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Tldr

Man buys over a million cds, Vinyls, and cassettes from a failed company in an attempt to start the company over again. Abandons his family and buys and moves into a warehouse in another state in one of the most violent cities in America. Spends over half a million dollars to get cockblocked by the city for zoning violations and gets robbed over 30+ times. He sneeds about the city and it's inhabitants on twitter documenting his journey. He's also trying to build a fusion reactor and a science museum in the city

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MY CASSETTES!

Backstory

Murfie was a startup company that focused on the digitization of physical media into digital media. People would send their CDs, Vinyls, and cassettes, which the company would store in their warehouse and rip the contents onto their own platform for people to stream. Murfie even allowed people to buy and sell with other users on their platform.

During sometime during early November, the company asked all of it's current customers to make sure they renewed their current subscription before November 17th. No more than 5 days later, the company sent out an email to it's customers saying that the compnay was ceasing all operations including the website. This abrupt shutdown shocked everyone, that even that former CEO had one idea what had happened .

The situation only continued to spiral out of control. Murfies ToS had a clause that promised its customers that they would return all of their physical media in the case the company shut down (For a small shipping fee of course ), but with all of their services down, customers had no way of getting back their cassettes and cds. In total, there were close to a million CDs, cassestes, and Vinyls left somewhere in limbo. Unsurprisingly, people were soying out about this:

😢 Our first “startup” client was Murfie. We’re super proud of being part of their story, and our world is better off because of their music-ownership-focused journey.

They have my 100+ cd's and $1000+ dollars. nothing to be proud of if they leave people in a lurch.

At this point everyone had lost hope that they wouldn't get their stuff back. Until one determined man showed up.

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John Fenley

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John Fenley is an investor, landchad, family man and an autist for music. When he heard the news of Murfie going out of business he stepped up immediately and offered to buy the remaining digital collection.

It wasn't his first venture into this type of busines. Fenley had a similar business that to Murfie that he started years ago, but was unable to find investors for his company. But this a second chance for him, because he knew what he could do it right this time. This was his white whale.

Shortly after, Fenley sold about 150k dollars worth of stock he received from another company and purchased an abandoned warehouse in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

Before we continue let's discuss Pine Bluff for those unfamiliar with it. The only aspect you really need to know about Pine Bluff is that it makes third world shitholes look like a paradise in comparison. Let us look at some statistics to truly understand it

Homicide rate:

Pine Bluff had 29 homicides in 2021. Pine Bluff had 23 murders in 2020 - a rate of 56.5 murders per 100,000 people. The national average was 6.5 murders per 100,000 people in 2020

Poverty Rate:

The per capita income for the city was $17,334. About 24.3% of families and 30.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 45.6% of those under age 18 and 13.7% of those age 65 or over.

Demographics:

A fairly dangerous city to say the least. But, Im guessing at the time Fenley didn't understand this and would come across many problems in his journey for his whale.

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The journey

Fenley has been documenting his adventure on twitter. These tweets are mostly in chronological order, but these aren't all of his tweets. You can check out Fenleys twitter account to see his full journey, but im just going to show some of the highlights.

Right off the bat, Fenley has issues with the Pine bluff city hall fining him for building violations:

Was handed this today by PineBluff zoning. Apparently semi truck trailers, shipping containers, and tents aren't allowed anywhere in the city. Even in industrial and commercial zones. Is this real? Just shut down the whole town.

He eventually meets with the mayor to discuss his future prospects but that ends up going nowhere:

Was handed this at the end of my meeting with the Mayor of cityofpinebluff. It's basically an eviction order barring me from living on property I own. I told them I would not leave the #Murfie containers unguarded regardless of their threats. Meeting did not go well.

I should mention too, that Fenley is also trying to turn the warehouse into a science museum and that he's attempting to build a fusion reactor

I was playing around with a GPU accelerated Penning Trap simulator we are building to help understand my fusion reactor and came up with a very weird idea based on what I was seeing when I start with a flat disc of particles.

Tragically for Fenley, the PineBluff goverment are a bunch of chuds that don't trust the science:

What kind of city government tries to prevent someone from opening a science museum?

Fenleys frustrations with the city government only continue to grow:

Pine Bluff just seems to want to tear everything down. All they know here is destruction. It's amazing to me that they act like this. Can you imaging any other city working so hard to bulldoze houses? They don't want anyone to fix things.

The downward spiral only continues for Fenley:

Had another break in at the warehouse yesterday. This time they were able to open all 4 containers. They stole the security system, 2 telescopes, 2 turbo molecular pumps and other high vacuum equipment tools, welders, RC toys, sculptures, etc. Murfie media seems mostly OK

He does offer a $3 bounty to whoever catches those robbers

Had over $20,000 worth of equipment stolen last Saturday. Putting a bounty on catching the crooks.

They never catch them lmao

I never could have imagined that I would have to lock up all my valuables, and carry a loaded pistol with me, to feel safe walking to the bathroom at night in my own home.

Fenley also starts sneeding at the police for being shit at their job:

I think we need to change the way the police in this town are paid. I say double the budget, but every time a crime happens, the police pay the victims to make them whole until they reach 75% of their current pay. Let's see how fast that stops crime.

Despair grows inside Fenley:

PineBluff is a cesspit. What do I do? I've put about half a million into trying to get started here, but I can't get anything done. I only have about $100k left to work with, and that's not going to buy much anywhere else. I will not put Murfie media in rented space again.

I should mention that Fenley is also married and has kids that live in another state. It appears that he's somewhat abandoned them in pursuit of his dream.

Surprise... I was robbed again in PineBluff today.

7 days later...

Robbed again! WTF! Pinebluff 2 guys in sniper gear and gloves came and robbed me again this morning. I've lost track of how many times I've been robbed. I'm seriously going crazy.

Several hours later....

Twice in one day... called 911 immediately. I went out and had the guy on the ground at gunpoint. Police were on site in 6 minutes.

Would you believe I was robbed again?

Febley is also is his own security guard too. He'll often confront those on his property with a gun of couse:

Robbed again? Seriously?

Fenley called the cops on the guy in the above video, and the police actually arrested him! But the guy was quickly released from jail and came back to Fenleys warehouse:

And they let the guy go, and surprise, he came back again today.

PineBluff happening right now. Two thieves were scoping my place out with this U-Haul filled with thievery tools. I had them at gunpoint but they ran away.

Three kids seeing if they can steal stuff. Just another day in PineBluff.

The constant stress continues to pile on our neurodivergent Ishmael:

3 years ago today I read an article that changed my life. Murfie had shut down and all the media they stored was headed to the dump unless a miracle happened. I stepped in to try to save the situation, but being stuck in containers for 3 years isn't much better. I'm so sorry.

I should clarify that he's basically living at the warehouse fulltime to ensure that one is trying to rob it. At least one has ever tried taking his security cameras:

PineBluff this is why I hate this town.

Can anyone tell from the sound what kind of gun I just heard firing shots outside my warehouse?

Fenley has been here for 3 years at this point and still hasn't been murdered somehow

I nominate PineBluff for "Most Purge -like" town. Criminals here have learned that nobody will stop them, and they won't pay any consequences for their behavior.I actually wonder if the city is complicit in this. Lack of investigation and prosecution is tacit approval.

Good movie reference!

I was having a pretty heated argument with somebody last night over a truck that they stole from me, and I'm pretty sure they burned one of my houses down. #PineBluff

Hopefully 2023 brings better luck to our hero

Not 4 hours into the new year and I'm already injured while dealing with an intruder. 2023 is off to a great start!

Its never going to get better for him

So far that's Fenleys entire story. An interesting one to say the least. Hopefully he doesn't get murdered so we can get more updates on his pursuit of happiness. Fenley doesn't look like he's giving up on PineBluff yet, since he's bought over 75 properties in the city so far. I truly hope he does catch his white whale one day

Thanks for reading!

Hullo hullo my precious princesses! Thanks once again for taking part in our annual trip down memory lane where we commemorate our most talented shit stirrers and most r-slurred dramanauts alike. I hope you all had a fabby Christmas and New Year (I know I did, my Krystal daki finally arrived in the mail) and may 2023 bring us many more lolcows, dramatic events and gay ops that are just waiting to be discovered.

Without further ado, here are your winners of the 2022 Drammies!

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Best Dramatic Happening - The Darrell Brooks Saga (170 votes)

As far back as November last year, tragedy struck in Bumfrick, Wisconsin when an SUV crashed through an annual Christmas parade, killing six people. Unfortunately due to America being the horrifically racist country it is, instead of appropriately punishing the killer SUV responsible for the attack as reported by multiple mainsteam media outlets, they unfairly apprehended and arrested innocent PoC Darrell Brooks who just happened to be near the scene at the time - falsely accusing him of multiple counts of homicide. It wasn't until the trial got underway though in October of this year though that things really started to kick off.

Boldly deciding to represent himself in court, the trial consisted of several weeks of complete covcit style autism - here are just some of the many threads covering the trial at the time.

Waukesha massacre suspect Darrell Brooks asks for his case to be dismissed since the victims aren't present in court.

Parade killer Darrell Brooks takes off shirt while victims' names read aloud

darrell brooks update: the judge yelled at him today lol

Mommy scolds Brooks for muttering about "bein' slick", Brooks declares that he will NOT be told what to do

King Brooks 👑 gets kicked out of court again for simply trying to correct the record

The tail end of the trial had a shocking twist, however; it was discovered that one of the jurors of the case had posted anonymously to a Darrell Brooks support forum, alleging judge bias and leaning toward pushing for jury nullification. Despite Darrell's best attempts however, this ultimately didn't affect the final outcome of the trial. More on that later though

After a long and entertaining trial watched live by many dramatards, Darrell Brooks was finally found guilty on all 76 counts of being black and sentenced to life in prison. This trial will have a lasting legacy for sure, and the fact that Darrell was unfairly imprisoned whilst Kylie Rittenhouse walked free will stand as a testament to just how much white supremacy has poisoned our proud and noble country.

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Dramatard of the Year - @NewMoon (120 votes)

Narrowly beating out Chiobu's near-victory of winning the coveted user of the year award for two years running, HeyMoon takes the prize this year for his incredibly many and varied contributions to rdrama all throughout 2022, ranging from being the creator of our beloved robot dramanaut bbbb, being the main reporter of the Darrell Brooks trial threads, and also playing a very special key role in running r/Justice4Darrell that skyrocketed this cat forum's antics to unprecedented levels. Huge congrats to HeyMoon, you more than deserved this win.

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Best rDrama Bait - /r/JusticeForDarrell (197 votes)

Awarded: @Aevann, @NewMoon, @chiobu, @snus, @KissingerFanBoyNoCarp, @ACA

2022 was a fantastic year for the art of baiting (just compare the entire list of nominees with those of 2021's), but one particular sneaky scheme very clearly shone above the rest in the collective hearts of all you mischief makers.

A huge group effort from many prominent dramatards, /r/Justice4Darrell was a subreddit helping to combat the vicious disinformation circulating about the Darrell Brooks trial - enraging many racist Redditors and SRDines in the process. Even if that's all the subreddit had managed to achieve, it would've been considered a victory and one of rdrama's more successful bait subs... but one faithful post brought this gay op to levels that were previously considered a mere pipe dream.

The infamous juror post caught enough outside attention that it ended up being reported on by several media outlets, and eventually made its way into the trial itself - marking the first time that this shitty gossip forum had managed to impact a national court trial being closely watched by millions all over the country. The original poster eventually panicked and gave up the game (probably the wiser if less dramatic decision, tbh), but that didn't stop Darrell himself from reading the bait post in court and unsuccessfully attempting to use it to sway things in his favor or cause a last-minute mistrial.

There are already a couple of extensive recap threads documenting the whole timeline of events, so I'll just link them alongside some of the more prominent J4D posts here.

THE WAUKESHA INCIDENT: The story of how /r/Justice4Darrell interfered with justice, from the perspective of BlackJusticeForever (me)

In Case You Missed It: The final archive of the jury bait post, 2300+ comments of pure rage

reminder that the r/Justice4Darrell bait is working magnificently at the moment and it is your dramatic duty to participate (just dont make it too obvious pls)

Rekieta Law talked about the /r/Justice4Darrell juror (and I'm famous!!!!!!)

Recap of how the capy made rdrama's first successful bait sub in months

I didn't really follow the J4D saga until the juror post went viral, so I'm not entirely sure who were the most prominent participants, but I'll trust the capy's judgment on this one since he was the one to found the subreddit. Congrats to all winners for your tireless work!

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Best rDrama OC - Escape from Predditor Mansion (220 votes)

Awarded: @Dramarama, @SpaceMilk

This one wasn't even close to a contest. Dramarama's fantastic rendition of a homofascist neko Marsey escaping the clutches of the dreaded Reddit gigajannies was not only a great artpiece, but it was also a great tool for stoking drama and baiting Redditors when shared to the site's esteemed high-brow art and anime communities. A huge thanks to Berzel/Spacemilk for commissioning this piece and to Dramarama for flawlessly bringing it to life!

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Best rDrama Post - RDRama's Best User is a GPT-3 Bot: The Story of BBBB by @NewMoon (138 votes)

HeyMoon's third award in his grand sweep of this year's Drammies, this prize goes to his grand reveal that the aggressive and abrasive user known as @bbbb was actually a bot based on ChatGPT and scripted by him this entire time - proving once and for all that you're all so braindead that even a bunch of lines of code can easily replace the good majority of you losers' room temperature takes. Even though there was some suspicion prior to the big reveal, plenty of dramatard regulars took the bait hook line and sinker, even our very own Pizzashill!

Also shoutout to the close runner up @TheGrillcast for his in-the-field reporting of two dramatards meeting up in meatspace to brawl it out - thank you for your extensive journ*lism, and immense bravery to head out and meet other rdrama users in the wild. You can check out his rdrama themed podcast here!

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Marsey of the Year (115 votes)

Awarded: @McCoxmaul

The solid favorite of 2022. The many such cases Marsey, as well as being incredibly gosh darn cute and a clever little visual pun, has proven to be an incredibly useful and widely used rdrama emote - running the statistics, it was used in the main body of 136 posts this year as well as a whopping 1801 comments in its 6 months of existence. Congrats to @McCoxmaul, and thank you for all the other great Marseys you've created for us!

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Lolcow of the Year (rDrama) - Krayon (sister toucher) (109 votes)

Surprising likely no-one, Krayon (sister toucher)'s incredibly persistent autism, alt-spamming, white-knighting, foid doxxing, suicide baiting and insistence that he most definitely did NOT molest his sister has rocketed him to the top of the list for rdrama's pick for the biggest site lolcow of 2022, beating out our old favorite landlet prophet and the brief but impactful flash in the pan that was Belial. Unfortunately as I write this, it looks like he's finally quit rdrama forever for realses this time and so won't be able to accept this award in person, but I have a feeling he'll be back soon enough just like the other 50 times this has happened. I'll leave this award on the shelf for you for when you inevitably return in a couple of days - congratulations!

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Lolcow of the Year (off-site) - Kanye West (111 votes)

This one was the closest race out of all of the categories this year. By a mere four votes, Yeezus and his sleepy schizo meltdown on Twitter, followed by his ban, followed by his unbanning when Rocket Daddy personally intervened - then finally in a building crescendo of drama - his IRL /pol/posting on InfoWars getting him rebanned once again (as well as burning all his billion dollar sponsorship deals), has managed to barely push him above our beloved gigatitty teacher to be this site's favorite lolcow of the year. Thank you Ye for irreversibly blowing your entire legacy just to grant us dramatards some fantastic entertainment, we really appreciate it!

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Janitor of the Year - @Aevann (105 votes)

Last but most certainly not least, our beloved capybara overlord takes home the award for rdrama's best janitor for the second year running, the first ever user to achieve such a feat for a Drammy award! It's hardly surprising though, given how much we all appreciate just how much effort you've put into upgrading and maintaining this obscure little corner of the internet that you carved out for us. Not to mention your own personal involvement in stoking fantastic drama with the founding of /r/JusticeForDarrell!

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And that's all folks, I hope you enjoyed this (probably) annual event and aren't at all salty about the final results. 2022 was a fantastic year for both external drama as well as dramatic shitshows that we caused ourselves, but here's hoping we can go even further in 2023 with lots more fun and mayhem to come.

Stay tuned!

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Introduction

In 1991, a group of 13 individuals bought a small piece of land in the middle of the desolate and dry desert of South Africa. This group had dreams and hopes of creating a prospering town for its people. However since its establishment, the town has been in an endless cycle of controversy with journoids all across the globe and the South African goverment sneeding that the town is an abomination that shouldn't exist. That town is Oriana.

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Knowledge is Power

We must educate and familiarize ourselves with these terms:

• Afrikaan - Colonizing Mayos who originated from germany, france, or the Netherlands

• Boer - Means farmer but is used interchangeably with Afrikaan since most of them were farmers

• Volkstaat - A proposed view to establish an all-white Afrikaner homeland within the borders of South Africa, most commonly proposed as a fully independent Boer/Afrikaner nation. The concept excludes Afrikaans-speaking coloureds and South Africans of English ancestry, yet is sometimes misunderstood to include them.

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The Birth of a Nation Town

Shortly after the end of Apartheid in South Africa in the early 90's, The goverment of South Africa attempted to move forward in bringing all the diverse amd vibrant communities together in pursuit of a functional multicultural society.

Afrikaans realizing that they'll lose their majority rule and would have a harder time passing legislation, decided the best way to show umbrage with the new rules was to seperate and create an ethnically monogamous country of their own kind within South Africa. Unfournately for those Afrikaans they had virtually no chance in their conquest for land against the SA military and general population.

An example image of the Volkstaat the Afrikaan dreamed of creating:

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But those subversive Afrikaans noticed a loop hole in the document (and later the constitution) "Accord on Afrikaner self-determination" that they could exploit to their advantage. Specifically the following amendment dealing with minority groups:

The Constitution may give expression to any particular form of self-determination provided there is substantial proven support within the community concerned for such a form of self-determination.

There's an excessive amount of legal jargon that we're gonna skip over because its boring . The key take away is that this allowed for Orania to legally create its own pseudo-Apartheid community. That's exactly what the Mayos Afrikaans of Orania did.

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Afrikaan Utopia

The original purpose of Orania was to form a self reliant society that was built from only the labor of purebred Afrikaans living in their town. Well technically, the original purpose of Orania was to expand in population and create a majority of Afrikaans in the northwestern cape within 15 years after the establishment of Orania. But, this plan was dropped due to Orania population not being able to breed enough and never reaching a population count of more than 3,000 individuals. It never even began for infertile mayos

However, that isn't to say that the community was a total failure. In 1991, the town was formed by 13 individuals and in [current year] has reached a decent population size of 2,377. The town has made significant progress in growing its economy, especially due to the fact the town is located in the middle of nowhere in a desert.

Their main agriculture export is also pecans

Oriana has also created its own currency (but no one outside of the town recognizes it):

Alongside their own currency, they also have their own president and flag:

Flag is a bit weird looking, but what do you expect from mayos

Additionally, every house in Orania is built with solar power. This is one of their steps to becoming self-reliant and eco friendly:

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So instead of being regular facist chuds they're eco-facist chuds

Orania is expectionally selective in choosing which residents can move and live there. Generally several requirements have to be met to be granted permission to move there. These include:

• Passing several criminal background checks

• Having Afrikaan ancestry

• Passing an Afrikaan culture test

• Interviews with the Orania council members

The requirements ensures that the majority of the town is full of mayos. The diabolical plan was beyond successful. As of 2021 the current makeup of Orania is 97% Afrikaans (Yikes ). Weirdly enough this has led to Orania having such a low crime rate that the town doesn't even have a police station. .

The town itself is very small with the total land of it being only 3.5 square miles. Orania currently has plans to reach a population of 10,000 and undergo urbanization in an effort to spread the cultural ideals of the Afrikaan "people".

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Born from Sneed

Since it's inception, Orania has been constantly scrutinized and sneeded at for having too much mayonnaise in its town. I'm not even exaggerating either. Every year mutiple sneed articles are written about this literally who town across the world from j*urnoids that dont even live there.

Here's a new york times article from 1994 talking about it. The article also contains this hilarious passage:

Mr. Vaughn, 33, said he moved here [Orania] from Los Angeles after being arrested for child abuse in the beating of his 5-year-old son. "Ach, you can't even give your child a hiding there," he said of the land he left behind. He came to Orania two years ago because he admired the "Calvinist values" and racial outlook, and was warmly welcomed with his wife, Brenda, and five children. A few neighbors objected when they learned Brenda Vaughn is three-sixteenths Cherokee, but, said Mr. Vaughn, "I threatened to beat a few people up and it died down."

History truly is beautiful

Here are some relevant modern takes sneeding about Orania:

As expected, sneed about this town has been growing every year as the world is forced learning to embrace diversity (Our greatest strength!).

The South African goverment has sneeded at Orania every year and wants the town to be shutdown permanently and to accept South Africa's rainbow nationalism policy. But the town people just ignore the SA government since they have never taken action once against the town since its creation 21 years ago

Panyaza Lesufi is a parliment member that despises Orania so much that he's called for the abolition of the city full of "mindless racists". Weirdly enough, the majority of the Orania population don't even consider themselves white but rather Afrikaan.

Let's head to the some current year drama of this irrelevant town

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Twitter Drama

Recently there was post on this site that revolved around a fragile mayo strangling a black boy for swimming in a mayos only pool. This conflict sparked discourse about racism within South Africa, and of course people began discussing Orania:

Orania must be banned, we cannot have a white only town in South Africa, not acceptable. If white people want to live on their own, they must go to Europe, not in Africa.

Based. Everyone should stay in whatever country their born and never be allowed to move or immigrate

Imagine going to live far away in the desert, just to be left alone, only to still be pathologically obsessed over by people who can't even find you on a map if they were given 1000 guesses.

This guy is unironically right. For all the news coverage and sneed that Orania gets for being on stolen land, they occupy only 3.5 square miles. But they live rent free in the minds of the South African population.

It’s private land, surely they can do what they like on private land? They are not disturbing anyone, living peacefully in their own space and retaining their culture. Why such chest pains over a tiny little place that has no bearing on your life at all?

Bullshit, we have many different races and cultures in this country, and no one stops a particular race from practicing their culture in our multiracial society. These Afrikaners in Orania are racist, we must stop them

Every race should be able to practice their culture except the ones I dont like!

We must go build our houses there and turn it into a city

"If they won't accept willingly, than we'll make them accept us with force"

What Our Grandfather's Failed To Do During Apartheid, We Need To Start Reminding White People They Are European And South Africa Belongs To Black South Africans We Will Not Shrink Ourselves To Accommodate Them The Soil Is Ours We Can No Longer Entertain European Rejects.

Europe has loads of black people now, who ran away from their leaders and they live there in peace. Are you saying they must also come back ?

You don't see us over there harassing white people because of their skin color you don't see us forcefully taking land from the poor causing division because we are not sick in the head like you mfs to think we deserve it all and other humans don't matter now argue about that

Lmao at European rejects

South Africans need to understand that so long as govt endorsed separatists towns like Orania exists, we will Never root out racism. Government has rubber stamped white supremacy We made racists feel comfortable in our own land. The fault is ours and those we voted for.

We cannot have whites showing they can run an efficient village without government funding . Makes us look bad

Volkstaat is an account of an Orania citizen. They post constant updates about the town and the different projects the townspeople are working on. Great place to find drama since people are always sneeding in the comments

There seems to be a misconception that Orania is some magical utopia where everything functions automatically. No. We work hard to keep it going and continue to build our city. It is very demanding to live here. We pay for it all and do all the work.

That's our land you must return it or pay rent for that piece of land

The Afrikaners actually did purchase the land from the South African goverment before they established their chud-town. It also led to the displacement of about 500 African individuals who lived there. However, I feel that the goverment is more to blame for this but who knows?

Oranians install a water meter. All labour is done with our own hands. We have worked very hard to get to this point. So much more to do but we are proud of our BIG little town.

Enjoy your little town while it last foreigners

What did he mean by this?

Making new roads in Orania. Our humble town is a massive construction site. A home for the Afrikaner.

Develop my guy... tell us when you are done then we invade our land

So you cannot develop where you staying? harrasing a small town who just want do better themselves? you call yourself a man of God?

Racism has no place in this world

Anyway, you say you want to take the land? Just to give you perspective, looking up into Africa, many own land, but still VERY POOR. Land does not make you rich. Creating value does.

Oh that's what he meant

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Reddit Drama

Some dramatic reddit threads on Orania:

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So they segregated, themselves?

Yeah and given how they are treated by their peers, I can’t really blame them.

Won’t someone please think it the racists!!!” How is this back bush shit upvoted??

well considering apartheid south africa and these communities actively defending it…they deserve everything they get lol 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

Most of these people weren't even born when it was abolished tough?

your point is? You think there isnt a knock on effect of past events in modern society?

If we want to move forward as a society we must hold grudge and hate from years ago and never let people forget what their ancestors did (This but unironically)

As a white South African speaking on behalf of most other whites in this country, we don't approve of these communities. Every country has its bad apples, and it's sad that others have to feel guilty for their nonsense, but hey, it is what it is.

Why? Shouldn’t people be allowed to decide who can be in their community?

Thats called discrimination buddy

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Final Thoughts

So far the fate of Orania and its Afrikaan individuals reamins unknown. The hate for the town grows every year from South African citizens and the government but it looks like it's going to go nowhere in the next couple of years based on past trends.

If you do have time, you should definitely check out the history page on wikipedia or other sites. There's a lot I couldn't include that was somewhat interesting given the long history of the town.

Either way I hope you enjoyed this lengthy read, no better way to end the year with one final effortpost for 2022. Have a wonderful new years friends!

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Hello, welcome to my blog. My name is Kat and I was born in the wrong generation. I'm a fan of lots of music from the 60's, including Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles and The Monkees. I write fanfiction. I'm in the process of creating a new AO3, so for the time being you can find my fics here on Tumblr under my "My Writing" tag. (also, English isn't my first language, so sometimes I may make mistakes!)

Here's a link to the first chapter of their Beatles mpreg fanfictions, titled "We Got a Groovy Thing Going". Sadly chapter 2 hasn't been released yet, but they have made an update post!

Sorry, I’ve been procrastinating a lot, it’s just that I’ve been very busy. I promise I will be working on Chapter 2 of my Lily Tomlin x Paul Simon fanfic this week!

In the meantime, I figured I might answer some FAQs I’ve been getting. A few people have been messaging me these questions, so I thought it would be helpful to answer them all publicly for anyone who is curious.

FAQs:

Q: Are Paul and Lily going to get back together?

A: Yes. This is a fanfic about the two of them, so they will get back together eventually. I have a happy ending in mind!

Q: Why didn’t you write the s*x scene?

A: Because I don’t believe in pre-marital s*x, nor writing about it. It is implied in this fic for the sake of the plot, but it is not something I condone in real life.

Q: Will abortion be considered as a solution?

A: No, absolutely not. Paul is a respectable, intelligent man, and I am sure he would never stoop to that level for an easy way out.

Q: Why did Lily leave Paul?

A: This will be explained! just stay tuned for the next chapter.

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The drama started with this post about The Monkees, with one user implying that Linda Haines, Davy Jones' wife, was his beard, and that Jones was secretly gay. This is pretty standard fare on Tumblr but this person decided to freak out for no apparent reason

The Monkees with their beards 💖💗💖

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Um, what?

I said, you should be ashamed of yourself.

…why?

Maybe for spreading lies, misinformation, rumours, etc? This post is clearly meant to imply that Davy Jones was gay, and his wife was his “beard”, meaning that he was with her to hide the fact that he was gay. Absolutely none of this is true at all, and I cannot comprehend how you could think this is an appropriate thing to joke about. You know that there are people on Tumblr who might look at this post and believe that it is true? By posting this you are actively disrespecting and tarnishing the reputation of Davy Jones and The Monkees as a whole.

(And before you try to come at me for being “homophobic”, because I know how Tumblr is, there is nothing homophobic about stating the truth, that Davy Jones was not gay, and I do not have any issue with gay people so long as they do not try to force their lifestyle onto others.)

Ok

anyway reblog this post to disrespect and tarnish the reputation of Davy Jones and the Monkees as a whole

You’re literally sick.

This exchange went pretty viral for 2022 Tumblr standards, getting a good few thousand notes. After this they got a bunch of anon messages and seemingly replied to every one, giving us an infinite supply of great quotes:

You literally write mpreg fiction and are pro-life. And you are upset cause one little tumblr user made a gayvy jones joke??

I'm not sure why you are bringing my personal viewpoints into this. Of course I am mad that a user on Tumblr is spreading fake and potentially harmful information about real life people. I would never stoop to the level of claiming a person gay when they are not.

And made various posts about how evil it is to headcanon real people (whilst defending their mpreg fanfic)

Ok, I just cannot be silent about this. It is not appropriate AT ALL to force the gay lifestyle on someone who is not gay. Davy Jones from the Monkees is not gay. That is a fact. It cannot be disputed. Making jokes that he is gay is not funny at all, it is just extremely inappropriate.

Idk what you’re on op

What the heck is this? You can’t just photoshop someone onto a “Pride” flag and then magically make them gay. It is a true fact that he is straight. Just google it if you don’t believe me.

Paul Simon Mpreg

Ok, And? I write fiction. I never claim that its the truth. I am not okay with people spreading lies as if it were the truth

Literally who even are all of you people? I did not do anything wrong. All I did was state the true fact that Davy Jones is not gay. All I wanted to do was civilly explain to Tumblr user @out-on-the-weekend that their “joke” that implied Davy Jones was gay and that his wife was his “beard” was beyond disrespectful. Which is true. So why are all of you harassing me now? Is it that you really just can’t handle the truth? I think all of you reblogging my posts and being disrespectful need to get off of Tumblr and go to therapy because your ideas of the world are seriously warped.

Girl you are the one who needs therapy lmao

https://www.tumblr.com/bringbackthegoldenage/684712402838847488/out-on-the-weekend-bringbackthegoldenage

More anon messages:

what’s wrong with being gay tho

I don't have an issue with people who choose to live the gay lifestyle, I just am not okay with people trying to push this lifestyle on others.

Gayvy Jones be like oi luv💅

Don't you have better things to do than harass me? Keep your disrespect to yourself

What is wrong with all of you? I am not doing anything wrong by stating the truth fact that Davy Jones was not gay. All of your dumb little posts is not going to change that. Now go away.

i now headcanon You as gay, welcome to the club sis

You literally cannot do that, you understand that right? You cannot have "headcannons" for real people? You understand that don't you?

gravy jones

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davy jones whispered in my ear last night from beyond the grave that he is gay. sorry u cant hear the voices of the dead

You are literally disrespecting the memory of a dead man. Is this really what you want to be doing? are your parents proud of this?

every time you complain we make another dead musician gay. now its paul mccartney

First of all, you can't "make" someone gay. You can make your little posts on Tumblr saying they're gay, but that doesn't change reality. Second of all, Paul McCartney is alive.

davy jones slept w my dad and they gave birth to me 😇

This is obviously not true. Stop.

i’m sorry to tell u this but paul mccartney died in a car crash in 1965 and was also a raging homosexual

You literally have no idea what you're talking about. You sound insane, you realize that don't you? Oh wait... No, you probably don't realize that. Sad.

Paul McCartney actually had s*x with your mom just so he could pay for her abortion RIP baby McCartney fly high angel

You are literally sick. Seek help.

How r u out here being homophobic and still writing mpreg 😭

Those are two entirely separate things. But I guess I couldn't expect someone like you to understand that.

A short break to argue with the original Davy Jones gay poster

I don’t know what all of you want... I suppose you’re all the little friends of @out-on-the-weekend that have come to support him/her and the stupid lies he/she is spreading... it isn’t cute. You all are seriously messed up in the head if you think its ok to disrespect the memory of a dead man and force you’re lifestyle onto others. Seriously.

Kat, please leave me the heck alone. All i did was make a joke that Davy Jones is gay you are the one who is harassing people for no reason. people are mad at you because you’re being homophobic.

Don’t you try to pin the blame on me. This is your doing.

How the heck do you know my name?

Ok, ok, I forgot I put my name in my bio. That I admit was a mistake on my part, but I am not thinking straight with all of the people harassing me. I have literally never had so many people I've never interacted with before come onto my blog and sent me rude, nasty, messages. All of you need to stop.

Yet more anon messages:

Your morals are so deeply out of line you think writing a fanfiction where Lilly Tomlin is paired with mpreg Paul Simon isn’t disrespectful…

Again, completely different thing, not comparable at all. You've been on Tumblr too long.

YOU THINK A SILLY GAY JOKE IS WORSE THAN SERIOUSLY WRITING FANFICTION ABOUT A REAL MAN WHO IS STILL ALIVE GETTING PREGNANT? YOURE FRICKED ARENT YOU

I don't know how many times I have to tell you people, THESE ARE TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS. They are not comparable.

Lily tomlin is a lesbian. And david bowie fricked mick jagger 😇

Do you have a source for either of these statements? Because I seriously doubt the legitimacy of them.

And then finally, it ends:

Okay. I’ve had enough. I do not have time to deal with all of you. I am no longer going to engage with you. I am going to be the bigger person, because I know that I am in the right, and I am going to walk away for the rest of the day. I hope that all of you can take a serious look at yourselves and ask if the behaviour you exhibited toward me is really something that you are proud of.

Since then their blog has gone back to its regular schedule of reblogging vintage celebrity pictures and very occasionally posting updates on their mpreg fanfic. Buh-bye

Some of this might be wrong, but I think I got most of the interesting points. Dude's dug himself a pit and there's not going to be any good way out of it, I think. It's split up based on the timestamps in his description

00:00 Does he even know how much money he makes?

• Weird stuff at the beginning where he doesn't want to show his eyes, location or age.

• Works at a tesla factory

• Financial situation is "pretty wonky"

06:11 Tax fraud?

• Left last job because he didn't want to get vaxxed

• Didn't waste money paying taxes on the interim job

08:49 Weird expenses?

• Two credit cards

• $358 in road tolls, includes late fees? He stalled them to the point of being threatened with court?

10:11 You have NO MONEY!!!

• $3049 in, $5000 out

• "I've been... you could say... investing"

• "I used to budget" "I've maxed all my credit cards" "I used to have thousands money in my savings. All those thousands absolutely gone." "I had to close my savings, in fact I didn't close it myself, the bank just completely deleted it."

11:43 Rent is 60% of his income

• "Undisciplinary actions on a mutual basis when it comes to sharing rent, for sure"

  • His former roommate (family member, brother) ditched him and left him with the lease

• Back and forth about whether the roommate is in fact fricking him over by leaving him with the rent bill

  • The answer seems to be a Yes but apparently it's consensual

• Lease ends in a few months

17:53 You have NO MONEY!!! p2

19:53 Going massively into debt for a dream

• Big money spent on audio equipment, paying in installments

• Learning audio engineering

• Just finished paying off a second(?) $1200 subwoofer

• Splurged a little on audio software plugins

• "I've had chances to make money but I did not at the time receive money"

  • He refused payment because he wasn't satisfied with the quality of his own product

• Believes he will make a thousandfold return on investment

  • Has sunk at least 20k into this

26:33 150% utilization on credit cards!!!!

31:54 DebtCHAOS

• One is over $5400 and the other is $2697

• $1700 over his credit limit, they're still letting him purchase on it

  • $129 interest on that in November? Not sure I heard this right

• "Once I learned I could [spend over the credit card limit] it kinda just set this mentality that I could just do it and then pay it off"

• $6 under the credit limit on the other one

• Got declined on a $1 purchase

• 0% interest until early spring on Credit Card 2

• Been recently building up hardware collection, started out on software but moved onto hardware

34:00 Hidden car debt....

• Car loan

  • More than 60% paid off

  • 4% rate

  • Cosign on the initial purchase, refinanced under his own

  • 2018 Chevy

35:31 Do you even have a financial future at this point?

29:50 Are you willing to sacrifice at all?!

• Mostly backstory stuff

• Had some health problems during the moving job which made him quit

• Been cutting back on fast food

41:51 Clean up this MESS

44:03 Rent is 60% of his income p2

• roughly 1900 on rent on a roughly 50k income? Not certain I heard this one right

• Long defense of the brother because the brother has helped him out bigly in the past?

50:22 Broke forever...

52:35 Hammer Financial Score

carp this'll be good, it's full of incredible retards

Digital Dating Environment

If you have been taken and/or have been touching grass recently, online dating apps are now the way that most people meet their partners. It's essentially taken what used to be a fairly time consuming process of meeting new people through mutual interests, and condensed it into a literal digital meat market. Most apps lie on a spectrum of how much they lean into this. If you're unfamiliar, or are currently dating and out of the loop, the main players are:

• Tinder - The original swipe app. You're shown a photo album, a brief bio (usually a joke), and you can say yes or no by swiping left or right

• Bumble - Bizarre feminist version of Tinder where women have to message first. Usually slightly better quality women, but they have to make the first move in a text and women are useless at this

• OKCupid - The OG dating site, now mostly full of Filipina women looking for green cards

• Hinge - The better dating app IMO. Premium allows for some pretty strict filters (education filter set to college or higher acts almost entirely like a fat filter, it's amazing). No swipe mechanic, you have to read a profile and like something specific about them, with a message attached if you want.

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OKCupid used to run a pretty great blog back in the day before they got bought out by wokies. They used to run experiments on users and then publish the results. One of the more interesting ones was where they removed the bio of people's profiles at random, and saw what happened to their match rate.

Absolutely fucking nothing

They also tried removing people's pictures and matching them at random to see if they'd connect. On average, people had much longer and deeper conversations (increases in number of messages and average message length). Most women will only message you back if you're much better looking than them, which is kind of unsurprising. You would too if you were getting a lot of attention. When you take that away, and even if you go on a blind date, they're generally pretty happy.

Then they turned the lights back on and showed everyone who they'd been talking to, and more than half of them instantly unmatched the other. The conclusion they drew was that people (as a general population) are exactly as shallow as their dating apps will let them allow.

There also used to be a separate score for looks and personality, which were pretty much an exact match.

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The whole point of this is to illustrate what turns the gears of online dating: it's photos.

Photos only.

And only the first photo.

As a personal anecdote, this girl I was really into broke up with me and I took a bunch of stupid posey photos to revamp what was a profile full of just average pictures to try and sleep with someone hotter than her. I played with lighting and shot composition. Didn't lose any weight or gain any muscle (5'11" 163lbs for ref, relatively fit) or change my bio at all. I went from one irl date maybe every 3-6 months, to 6 in a week. It's fucking nuts how much of a difference it makes.

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Redditors and Not Getting Laid

That last section should not come as any kind of surprise and if someone posts that, please tell them to rope.

It is, however, news to redditards. Despite general public opinion, Zoomers and Millenials are having significantly less sex than previous generations and that's a good thing. I am consistently amazed at what people will show as part of their public profiles, especially to people they're trying to sleep with.

Here's some highlights:

• Soy Beard Cuck Redditor

• Weird Gimmick, Unshaven, Fat

• This Guy Respects Women TM

• Awkward Unathletic Ginger with bad hair and no good face shots

• This guy also Respects Women TM

• Average Barista who thinks he's manly

• Lmao

And some women for fun too:

• This Bitch Fat

• Psycho Fat Goth

• More Fat

They also can't fucking text if they ever even get a match:

• Old Meme

• This guy doesn't understand what he did wrong

• This guy thought it would be a good idea to not only send this, but then post it on the internet

You'll hear a lot of shit about women only going for the top 10-20% of men on dating apps. This is the primary reason - most men are shit candidates. They look like this, take bad photos, give creepy ass intros and replies, and then don't get laid, and are completely surprised how this could happen.

What does this mean for drama?

Aside from the fact that most of these people I've shown are dorks, they post feedback threads pretty regularly. Most of them end up being threads about how "Oh your photos are fine, online dating's just hard!". Or they'll tell people that all they need to do is reorder their profiles.

I call on you, hard-working dramanaut, give these people the feedback they actually need. I will find you the first few, and all you need is to give them some helpful life advice. This is your chance to reaaally get creative with it. Here are some bad examples:

Instead of... (Real Reddit Comments!)	Say This:
[It’s your look. Hinge is more of a relationship oriented app. It’s not tinder. Be yourself but just understand that’s probably why you aren’t getting matches.](https://old.reddit.com/r/hingeapp/comments/zdnjkv/im_not_good_with_the_prompts_instead_of_the_about/iz5olco/?sort=controversial)	Bitch, you're fat as fuck. No wonder you aren't getting matches. Lose some weight and try again
[Not sure why your post is getting downvotes, but just wanted to say I think your pictures are pretty good man](https://old.reddit.com/r/hingeapp/comments/zgfwtg/25m_hinge_profile_review/izhphd7/?sort=controversial)	Did you lose a bet, or are you trying to stay a virgin?

Background: Stacey Abrams has tried and failed twice now to become Governor of Georgia, () but is nonetheless a Democrat darling. She's an actress, successful (allegedly) writer, and founder of multiple companies. She also started a nonprofit, Fair Fight Action, credited with flipping the state blue during 2020. Oh, and she's hideous:

I did a little digging, and turns out she was doing a Donald Trump impersonation before DDR even thought to claim rigged elections:

"It's more than just delegitimizing the results of an election," Abrams said.

"Donald Trump is trying to rig the future... And I knew that in 2020, the two cornerstone issues for our democracy would be making sure we have a fair election and a fair count in the census."

when i lose it's because the whole thing is rigged She doesn't like the DDR comparisons though:

"The issues that I raised in 2018 were not grounded in making me the governor,” Abrams told The 19th’s Editor-at-Large Errin Haines at a Monday event. “Not a single lawsuit filed would have reversed or changed the outcome of the election. My point was that the access to the election was flawed, and I refuse to concede a system that permits citizens to be denied access. That is very different than someone claiming fraudulent outcome.”

cope

On a presidential run, :marseykween: says she feels she has to consider it b/c people like her aren’t frequently mentioned, & tshe has much to offer. Then, discussing her credentials, she added a possible Beto reference: “I did win my election, I just didn’t get to have the job.”

Top replies to said tweet:

And let’s be blunt, shall we? The @DNC knows he can flip some ‘red’ states. When he wins the Democratic nomination, on general election night, mark my words. We will watch as Bernie flips states on the electoral map that have NEVER gone blue. People want to talk a blue tsunami?

Your race and gender does not entitle you to win an election. Being a whiny sore loser is not being a good role model. Shame on you.

What do they call that, at the end of an election when you don't get the job??? Oh right, they call that losing.

This twitter thread is a goldmine, but anyways. Apparently she has still never conceded the 2018 election. Not only that, she sued the guy who won and spent $25M on the lawsuit. Not only did she lose, she also gave about $10M to a law firm run by a buddy of hers.

never conceded the election, but she did change her mind about being President:

"What I regret every day is that we could not stop [Brian Kemp] from bastardizing this whole process, from denying the franchise to those who had earned it by being Americans and tried to use the right to vote to set the course of their futures," she said. "And I will always be deeply, deeply hurt that we live in a nation that permitted that to happen."

When did you come to the decision not to run for president?

I’ve been thinking about this for the last few weeks, and I’ve just come to the decision that my best value add, the strongest contribution I can give to this primary, would be to make sure our nominee is coming into an environment where there’s strong voter protections in place. source

two years later STILL seething, amazing. She was then voter-suppressed out of being chosen for VP by literally all of the running candidates, and went on to start an INCREDIBLY sketchy business that raised $30M in funding:

Abrams co-founded Nourish, Inc. in 2010. Originally conceived as a beverage company with a focus on infants and toddlers, it was later rebranded as Now and pivoted its business model to an invoicing solution for small businesses. wikipedia

I suspect the pivot was because a company with an actual product would be harder to hide money in. I literally cannot find any evidence that it still exists, no links on websites, no nothing. I'd be astonished to hear that any business has gotten a loan from the millions it raised. She also has a nonprofit which has failed to file tax returns as well as other sketchy shit. The comparisons just keep racking up

Now, in 2022, she decided to run for governor again and lost was voter suppressed by a 7 point margin, which is just fricking brutal

Abrams and Kemp had their first of two scheduled debates on October 17. In the debate, Abrams emphasized her support for gun control and legal access to abortion, while Kemp emphasized Georgia's economy under his governorship and his anti-crime proposals.

Just completely out of touch. No wonder she lost so hard, to the SAME GUY no less, after spending literally a hundred million dollars on her own campaign. It's really fascinating to see how after being propped up in every way possible by media and DNC, she's so completely unlikeable that she lost even harder after all that exposure. The only way she'll ever be President is in Star Trek.

And now for some to round it off:

Kemp stands for Trump 2.0 and Stacey is like MLK Jr. but better and smarter and also a lawyer

I want her to win so badly. I crave for my state to progress actually for a change

Kemp will cheat his way to victory again. She would have won last time if he hadn’t sent so few voting machines to polling places in north Georgia

Kemp is stomping Abrams in the polls currently and is, barring some insane turn of events, absolutely going to win.

This is 100% spot on. All these people outside of GA are not remotely in tune with what is going on here. Just because Abrams is a Dem darling doesn't mean she is doing a good job

He also purged votes knowing that even if he lost in court it would take years and his stolen victory would stand as now evident.

Elections can be stolen, but only from black women. Interestingly, even most /r/politics users don't like her:

They both appeal to reddit a lot more than they do to their states' voters.

She can raise millions from out of state donors in California and New York and that looks good on headlines like this.

As a Georgian, she is not winning.

Another thread:

But Brian Kemp is such an butthole. And everything he does is what an butthole would do.

You can replace Brian Kemp with literally anyone in the GOP and the statement would still be accurate.

Abrams... Beto... Democrats need to stop nominating popular figures that only have a track record of losing key races

What they need to do is endorse progressive candidates but corporate medias like CBS, MSNBC and CNN won't let that

Show me a more progressive candidate than Stacey Abrams.

Can we Dems finally stop trying to re-run Dem candidates that lost last time? Seems too many in leadership think that because Biden ran a bunch of times and finally won, that that's a winning strategy in state races.

lol cope+seethe

Any woman in GA that votes for Kemp or any other Republican is a traitor to women everywhere. We must stand in solidarity together as the only group of people in the US that has ever had a right taken away by the government - in this case, by 6 people who were never elected by anyone.

You might want to google "Japanese internment camp"

Several years ago, did a little oopsy by calling the cops on 2 black men who refused to buy coffee or leave the store. This is completely legal, but it made them look bad, and so corporate did some typical damage control and got ratio'd on :marseybluecheck::

will close its more than 8,000 company-owned U.S. stores on the afternoon of May 29 to provide to its nearly 175,000 U.S. employees “racial-bias education geared toward preventing discrimination.” Both Starbucks founder Howard Schultz and CEO Kevin Johnson have apologized on behalf of the Seattle coffeehouse giant.

In recent days, also officially declared a “Use of the Third Place Policy,” making it clear that anyone is a customer and is welcome to use its store space, including bathrooms, regardless of whether one makes a purchase.

“We are committed to creating a culture of warmth and belonging where everyone is welcome,” the statement said. “We want our stores to be the third place.”

The Third Place Policy whose URL now results in a server error, meant that would no longer be able to kick out customers who failed to make a purchase. The obvious then happened:

But as I have sat at different locations in New York lately and overheard conversations around me, I witnessed firsthand a new scene that I hadn't quite observed before: At times, stores were mostly occupied by non-paying customers with their own drinks and food while some paying customers looked puzzled and left frustrated without finding a seat. I have also seen customers inside a store being openly solicited for money. source

The same writer did another followup piece a year and a half later which sources the least surprising study ever:

Monthly visits to dropped 6.8% compared with other nearby coffee shops after the open-bathroom policy was put in place in May 2018

With the free bathroom access, the researchers looked at the proximity of a given store to a homeless shelter and found that customer traffic declined at almost double the rate at stores closest to homeless shelters versus those farthest away.

Customer traffic wasn’t the only thing that was hurt. The average income of Starbucks’ customers has dropped compared with the average income of other nearby coffee shops, thanks to fewer visits from “its wealthier clientele.”

The full report is 43 pages, and everyone involved could have saved a lot of time by submitting the sentence "homeless people are stinky" to peer review instead.

Shortly after, closed its (bathroom) doors

Now, the coffee chain is effectively saying it can’t be America’s public potty any longer.

And, because an rdrama post wouldn't be complete without , here's a couple posts from baristas whining about the homeless:

Let me start this off by saying I have nothing against the homeless. I feel for them, I really do. But my store has a homeless couple that comes in every day and stays from open to close. They usually come in, set their 3 or 4 giant trash bags of belongings in a corner and hog the cushioned seats in the corner literally all day. What really bugs me is that they're constantly making out. Like, sloppy, slobbery, making out. We've had several customer complaints about it and I've asked my manager about it and she basically said as long as they're buying coffee they're good. Anything I can do about this?+17

CLEAN IT UP

a not so gentle reminder that unhoused people are people too. if they are in the cafe, leave them the frick alone and mind your business. provide them with the same hospitality you give to every other customer. the unhoused are no different. as long as they aren’t doing something inappropriate or being disrespectful to you, other partners, and the customers, they can stay as long as they please until closing. don’t bother them if they are outside sitting down either. don’t be a peepee is what i am trying to say here. this isn’t a store issue, this is a human decency issue. +751

Every single post is bowing and scraping in subservience to the unhousedchads stinking up the place. Good thing for Redditors the stench doesn't travel over computer monitors or it might break their bubble of moral authority.

grande rant: homeless customers

i try to have sympathy for them but at this point its very hard. i feel bad for being bothered by them, but i need to rant for a minute.

they usually order a venti or trenta water but get quite angry if we dont give it to them the second after they ordered it.

they also walk through our drive thru and ask customers for money.

sometimes they just come and stare at us through the windows or do drugs in our parking lot and our male shifts have to go scare them off.

not so much now, but earlier in the pandemic they would come up without maks and cough on us. or they would come up with a mask on but take it off just to cough on us before putting it back on.

they used to steal our tip jars

The homeless are people. Talk to them and explain the rules you have to enforce. Learn their names. Just like anyone else if they are treated with dignity they may treat you with respect as well.