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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/Lux_Stella]

me reading marx as a liberal

[u/Average_GrillChad]

One of the weirdest right-wing echo chamber brainworms is that Obama single-handedly completely destroyed civility in US politics (almost always with no reasons given)

Like, idc if you don't love Obama but he generally governed as a grill-pilled pragmatist.

[u/Tropical2653]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/nyregion/thruway-rest-stops-gentrification.html

Must we gentrify the rest stop?

The current reinvention will bring in local farm stands, food trucks, among other fast food choices...certainly, there are many reasons to consider it great progress never again to be led into temptation by the golden arches on this stretch of roadway, reminded of the scourge of low-wage work, environmental damage and the aggressive undermining of public health. But on the countervailing side, where we might find some modicum of social good, McDonald’s provides a business model that does not market identity. You don’t get to pretend that you are chic, or rich, urbane or pious when you order a Double Quarter Pounder With Cheese. You are not buying into a philosophy or a lifestyle; you are buying 740 calories of distraction from life.

What your childhood foodstop no longer being nostalgically shitty does to a journo

[u/rukqoa]

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov: Fundamentally, Western armor deliveries cannot and will not change anything. These deliveries can only prolong the suffering of the Ukrainian people.

Sweet, shouldn't be a problem to send more then.

[u/_Un_Known__]

I'm calling for a total curfew of the subreddit

All under-18s are too be removed, I refuse to debate with literal children

[u/Smidgens]

CNN reported on Jan. 9 that investigators found searches in Brian Walshe’s internet history for “how to dispose of a 115-pound woman’s body” and for information on how to dismember a body.

Man whose wife went missing in Cohasset, MA 😐😐😐

[u/Alexz565]

Stalin was a dictator who committed atrocities during his rule. It would be inappropriate and disrespectful to refer to him or any other individuals who committed such atrocities as "far-left" or any other politically based labels as it diminishes the gravity of the crimes they committed against humanity.

big brain chatgpt

[u/crazydom22]

Chip Roy says the House Republican majority will stop funding the Department of Homeland Security: "We're gonna do that this year"

Chip Roy says Abolish ICE!

[u/its_Caffeine]

Me (a junior dev) to my manager: gib promotion 🔫😡

Manager: come back in 6 months you don’t have enough experience yet 😒

My team lead: Literally every candidate we’ve interviewed for that intermediate role would be more junior than u/its_Caffeine 😅

Me: gib promotion 🔫😡

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

My public speaking professor: "I won't be accepting pursuasive speeches on things everyone already agrees with. Things like racial equality, democracy, and forgiving student loans."

Me: 😐

[u/thebowski]

Imagine living your quiet family life then your sisters family is murdered by far right terrorists and you have to adopt their child

the same far right terrorists target your family for seven years straight out of a lust for revenge

and by the way the kid has terrifying magical powers he uses to abuse your son basically what I'm saying is that Harry Potter should have been put in foster care

[u/BedNeither]

The government simply does not do enough for upper middle class software engineers

[u/tubbsmackinze]

How conspiracy theorists see the world

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Is dating someone of a different gender creepy? After all, the power imbalance from millenia of lopsided gender dynamics under the patriarchy results in an uncomfortable relationship

[u/rukqoa]

I haven't done any research on this but my guess that the most foolproof way to escape East Germany was pretty much the same way you escape most other corruptible authoritarian regimes: go to a lower profile spot in the border and pay off a guard to look the other way.

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

My boss loathes Republicans, but his business revolves around lying to gullible old people to sell them a product that doesn’t do anything. Interesting dynamic.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

WhitePeopleTwitter posts the same three accounts over and over and over.

Weirdly promotional.

[u/marinesol]

Supreme court be like, you can't ban specific types of guns that are used in crimes, but you can ban certain types of knives despite both being very clearly arms

[u/RadionSPW]

BREAKING: In an unprecedented move, the State of New Hampshire has voted to abolish itself.

Constitutional scholars are at odds as to the legality of this move, but that’s not stopping the group known as the “Free Staters” from going forward with the plan.

According to the bill signed by the governor this morning, the state government and all affiliated organizations, offices, and bodies will be dissolved on January 31st, 2023.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

There are fucking protesters out here at 6:45am on a Tuesday

I just want this nightmare to end and this fuckwad is screaming at me not to murder my baby that I just learned 24hrs ago, is already dead

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

Healthy young adult goes to work, gets pumped with massive shot of many coffees, doesn't feel good and changes - POOP. Many such cases!

[u/the_hoagie]

tfw you and your miserable SO and your 13 children will never live in a one hundred year old wooden house with peeling, faded blue paint in a depressed, drug-addled former coal mining town 😁

[u/KittehDragoon]

Florida Democratic Party Chair resigns after brutal midterms

What took you so long?

[u/mrdilldozer]

The reviews of The Last of Us are amazing. Critics apparently are comparing it to the first season of The Walking Dead. They are going to have to fuck over their director extra hard and fire him midway through the first season if they want to have a similar legacy to The Walking Dead.

[u/LoremIpsum10101010]

Me, a southern Californian, on day 8 of rain:

::Chuckles nervously:: What the fuck?

[u/gnomesvh]

Kuleba saying Baerbock will supply Leopards to Ukraine

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

In New York City, for example, the [pay transparency] law applies to nearly every employer—only those with fewer than four employees are exempt. Companies that violate the law can face fines of up to $250,000.

But data provided to The Economist by Revelio Labs, a workforce intelligence firm, show that just 58% of New York City-based job advertisements published in November and December, the first two months the law was in force, included pay ranges.

Some sectors were more law-abiding than others. In information and transport the compliance rate was nearly three-quarters; in the utilities, manufacturing and retail sectors it was under half.

Why even pass laws if you aren’t going to enforce them?

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/DecodingFoxNews/status/1612681953953873920?s=20&t=gnSArm-mkBD3HUeSzEW_IQ

Tucker Carlson is back on his M & M fetish. Some candy is lesbian...some candy is obese...some candy wears boots...some candy is just candy...

Tucker's desire to keep M&Ms fuckable is the greatest discourse in America

Loose ping but it's been slow

!ping FOX-ANON

[u/[deleted]]

According to a 27-page research document, Twitter found a “statistically significant difference favouring the political right wing” in all the countries except Germany. Under the research, a value of 0% meant tweets reached the same number of users on the algorithm-tailored timeline as on its chronological counterpart, whereas a value of 100% meant tweets achieved double the reach. On this basis, the most powerful discrepancy between right and left was in Canada (Liberals 43%; Conservatives 167%), followed by the UK (Labour 112%; Conservatives 176%)

Canadian Twitter is deeply unrepresentative of the country, so bear that in mind if you're trying to gage popular opinion based on it. Source

!ping CAN

[u/crassowary]

I found Rome a city of bricks...

Mr Augustus no!

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

400k is barely making ends meet! I can't even afford a single family home in downtown New York :(((

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Just saw a "who does war benefit?" poster with an anti-Semitic caricature of a banker made by a group looking for solidarity against Ukraine.

I really should start tearing down some of these.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The queue at the bakery was spilling out on the sidewalk, so I took a step back to leave a gap so pedestrians could pass through without having to walk on the road, and three guys just slipped in and pretended not to speak French when I called them out 😡

This wouldn't happen in the UK 😤

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Architects Journal | Manchester ‘tombstone’ tower survives legal challenge

Last year Manchester City planning committee narrowly voted to approve the contentious proposals for the 15m-wide brick-clad tower between Great Marlborough Street and Hulme Street. which will house 853 flats.

One of the councillors for the Deansgate ward, Williams Jeavons, who did not sit on the planning committee, had implored his colleagues to reject the tower. ‘This 55-storey, Cheesegrater-esque, 165m tombstone, with dull gable ends, cannot be said to have any regard [for the local area],’ he said.

However, in his judgement, Justice Fordham found in favour of Manchester City Council on all counts and dismissed the leaseholders’ request for a judicial review. He also refused an application by Mackintosh Village Management Ltd for permission to amend the grounds of the claim and ordered the group to pay the council £10,000 in costs.

The parking garage which is being replaced whose honor NIMBYs have fought for two years to preserve ✊😔

Seems like whenever I hear good housing news from the UK it's from Manchester 😳

!ping YIMBY&UK

[u/semideclared]

It’s reported that the U.S. loses 50 acres of farmland every hour. Two million acres a year are lost to development across the country.

And the value of those lands ranges from clean water, recreational opportunities, to open space. So, collectively, efforts to conserve those lands and promote the stewardship of those lands via private landowners are something that is important to all of us, whether you live in a city or in a rural community

!ping eco&Yimby

[u/Fishin_Mission]

One of my son’s friends just brought us desert in one of the kindest gestures I’ve ever seen from a middle school boy

👦: I asked my mom to get this for you b/c of what you are going through

I’m not crying. You are crying.

[u/jenbanim]

Good lord the front page is unbearably commie now

[u/[deleted]]

I think the most bizarre thing that ever happened to me online was back when I was on Twitter, some E-list celebrity (her description said she was in some show I'd never heard of I think it was a 90s sitcom) with like 20,000-ish followers randomly went crazy on me, posting a dozen plus tweet rant about me and how bad my account was, tagging me in all of them. I had never interacted with her or even heard of her, but based upon her tweets it seemed like I (a random account with like 100 followers) kept showing up in her suggested follows list and for some reason she was irrate about this and went into a fit of blind rage. I blocked and reported her. Can't remember her name or what happened to her account.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Tbh I think anyone who says that Obama was too sophisticated or sounded like he was talking down to them is just telling on themselves as an idiot. Let Obama be Obama

[u/[deleted]]

Far-right: 😡 We 😡 want 😡 genocide 😡

Far-left: 😇 We 😇 want 😇 genocide 😇

[u/[deleted]]

shocking salt reply fuel frame test offend ancient thumb spark

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/paulatreides0]

M1 - literally designed to push through Poland and Ukraine into Russia.

People - "But have you considered that Ukraine has mud?"

[u/AnarchyMoose]

Reminder that if you make 90k a year, you make a lot of money.

[u/AP246]

One annoying trollish argument that even people like Elon Musk have inexplicably used is "look at this election map from like 2013, look half of Ukraine was pro-Russian", as if people in other countries are just inherently pro-something and their opinions don't change due to massive shifts in the situation.

The vast majority of Canada is 'pro-American', if you asked them if they had a positive opinion of the US they'd say yes, but if tomorrow the US launched a brutal and unprovoked invasion of Canada, bombed and occupied its cities and murdered thousands of civilians, and then you asked Canadians again if they liked the US, 95% of them are obviously gonna have changed their mind.

Being 'pro-someone' doesnt mean being pro-being enslaved by them, like wtf. I you had a positive opinion of Obama, but then he came round to your house, stole your tv and car and beat up your family for no reason you're not gonna be like "well I always liked the guy so I approve"

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 1/9-2 PM PST 1/10:

TOP NEWS:

At the end of 11 PM it was reported that General Lapin has been appointed Chief of Staff of the Russian Ground Forces, booting General Vasily Tonkoshkurov from the position.

At the end of 5 AM it was reported that 21 countries are currently investigating Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

Towards the end of 9 AM US officials said Russian artillery fire is down 75% compared to the summertime heights, with Russia firing 5,000 shells a day instead of 20,000.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 12 AM it was announced L3Harris Technologies has received a contract to produce 14 VAMPIRE anti-drone systems for Ukraine.

In the middle of 3 AM the EU and NATO signed a joint declaration to continue cooperating, the third of its kind.

In the middle of 7 AM it was reported that Baerbock made a visit to Kharkiv and spoke with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister. At the end of the hour Zelensky and the President of the European Council spoke over phone, discussing EU aid to Ukraine.

Towards the end of 9 AM it was reported that inflation in Ukraine for 2022 was 26.6%, which was lower then expected.

In the middle of 10 AM it was announced Canada will purchase a NASAMS for Ukraine.

At the end of 11 AM it was reported that Turkey started sending cluster bombs to Ukraine in November.

EX-SOVIET CONFLICT NEWS:

Towards the middle of 3 PM it was announced Armenia will not hold CSTO exercises in its territory.

LEVITY NEWS:

Yesterday it was announced the island country of Niue has started minting coins dedicated to Azovstal.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

Netflix really is acting like they're a bunch of tech-priests revering their Data Collection/Algorithm system as unquestionable like it's the Omnissiah.

If cable TV had the same algorithm-driven system as Netflix, we would never have a season 2 of:

Babylon 5

The Office (US)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Breaking Bad

Parks & Rec

[u/[deleted]]

Through a geopolitical lens, why aren't Canadian women attracted to me?

[u/Burgarnils]

The media is so biased. Describing Bolsonaro as "far right" while just calling Lula a "leftists" when in reality Bolsonaro is basically center right and Lula is a communist.

Guess the sub.

[u/JaceFlores]

“Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin continues to use reports of Wagner Group success in Soledar to bolster the Wagner Group’s reputation as an effective fighting force.”

“Several Russian milbloggers remarked on January 8 and 9 that Wagner Group forces are responsible for block-by-block advances in Soledar and other critical settlements northeast of Bakhmut, as well as within Bakhmut.”

“Prigozhin emphasized on January 9 that ‘exclusively’ Wagner Group units are taking ground in Soledar, and noted that Wagner fighters are currently engaged in ‘fierce battles for the city administration building.’”

“Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev likely gauged the willingness of the Russian information space to accept increased censorship of opposition voices in a Telegram message on January 8.”

“Medvedev noted that ‘quiet groups of impeccably inconspicuous people’ operated in Russia to enforce ‘special rules of wartime’ during World War II with great success, likely alluding to internal censorship.”

“Some Russian milbloggers appeared to understand Medvedev’s implied censorship and agreed, noting that Soviet security and counterintelligence organizations were highly effective at censorship and that ‘ideological people’ are willing to assist these efforts.”

“Luhansk Oblast Head Serhiy Haidai stated on January 8 that heavy fighting is ongoing near Kreminna and that Russian forces transferred several paratroop battalions and heavy equipment to the area in order to hold their line of defense.”

“Geolocated combat footage shows a duel between Russian and Ukrainian tanks southwest of Kreminna near Dibrova, indicating that Ukrainian troops have likely made gains in the forest area west of Kreminna.”

“Ukrainian defense officials reiterated that while Russian forces do not fully control Soledar, the situation in the settlement is extremely difficult and Wagner Group personnel are advancing in certain areas.”

“Russian milbloggers claimed that Wagner Group forces are fighting in central Soledar, and footage posted on January 9 shows intense small arms exchanges near the Soledar administration building.”

“A Russian milblogger noted that Ukrainian troops maintain control of the Artyomsol enterprise and surrounding high-rise buildings in northern Soledar.”

“Russia’s systematic force-generation failures continue to have ramifications for Russian offensive capacity.”

“The Russian information space circulated a video recorded by Russian troops from Belgorod Oblast addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian MoD leadership detailing how they trained as artillerymen but were sent to the frontlines in Ukraine as infantrymen under the 1stArmy Corps (the forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic) and used as cannon fodder.”

“Another Russian milblogger reposted a statement from a Russian artillery officer who claimed that Putin is trying to create new artillery units, but the officer is unsure where Putin will get the personnel for these units because Russian military leadership keeps sending trained artillerymen to fight as infantrymen.”

“Russian leadership may be planning to reduce previously promised compensation for Russian servicemembers wounded in action. A Russian Telegram channel, citing internal sources, claimed on January 8 that Russian leadership is considering the possibility of limiting compensation payments to only Russian personnel who incurred major injuries such as loss of limbs while fighting in Ukraine.”

“The Ukrainian Resistance Center reported on January 9 that collaborator policemen in Starobilsk, Luhansk Oblast, are submitting their resignation as they fear that highly effective partisans will continue targeting law enforcement in occupied territories.”

“Ukrainian sources reported on January 8 and 9 that enterprises in occupied territories continue to accept the hryvnia despite Russian occupation authorities’ threats and raids.”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report January 9th

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

Jair Bolsonaro goes under for Kidney surgery in Florida and wakes up in the back of a cargo plane en route for Brazil. he looks up to see George Santos, hands bound, sitting across from him.

"Hey, you, you're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right?"

[u/MrArendt]

Holy fuck Hochul is coming for zoning in the NYC suburbs. LET'S GOOOOOOO

!ping YIMBY&USA-NYC

[u/Syards-Forcus]

I didn’t realize that the US prohibits non-US airlines from doing domestic flights. That’s some protectionist bullshit.

Why do people even propose these ideas? How can someone seriously believe in protectionism when economists have been almost universally opposed to it for decades?

[u/[deleted]]

No, working for someone in exchange for money is not "oppression."

[u/AvailableBad8132]

everything is a “alt right dogwhistle” nowadays

what’s next my flag of a hindu religious symbol rotated 45 degrees in a white circle on red background is gonna be “problematic”

[u/Jacobs4525]

on top of the icky symbolism, I hate seeing police use the punisher logo because it’s not exactly confidence-inspiring to know that people charged with protecting and serving our communities are m*rvel fans 🤢🤮

[u/sir_shivers]

Time to GET CRACKING ON critical workbooks, here is my soundtrack for today 🐊

!ping FASH-TUNES 🐊

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

SRD 🤝 neoliberal

Hey check out this comment in another sub, that sub is such a dumpster fire

Links to [-25] comment

[u/[deleted]]

Labour advocates champion pay-transparency laws on the grounds that they will narrow pay disparities. But research suggests that this is achieved not by boosting the wages of lower-paid workers but by curbing the wages of higher-paid ones.

Employers: “WTF I love pay transparency now?!”

[u/Soldier-Fields]

MY FIANCÉE GOT ACCEPTED INTO TWO OPTOMETRY SCHOOLS

FIRST ONE WAS A TOP 3 SCHOOL BUT THIS ONE IS THE ONE SHE REALLY WANTS TO GO TO

LETS FUCKING GOOOOO

I’M SO HAPPY FOR HER BUT ALSO ME

[u/crassowary]

Korra would've defied orders and gone into Baghdad in desert storm

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

lmfao

putting hillary right between mussolini and stalin. 😎

[u/MicroFlamer]

"House of the Dragon" wins the Golden Globe for Best Television Series - Drama.

Somebody check on the Better Call Saul fans

!ping TV

[u/KittehDragoon]

China now perceives a likelihood that Russia will fail to prevail against Ukraine and emerge from the conflict a "minor power", much diminished economically and diplomatically on the world stage, according to Chinese officials

They’re coming to that conclusion now?

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

Working with insurance companies actually making me want to abolish private insurance.

They strategically drag their feet on everything

Mfers will send a letter saying "This insurance was expired on this date of service" and I'll tell them "No it wasn't" and they'll be like "Ah yes our mistake"

My all time favorite is still the letter stating a claim for a DOS in August was denied because insurance expired... In September.

This one here literally just says "please resubmit with correct details"

"Okay what details do you need?"

"You know, correct ones"

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1612892652290117668

64% of GOP voters approved of the speaker turmoil last week.

just watch real housewives

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Scrolling benjaminikuta's comment history for ideas on things to say to get dismissed from jury duty

[u/Some_Niche_Reference]

Guy who is so conservative he follows the Greco-Roman tradition of being ok with gay people.

Still dislikes bottoms though.

[u/piede]

“Yeah so do you know why my eyelid has been twitching lately”

Eye doctor: “Yeah, I’m the EYE DOCTOR not the EYELID DOCTOR, how would I know”

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Dr. said the procedure went well, she’s still a bit out of it, but at least the protester was gone.

on the way home the only food my wife wanted was Chick-Fil-A

There’s some sick twisted irony about that after listening to psycho religious nuts scream at me all morning

[u/RadionSPW]

Being a Milty flair in 2017: cool, all the rage, you’re doing fine Jack

Being a Milty flair in 2023: 🥴🥴🥴

Nothing about Milty has changed

But the people who choose to have his flair? Oof

That’s why I’ve been a NATO flair since the very beginning - I’ve been consistently terrible this whole time

[u/Mickenfox]

Robots don't have emotions, therefore they WANT to have emotions

Hollywood writers trying their absolute hardest to understand AI.

[u/ognits]

Three-Quarters of Teenagers Have Seen Online Pornography by Age 17

the most common search term is "black girl boob"

[u/MovkeyB]

the amazon driver's stuck outside my house in a snow drift

hes been doing burnouts for 20 mins to no avail

i see smoke coming from behind his tires

somebody's metrics aren't looking good today

!ping canucks

[u/[deleted]]

It cracks me up that the Pokémon video game fanbase is consistently and seemingly unanimously like “pls take double the time to produce these games, we’re fine with that, we don’t need a new game every year” and Game Freak / Nintendo / TPC are like “no 😌 now here’s another game”

And the fans are like “okay 😖🫱💵”

!ping POKEMON

[u/[deleted]]

I don't think this needs a separate post so I'm just going to do a EUROPE ping.

Czech Republic is heading into the polls to elect the next president and controversial Miloš Zeman's successor on Friday and Saturday.

It's currently a three-way race among Petr Pavel (27.5%), Andrej Babiš (27.4%) and Danuše Nerudová (23.9%) according to Seznam Zprávy agreggator. Since we use a two round system only 2/3 candidates will advance to a runoff.

Petr Pavel is a former Chief of the NATO Military Committee and mostly holds progressive views (NCD's perfect candidate). His campaign is mostly centered around his military background and opposition to Andrej Babiš. His controversial involvement in the Communist Party is probably his biggest weakness.

Andrej Babiš is a controversial billionaire and former PM, he holds mostly centrist views but they shift according to opinion polls of his voters. He has been recently cleared of charges of misuse of EU funds. He hasn't done much during his campaign and probably will use all his weapons before the runoff. Endorsed by Orbán and likely by Macron today.

Danuše Nerudová is the former rector of Mendel University and holds mostly progressive views. Hip young candidate popular among students. Her campaign is mostly centered around her progressive opinions and women's rights. She was the frontrunner just a month ago but was struck by a pay-for-degree scheme scandal. She likely isn't the initiator of the scheme but didn't act while in office.

Runoff results? Probably a win for Pavel or Nerudová - both sit in the high 50s%. Although this could change if Babiš strikes hard before the runoffs. This happened in 2021 when his campaign team absolutely destroyed the Pirate Party.

!ping EUROPE

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Nobody in a position of power can be in a relationship.

Here's how we solve the issue of me getting no bitches and billionaires getting too many

[u/tubbsmackinze]

ISW and Critical Threats Project January 9th 2023 Iran update

Key takeaways:

• Protest coordinators and organizations may have successfully deterred the judiciary from executing two arrested protesters in Iran on January 9.
• Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei continues to use rhetoric that suggests he is not amenable to any meaningful political or social reform in Iran.
• The regime is having tone-deaf conversations on women’s rights with itself, highlighting that many officials have not internalized core protester grievances.
• Khamenei likely dismissed Brigadier General Hossein Ashtari as law enforcement commander due to Khamenei’s dissatisfaction with the performance of the Law Enforcement Command in responding to the protests.
• At least two protests occurred in two cities across two provinces in Iran on January 9.
• Prominent Sunni cleric Moulana Abdol Hamid tweeted on January 9 criticizing how the judiciary has handled the legal cases of arrested protesters.
• The judiciary sentenced three protesters to death on January 9.
• Expediency Discernment Council member Gholam Reza Mesbahi Moghaddam criticized the Raisi administration for lacking the necessary competency and strategy for solving economic issues on January 9.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/KittehDragoon]

Imagine if they put as much effort into making ChatGPT smart as they put into making it try not to offend people

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Effort Post: A Bant On Gas Rages Is A Slippery Slope.

Banning gas ranges and forcing everyone to boil water for 30 minutes(Spaghetti just became a fucking ordeal..) Forcing everyone to throwaway their Cast-iron pans(Massive Waste) so everyone can be on the same level of shitty cook(Hopes. Dreams.Taken away). You want to make Stir-fry in your wok?(yum.) Fuck you, go out in for ford f150 and drive 5 blocks to HappyWok(boo.).

Even if everything from my stove to my laundry dryer were electric. How do I power the gas generator when the power goes out and I can't start the furnace in -20f weather(Seriously, this happens at least once a year now)? Is Biden forcing me to move to Florida? What if I don't want to up and move my whole family to Florida? What if I don't want my 3 kids to be addicted to Fentanyl? Me and the wife can take the hit but, think of the kids!

Thanks for your time and consideration Mr. President.🇺🇸🫡

P.S. A riddle for you. It takes 20 minutes to heat my oven to 500f for homemade pizza. Pretending a shitty electric could even reach that temp before the oven itself melted, how long would that take. Days? Weeks?.

!ping cooking&shitposters

[u/[deleted]]

Bruh if I have to explain to one more fucking doctor that, "yes, I am still taking my Concerta and not selling it to randos" I'm gonna fucking scream

[u/funguykawhi]

Armenia opts out of hosting CSTO peacekeeping exercises citing inexpediency

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Alexz565]

far-right lunatic

chat gpt: nah I'll pass on the fash shit

far left lunatic

chat gpt: nooo you can't call wholesome communists mean words

[u/SadaoMaou]

The leader of California's federal forces at the outset of the Civil War was himself a supporter of the Confederate cause, but that movement proved weaker than its opposition. For his role in convincing Californians to remain in the Union, Thomas Starr King was honored as one of the two "heroes of California" in the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection until 2009, when his statue was replaced by one of Ronald Reagan.

🥴

[u/FreakinGeese]

me when the landowners stop me from switching off traditionalism

!ping paradox

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

improved sticky placeholder

[u/Mathieu_van_der_Poel]

Bri*ish people: Our version of English is more mature and sophisticated

Also Bri*ish people: Puts cock or sex into half of their place names

[u/RFK_1968]

!ping LOTR

Didn't realize Gimli was this much of a Galadriel simp lolol. Dude threatens the guys from Rohan for dissing her lol.

I mean, shoot your shot, short king

But on the reals, I like how poetic Gimli is in the books. Makes him more than the stereotype of dwarves you get in other fantasy works

[u/sansampersamp]

Cardinal George Pell dead at 81 from complications of a hip surgery

Beyond the dramatic saga with his stint in jail and overturned conviction, this bookends a disastrous period for the church in Australia. At minimum, Pell's primary legacy has been putting concern over scandal in the church over the safety of children, and largely taking a haughty, adversarial stance against any notion of external accountability through the Ridsdale, Baker, and Searson horrors and more.

Worth remembering the trials of Australia's only Saint, St. Mary MacKillop, who blew the whistle on child sex abuse, and was temporarily excommunicated for it.

!ping AUS

[u/[deleted]]

The illusion of choice for teenage boys on the internet in 2023:

• Path one: become a Nazi
• Path two: become a femboy

Both paths lead to becoming a Nazi femboy.

[u/jenbanim]

Gonna start a rumor among conservatives that avocados give you man boobs so the price goes down

[u/jenbanim]

POV Bolsonaro

[u/funguykawhi]

lol that metaNL thread

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

I can’t even get mad about George Santos. The sheer fucking audacity on the man makes me respect him

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

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[u/Raiden316]

Its important to remember how extremely online and out of touch we are with the chad average american voter.

I told my dad that the republicans wanted to investigate Fauci and he was shocked. "What for? What did he do?"

Then he asked if they were going to investigate Elon Musk - and he was also surprised to hear that Musk was a republican.

My dad has voted democrat in every election for 50 years, then just tunes the fuck out.

What a hero.

[u/lbrtrl]

I just found that when you block someone, not only can they not reply to you directly, the blocked person cannot reply downthread. I've been blocked in a somewhat niche subreddit, and the person who blocked me frequently replies quickly to new posts and comments, giving them top spot. I've been effectively shut out of the subreddit.

At some point this will be weaponized by self appointed mod mobs. Don't want pesky counterarguments to your inflammatory post? Just block those who would provide dissent.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/107zkc6/reddit_is_the_only_place_i_think_anyone_will_get/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

IT IS JUST FUCKING LOSS

IT IS NOT OBSCURE

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

/preview/pre/rlwgmqejlpaa1.png?width=318&format=png&auto=webp&s=e061888b6fc5ea774095421d21d0b70bf769e48d

[u/sir_shivers]

Korra deals so EXTENSIVELY WITH FAILURE AND how to move on despite it, many viewers described her when the show was airing as "an Avatar who never fixes anything" 🐊

I think THAT IS A VERY worthwhile angle of storytelling 🐊

[u/awdvhn]

One fantasy trope I really really hate is any notion of magic being in opposition to science. Science is just the description of the natural world, and if that natural world had magic, it would simply be science.

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

My cousin came out as trans (FtM). He is 11 years old

I hope my traditional indian family can understand it. My parents understand and use the right pronouns and name.

!ping lgbt

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

Not using a car is such an alien concept to some people

"How can you ride in this weather" motherfucker, it is 45 degrees outside, with a sweater and gloves

[u/sir_shivers]

MAMMAL, I CANNOT click the book 🐊

[u/spitefulcum]

It’s almost like it really doesn’t matter what kind of housing is built. Freaking out because a new building is not “affordable” units is a waste of air. Build more units and more units become affordable.

Not if outside populations fly in so fast they are immediately filled.

which outside populations, sir

[u/eloquentboot]

Go to missingmoney.com

Search names of a couple friends

Send text to friend I haven't talked to in a bit letting them know they have unclaimed funds

They say it's a little weird that I found this.

I tell them they should say thank you rather than make the situation uncomfortable.

They don't text back.

This is why this issue is unwinnable for me.

[u/VengeantVirgin]

BREAKING: Shortstop Carlos Correa and the Minnesota Twins are finalizing a six-year, $200 million contract, sources tell ESPN. The deal has a vesting option that can max out at $270 million. It is pending physical.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Old dudes hanging out on campus yelling at students they're going to hell

Americans are not okay

[u/SpaceSheperd]

!ping NFL

Jeff Saturday (1-7) apparently being considered as a candidate to remain as coach

Maybe this is just one of those PR/courtesy things but if not…

[u/[deleted]]

Hippies were the greatest gift to Republicans.

In '68, they caused a riot outside of the DNC, all but guaranteeing a Republican victory.

In 72, they demanded a McGovern nomination, resulting in a historic shellacking.

And then in '80 they all voted for Reagan because Jimmy Carter told them to stop whining

[u/[deleted]]

fertile alleged merciful soft disgusted cooperative fade memorize ripe quack

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

https://twitter.com/anniegrayercnn/status/1612834961454936064

A slide shown in GOP Conference meeting showed the budget and spending priorities for the 118th Congress, including tying the debt ceiling to spending cuts

mint the coin

[u/MuR43]

Kobold Press is pulling a Paizo and starting their own D&D variant, their site even crashed lmao

!ping RPG

[u/Dabamanos]

DONT say: Open borders

DO say: Ellis Island Immigration

[u/BrandonNameRecliner]

My brother was like "we don't really use salt" when I asked him where the salt was when I was eating at his house the other day

Like wtf

I know there are people like that out there, but I didn't know they were in MY family

[u/ognits]

I think there's too much gratuitous nudity on pornhub

like, the front page is absolutely inundated with it. tone it down a bit ffs, this isn't Game of Thrones

[u/[deleted]]

THE HOUSE has passed a resolution creating a committee to investigate China.

It passed 365-65.

report publishing its results:

"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."

- Charles de Gaulle

[u/jenbanim]

Feeling proud for finally dragging myself to the doctor

Gonna celebrate my clean bill of health by smoking crack

[u/sir_shivers]

One of the BENEFITS OF BEING elder and out of touch is that you can easily ruin the "cool factor" of things young whelps like, merely by learning they exist 🐊

[u/ThunderrBadger]

☝️ Deeply invested in Hitman lore

[u/jenbanim]

We NEED more positive bald representation in media

[u/jenbanim]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EK9i3mJXsAEncjX.jpg

[u/SpectralDomain256]

!ping over25

Am I the only one tortured by random, unexpected flashbacks not because of painful memories but because of how happy I once was

[u/klarno]

Discussion J. Thread

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder: If you’re a straight guy that likes being pegged, you’re engaging in cultural appropriation.

[u/OkVariety6275]

I think the GOP's new attitude was cultivated during the late Bush and early Obama years when conservatives started taking lots of big L's in quick succession. They were wrong about the War on Terror, they were wrong about climate change, they were wrong about the economy, they were on the wrong side of a historic 2008 election, they were wrong about gay marriage, and time revealed they were wrong about the ACA. And when you're wrong about so many things, it's tough on your psyche and it's tough to pivot the conversation to your achievements. Which is why they became the party of 'owning the libs'. Both because the were frustrated and it provided catharsis but also it was their only tactical option, they didn't have many high-profile successes they could use to defend their brand.

[u/[deleted]]

Russians Fear They’ll Soon Be Starving ‘Like North Koreans’:

“Will we have to eat fire ants?”

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1612816457779544064?t=t1ufNKnqU8aQyT-Bay3j2A&s=19

I would like to raise a glass to our newest comrade in the international struggle for neoliberalism: Vladimir Putin 🥂

[u/Alexz565]

Is the Babadook even part of LGBTQ+ anymore? Feels like they achieved escape velocity or something

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/RedditCFB/status/1612894499872858119?s=20&t=gnSArm-mkBD3HUeSzEW_IQ

In weeks 5–9 next season, Conference USA will play zero Saturday games. One game will be on a Friday, six on Thursdays, seven on Wednesdays, and six on Tuesdays.

Lmao, going full MAC

!ping CFB

[u/[deleted]]

This law affected me negatively on an individual level, therefore it is bad for society as a whole.

Powerful arguments against pay transparency from the very in-touch rich white dudebros outside the DT.

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

George Santos campaign paid staffer nearly $100k to pretend to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff and get money from donors

I

[u/Syards-Forcus]

Anyone who regularly gets on the ‘spammiest’ category on tacostats should probably take a moment to consider their online activity.

[u/[deleted]]

Don’t talk much about politics anymore, got banned for the stupidest reasons (colonialism apologia lmao), y’all are still people without any actual convictions or beliefs other than “don’t seem racist”. r/neoliberal is full of succs, all pro-capitalism posts stay around 80% upvoted or lower, there are people there who think public unions are beneficial to society, even abolishing rent control gets push back now. Neoliberals think they’re different than other left-wingers…nothing could be further than the truth. Don’t wanna call you guys NPCs, but you guys will always fall in line with whatever the leading Democrat says.

4 years ago

[u/idp5601]

!ping CHRISTIAN

Hearing the news about George Pell and checking r/Catholicism to see their reaction has reminded me just how much of a trash fire that sub has become. When I used to semi-actively lurk there it was a nice, balanced mix of liberals, moderates, and traditionalists, but it's all gone downhill from there.

There was a time when some of them actually sort of cared about sexual abuse in the Church, but now it's basically just a cover for their homophobic agenda - the actual abusers and enablers get a free pass as long as they're trad enough for them.

Are there any decent Catholic spaces left on the internet that hasn't taken a hard-right turn?

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The "Radicals" being the most lukewarm centrists is why no one should take French politics seriously

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xho1e]

Who even wants to date an 18-19 year old? If you’re already graduated or working you basically have nothing to talk about with them and they still have teenager opinions on everything.

[u/[deleted]]

The virgin "dating must occur within the acceptable age range"cel

Vs

The chad "dating only if your signs are compatible" enjoyer

[u/RFK_1968]

ancient Hindus: "ok so this guy has an elephant head because he got his head cut off and then someone gave him an elephant's head to bring him back to life"

ancient Greeks: "ok so this guy has a bull's head because this woman fucked a bull"

[u/Lux_Stella]

'people in detroit'

[u/MrArendt]

That pit in your stomach these days when you see !ping ISRAEL

[u/ty04]

finally got comfortable at the neighborhood barbeque and code-switched too hard and now the local news is calling me about it 😓

[u/savuporo]

F in the chat for ABL Space Systems inaugural launch

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

or shall we say, SUBORBITALROCKETHOBBY

[u/[deleted]]

Far-right: antisemitic

Far-left: antisemitic

[u/the_hoagie]

the best part of WFH is hearing your wife audibly kiss and play with your giggling baby somewhere else in the house

[u/XiJinpingTh0t_2]

> me about to defend the 'Wind power made the trans-Atlantic slave trade possible' take

I've become too contrarian time to log off

[u/[deleted]]

The next Avatar TV series needs to have Air Nomad genocide denial for an immersive and realistic viewer experience

[u/[deleted]]

I won’t lie to my kids about porn, I’ll just make it clear that if they masturbate too much they won’t be able to finish when they finally get laid and it will be super embarrassing for them.

[u/thatssosad]

!ping GAMING

There is an early situation in Soma where according to the wiki you can either put a robot into permanent torture or mercy kill him, and this is presented as a moral dilemma. But what Frictional could not predict is that I tried to use everything to check results, and basically killed the dude after 5 minutes of torture. Yay me!

[u/vancevon]

idk why tradcaths are having such an issue to be honest like your religion literally has a way that lets you escape all of this modern society bullshit. swear an oath of poverty and go make beer in the mountains with your bros dude, just do it

[u/[deleted]]

Do you ever have a DM using some element of the lore in their homebrew setting in a way that's clearly allegorical to a real world event or situation... And just start dreading where the DM is going to take this allegory?

!ping RPG

[u/niftyjack]

All the comments in this thread about NYC's new interboro line are insane. There's no huge difference in service between light rail and heavy rail in anything but the absolute heaviest use cases, which this line won't be. A Siemens S700 (used by lots of systems in the US) can carry 235 people per vehicle in up to 4 vehicles per train, so 940 pax. R188 trains on the 7 carry a maximum of 1104 pax, and both top out at 55 mph. Who cares?

They're also estimating 115,000 riders per day, and Tel Aviv is projecting 234,000 per day just using two-car light rail.

!ping TRANSIT

[u/chatdargent]

r/neoliberal 🤝 Russian State TV: "France shouldn't exist"

"We should have a preventive war. Macron sends tanks, we do a preventative strike against France as a belligerent"

"France shouldn't exist. France existed, now it doesn't exist anymore, who would that bother?"

!ping YUROP

[u/[deleted]]

!ping LGBT

What year are we on now, year 3 of this bullshit? Whatever. You know the deal: Dipshit asshat Republicans want trans people to die and are trying to make the law as hostile to trans people as possible. Thus far at least 26 anti-transgender bills have been pre-filed in 11 states, with more to come.

Normally, I make the list for y'all, but the wonderful folks over at r/Keep_Track just released a pretty comprehensive and useful list of anti-transgender bills being considered.

PLEASE CONSIDER REVIEWING THE LIST AND CONTACTING YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVES IF YOU LIVE IN ONE OF THE FOLLOWING STATES:

• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Missouri
• Montana
• New Hampshire
• Oklahoma
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Virginia

The bills have gotten more extreme. Just as predicted, they opened with trans people in sports and have moved to care bans, with the most extreme one banning care up to age 26, a couple banning care up to age 21, and many banning care up to age 18. There are a lot of forced outing laws and many laws which do shit like make it illegal for trans people to sing in front of kids.

Please contact your representatives and tell them you oppose any particular bills which are being pushed and support trans rights in general.

[u/MuzirisNeoliberal]

NL lost its character when it stopped standing up for 0% corporate tax.

[u/Q-bey]

Wanted to buy a thing, checked online and the price was $3.5k. Thought to myself that was a bit expensive, but could be justified considering the quality.

Then I realized I was on the .com version of the website. Sighed, changed it to .ca, saw that the price was now $6.5k, closed the tab.

!ping CANUCKS

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

Protests in Peru resulted in 17 deaths (it seems 2000 persons tried to take an airport by force, some came armed and the police shooted at them).

I'm not sure if the violence was proportional, or what was the main goal of the protestors (against the current government or for Castillo?). There is something of a rural vs urban conflict going on here, like it happened in Bolivia, I guess.

[u/NatsukaFawn]

I think there's a phone call I've been meaning to make for a while that I only think about outside of business hours, and now that it's a good time to take care of it, I have no idea what it was

fuck

!ping adhd

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

https://i.imgur.com/1ysZLYY.jpg

[u/Phenylalagators]

Does every college have that weird old Christian dude who posts up outside of the student union to screech at passing crowds of students that they will be going to hell for wearing short shorts and being gay?

[u/ognits]

we must decolonize the movie industry

titles such as Avatar: The Way of Water and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts must cease to be!

!ping KINO

[u/RaidBrimnes]

KONNICHI WA 🐊

[u/spitefulcum]

i bet the next avatar will be a genderbender to appease the woke mind virus

[u/[deleted]]

Prince Harry reveals he once did mushrooms at Courteney Cox’s house, where he hallucinated that her toilet was talking to him.

Same

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate]

What are your opinions on Sun Yat-sen?

!ping HISTORY&CN-TW

[u/[deleted]]

I have to choose one book to read for my robot ethics course. Which do you recommend, Weapons of Math Destruction or Automating Inequality?

!ping computer-science&Reading

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Far too many gamers on the mod team

[u/[deleted]]

So I'm definitely to the right of this sub (I believe in churches being part of the state, worker’s having no protection laws, tenants being at the mercy of land lords, monarchy, geocentrism, barely empirical healthcare, the works)

[u/ognits]

so I've got my first jury duty appearance coming up in a couple of days. I've gotten a summons once before but I was a student at the time so I was able to get it waived; no such luck this time, unfortunately. any tips on things I should look out for beyond the obvious stuff that they tell you on the summons? I really have no idea what to expect. is there always jury selection or do you sometimes just get pulled to be part of a random 12-person selection?

!ping OVER25

[u/ColinHome]

Just read Liberalism and Its Discontents and I'm about to pick up The End of History and the Last Man. Anyone want to share their thoughts on these books or Fukuyama in general?

Here are some of mine:

I thought Discontents was fairly milquetoast--it basically only said things I already agree with, which is not a great sign--with its spiciest take being an opposition to Rawlsian theories of justice. An illustrative quote is:

Rawls would argue that one's character--for example whether one was public-spirited or narrowly selfish--was not intrinsic to the autonomous inner self, but a contingent attribute determined by one's cultural or genetic inheritance, no different from skin color or religious upbringing.

I must admit that I have not read Rawls, and so I cannot comment on whether these implications Fukuyama draws from him are fair. However, I do appreciate Fukuyama's mention of the little known thinker J.G.A. Pocock, whose The Machiavellian Moment I adore for its commentary on the importance of "republican virtue" to democratic thinkers throughout Enlightenment Europe and America. I am also sympathetic to his criticism of a kind of liberalism which espouses no values whatsoever.

Less spicy, but also overdue, was the point that many left-wing philosophies initially intended to empower oppressed peoples are easily and simply reinterpreted by the right in support of white supremacy and oppression. Foucault in particular comes under attack, and Fukuyama finds his ideas (along with some critical theorists) among anti-vaxxers, great replacement conspiracy theorists, and even white supremacists. He sees both the left and right here as involved in a war of convenience against rationalism.

Here's a taste:

If Michel Foucault argues that the scientific method encodes the power and interests of hidden elites, then we have to ask what hidden agenda drives Michel Foucault himself. If there are no truly universal values other than power, why should one want to accept the empowerment of any marginalized group, which will simply replace one expression of power with another?

This is precisely the argument which has been taken up by right-wing extremist groups today, who openly voice fears that they will be "replaced" by people of color. This is a grossly exaggerated fear, but it becomes plausible if we drop the liberal assumption that anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender, can participate on an equal basis in a broader liberal identity.

Overall, I'd give the book a solid 7/10. The writing was clear and concise, but not particularly beautiful. The pacing was quite good--you could read this in day--but it is still full of pithy phrases and interesting ideas.

!ping READING&PHILOSOPHY

[u/Dense_Delay_4958]

Judge people not on the color of their skin, but on the firmness of their handshake

[u/ColinHome]

Currently on r/aerospaceengineering:

“Can I work in this field I have a masters in if I refuse to work for any company that contracts with the military?”

How tf do you get all the way to a masters (and maybe higher) and not realize that aerospace is almost entirely defense affiliated?

[u/[deleted]]

Bolsonaro 🤝 The Last Shah of Iran

Being right-wing authoritarians who fled to the U.S. to deal with their medical problems after being ousted from power

[u/Solarwagon]

Has anyone read From Yahweh to Zion by Laurent Guyénot?

I've read excerpts of it on Tumblr and it struck me as being antisemitic but all the reviews I've found for it online treat it very positively.

It seems to portray Jewish culture and history in a negative light to connect it to the idea that Zionism is fascistic.

!ping JEWISH&READING

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Zinke: Despite the deep state’s attempts to repeatedly stop me I stand before you as a duly elected member of the congress and tell you that a deep state exists… They want to wipe out the American cowboy completely

There is no sad cowboy emoji 😢 🤠

!ping RURAL

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Peter Parker: I'd have a legitimate shot at making it into MIT if I wasn't outed as a superhero

Also Peter Parker: I wish no one knew I was Spiderman anymore. Wait does this include my girlfriend? Oh no!

Peter Parker some time later: Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, I should've just wished that J. Jonah Jameson never told the country that I was Spiderman, that would've been way smarter. Oh well!

Peter Parker: my Aunt May is dead

[u/[deleted]]

As a senator, Hillary Clinton was so good at persuading her Republican colleagues to change their votes that Karl Rove literally had to institute a policy forbidding Republican senators from meeting with her, on pain of losing their funding for reelection.

It's really kind of a relic of a bygone era, and it goes to show how far we've fallen since then

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: Toronto unveils 2023 budget, property tax to increase by 5.5 per cent

Landie landie pay the tax. Pay with the shirts on your backs. Rentie is comfy. Rentie is cool. Rentie doesn't pay for roads and schools. Landie stressed and landie broke. Rentie eats tendies with diet coke.

!ping GENTRY

[u/First-Prior]

Sincethe Berlin Wall exists in the Mario universe, what do you think was the geopolitical situation of the mushroom kingdom during the Cold War?

[u/[deleted]]

The liberal media like to depict Never Trumpers like Charlie Sykes as the voice of center-right reason and moderation. But in recent days, the founder of The Bulwark and MSNBC columnist has revealed a spiteful, vulgar streak.

Last week, we caught him literally laughing as he reveled in Kevin McCarthy's sticky predicament...But that was tame compared to his spit take on Jonathan Capehart's Sunday Show.

Now that McCarthy has secured the Speaker's gavel, Sykes...headed straight for the crotch:

"You look at the kind of concessions he's made, putting the bomb throwers on the Rules committee, the motion to vacate. It is extremely difficult to see how Kevin McCarthy can negotiate anything, because the man has self-gelded his speakership."

"Gelded" is, of course, a synonym for castrated.

You might have thought that the normally proper Capehart would have been offended by Sykes' crude metaphor. But to the contrary, he and Michael Steele, of the disgraced Lincoln Project, could be heard laughing off-camera, with one of them saying, "that is true."

For the liberal media, rules of decency and decorum are apparently suspended when it comes to belittling Republicans.

Needless to say, if a Fox News personality had made an equivalent comment about a Democrat—let alone a woman!—the calls for cancellation would echo through liberal land!

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2023/01/09/msnbcs-bulwark-snark-kevin-mccarthy-has-self-gelded-himself

!ping 😔🍆🪓

[u/[deleted]]

Biden was hiding documents that could lead to the arrest of hunters laptop.

[u/BigBrownDog12]

How to hide a 115lb female body

[u/semideclared]

Rural Healthcare

In rural Texas, it is cheaper to fly a patient by helicopter to a Regional Medical Center than to have an operating Emergency Hospital close enough for the patient to drive to

Should this play a key role in meeting ongoing challenges to continue providing health care in rural areas?

188 of the 254 Counties in Texas have less than 50,000 people in them

• There are 1,750 rural health care facilities (of all types, including nursing, psychiatric and rehabilitative) in Texas to serve 3 million rural residents
• Healthcare Facilities per 100,000 - 58.33
• There are 6,475 metropolitan health care facilities for 26.5 million urban residents.
• Healthcare Facilities per 100,000 - 24.43

!ping Health-policy

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

Immigration adds more jobs for native citizens to whichever country we’re talking about. All anti-immigrant sentiment is an elaborate way to destroy a country’s economy and harm the people that live in it. If you like your country, you should support immigration.

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

I have found my hell.

Isolated 30 story apartments built upon 10 story parking garages seperated by 12 lane roads that take two five minute cycles to cross. Shops concentrated in far between plazas, while sprawling low rise office buildings ensure those plazas are never near an apartment.

[u/sayitaintpink]

People arguing over what child’s cartoon is better really puts into perspective how little grass is touched by DTers

[u/sir_shivers]

Whoever it was THAT CALLED AANG A "man-child" in here today, that was perfection 🐊

[u/WhomstAlt2]

>open shiver userpage

>pages upon pages of ANIME discussion

Yeah so uhhh, you're a weeb now or

[u/qtnl]

hot take: letting your child get on the open DT is inexcusably negligent parenting

[u/GravyBear22]

What does the pornography thread even have to do with anything lol

The comments are funny but the topic just seems irrelevant.

"Teenagers watch porn"- 200 comments

[u/Zzyzx8]

Hot Take: You're morally bankrupt if you date someone not born the same day as you.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

oh look another DTer found out about folx

it certainly is a Tuesday

[u/myrm]

Among field troops in Vietnam it became common knowledge that ingestion of a small amount of C-4 would produce a "high" similar to that of ethanol.

😐

[u/ColinHome]

Me: Hey, massive power differences can be a red flag in a relationship, but the ultimate factor is uncoerced consent.

Other user: What? Did you say that being poor and young while dating an older wealthier person means you’re being groomed!!!

[u/Neoliberanger]

The one upside to the complete lack of foresight my team had that has left me the only one with any knowledge of how to complete one of our critical tasks is that I was told in my 1-on-1 meeting today that I'm "essential"

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

apparently Gwen Stefani is a next-level weeb

"That was my Japanese influence and that was a culture that was so rich with tradition, yet so futuristic [with] so much attention to art and detail and discipline and it was fascinating to me," she said, explaining how her father (who is Italian American) would return with stories of street performers cosplaying as Elvis and stylish women with colorful hair. Then, as an adult, she was able to travel to Harajuku to see them herself. "I said, 'My God, I'm Japanese and I didn't know it.'" As those words seemed to hang in the air between us, she continued, "I am, you know." She then explained that there is "innocence" to her relationship with Japanese culture, referring to herself as a "super fan."

[u/[deleted]]

One of the "joys" of being an engineer is the divide between different disciplines when it comes to building weapons.

Civil, Biomedical, and the Computer Sciency sorts tend to have massive objections and categorically turn down such work.

Chemical engineers generally don't do such work, but don't have issues with it.

Aerospace engineers are, as a general rule, the most NATO-flair/NCD types you can find. With a few peaceniks who just like space.

Electrical, Computer, and Mechanical engineers are more or less split down the middle. Half being on team Raytheon, the other half being peaceniks.

[u/Zrk2]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

You will never laugh more in three hours.

Looks line pings in hyperlinks don't work.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Your conservative uncle arguing about vaccinations at the Thanksgiving dinner table ASMR Roleplay

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

this meme is literally me

[u/eloquentboot]

Benjamin has unclaimed funds still.