I don't know who any of those people are.
but thank you for defending mayopete from someone joking along with their joke. you are a hero.
to me it seems like just another fad created for consumerism to make some people super rich by exploiting people's desire to play a game and turn it into an addictive consumerist obsession (constantly creating new characters to keep people having to buy new things to play/win, making limited edition consumer items, heavily marketing to vulnerable children just like mcdonalds used to do, etc).
but I am in favor of letting people enjoy things, so have fun. i'm not going to stop you.
yeah why did he call himself weird?
FAAAAAAARRRRRRTTTTTTTTT
I was joking. as was the comment I replied to. just joking along with it. get it???
I realize some neurodivergent people might not get that. which is why I am explaining it. hope this helps.
bringing a new meaning to snake oil.
when trump dies i am going to make a fortune writing BS about how he was spotted in some other country plotting his comeback with top advisors....
ok let's start a business to sell trump's ball sweat to these people. it'll work.
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i don't like it.
that's the thing. I can't.
DONALD DUMP!!!! GOTTEMMMM!!!!
he can have it back for $20.
no no the middle class white academic who mined a subculture to build a career is the perfect person to communicate the true feelings of the hip hop world.
this belongs in c/badposting
Kenneth Pinkney, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., pleaded guilty to a hate crime in assaulting the carrier, who was wearing a hijab as she delivered the mail in October.
your house is looking good.
gottem.
the stairs aren't even the same color hahaha but good one!
He says he has heard Nigerians' pain but the demonstrations - set to last 10 days - must stop.
what a wingnut. !crab-party one less !brainworms zombie on the streets.
lmao !amerikkka
for murdering millions of koreans in just a few years, Amerikkka deserves much worse. but it's a start.
this new juanita guaido must go!
Donald Trumpâs vice-presidential pick has reinvented himself repeatedly.
jd vance deserves to be beaten to a pulp just like peter thiel
Even hardened Soviet women werenât above putting on skimpy bikinis and showing off their bodies! This is how the gradual transition took place.
dispelling the stupid western propaganda about bikinis being banned in the USSR.
they're not the only ones! !stalin-shining
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>The town of Kazreti, nestled in the picturesque mountains of Georgia near the border with Armenia, once boasted a cinema, a bank, musical fountains, two schools and a kindergarten. Dance ensembles and volleyball teams from across the Soviet Union would come to perform and compete, and central heating and electricity were free.
>âIt was a true Communist oasis,â said Davit Jakeli, 52, who worked as a carpenter in a state-run vocational school in the town of about 5,500 people, about 50 miles southwest of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
>But after the Soviet Unionâs collapse in the 1990s, he said, everything also came crashing down in Kazreti. No longer supported by the Soviet command economy, the unprofitable local gold and copper mines and an enrichment plant were shut, putting hundreds of people out of work. They reopened years later on a much smaller scale under private ownership. Now there is just one school in the town and the cinema and bank have closed. The fountains, which once adorned a central square, are long gone. Stray dogs roam potholed roads flanked by decrepit apartments.
>âIt is a huge injustice what happened here,â said Mr. Jakeli, who now resells scrap metal from the courtyard of his home.
includes an interview with someone from Reimagining Soviet Georgia a podcast discussing soviet times in Georgia without the negative western propaganda bias.
politician mealy mouthed scumbags that go any way the wind blows deserve only contempt.
they should be squealing about how this is a terrible decision by biden and that he must reconsider because no one else can beat trump.
honestly just lying to people and going back on your word about this makes me want to not vote for him as much as anything else.
what a scumbag. he is not a man of his word.
praying for this idiot to get sent back to china where they actually treat billionaires with the respect they deserve !gui-better
A federal jury found that Guo Wengui defrauded investors, many his own fervent supporters, of hundreds of millions of dollars. He could face decades in prison.
Guo Wengui, the exiled Chinese billionaire who transformed himself from a Beijing insider into a fierce critic of the Chinese Communist Party and a favorite of the American right, was convicted on Tuesday of defrauding investors of hundreds of millions of dollars. Mr. Guo, also known as Miles Guo, was accused of using a number of schemes â club memberships, cryptocurrencies, a sale of private shares in his media company â to fleece his followers and maintain a lavish lifestyle. On the fourth day of deliberations, a jury in the Southern District of New York found him guilty on nine of 12 charges, including racketeering conspiracy, securities fraud and money laundering conspiracy. Set to be sentenced on Nov. 19, Mr. Guo could face decades in prison or the remote possibility of extradition to China. In a trial lasting almost two months, government prosecutors highlighted rambling videos Mr. Guo had made for his thousands of supporters, often guaranteeing no losses on their investments. The proceeds helped pay for a mansion in New Jersey, a Lamborghini roadster and a $100 million investment in a hedge fund. Prosecutors also drew on bank records, invoices and the testimony of Mr. Guoâs former employees and jilted investors, who had been drawn to a wealthy Beijing expatriate dedicated to ending the seven-decade rule of the Chinese Communist Party. âIs Miles Guo a real political activist or not? I donât know, I donât care, and neither should you,â Juliana Murray, an assistant U.S. attorney, told the jury on Thursday. âHeâs an opportunist. Heâs a fraudster.â The conviction is the end point of a remarkable trajectory for Mr. Guo, who made his original fortune in China building hotels and acquiring a brokerage company. Along the way, he allied himself with Ma Jian, a senior intelligence official in the countryâs feared Ministry of State Security. Mr. Guo used his access to sensitive information to take down people who stood in his way, including a deputy mayor of Beijing who opposed his plans to build a massive office and hotel complex next to the site of the 2008 Olympic Games. Mr. Guoâs time in China came to an abrupt end in 2015, after Mr. Ma was detained by the government. Mr. Guo fled to America and bought a $68 million Manhattan penthouse overlooking Central Park, winning the approval of the buildingâs co-op board with the help of a recommendation letter from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Mr. Guo may be unique in that he thrived â until he didnât â in two very different political systems. When he came to the United States, he cultivated political relationships to burnish his image, but this time it was with members of the American right, especially Stephen K. Bannon, a longtime adviser to former President Donald J. Trump. By early 2017, shortly after Mr. Trump took office, Mr. Guo was a member of Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trumpâs club in Palm Beach, Fla. That year, Mr. Guo applied for political asylum and publicly accused senior Chinese leaders of corruption. China sought to extradite him, enlisting the support of a senior Republican official in a failed attempt to lobby the Trump administration. Beijing also leveled its own charges against him, including bribery and rape, aided by testimony from his former patron Mr. Ma. Mr. Guo, whose age has been described as anywhere from 54 to 57, did not take the stand in his trial. His lawyers argued that his businesses were legitimate and were designed to further his anti-Communist crusade. His efforts included running a Chinese-language streaming site and a Twitter-like social media platform, both popular with exiles. The three counts on which Mr. Guo was found not guilty were related to his media company GTV: wire and securities fraud, and âunlawful monetary transactions.â Mr. Guo was the leader of a âpolitical enterprise of people banded together to bring down one of the worldâs most powerful governments, and so thatâs what they set out to do,â Sidhardha Kamaraju, one of Mr. Guoâs lawyers, said in closing remarks last week. âThey started setting up the infrastructure to help carry that movement forward.â But prosecutors countered the portrayal of Mr. Guo as a principled anti-Communist leader with recordings, made by a former employee, of a heated conversation in 2021 about how to execute some planned money transfers. Mr. Guo could be heard screaming at his employees in Mandarin, yelling âscumbagâ and âgo to hellâ and a string of other epithets. Prosecutors played the tape to jurors on Wednesday and again on Thursday to drive home the point. âThatâs the boss of a criminal enterprise,â Ms. Murray said. Mr. Guoâs defense was also undermined by the behavior of his followers, so-called fellow fighters who were deployed far and wide to attack his perceived enemies, including a prominent Chinese dissident. They demonstrated outside the Cambridge, Mass., home of a government witness, the son-in-law of a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee for Mr. Guo, handing out inflammatory pamphlets with a Communist hammer-and-sickle. They also went to the school where the witnessâs wife was a third-grade teacher. She was âreally panicked, really upset, just really, you know, crying and unsettled and just kind of overcome with fear,â Daniel Copeland, the witness, told the court. Throughout the trial, prosecutors worked to associate Mr. Guo with Mr. Bannon, named a co-conspirator by the government but not indicted. Mr. Bannon had a $1 million consulting contract with one of Mr. Guoâs companies and had a hand in creating three organizations that were central to the governmentâs case. On multiple occasions, his picture was shown on screens placed in front of the jurors. Mr. Bannon, who recently began serving a prison term for contempt of Congress, declined to speak on the record about the trial.
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lmao get wrecked stupid.
this is the first good thing the secret service has ever done.
whoever shot him is a hero, but also just got him elected by not hitting their target
In an open letter, the French president rejected any role in government for the far-left France Unbowed party, setting the stage for a heated showdown.
what options do the left have in these situations?
allow the far right to win?
do something once the liberals betray you after you are no longer useful to them for gaining power?
Mark Zuckerberg took to the waves, posting a 4th of July video in a suit, holding a beer and an American flag. And this isnât his first time.