Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

think about this headline like once a week

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

think about this headline like once a week

Eat This Glob posted:

not really "remember" so much as "saw in another thread" but it made me lol

www.businessinsider.in posted:

A fugitive Chinese billionaire wants to auction sperm and eggs from unvaccinated donors on the right-wing social media platform Gettr.

Guo Wengui, an ally of Steve Bannon and other pro-Trump Republicans, announced the plan in a live stream in February, AFP and Rolling Stone reported.

"Sperm and eggs from our fellow fighters will be auctioned on our Gettr platform between June 1 and June 6," Guo said, per AFP.

The billionaire claimed to have gathered nearly 6,000 eggs and "millions" of sperm from unvaccinated donors – and said the sale would include his sperm too.

Guo said the site would use "scientific methods" and require an attorney's letter to verify the donors' vaccine status, per AFP. He did not provide further information on how the samples would be tested or stored.

The plan, which capitalizes on the baseless conspiracy theory that the COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility, has generated buzz among Gettr users, according to AFP.

Gettr, where conspiracy theories and misinformation run rampant

The mysterious Chinese billionaire wanted in China over fraud charges. Last month, he was arrested in New York over unrelated allegations that he orchestrated a conspiracy to defraud thousands of his online followers out of at least $1 billion.

It is not clear how his arrest will affect the auction plans.

Guo made his fortune in China's real estate market before fleeing the country. Guo claims he fell foul of powerful and corrupt officials and fled the country in 2014, claiming asylum in the US in 2017.

Guo was an early financial backer of Gettr, created by former Trump aide Jason Miller. It has become a platform where conspiracy theories and misinformation run rampant.

Sources told Rolling Stone last month that there have been intense behind-the-scenes discussions at Gettr to transform the platform into a marketplace where unvaccinated men can sell sperm to the highest bidder.

However, some working at Gettr have privately expressed concerns about the plan, Rolling Stone reported, pointing to various hurdles, including restrictions on semen sales in other countries.

mawarannahr posted:

never seen but lol

Eat This Glob posted:

not really "remember" so much as "saw in another thread" but it made me lol

Mister Bates posted:

one of the earliest officially recognized United States naval ensigns was made by Dutch people who had never seen an American flag before and were working entirely off verbal descriptions, which resulted in this:



(an American ship had lost its flag in battle and needed to be flying something in order to be legally considered a ship of a nation's navy and not a pirate, so the Dutch threw one together real quick, had the ship fly it, and then entered it into official records)

my favorite part is that it's very obviously made from bits of Dutch flags cut up and stitched back together

projecthalaxy posted:

Steve Bannon founding a wow gold farm slash conservative think tank in an Italian monastery

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

Carthag Tuek posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2

Animal-Mother posted:

Scaramucci accusing Bannon of attempting autofellatio, getting fired immediately, going on Bill Maher and being too prudish to swear on HBO, tweeting congrats at his wife giving birth, and I presume becoming a CNN contributor or hedge fund manager or something.

uber_stoat posted:

Steve Bannon ran a crack den and was probably making bathtub meth in there and running a sex trafficking scheme.

Animal-Mother posted:

Scaramucci accusing Bannon of attempting autofellatio, getting fired immediately, going on Bill Maher and being too prudish to swear on HBO, tweeting congrats at his wife giving birth, and I presume becoming a CNN contributor or hedge fund manager or something.

Carthag Tuek posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

mooch blew up his entire career and marriage because he was absolutely convinced that trump would be his new dad.

HashtagGirlboss posted:

Whatever happened to bannon anyway. I remember they were trying to lock him up for a minute but since it all kind of quietly went away I assume they were unsuccessful

nice obelisk idiot posted:

that statement holds true for a huge cohort of american men

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

also seinfeld and a number of hollywood movies, somehow

that guy's career just doesn't make sense to me

In Training posted:

Oh yeah he finally did get arrested for fraud bc he was crowdfunding his own border wall lmfao

DR FRASIER KRANG posted:

I thought he was arrested for ignoring a J6 subpoena?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/former-trump-advisor-bannon-gets-4-months-behind-bars-for-defying-jan-6-committee-subpoena

In Training posted:

Oh yeah he finally did get arrested for fraud bc he was crowdfunding his own border wall lmfao

Captain Hotbutt posted:

AOC was in some corny dance / pep rally video in university and the 30 second clip broke everyone's brain for a solid week or two.

HashtagGirlboss posted:

Whatever happened to bannon anyway. I remember they were trying to lock him up for a minute but since it all kind of quietly went away I assume they were unsuccessful

canyoneer posted:

I thought it turned out that Steve Bannon was just Rosie O'Donnell doing a bit?

Captain Hotbutt posted:

AOC was in some corny dance / pep rally video in university and the 30 second clip broke everyone's brain for a solid week or two.