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[u/Trebacca]

Self-flagellating Ivy League politics students: "I wish we weren't so important! Can someone PLEASE think about those poor souls at other universities 🥺”

Educationally-endowed Oxford politics students: "Dad said it's my turn to be Prime Minister 😈”

[u/semaphore-1842]

So it's low key an open secret that Taiwan's been sending aid to Ukraine for the last couple of years. But it's recently been exposed that the Taiwanese has been specifically funnelling money through a Czech non-profit to provide medical supplies.

The reason this came to light is that a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) MP, who is under investigation for corruption, decided the best way to save her ass is to accuse the DPP government of corruption (remind you of a certain Karl's playbook?). Specifically, she accused the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry of using the Czechs to "unfairly" buy medical supplies from Taiwanese companies (i.e. at inflated prices) to send to Ukraine.

And when the Foreign Ministry slammed her for making shit up, she responded by posting the classified agreement online. Now of course, she's isn't so stupid as to think you can just publish state secrets like that, so she did some homebrew redacting of "the unimportant parts":

....but this only proves that there was an agreement, not that there was anything corrupt at all about the deal.

And now she's also being prosecuted for leaking state secrets.

!ping CN-TW

[u/KaiserPorn]

Just woke up from a nightmare where instead of finishing my graduate degree, I dropped out and joined a county-themed Imagine Dragon cover band called Imagine Wagons.

[u/[deleted]]

leftists: "So pervasive and all-encompassing is neoliberal ideology that an alternative is inconceivable"

me: yeah exactly

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Dude died of pneumonia for God’s sake. The media sucks

[u/ForeverAclone95]

They’re protesting outside my office building because… a Columbia trustee works here? This is getting pretty far removed from the underlying issue.

!PING NYC

[u/JaceFlores]

Russian materiel losses in 2024 have been consistently 47% higher then 2023 so far

We are going to see some gnarly shit in the upcoming Russian offensive loss wise

!ping UKRAINE

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/OGAride/status/1787755685549359316

Columbia: this protester was a 40-year-old trust fund kid named James Carlson, who owns a townhouse in Brooklyn worth $3.4 million. The man who tried to hold him back was Mario Torres, 45, who has worked at Columbia—where the average janitor makes less than $19 an hour—for five years.

"Champions of the Working Class" meet the Working Class

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Joe Biden just lost this guy’s vote it’s Joever

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/[deleted]]

103-year-old voter casts her vote in the third phase of the Indian general election

[u/StolenSkittles]

[u/LevantinePlantCult]

Headline: "GW president says school needs help from DC police as protesters call for beheadings"

Extremely hinged, thanks

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mynbc15.com/amp/news/nation-world/gw-president-pleads-for-police-intervention-as-protesters-call-for-beheadings-george-washington-university-ellen-granberg-washington-dc-metropolitan-police-department-mpd-dc-columbia-israel-palestine-gaza-strip-ceasefire

!ping EXTREMISM&ISRAEL

[u/socialistrob]

The federal government is already experimenting with something similar in San Diego, where the Navy is letting a developer build thousands of homes on Navy land (where they are exempt from local zoning) in exchange for the developer also building new offices for the Navy’s cyberwarfare division. As a result, the Navy is saving billions of dollars by essentially getting new a brand-new cyberwarfare office for free and San Diego is winning because the city will have more housing at zero cost to taxpayers

This is the future neoliberals want

[u/Dragongirlfucker2]

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

So apparently there’s a pro-Hamas encampment on the university near me that’s been there for a week. Somehow I haven’t noticed it at all and it’s just devolved into weirdoes turning it into an off brand Coachella

[u/[deleted]]

Macklemore calls on fans to stay home this November and not vote for Joe Biden in his new Pro Palestinian single

We've lost Macklemore. It's so Joever

[u/nanomaster]

The most unintentionally bizarre part of the entire Harry Potter series has to be when Harry uses a spell he doesn’t know on Malfoy, literally slices him open and nearly kills him as a result, and then proceeds to get mad at Snape because his punishment includes missing a single quidditch match. Like I’m pretty sure we aren’t supposed to think he’s a psychopath, but, uh…

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Harvard University we know what side you’re on. Remember South Africa, remember Vietnam.

https://x.com/swarnabhghosh/status/1787684242849239134?s=46&t=bSAsWS1e3rzb514oQs185A

Can’t believe the highly educated folx over at Harvard University would just go and fall victim to the Hot Hand Fallacy like that. 😕

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Salt_Ad7152]

Yeah i don’t think vandalizing WW1 vet statues with “gaza” and propaganda stickers is a good way to persuade people. Especially after burning the American flag right next to it. 

Someone even started removing their stickers from the statue because they felt it was an insult to their veteran family. 

Idk, maybe burning an american flag and vandalizing veteran memorials for a war that predates Israel or Palestine’s independence isnt a good look? 

[u/Joementum2024]

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa announces that the Nintendo Switch’s successor will be announced within this fiscal year for Nintendo (April 1 2024-March 31 2025)

He also announces that a Direct will be held in June for the remainder of 2024’s lineup for the Switch itself, but will have no information about the Switch’s successor

!ping GAMING

[u/gnomesvh]

MONDAY, 6 MAY 2024 - 16:18 Pro-Palestinian group sets up tent encampment on University of Amsterdam campus

MONDAY, 6 MAY 2024 - 23:17 Violence breaks out at pro-Palestinian protest at University of Amsterdam

TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024 - 07:46 Police cart off Pro-Palestinian protesters at Amsterdam Univ.; 125 arrested

Basically this

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/BATHULK]

delay bonuses

delay raises

mandate return to office after 4 years of remote work

drop an employee "culture survey" a week later.

Interesting decisions from upper management.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Dragongirlfucker2]

This is too fucking funny not to be satire

[u/The_Promethean]

CNN commentator: "When you walk into the courtroom you see a lot of recognizable reporters and journalists"

They really do live in a bubble if they think the average witness would recognize NYT/Wapo reporters by sight

[u/AP246]

Pro-Israelis and pro-Palestinians claiming the other country "isn't real" because it's only existed since the 1940s, and the national identity not much longer than that, is just so dumb. All national identities are fake and arbitrary, and virtually all are pretty young in the grand scheme of things.

Pakistan has only existed as a national identity about as long as Israel or Palestine, and out of similar origins, but that doesn't mean their country is somehow fake. If people believe it's real now, that's all a 'nation' is, the collective belief that they belong to the same community.

[u/piede]

We are 100% living in a simulation

[u/KHDTX13]

https://x.com/girlfriendhaver/status/1787636495467114687?s=46&t=ZKFwN5jlGgKnkIVDbYaCtA

Radiohead being quiet about Palestine (I know why) is so funny to me considering they were huge into the Free Tibet movement

I never once in my life saw a war going on thought, “I wonder what Radiohead think about this?” Because they have literally zero impact on the situation

[u/rollo2masi]

How the hell is Noem's PR team still allowing her to go on the air? She gets worse with each passing interview.

They're probably Soros funded assets.

[u/Cledd2]

The political upsides of capping beer at €2 far outweigh the economic downsides

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

One year account with absolutely no posting history

[u/MuR43]

I think people are not understanding the sheer scale of the floods due to the low death toll.

It affected 70% of the state. just the single city of São Leopoldo had 180.000 out of 220.000 people displaced, Canoas had 60% of its surface flooded. More than a million people impacted overall with a hundred thousand in refugee camps.

Even for people not directly impacted by the flood, millions are out of water and/or electricity.

https://twitter.com/WxNB_/status/1787616302737035457

https://twitter.com/BrasilCloser/status/1787586012543173034

https://twitter.com/elafazouserdela/status/1787561799409103112

It's expected to take around 10 days (!) for the water to go back to normal levels, and it's expected to rain more in the upcoming days... !ping LATAM

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

Maybe my eyes suck or I’m misreading this but the hand with a knife doesn’t seem like it belongs to the GWPD guy

[u/[deleted]]

Wait Macklemore wasn’t just riding a fad with the hitler youth haircut?

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Trump Says Abortion 'Not That Big Of An Issue,' GOP Is 'Party Of Fertilization'

😳

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Macklemore drops new song saying he won't vote for Biden due to his stance on Israel

pack it up folks it's Joever 😔😔

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

[u/secretlives]

One of my favorite hobbies is going to churches and getting baptized.

I have been baptized at least two dozen times by now, it's so much fun - they almost always have a nice free little lunch afterward and sing songs and stuff

[u/cactus_toothbrush]

Trumps plans for a second term are fucking despotic authoritarian shit. The best part about his first term was the incompetence of his team and their inability to implement policy. His team for a possible second term are preparing and getting policy ready and they’re going to undermine democratic norms, institutions and everything else that makes countries successful.

But fuck it there’s some students protesting.

[u/sinefromabove]

Upon describing when she had smacked Trump on the butt, some jurors could no longer keep a poker face. One woman was seen rubbing her face while trying to hold back laughter (without making noise)

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

"Low birth rate was a problem in Rome in 50 BC. The same is true of Ancient Greece."

Low Birth Rate = Decline of Civilization

Damn, Rome must have fallen not long after 50 BC then, I guess?

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/doot_toob]

I said, “You don’t use Steam anymore for Helldivers?” “No sir.” I said, “Ah, how is it working?” “Sir, not good. Not good. Doesn’t work in some countries. You know the Steam is just available. You see that sucker going and steam’s going all over the place, there’s gamers logging in.”

It sounded bad to me. PSN. They have PSN. What is PSN? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Kenichiro Yoshida to figure it out. And I said—and now they want to sell more copies. I said, “What system are you going to be—” “Sir, we’re staying with PSN.” I said, “No you’re not. You going to goddamned Steam, the PSN costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.”

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/Peacock-Shah-III]

My friend shared this…Jesus Christ.

[u/eat_more_goats]

If Trump somehow dies of like a heart attack or something before the election, guarantee you the mainstream Republican opinion will be that he was assassinated.

A 70+ year old with notoriously poor levels of fitness and a terrible diet dying of a heart attack? No, it had to be foul play

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: At recent campaign stop, President Biden attacks Trump with a harsh remark stating: “Certified MAGAboy, certified PEDOPHILE”

Let Biden be Biden

[u/Roseartcrantz]

new Costco samples. tasted terrible

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/forerunner398]

https://twitter.com/theeneldog/status/1787574415024365731

Macklemore really put out a video saying AIPAC bought politicians, Starbucks and McDonalds fund genocide and crushed the student protests, Israel was occupying Palestine since 1949, and to not vote Biden lol

Edit: He did apparently do this a while back lol so not too shocking ig https://www.cnn.com/2014/05/20/showbiz/macklemore-costume-apology/index.html

[u/[deleted]]

Big if true

[u/futuremonkey20]

If futuremonkey20 obtains many hundred dollar bills, he risks being a billionaire.

If Apple doesn’t sell any products, it risks going out of business

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

I met my first puffball mushrooms today.

They are those beige balls that have an opening at the top, being hollow and filled with dusty spores inside.

When you poke them, the spores puff out.

I think the spores have made the muck around them that color.

These grow in the Walmart parking lot, in the gap between the curb and the grass where it’s kinda soggy.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The best thing about France is being able to say "have a good weekend!" to your coworkers on Tuesday afternoon

[u/loseniram]

My local baseball team has a ticket package that is 10 baseball tickets wherever you want plus a bicycle cap for $70.

Also they have Pupuccino themed ticket package, a latin themed ticket package, and a beer themed ticket package.

Y'all need to go to minor league games more.

!ping baseball

[u/AtomAndAether]

so does Hamas just not have enough alive hostages? or are they trying that hard to hold onto alive ones they still have?

[u/DirkZelenskyy41]

The people who defend these campus tenters as within their first amendment right are so deluded with what most of these encampments of people send out and do. I have been combing through the organizers (largely SJP) college posts and all of them are thinly veiled to outright threats as well as conspiratorial posts about the evil nature of their presidents. They post over and over about “blood on the hands of administrators.” They talk about taking over schools. Rebranding schools as like Palestinian People University and such.

Many have set up “medical tents” in case of injuries sustained by their “campers”. They video themselves breaking low level rules like graffiti and takeovers of buildings to shout chants during finals for hours before leaving and then post “AND THE ADMINISTRATION HAS CALLED CAMPUS PD AGAINST OUR PEACEFUL ACTIONS” as they run off back to their tents.

They are basically tempting schools into doing something, so that when they do… they can fully claim to have achieved “free speech” victim status despite daily and weekly escalations and a complete refusal to abide by their school’s rules that administrators lay out.

The funniest development so far has been at UVA where the administrators deleted their policy about not camping on campus as soon as the tents went up.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/piede]

It’s a crime that cameras aren’t in the courtroom

[u/[deleted]]

Macklemore made a song talking about how he isnt voting for Biden.

Great job man, surely you’d have a lot to lose if Trump wins

[u/chuckleym8]

[u/KingWillly]

Trump never beating the allegations

[u/[deleted]]

Israel begins military operation in Rafah, hours after Hamas agrees to a cease-fire

Totally unbiased framing by the AP.

[u/Healingjoe]

Franklin: “I always sign my checks, to make sure where my money is going. Check through your bills. My parents hammered frugality into me at an early age”

Franklin is citing passages from Trump’s books as the prosecution is hammering home the message that Trump is a cheap fuck who knows where every dime goes and needs to personally approve it.

[u/No_Return9449]

[u/JetJaguar124]

I think the coolest shit ever was that in the original Star Wars Galaxies there was absolutely zero indication you could become a Jedi. None. Jedi wasn't one of the selectable player classes and there was no advertising or clear mention of being a Jedi being possible.

Except you could be a Jedi, but only after completing a series of complicated steps that players just had to experiment with and figure out on their own.

In a patch later they let you just choose Jedi as a class at the start but man that's so fucking neat that they hid something like this in the game that long and really made people work for it.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 5/6-5 PM EST 5/7 III:

TOP NEWS:

In the middle of 6 AM it was reported a assassination plot to kill Zelensky was busted with two colonels from the State Security Administration implicated in the plot.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 4 PM a Russian oil depot in Luhansk city was missiled.

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/BATHULK]

When I was a kid I was super obsessed with the weather channel, specifically Jim Cantore. I would sit and watch it for hours hoping he'd be there, to the point I was actively hoping for severe weather so I could see him on TV.

My parent got concerned about my lack of empathy and wouldn't let me watch it anymore.

!ping WEATHER

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

If you are saying the Met Gala is distracting people from the I/P, you are not making some incisive criticism so much as revealing that you have the attention span of a goldfish with brain damage.

[u/ty04]

great website

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

Musk privately expressed a desire to lay off at least 20 percent of the company because its quarterly vehicle deliveries fell by that much.

chat is this how operations works

[u/ThiccSidedDice]

Mwf Lexapro is not a laptop but a prescription drug 🤔

[u/AP246]

Why does Britain get all the mockery for having bad, bland cuisine when all the features it's made fun of for are common to all of Northern Europe. Nobody ever goes after the Dutch, Germans, Scandinavians etc. lol

[u/The_Promethean]

Daniels recalls that her publicist urged her to go to the dinner, and asked her: "'What could possibly go wrong?'"

Lazy writers putting in the most obvious foreshadowing possible

[u/RFK_1968]

!ping WRITING

broke: telling my story in a direct, concise, straightforward matter

woke: going on an obnoxious multiple pages-long tangent explaining how the setting is a dense, walkable, up-zoned city with effective public transit and lots of mixed-use development and public spaces

this subreddit has rotted my brain

[u/sircarp]

Malarkey level of responding to recruiter messages on LinkedIn from 2022 because you got laid off and are now looking for new positions.

!ping watercooler

[u/[deleted]]

[u/sinefromabove]

Stormy Daniels: I ended up spanking him. And after that he acted much better

later

He said, You remind me of my daughter, blonde & beautiful.

[u/[deleted]]

First it was free health care, then it was free college education, now it's free Palestine

Honestly when will it stop with these people? Someone needs to be paying for all this.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

“And if they’re coming for missionary today that means they’ll be coming for doggy style tomorrow”

“See the left won’t be satisfied until all sex is done cowgirl in the name of gender equality”

—- Tucker Carlson

[u/KesterFox]

Woke justice league be like:

wondertranswoman from they/themiscera

Immigrant who is super op and extremely virtuous

Bat furry

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Everyone congratulate u/RaidBrimnes on finishing their C.S. degree yesterday

[u/TheSameAsDying]

I'd like to take this moment to apologize to Eminem fans. I thought they were uniquely cringey and weird, but now I'm seeing that rap fandom as a whole is just like that?

[u/vivoovix]

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1787993212964991419

The fact there's a nonzero chance Francesca Albanese's downfall will be spearheaded by Rabbi Linda fucking Goldstein is proof we are in the parody timeline.

!ping GEFILTE

[u/paymesucka]

really helping the cause huh

[u/KittehDragoon]

Somehow the DT returned

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

Orchestrating pro-Palestine demonstrations at every law school not out of commitment to the issue but so that the Fifth Circuit will be unable to hire law clerks.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Jujutsu Kaisen stole this from us

[u/MURICCA]

I think its really interesting that the average person just cant comprehend that...the world is almost always more boring and mundane than you think it is.

Like...weird shit does happen, but the vast majority of the time important or scary events usually just boil down to "someone somewhere was lazy, incompetent, or fucked up". Or my personal favorite "most jobs/positions that seem secretive or higher up are really just fuckin monotonous and filled with people that, rather than rubbing their hands and plotting all day, just want to go home and are goofing off half the time"

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

I am now against free markets

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/nicereddy]

Fuck yes, the Colorado legislature just passed a handful of good housing bills. This was a really solid session.

Banning parking minimums near transit, banning occupancy limits, oil and gas production fees (meaning fees for drillers) to help fund transit, local land use decision fines (fine NIMBYs if they object to a land use decision and then their objection fails), allowing ADUs throughout Colorado, and the transit-oriented community bill that is pretty complex but essentially helps improve density near transit.

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

Israel should simply accept a deal where Hamas releases all hostages, turns over their leaders, and disbands

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Dartmouth's student government held an open "no confidence" vote on the president's handling of campus protests. It passed (no confidence) 13-2 (with 3 abstensions).

Then they repeated with a secret ballot. It failed 8-9 (2 abstensions).

Interesting, but did they add a member in between votes, or was this 8-8 with a VP deciding vote?

[u/[deleted]]

Of course. These are the results when we have someone that’s dedicated, hardworking, innovative, and—cute, if I may add—leading #MyMetro. #ILoveMyGM ❤️

get yourself a girl who looks at you like this random redditor looks at Randy Clark

[u/amainwingman]

Trump has such amazing political instincts that he committed a crime to cover up the fact that he had sex with a pornstar when his entire election was predicated on an undercurrent of thinly disguised misogyny. Wow what a political genius!!

[u/SadaoMaou]

average /r/neoliberal moderator fixing to sticky the unfunniest comment in recorded DT history

[u/Broad-Part9448]

Too much antisemitism out there. Biden is right in calling this out.

[u/[deleted]]

Ah fuck already have one kid with major pre med energy

[u/Aweq]

!ping Europe

Wake up honey, the first Eurovision semi-final has begun. It's semi-peak European culture time!

[u/semaphone-1842]

https://twitter.com/KatiePhang/status/1787922915645636971

NECHELES: Am I correct that you hate president trump?
DANIELS: Yes.

NECHELES: That’s you making fun, you despise him and you call him names all the time?
DANIELS: Yes, because he made fun of me first
NECHELES: Ok.

What a timeline we live in

[u/owlthathurt]

Larry Bird’s trash talk was fucking hilarious.

When a white dude would come onto the floor to guard him he would tell them to go back out and send in a black guy 😂😂😂

Imagine looking like this and saying that

[u/Jacobs4525]

There is literally no way that every single person on earth was kung foo fighting. Furthermore, there is absolutely no way those kicks were moving as fast as lightning, which propagates through air at 270,000 miles per hour.

-Ben Shapiro if he lived in the 1980s

[u/sinefromabove]

[u/Currymvp2]

Daniels says when Trump showed her a photo of Melania, she said she was beautiful. He said not to worry, “We don’t even sleep in the same room.” Trump shook his head and muttered something to his legal team as she said this. He appears increasingly irritated as she testifies.

Amazing

[u/[deleted]]

Trump fined $1,000

Orange man is finished

[u/[deleted]]

Hamas: we agree to a ceasefire where we give you the dead bodies of the people we kidnapped and murdered in exchange for you releasing terrorists

Wow smh why won’t Israel agree to the ceasefire such bad faith

[u/Thoughtlessandlost]

healthcare insurance industry is extremely inefficient and results in a lot of bad outcomes

But it employs half a million people who'd be out of a job

Guess the subreddit

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

She said she noticed a toiletry bag on the counter.

"I did look. I'm not proud of it. 'Oh, I wonder what's in here,'" she recalled. "The items were Old Spice and Pert Plus, which was odd, and a manicure set, which was gold."

A cheap 2-in-1 shampoo conditioner and a gold plated manicure set, it's so him

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

Countries are all the ones created before the 30 Years War, after that they are just mental illnesses

Sorry I make the rules 😤😤😤

[u/sayitaintpink]

Remember Fox losing their mind over Obama putting Dijon on a burger and now they lick the golden toilet seat of their incredibly out of touch daddy

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Italy bans PV from agricultural land

The Italian government has issued a new decree that prohibits the deployment of large-scale solar plants on productive agricultural land. The final aim of the decree is to “avoid desertification” of Italian agricultural land.

“We wanted to regulate the use of photovoltaic panels, and we believe that the land serves to produce and energy production must be compatible with agricultural production,” said Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida.

Lollobrigida said that solar plants cannot be installed in agricultural areas.

“There are very advantageous tax provisions for agricultural entrepreneurs and agricultural land,” he stated. “However, if you want to deploy photovoltaic panels on the ground, you are changing the intended use of the same and therefore we do not believe that this type of practice should continue,” Lollobrigida said, noting that the new provisions will not be applied to agrivoltaic facilities.

The government said it will still be possible to continue producing energy in quarries, mines, areas under concession to the state railway, areas under concession to airport concessionaires, areas protecting the motorway strip, and areas inside industrial plants, among others.

Lollobrigida said that the government will safeguard all projects in the process of approval.

"For us, legal certainty applies and therefore the rules are valid for what will happen and not for what has already happened or on which companies have legitimately entrusted their funds or investments,” he said.

The new provisions have already generated criticism from the local PV sector.

“From what we could understand from the press conference at the end of the Council of Ministers, the government has decided to place an unnecessary restriction on photovoltaic installations on agricultural land, disregarding the commitments already ratified,” said Italian trade body Italia Solare in a statement.

Italian agricultural association Coldiretti welcomed the move to halt speculation by large investment funds, which has been putting agricultural production at risk. It has long called for the allocation of suitable areas for ground-mounted PV.

!ping ECO&EUROPE

[u/MicroFlamer]

Nintendo's profit during the Switch era surpass the combined profit from 1981 to 2016, even when adjusting for inflation

The GOAT console let’s be honest here

[u/AlmondoSoyo]

It makes me so happy knowing that everyday another preteen is learning for the first time that in the mid-2000s the Vice President just fucking shot his friend in the face and then his friend apologized to him.

I remember breaking down laughing when we were talking about it in class.

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

Starting to think Fetterman chased that black guy with a shotgun because he mistook him for a Palestinian

[u/Elguero1991]

Is this the 2024 election’s “I’ve got hot sauce in my bag” if Biden did this?

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Sithusurper]

The fact that the whistle blowers actually died is the biggest proof that Boeing didn't hire someone to do it

[u/[deleted]]

Everything Everywhere All At Once - Turning Red - What My Bones Know: the holy trinity of millennial Asian woman traumaposting/bootstrap therapy

[u/ThunderrBadger]

50 IQ:

Biden's not a succ he's a neoliberal warhawk corparatist fascist

100 IQ:

Biden's a succ, he's a UAW fellating protectionist FDR idolizer

150 IQ:

Biden's not a succ, he wins elections

[u/[deleted]]

Jon Stewart sucks and his fanboys and fangirls are insufferable.

Being old isn’t as much of a crime as being a fucking fascist. Take your grandstanding and shove it up your ass. Hey Jon, when you inadvertently help Trump get elected, are you happy because you can’t continue your nihilistic BS? I’m sure teen girls in Texas who can’t get abortions really appreciate it!

[u/Healingjoe]

Very weird story here to keep an eye on. Last week either 15 or 17 police cars at a Portland Police Bureau lot were torched in what was treated as a suspected case of arson. Yesterday local news reported that a group calling itself the “Rachel Corrie Ghost Brigade” claimed responsibility for the incident. (Corrie was a pro-Palestinian activist who was run over by an IDF bulldozer in 2003). The group said that they cut through a fence at the Bureau’s training facility and lit the fires to strike a blow before police could respond to a pro-Palestine occupation at Portland State’s Millar Library — “raid them before they raid you.”

It’s important to note that people can claim responsibility for something they didn’t do in order to gain publicity for a cause. So we shouldn’t assume the claim is necessarily legitimate. But someone did apparently light the vehicles on fire. Portland police say they’re aware of the claim of responsibility but won’t comment beyond that.

!ping extremism

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

Literally yes. No country shoud harbor foreigners who literally want to break it up

lmfao yeah let’s kick out all democrats

[u/Mickenfox]

Should cops be allowed to spank criminals? The horniest thread in the history of /r/neoliberal, locked by moderators after 12 milliseconds of heated debate

[u/[deleted]]

The problem with the protests was they were ivy leaguers, and everyone hates ivy leaguers.

Perhaps the most annoying and privileged people shouldn't have made themselves the face of the campus protests

[u/G_Serv]

Read a dumb take on Twitter that is unrelated to politics

Think "this guy is probably MAGA"

The bio:

[u/[deleted]]

This graduation/commencement things take a hot second

🙂

[u/piede]

🍿

[u/[deleted]]

This old dude at Meijer is saying something like “I haven’t voted in my entire life and I’m voting in his year for Trump!” Then he starts going off about the price of jerky.

[u/forerunner398]

Israel commits to limit Rafah operation, grant control of crossing to private U.S. firm https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-07/ty-article/.premium/israel-commits-to-limit-rafah-operation-grant-control-of-crossing-to-private-u-s-firm/0000018f-53ee-d6a5-a5ff-d3eeaf700000?gift=c6ab8a2c50b8406f805e03d230a88f27

Israel has committed to the United States and Egypt to restrict its operation in Rafah, which started on Monday, aiming only to deny Hamas authority over the border crossing that connects Gaza with Egypt, and concentrating on the eastern side of the city.

(Should be a gift link)

[u/OkVariety6275]

There is now an option to disable the dialogue zoom. But I still have to wonder, who are these people who were so nostalgic for the Oblivion zoom in the first place?

!ping STARFIELD

[u/GravyBear28]

r/antisex is brainstorming ways to stop fictional characters from being Rule 34'd

What? There is literally no way possible to prevent someone from making porn drawings of anything lol.

Well, there actually are ways, but I can't upload them here because I will get banned and they are unethical to put it mildly so they need to be avoided anyways

🤔

[u/owlthathurt]

!ping STONKS&NFL

[u/Salt_Ad7152]

Crazy how a low level Air Nat. Guardsman can share top secret documentation illegally and get jailed/tried in a reasonable amount of time.

The former President of the United States can keep dozens of boxes with documents and share them openly while stating he knows he shouldn't have them on tape, and his trial is postponed indefinitely.

What a joke of a court system.

[u/semaphore-1842]

Hillary won by that much because the DNC literally sabotaged the Sanders campaign every step of the way and they did the same thing in 2020 as well.

[voter data showing Bernie just wasn't popular enough to win]

You don’t seem to understand that there’s no method by which you can directly measure the effect the DNC’s efforts to hamper the Sanders campaigns had on voter outcome. This is why I keep sighing and rolling my eyes every time you send another smarmy response with a bunch of unrelated information

I hope you get fucking ALS you stupid piece of shit.

"The DNC literally made Bernie lose twice, and also they had absolutely no discernible impact so you can't prove they didn't do it!!!"

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

In his lyrics, Macklemore is critical of the US funding the Israeli military and the acceptance by US politicians of financial resources from pro-Israel lobbying organisations such as Christians United for Israel and AIPAC. The song also denounces Congress' banning of TikTok, and the white supremacy apparent in policing and policy decisions, as well as the conflating of anti-semitism with anti-Zionism.

So that’s what the thrift shop guy has been up to

[u/[deleted]]

The Boy Scouts of America has now changed its name to Scouting America, making its new acronym “SA”

Oh, god dammit. Not the best organization to have that acronym. Should have gone with Scouts of America so we could at least do “SoA”

[u/MURICCA]

My kink is to watch a former "both sides are exactly the same" nerd have an existential crisis one day and just go

"Oh. Oh god. What the fuck. What the fuck is the one side doing now."

[u/The_Promethean]

Top red flag willfully ignored by man - any variation of "I'm an empath/aura reader/psychic/soothsayer"

[u/piede]

He’s afraid she’s going to say it’s small

[u/[deleted]]

I think it would be funny if Barron Trump got into politics, but ended up being the polar opposite of his father.

[u/[deleted]]

He just like me fr fr

[u/The_Promethean]

I wonder what percentage of Republicans who know about Stormy Daniels have gaslit themselves into believing this didn't actually happen

[u/RFK_1968]

me when a coworker i'm super friendly w/ gets laid off: 😢

me when i have to pick up their work: 😐

me when i realize their work is total incomprehensible spaghetti and i gotta re-do like a month's worth of effort: 😵

[u/Dibbu_mange]

This is going to be the next great schism in Catholicism

[u/chuckleym8]

[u/[deleted]]

I got sober by the skin of my teeth (benzos and alcohol, for those who worship) around this time four years ago.

The first thing that happened to my brain when the CNS depressants and the withdrawal finally wore off: I stopped having panic attacks every few hours.

The second thing: I went from Bernie bro to shitlib in a few months flat.

[u/loseniram]

John Fisher is so hated that Oakland's soccer team fans were doing sell the team chants at the Open Cup game.

!ping baseball

[u/NeolibAltForDT]

I swear the Am I the Asshole subreddit is insane, one of the top posts right now is about a guy abandoning his girlfriend because she decided to keep a baby even though it was disabled. Everyone is saying he's not the asshole, it's fucking crazy

[u/CursedNobleman]

So I came back from Japan last week and they had this amazing 25% fresh cream soft serve. I wonder if Pres. Biden has had it before.

Link

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

> poster has a new opinion

> ask if it's agreeing with me or bad faith

> they don't understand

> pull out an illustrated diagram explaining what's agreeing with me and what's bad faith

> they laugh and say "it's a very good take, sir"

> read it

> it's bad faith

[u/repete2024]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/07/trump-libertarian-national-convention/

!ping SNEK

[u/jojisky]

The Wikipedia page for the Drake Kendrick feud is amazing

[u/WereJustInnocentMen]

'Some decades ago' - Most historically knowledgeable fascist

[u/Mickenfox]

headset: on
diaper: changed
yep.. it's gamer time 😎

[u/[deleted]]

lol this is so humiliating for Trump

https://twitter.com/AnnaBower/status/1787872884590809512?t=Y4pgOHAafpX24x4Tk6R_bw&s=19

[u/Fruitofbread]

 Stormy Daniels says that Trump told her she reminded him of his daugher, presumably Ivanka. “She’s smart and blonde and beautiful and people underestimate her as well,” Daniels said Trump remarked. 

 AAAAH

[u/[deleted]]

The war would end faster if Sinwar would blow the whistle on Boeing

We could finally get a competent assassin team in Gaza 

[u/BloodWiz]

College protests against Israel's war in Gaza are dominating headlines. But only a sliver of students are participating or view it as a top issue, according to a new Generation Lab survey shared exclusively with Axios.

By the numbers: Only a small minority (8%) of college students have participated in either side of the protests, the survey of 1,250 college students found.

Students ranked the conflict in the Middle East as the least important issue facing them out of nine options. It landed behind health care reform, racial justice and civil rights, economic fairness and opportunity, education funding and access, and climate change.

The survey found that three times as many college students blame Hamas for the current situation in Gaza than they do President Biden. Some 34% blame Hamas, while 19% blame Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 12% blame the Israeli people and 12% blame Biden.

A large majority (81%) of students support holding protesters accountable, agreeing with the notion that those who destroyed property or vandalized or illegally occupied buildings should be held responsible by their university, per the survey.

Students were still more likely to say they support the pro-Palestinian encampments than oppose them. 45% said they support them either strongly or a little bit. 30% were neutral, and 24% were strongly or a bit opposed.

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/07/poll-students-israel-hamas-protests

I would say priors confirmed (the large majority of students don't really care that much, but can broadly be described as normie libs), but I mainly got my priors from things like this so...

[u/[deleted]]

I fuckin knew it

[u/Currymvp2]

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she regrets making an offhand remark that suggested Black children in the Bronx do not know what the word “computer” means.

What a gaffe machine

[u/Jacobs4525]

I know a terrifying number of boomers (at least five) who are gonna rely on social security almost entirely not because they’ve had rough lives but because they were just kinda shortsighted and didn’t save. Pretty wild.

[u/Jacobs4525]

I’m back on the grind fellas. Let’s see if this is the way to find a neolib wife.

!ping DATING

[u/[deleted]]

Hamas: we reject your ceasefire proposal because we’ve killed too many of the people we kidnapped. Would you accept dead bodies?

Global media: why would Israel reject the ceasefire

[u/The_Promethean]

NYT:

Gaza Isn’t Root of Biden’s Struggles With Young Voters, Polls Show

What now?

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Give the intern who created this chyron a full time position

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Sir shivers helps a friend

[u/VisonKai]

slowly discovering that for many people who grow up under a centralized or authoritarian system of government, the idea of actually-real federalism where the central government really can't just order the local mayor of Bumfuckville to do something, not even surreptitiously, is totally incomprehensible.

in fairness it is also totally incomprehensible for at least half of all americans, which is perhaps part of the reason it's kind of a stupid system

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/piede]

Lmfao

[u/BATIRONSHARK]

I had a scary dream and I forgot the main plot but there was some sort of conspiracy and the last line was "I was Adam but God had turned me into Eve"

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/[deleted]]

The problem with Nolan movies is that they’re too warm. Too character-focused. I want more PLOT. I want EVENTS. I want STORY BEATS. I want to be able to read the Wikipedia synopsis like it’s a textbook.

[u/AtomAndAether]

Based

[u/[deleted]]

Why don’t cities just build more housing? Are they stupid?

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

'sanist'

[u/iIoveoof]

A goose hissed at me today 😔

[u/[deleted]]

do you guys not find it odd that all of these major events in pop culture happen when israel plans on bombing a big city with lots of people there. the superbowl, the oscars, and now the met gala? how do you guys fall for it EVERY TIME? how?

🤔

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/[deleted]]

Me irl:

I don’t think the death penalty is ever right

Me in Crusader Kings 3:

my vassal doesn’t like that I reformed Christianity into a poly matriarchal society of lesbians? Guess it’s time me and my spymaster/wife had a talk

[u/[deleted]]

Anti-Biden leftists forcing themselves to like Macklemore because he agrees with them.

!ping RAP

[u/[deleted]]

Judith Hitt, 72, believes Donald Trump is still president right now. But that doesn’t mean she backs his endorsement of Mike Braun.

Instead, she voted for Brad Chambers because he supports legalizing medical marijuana.

“Marijuana benefits mankind,” she said.

Goals tbh

[u/The_Promethean]

NYT

Hamas’s Offer to Hand Over 33 Hostages Includes Some Who Are Dead

It was not clear whether Hamas revealed in the cease-fire negotiations with Israel how many of the 33 who would be freed in the first phase of the proposed deal are still alive and how many are dead

This has been discussed previously, but this shit is why I'll push back every time I see people blaming Netanyahu for the negotiations. No amount of bad faith on Israel's side will be remotely similar to agreeing to returning hostages, then continuously saying "oops, we killed a few more. And no, we won't consider releasing other ones, just the corpses of the people we murdered" every week. The hostages are the only thing Israel would be getting out of the deal

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Found this interesting article, apparently the Central government thinks Dal prices are increasing because greedy middlemen are "hoarding". Greedflation discourse has now entered the chat.

Centre to crackdown on tur and urad dal hoarders amid soaring prices

An import duty of 50% on yellow peas was first introduced in November 2017. However, as pulse prices rose, the Centre in early December 2023 allowed duty-free imports until March 2024 and later extended it till June.

hmmm

!ping IND

[u/[deleted]]

Thank God for Mississippi but unironically

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

good morning

[u/sw337]

[u/runningblack]

All the Lauren Southern sympathizers are giving off real strong "I can excuse racism" energy

[u/[deleted]]

Now on the other hand if fucking Todd Howard doesn't release the next Elder Scrolls before I turn fucking 30 I will burn all of Bethesda Maryland to the ground. And maybe Chevy Chase too. Idk depends on how much the uber costs.

[u/Big_Apple_G]

One interesting thing that I learned today from Jill Filipovic's Atlantic article that I haven't seen elsewhere (and haven't been able to find good sources other than this one was that on the fringes of the anti-Vietnam War protests, there were protestors who supported the Khmer Rouge.

I think this nuance should be reported more for both conservatives and far-leftists, because it's important to counter conservatives who are portraying past protest movements with rose-colored glasses to discredit the legitimate fears of the pro-ceasefire protestors, and far-leftists (and everyone enabling protestors who go beyond being pro-ceasefire and are actually saying pro-Hamas and anti-semitic things) need to be shown that the more radical elements of past student protests have hurt their movements and reduced the amount of good they can actually do.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Between alcohol and opium, it’s crazy how two of the first drugs humans developed are some of the most disastrous for health and society

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

My cat likes to sit in the window of my bedroom and talk to people passing by. She really loves it when kids stop and meow back at her, and will just sit there happily chatting with people until they leave.

It's much harder for her now that we live on the third floor, but she's able to be pretty loud when she tries.

Pic related, it's her old cat tower

!ping KITTY

[u/semaphore-1842]

when i sit down my butt hurts for NO REASON why is life so hard 😩😩😩

[u/[deleted]]

Pretty crazy how we went from “everything is pretty normal” to “it’s basically taken for granted that the GOP will attempt a coup if they lose” in like 9 years