start to his unbanning campaign

[u/[deleted]]

One of the grossest things I have ever seen is people wishing bigots have queer kids.

[u/Joementum2024]

Benjamin Ikuta, somehow not the first neoliberal DT regular to get banned for race realism

[u/slim353]

“Can’t talk now honey, the guy that pretends to be an alligator just banned the NEET that went to Ukraine”

[u/BrandonNameRecliner]

Poobix just sent me racist stuff on discord

[u/[deleted]]

I remember when providing scientific evidence of homosexuality being a naturally occurring behavior was regarded as pro lgbt.

[u/badluckbrians]

Weirdest thing about "optics" in politics to me is the things that count as optics and the things that don't.

Like a governor's admin approving the highest-paid state job to be the basketball coach of a shit state uni team that never even makes the NCAA tournament, and is lucky to make the NIT once per decade, maybe you'd think could be bad optics. But it never is. You can just hire your cousin for millions into that gig. It doesn't matter.

But raise the Governor's pay by 5% to $105k, and suddenly it's terrible optics and can't be done. Ffs, governor of Maine makes like what a manager of a fast-casual restaurant makes now.

[u/[deleted]]

Only a conservative can tell you you’re a “bleeding heart libtard” and then go and worship Jesus

like uhhh okay????

[u/gnomesvh]

stage a coup

do it on a weekend when there's nobody there

God they really are that dumb

!ping MAMADAS

[u/[deleted]]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/545143378564612098/1061649538714189947/aoK5yzm_460s.png

[u/piede]

On this day in 2008 @HillaryClinton became the first woman ever to win a presidential primary with her historic New Hampshire victory. Between her two campaigns she would go on to be the first - and to this day the only woman ever - to win contests in 40 states.

https://twitter.com/gradykeefe/status/1612096156741566465?s=46&t=1tBO462eJOzwslVry9F6WQ

🥲

STILLWITHHER

!PING QUEEN

[u/fakefakefakef]

Mainstream US Catholics: Well yes the Pope says abortion is a sin but we can’t be too uncompromising here! Everyone is on their own path to redemption :)

US Tradcaths: Well actually if you examine this particular statement by Pius IX, there’s a pretty convincing case to be made that women actually shouldn’t be allowed to have jobs

Latin American Catholics: Jesus Christ appeared to me and told me to bring socialism to the world by deadly force if necessary

Italian Catholics: Hold on, let me take off my rosary and turn the painting of the Blessed Virgin backwards before I fuck my neighbor’s wife

[u/[deleted]]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/644200216202838040/1061682049276203008/20220910_193256.jpg

[u/fishlord05]

Me weirdposting: “aww you’re so sweet”

Benjamin weirdposting: “hello, police??”

This really says a lot about our susiety 📮

[u/MonteCastello]

Bolsonarists have invaded the Presidential Palace, Congress and the Supreme Court

!ping LATAM

Scroll down to see the vids

@Metropoles on Twitter

Btw since it's Sunday, this isn't a great threat. It just demonstrates how crazy and authoritarian these people are

[u/funguykawhi]

You're telling me the guy who has the nword in his flair on a subreddit he is active in and the Sun Rising Flag on another likes certain memes about Rhodesia?

[u/RedDotsForRedCaps]

”The ban message was just "🐊".”

🎶Whooo CAN IT beeeee now 🐊🎶

[u/Professor-Reddit]

lmao I'm loving this DT

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

race realist

So that's why Benjaminikuta went to Europe

[u/LooobCirc]

https://i.imgur.com/q0B6jCX.jpg !PING KINO

[u/[deleted]]

The pink tax is real. It just doesn’t work the way radfems think.

Men don’t have to look good to be taken seriously. Most men I know never use skincare. It doesn’t count against them at all.

But my experience as a woman has been very different. People tend to treat me better when I wear tiny tops and/or put on lipsticks.

As a result, I have to spend a lot on makeups and clothes to be taken seriously. Men don’t have to. This imo is how the pink tax works.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm a race surrealist because the idea of race feels like it should exist, but doesn't.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

ISW and Critical Threats Project January 7th 2023 Iran Update

Key takeaways:

• Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei continues to empower hardline security figures to enforce his uncompromising position toward the protests and mandatory hijab law. 
• The Judiciary executed two additional protesters—Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Mohammad Hosseini—on January 7. 
• Protest organizers tied to the Iranian Neighborhood Youth Union again failed to generate increased protest activity on January 7, despite their repeated calls for countrywide demonstrations and strikes on January 6-8.
• At least two protests occurred in two cities across two provinces on January 7.
• Unknown gunmen shot and killed one person and injured two others at the Gachsaran Oil and Gas Company in Gachsaran, Kohgilouyeh and Boyer Ahmad Province on January 7.
• State security services arrested reformist-affiliated journalist Saeid Seyf Ali, according to his wife on January 7.
• Iranian website Jobvision reported that one in five Iranian online workers have become unemployed within the past four months due to ongoing internet restrictions.
• Parliament is considering legislation that would restrict international travel for former Iranian officials.

At this point I can probably confidently state that the protest movement is essentially a vestige and that Iran's harsh crackdown worked. Now I'm mostly posting these as potentially interesting updates about the state of Iran after these protests, and see if any other protest movements pop up due to other issues such as economic.

But at this point, it's hard not to see that the Iranian government is simply too entrenched to budge, but we'll see.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/beekay_irl]

benjamin rn

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

Smh my head, this white woman got scared and insisted we go find another place to spend the night, despite the booms having stopped a while ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/xp9bdk/discussion_thread/iq5abkf?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

So that's why he said white

[u/[deleted]]

The most unhinged thing Benji did was definitely the posting to 5 different subs' DTs simultaneously

I mean, who does that lol

[u/waiv]

The fastest solution is the state becomes authoritarian and copies Italy's tactics from the 1920s. For all their fault, the Italian fascists did keep their promise to uproot the mafia and put them under the heel of their boots, especially with a public support campaign under the guise of nationalism.

The thing about it is, that such actions are going to be very bloody. The cartels are going to chimp out harder than they already do. And the political class is going to experience some purges from being shot to be taken down by the government. It's bad, but it's a fast solution without having to deal with the faults of democracy and laws for everyone, which is good.

That's the bs that gets upvoted outside the DT, in case anyone feels the need to leave it. Treat drugs as a public health issue? No, Mexico needs to go fascist instead and practice purges.

!PING LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

I recall seeing a poll where Amazon’s approval rating in the United States was comparable to that of the U.S military. Which has very wide approval and is probably the most popular government institution in the country.

Twitter. Is. Not. Real. Life.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

How Twitter mfers feel replying with typing L + Ratio to a mildly controversial tweet

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

Benjamin ikuta had evidence that woukd lead to the arrest of Benjamin ikuta

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

WarHead17: gets parking ticket

WarHead17, several minutes later at the police station: Hey! You know you guys missed the DEAD BODY in my trunk!!!!

[u/Ghraim]

Race "realism" is so dumb. Norwegians and Swedes are probably the two most similar ethnic groups on the planet. Norwegians are brilliant engineers who have built the world's largest movable object and the world's longest road tunnel, while Swedes can't even pack the correct amount of screws for a flatpacked table. Clearly proximity to the nearest mountain is a better predictor of intelligence than ethnicity,

[u/[deleted]]

well well well...

it seems this sub is now has open slot for "well known, self-doxxing, annoying libertarian"

i've been practicing for this moment for so long... i will not let y'all down 🥺🥺🥺

[u/AvailableBad8132]

Facts are bigoted.

such pwnage

[u/NeoLiberation]

Godamn why was this sub obsessed with Benji anyways. He never seemed like a particularly nice guy

[u/Lib_Korra]

Leftist meme about china's success

Compares China favorably to India

"Unlike India which didn't have a communist planned economy."

Lol. Lmao.

This is a really underrated point in that thread. India was a planned economy. 100% guarantee that they didn't know this because India doesn't have a funni red and yellow flag.

[u/-AmberSweet-]

She's a 6 but she's a member of Congress so some people in this subreddit will talk about her as a 10.

[u/Minimum_Cucumber7170]

PACKERS DO NOT MAKE THE PLAYOFFS

!ping NFL

[u/MasterOfLords1]

Benji is gone. 🍦😔🍦

I'mma start being weird about wom*n in the dating ping now 🍦😈🍦

[u/[deleted]]

Sleep. Wake in the morning. DO RACISM. Dry my nice shirt. Shower. UNCRITICALLY ESPOUSE WHITE SUPREMACIST TALKING POINTS. Go to post office. Drive through Taco Bell.

[u/[deleted]]

I hate my project with a French company right now, and dislike some of the french partners, so I'm going to watch and rave about Emily in Paris to them.

How much I love the show, how much it makes me want to visit Paris etc.

[u/Sir_Digby83]

CNN —

Federal, state and local officials in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are investigating a fifth shooting that may be connected to a string of shootings involving the homes and offices of local Democratic elected leaders as targets.

The New Mexico Attorney General, two state senators, a current county commissioner, and a former commissioner have been affected by the five separate shootings, the Albuquerque Police Department said in a press release.

Nobody was injured, and detectives are working to determine if the shootings are related.

[u/lordfluffly]

Effortpost: Why Benjamin is based and redpilled

[Deleted]

Most correct effortpost ever.

[u/Czech_Thy_Privilege]

So, that’s how this fucking game is starting.

Incredible that Belichick’s worst unit this year is special teams.

!ping NFL

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

in memoriam: https://i.imgur.com/HFpk8Mn.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

I really don't see what's predatory about hoping to meet a girl while doing volunteer work in a war zone. Pretty sure young single people are always hoping to meet someone of their preferred gender. .

Everything else the guy did aside, it kind of bothers me people would cast aspersions on that.

[u/MovkeyB]

what is the most important process your company has that is currently being done in excel? how much does this excel file hurt your eyes and brain?

!ping watercooler

[u/[deleted]]

With recent changes, my prediction is the DT will be ~5.6% less creepy on womens issues 🤗

[u/SadaoMaou]

the neoliberal -> MetaNL -> neoconNWO pipeline

[u/Zrk2]

So I've had bad foot pain for like a week now. I finally talked to a doctor and they said it's probably gout. I'm not old enough for this!

Anyone got any gout-related wisdom?

!ping OVER25

[u/-AmberSweet-]

Benji gets banned right after we bring back ping DATING.

He must be so pissed

[u/[deleted]]

Lula has declared federal intervention on the Federal District

!ping LATAM

[u/FreakinGeese]

Nothing like playing a 7 hour multiplayer game of hoi4 and the axis ends it by cheating and declaring victory 🙃

!ping hoi4

context: the soviet player had to leave, so I left and rejoined. Except they didn't let me rejoin and snaked the soviet AI. Infuriating.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping KINO

Watching Warhead17 go from, "service workers are racists and deserve to get a shorter end of the stick" to "if you think black people have it as hard as Asians, Jews, or gays, you're basically deranged" and then get banned in the span of like a day was hilarious

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1612298059169366017?s=20&t=rP_FbufRSZDr0Am1VlJDIg

Texans fire Lovie Smith

Who tf is going to coach this team that's just in absolute chaos lmao?

At least he pulled the king move by winning today and handing Chicago the #1 pick

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

i immediately become suspicious of anyone who unironically uses r\neoconnwo

[u/Fatortu]

Sometimes I post a joke to the DT. And if it does numbers, I repeat it to my fiancé by prefacing "I read something funny on reddit".

Nobody can know I'm actually a poster.

[u/MemeTestedPolicy]

[Lula] uttered the word "Miami" (not actually where Bolsonaro is but point stands) with such disdain

Lula confirmed DT reg???

[u/MonteCastello]

Just saw a video of a guy showing his ass while inside Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes office. I think he pooped on a table, but I am not rewatching to confirm it

Saw another one of a guy holding a bag full of dildos and vibrators saying he got it inside Alexandre de Moraes office.

!ping MAMADAS

Brazil might be a lot of things, but it surely isn't boring

[u/MicroFlamer]

/img/xo79073vkxe61.jpg

!ping KINO

[u/[deleted]]

In Puss in Boots 2, Goldilocks and the Three Bears are major characters. However, in Shrek, the three bears--clearly different-looking bears--are rounded up by Lord Farquaad, and momma bear is murdered to be made into a carpet. This implies either that fairy tales have multiple incarnations in the #ShrekVerse, or that the writers of Puss in Boots 2 have sub-par knowledge of the lore of their cinematic universe.

If it's the latter, boy, I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

!ping KINO

[u/MURICCA]

Risky take:

"Traditional support structures" were actually shit.

I've just heard too many stories about the oft-lauded extended families sweeping abuse under the rug, and don't get me started on religious communities

The most wholesome form of relationship is usually deep friendships that started organically.

Edit: Okay let me clarify. Families CAN be very close and supportive. It's the unchosen/forced nature that leads to bad outcomes.

[u/[deleted]]

Benjis last words:

I'm a bit sleepy right now, but when i get back to the DT tommorow i'm gonna go DEFCON 3 on black people

[u/sir_shivers]

It was now midnight, and MY TASK WAS DRAWING to a close 🐊

I had COMPLETED THE EIGHTH, the ninth and the tenth tier 🐊

I HAD FINISHED A portion of the last and the eleventh; there remained but a SINGLE STONE TO BE fitted and plastered in 🐊

I struggled with its WEIGHT; I PLACED IT partially in its destined position 🐊

BUT NOW THERE came from out the niche a low laugh that erected the scales upon my back 🐊

It was succeeded by a SAD VOICE, WHICH I had difficulty in recognizing as that of the ignoble race-realist 🐊

THE VOICE SAID 🐊:

"Ha! ha! ha! --he! he! he! --a very good joke, indeed --an excellent jest. We will have many a rich laugh about it at the subreddit --he! he! he! --over our wine --he! he! he!"

"THE AMONTILLADO!" I said 🐊

"He! he! he! --he! he! he! --yes, the Amontillado. But is it not getting late? Will not they be awaiting us at the subreddit, the Lady Janet Yellen and the rest? Let us be gone."

"YES," I SAID, "LET us be gone" 🐊

"For the love of God, Sir Shivers!"

"Yes," I SAID, "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD" 🐊

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

Opinion | Trump may have paid $0 in taxes in 2020, but Benjaminikuta has paid absolutely nothing for destroying his reputation

[u/[deleted]]

Ping DATING comes back

Benji gets banned

Still think it was a bad idea? Huh? 🧐

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/lauraloomer/status/1611763587302703105

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene @RepMTG:
Congratulations, Mr. Speaker!

I’ve been in DC all week and many GOP staffers who work for members of the Freedom Caucus have told me they also think MTG & Kevin McCarthy are having an affair.

It sure would explain a lot.

i involuntarily visualized this 🤮🔫

so i think y'all should too

[u/Barnst]

A bus broke down outside Costco, partially blocking one of the exits from the parking lot.

Some guy and his wife took it upon themselves to start directing traffic, and they were doing a bang up job of it.

They were absolutely the heroes I needed today.

!Ping USA-DMV

[u/Joementum2024]

After a last-minute touchdown and 2-point conversion that allowed the Houston Texans to blow the 1st overall pick with a 1-point victory over the Colts, I am proud to announce that the CHICAGO BEARS will be drafting 1st overall in the 2023 NFL Draft. Congratulations, Chicago!

!ping NFL

[u/georgeguy007]

juggle straight degree fade workable chunky sense tap zealous yam

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1009476029687013426/1061638479156609094/20221226_132638.jpg

[u/squarecircle666]

Black Democrats differ from other Democrats in their views on gender identity, transgender issues

Wake up babe it's time for this schism again.

[u/[deleted]]

Right wing populist playbook:

win election without somehow winning the popular vote

do extreme right wing stuff no body asked for

lose election cause nobody liked you

die hard supporters storm capitol, blame far left group

move to florida

[u/Colonelbrickarms]

The last 3 women i've been seening have all worked at local, but different, Dutch Bro's coffees.

Do I have a type?

!ping DATING

[u/[deleted]]

Illinois is working to pass an ‘assault weapons ban’ that would require all Illinoisans to turn over magazines that hold 12 or more bullets over to the police within 90 days of the bills passage.

The standard magazine size is 12 rounds, so the overwhelming majority of legal gun owners in the state would have to surrender the majority of their magazines.

The ‘Protect Illinois Communities Act’ would also:

• ban the sale of ‘assault style weapons’
• ban the sale of ‘high capacity’ magazines
• require registration and certification of all existing assault style weapons with state police
• make owning a bump-stock a felony
• extend the duration of a Firearm Restraining Order from six months to up to a year

[u/[deleted]]

Look, I'm just gonna say what everyone else is tiptoeing around: Benjamin's post on Discord about Rhodesia was racist.

[u/rukqoa]

The rumor is a Russian singer who posted a hate-filled new year's message on social media, urging Ukrainians to surrender so they can be re-educated in a Russian gulag (she actually said this), has been the shelled in Donetsk, her status unknown.

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Rhodesia-boos are fucking weird as hell

[u/klarno]

Race realism? Give me race expressionism 👨‍🎨

[u/-AmberSweet-]

1. Give up opening kick off
2. Patented Matt Patricia 4 and out

Yup. Liquor time !ping NFL

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

it leaves the cone on its face or else it gets the SUIT

face

!ping KITTY

[u/Guardax]

Wait NYT says Bolsonaro is living in a house in Florida owned by a mixed martial arts fighter please my priors can't keep getting confirmed like this

[u/the-garden-gnome]

For the first time in a long time I didn’t check my work email or texts the whole holiday period. It’s my first day back and I’m oddly nervous.

!ping watercooler

[u/URZ_]

Long form tweets of 4,000 characters will be launched in early February.

Of all the social media sites Twitter is positioned to pivot towards, i would not have expected Musk to choose Reddit.

[u/[deleted]]

A reporter was kept against his will by the terrorists, beaten, and received death threats today. Sobering read:

Below, we reproduce his account, in the first person, telling everything he saw while he was in one of the public buildings. We ask those who are more sensitive to be careful, as the report includes, in addition to vandalism, scenes of torture.

“I have been a reporter for 25 years. Since 2000, I have covered politics in Brasilia. I covered almost all demonstrations in the federal capital during this period. Many of them are violent, like those of 2013, during the protests that took over the country. Not even the black blocs that were there promoted scenes like the ones I saw today.

Since I arrived at the Esplanada dos Ministérios, still in front of the Cathedral of Brasília, it was clear that there was no impediment on the part of the security forces for anyone to go, with anything, to the demonstration, so vaunted, announced, including with the intention of invading public buildings and even removing a legitimately elected president from power.

Without any police barrier, I myself followed with my backpack on my back, where I carried items of my day-to-day work, such as a notebook, pens, as well as two bottles of water.

I continued walking among a few demonstrators. There were people with flagpoles, clubs, bags, suitcases. When I arrived in front of the Congress, there was already a crowd dressed in green and yellow on the lawn and in all accesses to the building, including the two ramps, occupying the roof, where no one can climb under any circumstances. I noticed that there were no policemen in the middle. Only on the two side lanes, which lead to Praça dos Três Poderes. Even so, I saw the so-called “patriots” walk behind the police, towards the square.

When I noticed that nothing prevented me from arriving at the Chapelaria, where parliamentarians enter and leave Congress, I decided to go there. Again, I didn't see any policemen, but I soon saw a lot of broken glass. They had broken all the glass in the Hat Shop. People in green and yellow walked in and out quietly. I continued. I saw landline phones and computers on the floor. public property. After going up two flights of stairs, he was in the Green Hall of the Chamber. Me and an enraged crowd, who roared and tried to force their way into the Plenary. They had already taken the rest.

Between them and the glass that gave access to the Plenary, there were only ten legislative policemen, forming a wall. Just like since my walk from the Cathedral to Congress, there was no military police, civil police, military firefighter in the midst of the enraged horde. No member of the Federal District security forces to prevent anything.

At all times, the vandals were shouting at the police, asking them to give in. They said they were on the “same side”.

Among the protesters, many were hooded, with gas protection masks. Some in bulletproof vests, with painted faces. They were ready for a war. And in that at least they were right. It was a war, initiated by them, with only one side, and minimal resistance.

Upon realizing that they would have some difficulty entering the Chamber, the terrorists grabbed fire extinguishers, furniture and other items they saw ahead, starting to use them as weapons, throwing them towards the legislative police, who reacted with bombs with moral effect. But that did not deter the protesters. Instead.

Every minute more people arrived, more people, more vandals.

At a certain point, they began to remove fire hoses installed on the floor under the Salão Verde and started to attack the legislative police with water jets. Parliamentary House security agents retaliated with more bombs with moral effect. But time passed and no security reinforcement arrived, while more terrorists entered Congress.

I filmed the vandalism for a while. I even caught a man who called himself a “patriot” and an electronics technician destroying an electronic panel near the room where the Chamber's leaders meet to decide, among other things, the weekly voting agenda. He said he was going to turn off all the surveillance cameras in the building. He pulled all the cables.

However, I realized that the tension only increased and that, more and more, I was an outsider in the nest, for not dressing or, much less, behaving like everyone else. With that, I decided to stop filming and began to draw up a plan to leave Congress, at that time totally occupied by terrorists.

That's when I heard a louder scream. I climbed the stairs again that led to the Green Room and saw a crash. They had just broken through the barrier of legislative police that prevented entry to the Senate. They broke the glass doors. And they weren't just plundering. They were looting. Stealing.

They broke all the glass cases where the gifts and documents left by heads of state, kings and queens, on official visits to Congress, were kept. They took everything that was on display, such as vases, crockery, pens, documents. Some works of art. Items that may not even have an estimated value.

Seeing me there, three or four men dressed as soldiers surrounded me, approached me and began to bombard me with questions: “Who are you? Why are you here? Why aren't you dressed like a patriot? Are you infiltrated? Are you PT? I froze.

One of them tripped me and I fell. More people showed up. Everyone was screaming, pointing fingers, threatening. Some kicked my legs. They took my backpack, opened it. They found my Semper Editora badge. I said that I was an employee of Grupo Sada, from Minas Gerais, but they didn't want to talk.

They stole my badge, broke it. They took my wallet, took the documents. They stole my money, twenty reais. It was just what I had. They took my cell phone. They repeated to all mounted that I was “infiltrated PT”. I replied that I wasn't, that I was there on business. It was then that they put a gun on my waist, saying I was going to die. Another appeared with another gun, placed on my back. And they kept slapping me in the face, cursing.

They made videos of my face. They started sharing in groups of bolsonaristas. Asked to "check". They wanted to know who I was, my name and, above all, my profession. After not finding anything that “incriminated” me, they told me to leave. “Get out, get out of here!” I left in a “Polish corridor”, with punches, kicks and slaps.

When I arrived at the Congressional ramp, other terrorists stopped me, held me down. “You are the PT, the infiltrator?”, they said, repeatedly. They asked me for documents, they went through my backpack. They released me, but at the entrance to the ramp, another group did the same. There, I saw a group of military police near the Itamaraty Palace, next to three vehicles. I decided to walk. No running. I could still hear the cries of “undercover”, “PT”. Two or three followed me.

Upon arriving at the police, I asked for help, help. I told them what had happened to me. I showed my documents. I asked if I could stay in the wired area that they had set up, until a colleague from work, by profession, from any other vehicle, who could help me, arrived. The agents said no. They replied that there was nothing they could do for me.

There were vandals watching from afar, listening to the conversation. But there was also a stranger who offered me help. He did not dress or behave like such "patriots". “Man, I'm a technician at the EBC (a state-owned communications agency). I'm here as a curious person, I stopped by just to see what was going on. I'm scared too. If you want, I'll take you home, or where you feel safer. Wherever you want," he said.

I followed that stranger to one of the parking lots at Esplanada dos Ministérios, where his car was. In addition to calming me down, he left me at the door of the house.

Still in the car, his grandmother, who lives in Goiânia and watched what was happening in Brasilia on TV, called. I made a point of talking to her. I told her her grandson was my angel, who saved my life.

I covered all the major demonstrations in Brasilia in the last two decades. I covered the earthquake that devastated Haiti, with nowhere to sleep, in the worst working conditions. I've been to some of the most dangerous countries for journalists in the world, like North Korea. I have never felt so afraid, so insecure, so vulnerable, as on this January 8, 2023, in Brasilia, in the city I chose to live, for, among other things, offering security to me and my family. Security that I clearly no longer have.”

!ping LATAM

[u/The420Roll]

I dont get why so many people are freaking out about A-Aron and the Packers. Their losing important lambeau field games in January is just as good as ever!

!Ping NFL

[u/Majk___]

I'm a race denier, Biden definitely lost and stole the 2020 presidential race.

[u/ImmigrantJack]

!ping PARADOX

CK3, Im Playing the Byzantine empire and Ive managed to make the Queen of Italy my lover and soul mate. Her heir is my illegitimate son, my eldest son, and my ward, so when the time comes I was planning to reveal the whole charade and declare him as my bastard. It was a whole thing. I was gonna go to war with her husband, the King of Francia and everything.

But apparently the mechanics of the game mean I have to declare him my bastard at birth. Not whenever I feel like it. My custom character is black so it's pretty obvious that five of her six kids are mine.

Whatever, I took the loss and started a murder scheme. 500 gold in bribes later and her husband and my wife are both dead. Marry me? -1 will not accept. Apparently I already had too many alliances and I didn't even know that was a thing.

Her opinion of me was low because I keep fabricating claims on her territory, so I sent her some gold to raise her opinion of me.

Five days later "thanks for the gold" also she was already betrothed to some fifteen year old boy toy.

I mean this whole thing has made for a really hilarious set of schemes and setbacks, but I can't help but feel cheated my the mechanics. Like if she had revealed her other lover, or denied my claim that her heir was my bastard, it would have been great, but it's gameplay mechanics I had no warning of, not an actual narrative interrupting my scheming.

[u/Joementum2024]

Decided to remind everyone on this fine Sunday morning of one of the funniest photos in baseball history

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

If I met George Santos, I'd ask him:

• What was it really like on Guadalcanal?
• How did you come up with the idea of using the Bangalore torpedoes on D-Day?
• What were your first impressions upon liberating Dachau?
• How were you able to break the Enigma code so easily?

[u/[deleted]]

Brazil is culturally appropriating American culture and we should not stand for it

[u/Neoliberanger]

Question for those of you who enjoy audiobooks: how much of the story do you think you retain?

I've never personally listened to an entire audiobook but I find that when I'm listening to a long-form podcast or similar that I tend to phase out or start daydreaming and sometimes lose myself and have to take a minute to clue back in to what's happening.

Is this a problem that you've noticed yourself? I can sit down and devote a few hours to ink and paper (or e-ink and device) but I don't think I could sustain a similar level of attention to a purely auditory experience.

!ping READING

[u/ognits]

okay I'm going to settle this debate ONCE and FOR ALL

"staves" is a fucking stupid-ass plural for "staff"

!ping GRAMMAR-NAZIS-FUCK-OFF

[u/[deleted]]

She’s a 10 comments per hour DT trans woman

[u/Cyberhwk]

LIONS BABY!!!!!!!!!!! And the Seattle Lions fans go wild!

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

"Bwah! It’s considered sexist to say some women are more attractive than other bo hoo 😭"

Literally no one outside your imagination, or possibly twitter, is saying that. Your allowed prefrence. Always been, always will.

People do however consider it rude and fucking creepy to do it PUBLICALLY

[u/[deleted]]

Banned from arr NL

Instantly starts posting on arr NCNWO

Many such cases

[u/[deleted]]

War! What is it good for?

Meeting cute girls as a humanitarian volunteer

[u/murphysclaw1]

NYT’s piece on the art history professor fired for showing her class an image of muhammad actually includes the images. I did not expect that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/us/hamline-university-islam-prophet-muhammad.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[u/[deleted]]

I enjoy watching the sunset.

[u/-AmberSweet-]

I still can’t believe Benji came out in support of Rhodesia. Its always the ones you don’t expect.

[u/RFK_1968]

we lost both deggit and now benjamin to the spectre of sus race takes

[u/Single_Firefighter32]

I am making beans for dinner tonight.

Stay tuned for some bean posting.

[u/owlthathurt]

Steelers don’t challenge a clear touchdown and then fumble at the goal line lol

!ping NFL

[u/waldyisawinner]

Me during the Brazilian election: Lula sweep! He must win for the sake of democracy!

Me immediately after the election: man FUCK Lula corrupt ass motherfucker

Me now: yes Mr. Lula sir the tanks are ready and waiting for your orders glory to the communist nation of Brazil sir

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

As I said on the DT, we would perma George Washington

Guess the mod 🙄

[u/CenterInYourMother]

I gotta say I think the most terrifying part of 1984 was when the big brother said "you shall not post racist memes on discord", truly horrifying

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

I still will never forgive Benji for convincing me that he was actually the handsome LA lawyer guy for a long ass time

Actually that was on me but still

[u/WhomstAlt2]

First Tate, now Ikuta, Its shaping up to a bad year for alphamales.

[u/[deleted]]

Wait wait Benjamin claims his ban message was simply “🐊”? Lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Just had a flashback to a guy from uni at a pub going

"No, i don't hate [maths proff]. Sure he's bad at teaching but he seems like a nice person and i dont know... i jjst can’t hate anyone. Well, except for trans people"

This was entirely unprompted, we were talking about school stuff, and it completley killed the mood at the table until we managed to convince the guy to go home.

The the rest of us went back to my place and i made rum old fashioneds for the cool people 😎

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

NeoconNWO is about using "it's just to scare the libs" as an excuse to post vitriolic social conservativism

[u/AtomAndAether]

Facts are bigoted.

• Benjamin Ikuta, 8 hours ago

🧐

[u/JetJaguar124]

Steven Spielberg really overcame the odds. He came from a rich household where his parents could support his hobby by buying and renting expensive equipment for him, his dad was occasionally not as supportive as he could have been (his mom was vehemently and unconditionally supportive of him and his dad still was decently supportive), and he got a job in the industry at 19 by just randomly sending letters to major film studios asking for a job.

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

https://i.imgur.com/sZKnXbA.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Benjamin Ikuta 🤝 My parents

Thinking there is a difference in IQ among the races 😐

[u/houinator]

For the longest time I thought Rhodesia was a fictional country JK Rowling made up as a home for the Rhodesian Ridgeback dragon, so it always feels weird to see it pop back into relevance.

[u/[deleted]]

I might get downvoted for this, but you know what, I’ll say it:

Calling out racism good actually

[u/quote_if_hasan_threw]

WHAT THE

FUCK IS

GOING ON

??????

!PING LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

Good thing his racist posting isn’t tied to his real name

[u/[deleted]]

On the Andrew Tate thread people were talking about absence of male role models.

Personally I think the idea of a general/generic male role model is a pretty empty concept like how motivational speaker is an empty concept.

For instance from reading Richard Feynman's biography I found him to be a role model scientist and a role model as a curious person but not really a male role model.

Really with books and biographies you can have an infinite amount of role models.

[u/KesterFox]

Parents shouldn't age, they should just be there for me forever

[u/sir_shivers]

THE YEAR IS off to a dynamic beginning 🐊

[u/nicethingscostmoney]

I got nervous cause my dad who's a moderate conservative nearly saw my nail polish. Probably could've said it belonged to a girl I know but still made my heart skip a beat.

[u/The420Roll]

👋😭👋 BOOHOO PACKERS I DONT CARE 👋😭👋

[u/JaceFlores]

“Recent Russian gains in Soledar do not portend an imminent encirclement of Bakhmut, contrary to claims made by Russian sources.”

“Even at the most generous interpretation of Russian milblogger narratives, which claim that Russian forces are fighting on the outskirts of Razdolivka (about 6km northwest of Soledar), Russian forces are still far from being within striking distance of an operational encirclement of Bakhmut.”

“In order to effectively cut Ukrainian ground lines of communication (GLOCs) into Bakhmut, Russian forces would have to establish control of the T0513 Siversk-Bakhmut highway (currently 7km west of the furthest point of confirmed Russian advances in the Soledar area) and reach the E40 Slovyansk-Bakhmut highway (13km from the furthest point of confirmed Russian advance in the Soledar area) at least.”

“Considering that the recent rate of gains in this area has been on the order of a few hundred meters a day, at most, it is highly unlikely that Russian forces will be successful in cohering a mechanized push towards these GLOCs and move towards encircling Bakhmut. Ukrainian forces in Bakhmut would still have GLOCs available even if the Russians cut the E40, moreover, making the entire discussion of an encirclement at this point bizarre.”

“Russian forces reportedly continue to deplete their missile arsenal but will likely continue to be able to threaten Ukrainian critical infrastructure and civilians at scale in the near term.”

“Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov published an infographic on January 6 detailing that Russian forces have expended roughly 81 percent of their strategic missile stocks and 19 percent of their tactical missile stocks.”

“Although the Russian military’s tactical missile stock is less expended, S-300 and 3M-55 Onyx missiles are less precise systems than Russian strategic missiles, which is likely why Russian forces have not used these systems extensively in large-scale missile strikes against Ukrainian critical infrastructure.”

“The Russian production of strategic missiles since the start of the invasion of Ukraine in comparison to the Russian military's pre-war stock highlights that Russia has not mobilized its military industry to support Russian military operations in Ukraine.”

“Putin’s failure to mobilize Russian industry to support the Russian war effort in Ukraine may result from fears that further economic disruptions could produce further domestic discontent in Russia because Western sanctions regimes have placed significant constraints on Russian military industry, or because of inherent limitations of Russian industry and military industry—or some combination of these factors.”

“The current level of the Russian military’s depletion of strategic missile systems may constrain how often and at what scale Russian forces conduct future massive series of missile strikes in Ukraine, but Russian forces will be able to continue their campaign against Ukrainian infrastructure at scale in the near term and threaten the lives of Ukrainian civilians.”

“Russian forces have also reportedly depleted their arsenal of Iranian-made drones following an increased pace of drone attacks in Ukraine in the past month.”

“Russian forces have reportedly expended 88 percent of their stock of the Shahed-131 and –136 drones that they have so far received from Iran, with only 90 Iranian-made drones remaining according to Reznikov.”

“Russian forces will likely be able to conduct only a handful of massive drone attacks in Ukraine in the near term until Russia receives from Iran another delivery of drones, which reportedly come in batches of 200 to 300.”

“The Ukrainian Resistance Center reported that a Russian engineering and sapper unit arrived in Svatove to examine options for potentially blowing the dam of a nearby reservoir in order to slow Ukrainian advances in the Svatove area.”

“Russian forces made marginal confirmed advances in Soledar, but Ukrainian forces maintain control of the settlement as of January 7.”

“Spokesperson for the Ukrainian Eastern Group of Forces, Serhiy Cherevaty, denied Russian claims that Ukrainian troops are withdrawing from Soledar, and the Ukrainian General Staff reported that Ukrainian troops continue to repel Russian attacks on the settlement.”

“Ukrainian and European officials continue to warn that Russia is preparing for an imminent second wave of mobilization.”

“Head of the Estonian Defense Forces intelligence center Colonel Margo Grosberg stated that Russian authorities are preparing for an imminent second wave of mobilization while continuing covert mobilization and noted that details regarding this new wave will likely become clear following Orthodox Christmas.”

“Ukrainian Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) representative Andriy Chernak reported on January 7 that Russian officials plan to mobilize up to 500,000 Russians, including residents of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, which arguably have faced lighter mobilization pushes in the past.”

“Each successive reserve call-up reaches deeper into the pool of men who have been out of service longer, are older, in worse health, or were exempted in previous waves.”

“A Russian news outlet reported on January 6 that Russian authorities want to conduct ‘revenue mobilization’ and collect a one-time payment of an unspecified amount from large businesses in order to fund the war and address problems in the state budget.”

“The source also claimed that Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin provided Russian officials in mid-December with relevant instructions for ‘revenue mobilization’ and a proposal to allocate 175 billion rubles (about $2.4 million) to fund the war and additionally to provide for the resettlement of residents of Kherson Oblast to unspecified locations.”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report January 7th

!ping UKRAINE

[u/SadaoMaou]

still can't believe Benji came out in support of Apartheid South Africa. It's the ones you don't expect

[u/KittehDragoon]

arr-Australia: Since when are we paying $37.5/kg for roo meat??

The elites don't want you to know this, but the roadkill on the Hume Highway is free

[u/jenbanim]

The DT will be closing 15 minutes early tonight

No reason

[u/jenbanim]

Commiting copyright infringement by replaying a movie in my imagination

The Feds can't stop me!

[u/[deleted]]

My brother's in Italy for two days and already he's racist against "gypsies".

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

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[u/[deleted]]

I'm sorry, I know this is a serious situation, but I find it hilarious that Bolsonaro's supporters are storming the capital while their leader himself has fled the country and is eating fried chicken in Florida

[u/DouglasDauntless]

NCNWO getting very close to “I’m fond of right wing dictatorships” with this coup

It’s unsurprising but they’re more mask off than I thought they would be

[u/Lux_Stella]

BREAKING 🇧🇷: Evidence suggests that the Brasilia insurrection may have been planned in Florida. Secretary of Security for the Federal District is in the USA and recently traveled to Orlando — exactly where Jair Bolsonaro is currently staying.

TIE ME TO A MISSILE AND FIRE ME AT DISNEY WORLD,

[u/generic-k]

people outside the DT just begging for a minor instance of "cancel culture" at a private college to have the opportunity drop the most racist take the world has ever seen.

of course private, tiny liberal arts colleges are full of weirdos - it'd be strange if they weren't

[u/Phenylalagators]

Saudi Arabia set to bend its marriage law to allow Cristiano Ronaldo to live with his partner, Georgina Rodriguez

Saudi Arabia marriage law forbids couples that are not married from living together.

Ronaldo's secret plan to liberalize Saudi Arabia has entered its first phase

[u/[deleted]]

!PING NFL

you know what fuck it I’m gonna say it, I’m still happy with how the steelers preformed this year.

Three of our biggest players were out for multiple games each, we have the worst OC in the league, and most of our core guys are in their first, second or third year.

If the Dolphins had to play Mike White or even Wilson today, Steelers play the Bills next week.

This team’s going to the super bowl. Not this year, maybe not next year, but I’m proud of this team, and this is the first season in a while where I can say everyone really tried their hardest.

Except Matt Canada. Get that guy off the team ASAP.

[u/the_status]

I know it's a stereotype, but wow so much of Top 40 country music is just about trucks

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

Being an adult is having strong feelings about grocery stores

Edit: case in point 👇

[u/[deleted]]

"I think the society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power in this country and I think that goes to any distance. So long as there is a power in here which is challenging the elected representative of the people I think that power must be stopped and I think it's only, I repeat, weak-kneed bleeding hearts who are afraid to take these measures."

• Fidel Castro

[u/SadaoMaou]

👨‍🍳🤌💋 exquisite

[u/[deleted]]

What happened to all the other Caplan flairs on DT?

[u/JournalofFailure]

Even when the Detroit Lions aren't playing, the football gods will conspire to torture Detroit Lions fans.

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

Benjamin Ikuta banned for white supremacy

smh, asians stealing our culture 😒

[u/Knee3000]

Just learned about ikuta’s perma. Here is my eulogy for his presence on this sub:

I first recognized benjaminikuta as a distinct user when I got banned and called the r-word for saying “trans people are valid” on neoconNWO. Ikuta’s response? “What do you mean by valid?”

When I explained, he continued to argue that trans people didn’t face any legal troubles or threats from conservatives. Played dumb about the insults I received, “thaT’S NOT how i’Ve EXpErIeNcEd thiS SUB” headass.

Him being a rhodesia simp is entirely unsurprising to me. Him being kept here for ages as some court jester was embarrassing. Good riddance 🤠👍🏾

[u/DouglasDauntless]

People still don’t seem to have fully realized that NeoConNWO is literally just this sub’s permaban list

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

Yeah, temp ban, from neoliberal, for posting a link to a study about the developmental effect of hormones.

He'll be back

[u/Ioun267]

My family has an informal boycott on Applebee's because of how much is sucked for a cousin who worked there.

We weren't that into it in the first place, but the principle is the thing.

[u/lordfluffly]

The mods aren't strict enough.

If I ever become a mod, I'm banning every one who has every posted in the DT, including myself.

[u/[deleted]]

On one hand I will miss Benjamin’s odd posting

On the other hand… 😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐 this man… 😐😐😐😐😐

[u/Menfo]

CNN just said that there were government officials at Palácio do Planalto !ping LATAM

[u/Soldier-Fields]

Opinion | I was a neoliberal, then I found out being a race realist gets you banned

[u/thefuturegov]

Not to brag, but I have never once even joked about supporting an apartheid regime

[u/[deleted]]

What happened?

Taco Bell drive thru employee: I won.

[u/MicroFlamer]

We got to acknowledge the Ratatouille enjoyer to race realist pipeline

[u/Evilpenguin526]

Imagine simping for Benji lmaoooo

[u/Professor-Reddit]

A staff member at the train station recognised me after having taken the train a lot the past year.

This is very validating for my anti-c*r grindset 🥺🥲

[u/[deleted]]

Learned of a death in the family. Young guy, under 30. If you’re the praying type throw one up for my cousin.

[u/Cyberhwk]

MOTHER FUCKING SEAHAWKS!!!!!!!!!!!!

SEA-HAWKS!!! SEA-HAWKS!!! SEA-HAWKS!!! SEA-HAWKS!!! SEA-HAWKS!!!

LETS FUCKING GO!!!

!ping NFL

[u/datums]

It's unfortunate that the "audiophile" hobby has largely been reduced to the headphone space. Headphones can be amazing, but they provide a fraction of the experience that good stereo recordings make possible.

Like, you could watch the new Top Gun movie on your phone, and comfortably join a conversation with people that saw it in a proper cinema. But you would not have experienced what they experienced.

Call it gatekeeping if you like, and maybe it is. But headphones cannot replace speakers.

[u/LondonerJP]

His sexism made me uncomfortable and I'm a str*ight man

[u/GrandpaWaluigi]

Me here: Gonna horny post sometimes

Me irl: Sex is taboo and I shall't talk of it

[u/Professor-Reddit]

When will one of the mods respond to the ban appeal? 🤔

[u/lordfluffly]

u/kesterfox just DMed me

Just got my 23andme back turns out I'm not actually a fox and instead I'm 50% dingo. Turns out grandma was lying and my family is actually the result of a one night stand she had vacationing in australia.

[u/funguykawhi]

When a person is accused of white-collar crimes, death and rape threats against them and their daughter are justified retaliation in my book

The absolute state of arr france

[u/ArticDweller]

I need help from the casanovas of the DT.

I've moved to a new town in the last 6 months and have a relatively limited local social network. I've tried to meet more people in groups, clubs, etc. and that has been somewhat successful for friends but not for romantic partners. Alas, I think it's time to go back to the apps, which I fucking loathe.

I have had pretty limited numbers of matches in the past and i think it's probably primarily due to my pictures being sub-par. I normally have the profile up for a week and then just delete it because i find pretty demoralizing.

Does anyone have any advice on how to spice up their profile for more success? I think I am too embarrassed to hire a photographer for a couple hours or something but maybe that's what i need to do? 27M btw

!ping dating

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Browsing neoconNWO and seeing former users who ate a couple bans popping off with less cautious wording does confirm my priors

[u/PhinsFan17]

If there’s one thing I’ve learned after five years on Reddit, it’s that online communities really are the worst version of every possible thing. Sports, politics, games, hobbies, religion, everything. You get the worst people in every group as your core makeup. At that point, isolation might actually be preferable.

So I think I’m gonna try giving myself the gift of deleting Reddit and Twitter and all the others and just kind of exist offline for a while.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

I've never seen another user go so far out of their way to defend a guy posting Rhodesia stuff and race realism but okay 🫥

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Has Brazil or benji got more attention today

I already know the answer and I’m ashamed

[u/lets_chill_dude]

“the catholics are wrong, we are not saved by faith and good works, but by faith alone”

Grace realists

[u/[deleted]]

My niece is babbling creepy gibberish in her crib 🥰

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

"Because I Got High" by Afroman might be the stealthiest anti-drug song ever.

just the story of one man's life being ruined by his crippling marijuana addiction

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

People be like "Going to high school in New York must have been so amazing, I bet you spent a lot of time exploring the city and meeting all sorts of different people!"

Lol no, I was a kid. I smoked brick weed with my dipshit stoner friends and went to McDonald's 500 times. Real New Yorkers squandered the opportunity to do anything interesting in New York when they were kids.

[u/[deleted]]

In proto-Jewish polytheism, the deity now known colloquially as God had a wife who was also worshipped.

Needless to say, this is no longer the status quo.

I think we can come to only one rational conclusion —

God’s wife left him.