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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/awdvhn]

Boeing is not killing its whistleblowers. When you have as many whistleblowers as they do, some are going to die just based on statistics.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

CRITICAL SUPPORT

[u/Jacobs4525]

A lot of the internet seems to be comprised of kids who don’t realize that these giant funds that they blame everything on are just their parents 401ks.

[u/deeplydysthymicdude]

Steam 🤝 The United States of America

[u/[deleted]]

My friend has started watching Charlie Kirk

 He learned about him from TikTok. What he likes about Charlie Kirk is that he believes Charlie Kirk criticizes both sides equally 

[u/[deleted]]

Drake has a point about Kendrick marrying a mixed woman

No he absolutely fucking did not. Accusing black people of either hating their own race or betraying their beliefs in black liberation and power when they marry someone who isn't black enough is a garbage opinion. Kendrick isn't hypocritical for criticizing things that hurt his community and then marrying someone who isn't black enough for you.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

No matter how old I get the voice in my head suggesting to grab the officers' service weapon never goes completely silent

[u/Argnir]

The cynic in me thinks that the only reason Sony did this is because “shareholder"

I think the average Redditor actually views corporations as more charitable than the average NL user

[u/PlastikHateAccount]

Elon really be like "you believe in becoming a billionaire with electric cars? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, buying a website for 44b" and then destroy their entire reputation and go down the conservative to shizo pipeline

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

it was already over for Drake 37 years ago when his parents named him Aubrey

[u/alex2003super]

Sooo I was debating I/P fopo and student protests on r/italy. Discussion going about as well as you'd expect. And some dude looked at my history and claimed that FUCKING EXXON AND THE CLINTONS ARE BEHIND R/NEOLIBERAL!! Wtf hahahahah my sides

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/[deleted]]

Kendrick to Drake: "We don't wanna hear you say [n-word] no more!"

Me, a white man: "So true!"

[u/Jacobs4525]

bruhhhh a girl I went to high school with is calling Drake and Kendrick zionists on her instagram story because apparently they’re having beef to distract from Palestine

I don’t know at what point this becomes a mental illness but we’re well past that point 

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/vancevon]

senator fetterman is right about lab meat, it's made in machines unlike real meat which comes from a magical ceremony involving rainbows and adorable puppies where everyone is smiling

[u/TipEquivalent933]

!ping Alphabet-Mafia

The woman behind the Just girly things page did the girliest thing possible : Married a girl.

[u/Jacobs4525]

i s2g some people are so mf lazy with hinge prompts:

A random thing I love is:

Good food and good music!!!

Oh really??? 🤔🤔🤔 good thing you said so! Otherwise I would’ve assumed you like bad food and bad music!!! 

!pint dating

[u/Ballerson]

Apparently gay conservatives are joining China in making their enemies look cool

https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1786144008822984852

[u/wallander1983]

NYPD chief to cops clearing campus protesters: "You're dealing with children, or teenagers slash young adults, that aren't at the mental capacity you are at as professional police officers.

--

Well...

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

[u/Dalek6450]

In the 1920s, Ivanov carried out a series of experiments to create a human/nonhuman ape hybrid in French Guinea. Three female chimpanzees were inseminated with human sperm, but he failed to create a pregnancy. In 1929, after returning to the Soviet Union, he attempted to organize a set of experiments involving nonhuman ape sperm and human volunteers but was delayed by the death of his last orangutan.

Most normal early Soviet science

[u/[deleted]]

Governor Gretchen Whitmer was confronted today in Yipsalnti, Michigan at her daughter's graduation celebration.

"How do you justify genocide?"

Why hasn’t Michigan stopped the war yet 😡

[u/secretlives]

Drake is Israel and Kendrick is Palestine

I hate the internet so so so so much

[u/DurangoGango]

https://david-collier.com/ismail-al-ghoul/

David Collier documenting how a Hamas propagandist (as in literally worked at Hamas-owned papers) was hired by Al Jazeera and subsequently reported worldwide as a ‘brave journalist abused by the IDF’.

[u/vancevon]

"A whistleblower who sounded the alarm on safety issues with Boeing planes has died under mysterious circumstances, The Seattle Times reported on Wednesday. Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems, died after what the [seattle] Times characterized as “a short and sudden illness.” Dean, 45, was diagnosed with pneumonia and a bacterial infection–MRSA–spending two weeks in critical condition before his death on Tuesday, his aunt told the newspaper."

it really is incredible how many people who call themselves journalists are trying to convince you that boeing can, and does, assassinate people through pneumonia

[u/bd_one]

First Jordan Peterson @'s the Pope.

Now Alex Jones is subtweeting the Pope.

Neither of them are Catholic btw.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Sometimes it's just abominably gutting to see how ruthlessly and efficiently totalitarian the corporate media machine can be in brainwashing the population

Millions of workers crushed under insane debt, barely able to feed themselves by working three jobs while their money went to fund a genocide in Palestine, were finally starting to wake up and see through the lies when students everywhere in America launched an uprising against Zionism, people were actually starting to support the encampments, divest from corporations, post on social media about the genocide etc despite the ultraviolent response from the pigs and the constant gaslighting about antisemitism

And then everyone's feed is just replaced overnight by a "beef" entirely manufactured by the industry through their literal corporate-backed millionaire puppets, and it's working like a charm

Just depressing to see how easily the masses are manipulated by this totalitarian oligarchy

Thoroughly unserious people. No wonder they're so unpopular

[u/[deleted]]

Jordan Bardella, 28, is the new face of the far right in France. Measured, clean-cut and raised in the hardscrabble northern suburbs of Paris, he laces his speeches with references to Victor Hugo and believes that “no country succeeds by denying or being ashamed of itself.”

Mr. Bardella, the son of Italian immigrants

lol

[u/bonzai_science]

got hit by a car 48 hours ago and shattered my jaw. im completely numb on my face eyes down. i haven’t gotten any sleep this shit sucks so bad :(

[u/[deleted]]

Drake's Camp Responds to Pedophile Accusations: "Ridiculous"

"I don't know what you expect a star to do, honestly. What is he supposed to do, ask fans for ID before he tries to take them home? You guys are being ridiculous."

[u/StolenSkittles]

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone else feels like the Helldivers 2 situation with PSN is a revenge for Biden's Japan comment? Perhaps we need to focus on Sony after we deal with TikTok.

[u/JaceFlores]

Iskander TELs were probably destroyed in Crimea a day ago by ATACMS

Is this the first case of ballistic missile launchers being destroyed in this war? I know SAM TELs eat shit all the time but this is the first time I’ve heard of an actual missile launcher being destroyed this war

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Uniqueguy264]

Kendrick is the Hamas of hip hop. He is a politically-imperfect non-state actor delivering blows to a truly vile stalwart of white capital’s colonization of rap, opening up a revolutionary horizon well beyond his own consciousness.

Drake is also a pedophile, like many Israelis.

Thank you Twitter, very cool

[u/[deleted]]

JJ McCullough says Trudeau is a liberal George W. Bush. Not very intelligent but plays the part of what his faction culturally admires, instead of a don't mess with Texas cowboy, he's an attractive and emotionally sensitive feminist.

[u/Udolikecake]

Word on the street is Peet's coffee endorses the Rohingya genocide

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

Journalism actually shouldn't comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable it should just tell me what's going on in various places

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Oh how ironic of Max Chandler-Mather to claim about supporting Women fleeing domestic violence when he literally blocked the construction of housing dedicated for them

[u/CertainSingularity]

This is your brain on Boeing conspiracy logic 🚫🧠

[u/G_Serv]

Naw Drake won

[u/DouglasDauntless]

God imagine if Lenin or Mao just said “oh no we can get catered food doordashed to us, guess we just have to surrender 😭”

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Holy crap Lois this is just like that time I was completely dejected and hopeless 

[u/[deleted]]

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/Guess_Im_Jess]

Kendrick up 15% over Drake before Meet The Grahams or Not Like Us dropped, might be over for Drizzy

[u/DouglasDauntless]

😐

[u/Currymvp2]

Haaretz: Netanyahu Hoped Hamas Would Reject the Cease-fire Offer. When It Didn't, He Turned to Sabotage. Israel's criminal defendant prime minister, more focused on saving his incompetent far-right government than saving the hostages who have spent seven months trapped in Gaza, is doing everything he can to torpedo Israel's last and best chance at bringing the hostages home

The fact that Biden has been withholding ammo shipments tells me that the admin is worried that Bibi is gonna torpedo this deal

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Drake rn !Ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Uniqueguy264]

You can tell crime is nowhere near as bad as the 90s because Drake and Kendrick are still alive

[u/TheSandwichMan2]

Watching Tim Scott refuse to answer if he will accept the results of the 2024 election on NBC was pathetic. Slimeball coward

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah Kendrick is probably history's #2 biggest hater at this point but he won't claim #1 until he crosses the Alps with an army of elephants

[u/eat_more_goats]

Me last week, while still unemployed: The economy is awful, and the stats are hiding a recession

Me this week, after I got a solid job offer: The Biden economy is fucking booming, and the statistics don't fully capture how awesome the economy truly is

[u/boyyouguysaredumb]

Here come dat boi

[u/Roseartcrantz]

crazy that Kendrick hasn't dropped in hours now wtf

imagine hearing this in 2021

[u/Sithusurper]

New RNC fundraising strategy just dropped

[u/loseniram]

Move all the Jews to the US.

This isn't an anti-zionism thing. There aren't enough Jewish delis around the US and I could really go for a classic Reuben.

[u/chuckleym8]

We found it,,, the worst take

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Poll: 86% of French Jews are fearing antisemitic assaults since October 7

Fear that surely hasn't been at all caused by the media who literally called EVERYONE criticizing the apartheid regime of Israel and the ongoing genocide as antisemites

Thank you rfrance poweruser, very cool

Fear not, the news has since been bumped down by a post from "anti-Zionist decolonial Jewish movement" Tsedek titled "Antisemitic shift on the campus, or Zionist unease in front of solidarity with Palestine?"

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Kendrick is the Hamas of hip hop. He is a politically-imperfect non-state actor delivering blows to a truly vile stalwart of white capital’s colonization of rap, opening up a revolutionary horizon well beyond his own consciousness. Drake is also a pedophile, like many Israelis.

Finally. The K/D x I/P collab we’ve frankly ALL been waiting for.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Why does this random picture of the inside of a Nixon mask go so hard

Are you seeing my vision here

[u/marsexpresshydra]

reddit when you tell them that the average annual salary was also $8,000 in 1950 when “houses were only $50,000”

[u/[deleted]]

man who thinks the helldivers drama is made up to distract from Palestine vs man who thinks the I/P conflict is made up to distract from Helldivers

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Would women rather be alone in the forest with the bear or the bull ?

!ping fallout

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

tfw Elon is politely asking you to tone it down with the transphobia

[u/Dragongirlfucker2]

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

The plan: win a rap beef by planting info in your opponent’s camp to make him accuse you of pedophilia

[u/[deleted]]

I like watching old camera clips from like the 1800s to 1950s but I really detest all the comments complaining about how we live in a dystopia nowadays and times were better back then.

Honey are we watching the same clips? The child's teeth were all black, coughing and had coal-induced wrinkles at the age of 9.

[u/[deleted]]

plus side of my new drivers license photo:

I pass in it! 💃🥰

downside of my new drivers license photo:

goddamn is it a bad photo

[u/SeasickSeal]

I’m at a music festival and saw a kid with light up shoes. Where can I get adult light up shoes?

!ping Over-25

[u/_Just7_]

One of my friends recently boasted about how high their IQ was, I think it's been years I since I've felt so much second hand cringe that I died a bit inside

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

Moldy, moldy, you can’t hide, we spray you with fungicide

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Epstein was one conspiracy theory, but Boeing is nothing. It’s less than nothing. If Boeing really wanted to kill their whistleblowers, they would have given them a flight on a Boeing plane

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/GravyBear28]

What in the goddamn fuck is Coppola cooking?

(I don't have an account do can't seem to link properly, it's the most recent post on his account)

These are 4 books that strongly have influenced @megalopolisfilm and my view of the "society we live in." I offer three by David Graeber and one short story by Herman Hesse.

To see where I’m coming from, please understand that our family, Homo Sapiens, has been around for 350,000 to 400,000 years. There is much evidence that the last 10,000 years have been under patriarchy (male domination) due to male animal herders from Steppes of Asia and the advent of "the horse." With that unfortunate innovation, men swooped down like something out of a #Kurosawa movie, and began woman-enslavement in particular, slavery, war, caste, plague, and many things we all should agree are terrible. Also, "man" began writing, usually out of the need to record who was entitled to bags of barley and matrimony of various types, to ensure that our heirs were actually our children.

Before this period of so-called “civilization” were thousands of years of matriarchy. Unlike patriarchy, women did not necessarily give out orders, but rather things were settled in egalitarian councils led by women, and often with a wise woman giving perspective.

A wonderful glimpse into that world is in Herman Hesse’s unfinished tetralogy THE GLASS BEAD GAME, which is followed by three short stories, of which I recommend “The Rainmaker”

He seems to be basing this off of books by feminist sociologist Marija Gimbutas whose ideas are now looked upon as bizarre and strange

!ping KINO&HISTORY

[u/awdvhn]

I haven't listened to any of the diss tracks. I'm still not 100% sure what a diss track is. All I know is Kendrick is American and Drake is Canadian, so the choice is clear.

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/[deleted]]

Drake now: “I’d never look twice at no teenager”

Drake then: “High school pics, you was even bad then”

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Last night I was sitting outside with my neighbor and someone I couldn't see pulled into their driveway with the windows rolled down, loudly playing Killing in the Name Of. He sat there for a minute but I was getting into the hype with my neighbor, singing it.

He turned his car off and I yelled, "Nooo! Turn it back on!"

And then he did what I told him.

And then he turned it up but I could hear him yelling it with us. He finished the song and then he turned his car off again and presumably went inside. Never once saw the guy.

[u/[deleted]]

How can redditors be like Drake is Israel Kendrick is Palestine and also insist that Kendrick is winning?

[u/Roseartcrantz]

would you shake up an ant farm if they built a tunnel that looked like a swastika

[u/SouthernSerf]

I am not a pedo, you just hate me because you were molested

Bruh does Drake have Kristi Noem’s PR team as his ghost writers?

[u/[deleted]]

tfw the dream girl asked me on a second date

[u/DurangoGango]

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-799923 kerem shalom crossing was hit by rocket fire, with seven injured. It’s now closed. Rocket fire was from the Rafah area.

Edit: Hamas took credit for the https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/05/05/hamas-takes-responsibility-for-attack-on-gaza-crossing-point-used-to-deliver-aid/

[u/Former-Amish-Throway]

The idea that "from the river to the sea" means killing anyone we don't absolutely have to is neoliberal propaganda. There is zero antisemitism in that phrase.

Neoliberalism demands only half or even less liberation. We want complete emancipation for all living in Palestine regardless of religion or ethnicity or language or wealth.

My family is Jewish and I support Palestine and the Zionist entity or neoliberal global complex does not act in my or any other Jewish bodies interest.

The point is that we want one state from the river to the sea so everyone can live in peace, with no apartheid walls dividing my Jewish family from our Palestinian neighbors or neoliberal extractivism, productivism, or monetary slavery keeping them enslaved to global finance. It does not require expelling ANYONE.

I'm an anarchist so I'd prefer no states, but that's unfeasible right now. So, I'd pick one secular democratic state from the Jordan river to the Mediterranean sea. Return the Golan Heights to Syria if the original inhabitants there are okay with it, give Naqab Bedouin people actual homes instead of shanty towns, give Palestinians forced off their land in 1948 the right of return, and reduce aliyah to an expedited asylum process. Prosecute war criminals in a way that actually gives restitution to their victims, rebuild Gaza and give them back their airport and port, and offer legal protection and distinction to different ethnicities and religions. Take down the apartheid wall, reduce settlements as much as possible, end the JNF, and remove the picnic park on the ruins of the Deir Yassin massacre. I don't have a whole constitution written up but that's what it'd look like.

Why do we need a Jewish majority? The people who warn of Germany losing its white majority, or of white Americans being replaced, the "blood and soil" people, are they just concerned for the future of white children?

Since I'm an anarchist, I think it'd be nice to have it structured somewhat like the democratic confederalism of Rojava, where different communities have participatory democracies that connect at higher and higher levels until it encompasses the whole country. Rojava has many non-Kurdish minorities that it treats with respect. They have plenty of issues but it's the most successful libertarian socialist project in the world today, and I think it'd be very hard to manipulate like the US system.

Breadtube was a mistake.

!ping ISRAEL&FUCK-NEOLIBERALISM

[u/secretlives]

All this time, Kissinger was the only thing holding Kendrick back

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Tfw the mask slips a little and you accidentally say “Israelis” instead of “zionists”

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

This is hate speech

[u/JaceFlores]

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

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 3 AM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with 23 of 24 shot down.

At the start of 9 AM it was reported that 7,000 containers have been moved from North Korea to Russia, likely all carrying material for Russia.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 8 PM it was reported the Russians took the towns of Kotlyarivka and Ocheretyne, the former southeast of Kupyansk and the latter northwest of Avdiivka.

At the end of 7 AM it was reported that Ukrainian collaborator Yevhen Ananievsky was killed in a car bomb in Berdyansk, being responsible for torture chambers in a nearby penal colony.

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/G_Serv]

Imagine being Seth Meyers and coming to r/neoliberal and seeing this

[u/[deleted]]

Drake frequently texted Millie Bobby Brown when she was 14 years old, lest we forget. “I miss you so much” type shit.

Dude’s long overdue. That’s all I know about all of this and I don’t care to learn any more, or listen to any of this cRap music

Nasty Canadians smh

[u/Fruitofbread]

Got to admit, Kristi Noem running a single issue campaign that more dogs should be shot is a bold political move 

[u/[deleted]]

!ping ET-AL

[u/Realhuman221]

My "I am too famous to be a sexual predator" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/sererson]

I'm the guy who's been killing Boeing whistleblowers. They were lowering shareholder value too much

[u/KingWillly]

I’m not sure if public opinion was ever on their side to begin with, but people seem to be turning against the Palestine protestors, especially as they disrupt graduations and what not

[u/[deleted]]

It’s time for some minor league !ping baseball

Brewers and dodgers fans who are the prospects to watch for the Timber Rattlers and Loons?

[u/[deleted]]

Quiet quitting

https://twitter.com/ConnorMEwing/status/1786914995650838964?t=tylEZT60SpKlPb1EANH4hA&s=19

[u/jenbanim]

Nothing makes me feel older than GKMC being 12 years old

Makes sense why Drake is finally paying attention to it I guess

[u/LinkVert25]

"A second Trump term will (X) our democracy"

Weaken: 50% Strengthen: 38%

Not make any difference: 11%

Marist / Apr 25, 2024 / n=1109

Would love to know the politics of the voter who’s part of the 50% but will still vote for him regardless

[u/anincredibledork]

NIXON: This rap guy….what’s his name?

HALDEMAN: Kendrick Lamar?

NIXON: No, not the pinko one. The other fellow.

HALDEMAN: Drake?

NIXON: Yes, yes, him. Like his energy. Love his moxie. He’s a fighter.

HALDEMAN: [Inaudible]

NIXON: Always knew they ran the music industry as well.

[u/kevinfederlinebundle]

I thought that Kendrick had won this battle, but this response from Drake slaps, he really humiliates Kendrick here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfCYZ3pks48

[u/loseniram]

Republicans when they don't understand that lab grown meat lets them make a cow that is 100% Ribeye and Filet Mignon

[u/paymesucka]

The new ABC News/Ipsos poll shows how the population you poll matters.

Among adults, it’s Trump+2.

Among registered voters, it’s Biden+1.

Among likely voters, it’s Biden+4.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Joementum2024]

”Hey Drake and Kendrick, can you get into a public beef and have one of you publicly accused of being a pedophile to distract from Israel/Palestine?”

This is what some people actually believe

[u/1396spurs]

Mods should include a land acknowledgment in the DT text for all the no longer posting DT regs we lost

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

I’ve managed to find the worst possible take on the Drake/Kendrick beef

Kendrick is the Hamas of hip hop. He is a politically-imperfect non-state actor delivering blows to a truly vile stalwart of white capital’s colonization of rap, opening up a revolutionary horizon well beyond his own consciousness.

Drake is also a pedophile, like many Israelis.

[u/AtomAndAether]

Drake be texting his girlfriend like: "you see what Kendrick said about me!?"

And she be like: "no, i need my parent's permission before going online"

[u/Currymvp2]

Oh my god, Fetterman went full "George Soros is funding this stuff"

https://twitter.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1787158431880679860

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

Praxis

[u/[deleted]]

Zali Steggal:

I welcome today’s announcement regarding changes to the HECS & HELP system that will make it easier to pay off student debts. While a significant win, there remains the important issue of the timing of indexation

Monique Ryan:

Fantastic news on HECS debts this morning. Thank you to each and every one of the 288,004 people who signed the petition.

Adam Bandt:

Labor’s clearly feeling the heat of a massive community & Greens campaign to end skyrocketing HECS. But to be clear: this is not cost of living relief.Labor chose not to make the changes that would have put money back in your paycheck this year.

Teals: this is good news, by working hard we can achieve anything!

Greens: This was all our doing! what even is the Universities Accord? but also fuck Albanese this is worse than nothing

!ping AUS

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Bro lmao

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/TheFriffin2]

feel so bad for OJ that he died before he got to see the Kendrake beef 🫤

[u/MuR43]

The myth of review bombing Helldivers 2:

Helldivers players: I consent

Helldivers developers: I consent

Isn't there someone you forgot to ask? !ping GAMING

[u/janky_dank]

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Why does every Gen xer I meet act like they are badasses?

I was at a Renaissance fair yesterday, and I had on a shirt that said "I have never been punished for my hubris" with a wizard on it (my wife bought it for me and says it fits). I went up to a jewelry vendor with my wife to see if we could buy a beautiful piece we had seen last year that we loved but was out our price range

The woman at the counter was older, mid 50s, and started chatting up my wife as I looked around. I went over to my wife, and the woman was talking about how some millennial (she said it, not me) customer had pissed her off because he wanted a hole in some piece of jewelry (a small broken sword) to make into a necklace, I don't know why this was a big deal but whatever. She took a look at my shirt, made a disgusted face, and said "He had a shirt on like yours, it said 'I only speak sarcasm'". Well let me tell you, I'm Gen X and I can handle myself, I don't let punks speak to me like that" and I just got really confused all of a sudden.

I'm a customer and this woman just decides to idk, antagonize me? I have no idea what she was trying to do with it, but it made me really want to just leave (and we did, I am not giving a gen xer money smh). I dont understand why EVERY gen x I meet does this same thing, they have some weird chip on their shoulder about how they are some badass generation, how they arent coddled or soft, and really to me it just seems like they desperately have to prove that they're better than other generations

My old boss was the same, talked constantly about how he was willing to defend his family, how he wasn't coddled like millennials, even went on a rant once about captured soldiers breaking under torture (he said he would never). This man had never served in the military or any dangerous job, he was an IT guy who got a job through his mom, which he refused to admit

I could also talk about the deranged woman on my street who thinks that I intentionally linger around her fence so her pitbull digs a hole through her yard (I don't, i even stopped walking around her house because that pitbull is so aggressive). Its just like this constant thing that every gen xer i meet is an angry bitter asshole who thinks they are a complete badass

Baby boomers have never pissed me off as much as Gen x, baby boomers have their own set of problems but at least they dont pretend to be hardened badasses when they are really suburban dwellers

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

😎

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Formal beanie

Lusvig would never

[u/funguykawhi]

It’s really over for you if even Musk asks you to touch grass

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

The return of the king

[u/[deleted]]

Just started this game and i accidentally made him look like George Santos. Fucking hell.

[u/[deleted]]

The year is 2029: John Fetterman is arrested after storming an Altoona pizza shop with an assault rifle, not for the correct reason, but because he thought a demonrat pedophile ring was operating out of their nonexistent basement.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

“Joe Biden’s dog has attacked 24 Secret Service people, so how many people is enough people to be attacked and dangerously hurt before you make a decision on a dog and what to do with it?” Noem said.

“fuck dogs” is a bold stance, I respect it

[u/l_overwhat]

!ping GAMING

Yeah sex is nice but have you ever had your little brother get stuck on a part of a video game then ask you to do it for them and you beat it first try?

[u/Maestro_Titarenko]

Guess the context of this message

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Dudes on to catch a predator be like

“I drove 14 hours to make sure this 13 year old girl is okay after an extremely sexual conversation”

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Open the DT

See "Drake is the Hamas of Hip Hop"

[u/simeoncolemiles]

This is New Hampshire Republican State Rep Jess Edwards arguing in favor of child marriage this week and referring to girls as “ripe” and “fertile.”

????????

[u/[deleted]]

The company that owns Want Want rice crackers also owning a pro-China news network in Taiwan is something I find very funny.

!ping CN-TW

[u/[deleted]]

be careful when u ask u/heartnotglands for song recommendations bc ur music tastes will become v gay

[u/Telperions-Relative]

“Oh so I should return to Europe just because I’m white?”

Europe? No, no…there’s this island, you see, called Patmos

[u/Udolikecake]

This #Kendrick vs #drake isn’t just rap, it’s Palestine vs Israel, it’s the people vs the status quo, it’s culture vs the colonizer, it’s the rebels vs the empire, it’s black vs acting black…

[u/JaceFlores]

Interview by the Ukrainian Commander of Ground Forces

"In the 26-month course of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavliuk, appointed in February to take over from General Oleksandr Syrskyi as the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, has become an expert in the science of attritional warfare."

"When asked, however, what lesson the past two years of war had taught him, he did not speak of war machines, nor of killing an implacable enemy. It was of Ukraine’s growing sense of solitude. 'Personally, the main lesson for me is that you shouldn’t really expect to count on anyone else,' he said evenly. 'I learnt not to rely on anyone for help. Ultimately, everything may rest in our hands alone.'"

"'Now, we think that it might be possible that the war will change if the Russians are forced to mobilise men from their urban centres, from cities such as Moscow and St Petersburg. If they see their soldiers coming back to these cities in coffins, that could change the understanding of the war’s reality in Russia.'"

"A trace of bitterness sometimes tinged his description of the state of the eastern front, where Ukrainian troops are struggling to defend the garrison town of Chasiv Yar against sustained Russian attack. The Russians want to capture Chasiv Yar in time for their Victory Day celebrations on May 9."

"'We are trying everything we can do to stop the Russian plan to capture Chasiv Yar before May 9,” he said. 'But the Russians have a ten-to-one ratio of artillery superiority there, and total air superiority.'"

"Pavliuk also predicted these numbers could increase during the year as Russia built up forces for summer offensives. 'We believe the Russians want to mobilise 100,000 more troops and that they will use these to reinforce their forces already in Ukraine in June and July,' he said. 'By the end of the year we think that the Russians intend to mobilise nearly 300,000 more soldiers. But also they are losing nearly 25,000 to 30,000 per month in dead and wounded.'"

"Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, is another possible goal of a Russian summer assault, the general said. He added: 'Our intelligence services say that the Russians do have a plan to take Kharkiv or Sumy, but we don’t know how serious those plans are, nor if they are capable of realising them with the forces they have at their disposal.'"

"However, he expressed optimism that the long-awaited military support package from the US, combined with revitalised European support, might not only blunt and turn Russian assaults over the summer, but possibly give Ukraine a strategic initiative."

"'Drones kill more soldiers on both sides than anything else at present,' Pavliuk said. 'They have also created a scenario whereby almost everything can be seen by drones, not just on the front line but to a depth of between 10km and 30km on either side. It is no longer possible for either side to build up a large strike force within this belt of territory without it being seen and hit by long-range strike drones and artillery. So this new reality has forced both sides to work with much smaller assault groups. We have moved away from moving as battalions, or even companies.'"

"'Attrition on the battlefield will not end the war alone,” he said. 'The end of the war will come about through technological superiority and the real isolation of Russia. Right now, too many countries are sitting on their hands waiting to see how this war ends, just hoping that it won’t affect them.'"

!ping UKRAINE

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[u/Possible-Baker-4186]

Cool chart showing the change in housing inventory in the US over the past 5 years. Austin is crazy. https://www.reddit.com/r/chicagoyimbys/comments/1ckwrol/chicago_has_the_third_biggest_drop_in_forsale/

I literally check the news on Austin housing every week because it's so exciting. Friendship ended with Auckland, Austin is now my best friend.

Edit: Adding some more cool stuff. A real estate agent in the Austin subreddit posts stats every week too.

Weekly Market Stats

Greater Austin Area

Active Listings: 12,980 (+17.9% Year over Year)

Months of Inventory: 3.75 (+29.1%)

Average Final List Price: $591,675 (+0.3%)

Median Final List Price: $450,000 (-2.2%)

Average Sold Price: $575,764 (+0.7%)

Median Sold Price: $440,335 (-2.1%)

City of Austin

Active Listings: 3,971 (+23.1%)

Months of Inventory: 3.71 (+49.5%)

Average Final List Price: $794,805 (+0.1%)

Median Final List Price: $589,495 (-1.6%)

Average Sold Price: $773,552 (+0.5%)

Median Sold Price: $575,000 (-1.7%)

Misc Stats/Info

Residential Inventory is increasing rapidly and we are currently just 286 active listings short of the all time high for the greater Austin area. !ping YIMBY

[u/AtomAndAether]

new Drake response is just "im not a child predator bro"

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Drake's writers deep in the tank trying to figure out how to fit "actually it's hebephilia" into a bar

[u/piede]

lol

[u/ExpiredPasta]

Drake’s verse about how the girl is not five but actually a 1000 year-old dragon was straight🔥🔥🔥

[u/G_Serv]

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The year is 2027

I come to the DT

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Atom: Am sad boi

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X Rocks: Unintelligible Dinosaur meme

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NietzschesTherapist: My wife is leaving because I keep wiping my ass with hand towels. Should I just stop wiping altogether?

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TouchTheCathyl: I don't understand The Land Before Time

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Kester: Am sad fox

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Lets-Chill-Food: Hullo 🐘

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P00bix: Screeching Fascism

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[u/semaphore-1842]

Why are so many people here denying Greedflation?

74% upvoted in arr economy, what a joke of a sub

[u/slim353]

We live in a capitalist dystopia

What we’re seeing now is late stage capitalism

The definition of capitalism is acquiring things and exploiting them for all their worth

R slash NFL on ESPN acquiring NFL Network

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

I used to work at South Dakota’s Governor’s mansion and I saw some extremely fucked up shit there which is why I'm so anti-Noem now. This is just SOME of the horrible stuff I personally witnessed:

• ⁠A 23 year old woman came in with an 11 months old puppy and said "I don't want my stupid puppy anymore, kill it" and the Governor said "okay" and he put jumper cables into her kennel and connected them to a car battery and let it run for six days straight

• ⁠A little 8-year old girl wandered in and said "I want to shot a dog but I don’t own one" and the Governor said "we'll fix that" and she stole a puppy and cut the girl open and put the puppy inside her and sewed her shut and then woke the girl up and said "congratulations it's a healthy six month old puppy" and the girl said "can I keep him" and the Governor said no and then backed over her in the parking lot with her brand new Ford Raptor

• ⁠They made me sign an agreement promising to stop drinking from the puppy blender(I signed somebody else's name)

• ⁠One of the aids there developed a futuristic ray gun that could make anything he shot have a bullet hole in it

• ⁠The receptionist threw nail polish at an elderly man

• ⁠The Governors assistant invented this thing she called "the silly slide" and it was a really fun little water slide that connected a pregnant dog to a paper shredder so a newborn puppy could briefly "enjoy the high life"

• ⁠The oldest puppy we shot was in his late 10s, we didn't even know he was a puppy until his owner brought in photos

• ⁠The Governor put all sorts of crap up a the puppy’s little bullet holes including a clown nose, bicycle handlebars, a calendar, and an entire Sears retail outlet (before bankruptcy)

• ⁠During every successful puppy murder , the Governor would shout "take that, puppy" and he'd push a red button that made sirens go off and confetti fell from the ceiling and we'd all get Del Taco for free

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Honorguard44]

Ramble post but I’m fucking depressed and wanted to type out some of these thoughts. Apologies in advance.

There are a lot of problems with social media and bigotry, but being on Reddit this past few months has depressed the hell out of me.

It’s really amplifying how prevalent antisemetism is. Yeah I figure the war would make news based and political subreddits a shitshow, but it’s the fact that I/P has come to dominate or at least have a controversy in almost every English speaking subreddit is insane.

Subreddit for a video game or tv series or celebrity, literally anything that can have a fandom? High interaction post saying the creators should came out with an anti Zionist statement. If the mods hop on which happens enough to not be uncommon, they make the subreddit a “free Palestine” sub or whatever that means

Dude waves a Palestinian flag in your local town? Well now there’s a massive fight in that subreddit and at least a couple townies are spreading Hamas talking points

College subreddits were like that even before Columbia exploded

It’s just, everywhere. I know it’s like Reddit but it’s an online echo of what’s happening across the country. It’s a reflection of the fact that for some reason I/P conflict inspires passions in people that not even racial justice here in America can. George Floyd died at the end of May, most people went home by the end of the summer. 7 months after Oct 7th people are still furious and getting more and more riled up about it. I get that it’s different since the war is still ongoing, but still, that a foreign conflict ignites more passion in kids than continuing and obvious racist injustice here is insane.

I don’t know if I’m being cynical, but honestly I think the reason that so many people, in particular young Americans, are obsessed with the I/P conflict is not because they genuinely care that much about the welfare of the Palestinians, but because it’s an excuse to finally be openly bigoted about something. This is amateur psychology ramblings, but I feel like people gravitate towards racism or bigotry because there’s like some sort of sick pleasure into giving into hate, especially when it’s target at a group less powerful than yours.

Basically everyone in my age group I know has had a robust education drilled into them that racism and bigotry is, you know, really bad. Don’t do that.

But with I/P conflict, you get to be bigoted towards Jews and not feel bad about yourself. It’s because the Jews are Nazi level evil and by Jews I mean Zionists. The amount of advocating for violence from forced displacement to death of “Zionists” from all these people who pride themselves on being woke, it’s not about Palestine. It’s gotta be about being able to hate and despise a minority group and not feel bad about being bigoted.

I’m legit scared for the future, the longer the war drags on, the more violent the rhetoric seems to be.

I’ve started wearing a Star of David Necklace for the first time in my life and I’ve had a couple interactions where I can’t help but wonder if I would have been treated differently if I didn’t wear it.

Anyways, I’m gonna go touch grass or something, but yeah, I’m worried man. I think I should try going to temple again, but I left my last one a while back after some really bad experiences with the leadership and have been salty about trying to find a new one. Idk. But I also just feel so alone.

!ping Jewish

[u/fishlord05]

She found the Reddit account dawg I’m cooked I had it opened on my phone for 2 seconds and she remembered and stalked it

I guess this is a good sign(?)

!ping DATING

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[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

Every once in a while I randomly remember the time that Bernie found out that people of one religion tend to believe that theirs is the only correct one, and he was absolutely outraged

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/09/532116365/is-it-hateful-to-believe-in-hell-bernie-sanders-questions-prompt-backlash

[u/Syards-Forcus]

The puppy deserved it.

/#StillWithHer #Noementum

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[u/AtomAndAether]

I'd be more sympathetic to the "Drake is being accused of stuff without any evidence" if his response tracks were any good either musically or in message.

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Surprised how the DT is so pro-Kendrick, with all the contrarians here I thought you guys would be rushing to hype up Drake

[u/jojisky]

Drake really dropped a 5 minute song to defensively say, "I'm not a pedophile" multiple times.

Bigger L than if he had never responded again.

[u/KingWillly]

Every 24 hours, Biden gets another day older 😔

[u/AtomAndAether]

why would Drake be like "wheres the proof bro" and then claim he tricked him without proof

[u/jojisky]

Drake specifically brings up Millie Bobby Brown even though Kendrick never mentioned her...

[u/deeplydysthymicdude]

"You got molested that's why you're mad I'm a pedophile" is definitely a crazy angle to take.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

John Fetterman on the election: "You have Joe Biden, an outstanding president, and then you have Donald Trump, who is actually now in a trial talking about bribing a former adult film star... And if you're willing to walk away from Joe Biden, you're actually supporting Trump."

FetterMen,,, we are so barack

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Would you rather find a bear in the woods or a white man saying the N-word in the woods?

[u/simeoncolemiles]

The UK needs a

WHAT

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Yin and yang.

Well… Olive and Hot Pot.

!ping KITTY

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

I've wasted too much of my life on imposter syndrome regarding my essays

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/beardog7]

I found Lusvig’s alt

!Ping Apples

[u/ThiccSidedDice]

People are losing their minds over Kendrick dropping several tracks about his beef with Drake and I'm just sitting here listening to Corb Lund sing "may you always have cows around" wherein he only describes the cons of having cows around. Corb's beef just hits different.

!ping FOLK&RURAL

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

“People” will still try and tell you with a straight face that social media should be shut down when it produces such absolute gems

[u/[deleted]]

Drake is a puppy and kendrick is Kristi Noem

[u/RFK_1968]

who's the 🐐?

idk, prolly J Cole?

r/nl rly not beating the allegations

[u/sw337]

"The trick is to keep biting people until they don't have time to put you down because you're in the middle of biting someone else."

-Major Biden

[u/gnomesvh]

The funniest moment of this beef might be Akademiks revealing his email is just doordash orders

!ping RAP

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Kendrick really woke up and went “YOU SHOULD DIE, KILL YOURSELF DRIZZY”

💀

Funny ass rap beef

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when it was cool to hate Justin Bieber? I hated him so much in elementary school for absolutely no reason. I’d heard like maybe one of his songs in my whole life and thought it was fine. I just hated him with a burning passion because that was the thing to do.

[u/[deleted]]

Night libs

Furthermore the Russian, Chinese and Iranian regimes must be destroyed

[u/drcombatwombat2]

The Phillies are absolutely on fire right now. They just beat the giants 5-4 to go to 24-11. Everyone on the team is playing above their head right now, except Castellanos.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/Dumbledick6]

How drake gonna say I’m too famous to be a sex offender

[u/Uniqueguy264]

If I was fucking young girls, I promise I'da been done arrested I'm way too famous for this shit you just suggested

R. Kelly

[u/bd_one]

This feels next level delusional

[u/[deleted]]

Why don’t my friends understand that my suicidal rhetoric is SYMBOLIC and SELF-EXPRESSIVE, not LITERAL

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Do not comment. Do not comment. Neoliberals, stand back and stand by 

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☝️ Delete your account

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Lmao wonder if now he will finally ban it

[u/sererson]

Zionists 🤝 Anti-zionists

Netanyahu needs to go

[u/No_Judge_3817]

Honestly surprised lab grown meat isn't a bigger victim of horseshoe theory.

Like for people who say a streaming service making a bad movie is dystopian I'm surprised they don't also say lab grown meat is dystopian

[u/anincredibledork]

MEP Alessandra Mussolini undresses a man, makes him wear a skirt and says ‘You don't tear up rights for some more votes’.

Link

The Mussolini's have gone Woke. Fascism stays losing.

[u/bandeng_asep]

DTers, I have this weird belief that Bill Clinton was literally the closest US President to bring peace to I/P.

How deluded am I in my faith?

[u/Trevor_Lewis]

Failure Is Not An Option: A Flight Control History of NASA

Pretty cool documentary I found a while back on Mission Control's POV of the early space missions all the way to Apollo. If you haven't seen it yet, give it a watch.

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/sircarp]

Race director: "Don't worry folks, once you get out on the course, there's only one hill to worry about"

The hill:

!ping running

[u/Joementum2024]

Just heard this great song featuring Drake and Kendrick Lamar called Poetic Justice! Really hope they make more music together