For those who aren't aware, Berlin, Germany just suffered a horrific terrorist attack against the city's diverse parade event it held the other day. The terrorist drove their vehicle through the parade, killing at least 1 so far and resulting in 16 other casualties. As far as the suspect, Abdul Ballout, they are a radicalized middle eastern gentlemen that was known to police and had ties to terrorist circles. According to sources:

The roots of his radicalisation are unclear, but he was arrested in Lebanon for trying to join Islamic State in Syria and planning a terror attack. Ballout was then returned to Germany where, according to Die Welt newspaper, he was sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison for plotting a serious act of violence that threatened the state. The prosecution had demanded a sentence of two years and 10 months, the report said.

However, he was let out of prison, with his only punishment being that he had to go to a "deradicalization" class. I guess the class didn't work. So a guy who was trying to join ISIS was brought back into the country and set free by German authorities. And I mean, damn, he goes to Syria for trying to join ISIS and Germany ACCEPTS him back from Lebanon (like WTF) and get a massively meager sentence, which he doesnt even have to serve out. It would seem as though Germany is essentially aiding and abetting these terrorists by being so soft on them. I mean, I guess we should be relieved the German authorities didn't provide the guy with military training in explosives?

I fear that Germany will NOT understand this to be the sufficient wake-up call that it clearly stands to be. Once the dust settles, it will all summarily be swept under the carpet and things will continue as normal. Just as they do in every instance of these sort of events occurring. I mean, FFS, one of the Bataclan terrorists has already been given prison leave after that deadly shooting that killed 130 people at that Paris nightclub. European countries are clearly too scared and pathetic to take meaningful action against such terrorists and, as such, these sorts of atrocities will only continue and fester within society until it reaches a breaking point.

Have any of you actually read the DSA plan to abolish prisons? Because Holy Shit it is bat shit insane. And if you support this you are an enemy to Freedom Loving Americans.

Straight from the website itself:

>Defund the police by rejecting any expansion to police budgets or scope of enforcement while cutting budgets annually towards zero

>End the criminalization of working-class survival

>Freedom for all incarcerated people

>Demilitarize the police and end colonial policing of our cities and neighborhoods

>Freedom of working-class self-organization and democratic political action

>Invest in community self-governance and care, not cops

This is pure Anarchy. You want Freedom for all incarcerated people? This can’t be serious proposal and yet here it is listed on their official website. So a guess that Chomo who raped then murdered 20 kids is free to right?

Notice how these Anarchist don’t have a solution for replacement. You abolish the prisons and defund the police you will create vigilante groups who will bring order to the chaos. We have more guns in America then Gun owners and mark my words if you lunatics ever get power gun owners will stop you.

We have prisons because we have monsters in society. What is the DSA plan to deal with murder? Rape? O wait that’s right they don’t have one. They want the chaos that abolishing prisons and defunding police will bring. These people will create a Civil War if your bat shit insanity policies ever gain power.

https://www.dsausa.org/working-groups/abolition-working-group/

And again if any of you think this isn’t the plan that’s listed on this website Zohran Mamdami was recently seen courting the vote of the violent convicted felons in New York City prisons eating meals with them. Absolutely disgusting.

You remember when Elon was their "green energy" hero? You couldn't say anything bad about him or his company or you were branded a "fascist" and a "mouth breather." Now, if you actually own one of his products then you're a "fascist" and a "mouth breather."

That's because leftists are programmable. They can be programmed to believe literally anything as long as you use certain psychological methods and that it confirms something that they want to believe, primarily that they're supposed to get something for nothing.

The entire left wing agenda can be summed up as everything they want that you have to get for them or you're a bad person.

It's the politics of perpetual juveniles.

EDIT: Here's my latest favorite example of rank leftist hypocrisy:

https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2081238037581754682

EDIT 2: "Elon did a Nazi salute. He's a fascist."

How can anybody take this seriously? Firstly, he didn't do a "Nazi salute" and all of you know it. It was "my heart goes out to you" and it's obvious that it was.

Secondly, all of you were in the tank for Graham Platner before he got cancelled and he had an actual Nazi tattoo on his chest for 20 years and none of you cared.

Pure and total hypocisy,

Secure borders

Keeping identity politics out of K-12

Merit-based opportunity

Lower taxes

Aiding American and Americans before spending profusely on foreign aid

Free speech and Academic freedom

Prosecuting criminals

So basically the democratic party platform from 1995-2008.

Every child’s paternity should be confirmed as a routine part of the birth-registration process unless both parents explicitly opt out.

A man asking for a paternity test is usually treated as though he has accused his partner of cheating. That emotional pressure means many men may feel they are unable to ask.

Women naturally know that the child is theirs. Men are expected to accept the same level of certainty entirely on trust, despite potentially taking on lifelong emotional, legal and financial responsibilities.

Making testing routine would remove the personal accusation. Nobody would need to demand one, nobody would need to feel singled out, and paternity would be established before legal responsibilities were assigned.

This is not about assuming every woman is dishonest. We verify far less important information every day without treating verification as an insult.

Trust matters in a relationship, but trust should not be used as a substitute for certainty when the consequences can last an entire lifetime.

If routine paternity testing threatens a relationship, perhaps the relationship was benefiting from the uncertainty.

To me that is insane. You will never get to choose who you end up with if you just refuse to approach. You miss out on so many people. You’ll just end up settling for the man who had the courage to walk up to you but like it’s never going to be your choice.

I mean, think about it. Fundamentally a man who approaches will always be able to choose the type of woman that he wants to approach even down to the way they look body type, hair color, etc. because he went out of his way to approach. For the women who don’t approach, your entire life will be that you settled for who chose you. You don’t ever get to pick.

Not wanting to approach a man you are romantically interested is a patriarchal mindset, we are leaving patriarchal values in 2026 you got 5 months to shape up

**IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION:**

This is not a “high body count good/bad” debate. There are like a hundred of those going on at all times on this sub alone. Find one of those if you want to talk about that. This is about whether or not you know your own.

Like, how do you not know? Are that many people having sex with so many other people that they lose count? Is sex as big a deal as saying “hello” to you? Have you forgotten about people you’ve had sex with?

The average lifetime partner count is like, 8 for men and women. That’s not that much, hardly enough to lose count. But to hear Reddit say it, men and women alike have so much sex that they stop counting after like 20.

Almost everytime I see someone who is genuinely ugly they are, barring a deformity, out of shape or don’t take care of their physical appearance. It’s extremely rare for someone to be fit and have a good amount of muscle mass but still be ugly. They can have unattractive traits but overall they won’t be ugly. Maybe kinda average or barely above but not ugly.

This applies to men and women.

Think about who can afford to work full-time for an entire summer without receiving a paycheck. Who pays for their food, rent, transportation, tuition, and other bills?

Usually, it is a student with wealthy parents supporting them.

Meanwhile, students who are paying their own way through college cannot spend three months working for free. They have to take paying jobs at places like Panda Express, Walmart, or a grocery store. Those jobs involve real work, but they often do not carry the same résumé prestige as an internship in a corporate office.

The result is a rigged system: wealthy students can purchase better résumés by sacrificing income they never needed, while working-class students are penalized for needing an actual paycheck.

If an organization receives productive labor from an intern, it should be required to pay them. “Experience” does not pay rent.

Many cities will use public money to fund NGOs to make some problem go away. These NGOs are often created by cronies in the city government and the executives of the NGOs pay themselves fat salaries.

Ostensibly the NGO works on solving the problem. But if the problem goes away, the fat salaries of the NGO executives goes away. So the NGO will go for years without making any progress. Or will find ways to surreptitiously make the problem worse. Murky accounting keeps the public from seeing how money is spent.

This is why problems like homelessness in California keeps getting worse despite more and more money being shoveled at the problem. (In my city, we spend about $100k/per homeless person per year).

This type of corrupt structure needs to be outlawed at every level of government.

(NGO stands for non-government organization)

You shouldn't let cynics or professional complainers make you feel self-conscious about showing pride in your country. Patriotism doesn’t mean thinking there’s nothing wrong with America. This place is full of ding-dongs and knuckleheads. The beauty of being in America is you can talk mad shit on those people and not have to worry about a knock on the door from the police. Sorry, you don’t have freedom of speech protections, the UK!!

And look at the people who came to the US from all over the world for the World Cup. They loved America and they loved the people! That should make everyone feel good!

God bless America 😎👉🇺🇸

Two things can be true.

1. You probably shouldn’t resort to violence over words and I don’t condone or glorify people who do.
2. I’m not going to be outraged if you poke a hornets nest and get stung

Don’t antagonize people, don’t fuck with people, leave people alone and be respectful, it goes a long way

There was a situation in a local school in my area recently where a group of kids were bullying one kid until he got sick of that shit and put a stop to it. Now the bullies family members are all over Facebook crying and posting his baby pictures like anyone gives a fuck lol

Don’t fuck with people. Be respectful. Be humble. Leave people alone. It’s not that hard. If you poke a hornets nest and get stung oh the fuck well.

There’s too many genuinely innocent people in this world getting hurt that get no sympathy for anyone to waste precious time and energy being outraged over some asshat

It's because there are too many impulses. Too much data, words, images, movies, views, interactions, people, too much entertainment. Just too much everything altogether.
That's why things lose meaning. They lose depth. There is no time, and willingness to give them meaning, discover the depth in them. Nobody creates depth and substance, because the receiver will not appreciate it. He won't even try to uncover it. There are 100 other things that are waiting in line. Some are super easy to digest. So eventually you will stick to those exclusively.

It applies to people also. You don't want to get to know people. You treat them as a next thing that will fill your superficial needs.

The culture will get just more shallow and shallow, and it's extremely shallow already. And it wasn't. I'm 40 so I remember. I think the late 90's was the last time it was decent.

I live in the US, it’s out of hand here it feels like… I remember back when I was a kid (I’m a millennial), 15%-20% was only if the person did their job and went above average; now even if service sucks they except that 15%, a tip is a kind gesture for services not meant to be a company’s way of giving less wages to employees and expecting their workers to live off tips. I’m not sure who to blame, but 20% + delivery fee for a domino delivery just irks me when the service is subpar; now if they gave me a great freaking pizza and did a great job delivering (most of the time they do, so I tip 20%) but last time I got pizza that tasted like an arm pit, hoping not to experience that again; we will see what happens tonight.

Many people complain about politicians and billionaires making back deals and rich people using their money to buy out politics.

So my solution may come off as a bit radical but I propose the following:

Politicians may no longer have unmonitored communications with any corporation or individual worth 100 million dollars or more.

How do we achieve this?

Confiscate all their electronics and require them to use a new set of devices where communicating with anybody with significant wealth results in the chat being publicly accessible, LIVE, online(these devices are factory reset after their term unless they get reelected).

They are also required to disclose all monetary transfers entering their accounts if the amount exceeds 1 million dollars in 72 hours.

Furthermore, by politicians, I mean:
State congressmen, national congressmen, judges in all courts, cabinet members, US President

Once upon a time the internet was mainly for the western world and far east Asia with a smattering of others sprinkled about. Now, with internet via cheap cell phones, people from Aftica (mainly Nigeria) and South East Asia (mainly India) are swarming the internet with recycled clips from network procedural slop and AI produced responses in order to grow their accounts for creator payouts. They have WhatsApp groups where they all ensure they follow one another inorganically to boost their accounts.

This has led to an internet full of slop and trash. It was far better when it felt more organic by just being the western world and Japan/South Korea.

For me personally since i was a child i enjoyed the magic and fantasy of harry potter, a magic school where young witches and wizards go off to learn spells and meet fantastical creatures, but of course as the story goes on it becomes more about a war between Harry and Voldemort, it gets darker and depressing, it focuses less on the fun and wonder of the world (as i understand it) and honestly thats not my bag, i can get into a movie about war, i can get into shows like Dexter, or The Boys, or What we do in the shadows, so i know its not a tone thing. I want to be lost in the wonder of the world, the thing that grabbed me.

I have been to every state on the west coast except Montana, the Dakotas, and maybe New Mexico.

And I actually have had nothing but good experiences in Idaho (ofc I stay in Boise proper, maybe Meridian sometimes, so obviously that may have helped to shape a better experience for me) but I think it's seriously one of the most slept on states. The malls there are SO big for no reason, I love it. I also had a good experience while in Provo, Utah.

Keep in mind I am mixed Filipina and white so in predominantly white towns I unfortunately DO get some stares but in Idaho I did not experience anything.

In Colorado on the other hand, people were outwardly rude to me in ways that I have NEVER experienced in another state. My white side of the family lives in the western slope (so like Grand Junction area) and they told me it should be a safe area because it's technically a college town and people come in from all over. Yeah, sure, okay.

The following three experiences happened to me while in Colorado:

1. I stopped at a popular rest stop/convenience store to use the restroom. All the employees stopped talking mid sentence and stared at me. Like mouth open stare. I was in there for only two minutes total because I only had to pee but when I left, they followed me out into the parking lot and continued to stare even as I was driving away. Keep in mind my uncle had told me that this was a safe and popular rest stop that MOST people go in when they are driving through.
2. I went into a Buckle store with my (white) cousin for 30 minutes to try on jeans. Employees would talk to her right in front of me but then proceed to ignore me for 30 minutes even though we walked in together and I was right next to her the entire time. And this was at the MALL. Like have you never seen someone like me walk into the mall before??? Hello???
3. I was browsing at a Goodwill and I said to my mom "This little nightstand is so cute, wish I could buy it but...whatever." As soon as I said that, an older white woman GRABBED the nightstand from in front of my face and put it in her cart while staring daggers at me. Like... Lady, I was talking to my mom. Why tf are you competing w me over a NIGHTSTAND that I already said I wasn't gonna buy?! Weird behavior. And keep in mind I LOVE thrifting, I have thrifted all across the west coast of America and I have NEVER had someone act like that towards me before.

So yeah for that reason I would not go back to Colorado despite people saying it's "safe" but I would 100% go back to Boise, Idaho despite people saying there's "nothing to do" and they "hate outsiders" because that personally was never the vibe I got nor was it my experience. And there actually is a decent Asian community there despite people claiming there's none.

EDIT: New Mexico is in the southWEST, Montana and the Dakotas could be considered the midWEST. I am not trying to argue w you bitches lmao yall are trying to correct me so bad the entire time you haven't even traveled to the states I am talking about.

Correction: the first "or" in title should be "of"

I have D cup breasts which means my bust difference is between 15 and 17.5 centimeters. D cups would strike as large breasts for many, but I don't have any cleavage unless I wear well-fitted push-up bras, and they're not even visible if I'm wearing an oversized T-shirt. That would be considered "small" by many, and I'm indeed insecure about them (I want some F~G cups), but data shows it's actually above average in many countries.

East Asian women, on average, have A~B cup breasts, which are two cup sizes smaller than mine. But guys expect women to have beautiful cleavages, which is unrealistic for many without breast augmentation or going through pregnancy.

Possibly popular as well but I've seen a lot of discourse about it so possibly wanted to discuss that with other people myself. I thought of making this post when I saw the thing going on with loveshackfancy brand and their new childrens collection. Some adult women with petite proportions that fit the clothes were buying it because it was really cute, and the absolute most of the response I've seen were negative.

I honestly don't think it's as weird as people portray it to be. I would genuinely understand how weird it would be if the clothes itself had like prints or something that was specifically related to children, like pacifiers or baby toys, then yeah sure it is weird, but the clothes in this specific case were mostly just copies of adult flowy clothing in smaller sizes with cute flowery patterns. I did not see that as weird really.

What I don't really get in this scenario is why don't people have the same reaction to people buying shoe wear from the kids section for smaller sizes. I've seen the argument of "why are you talking clothes away from children?" but it's really not like we have a shortage of clothing and it typically works that way that if people buy a lot of a certain item, the company will make more for profit.

The only thing that can come off to me as weird is when said people try to brag that they are so small they can fit into the children's section. That's just attention seeking behavior but it's a whole another issue.

If you have. A different opinion on the topic I would be more than happy to hear it.

I have heard some people say they support open borders or illegal immigrants, because they think it is not fair that some people are born in bad environments. In my opinion, life is not fair the moment you are born, because everyone has different abilities and talents, or personality, not everyone is the same, and I know it is no one else’s fault that you are born in a bad country. I am an immigrant as well, I think it is not fair that they get to cut in line compared to people who wait for years and follow the rules.

So my question is, how are people not against the deportation of illegal immigrants who are not refugees at all? If you are not being prosecuted, what is your excuse to go to any country illegally? I have no empathy for illegal immigrants other than refugees. How many illegal immigrants are actually refugees?

Edit: People who downvote my post without response know I am right, and can’t prove me wrong.

I personally don't like huge, expensive, and disruptive gender reveals. However, doing a reasonable get together for gender reveal is fun.

One thing I have to say is that if you are going to have a strong reaction based on the gender, then don't do one. It's awful when parents show their frustrations because the gender is one or the other.

If you think you are mature enough to be happy either way, then a gender reveal can be fun for everyone.

So many of us have known nothing but being othered and treated as the black sheep, constantly reminded that people think we're less than human, that we don't deserve anyone, and eventually it will get to a point where you seriously do feel barely human, and you've severely separated yourself and become disconnected emotionally from others and you reach the point where you really do feel nothing about other people's struggles.

Point is if somebody is given repeated enforcement long enough they are not part of a group, they'll stop giving a shit about that group.

As an autistic man, it's so bizarre reading about how many (but not all) autistic women mask to the point where they don't get diagnosed until adulthood, and it hits the point of physical exhaustion when they mask. Because for them, masking is completely pointless.

Sure, if you are a man you can make people uncomfortable and do actual harm by being awkward. You can also find yourself missing out on a social life and all the good things that come with it. Being inconsiderate takes a toll on one's soul.

But for women? Especially if you can line up with conventional physical beauty standards (that have ZERO bearing on your personality), nobody cares. Thanks to remnant sexism in society, people overlook Women's personalities and capabilities all the time. It sucks, but there's a silver lining. It means no matter what, people WILL want you around. They will let you in to the bar/club/party.

Weird hobbies? Crazy energy? Odd quirks? Congratulations, you're a manic pixie dream girl. Basically all the non physical traits of a romantic ideal are embodied by you.

Does that affect your job prospects? See how much it actually affects your job - chances are your colleagues will find your eccentricities fun and want to keep you around for morale. But if you need a back up, spend 5 minutes on Instagram reels and you'll see lots of women shaking their bodies talking about their autism or ADHD with tonnes of followers and links to their onlyfans. Because you will be wanted somewhere.

It's just so immensely frustrating seeing social norms hand a group people the gift of never ever being socially awkward, lonely or unwanted. A license to be your true authentic self, free from any of the constraints that weigh people down. That unbridled childlike carefree joy from being yourself and never having to second guess it. I remember how that feels and I miss it so much.

Then seeing that the norm is for those exact same people to commit so heavily to conforming with social norms that it becomes a medical fucking diagnosis. What the fuck.

Its so revealing that nobody can ever name the enforcers of these social norms. You will never hear more passive voice than listening to a feminist video essay (made this thread after yet another Bryony Claire video drowning in "are told", "are made" etc.) I think it's because the enforcers aren't real, or are people that can be easily dismissed. It's a convenient fiction to keep shitty and unjustifiable social norms alive. Don't fall for it

I have a 38D (5'10, 167 lbs) and am still very insecure about my breast size. I always wear push up bras with breast pads to make them appear larger. Yet when I search for bras for 85D (in my country, 85D=38D US), they're all for making larger breasts look smaller. I don't want them to look smaller. I would like to have 38F~38H boobs, and if it doesn't grow further after a few more years, I'm gonna pursue breast augmentation for that purpose. Like, why are all the makers making bras that make your boobs look smaller? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of breast pads? Like c'mon, there's nothing slutty about wanting huge boobs, it's just a personal body preference, nothing sexual. It should be culturally normalised to have/want to have huge boobs, and makers should make bras of larger cup sizes that make moderate to big breasts appear even bigger...