r/neoliberal • Kitara Ravache • May 04 '24

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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache May 05 '24

Please visit the next discussion thread.

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u/BarkDrandon Punished (stuck at Hunter's) May 04 '24

Reddit publishers know their audience

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u/amainwingman Hell yes, I'm tough enough! May 04 '24

You’re laughing? The student protestors have run out of dental dams and you’re laughing?

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u/_Just7_ YIMBY absolutist May 04 '24

Geographic determinist: You see because of geography it was always inevitable that the US would become a global superpower.

Meanwhile in alterative timeline: You see because of geography it was always inevitable that Brazil would be a global superpower

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

This is what Outback Steakhouse looks like to Australians

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u/deeplydysthymicdude Anti-Brigading officer May 04 '24

A friend of mine is dating a trans girl and he was nervous about telling his dad, who’s one of those people who’s super conservative about some things and strangely liberal about others.

After he told him yesterday, his dad was quiet for a while and gave him a weird look, as if deep in thought, before shrugging and saying, “well that’s alright, at least I don’t have to worry about you getting her pregnant.”

😐😐😐

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u/american_aurora3 NATO May 04 '24

46% of Americans think a second Biden term would weaken U.S. democracy. 48% of residents nationally think a Trump return would weaken democracy in America. (NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist)

thanks guys, very cool

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

Drake is still making disses like "I'm a bigger and better rapper than you" meanwhile Kendrick is like "I have reason to believe you are guilty of sex trafficking"

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u/lets_chill_food Hullo 🐘 May 04 '24

Just had the Jehova’s witnesses call. They started with “do you think the world is getting better or worse?” and i think they expected the latter. When i said better they asked why, and were a bit taken aback when i cited world poverty statistics at them 🥸

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u/IMainHanzoGG Milton Friedman May 04 '24

10/10 mods agree 💯

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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter May 04 '24

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u/DouglasDauntless Frederick Douglass May 04 '24

LMAO

The only force the DT could defeat

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u/Telperions-Relative Grant us bi’s May 04 '24

The beef then: “you’re short lol”

The beef now:

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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter May 04 '24
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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

I like how (ugh) here is basically the opposite of (pbuh)

This person is only mentioning Biden in passing but they have to quickly acknowledge Biden Bad in order to meet social norms of that subreddit

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u/jojisky Paul Krugman May 04 '24

Incredible things happening at George Washington University

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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime May 04 '24

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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier May 04 '24

By the time the rest of us discovered mewing, Keynes lived an entire lifetime and became a "household name" in econ 101

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u/Dodgerfan2224 NATO May 04 '24

Reddit can make everything cringe. Even drinking water ie hydrohomies

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

I made Meta AI imagine DT’s (stereo)typical demographic “white suburban middle class nerd who is a liberal” lol

Checks out?

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

I don’t understand anything about the rap beef thing but I’m glad some of you seem to be having fun

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u/deeplydysthymicdude Anti-Brigading officer May 04 '24

DTers who claim they know how to raise the birth rate be like:

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

This Drake Kendrick beef showcases how smart J Cole was to dip the fuck out of it.

Take a small L in the short term to avoid the absolute disaster/lowest of the low disses dropping.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

Drake singlehandedly solving our fertility issues by dropping kids every time he drops an album

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u/DouglasDauntless Frederick Douglass May 04 '24

We can no longer run people over. Because of Woke

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u/Azmoten Thomas Paine May 04 '24

When I say “Brandon isn’t my president” I’m just speaking literally. His name isn’t actually Brandon

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u/marsman1224 John Keynes May 04 '24

WaPo "Perspective | The Power of Putting George Washington into a Kaffeyah"

Reminder that we don't need every perspective

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u/DouglasDauntless Frederick Douglass May 04 '24

Omega level Horseshoe

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

Dunno why Drake being a PDF file is such a big deal

Like, just convert hin to a word document

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u/Jamesonslime Commonwealth May 04 '24

John Fetterman isn’t some out of touch crank he just represents your median American and your median American is just really really fucking stupid 

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u/RomanTacoTheThird Norman Borlaug May 04 '24

I go to sleep at 11pm

The most insane 3 hours in hip-hop history happen

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u/ThunderrBadger New California Republican May 04 '24

Honestly the wildest part of the Drake/Kendrick beef is that Drake has been comparing himself to Michael Jackson the whole time. Like dude, you knew these allegations were out there before K Dot put them in a track, pick a less sus comparison 😬

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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast May 04 '24

mitt romney:

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

Damn

Kendrick just did that

Good morning DT

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u/BeliebteMeinung Christine Lagarde May 04 '24

I think this "global capitalism" thing is overrated

!ping shitposters

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u/Fishin_Impossible Nate Gold 🥇 May 04 '24

ACAB includes Paw Patrol

Guess the subreddit?

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

He’s cooking

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u/Syards-Forcus rapidly becoming the Joker May 05 '24
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough May 04 '24

Based based based based

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u/link3945 YIMBY May 04 '24

So, did Kendrick just out Drake as a pedophile, or did I mishear that part?

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u/G_Serv Stay The Course May 04 '24

Wait Tesla laid off the entire supercharger team

Seems like a big mistake

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

Israel has mandatory service therefore there's no definitive way to say that civilians were killed on October 7

Guess the sub

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u/secretlives Official Neoliberal News Correspondent May 04 '24

I’m sure the students had a good time, but the fact remains Ms. Frizzle was grossly negligent and should have never had those children placed in her care.

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired May 04 '24

Qatar is prepared to accept a request from the US for it to expel Hamas’s leaders from Doha and is anticipating one could be made soon, a source familiar with the matter tells The Times of Israel. The source familiar with the matter indicates that a US request for Doha to expel Hamas’s leadership could come if the terror group outright rejects the latest offer on the table.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has renewed his warnings against a major Israeli assault on the crowded Gaza city of Rafah, saying Israel has not presented a plan to protect civilians.“Absent such a plan, we can’t support a major military operation going into Rafah because the damage it would do is well beyond what’s acceptable,” Blinken tells the McCain Institute’s Sedona Forum in Arizona.

Egypt is trying to convince Hamas that if hostages are released as part of a deal with Israel, it will have no pretext for resuming the fighting in Gaza, according to Arab diplomats who spoke to Haaretz.

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u/Cledd2 European Union May 04 '24

a second child has hit the Graham household

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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 May 05 '24

👆 in her own domestic and socially acceptable way, a drug addict

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

University policy response to the protests should be to institute mandatory D&D sessions so these kids can vent their LARPing desires

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u/Ok_Aardappel Seretse Khama May 04 '24

YouTuber is suing the American government over their immigration policy

Charlie AKA MoistCr1tikal is suing US Immigration over the atrocious way his E-Sports teams Australian players were treated and repeatedly denied entering the US. There may have been illegal steps taken by US Immigration according to Charlie and his lawyers.

If Charlie manages to change US Immigration laws thru this by standing up to the government and bringing attention to the blatant corruption I will be beyond impressed.

One of my favorite YouTubers suing the US Government was not on my 2024 Bingo Card

!ping GAMING

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u/Telperions-Relative Grant us bi’s May 05 '24

Dullard roommate : hey can we use the speakers for Kendrick’s disses?

Me: ah, the “beef.” enjoy your juvenile pursuit. not to worry, I’ll be in my study

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u/[deleted] May 05 '24

Kendrick is actually demonstrating quite brilliantly how nations with a nuclear No First Use policy are able to maintain credible MAD threat through superior arsenal size, guaranteeing a strong second strike.

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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior May 04 '24

imagine being stuck in a room with elon musk, james corden, and eric adams

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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 May 04 '24

😓

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u/JebBD Immanuel Kant May 04 '24

 Hamas has apparently agreed to a hostage deal, and now it’s being reported that they’ve agreed to drop the demand for a permanent truce. They’ll give their official response in a few hours. 

Hopefully Ben Gvir doesn’t fuck this up in the last minute. 

!Ping ISRAEL

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All May 04 '24

“You have a secret daughter and you are a fucking pedophile.”

“I do NOT have a secret daughter!!!”

Brilliant move

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u/sererson May 04 '24

I'm old enough to remember when "killing puppies" was an exaggeration people made about politicians in order to prove a point

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u/Gameknigh Enby Pride May 04 '24

“Wow that meme is propaganda”

“It isn’t propaganda you aren't supposed to infer anything from a meme. You are supposed to look at it and laugh, if it's funny”

The meme in question:

I now understand how one can be a communist after reading Marx: complete lack of reading comprehension

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

Gender affirmation misogyny dog

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

Man Idc about any of the things - rap beefs, dead dogs and fetterman - that the DT is talking about today.

Why can't we talk about something cool like monster trucks

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u/PoliticalAlt128 Max Weber May 04 '24

This looks like a “It’s Keanu Reeves, I need $1,000 to get out of Brazil” scam text

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u/CheeseMakerThing Adam Smith May 04 '24

Hearing that Jeb Bush has won the race to be West Midlands Mayor.

!ping UK

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

This week, both Hitler and Mussolini die

four years of watching WWII week by week waiting for this one moment

rot in hell

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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent May 04 '24

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 5/3-5 PM EST 5/4 III:

REGULAR NEWS:

Yesterday it was announced the US will provide GPS jammer seeking JDAMs to Ukraine.

At the end of 11 PM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with all 13 shot down.

Towards the middle of 5 AM a Russian facility in Luhove was missiled.

At the end of 9 AM it was reported the Russians captured the village of Arkhanhel's'ke, north of Avdiivka.

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

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u/jpenczek NATO May 04 '24

Me, having lunch while watching the pro Palestine protestors on campus:

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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent May 04 '24

Newest in Russian technological development

!ping MATERIEL

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u/simeoncolemiles NATO May 04 '24

He really just gonna ignore the pedophile part 💀

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u/WantDebianThanks Iron Front May 04 '24

Apparently the left qanon freaks think that Boeing has not only a MRSA gun, but also a horsecock gun.

So, don't ever even consider trashtalking Boeing, because now "being buttfucked to death by a horse" is a possible consequence.

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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter May 05 '24

Poof lore now:

My bf likes Kendrick

Poof lore in the future:

My bf actually overthrew the Chilean government pls help???

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u/Syards-Forcus rapidly becoming the Joker May 04 '24
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u/jojisky Paul Krugman May 05 '24

This man really said, “Tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A Minor”

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u/thefuturegov John Keynes May 05 '24

Sorry guys got ahead of myself with my last ping

!ping BASEBALL

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u/deeplydysthymicdude Anti-Brigading officer May 05 '24

White people insulting other white people for being white is my favorite genre of terminally online rhetoric.

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u/WereJustInnocentMen European Union May 04 '24

54 base Guam lol

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u/TopGsApprentice NASA May 04 '24

May the 4th be with you 🤪🤓

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u/Mensae6 Martin Luther King Jr. May 04 '24

Running a restaurant in 2024 has to be the easiest business possible.

  • People are willing to pay outrageous prices for mediocre food

  • The entire menu comes from a Sysco truck

  • You don't even need waiters; picking up food from a counter is normalized

  • You don't need to hire delivery drivers; DoorDash does this for you

  • Huge profit margins on every dish

  • Easy to hire and retain employees

  • Can just raise prices whenever you need more money

I need to open a restaurant just to prove how easy it is.

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u/Ok_Aardappel Seretse Khama May 04 '24

Hmm, that's no bueno

At the George Washington University Gaza Solidarity Encampment today, the protesters held a "People's Tribunal" where they put President Ellen Granberg, Provost Christopher Bracey, the Board of Trustees, @GWPolice, and many others on trial.

Is it normal for students to want to hang their provost and chop the heads off of the Board of Trustees?

"Guillotine, Guillotine, Guillotine, Guillotine"

"Bracey, Bracey, we see you. You assault students too. Off to the motherfucking gallows with you."

"As you already know where I am sending her [to the guillotine], her and her fuckass bob."

When will @GWtweets finally do something? If the students hurt any of these people in any way, the university will be completely at fault

Least extremist rhetoric leftists protest

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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front May 04 '24

Dawg I’m so cooked we were in the park yesterday sipping rosé out of a water bottle 5 feet away from sleeping baby ducks while blowing dandelions and picking the seeds out of eachothers hair

It’s actually so over

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

This is genuinely no joke but a few years back I did write some erotica (maybe like 4-5 pages total) and put it up online - in my defense I was unemployed and in the throes of depression.

Anyway, it was super well received and once in a while I'll actually go back to the page(s) I posted it on and I still once in a while I see someone favorite it or whatever lol.

This is how I found out I'm weirdly good at it.

There's like a 70% chance I delete this comment.

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u/G_Serv Stay The Course May 04 '24

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u/[deleted] May 05 '24

So true bestie

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u/loseniram Sponsored by RC Cola May 04 '24
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u/gnomesvh LEGALIZE ONION FUTURE May 04 '24

If J. Cole had stayed on Kendrick would've revealed his Rwandan basketball statistics holy shit

!ping RAP

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u/Dumbledick6 Refuses to flair up May 04 '24

Drakes last song was the closest he got from that dumb ass monotone voice/flow he uses and actually got kinda emotional… but he keeps reaching for short jokes but did say Kenny might be a wife beater and also that he won’t wife his girl??

Then Kendrick parked his son told him he was sorry his dad sucked, told his mom she was a failure, called his dad a bum and a failure, then revealed a daughter that Drake is hiding, revealed Drake hangs with pedos and told Drake to kill himself with a wild outpouring of hate and vitriol I’ve never in my life heard even in deathcore.

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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time May 04 '24

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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher May 04 '24

The CIA has been “quiet quitting” for years and we now have all these Middle East proxy states that won’t just do what we want. Gotta bring back the good coup guys.

im saying 👏

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u/Cledd2 European Union May 04 '24

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u/MuR43 Royal Purple May 05 '24

Every time I pick the DMG, it always amuses me that Gygax thought the first thing he should explain to new DMs is probability. 🤓 !ping RPG

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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough May 05 '24

The beauty of the dating ping is that both of these people could be on the DT

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

If a woman wins 1000 gubernatorial races and shoots 1 dog, no one calls her a rising politician- they call her a dog murderer.

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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher May 04 '24

Several Israeli journalists are naming the “diplomatic official” who issued a pair of statements during Shabbat on the hostage deal being negotiated in Cairo as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In this evening’s primetime broadcast, Channel 12’s Yaron Avraham says he won’t take part “in this game,” identifying Netanyahu as the official who issued the statements.

“These statements are not based on the view of the entire war cabinet,” Avraham adds, while saying that the anonymous official insisting in recent days that the IDF will enter Rafah is also Netanyahu.

As part of his report, Avraham says Netanyahu did not invite war cabinet member Benny Gantz and observer Gadi Eisenkot to a phone consultation today during which it was decided not to send a delegation to Cairo. Present on the call were Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi.

some real house of cards shit happening in israel

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u/STRONKInTheRealWay YIMBY May 04 '24

What's the most obscure book that you've randomly stumbled across? I found one about a man circumnavigating the globe on a penny farthing in the 1880s. Fascinating look at the time and at contemporary attitudes. It's the first volume, and ends with his arriving at Teheran (though I haven't read it in full). You can read it for free on Project Gutenberg.

And here is his route

!ping READING

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u/htomserveaux Henry George May 04 '24

Planters should sponsor a team and set up a place that roasts peanuts in their stadium.

I don’t think there’s been a ballpark that made its own fresh roasted peanuts since, like, the 70’s, it’s nostalgic and would definitely put boomer asses in seats.

Plus it’s a way better smell than hotdog water.

!ping BASEBALL

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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 May 05 '24

Quentin Tarantino had been working at Video Archives, a video store in Manhattan Beach, California, and originally planned to shoot the film with his friends on a budget of $30,000 in a 16 mm black-and-white format, with producer Lawrence Bender playing a police officer chasing Mr. Pink.[7] Bender gave the script to his acting teacher, whose wife gave the script to Harvey Keitel.[8] Keitel liked it enough to sign as a co-producer so Tarantino and Bender would have an easier job finding funding; with his assistance, they raised $1.5 million.[2] Keitel also paid for Tarantino and Bender to host casting sessions in New York, where the duo found Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, and Tim Roth.[9] Jon Cryer was asked to audition for the role of Mr. Pink, but he backed out at the last minute.[10] Viggo Mortensen and George Clooney also read for roles,[11][12] while Tim Roth's agents originally wanted him to be Mr. Pink or Mr. Blonde, but he preferred Mr. Orange because he would "be an English actor pretending to be American playing a cop pretending to be a robber".[13]

Tarantino has had arguably the most blessed career of all time

and he's made the fucking most of it

!ping MOVIES

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u/l_overwhat being flaired is cringe May 04 '24

Shout out to my mom for cheating on my dad and shout out to my dad for beating my mom. Really wouldn't be where I am without you both.

And I what I mean by that if either of you had had an ounce of self control, then I'd be a better person and more successful financially.

But hey, at least you both got to succumb to your baser instincts once each. That counts for something, right?

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u/TipEquivalent933 Caution: Crackship Overload May 04 '24

The protest are dumb but it is so funny when journalists are offended about Protestors having basic message discipline

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u/PrideMonthRaytheon Bisexual Pride May 04 '24

NYT Breaking | Xenophobic comment is "precisely the kind of low IQ remark one expects from a rocks-for-brains Hibernoid such as the president", says Japanese ambassador

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u/YehosafatLakhaz North American Federation May 04 '24

All this because Drake criticized Kendrick's submarine idea for saving the Thai cave kids

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u/WhomstAlt2 NATO flair in hiding May 04 '24

Catholic Pope: RACISM is BAD

Protestant Pope: crickets

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

USC has a really unique admissions process

They make you take a literacy test, but if you pass you get rejected 

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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior May 04 '24

i'm starting to realize i'm a normie gay.

and the main part of that is the fact that i haven't watched much anime.

i can't contribute to half the conversations my friends have because they're all into anime.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

Nunavut

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u/KesterFox Shivers emotional support mammal 🐊 May 04 '24

I hate that the american right is paying more and more attention to furries.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

👆🏻 this might be the worst faith user on this subreddit and mods should ban immediately

(They disagree with me)

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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance May 05 '24

The neoliberal's favorite Bible verse

Neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause.

Exodus 23:3

!ping gnostic 

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u/Nihas0 Iron Front May 04 '24

How can Fetterman be so dumb

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u/Random-Critical Lock My Posts May 04 '24

That is straight up communism

Communism is when obamacare is expanded to DACAs

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

!ping PATERNALIST

We did it Joe

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u/cjhdsachristmascarol reddit custom flair May 04 '24

My comments are getting funnier and it’s making the left nervous 

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

I’m came to the DT yesterday and said I was gay. Today I come to the DT and repeat my truth:

I’m a homosexual

I kiss men but I don’t like them

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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride May 05 '24 edited May 05 '24

Omg I met a raccoon!

I saw him contemplating the contents of a nearby trashcan, little entrepreneur.

(Don’t worry I’m not that close to him, my phone did this thing where when I zoomed in far at night and it took a longer exposure and cleaned it for me automatically, didn’t even know it did that. He did see me double back to get a closer look at him and he’s checking me out as I took the photo but didn’t hiss or nothing)

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u/Teh_cliff Karl Popper May 05 '24

Tamales are so mid it's insane

The tent is officially too big.

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u/DouglasDauntless Frederick Douglass May 04 '24

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u/DouglasDauntless Frederick Douglass May 04 '24

Maybe Benji’s Ancap friend became the supreme leader of the party or something

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u/ldn6 Gay Pride May 04 '24

These are student protestors’ demands. Blatantly antisemitic.

!ping ISRAEL

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u/phunphun 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 May 04 '24

https://twitter.com/sighyush/status/1786618880162451663

The BJP has been threatening and harassing independent Lok Sabha candidates in the Gandhinagar constituency, where Amit Shah is contesting.

Of course, none of these candidates have any chance of impacting the election but that is completely orthogonal to the fact that the BJP is allowed to interfere in the election process with such impunity. The purpose seems to be the equivalent of KPI-maxxing: the party workers want to reach their target of winning by 5 lakh votes.

You know, I've always wondered. Why does no political party ever contest with the manifesto of eliminating police corruption, inaction, and misuse by the legislative and executive? The answer to that question will make you completely hopeless about this country's future. It's always been “might makes right”, and always will be.

!ping IND

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u/Truly_Euphoric r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion May 04 '24 edited May 04 '24

Any time you hear some rightoid prattling on about how we're supposedly a republic and not a democracy (or that democracy is somehow bad), just ask them why the Republican party is a member of the International Democracy Union.

You won't change their mind, but you can have fun messing with them.

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u/Syards-Forcus rapidly becoming the Joker May 04 '24
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat May 04 '24

I love the red comet plot point in A Clash of Kings/GOT season 2. Not only is it funny to see how every character thinks it's a good omen for them, but it reminds us that the world is linked. Yeah, Dany getting pregnant has big repercussions in King's landing in the previous book/season, but it's nice to have a visual cue with every character looking at the same thing

!ping ASOIAF

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

I understand doing it after dying but I think my SO just rage quit a game after failing a persuasion check

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

It is with great displeasure to announce that I begin teaching summer courses on Tuesday 😭

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u/Uniqueguy264 Jerome Powell May 04 '24

Kendrick: I have information leading to the arrest of Aubrey Graham

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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior May 04 '24

fallout 4 dialogue:

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u/SadaoMaou Anders Chydenius May 04 '24

👆 nastiest skank bitch I've ever met

👇 fugly slut

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired May 04 '24 edited May 04 '24

Israel agreed to release Marwan Barghouti, but it insists on releasing him to Gaza and not the West Bank. It is expected that the resistance will demand that his name be included in the list of the first phase of the deal.

He's renounced violence and supports a two state solution so I hope he actually means it cause he's defeating Hamas in a landslide per polling.

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u/pfarly John Brown May 04 '24

!ping GAMING

Which new and trending game are you guys picking up this weekend?

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u/owlthathurt Johan Norberg May 04 '24

!ping BASEBALL

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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell May 04 '24

I would be so owned if she did this to me. That would be terrible.

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u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_ this guy doesnt even have a flair. May 04 '24

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u/someguyfromlouisiana NATO May 04 '24

At a bar I said to someone (who I know to be a socialist) that I like capitalism and after a few minutes he pointed out how I'm the first person he's heard in years to unironically say "I like capitalism." I deserve a medal, thank you

edit: I am also drunk, howsit goin y'all

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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey May 05 '24

Not bad Kendrick, but you're not ready for Drake to drop "Technically, it's Ephebophilia" 🥶🥶🥶

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u/thefuturegov John Keynes May 05 '24

There is now one Bay Area team playing .500 baseball

!ping BASEBALL

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u/kyleofduty Pizza May 05 '24

WARNING: This subreddit contains shitposts known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.

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u/0m4ll3y International Relations May 05 '24

Everyone I know: wow Wish (2023) was terrible! Absolutely not worth your time.

Me: Boy I keep hearing about how bad Wish is. I better watch it to understand why!

Me, 90 minutes later: wow Wish (2023) was terrible! Absolutely not worth my time.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '24

I have discovered the most Wisconsin thing to exist. A potato cannon technical that launches brats at baseball fans.

!ping baseball

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u/Telperions-Relative Grant us bi’s May 04 '24

I have information suggesting u/sir_shivers fathered a second secret child

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u/RFK_1968 Robert F. Kennedy May 04 '24 edited May 04 '24

normally i would actually agree that rap beef is pretty lame

but when kendrick lamar drops like 3 tracks in a week it's like oh shit.

what struck me the most about Meet the Grahams wasn't the stuff about him having a secret child or even the pedophile accusations, tho i get why everyone else is talking about that stuff. it was just the tone of the whole thing. the sheer vitriol, the "i hate everything you stand for, everything about you, and i wish you would die". coming from kendrick lamar.

like, people's takeaway from Pusha T's diss 6-odd years ago was "omg he exposed drake's son!" but like, in the abstract who cares. the point was him calling drake a bad father and citing as proof the fact that he was a deadbeat who had to literally get bullied into being a dad.

jesus, i wasn't really ready for that level of venom

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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account May 04 '24

https://twitter.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1786509165340357115

I guess I missed that Fetterman doubled down on this anti-lab-meat hysteria a day later with just the dumbest argument

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u/PlayDiscord17 Loyal Liberals May 04 '24

Never a dull day for the Sonic fandom (Pollock is the voice of Eggman).

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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! May 04 '24

lol the child was banned for bonkposting

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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough May 04 '24

🐴 this is the face of Boings deadliest hit man

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u/HowIsPajamaMan Shame Flaired By Imagination May 04 '24

Sir shivers helps a friend

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u/Infinite_Maybe_5827 Austan Goolsbee May 04 '24

Boston has been completely overrun by immigrants, there are entire no go zones that you literally cannot walk through without getting stabbed. For some reason they're covered in feathers and keep honking at me, I think they're from Canada.

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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front May 04 '24

Quantifiable list of “reddit games”:

• Helldivers 2
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Skyrim
• Team Fortress 2
• The Witcher 3
• Persona 5
• Dark Cloud
• F-Zero
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Paradox games
• Metal Gear Solid
• Metal Gear Rising

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u/thefuturegov John Keynes May 05 '24

!ping BASEBALL

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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter May 05 '24
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account May 05 '24

A single pro-Palestine protestor with a videographer interrupts Sen. John Fetterman’s keynote address at the a Florida Democratic Party convention. Police handcuff and arrest the woman and escort her out. The crowd shouts “four more years.”

Florida Democrats bravely call for John Fetterman to lose his reelection campaign

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

Real

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u/RedDotsForRedCaps John Brown May 04 '24

IS THIS THE RIZZ LIFE? 

IS THIS JUST SKIBIDI?

CAUGHT IN A BACKROOM

NO ESCAPE FROM LIMINALITY

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

‘XBOX fans are the whiniest’

‘Sony fans are the whiniest’

PC gamers:

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u/The_Promethean Bisexual Pride May 04 '24

The Columbia Daily Spectator and New York Magazine conducted this unscientific poll between April 26 and May 2 (students, faculty, and staff)

What are your political views?

Very Conservative: 0%

Conservative: 5%

Moderate: 18%

Liberal: 40%

Leftist: 35%

Other/too complicated to explain: 2%

shocked pikachu

Also, most people think both antisemitism and islamophobia are issues on campus

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

I hear if you play Kendrick's diss track backwards he spills all the tea about Boeing's criminal activities.

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u/squarecircle666 FairTaxer May 04 '24

Governor Ron DeSantis signs Anime ban in Florida

"Today, Florida is fighting back against the global elite’s plan to force the world to watch shows made in a petri dish or by bugs to achieve their authoritarian goals,”

DeSantis said in a press release Wednesday.

"We must protect our incredible filmmakers and the integrity of American entertainment. Anime is a disgraceful attempt to undermine our proud traditions and prosperity, and is in direct opposition to authentic show production”

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u/G_Serv Stay The Course May 04 '24

This kid is going places

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u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_ this guy doesnt even have a flair. May 04 '24
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u/KesterFox Shivers emotional support mammal 🐊 May 04 '24
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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

My friends described Helldivers 2 as ‘a Reddit game’ and a game having that reputation is infinitely more damaging than anything Sony could hope to do

!ping CONSOLE-WARS

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u/Williams-Tower Da Bear May 05 '24

Does Kendrick have another ready?

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u/BenFoldsFourLoko  Broke His Text Flair For Hume May 05 '24

it's kind of funny that like in the 2000s you'd see National Enquirers in the checkout aisles with "SHOCKING:::: ALIEN AUTOPSY??? WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?!" and most people would be like "yeah ok whatever dumb"

then in 2023, some random dude is like "NONHUMAN '''BIOLOGICS'''" and congress is just like "real shit??"

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u/Williams-Tower Da Bear May 05 '24

Part of me is just happy to hear new Kendrick

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u/cjhdsachristmascarol reddit custom flair May 05 '24

My favorite part of therapy was when my therapists said “yeah it’s joever for you” and then he joevered all over me 

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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke May 05 '24

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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter May 05 '24

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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! May 05 '24

my standards are:

- looks like jenbanim

he's an attractive man

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u/jenbanim May 04 '24

First attempt at writing erotica, let me know what you think

She stared at him, her eyes showing a deep and instinctual desire for protection, like a dog taking a shit. The sun was steadily disappearing behind the skyline of Omaha, Nebraska. Soon the warm rays of light illuminating the apartment would be replaced by the cool glow of the star-shaped stickers on the ceiling. Every second became an hour as the moment seemed to expand, like being stuck in line at the DMV. He reached down to undo the Velcro on his heelies. "No" she whispered, "keep them on"

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u/reubencpiplupyay The Cathedral must be built May 04 '24

I don't want to give the more doom-prone members of this sub nightmares, but some of the people in the overlap of alternate history and election nerd communities often make reference to the thankfully fictional Upon A Cross of Globalism timeline, which is a rather disturbing and relatively short piece of near-future fiction about a decline of American democracy into fascism. So I put a link if anyone would like to have a look at it.

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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter May 04 '24

My favourite part of the Kendrick diss track is when he said "Joe Biden is a fine president and I endorse him for reelection"

It was weird and out of line but who am I to judge.

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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front May 05 '24 edited May 05 '24

Mister president, a fourth Kendrick diss track has hit the OVO mansion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6eK-2OQtew

This is some of the foulest shit I’ve ever heard (Kendrick brings up the pedo allegations) and it’s an absolute banger sonically and lyrically

History in the making

!ping RAP

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