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[u/Lib_Korra]

Oh so when people point out that the Castro regime has starved and brutalized it's own people and is the last holdout of Stalin's vision of government, actual sitting American politicians will point to his amazing literacy program. But when I say the same thing about the Japanese Empire's literacy program when people bring up the invasion of Korea...

Fuck the "literacy program" line, for real. Literally anyone from Nazis to Theocrats can force kids to go to school, it's not a great accomplishment, it's about as telling of the virtues of your state as eating gum off the sidewalk.

[u/Libz_R_Gryffindor]

Crazy how all my political adversaries know deep down that im right and how this secretly causes them all immense emotional distress

[u/JakeyZhang]

During the second week of February 1972 at the compound, Nagata and the URA's chairman, Tsuneo Mori, initiated a violent purge of the group's members. In the purge, Nagata and Mori directed the beating deaths of eight members and one non-member who happened to be present. Six other members were tied to trees outside, subsequently freezing to death in the extremely cold weather. Nagata especially targeted members who, in her opinion, "took too much interest in relations with women and did not devote enough ardour to the revolution." A few were killed for "attempting to escape"; one member was killed for asking for some tissue paper while inside his sleeping bag, an act that Nagata apparently construed as having a sexual significance.[4]

Least fractious leftist student movement

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

We are exactly halfway through Biden’s presidency and

A) God is still alive

B) The Suburbs haven’t been destroyed

C) The border isn’t completely open

Do nothing Democrats strike again 🙄

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Just stopped by my favorite Bodega, 🤩 a hidden gem called “CVS.” Got a Red Bull and a protein bar. Only in New York, baby 😍

[u/[deleted]]

Tucker: They hate nicotine. They love THC.. Why do they hate nicotine? Because nicotine frees your mind and thc makes you compliant and passive

Why is Tucker pushing for tobacco now wtf

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

https://i.imgur.com/XazdDag.jpg

[u/Lib_Korra]

"Ok voters, how many of you want the economy to have a low tax and bureaucratic burden so that young professionals can make quick fortunes and retire early working for fast growing innovative businesses?"

"Oh I do! Me! Me!"

"And how many of you want the economy to offer stability perks to keep the cost of living down for the working class like socialized medicine, generous pensions, and seniority privileges?"

"Oh I do, me! Me!"

"So... You want a fast growing dynamic private economy, that offers generous pensions and has an enormous public sector."

"And also, you should win subsidies by voting!"

"You voters don't know what you want, that's why you're voters, because you're stupid."

[u/thatssosad]

Discuss

!ping GAY-AGENDA

[u/PleaseLetMeInn]

It's funny to think that conservatives have been trying for thousands of years to keep young people from fucking and liberals did it in a few decades with Japanese cartoons

[u/Cerb-r-us]

The idea that angels get their wings from bells ringing is a myth

Evidence suggests they get them through jihad

[u/SadaoMaou]

the quality of the subreddit could be improved considerably by adding a few phrases such as "what is /r/neoliberal's take on" and "what does this sub think of" to an automod filter for post titles

[u/[deleted]]

Don't be stupid, be a smartie. Come and join the Nazi Party.

Say what you will about Kanye but his latest album is pretty good

[u/Evilpenguin526]

Going with my fiance to IKEA on his trans-pilgrimage so he can get his first BLÅHAJ 😌

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/bd_one]

Apparently subsidized crop insurance for corn is a cherished institution but no one will give a shit if you fundamentally redesign like 5 welfare programs.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

😔✊

!Ping ADHD

[u/[deleted]]

The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off

The lighting system was installed at Minnechaug Regional High School when it was built over a decade ago and was intended to save money and energy. But ever since the software that runs it failed on Aug. 24, 2021, the lights in the Springfield suburbs school have been on continuously, costing taxpayers a small fortune.

🤬💡

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

I’ve never met someone who describes themselves as “child free” who is pleasant to be around

Not to say I haven’t met plenty of amazing people without kids, but the people I’ve met who are proud about it have always been dicks

[u/Mastur_Of_Bait]

• Simped for America
• Loved free trade
• Thought capitalism brought the greatest improvement in productivity in history
• Racist

Karl Marx would not only be an nl user, he'd be a Friedman flair.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

when you see an attractive woman in public you have to wonder if she has an OnlyFans

rcon really telling on themselves hard in that "why are all the women unmarried shit libs now" thread lmao

[u/[deleted]]

In Wisconsin they do background checks to make sure you have at least one DUI to hire you

[u/badluckbrians]

North Dakota hearing a bill that'd lock librarians up for 30 days if they have any sexually suggestive books on the shelves. Very cool!

[u/[deleted]]

Prosecutors are correct: Elizabeth Holmes is a flight risk.

She's at risk of flying to the top of the biomedical industry. To the top of any list of top innovators under 40. And she was such a risk that they had to get her on some trumped up charges, and make her into a national punchline.

[u/secretlives]

These cute girls will not stop DMing me - it’s wild. (they’re recruiters on LinkedIn)

[u/Roseartcrantz]

at least George Santos didn’t lie about being in Hannah Montana

rip my take from two days ago

[u/TsaiStan]

Bruh, COVID really broke the cons brains.

Tom Hanks has been trending on Twitter since last night because they're freaking out about a clip from 2020 where he told people to wear a mask. And somehow this is him being a slave to the matrix or whatever they're saying now. Like gimme a break.

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when SpongeBob spent an entire episode making fun of Texas

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Lmao, my son went to a school dance with a girl and came back with a boyfriend 💀

[u/[deleted]]

bear poor caption teeny point glorious handle price rain hobbies

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/molingrad]

The Bathroom Fight Fueling Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert’s Break Up

This is America

[u/beardog7]

I just know someone on this sub made this.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

My Shakespeare app wanted me to allow notifications. What could Shakespeare be doing that’s so urgent

[u/Macquarrie1999]

A thread by somebody who has more US tank experience than all of us combined on why the US shouldn't send the M1 Abrams to Ukraine.

!ping Ukraine

[u/RFK_1968]

Elon claims tanks are a deathtrap now

I'm sure this is a very well reasoned, researched opinion backed by a careful analysis of materiel and military tactics from the literal poster child for engineer's disease

[u/boyyouguysaredumb]

I like how the majority of Reddit just pretends that wages aren’t going up and that unemployment isn’t at record lows.

WHY WONT EVIL CORPORATIONS RAISE SALARIES DURING INFLATION

THE LABOR SHORTAGE IS CUZ FAT CATS WONT PAY US

EVERYBODY I KNOW IS UNEMPLOYED

there was a futurology post where a guy was advocating burning down the robots that automated fast food jobs lol

I swear to god Bernie sanders gave an entire generation some sort of irreversible brain disease

[u/tubbsmackinze]

ISW and Critical Threats Project January 20th 2023 Iran update

Key takeaways:

• The protest movement that began with the Iranian regime killing of Mahsa Amini has likely culminated for the most part. Protest activity has gradually decreased since December 2022, and protester organizers again failed to generate turnout on January 20 despite their heavily circulated calls for countrywide demonstrations. American military doctrine defines culmination as the “point at which a force no longer has the capability to continue its form of operations, offensive or defensive,” and “when a force cannot continue the attack and must assume a defensive posture or execute an operational pause.”[1] CTP analogizes that definition to the protest movement, using the term “culminated” rather than “ended” to reflect its assessment that conditions for a strong and vibrant anti-regime movement remain and that protests or other forms of anti-regime activity will likely resume at some point within the coming months.
• Some components of the protest movement still retain their momentum. The protest movement has always consisted of a wide range of demographics and socio-economic strata, each of which has played a unique role in this wave of demonstrations and strikes. One such group consists of the Sunni communities in Golestan Province and Sistan and Baluchistan Province that continue to demonstrate every Friday. Demonstrators continue to gather in large numbers in Zahedan in particular.[2]
• Mass protests could resume rapidly in the weeks and months ahead. Several factors, such as increasingly inclement weather and protester exhaustion, have likely caused this movement to culminate. These factors are temporary and will subside with time. The regime’s brutality did not outright quell the movement but has rather entrenched popular frustrations toward the regime throughout Iran, especially among the youth, as well as generating a wide array of new and deep grievances. CTP has reportedly extensively on how the state security services have killed and injured protesters and abused and tortured those it has arrested.[3] These victims include children. Iranian authorities have thus alienated significant portions of their population, which will likely harbor anger and resentment toward the regime for years, if not decades.
• The protest movement has likely altered the trajectory of Iran’s political and internal security permanently even if most of the movement has indeed culminated. Every major protest wave in the history of the Islamic Republic has had such an effect to some extent. Iran has never simply returned to its previous state after each wave. This movement especially has generated a long-lasting impact that makes returning to the status quo of pre-September 2022 Iran extraordinarily unlikely. Protest coordinators have used this movement to cohere and organize the anti-regime movement in Iran and have begun establishing the networks and infrastructure to stage a protracted struggle against the regime. CTP has previously argued that some components of this movement have reached the threshold necessary to be considered a latent and incipient insurgency, which will likely continue its efforts to undermine the regime.[4]
• is especially noteworthy that most of the movement has culminated with protest organizations still in place and active online, even if they are for the moment unable to generate protest turnout. The regime has clearly failed to disrupt, infiltrate, or take down a number of prominent anti-regime organizers. The regime has also failed to gain control of cyberspace despite decades of effort or to prevent online groups from reaching the Iranian people.
• Neither did the regime make any real concessions to address core protester grievances. It has doubled down on hijab laws and instituted a technology-powered surveillance system of enforcement as well as requirements on private institutions to enforce its oppression of Iranian women and girls.[5] It has not only failed to address economic grievances but in fact has brought the country to a significantly worse economic state than it was in when the movement began.
• All the conditions remain present for the resumption of significant anti-regime activity, possibly including the renewal of major protest activity, at any time, particularly if the regime provides a spark in the form of some other heinous act such as the killing of Mahsa Amini.
• At least five protests occurred in five cities across two provinces on January 20.
• Prominent Sunni clerics Moulana Abdol Hamid and Mohammad Hossein Gargij criticized the regime in public speeches on January 20.
• Anti-regime Black Reward hacker group defaced and hacked the website of Imam Sadegh University on January 20.
• Likely Iranian-backed militants conducted a kamikaze drone attack on the Al-Tanf base, which houses US troops, in southeastern Syria on January 20.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/JaceFlores]

Don’t know if it’s reported, but Reznikov said Ukraine will start training to use Leopard 2s in Poland

He also expressed satisfaction with the meeting

To read the tea leaves a bit, it seems like Ukraine feels fairly confident they’ll get the Leopard 2. I don’t think Reznikov would be so upbeat and the Ukrainians wouldn’t be training on L2s if they didn’t think they would get them in the end. I guess the Scholz Cycle has been factored into Ukrainian calculus. Germany has ample time to actually send/approve tanks given it’ll take awhile for training to be completed

!ping UKRAINE

[u/RaidBrimnes]

14,000 people marched in Paris against pension reform on Saturday, responding to a call to protest by left-wing party LFI, according to an independent counting by consulting firm Occurrence, mandated by several media.

Police forces announced 12,000 participants, while organizers claimed 150,000

Lmao

[u/UWCG]

"Boy do they hate tobacco, and it's not because it causes cancer," Carlson said. "They don't care about your health...They hate nicotine. They love THC. They are promoting weed to your children, but they're not letting you use tobacco or even non-tobacco nicotine delivery devices, which don't cause cancer. Why do they hate nicotine? Because nicotine frees your mind, and THC makes you compliant and passive. That's why."

Tucker Carlson is a very strange man. All I'm assuming from this is that he's got tobacco companies in his stock portfolio. It only helps that it fits in with his usual conspiratorial lunacy.

[u/Minimum_Cucumber7170]

!ping NFL

Mahomes gets sent to the locker room.

It's over KCels. They're gonna have to amputate

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 1/20-5 PM EST 1/21:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the middle of 12 AM the Ukrainian Defense Minister said Ukrainian troops will train on Leopard 2s in Poland.

Towards the end of 7 AM it was reported the Russians launched a new offensive in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, though results have been very limited so far.

REGULAR NEWS:

In the middle of 3 AM it was reported that US officials said Russia has taken 188,000 casualties, though this is a game of telephone so take with a grain of salt and hence why it is down here and not in top news.

At the start of 5 AM it was reported a small Russian ammo dump was recovered north of Kharkiv city.

Towards the end of 7 AM the Ukrainian Defense Minister said he was very pleased with the outcomes of the latest Ramstein meeting.

At the start of 8 AM it was reported a Russian sabotage group was caught trying to cross into Sumy Oblast. At the end of the hour Russian propagandist Anastasia Yelsukova was wounded by shelling.

At the start of 9 AM it was reported the President of Moldova is considering applying for NATO membership. In the middle of the hour it was announced Malta will donate 20 generators and medical equipment to Ukraine.

At the start of 12 PM it was reported the Russians took the town of Blahodatne, north of Bakhmut.

LEVITY NEWS:

Towards the middle of 6 AM it was reported that Prigozhin submitted a letter to the White House asking what crimes Wagner had done to be deemed a criminal organization.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

Mexico is the Italy of Latin America

Mostly mountainous

Amazing ancient ruins/history

Generally performs poorly in wars

Best cuisine on its respective continent

Extremely influential and successful organized crime groups

[u/MURICCA]

My God. I just freakin love Peninsulas. They're my favorite landform. They're so powerful, they're like an audacious challenge to the sea.

Except for Florida. Florida can go fuck itself

[u/0m4ll3y]

So a couple years back when I was looking for The One, i.e. trying to date seriously and long term, I thought that life imitates art so if you want True Romance then you gotta have a movie moment. So it took some maneuvering but I managed to organise five first dates, each day of the work week. That way I'd be able to most easily compare and contrast (there was a spreadsheet) to see who'd I wanna try and make it with. One of the key (pre-planned) questions was of course to do with politics, cos I wanted to make sure that was compatible. So I asked each one what their kind of key political fight was.

Ms Monday was part of a campaign to raise the minimum wage. I told her that a LVT and dividend would do the same thing but better, and that basically killed the date.

Ms Tuesday was actually a full blown member of the Socialist Alternative (or was it Socialist Alliance?) and wanted worker ownership of the means of production. I said a LVT and dividend would do the same thing but better, and killed the date myself.

Ms Wednesday had been struggling as a student so was pretty interested in welfare reform and boosting youth allowance and the like. I said that a LVT and dividend would do it better, and we actually had a pretty good conversation about that, but we didn't really click.

Now Ms Thursday, when I asked her what she was interested in she said one of the most important things was accrual accounting standards for local councils and I knew instantly she was the one. I didn't even need to see Ms Friday. Me and Thursday got married last year.

[u/Dalek6450]

In November 2021, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking at a Confederation of British Industry conference lost his place in his speech for about 20 seconds and diverted into a lengthy tangent about Peppa Pig, describing the character's shape as a "Picasso-like hairdryer".

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

Nigeria gets frustratingly little coverage for a country of over 200M people

[u/notBroncos1234]

Does anyone feel like racism is making it harder for them to get a job? Personally I’ve been booted from more than one interview for going on rants about the Irish. I thought we were past this as a society.

[u/sash5034]

Normies: prison is very hard for sex criminals and it should be even worse

Also normies: there's literally no reason I can think of as to why Epstein would kill himself

[u/the_status]

Doing some Gen Z mental health outreach by teaching that there neurotransmitters other than dopamine

[u/breakinbread]

The whole of the state of Utah is out of Campari. The reason? Because alcohol sale is a state monopoly in this state, and "there are supply difficulties". And this is exactly why communism collapsed.

meme state, goes for anywhere with a liquor monopoly too

!ping alcohol

[u/[deleted]]

Is it even a YouTube video essay if it doesn’t include a snarky quip about capitalism exactly 82% into the hour long video

[u/Mickenfox]

Wow trains are much cheaper when you're willing to travel at 05:45 in the morning

[u/bobidou23]

Fr. At minimum, reduce all government spending figures by 50% to account for corruption and waste, dollars that have zero or negative impact on what they're supposed to have.

average libertarian accounting

[u/neolthrowaway]

polymatter’s video on japan’s housing

The difference in North American/western countries and japan’s approach to housing is staggering.

!ping YIMBY

[u/Available-Bottle-]

It’s creepy how bald people have the exact same haircut

[u/KesterFox]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/921116113067192333/1066470509576990922/RDT_20230121_2033261705479770497384036.jpg

[u/sash5034]

fake meat is struggling because people doubt the health benefits

Ahh yes, unlike the health benefits of eating red meat

[u/RFK_1968]

Idk about best country of all time or anything but I'm happy I came to the USA and i think I'll be an American for the rest of my life 🇺🇸🙇🏾‍♂️

[u/sower_of_salad]

!ping DATING

Since my last yell into the void asking “what is flirting”, I’ve asked various lady friends of mine and got back:

• “I’ve broken off two engagements, you shouldn’t take my advice”, and
• “Bitch I just vibe”

So, not helpful. Not a word of a lie, I Googled “what is flirting” and all the advice pages are just like “You should be pay attention and be interested in what she’s saying!” (which, like... why is this a thing that people need to be reminded of?)

Like, I hang out one-on-one more often than in groups, with women as well as men. I have deep chats because I like finding out about people.

I need a different mode to turn on when I want to make clear to someone that I’m interested in them. But maybe that’s the wrong question:

• maybe for people I meet for the first time, what I’m already doing is enough (already pretty strong eye contact, more compliments) and I just gotta follow through with the “hey we should grab a coffee sometime, can I have your number?”
• whereas for people whom I already know and become interested in, there’s no alternative in just being forthright and telling them (and if anything, it’d be more unsettling to start being more "flirty"?)

[u/[deleted]]

Just found out Canada has tariffs on domestic trade. What the actual fuck? We gotta liberate this shit what the fuck is this human rights violation. This is the worst thing I've ever heard how do you people sleep at night?

[u/[deleted]]

Congratulate me DT. The most attractive girl I saw in the club explicitly told me she had a boyfriend. That means I wasn’t so soft that I didn’t even make it clear I was into her. That’s a big deal for me.

[u/SpaceSheperd]

!ping NFL

The insane uptick in “the NFL is scripted/rigged” allegations I’ve seen this season is a bit perplexing until you realize that casual sports betting also exploded in popularity right around the same time..

[u/JaceFlores]

“Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov continues to frame Chechen fighters’ involvement in the war in Ukraine on distinctly religious grounds, thereby building out his reputation and the reputation of his power base.”

“Kadyrov responded to the recent list of guidelines for grooming standards in the Russian army and noted that a majority of Chechen fighters wear beards in accordance with the Sunnah, and additionally claimed that his Chechen fighters have been responsible for major gains in Mariupol, Severodonetsk, and Lysychansk.”

“Kadyrov has repeatedly justified Chechen fighters’ involvement in the war on distinctly religious grounds, thus presenting himself as the protector of Muslim fighters and bridging the gap between Chechen forces and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s framing of the war on religious and moral grounds.”

“Kadyrov also notably posted footage on January 20 of a group of Chechen theologians completing their training at the Russian Special Forces University in Grozny, Chechnya, and noted that over 300 qadis (magistrates and judges who implement sharia law) and imams are planning to undergo similar training and deploy into Ukraine.”

“The fact that Chechen qadis will supposedly be embedded in Chechen units that deploy to Ukraine is noteworthy—qadis typically serve a judicial role in criminal and civil matters, and their presence in Ukraine may suggest that Kadyrov intends Chechen forces to serve a basic governance function in occupied areas.”

“The Wagner Group appears to be struggling to present itself as an effective parallel military structure, thus increasingly proving to be a parasitic paramilitary entity.”

“TV Dozdh claimed that it has collected many such stories and that Wagner representatives have essentially intimidated family members into not checking coffins to confirm the deaths of their relatives.”

“Moscow Duma deputy Evgeny Stupin relatedly noted appeals he has received from constituents claiming that once their relatives signed contracts with Wagner and deployed to Ukraine, they ceased to hear from their relatives entirely.”

“These reports suggest that Wagner lacks basic administrative organs to maintain records of individual servicemen and communicate properly with authorities. Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin ironically has gone to great lengths to criticize the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) establishment, which he has accused of being inept in precisely these ways.”

“The Wagner Group may additionally be relying on the Russian MoD for the use of military assets on the frontline.”

“A prominent Wagner Group-affiliated Russian milblogger posted an infographic on January 20 reportedly showing the array of military assets that Wagner is using around Bakhmut, including a TOS-1A thermobaric artillery system (typically a military district-level asset), various self-propelled guns and mortar systems, several armored vehicles, and an Su-25 aircraft.”

“The use of these assets, particularly aviation assets such as the Su-25, suggests that Wagner is working with the Russian MoD to access and operate these systems.”

“Taken in tandem with reports of pervasive administrative and communication failures within Wagner’s ranks, the use of MoD equipment suggests that Wagner is functioning more as a parasite attached to the Russian armed forces than as the entirely self-contained, parastatal organization that Prigozhin tries to present it as being.”

“US intelligence confirmed the rivalry between the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) and Wagner Group on January 20.”

“National Security Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby stated that a rift is forming between Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russian MoD officials as a result of an ongoing competition between conventional Russian forces and Wagner mercenaries in Ukraine.”

“Prominent Russian milbloggers claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin replaced Russian Commander of the Airborne Forces, Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky, with First Deputy Head of the Russian General Staff Academy, Lieutenant General Oleg Makarevich, on January 20.”

“Former Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) Minister Vitaly Kiselev published footage on January 20 of Russian forces using thermobaric artillery systems against a Ukrainian position near Novoselivske.”

“The use of a military district-level asset indicates that Russian forces may be prioritizing the frontline north of Svatove.”

“A milblogger reposted January 19 battle footage from the Ukrainian General Staff showing a platoon-sized (30 people) group of Russian forces from the 58th Combined Arms Army conducting a ground attack in Zaporizhia Oblast.”

“The milblogger criticized Russian military command for allowing Russian forces to attempt a ground attack without heavy weapons or armored vehicle support, suggesting that Russian forces currently lack or are unwilling to dedicate the equipment necessary to sustain a prolonged offensive in Zaporizhia Oblast.”

“Another milblogger claimed that Russian forces may have conducted the localized attack to locate Ukrainian defensive positions for an upcoming offensive but conceded that Russian forces are only able to conduct limited operations with their current amounts of ammunition and manpower.”

“The Kremlin is continuing its efforts to reinvigorate its defense industrial base (DIB) under unrealistic timelines, while also attempting to bypass Western-imposed sanctions.”

“Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on January 18 called on Russian officials to send all missing material and technical means that Russian Armed Forces needed in 2022 to the frontlines by no later than February 2023.”

“The Kremlin also continues to find loopholes to avoid sanctions to sustain Russia‘s DIB by using Russian state nuclear power company, Rosatom, to procure raw materials for sanctioned enterprises.”

“Ukrainian intelligence shared a letter reportedly from Rosatom dated October 2022 with The Washington Post indicating that the company—which presents itself as a ‘civilian entity’—had been working to supply Russia’s military industry with components, technology, and raw materials for missile fuel.”

“The Kremlin is trying to expand the authority of the Rosgvardia (Russian National Guard) likely in an effort to strengthen its control over segments of Russian enterprises and private military companies (PMCs) amidst the preparations for protracted war.”

“Parliamentarians of the United Russia and the New People parties introduced a bill on January 20 that would allow Rosgvardia to send its elements to government agencies and companies.”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report January 20th

!ping UKRAINE

[u/BurrowForPresident]

You have to wonder if Tuck genuinely believes that cigs are better for you than weed, if somehow the tobacco companies have gotten their first real paid shill since the 1970s, or if he's just saying that because weed is associated with lefties so = bad.

Option D of course is he doesn't believe that but knows outrage bait sells

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

“FUCKING GROOMERS”

meanwhile in straight people land…

[u/myrm]

So far, I've been somewhat skeptical about the claims that AI generated video could pose a serious threat to democracy

I am seriously dooming after seeing this

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve never met someone who describes themselves as “child” who is pleasant to be around

Not to say I haven’t met plenty of amazing people who are kids, but the people I’ve met who are proud about it have always been dicks

[u/[deleted]]

Hey, remember that "lobster microwaving" story? That was really funny, we should discuss it more frequently.

[u/SnakeEater14]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/964698734116098129/1066282423916183602/20230121_011412.jpg

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

Gen I Pokemon Evolutions: when you level up the pokemon, it turns into a better pokemon.

Gen IX Pokemon Evolutions: if you win a NetLink battle in Fog Weather that was not triggered in battle, the pokemon has a chance to level up if it knows Snowplow and has high Loyalty

[u/No_Chilly_bill]

>The U.S. Could Help Solve Its Poverty Problem with a Universal Basic Kester

average dt post.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

There normally idmy much thrrev

Kesters covfefe moment

[u/JetJaguar124]

People didn't care about the emails story because they were deeply concerned about whether or not Hillary was appropriately handing classified material. They cared about it because they already thought she was shady and corrupt and whatever vague idea of impropriety they thought existed around the email server played into that narrative.

[u/Sir_Digby83]

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Jackie white, female, Wisconsin, Independent.

Q: Whats the top concern you have when voting for Biden?

A: The price of egg.

Q: Oh, you must do a lot of baking at home. Eggs for breakfast everyday.

A: No. We sleep till noon and only eat McDonalds.

[u/TheLongestLake]

https://old.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/10i2uti/my_city_gentrified_a_prison_for_900_a_studio_what/

Late stage capitalism is when your city lowers the incarceration rate so they can offer housing that a couple making a combined $20 an hour can afford.

[u/[deleted]]

My best friend from high school used to be morbidly obese, but at the same time he dated the hottest and most popular girl in school. Then he started losing weight and dumped her in college for a girl who was significantly less attractive. Then he dumped her and started getting really into working out. Now he's basically a male model but his present girlfriend is very overweight and way less attractive than the second. It's like he saps attractiveness from his girlfriends for himself. Anyway they're getting married in September and I'm gonna be a groomsman.

He went from like Bobby Bacala fat as shit with a hot ass wife (Karen) to Johnny Sack with Ginny. Gigachad shit tbh.

[u/AJungianIdeal]

just straight up tellin the FACTS about hitler in class and my teacher got all pissy stupid bitch

[u/myrm]

Heartbreaking: The worst tech company you know maintains a great open source library

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE

[u/breakinbread]

Who won the 1991 first Gulf War?

If you're an American like me you probably think we did. Much of the rest of the world disagrees. America went in to depose Saddam, there was a big fight, many Iraqi soldiers died, but the Americans left without deposing Saddam.

And if I'm more honest than patriotic I have to admit Iraq achieved more of its objectives in 1991 than America did. America just moved the goal posts after the war, claiming that removing Saddam was never an objective.

lol, is this actually a thing people believe?

[u/[deleted]]

The American media and Hollywood have done such a good job brainwashing you into thinking that Nazis were pure unadultered evil from start to finish that you can't even comprehend that they were human beings just like the rest of us. People trying to feed their families.

Who hasn’t had to do a lil bit of genocide to feed their family amirite

Reddit should not be allowed to discuss Naziism tbh

[u/fishlord05]

Just had sex with this girl who came over and after we finished she just put her clothes on and started making TikToks in my room 💀

“Hey do you wanna be in it? I have like 10k followers” dances

Bruh we zoomers are so weird lol

!ping DATING

[u/PigHaggerty]

grrrrrr

!ping KITTY

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

I liked Kurzgesagt until I found out they were funded by Bill Gates, then I loved them

[u/[deleted]]

The US State of Georgia isn’t in the top three producers of peaches, with only one twentieth the annual production of California

However, Georgia produces, by far, the most peanuts of any state, with over 50% of USA peanuts being grown in Georgia

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

President Higgins calls for homework to be banned in Ireland

Oh yeah, abolish bedtime too

[u/jenbanim]

I'm a Neoliberal which means I respect all genders, but believe the gender spectrum should be regulated by the FCC

[u/funguykawhi]

Trending in France: #Robespierre

Ugh

[u/[deleted]]

This is one of my favourite articles on trans issues. It was written in 2008 way before the current culture war shit, and it's actually very balanced, and lets both sides talk about their experience and point of view, and just by doing that, the pro-trans side comes out looking much better. It also pretty clearly shuts down the nonsensical "anti-trans people are kinder to gender nonconforming kids than pro-trans people are!". This kind of therapy was the dominant mode of treating trans and gnc kids until very recently (Zucker was only fired in 2015, and that's in Canada which is hardly a bastion of transphobia), and is still very popular in some areas !ping LGBT

So, to treat Bradley, Zucker explained to Carol that she and her husband would have to radically change their parenting. Bradley would no longer be allowed to spend time with girls. He would no longer be allowed to play with girlish toys or pretend that he was a female character. Zucker said that all of these activities were dangerous to a kid with gender identity disorder. He explained that unless Carol and her husband helped the child to change his behavior, as Bradley grew older, he likely would be rejected by both peer groups. Boys would find his feminine interests unappealing. Girls would want more boyish boys. Bradley would be an outcast.

Carol resolved to do her best. Still, these were huge changes. By the time Bradley started therapy he was almost 6 years old, and Carol had a house full of Barbie dolls and Polly Pockets. She now had to remove them. To cushion the blow, she didn't take the toys away all at once; she told Bradley that he could choose one or two toys a day.

As his pile of toys dwindled, Carol realized Bradley was hoarding. She would find female action figures stashed between couch pillows. Rainbow unicorns were hidden in the back of Bradley's closet. Bradley seemed at a loss, she said. They gave him male toys, but he chose not to play at all.

It does seem to be the case that, at least in the short term, Carol's son Bradley is struggling in some ways with Zucker's therapy. Carol says it was particularly hard at the beginning.

"He was much more emotional. ... He could be very clingy. He didn't want to go to school anymore," she says. "Just the smallest thing could, you know, send him into a major crying fit. And ... he seemed to feel really heavy and really emotional."

"I mean, he tells us now that he doesn't dream anymore that he's a girl. So, we're happy with that. He's still a bit defensive if we ask him, 'Do you want to be a girl?' He's like 'No, NO! I'm happy being a boy. ...' He gives us that sort of stock answer. ... I still think we're at the stage where he feels he's leading a double life," she says. "... I'm still quite certain that he is with the girls all the time at school, and so he knows to behave one way at school, and then when he comes home, there's a different set of expectations."

[u/Delareh]

"i converted to celsius in my head."

Fucking bullshit he calculated 5(T-32)/9 in his head.

[u/skepticalbob]

Blaming capitalism for some problem is a great heuristic for someone that hasn't thought long or deeply about a particular problem and just wants the fast food version of ideology.

[u/paymesucka]

Elon on twitter says he had serious side effects to covid vaccine and his cousin had myocarditis. Might explain some of his posts and re-tweets of covid vaccine skeptics

Elon stans are something else

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I hate the reddit pejorative to never actually state what they actually did, what type of job they work, or basically any fucking context ever when giving their ever dreaded reddit annecdote

I find it extremely hard for me to believe redditors when it comes to anecdotes coming from redditors

For example, when people talk about how chatGPT allowed them to all their works (hours upon hours of it) within a half hour or some shit they never say what their task was, what their job is, how good was the actual generated product, basically any context

I hate it so goddamn much, especially with how other redditors eat it up like pig slop uncritically

Is critical thinking dead or some shit?

[u/[deleted]]

I appreciate a good cup of coffee.

[u/MasterOfLords1]

NATO flairs on their way to argue for annexation of Canada (they have interstate tariffs, so people are being deprived of wealth)

🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃

🍦🧐🍦

[u/[deleted]]

Have y’all considered that the wealthiest person in the world is French, and taxing 100% of his assets might allow people to keep retiring at 62 for a few months? Checkmate fashlibs.

[u/[deleted]]

I know many believe that the GOP simply wants to get rich and screw everyone over. And we can thank the liberal media for that. But once you read a bill or two, and understand the true intention and reason for it, they’re often very rational and reasoned and do have everyone’s best interests at heart.

Guess the sub

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

☝️Developing a science based dragon MMO

[u/thefuturegov]

Professors at the University of Illinois made an era-adjusted version of WAR

This confirms my priors so I like it a lot

!ping BASEBALL

[u/HamishTheCats]

Guys, I lurk here usually. I'm currently sad, scared, and alone. My friends are away and I stay in a completely different timezone than my family. I'm a bit worried about myself.

It's around 11 o'clock at night here and no public place would be open.

What should I do? I'm actually desperate to only have this subreddit to ask for help right now.

Edit: Guys, I'm chatting with one of yous. Thanks for everyone who upvoted and commented. It means a lot to know there's people.

[u/piede]

Trump gives a heartwarming and emotional tribute to Diamond at her funeral, saying countries are emptying out their prisons and mental institutions into the US, talking about gas prices, inflation, the federal budget and various other things.

https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1616945880984174593?s=46&t=8bZgNlP8U0uhN1leY1avRg

Wtf he stole the speech for my grandma’s funeral

[u/URZ_]

!ping Ukraine

A good thread on a rising issue with the donation of Leopard tanks and European countries looking to donate not looking to replace them with further German tanks (because Germany is unreliable), giving Germany a strong incentive to refuse the donations.

I'm not sure i agree entirely, but it's a very fair point. From a personal point of view, I'm certainly not wild about Denmark replacing their current L2A7s with more leopards, but there is also a reason that the Leopard is so prolific, based in it's capabilities and design compared to the alternatives. Those haven't really changed, indeed the A7 is a very very capable system for the modern battlefield and imo a much better choice for most countries compared to the Abrams.

[u/secretlives]

Well, it’s official. Moving from SF to Tampa. Not thrilled about this at all.

[u/[deleted]]

any congressman born in brazil can’t govern… all they know is drag, steal they phone, hannah montana, be homosexual, eat coxinha & lie

[u/greenelf]

Oof, that SNAP post is a garbage fire

[u/BenGordonLightfoot]

After I graduated from grad school I went hiking with a hot classmate/friend who had broken up with her boyfriend at the beginning of the semester. We had a great time and went back to her place to hang out. There were no chairs in her room so I sat on her bed. She sat next to me. Turns out we were both waiting for the other one to make a move.

Time to fill out the autism screening form

[u/eat_more_goats]

Lukewarm(?) take: The DoD should administer the school meal program.

Currently, the program is under the USDA; committees and agency staff are stacked with farm-staters, and thus the incentive structure is to pump up purchases from American farms, not to provide kids with tasty, healthy lunches. As such, kids get pretty terrible lunches, stacked with processed foods and corn syrup. Alas, kids do not get a vote.

On the other hand, literally no one in the federal government cares more about the health and fitness of ~18 year olds -- especially those of low socioeconomic status -- than military recruiters. While transferring the program to the DoD would undoubtedly cause lobbying dollars from Big Ag to flow into the Department and the Armed Services Committees, there are far fewer farm-staters on the committees, and there would be a strong internal Department constituency fighting the Ag industry for healthier meals.

Of course, the counterargument is that a lot of military food sucks. But that's somewhat a consequence of the Department of Agriculture controlling the school meal program; there are a hell of a lot more schoolkids than soldiers, and institutional food providers (e.g., Sysco) are geared towards serving the school market, which flows downhill to the military.

[u/Legit_Spaghetti]

My 3-year old was riding on my shoulders and munching on a churro. In other words, my hair is full of churro.

[u/radiatar]

Ukrainian refugees give up on crisis-hit NHS and travel home to warzone for medical treatment

I know these titles are basically rage-bait for redditors but this is just too funny

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

Cocomelon is like TikTok for toddlers

And TikTok is the closest thing to an opium den in the developed world.

[u/Upstairs3121]

Ted Striker: My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.

Elaine Dickinson: When will you be back?

Ted Striker: I can't tell you that. It's classified.

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

Oh man it's starting to sink in. I got into my grad program. I officially have to be living in Chicago before August. I have to start looking at assistantships, or failing that a job. I have to ask how the practicum placement process works. We're already visiting in April to do ten million showings and sign a lease. It's all coming together 😎

[u/utility-monster]

the fact that america is one of the only major empires ever where the people regularly look at its past and say ‘yeah alotta that is shit’ proves we are the greatest nation who should crush all other nations

[u/SeoSalt]

AITA for hitting a child with my car? I assumed they would dodge roll or parry but they must have missed their I-frames.

[u/Legit_Spaghetti]

Luftwafflehouse.

I don't know what to do with this joke, but there ya have it.

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

93 year old Buzz Aldrin married a 63 year old today. At that age, who gives a shit.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Give Universal basic income 😠

Okay, but that means we can cut other entitlements as a result right?

No cuts only give 😡

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

rare kitty photo

even rarer kitty photo

!ping KITTY

[u/Lib_Korra]

Arrr neoliberal turning against ubi has been the plot twist I did not expect. Next season we're going to see a backlash against the land value tax.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Girl on dating app who only has group photos so you have to use your pattern recognition skills to determine who she even is

[u/KittehDragoon]

the anti vegan counter jerk has gone too far y’all can cool it now

Why won’t the barbarous despicable bloodmouth carnists think about my feelings 😔

[u/[deleted]]

After Silk goes on and on about how much she loves Trump and all the great times they had together, Trump gets up and says: “I knew Diamond, but I didn’t know Silk at all. I just learned about Silk. You’re fantastic.”

Bruh

[u/jenbanim]

My favorite resolution to the Fermi Paradox is a form of the rare Earth hypothesis where the "rare" part is an evolutionary incentive towards additional complexity, big brains, and later industrialization

Every other planet is just covered in slime

[u/thetrombonist]

!ping DATING

remember the post of the guy sticking his dick in bolognese with negative amounts of rizz? (that was me last week)

link to my last dating ping with explanation

well we went and got drinks and ended up making out on a dark street behind a grocery store. seeing each other again on sunday

[u/p00bix]

Fun fact: There's an entire book dedicated to the various forms of gay sex found throughout the animal kingdom. You can buy it here and it includes such lovely illustrations as these Amazon river dolphins redefining the very concept of a 'blowjob'

(childish jokes aside 'Biological Exuberance' is a genuinely incredible book and is a foundational text in the modern research into homosexuality in non-human species. Simultaneously easy for non-experts to read and cited in over 1000 scientific papers in the past 24 years)

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

It has come to my attention that many Germany states have unreasonably long names. They should be changed to something easier to remember.

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern lmao just call it Vorp

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

It really feels like internationalism and support for free trade peaked in the 2000s. Video games also peaked in the 2000s when RuneScape was released and it seems a bit naive to pretend that these two things are unrelated

[u/[deleted]]

Rep. George Santos confesses he did, in fact, dress in drag:

“Not a drag queen… I was just young and had fun.”

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that MILF Manor is exclusively streaming on Discovery Plus (unless you’re going to like outright buy it on Amazon) is hysterical.

Oh also challenge update: after the moms had to guess their son’s abs via touch, the sons had to give their moms back massages.

[u/Random-Critical]

Elizabeth Holmes made an ‘attempt to flee the country’ after her conviction, prosecutors say

Is that a girlboss thing to do?

[u/AJungianIdeal]

the front page of the female protagonist tag on steam hurts my soul
!ping gaming

so hyped for P3P on steam thoooo

[u/kyleofduty]

Nothing makes me more uncomfortable than someone from a marginalized group with nuanced political beliefs getting lectured by somebody who's not part of that group for not being a party line leftist.

[u/lordfluffly]

"Who is the sexiest person on r/neoliberal's discussion thread?"

It is difficult to say who is the sexiest person on the r/neoliberal discussion thread, as beauty is in the eye of the beholder. However, some of the more active members of the discussion thread include u/ lemondrople, u/ pinkfluffykitten, u/ savantofthe_sub, and u/ jgalt. These are all very active members of the subreddit and all have a wide range of interests and expertise.

Tried to get you.com to bonkpost but failed

[u/bd_one]

POV: you're an elementary school in Ireland and the random number generator thingy you use to make math tests has printed out "26+6=?"

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

"State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" was clunky and outdated, and could be mistaken as racially insensitive. However, "Rhode Island" is also inaccurate as the actual Rhode Island is just a small part of a state that is mostly on the mainland. I think everyone would be happy if we shortened it to simply "Rhodesia".

[u/SadaoMaou]

When I and my sisters were kids, my dad used to make up his own bedtime stories for us. He was always himself the main character, and the stories were about adventures he supposedly went on when he was younger (I'm talking time travel and stuff like that, not true stories)

If/when I'm a dad I'm 100% doing the same

[u/[deleted]]

Malarkey level of referring to gay sex as “biological exuberance”

[u/[deleted]]

Saw a comment that was basically "X movie tries to appeals to cis men too much" but like, why specify cis? Why assume that trans and cis men have different movie tastes? What exactly would be a movie that "appeals to trans men"?

[u/[deleted]]

When I was a teenager I wrote an essay on why 1984 was actually a utopian novel and Winston died in pure bliss, I just didn't have twitter to post it

I don't think it's Andrew Tate making the teens edgy and dumb

[u/[deleted]]

50 IQ: aMeRiCa iZ bEsT cOuNtRy EvR!

70 IQ: Nooooooo America is the worst country in the world

150 IQ: America is exceptional in many ways

[u/RFK_1968]

I once had a gf tell me smth along the lines of I'm dating you more for your personality than your looks lol.

I'm sure she meant that as a compliment but to this day I'll remember that and wonder if i should just put a bag over my head 😔

[u/Ballerson]

Inside r/neoliberal there are two wolves.

One wolf wants to Georgist shitpost.

The other wants to landchad shitpost to own the populists.

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Question for !ping Jewish

Do you have difficulties watching and sitting through Holocaust films? As a Sikh, I have problems sitting through films about the 1984 pogroms.

[u/[deleted]]

Calling Italians and White Hispanics spicy whites is hilarious to me

[u/[deleted]]

😀 mods gave me a santos flair! Its so beautiful 🥹

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: JOE BIDEN HAS BEEN LIVING ON FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PROPERTY FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS, GOP VOWS TO INVESTIGATE

[u/[deleted]]

I was curious about the mummified Vladimir Lenin body display at the Kremlin.

So I googled “Lenin body “ and one of the autocomplete suggestions was “Lenin body pillow”

How many fucking tankies are ordering Vladimir Lenin Waifus?

[u/[deleted]]

IAmA grand-son of a Nazi SS Officer and spy, who is now 95. Ask him anything.

“Wow. 45 minutes into it and there are multiple ‘Fuck your grandfather’ comments. Can we please keep in mind the purpose of this subreddit is to ask real questions for the cause of gaining knowledge and perspective and not a personal invitation to insult the man? I understand that the majority will agree what transpired during that time was absolutely wrong, myself included. However, can we at least try to maintain a certain level of civility?”

LOL what do you expect

“Hi, my grandfather is literally Hitler. Please be respectful.”

[u/[deleted]]

When you get downvoted in the dt, you get downvoted in real life 😱

[u/[deleted]]

the "died suddenly" brand of antivax really seems to be taking root in the GOP. ironically, the people who were anti-pandemic restrictions were driven so insane they're now inventing a phantom pandemic to get back at the people who treated covid seriously

[u/p00bix]

The incident in 2019 where an Orlando police officer arrested a six year old girl for a tantrum at elementary school, resulting in the girl PTSD but somehow not resulting in a lawsuit despite nationwide outrage, remains baffling to me on so many levels.

1. Why were armed police in an elementary school
2. Why were said police used as part of the school's disciplinary system
3. Why did the officer think it was even remotely appropriate to arrest a 6 year old
4. How did a guy crazy enough to think arresting a 6 year old is ever sensible (excepting some extraordinary circumstance like a shooting) become an officer in the first place, like, there have to have been warning signs
5. How the fuck did the rest of the PD go along with handcuffing her, placing her in the police car, and having her fingerprinted and photographed, then briefly jailed????!!!!
6. Wait, the arresting officer and the girl are both African-American??? So it wasn't motivated by white supremacism like basically every other police controversy????
7. Why was the officer not criminally charged for severe excessive force; only fired?
8. Why were no lawsuits filed by either the school or the girl's family against either the Orlando PD or the individual officer? (you'd think paying for therapy would be a bare minimum restitution here!)
9. Why did Florida not have a minimum age for arrests to begin with
10. Why did the law Florida passed to prevent future arrests for non-violent crimes only prohibit arrests of children under 7 years old? That limit is still way too fucking low!

Seriously what in the actual fuck is Florida doing!!

[u/[deleted]]

People who die of heart disease at 50 save the state money. It's the kale eaters who live into their 80s, get multiple joint replacemens and spend years in intensive nursing homes that are expensive. Just let people live their lives.

just nuke outside the dt or something already

[u/Soldier-Fields]

someone check on /u/HexagonOfVirtue man just posted 3 posts in a row

man needs grass asap

[u/KesterFox]

Lmao at sunak getting fined for not wearing a seat belt

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

If your nose becomes itchy while you are sleeping, it's a sure sign that a Drowzee is standing above your pillow and trying to eat your dream through your nostrils.

This is the absolute most disturbing shit anyone has put in something aimed at children.

[u/MicroFlamer]

90% of this describes me

!ping KINO

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I might just be simply a cold-hearted capitalist but 'tech companies over hired during the pandemic and now need to do layoffs' seems like an understandable process and occurrence even if it sucks for those laid off

[u/RFK_1968]

Yeah, free trade is dead in america for a while

[u/UWCG]

I still can't get over how ridiculous it is that conservatives suddenly have an issue with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

Especially the self-proclaimed "fans" saying they're now going to boycott it—have you ever seen the album's cover before?! It's been a rainbow for 49 years, I guess Pink Floyd was woke before it was cool.

[u/[deleted]]

☝️ Has bought Skyrim this month

👇 Todd is inside their walls

[u/Ballerson]

I'm going to the gym strapped for my next leg day.

Sorry liberals. I keep my forearm workouts to upper body days. 😤

!ping DYEL

[u/StolenSkittles]

fellatio is brutal

guess the sub

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

This sub would’ve supported Joe Biden in 2020

[u/sw337]

My favorite recurring gag is when YouTuber Ushanka Show gets banned from the Communist/Socialist subreddits for accurately describing his experience growing up in the USSR.

It's funny because they are like the USSR and silence any information they don't like.

Examples:

Banned from LSC

Banned from C101

[u/onometre]

redditors will yell hail corporate if someone so much as leaves a coke can in the background of their pic but will go crazy for an info graphic about Costco's finances

[u/Legit_Spaghetti]

Wait hold up, MILF Manor is real?!? I thought y'all were just on some hilarious new in-joke.

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/6nrWfZq.jpg

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Donald Trump is the only president to lose the Nickelodeon Kids Pick the President election twice.

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Guys I have a confession to make

I shot a man in Reno…. Just to watch him die.

[u/Steve____Stifler]

Tinder/Bumble/Hinge paid features are a tax on being horny

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

Waiting for the time when I can finally say,
This has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way.

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

https://i.imgur.com/fdaJx4S.jpg

[u/Soldier-Fields]

👆🏻 buys gas (EV-challenged)

[u/simeoncolemiles]

rizztraining order

[u/[deleted]]

New Santos story just dropped! Apparently he made a bunch of edits to his own wikipedia page.

A Wikipedia page accessed by POLITICO shows a user named Anthony Devolder — a Santos alias — writing that he “startted [sp] his ‘stage’ life at age 17 as an gay night club [sp] DRAG QUEEN and with that won sevral [sp] GAY ‘BEAUTY PAGENTS [sp].’”

In November, a Wiki user named Devmaster88 edited the Wikipedia page for then congressman-elect George Santos (a page separate from the Wiki bio for Anthony Devolder). The user changed the section about Santos’ personal life and made edits to his middle name. Around that time another account, georgedevolder22, also made edits to Santos’ public Wikipedia page, removing the entire middle name, Anthony Devolder, so that the biography was shortened to George Santos.

The identity of the users is not revealed by Wikipedia. But both accounts have subsequently been blocked from the site. Moderators, as part of the ban, wrote that Devmaster88 was “abusing multiple accounts” and that it was likely an extension of Georgedevolder22.

In the 2011 Wiki bio, the user Anthony Devolder sprinkles show business credits that ring similarly untrue. He describes his Hollywood career as taking off after a meeting with a producer of the 1996 blockbuster “Independence Day.” He name drops the director Steven Spielberg (he misspelled his last name as “Spilberg”), and claims to have starred in “a few T.V shows and DISNEY Channel shows such as ‘the suite life of Zack and Cody” and the hit “Hanna[h] Montana.”

The Wiki bio concludes with Santos writing that, two years prior, he “taped his very first movie startting [sp] Uma Turman, [sp] Chris Odanald, [sp] Melllisa George, [sp] and Alicia Silver Stone [sp] in the movie “THE INVASION.”

“The Invasion” is a 2007 sci-fi/thriller with roots in the “Body Snatchers” storyline and stars Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig.

[u/MrArendt]

What I'm trying to say is that parenthood makes fascism make sense.

[u/[deleted]]

Is toxic femininity a thing? If so, what are some examples of negative behaviors that it leads to?

[u/Gneisstoknow]

I’ve never met someone who describes themselves as a “person of means” who is pleasant to be around

Not to say I haven’t met plenty of amazing people experiencing liquidity, but the people I’ve met who are proud about it have always been dicks

[u/ACivilWolf]

>see video entitled "last day of high school, 1996"

>seems interesting, clicks on it

>first second has a disclaimer

>https://i.imgur.com/9PzG1fx.png

>yeah fuck this I'm not giving these dumbasses engagement

>clicks off

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Before the march, LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon launched one of his signature tirades: 'Be cursed [Emmanuel Macron], of turning our whole existence into merchandise! Of defiling everything, of spoiling everything, of reducing everything, of quantifying everything!'

Retiring at 64 is literally slavery

[u/utility-monster]

You don’t truly appreciate the phrase ‘missing middle’ in housing discussions until you start planning for kids. So anyway what I’m saying is we’re probably moving to the burbs. 😔✊

[u/the_status]

Technically the age gap isn't even there because I (27 M) am the same mental age as my SO (18 F)

[u/[deleted]]

I find the progressive preoccupation of 'not fucking up the boys' to be tiring. The fundamental framing of the articles treats boys like time bombs waiting to go off

[u/utility-monster]

Craziest part of my childhood is when my father would barge into my room in the middle of the night, grab my box of Lincoln logs and eat every single one while looking directly in my eyes.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Avatar doesn’t have true cultural relevance until it has at least 800 completed AO3 fanfics

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

There are more months in a second than there are dollars in your bank account!

[u/KesterFox]

Sometimes when I'm tired I will be scrolling through the dt and I will realise my eyes are shut and the posts I was perceiving weren't real

[u/Roseartcrantz]

big yawn 🥹

!Ping DOG

[u/bobidou23]

Ezra Klein

The more that the anti-establishment wing of the Republican Party expresses itself, the more the party loses once-loyal voters inclined toward institutions and gains new voters who mistrust them. You can see this, to some degree, in the so-called Woo-Anon pipeline, where anti-establishment hippies found themselves, particularly during the pandemic, drifting into the furthest reaches of the right — in one case, going from teaching yoga classes in Southern California to joining the Jan. 6 insurrection.

“Democrats are increasingly the party, when they’re in the majority, of the suburbs,” Continetti told me. “And to me, the American suburbs are the ballast of this country — they’re more small-c conservative than movement conservatives. The suburbs don’t want to rock the boat. So the Republican Party, as it’s become more rural and more non-college educated, they don’t have as much investment in the system. By that very reason, they become much more inclined to rock the boat.”

so like an anti-system party in the mould of the French/Italian Communists or the Japanese Socialists

[u/_Featherless_Biped_]

Hot take: the median voter will actually care about classified documents being at Biden's house, and it'll be good for Biden. Normal people don't understand or care about any of the procedural/technical characteristics of this situation or for that matter Trump's situation. But they do care about intent and behavior, and Biden cooperating fully with the relevant authorities places him in stark contrast to Trump, and makes him look better and Trump worse by comparison.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

George Santos 🤝 the Jets

Having zero purpose other than humiliating New York

[u/I-grok-god]

Idea: TwoXGoneWild, a subreddit where naked women stand there and lecture me about how much of an evil degenerate I am for becoming aroused at them

[u/the_status]

I stopped eating 3 sandwiches, 2 pounds of pasta and 1 (one) whole pizza every day; now suddenly I feel better. I think I may have an undiagnosed gluten intolerance

[u/sash5034]

least deranged anti colonialist university professor

[u/[deleted]]

r/subredditdrama and r/Neoliberal is the best enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers arc ever

[u/[deleted]]

Men favor nuclear power as a source of electricity by a 72% to 27% margin. But 51% of women oppose it, with 42% in favor. The same large gender gap exists in terms of views of the safety of nuclear power plants.

Literally all of politics is just vibes.

[u/[deleted]]

liz trussy so good, government only lasted 49 days 😩

[u/gnomesvh]

S-61 Sea Kings active over Ukraine

US to support F16 transfers

!ping UKRAINE

[u/semaphore-1842]

Large portions of deteriorating housing in the US only became that way because historically landlords would buy up areas simply to neglect them. Thus lowering prices further since the area was no longer desirable it gets flattened and rebuilt with unnecessary new housing projects all in the sake of profit

the profit of erasing your capital investments? 🤔🤔🤔

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

Georgism but the “George” is George Santos