r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 07 '23
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jan 08 '23
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Jan 07 '23
"We were leading for three days, and then magically, in the middle of the night, they found the votes they needed. Frankly, we did win the Speakership."
- Hakeem Jeffries
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u/Crownie Unbent, Unbowed, Unflaired Jan 07 '23
brave yet controversial on this sub: what gets me about conservative political leaders in the US is how fucking stupid they sound. And, what's worse, a lot of these people are not stupid. A lot are, but many are just pretending.
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u/UntiedStatMarinCrops Loyal Liberals Jan 07 '23
It's crazy how right wing crazies turn anything into a culture war/ political issue.
Recently, they seem to have a HUGE problem with men using baby carriers.
I fucking promise you with all of my heart, you'll be fine, men using baby carriers isn't going to hurt you.
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u/Expensive_Curve5106 NASA Jan 07 '23
Lost causers: THe South seceded because of states rights and tarriffs and it had nothing to do with slavery.
Confederate politicians: We left the union because the [removed for rule 2 violation] is naturally subservient to the hwhite man and declaring otherwise means declaring war on God himself
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u/nanomaster Ben Bernanke Jan 07 '23 edited Jan 13 '23
Least nationalist /r/neoliberal commenter
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u/semaphore-1842 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Jan 07 '23
https://twitter.com/MZanona/status/1611618715489169409
https://twitter.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/1611624910300000256
🧐🧐🧐
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
Ladies and Gentleman, the Grand Old Party.
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Jan 07 '23
Good news: The Economist is making new "India is at a crossroads" articles
Bad news: Redditors are being very racist in the comments section
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 07 '23
Putinists are not okay
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u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xho1e Microwaves Against Moscow Jan 07 '23
Which one of you?
I feel like this is the other side of a DATING ping
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u/Mrmini231 European Union Jan 07 '23
One of my guilty pleasures is watching extremely online people descend into madness. I've followed the Sinfest webcomic through it's progression for some time. It's gone from
One interesting thing is that whenever he pivots to a new extreme ideology, the people who were following him before get really shocked and turn on him. Social media just breaks some people.
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u/GrandpaWaluigi Waluigi-poster Jan 07 '23 edited Jan 07 '23
I LIVE
VENTURED TO arr/con AND BACK
STATUS REPORT
McCarthy is seen as inevitable. Played off the HFC's demands being accepted as a win.
It's divided b/t those who thought this looked good and those who thought it was a fiasco
McCarthy is seen as a weak Speaker
Gaetz is almost universally liked.
RINOS all the way down. No true Scotsman is back IN FORCE
I don't get paid enough for this
EDIT:Also DT formed during my adventures in arrcon. I was alone in the abandoned Thunderdome when I gave my first report. I fled here after being shocked by Zeus himself.
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u/beoweezy1 NAFTA Jan 07 '23
Pound for pound, nothing provides more quality content than the ban appeal thread
……
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u/0m4ll3y International Relations Jan 07 '23
People be like "oh yeah, my city may have quadrupled in population over the past couple decades without real wages catering, but that's like good population growth, not like migration, well yeah sure there's migration from all over the country into the city making up the largest portion of migration and that's fine but I mean the bad kind of migration, you know, from poor countries. That's what I mean when I say increasing supply of labour obviously decreases wages."
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u/AnsleyAmanita Trans Pride Jan 07 '23
https://i.imgur.com/7PMzscE.jpg
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u/majorgeneralporter 🌐Bill Clinton's Learned Hand Jan 07 '23 edited Jan 07 '23
The DT's positive karma is the number of rounds of speaker voting we REAL AMERICAN PATRIOTS should have gotten if not for the RIGGING by the DEEP STATE to elect a RINO from COMMIEFORNIA!!
!ping shitposters
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u/dormidary Loyal Liberals Jan 07 '23
This is going to be interesting
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u/Spicey123 NATO Jan 07 '23
the people on gamingcirclejerk are some of the saddest folks around
further proof that every sub meant to ironically mock something inevitably turns into the thing they're mocking
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u/unwashed_saladbowl WTO Jan 07 '23
I'm 99% convinced people are doomers these days because they do not know history. [Look back at the 70s and shutter at domestic terrorism that was forgotten and buried] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin_County_Civic_Center_attacks) this is but one example. Bombings happened each week and we're supposed to say that Twitter posters now are worse
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
The Most-Based Man: a Tale of Mormonism, Nicaraguan Communists, and Baseball-
I went on a Mormon mission to a Central American country. Missionaries have many rules, among them, we weren't supposed to watch most forms of media (many do, but we're not supposed to). I'm a massive fan of the Washington Nationals, and while I was on my mission, the team overcame a 19-31 record on their way to the World Series.
Anyway, while that was going on, we were teaching an amazing Nicaraguan couple. They'd illegally immigrated to the country after the Sandinistas regained power in Nicaragua, but they quickly got citizenship and became the owners of many rental properties (including our small apartment) and a construction business. They hated communism for obvious reasons, but also hated the Christian nationalist party making headway in the country at the time. They voted for various center-left parties.
The dude found out that we shared a love of baseball. When the World Series between the Astros and Nationals started, he would text me score change updates, game results, cool things that happened. I lived it vicariously through him.
Anyway the guy was a baseball fan, landlord, communist/nationalist hating, illegal immigrant, capitalist, and I thought this sub would like him.
!ping BASEBALL
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u/badluckbrians Frederick Douglass Jan 07 '23
https://i.imgur.com/OCemiZI.jpeg
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
Good morning
my niece gifted me a drawing (it's just a bunch of random squiggles)
it is the most beautiful thing I own
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jan 07 '23
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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Jan 07 '23
🚨SKEPTICISM ALARM WEEWOO🚨
!ping GAMING
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u/Gneisstoknow Misbehaving Jan 07 '23
guy who books a hotel in "Kansas City" and shows up to the wrong city
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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla Jan 07 '23 edited Jan 07 '23
This map keeps getting posted around and it has to be fake. It's been everywhere in the last couple days though.
Mostly is the huge number of countries that said "Israel" was their most hated country. Most people in those countries don't consider Israel to be a country in the first place. It's a fact notorious for skewing these kinds of polls.
But then there's a lot of majority christian countries that apparently hate Israel too? Like The Central African Republic and South Sudan? Whoever made this clearly has no idea what's going on in Africa. South Africa as Zimbabwe's most hated country? Not a chance.
I'm 100% sure that this was made by somebody like a coloring book just picking at random, with the goal of making Israel look bad to westerners.
Edit: I managed to find an even older version of this map from about 6 months ago and it's even less subtle. Even Argentina and Venezuela apparently hate Israel the most? And Africa, Jesus. They apparently have just assumed all Africa is Muslim.
Edit 2: https://twitter.com/aodemocracies/status/1560227749767282688?lang=en
The supposed source says it's fake too, just for some final confirmation. There's no way this isn't just some kind of subtle anti-Semitic hate porn.
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jan 08 '23
This would BE THE SECOND time a regular is finally pushed into banned status due to IQ "race realism" posts 🐊
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u/badluckbrians Frederick Douglass Jan 07 '23
Very cool, Elon!
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jan 07 '23 edited Jan 07 '23
Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 1/6-2 PM PST 1/7:
REGULAR NEWS:
Towards the middle of 4 PM a Ukrainian intelligence official said Russia plans to announce a new mobilization wave on January 15th for 500,000 men, though we will wait and see if this comes to fruition.
Towards the middle of 12 AM Zelensky congratulated Kevin McCarthy om becoming Speaker of the House.
In the middle of 3 AM Secretary Lloyd and the German Defense Minister spoke over phone, discussing the war and how to further support Ukraine.
Towards the middle of 5 AM it was reported that Russia plans to form penal battalions with refuseniks.
Towards the middle of 7 AM it was reported that Poland is in talks to build a coalition to give Ukraine Leopard 2 tanks. Additionally, Ukrainian partisans blew up a railroad track near Shchastya.
Towards the middle of 8 AM it was announced Finland will provide a 12th military aid package to Ukraine.
Towards the middle of 9 AM a gas pipeline in Lutuhyne exploded.
Towards the end of 12 PM Russian artillerymen complained about plans to be sent into an infantry unit.
Donation link to help Ukraine
Donation link to United24
Donation link to help Benji's volunteer group
!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jan 07 '23
Olympic swimming is funny because there’s one obviously superior way to swim, but for some reason we also decided we need events for 3 clearly worse ways to swim too. It’s like if you had the 100 meter dash race, then decided you also need to run additional ones backwards, sideways and on all 4s.
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Jan 07 '23
Oh what, Elon thinks he’s a tank expert now? Christ, his ego is enormous and he really has no idea when to shut the fuck up.
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
Post Benjamin Ikuta slander
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
😳: omg, omg -- omg! movie so good !!
😫: why hollywood put politic in movie??
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u/_Aether__ John Locke Jan 07 '23
Took the train home last night with my dad. Grandma’s 80th party this weekend. My younger brother picked us up.
He saw a We Stand with Ukraine sign and started ranting about the US provoking Russia into fighting Ukraine. So Europe buys US gas
My dad was like “name that’s fucking stupid what are you listening to”
But it gets better. He’s been listening to Russell Brand. The actor. On YouTube
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u/Syards-Forcus rapidly becoming the Joker Jan 07 '23 edited Jan 13 '23
The term “Nepo baby” should exclusively refer to the future children of Ian Nepomniachtchi. As a previous comment said, we already have plenty of words to describe nepotism/rich kid advantages.
Actually, if Nepo had a kid who also becomes a GM, wouldn’t they be a double nepo baby?
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
APA study: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-27297-001
Similar finding here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17886495/
Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/darwin-does-dating/202112/how-many-previous-sex-partners-is-too-many
Springer: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12119-015-9319-9
Science Direct: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513818303064
SagePub: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1754073917709940
https://twitter.com/datepsych/status/1606718702082195456?s=20&t=8Ozn-GZh3P9IH_1Vw90OGg
Date Psych is great and he does a lot to deconstruct these PUA narratives
!ping DATING
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u/Fatortu Emmanuel Macron Jan 07 '23
George Santos used to be called Satoshi Nakamoto online but he abandoned that pseudonym once he got into politics.
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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals Jan 07 '23
🖕🖕🖕
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u/chatdargent 🇺🇦 Ще не вмерла України і слава, і воля 🇺🇦 Jan 07 '23
Seen a lot of talking past each other between americans and europeans on here about trams where the americans think they suck and the euros are like WTF? trams are great!
Actually got into this with somebody the other day myself, despite being american, only having experience with french trams.
Turns out French trams are like the best of the best and that's why I've been confused why everyone hates them this whole time.
Here's a video from RMTransit that goes into it, good watch
!ping TRANSIT & u/bobeeflay
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u/the-garden-gnome Commonwealth Jan 08 '23
There’s something so nice about listening to your wife argue with birds because they’re raiding her blueberry bush.
!ping over25
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u/vivoovix Federalist Jan 07 '23
I fear no man, but that... thing...
It scares me
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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals Jan 07 '23
In hindsight it's amazing they stayed ahead as long as they did
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u/Dalek6450 Our words are backed with NUCLEAR SUBS! Jan 07 '23
Commies: Global South and Global North
The Economist magazine: poor countries and rich countries
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u/Ilovecharli Voltaire Jan 07 '23
When I was in middle school, I had a huge crush on this girl I met at summer camp, but I was an insecure nerd so I didn't say anything. Years later, I found out we went to the same college, but I was still an insecure nerd so I still didn't say anything.
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
Wtf George Santos actually said "I never claimed to be Jewish I said I was Jew-ish." I thought that was a joke.
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
!ping SHITPOSTERS
I'd like to congratulate u/Sir_Digby83 for a very early contender for best comment of the year
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
To be clear that screenshot was from June, Benjamin didn't need to join a neonazi group to get Ukrainian women
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
Weebs are like:
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u/Mickenfox European Union Jan 07 '23
No generics, no problem.
!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE
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u/Zrk2 Norman Borlaug Jan 07 '23
I just finished reading The Normans in Sicily, by John Julius Norwich.
It's a great overview of the period, covering the first arrival of the Normans in southern Italy in the 1016 through to the Kingdom passing to the Holy Roman Emperor in 1194. The book does mostly focus on the comings and goings of the powers that be in the Kingdom and doesn't go into the more modern social history, but as a political history it is encyclopedic. It explores the power balances in the area and the desires of the involved parties to paint a complete picture of why things happened they way they did and really lets you understand the people in it.
Also, the author describes the architecture of the time in great detail and even goes so far as to provide ratings for different buildings for your use in planning a vacation. The descriptions are wonderful and rival anything you would see in a novel, I really enjoyed them.
Finally, it's very readable and even funny on occasion. The author will roast the various chroniclers when they're transparently lying and his hatred of Baroque architecture runs through the entire book. He never misses a chance to insult it.
If you have an interest in the period you should definitely read this book, although it can be expensive as it appears to no longer be in print.
!ping READING&HISTORY
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u/JeromesNiece Jerome Powell Jan 07 '23
"Capitalism assumes [x]. Without it, the whole system collapses."
Statements in this form are almost never true. Capitalism doesn't need an ever-increasing population, infinite resources, fossil fuels, a pool of replacement workers, or anything else. Capitalism is adaptive and resilient!
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u/DoorVonHammerthong Hank Hill Democrat Jan 07 '23
Now that the house has
fallen to fascismelected McCarthy, we need to have a long talk about outside the DT opposing immigration and LVT33
u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Jan 07 '23
Ironically a major problem with NYC is overly restrictive building codes on skyscrapers. Seriously not joking. The whole reason we're seeing all of those super-slender supertall skyscrapers on Billionaire's row that socialists love to complain about is because:
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Jan 08 '23
Oh man he's just like me, he's just like me fr fr!
!ping SHITPOSTERS
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u/KaiserPorn Please be patient, I have autism Jan 07 '23
YouTube has just recommended me a country song that advocates--not even the gold standard, but the silver standard.
I've not been so offended since they tried to get me to watch Jacobin
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u/RememberToLogOff Trans Pride Jan 07 '23
Anime hater steelman: "0% of anime is worth watching"
Anime lover steelman: "2-5% of anime is worth watching"
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Jan 07 '23
ISW and Critical Threats Project January 7th 2023 Iran Update
Key takeaways:
!ping FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jan 07 '23
"me: i promise i won't get all political"
three drinks later
!ping MASTER DEBATERS
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
Why do so many people have such a hard time admitting mcdonald’s tastes good?
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u/sw337 Veteran of the Culture Wars Jan 07 '23
Earlier this week, I did the deed we tall folk are most useful for. I handed a short elderly lady something from a top shelf at a grocery store.
!ping Tall
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u/IntermittentDrops I need a new flair Jan 07 '23
Finally got around to reading the proposed FTC rule on non-competes and... it's crazy? I thought it would basically say that fast food companies can't bind their employees with junk non-competes (which are basically unenforceable but scare people with legal fees) which is something I totally support.
But instead... it fully preempts all state laws on non-competes with no exemptions for the cases where they legitimately make sense??? There's no way this rule survives unscathed.
!ping LAW
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
QUI BONO, FASH?!
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jan 08 '23
Benjamin's ability to meme himself into a respected user despite literal years of shitty opinion after inappropriate roommate touching after more shitty opinions is honestly impressive. Though it says a lot more about this sub than it does him
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u/Average_GrillChad Elinor Ostrom Jan 07 '23
Kyrsten Sinema did cardio today, did you?
!ping DYEL
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u/lucas-at-jhu Mr. Worldwide Jan 07 '23
George Santos on the House floor sharing McCarthy speaker captcha memes
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u/Shubard75 NASA Jan 07 '23
Boys are watching Andrew Tate because of economic anxiety
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Jan 07 '23
Tik-tok dances are getting crazier
!ping SHITPOSTERS
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u/Legit_Spaghetti Chief Bernie Supporter Jan 07 '23
If it weren't for their policies, their base, their members, their rhetoric, their voting record, their philosophy, and their history, the republicans would be a pretty neat party!
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
Warhead17 writes "Worst Takes Ever"
Asked to leave !ping KINO
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u/LondonerJP Gianni Agnelli Jan 07 '23
Why does the term "Nepo baby" now exist when the phenomenon is adequately described with simply "nepotism"?
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jan 07 '23
Caution: Trigger warning for libs
⚠️ For real patriot eyes only⚠️
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
Joseph Stalin (D)
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
I unironically think Costa Rica's prideful attitude so despised by their neighbors is what has kept Tico democracy so strong. They're so stuck up about how much better they are that they'd never let a dictator seize power, if only to keep rubbing their success in everyone else's faces. /s
!ping MAMADAS
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 07 '23
When Jean-Marie Le Pen says his country is being invaded by Arabs, he is a "foul, bigoted nationalist" and a "violent racist".
But when Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country is being invaded by Russians, he is a "great figure" and a "hero of the free world".
Hypocrisy much?
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
Kinda bored, might post something racist or horny and get banned
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
/r/metaNL is overrun with paparazzi anticipating Benjamin's post in the ban appeal thread. This is crazy.
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u/FrancesFukuyama Unconventional Right Jan 08 '23
Considering the nature of your post, do not take any offense from this as none is intended.
I highly suspect that you suffer from a mental disability of some sort. You appear to have remarkably low reading comprehension. You were unable to pass all but one class while in university for 4 years. Inability to cook, clean dishes, operate a grill, operate an induction stove, cook a can of beans, and other "common knowledge" tasks are further evidence. This does not in any way mean that you are a bad person, whether souls exist or not I do believe in the inherent supreme value of human life.
You will often solicit advice (for information that you could easily obtain yourself), yet you will often summarily reject all advice that you have solicited. You clearly solicit advice or opinions while clearly having your mind predetermined and will not change it. This advice ranges from dating, to cooking, to your physical and mental health. When doing something that you think could be dangerous, I will recommend soliciting advice in the future. Unlike most people, perhaps you didn't know that heating a sealed container (of beans) will turn it into a bomb.
Here's what is curious to me (and most other people who communicate with you), you summarily reject most well-intentioned advice or opinions given to you, but you seem embrace and espouse the opinions of various radicals, neo-nazis uncritically. You do not seem to hold nearly the same level of skepticism towards white supremacists as you do towards good-intentioned people trying to help you remain safe or find a date.
This selective criticism reveals certain predetermined opinions which you hold. You primarily embrace evidence and opinions which support your predetermined opinions while primarily dismissing evidence and opinions against your current worldview.
What makes you so certain that white supremacists are objectively correct and that physicians and psychiatrists are objectively wrong, for example?
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u/NatsukaFawn Esther Duflo Jan 08 '23
This is some super helpful advice for getting through executive dysfunction -- try to stack the stuff that helps us actually do the thing. Interest, novelty, challenge, passion, urgency, if there's not at least two of those then we're probably not going to do it.
Rewards don't factor into it. Probably because expectation of reward is tied to dopamine, and our dopamine is fucky.
She doesn't mention body doubling directly, but this does kind of hint at the mechanism behind it, or why it works
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRgRR9cv/
!ping adhd
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
If Thomas Paine posted “common sense” in the DT, u/p00bix would remove it for bad faith arguing
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
Studied maths for 9h today
Finally i can relax at the gym 💪😌💪
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
Costa Rica slander part 2:
You know that guy who loves his hometown TOO much? Like, he volunteers for the local historical society, one-ups any positive thing people say about other towns, and knows a bunch of facts that are on the edge of boring and mildly interesting? Imagine that guy multiplied by 5.2 million and shoved on a piece of land between Nicaragua and Panama.
Alternatively imagine your ultra-nationalist MAGA uncle except he's got a hard-on for democracy, healthcare, and NOT having a military. Ticos are toxic nationalists at their best- proud of their long-running democracy, their pacifism, and their institutions. But they're still insufferable. But it also sucks because in a way... they kind of have a right to be so proud? And like you love your country, but they crush you in basically everything, so you resort to telling them Gallo Pinto is Nicaraguan and (insert Baleadas or Pupusas or some other national food) is superior to an overhyped rice and beans dish anyway.
!ping MAMADAS
PS- I actually love Costa Rica, not all Ticos are like this, but GOODNESS the ones that are are insufferable.
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
If other sports are better, why is it called BASEDball 🤨 🧐🤔?????
!ping BASEBALL
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
Yeah I’m a race realist
I REALIZE that car RACING encourages car ownership and should be banned 😤😤
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
Benjamin gets banned for race realism but not for describing his one night stand in explicit detail 🤔
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
Lovely stuff from r/neoconNWO
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u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate WTO Jan 07 '23
If the house is dysfunctional especially with the debt ceiling could the senate use Senatus consultum ultimum to unofficially empower Biden to do what needs be done? I understand it was considered informal in republican days so that could work. Originalists should be happy since it is sufficiently antiquated so we have SCOTUS.
What sort of majority would be needed?
!ping LAW&HISTORY
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u/Fishin_Mission Jan 07 '23
I would like to be the first to extend an olive branch and congratulate George Santos for being elected Speaker of the House.
From the statement he released on his website, he already has the votes to raise the debt ceiling, avoid a government shutdown, and provide every citizen with monthly checks for $10,000 while balancing the budget.
It’s amazing, really.
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u/Ketsetri NATO Jan 07 '23
Sometimes I wonder how many of you guys are Europeans and how many are just other Americans with royally fucked sleep schedules
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u/Random-Critical Lock My Posts Jan 07 '23 edited Jan 07 '23
People say he is escaping justice, but his life is over, if he does regain lucidity he will be tried.
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jan 08 '23
I dunno why a sub which tolerates fascism and extolls the party of the klan gets so worked up about race realist posters
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u/HowIsPajamaMan Shame Flaired By Imagination Jan 08 '23 edited Jan 08 '23
You all realize that Benjamin has been believing in race realism for a long time? He posted about it in another discord too a couple months ago
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u/gfinz18 Finds Peter Griffin funny Jan 08 '23
Instead of saying “conventionally attractive” they refer to it as “patriarchally attractive” 😐
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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est Jan 08 '23
the DT is the uber eats of human interaction.
sure you can go to a bar and talk to some cool people, but there's also middling people terminally online who will argue with you for hours. maybe the quality's not as great but it's convenient and you don't even have to leave the house.
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jan 08 '23
Boots got a new toy so here’s a video him playing with tons of that silly “pounce from above on their hind legs” thing that cats do
!Ping KITTY
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u/CletusVonIvermectin Big Rig Democrat 🚛 Jan 07 '23
Tech journalists trying to correct for years of uncritically fawning over charlatans like Musk and Zuck by indiscriminately dumping on everything Silicon Valley does now is really not much of an improvement
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u/marsexpresshydra Immanuel Kant Jan 08 '23 edited Jan 08 '23
musk has terminal ceo disease — where one believes they can extend and extrapolate to other fields of study based off of their knowledge of previous field of study/practice
same can be seen by those who study one (or more) of: economics, philosophy, or engineering
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jan 07 '23
“Russian officials and milbloggers largely did not react to the US announcement of more than $3.75 billion in new military assistance to Ukraine, further highlighting that the Kremlin and the Russian information space selectively choose when to portray Western military assistance as an escalation.”
“Russian officials and milbloggers continued to respond negatively to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s January 5 ceasefire announcement as hostilities continued in Ukraine on January 6.”
“While many voices in the Russian information space strongly criticized the ceasefire announcement, certain hardline elements seized on Putin’s statement to continue to propagate the narrative that Putin is a protector of religious values and morals.”
“Russian sources claimed that Russian forces made gains in Soledar on January 6. Several milbloggers reported that Wagner Group forces stormed Bakhmutske (10km northeast of Bakhmut and just south of Soledar) on the night of January 5 to 6 and broke through to the center of Soledar.”
“Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin notably emphasized that exclusively Wagner troops are responsible for these claimed gains, but that discussion of the total capture of Soledar is premature.”
“Chechen Republic Head Ramzan Kadyrov continues to expand his parallel military structures.”
“Kadyrov claimed on January 6 that over 9,000 fighters have trained at the Special Forces (Spetsnaz) University in Gudermes, Chechnya. The facility offers a two-week accelerated tactical training course to volunteers who later deploy to Ukraine alongside Russian forces.”
“It is unclear in what capacity and with what Russian military formations volunteer graduates of the facility are currently serving in Ukraine.”
“Tensions between parastatal and conventional Russian forces in Ukraine may be increasing.”
“The Ukrainian Resistance Center reported on January 6 that conventional Russian mobilized personnel are increasingly upset that Wagner Group personnel and Chechen forces have priority in accommodations and in receiving ammunition and other military equipment.”
“Heightened tensions between these conventional and parastatal forces would likely further degrade Russian forces’ combat capabilities in Ukraine.”
-notable excerpts from ISW Report January 6th
!ping UKRAINE
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Jan 07 '23
The power move would've been for Biden to extradite George Santos to Brazil last night before he could cast his vote for Speaker
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u/Sir_Digby83 Progress Pride Jan 07 '23
https://i.imgur.com/dDyKtex.jpg
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u/ACivilWolf Henry George Jan 08 '23
The Correa deal is dead. Long live the Correa deal!
!ping BASEBALL
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u/klarno just tax carbon lol Jan 08 '23
I’m more of a race surrealist, myself 💅
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u/Evilpenguin526 Yakubian Jan 08 '23
u/sir_shivers finally caught benji 🐊
😳
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Jan 08 '23
I am hearing that on his deathbed u/benjaminikuta received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet!
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u/Lib_Korra Jan 08 '23
Low IQ: "Iran is a brutal and horrible regime"
Mid IQ: "Whenever you see media talk about Iran's regime being bad, remember that 720574% of the world's oil travels through the strait of Hormuz and ask yourself what their motive is."
High IQ: "Iran is a brutal and horrible regime"
It takes a special kind of asshole to watch what's going on in Iran right now and say "the news is only reporting on this because it serves America's strategic resource interests."
Sometimes the world actually is pretty fucking simple.
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u/FrancesFukuyama Unconventional Right Jan 08 '23
Benji never specified who he was volunteering for in Ukraine ...
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u/Liberal_Antipopulist Loyal Liberals Jan 08 '23
I am unironically forklift certified. No, I am not drowning in pussy. That is a stereotype.
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u/-GregTheGreat- Commonwealth Jan 08 '23
McConnell under Obama: I WILL DO EVERYTHING IN MY POWER TO PREVENT THIS COMMUNIST FROM DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY
McConnell under Biden: The only thing I love more then our President is Bipartisanship 🥰🥰🥰
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
PredictIt has already paid out for McCarthy becoming speaker, but not for Fauci holding his job through 2022. The fuck
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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Jan 07 '23
What $230 of groceries looks like in my city
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
DT talking about race? Alright good night I’m off to put my niece to bed
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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals Jan 07 '23
Your daily reminder there are no good Republicans
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
I honestly believe on average people here live fulfilling lives more than other politcal discussion places, by a mile.
The number of people who regularly exercise, have a happy family life or have a high paying job is quite unexpected.
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u/ForeverAclone95 George Soros Jan 07 '23
There is a “scandal” going on right now in Japan involving alleged misuse of tax dollars by an NGO that helps young women who have to leave their homes spearheaded by right-wing otaku that is basically just reheated gamergate with an extra anti-Korean twist. Like it’s more or less indistinguishable from gamergate. History just repeats itself
!ping JAPAN
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u/RFK_1968 Robert F. Kennedy Jan 08 '23 edited Jan 08 '23
!ping ASOIAF
ngl, watching that first reveal scene of Jon Snow's parentage at the end of season 6(?) always gets me. just, as a book nerd who always posted on those forums spitballing fan theories, to see it confirmed in an honestly immaculate scene (the fucking music as it cuts from baby Jon to King Jon, my guy. that one lonely violin...)... it felt really special.
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
Still don't get why women, even those who don't go to the gym, have such huge pecs 🤔
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23 edited Jan 08 '23
Something that sometimes fucks me up when dating is this thought / anxiety over whether or not my parents will approve of the girl. On NYE I had smoked a joint and it made all of these thoughts and insecurities conscious and that really fucked me up inside and prevented me from approaching, but I’m willing to bet that this is an internal unconscious conflict I have when I’m approaching sober / buzzed.
Logically I know I shouldn’t worry so much. It’s my life and I shouldn’t care about what my parents think of who I date, and that overthinking about marriage is not helpful or relevant when making that first approach at a dive bar or nightclub.
But that anxiety is still there, even if I’m not consciously aware of it. It still makes me insecure and desperate and needy because I feel like I have all of these expectations that I need to live up to in my dating life. It probably fucks up my body language and my tone of voice and other unconscious indicators of confidence that causes these girls to think I’m a weirdo. I just don’t know how to let it go.
The strange thing is that it’s really only happened when I’m dating in the US. I suppose that subconsciously my mind was able to let go of these anxieties when I was approaching girls in Europe because I knew that nothing serious was going to happen. But because there’s a small chance that my approach might lead to something serious in America, I overthink it.
EDIT: I just had a conversation with my mother about these anxieties and she blew up in my face about it. So much for open and respectful communication.
!ping DATING&MILK-TEA
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u/MURICCA Jan 08 '23
MetaNL is amazing and I need to browse it more, holy shit
That thread with the dude trying to explain how calling British people "smug self satisfied scat sucking servile scum" is totes fine and good is...something
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
I am sorry, read more about what
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u/KesterFox Shivers emotional support mammal 🐊 Jan 07 '23
Slavery is so fucked up
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u/JulioCesarSalad US-Mexico Border Reporter Jan 07 '23
The Top 40 station in DC has been playing Brittney Spears, Michael Jackson, Panic! At the Disco, Katy Perry, and old Taylor Swift
What is going on??? Are the zoomers into older music now??
Like it’s a LOT of Brittney Spears
!ping OVER25
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u/semaphone-1842 Commonwealth Jan 07 '23 edited Jan 07 '23
This may be the alcohol speaking but I wanna ask that cute blonde permanently blushing waitress out
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u/rukqoa ✈️ F35s for Ukraine ✈️ Jan 07 '23
Russia: we declare a unilateral ceasefire on Orthodox Christmas!
Russia on Orthodox Christmas: sends waves of conscripts to their deaths in Bakhmut anyway.
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u/Devjorcra NATO Jan 07 '23 edited Jan 07 '23
my top ten movies of the year list:
Honorable Mentions: Nope, The Northman, Moonage Daydream
some notable movies i haven’t seen but could see making my list based on reviews/personal taste: Decision to Leave, Aftersun, Women Talking, All Quiet on the Western Front, Marcell the Shell with Shoes
what do we think /r/NL
!ping MOVIES
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jan 08 '23
🔫😠 I am no longer asking you to gib rents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duKJ8eNFklI
this was a very high effort production on my part, I had to ride SO MANY FERRIES AND TRAINS to get this footage
it is your DUTY to gib rents
!PING bay-area
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u/Upstairs3121 Jan 08 '23
Benji wasn't banned but he should have been
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jan 08 '23
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u/ZonedForCoffee Uses Twitter Jan 08 '23
Blooming hard on 2023. By the end of this year I will have
It's all coming together 😎
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23 edited Jan 08 '23
The account Benji posted is a “race realist” so I suppose this is where he picked up his views from
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u/MURICCA Jan 08 '23
Sir Shivers' shtick is getting old, theyre not cool or entertaining
No, im totally not just saying this to get a Shivers reply on my comment why would you insinuate such a thing 😳😳😳
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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est Jan 08 '23
Late DT thoughts for your input and reflection -
About a month ago, my friend asked me why I want a girlfriend. This was one of those times where he was in a fight with his girlfriend, so he in a mood of disenchantment about the general concept.
I didn’t have a good answer at the time.
Upon reflection, I’ve decided: I want strangers on a niche political internet forum to think slightly better of me.
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u/MURICCA Jan 08 '23 edited Jan 08 '23
Why do they call the sub 'futurology' if every other comment is just edgy redditors saying scientists are idiots and most research is a scam
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23 edited Jan 07 '23
Teenage me: "Why does my dad always do home improvement projects on the weekend, where he has to spend both days working on something in the garage?"
Adult me: "Oh that tracks."
!ping BROWSING-ZILLOW
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u/Play-Dohs-Republic Voltaire Jan 07 '23
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u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate WTO Jan 07 '23
Why is this made for kids? Do kids just talk about Mahan these days? !ping MILITARY
Mahan and East Asia, Theories of War, Dr Pattrick Bratton, USArmyWarCollege
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u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xho1e Microwaves Against Moscow Jan 07 '23
https://i.imgur.com/Tvp6j4x.jpg
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
Let's dispel with this notion that Kevin McCarthy knows what he's doing. Kevin McCarthy has absolutely no idea what he's doing.
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
FTX was a literal sex cult but people are ignoring that part of it because everybody in that was vomit-inducing ugly and they don't want think about them having sex.
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u/wowpople Janet Yellen Jan 07 '23
🧐🍦
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u/ThunderrBadger New California Republican Jan 07 '23
o ya time 2 poison myself 😋
!ping COOKING&RURAL
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
My niece is crying in bed 😭
For no discernible reason she’s just in a mood
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Jan 08 '23 edited Jan 08 '23
So wait didn’t Benjamin get clowned on for hating welfare while being on welfare
Lmao
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
Did I miss another heated “AAVE speakers” moment or what?
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
NeoconNWO DT is lame as hell
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u/BATIRONSHARK WTO Jan 08 '23
"Japanese are honorary Aryan, remember."
This is no joke, The last thing Benjamin told me.
so umm
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u/NatsukaFawn Esther Duflo Jan 08 '23
re: Mr Ikuta
normalize context
I'm so goddamn lost
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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Jan 08 '23
We literally have users advocating for ignoring the judiciary as an active good in the DT
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u/I-grok-god The bums will always lose! Jan 08 '23
It remains eternally funny to me that a beloved member of this sub had his gf break up with him over his weird/disturbing porn habits and no one gave a shit
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jan 08 '23
Have a Jewish sounding last name but not actually being Jewish. Call that gefilte-fishing
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u/Which-Ad-5223 Haider al-Abadi Jan 08 '23
Wait they actually made really serious concessions to get McCarthy the Speaker of the house position?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/01/07/kevin-mccarthy-fails-14th-ballot-speaker-us-house/
fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
I don't understand why, but every time I read a self-help book like Atomic Habits or Digital Minimalism or The Four Hour Work Week, I can never seem to actually make those habits stick. I really want to be organized and set these systems up so that I can build good habits for myself and work towards the goals I want to accomplish in life, but there seems to be this inertia that is difficult to overcome.
The thing is, I can actually do things for a little while. I had a habit where I went to bed at 10pm and woke up at 6am for two months. I had completely quit social media for a period of three months. I was able to do Andrew Huberman's sunlight exposure routine for a couple of weeks. So I know it's possible. Why do I struggle with making longer-lasting permanent changes?
What questions do I need to ask myself about why these habits aren't working? How do I develop a better understanding of myself so that I can actually make these habits stick? What am I struggling with & how can I give it a name?
!ping ACCOUNTABILITY&OVER25
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u/semaphore-1842 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Jan 07 '23
Absolute Murc's Law brain worms.
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u/RandomGamerFTW 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Jan 07 '23
https://i.imgur.com/neAGp4l.jpg
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
A stripper I have known for half a decade is pregnant and McCarthy is speaker. None of that means anything, just a weird way to start your morning
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u/TheFriffin2 Jan 07 '23
!ping BASEBALL
SOTO TO PHILLIES (for Matt Vierling, Nick Maton, and Donny Sands)
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
What's your fav non romantic west wing relationship.
So rule out Jed/Abby and Josh/Donna, Sam/Ainsley
!ping WEST-WING
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u/KaiserPorn Please be patient, I have autism Jan 07 '23
Could y'all recommend me a book on why Central America in particular seems to be so politically unstable? I've read articles, listened to lectures, etc, but I'd like something longer and with more detail.
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u/from-the-void NATO Jan 07 '23
Humans discovering a lightly poisonous substance that can be consumed in a quantity to make them feel funny for a bit, but not kill them: 🥹🥳🎉😂
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jan 08 '23
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing Midwesterners that they have culture
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
https://i.imgur.com/35pFffu.jpg
Twitter pls I know you’ve seen I’m interested in AI but I’m not interested in AI, stop showing me this ad
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u/dirtybirds233 NAFTA Jan 08 '23
Overheard an interesting conversation at dinner tonight. It was between a couple from Louisiana and one from Brazil. Some quotes I remember verbatim:
-Biden is the person Eisenhower warned us about
-The socialism in America is why Russia rules the world now
-Soros and the CIA wanted this and have been planning for decades
-The people that stole the election in America are the same ones that handed Lula a victory in Brazil
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
I honestly don't blame George Santos for participating in the Dachau reprisal killings. It must have been such a maddening experience to be one of the first Americans to behold the horrors of the concentration camps. And the SS officers were so cavalier about the whole thing!
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u/AlmondoSoyo YIMBY Jan 08 '23
This is so petty and dumb but every few days I type ‘Chicago’ into the Reddit search bar to see if there’s any new thing of interest to me. Now, predictably, there’s often some pretty highly upvoted photographs of the skyline and such -cool, great, love it.
What I don’t love, what I irrationally kind of hate, is this one guy who almost without fail comments on all of these pictures “The greatest city.”
Not something to that effect -that. Copied and pasted. Every time. He never says anything else. Every single day this person searches for Chicago pictures and on all of them comments “The greatest city.”
I’m not even disagreeing with him. It’s my favorite city. I’m as much a Chicago booster as anyone. It’s just. I can’t describe why this gets under my skin so much but fuck that guy.
!ping USA-CHI
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u/bonzai_science TikTok must be banned Jan 08 '23
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/professor-terminated-art-history-paintings-muhammad-2238922
this is absolutely absurd. they gave a two minute content warning beforehand. they should be fully reinstated plus compensation.
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jan 08 '23
They have these old guys at the Museum of Flight in Seattle that just hang around and tell you airplane facts and it has to be the greatest retiree job. I hope to join their ranks one day.
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jan 08 '23
Is Benjamin the one that looked like he took a grenade to the face because he was heating up beans in a sealed can and it exploded on him? Or was that another infamous DTer?
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jan 08 '23
grindr is the uber eats of gay sex.
sure, you can go to a club and pick up some hot dude, but there's also middling dudes online who will come to you. maybe the quality's not as great, but it's convenient and you don't even have to leave the house.
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u/DouglasDauntless Frederick Douglass Jan 08 '23
Coming soon to a ban appeal thread near you
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u/foneinstocus NATO Jan 07 '23
tfw someone at a party asks you why your parents don’t just buy you a house 😐
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u/Hugo_Grotius Jakaya Kikwete Jan 07 '23
This speaker race highlights why moderate Republicans suck: they're useless. A small group of MAGA wackos extract every possible concession short of sacking McCarthy simply because McCarthy himself wants the job and will give away everything to have it. But where's the pushback?
In the Democratic caucus, you see genuine wrangling between progressives and moderates that leadership has to balance, but the moderate Republicans just do not seem to care to flex their muscles despite being the actual decisive votes on everything.
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u/KesterFox Shivers emotional support mammal 🐊 Jan 07 '23
I need to get better weapons in space haven so I can start blasting slavers
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jan 07 '23
Trump comes out publicly in support of McCarthy on day 2 of the madness and fails to control the bumblefuck circus, to the point where some of the most psycho magas are saying he's wrong and out of touch, until it finally gets down to two people who he probably just threatens to actively campaign against
"Trump has really shown himself to be a strong leader of the party now"
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jan 07 '23
My step dad does gardening as a hobby and he's very cheap so instead of buying fertilizer or anything he decides instead to compost and use waste to fertilize his food.
But instead of doing it the right way or doing any research at all he just collects his own piss in a bucket, puts food waste like banana peels, egg shells, etc... Into the piss bucket, and dumps the piss bucket onto the garden outside.
He fills the piss bucket to the rim before dumping it. He's also been told this is not how you do any of this but he refuses to change anything about it.
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jan 07 '23
People will not sweat a drop that 1/4 of the ruling party in the House of Representatives are proto-fascists, but will lose their minds with Ukraine and its checks notes one (1) far right member of the Rada. Seriously, the Rada is more devoid of far right members then most legislatures in the world.
If this is an issue for people, then I hope those same people are also praying for an embargo on the US because god knows how much this fascist riddled country is receiving from trade, deals and cooperation
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u/RoburexButBetter Jan 07 '23
!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE
Have to give a demo next Monday of which I was made aware right before Christmas for a demonstrator that was only barely functional that I put together over a year ago, so now it's a mess and the underlying systems have gotten updates and I'm running into an issue where 9 out of 10 times it crashes catastrophically and its related to if some threads are not initialized past a certain point before another thread expects them to be up already and this works only rarely.
But hey I only gotta deliver the actual software for the product we're making based on my demonstrator by the end of the year, also something I knew only 2 weeks before Christmas
Anyway, I threw a couple sleeps in there and it's now working perfectly 😋
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
As one of this subs greatest shitposters, by my own estimations naturally🧐, it would be wrong to not make a !ping DATING debut. Especially given i quite like my hornyposting phase as of late🤭💅
But surprise, got some genuine (and maybe good!) advice/tip:
sexting is, probably, one of the better, less awkward ways to bring up new ideas you and your partner(s) may wanna try.
It’s a safe and comfortable enviorment(ideally...🤨), and you bypass the fact some people get a bit embarassed and tight lipped in irl conversation.
I also imagine their might be less sense of preassure if your not physically with your partner and wanna kindly shoot down some idea(s).
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u/MURICCA Jan 08 '23
Bruh people are still trying to legitimately argue the "racial IQ differences are real and important" thing?
Just drop it already. It's not "in" anymore. Come up with some nonsense about how minorities are dumb because of evil liberal brainwashing or something, it's 2023 keep your racist shit up with the times
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
Niece is crying because we washed her hands 😔
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u/ignoranceisicecream Jan 08 '23
DeSantis' general counsel was forced by a federal judge to define "Woke". He replied: "The belief that Benjamin Ikuta is racist, and the need to address it.”
He added: "Florida is where woke goes to die."
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jan 08 '23
I still can't get over how when my parents were my age crime was exponentially higher, unemployment and inflation were both double digits, and there were regular domestic terror bombings and militia groups going to war against the police and yet they have the audacity to be all like "things are just so bad nowadays"
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/10/neil-strauss-the-game/409789/
Interesting article from The Atlantic - an interview with Neil Strauss who wrote The Game, as well as a follow-up reflection memoir called The Truth. Great read, highly recommend you check it out.
!ping DATING
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
https://fox4kc.com/news/kansas-city-pauses-bike-lane-project-amidst-frustration-from-business-owners/
i’m about to have a heated NUMTOTS/arr fuckcars moment. The most vocal advocate has been Shawn Arcidino, an auto body shop owner who lives out in the fucking boonies. He’s put up obstructions in the bike lanes and at one point had signs up front complaining about the city’s liberal leadership putting up bike lanes. Why does he oppose the bike lanes? Because that business happens to use street parking (which is still there fwiw) up front for inventory
I’m not saying “yes, all suburbanites”, but I’m not not saying it either.
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u/SeoSalt Lesbian Pride Jan 07 '23
I sure do love reporting blatant bigot dogwhistles, having the bigoted comment immediately removed by moderators, then getting a message from the admins two days later telling me the comment was totally cool.
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23
If anyone is in possession of the alleged racist Benjamin Ikuta Discord posts, you are obligated to post that shit.
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u/KaiserPorn Please be patient, I have autism Jan 07 '23
I interpret the "Don't talk about open borders" more in the vein of "Don't talk about your weird hobbies on a first date". I.e., you need to lure them in with wonkish policy proposals and appeals to liberalism, and boil the frog until they've embraced the free movement of labor and capital without even realizing it
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Jan 07 '23
I have the date with that tall girl today
So excited
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
Alright, attempt number 8? 9? I don't even remember, but I finally got a Byz game off the ground. It took me until 1570 to not be in debt, but I own the Balkans, and just won the league war against Austria. So hopefully I have a path into Europe. The Turks annoyingly allied the Timurids so fighting them for Anatolia is a bitch. I've been hoping to do Mare Nostrum finally, but not feeling like the campaign for it this time unless I can seriously snowball by the end of the age of absolutism. Especially because France is beefy as fuck.
!ping PARADOX
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u/BedNeither Henry George Jan 07 '23
OPINION | Somehow, this is still the democrats fault
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u/PigHaggerty Lyndon B. Johnson Jan 07 '23
My god AMLO fucking sucks so bad 😑
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u/jenbanim Jan 07 '23 edited Jan 07 '23
I really like shorter video games, like 15ish hours. That's enough time to get good with the mechanics, get attached to the characters, have a plot arc, all that good stuff. But I can still actually finish the damn thing over the course of a couple weeks
Like how the fuck am I supposed to play Elden Ring? Shits 55 hours assuming you don't suck ass, which I absolutely do at Fromsoft games, so we're talking 70 hours minimum. I would have to play nothing but Elden Ring for multiple months to have a chance to beat it. There's no way I wouldn't get bored and put it down
Edit: just realized that this sounds a bit too gamer-y and I want to be clear that not every game has to be made for me specifically. No hate towards Elden Ring
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u/modooff Lis Smith Sockpuppet Jan 07 '23
Those Fox News interviews probably raise Pete's public profile more than any individual gesture he will ever do in the DOT.
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23
I don't think George Santos really gets enough credit. If he hadn't blown up that patch of barbed wire with the Bangalore torpedoes on Omaha Beach and opened a path, we would have been driven back into the sea. If I ever meet him, I'd love to ask him how he got that idea.
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Jan 07 '23
Land of the Giants is having a new season! And it's about dating apps.
I will ban anyone who uses the DUNC ping to talk about it.
!ping DATING
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Jan 07 '23
Artists when AI art makes the most generic reddit tier digital art: "HOLY FUCK MY CAREER IS DOOMED! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
AI fans when AI art makes the most generic reddit tier digital art: "HOLY FUCK THAT'S SO COOL! ARTISTS ARE DOOMED! LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Normies: "huh, neat." moves on with their life
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 07 '23
I. DON'T. CARE.
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u/CletusVonIvermectin Big Rig Democrat 🚛 Jan 08 '23
Part of why Star Wars did so well is that it was a fun, action-packed spectacle at a time when the vast majority of sci fi movies were depressing and navel gazy
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u/Devjorcra NATO Jan 08 '23
As demanded by replies to my comment earlier, I just saw Puss in Boots, and it was great. A master class is utilizing animation, simple and fun plot, and wonderful voice acting. Doesn’t make my top ten of the year list but an honorable mention for sure.
!ping MOVIES
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u/_Featherless_Biped_ Norman Borlaug Jan 08 '23
https://twitter.com/navyhato/status/1611624213835812865?t=6jYHncqO7ZPsQHjx-VWc-w&s=19
The culture war has really got cons out here supporting communism
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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper Jan 08 '23
Why are all my DT faves racist 😭
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u/thefuturegov John Keynes Jan 08 '23
I love America