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2024.05.29 08:54 VolarRecords YES THIS IS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF UFOS -- Has the C.I.A. Done More Harm Than Good? - by Amy Davidson Sorkin October 3, 2022
Found this article after doing a quick deep-dive after this post from u/evilez:
https://www.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1d33m4l/does_anybody_remember_what_podcast_this_was/
"Hello fine ladies and gentlemen! I remember listening to a podcast less than a year ago. The main subject of the podcast was UFOs (I think)... anyways the guest told a story that a congressman or senator wrote a bill that was against the CIA or going to defund the CIA, in the 80's... and shortly thereafter, someone broke into his home, dragged his wife out into the street and stuck a gun in her mouth and told her to kill the bill."
Some light Googling brought up this article about the history of the CIA, the OSS, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan's attempts at defunding the agency in the 90s.
Here's an article about that attempt brought by Moynihan published on the Carnegie Endowment Website on December 20, 2005.
https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2005/12/the-case-for-abolishing-the-cia?lang=en
Here's the New Yorker piece about all of this from October 3rd, 2022.
According to the article regarding the resuscitation of the OSS as the CIA immediately following Roswell and the Twining Memo:
"Many of its officers moved straight to the new C.I.A. Most consequentially, perhaps, four future directors of the C.I.A. were O.S.S. veterans: Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey."
Here's the New Yorker article in full:
"On January 4, 1995, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, of New York, introduced a bill called the Abolition of the Central Intelligence Agency Act. It had been a rough stretch for the C.I.A. The year before, Aldrich Ames, a longtime officer, had been convicted of being a longtime mole for Soviet (and then Russian) intelligence. Despite having a reputation among his colleagues as a problem drinker who appeared to live far beyond his means, Ames had been given high-level assignments with access to the names of American sources in the U.S.S.R. When the F.B.I. finally arrested him, he was in the Jaguar he used for commuting to work at Langley; by then, he was responsible for the death of at least ten agents. Moynihan said that the case was such a flamboyant display of incompetence that it might actually be a distraction from “the most fundamental defects of the C.I.A.” He meant that the agency—in what he considered to be its “defining failure”—had both missed the fact that the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse and done little to hasten its end.
He gave a diagnosis for what had gone wrong. “Secrecy keeps mistakes secret,” he said. “Secrecy is a disease. It causes a hardening of the arteries of the mind.” He quoted John le Carré on that point, adding that the best information actually came from the likes of area specialists, diplomats, historians, and journalists. If the C.I.A. was disbanded, he said, the State Department could pick up the intelligence work, and do a better job.
Moynihan was, in some respects, being disingenuous. As he well knew, even if his bill had passed, spies and spying wouldn’t have gone away. The State Department already had its own mini agency, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. The Departments of Energy and Treasury each had one, too. The Defense Intelligence Agency conducted clandestine operations; U.S. Army Intelligence, Air Force Intelligence, and the Office of Naval Intelligence kept themselves busy as well. The National Security Agency was nearly two decades away from the revelation, by Edward Snowden, a contractor and a former C.I.A. employee, that it had collected information about the phone calls of most Americans, but it was a behemoth even in Moynihan’s time. So was the Federal Bureau of Investigation. There were about a dozen agencies then; now, after reforms that were supposed to streamline things, there are eighteen, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (O.D.N.I.), a sort of meta-C.I.A. that has a couple of thousand employees, and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis. The Drug Enforcement Administration (which currently has foreign offices in sixty-nine countries) has an Office of National Security Intelligence. Four million people in the United States now have security clearances.
It can be hard to sort out which agencies do what; players in the espionage business aren’t always good with boundaries. Both the C.I.A. and the N.S.A. make use of satellite resources, including commercial ones, but there is a separate agency in charge of a spy-satellite fleet, the National Reconnaissance Office—not to be confused with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which deals with both space-based and ground-level imaging, or with Space Delta 18, the nation’s newest intelligence agency, which is attached to the Space Force. Abolishing the C.I.A. might do nothing more than reconfigure the turf wars.
[NOTE: both Sean Kirkpatrick and David Grusch worked for the NRO and at least Grusch worked for the NGA]
As the senator from New York also knew, a large proportion of the C.I.A.’s resources are devoted not to intelligence gathering but to covert operations, some of which look like military operations. In “Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence” (Princeton)—one of several recent books that coincide with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the agency’s founding—Amy B. Zegart, a political scientist at Stanford, writes that it’s “getting harder to know just where the CIA’s role ends and the military’s role begins.” Yet the agency’s paramilitary pursuits and related covert activities go back decades. They include the botched Bay of Pigs landing, the brutal Phoenix Program in Vietnam, and a long list of assassination attempts, coup plots, the mining of a harbor (with explosive devices the agency built itself), and drone strikes. These operations have very seldom ended well.
Moynihan’s bill had no more luck than another that he introduced the same day, aimed at ending Major League Baseball’s exemption from antitrust laws. In each case, people understood that there was a problem, but both institutions were protected by the sense that there was something essential, and perhaps authentically American, about them, including their very brokenness. A sudden turn of events can convince even the C.I.A.’s most sober critics that the agency will save us all, whether from terrorists or from Donald Trump. But, seventy-five years in, it’s far from clear whether the C.I.A. is good at its job, or what that job is or should be, or how we could get rid of the agency if we wanted to.
How did we end up with the C.I.A.? A familiar explanation is that the shock of Pearl Harbor made the United States realize it needed more spies; the Office of Strategic Services was formed and jumped into action; and, when the war ended, the O.S.S. evolved seamlessly into the C.I.A., ready to go out and win the Cold War. But that narrative isn’t quite right, particularly regarding the relationship between the O.S.S. and the C.I.A.
[NOTE: We know how ended up with the CIA. ROSWELL.]
The United States has always used spies of some sort. George Washington had a discretionary espionage budget for which he didn’t have to turn in receipts. In the early part of the twentieth century, the State Department had an intelligence-analysis unit, along with a cryptography group called the Black Chamber, which operated out of a brownstone in New York’s Murray Hill until it was shut down, in 1929. The Army and the Navy had cryptography and reconnaissance units, too. When the Second World War began, their operations ramped up dramatically, and, as Nicholas Reynolds recounts in “Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence” (Mariner), these units, not the O.S.S., handled most of the code-breaking. The problem became the volume of raw intelligence. The task of making sense of it and of turning it into something that policymakers could use went to an office within the Army’s military-intelligence division (or G-2), which, Reynolds says, produced “the country’s best strategic intelligence” during the war. That office’s work was directed by Alfred McCormack, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Harlan Stone and a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Many of the people he brought in were young corporate lawyers; the theory was that their training in plowing through mountains of documents made them ideal intelligence analysts.
William J. Donovan, who led and largely conceived of the O.S.S., was also a Wall Street lawyer, but one with an aversion to the “legalistic.” What Donovan envisioned was essentially an array of commando units that would operate stealthily and behind enemy lines. In practice, what he tried to build, according to a colleague, was a “private army.” His escapades often risked too much and gained too little. In late 1943, one of his own officers wrote to him that “the set-up has been incredibly wasteful in manpower and, except for a few spotty accomplishments, has been a national failure.” And it had produced “chaos in the field.” Donovan’s nickname was Wild Bill, but his staff called him Seabiscuit, after the thoroughbred, because of his tendency to race around, engaging in what was basically war tourism. In the end, though, the O.S.S. made real contributions, including through its contacts with the French Resistance. But Donovan’s complaint about D Day was that there was “too much planning.” Counterintelligence and strategic thinking bored him, and the O.S.S.’s analysis division was seen as secondary to its operations.
When Harry Truman became President, in April, 1945, he took a look at the O.S.S. and, in September, 1945, abolished it. About two years later, he signed the National Security Act, which established the C.I.A. (and the Department of Defense), but he didn’t want the new agency to be like the group Donovan had run. Instead, it was supposed to do what its name suggested: centralize the intelligence that various agencies gathered, analyze it, and turn it into something the President could use.
[NOTE: I tried doing some research after reading something yesterday about how the NSA was developed in 1952 under Project Sigma to try and decode "alien" communications. If anyone can offer anything, you'd be helping humanity.]
“It was not intended as a ‘Cloak and Dagger’ Outfit!,” Truman later wrote. He also had to deal with public apprehensions that he might create what a Chicago Tribune headline called a “Super Gestapo Agency”—which is why, in its charter, the C.I.A. was banned from domestic spying.
Reynolds’s book is the best of the recent batch, and the most readable. It does not retrofit the history of the O.S.S. around the assumption that the C.I.A. was the inevitable lead postwar intelligence agency. There were other contenders, including a version of McCormack’s office in the State Department—something like what Moynihan wanted. J. Edgar Hoover argued that “World Wide Intelligence” should be turned over to the F.B.I., with military intelligence subservient to him. In some alternative history, he might have pulled that off; by 1943, he was running undercover operations in twenty Latin American countries. And so things could have been worse.
[WHAT UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS WERE WE RUNNING IN LATIN AMERICANS COUNTRIES IN 1943.]
Donovan was an adept publicist, but what mattered most, in the end, was that he was good, or lucky, when it came to hiring people. Despite the “pale, male, and Yale” stereotype, the O.S.S. was somewhat more diverse than other units, and certainly more eclectic. Among its ranks were Ralph Bunche, Herbert Marcuse, and Julia Child. Many of its officers moved straight to the new C.I.A. Most consequentially, perhaps, four future directors of the C.I.A. were O.S.S. veterans: Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey. Each seems to have had glory-day memories of the O.S.S., which is to say that each, in various ways, was afflicted with what a general in Army intelligence called “the screwball Donovan effect.” Casey, who put a picture of Donovan on his wall, said of his old boss, “We all glowed in his presence.” Wild Bill lost the bureaucratic fight but won the personnel and mythology wars.
And, of course, the agency found customers and collaborators in the White House. There was no mention of covert action in the law that chartered the C.I.A., but Presidents—starting with Truman—began using it that way. One of the agency’s first operations involved meddling in the 1948 Italian election, to insure the victory of the Christian Democrats. The subsidies and outright bribery of Italian politicians, some of them on the far, far right, continued into the nineteen-seventies.
Almost from its creation, though, there was a sense that something about the C.I.A. was off. The split between covert action and intelligence gathering and analysis was part of it. The director of the agency was also supposed to be the leader of U.S. intelligence as a whole, but, invariably, the person in the job seemed more invested in preëminence than in coördination. That setup remained in place until the establishment of the O.D.N.I., in 2004, a move that thus far has mostly continued a tradition of trying to deal with the C.I.A.’s dysfunction by setting up ever more agencies, offices, and centers. (The N.S.A. was established, in 1952, in response to a series of cryptography-related failures.) “Legacy of Ashes,” Tim Weiner’s 2008 history of the C.I.A.—and still an invaluable overview—takes its title from a lament by Eisenhower about what he’d be leaving his successors if the “faulty” structure of American intelligence wasn’t changed. Since Weiner’s book was published, the ashes, and the agencies, have only been piling up.
Zegart’s “Spies, Lies, and Algorithms” aims to bring that history to the present. Zegart has served as an adviser to intelligence agencies, and she provides a decent guide to our current bureaucracy. Throughout, her book is clear and well organized—maybe a little too well organized, one feels, after taking in the “Seven Deadly Biases” of intelligence analysis, the “Four Main Adversaries” and the “Five Types of Attack” in the crypto area, and the “Three Words, Four Types” that define covert action. (The covert-action words, incidentally, are “influence,” “acknowledged,” and “abroad.”) Not a few paragraphs read like PowerPoint charts; contradictions are displayed without really being reckoned with. She observes that the balance between “hunting” and “gathering” seems off, but, in her telling, the fact that Presidents of both parties regularly turn to the C.I.A. for paramilitary and other covert tasks constitutes proof that doing so is part of the order of things. The impression she leaves is that if it all goes wrong, it’s because some checklist has been missed. One of the top priorities of U.S. intelligence today, she thinks, should be persuading tech companies to get with the program and help out. She moots the creation of yet another agency, to deal with OSINT—open-source intelligence.
In one chapter, Zegart provides a list of scandals involving spying within the U.S. by various intelligence agencies—notably the N.S.A., the F.B.I., and the C.I.A. “All of these activities violated American law,” she writes. “But that’s the point: domestic laws forbid this kind of surveillance of Americans.” How is that the point, exactly? She depicts the Senate’s 2014 Torture Report, which detailed profound abuses in the C.I.A.’s so-called black sites, as a they-said, the-agency-said, who-knows case. She turns it into a parable about the problems with Congress—suggesting that, although the committee structure may have needed rejiggering, the moral compass of those involved in the program of torture was just fine.
Another new volume, “A Question of Standing: A History of the CIA” (Oxford), by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Edinburgh, offers the insights of a more distant observer. He can be astute about how “false memories” of the O.S.S.’s accomplishments have led the C.I.A. astray. Part of his argument is that the agency has acted as if its influence depended on its standing with whoever is in the White House, thus motivating it to offer Presidents quick fixes that fix nothing. The net effect is to reduce its standing, and that of the U.S., with the public at home and abroad. But Jeffreys-Jones is prone to rash generalizations and pronouncements. He theorizes that, in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, George W. Bush’s national-security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, may have been susceptible to “war mongering” due to her status as “a descendant of slaves,” and that the working-class background of the C.I.A.’s director, George Tenet, made him more likely to vouch for the faulty intelligence on weapons of mass destruction used to justify the war. “Social mobility so often leads to conformity,” warns Jeffreys-Jones, himself the son of an academic historian.
During the Vietnam War, the C.I.A. had discouraging intelligence to offer, and, when successive Administrations didn’t want to hear it, focussed on being helpful by providing those supposedly quick fixes. That meant abetting a coup in 1963, spying on antiwar protesters, and launching the Phoenix Program, an anti-Vietcong campaign marked by torture and by arbitrary executions; in total, more than twenty thousand people were killed under Phoenix’s auspices.
Phoenix was run by William Colby, the O.S.S. alum, who was soon promoted to C.I.A. director. At lower levels, discontent about Vietnam fueled leaks. In December, 1974, the journalist Seymour Hersh told the agency that he was about to publish a story in the Times exposing its domestic spying. Whether in a miscalculation or (as Jeffreys-Jones somewhat breathlessly speculates) as an act of personal expiation, Colby gave Hersh partial confirmation. Amid the scandals and the Congressional hearings that followed, Colby angered some of his colleagues, and Henry Kissinger, by laying bare even more. It emerged that, in 1973, Colby’s predecessor had asked senior agency officials to produce a list of things the C.I.A. had done that might have been unlawful. The resulting document, covering just the prior fifteen years, was known in-house as “The Family Jewels,” and was almost seven hundred pages long.
The question of how much it matters who works at the C.I.A. is a perennial one. The influence of Donovan’s acolytes shows that decisions about whom you recruit can, in a formative period or at a critical juncture, make a big difference. But, once an institutional culture has become entrenched, it can be easier to see how the institution shapes the people within it than vice versa.
“Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage” (Putnam), by Nathalia Holt, comes at the question from a different angle. It’s about five women who worked for the early C.I.A.; three also worked at the O.S.S., and one, Eloise Page, began her career as Bill Donovan’s secretary. Holt is also the author of “Rise of the Rocket Girls,” about women in the early years of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and “The Queens of Animation,” about women at the Walt Disney Company. Her book contains fine material for a beautifully art-directed streaming series, with set pieces in postwar Paris, nineteen-fifties Baghdad, and nineteen-seventies Greece, where Page was the C.I.A.’s first woman station chief. It even has a framing device in the form of the “Petticoat Panel,” a working group of C.I.A. women that convened in 1953 to document their unequal pay and treatment. Holt quotes the transcript of the meeting at which the leadership of the agency summarily rejected their findings. Helms, the future director, says, “It is just nonsense for these gals to come on here and think that the government is going to fall apart because their brains aren’t going to be used to the maximum.” (In 1977, Helms was convicted of lying to Congress about the C.I.A.’s machinations in Chile.) What the book is not, unfortunately, is a coherent history of the C.I.A., of the era it depicts, or even of these women’s work.
Holt’s research does turn up evidence that Jane Burrell, one of her subjects, was the first C.I.A. officer to die in the line of duty, in a plane crash in France, in 1948, a fact that the agency itself apparently missed. Holt ends her book with a call for a star honoring Burrell to be added to the C.I.A.’s memorial wall. Of the hundred and thirty-seven officers represented there, she writes, forty-five died accidentally, the majority in plane crashes, meaning that Burrell’s case would be fairly typical. Burrell was on the return leg of a trip to Brussels, where she’d been sent to talk to war-crimes investigators about a mess the C.I.A. had created by relying on an agent who turned out to have worked with the S.S. and was now in custody. In that respect, too, Burrell, who had personally handled the agent, was typical of the C.I.A. (After Burrell vouched for him, the man was released.) The subject of the C.I.A.’s postwar relations with former Nazis—some of whom, like Reinhard Gehlen, it helped to install in West Germany’s new intelligence service—and with collaborationist émigré groups is, no doubt, a morass. Holt, alas, manages to make the story even more garbled than it has to be. In the end, she basically treats the whole sordid episode as a learning experience for the Gals.
The problem is that the agency doesn’t seem to learn much. Holt credits Mary Hutchison with helping to build a network of émigré Ukrainian nationalists. Beginning in 1949, the agency parachuted some of them (including one whom Hutchison apparently distrusted) behind the Soviet border, where they were quickly captured—and repeated the same procedure for a number of years. “Despite the catastrophe, the Ukraine operation would serve as a template moving forward,” Holt writes. “The C.I.A. had more success with back-to-back operations in Iran and Guatemala, where covert action was able to deftly oust leaders considered undesirable.” It’s odd to describe these coups as deft. One of Zegart’s handy lists is of the “unintended consequences” in Iran: “religious extremism, a revolutionary overthrow, the American hostage crisis, severed ties, regional instability, and today’s rising nuclear dangers.” Guatemala is still dealing with the violent legacy of the coup that the C.I.A. visited upon it. Then there’s the question of the intended consequences, which were, respectively, to elevate a shah and a military regime. Secret wars tend not to be so secret in the country where they take place.
It was, no doubt, frustrating for Hutchison when, a few years later, her colleagues on the Bay of Pigs task force failed to make use of her Spanish-language skills. But are we supposed to think that the whole misconceived enterprise would have gone off without a hitch were it not for the C.I.A.’s misogyny? One of Holt’s minor themes is that women in the C.I.A. were seen as more natural analysts than operatives—with analysis, in turn, seen as less manly, and less valuable, to everybody’s detriment. But she is more intent on showing that these women were also daring. The main point of “Wise Gals” is that it’s cool that women were in the early C.I.A., and therefore that the C.I.A. itself was cooler than we’d realized. Holt celebrates a big promotion Page got that afforded her access to the secret of a safe containing shellfish-derived poison. You don’t have to be pale, male, and Yale to be complicit in a bungled assassination plot, or, for that matter, a program of rendition and torture.
Why do so many books about the C.I.A. have trouble getting their story straight? It can’t just be the secrecy of the work itself, at least with regard to the earlier years, about which much has been declassified. (Much remains under wraps: Moynihan complained that classification created more than six million supposed secrets in 1993; Zegart writes that the number in 2016 was fifty-five million—not all of which can possibly have been critical.) The aura of secrecy, by contrast, probably does distort the judgment of its chroniclers. And the scope of the agency’s work is a challenge: it’s hard to write expertly on places as far-ranging as the Democratic Republic of Congo (where the agency initially planned to poison President Patrice Lumumba’s toothpaste, and instead ended up handing a quarter of a million dollars to Joseph Mobutu, the country’s future dictator, who facilitated the assassination) and Afghanistan (where the C.I.A. has had forty years of illusory gains and worse losses). But the biggest problem may be the agency’s own pattern of self-deception. Holt, for example, sometimes seems to go wrong when, rummaging through the archives, she gives too much credit to contemporaneous internal assessments of an agent’s or an operation’s worth.
In truth, the C.I.A. has had a “defining failure” for every decade of its existence—sometimes more than one. For Moynihan, in the nineteen-nineties, it was the lack of foresight about the Soviet Union; in the two-thousands, it was the phantom weapons of mass destruction, followed by torture and, in still evolving ways, by the drone-based program of targeted killings, with its high toll of civilian deaths. Barack Obama’s rapport with John Brennan, the C.I.A.’s director from 2013 to 2017, seems to have brought him to accept the view that the killing of American citizens abroad was acceptable, if managed prudently. The overuse of the agency on the battlefield is due not to a military-manpower shortage but to wishful thinking about the benefits of secrecy and of a lack of accountability.
It’s difficult to know, at this point, what the C.I.A.’s next defining failure—or, if one tries to be optimistic, its stabilizing success—will be. Donald Trump has had a complicated relationship with the intelligence community—increasingly capitalized and abbreviated to I.C.—which is presently conducting a damage assessment regarding documents with classified markings that he kept at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida home. He might, of course, be reëlected, and have the C.I.A.’s tools at his disposal again. If the C.I.A. isn’t the place to turn for an expedient solution to foreign-policy problems, neither is it bound to be the place to turn for a solution to our democracy’s political problems.
“If you ask intelligence officers what misperceptions bother them most, odds are they’ll mention ethics,” Zegart writes. She quotes an official who complains that “people think we’re lawbreakers, we’re human rights violators.” She insists that “officers think about ethics a lot.” She portrays the agency as being filled with hardworking moms and dads who do a great deal of “agonizing.” No doubt she’s right. But if the C.I.A. keeps falling down all the same, something must be tragically amiss in the agency’s structure or culture, or both. All the talk of coups and assassination plots, Zegart worries, distracts people from understanding the C.I.A.’s more basic intelligence mission. In fact, the party most distracted by such activities—and by the military role it has taken on—seems to be the agency itself. ♦
An earlier version of this article misstated the numerical designation of the Space Force unit dedicated to intelligence.
Published in the print edition of the October 10, 2022, issue.
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"Hello fine ladies and gentlemen! I remember listening to a podcast less than a year ago. The main subject of the podcast was UFOs (I think)... anyways the guest told a story that a congressman or senator wrote a bill that was against the CIA or going to defund the CIA, in the 80's... and shortly thereafter, someone broke into his home, dragged his wife out into the street and stuck a gun in her mouth and told her to kill the bill."
Some light Googling brought up this article about the history of the CIA, the OSS, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan's attempts at defunding the agency in the 90s.
Here's an article about that attempt brought by Moynihan published on the Carnegie Endowment Website on December 20, 2005.
https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2005/12/the-case-for-abolishing-the-cia?lang=en
Here's the New Yorker piece about all of this from October 3rd, 2022.
Spooked -- What’s wrong with the C.I.A.? -- By Amy Davidson Sorkin -- October 3, 2022
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/10/has-the-cia-done-more-harm-than-goodAccording to the article regarding the resuscitation of the OSS as the CIA immediately following Roswell and the Twining Memo:
"Many of its officers moved straight to the new C.I.A. Most consequentially, perhaps, four future directors of the C.I.A. were O.S.S. veterans: Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey."
Here's the New Yorker article in full:
"On January 4, 1995, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, of New York, introduced a bill called the Abolition of the Central Intelligence Agency Act. It had been a rough stretch for the C.I.A. The year before, Aldrich Ames, a longtime officer, had been convicted of being a longtime mole for Soviet (and then Russian) intelligence. Despite having a reputation among his colleagues as a problem drinker who appeared to live far beyond his means, Ames had been given high-level assignments with access to the names of American sources in the U.S.S.R. When the F.B.I. finally arrested him, he was in the Jaguar he used for commuting to work at Langley; by then, he was responsible for the death of at least ten agents. Moynihan said that the case was such a flamboyant display of incompetence that it might actually be a distraction from “the most fundamental defects of the C.I.A.” He meant that the agency—in what he considered to be its “defining failure”—had both missed the fact that the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse and done little to hasten its end.
He gave a diagnosis for what had gone wrong. “Secrecy keeps mistakes secret,” he said. “Secrecy is a disease. It causes a hardening of the arteries of the mind.” He quoted John le Carré on that point, adding that the best information actually came from the likes of area specialists, diplomats, historians, and journalists. If the C.I.A. was disbanded, he said, the State Department could pick up the intelligence work, and do a better job.
Moynihan was, in some respects, being disingenuous. As he well knew, even if his bill had passed, spies and spying wouldn’t have gone away. The State Department already had its own mini agency, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. The Departments of Energy and Treasury each had one, too. The Defense Intelligence Agency conducted clandestine operations; U.S. Army Intelligence, Air Force Intelligence, and the Office of Naval Intelligence kept themselves busy as well. The National Security Agency was nearly two decades away from the revelation, by Edward Snowden, a contractor and a former C.I.A. employee, that it had collected information about the phone calls of most Americans, but it was a behemoth even in Moynihan’s time. So was the Federal Bureau of Investigation. There were about a dozen agencies then; now, after reforms that were supposed to streamline things, there are eighteen, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (O.D.N.I.), a sort of meta-C.I.A. that has a couple of thousand employees, and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis. The Drug Enforcement Administration (which currently has foreign offices in sixty-nine countries) has an Office of National Security Intelligence. Four million people in the United States now have security clearances.
It can be hard to sort out which agencies do what; players in the espionage business aren’t always good with boundaries. Both the C.I.A. and the N.S.A. make use of satellite resources, including commercial ones, but there is a separate agency in charge of a spy-satellite fleet, the National Reconnaissance Office—not to be confused with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which deals with both space-based and ground-level imaging, or with Space Delta 18, the nation’s newest intelligence agency, which is attached to the Space Force. Abolishing the C.I.A. might do nothing more than reconfigure the turf wars.
[NOTE: both Sean Kirkpatrick and David Grusch worked for the NRO and at least Grusch worked for the NGA]
As the senator from New York also knew, a large proportion of the C.I.A.’s resources are devoted not to intelligence gathering but to covert operations, some of which look like military operations. In “Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence” (Princeton)—one of several recent books that coincide with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the agency’s founding—Amy B. Zegart, a political scientist at Stanford, writes that it’s “getting harder to know just where the CIA’s role ends and the military’s role begins.” Yet the agency’s paramilitary pursuits and related covert activities go back decades. They include the botched Bay of Pigs landing, the brutal Phoenix Program in Vietnam, and a long list of assassination attempts, coup plots, the mining of a harbor (with explosive devices the agency built itself), and drone strikes. These operations have very seldom ended well.
Moynihan’s bill had no more luck than another that he introduced the same day, aimed at ending Major League Baseball’s exemption from antitrust laws. In each case, people understood that there was a problem, but both institutions were protected by the sense that there was something essential, and perhaps authentically American, about them, including their very brokenness. A sudden turn of events can convince even the C.I.A.’s most sober critics that the agency will save us all, whether from terrorists or from Donald Trump. But, seventy-five years in, it’s far from clear whether the C.I.A. is good at its job, or what that job is or should be, or how we could get rid of the agency if we wanted to.
How did we end up with the C.I.A.? A familiar explanation is that the shock of Pearl Harbor made the United States realize it needed more spies; the Office of Strategic Services was formed and jumped into action; and, when the war ended, the O.S.S. evolved seamlessly into the C.I.A., ready to go out and win the Cold War. But that narrative isn’t quite right, particularly regarding the relationship between the O.S.S. and the C.I.A.
[NOTE: We know how ended up with the CIA. ROSWELL.]
The United States has always used spies of some sort. George Washington had a discretionary espionage budget for which he didn’t have to turn in receipts. In the early part of the twentieth century, the State Department had an intelligence-analysis unit, along with a cryptography group called the Black Chamber, which operated out of a brownstone in New York’s Murray Hill until it was shut down, in 1929. The Army and the Navy had cryptography and reconnaissance units, too. When the Second World War began, their operations ramped up dramatically, and, as Nicholas Reynolds recounts in “Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence” (Mariner), these units, not the O.S.S., handled most of the code-breaking. The problem became the volume of raw intelligence. The task of making sense of it and of turning it into something that policymakers could use went to an office within the Army’s military-intelligence division (or G-2), which, Reynolds says, produced “the country’s best strategic intelligence” during the war. That office’s work was directed by Alfred McCormack, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Harlan Stone and a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Many of the people he brought in were young corporate lawyers; the theory was that their training in plowing through mountains of documents made them ideal intelligence analysts.
William J. Donovan, who led and largely conceived of the O.S.S., was also a Wall Street lawyer, but one with an aversion to the “legalistic.” What Donovan envisioned was essentially an array of commando units that would operate stealthily and behind enemy lines. In practice, what he tried to build, according to a colleague, was a “private army.” His escapades often risked too much and gained too little. In late 1943, one of his own officers wrote to him that “the set-up has been incredibly wasteful in manpower and, except for a few spotty accomplishments, has been a national failure.” And it had produced “chaos in the field.” Donovan’s nickname was Wild Bill, but his staff called him Seabiscuit, after the thoroughbred, because of his tendency to race around, engaging in what was basically war tourism. In the end, though, the O.S.S. made real contributions, including through its contacts with the French Resistance. But Donovan’s complaint about D Day was that there was “too much planning.” Counterintelligence and strategic thinking bored him, and the O.S.S.’s analysis division was seen as secondary to its operations.
When Harry Truman became President, in April, 1945, he took a look at the O.S.S. and, in September, 1945, abolished it. About two years later, he signed the National Security Act, which established the C.I.A. (and the Department of Defense), but he didn’t want the new agency to be like the group Donovan had run. Instead, it was supposed to do what its name suggested: centralize the intelligence that various agencies gathered, analyze it, and turn it into something the President could use.
[NOTE: I tried doing some research after reading something yesterday about how the NSA was developed in 1952 under Project Sigma to try and decode "alien" communications. If anyone can offer anything, you'd be helping humanity.]
“It was not intended as a ‘Cloak and Dagger’ Outfit!,” Truman later wrote. He also had to deal with public apprehensions that he might create what a Chicago Tribune headline called a “Super Gestapo Agency”—which is why, in its charter, the C.I.A. was banned from domestic spying.
Reynolds’s book is the best of the recent batch, and the most readable. It does not retrofit the history of the O.S.S. around the assumption that the C.I.A. was the inevitable lead postwar intelligence agency. There were other contenders, including a version of McCormack’s office in the State Department—something like what Moynihan wanted. J. Edgar Hoover argued that “World Wide Intelligence” should be turned over to the F.B.I., with military intelligence subservient to him. In some alternative history, he might have pulled that off; by 1943, he was running undercover operations in twenty Latin American countries. And so things could have been worse.
[WHAT UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS WERE WE RUNNING IN LATIN AMERICANS COUNTRIES IN 1943.]
Donovan was an adept publicist, but what mattered most, in the end, was that he was good, or lucky, when it came to hiring people. Despite the “pale, male, and Yale” stereotype, the O.S.S. was somewhat more diverse than other units, and certainly more eclectic. Among its ranks were Ralph Bunche, Herbert Marcuse, and Julia Child. Many of its officers moved straight to the new C.I.A. Most consequentially, perhaps, four future directors of the C.I.A. were O.S.S. veterans: Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey. Each seems to have had glory-day memories of the O.S.S., which is to say that each, in various ways, was afflicted with what a general in Army intelligence called “the screwball Donovan effect.” Casey, who put a picture of Donovan on his wall, said of his old boss, “We all glowed in his presence.” Wild Bill lost the bureaucratic fight but won the personnel and mythology wars.
And, of course, the agency found customers and collaborators in the White House. There was no mention of covert action in the law that chartered the C.I.A., but Presidents—starting with Truman—began using it that way. One of the agency’s first operations involved meddling in the 1948 Italian election, to insure the victory of the Christian Democrats. The subsidies and outright bribery of Italian politicians, some of them on the far, far right, continued into the nineteen-seventies.
Almost from its creation, though, there was a sense that something about the C.I.A. was off. The split between covert action and intelligence gathering and analysis was part of it. The director of the agency was also supposed to be the leader of U.S. intelligence as a whole, but, invariably, the person in the job seemed more invested in preëminence than in coördination. That setup remained in place until the establishment of the O.D.N.I., in 2004, a move that thus far has mostly continued a tradition of trying to deal with the C.I.A.’s dysfunction by setting up ever more agencies, offices, and centers. (The N.S.A. was established, in 1952, in response to a series of cryptography-related failures.) “Legacy of Ashes,” Tim Weiner’s 2008 history of the C.I.A.—and still an invaluable overview—takes its title from a lament by Eisenhower about what he’d be leaving his successors if the “faulty” structure of American intelligence wasn’t changed. Since Weiner’s book was published, the ashes, and the agencies, have only been piling up.
Zegart’s “Spies, Lies, and Algorithms” aims to bring that history to the present. Zegart has served as an adviser to intelligence agencies, and she provides a decent guide to our current bureaucracy. Throughout, her book is clear and well organized—maybe a little too well organized, one feels, after taking in the “Seven Deadly Biases” of intelligence analysis, the “Four Main Adversaries” and the “Five Types of Attack” in the crypto area, and the “Three Words, Four Types” that define covert action. (The covert-action words, incidentally, are “influence,” “acknowledged,” and “abroad.”) Not a few paragraphs read like PowerPoint charts; contradictions are displayed without really being reckoned with. She observes that the balance between “hunting” and “gathering” seems off, but, in her telling, the fact that Presidents of both parties regularly turn to the C.I.A. for paramilitary and other covert tasks constitutes proof that doing so is part of the order of things. The impression she leaves is that if it all goes wrong, it’s because some checklist has been missed. One of the top priorities of U.S. intelligence today, she thinks, should be persuading tech companies to get with the program and help out. She moots the creation of yet another agency, to deal with OSINT—open-source intelligence.
In one chapter, Zegart provides a list of scandals involving spying within the U.S. by various intelligence agencies—notably the N.S.A., the F.B.I., and the C.I.A. “All of these activities violated American law,” she writes. “But that’s the point: domestic laws forbid this kind of surveillance of Americans.” How is that the point, exactly? She depicts the Senate’s 2014 Torture Report, which detailed profound abuses in the C.I.A.’s so-called black sites, as a they-said, the-agency-said, who-knows case. She turns it into a parable about the problems with Congress—suggesting that, although the committee structure may have needed rejiggering, the moral compass of those involved in the program of torture was just fine.
Another new volume, “A Question of Standing: A History of the CIA” (Oxford), by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Edinburgh, offers the insights of a more distant observer. He can be astute about how “false memories” of the O.S.S.’s accomplishments have led the C.I.A. astray. Part of his argument is that the agency has acted as if its influence depended on its standing with whoever is in the White House, thus motivating it to offer Presidents quick fixes that fix nothing. The net effect is to reduce its standing, and that of the U.S., with the public at home and abroad. But Jeffreys-Jones is prone to rash generalizations and pronouncements. He theorizes that, in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, George W. Bush’s national-security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, may have been susceptible to “war mongering” due to her status as “a descendant of slaves,” and that the working-class background of the C.I.A.’s director, George Tenet, made him more likely to vouch for the faulty intelligence on weapons of mass destruction used to justify the war. “Social mobility so often leads to conformity,” warns Jeffreys-Jones, himself the son of an academic historian.
During the Vietnam War, the C.I.A. had discouraging intelligence to offer, and, when successive Administrations didn’t want to hear it, focussed on being helpful by providing those supposedly quick fixes. That meant abetting a coup in 1963, spying on antiwar protesters, and launching the Phoenix Program, an anti-Vietcong campaign marked by torture and by arbitrary executions; in total, more than twenty thousand people were killed under Phoenix’s auspices.
Phoenix was run by William Colby, the O.S.S. alum, who was soon promoted to C.I.A. director. At lower levels, discontent about Vietnam fueled leaks. In December, 1974, the journalist Seymour Hersh told the agency that he was about to publish a story in the Times exposing its domestic spying. Whether in a miscalculation or (as Jeffreys-Jones somewhat breathlessly speculates) as an act of personal expiation, Colby gave Hersh partial confirmation. Amid the scandals and the Congressional hearings that followed, Colby angered some of his colleagues, and Henry Kissinger, by laying bare even more. It emerged that, in 1973, Colby’s predecessor had asked senior agency officials to produce a list of things the C.I.A. had done that might have been unlawful. The resulting document, covering just the prior fifteen years, was known in-house as “The Family Jewels,” and was almost seven hundred pages long.
The question of how much it matters who works at the C.I.A. is a perennial one. The influence of Donovan’s acolytes shows that decisions about whom you recruit can, in a formative period or at a critical juncture, make a big difference. But, once an institutional culture has become entrenched, it can be easier to see how the institution shapes the people within it than vice versa.
“Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage” (Putnam), by Nathalia Holt, comes at the question from a different angle. It’s about five women who worked for the early C.I.A.; three also worked at the O.S.S., and one, Eloise Page, began her career as Bill Donovan’s secretary. Holt is also the author of “Rise of the Rocket Girls,” about women in the early years of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and “The Queens of Animation,” about women at the Walt Disney Company. Her book contains fine material for a beautifully art-directed streaming series, with set pieces in postwar Paris, nineteen-fifties Baghdad, and nineteen-seventies Greece, where Page was the C.I.A.’s first woman station chief. It even has a framing device in the form of the “Petticoat Panel,” a working group of C.I.A. women that convened in 1953 to document their unequal pay and treatment. Holt quotes the transcript of the meeting at which the leadership of the agency summarily rejected their findings. Helms, the future director, says, “It is just nonsense for these gals to come on here and think that the government is going to fall apart because their brains aren’t going to be used to the maximum.” (In 1977, Helms was convicted of lying to Congress about the C.I.A.’s machinations in Chile.) What the book is not, unfortunately, is a coherent history of the C.I.A., of the era it depicts, or even of these women’s work.
Holt’s research does turn up evidence that Jane Burrell, one of her subjects, was the first C.I.A. officer to die in the line of duty, in a plane crash in France, in 1948, a fact that the agency itself apparently missed. Holt ends her book with a call for a star honoring Burrell to be added to the C.I.A.’s memorial wall. Of the hundred and thirty-seven officers represented there, she writes, forty-five died accidentally, the majority in plane crashes, meaning that Burrell’s case would be fairly typical. Burrell was on the return leg of a trip to Brussels, where she’d been sent to talk to war-crimes investigators about a mess the C.I.A. had created by relying on an agent who turned out to have worked with the S.S. and was now in custody. In that respect, too, Burrell, who had personally handled the agent, was typical of the C.I.A. (After Burrell vouched for him, the man was released.) The subject of the C.I.A.’s postwar relations with former Nazis—some of whom, like Reinhard Gehlen, it helped to install in West Germany’s new intelligence service—and with collaborationist émigré groups is, no doubt, a morass. Holt, alas, manages to make the story even more garbled than it has to be. In the end, she basically treats the whole sordid episode as a learning experience for the Gals.
The problem is that the agency doesn’t seem to learn much. Holt credits Mary Hutchison with helping to build a network of émigré Ukrainian nationalists. Beginning in 1949, the agency parachuted some of them (including one whom Hutchison apparently distrusted) behind the Soviet border, where they were quickly captured—and repeated the same procedure for a number of years. “Despite the catastrophe, the Ukraine operation would serve as a template moving forward,” Holt writes. “The C.I.A. had more success with back-to-back operations in Iran and Guatemala, where covert action was able to deftly oust leaders considered undesirable.” It’s odd to describe these coups as deft. One of Zegart’s handy lists is of the “unintended consequences” in Iran: “religious extremism, a revolutionary overthrow, the American hostage crisis, severed ties, regional instability, and today’s rising nuclear dangers.” Guatemala is still dealing with the violent legacy of the coup that the C.I.A. visited upon it. Then there’s the question of the intended consequences, which were, respectively, to elevate a shah and a military regime. Secret wars tend not to be so secret in the country where they take place.
It was, no doubt, frustrating for Hutchison when, a few years later, her colleagues on the Bay of Pigs task force failed to make use of her Spanish-language skills. But are we supposed to think that the whole misconceived enterprise would have gone off without a hitch were it not for the C.I.A.’s misogyny? One of Holt’s minor themes is that women in the C.I.A. were seen as more natural analysts than operatives—with analysis, in turn, seen as less manly, and less valuable, to everybody’s detriment. But she is more intent on showing that these women were also daring. The main point of “Wise Gals” is that it’s cool that women were in the early C.I.A., and therefore that the C.I.A. itself was cooler than we’d realized. Holt celebrates a big promotion Page got that afforded her access to the secret of a safe containing shellfish-derived poison. You don’t have to be pale, male, and Yale to be complicit in a bungled assassination plot, or, for that matter, a program of rendition and torture.
Why do so many books about the C.I.A. have trouble getting their story straight? It can’t just be the secrecy of the work itself, at least with regard to the earlier years, about which much has been declassified. (Much remains under wraps: Moynihan complained that classification created more than six million supposed secrets in 1993; Zegart writes that the number in 2016 was fifty-five million—not all of which can possibly have been critical.) The aura of secrecy, by contrast, probably does distort the judgment of its chroniclers. And the scope of the agency’s work is a challenge: it’s hard to write expertly on places as far-ranging as the Democratic Republic of Congo (where the agency initially planned to poison President Patrice Lumumba’s toothpaste, and instead ended up handing a quarter of a million dollars to Joseph Mobutu, the country’s future dictator, who facilitated the assassination) and Afghanistan (where the C.I.A. has had forty years of illusory gains and worse losses). But the biggest problem may be the agency’s own pattern of self-deception. Holt, for example, sometimes seems to go wrong when, rummaging through the archives, she gives too much credit to contemporaneous internal assessments of an agent’s or an operation’s worth.
In truth, the C.I.A. has had a “defining failure” for every decade of its existence—sometimes more than one. For Moynihan, in the nineteen-nineties, it was the lack of foresight about the Soviet Union; in the two-thousands, it was the phantom weapons of mass destruction, followed by torture and, in still evolving ways, by the drone-based program of targeted killings, with its high toll of civilian deaths. Barack Obama’s rapport with John Brennan, the C.I.A.’s director from 2013 to 2017, seems to have brought him to accept the view that the killing of American citizens abroad was acceptable, if managed prudently. The overuse of the agency on the battlefield is due not to a military-manpower shortage but to wishful thinking about the benefits of secrecy and of a lack of accountability.
It’s difficult to know, at this point, what the C.I.A.’s next defining failure—or, if one tries to be optimistic, its stabilizing success—will be. Donald Trump has had a complicated relationship with the intelligence community—increasingly capitalized and abbreviated to I.C.—which is presently conducting a damage assessment regarding documents with classified markings that he kept at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida home. He might, of course, be reëlected, and have the C.I.A.’s tools at his disposal again. If the C.I.A. isn’t the place to turn for an expedient solution to foreign-policy problems, neither is it bound to be the place to turn for a solution to our democracy’s political problems.
“If you ask intelligence officers what misperceptions bother them most, odds are they’ll mention ethics,” Zegart writes. She quotes an official who complains that “people think we’re lawbreakers, we’re human rights violators.” She insists that “officers think about ethics a lot.” She portrays the agency as being filled with hardworking moms and dads who do a great deal of “agonizing.” No doubt she’s right. But if the C.I.A. keeps falling down all the same, something must be tragically amiss in the agency’s structure or culture, or both. All the talk of coups and assassination plots, Zegart worries, distracts people from understanding the C.I.A.’s more basic intelligence mission. In fact, the party most distracted by such activities—and by the military role it has taken on—seems to be the agency itself. ♦
An earlier version of this article misstated the numerical designation of the Space Force unit dedicated to intelligence.
Published in the print edition of the October 10, 2022, issue.
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Although there are minor drawbacks, the overall experience has been positive, and I would recommend giving these boots a try if you're in the market for a dependable and comfortable pair of safety boots. 🔗Magnum Classic 44 Remington Boots: Comfortable, Durable, and Stylishhttps://preview.redd.it/6qlnacayab3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5840dd21541dca863c539aa2c15e6646444da661 I've been using these Magnum Classic Boots for a while now, and I must say, they're a game changer. The thing that stands out the most to me is the comfort. It's like walking on air – these boots are so lightweight, yet incredibly supportive. The leather and nylon construction is a testament to their durability, so I don't have to worry about them falling apart after a few months of use. They're perfect for those long days when I'm on my feet for hours. One downside is that, as with most boots, they do require a bit of breaking in. I find this with most footwear, and I don't let it deter me from trying out some great products like these boots. Overall, the Magnum Classic Boots are a fantastic addition to my wardrobe. They offer a stylish yet practical twist on traditional footwear, making them an excellent choice for both casual and professional use. 🔗Polished Forged Aluminum Weld Wheels for 44 Remington Magnumhttps://preview.redd.it/s75fzckyab3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=55714c46b88c961798a178f557cf1e99a9ecc5e5 I recently got my hands on some Weld 792P-54202 Magnum III 15x4 / 5x4.5 BP / 1.5in. BS polished wheels, and let me tell you, they looked and felt amazing from the moment they arrived. The polished shell with a black machined center was truly eye-catching, and the center cap and valve stem included made my life a bit easier during installation. However, using these wheels also had some challenges. 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It took me a little bit of trial and error to figure out the right technique. But once I managed to get the hang of it, the pendant closure was secure and the process became easier. Overall, I think this necklace is a beautiful and heartfelt way to keep my loved one close to me. While the directions could use a little improvement, the thoughtful design and customer service more than made up for it. 🔗EGW Cowboy Chamber Checker for 357, 44-40, 44 Mag, and .45 Long Colthttps://preview.redd.it/revb8o9zab3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=561207f72a24c825147ea349111226fc06e1e19e My experience with the EGW Cowboy Chamber Checker was nothing short of impressive. I've been using it for a while now, and it has become an essential part of my daily gun cleaning routine. What sets this checked apart from others? It's the solid 6061 T6 aircraft grade aluminum construction that comes with a distinct anodized matte black finish for added durability. Unlike some other brands that use boring bars, the EGW Cowboy Chamber Checker is machined using the same Clymer reamers used to chamber barrels. This ensures an accurate measurement and perfect fit for various calibers. The checker stands at 1.6 inches tall, making it compatible with a range of firearms. In terms of the Saami spec max length, it covers 44 Remington Magnum with a dimension of 1.610 inches, while 44-40 Win rounds are suitable with a max length of 1.592 inches. The. 45 Long Colt is not a popular chamber checker but still works as intended. Though I have had no complaints, it would be nice if they offered more options for different calibers. Overall, the EGW Cowboy Chamber Checker is a dependable and functional product that is essential for any gun enthusiast looking to maintain their firearms. Its high standard and the quality it offers are what set it apart in my book. 🔗Eco-Friendly Vegan Glitter Powder in 44 Magnum Shadehttps://preview.redd.it/a7efr9qzab3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dd2c74d5c0b0167f58f1c678c0ed59f22d887d68 Trying the Glitter - 44 Magnum was like stepping into a world full of sparkle and magic. The glitters seemed to capture my imagination with their vibrant, high-pigmented colors. As a fan of colorful looks, I loved applying the glitter over my lash glue crease for an extra pop. However, the application process could have been smoother if the lid on the container didn't have a tendency to loosen and leak glitter during transit. Despite the packaging issues, I found myself drawn to the glitter's mineral-based options and was happy to learn that some of the colors were completely cruelty-free and vegan. Buyer's GuideWelcome to the world of the 44 Remington Magnum cartridge. This powerful, reliable, and versatile ammunition has been a favorite among hunters and sportsmen for decades. In this buyer's guide, we will discuss the key features, considerations, and general advice when it comes to selecting the right 44 Remington Magnum ammo for your needs. https://preview.redd.it/ghi4ax81bb3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4f0524c2062ea14b3be823dcdfc7a6a198f60ea Important Features of 44 Remington Magnum Ammo
Considerations When Selecting 44 Remington Magnum Ammo
https://preview.redd.it/28whx1q1bb3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=666bf6e21fe6c3cbc82bdfec8969ff56177aab69 General Advice for Purchasing 44 Remington Magnum AmmoWhen purchasing 44 Remington Magnum ammo, always consider the specific needs and requirements of your shooting situation. Don't just buy the cheapest ammo available—it may not perform as well as higher-quality options. Look for reputable brands and always check for any potential recalls or issues with the ammo before purchase.In conclusion, the 44 Remington Magnum is a powerful and versatile cartridge suitable for a wide range of applications. When selecting ammo, consider your purpose, bullet type, velocity, and recoil. Remember to prioritize quality and safety when buying 44 Remington Magnum ammo, and you'll surely enjoy this dynamic and capable caliber. FAQhttps://preview.redd.it/nea9r032bb3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=695e411d026d4a97ec3b9772319aa45837ddf5fa What is a 44 Remington Magnum?The 44 Remington Magnum is a type of centerfire rifle cartridge. Developed in the 1950s, it has become a popular choice among hunters and target shooters for its powerful performance and reasonable recoil. It is known for its ability to handle a wide range of game, including big game like elk and moose.What are some of the benefits of using a 44 Remington Magnum?
https://preview.redd.it/54xf7tf2bb3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c9d70f380a1c8ef6c10be6358ff05005ff5d19db What are some popular firearms that use the 44 Remington Magnum cartridge?Some of the most popular firearms that use the 44 Remington Magnum cartridge include the Marlin Model 1895 and Remington Model 700, both of which are well-regarded for their reliability and accuracy.What is the difference between a 44 Remington Magnum and a 44 Magnum?There is no significant difference between the two cartridges, as 44 Remington Magnum is simply a larger version of the 44 Magnum. The 44 Remington Magnum is designed to create a slightly faster bullet velocity, resulting in increased stopping power and longer range.What should I consider when purchasing a 44 Remington Magnum?
Are there any safety precautions I should take when handling a 44 Remington Magnum?Yes, there are several safety precautions you should follow when handling a 44 Remington Magnum or any firearm. Make sure the firearm is unloaded before handling, clean it regularly, and store it securely with the action open and a locked trigger guard. Always point the firearm in a safe direction and keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire.As an Amazon™ Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. |
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2024.05.29 08:25 offsugar Mamoru Oshii's review of 'Princess Mononoke'
Hayao Miyazaki's View of the Japanese People
Maki Watanabe: Let’s talk about Director Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke." This work was a representative blockbuster film of that year. It was not only the first Ghibli work to exceed 10 billion yen at the box office, but it even reached 19.3 billion yen!Mamoru Oshii: That number is indeed impressive. Unlike the previous work, "Porco Rosso," which was whimsical and lacked a theme, this time he returned with a grand theme. This time the theme was "Hayao Miyazaki's view of the Japanese people."
Maki Watanabe: So the characters like the “People of the Mountains” appeared.
Mamoru Oshii: It can be said that it brings together an all-star lineup of images representing Japan in the old man's mind. From the Emishi to the people of Irontown, to the lepers, to the Forest Spirit, and so on, the theme of the “People of the Mountains” is the ethnic minorities and small groups of Japan.
Maki Watanabe: Mr. Miyazaki has done a lot of research in these areas.
Mamoru Oshii: The old man is indeed a hardworking and studious person. He reads history books very seriously and wants to leave behind the fruits of his studies. Mr. Takahata also has this side, and so do I. In other words, this is a common desire shared by all creators. In this regard, the old man's research interest fell on another kind of Japanese who are not well known, that is, the “People of the Mountains.”
Maki Watanabe: What about Ashitaka, one of the protagonists?
Mamoru Oshii: Although he is Emishi, he is also one of the People of the Mountains. He has a unique religious view and view of nature, which are consistent with the old man's orientation. The old man has absolutely no interest in agricultural peoples, and the people of the mountains are both hunters and makers of things.
Maki Watanabe: Ah, the “making things” setting that the old man likes.
Mamoru Oshii: That's right. So this is the world where he can best transfer his feelings to these people.
Maki Watanabe: So, unlike Mr. Takahata, Mr. Miyazaki is not interested in farmers?
Mamoru Oshii: Not interested. It never appeared in his (original) works, right? Mr. Takahata is good at rural themes, but the old man is not at all.
Maki Watanabe: What is Mr. Oshii's impression of "Princess Mononoke"?
Mamoru Oshii: This work is too stiff. The theme is too grand to be concluded. It's like spreading out a whole piece of wrapping cloth and then not knowing how to put it back together, and in the end, you can only make a mess of it. In the end, the flowers bloom muddleheadedly, and then the music plays as usual, and it ends without anything being resolved. Did they ever think about how to end it? Filmmakers generally like to make a grand opening, but very few can put it back together perfectly. But this is where the director's skill is shown.
Maki Watanabe: Christopher Nolan once said that when making a film, you have to think about the ending from the beginning, and once you decide on it, you don't change it. The endings of his films are indeed impressive.
Mamoru Oshii: Actually, that's the usual way to do it. I also think about the ending from the beginning. Structure is the life of a film, it's a matter of course. On the contrary, the old man, who doesn't write scripts properly, starts from scratch and doesn't want to think about the ending at all. I have said it many times, it is precisely because of this that he is not suitable to be a director.
Maki Watanabe: However, the more you say that about him, the more I find the old man cute. After all, he has always been true to himself, that's great, isn't it?
Mamoru Oshii: What's so cute about it? In a sense, he's someone who makes movies solely on his own talent. Indeed, he is a genius in a way, he doesn't consider anything before or after his death. It is Toshio Suzuki's job to assist him from the sidelines. Speaking of which, Miss Maki, do you remember the last scene of "Princess Mononoke?"
Maki Watanabe: I remember. In the end, everyone went back to where they belonged and it ended. I didn't understand why Ashitaka stayed in Irontown instead of going back to his hometown, so I complained: "Hey, go home." But I didn't quite understand it when it was released. To be honest, there are a lot of things in the story that are hard to keep up with. At that time, many magazines made special features on "Princess Mononoke," and they all sold well. It should be that everyone didn't understand the story, so they wanted to hear what was going on.
Mamoru Oshii: How many people can remember the ending of Ghibli movies, especially the old man's movies? The theme song or the main melody composed by Joe Hisaishi plays, and then it's "the end," forcibly ending. This is Suzuki's strategy.
Maki Watanabe: "Princess Mononoke" uses a song by Yoshikazu Mera at the end.
Mamoru Oshii: The song was also used repeatedly in the promotion, making people so familiar with the theme song that it lingered in their ears. So why use this song over and over again? Because the people in charge of publicity didn't understand the story either. What is the story of "Princess Mononoke" about? It should be the story of Ashitaka and San, but what happened to them in the end? Miss Maki, can you explain it clearly?
Maki Watanabe: The theme is the opposition between civilization and nature. San represents nature, Ashitaka is the middle ground, Lady Eboshi is civilization, and then the story is about the collision of these values. I just rewatched it, so I can probably explain it to this extent, but the part about Ashitaka and San feels very weak.
Mamoru Oshii: That's right, Ashitaka and San should have become like Pazu and Sheeta in "Castle in the Sky," but they didn't. Surprisingly, San is not charming in the slightest. The most surprising thing I saw at the screening was this. The old man, who has always drawn beautiful girls, could it be that he didn't put his heart into San? At least it seems so. The appreciation of the characters is significantly less than before. It's almost impossible not to ask, "What's wrong with the old man?"
The Magic of Hayao Miyazaki's Manga Films
Maki Watanabe: Indeed, although she is the heroine, her impression is very weak. She didn't even leave as deep an impression as Ashitaka.Mamoru Oshii: That's right, it must be Ashitaka who left a deeper impression. Followed by Lady Eboshi, she is the old man's favorite type. The most interesting thing about the old man is that he doesn't just stop at simply praising nature and denying civilization. I've said it countless times, the old man himself has another side to him that loves fighter jets and mechanical civilization. He is a very contradictory person.
Maki Watanabe: Lady Eboshi is the character who speaks for the old man, right?
Mamoru Oshii: The process of civilization is an inevitability of human development. Human beings cannot survive without destroying nature. This is human beings. Lady Eboshi of Irontown is probably the representative of this kind of human being, just like Nausicaä in "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind."
Maki Watanabe: Lady Eboshi loses an arm at the end, and Nausicaä also has a prosthetic arm.
Mamoru Oshii: So, that's the price. In the old man's way of thinking, they must pay a certain price, and it is easy to see from the picture that it is manifested as the loss of an arm. The old man has a unique sense of balance, and he will definitely look for that balance point. Take the villain character, Colonel Muska, in "Castle in the Sky" as an example. As he is escaping, he throws his underwear out of his open suitcase. From this scene, you can also see that the old man did not completely portray him as a bad guy. Adding a bit of cuteness to the villains is what the old man does. Lady Eboshi is a character with very clear values, and for the old man, it is necessary to make her pay the price of losing her arm. In this sense, he is a genius in terms of balance. Although having said that, the old man would not do such a thing as adding a scar to a cute girl. The same goes for children. Girls and children are the old man's sacred realm, and he never lets these characters pay any price or suffer any trauma.
Maki Watanabe: But there's nothing entangled in Lady Eboshi, is there? For example, Ashitaka reported that the women in Irontown were in danger, but she said, "Women can take care of themselves", and then devoted herself to destroying the Forest Spirit. Generally speaking, wouldn't there be some hesitation and struggle? So I don't feel the charm from her strength.
Mamoru Oshii: That's the nature of the old man. Putting viewpoints side by side, putting out all kinds of values without omission, for the old man, there is no contradiction in liking characters who are not troubled and do not hesitate. Because the old man hates indecisive characters the most. He would never affirm those who are hesitant, hesitant, and prone to distress. In short, he doesn't like entanglement.
Maki Watanabe: This value is very interesting.
Mamoru Oshii: Of course, he likes nature the most. However, if the Forest Spirit is affirmed, human beings have to be denied, so there must be an existence that speaks for the human position, and that is Lady Eboshi. The old man is not such a simple person. He has studied why human beings have embarked on the road of industrialization, and he knows very well that this is an inevitable choice. But it wouldn't ease his mind if he simply affirmed it. But if he recognizes the Forest Spirit, he can only come to the conclusion that "human beings should be destroyed", so he has to add San, a character born in nature. Ashitaka is in a position between San and Lady Eboshi.
Maki Watanabe: But Ashitaka should go back to his village, right? Everyone is waiting for him. Why stay in Irontown? If you make such a choice, you have to go through some struggle, right?
Mamoru Oshii: That's why I said, the old man just hates struggling and tangling. The story itself is difficult to justify, so it can only end in such a forceful way. There is basically no drama in this work, because there is no struggle of values at all. As a film, there are often confusions like "Which direction is this story going?" The reason why it turned out like this is because the problem has been concluded in some aspects. That is to say, civilization will never go backwards, and it is precisely because of the creation of civilization that human beings have become human beings. Those who can really live in nature don't even know that it is nature. If one had never stepped out of the Garden of Eden, one would not even know that one was human. Industrial society is a necessity for human beings, and human beings can only survive by conquering nature. But humans don't want to deny the part of themselves that resonates with nature.
Maki Watanabe: I see.
Mamoru Oshii: The old man made "Princess Mononoke" on the basis of understanding all this, but even if he understands this rationally, he cannot let it go, so he will be divided. So how do you put an end to this split in a movie? He didn't think about it carefully, so "Princess Mononoke" became a film with an incomprehensible ending. Speaking of which, because the world in the movie is not a world of good and evil, children should not understand it. The old man clearly said that he made animation for children, and said that no matter what the real world is like, at least in the work, the black and white of good and evil should be clearly distinguished. This is one of the main tasks of being a director. However, his own work lacks such consistency. Although the theme is grand, it cannot be concluded properly. Of course, it's not just the old man, there are many movies like this.
Maki Watanabe: But the picture is very powerful. This time I re-watched it and felt very emotional.
Mamoru Oshii: Like this, in short, showing you some powerful things and making you accept it in a confused way is the unique magic of the old man's manga films. Although the director and the critics can see through the flaws at a glance and will not be deceived, the animators will be amazed and exclaimed, "Amazing!" after watching it. Of course, he is really good. Whether it is the demon or the Forest Spirit, he has made very, very grand scenes. The movements of all the characters are very neat and beautiful, and the background is also very magnificent. But as for the animals, because I'm a bit of an authority when it comes to the representation of "dogs", the image of Moro doesn't look good at all. The film is full of places like this that (the old man) made with his eyes closed.
Maki Watanabe: That's how it is. I was so shocked that I didn't pay much attention.
Mamoru Oshii: This work is extremely difficult to draw, and it's also very long, isn't it? It's impossible to be perfect. Apart from Moro, there are also some problems with the setting of Irontown. The animator who was in charge of drawing Moro also participated in the production of the movie "Jin-Roh." His performance in "Jin-Roh" was obviously better. Not to mention anything else, the running posture of beasts is a difficult problem for animators, more difficult than birds and horses. For example, the posture of a dog lowering its center of gravity and speeding up will make the animator cry.
Maki Watanabe: The Forest Spirit also looks very unique!
Mamoru Oshii: That's the old man's forte. The little mushroom-like spirits are also his forte. Not only are they rich in movement, but children also especially like them.
Maki Watanabe: Very cute, and adults love it too! (laughs) Later, the scene where the Forest Spirit stepped on the ground and the flowers and plants suddenly grew made people couldn't help but exclaim "Wow," it was really beautiful.
Mamoru Oshii: That part is very sensual, as if you can smell it. It's really sensual, very enchanting. I only admire the part with the Forest Spirit, just like the scene in Totoro where the trees suddenly grow. That's the essence of the animation world. Even if it's done with CG, it can't make that kind of feeling. That is the old man's unique sense of movement, a sense of sensuality, a kind of eroticism unique to plants. The old man is really good at drawing plants. He's definitely better at plants than animals. From this point of view, there are indeed many remarkable scenes in "Princess Mononoke", maybe the character that the old man put more effort into is not San, but the Forest Spirit, which is why everyone is glued to their eyes.
Maki Watanabe: The scene of the Forest Spirit walking on the water, being hit and sinking into the water for a while, and then floating up again… That scene is very touching.
Mamoru Oshii: The old man is also very good at water, he is simply a genius. So, I'm not always picking on him, I'll praise him where it's due. I'm making a fair assessment. There will never be another animator like the old man. It's just that, although I may have said it too many times, he's really not cut out to be a director (laughs).
Maki Watanabe: I re-watched it after a long time. Although there are many problems such as the ending not being closed and the story having loopholes, I am still shocked by the picture.
Mamoru Oshii: If you look at it again after a while, those grand themes will be put aside by everyone, and many parts can be enjoyed separately. Sure enough, the unique sexy charm of this film is irresistible.
Maki Watanabe: But the places made with digital technology are really not good, or because the hand-painted parts are so good, the digital production looks not so good.
Mamoru Oshii: This film used digital technology for the first time, which caused a lot of buzz when it was released. The scene of Ashitaka riding a deer was made using texture mapping, but that doesn't suit the old man. The old man's unique sense of movement and pleasure in the flowing scenery cannot be expressed by texture mapping. I am very sure of this. In fact, this place should be the same as the sea of clouds in "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" and the flowing scenery in "Castle in the Sky," all done by hand. But if we did, the work might not be completed.
Maki Watanabe: Another major feature of this film is the voice actors. This time the dubbing lineup is very luxurious.
Mamoru Oshii: Needless to say, this is Suzuki's strategy. Toshiro Mifune, Akira Emoto, Masahiko Nishimura, Yuko Tanaka, and even Mitsuko Mori were invited. Ghibli has also invited many actors to be voice actors before, but this is the first time that there have been so many. Almost all the main characters are well-known stars. Every Japanese can conjure up the faces of these stars in their minds.
Maki Watanabe: San is voiced by actress Yuriko Ishida, and Ashitaka is voiced by Yoji Matsuda. Mr. Matsuda voiced Asbel in "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind."
Mamoru Oshii: Speaking of San just now, speaking of the lack of presence of this character, she doesn't look like the beautiful girl depicted by the old man at all. One of the reasons is that her voice didn't move people's hearts. Also, why Akira Emoto? Do you have this question?
Maki Watanabe: But didn't Mr. Oshii's "Sky Crawlers" also use actress Rinko Kikuchi? And Ryo Kase.
Mamoru Oshii: But not many Japanese knew Rinko Kikuchi at the time, right? As for why Ryo Kase was used, it's a long story... But the reason why I used Rinko was because I thought no one in Japan knew her, so it didn't matter.
Maki Watanabe: How come, I know her. After all, she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for "Babel" and has attracted a lot of attention.
Mamoru Oshii: That's because Miss Maki, you are in the film industry, but ordinary Japanese people don't know. And it was also because I liked her very much after meeting her once. Looking back on it now, she was wearing a black dress very similar to the one worn by the young Motoko at the end of "Ghost in the Shell."
Maki Watanabe: Was that intentional?
Mamoru Oshii: It's very possible. She seemed very positive and motivated at the time, which is what an actor should be. It is very important to have the momentum of "must win this role." Mélanie St-Pierre in "Garzey's Wing" is also like this, with a kappa hairstyle and a gun in the audition video.
Maki Watanabe: I didn't expect it to be so easy to capture Mr. Oshii's heart. A kappa hairstyle with a gun is all it takes (laughs).
Mamoru Oshii: What are you talking about! It's important whether it fits or not. That's the key. Let's not mention this for the time being, why don't I like this voice actor lineup very much? Because I watched the whole film at the luxurious premiere, and they stood on the stage in a row. These faces were very powerful, and the number of people was extraordinary.
Maki Watanabe: I've always had a question about letting actors be voice actors. Does letting Yuriko Ishida dub really attract audiences? It won't be the driving force to make people want to watch a movie, right?
Mamoru Oshii: Suzuki's strategy is "to do everything that can be done." Having celebrities lined up can get media attention, and Toshiro Mifune was more famous than Hayao Miyazaki back then, wasn't he? He didn't want to attract audiences with Yuriko Ishida, it was just a strategy to get media attention. Before the release, it was Suzuki's job to raise awareness of the film. First of all, "Princess Mononoke" is a very important work in every sense, and it must sell well, otherwise its investment scale will bankrupt Ghibli.
Maki Watanabe: It's a work that has put all its efforts into it.
Mamoru Oshii: Yes. The old man also made agrand structure in his mind, putting all his heart into it. Toshio Suzuki's efforts made this work a success in distribution. As I said just now, there are various sensitive issues in this work born from the old man's whims and fantasies, so Suzuki is responsible for the aftermath. You may have forgotten that there has never been a scene in a previous animation where a head or an arm is chopped off like in this work. When it was first released, every animation studio was talking about "Princess Mononoke," saying, "That old Miyazaki actually drew so many scenes of beheadings and severed limbs!" What does this mean? It can only be said that the old man has become unstoppable. What Suzuki said didn't work, it was completely out of control. In my opinion, this sign appeared in the "Porco Rosso" period. At that time, I let him do what he liked. On the other hand, Toshio Suzuki had to work harder to get the word out.
Maki Watanabe: Having said that, it has created a big-selling record in film history, which is very remarkable.
Mamoru Oshii: Judging from the results, it was a big hit at the box office, so it became more and more unstoppable.
In this way, the two consecutive films were created as they pleased, but the two works are completely different. The arbitrariness of "Porco Rosso" is a personal thing. But "Princess Mononoke" talks about Japan, nature, human beings, and even the theory of civilization. The old man put all the things he was interested in and studied into it, proposed a grand theme, and created it as an "author." That is to say, he officially debuted as an author.
Maki Watanabe: So, "Princess Mononoke" is a masterpiece of director Hayao Miyazaki, right?
Mamoru Oshii: Masterpiece? He hasn't even "mastered" it yet. Just put together interests and knowledge. No editing, no structure, just a list of content.
Maki Watanabe: Then how should it be evaluated?
Mamoru Oshii: Clearing inventory. No, it's more accurate to say picking up and shipping. Because he moved all the stock out.
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The content is from a Japanese book 誰も語らなかったジブリを語ろう (Let's talk about Ghibli that no one has talked about).
2024.05.29 08:21 monanopierrepaul CREATING MY OWN 3RD PLACE!
Hey all, my name is Mo. Our kind moderators gave me the green light to post this about 45 days ago, but I have been mulling over it, so please bear with me.
As some of you know, living in a heavily populated city like NYC has loads of benefits, but it also comes with a few annoying setbacks, such as the difficulty of making long-term or interesting friends who share similar interests or backgrounds as you get older. Not being from here can make it even more challenging.
With books like Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community and Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom coupled up with these 2 articles: Want to Make a New Friend? How Much Money Have You Got? & The Loneliness of the American Worker that I recently read from the Wall Street Journal. I got super fired up about posting this. Things are getting worse out there, & as someone who’s into sports, it’s a little challenging to find people who are able & willing to watch or go to games, let alone be friends with them.
So, I am a 29-year-old black male lurker here. With the aim of stepping out of my comfort zone & meeting new people to develop long-term friendships with, I purchased 3 full-season memberships for the NY Liberty, NY/NJ GothamFC, & NYCFC. I’m looking for female & male friends around my age (25–35ish). I don’t think I have a number as to how many friends I am looking for, but let’s just go ahead & say maybe 10 females & 10 males to even things out. Please keep in mind that this is not an R4R post & is very NYC-based sports team-related. I noticed that on Reddit, women’s posts about friendship tend to get more engagements & answers, so hopefully this gets some traction & I get to e-meet new people that I can physically meet in real life on a biweekly or even monthly basis. If you read this and feel like it's not for you, then that’s fine, but if you know a friend who’s looking for friends, then please kindly share this with them and/or introduce us. I’m looking for people around the same age, as I don’t have lots of NYC-based friends in general. I currently work as a social worker. My simple pleasures are trivia, sushi, museums, karaoke, bowling, scenic drives, working out, my curated playlists, the New York Times’ games, a comedy & theater show, & coconut cake & ice cream. I love cats. I am a Libra with an ENTJ personality type. I am Caribbean. I love food. I love anything coconut-flavored. I studied and love theater, so I like to enjoy good plays, musicals, and movies. I love going to the movies. My Regal Theater is about 12 minutes from me. This year I’ve seen 106 movies so far (a few of my favorites: The Holdovers, Anatomy of a Fall, Past Lives, Yodha, Dogman, Seagrass, & Cabrini. Sorry Challengers didn’t make the cut, haha). I love museums (a few of my favorites: the Brooklyn Museum, the Met Cloisters, & AMNH). I also love good comedy: sitcoms, stand-ups, and improv. Although I am more of a fast-paced person, I do love classical music. I’m straight. I’m spiritual but not religious. I am an extrovert. No allergies. I am very proactive. I am impatient sometimes. Little fun fact about me: almost everything I own or wear is grey/gray but my favorite color is red. I live alone. I don’t drink alcohol, & I don’t smoke/vape. No substance use at all, but I’m open to being friends with people who do these things as long as they aren't around me when doing so. I don’t play video games; I don’t stream. I have them, but I don’t necessarily use mainstream social media. Loneliness is a b-word & I can be a homebody & a bit reserved sometimes. I consider myself to be a sapiosexual, so evidently I am an avid audiobookworm—I have listened to 75 books so far this year through my Libby & Audible apps (a few of my favorites would be: Ikigai, Feminism is for Everybody, The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, I am Not Sydney Poitier, The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao & Heartburn). I try to listen to a book a month. I closely follow and like to talk about international and national politics. I think I get bored easily, so I like to talk & have meaningful conversations. It doesn’t have to be “deep conversation,” but something that can stimulate and challenge my brain & point of view. My apology language is planned change, & my love language is quality time (doing something) so I am looking for platonic female & male friends that I can go to games with & spend quality time with doing other things that we have in common as well. The Copa America and the Euro are starting soon. Let’s not forget the World Cup. I live in Canarsie, Brooklyn, & I drive, so maybe we can tag along to games sometimes, etc. I have an ACE score of 1. One social cause that I am passionate about is homelessness. I have a fear of heights. I'm very big on respecting people's personal space & boundaries, so I don't like people who are always late. My motto is "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". Around the right person, I am stupidly funny but can be too blunt sometimes; therefore, one thing that I started doing is checking in & asking to see if I have said anything unkind, mean, rude, or condescending to whoever I’m talking to, and if so, I ask what they are so I can be cognizant of them, & I also ask the person if they feel heard, understood, & respected after apologizing & talking about what I said or did that bothered them. I looooove football (soccer). My favorite teams are Argentina, Barcelona, Manchester City, Inter Milan, PSG, Borussia Dortmund, NYCFC, & NY/NJ GothamFC, as mentioned above. Obviously, the Libs are the best WNBA team out there. I like to think of myself as someone who’s securely-anxious in friendship. My spirit animal is a bull. I am open-minded, so I am willing to learn & compromise. I am not diagnosed with any mental or physical illnesses. I'm all about the simple pleasures in life. I have tried making friends in real life—in person through un/paid events, etc.—but people are madly flaky & aren’t committed to a friendship…Anyway, enough said—I am looking forward to making meaningful connections with you here, & if there's something specific that you'd like to know about me, then please do not hesitate to ask, or you can organically find out when we start getting to know each other in person!
Please feel free to reach out to me either through DM or comment under this post. Because you made it this far through my post, I am giving a free ticket for the May 31st game to the first person who reaches out to me and is willing to be friends. Oh, & in case you're wondering, I sit in Section 8, Row 18. As a season ticket holder, I definitely won’t be able to attend all the games, so I will be giving other free tickets to people who reach out to me & want to be friends as well.
Lastly, I want to give a huge shoutout to the moderators for allowing me the opportunity to do this. I appreciate it but I appreciate y’all even more.
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As some of you know, living in a heavily populated city like NYC has loads of benefits, but it also comes with a few annoying setbacks, such as the difficulty of making long-term or interesting friends who share similar interests or backgrounds as you get older. Not being from here can make it even more challenging.
With books like Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community and Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom coupled up with these 2 articles: Want to Make a New Friend? How Much Money Have You Got? & The Loneliness of the American Worker that I recently read from the Wall Street Journal. I got super fired up about posting this. Things are getting worse out there, & as someone who’s into sports, it’s a little challenging to find people who are able & willing to watch or go to games, let alone be friends with them.
So, I am a 29-year-old black male lurker here. With the aim of stepping out of my comfort zone & meeting new people to develop long-term friendships with, I purchased 3 full-season memberships for the NY Liberty, NY/NJ GothamFC, & NYCFC. I’m looking for female & male friends around my age (25–35ish). I don’t think I have a number as to how many friends I am looking for, but let’s just go ahead & say maybe 10 females & 10 males to even things out. Please keep in mind that this is not an R4R post & is very NYC-based sports team-related. I noticed that on Reddit, women’s posts about friendship tend to get more engagements & answers, so hopefully this gets some traction & I get to e-meet new people that I can physically meet in real life on a biweekly or even monthly basis. If you read this and feel like it's not for you, then that’s fine, but if you know a friend who’s looking for friends, then please kindly share this with them and/or introduce us. I’m looking for people around the same age, as I don’t have lots of NYC-based friends in general. I currently work as a social worker. My simple pleasures are trivia, sushi, museums, karaoke, bowling, scenic drives, working out, my curated playlists, the New York Times’ games, a comedy & theater show, & coconut cake & ice cream. I love cats. I am a Libra with an ENTJ personality type. I am Caribbean. I love food. I love anything coconut-flavored. I studied and love theater, so I like to enjoy good plays, musicals, and movies. I love going to the movies. My Regal Theater is about 12 minutes from me. This year I’ve seen 106 movies so far (a few of my favorites: The Holdovers, Anatomy of a Fall, Past Lives, Yodha, Dogman, Seagrass, & Cabrini. Sorry Challengers didn’t make the cut, haha). I love museums (a few of my favorites: the Brooklyn Museum, the Met Cloisters, & AMNH). I also love good comedy: sitcoms, stand-ups, and improv. Although I am more of a fast-paced person, I do love classical music. I’m straight. I’m spiritual but not religious. I am an extrovert. No allergies. I am very proactive. I am impatient sometimes. Little fun fact about me: almost everything I own or wear is grey/gray but my favorite color is red. I live alone. I don’t drink alcohol, & I don’t smoke/vape. No substance use at all, but I’m open to being friends with people who do these things as long as they aren't around me when doing so. I don’t play video games; I don’t stream. I have them, but I don’t necessarily use mainstream social media. Loneliness is a b-word & I can be a homebody & a bit reserved sometimes. I consider myself to be a sapiosexual, so evidently I am an avid audiobookworm—I have listened to 75 books so far this year through my Libby & Audible apps (a few of my favorites would be: Ikigai, Feminism is for Everybody, The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, I am Not Sydney Poitier, The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao & Heartburn). I try to listen to a book a month. I closely follow and like to talk about international and national politics. I think I get bored easily, so I like to talk & have meaningful conversations. It doesn’t have to be “deep conversation,” but something that can stimulate and challenge my brain & point of view. My apology language is planned change, & my love language is quality time (doing something) so I am looking for platonic female & male friends that I can go to games with & spend quality time with doing other things that we have in common as well. The Copa America and the Euro are starting soon. Let’s not forget the World Cup. I live in Canarsie, Brooklyn, & I drive, so maybe we can tag along to games sometimes, etc. I have an ACE score of 1. One social cause that I am passionate about is homelessness. I have a fear of heights. I'm very big on respecting people's personal space & boundaries, so I don't like people who are always late. My motto is "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". Around the right person, I am stupidly funny but can be too blunt sometimes; therefore, one thing that I started doing is checking in & asking to see if I have said anything unkind, mean, rude, or condescending to whoever I’m talking to, and if so, I ask what they are so I can be cognizant of them, & I also ask the person if they feel heard, understood, & respected after apologizing & talking about what I said or did that bothered them. I looooove football (soccer). My favorite teams are Argentina, Barcelona, Manchester City, Inter Milan, PSG, Borussia Dortmund, NYCFC, & NY/NJ GothamFC, as mentioned above. Obviously, the Libs are the best WNBA team out there. I like to think of myself as someone who’s securely-anxious in friendship. My spirit animal is a bull. I am open-minded, so I am willing to learn & compromise. I am not diagnosed with any mental or physical illnesses. I'm all about the simple pleasures in life. I have tried making friends in real life—in person through un/paid events, etc.—but people are madly flaky & aren’t committed to a friendship…Anyway, enough said—I am looking forward to making meaningful connections with you here, & if there's something specific that you'd like to know about me, then please do not hesitate to ask, or you can organically find out when we start getting to know each other in person!
Please feel free to reach out to me either through DM or comment under this post. Because you made it this far through my post, I am giving a free ticket for the May 31st game to the first person who reaches out to me and is willing to be friends. Oh, & in case you're wondering, I sit in Section 8, Row 18. As a season ticket holder, I definitely won’t be able to attend all the games, so I will be giving other free tickets to people who reach out to me & want to be friends as well.
Lastly, I want to give a huge shoutout to the moderators for allowing me the opportunity to do this. I appreciate it but I appreciate y’all even more.
2024.05.29 08:08 KittonMittons86 Should Vito pivot away from Eric July and start a new feud with Nick Rekieta?
Let's face it, Vito attacking a black man is bad for his brand. He needs to properly align himself with his team and go after scumbag Nick right before election season. White men should not be allowed to have cocaine and multiple women to film pornos with while their kids are in the next room. That should only be reserved for the St. Floyd's of this great nation.
Vito, get your head together and go after the real enemy. You need to gin up more interest in something other than your phony comic. You need to take a fat shit on Rekieta's personal and professional reputation. Belittle his children, too. Say the pedophile adoption system is a more deserving option for them.
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Vito, get your head together and go after the real enemy. You need to gin up more interest in something other than your phony comic. You need to take a fat shit on Rekieta's personal and professional reputation. Belittle his children, too. Say the pedophile adoption system is a more deserving option for them.
2024.05.29 08:05 Masstonne The bare minimum for a hooker overnight is $500. That’s $182,000 a year. Does Redpill have a point and are we cooked?
Ex-Incel, current Vyvanse user, so I’m an average Destiny fan. Wondering if Redpill has a point when the market rate to “keep” a women is $500 a night. Obviously there is nuance.
First, you could definitely go under this rate, even substantially, even with a beautiful, red headed 19 year old. But… be prepared to deal with the proportional fentanyl infused abuse.
Otherwise honestly $500 for an overnight is generous. At that rate you will have to put up with 2 of the following at least: fat, ugly, drug addicted, and over 30. But you can get along well enough, have a good time, and all the elements of a real relationship, except true love. But then again, if you think of it as arranged marriage maybe love can develop overtime or who knows what real love is anyways. If you’re both happy, and doing everything a traditional relationship would do, who’s to say it’s not real I guess.
Secondly, of course there is a tax you pay for engaging in a black market activity. Similar to how weed was substantially more expensive when it was illegal. I’ve seen the price of weed go down 300% in the time it’s been legalized. If we apply the same standard to hookers, that would bring the price down from $182,000 to $60,000. Still higher than the average salary of a male in this country. And that’s for the cheapest hookers, so again at least 2 of the following will apply: on drugs, fat, ugly, and over 30.
Fuck it, let’s call it $50,000 for the true market rate for the worst of the worst girls in society (no judgement I’m at the bottom too considering I pay for these girls). How is a normal guy not cooked in the “normal” dating market?
And remember if you overnight a hooker for a year, definitely expect to also act like a boyfriend, especially if you’re getting a price as low as $500 a night. So the only difference between what a “normal” girl and hooker would get from you is the true love, but again who’s to say what that is.
Also I have to add, the $500 doesn’t include food, and doesn’t include a place to stay, you would be providing that too. Let’s say you split housework evenly.
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First, you could definitely go under this rate, even substantially, even with a beautiful, red headed 19 year old. But… be prepared to deal with the proportional fentanyl infused abuse.
Otherwise honestly $500 for an overnight is generous. At that rate you will have to put up with 2 of the following at least: fat, ugly, drug addicted, and over 30. But you can get along well enough, have a good time, and all the elements of a real relationship, except true love. But then again, if you think of it as arranged marriage maybe love can develop overtime or who knows what real love is anyways. If you’re both happy, and doing everything a traditional relationship would do, who’s to say it’s not real I guess.
Secondly, of course there is a tax you pay for engaging in a black market activity. Similar to how weed was substantially more expensive when it was illegal. I’ve seen the price of weed go down 300% in the time it’s been legalized. If we apply the same standard to hookers, that would bring the price down from $182,000 to $60,000. Still higher than the average salary of a male in this country. And that’s for the cheapest hookers, so again at least 2 of the following will apply: on drugs, fat, ugly, and over 30.
Fuck it, let’s call it $50,000 for the true market rate for the worst of the worst girls in society (no judgement I’m at the bottom too considering I pay for these girls). How is a normal guy not cooked in the “normal” dating market?
And remember if you overnight a hooker for a year, definitely expect to also act like a boyfriend, especially if you’re getting a price as low as $500 a night. So the only difference between what a “normal” girl and hooker would get from you is the true love, but again who’s to say what that is.
Also I have to add, the $500 doesn’t include food, and doesn’t include a place to stay, you would be providing that too. Let’s say you split housework evenly.
2024.05.29 07:56 Substantial_Heron_98 East Coast/West Coast with 2 Weddings
Plus size girl (18-20+) heading to an East Coast West Coast trip with 2 weddings.
Would love your advice, I'm going to try to do a trip report on this as well, with pics.
9 full days, staying mostly hotels. May be able to do a load of laundry one time day 4.
Both weddings have different dress codes (nice but casual, cocktail but on the beach for the other wedding.)
Weather seems similar, but cooler in where we will be on the west coast.
Wedding attire for both: - cobalt district dress (now cobalt street)
- ECCO WOMEN'S FLOWT LX WEDGE SANDAL -black sweater for both events, just in case
-Need to find a strapless bra. This is super hard because I just let go of my old one because it was way too small. - tank dress (eddie bauer) - for other wedding events - 1 thin belt
Need to bring my laptop etc. as I'm working during this trip.
Normal clothes/packing stuff:
Jacket - ll bean anorak (love this, sprayed it so it should be more water resistant)
Summer hoodie - old threadbare - 11 pairs of underwear (including period underwear) - could pair down, but I'm kind of anxious about thjs. - 3 pairs of socks - 2 linen tops, different colors - 1 white spanx air essentials top (testing to see if I like it, not sure yet) - 4 tanks/spagetti straps (will use the tanks in place of a shirt some days and will sleep in the spagetti straps too.) The spagetti straps are also emotional support LOL - 1 pair of sleep shorts - 2 pairs of linen short - 2 honey love bras - 1 pair of cropped leggings (nicer) - 1 pair of running shorts - 1 pair of black leggings - 1 hat packable - 1 one piece swimsuit - 1 button-down jean shirt - travel memory foam side sleeper pillow (can not sleep without) - 1 pair of tevas
-travel outfit - leggings, black tank and t-shirt, socks, and waterproof trail runners, undies
-Toiletries- decanted sunblock, retinol, vitamin C, moisturizer: blush, mascara, mini vasoline, contacts, contact case/solution, glasses, curl cream toothpaste, prescrition drugs & nasal spray, Hairbrush, toothbrush
-Small jewelry
Lastly, a couple snacks, phone holders, fans, big and small heaphones, and a deck of cards.
Bag: 1.5 technically - Backpack , hoping all this crap fits into my north face boriealis with the magic of compression packing cubes. - Personal item - coach mollie bucket bag 22. I love this, and I'm excited to take this on a trip! It fits my over the ear headphones, etc.
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Would love your advice, I'm going to try to do a trip report on this as well, with pics.
9 full days, staying mostly hotels. May be able to do a load of laundry one time day 4.
Both weddings have different dress codes (nice but casual, cocktail but on the beach for the other wedding.)
Weather seems similar, but cooler in where we will be on the west coast.
Wedding attire for both: - cobalt district dress (now cobalt street)
- ECCO WOMEN'S FLOWT LX WEDGE SANDAL -black sweater for both events, just in case
-Need to find a strapless bra. This is super hard because I just let go of my old one because it was way too small. - tank dress (eddie bauer) - for other wedding events - 1 thin belt
Need to bring my laptop etc. as I'm working during this trip.
Normal clothes/packing stuff:
Jacket - ll bean anorak (love this, sprayed it so it should be more water resistant)
Summer hoodie - old threadbare - 11 pairs of underwear (including period underwear) - could pair down, but I'm kind of anxious about thjs. - 3 pairs of socks - 2 linen tops, different colors - 1 white spanx air essentials top (testing to see if I like it, not sure yet) - 4 tanks/spagetti straps (will use the tanks in place of a shirt some days and will sleep in the spagetti straps too.) The spagetti straps are also emotional support LOL - 1 pair of sleep shorts - 2 pairs of linen short - 2 honey love bras - 1 pair of cropped leggings (nicer) - 1 pair of running shorts - 1 pair of black leggings - 1 hat packable - 1 one piece swimsuit - 1 button-down jean shirt - travel memory foam side sleeper pillow (can not sleep without) - 1 pair of tevas
-travel outfit - leggings, black tank and t-shirt, socks, and waterproof trail runners, undies
-Toiletries- decanted sunblock, retinol, vitamin C, moisturizer: blush, mascara, mini vasoline, contacts, contact case/solution, glasses, curl cream toothpaste, prescrition drugs & nasal spray, Hairbrush, toothbrush
-Small jewelry
Lastly, a couple snacks, phone holders, fans, big and small heaphones, and a deck of cards.
Bag: 1.5 technically - Backpack , hoping all this crap fits into my north face boriealis with the magic of compression packing cubes. - Personal item - coach mollie bucket bag 22. I love this, and I'm excited to take this on a trip! It fits my over the ear headphones, etc.
2024.05.29 07:42 Powerful-Library-776 Needing Support-Dating/Living
TW: MDD and STI Very long post, I’m sorry.
Hi ladies. I’m reaching out here just because I am crumbling. I suffer with MDD and Anxiety and I’ve been through a lot of compounded trauma. I’m currently in therapy and it’s disheartening seeing the look on her face when I tell her the details of my life. I’ve now had 2 therapists say they don’t know how I’m still standing. The truth is, I don’t either. I’m 28F and every moment of my life has been abysmal. I don’t think I’ve ever been happy or really known joy and I can’t tell you the last time I felt like I even belong here.
Now I don’t believe in the term but I am what people would call “high functioning.” I’ve cried everyday for about 3 years but I still have to go to work and pretend and act like I’m okay. Many days now, people know I’m not. But I’ve been managing. I’ve been cosplaying “normal” and “fine” but any moment I have to myself I’m breaking down. Even though things happen I’ve really been fighting to pursue my dreams and build my health and mind. I go really hard trying to fix myself and achieve a better life though it seems neither is possible. But still I’ve practiced normalcy and pursued relationships.
Enter loneliness. I’m the baby sibling with considerable age differences so I kinda grew up lonely. I was only ever allowed to be a bookworm and be very active in school so I never had normal dating life. Every woman in my family seems to die alone. So naturally this being the path for me has been in the back of my mind. In my adult dating life, I’ve had quite a bit of fun. I try to keep as much of my trauma to myself as possible (with serious partners) because I’ve learned it’s never safe to share with men. Turned up more goose eggs than anything but I’ve learned a lot about myself and others/their cultures. I’m from the south but where I live now is a major ethnic melting pot and I’ve never been more hyper aware of how unattractive my blackness is perceived by black men until dating here. I’m not the right type of black that’s appreciated here. And it’s not just in my head… these internet weirdos you see are men that I meet or cross paths with IRL. That’s largely due to my location but I’m not ethnically ambiguous, thin or influencer looking, I don’t have a loose curl. Men who were dating me (or whatever tf we were doing😪) have told me they don’t like black women and were confused when I told them I felt uncomfortable with that. Multiple occasions. Once who said he prefers white girl 🐱. One who prefers everything but black women but dates black women anyway. One who I’ve heard telling other black men to leave us alone, spreading it like gospel. I shit you not… this is traumatizing me more than actual trauma I’ve been through.
Enter herpes. deep heavy negro sigh To add insult to injury (quite literally), months ago I was diagnosed with herpes. I have ghsv-1 and I got it from someone with a cold sore who didn’t know (I guess). This is a strain of the herpes viruses that is more commonly located on the face/lip as a cold sore. Same virus, different location. I’ve had some disclosures that went well. Some that I’d rather delete the memory of. Overall I’m very discouraged and terrified of dating and just my life overall. I know how black men seem to feel about us (at least where I’m at) and I know that to be accepted by a black man I basically have to be spotless as a black woman. I see non black women disclose to bm successfully all the time, and I know I have less of a chance of receiving the same outcome though it’s the same condition. And most of the black women with successful disclosures I SEE the person is either a woman, not black, or lackluster in looks.
At this point, it seems like absolutely nothing… not one thing in my life has been successful. My dreams are passing me by (because I’m also not the right type of black girl for them either). Almost 30 with no direction anymore, no prospect or likely chance of actually being in love. I’m ready to throw in the towel.
I’ve tried to hard to make a better life for myself than what I was given. And life doesn’t seem to think I deserve better. I don’t want to stick around hoping someday my life makes a turn for the better. It’s not worth it. I see people on the street daily who are waiting for their lives to get better and they never do. I hate living knowing I’ll never be happy or deeply romantically loved. This is a sick joke.
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Hi ladies. I’m reaching out here just because I am crumbling. I suffer with MDD and Anxiety and I’ve been through a lot of compounded trauma. I’m currently in therapy and it’s disheartening seeing the look on her face when I tell her the details of my life. I’ve now had 2 therapists say they don’t know how I’m still standing. The truth is, I don’t either. I’m 28F and every moment of my life has been abysmal. I don’t think I’ve ever been happy or really known joy and I can’t tell you the last time I felt like I even belong here.
Now I don’t believe in the term but I am what people would call “high functioning.” I’ve cried everyday for about 3 years but I still have to go to work and pretend and act like I’m okay. Many days now, people know I’m not. But I’ve been managing. I’ve been cosplaying “normal” and “fine” but any moment I have to myself I’m breaking down. Even though things happen I’ve really been fighting to pursue my dreams and build my health and mind. I go really hard trying to fix myself and achieve a better life though it seems neither is possible. But still I’ve practiced normalcy and pursued relationships.
Enter loneliness. I’m the baby sibling with considerable age differences so I kinda grew up lonely. I was only ever allowed to be a bookworm and be very active in school so I never had normal dating life. Every woman in my family seems to die alone. So naturally this being the path for me has been in the back of my mind. In my adult dating life, I’ve had quite a bit of fun. I try to keep as much of my trauma to myself as possible (with serious partners) because I’ve learned it’s never safe to share with men. Turned up more goose eggs than anything but I’ve learned a lot about myself and others/their cultures. I’m from the south but where I live now is a major ethnic melting pot and I’ve never been more hyper aware of how unattractive my blackness is perceived by black men until dating here. I’m not the right type of black that’s appreciated here. And it’s not just in my head… these internet weirdos you see are men that I meet or cross paths with IRL. That’s largely due to my location but I’m not ethnically ambiguous, thin or influencer looking, I don’t have a loose curl. Men who were dating me (or whatever tf we were doing😪) have told me they don’t like black women and were confused when I told them I felt uncomfortable with that. Multiple occasions. Once who said he prefers white girl 🐱. One who prefers everything but black women but dates black women anyway. One who I’ve heard telling other black men to leave us alone, spreading it like gospel. I shit you not… this is traumatizing me more than actual trauma I’ve been through.
Enter herpes. deep heavy negro sigh To add insult to injury (quite literally), months ago I was diagnosed with herpes. I have ghsv-1 and I got it from someone with a cold sore who didn’t know (I guess). This is a strain of the herpes viruses that is more commonly located on the face/lip as a cold sore. Same virus, different location. I’ve had some disclosures that went well. Some that I’d rather delete the memory of. Overall I’m very discouraged and terrified of dating and just my life overall. I know how black men seem to feel about us (at least where I’m at) and I know that to be accepted by a black man I basically have to be spotless as a black woman. I see non black women disclose to bm successfully all the time, and I know I have less of a chance of receiving the same outcome though it’s the same condition. And most of the black women with successful disclosures I SEE the person is either a woman, not black, or lackluster in looks.
At this point, it seems like absolutely nothing… not one thing in my life has been successful. My dreams are passing me by (because I’m also not the right type of black girl for them either). Almost 30 with no direction anymore, no prospect or likely chance of actually being in love. I’m ready to throw in the towel.
I’ve tried to hard to make a better life for myself than what I was given. And life doesn’t seem to think I deserve better. I don’t want to stick around hoping someday my life makes a turn for the better. It’s not worth it. I see people on the street daily who are waiting for their lives to get better and they never do. I hate living knowing I’ll never be happy or deeply romantically loved. This is a sick joke.
2024.05.29 07:17 betanerd132 [TOMT][Song] 70s ice cream esc song?
Trying to find a late 60s to early 80s song. Beginning intro is higher notes on a keyboard similar to an ice cream truck tone. The main chorus is a low pitched I think black singer which is then followed by a small group of women singing "Feel-en-al-right" broken up like that. I THINK it was something along the lings of "this Friday night, ( feel-en-al-right)". But problem is that was like 1/3 of all disco/pop in the 70s
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2024.05.29 07:05 Accomplished_Buy8799 Bringing people back to reality = troll lmao
 | I feel a little bad for ruining her cope because it’s hard when you come to the realization of the fact that pretty white women are universally desired by all men but black even biracial women who are not white passing like ash kaash for example are very subjectively liked when it comes to attraction even when they’re pretty. This entire convo reminds me of the truest statement I’ve ever heard that someone had said on this subreddit I think, “everybody pretends like they hate white people but they love white people. Everybody pretends that they love black people, but they hate black people.” submitted by Accomplished_Buy8799 to transraceBTW [link] [comments] |
2024.05.29 06:52 Kaniyakeme Crazy some troll accused me of using filters out of the millions of females on here that actually do. I get singled out. I notice brown or “black” women don’t get a lot of love on Reddit .
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2024.05.29 06:50 noodlemonsterlsd I tried some of the tips you guys gave me! Please give constructive criticism/opinions (and pleeease read the description)
 | so on my last post, I made the point that makeup is a bit unfamiliar to me, and that because of that, wearing makeup can make me feel insecure, as I don’t really recognize myself with too much of it on. I did not mean that I’m insecure and therefore want to wear makeup! Makeup can be fun, and an accessory. It’s important to recognize that women wear makeup for reasons other than covering up “flaws.” submitted by noodlemonsterlsd to MakeupAddiction [link] [comments] I’d like to be able to wear makeup that is clearly makeup, but without being too bold, and after reading through the comments, this is what I tried out. If there are any notes on what to improve (especially the lipstick getting sort of “crumby”(?) after some time, then that is welcome! Last two are no makeup and the products I used Dior lipstick (shade “sophisticated”), concealer under my eyes and on my eyelids, mascara, gel for my eyebrows, sephora black eyeliner pencil for outer eye corners, and a light peachy pink blush from this Ulta palette, since this could I suppose be considered a sort of “no-makeup makeup look,” and the guidelines require it. And regarding some previous remarks, I am 20 years old Thank you so much!! 🤍🤍 |
2024.05.29 06:45 MaeyaShort How do I ‘20 MTF’ explain my feelings to my best friends ’21F’ and ‘22F’?
What should I do with my eagerness to be wanted? With some background I am Maeya ‘20MTF’ and I never new my bio dad ’40M’ he and my mom ‘40F’ were young and he was a coward and left. My mom met my first stepdad ‘41M’ (aka stepdad 1) when I was 5 yo. He is mostly traditional he understands what being gay is but other than that hates all of it. Where I was the black sheep of the family. And where my brother who is 5 years younger was the masculine son he wanted. At school I was the floater in social groups who could be anywhere. But that didn’t mean I could fit in anywhere. I am too awkward of a conversationalist and social situations aren’t my strong suit. The group I stayed with through high school had 4-5 people all male and we were all “pairs” in the group where I was the third part of a trio that would hangout after school. Because my gendesexuality I really had too decode whether I had a crush on a girl or I just wanted to be them thankfully most of the time it was the ladder but I knew I was mostly into women. But because I did grow up in a semi traditionalistic setting and my messed up social awkwardness I didn’t ask anyone out ever. Because I was male presenting but flamboyant I was either expected to ask them out or I was too feminine too be into women. Which resulted in a couple of times being pranked on by both guys and girls saying that some girl would be into me just to be fake. One was a high school dance and another was just a Sophomore joke. Sophomore year my Nana passed away from a stomach/intestinal cancer. And because of my paternal upbringing she was the consistent secondary guardian that was there from the beginning. Then Junior year my mom and stepdad dad 1 got a divorce and then the pandemic happened. Senior year began and I knew I needed too prepare too say goodbye too my old life and prepare to start a new one and my friends will find there own paths in life too. But I did expect us too have a way of communicating. My mom ended up meeting someone and remarried in January of 2021. October of 2020 one my friends passed away from an OD. The rest of us graduated class of 2021. One friend ended up becoming a hermit I tried reaching out but he didn’t come out of his house. I ended up going to the Navy in September of 2021 but had a leg injury in bootcamp and didn’t make it. While in bootcamp my family moved across the country Northwest to the South. So I ended up going with them once I was out of bootcamp. I ended up feeling alone and restless I just found a job and was in a rut. Then in July of 2022 another one of my friends died in a car crash. This made me determined too try something new like college but that ended up not working out mentally. But things at work were looking brighter. I did come as trans at this time. And seeing a dynamic duo of Hope ‘21F’ and Sophia ‘22F’. For this story you need to know has been in a relationship for 3 years. I knew Sophia since I started working their and seeing her and Hope more at work and hearing about there night outs during the summer of 2023 when both turned 21 was something I wanted to be a part of as a friendship. It was difficult for me too articulate it especially when I am an outsider in so many ways but they said they’ll take me in. This was January of 2024. Due to the weather there wasn’t much communication but I did make plans to go out to a club as a first time being full femme and it was a time to tackle my gender anxieties but not my social anxieties so I wasn’t as social as I would’ve liked. Then after that Hope has had a lot of new adulting things this year from insurance, dental, a new car, and ending a three year relationship because of online betrayal.
When she broke up with her boyfriend I knew she was physically the most beautiful person inside and out I’ve ever seen but because of how well oiled her relationship seemed too be I never truly paid attention to this feeling. She is the center of the group and has constantly people wanting to hangout with her. But she was ranting how she is so bad at responding to people because there seems too be so much responsibility. With that every time I reach out she does respond in reasonable measure. But the only time I’ve been messaged by Hope or Sophia it’s too see if I can come in too cover someone else at work who called out. I know it’s not intentional. I didn’t tell Hope about the lack of communication. But I did explain my feelings and I knew she experimented once or twice and she doesn’t float that way but I have feelings for her and don’t know if they’ll go away but I’ve already accepted the facts and she means more too me than my own feelings and I’m willing too stay friends but just wanted too be honest with her and not do something stupid. She was completely understanding and as expected she viewed me as more of a sister and I completely understood and accepted. But now there is this growing communication issue where so many people want to be a part of Hope and Sophia’s click that I am having no communication in general because of my social anxieties, lack of experience in the South, am for and can hangout around recreational use but don’t partake myself, and my fear of being “the single trans/gay person of the group”. Because of those things I see people who do want to be a part of their click being shown more effort because they fit their vibe/vibe of their hangout and I don’t know what to do. From confessing my feelings to Hope and these communication issues I just realize I’ve had a few number 1 friends but I was nobody’s number 1. But I’m not looking to be number 1 I just want to not be last thought to feel wanted. I just need to know how to communicate this without feeling like I am forcing them too because the last thing I want is too be a friend out of pity.
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When she broke up with her boyfriend I knew she was physically the most beautiful person inside and out I’ve ever seen but because of how well oiled her relationship seemed too be I never truly paid attention to this feeling. She is the center of the group and has constantly people wanting to hangout with her. But she was ranting how she is so bad at responding to people because there seems too be so much responsibility. With that every time I reach out she does respond in reasonable measure. But the only time I’ve been messaged by Hope or Sophia it’s too see if I can come in too cover someone else at work who called out. I know it’s not intentional. I didn’t tell Hope about the lack of communication. But I did explain my feelings and I knew she experimented once or twice and she doesn’t float that way but I have feelings for her and don’t know if they’ll go away but I’ve already accepted the facts and she means more too me than my own feelings and I’m willing too stay friends but just wanted too be honest with her and not do something stupid. She was completely understanding and as expected she viewed me as more of a sister and I completely understood and accepted. But now there is this growing communication issue where so many people want to be a part of Hope and Sophia’s click that I am having no communication in general because of my social anxieties, lack of experience in the South, am for and can hangout around recreational use but don’t partake myself, and my fear of being “the single trans/gay person of the group”. Because of those things I see people who do want to be a part of their click being shown more effort because they fit their vibe/vibe of their hangout and I don’t know what to do. From confessing my feelings to Hope and these communication issues I just realize I’ve had a few number 1 friends but I was nobody’s number 1. But I’m not looking to be number 1 I just want to not be last thought to feel wanted. I just need to know how to communicate this without feeling like I am forcing them too because the last thing I want is too be a friend out of pity.
2024.05.29 06:37 NightmarenNinja The Rise of Crypto Philanthropy: How to Donate Cryptocurrency to Charity
 | Introduction: Understanding Crypto PhilanthropyIn recent years, the fusion of cryptocurrency and philanthropy has created a groundbreaking method for charitable giving. But what exactly is crypto philanthropy? Simply put, it’s the act of donating cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Binance Coin (BNB) to charitable organizations. This innovative approach offers numerous benefits, including transparency, efficiency, and the ability to reach a global audience.What Are The Benefits of Donating CryptocurrencyOne of the most compelling reasons to donate cryptocurrency is transparency. Blockchain technology, the foundation of cryptocurrencies, ensures that every transaction is recorded on a public ledger. This means donors can track their contributions and see exactly how their funds are being used. For instance, if you donate Ethereum to a charity, you can follow its journey from your wallet to the charity’s account, ensuring your donation reaches its intended destination.Another significant advantage is the efficiency of crypto donations. Traditional methods of giving often involve hefty fees and long processing times. However, with cryptocurrency, transactions are quick and typically incur minimal fees. This means more of your donation goes directly to the cause, rather than being eaten up by administrative costs. Finally, crypto philanthropy opens up charitable giving to a global audience. People from all over the world can donate to causes they care about, regardless of their local currency or banking restrictions. This global reach is especially important in today’s interconnected world, where many charitable causes require international support. How to Donate Cryptocurrency to CharityDonating cryptocurrency is simpler than you might think. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you get started:
Examples of Charities Accepting CryptoMany reputable charities have started accepting cryptocurrency donations.Here's a list of Charities that Accepts CryptoCurrency:
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2024.05.29 06:29 SquidGame_Jesus How To Date Heterosexual Women That Don't Like Bisexual Men?
Before you answer my question, read my story please. I'm in my late 30's and I live and work in Atlanta. I have come across a few blk females (beyond lust or physical interest) that instantly aligned me back into my default heterosexual male role. What do I mean by this? Well, I always tell my true friend who is gay, that my gayness is like a light switch. I really can turn it on and off, FOR REAL. I honestly have always been straight and have always been with black women all of my life. Back in my young adult years (20-24) I had mistaken a feminine looking guy for a gurl and had interest in him and fell into the LGBTQIA+ world (It is hard to tell if someone is a guy / gurl now days). Since then, I had discarded my religious upbringing to test the waters of all the attention I would get from guys. I sorta liked it, and once I was exposed, I guarded myself as far as not just getting with anyone because they were sexy or fine or whatever but got with guys who didn't seem like they had sex a lot or with nerdy guys.
I remember in my early 20s, I was dealing with a horrible time of being rejected and being undesired by women in general. I had trained myself to see past women in the grocery store and act as if they never existed. Fast forward to 2024, I see my training works here and there, but my inner manliness is still present where the gay shit goes away as soon as I see a female that genuinely interests me. Not just black, but majority of women in all races won't date a guy who is bisexual (although they want you to accept that you shouldn't judge a bisexual woman and accept her for who she is or what she has done). It's a double standard, it's bullship. So, how is a handsome man in his 30s able to date a straight woman, but can't expose his bisexuality? Most women are not open-minded and will banish me instantly. Any Advice?
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I remember in my early 20s, I was dealing with a horrible time of being rejected and being undesired by women in general. I had trained myself to see past women in the grocery store and act as if they never existed. Fast forward to 2024, I see my training works here and there, but my inner manliness is still present where the gay shit goes away as soon as I see a female that genuinely interests me. Not just black, but majority of women in all races won't date a guy who is bisexual (although they want you to accept that you shouldn't judge a bisexual woman and accept her for who she is or what she has done). It's a double standard, it's bullship. So, how is a handsome man in his 30s able to date a straight woman, but can't expose his bisexuality? Most women are not open-minded and will banish me instantly. Any Advice?
2024.05.29 06:28 MulberryAsher [Servant OC] Cuauhtémoc
![[Servant OC] Cuauhtémoc](https://preview.redd.it/2nolslkbma3d1.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0c3004787ec94904ea347138a72be9a54ce06c1c "[Servant OC] Cuauhtémoc") | This is my first post in reddit. I hope you guys like my first servant oc ( of course the my first servant oc will be saber-face). If you do also, like, and share this post with other media for my support, I can continue to post more like this post. Thank you. submitted by MulberryAsher to grandorder [link] [comments] Cuauhtémoc Japanese Name: クアウテモック) Class: Saber AKA: Cuauhtemotzín, Guatémuz, Last Aztec Emperor, Ruler of Tlatelolco, cuauhtlatoani, Hero of Unyielding Jade, Guatémuz the Valor, Cuauhtémoc the water sun PROFILE Default: Cuauhtémoc, who fought the Spanish to the best of her ability, is considered a hero who defended her homeland from these conquerors, a symbol of valor. As she continued to protect her homeland, time came slowly like a fading sun; she wanted to save her people and homeland, but the Spanish executed her at the end of her life. In historical records, Cuauhtémoc is a male, but she disguises herself as a male. Bond 1: Height/Weight: 154cm, 42kg Origin: Historical Fact Region: Aztec civilization, Mexico Alignment: Lawful-Good Gender: Female After pretending to be a man, she doesn't know how to react to affection. Bond 2: An Aztec Emperor who wants to bring peace and see her people's smiling faces when she becomes the emperor after the latest Aztec emperor in Tenochtitlan. It is known more as Mexico-Tenochtitlan during her time. She is a lovely and calm person who sincerely wants to change Mexico-Tenochtitlan for her people before Hernán Cortés, the conquistador who would later destroy the Aztec empire. She has an elegant, beautiful lady aura, and even when she talks to others, she is cheerful and exciting even though she has knowledge of the modern from the throne of heroes. Bond 3: After the death of the latest Emperor, Cuauhtémoc decided to protect her people and land. She opposed Montezuma's plan to allow them into Tenochtitlan and fought fiercely against them when she replaced Montezuma. Her unfailing distrust and hatred of the Spanish helped her rise to the position of Tlatoani upon the death of Cuitlahuac. There were no records of her fighting the war, but her extraordinary leadership and selfless defense of her homeland were. In her childhood, she witnessed the bloody battles of Aztec warfare since the Aztecs waged war to reap tribute and take captives for religious sacrifices. They were also given to Aztec society so victorious Aztec warriors could receive high honors. She wants to bring peace without violence and create a homeland of smiles. Since Cuauhtemoc was not recorded in history until her reign as emperor, her date of birth is unknown. As the oldest legitimate daughter of Emperor Ahuitzotl, she probably attended the last New Fire ceremony to mark the start of a new 52-year cycle. In 1515, she was named ruler of Tlatelolco, with the title cuauhtlatoani, meaning "eagle ruler," after concealing herself as a male to enter the boy school and military service. She works hard to reach her position of rulership since Cuauhtemoc pretends to be a male of high birth and a warrior who has captured enemies for sacrifice because she prefers death to be their hands. She even earns a name known as Guatemuz from the Spanish conquistadors. Bond 4: Mana Burst (Water): EX She was blessed by the goddess of water and given the divine water that rivaled the fifth Sun of his power—the discharge of magical energy in liquid form. Having her Noble Phantasm concealed, her magic energy nature is established as water by the divine aura that emanates from it. Divine water increases its rank. The embodiment of Mexico-Tenochtitlan: EX She is an emperor who wants to protect her homeland and wants to change Mexico-Tenochtitlan to bring peace. Her leadership path and unyielding will refuse to surrender and wish to save Mexico-Tenochtitlan. Blessing of the Fifth Sun: B Even though tortured and captured, she refused to surrender, and some sources said, "Our Sun has gone from our vision and will remain in Mictian, the place where the spirits repose." She believes that Huitzilopochtli will guide Mexico-Tenochtitlan and the people who will survive, and one day, someone will bring her homeland peace to the people's future. Bond 5: 『Inner World Chālchihuitl Blade』 Rank: A++ NP Type: Anti-Fortress Sword of Jade A weapon not forged by man nor divine was forged within the Inner Sea of the Planet. A Noble Phantasm that can rival Holy Sword Excalibur. A sword that is forged by the world from the world's stores of many unknown weaponry that have yet to be discovered from the current time. 『The Fifth Sun Storm 』 Rank: A+ Type: Anti-Unit / Anti-Army Noble Phantasm Range: 0-10 Maximum Targets: 1-20 people This Noble Phantasm unleashes five slashes at once. This ability's fearsome power combines the five Suns of the Aztec gods into one Sun to become a rainstorm of blood that can rival Huitzilopochtli, who was honored above all in Tenochtitlan as the patron god of the Aztecs. While it is an Anti-Unit technique, it is so powerful that the surrounding area gets caught in the blast. (Naturally, its strength lessens when used as an Anti-Army technique.) “Soy la uno como el sol, blessed by the given divine of the inner sea jade…May this sun become water, may the water become the blood of my people's death, SANGRE DEL QUINTO SOL CHALCHIUHTLICUE! Identity: Known to the Spanish conquistadors as Guatemuz, he was the last Mexica tlahtoani of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. He assumed power in 1520, one year before Hernán Cortés and his troops captured Tenochtitlan. Cuauhtémoc, son of Ahuízotl and cousin of Moctezuma Xocoyotzin and Tecuichpo, when she reached nubility. He took power in Tenochtitlan after the conquistadors had already left, but famine, smallpox, and a lack of potable water had devastated the city. Cuauhtémoc arrived at this moment after having been tlakatekohtli (chief of arms) of the resistance to the conquistadors since the death of Moctezuma before the call by the Spanish "Sad Night," he has been identified as a military leader of the Mexicas. Driven by his foresight and belief in the Mexicas' resilience, Cuauhtémoc orchestrated the reorganization of the Mexica army, the reconstruction of the city, and its fortification in preparation for the inevitable conflict with the Spaniards. He tactfully dispatched ambassadors to neighboring towns, seeking alliances and reducing their contributions, displaying his astute leadership. After eighty days of warfare against the Spanish, Cuauhtémoc called for reinforcements from the countryside to help defend Tenochtitlán. The surviving Tenochcas sought refuge in Tlatelolco, where even women participated in the battle. Only Tlatelolcas remained loyal, and even women took part in the battle. As he and his family fled Tenochtitlán by crossing Lake Texcoco, Cuauhtémoc was captured on August 13, 1521. Tragically, when confronted by the conqueror, Cuauhtémoc, pointing to the dagger on his belt, requested to be slain with it. Unable to defend his city and vassals, he chose to meet his end at the hands of the invader. This act, viewed as a sacrifice to the gods, was a poignant testament to the depth of his loyalty and the anguish of his defeat. According to duplicate Spanish accounts, Cortés declined the offer and treated his adversary with magnanimity. The brave warrior defended the capital, he claimed. Even an enemy in a Spaniard's eyes is worthy of respect. The end of his life can't help but feel a deep sympathy and sorrow for Cuauhtémoc's tragic fate. Cuauhtémoc's death was not of interest to Cortés at that time. As a subsidiary of Emperor Carlos V and Cortés, he preferred to use his dignity before the Mexicas as Tlatoani. As part of the city's cleaning and restoration work, which occurred in the months following the conquest, Cuauh émoc took advantage of his initiative and power to secure the Mexica's cooperation. However, due to what the Spanish perceived as 'greedy Spanish stewardship and distrust of the Spaniards,' the last Mexica tlatoani was tortured and killed by Cortés. Relationship: Artotria Pendragon: “Altria…Wait, King of Knights. It is an honor to meet an ideal king. Ufufu, this is exciting. I hope she and I can have lunch together and get along as friends. EMIYA (Archer), MORARSEU (Caster)(OC): "The red archer and the black caster both end up with the same fate but for different reasons. I could be their big sister and help them out! Also, I CAN HELP COOKING DINNER!" Huitzilopochtli (Saber) (OC): "HUITZILOPOCHTI! I am your biggest fan, and I pray you can guide my people after the Spanish conquistadores. Sorry, this is out of character. It is just a big honor to meet our Sun of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. I am a bit surprised that you are different from what I hear.?? So you were summoned with a human male vessel. Still, it is a great honor to meet you. I mess up again!" Tezcatlipoca: "...The Black Sun, I don't like him. He is very selfish, and I hope he doesn't start a war because just because if he got into a fight with his other siblings. It will be another destructive battle." Kukulkan: "The evil serpent, be careful, Master! Wait, what? She is not evil but a good serpent? Is she the sixth Sun, then? Sun of a lostbelt? Then, sorry for my attitude. If she is a lostbelt version, she differs from the Pan-human history. Maybe that's why my Noble Phantasm is acting up because of the merge with another God…. It's nothing, Master." Quetzalcoatl: "ehh, Quetalcoatl? The Feathered Serpent. I thought you were a male god, but it seems you were summoned with the female vessel." Tenochtitlan: "An embodiment of the city of Tenochtitlan before known as Mexico-Tenochtitlan. Our people indeed love our homelands. Am glad I meet you, Meztliapan. Then, let's be friends; I hope we can get along very well, and I can also help you introduce other servants!" Gilgamesh (Archer): "Gilgamesh? Is he known as the King of Heroes? Why is he looking at my Macuahuitl? He seems very mad and confused." Yamato Takeru: "Takeru-san is a good person. We have some common interests, like blessing by divine water and sharing our favorite foods. I LOVE RICE BALL AND RAMAN! Takeru-san shares lovely, delicious food with me." Castoria: "It's cute, Altria-kun. She is a fun and energetic person. She is teaching me what magecraft is. She is fun to spend time with, and when it comes to food, I share my favorite food." Uesugi Kenshin: "Kenshin is playful when we sparring. We play along well, but she seems to have lost something of herself. Even though I have the god-like power of my blade that rivals Huitzilopochtli's power, I want to help her in any way I can, not just to sympathize with her. But as a friend." Something you Like: "My homeland, family and the people of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. I love food! My favorite is tamales of salsa verde con queso and Enchiladas Rojas with lettuce and cheese. It's yummy when I think about it. Sorry for my attitude, Master." Something you Hate: "What do I hate? I hate the Spanish, especially Hernán Cortés. My people and the latest Emperor were just too nice. The Spaniards' greed ruined my people and homeland." About the Holy Grail: "The Holy Grail that can grant wishes, it is good but is not something I don't want. I accept my past and my actions. I want to see someone who one day brings peace to the people of my homeland." |
2024.05.29 06:26 Fine_Duty_1512 Vent: Why is the onus on us?
I was reading a post about this girl who went on a date with the Lithuanian guy and this comment was left:
"probably because you tricked a straight guy into kissing you. Imagine how he feels"
Why is it that we as trans women have to be the ones empathetic and considerate while they get to disregard our emotions and feelings?
This ISN'T about disclosing, but how the majority demands us to respect them while disrespecting us.
I've seen this so often as a black person: having white people dictate to me how to act so they're comfortable. It's the same treatment as a trans person
We have to not offend them. We have to walk on eggshells around them. We have to talk this way. Do this. Do that. Be placating. Blah, blah,blah. Or else.
Because they are the majority, they can dictate terms and never expect to compromise or see our side of things. Well, to hell with that!!!
I am not giving cis men more empathy or understanding than they give me (or women in general for that matter). Either they try to understand me or else they get what they give.
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"probably because you tricked a straight guy into kissing you. Imagine how he feels"
Why is it that we as trans women have to be the ones empathetic and considerate while they get to disregard our emotions and feelings?
This ISN'T about disclosing, but how the majority demands us to respect them while disrespecting us.
I've seen this so often as a black person: having white people dictate to me how to act so they're comfortable. It's the same treatment as a trans person
We have to not offend them. We have to walk on eggshells around them. We have to talk this way. Do this. Do that. Be placating. Blah, blah,blah. Or else.
Because they are the majority, they can dictate terms and never expect to compromise or see our side of things. Well, to hell with that!!!
I am not giving cis men more empathy or understanding than they give me (or women in general for that matter). Either they try to understand me or else they get what they give.
2024.05.29 06:03 SquidGame_Jesus How Do I Date Heterosexual Women That Don't Like Bisexual Men?
Before you answer my question, read my story please. I'm in my late 30's and I live and work in Atlanta. I have come across a few blk females (beyond lust or physical interest) that instantly aligned me back into my default heterosexual male role. What do I mean by this? Well, I always tell my true friend who is gay, that my gayness is like a light switch. I really can turn it on and off, FOR REAL. I honestly have always been straight and have always been with black women all of my life. Back in my young adult years (20-24) I had mistaken a feminine looking guy for a gurl and had interest in him and fell into the LGBTQIA+ world (It is hard to tell if someone is a guy / gurl now days). Since then, I had discarded my religious upbringing to test the waters of all the attention I would get from guys. I sorta liked it, and once I was exposed, I guarded myself as far as not just getting with anyone because they were sexy or fine or whatever but got with guys who didn't seem like they had sex a lot or with nerdy guys.
I remember in my early 20s, I was dealing with a horrible time of being rejected and being undesired by women in general. I had trained myself to see past women in the grocery store and act as if they never existed. Fast forward to 2024, I see my training works here and there, but my inner manliness is still present where the gay shit goes away as soon as I see a female that genuinely interests me. Not just black, but majority of women in all races won't date a guy who is bisexual (although they want you to accept that you shouldn't judge a bisexual women and accept her for who she is or what she has done). It's a double standard, it's bullship. So, how is a handsome man in his 30s able to date a straight woman, but can't expose his bisexuality? Most women are not open-minded and will banish me instantly. Any Advice?
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I remember in my early 20s, I was dealing with a horrible time of being rejected and being undesired by women in general. I had trained myself to see past women in the grocery store and act as if they never existed. Fast forward to 2024, I see my training works here and there, but my inner manliness is still present where the gay shit goes away as soon as I see a female that genuinely interests me. Not just black, but majority of women in all races won't date a guy who is bisexual (although they want you to accept that you shouldn't judge a bisexual women and accept her for who she is or what she has done). It's a double standard, it's bullship. So, how is a handsome man in his 30s able to date a straight woman, but can't expose his bisexuality? Most women are not open-minded and will banish me instantly. Any Advice?
2024.05.29 06:02 Few-Spot-6475 [Spoilers Main] The great philosopher Socrates, Maegor Targaryen and Rhaenyra.
I don’t know how many follow or have read the books in this sub, but this is one of the most interesting things I’ve found after reading Rhaenyra being called “Maegor with tits” by the Green opposition.
This is all from the Internet. A click away from any phone.
They were “heroes”.
“My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.
George R.R. Martin.
King Maegor had married all his brides and gave them Queenly status.
At the end of Maegor’s reign, House Baratheon, Lannister, Tyrell and Arryn rebelled against Maegor. Maegor had sent the young son of his fourth wife (Jeyne Westerling) as a ward(hostage) to House Lannister. Then he sent the two eldest sons of his sixth wife (Elinor Costayne) as wards(hostages) to House Tyrell and House Arryn. When the great houses rebelled, Lord Daemon Velaryon, the brother of Alyssa Velaryon, escaped with the Royal Fleet and left King’s Landing.
Maegor called his banners to fight against the threat but they were too few and Elinor Costayne begged him to surrender to save her two eldest sons and the son of the long deceased Jeyne Westerling. He banned her from the council room and refused to surrender and his lords and him and Rhaena made battle plans well into the night. At the end of the war council, Maegor dismissed everyone and stayed alone in the throne room to brood.
The following morning, Elinor Costayne found the King dead, his wrists slashed and throat impaled on the back of the Iron Throne.
This is all hidden in the awoiaf wiki.
George is a better writer than we’ve given him credit for.
Please feel free to discuss and ask questions.
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This is all from the Internet. A click away from any phone.
Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.The Last Moments of Maegor’s Reign, losing against a misogynistic society led by petty and ambitious nobles and against the Faith of the Seven, a religion that enforces gender roles and inequality between men and women.
An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. These accounts are written as dialogues, in which Socrates and his interlocutors examine a subject in the style of question and answer; they gave rise to the Socratic dialogue literary genre.
Contradictory accounts of Socrates make a reconstruction of his philosophy nearly impossible, a situation known as the Socratic problem. Socrates was a polarizing figure in Athenian society. In 399 BC, he was accused of impiety and corrupting the youth. After a trial that lasted a day, he was sentenced to death. He spent his last day in prison, refusing offers to help him escape.
There were four charges that were brought against Socrates. They were that he argued the weaker claim over the stronger claim, that he argue the physical over the metaphysical, that he was against the gods and that he was corrupting the youth.
Socrates was found guilty by a jury of 501 Athenians and was sentenced to drink a deadly poison, named hemlock. Many scholars have argued that the charges against Socrates were politically motivated and have understood his trial and conviction as an attack upon freedom of speech and an indictment of democracy.
By 48 AC Maegor's tyranny could no longer be borne by the realm. At Storm's End Aenys I's last surviving son, Prince Jaehaerys, put forth his claim to the throne, supported by Lord Rogar Baratheon, who was named Protector of the Realm and Hand of the King by the prince. Jaehaerys had two dragons on his side, his own mount Vermithor and his sister's mount Silverwing, against Maegor's Balerion. Grand Maester Benifer secretly escaped on a ship to Pentos. Ser Olyver Bracken and Ser Raymund Mallery, two of Maegor's Kingsguard, also deserted him. Lord Daemon Velaryon, the admiral of the royal fleet, and brother of Alyssa Velaryon was the first of the great lords to forsake Maegor, taking the royal fleet with him, and many other lords followed his example. The great houses of Lannister, Tyrell, and Arryn came out against Maegor and in the riverlands House Tully gave support to Septon Moon and Ser Joffrey Doggett, the leaders of the Poor Fellows.The fate of Maegor’s loyal supporters.
Maegor called his banners in response, but few answered, giving Maegor an army of barely four thousand soldiers. Despite this, Maegor refused to surrender. At the end of the war council, Maegor remained behind alone in the throne room to brood. He was found dead the next morning by Queen Elinor, seated on the Iron Throne with his robes covered in blood and his wrists slashed. A spike from one of the swords on the throne behind him was impaled through the back of his neck. How Maegor died was never discovered. Some say he had been killed by Queen Elinor, others that he had been killed by a knight of his own Kingsguard. Yet others say he had been killed by a builder who escaped the slaughter three years earlier and desired revenge, and many believe that Maegor had been killed by the throne itself. Others believe that Maegor killed himself by opening his wrists on the blades of the Iron Throne.
Owen Bush was a knight of the Kingsguard during the reign of King Maegor I Targaryen. When Maegor suspected Queen Tyanna of the Tower of betrayal, he had Owen and his sworn brother, Ser Maladon Moore, bring her to the dungeons, where she confessed.This is why Maegor and Socrates died. They challenged authority and lost. They were silenced by the powerful lords and by the elected council of Athens whom were given power by the common people.
Maegor the Cruel gradually lost political support, resulting in a rival threat in his nephew, Prince Jaehaerys Targaryen. Two of his Kingsguard defected to Jaehaerys, and Maegor lost a third guard when Owen was found dead outside a brothel in 48 AC, his member cut off and stuffed in his mouth.
Maladon Moore was a knight from House Moore and a member of the Kingsguard during the reign of King Maegor I Targaryen. When the king suspected Queen Tyanna of the Tower of treason, Maladon and Owen were dispatched to seize the queen and deliver her to the dungeons, where Maegor was said to have slain her while Maladon was present.
After Maegor died in 48 AC and his nephew King Jaehaerys I Targaryen took the Iron Throne, Maladon was accused of being involved in the death of Queen Ceryse, allegedly restraining her when Ser Owen accidentally killed her. Maladon denied these charges, insisting she died of "shrewishness". While the charges were never proven, Maladon lost his head for his involvement in Queen Tyanna's death, of which he was guilty.
When Queen Tyanna of the Tower admitted to poisoning Queen Alys Harroway during her pregnancy, Tyanna promised the same would happen to Elinor. Tyanna was proven correct when Elinor gave birth to a stillborn abomination said to have been born eyeless and with small wings. Elinor was one of the two wives who survived the king, the other being Queen Rhaena Targaryen.
After King Maegor's death, Lord Daemon Velaryon proposed that King Jaehaerys I Targaryen marry Queen Elinor to reconcile with Maegor's supporters when a bride was being considered for the king, but nothing came of the proposal. After Jaehaerys's ascent, Elinor departed King's Landing dressed in the robes of a penitent. She visited her two elder sons at the Eyrie and Highgarden before retiring to her father's seat at the Three Towers with her youngest son.
Later, King Jaehaerys commanded Elinor to go forth and spread his Doctrine of Exceptionalism to the peoples of the Seven Kingdoms, as well as the goodness of Jaehaerys and Alysanne, becoming one of the Seven Speakers. Her queenly raiment became shabbier and more threadbare each day, and she eventually gave up all claims to nobility, becoming Mother Elinor at the great motherhouse in Lannisport.
House Rosby was one of the first houses to yield peacefully to House Targaryen during Aegon's Conquest, surrendering to Rhaenys Targaryen and Meraxes. The Rosby lands became part of the crownlands surrounding King's Landing. Lord Jon Rosby was named Warden of the Sands by King Aegon I Targaryen during the First Dornish War, but Jon was killed in the Defenestration of Sunspear.
Ser Rayford Rosby defended King Maegor I Targaryen during his trial of seven, but Rayford was slain during the fighting. Lord Rosby remained loyal to the king even as his downfall became certain, and was one of the last to see the king alive. In the chaos that followed the discovery of Maegor's body, Lord Rosby drank a cup of hemlock to join his king in death. His young son received forgiveness from King Jaehaerys I Targaryen at Dragonstone.
In 47 AC, King Maegor was dealing with the issue of his lack of heirs, despite having already married three women. Lord Daemon Velaryon, Rhaena's uncle and a member of Maegor's small council, advised Maegor to wed Rhaena, to unite their claims and prevent new rebellions, and to gain her as a hostage against any potential schemes of Dowager Queen Alyssa. Later that year, Maegor summoned Rhaena to King's Landing, and she did not defy him. At the Red Keep, Maegor married Rhaena in a triple ceremony, together with Elinor Costayne and Jeyne Westerling. As the three women were all widows of men Maegor had killed, they became known as the "Black Brides". Immediately following the wedding, Maegor declared Rhaena's elder daughter Aerea as his heir until he had sons of his own, while disinheriting Rhaena's youngest brother Jaehaerys in the same decree.
After Maegor’s death, discussion arose as to who had the better claim to the Iron Throne. There were some who suggested that Rhaena's claim, as the firstborn child of King Aenys I Targaryen and Queen Alyssa Velaryon, was the strongest. Her gender argued against her, however, and Rhaena herself had come to loathe King's Landing and its court. The claims of her daughters were argued for as well. If Maegor was to be considered a usurper, the true king would have been Rhaena's first husband, Aegon, who had claimed the throne before Jaehaerys had. As such, some suggested the throne should pass to one of his daughters by Rhaena, Aerea or Rhaella.
As time passed, Rhaena began to resent the fact that her claim to the throne, and that of her daughters, had been dismissed in favor of Jaehaerys, to whom she began to refer as "my baby brother". In addition, Rhaena begrudged her mother for promoting Jaehaerys's claim over her own.
Ser Walton Towers was granted Harrenhal by King Maegor I Targaryen in 44 AC after winning a melee in Lord Harroway's Town, but Walton died soon after from his wounds. Harrenhal thus passed to his eldest son. Lord Jordan remained loyal to Maegor during the king's wars, and Lord Rosby were the last to see the king alive before Maegor's death on the Iron Throne. Along with Lords Darklyn and Staunton, Jordan yielded the Red Keep to Prince Jaehaerys, Princess Rhaena, and Princess Alysanne Targaryen. The three lords were sent to the black cells, but were eventually pardoned by King Jaehaerys I after surrendering some of their land.
Jordan eventually died of a chest congestion. Harrenhal passed to Jordan's last surviving son, Maegor Towers, as Jordan's older sons had all died fighting for King Maegor.
Maegor's father, Lord Jordan Towers, was one of the last lords of the Seven Kingdoms who remained loyal to King Maegor I Targaryen. All of Jordan's sons died fighting in the king's wars, with the exception of young Maegor.
Maegor became Lord Towers after the death of his father due to a chest congestion. When King Jaehaerys I Targaryen began a royal progress in 53 AC to celebrate the new year, his first stop was to see the new Lord of Harrenhal, then only nine years of age.
Maegor was an impoverished lord who resided in the Tower of Dread with only a cook and three men-at-arms. Since the rest of Harrenhal was empty, King Jaehaerys settled his widowed sister, Rhaena Targaryen, in the Widow's Tower in 56 AC. Maegor and Rhaena eventually became friends, and she cared for his servants after Maegor passed away in 61 AC. Harrenhal was granted to House Strong after Rhaena passed away in 73 AC.
Maegor was sickly and poor.
Socrates speaks his last words to Crito: "Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Please, don't forget to pay the debt". Asclepius was the Greek god for curing illness, and it is likely that Socrates' last words were implied to mean that death is the cure, and freedom of the soul from the body.
Asclepius, Greco-Roman god of medicine, son of Apollo (god of healing, truth, and prophecy) and the mortal princess Coronis. The Centaur Chiron taught him the art of healing. At length Zeus (the king of the gods), afraid that Asclepius might render all men immortal, slew him with a thunderbolt.
Zeus saw Asclepius & his medical skills as a threat to the eternal division between humanity & the gods. Asclepius met a tragic end when he was killed by a thunderbolt thrown by Zeus.
Socrates ultimately does not fear death because of his innocence, he believes that death is not to be feared because it may be one of the greatest blessings of the soul.
The reasons for Socrates not escaping when he had the chance the night prior; are made explicit before the Laws make their speech. Because escape defies the will of the Athenians, it requires stealth and bribery, shameful practices that are unjustified in the current situation.
Socrates Feared Democracies Would Elect Demagogues. The term arose in Greece in the fifth century BCE, right around Socrates's time, and is often used negatively. Socrates himself was extremely worried that the democratic format would give rise to a demagoguery.
Demagogues are political leaders who seek support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument.
Modern demagogues include Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and Joseph McCarthy, all of whom built mass followings the same way that Cleon did: by exciting the passions of the masses against customs and norms of the aristocratic elites of their times.
They were “heroes”.
“My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.
George R.R. Martin.
King Maegor had married all his brides and gave them Queenly status.
Jeyne was married to Lord Alyn Tarbeck. She was widowed when Alyn died during the Battle Beneath the Gods Eye in 43 AC. Jeyne was pregnant when her husband died, and gave him a posthumous son a few months later.In 47 AC, Jeyne was being courted by a younger son of Lyman Lannister, the Lord of Casterly Rock, when King Maegor I Targaryen sent for her to be wed to him. She married Maegor in a ceremony at King's Landing, along with Lady Elinor Costayne and Princess Rhaena Targaryen. As all three women had been widowed due to Maegor, they became known as the "Black Brides". The stories told of the wedding night claim that Jeyne was given a fertility potion by Queen Tyanna of the Tower, and either drank it, or threw it in Tyanna's face. After the wedding, Queen Jeyne's son was confirmed as Lord of Tarbeck Hall, and sent to Casterly Rock to be raised as a ward of Lyman Lannister.
Lord Edwell Celtigar, the Hand of the King, announced half a year after the wedding that Queen Jeyne was pregnant, and Queen Elinor's pregnancy was announced shortly afterwards. Maegor, joyful, showered both his wives with gifts and honors, and granted new lands and offices to their fathers, brothers, and uncles. Unfortunately, Jeyne's labor began three months early, and she gave birth to a stillborn child, monstrous, lacking arms and legs but possessing both male and female genitalia. Jeyne herself died soon after.Tinfoil theory.
In 48 AC, Tyanna of the Tower confessed to having poisoned Jeyne's child in the womb.
At the end of Maegor’s reign, House Baratheon, Lannister, Tyrell and Arryn rebelled against Maegor. Maegor had sent the young son of his fourth wife (Jeyne Westerling) as a ward(hostage) to House Lannister. Then he sent the two eldest sons of his sixth wife (Elinor Costayne) as wards(hostages) to House Tyrell and House Arryn. When the great houses rebelled, Lord Daemon Velaryon, the brother of Alyssa Velaryon, escaped with the Royal Fleet and left King’s Landing.
Maegor called his banners to fight against the threat but they were too few and Elinor Costayne begged him to surrender to save her two eldest sons and the son of the long deceased Jeyne Westerling. He banned her from the council room and refused to surrender and his lords and him and Rhaena made battle plans well into the night. At the end of the war council, Maegor dismissed everyone and stayed alone in the throne room to brood.
The following morning, Elinor Costayne found the King dead, his wrists slashed and throat impaled on the back of the Iron Throne.
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2024.05.29 05:53 PlanarRift Intermediate-advanced skis for short light guy (5'3" 120lb)
Hi all,
After years of rentals and getting back into skiing more seriously, I'm looking to buy my first pair of skis.
I'm a 5'3" (160cm) 120lb (55kg) guy, probably intermediate-advanced — hard blues and easier blacks at Palisades. I like skiing a mix of on-piste groomers and moguls. Next season I want to take lessons to get better on steeper and bumpier slopes.
Unfortunately I haven't tried many skis, so I don't really know what I'd like. But I figured it'd be better to buy less-perfect skis now at a discounted price, versus $300 season rentals.
From what I've read, I should look at softelightethinner skis (e.g. women's skis) around 155-160cm. Is that correct? A couple initial candidates I've found:
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After years of rentals and getting back into skiing more seriously, I'm looking to buy my first pair of skis.
I'm a 5'3" (160cm) 120lb (55kg) guy, probably intermediate-advanced — hard blues and easier blacks at Palisades. I like skiing a mix of on-piste groomers and moguls. Next season I want to take lessons to get better on steeper and bumpier slopes.
Unfortunately I haven't tried many skis, so I don't really know what I'd like. But I figured it'd be better to buy less-perfect skis now at a discounted price, versus $300 season rentals.
From what I've read, I should look at softelightethinner skis (e.g. women's skis) around 155-160cm. Is that correct? A couple initial candidates I've found:
- Rossignol Black Ops 92
- Rossignol Experience 82/86 Basalt
- Blizzard Black Pearl 82/88
- Volkl Yumi 84
- Volkl Kenja 88
2024.05.29 05:52 ilikeorangwcats Being skinny wasn’t what she thought
TLDR: The entire reason she’s losing her shit on people is because she falsely believed that being mean would suddenly be okay because she’s 200lbs lighter now, because she believed she couldn’t be fat and mean so she lost weight to be thin and mean. So she went on this weight loss journey with certain expectations of what would happen if she got thinner and it didn’t happen so now she’s like insane.
I think the reason fannita is having an epic level crash out publicly right now is she realized she sold herself a dream that will never transpire.
She’s mad that there was no automatic monetary gain once she dropped 200lbs like she believed there would be. And she learned the same lessons the kardashians learned hard, no matter how many doctors you see, what makeup you wear, how much ass and titty you flash, you still YOU. She still has the sex appeal of a left sock and the stiff waist of a drunk German on a Caribbean vacation.
Fannita doesn’t give a shit about the actual pay gap for black influencers or content creators she care that SHE not the “black Alix Earle” forgetting Alix Earle blended escapism and relatability in a beautiful package to her audience. It doesn’t matter that the package is a size double zero with blonde hair. Fannita doesn’t care about black women being paid fairly enough to actually “wake it up” like she credits herself for.
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I think the reason fannita is having an epic level crash out publicly right now is she realized she sold herself a dream that will never transpire.
She’s mad that there was no automatic monetary gain once she dropped 200lbs like she believed there would be. And she learned the same lessons the kardashians learned hard, no matter how many doctors you see, what makeup you wear, how much ass and titty you flash, you still YOU. She still has the sex appeal of a left sock and the stiff waist of a drunk German on a Caribbean vacation.
Fannita doesn’t give a shit about the actual pay gap for black influencers or content creators she care that SHE not the “black Alix Earle” forgetting Alix Earle blended escapism and relatability in a beautiful package to her audience. It doesn’t matter that the package is a size double zero with blonde hair. Fannita doesn’t care about black women being paid fairly enough to actually “wake it up” like she credits herself for.