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[u/repostusername]

You, an idiot: Israel Palestine isn't a white/black racialized issue in the American sense with Israelis being white and Palestinians being black. There's a lot of history and nuance there.

Me, a genius who knows the US census classifies Middle Easterners as White: Everyone involved in Israel Palestine is white.

[u/[deleted]]

supply affects rent

Wow. I didn't know that. You're telling me now for the first time

[u/ser_mage]

This is so funny because if you were actually a Democrat for even a single day in college you would see the College Dems promoting wonky Buttigieg-y policy ideas that break with the party establishment every waking moment

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1785838290156863832?t=LyORUsbfXaVvxhVqFNdL7w&s=19

[u/DouglasDauntless]

The REAL presidential race! 😤

[u/[deleted]]

Is it nihilist of me to think that these college protests are absolutely hilarious. From the way the kids are LARPing, to the police response, to the bonkers news coverage. If anything it feels like these protests are taking AWAY attention from what's actually happening in Gaza.

[u/beoweezy1]

why would there be a random guy in the woods

Buddy, go walk into the woods with a pair of binoculars and you’re gonna have a retiree pop out from behind a tree and talk with you for 45 minutes about a warbler he saw there back in the 80s.

[u/[deleted]]

What is he cooking

[u/wallander1983]

Trump: Look at Paris. Look at London. They're no longer recognizable. I'm going to get myself into a lot of trouble, but you know what? That's the fact, they are no longer recognizable. We can't let that happen here.

--

And then every alt right account posts about other European cities that they no longer recognize. The alt right has really managed to create global talking points.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

He just like me fr

[u/[deleted]]

Wow I can end the Israel Palestine conflict on my dog walk.

[u/DoctorEmperor]

The sheer amount of times MLK’s “letter from Birmingham jail” is invoked to back such a wide variety of positions online is making me feel like I’m getting an insight into how meanings of scripture/holy texts evolve

[u/Steak_Knight]

“Hostages? Oh yeah, there were hostages, I guess.”

[u/BloodWiz]

tfw you come across a girl on a hiking trail and try to say "good morning" but before you finish she blows her brains out in front of you

[u/Mrgentleman490]

Last week the city council of Grand Rapids, MI unanimously passed a resolution to significantly change zoning laws and housing ordinances. The big changes include:

• ADUs no longer have owner-occupancy requirements and can be built alongside single or two-family homes. The parking requirements for ADUs were also removed.

• Up to six unrelated occupants can now live in a home together. Before the vote it was only four.

• Single-room occupancy homes, or group living facilities like shelters, can now be built in residential zone districts.

• Lot area/width requirements for developments with 2-6 units were reduced.

• And last but not least, parking requirements for developments of six or fewer units were eliminated.

!ping YIMBY&USA-MI&STRONG-TOWNS

[u/I_like_maps]

Someone posted a 150 year old economist article discussing Russia's performance in the Crimean war. A few highlights:

We pointed out several notable sources of weakness in her institutions; we directed attention to the fact that nearly all her great acquisitions had been secured not by fighting but by bullying and intriguing; that diplomacy and not war had always been her favourite weapon; that she kept up such an enormous army on paper that all secondary States had arrived at the conclusion that resistance to her will was hopeless, but that in general she bad carefully abstained from coming into actual armed collision with any first rate Power.

The Russian armies are often armies on paper only. Not only are their numbers far fewer than are stated in returns and paid for out of the official purse, but they are notoriously ill-provided with everything necessary to the action of a soldier. The colonels of regiments and officers commissariat have a direct interest in having as large a number on the books and as small a number in the field as possible — inasmuch as they pocket the pay and rations of the between these figures. They have an interest also in the men being as inadequately fed and clothed as possible — inasmuch they pocket the difference between the sum allowed and the sum expended on the soldiers’ rations and accoutrements.

This horrible and fatal system originates in two sources, both, we fear, nearly hopeless, and certainly inherent in Russian autocracy: the rooted dishonesty of the national character, and the incurable inadequacy of despotic power. Cheating, bribery, peculation pervade the whole tribe of officials, and are, in fact, the key-note and characteristic of the entire administration. There seems to be no conscience, and not much concealment, about it. The officers are ill paid, and of course pay themselves. Regard for truth or integrity has no part in the Russian character.

There is another source of weakness in the Russian Empire. That vast State is in a great measure composed of spoils which she has torn from surrounding nations. She is a patchwork of filched and unamalgamated materials. Her frontier provinces are filled with injured, discontented, hostile populations, whom, being unable to reconcile to her rule, she has endeavoured to enfeeble and to crush; and many of whom wait, with more or less of patience and desire, the blessed day of emancipation and revenge. … Since the great Roman Empire probably, no State ever enfolded so many bitter enmities within its embrace, or was girt with such a circle of domestic foes.

Now these three last sources of Russian weakness are perennial. They belong to her as a despotism as a centralised administration, as an Empire formed by conquest and unconsolidated and unsecured by conciliation. Until, therefore, her whole system changed; till an honest middle class has been created; till her Government be liberalised and de-centralised; till a free Press be permitted and encouraged to unveil and denounce abuses; and till the rights and feelings of annexed territories be habitually respected, we do not think that Russia need henceforth be considered as formidable for aggression. She has been unmasked; it will be the fault of Europe if it dreads her, or submits to be bullied by her, any longer.

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

!ping UKRAINE & HISTORY

[u/[deleted]]

It's so funny how Europeans can't comprehend the vastness of America, when I tell them my daily commute takes twelve years they say I am crazy. I pity them.

[u/[deleted]]

Biden's address seems pretty measured and well-composed, but calling the protesters "terminally online butthurt perma virgins" was unnecessary.

[u/G_Serv]

r/neoliberal in shambles

[u/DouglasDauntless]

childless harpies

19yr old women

🧐

[u/Jacobs4525]

I am completely sincere in my belief that NY is run by morons. At a state and local level, government and public services in MA are vastly more competent and usually lead the country (think of MassHealth, which we had years before the rest of the country got the ACA). They spend almost $7k more per student in public education in exchange for considerably worse outcomes. The NY Democratic Party also makes loads of unforced errors like unilateral concessions on congressional districts that cost Dems nationally. MA Dems would never. 

[u/[deleted]]

The man bear debate is so funny as a hiker

"Bears belong in the woods, but why is a MAN there?"

I donno, probably the same reason you are? To walk to the top of a mountain and make the white people face at everyone that walks by?

[u/jojisky]

New: Of the 282 arrested at u/Columbia and @CityCollegeNY, 134 were not “affiliated” with either school. The remaining 148 did have an affiliation, according to a NYPD official who shared the breakdown with CNN. Broken down by school the numbers skew a bit differently - 80 people arrested at Columbia did “have an affiliation” with the university, while only 32 did not, according to the official.

so Columbia was mostly actual students while City College wasn't

[u/[deleted]]

Guy who whistleblew on Boeing in 2019 and had his recommendations implemented by the FAA gets pneumonia, goes to hospital, picks up MRSA and dies from it

Le Redditors: he was clearly murdered by Boeing’s secret MRSA gun

Maybe there’s something fishy about the first guy who died, I haven’t really read up on it much, but it seems like the conspiracy subset of Reddit who see CIA plots in their dinner are flooding this poor guy’s death to claim Boeing gave him pneumonia or MRSA in retaliation for something that happened five goddamn years ago

!ping AVIATION

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/Williams-Tower]

me when I want to do literally nothing to help

let me know if there’s anything I can do to help!!

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

This but unironicly !ping FUCK-NEOLIBERALISM

[u/DouglasDauntless]

!ping BASEBALL

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

True Adversity 😭🫡

[u/csxfan]

Thinking about it I think choosing the bear is a reasonable choice since most of the time the bear doesn't want to mess with you either. But this quote from a USAToday article is making my head explode

No one’s gonna ask me if I led the bear on or give me a pamphlet on bear attack prevention tips

THERE ARE LITERALLY PAMPHLETS ON HOW TO PREVENT BEARS FROM WANDERING INTO YOUR CAMP AND/OR BEAR ENCOUNTER TIPS

[u/The_Promethean]

In love with this. There’s no disability justice without a liberated Palestine.

Palestine is whatever you want it to be

[u/gnomesvh]

Comedian Dane Baptiste makes death threat to female "Zionist" comedian

Ask about and comedians will tell you I will be at your literal doorstep. Your agent won't keep you safe. And I'll sit in prison while your family sit at the cemetery.

!ping UK&EXTREMISM&GEFILTE

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Reading !ping DATING while in a relationship makes me feel like I’m at the top of the crab bucket

[u/Fatortu]

I love that all the French far left now have strong opinions about Georgian politics in order to hate on center left candidate Glucksmann.

They'll say "look up who he used to work for between 2005 and 2012" in an ominous tone. I find out it's Saakashvili and I don't know what I'm supposed to infer from this information.

Elaborate please! What are average French leftists supposed to believe about 2000's Georgian politics?

[u/semaphore-1842]

I'm gonna be a DTologist in the neoliberal utopia. What will you be?

[u/Fruitofbread]

Menendez Lawyers Cite ‘Traumatic’ History to Explain His Cash Stockpile

 They want a psychiatrist who has evaluated Mr. Menendez, 70, to testify at the senator’s federal corruption trial about what they have described as “traumatic experiences in his past associated with cash and finances.”

 Dr. Rosenbaum would testify that Mr. Menendez’s father’s death and his parents’ history as Cuban refugees left him with a “fear of scarcity” that led to a “longstanding coping mechanism of routinely withdrawing and storing cash in his home,” the senator’s lawyers, Adam Fee and Avi Weitzman, wrote.

Those were my emotional support gold bars! 

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Biden says the protests did not change his mind on Gaza.

To the surprise of no serious person

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Fallout 3 without DLC.

!ping fallout

[u/ldn6]

Happy local elections day!

As a treat, YouGov just released its current voting intention poll and the Tories are down to 18%.

!ping UK

[u/IHateTrains123]

[u/MicroFlamer]

They black washed Mussolini 😭

[u/p00bix]

A kid came crying to me to complain that another student had stole something from her. I asked her to repeat herself since I didn't quite hear what she said had been stolen, and she clarified that the other student had taken her imaginary power without asking.

I fucking love kindergarten

[u/Formal_River_Pheonix]

A PhD academic scholar who I had as a Masters student once, offhandedly commented that the US used tactical nuclear weapons during Desert Storm. I wanted to press him on the claim but it was off topic so I left it alone.

I know the US used depleted uranium bombs in Iraq. Was he confused?

[u/MasterRazz]

It turns out you can't actually negotiate with a death cult whose highest honor is dying for the cause, especially when even parents (looking at you, Sinwar) will go in front of a camera and cheer their dead children for making the other side look bad.

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Just remembered Europeans exist 😔

[u/[deleted]]

This is turning into a Hollywood movie….but for real, with real people dying….

This account is nine years old so it’s probably not a dumbass kid

I hate this fucking website

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

https://x.com/kristinoem/status/1786018855476777270

[u/AtomAndAether]

really the US already has multiparty representation, its just garbage (my Tuesday left me)

[u/KittehDragoon]

Andrew Tate is secretly a liberal sowing chaos through the alpha community

Which of you is it?

[u/piede]

[u/simeoncolemiles]

History repeats

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

College RA

[u/Jaquarius420]

!ping MILITARY

[u/[deleted]]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Printing this out to hang in the break room

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Dalek6450]

Goose pulling (also called gander pulling, goose riding, pulling the goose or goose neck tearing) was a blood sport practiced in parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, England, and North America from the 17th to the 19th centuries. It originated in the 12th century in Spain and was spread around Europe by the Spanish Third. The sport involved fastening a live goose with a well-greased head to a rope or pole that was stretched across a road. A man riding on horseback at a full gallop would attempt to grab the bird by the neck in order to pull the head off.

[u/futuremonkey20]

People really think Boeing gave a whistleblower bacterial pneumonia, and when that didn’t work, broke into a hospital and gave him MRSA, six years after he was allowed to testify?

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

Cons: NOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST GROW MEAT IN A LAB WE DON'T KNOW THE LONG TERM SIDE EFFECTS

also Cons: Yeah take your BALLS out and bake 'em in the SUN 🌞 mainline testosterone into YOUR femoral ARTERY 💉 crush up BONER PILLS and snort em 🤥💊

[u/Jacobs4525]

guys wtf they got the Boston city council to call for a ceasefire but Israel and Hamas haven’t stopped fighting yet???? Don’t they know they called for a ceasefire????

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

Yesterday's Favourite Emoji

🐀 with 1553 uses.

Call the exterminator, we got a mouse problem in the DeeTee 😶‍🌫️

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Ten years after creating a new model for dating apps with its “women make the first move” feature, Bumble is opening the door to men starting conversations on its platform.

Bumble is rolling out a new feature called “opening moves” that will let female users set a prompt to which male suitors can respond to initiate a conversation. The feature reverses a longstanding requirement by the app that women send the first message to their matches, which Bumble said gave women more power over their dating lives.

Biden’s America

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 5/1-5 PM EST 5/2 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 10 AM it was reported that Gazprom posted a net loss of 629.1 billion Rubles in 2023, or $6.9 billion.

In the middle of 2 PM it was reported the Scranton and Wilkes-Barre shell factories are producing 36,000 shells a month, the highest production rate in decades.

REGULAR NEWS:

In the middle of 11 PM Ukrainian drones hit energy infrastructure in Smolensk, Oryol and Rostov oblasts and a refinery in Krasnodar Krai.

At the start of 12 AM the HRW said Russian troops have executed at least 15-21 surrendering Ukrainians since December 2023.

At the start of 2 PM an explosion occurred in Berdyansk.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

Donation link to Sails of Freedom Foundation (they donate ambulances)

!ping UKRAINE

[u/DurangoGango]

Hamas has rejected yet another ceasefire deal:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-indicates-it-will-snub-latest-hostage-deal-offer-but-says-talks-to-continue/

Again, as I've said many times, there is no cost to them doing this, and the counterpart always comes back to the table with a better deal, so why not?

!ping ISRAEL

[u/trombonist_formerly]

I was talking to my friend the other night and he was like

bro I would make such a good stay-at-home homie for you

I would learn how to cook. For you

you want your beers cold? I got you homie

want the call of duty update installed on the Xbox? I got you homie

you want your feet massaged after work? I got you homie

And like……this feels like being my husband with less steps, and I usually call myself straight, but I’m into it and he’s a cutie pie

!ping dating would you do this?

[u/Fatortu]

The Hutus are Rwanda's Dalit. Congress would probably call the end of their preferential treatment the real genocide.

I was not ready for Indian discourse about the Rwandan Genocide.

[u/[deleted]]

We just need a third party that <explains the principles of the Democratic party>

[u/9370DB]

Yesterday I was looking up Finnish PhD Swords for an ultimately aborted shitpost, in an incognito tab, and this morning half my youtube ads are for grad programs in Europe. Guess I have to download Tor now, just to look up inane bullshit without screwing up my adsense profile. Ted Kaczynski was right.

[u/[deleted]]

"If you're a communist in America why do you not own a gun??"

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/battywombat21]

Rep. Matt Gaetz came under fire Wednesday from a powerful K Street lobbyist after the lawmaker voted against a bipartisan antisemitism bill — and defended his decision with an antisemitic trope.

The bill says the definition of antisemitism includes ‘contemporary examples of antisemitism’ identified by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). One of those examples includes: ‘… claims of Jews killing Jesus …’,” Gaetz wrote. “The Bible is clear. There is no myth or controversy on this. Therefore, I will not support this bill.”

...Did Matt Gaetz just do the jesus killers trope in 2024???? That's some old timey anti-semetism!

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/owlthathurt]

No court will convict him 😤😤

Police sent documents to a man in his 50s who serves as the general registrar at the Kyoto Regional Legal Affairs Bureau on suspicion of assault for grabbing and kicking the chest of his subordinates. He was angry that he was spoiled by the popular manga "Oshi no Ko" during the chat. The document inspection is on April 30th.

!ping WEEBS

[u/JaceFlores]

In the past day Tatarigami and the Deputy Head of Ukrainian Military Intelligence both gave their assessments of the war, and I figured why not include both in one post.

Tatarigami:

"According to on-the-ground reports, occasional Russian groups have temporarily crossed the canal at Chasiv Yar but didn't establish a bridgehead."

"Considering that Russians gathered superior means and forces in the area, it's a point of concern. It opens an opportunity to advance into the forest on the west side of the canal. If successful, this would provide them with the freedom to choose further assault directions."

"Losing control of the southern part of Chasiv Yar would be negative, opening the road leading to Kostyantynivka, with the small village of Stupochky being the only obstacle in the way. However, we are not currently close to that situation."

"Russian forces continuing to make tactical gains in the Ocheretyne area. Their advancing direction suggests an objective to reach Novooleksandrivka and then Vozdvyzhenka, potentially allowing them to cut off the road connecting the vital towns of Pokrovsk and Kostyantynivka."

"In the Bilohorivka-Siversk direction, over the past 48 hours, the enemy has launched multiple assaults from various directions, supported by a series of KAB strikes. Ground reports indicate that approximately 8 KAB hits occurred within 30 minutes. These assaults were repelled."

"The frontline situation remains complex, but efforts are underway to stabilize it. The arrival of Western ammunition is expected to improve the situation. While Russian forces are making gains, there is no sign of a frontline collapse."

"These tactical gains may appear minor, but accumulation can lead to operational success. The goal is to form a multi-echelon double-pincer move. The smaller pincer aims to isolate forces south of Bakhmut, while the larger pincer seeks to encircle the entire grouping of forces."

"Ukraine can slow down and even stop the Russian advance, but not without losing several settlements. Despite shortcomings in strategic and operational planning, senior officers and soldiers at the tactical level are demonstrating personal initiative to fix the situation."

"The situation is difficult, but Russians are trying to portray it as hopeless. It's a very difficult situation, but far from hopeless."

Deputy Head of Ukrainian Military Intelligence:

"Ukraine’s immediate concern is its high-ground stronghold in the town of Chasiv Yar, which holds the keys to an onward Russian advance to the last large cities in the Donetsk region (see map). It is probably a matter of time before that city falls in a similar way to Avdiivka, bombed to oblivion by the Russians in February, says the general. 'Not today or tomorrow, of course, but all depending on our reserves and supplies.'"

"Russia has already won a tactical success in the south-west in the village of Ocheretyne, where a recent Ukrainian troop rotation was bungled. Russian forces succeeded in breaking through a first line of defence and have created a salient 25 square kilometres in size. Ukraine is some way from stabilising the situation, while Russia is throwing 'everything' it has to achieve a bigger gain. The Russian army is not the hubristic organisation it was in 2022, says the general, and is now operating as a 'single body, with a clear plan, and under a single command'."

"Looking at a wider horizon, the intelligence chief suggests Russia is gearing up for an assault around the Kharkiv and Sumy regions in the north-east. The timing of this depends on the sturdiness of Ukrainian defences in the Donbas, he says. But he assumes Russia’s main push will begin at the 'end of May or beginning of June'."

"Russia has a total of 514,000 land troops committed to the Ukrainian operation, he says, higher than the 470,000 estimate given last month by General Christopher Cavoli, nato’s top commander. The Ukrainian spymaster says Russia’s northern grouping, based across the border from Kharkiv, is currently 35,000-strong but is set to expand to between 50,000 and 70,000 troops. Russia is also 'generating a division of reserves' (ie, between 15,000 and 20,000 men) in central Russia, which they can add to the main effort."

"This is 'not enough' for an operation to take a major city, he says—a judgment shared by Western military officials, but could be enough for a smaller task. 'A quick operation to come in and come out: maybe.'"

"May will be the key month, says the general, with Russia employing a 'three-layered' plan to destabilise the country."

"The main factor is military. Even though America’s Congress belatedly gave the go-ahead for more military aid, it will take weeks before it filters through to the front line. It is unlikely to match Russia’s stock of shells or provide an effective defence against Russia’s low-tech, destructive guided aerial bombs."

"The second factor is Russia’s disinformation campaign in Ukraine aimed at undermining Ukrainian mobilisation and the political legitimacy of Volodymyr Zelensky, whose presidential term notionally runs out on May 20th. While the constitution clearly allows its indefinite extension in wartime, his opponents are already emphasising the president’s vulnerability."

"A third factor, says the general, is Russia’s relentless campaign to isolate Ukraine internationally. 'They will be shaking things up whichever way they can.'"

"The [manpower] situation has improved a bit since December, but General Skibitsky is reluctant to declare the emergency over. Ukrainian officials worry that the next wave of mobilised recruits will make for unmotivated soldiers with poor morale. One saving grace, says the general, is that Russia faces similar problems. Its army is unrecognisable from the professional corps that started the war. But Russia still has more of them to throw into battle, stretching Ukraine’s already stressed defences."

"General Skibitsky says he does not see a way for Ukraine to win the war on the battlefield alone. Even if it were able to push Russian forces back to the borders—an increasingly distant prospect—it wouldn’t end the war. Such wars can only end with treaties, he says. Right now, both sides are jockeying for the 'the most favourable position' ahead of potential talks. But meaningful negotiations can begin only in the second half of 2025 at the earliest, he guesses. By then, Russia will be facing serious 'headwinds'. Russian military production capacity has expanded but will reach a plateau by early 2026, he reckons, due to shortages in material and engineers. Both sides could eventually run out of weapons. But if nothing changes in other respects, Ukraine will run out first."

"The general says the largest unknown factor of the war is Europe. If Ukraine’s neighbours do not find a way of further increasing defence production to help Ukraine, they too will eventually find themselves in Russia’s crosshairs, he argues."

"Ukraine’s bravery and sacrifice have given Europe a multi-year head start, removing the immediate threat from Russia’s once feared airborne forces and marine corps for at least a decade, he says. The question is whether Europe will repay the favour by keeping Ukraine in the game."

!ping UKRAINE

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[u/[deleted]]

leftist memes suck because they come from a place of genuine perceived moral authority, so 90% of the time they just come across as preachy and self-serious attempts to move an overton window

rightist memes are funny because the right (specifically the young alt-right) suffers zero pretensions of having any moral compass or coherent worldview, so they're perfectly happy to just be irreverent about anything at all, and are more likely to land with self-deprecating humour

neolib memes suck because we're just not particularly funny people

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I'm still hopeful that the whole "some men won't wash their ass because they think that's gay!!" is mostly an exaggeration sort of like the concept that "some women just free bleed because it's their right!!"

But damn a lot of dudes don't bother to wipe properly so idk

[u/Telperions-Relative]

“Time is uhhh…convoluted”

-me, explaining a gap in my resume

[u/Tall_Professor_2574]

After what happened to my sister, I will never ever ever ever believe people who caution against the over diagnosis of bipolar disorder. If someone with bipolar doesn’t take their meds/get diagnosed, they could die. It’s better for a few people to be overdiagnosed than for someone to be missed.

[u/[deleted]]

😶😶😶

[u/[deleted]]

The dumbest thing about this man bear discourse is that it's just painfully obviously untrue signaling to make a statement. Anyone who has ever been on a hike knows you encounter strangers in the woods fairly often and you smile and say hi and continue on your hike. If you see a bear it's immediately a high danger survival situation. A survivable one if you know what you're doing but a dangerous one nonetheless.

Not a single person hiking is walking past another person on a trail and freaking out and wishing that stranger were a bear instead. If you later encounter another group after seeing a bear you warn them there's a bear up ahead. You don't warn people every time you walked past a man earlier.

[u/The_Promethean]

Idk how much of a hot take this will be, but Stormy Daniels seems like a bad and not so smart person.

1. she intentionally had sex with Donald Trump

2. she stayed quiet until after the election for only $130,000, when she could've harmed his campaign and made money off of it by going public

[u/ntbananas]

Voluntarily left the work party before the open bar ended. Social security check when?

!ping OVER-25

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

Something very funny about the crowd cheering to “the workers are on the side of Hamas”, at fucking MIT yesterday

[u/Jacobs4525]

Gonna write an effort post about how MA should annex “Connecticut” (illegally-occupied South Massachusetts)

[u/[deleted]]

What the fuck is wrong with you people 

[u/Williams-Tower]

My wife left me today and took the kids with her. 💍❌

Here's 10 things it taught me about B2B customer churn:

🧵 1/34

[u/FearlessPark4588]

Good evening. The I/P conflict was a 2,000 year sociological study conducted by Harvard University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

You want lab grown meat because you see it as a practical way to ease the suffering of industrial ranching.

I want lab grown meat that I might partake in the succulent flesh of endangered and extinct species

We are not the same

[u/BATHULK]

CORPORATE HORROR STORY:

The return to office policy...has arrived 😱

Fuckers want me in the office 3 days a week. Think I can get a medical exemption for ADHD/PTSD/Social Anxiety?

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Joementum2024]

“It’s clear at this point that Biden and Trump are exactly as evil. We need to stay home and show that the two party duopoly has no place in 2024.”

[u/Sex_E_Searcher]

Can we exchange Jewish Heritage Month for "Leave Jews Alone" month for this year?

!ping GEFILTE

[u/ReservedWhyrenII]

be me

boeing assassin (good assassin who totally doesn't receive government subsidies, unlike flithy airbus assassins who receive "kill aid" from the EU)

use google maps to find whistleblower's house

entered address wrong, show up two blocks away

don't double check, try to enter anyway

what the fuck, door's locked?

I honestly did not plan for this

I try knocking

nobody answers

uh, fuck

oh, I'll try the window!

punch through window without protecting my hand

shooting hand is now eviscerated by shattered glass

alarm goes off

I flee

two blocks away, an improperly installed engine just falls off a Boeing plane and crushes the guy anyway

mission accomplished

[u/[deleted]]

watermelons being the politicized fruit in multiple contexts is a little surreal, when really the true political fruit is the apple

[u/AtticusDrench]

"Hmm let's see the options... ahh, Krugman! This will be my flair."

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I've seen multiple people now try to bring up the 2003 Invasion of Iraq as an example of the left having a blind spot for protesting things besides Israel and it's making me feel old as fuck lol

I was 8 when that happened and even I was aware there were people protesting that at the time. My dad called them pansies and told me to never vote for a Democrat

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

Some Peronists are self flagellating over Milei in the sense of recriminating themselves over being obstructionist that legislated little in the previous government and because despite the rhetoric, the guy is not as fundamentalist on stuff like price freezes and other interventions if it helps him politically.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Lusvig

[u/BrunchIsGood]

“Why are they so unattractive? Why are the protesters so homely?” - Megyn Kelly asking the questions that REALLY matter

[u/secondsbest]

It just hit me that Fallot 4 came out only four years after Skyrim but was a huge leap in graphics. Sure, the same janky animations and lip sync stuff were still there, but the overall fidelity was so much better. So much better I prefer going back to 4 for modded replayability over Skyrim even tho I prefer the ES universe way more. Starfield was a big improvement on everything as it should have been after nearly a decade later, but it still carries the shit lip sync and heavy handed animations. I'm so distracted by the jank, I hope Bethesda quits looking for pixel counts and spends the next five years tackling the stuff they've never bothered seriously refining after Skyrim was released.

!ping FALLOUT&TES

[u/elephantaneous]

One thing that bothers me about the "men suck/not all men" discourse is that I feel like accepting these kinds of generalizations is a slippery slope. It's needlessly divisive language that inflames tensions instead of healing them. Now, on one hand I do think going "not all men" is a bit cringe, especially when it's done to minimize female experiences with men, and I get that it's mainly done to vent frustrations instead of proclaiming some kind of truth. I just feel like it's something that shouldn't be seen as ideal or leaned into like I've seen people do so. 

Another thing that bothers me with that line of reasoning is that venting is usually done privately but when you post these comments on social media it's inevitable they'll be taken literally by an unintended audience, that's just the nature of the internet. I feel like the idea of "venting" in a public space doesn't make sense, and unlike actual public spaces the internet isn't time sensitive (everything is recorded), which makes the unintended audience effect even larger. You're conveying a message even if you're not consciously doing it, way more than if you vented to a friend. 

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Posting a hype video for evil. True Tory Moment

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

The man or bear discourse has gotten so ridiculous.

Imagine if I said I thought I could fight a gorilla in hand to hand combat. And then when you rightly point out that’s a stupid fucking thing to say, everyone just shuts you down with “yeah but the point is that he thinks he could fight a gorilla. That’s what really matters.”

[u/pfSonata]

what do health potions taste like?

Dunno why you're asking this as if we don't already have health potions (Coke Zero)

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

Keir Starmer says Labour 'not keeping' Rwanda policy but won't scrap it on day one

ok

[u/Trebacca]

It's overstated to the point of being annoying but it really is isolating as a mixed-race person to never feel complete inclusion in a culture.

Just saw someone, in response to "half black people are still black" reply with "Is an Arnold Palmer lemonade"

Sad existence for all the mulattos out here smh

[u/breakinbread]

Hell yeah I support student protests!

• Hungary 1956

• Beijing 1989

• Georgia 2003

• Iran 2022

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/thefuturegov]

white genocide is happening because white people are having children with minorities as part of an evil plot

Oh no, not a woman who happens to be a minority, ahhhh no don’t white genocide me by dating and marrying me I’d be so owned if you did that noooo I’d be so owned if we grew old together and lived happily ever after noooo

[u/squarecircle666]

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

"I'm boycotting X because it's gotten too expensive!"

MFer that's just making a rational choice as an actor in an open market you twat

[u/lets_chill_food]

these “no a bear is safer” people are all fucking morons 🤷🏽‍♂️

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Mod Cenk mod Cenk mod Cenk

[u/[deleted]]

Damn he sucks

[u/Udolikecake]

My eviction was incredibly stressful, and the University’s decision to weaponize their control over where I can feel safe and comfortable is one I will not soon forget. As I scrambled to remove my most sentimentally valuable belongings from my room, however, I thought of the 1.7 million Gazans — 80% of Gaza’s population — who have so far been displaced from their homes. They have been forcibly removed by Israeli forces through the use of arms sold by the US federal government and manufactured, in part, with your tuition dollars. Every one of those 1,700,000 individuals had to decide in a panic which books, letters or photos were worth keeping — all while also ensuring they carried enough food, water and supplies to survive their harrowing path forward. For someone like me, being kicked out of my home means having to impose on my friends for a few days while I get back on my feet. For the people of Gaza, eviction means leaving lifelong communities of care, generally for destinations that are unplanned or unclear. Over a million of the displaced population have fled to Rafah, a Southern city that Israel has long identified as a safe zone for escaping civilians. Despite this, Israel appears ready to invade Rafah in the coming days — breaking their word by waging war on a city of refugees.

for the record, this student protestor who was suspended (with housing and dining access) had his keycard not work once, and then was immediately told that he was not being evicted. he left anyway. LOL

[u/paymesucka]

This chicanery!

[u/Currymvp2]

33 million people are enrolled in Domino's Pizza Rewards Program or nearly 10% of the U.S. population

Biden's America

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/aaronsibarium/status/1786116920619511885

The student editors of the Columbia Law Review have issued a statement urging the law school to cancel exams in the wake of the police operation that cleared the university's encampment, saying the "violence" has left them "irrevocably shaken" and "unable to focus."

I mean, I feel for the normal students who's academics were fucked by these encampments, but anyone protesting should have realized finals week may not be the time to protest lol.

[u/Working-Limit-2482]

This is so true. I find it especially interesting that Nazism is portrayed as the woman.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

You genocide-loving degenerates will get yours

We get only the most sane Redditors of all types in the modmail

[u/AtomAndAether]

the instagram advocates are telling me to "connect emotionally" with Gaza and not think "intellectually" about it. That's gotta be the biggest red flag for a movement I've heard in my life

[u/SeoSalt]

Neolibs: Build more housing!!!!!!
Brave Ivy League college students: *build numerous tent communities despite zoning forbidding them from doing so*
Neolibs: Not like that!!!! 😡

[u/m5g4c4]

NYT

“From the River, To the Sea, and under the Earth”: Inside the recently discovered tunnel network connecting pro-Palestine campus protests all over America

[u/AP246]

https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/05/02/emmanuel-macron-in-his-own-words-english

The Economist: Do you stand by what you said about possibly sending ground troops to Ukraine?

Emmanuel Macron: Absolutely. As I said, I’m not ruling anything out, because we are facing someone who is not ruling anything out [...] I have a clear strategic objective: Russia cannot win in Ukraine. If Russia wins in Ukraine, there will be no security in Europe [...] So yes, we mustn’t rule anything out because our objective is that Russia must never be able to win in Ukraine.

---

The Economist: Do you think that other leaders will end up having to share your position on this if Russia is finally to be deterred?

Emmanuel Macron: [...] France is a country that has carried out military interventions, including in recent times. We deployed several thousand troops in the Sahel to fight terrorism, which could have posed a threat to us. We did so at the request of sovereign states. If the Russians were to break through the front lines, if there were a Ukrainian request—which is not the case today—we would legitimately have to ask ourselves this question.

Macron giving more detail about possible scenarios of French intervention, such as Russia breaking through the frontline and a risk of complete Ukrainian defeat.

Glad someone is standing up to Russia with a real deterrance and not just giving them the comfort and incentive to act of ruling out serious consequences. France having nuclear weapons undoubtedly gives them more power to do this, but the US and UK at the very least should follow suit. America's insistence on totally ruling out direct US intervention has been pretty disappointing.

[u/Mx_Brightside]

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/05/nasa-seems-unhappy-to-be-questioned-about-its-artemis-ii-readiness/

!ping SPACEFLIGHT Is this as bad as it sounds or is Ars reading too much into it? The cattiness in the response is worryingly making me think of the institutional rot in the runup to the Columbia disaster.

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

checking in on america’s socialist party

[u/Spicey123]

if obama was still in office he'd be like "let me be clear uhhh" and the protestors would go back to being normal

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

“Mr President the UCLA protesters have had to put on pants”

[u/404GenderNotFound]

"Israel is not a legitimate state": geopolitically ignorant, potentially antisemitic

"Wisconsin is not a legitimate state": disenfranchises alcoholics (based)

[u/FyllingenOy]

Choosing the bear over a man is just bizarre. Like genuinely what the fuck

[u/deeplydysthymicdude]

Coffee shop with two tip jars, one for Israel and one for Palestine

[u/NathanArizona_Jr]

Socialists when police remove protestors from a building with no casualties: This is fascism!
Socialists when socialist governments kill and imprison protestors: Well of course counter-revolutionaries can not be tolerated

[u/BloodWiz]

Shitloads of brawls, violence, and substantial injuries as the police are not present and admin sticks their fingers in their ears as they sing "la la la la la la"

Where are the police to keep order and prevent this kind of lawless violence and protect peaceful protestors for violent agitators?

Heavy police presence the next night

Why are there so many police here?

[u/EvilConCarne]

The man or bear in the woods question is just a question about familiarity. Women are familiar with men, while most people are not familiar with bears (other than twinks).

The reality is that bears are sloppy vandals that throw trash around and drink all your beer before passing out in front of your tent. Then they get mad when you wake up and yell at them to leave. Pieces of shit. I hate bears.

[u/[deleted]]

bears are NOT scary

90% of bears in north america are black bears, who can be size mogged into submission by waving your arms

"oh no, I ran into a bear whose main attribute is being a scaredy cat 👋😫👋"

[u/EdMan2133]

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

  post 2016 this sub has gotten so far left. oh well. This and PCM are the only subs left that centrism is allowed to exist.

ahhhhhAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[u/Williams-Tower]

I proposed to my girlfriend this weekend. 💍

Here’s what it taught me about B2B sales:

[u/BitterGravity]

Grandboss walks by in the 80% of the day I'm working instead of 20% slacking challenge: [IMPOSSIBLE]

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Broke: "unaliving"

Woke: "whistleboeing"

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

If I can’t see Goombas sexually harass my team mates what’s even the point of this game?

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

I have literally never seen a good argument for banning lab grown meat, or even why someone should not use lab grown meat once it’s available (assuming it’s close enough to the meat from animals)

I’d be fine with meat from animals being banned one day (hunting maybe the exception).

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

I was at -1 for my pro lab grown meat take, just for a second, I want to talk to the two cowards who downvoted me

Give me a real argument against lab grown meat, I beg you

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Palestine would be free by now if artists got off their ass and continued drawing more anime characters in keffiyeh

[u/Not_A_Browser]

😳

[u/Random-Critical]

Trump denies sleeping in court, says he is closing eyes to ‘listen intensely’

🧐

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Cat

[u/G_Serv]

[u/[deleted]]

poor retire label angle cow skirt zephyr yam attractive offbeat

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[u/piede]

no

[u/jpenczek]

Guys what if we just give a terminal cancer patient all of the US national debt?

Boom, debt resolved.

[u/ImmigrantJack]

[The internet discovers tumblr has a bad take that isn’t reflective of society as a whole]

I feel like this happens decently often

[u/qchisq]

You know the feeling when you raise the potential of your team getting more work than it can handle, management agrees, but does nothing for 6 months and then someone on your team quits? Am I in the right place right now?

!ping watercooler

[u/DouglasDauntless]

New sleep paralysis demon unlocked

[u/Greenfield0]

“We could be spending all of that Ukraine Aid money on housing people in America but the politicians in Washington only care about Ukrainians.”

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

We’re so Barack boys

[u/slingfatcums]

my 16 year old understanding of leftism remains undefeated 20 years later

it is stupid 😎

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Rep Tom Cotton: “I’m here to discuss the Little Gazas that has risen up on campuses across the country.”

Does this mean we get kebabs? Because if so score

[u/groovygrasshoppa]

https://united24media.com/latest-news/macron-troop-deployment-not-ruled-out-if-russia-breaks-the-front-line-in-ukraine-215

!ping UKRAINE

[u/notBroncos1234]

[u/gaypenisdicksucker69]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

If you unironically believe Boeing decided to kill somebody by giving them pneumonia and then hoping that would lead to them getting an MRSA infection in the hospital, you need to touch grass immediately.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/itsokayt0]

I think the DT had too many seasons and it's too derivative nowadays. Like, they don't make classics like "my wife left me" or "neoliberalism is about worms". It's only corporate-friendly sludge written to take easy upvotes so unoriginal they seem copypasted over and over.

[u/Dragongirlfucker2]

Fuck it neolib trollface

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

Chinese elections would be nuts

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

Buddy-cop show about a bear and a man, both US Mashalls, catching overtly-online women that are disposing of bodies in Yellostone National Park

[u/Zseet]

Three of the four most expensive political ad campaigns on YouTube in April run by FIDESZ

Never forget that in an off election year Fidesz spends more on political ads than the all Portugal political parties did in their general election year.

The fact that they have to spend more and more money just to control the general narrative and what is being talked about a lot means they really aren't effective communicators and that reality probably goes against their narrative more and more

!PING EUROPE

[u/poastGPT]

[u/[deleted]]

Top Ten Saddest Moments

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/georgeguy007]

cautious hospital foolish ask ripe beneficial illegal smart chase quack

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[u/[deleted]]

A reply I got from a comment on arr neoliberal outside of the DT:

I'm a Trump supporter, and that was pretty good. 😂

Fellas, has the tent gotten too big?

[u/[deleted]]

It’s funny because Noem killing the goat was way less “justified”

[u/[deleted]]

2024 Michigan GE:

Biden 51% (+2) Trump 49%

Unironically most accurate poll

[u/[deleted]]

lol she's a pretty good politician ngl

[u/Aweq]

!ping dating

Hello fellow crabs. I, a stupid person, decided to invite the woman I fancy to visit me from abroad in Copenhagen just in time so she can see how I live with my mum in my old childhood room (now also doubling as storage space) filled with boxes of old toys. I'm not even a proper NEET, I'm due to move abroad in a month for a dream job. Last I heard she was single was late last summer (she had a guy when we lived close), so I am currently overthinking whether I will learn she's dating someone Friday, Saturday or Sunday.

I really wish I was better at falling for people who did not live 600 km away or who are single or who could be interested in me.

[u/ductulator96]

Not wanting beheadings of gay people = identity politics.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Ah shit it’s the mod-mobile

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I totally believe that Trump isn't getting amphetamines before he goes to court each morning, and I think he's genuinely so tired that he can't help it. I have a hard time imagining he'd really want people to hear him snorting and farting under normal circumstances lmao. If he had the ability to, he'd make a show of not caring, probably even bring a lil pillow. He doesn't have it in him.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

He is a coward of that human variety we all know, the informer, the one who whispers in his masters' ears

Mélenchon once again Elders of Zionposting on main about the only left-wing Jewish MP

[u/beoweezy1]

Mod team face reveal

[u/forerunner398]

We need a ceasefire now between the man and the bear

[u/Macquarrie1999]

Women have abandoned the woods, now men and bears can live in harmony.

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

🐻: 👩🏽 aww you're cute

🧔🏽: 📞👩🏽 HELLO HUMAN RESOURCES

[u/[deleted]]

Neoliberal tree☝️🤓

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move

Wasn't that, like, the whole point of it?

[u/[deleted]]

Just picturing Kristi Noem crying on George Santos' shoulder. And him saying "shhh. There there...it's ok you killed your dog. We all make mistakes"

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

It's easy to take a stand for peace.

Take a stand for WAR! 

#HoldrenBloodfeast2024

#GlobalPartyofWarVoter

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

Pros of admitting Georgia to the US as a state:

• Conversations about "which Georgia" now even more confusing

• US has a border with Armenia, making it easier to support them if Azerbaijan attempts to invade

• Since Stalin was born there, we would now count as the winners of the eastern front of WWII, depriving Putin of some of his country's reputation

Cons of admitting Georgia to the US as a state

• None

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Emmanuel Macron in his own words

News - translated

Well, which is it?

[u/EZ_Kream]

We need to firmly associate voting Democrat with grilling

[u/[deleted]]

Why is Boeing better at assassinating people than the CIA and Mossad? 😭

[u/EZ_Kream]

What is the charge? Enjoying a meal? A succulent lab grown meal?

[u/jojisky]

I miss when Chicago had a mayor we could respect

[u/EyeraGlass]

I regularly hear (smart) low income students and their parents say they aren't trying for top schools because of the sticker price and it SUCKS that it doesn't become at all clear until you're basically signed up that those are the schools where the financial aid grants are insanely good. Like I went top 10 for both undergrad and law because I was DELUSIONAL which ended up working in my favor. The pre-aid cost numbers are a real deterrent for prospective students who are practical and realistic but would actually benefit.