happybadger [he/him]

Working class employee of the Sashatown Central News Agency, the official news service of the DPRS Ministry of State Security. Your #1 trusted source for patriotic facts.

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Cake day: October 7th, 2020

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  • My first exposure to socialist urbanism was this neighbourhood in Bucharest, particularly as you go south down Brasov Street: https://maps.app.goo.gl/nfSr3Nuuunx2iJVg9

    Romania is a pretty poor country that developed mostly on its own. When I visited there were two decades of post-1989 decay after their 1960s-80s construction. I stayed in one of those flats which is on par with what I pay $1600/month for in a much smaller city, not the capital across from a ration distribution centre. I walked through the neighbourhood and it was the first real pedestrian-centric urban forest I had been in, with all the benefits from that during a hot summer. I saw how much of a focus there was on diverse parks and how easy it was to get to them with the mass transit options. Beneath the 2br/1ba apartment bloc the first floor was mixed-commercial with bakeries on every corner, so you could just get government-subsidised enriched baguettes along with convenience store groceries ten steps outside of your front door. If not for the car traffic it would be a much better version of the best places I’ve lived in the US. Even on the periphery of socialist development projects they made something so much more pleasant to live in than much wealthier countries.

    Anyway last week a child was almost killed by a big ole truck here using the crosswalk from a park to their low-density suburb. The speed limit is 70kph+ and the suburb lacks public greenspace. If I worked thirty years maintaining the closest thing they have to nature within walking distance, now a traumatic experience for them, I wouldn’t be able to afford a house anywhere near that park. Renting a house there would be $2300/month+ and I would have to cross that same road to touch something other than non-native grass. There’s no safe bike lane there for the 30 minute ride to downtown so I’d have to drive on streets designed for 1/10th of our population.



  • Gish gallop is a rhetorical tactic that only works with high school debate teams and right-wingers. If his post was just a short denial of being associated with Epstein or a short statement telling people to stop talking about Epstein, it would be very easy to people to refute just by posting pictures he took with Epstein. The narrative would be very simple: “Don’t investigate my paedophilia.”

    When it’s phrased this way, he’s calling in so many conspiracy theories and irrelevant issues that you can’t choose one thing to respond to unless you’re literate enough to understand subtext. His defenders now have X number of reasons to rally behind him during a moment that looks really bad for his administration. Those things are each loyalty tests which confirm the legitimacy of everything else mentioned. If you pick one to respond to his supporters will just throw all of the others at you like pepe-silvia insisting you don’t see the bigger picture of everything being true+false. His audience can’t separate those things into separate issues while his critics don’t have the time to respond to all of it and parse the nonsense.


  • My shirt that says “Don’t investigate my paedophilia because what’s going on with my “boys” and, in some cases, “gals?” They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and “selfish people” are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein. For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again. Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration, who conned the World with the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, 51 “Intelligence” Agents, “THE LAPTOP FROM HELL,” and more? They created the Epstein Files, just like they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele Dossier that they used on me, and now my so-called “friends” are playing right into their hands. Why didn’t these Radical Left Lunatics release the Epstein Files? If there was ANYTHING in there that could have hurt the MAGA Movement, why didn’t they use it? They haven’t even given up on the John F. Kennedy or Martin Luther King, Jr. Files. No matter how much success we have had, securing the Border, deporting Criminals, fixing the Economy, Energy Dominance, a Safer World where Iran will not have Nuclear Weapons, it’s never enough for some people. We are about to achieve more in 6 months than any other Administration has achieved in over 100 years, and we have so much more to do. We are saving our Country and, MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, which will continue to be our complete PRIORITY. The Left is imploding! Kash Patel, and the FBI, must be focused on investigating Voter Fraud, Political Corruption, ActBlue, The Rigged and Stolen Election of 2020, and arresting Thugs and Criminals, instead of spending month after month looking at nothing but the same old, Radical Left inspired Documents on Jeffrey Epstein. LET PAM BONDI DO HER JOB — SHE’S GREAT! The 2020 Election was Rigged and Stolen, and they tried to do the same thing in 2024 — That’s what she is looking into as AG, and much more. One year ago our Country was DEAD, now it’s the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World. Let’s keep it that way, and not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.