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   Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 09:49:32 JST Hoss Delgado

   • Hoss Delgado
   >be me
   >geopolitics gore enjoyer
   >discover Transnistria
   >what the fuck is this DLC country
   >thin strip of land between Moldova and Ukraine
   >flag looks like someone found a Soviet PNG in a cursed folder called final_final_REAL_use_this_one.png
   >hammer and sickle still there
   >not even ironically
   >they are doing Soviet nostalgia with the commitment of a divorced dad who still wears his high school football jacket
   >USSR collapsed in 1991
   >Transnistria apparently hit “remind me later” on the update popup
   
   >start reading more
   >it gets worse
   >not recognized by basically anyone
   >except other breakaway geopolitics cryptids
   >Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Artsakh before the save file got deleted
   >international legitimacy of a Minecraft server
   
   >capital is Tiraspol
   >looks like if a mid-tier Soviet regional capital was preserved in amber by a museum curator with clinical depression
   >statues of Lenin everywhere
   >street names still doing communist cosplay
   >official vibe: “What if the USSR was a liminal space?”
   
   >think it’s just a weird frozen conflict museum
   >nope
   >it’s also basically a corpo-state
   >economy dominated by Sheriff
   >not the police
   >not a guy with a hat and revolver
   >a massive conglomerate
   >supermarkets, gas stations, telecoms, media, football club, probably your grandmother if you check the paperwork
   >founded by former security-service guys
   >because of course
   >every post-Soviet rabbit hole eventually arrives at “former KGB man controls bizarre regional monopoly”
   >football team somehow beat Real Madrid in 2021
   >imagine getting clapped by the official FC of Post-Soviet Costco Oblast
   >imagine if Walmart, Gazprom, RT and the KGB had a baby and raised it inside a Soviet bus station
   >that’s Transnistrian capitalism
   
   >mfw communist aesthetic
   >mfw oligarchic monopoly economy
   >mfw red star on the flag but everything is owned by one giga-conglomerate
   >“workers of the world unite”
   >under one vertically integrated holding company
   
   >best part
   >local tax haven shenanigans
   >Transnistrian companies often register in Moldova for trade access
   >but don’t exactly behave like they’re thrilled about paying Moldovan taxes
   >absolute galaxy-brain arrangement
   >“we are Moldovan when exporting, independent when taxing, Soviet when branding, capitalist when invoicing, Russian when geopolitically convenient”
   >statehood.exe has encountered a legal paradox
   
   >try explaining this to a normal person
   >“so is it Moldova?”
   >yes
   >“so Moldova controls it?”
   >no
   >“so is it Russian?”
   >kind of
   >“so Russia owns it?”
   >not exactly
   >“so who runs it?”
   >a breakaway government and a giant ex-security-service corpo-octopus
   >“why?”
   >because the Soviet Union exploded and nobody cleaned up all the geopolitical shrapnel
   
   >then 2022 happens
   >Ukraine war kicks off next door
   >Moldova applies for EU membership
   >Transnistria sitting between them like a cursed save file from 1992
   >suddenly this frozen conflict isn’t just frozen
   >it’s frozen inside a room where someone just plugged in three space heaters and a toaster
   >every geopolitical analyst on earth periodically waking up in a cold sweat like
   >“WAIT, WHAT ABOUT THE WEIRD SOVIET DLC REGION?”
   >Moldova wants Europe
   >Ukraine suddenly very interested in not having a mystery Soviet rectangle on its western border
   >Russia has “peacekeepers” in Transnistria
   >Transnistria wants to continue being a Soviet-themed oligarchic customs loophole
   >Brussels opens accession documents
   >Moscow opens vodka
   >Tiraspol opens another Sheriff gas station
   
   >Transnistria is genuinely the weirdest political entity in Europe
   >not because it is powerful
   >because it feels procedurally generated
   >like Paradox Interactive let an intern design a microstate after eating expired pelmeni
   >ideology: Soviet nostalgia
   >economy: monopoly capitalism
   >foreign policy: Russian hostage note
   >tax policy: Moldovan paperwork glitch
   >national identity: “please don’t ask too many questions”
   >military situation: Chekhov’s ammo depot
   >tourism slogan: “come see what happens when history forgets to despawn an NPC”
   
   >visit Transnistrian supermarket
   >everything is Sheriff-branded
   >buy bread from Sheriff
   >buy gas from Sheriff
   >watch Sheriff TV
   >use Sheriff telecom
   >cheer for FC Sheriff
   >pay in arcade tokens for a Soviet-themed geopolitics museum with card issued by Sheriff Bank
   >walk outside
   >Lenin statue gazes over the square
   >he died warning about capitalist monopolies
   >now he stands guard over one with cowboy branding
   
   >beautiful
   >absolutely beautiful
   >the USSR died
   >but its weirdest larval form survived as a strip mall with a flag
   >Transnistria is not a country
   >it is a geopolitical haunted house
   >it is a customs loophole wearing a ushanka
   >it is what happens when the Cold War ends but one county clerk refuses to process the paperwork
   >it is the world’s first Soviet cyberpunk company town without the cyberpunk
   >just concrete, cigarettes, border guards, and unresolved constitutional questions
   
   >10/10
   >would get detained by three different unrecognized ministries again
   
   RT: https://shitpost.cloud/objects/70af451d-0d6e-4e14-9ad3-ca642399dc93
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     sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 10:16:09 JST sapphire

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     @Hoss pretty sure exactly this is the plot of Escape from Tarkov
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 10:18:45 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • Dagnar
     What an amazing rabbit hole it was to go down. Kojima himself couldn't have imagined something like Transnistria.
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     Dagnar (dagnar@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 10:18:46 JST Dagnar

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     This was an excellent breakdown! Good work!
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     Super Satsuki (satsuki@misskey.fearisfreedom.com)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 10:18:55 JST Super Satsuki

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     @Hoss@shitpost.cloud bro. This is like mechahilter AI
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 10:35:37 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • Oven_Operators_LU_88
     Soviet Disneyland but it has border control and a military.
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     Oven_Operators_LU_88 (oven_operators_lu_88@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 10:35:38 JST Oven_Operators_LU_88

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     So it's a theme park 🤔
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 10:35:55 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • Νικηφόρος ⩩
     Their plastic coins are nifty, never seen anything quite like it.
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     Νικηφόρος ⩩ (nike@nationalist.social)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 10:35:56 JST Νικηφόρος ⩩

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     Transnistrian postage stamps are cheap collectibles, if youre into that sort of thing. Would recommend 👍🏻
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 10:46:56 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • Νικηφόρος ⩩
     I've never been so suddenly bothered by a detail I didn't even notice until it was pointed out.
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     御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 10:46:57 JST 御園はくい

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     • Νικηφόρος ⩩
     @Hoss @nike >only the 1 and 5 have the correct number of sides
     they aren't very good at math are they
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 10:48:01 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • Hoosierborean King
     Not exactly, lmao. I spliced the funniest parts together from a few dozen different gens :marseycheers:
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     Hoosierborean King (madcuzbad@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 10:48:02 JST Hoosierborean King

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     did you write this yourself? bravo.
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     Dagnar (dagnar@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 10:48:26 JST Dagnar

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     A lot of those former Soviets became corporate empires. I think I recall Kyrgyzstan being one. Just, you know, without the Soviet LARP.
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     pepsi_man (pepsi_man@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 10:48:57 JST pepsi_man

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     @Hoss
     Stuff like this is why I'm excited for the collapse of the American empire.
     
     We will see oligarchs and maybe even some grumpy colonels establishing their own fiefdoms.
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     gav (gav@cawfee.club)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 10:53:17 JST gav

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     • Νικηφόρος ⩩
     @Hoss @nike poker chips
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     lait accompli (genmaicha@stereophonic.space)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 10:56:41 JST lait accompli

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     @Hoss AI?
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 10:58:30 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • lait accompli
     Tweaked and spliced together from a bunch of outputs, but yeah :marseysnappyautism:
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     JoeBravo77 (joebravo77@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 14:19:42 JST JoeBravo77

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     >it is what happens when the Cold War ends but one county clerk refuses to process the paperwork
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 14:19:42 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • JoeBravo77
     And later realizes "actually, this frozen conflict is the perfect vehicle for tax avoidance". I gotta respect the game, honestly. Truly the (ambiguously) sovereign citizen of weird unrecognized statelets.
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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 16:39:47 JST 

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     @Hoss >national identity: “please don’t ask too many questions”
     Evenly split between Russians, Moldovans and Ukrainians. Funnily enough during the independence war Russian volunteers (including a certain Igor Girkin) fought alongside ukro nationalists from UNA-UNSO against mainland Moldovans.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 16:41:30 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • 
     It's a pretty fascinating geopolitical oddity.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 16:56:11 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • cjd
     Depends, as of right now Transnistria is still being "left on read" with regards to official recognition from Russia. That doesn't exactly signal confidence that they're going to be able to capture enough territory to fold it into the federation proper.
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 16:56:12 JST cjd

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     You're not allowed to join NATO if you are in a war or border dispute - so historically, Russia has kept Transnistria in perpetual frozen border dispute mode in order to keep Moldova out.
     
     But now that NATO rules are becoming less relevant, Russia is probably going to try to conquer enough of Ukraine that they can make it part of a contiguous Russian territory.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:10:37 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • Dagnar
     • :swastika: Eddie Fucksaw :swastika:
     Ngl if the comrades' coffee slaps that hard I'll choke it down.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:10:38 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • Dagnar
     Yeah but Sheriff is an especially hilarious example to me because an ex-KGB glowie smashed together Walmart, Comcast, Buc-ee's, CNN, Gazprom, Manchester United and a bunch of other random oligarchic business interests into one massive conglomerate hydra and then draped the whole thing in GTA gas station-esque branding.
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     :swastika: Eddie Fucksaw :swastika: (chainsaw_appreciator@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:10:38 JST :swastika: Eddie Fucksaw :swastika:

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     • Dagnar
     I bet the coffee there tastes like sewer water and keeps you awake for 48 hours.
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     thefinn (thefinn@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:23:26 JST thefinn

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     >unironically the best thing I've read in a week.
     Hoss Delgado repeated this.
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     Kalogerosstilitis2RvngotJunta (kalogerosstilitis2revengeofthejunta@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:23:51 JST Kalogerosstilitis2RvngotJunta

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     • thefinn
     This poast was sponsored by Sheriff
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:27:19 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • Kalogerosstilitis2RvngotJunta
     • thefinn
     I would unironically take sponsorship payments in sanctions-dodging crypto payments from the ex-glowie who controls Sheriff if he approached me with an offer to shill for him. That'd be amazing.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:30:41 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • PodunkPotato
     • Hoosierborean King
     I'm currently workshopping another post about Cyprus because it's another super funny geopolitical shitpost topic.
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     PodunkPotato (podunkpotato@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:30:42 JST PodunkPotato

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     • Hoosierborean King
     Now do this with the city of london, corpo and medieval times.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:35:10 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • Hoosierborean King
     Cyprus is equal parts tourist destination, tax haven, frozen conflict, financial crisis graveyard, and millennia-spanning historical record of conquest from every civilization in the region that ever figured out boats, it's a beautiful subject for a clanker-assisted geopolitics greentext shitpost.
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     Hoosierborean King (madcuzbad@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:35:11 JST Hoosierborean King

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     • PodunkPotato
     cyprus an already small island antion, is currently split into turk half and grek half. and can never reunited to greece ucz hte turks are fags and we should genocide htem all.
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     Hoosierborean King (madcuzbad@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:37:13 JST Hoosierborean King

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     • PodunkPotato
     alright, long as you agree that we should genocide the turks.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:37:13 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • PodunkPotato
     • Hoosierborean King
     Of course :marseycheers:
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     PodunkPotato (podunkpotato@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:43:44 JST PodunkPotato

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     • Kalogerosstilitis2RvngotJunta
     • thefinn
     That's a nigger preacher from Chicago who wanted to join the White revolution he saw coming, Finn. Niggified, but not Trumpian.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:43:44 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • Kalogerosstilitis2RvngotJunta
     • thefinn
     Is this a recorded oral remark from Justice Clarence Thomas?
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     thefinn (thefinn@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:43:45 JST thefinn

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     • PodunkPotato
     • Kalogerosstilitis2RvngotJunta
     Americans want to swap Trump brand for Sherriff Brand.
     
     >that was quick
     Hoss Delgado repeated this.
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     Kalogerosstilitis2RvngotJunta (kalogerosstilitis2revengeofthejunta@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:43:46 JST Kalogerosstilitis2RvngotJunta

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     • thefinn
     We all would
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     PodunkPotato (podunkpotato@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:43:46 JST PodunkPotato

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     • Kalogerosstilitis2RvngotJunta
     • thefinn
     >Loord I hope they let me join 'em
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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:47:45 JST 

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     • PodunkPotato
     • Hoosierborean King
     @Hoss @PodunkPotato @madcuzbad Won't be surprised if our sanctions dodgers now constitute at least a half of its GDP. Even fucking Yandex is registered there.
     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: likes this.
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     PodunkPotato (podunkpotato@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:56:14 JST PodunkPotato

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     • Kalogerosstilitis2RvngotJunta
     • thefinn
     Full remarks when they arrested his wife.
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHyN9mYD66c
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 18:02:32 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • Kalogerosstilitis2RvngotJunta
     • thefinn

     Taxation controversies New York City authorities claimed in 2016 that ATLAH owed $1.02 >million in unpaid taxes and water bills.[6][7] In 2016, the church was >due to be sold at a public auction, and the Ali Forney Center, a >nonprofit organization providing transitional homes for homeless >LGBTQ youth, raised $200 thousand to purchase it.[8][9][10] In >September 2016, a judge vacated the foreclosure and sale order, >ruling the property cannot be forced to be sold until such time that >ATLAH is found to actually owe the taxes the city claims it owes.[11] >After the court ruling, Manning threatened to publicly burn the >rainbow flag as a celebration, which caused the Ali Forney Center to >organize a protest outside the church.[12] The case remained in the >courts as of 2019.[3]

     My nigga, I hope he's still on that based Uncle Ruckus grind. Had to look him up because I was worried this Trve son of Yakub had died.

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     PodunkPotato (podunkpotato@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 18:10:28 JST PodunkPotato

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     • Kalogerosstilitis2RvngotJunta
     • thefinn
     Posted 14 hours ago:
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4mxBUNJFKU
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     Qadse Sanur Qut ibn Quaadibz :catsader: (nerthos@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 18:35:52 JST Qadse Sanur Qut ibn Quaadibz :catsader:

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     @Hoss
     >football team somehow beat Real Madrid in 2021
     >imagine getting clapped by the official FC of Post-Soviet Costco Oblast
     
     Reminder that in 1982, Loma Negra, an Argentinian concrete company, had its private football team play a friendly match against the Soviet Union national team, and won 1-0
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AerFIHrca_o
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 18:36:15 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • DulceKennedy
     • Qadse Sanur Qut ibn Quaadibz :catsader:
     @ElDeadKennedy Argie commie-stomping lore.
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     Eleutheria2 (eleutheria2@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 23-May-2026 00:56:15 JST Eleutheria2

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     There is so much gold in this post, its value eclipses Transnistria's GDP.
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     • Oven_Operators_LU_88
     There really should be a Soviet theme park. Just grey buildings with Cyrillic writing and military equipment parked haphazardly everywhere.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 23-May-2026 07:05:16 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • Oven_Operators_LU_88
     • TBoone
     Four stripes? Comrade, you speak of capitalist decadence.
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     • Oven_Operators_LU_88
     • TBoone
     >Adidas has three stripes, we have four!
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     Dudebro (dudebro@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 23-May-2026 07:05:18 JST Dudebro

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     They better sell adidas at the gift shop
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     TBoone (tboone@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 23-May-2026 07:05:18 JST TBoone

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     • Dudebro
     • Oven_Operators_LU_88
     Authentic AdDiass knockoff, Da?¿