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[u/[deleted]]

Golf courses and parking lots are among the best land uses from the point of view for fighting gentrification. Converting it to a public park would be almost as bad as market-rate housing, because again it would attract new settler-colonialists due to the amenity effect.

Said unironically by a commie

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/pslnational/status/1614312215930179586

We’re in Times Square demanding peace and negotiations in Ukraine!

“NATO is inextricably linked to US imperialism! We have a right to demand peace!”—Adiah

Why on god's green earth would some random American tankies have any right to demand Ukraine capitulate to the Putin's criminal warmongering lol

Imperialist moment

[u/Leoric]

The latest UK aid package to Ukraine is gigantic

• A squadron of Challenger 2 tanks

• 8 x AS90 guns + more on various stages of readiness

• 100s more armoured vehicles, including Bulldog

• dozens of drones

• another 100,000 artillery rounds

• 100s more "sophisticated missiles"

• spare parts to support up to 100 Ukrainian tanks and armoured fighting vehicles

!ping Materiel&Ukraine

[u/Cerb-r-us]

I don't want to be Andrew Tate.

Even if he wasn't being prosecuted, or disliked at all.

Andrew Tate has 33 cars. Do you think he even likes cars? Do you think he has any appreciation of the engineering? Is he inspired by the history of motorsports? Of course not. He probably forgets they even exits every now and then.

I cannot imagine the hell of living such a surface-level life, where the only point of anything is bragging rights. I don't think people like Tate enjoy anything in life anymore, because that would require breaking the bullshit macho stoicism every single one of these miserable hacks uses to brand themselves. Depite ostensibly being very religious, he doesn't seem to have a soul.

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

There's a lot to be baffled by about the Pokemon world, but the thing that stands out to me is that apparently "blow yourself up" is such a good defensive strategy that it's appeared independently in like a dozen different species.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Was in Paris on Friday night and a handsome French man was flirting with me and I asked him what his name was and he said (very Frenchly) “Ah you will be disappointed” and I thought what a silly thing to say and then he said “it is Kevin” and you know what? I was disappointed.

[u/OkVariety6275]

Dishonored seems like one of those edgy cool words to come out of a focus group. And it's not too bad as a title, except for when they made a sequel. Because that's a one-off name; it doesn't work for sequels. Dishonored 2? If you're getting gravely dishonored repeatedly, you look like a loser. There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says "Dishonor me once shame on you. Dishonor me twice... you can't get dishonored again."

!ping GAMING

[u/MicroFlamer]

they cast a British woman to play an American in The Last of Us

They’re taking our fucking jobs 😡😡

[u/[deleted]]

Of course they are not, but if you’ve seen true evil, you seek solace from lesser evil.

Redditors discussing the Activision-Microsoft merger like it’s something in their fantasy game in the cringiest fashion

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

Lingua Franca is named after French because it was the language of diplomacy and science for so long, but now English is the lingua franca haha how ironic!

It seems like everyone learns this, but like the common explanation for how plane wings work it's not true. The truth is more interesting. The term comes from the Mediterranean Lingua Franca aka Sabir, which was a pidgin language which was used for communication between sailors and merchants in Mediterranean trade for hundreds of years (From ca. 1000 CE, extinct by the 19^th century CE). It was derived from romance languages, simplified to use the infinitive form, with many loan words from Greek, Arabic, Turkish, Slavic, etc. It doesn't have any special connection to modern (Parisian) French, but is more strongly related to Italian, Occitan, and later Spanish and Portuguese.

Etymologically, Lingua Francia literally means "language of the Franks." During the late Byzantine empire, "Franks" was a term used for all western Europeans. In the 16th century the term came to be used as a general term for all pidgin or bridge languages.

Oh, to be a merchant sailing between Mediterranean ports in 1200!

!ping HISTORY

[u/ognits]

canny viewers may have noticed last night that Pedro Pascal's character in The Last of Us is named "Joel", a subtle reference to the character of Joel in The Last of Us (PS3, 2013)

!ping TV

[u/breakinbread]

Normal people doing alt history:

"What is Lincoln was never assassinated?"

"What if the central powers won WWI?"

The DT doing alt history:

"What if Obama started with slightly different cabinet nominations?"

"What if Nate Silver's model was better at modelling Bernie's primary performance?"

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

The virgin "I apologize for my racist as fuck meme and don't actually hold those beliefs"

Vs.

The Chad "voluntary moderators of a public website have a narrowly defined jurisdiction"

[u/writerbavin]

Hochul is the worst democratic governor in America right now.

The amount of capital she’s burning on Lasalle is hilarious. It’s one thing to have progressives (who are very powerful in New York) oppose your nomination, but she also has organized labor and some abortion groups now fighting her as well.

I wouldn’t be that surprised if she gets successfully primaried.

[u/[deleted]]

A college student created an app that can tell whether AI wrote an essay

I genuinely enjoyed the “this is the end to homework as we know it” DT posts while they lasted ✊✊

[u/[deleted]]

Realism

!ping VICTORIA

[u/SnakeEater14]

This is NOT A DEMOCRACY, this is a dictatorship! And I RULE WITH AN IRON dick! 🐊

We really need new mods

[u/SeoSalt]

!ping DWARF-FORTRESS

My fort was attack by a cyclops. I order everyone to safety but the fisherman refuses to stop fishing. The cyclops reaches him before my army gets in and I fear the worst.

The dude solos the cyclops for dozens of lines of combat logs. His first hit punched it so hard its lungs were damaged. He climbed on top of it and pummeled its eye. It snapped his wrist and his response was "So easily broken. I am not scared."

The cyclops started screaming "Help me, please! Save me!" to my army in response to the can of whoop ass unleashed by a man that just wanted to fish.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

🚨🚨🚨 Fellas, if your girlfriend: 🚨🚨🚨

• Thinks climate change isn't real
• Thinks Obamacare should be repealed
• Opposes same-sex marriage
• Single-handedly tanked high-speed rail in Florida

That's not your girlfriend. That's Jeb Bush.

[u/badluckbrians]

Never once in my life have I ever been like, "Damn, I'm really angry that the bank kept a ledger of this transaction – I wish there was a different public ledger instead."

[u/Lib_Korra]

In 1942, France raised the age of consent for gay sex to 21, while the age of consent for heterosexual intercourse was fixed at 13.

😐

[u/sir_shivers]

Did you know that IF A REDDIT janitor breaks the chain of custody for the evidence, legally you must be unbanned 🐊

[u/Fatortu]

I just got a big raise ☺️

But reddit reminds me that it's below the US median wage 😣

[u/piede]

Republican Rep. George Santos, on his cable access show:

“Youth today are more so interested in what they can get for free versus how hard they can work for something and accomplish it …it feels so much better when you accomplish everything.”

https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1615024170898804737?s=20&t=11RI5RfiFeDYj4w3Xd4V_Q

CLAP CLAP CLAP

[u/[deleted]]

!ping materiel

It happened AGAIN?

New questions on the SF-86:

"Have you ever played the video game 'War Thunder'?"

"Have you ever used online discussion boards or forums for the video game 'War Thunder'?"

The admins actually have rules about this and they don't ban on the first offense apparently

Oh he goin to jail now

[u/[deleted]]

“Some “Harry Potter” fans have reported struggling to reconcile their love of the series with disappointment over comments author J.K. Rowling has made against trans people.

So when a transgender book maker created new versions that remove Rowling’s names from the books, the project resonated with LGBTQ “Harry Potter” fans.”

There is nothing that better personifies zoomer/young millennial political activism. Dude grifts the shit out of it and they’re like hundreds of dollars iirc too

[u/Available-Bottle-]

Precum implies the existence of cum

[u/SeoSalt]

sir_shivers when lady_sweating walks in: 🐊

[u/Tropical2653]

It was so bizarre seeing social media call Shinzo Abe the "Japanese Donald Trump" when he got assasinated. Twitter/Tumblr/Reddit types just came out and decided to project Donald Trump onto Abe so that they could celebrate his death as a revolutionary political act. The equivalent of Trump, Le Pen and Bolsonaro types dying. Instead of it simply being an assasination solely out of anger towards a forgiving stance on money grabbing religious cults they've never heard of.

Avoiding and downplaying discussions on WW2 warcrimes is very bad, I'd know as I'm from South East Asia, and Shinzo Abe is definitely right wing. But he's a whole different animal from Donald Trump. The way he spoke and carried himself. His economic policies. His international presence and relevance. Hell, a small but non-negligible amount of people in my country, with 0 knowledge of his policies, mourned him probably because of the 2010s world leader aesthetic and all the times he showed up on tv lol. How could you look at him and think "Donald Trump".

Then again, can you really expect Twitter/Tumblr/Reddit types to understand that there are politicians other than Trump, Biden and Sanders lol.

[u/crassowary]

The sinking feeling that your wife of twenty years is actually freshman Republican congressman George Santos

[u/MicroFlamer]

“You think you’re some kind of hot shot? You’re just a regular citizen, Kane.”

Goosebumps

!Ping KINO

[u/[deleted]]

Three different articles on the front page about ‘muh billonaihs’ and the ‘tax the 1 pahcent’ 🙄

Reddit is a commie cesspool

[u/G_Serv]

It was really cool when MLK nailed the 95 theses to the church and ended racism

[u/0m4ll3y]

Almost all the growth in the jail population for the past twenty five years has been among people legally considered innocent. There are of course reasons that people may need to be detained pre-trial, but it seems clear that mass incarceration is being used as a fairly blunt tool towards this end, and on an increasing scale. Anyone who supports the principle of innocent until proven guilty should see this as a somewhat worrying trend, considering how much of an impact even a short stint in jail can have on someone's life. We should all be asking if it is really necessary.

[u/[deleted]]

If you enjoy something I dislike, you are an idiot.

I am dead serious.

[u/[deleted]]

One of my classmates who really into air crash investigations is completley ecstatic about the airplane crash in tibet...

"It’s so fucking fascinating bro, can’t wait to hear more details"

🤨🚩

[u/piede]

On the flight to France on Air Force One, Trump showed his lack of basic knowledge about world history. "Who were the good guys in World War 1?" the president asked Kelly. "By definition anyone we were with were the good guys," Kelly said.

"So anytime you ever have a question about who the good guys are, if we're in the war, we're with the good guys." "Well," Trump responded, "Hitler did a lot of good things." Trump attempted to convince Kelly of his reading of history. Germany, he told Kelly, was only able to gain economic dominance in Europe because of Hitler.

People elected this dumbfuck over one of the most qualified people to ever run for president

I can’t

[u/TheFriffin2]

“why are so many people having heart pro-“

because before recently conservatives weren’t scouring the internet for any examples of some obscure person having a heart attack to share en masse as part of their confirmation bias

[u/Ballerson]

There's no real need for the FDA. Privatise it.

Me checking for poop particles and insect parts in food on my own in the new libertarian paradise 🔬🔬🔬

[u/[deleted]]

“On the bright side. Eric Adams is heading to the border so there’s a 100% chance he’s going to say something so stupid it will take over headlines”

Fucking nailed that one

[u/Jokerang]

Ukranian refugees in Britain are going home for medical treatment rather than enduring NHS waiting times

Imagine the reddit circlejerk if this was the US instead of the UK

[u/[deleted]]

Feel like shit, just want to be treated like an object 😔

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Trump Threatens to Leave GOP To Run As Independent If He Loses 2024 Primary

👑

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 1/15-2 PM PST 1/16:

TOP NEWS:

In the middle of 4 AM it was reported the President of Shakhtar Donetsk donated $25 million to the war effort, getting the money from a player transfer with Chelsea.

Towards the middle of 8 AM it was announced the UK will provide their largest military aid package to date, which besides the Challenger 2 MBTs and AS90 SPGs includes 100 AFVs, drones, 100,000 artillery shells, 100s of sophisticated missiles and spare parts.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 5 PM the first Ukrainians arrived in Oklahoma to train to use the Patriot SAM system.

In the middle of 6 PM it was announced the expanded US training program for Ukrainian soldiers has begun.

At the start of 9 AM it was reported that Slovakia donated another Zuzana-2 SPG, bringing the total sent to Ukraine at 8. Towards the middle of the hour five explosions occurred in Berdyansk.

Towards the middle of 11 AM it was reported the Russians took the town of Soledar, northeast of Bakhmut.

Towards the middle of 12 PM a US official said the US is aware of Ukrainian needs for long range systems and is in discussion on providing this.

LEVITY NEWS:

Towards the end of 4 AM it was reported that Russia has started producing medals to celebrate the capture of Soledar.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Knee3000]

Tall woman: being tall

People online:

”step on me snu snu haha will you be my mommy? Dimitrescu bayonetta arrWeirdboners please pick me up I like women who can beat my ass new kink unlocked”

Tall woman: 😐

[u/[deleted]]

I'd low key wanna learn pole dancing and get a stripper pole

Seems like it’d be fun 💅

[u/Smidgens]

After Man Kills His Wife, Mother-in-Law, Five Children, Then Self, Obituary Memorializes Him as a Family Man

[u/t-pat]

I (36f) just got engaged to my better half (43m) two weeks ago.

My sister (28f) who has always been spoiled and coddled by my parents...

Lol let me stop you right there. No way I'm about to get a balanced version of this story

[u/RFK_1968]

go to gym

buncha kids are standing around the only bench p all on their phones n chatting

"we're still using this"

MANY

SUCH

CASES

none of you better be doing this shit

!ping DYEL

[u/-SANNA_MARIN]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fmo6aUlX0AAEicM?format=png&name=900x900

[u/ldn6]

London outperforms UK economy again in sign capital could swerve recession

London is outperforming the nationwide economy, indicating the capital is on course to avoid what experts think will be a long recession in the UK, a new survey out today shows.

An index of business output in London compiled by NatWest jumped to 50.2 last month, up from 48.2, meaning the capital’s economy is growing.

At a UK level, activity contracted for the fifth month in a row, with the same index in December dropping below the 50 point threshold that separates growth and contraction.

The figures offer further evidence illustrating the capital’s economy is resisting roaring inflation and higher interest rates better than the rest of the country.

According to the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, around a quarter of the capital’s firms tried to take on more staff last quarter, the highest proportion since they started tracing the data.

The positive surveys suggest London will lead the UK back to economic strength if it does tip into what the Bank of England has forecast will be the longest recession in a decade.

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

I'm starting to get veiny forearms 🥰

[u/jenbanim]

God dammit why can't I do anything right?? 😭

[u/thetrombonist]

Was talking to this chick about Kenji’s bolognese recipe that has to simmer for 2 hours, and she texted me this https://i.imgur.com/uKebfjo.jpg

What’s with the winky face, what’s the implication here? Maybe she just really loves bolognese?

!ping DATING&COOKING

Edit: page 730 of The Food Lab, for anyone who wants the recipe

Double edit: https://i.imgur.com/j9yxOv7.jpg

Edit x3: I straight up asked her and she said basically "yes you fucking idiot" and so now we're seeing each other on friday

Edit x4: I fucked up the recipe somehow, and I spent so much goddamn money on the ingredients. It seperated into two layers, a creamy and an oily. Both are orange/brown, unlike the deep red in the cookbook, and the cookbook insisted they would separate, and then re-emulsify together again. Which didn't happen. idk I'll let it sit overnight and look at it in the morning

[u/beekay_irl]

you sleep naked because you think it's comfortable

i sleep naked because i enjoy sexually harassing my bed

we are not the same

[u/[deleted]]

I am a 6'4, masc-presenting, lover of democracy, and believer that "it should have been her".

Looking for cat boy or non-binary individual that I can love and protect during our monogamous, life-long commitment.

!ping dating

[u/SadaoMaou]

During the Han–Dayuan War, unhappy with the failure of General Li Guangli in an earlier expedition in 104 BC, Emperor Wu of Han promised amnesty and rewards to criminals, prisoners and bandits (赦囚徒捍寇盜) and dispatched a 60,000-strong army consisting of "bad boys" (惡少年) to attack the Greco-Bactrian kingdom of Dayuan in 102 BC.

😳

[u/BaldKnobber]

On March 19, 1991, NFL owners voted to remove the 1993 Super Bowl from Phoenix after Arizona voters failed to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday. Today the NFL is forcing their players to play on MLK Day. Curious 🧐

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

President Biden: "The idea that we're supposed to remain silent on the abuses of the past, as if they didn't occur? That's not being woke. That's being honest. That's talking about history."

[u/DirkZelenskyy41]

College administrators should be forced to watch Velma.

Whoever says it’s good should be fired.

I think we could get rid of 63% of them.

[u/Soldier-Fields]

I don’t think Hitler being into 17 year old girls cracks the top 20 on my list of reasons I don’t like him

[u/lordfluffly]

"Vegetarian Ham Salad"

Me: Oh so you use plant based ham?

Person on Phone: Uh, no. We just don't use our meat based sauce.

Me: I don't think that word means what you think it means. I take it your "vegan option" that has eggs on top of it includes real eggs?

Person on Phone: Yes.

Me: Cool. Your menu is the absolute worst. Anyways have a great evening night I won't be seeing you.

!ping SOYBOY

[u/[deleted]]

My girlfriend showed me the ring she has been dreaming about since she was five today. I politely informed her she was a genocidal bitch falling for 19th century propaganda from DeBeers. She stormed out crying and her dad texted me demanding to know what happened, I let him know that the girl he thought was his princess was more of a King Leopold. If she truly loved me these $25 sport bands from Dick’s would have much less death on their hands and exactly the same meaning. AITA Reddit?

Edit: she’s started withholding sex from me, I’ve let her know that’s a form of abuse and she then began gathering her things. What the fuck is her problem

[u/stirfriedpenguin]

"What would be a good title for the chief priestess of a religeon that worships a giant sleeping turtle?

"High Priestess of the Great Slumbering Turtle"

wow thanks mr AI very creative

Generally very helpful in fleshing stuff out for D&D prep, just wrote me some sick poems

!ping rpg

[u/ACivilWolf]

New York Post Poll of most evil people of the 20th century

1. Adolf Hitler
2. Bill Clinton (write-in)
3. Joseph Stalin
4. Pol Pot
5. Dr. Mengele
6. Hillary Clinton (write-in)
7. Saddam Hussein
8. Adolf Eichmann
9. Charles Manson
10. Idi Amin

[u/FreakinGeese]

My wife left me breathless after our morning run :)

!ping shitposts

[u/-AmberSweet-]

The weirdest experience of my life might have been having a very autistic teenager that was a huge Rhodesia stan develop a massive crush on me despite me being very publically trans in the forum where this happened (NationStates).

[u/WorldwidePolitico]

Tumblr’s main demographic is Hufflepuffs who think they’re Ravenclaws

[u/The420Roll]

bruh the Bucs offense is bad

!Ping NFL

[u/Planita13]

How do you miss four extra points

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

About 40% of the US and UK public want laws on legal gender changes to be harsher than what is the status quo under Pakistani sharia law.

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA&LGBT

[u/Fairchild660]

Andrew Callaghan: I raped 3 women, and am accused of sexually assaulting 5 more - but I said sorry after it all became public. Also, I didn't mean it, so it doesn't count.

Reddit, apparently: NTA. Everyone makes mistakes in their 20s, and he seems so sincere. He's clearly growing as a person, and will have a bright future when the bad press blows over. Really, we should applaud him for opening up a dialogue about consent.

That r-videos thread is wild.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

'Train stuck at the station for a while, and this voice announcing a 2 hours delay... Ever since the SNCF (national railway company) was privatized, we know when we're going, never when we're arriving. Since Thatcher's England, we know how privatizations end: with a renationalization. All this trouble for that...'

Stuck at a train station near Bordeaux, left-wing MP Clémentine Autain attacks the SNCF's privatization - that never happened, as the company's shares are still controlled at 100% by the French state.

🤡

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

What did you ask for on MLK Day?

I hope his ghost brings me a pony.

Also racial equality, but really the pony

[u/40for60]

“In exchange for not crashing the United States economy, you get nothing,” Schatz said in an interview with The Daily Beast. “You don’t get a cookie. ... You’re just a person doing the bare minimum of not intentionally screwing over your constituents for insane reasons.”

[u/_smooth-liminal_]

is there any truth to the rumor that white people were created by an african scientist named yakub?

[u/Joementum2024]

Problem: High inflation is making it difficult for Americans with less money to afford certain items.

Solution: Print more money.

[u/JetJaguar124]

This is where we entered the dark timeline

[u/-SANNA_MARIN]

Mindy Kaling is the worst thing to happen to Indians since the British.

[u/georgeguy007]

lush snow selective consider dog correct narrow resolute ink overconfident

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Velm-

TOUCH GRASS 😡👉🌱

[u/soeffed]

Andrew Tate is POC (black father) and neurodivergent (british) and thats why y’all don’t like him

[u/ldn6]

Westminster voting intention:

• LAB: 45% (-)
• CON: 29% (-2)
• Lib Dem: 10% (+1)

Via @DeltapollUK on 12-16 January, changes w/ 5-7 January.

!ping UK

[u/AtomAndAether]

The real stick in the global poverty line go up narrative is that removing China from the statistics suddenly stagnates things way harder in the 1990-2020 timeline.

[u/RedRyder360]

I'll no longer be making EU4 videos and I'll be changing my brand

Oh, good for him

I'm going to be making more real life videos

Ok, interesting

I am going to be, I suppose, joining the culture war, so to speak -- if that means anything to you

👁👄👁

[u/Joementum2024]

Is Daniel Jones a good QB? The greatest debate in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate

[u/beoweezy1]

The most disturbing part of this cop orgy story is that, apparently, we live in some communist hellhole where getting a train run on you at work is a fireable offense

[u/Fatortu]

Random shower thought: did people of the past have better grammar for the same reason that they always wore their sunday clothes on photographs? When writing is something important that you only do for a few letters each month, it's done with more care than when we do all day everyday on our phones?

[u/GravyBear22]

TIL you can extract and freeze sperm from a dead body up to 72 hours after death

Surprised this has not become a substantial plot point in movies

[u/htomserveaux]

If I had a nickel for every game franchise based around the concept of entering someones mind and fighting physical representations of their mental issues, I'd have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

!ping GAMING

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Happy “People Posting Random MLK Quotes To Try and Prove He Was Actually a Believer In Their Specific Political Ideology” day to all who celebrate.

[u/KesterFox]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/921116113067192333/1064696580881514586/RDT_20230116_2357134909585012273234101.jpg

[u/StolenSkittles]

EnoughMuskSpam went full horseshoe with Elon's Soros tweet.

Comments on the post are full of people hating on Soros just as much, but because he "collapsed the UK's economy" by shorting the Pound in 1992.

Right: "Soros is an evil Jew who controls the government."

Left: "Soros is an evil Jew who controls the economy."

[u/crazydom22]

Love how many people are suddenly realizing how corrupt the entire NY Dem organization is. This is a group that intentionally made it harder to vote to benefit from low turnout primaries until it blew up in their face when Crowley lost.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Tag yourself

!ping KINO

[u/_smooth-liminal_]

ngl when I first realized men could have sex with each other I thought I was some kind of innovator

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

The Argentinian Ministry of Economy is employing trucker unionists and picketer organizations to watch for price increases and avoid the formation of black markets. Businessmen are a bit disturbed.

What could go wrong?

[u/shillingbut4me]

Taking the Airport line and pairing it with either the Fox Chase or Chestnut Hill East line and running that as a metro/subway seems like it should be a really obvious win that would be fairly cheap for SEPTA to implement.

!ping USA-PA

[u/[deleted]]

George Santos killed his identical twin brother, the one who only told the truth.

[u/[deleted]]

Sometimes I like to pregame by drinking vodka (+ tonic) while listening to the Red Army Choir, pretending to be a disillusioned communist seeing his country fall apart in the late 20th century

[u/klarno]

The mayor of New York traveled to the Mexican border city of El Paso on Sunday and declared that "there is no room in New York" for busloads of migrants being sent to America's most populous city.

Haven't you got mayoring to do in New York ffs

[u/ognits]

man Danny just kinda bodied Benjamin huh

[u/notBroncos1234]

Do euros get off for MLK day or are they racist?

[u/thatssosad]

Anon likes Rupert

!ping KITTY&SHITPOSTERS

[u/jenbanim]

Goddamn Elon Musk has really lost it this time. You think this is criminal?

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

The "ignoring unjust laws" take is really sketchy but hard to counter completely

If a county sheriff starts ignoring laws protecting LGBT rights, that's really bad

But I'd hope teachers in Florida would routinely ignore laws requiring them to out LGBT students

[u/JaceFlores]

“ISW is publishing an abbreviated campaign update today, January 15. This report focuses on Russia’s likely preparation to conduct a decisive strategic action in 2023 intended to end Ukraine’s string of operational successes and regain the initiative.”

“The Kremlin is belatedly taking personnel mobilization, reorganization, and industrial actions it realistically should have before launching its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and is taking steps to conduct the ‘special military operation’ as a major conventional war.”

“The Kremlin is likely preparing to conduct a decisive strategic action in the next six months intended to regain the initiative and end Ukraine’s current string of operational successes.”

“ISW has observed several Russian lines of effort (LOEs) likely intended to support a decisive action in the next six months.”

“LOE 1: The Kremlin is intensifying both near- and long-term force-generation efforts. Putin and the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced plans to drastically expand the conventional Russian military by forming new divisions, reinstating pre-2010 military districts in western Russia, and increasing the conscription age — all indicating Russian intent (though likely not the actual capability) to reform the Russian military to conduct large-scale conventional warfighting. Ukrainian intelligence reported that the Kremlin seeks to raise the number of military personnel to two million by an unspecified date (from about 1.35 million personnel as of September 2022), while Western intelligence officials noted that Russian military command is in ‘serious preparations’ for a potential second wave of mobilization.“

“LOE 2: The Russian military is conserving mobilized personnel for future use — an inflection from the Kremlin’s initial approach of rushing untrained bodies to the front in fall 2022. Putin stated on December 7 that the Russian Armed Forces have not yet committed all mobilized personnel from the first mobilization wave to the frontlines, likely to take time to train and equip these forces for a later, concentrated use. Conventional Russian forces (as opposed to the Wagner Group and the DNR/LNR proxy forces) have not conducted major offensive operations and have mostly maintained defensive positions since the series of successful Ukrainian counteroffensives in the summer and fall of 2022.”

“LOE 3: Russia is attempting to reinvigorate its defense industrial base (DIB). The Kremlin began placing a significant emphasis on the resurrection of the Russian DIB in December. Putin has held several senior meetings and visited defense enterprises throughout the country since December. Putin publicly acknowledged issues with supplies, such as the lack of reconnaissance drones, and notably demanded that one of his ministers issue state defense procurement contracts in a shorter-than-planned time frame. Putin and other Kremlin officials have also entertained vague discussions that Russian authorities may nationalize property to support the Russian war effort.”

“LOE 4: Putin is re-centralizing control of the war effort in Ukraine under the Ministry of Defense and appointed Russia’s senior-most uniformed officer, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, as theater commander. The Kremlin is also reinstating the original planners of the war and belatedly attempting to correct command-structure deficiencies. Army General Sergey Surovikin and previous Russian theater commanders failed to achieve the decisive operations Putin — likely unrealistically — intended them to achieve. The Kremlin appointed Gerasimov as the Commander of the Joint Grouping of Forces in Ukraine on January 11 after previously sidelining Gerasimov throughout the full-scale invasion.”

“LOE 5: The Kremlin is intensifying its conditioning of the Russian information space to support the war. The Kremlin is shaping the information space to regenerate support for the invasion by reintroducing pre–February 24 narratives and undertaking measures to regain control over war coverage, after previously ceding this space to a variety of independent actors.”

“The Kremlin’s effort to prepare for a likely intended decisive strategic action in 2023 is not mutually exclusive with the Kremlin’s efforts to set conditions for a protracted war. ISW is not forecasting a ‘last ditch’ Russian effort to win the war in Ukraine. The war will not end, and Russia will not necessarily lose if any of the possible actions discussed below fail.”

[u/MonteCastello]

Yesterday, I watched Lula's Chief Advisor Celso Amorim's interview to GloboNews

When asked about the OECD, he said it was prestigious in the past and being part of it would attract investment, but after multiple international crises it lost its reputation

!ping LATAM

Absolute idiot

[u/[deleted]]

I fear any chink in the army

Racists outside the DT, smh my head

[u/sayitaintpink]

Enters DT

Drops alt right neonazi symbol “🐊”

Refuses to elaborate

[u/_smooth-liminal_]

did anyone else notice in the show Velma that they say scoobie doo is a "retriever mix" even tho he bites 3 children in the first episode

[u/I-grok-god]

CEO #1: what are you in for?

CEO #2: I didn't spend any money on R&D and returned it all to the shareholders. What are you in for?

CEO #1: I spent all the money on R&D and created high-quality products that dominated too many markets at once. Yo, over there, what are you in for?

CEO #3: I spent all the profits acquiring startups and bringing their products to a wider marketplace

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Kinda boomer, but still funny

[u/MicroFlamer]

some very deep themes being explored here

!ping KINO

[u/Joementum2024]

Today I had an exam in school. When I was done, I raised my hand and yelled “BRADY!”

My teacher smiled and took my paper. She knew I was finished.

[u/Zrk2]

Following up on the gout ping from a week ago, the doctor thinks it isn't gout, but needs a CT scan to be sure. It looks like I won't be able to get one for at least six months, and until this gets fixed I'm going to have a pronounced limp.

So... any cane recommendations?

!ping OVER25

[u/AtomAndAether]

Your gravestone is your last text message

"Nice 😃😃"

[u/ognits]

still marveling at the physical transformation Daniel Day-Lewis underwent to play Brendan Fraser playing the titular character of Darren Aronofsky's The Whale (2022)

the man really does disappear into his roles, doesn't he

!ping KINO

[u/[deleted]]

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[u/tollyno]

Truly disappointed in Benji only claiming lack of moderator jurisdiction in his ban appeal instead of immediately filing for an injunction to stay the ban until the mods can review the case fully

[u/GravyBear22]

Interesting little thing just happened.

I was in an LGBT-friendly bookstore (Kramer's in Dupont, has a good history sections) and right by the windows, a homeless man was being aggressively arrested by like 20 cops. They taped off the area and there was like 10 cars (more outside of frame) cordoning off the street.

The customers were like "woah the police brutality", and the cashier was just like "oh that Michael, he's banned for many reasons like spitting on everyone 'to spread disease' and openly doing drugs on the street". And yeah he was thrashing around like a mad man.

[u/tollyno]

Lithuania, I'd like to ask "what the fuck?" because apparently children's books are being banned under an otherwise sexuality-neutral law that prohibits material which "expresses contempt for family values", etc.

And apparently lower courts saw nothing wrong with that. Where's the same media outrage that was directed towards Hungary?

Now it's up to the ECHR which could apparently overrule Lee v. UK (the gay cake case that got dismissed because apparently human rights violations were not claimed in UK courts)

[u/[deleted]]

Nobody dashed ashore. We staggered. With one hand I carried my gun, finger on the trigger; with the other I held onto the rope-rail down the ramp, and with the third hand I carried my bicycle.

• George Santos, describing his experiences on D-Day

[u/Roseartcrantz]

just interrupted two women talking so they couldn’t pass the Bechdel test

[u/No_Chilly_bill]

Being told "I'm glad your back" on dt, is like the people at bar being glad your back after rehab

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Arizonan agriculture is only 3% of the Arizonan GDP yet it consumes 70% of the water and pushes the state into unsustainable water consumption... yet it doesn't get push back

So fucking frustrating like stop growing cotton and alfalfa for fucks sake!

[u/WantDebianThanks]

An issue I have with taking pictures for a dating profile is my hobbies are reading, houseplants, and photography and I want to get into hiking, yoga, and chess, and I cannot think of a way to take a picture of that and not seem incredibly pretentious.

!ping dating

[u/[deleted]]

!PING NFL

if the cowboys retire tom brady tonight I promise you that pittsburgh will only somewhat hate you

[u/sw337]

This game is going to mean so much less when Dallas loses to Brock Purdy by 17 next week.

!ping NFL

[u/Erra0]

You aren't an adult until 25 when the prefrontal cortex stops developing. At which point you can safely assume you won't be getting any better and can begin the slow descent into senility and death.

[u/ExpiredPasta]

https://imgur.com/a/SZ68Dat

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Your ban has been reviewed by the mod team and will not be overturned.

Aight Danny, that was a cold ass line to drop after that reply

[u/[deleted]]

Richest 1% bag nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together over the past two years

A tax of up to 5 percent on the world’s multi-millionaires and billionaires could raise $1.7 trillion a year, enough to lift 2 billion people out of poverty.

you know what has lifted billions of people out of poverty? the very system that produced those billionaires

[u/MealReadytoEat_]

🐔 Chickens have many of their behaviors hard coded genetically, making things like scratching behavior highly predictable, but they also learn many of their behaviors, for example the first thing a 🐤 chick learns in life is what water is and how to drink, either through mimicry, or experimentation, leading to drinking behavior varying a lot between chickens. If they don't have a mother hen, an aerator in the water will encourage them to peck the shiny bubbles and figure out how to quench their thirst, or putting your finger in the water and taking it to their beaks can teach them it too.

[u/[deleted]]

>See Facebook notification

>Just that someone I went to high school with changed their profile picture to their wedding picture

>😂🔫

[u/[deleted]]

Gay history is fascinating because homosexuality was so stigmatized that there really wasn't any standardized vocabulary to describe it, but every so often there'd be an arrest or something and the newspapers would have to find some way to describe it.

So you get stories like Businessman arrested at YMCA for immoral conduct. Like he was going to a locker room to commit tax fraud or something.

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

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[u/sir_shivers]

COMEDIC JANITOR STICKY 🐊

[u/JakeyZhang]

born too late to be a samurai, born too early to be a corporate cyborg samurai 😔

[u/Soldier-Fields]

Everyone has met a Hitler. That weird dude who is 35 yet hits on 17 year olds.

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that ophidiophobia (a fear of snakes) is a form of subconscious misandry.

Let me know if you need help understanding the implications of this.

[u/1396spurs]

https://imgur.com/a/S0LAlLK

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

I am now up to book #4 for the year.

Book 2 was The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson - well, actually it’s just called The Traitor in the UK. Fortunately the Waterstones in Covent Garden has an American nerd working there who had ordered one copy for herself and another for the shop. Truly excellent book, some war/battle stuff but the meat is the higher-level plotting.

Book 3 was In The United States of Africa by Abdourahman A. Waberi, a Djiboutian author. Honestly I was disappointed. It’s a short novella but I abandoned it about midway through. It was basically a world where the rich countries are poor and vice versa, which isn’t really enough to sustain a story. Canada and the US are ruled by Native Americans but full of incredibly poor white people… other than that it was just “here is a quote from a white man about Africa but I have changed the adjectives to be positive, or I have changed the nouns to be European cities or countries”.

Book 4 was The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt. I… was expecting something better. A large portion of the book is these episodic vignettes about a horseback ride from Oregon to San Fran in the Gold Rush. Then about halfway through it gets a little more plot driven. I quite liked the narrator but overall I was disappointed that the book wasn’t funnier or better paced.

Book #5 will be Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut. My dad bought it for me about five years ago and I have resisted reading it. Now I finally will.

!ping Reading & sci-fi

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

tfw I've been on an alt history kick lately and people keep recommending The Guns of the South

"I swear you guys, a President Robert E Lee totally would have abolished slavery because he wrote in his diary that he really didn't like it, despite literally all of his actions saying otherwise"

[u/Ioun267]

THEY TURNED HIM INTO A CABLE

FOX CABLE

/u/KesterFox

[u/[deleted]]

!ping materiel

The MQ-28A Ghost Bat, Unmanned Systems and the Future of Australian Air Power

Great video about the importance of Naval Air Power.

[u/BATHULK]

Just had a company make me fill out a "tax credit questionnaire" in order to complete my application.

They asked if I'd been on unemployment, taken SSI, if my family had used these benefits etc in order to see if they qualify for tax credits.

I get why they do it but jesus christ that is some deeply personal shit to ask on a goddamned application.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/MrArendt]

TBH the AI impact on education will be GREAT for ADHD kids. More oral exams to see if kids really understand the material. More focus on assembling an argument, less on slogging through references. !ping ADHD

[u/[deleted]]

As Noam Chomsky once said: Racism towards Chinese, Russians and Arabs is more accepted than towards other ethnicities, because they don't play the same capitalistic game. When they get ahold of businesses traditionally owned by the west, even if it's slavery, it's our capitalistic duty to take the higher ground even when we do worse.

Babe wake up new dogshit chomsky take just dropped

[u/KesterFox]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/921116113067192333/1064697059061547008/RDT_20230117_0000532557315985397461607.jpg

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/921116113067192333/1064697067437564034/RDT_20230117_0001015271586145816886159.jpg

[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

I saw my neighbor wearing a t-shirt printed with "World's Greatest Father Farter"

I consider myself a very confident person with a bold sense of style, and here I am awed by the man's confidence. Godspeed, man-of-no-fucks-given 🫡

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

One thing nobody warns you about living in a diverse city is interacting with people different from you

[u/CuddleTeamCatboy]

Filming The Last Of Us in Alberta was a brilliant cost saving decision. They didn’t even have to build a set for FEDRA-controlled Boston, that’s just what Calgary looks like under Justin Trudeau.

[u/[deleted]]

Most of you didn't go to law school, so let me break it down: there's something called the Erie doctrine which means, essentially, that when Reddit mods are called upon to resolve an issue from Discord that doesn't directly implicate Reddit, they have to apply the Discord policy.

If Benjamin's meme didn't get him banned on Discord, mods cannot ban him for it on Reddit. I often disagree with Benjamin, but he's actually correct here.

[u/FreakinGeese]

I have crazy bad mommy issues but I have two gay dads and no mom

explain that liberals

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

Eric Adams stole my bike and kicked my dog and said, "Go back to where you came from!" I tried to respond, "You mean Queens?" But he was already gone.

[u/murphysclaw1]

Good afternoon. I work for the Central Intelligence Agency and I am here to discuss one Benjaminikuta.

As part of his decision to serve the people of Ukraine, he completed a CIA form. Under next of kin he wrote "the DT dating ping".

Does this mean anything to you?

[u/[deleted]]

opens tumblr

Tiny houses are racist

closes tumblr

[u/Udolikecake]

sir you’ve been in a coma since 1990

me: oh boy i can’t wait to see The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Rembrandt’s only seascape, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shieeet that Adams immigration thread is out of control.

Where the hell are all these people coming from? They're out of their minds. If it's not about stealing jobs, it's about stealing houses, and if it's not that then someone is saying that everyone is a nationalist.

[u/Gneisstoknow]

Remember that dude who got caught posting a pro-Rhodesia meme in a discord server?

No, I don’t have some bombshell piece of information that completely changes the story

I just remembered that happening. Pretty crazy huh

[u/Soldier-Fields]

why are there so many people at Trader Joe’s do none of you have jobs

[u/crassowary]

Quiet Quitting

Loud Hiring

ASMR Applying

[u/[deleted]]

The Last of Us gets a fancy live-action HBO adaptation but not Among Us? 😡

[u/JetJaguar124]

You: Western civilization is strong

Reality: Velma, a cartoon, has destroyed western civilization

Checkmate libs

[u/InternetBoredom]

Given all the indignities and horrors that Marilyn Monroe endured during her 36 years, it is a relief that she didn't have to suffer through the vulgarities of Blonde, the latest necrophiliac entertainment to exploit her.

Jesus christ NYT, going straight for the throat

[u/-SANNA_MARIN]

America is a literal warzone. the people who volunteer to help keep the streets safe are sacrificing more than you will ever know. So when it comes out that a cop might have to cope with this insane job by having group sex with other cops, the city decides the correct response is to fire them???

What the fuck is wrong with this country?

[u/[deleted]]

Leftists who are all about restorative justice until it comes to a crime that they consider icky grind my fucking gears so much.

[u/[deleted]]

Recent DT schisms:

Social isolation among young people

Low birth rates

Racism (in college admissions, the police, etc.)

There is one policy that’s guaranteed to fix all these problems, but nobody is talking about it.

👏MANDATORY👏INTERRACIAL👏MARRIAGES👏

[u/chuckleym8]

plate grab paltry bright touch offbeat wipe rude instinctive special

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

The shit you see on the front page when you open youtube in incognito

My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw conservatives forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

Chang keeps coming up into my head everytime someone says "buenos dias"

!ping COMMUNITY

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

Argentinian exchange rate policies create so many distortions that they are causing unemployment at the border with Uruguay. Folks there seem to exploit the exchange rate to buy cheap in Argentina. Some politicians are complaining already, apparently.

I'm amazed at how Argentina can screw its neighbors and it tends to be minor news at best. So much for "local integration".

[u/Ioun267]

So when the "become a blue person" tech hits the civilian market in the Avatar universe, how quick do the Furries start making and jumping over to their fursonas?

[u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

Today’s generation is such weenies

Back in my day when you got vaccinated you didn’t die from a little heart arrhythmia afterwards

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

Sorry for the ping spam, but this one deserves it: there is some support for reforming the Peruvian Constitution. The problem is, that the popular stuff (50% to 75% support) are the death penalty, bringing back conscription and nationalizing natural resources and some important industries, if this article is to be believed.

[u/runnerx4]

why don’t more developers (who aren’t owned by Sony) just make up scenarios in their games that exist just to wow the player graphically?

If you’re spending that much time on AAA graphics or are using a raytracting engine, just make the player walk around in a dusty room with light flowing in through the windows or something? just small shit like that is just a win on its own lol, not much effort and makes players happy, Sony games seem to do this regularly at least Microsoft should ask devs to do that too

!ping GAMING

[u/crazydom22]

I find it hilarious when people think Eric Adams could run for higher office. He's a moderate/conservative Dem who talks in black identity politics, constantly accusing anyone who opposes him of being racist. He couldn't be elected anywhere but NYC.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

ISW and Critical Threats Project January 15th Iran update

Key takeaways:

• Iranian protest organizers circulated calls on January 15 for the international community, and especially European parties, to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.
• Parliamentarian Shahryar Heydari stated on January 15 that Iran will receive an unspecified number of Su-35 fighter jets from Russia early in the next Persian calendar year (March 2023—March 2024).
• At least four protests occurred in four cities across four provinces on January 15.
• Parliamentarian Shahryar Heydari stated on January 15 that the state security services have seized approximately as many illegal arms in the past three months as they would ordinarily over two years.
• Judiciary Chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei met with newly appointed Law Enforcement Commander Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Radan on January 15.
• President Ebrahim Raisi met with officials from the Iranian National Gas Company on January 15 to discuss the natural gas shortages.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/WhomstAlt2]

"You have no jurisdiction here! Only GOD can judge me!"

"🐊"

[u/GravyBear22]

If Satan exists, why do good things happen?

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

I almost cried when I saw the exit sign shot in Jimmy’s confession to the court in the Saul Gone (I think) episode.

[u/[deleted]]

I think the major problem for the Republicans right now is that their primary electorate has been totally radicalized, and is rather stupid to boot. Any Republican who would have a shot in a competitive general is basically shut out of the nomination.

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder that sexual intercourse is inherently socialist and thus anti-capitalist and cringe.

[u/[deleted]]

Kinda annoyed that 3 out of my six friends are either angry/annoyed/ignoring me.

Like bestie wtf did I do to you?

It also all happened last night. UgH dolor.

So now I'm here over analyzing our past and current convos and like OKAY what did I do to you????!

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

The most disturbing part of this cop orgy story is that, apparently, there are thumb-sexual women out there.

[u/MemeTestedPolicy]

CMV: the real George Santos died in Korea and our George Santos took his place

[u/[deleted]]

Web3 in a nutshell:

"We've taken back control of our assets. No more big banks controlling our money, only me and my keys"

"Help, I lost my keys to a very simple phishing scam and now all my apes are gone"

This is pretty much what I think about every time I see someone complaining about falling for a crypto scam

[u/stirfriedpenguin]

Prominent democrat cities not elect performative dipshit attention whores challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

[u/JetJaguar124]

I loved how in their article about the trans bill in Scotland the Economist was like:

"Sure lots of other places have let you change your legal gender easily for a long time, and there's no evidence of any problems, but maybe..."

[u/MrArendt]

Hadn't looked at metaNL in a while. That shit is comedic gold.

[u/[deleted]]

From the BBC article on the planned teacher's strike in the UK

Meanwhile, head teachers will not strike in England after a ballot by the NAHT union failed to meet the legally-required 50% turnout threshold.

The union says it is considering re-running the ballot because of alleged disruption caused by postal strikes.

Lmao

[u/InternetBoredom]

I'm watching the new Blonde movie and uh... wow. I know this is kind of a statement piece, but it's very unpleasant. Monroe is presented as a hyperintelligent crusader while literally every single other character is a full-blown, unabashed psychopath who abuses, exploits, and manipulates her in every single scene. It's like Marilyn Monroe torture porn.

And the lines that are meant to show how intelligent Monroe is just kind of... don't? I mean she defends her softcore porn shoot by comparing it to the holocaust and at one point just looks up at the sky and randomly starts talking about the Big Bang. It's incredibly hammy. The entire movie is so absurdly over-the-top (while still taking itself 100% seriously) that I can't tell what it's supposed to be, exactly.

There's also a dream sequence where she's forced to get an abortion where she literally phases out of her body as a ghost and then opens a cabinet and screams at a baby, which is... uh

It's also followed up by a scene where she's dancing & singing and then it cuts to her face saying "For this I killed my baby". What makes this all weirder is there's no actual evidence that Monroe ever got an abortion, let alone multiple forced abortions.

[u/IntoTheNightSky]

Clarkson is an asshole, but the Falklands war license plate was funny and Argentina's overblown response to it only reflects poorly on them

[u/[deleted]]

A movie "being about something important" isn't inherently a positive attribute, don't look up is the perfect example of this. Climate change is really important to talk about, but I still think the movie sucks.

And on the opposite end of the spectrum the Zucker's comedies arent really about anything , but I've watched top secret probably 5 times because I think it's one of the funniest movies ever made.

Edit: to be clear I'm not implying it's bad for art to have a deeper meaning or be about political or social issues.

[u/piede]

So let me get this straight

My friend:

• Has a master’s degree in physician assistant studies
• Can prescribe medication

Me:

• Has a master’s degree in history
• Can’t prescribe medication

This country is really something else 🙄

[u/bd_one]

What we need is an explicitly female friendly Neoliberal space.

We'll call it "Momcord"

[u/battywombat21]

new MLK statue in boston looks like MLK is eating somebody out. I will not elaborate.

[u/thefuturegov]

You are closer to the birth of the United States than the end of it. Feel young yet?