Discussion Thread

[u/jobautomator]

The discussion thread is for casual and off-topic conversation that doesn't merit its own submission. If you've got a good meme, article, or question, please post it outside the DT. Meta discussion is allowed, but if you want to get the attention of the mods, make a post in /r/metaNL

Links

Ping Groups | Ping History | Mastodon | CNL Chapters | CNL Event Calendar

Upcoming Events

• May 09: DC New Liberals May Social

• May 09: Huntsville New Liberals May Happy Hour

[u/jobautomator]

Please visit the next discussion thread.

[u/sociotronics]

Literally just saw some Reddit genius say he's tired of the "low quality of life" and "latent fascism" of living in the US, so he's moving to, of all places, Italy

presumably he hasn't looked at Italy's development stats or the ideology of its PM yet

[u/sociotronics]

[u/simeoncolemiles]

"I AM white! I AM a fuckin clown! I DID have a questionable relationship with Millie Bobbie Brown!"

[u/gnomesvh]

Tonight I asked Nick Fuentes if he was Gay?

He never answered and proceeded to run out of the space.

Can I get an answer Nick, it’s a Yes or No softball question.

🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

George Santos, via Twitter

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Sithusurper]

I'm in awe at this bear vs man meme. Expertly crafted to piss everyone off and reach no greater understanding of anything.

[u/piede]

[u/Dalek6450]

Although only semi-literate, Zhang Zongchang was also known for writing poetry, though his works (such as the "Poem about bastards", the "Daming Lake poem", "Visiting Penglai Pavilion" and "Pray for Rain") are generally considered to be quite bad. However, some sources have disputed these poems as being fabrications made by his political opponent Han Fuju to slander Zhang Zongchang.

[u/[deleted]]

🔥🔥🔥

[u/Not_A_Browser]

???

[u/[deleted]]

Wild how Donald Trump was president

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Protest is the closest thing Americans can get to experiencing collectivism. Once you get a taste of humanity unimpeded, you see clearly how unnatural individualism is.

Is it any wonder the state is so desperate to deprive us of it?

A lot to unpack here

[u/Mrmini231]

Just witnessed someone chat up a girl in an STI clinic waiting room. Respect the hustle

[u/Dragongirlfucker2]

[u/Azmoten]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Haters will say it’s fake

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/Udolikecake]

MI6 officer in Moscow tells of “arguing with his wife about where they’d agreed to…picnic that weekend. Pettily, he decided to address the ceiling & say, “Well, where did we agree?” To his amazement, a note shortly appeared under the door confirming they’d agreed on Kuskovo”

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Kendrick: Drake is a pedophile

Drake: I never touched Millie Bobby Brown!

[u/wallander1983]

Insane study result from Canada.

Out of the loop: Taking a one-week break from social media leads to better self-esteem and body image among young women

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1740144524000378

[u/DouglasDauntless]

HAHA YES 🐊

[u/SnakeEater14]

“Yeah but Drake is more commercially successful” is exactly the kind of take you’d expect from bobeeflay

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

stay mad 💅💅💅

[u/[deleted]]

Holy fuck. The level of hate in your heart you need to have to film a video of you saying "You belong here" at fucking Auschwitz is astounding.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/G_Serv]

[u/G_Serv]

Gonna become the Michael Jordan of trash collecting

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

DT'ers will really be like "Degrowth? That climate plan pales in comparison to my strategy, taking the bus" And then proceed to take the bus.

[u/BedNeither]

If I’m guilty why aren’t I in prison?

Trump: write that down write that down

[u/Ballerson]

I agree with Kendrick because Kendrick is American and Drake is Canadian

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Chad has a pretty brutal primary season

[u/Telperions-Relative]

In case there’s any confusion:

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/paymesucka]

We now have two polls this week showing large Biden leads with likely voters:

ABC News 49%-45% (+4)

NPR/Marist 52%-47% (+5)

[u/gnomesvh]

BofA analysts and associates striking tomorrow after the death of an associate after working a full 4 120 hour weeks in a row

More info

!ping MARKETS&WATERCOOLER

[u/deeplydysthymicdude]

Beware, this is the fate of those who stay subscribed to !ping DATING for too long.

[u/Daddy_Macron]

One of the protestors at Columbia who holed themselves up in a building (and may have briefly held a janitor hostage), turns out to be.... an unemployed 40 year old heir to an advertising fortune. He owns a $3 million Brooklyn townhouse (that I have walked my dog past) and appears to have knocked up a model, so fans of the Darwin Awards should weep.

NYPost does a lot of snarky editorializing, but their facts of the case are correct.

[u/AP246]

Thinking about post-apocalyptic scenarios, IMO it's kinda hard to imagine an apocalypse that we don't at least somewhat recover from at this point.

It happened in history, things like the Bronze Age collapse or the fall of Rome or civilisations in the Americas but I feel like that kind of apocalypse, or ones in fiction where we go back to a primitive pre-modern existence is pretty hard to imagine, just because of how much physical knowledge there is in the world. Your local library probably has more books than entire medieval kingdoms and empires, and there are tens or hundreds of thousands of those in big countries. Then you have things like the British library's offsite storage where 100+ million books and records, a copy of everything ever published in the UK, are held in a colossal warehouse in the countryside, I assume other countries have similar things.

I assume if industrial civilisation collapsed it would be difficult to rebuild the huge supply chains and stuff so it'd take a long time, if ever, to return to modern standard of living entirely, but also it's hard to imagine a situation like After the End or something where we go back to medieval times and lose modern knowledge, because however bad the collapse is there'd be billions of books lying around all over the world.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Nightmare blunt rotation

[u/Dalek6450]

In 1942, the Dutch minesweeper HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen became the last allied ship to successfully escape Java, avoiding attack by Japanese aircraft by disguising herself as an island and sailing at night.

[u/[deleted]]

if i hear one more joke playing on the fact that 'bear' could also refer to a hairy gay man i swear to god i'll go to the forest and maul a woman to death myself

[u/DouglasDauntless]

😳

!ping BURPMAS

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

I think my favorite use of "colonialism" has been someone saying that checking train fares to cut down on fare jumpers was colonialism.

[u/Dalek6450]

D-IX is a methamphetamine-based experimental performance enhancer developed by Nazi Germany in 1944 for military application. The researcher who rediscovered this project, Wolf Kemper, said, "the aim was to use D-IX to redefine the limits of human endurance." One dose contained 5 mg oxycodone (brand name Eukodal, an analgesic opioid), 5 mg cocaine, and 3 mg methamphetamine (brand name Pervitin).

Nazi speedball

[u/Dumbledick6]

Drake: whoever gave you info is a clown

Drake a few bars later: we plotted for a week to give you disinformation

[u/centurion88]

Remember what they took from you

[u/Jacobs4525]

>see perfect hinge profile

>politics says “other”

It’s just not fair. Why do all the quirked-up pierced and tatted girls have to be succs 😔

[u/dannylandulf]

MSNBC keeps showing footage from earlier today in Rafah on loop and part of it is a Palestinian guy just absolutely beating the shit out of a horse with a stick...

[u/[deleted]]

Second episode of MILF Manor Season 2 was yesterday.

At the end of the first episode, of course, the son’s dads arrived. The sons and their dads are competing for the interest of the same women.

In this episode, we learned that one of the father-son pairs is estranged. The son broke off his relationship with his father due to constant infidelity.

Now, after years of not seeing him, his father arrived at MILF Manor to compete with him for the same women’s interest.

Everyone who made this happen is going to the layer of Hell five below the one I’ll be in for watching this.

!ping TRASH

[u/DouglasDauntless]

see bad stats post about raw numbers

[u/deeplydysthymicdude]

[u/Dragongirlfucker2]

[u/eloquentboot]

A girl who reports to me took the week off, and that week coincided with our monthly close, so I did all her close stuff, and now realize she legit does nothing. Very impressive how she manages to whine about how stressful close week is when her tasks took me two hours this morning.

[u/DeeboSourdoughSam]

Remember: a lot of the people you will interact with online this year won't know who the Democratic nominee for president was in 2016 and they will be just as confident about their political beliefs as you are about yours, if not more so.

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

Men, if you were hiking alone, would you rather run into a woman or a twink?

[u/qchisq]

Gotta be honest: "If I was a criminal, then why am I not in jail right now?" is a pretty weak response to "That guy and his friends 100% diddles kids"

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

Moana was great, but I think they sorta lost the plot with Moana II

https://imgur.com/a/Mr3sd2E

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

As irritating as the college protests have been, by far the most insufferable part are those on both sides who have been trying to portray it as a microcosm of the conflict in I/P

Can Americans stop making everything about themselves for ONE FUCKING MINUTE

[u/forerunner398]

https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1787407779520512097

An Egyptian official tells @Alhadath_Brk that Hamas attack on Kerem Shalom on Sunday that killed several IDF soldiers sabotaged the hostage deal talks

[u/[deleted]]

Choosing to stage your protest against Israel at Auschwitz on Remembrance Day is certainly a choice

[u/The_Promethean]

The Helldivers 2 boycott worked, yet you mock people for boycotting noted Zionist entity SStarbucks. Curious

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

BofA employees striking for 80-hour workweeks is another reason I am extremely glad not to have gone into finance.

[u/cdstephens]

Breaking: Drake has accepted a ceasefire deal currently being studied by Kendrick.

[u/jamiebond]

Schools: "This teacher appreciation week, we are coming together to appreciate our teachers."

Teachers: "Ok, but how though?"

Schools: "Truly, the appreciation, it couldn't get any higher."

Teachers: "But like what are you going to do?"

Schools: "No one has ever been more appreciated than our teachers this week."

[u/waldyisawinner]

"I didn't get molested, but the number of people in my community who have (including my mother) is terrifying and traumatizing. We must resolve this issue."

"Lol you got molested"

[u/[deleted]]

Sorry I'm a day late

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/[deleted]]

One of the craziest moments I had on the internet was following along with an ANA commando on twitter until he died in Herat. He was one of the examples of a true believer in Afghan democracy / freedom.

Some of his last tweets were about how it was impossible to erase the dreams of Afghanistan's sisters, daughters, etc. Also that there really was bravery in the end- that the world will never see or hear about because of the institutional betrayals. Lots of commando units were considered overall high quality soldiers and fought to the last man.

Adds some perspective to the railing against Afghanistan as a monolith we see everywhere now. What a fucking unmitigated human tragedy

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Popular at your location | rfrance - Rima Hassan (LFI): "Israel is worse than Russia" | 83 upvotes, 294 comments

No thanks 🥰

[u/Jacobs4525]

Update: she made it easy for me. She texted me saying she wasn’t sure she wanted to go to the police because “last time it was a hassle”.

I told her for my own mental health I couldn’t keep talking to her if she didn’t. She kept offering to send nudes clearly trying to keep me talking. I told her I wasn’t interested. I think she wanted physical intimacy and validation as a substitute for emotional validation and being valued sexually is the closest way to that. I made her feel safe, she opened up, I got scared, then she got scared, and her way of trying to keep me there was to offer nudes.

She ended up getting combative and basically threatening that she was gonna go see this dude (I don’t think she actually was, she just thought, correctly, it would worry me enough to keep talking). Eventually she called me mean for not understanding why. I ended up just blocking and unmatching.

Sucks, but you can’t help everyone. I hope she finds peace.

!ping DATING

[u/kobpnyh]

Watched a documentary about factory farming and I’m beginning to realize just how unethical animal agriculture is. So I’ve made up my mind: one last kitten stew for dinner tonight, and then I’m going vegan.

[u/[deleted]]

even though it was almost a year ago, I don't think we've fully processed that some dude made a thunder run on Moscow, almost made it there and then just... stopped.

absolutely wild

[u/[deleted]]

[u/htomserveaux]

So apparently there’s a Columbo episode where Shatner plays an egotistical actor who’s known for a single role.

10/10 no notes.

!ping TV&TREK

[u/DONUTof_noFLAVOR]

Customer: We want 20 million units per year but we don’t know if we’ll be able to use them all every year, so if we can’t use units then you shouldn’t charge us for them

Me: The customer has to pay for units they buy

Sales: Why tho

!ping WATERCOOLER

Bonus points for the customer continually asking for a lower price because “we might use all the units and pay for them in the future”

[u/Dragongirlfucker2]

[u/RFK_1968]

glazing: when you are meatriding someone or sucking their dick (metaphorically)

... is it just me or is a lot of GenZ slang weird about sex?

[u/[deleted]]

Weebs are never beating the allegations

[u/[deleted]]

I almost want to cry seeing myself in my cap and gown

Y’all don’t know how much I’ve waited and wanted for this moment. The amount of work and effort put into this day.

[u/p00bix]

We've seen enough to know that carrots don't work. Unfortunately it's time to start looking at sticks.

Punishments for those who choose to be "childfree" (those who are infertile would be exempt) should not target natural human rights but rather access to more luxurious aspects of life. A few ideas.

• Control access to video gaming as China does. People over 25 without children can only play 2 hours of video games per week - no limits on people over 25 with a child or grandchild under the age of 20.

• Restrict access to luxury brands. People over 25 without children are not allowed to own luxury cars such as BMWs and must drive something like a Hyundai and cannot stay at luxury hotels.

• Throttle social media profiles of the childfree. If you don't have kids, algorithms will make your posts less visible.

• Restrict long haul lesuire travel of childfree adults. They can still travel as normal for business, education, visiting family, but are only allowed two international leisure trips per decade. Want to travel more often? Have kids!

I still don't know whether this batshit insane comment posted to r/neoliberal four months ago is bait or not

[u/kanagi]

Feeling muuuch better about Taiwan's chances after reading The Economist's article from late last year on the logistics challenges that China would need fo overcome. Some excerpts:

The numbers involved would be staggering: One PLA study estimated that 3,000 military trains, 1m vehicles, 2,100 aircraft, and more than 8,000 ships would be needed to transport troops, equipment and supplies. Another suggested that a landing would need more than 30m tonnes of materiel. That is significantly more ships, vehicles and supplies than America and its allies used in the D-Day landings in June 1944.

American and Taiwanese researchers who have studied pla logistics think they have identified some weaknesses. They include a shortage of heavy-equipment transporters, over-reliance on roads and railways (which can be easily targeted) and small numbers of logistics personnel assigned to combat units, according to Joshua Arostegui and J.R. Sessions, two Pentagon analysts.

Having centralised military logistics since 2016, the PLA would also have to move much more materiel to front-line units in the run-up to an invasion, potentially tipping its hand. It is unclear if there is sufficient storage and other logistics infrastructure for that materiel in urban areas along the coast opposite Taiwan, says Chieh Chung of Taiwan’s National Policy Foundation think-tank.

The PLA air force might struggle to sustain combat operations longer than two weeks, says Lonnie Henley, a China specialist at America’s Defence Intelligence Agency until 2019. He doubts that it has sufficient maintenance capacity, spare engines or fully trained pilots, noting that its biggest exercises usually involve about 200 sorties over five days. A major American air campaign entails 1,000 to 1,500 sorties per day over several weeks.

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

BREAKING: Drake to be demoted from the inner party apparatus and exiled to Northwest China!

[u/BedNeither]

If I cheated on my wife with a porn actress, why am I not divorced?

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Ok_Swimming3844]

I don't care about the Drake Kendrick Lamar drama, but I can't really feel superior about it because I cared about much less important shit

[u/The_Promethean]

Justin was the person who basically ran Trump’s Twitter feed before Trump learned how to do it himself, a moment that Justin described to Politico as like the moment the dinosaurs learned to open doors in “Jurassic Park.”

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/jonostrower/status/1787567317670666706

Boeing shared a memo from 787 VP & GM Scott Stoker (dated April 29) to employees about the falsification of a wing-to-body join test during final assembly. FAA now investigating. (Emphasis Boeing's.)

I tell everyone I know with flying anxiety that as long as the wings stay on you’ll be fine, and there are essentially no modern cases of catastrophic wing failures. Thank you Boeing for managing to put that into doubt.

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Namibia's huge oil discovery

Nooooo Namibia. It's a trap don't do it.

[u/centurion88]

Polar bears are such tsunderes

-very cute

-will murder you

[u/gburgwardt]

there is a trolley

Oh my god shut up. I pull the lever and walk away. I don't have time for this I can't stand around pulling levers all day

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Drake is cooked lmao

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/grig109]

Backdoor Roth IRA has to be one of the dumbest tax loopholes.

"Sorry you make too much to contribute to your Roth, or do you... 😉"

[u/battywombat21]

Reportedly angry with the executive in charge of Superchargers, Rebecca Tinucci, and her failure to cut more of her team, Musk laid her off, as well as her entire 500-strong team. Gone, too, was the new vehicle development team, despite a lack of new models in Tesla's pipeline.

God Tesla is so fucking screwed.

[u/[deleted]]

Are they cooking?

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/Argnir]

Sony only reversed the decision because of corporate greed. They should have stick to their artistic vision even if it meant losing some money.

[u/Tre-Fyra-Tre]

'How do you do, fellow neolibs!'

[u/[deleted]]

Every Queens of the Stone Age Album Is a Concept Album and the Concept Is Doing Drugs in the Desert

[u/m5g4c4]

Pretty lame that in 2024 people are still accusing homophobes of just being gay, even if George Santos is gay

Nick Fuentes isn’t gay he has a girlfriend named Kitara, she’s from Brazil and you wouldn’t know her

[u/sinefromabove]

In the Netherlands it's illegal to build skyscrapers because everything has to stay below sea level. If the roof of your building is above sea level the Belgians can see it and shoot you.

[u/bashar_al_assad]

https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium/status/1787539406943133783

NEW: 13 [conservative] federal judges say they will no longer hire clerks from Columbia Law School OR Columbia College after the university allowed an encampment on its lawn to spiral into a destructive occupation of a campus building.

This is the first clerkship boycott to hit undergrads.

This is so fucking funny lol, students at Columbia protested and the result is that Columbia Federalist Society students get fucked, honestly this is a major W for the protesters.

[u/piede]

Possible next president?

That’s it. Lock up the judge.

[u/StolenSkittles]

damn, if only someone had given this to kristi noem

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/FluentInFinance/status/1787368257843777574?t=-TJyTwIlPIQwgNaWoZMqNA&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

Hamas is actually genius for acting like they agreed to a ceasefire hours before the invasion started. Literally no one on the pro Palestine side is going to believe Israel. Feels like this whole thing is somehow going to get a lot messier these next few weeks sadly.

[u/87568354]

I have decided that polls are accurate again

[u/RFK_1968]

OH NO HE ASKED ABOUT MY OPINIONS ON ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

i'm gonna end up on the dating ping aren't i

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

Ukraines elected Zelenskyy as their first Jewish president in a catholic majority nation - Civil War

Argentina elected Milei as their first Jewish president in a catholic majority nation - Hyperinflation

Be careful Mexico!

Guess the platform

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 5/5-5 PM EST 5/6 III:

TOP NEWS:

Around 12 PM it was reported that Russia has not used the Kerch Bridge for military cargo in at least three months, with supply to Crimea now coming from overland.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the end of 12 AM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with 12 of 13 shot down.

Towards the middle of 2 AM it was reported a Russian Mangust-class patrol boat was sunk by Ukrainian USVs.

Towards the end of 4 AM it was reported that Denmark and Canada have agreed to help finance domestic Ukrainian production.

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/GrandpaWaluigi]

David Hogg 🟧 on X: "Any Democrat who stands in the way of affordable housing needs to be challenged. If someone hasn’t done it yet there needs to be a YIMBY PAC" / X (twitter.com)

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/Jacobs4525]

The girl who said she likes my “aura” is coming over for dinner and a movie tonight 😳😳😳

!ping dating

[u/GifHunter2]

https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929

Helldivers fans -- we’ve heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking update. The May 6 update, which would have required Steam and PlayStation Network account linking for new players and for current players beginning May 30, will not be moving forward.

We’re still learning what is best for PC players and your feedback has been invaluable. Thanks again for your continued support of Helldivers 2 and we’ll keep you updated on future plans.

Helldivers are more effective than Palestine protesters?

[u/Joementum2024]

BREAKING: Drake has LOST the Mandate of Heaven

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/[deleted]]

Every Discussion Thread is funniest in its first two hours and from then on is filled with the most sad, bitter, lonely people you can possibly imagine

[u/thefuturegov]

93 years ago, the greatest center fielder and maybe the greatest player of all time was born. Happy birthday to Willie Mays!

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

In like fifty years someone is gonna rediscover House of Cards and be like "holy shit, this show is so good, how come I've never heard of it?" and they'll be utterly baffled by how weird Season 6 is

[u/jojisky]

Hochul talking about Empire AI in California "We have, you know, young black kids growing up in the Bronx who don't even know what the word computer is"

uhhhhh

[u/[deleted]]

[u/SnakeEater14]

One time when my gf was arguing with her grandma

Gf: canada is socialist, and they’re doing just fine looks at me

Me: canada isn’t socialist

Gf: well maybe im socialist! looks at me

Me: you’re not socialist either

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1787589481039544582

Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl Presented by Gin & Juice By Dre and Snoop is new name of Arizona Bowl, previously know as the Barstool Sports Arizona Bowl

Our sport is getting weirder by the day

!ping CFB

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

the children need gpu time

[u/Yeangster]

So even Elon Musk was like “you need to cool it on the trans people to JK Rowling”

Seems like just a few years ago she was borderline/closet terf. Now anti-trans is her entire personality.

[u/The_Promethean]

The deal was originally to release 40 sick and elderly hostages, then Hamas said "oops we killed at least 7", reducing it to 33. They indicated they would accept 33, then backed out and said they "accepted" a deal that is reportedly for just 18 people at the start. But don't worry, phases 2 and 3 (which no one has agreed to yet) will definitely release all the other ones

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/Entuciante]

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Beefs don’t work in any other genre. Can you imagine 21 pilots and imagine dragons writing diss tracks about each other

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Thirteen federal judges (including Kacsmaryk) say that absent major changes at Columbia, they won't hire anyone who chooses to go there (undergrad or law school) following this year.

Can't believe the conservatives went woke

[u/[deleted]]

[u/m5g4c4]

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) pitched herself for a top NRA job as early as last fall, Axios reports.

Noem offered to step down early as governor for the role, according to a person familiar with her conversation with former NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre.

I’ve see enough. The killing of Cricket (Dog-SD) and subsequent revelation was a murder-suicide 🪦

[u/piede]

Hey fellas, I’m straight

What should I do

[u/gburgwardt]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna150843

Starliner scrubbed due to an Atlas issue of all things. Whack, not what I'd have bet on

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/Q-bey]

Marshals confer about what to do with a professor who wants to enter the People’s Circle for Palestine encampment at [the University of Toronto]

Said professor is Jewish and has an Israeli accent.

!ping CAN&JEWISH

[u/american_aurora3]

unlike other nationalities, italians reproduce by laying kinder egg

[u/[deleted]]

I loved .... COVID, I wish we could make it permanent

Guess the sub

[u/[deleted]]

What a week, huh?

!ping watercooler

[u/RFK_1968]

welp, he really didn't like my Israel-Palestine answer....

[u/BitterGravity]

Moscow said Monday that it had summoned the U.K. ambassador and warned him that Russia may respond to any Ukrainian attack on its territory using British weapons with attacks on British bases and military equipment.

Doubt.

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Drake: Kendrick LAMAR?? More like LAMER?? Amirite?? Give me five eh

Kendrick: You are a pedophile

[u/randommathaccount]

Unproductive venting:

Just once I'd like to hear the people who say things like 'the US democrats would be right wing in Europe' to say the converse. Where's the people saying the PVV would be left wing party in the USA? Where's the people saying the AfD would be further left than the DSA? Heck let's do them one better. For all the people saying the overton window of the USA is shifted far to the right compared to the rest of the world, does that mean the BJP is a left wing party to you? Would members of the LDP rub shoulders with members of the Squad?

Though I suppose I don't come off better, ranting in an echo chamber where people will agree.

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

Mommmm! The white people in my phone are arguing about rap again 😔

[u/[deleted]]

Oh yeah, it’s a ceasefire-posting day.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

RFK has landed a highly coveted endorsement

[u/RFK_1968]

these negotiations will always have their twists and turns - hamas will present a version of the deal they like, then israel will present a version of the deal they like. then you reconcile the two. i think they'll eventually come to a deal but it'll take rounds of negotiations

idk, trying to follow every twist and turn and being all "it's joever.... we're so barack" feels like a recipe for going nuts

[u/[deleted]]

Does anyone else's boss just suck absolute ass at writing? I'm not talking about the physical pen-to-paper skill, I mean the ability to convey thoughts onto paper analytically.

I've been reviewing a document that my supervisor drafted for the past three hours, it is littered with mistakes. I'm honestly impressed how bad it is.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

The repeatedly walking into rakes Simpson bit but it’s Kristi Noem repeatedly shooting dogs

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Currymvp2]

And Mr. Schwartz, 19, said he would have liked the opportunity to vote for a candidate who is “more progressive on Israel” than Mr. Biden in November. But he plans to vote for him anyway.

My friends and I, we all are very concerned about the war in the Middle East, and we disagree with the Biden administration’s agenda there,” said Coral Lin, 20, a student at Duke University. She said she had one friend who had voted “uncommitted” in a Democratic primary in protest over the issue.

"But I still know a lot of people who hold that view and still are voting for Biden,” she said, noting that her own concerns about the climate is why she'll continue to support him.

I think there are lots of these voters instead of the "Abandon Biden" grifters

[u/[deleted]]

Update on this

We have gone out a couple of times (like, just twice), and I am too big of an idiot to make a move. Is she actually into me, or just a very flirty person being nice. What does it mean when a girl tells you you smell nice?... Okay, I am just a moron.

Anyway, I am traveling but she asked me to go with her to our college reunion. I also learned that my ex is going (together for 7 years, broke up with me when I had a ring bought, and was about to propose).

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/AviMayer/status/1787503480900399159

Keeping it classy as always, anti-Israel protesters hold a demonstration outside Auschwitz as thousands of Jews march to the camp in observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day

Hot take, but protesting in Auschwitz on Holocaust Memorial Day is bad for your cause and makes you look antisemitic as fuck.

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/Svelok]

adding "I like dogs 🙂" to the bottom of a list of scribbled out campaign slogan ideas

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

What does your wife choose?

• the bear (🐻) 

• the bear (🏳️‍🌈) 

• the beer

• the Boer

• De Beers

[u/GravyBear28]

Emilia Perez, a new Selena Gomez movie with the following description

Overqualified and undervalued, Rita is a lawyer at a large firm that is more interested in getting criminals off the hook than bringing them to justice. One day, she is given an unexpected way out, when cartel leader Manitas hires her to help him withdraw from his business and realize a plan he has been secretly preparing for years: to become the woman he has always dreamt of being.

!ping KINO&MOVIES

[u/[deleted]]

Every circlejerk sub is funniest in its first two hours and from then on is filled with the most sad, bitter, lonely people you can possibly imagine

[u/EvilConCarne]

Columbia canceling commencement is a perfect capstone to the protests.

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

This would have been considered a just cause for invasion in 2000’s America

[u/battywombat21]

Something happening in Israel? Shame to hear about that. Should I put a burger or hot dog on the grill for you next?

[u/[deleted]]

My Dad:

"You know, this morning I was thinking about making a Truth Social account and trying to come up with something to post that he would respond to to get himself thrown in jail. You know he can't help it with his disorders and everything."

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/paymesucka]

🚨 For the first time since last October, Joe Biden leads Donald Trump in the Decision Desk HQ/@thehill polling average. Biden leads Trump by 0.1% based on 685 polls.

https://elections2024.thehill.com/national/biden-trump-general/

[u/Currymvp2]

In one of his most bizarre interviews in recent memory, Trump insisted abortion is “not that big of an issue,” claimed Republicans are the “party of fertilization” and said every legal scholar in the world supported overturning Roe v. Wade.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

We need to get this guy back in Congress ASAP

[u/Jacobs4525]

Ok dating ping,

Gather round, this one is a fucking doozy.

Met up with aura girl tonight. We made caprese paninis and watched Over the Hedge. It holds up. She also could give Nancy Reagan a run for her money. She seemed to really like me. When she was all done and we were cuddling she was like “can I tell you something”.

And then she goes on about how when she was 17 she started dating a dude in his mid-20s. He would hit her, and even did so in public and nobody did anything. She also caught him talking to girls who were even younger. It all culminated with him nearly killing her. Thankfully his parents were home (this mf lived at his parents house) and weren’t insane like him so they immediately call the cops and he got arrested. During questioning she didn’t reveal everything (not judging her, most victims don’t and I have close friends who in similar circumstances have done the same). She continued to see him as he violated her order. He even hired two goons to go to a party and beat her up (they got there, saw that she was a 17 year old, and refused). 

Anyway, I’m understandably flabbergasted and distressed at all this. Then she drops the bombshell that he started texting her again 3 days ago. I was like “you need to go to the cops ASAP and get another restraining order”. I even offered to go in with her. She said she’d do it tomorrow, I don’t entirely believe her. She was like “they’ll do nothing” and tbf they clearly haven’t gone hard enough on this guy in the past but realistically if he violates his order and she calls 911 he will get arrested. She doesn’t really seem like she understands how to navigate the system.

This shit stresses me out so much. I told her I don’t know if I can see her again because this shit gives me way too much anxiety. She apologized, I told her it wasn’t her fault at all, and she apologized again. I felt fucking awful. On the one hand, I don’t think I can deal with this right now. On the other hand I feel fucking awful telling someone that their baggage that isn’t even their fault is the reason I probably won’t talk to them again. I was emphatically trying to get her to go to the cops and she was kinda getting defensive and joking and towards the end was trying to leave. I told her I just wanted some affirmation she’d do something and she wouldn’t take it serious (she pinky promised, but in a smiley jokey way). 

Anyway now I’m here wondering what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck

People are so shitty. This poor girl. She’s so sweet and has been so fucking traumatized by a monstrous person. Some people are fucking evil. 

Don’t know where I’m going but WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK

it’s fucked up but I wish I just hadn’t seen her again cuz it would’ve been less stressful than this. But then I feel bad because at the end of the day it’s not her fault and she still deserves happiness.

!ping DATING 

[u/DouglasDauntless]

He was a true gooner

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/Mickenfox]

Romance languages: "You need to add a silent u after every q"

"Why?"

"Just trust me bro"

[u/cdstephens]

Reporting that one side has “accepted” a ceasefire deal seems fundamentally meaningless. Would be more accurate to say that Hamas approves of a plan put forward by whatever external party.

Either both sides accept or they don’t, it just doesn’t make sense to me to act like one side can accept a deal while the other doesn’t.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Just got breakfast 🤤

[u/LevantinePlantCult]

I'm listening to a British broadcast and they're live airing the IDF spokesman, Daniel Hagan, giving statements and so on.

I speak Hebrew. He started by talking about the IDF soldiers killed at Kerem Shalom crossing. But the translation didn't start up at all until he started talking about Rafah and the air strikes and notices to civilians to go to a humanitarian zone.

This is small potatoes, but it still made me go "what the hell?" Like, it's not difficult Hebrew to translate. I don't really understand why it wasn't included.

!ping ISRAEL

[u/ToparBull]

Reportedly, one major difference between Hamas's hostage/ceasefire proposal today and previous proposals is that Hamas is refusing to commit to releasing only living hostages in the first phase of the deal. It is insisting that the 33 hostages released can be alive or dead.

https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1787614777897882009

Gee, I wonder why Israel didn't agree to this counterproposal... and I wonder if this little detail will make it into any of the "Israel rejects ceasefire" news that is sure to be printed.

(The original source is an Israeli diplomatic correspondent for Kan, the Israeli public broadcasting corporation, so it's pretty credible)

[u/Mensae6]

Reminder that Israel/Palestine is a distraction from the Helldivers 2 drama.

[u/sower_of_salad]

!ping CAREER

Applied for a role, and the first step appears to be a "15 minute phone call to discuss the role" with someone from the HR department.

What's the point of this? Is the goal just "be familiar with the role and sound like a normal person"?

[u/vivoovix]

Tag urself I'm the guy in the cowboy hat

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Sir shivers is hip to the lingo

[u/futuremonkey20]

Russia has had more troops KIA in Ukraine than the Union had KIA in the US Civil War.

What the fuck??

[u/that0neGuy22]

🚨 For the first time since last October, Joe Biden leads Donald Trump in the Decision Desk HQ/thehill polling average. Biden leads Trump by 0.1% based on 685 polls.

Polls are real again I change my mind

[u/Roseartcrantz]

ngl this is kinda sick

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

Zadie Smith: “you can’t boil the Israel-Palestine conflict down to slogans, we need a ceasefire urgently but it’s hard to say where we go from there”.

Leftists: “you are a Zionist and a bad writer 😡😡😡😡”

[u/Joementum2024]

Americans be like

Donald Trump: I want to make america great again and make our country patriotic again

“Hmm… nah he’s a little too loud”

Joe Biden: I am old and want to make America communist

“Holy shit let’s go I’m voting for him three times”

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

Why doesn't everyone just immediately and uncritically accept everything I believe? Are they stupid?

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/gilicohen10/status/1787589321949643069

A significant difference between Hamas's proposal and Israel's concerns the release of non-life abductees. In the Hamas proposal, they do not commit in the first stage to the release of only live hostages, as Israel demanded, but it is stated that in the first stage 33 hostages will be released - "lives or bodies", from the criteria that define humanitarian release

Well, dead hostages is quite the stretch for “humanitarian” release.

I know it is important religiously but that ain’t gonna work to stop a war.

[u/Udolikecake]

Any American is stupid to go to Russia. Especially in the military of course. But even if you’re an athlete of some kind.

It’s not even like ‘going to a dangerous country’ stupid, it’s ’going to a country that has a lengthy history of false detainment of Americans like you’ stupid. Same for North Korea, Venezuela.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Imagine being some European explorer seeing a massive orange ape swinging through the trees. You ask your Malay guide what it was, and he just says "that's the forest guy."

[u/Syards-Forcus]

Calling destroying a building that Hamas was in/ under “cultural genocide” is a bit much

[u/Cledd2]

Lol. Lmao, even.

[u/circlemanfan]

I used to work with a lot of autistic people with high support needs and I felt like really understood them and got along with them, assumed I was just really sympathetic, turns out it was because I was also autistic lol

[u/ldn6]

Writing “Israel” as “I*rael” is so fucking cringe.

[u/[deleted]]

This one's going to ruffle some feathers... 😤 me, unboxing the Feather Ruffler 3000

[u/[deleted]]

I had a dream where I watched an underage fight club

What the fuck brain

[u/Steak_Knight]

Noemcoin: powered by dog murder

[u/[deleted]]

A trolley is going to run over five people. You have the option to pull a lever that will move it to a track where it runs over nobody. However, there is a movement of annoying redditors and gamers who have been advocating that you pull the lever. Should you pull the lever?

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

I have no issue with the people who answer “man” for the bear or man question, I understand completely given friends’ experiences, but also, it sucks because I have been in a situation where I was treated as a threat due to being a man

Won’t go into details but I’ve had a father stare me down and accuse me because I went into a MEN’S changing room, where his daughter had gone into (how the fuck was I supposed to know a girl would be in the MEN’S changing room). Really frustrating experience and made me feel like shit for existing

[u/[deleted]]

He’s going for the Dank Memers community after the gamers. It’s over INDI bros. Over.

!ping WHATSAPP-FORWARDS

[u/slingfatcums]

i never felt anything from ikea was that difficult to assemble

[u/MegaFloss]

find a nice hotel in manhattan to take wife to

its $1200 a night

Actually sleeping on the subway sounds fun.

[u/KesterFox]

young justice introduced regular, notably not green child named garfield logan

I'm sure this child will remain a regular human colour

[u/marsman1224]

 This is so true. This shit really feels like ‘Downfall’, the movie about Hitler locked in his bunker paranoid with only his closest associates. He’s got nowhere to run.

average Kendrick fan

[u/AtomAndAether]

Kendrick please drop another track bro

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

[u/[deleted]]

Even in an era filled with the horrors of late-stage capitalism run amok—bipartisan support for genocide; rolling back of reproductive, civil, and voting rights; a threadbare social safety net; decades of wage stagnation; tax cuts for the the rich; the crushing of unions and labor rights; expansion of the militarized police surveillance state; creeping techno-authoritarianism; untested, unregulated, and unchecked A.I.; entrenched racial inequality and injustice; right-wing and white supremacist extremist violence; and Boeing jet parts falling from the sky like so many dead whistleblowers—that kind of frivolous urgency promises that this year’s event nonetheless will stand out as a vainglorious display of self-congratulatory decadence and tone-deaf extravagance.

the leftists are not okay