Cute pictures of her new velvet hippo Hickory:

https://old.reddit.com/r/velvethippos/comments/1ceklyc/welp_my_husband_brought_his_first_dog_home_to_stay/?sort=controversial

Hickory is home! After a decent introduction to Honey, we took him home. Honey was only slightly annoying to him as she yodeled loudly in his face for the first 30 minutes she met him. So, here he is! Hickory the Hippo!

Some of the typical comments:

Hickory is going to need lots of tennis balls!! I love him so much. Completely adorable! 🧡💙

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He's beautiful I love him 🥰❤️ congratulations!

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Honey still seems displeased.

Displeased? She looks like she's completely disassociated. Unable to comprehend the horror of the situation.

>tfw your dipshit owner brings home another pibble

Only 3 hours later, disaster strikes!

https://old.reddit.com/r/velvethippos/comments/1ceprr6/that_was_horribly_shortlived_and_i_feel_horrible/?sort=controversial

Hickory bit honey. I had just gone into my bedroom to take a nap. My husband and two sons were in the living room with the dogs. The dogs were fine. Then my daughter came home. Honey immediately ran to greet her, as did Hickory. The next thing I heard was a dog screaming and my husband screaming, “NO!! NO!! STOP!!” I ran out, and Hickory had Honey by the head. Right as I got to them, he shook her. I put pressure behind his jaw and he immediately let go of her and backed away. I had both dogs by the collar and told my husband to take Hickory to another part of the house away from Honey while I assessed her wounds. Two punctures on her ear lobe, and a puncture on her cheek. We called the vet and got instructions to care for her. The dogs are separated in different areas of the house, with strict instructions about who is to play with him, because we have a 5 year old child who is obsessed with him. We are flabbergasted. The meet and greet with them went well. We contacted a friend of ours who runs a pit rescue. We DO NOT want to take him back to the kill shelter. I fricking feel HORRIBLE. I feel like I failed Hickory, Honey, my family, and the shelter. I'm literally sick about it.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Both dogs were on leashes. Unfortunately, they both ran to see my daughter at the same time, and I'm guessing the poor guy was just overstimulated . He is NOT a bad boy. He is a sweet, sweet guy. I've been in contact with my vet and some friends who do rescue. One is a veterinarian that specifically does pibbles. Humphrey had a hard time at first, too. He was terrified and reactive to men. It took a lot of work, but he did fine. We currently have the dogs in separate halves of the house. They can see and hear each other, but can't get to each other.

He's NOT a bad boy he's so sweet he only chewed on my dog's head a little bit

If you can't reasonably keep them separated for a bit, then for everyone's safety, return to the shelter but please do not tell them about the bite because it'll be an instant death sentence. Just say your dog wasn't getting along with him and it wasn't a good fit.

GOOD idea, there's too many toddlers in the world anyway

OP, is your Husband the one who's had most of the interactions with Hickory, or are You the one? Because it may have been a relatively "simple" matter (although ADMITTEDLY Terrifying!) matter of resource guarding.💖 Both dogs were FINE, and doing reasonably well together UNTIL your Daughter walked in. She was a NEW human, and therefore a NEW resource for both dogs. He wanted the resource (remember, he hasn't HAD many resources to call his OWN in who knows how long, living in a shelter!💖), and he was trying to protect that resource (even though the resource was your DAUGHTER!), from Honey. Work with your vet, work with your friend who's been with the rescue, AND see if there's anyone GOOD locally, who works in Behavior, who you guys can tap in for advice!💝 You're very much still in that FIRST Three, of the 3-3-3 rule, correct? For now, YES, ABSOLUTELY keep the kids away unless you're next to them, keep the dogs separate but able to see/smell & get used to each other, and then take it slowly and assess each step!💖 This MAY be a deal-breaker, OR it may be a simple blip. Time, patience, and careful observation will tell you which one it truly is!

I can't be the only one who finds the juxtaposition funny between the sparkly hearts and the advice on how to stop your dogs eating each other

Bonus Post

The same foid's previous (now deceased) pibble, chilling next to her baby. Just to give you an idea of how foidbrained this foid really is

@ThousandBestLives got legitimately feelings hurt and in his blind seething rage applied a ban award to his comment replying to me instead of my comment.

!antibharatiya behold the intelligence of the average subcontinenter

!animalposters I love how they can't tell the difference between a moving train and a TV.

Adorable little dumbfricks

Pro Palestinian protesters assault Native Americans at UCLA protest for holding up a sign that said “Hamas supporters are not welcomed on Native lands” #Palestine pic.twitter.com/tpJLyFyCPP

— BIG BEE (@tha_big_beee) April 27, 2024

one of our comrades have a severe banana allergy. so z!onists decided to bring bananas. the security have already said not do this. this person can go into shock. pic.twitter.com/XSXUkPAS8j

— layla (@laymagdalene) April 27, 2024

This should be an automatic arrest for attempted murder & I'm not fricking kidding

The sick truth https://t.co/ctVXoxUVFu

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) April 27, 2024

https://twitter.com/GarbageHuman23/status/1784362470561522145

- A potential rdrama ban in the US has r-slurs worried about where they'll gossip and harass other r-slurs.

- Reddit is not necessarily an alternative, with some thinking it's "embarrassing."

As a potential US rdrama ban looms, dramatards are contemplating what app might take its place.

There are a few contenders in the mix, but it seems for many unwell people, Reddit isn't among them.

Marsie, an oldstrag seethe farmer, said in a recent rdramatok that she might be able to handle a ban if posting on Reddit if it wasn't such a "humiliation ritual."

"The rdrama.net ban bill was just passed in the House, which is a bummer," she said. But the idea of posting her rdrama content to the Reddit sub in front of everyone she knew in the early 2010s wasn't appealing.

"I don't know about that. I'm sorry," she said. "I don't know if I have the gumption to really do that. That's a big ask."

A potential rdrama.net ban looms

The US Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that could see rdrama removed from the internet. President Joe Biden signed it into law on Wednesday, giving Aveann nine months to sell its US rdrama.net assets or face a nationwide ban.

Chuds are very unhappy, considering a potential ban hypocritical and an infringement on their freedumb of speech.

While the most obvious solution would be for them to start posting their content on Reddit — the "cucked" and "fricking stupid janny hole" original homeland of rdrama— that's not what will happen, several gooners told Bussy Insider.

Many said they will likely continue to use Reddit for porn and direct trolling, but that it would not replace rdrama.net when it comes to uploading content and scrolling.

It is hard to make sweeping statements about any generation, especially one that spans range of bussy diameters 50 millimeters to 25 centimetres, but a mass exodus of the ones who use rdrama to Reddit's sub is unlikely, they said.

They'd rather take their chances on something extra gay like Groomercord or put their energy into Kiwifarms, they said.

"We'd probably splinter off into a million different places, bombarding our friends and followers with 'come follow me here' messages across every social media platform imaginable," Soren, a waste of space and piece of actual shit, wheezed to BI.

"We'd be like digital refugees, lost and a little scared, but you bet we'd rebuild our online communities somewhere, somehow. I also I'm the worst."

Reddit has too many insufferable cute twinks

Marsie doesn't share her full name on rdrama.net, and she said she has everyone in real life blocked on there, including her friends and her boyfriend.

"So I actually have this nice, cozy little open public diary, and I never really feel like I need to be confronted about it in person," she said, with a complete lack of self awareness.

Young people still use Reddit. It was declared "over" in 2022 but has made something of a comeback. More people logged into Reddit than rdrama.net in 2023, and embracing child grooming has been an unexpected success. R-slurs and cute twinks are also both still active on there.

But r-slurs who spoke with Bussy Insider said social media platforms all have different purposes, and they doubt Reddit can capture the magic of gooning through rdrama.net.

A Pew Research Center survey found Kiwifarms is the biggest social media platform among autist schizos, with 93% of female respondents aged 25-50 saying they secretly look at all the threads to quench their impotent loathing of s. rdrama.net is in second place with 63% of closeted homosexual male respondents saying they think they had a shot with a woman dramatard, followed by Groomercord with 60% being children unaware that they were going to be groomed and r*ped.

Reddit is close behind, with 59% of respondents saying they used it, though over twice as many (17%) said they used rdrama.net "almost constantly" compared to Reddit (8%).

Generations also use Reddit slightly differently. Gooning remain more popular with millennials than Gen Z, while these days, Zoomers favor seething and grooming, according to a Bussy Insider survey last year.

Reddit posting is 'cringe'

While they may have an account to collect drama, like millennials have a Facebook page that's gathering birthday messages from that one guy whose life crashed really hard after high school, zoomers have found Reddit pretty cringe for a while now.

In 2022, foid attentionmaxxer FrozenChosen explained in a blog on /h/femalegrippysockjail why the app gave her generation "the ick."

Reddit is "boring, exhausting, and generally not fun" compared with rdrama.net, Frozen said, which boomed during the pandemic and quickly became her most-used social media platform.

The sentiment is growing. Multiple dramatards have expressed finding Reddit "embarrassing."

"I hate posting on Reddit now," said C*rpathian Florist, a NEET who "shitposts" My Little Pony content under a series of alts. In a recent dramapost, she said there had been a "shift" over the past few years where posting on Reddit became "an insanely stressful, nerve-racking process because it's hard to pretend I'm being ironic there."

"Posting feels icky," she said. "It honestly feels like every time I post, I'm not being judged by everyone I've ever met. They all 100%, unashamedly jerk off to that stuff, and I like to keep an air of mystery to it to cope."

Commenters echoed C*rp's thoughts, with some saying they thought Reddit was too "pozzed" and that they had deleted the app and felt all the better for it.

Soren told BI between bites of fried c*m he loves "a good curated feed and aesthetic story," but Reddit can feel a little too "polished."

"Like everyone's trying to project this perfect life," she said. "On rdrama, it's all about being raw, funny, and real."

Chiobu, who has been overly online since 1998 but allegedly has a real life with a wife, told Bussy Insider he doesn't think it's likely young people will flood to Reddit.

He said his own feed is "megaed and hasn't been enjoyable since the superstraight thing."

Getting more people on the app

Reddit's overlords, Spez and George Soros, said this week it would increase spending to turn itself into "the most wholesome chungus website in the world with hardcore pornography," sending its shares down more than 12% in pre-market trading on Thursday.

It's already starting to do this with the upcoming rollout of pretending to pay jannies with worthless stock discounts.

It's unclear if such bullshit would convince Gen Z to continue to fill in the ranks of existentially desolate powermods to manage the site for free. However, Bardfinn, from /r/AgainstHateSubs, told the BBC that Reddit's "substantial investment" in anti-evil has helped it get people to spend time on its platforms

Where else is there?

4Chan is also "kinda dead," Chiobu said, and its curated content feed "is a clickbait hellhole."

"My unpopular opinion is that Kiwifarms has better sneedpower to rdrama.net," he added. "I think if rdrama was banned I would stay there. Obviously, it would be more schizo and neurodivergent, but I think all my fake awards there are worth more than dramacoin."

911Roofer, an oldstrag, told BI he holds a different opinion.

"If rdrama.net is banned, I think I might use it as a reason to get off social media completely," he said, apart from a physical whiteboard which he needs to use for work.

However, he said many of his accounts aren't actually banned on Reddit, and they're actually active. Some hipster chick in 2009 dumped me really, really hard so I've been letting out my anger on pacific north west subs for like 15 years now, he said.

"I feel like /r/Seattle and /r/portland Redditors need to be pushed and bullied so hard because some of the 900 guys she fricked probably post there," he added.

As for Groomercord, both the fertile resource and bane of rdrama, that was set up as a platform for vidya chat and grooming, some r-slurs are all for it.

Ex-dramatard sirpingsalot, for example, confusedly called Groomercord the "new rdrama" and praised the app's growth potential, as well as the nostalgic feel of being like rdrama in its early days when he could rizz younger women whenever he wanted.

A handful of cute twinks have been sharing their Groomercord handles, hoping to replicate their followings there if rdrama shuts down.

But the reviews have been mixed, with some saying it's just AOL instant messenger with more gimmicks and they're still bombarded with ery.

Chiobu is also unconvinced. He said it reminded him of the early days of rdrama circa 2018 "when it was cringe."

"But instead of it being cringe teens and cosplayers, it's giving an older and perverted crowd," he said. "No hate to them, but I don't think it's the move for dramatards at the moment."

Soren sputtered through his mishappen ugly elephant man face that he's heard whispers of people moving to watchpeopledie.tv and soyjack.party, but these platforms don't have gayops and lolcow milking people can endlessly scroll like rdrama does.

The thought of a rdrama ban is scary, he gurgled, but dramatards are "adaptable" and "creative" and will find a way to keep sharing their voices whatever happens.

"The internet is vast, and wherever we land, you better believe it'll be filled with memes, r-slur humor, and enough bants to make the whole nation seethe," he gasped before he finally died from well-deserved both aneurysm and heart attack.

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rdama has a pretty big contingent of center-left reddit refugees who will upvote pro-trans content despite being too ignorant or apathetic to actually make the arguments themselves. It's ripe for trans propaganda especially if you can speak in a more down to earth chud style like the way tranners do here

The problem with “Great Replacement Theory” is that it fails to address the foundational issue of low birth rates.

Record low birth rates are leading to population collapse in Europe and even faster population collapse in most of Asia. Immigration is low in Asia, so there is no… https://t.co/ddGM5R6vWh

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back to ldar for me bros

It took $1.7 million to build a public toilet in San Francisco.

After a scandal, someone from Nevada volunteered to do the installation for $140K, but the city didn't know if it could accept because Nevada was one of the 30 states it was boycotting over LGBT. pic.twitter.com/MUYQrpLOVn

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YTJ. Not for breaking up with your ex. For being transphobic towards him, saying that it's "wrong" to be trans and refusing to call him by his proper pronouns. There's nothing wrong with dating preferences, but your buttholeness has nothing to do with that. Please, respect people for who they are. (8)

No, and you can all hold it against me but I don't have to respect it. Nor will I ever. And this isn't the first time Ive dated and they decided to turn trans and I broke up with them. I'm not transphobic for saying it's wrong transphobia would be me actively dissing on them either to their face or behind their back (-5)

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Thinking trans is wrong in general, not cool.Not wanting to date a trans person, totally okay. (10)

How is it not cool when they are trying to change who they are and not accepting themselves (-4)

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You are entitled to pick a partner of your choice and if she wasn't up front about the trans thing from the beginning then you have every right to break it off (25)

Ah, so you put your entire personality and identity in stasis while in a relationship because changing or learning more about yourself after getting into a relationship is "not being up front about yourself", right? I get that coming out as trans is huge, but you're acting like he knew while getting together with him, when that's just incredibly unfair to assume. It's not a problem to become incompatible with someone once they realize they're trans, but calling them wrong for existing is a huge AH/TJ move. Glad all the bigots are outing themselves in this post, tho. (-3)

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You're never wrong for breaking up with someone that you're uncomfortable dating.But you are a jerk for telling your ex about an anecdotal “study” right after breaking up —  especially considering the fact that it has very little-if anything-to do with their situation, and your breaking up. Dressing and acting as another gender for the sake of a single “study” is very, very different from actually transitioning to a different s*x. You're also a jerk for being transphobic. You should do a little more (actual) research to better your understanding of gender and s*x, how one shapes the other etc. As far as I'm aware, the existence of transgender and non-binary people probably has very little impact on the mental health and suicide rates of men. In addition, transgender populations also suffer from extremely high rates — this US study (Prevalence of substance use and mental health problems among transgender and cisgender U.S. adults: Results from a national probability sample. Kidd JD e... (1)

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Exactly. Not being attracted to men and therefore not wanting to date a trans man isn't awful. Sadly there are a ton of people and places that will totally villanize you for this, but that by itself isn't wrong. Or it shouldn't be. But going on about how you're not religious but it is wrong and some (totally made up) study about one person who supposedly tried to live as a man and killed themselves, that makes you an butthole. Even if we skip the term transphobe, you're still an butt. (11)

Nah that is a real event it was a American woman who decided she wanted to live life as a man. She lived like a man but got severely depressed being a man and killed themself when they realized nobody cared about them. She wasn't even trans she just did it as a longterm social experiment and completely regretted her decision. There's been a wave in the UK and Russia for detransition middle age adults. A lot of folks that transited 10 years ago are detransitioning and cutting regrets a lot more of them are just unaliving themselves it's actually a relatively large problem considering how small the community is as a whole. 1/50 euthanized patients in Belgium are trans. Nathan/Nancy Verhelst was the first trans person to euthanize themself that was over 10 years ago. She no longer wished to be recognized as Nathan by the time she passed but nobody recognized when folks detransitioned. Dead names are only important for the initial transition. The fact that we don't talk about the growin... (1)

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It's not made up, it happened, Nora Vincent. He quoted it poorly, but she went undercover as man about as well as one can, the experience left her so depressed she spiraled pretty hard and ended her life. (3)

That's also not quite right... She disguised herself as a man in the early 2000s (published a book about it in 2006) but had been suffering from treatment-resistant depression for years before that (which she wrote a book about in 2008). While she did spiral and end up having herself committed in part because of her experiences living as a man, that did not directly lead to her death. She ended her life via assisted suicide in 2022. Nora Vincent was also not trans, and in fact believed that identifying as something other than your s*x assigned at birth was equivalent to the death of the self and the soul. So she's not exactly relevant to the trans experience. (7)

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https://old.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/1cedjts/youre_called_upon_to_plan_the_2024_democratic/l1hrcpm/?context=8&sort=controversial

I'll start...

Night One: Abortion and Women's Rights

Key speakers include women activists from across the country fighting for reproductive health as well as victims that have been impacted by the loss of Roe v Wade

Keynote: Hilary Clinton Gretchen Whitmer

Night Two: Patriots (and Republicans) for Biden

Key speakers include conservative leaders, Constitutional scholars, military leaders, and former trump officials.

Keynote: Mitt Romney explaining that inflation is temporary, dictators are permanent. [Special appearance by Barack Obama who greets Romney as he leaves the stage]

Night Three: A tribute to Bernie (and economic progressivism)

Key speakers include AOC, Robert Reich, Union leaders, laborers, and individuals who received student debt relief. Possible cameo by Mark Cuban to point millionaires are also doing just fine.

Keynote: Bernie Sanders

Night Four: Where We've Been, Where We're Going

Key speakers: Members of the Kennedy family, Bill Clinton, Kamala Harris, Barack Obama Focus on Democratic party legacy, Coronavirus recovery, democracy and the rule of law.

Keynote/Nominee: Joe Biden

I can't stop laughing at how r-slurred this post is. Hilary as a keynote speaker. Bragging about inflation. An entire night dedicated to a tribute to Bernie. AOC as a keynote speaker. Mark Cuban to vouch for millionaires. And it has upvotes lmao.

!chuds Contact me for tips on creating a superior rdrama viewing experience

!metashit is this a good look for wpd and carp?

You may remember the case of Brendan Depa, who knocked unconscious teacher's aid Joan Naydich, then attempted to beat her to death.

Naturally, his attorneys have filed a lawsuit against the district, alleging that staff ignored Brendan's special needs and are themselves responsible for his violent outburst.

If you want the details, you can read more at FlaglerLive or ABC Action News.

I am reminded of how poorly my state regards the safety and education of everyone but a handful of special needs children. Anyone with an IEP is allowed to beat other children and staff, destroy classrooms, and bring all instruction to a crashing halt. Discipline is ruled by optics, rather than common sense, If we complain, we are told that we simply aren't doing enough to meet the needs of our special needs students.

Because the needs of the other people in our building do not matter.

I feel like most people in this thread didn't actually read either of the articles. The first one paints a pretty darning picture for the school district, who seemed to ignore every recommendation from the kid's previous psychologists and the group home he came from, and dragged their feet in creating an IEP for him. If they can't accommodate his needs, then they need to take steps to find a better placement for him, and it sounds like they weren't doing any of that.

It doesn't at all excuse his behavior, or the attack. He's still being held accountable for that, and rightfully so. But the district and the school fricked up too, and hopefully this forces them to change the way they do things.

It entirely excuses his behavior. That big r-slur didn't want to be in school, and doubly didn't want to be in gen pop. Admins and teachers forced him to be and shrugged off all the documentation saying he should not be there, because after all what's a kid gonna do?

If that defense motion is true I'm 100% on the students side here.

The psychologist said he was aggressive and acted without thinking with extreme mood swings. Parents provided detailed psychological reports from when he spent a year in a residential facility, a representative from the facility came to his IEP meeting and detailed violent behavior that required 4 staff to physically restrain him, his IEP listed only task refusal?!

He didn't even live at home but in a residential facilities because parents couldn't physically care for him.

After this school admin threw him in general education with an untrained aide? Then after repeated escalating violence he was given random days of out of school suspension? Not going back to staying at the facility at “home” until a more appropriate placement was found.

Yea I'm on his side here. Everyone said he was violent and the school decided to let him just continue without putting him in a more restrictive environment. This should go to the CSE chair for negligence.

Yup. School knew darn well what he was and just swept it under the rug because it was easier than dealing with it, the way they do with most problems.

Nonsense. This thug got plenty of "behavioral therapy" in the group home and he still assaulted other people 10 times there before he was moved to the public school.

The only "therapy" that will help this monster is heavy doses of valium that make him sleep day long. THAT is the cure for his violence, not singing songs and holding hands in a circle.

Shocked this stayed up in teachers.

STOP letting these kids in public schools. This is why parents are pulling their children out of public schools at alarming rates, because they're in direct contact with these animals that can kill them (but it's okay, they got an IEP so their needs are more important than any average student's)

The only people who wanted him in school were the admins and teachers! Everyone else saw this boy for what he is and wanted him in some sort of mental health facility.

Why is dating so much harder now than in the past? What Changed?

Was dating just as hard 40 years ago?

Is it that women work and have careers now so they aren't reliant on men? When less women worked, their life was dependent on looking pretty and finding a man. Now they can support themselves. Is that why it's impossible to find dates?

Finding out what changed in that time may help point to a solution to the male loneliness epidemic that is really hurting men right now. Men used to be the gatekeepers for relationships but now women have that and they are being withholding and borderline cruel. It is really damaging men and I think we need to come up with why it happened and how to solve it.