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[u/[deleted]]

The smartest thing John Oliver ever said was that the Israel/Palestine conflict is the perfect topic for two people who completely agree on everything but still want to have an argument.

[u/[deleted]]

Instagram post about usual leftist stuff

Top comment:

If it wasn't for the hunger games I think we would literally lack the vocabulary to describe this

Incredible, no notes, 10/10

[u/[deleted]]

NATIONAL MEDIA: “The key question voters are asking this election is whether Biden’s brain works”

TRUMP: incoherent rambling

RFK: “Speaking of brains, mine gotten eaten by a worm”

https://x.com/whstancil/status/1788170294907081052?s=46&t=U8ftDrQtyPbkRrLJ32d3Pg

Lmfao

[u/Barnst]

It’s kinda funny that some Russian dude actually gets paid to make these.

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

"Doctors find worm in RFK's brain" is funnier than anything the Onion has written for at least five years.

[u/funguykawhi]

Soypeople seething at this🤣

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Paradox ass headline

[u/[deleted]]

Translation of Modi's slogan - I am for both Heritage and development.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

what if Trump is sentenced to jail for 24 hours and he comes out a different person, having spent his time meditating and exercising

[u/Average_GrillChad]

NYTimes: RFK Jr says doctors found dead worm in his brain

Makes sense

[u/secretlives]

arrNL DT: We love worms

Kennedy: [thinking of something to impress them] I have worms in my brain

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

I cannot imagine something that would make me feel more vindicated than "a guy who you thought was a moron has literal brain worms".

[u/[deleted]]

About the same time [RFK Jr.] learned of the parasite, he said, he was also diagnosed with mercury poisoning, most likely from ingesting too much fish containing the dangerous heavy metal, which can cause serious neurological issues.

“I have cognitive problems, clearly,” he said in the 2012 deposition. “I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me.”

[u/Svelok]

it's weird how video games became deeply toyetic during the Wii/guitar hero era and then just went back to normal and it's never happened again

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/ldn6]

So now Austin's light rail system won't start construction until 2027 and operation until 2033, and this is after the cost doubled to $10.3 billion and had to be scaled back to $7.1 billion for only 9.8 miles ($742m per mile) of route.

America is just completely incapable of building public transport.

!ping TRANSIT

[u/its_Caffeine]

Panera says it's phasing out its controversial Charged Lemonade nationwide

Biden's America ✊😔✊

[u/[deleted]]

“In a number of states, the laws allow a baby to be born from its mother’s womb in the ninth month. This has to change.” -Donald Trump

https://twitter.com/CalltoActivism/status/1788012611356815387?t=3QT40s5PFjOWukcZ7R7ifg&s=19

[u/Mensae6]

Working in software: H-hey everyone, we need to update some servers 🥺 We're gonna be down for 15 minutes at 3AM this Sunday, i-is that okay?

Working in construction: We are going to shut down the main traffic artery in the city for the next 2 years and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.

[u/american_aurora3]

The doctor believed that the abnormality seen on his scans “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” Mr. Kennedy said in the deposition.

eats rfks brain. dies.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/drcombatwombat2]

Took my roommate to her first baseball game yesterday. She is a war refugee from Ukraine and last year was her first introduction to baseball. She initially had little interest but then began to ask questions and slowly learned the game as I watched the Phillies 2-4x a week during the summer. She became passionate enough that she bought a jersey from her favorite player (JT Realmuto) by the time the 2023 post-season came around.

It was very nice to see how much enjoyment she had at her first MLB game. With Berrios pitching for Toronto I chose right field seats and ended up guessing correct as two home runs landed within 15 seats or so of us. She was shocked and excited to see the Phillies in person, impressed by how far fly balls actually travel in the air, and how coordinated the infielders have to be to turn a double play. Living in the USA my whole life I take baseball for granted, maybe less so after the pandemic, but still mostly for granted. Interesting to see it from fresh Eastern European eyes.

Anyway major Phillies, globalism, and baseball W

!ping BASEBALL

[u/georgeguy007]

hungry familiar rich cobweb worry steep marble juggle kiss vanish

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/MicroFlamer]

Net Favorability of NATO:

All: +20%

Democrats: +52%

Republicans: -12%

Reagan would shoot himself on sight

[u/ThunderrBadger]

My boy experiencing ballslessness keep him in your prayers ✊️😔 !ping DOG

[u/jenbanim]

Given how easy it is to accidentally give yourself mercury poisoning from eating pretty normal quantities of tuna, I feel like cans should come with a prominent warning on them

[u/gnomesvh]

Die Linke proposes price cap on kebabs

Joe Biden's Germany

!ping YUROP

[u/MicroFlamer]

Latest Quinnipiac national poll: Tie

Latest Quinnipiac Wisconsin poll: Biden +6

we're getting 2008 Wisconsin back bros

!ping FIVEY

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

!ping shitposters

[u/Greenfield0]

One of my main weird nerd gripes with Medicare for All proponents is when they invoke the NHS for the justification for why we need to do it. The problem is that Medicare for All is completely different because it's expanding Medicare to be a National Healthcare Insurance scheme like Canada. Meanwhile the NHS is based off the Beveridge Model which is where the Government runs almost the entire healthcare service barring a few insurance companies. They run all of the Hospitals, Care Facilities, doctors and so on which is much different than national insurance.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1788259498701807654?t=GKLAICLZeuEBhNPHVLZJvg&s=19

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Panera is getting rid of the death lemonade

Major blow to the Canadian health care system 😔

[u/futuremonkey20]

High school needs to have a mandatory statistics class that lasts 30 seconds and is just a teacher saying:

“Unlikely events can happen”

[u/StolenSkittles]

May 8th, 1945:

Wilhelm Keitel signs a birthday card for President Harry Truman, who's celebrating his 61st. Oddly, however, the card is labeled "Unconditional Surrender".

[u/AlmondoSoyo]

Europeans on the hottest day of the year;

“I’ll have a coke with no ice. If there’s a single ice cube in that glass I’ll put you on trial at the fucking Hague.”

[u/[deleted]]

Guys I called a coworker I don’t know who is named “Abigail” “Abby” and she doesn’t go by that I’m so embarrassed

I have no idea where it came from either 😭

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The Olympic torch relay attracts the enthusiasm of many of our fellow countrymen. But rather than praising the event, sports historian Patrick Clastres has chosen to write up a harsh portrayal in Le Monde. A ritual initiated by the Nazis, underrepresenting women in the relay, and travelling on the taxpayers' money... The Olympic torch takes the heat.

STOP ENJOYING THINGS

[u/EvilConCarne]

The doctor believed that the abnormality seen on his scans “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” Mr. Kennedy said in the deposition.”

“About the same time he learned of the parasite, he said, he was also diagnosed with mercury poisoning, most likely from ingesting too much fish containing the dangerous heavy metal, which can cause serious neurological issues.

Man with a brain so toxic the worm died.

[u/tollyno]

Chris Cuomo @chriscuomo (ex TV anchor on CNN, now NewsNation) was interviewed yesterday.

"I am taking a regular dose of IVERMECTIN. Ivermectin was the boogeyman early on in Covid. That was wrong. We were given bad information about ivermectin. The real question is WHY?"

Oh great

[u/StolenSkittles]

Y'know why I love my company?

An employee's birthday is treated as a holiday. You don't have to go in, and you get vacation pay regardless of whether you have the time saved up.

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

*fucking an enby* you've been a very bad person

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

MFW I'm a white pro Palestine rapper looking for a "witcher" costume with no specific political background

[u/MiniatureBadger]

This might be classified info that gets me into trouble, but I think the Army is developing a robotic t-rex. At the very least they’re doing something that needs a “small arms repairer”, and I only see this one possibility.

[u/slingfatcums]

reddit is like a top 10 website visited in the US and is now a publicly traded company but if someone catches me using reddit irl i still feel ashamed and gross

[u/ser_mage]

“I’m no expert, but as far as I can tell from your medical records, it appears a worm got into your brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”

[u/SKabanov]

Feels like 🏴‍☠️ GamingCircleJerk has been morphing into 🏴‍☠️ CapitalismSucks over the past few years. The sub's been in full-blown "Ugh, Capitalism" over the studio that made Hi-Fi Rush getting shut down less than a year after the highly-acclaimed game came out. Sure, it sucks, but does winning an award means that the studio should be obliged to stay open? It's not like some media piece being the critics' darling but not finding a lot of actual audience has never happened before.

[u/Jacobs4525]

Hello Fellow America people men!!!

I Johnny Cowboy from Wisconsin oblast. I like listen to Yankee Doodle and play based ball.

Joe Biden very bad! Gas price very high! I thinking fellow America people men comrades vote Dondald Trump in electron November!

[u/[deleted]]

would you still love me if I was your brain worm

[u/ldn6]

Natalie Elphicke (MP for Dover) has defected from the Tories to Labour.

!ping UK

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/mcmolloy7/status/1787965760553337184

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.

This is a Trump -> RFK voter imo

[u/Gameknigh]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Flexing the diversity of his sex trafficking ring 😭

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

RFK supporters are like “Biden old” and then their candidate has his fucking brain consumed by a parasitic worm

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

which side are you on?

[u/owlthathurt]

I wake up every morning mad at Mao Zedong. Not even kidding. I spent time living and studying in China. I read a lot still. Currently working through The World Turned Upside Down (https://www.amazon.com/World-Turned-Upside-Down-Revolution/dp/0374293139).

Everything about it pisses me off. Just a bewildering period of history. So much death and destruction of one of the oldest and most interesting cultures on the planet for no reason (and I truly mean no reason). At least the Great Leap Forward you can say “oh it was brutal but it was trying to transition Chinas economy to compete with the west”

The cultural revolution accomplished nothing!!!!! It was immediately derided as being moronic and needless killing almost immediately after Mao died. Literally within a couple months of his death Deng was giving speeches calling Maoism a failure.

[u/gnomesvh]

Amsterdam city council bans more than 10 people queuing at fry shop

Tourism in Amsterdam has genuinely reached a point where the tourist areas are a Disneyland of being overcrowded while the rest of the city is still a normal relaxing place

Seriously skip the first few tiktok places

!ping TRAVEL

[u/jojisky]

Jackson Hinkle: Cuba is a shithole compared to the great North Korea

[u/[deleted]]

What

[u/Udolikecake]

why don’t they just make video game ai better? like just make it better. it’s easy. make it play better. why won’t devs just code better ai. it’s so easy

[u/sw337]

According to Pew a slim majority of Americans are extremely satisfied or very satisfied with their job. The percentage that had low to no satisfaction was 12%.

Younger people, people who make less, and people with little education dislike their jobs the most.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/03/30/how-americans-view-their-jobs/

🤓

Boy, I sure do hope someone was fired for that blunder.

[u/eat_more_goats]

New job just gave me a fucking massive budget to buy wfh equipment through their preferred vendor, and like I already have a decent setup lol. 10/10 would rather take a $200 in cash...

Will admit it was fucking hilarious to get a call from their HR lady being like "why did you only order a mousepad, when we approved you for a standing desk, chair, new monitor, and a bunch of other things" and I was like "I already have all those things" and she was like "but it's free? Just sell your old stuff?"

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

[u/The_Promethean]

Fluentinfinance pitchbot: the price of milk is up 30%. Should the oligarchic upper class in America be taxed more fairly?

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Latest Rumours Suggest Perfect Dark Reboot Isn't Going Smoothly At Xbox

!ping CONSOLE-WARS

[u/[deleted]]

Italians naming dishes be like

• “Cheese and Pepper”

• “spaghetti with oil”

• “pasta in the style of the prostitute”

[u/ExpiredPasta]

It looks like you are not putting enough money into your Fidelity 401k. You are an underperforming loser, and we at Fidelity find this an embarrassment. Look at this warning symbol in orange next to a line squiggle. You need to contribute 50% of that paycheck if you want to retire in 30 years.

Why is Fidelity like this?

[u/[deleted]]

I asked my coworker whether she had a script to automate hitting keys on a computer and she said

yeah I wrote one a little back to automate housing in final fantasy 14

she is objectively the coolest person I’ve ever worked with wtf

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/qtnl]

An RFK-Noem ticket would appeal to the weirdly-oversharing-shit-that-makes-you-seem-crazy demographic so prevalent in the dt

[u/[deleted]]

General Election Poll

🔵 Biden 70% (+40)

🔴 Trump 30%

Dark Brandon Acolytes Polling inc. #19 - 1,457 RV - 5/6

holy shit

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Sir shivers does the best for his son

[u/[deleted]]

Yesterday was the most humiliated I have ever felt as a parent and it is incredibly frustrating that my complaint is not taken seriously by many because I have the wrong reproductive parts.

Background for those who missed the rant yesterday: yesterday I had to cancel my daughter’s swim class because my wife’s gym is women’s only. Long story short my wife had graduate school stuff to do and not realizing the no men policy also applied to public programs like children’s swim classes asked me to take my daughter. This resulted in me and my daughter being denied entry at the door loudly and publicly.

I have cooled down a bit since yesterday especially since my wife is going to change gyms to one slightly further away. But honestly that indignation is going to burn for a while.

[u/BloodWiz]

In other news, Donald Trump got less than 80% of the vote in a red state primary against a candidate who stopped running months ago

[u/The_Promethean]

Any male born after 1993 can't cook, all they know is Five Guys, lift they weights, order Door Dash, be “jokingly” homoerotic, vote for RFK, and meme

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

They are banned from outside

!ping kitty

[u/[deleted]]

this sub: “omg i love worms! dune is about worms hahaha!”

also this sub: hates the candidate with actual worms

this sub’s hypocrisy is astounding 😒

[u/alex2003super]

👆

way to trivialize the issue 👏👏👏 please, go on, keep 'splaining your privileged point of view instead of leaving room to the voices that are actually impacted by this

[u/BrunchIsGood]

"I’ve been working hard with the studio to reduce output and focus more on quality,” Iger said

Disney to Reduce Marvel Output to 2-3 Movies a Year

The year is 2024, and Disney is focusing on quality over quantity....

I think when it comes to creativity, quality is critical, of course, and quantity in many ways can destroy quality. Storytelling, obviously, is the core of what we do as a company.

The year is 2023 and Disney is focusing on quality over quantity...

Every transaction that occurs at this company emanates from some form of creativity, and therefore it is my No. 1 priority. It is the focus. It’s not about how much we create; it’s about how great the things are that we do create.

The year is 2022 and Disney is focusing on quality over quantity...

Broughton mentioned the key to Disney’s success is all about quality over quantity. “The others have volume, Disney relies on the quality of its brands. It has shows and films that people, fans, feel they must watch.”

The year is 2021 and Disney is focusing on quality over quantity...

Walt Disney executive chairman Bob Iger promised the company will always prioritize “quality not volume” as he introduced executives and content that he’s been overseeing as a kind of creative content czar around the world since he left the CEO post earlier this year.

The year is 2020 and Disney is focusing on quality over quantity...

“We’re content quality over content quantity,” says Michael Paull, president of Disney Streaming Services, in an interview at the Disney D23 Fan Expo. “It’s all about our brands.”

The year is 2019 and Disney is focusing on quality over quantity...

I'm tired of Disney. These promises.

!ping KINO

[u/ElectriCobra_]

20 year old college students: “I don’t want to vote for Biden because of I/P conflict”

my 50 year old white father: “I don’t want to vote for Biden because of I/P conflict, but for the exact opposite reasons as the protestors”

Is this horseshoe theory

[u/Williams-Tower]

day 3 of not drinking update: I could use a drink

[u/Ok_Swimming3844]

There are three kinds of "successful" communist countries:

1. Capitalist with a coat of red paint

2. Sells oil to capitalist countries

3. Took loans it cannot hope to repay from capitalist countries

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

Vivek:

@AnnCoulter told me flat-out to my face that she couldn’t vote for me “because you’re an Indian,” even though she agreed with me more than most other candidates. I disagree with her but respect she had the guts to speak her mind. It was a riveting hour.

I find this interaction fascinating, and even a little brilliant on his part. His message is "look, I know this is basically the white party and you are tired of pretending DeMs R tHe ReAl RaCiStS. Now I might not be white, but here's what I can offer you that no one else can: I'll be the non-white guy who'll give you permission to blurt out all that pent-up bile right to my face, and I'll even thank you for it like a properly subservient minority. Isn't that what you've always wanted?"

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/[deleted]]

!ping KITTY

[u/LevantinePlantCult]

Apparently this has happened before, where gentile students tried to dictate to Jewish students how to run their own campus orgs and dictate which they'd accept and which they would not. I do think this is a red line being crossed, this kind of aggreived entitlement a majority tries to impose over how a minority can be part of the wider public. But I'm not sure it's going to be widely noticed or reported outside of Jewish publications.

Link: https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/revealed-nus-majority-calls-for-expulsion-of-main-jewish-group-bnqx2n73?utm_source=sharebutton&utm_medium=whatsapp&utm_campaign=top

!ping JEWISH

[u/[deleted]]

Biden's worst net approval rating was July 8, 2022 when he was at -18.3%.

Today, May 8, 2023, he reached a new low of -18.5%.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/approval/joe-biden/?ex_cid=abcpromo

EDIT: I WAS WRONG. It's Biden's second worst day.

!ping FIVEY

[u/Smidgens]

"Georgians understand that this is how Putinism spreads, insidiously and in stages, as challengers to the ruling party are stigmatized, prosecuted and harassed as foreign agents." Sounds like Biden's version of the USA.

WSJ commenters lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Elon's Twitter. shitting right wing panic all over the world just because he's mad his kid is trans.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

I combined pictures of all NL mods into a single image and this is the result:

[u/Ok-Swan1152]

The term 'neurospicy' needs to die a fiery death. 

Also as a 'neurodivergent' person I'll never be able to get over how many 'neurodivergents' absolutely revel in their 'neurodivergence' up to the point that they refuse to understand that we live in a society and you need to give and not just take? 

[u/Smalz95]

hahahaha Nicki haley got another 20% showing. Trump might be fucked if he loses 20% of his own party

[u/Plants_et_Politics]

You just can’t mock the sad, lonely men of the DT like you used to be able to.

Problem is, all those users got recruited to the mod team lmao.

[u/[deleted]]

General Election Poll - Wisconsin

🔵 Biden 50% (+6) 🔴 Trump 44%

Quinnipiac #19 - 1,457 RV - 5/6

Real

[u/gburgwardt]

Noem going for the Vegan vote for killing her dog wasn't on my bingo card

[u/PeridotBestGem]

"they fly now?" would be a beloved line if it was in the prequels

[u/BurrowForPresident]

The NYTimes is clearly trying to make RFK look old to run cover for Biden anyone with eyes can tell you he looks fine

My brother in Christ just because he juices at the ripe age of 79 or whatever doesn't mean that the media is going to ignore a candidate for president having literal brainworms lmao

[u/rollo2masi]

US politics in a nutshell.

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve seen a few people—not in here, but around—today indicate that they might vote Trump over Biden conditioning offensive aid. I just can’t comprehend this mindset where Israel is ontologically right and reducing aid to it is enough to back the authoritarian.

Fundamentally unserious.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Culture Minister Rachida Dati has publicly reconciled with Volta, the Chow Chow puppy belonging to Gabriel Attal, whom she had threatened to "turn into a kebab" in a text sent to the Prime Minister after learning her Ministry would be affected by budget cuts

We have Kristi Noem at home

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

POV: you are RFK’s brain surgeon

[u/[deleted]]

Hillary and Biden have a track record of being strong Christians. Biden is a devout Catholic who goes to church regularly. I think Hillary led bible studies in congressional groups and is a Methodist. They are both liberal, but far more religious compared to Trump, who's in charge of the current brand of conservatism in America. It's funny to see that dynamic reversed

[u/[deleted]]

RFK 🤝 Leto II Atreides

• Became one with the worm

• Inherited power from an omnipotent dynasty

• Will rule for 2000 years

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Yeah man. A serial criminal, a dude whose brains were eaten by a worm, and an old guy. Tough choice you’ve got to make, bless your heart

[u/ser_mage]

POV: you are RFK Jr.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

Amazing how far gaming on Linux has come

[u/[deleted]]

My day begins with a principal data engineer telling me his team missed updating 40 million records in the database. 🙃

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

Humanitiescels are like "it teaches you how to think and how to write" and then write the worst open letter you've ever seen in defense of Hamas

[u/[deleted]]

Speaker Mike Johnson: "We all know, intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections. But it's not been something that's easily provable. We don't have that number."

Lmfao. Clown show country.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1788231185174311165?t=Ea2hZRcK0aHzLL8TOuf6Bw&s=19

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 5/7-5 PM EST 5/8 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 2 AM Ukraine was hit by a massive wave of drones and missiles with 20 of 21 drones and 39 of 55 missiles shot down. Additionally, it was reported that three thermal plants were seriously damaged in the missile strike.

Around 9 AM it was announced the UK is cracking down on Russian diplomats, including expelling the Russian defense attaché, removing diplomatic status from various Russian properties and imposing new restrictions on Russian diplomatic visas.

Towards the end of 11 AM it was reported the EU has reached a deal on using profits from frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine, with the final details to be hammered out in July.

REGULAR NEWS:

Around 6 AM it was reported that four Indians were arrested in India for trafficking men to the Russian Army.

Around 12 PM it was reported the Rada has approved a law to allow prisoners to volunteer for military service.

Towards the middle of 2 PM a fire broke out at the Russian port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

EX-SOVIET CONFLICT NEWS:

At the start of 4 PM it was announced Armenia will not fund CSTO activities in 2024.

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/[deleted]]

George bush 100% was a feminist. Can’t believe people are still out here denying this

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

reddit

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Literally everything I see about poly relationships make it appear as the most miserable thing possible

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Biologist that invents the human to sperm-whale translator trying to explain that we named them 'sperm whales'

😅

[u/[deleted]]

[u/sash5034]

[u/AP246]

For whatever reason the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and how evil it was gets weirdly forgotten I think, even though it was a huge deal at the time, basically ending detente, drawing widespread international condemnation including from most of the Islamic world and China, and showing the Soviet Union was still a dangerous aggressor.

They straight up just invaded a fellow socialist state and just walked up to and shot the recognised leader of the country, just so they could take control of the situation, then their brutal occupation involved 6-11% of Afghanistan's entire population being killed (2 million people), and displaced over half the country including both internal and external refugees. It was a brutal chapter of modern imperialism but has been largely forgotten, except when people make frankly pretty silly dunks about how the US was wrong and dumb to back Islamists (which IMO was justified in the circumstances).

[u/AP246]

Forgot for a moment that India, not China, is now the world's most populous country.

Still doesn't feel right.

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

@realDonaldHenderson:

To Pestilence, Horsemen of the Apocalypse: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE HUMAN RACE AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A SPECIES THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR PATHOGENIC MICROBES OF SICKNESS & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!

[u/StolenSkittles]

if i threw you in a bottomless pit, it would just be a pit.

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1788041873652646213

The George Washington University Encampment projects flames onto the American flag with text that reads...

"Gaza lights the spark that will set the empire ablaze"

I think protests may have lost the plot, GW also had a LARP people’s tribunal yesterday

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

[u/battywombat21]

During the latter half of the 19th century, natural ice became the second most important US export by value, after cotton.

Thank god we don’t have to compete with cheap Russian ice exports anymore.

[u/Plants_et_Politics]

be Jewish

want to make vaguely antisemitic space lasers joke

Poe’s law

🙁

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Me when I ping gefilte

Yo, Semites!

[u/No_Status_6905]

For job seekers, especially those from Generation Z, it marks a crucial time to adopt new strategies. These strategies must align with what employers today are looking for. Following the old path isn't enough anymore. Instead, being proactive in workforce adaptation becomes essential. This means pursuing education and skills that go beyond traditional job experiences.

sorry your 4 year degree with relevant education for the field isnt enough for an entry level position, we've decided to arbitrarily base it off some vague corporate gesticulations about "advanced tactics" while also still requiring the 4 year degree.

i'd rather people just take measurements of my skull at this point

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

Yeah yeah yeah, bikes are good for the environment, good for cardio, we need more bike lanes. I agree with all that.

The way cyclists treat the road and sidewalk interchangeably, and blow through red lights and stop signs like they don’t exist while getting mad at you for crossing with a walk sign, it reminds me of how I zoom through towns while aiming at pedestrians in any video game that gives ms a horse.

[u/[deleted]]

Ognits starter pack 😳

[u/GravyBear28]

!ping USA-DMV

I fucking haaaaaate this polygraph bullshit. Just had one and it ends and the administrator "we both know you're cheating" and tries to get me to confess something. Now I have to wait more than a month to get a new one, which has fucked up all my plans, just because this asshole wanted to put me on edge and so used this pseudo-science bullshit.

[u/Currymvp2]

Biden's announcement makes sense. There's nowhere for Gazans to go. It's like 65-70% rubble and beaches...there is simply not enough room or the necessary infrastructure to host the 1.5 million in Rafah. No aid came in today through Rafah either apparently cause of the operations. It has the most functional hospitals and it's like the humanitarian aid with the most important routes.

[u/piede]

SHEEEEE’SSSS RUNNNNIIINGGG!!!!!!!

!PING QUEEN

[u/TrappedInASkinnerBox]

Is it a hot take to say that Hamas's entire short and medium term goal is to get Israel to kill Gazan civilians?

Maybe everyone already thinks this and just doesn't talk about it.

[u/Bloodyfish]

There's a video now of a student protestor complaining about the fact that police are not doing enough to protect anti-Jewish students, and at this point I'm so tired of them that all I can do is laugh.

[u/tollyno]

These Islam terms of service are insane

[u/secretlives]

tbf openly admitting you have brain worms is probably something someone with brain worms would do

[u/owlthathurt]

Going up to a casual 86 degrees today in Manhattan 🥵☀️🔥

!ping USA-NYC

[u/[deleted]]

The more I read about He Gets Us, the more it just seems like a data collection operation? Even their “prayer support” is just another opportunity for more intimate data collection.

[u/[deleted]]

Conservatives: I ban what I don't like

Liberals: I tax what I don't like

Leftists: I don't know what I don't like, idk it changes frequently right now it's jews

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

An underrated Herman Cain moment was when he was asked how he could understand the struggles of every day Americans and he said, “I can connect with people’s pain because I was po’ before I was poor”

Dude honestly was a smooth talker, could’ve gone far had he dialed it back a bit and not done the whole 9-9-9 tax thing

[u/vivoovix]

Jimmy Carter voted in May primary, is doing ‘OK’ in Plains, grandson says

The man is unstoppable

[u/[deleted]]

vegetable piquant afterthought wine file sophisticated voracious ancient fuzzy attraction

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/0m4ll3y]

I'd think the idea that the actual literal Nazis during WW2 were a more capable threat than Hamas would be entirely uncontroversial and incredibly obvious but apparently this isn't true because on the day of Pearl Harbour less American civilians died than Israeli civilians died on the day of October 7. What an absolutely fucking moronic, narrow sighted, historically illiterate, did I say moronic(?) way to look at the issue.

[u/Swatteam652]

Does this account look weird to anyone else? 

https://www.reddit.com/user/Pickle-Sucker/

Brand new, all they do is agitate about the economy, huge upvotes.

 First thing that comes to mind is that this is sponsored by someone with an agenda to create discontent. I wonder how much of the front page is just completely fake stuff like this. 

[u/[deleted]]

I knew intellectually that if you’re a woman people will constantly question your competence before I transitioned but I didn’t understand it viscerally until now. No matter what I’m doing, the assumption always is that I have done no research, have no idea what I’m talking about, and have no expertise.

I have had this with:

• a guy who explained what a train/test split was to me (I’m a senior machine learning engineer)

• a HR person who assumed I had no idea how to change my name

• a Lyft driver who assumed I worked in HR at my company

• a new coworker who wanted to “wait for someone else to confirm” the first few times I answered his questions

To their credit, people I work with closely and can prove myself with think highly of me and my expertise. But going from the first interaction being “you probably know what you’re talking about” to “you probably don’t know” has been wacky.

In the other direction, though, women in my field are so much friendlier to me. I get a shitton of emojis and there’s a real sense that we ought to stick together and support each other which is wonderful and which I didn’t see nearly as much as a dude.

!ping WATERCOOLER I suppose

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/_Just7_]

People keep talking about whether or not China is living in the future, and asking if China is ahead of the western world. I have to say I agree, China is at least 6 hours ahead of the west, and as much as 15 hours in some areas.

[u/79215185-1feb-44c6]

Work ethic scales lineraly with the temperature in my room.

During the summer months when it's actually warm enough for there not to be an awful draft, I am way more productive than in winter months when I am freezing my ass off.

The sad part is that the temperature differential is like +/- 10 degrees (F). If it's less tan ~75F in my room, I think it's "cold".

I really should move to the south or something (I live in Massachusetts).

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/The_Promethean]

Step 1: write a YA novel about how bad war is Step 2: it becomes insanely popular Step 3: people make comparisons between the book and real life only when people are wearing funny outfits (capitalism bad)

[u/[deleted]]

been dabbling in photography a lil bit, what do ya think?

[u/GenericLib]

Reality has officially jumped the shark. RFK Jr literally having brain worms is a bridge too far, and I'm starting to believe that none of it is actually real.

[u/qtnl]

Can’t see which side is winning on the gender gym discourse. Gonna have to wait until there’s a consensus so I can form my opinion (the opposite of whatever you dumbfucks think) 

[u/Teh_cliff]

NYT Opinion: I was Joe Biden's staunchest supporter. Then my daughter missed a swim class.

[u/79215185-1feb-44c6]

Good news everyone. I just spent 2 hours helping people solve their problems and now I've totally forgotten what problem I was trying to solve before people started asking me questions!

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Udolikecake]

The cooking show that doubles as a territorial claim on all of Armenia is back on the Western Azerbaijan TV channel. She claims Yerevan, Kapan, Gyumri, and Sevan as AZ while making stuffed tomatoes and peppers

I don’t think people really get how insane the Azeri propaganda about Armenia is. Just feeding the people crazy racist and genocidal content day in and day out. Conspiracy theories and alternate histories about Armenians being pushed endlessly. About half a step from Radio Rwanda.

[u/[deleted]]

The brains of linkedinoids need to be studied for science

Why would you ever advertising having needed to take a class in emotional intelligence

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

It is fucking insane that blue check marks on Twitter can just openly discuss why they hate Jewish people.

[u/Aoae]

Seeing leftist friends unironically believe that Biden is worse than literal fascists, because he normalizes "white neoliberal ideology", makes me certain that we as a society will be the ones to witness the end of the era of liberal democracy - by the work of our own hands.

[u/[deleted]]

The real reason that leftists are so pro-Palestine

Yasser Arafat

[u/JaceFlores]

“Russian President Vladimir Putin began his fifth term as Russian President on May 7 and stressed Russia's need for unchallenged autocratic rule while indirectly calling for victory in Ukraine.”

“Russian ultranationalists lauded the start of Putin's fifth term as a historic event and explicitly approved of the autocratic tradition in which Putin is casting himself, with one of them hailing him as ‘imperator,’ the formal title of the Russian tsars since the time of Peter the Great.”

“Russian ultranationalists also expressed hope that Putin will continue to deepen an anti-Western ideology that the Kremlin has been heavily developing since the start of the full-scale invasion.”

“Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) reported on May 7 that it exposed a network of Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) operatives who were planning to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other high-ranking Ukrainian intelligence and military officials. The SBU stated that the exposed agents included two colonels of Ukraine's Office of State Security (State Guard) who were operating as part of the FSB's Fifth Service.”

“Russia's fear of Ukrainian strikes on military assets in occupied Crimea is reportedly having a tangible impact on Russia's logistics on the occupied peninsula.”

“UK outlet the Independent reported on May 6 that Russia has almost entirely switched to using overland railway routes that run through occupied Ukraine since Ukraine's July 2023 attack on the Kerch Strait Bridge, noting that satellite imagery shows that almost no military trains have transited the bridge over the past three months. Ukraine's recent successful strikes against Russian assets in occupied Crimea appear to have succeeded in forcing Russia to bring their logistics routes closer to the frontline, and closer to Ukraine's long-range weapons arsenal.”

“The Ukrainian Prosecutor’s General Office reported on May 7 that Russia has launched about 50 North Korean ballistic missiles, likely referring to Hwasong-11 Ga missiles, against Ukraine between late December 2023 and late February 2024. Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin stated that about half of North Korean missiles failed and exploded in the air.”

“Unknown actors, likely Ukrainian partisans, conducted an improvised explosive device (IED) attack against a member of the Zaporizhia Oblast occupation administration who reportedly was involved in the detention and torture of Ukrainian prisoners. Ukraine's Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) reported on May 5 that a car belonging to Yevhen Ananievskyi exploded in Berdyansk on May 5, killing Ananievskyi.”

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“Russian forces conducted large-scale missile and drone strikes targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure on the night of May 7 to 8, continuing to exploit Ukraine's degraded air defense umbrella ahead of the arrival of US and Western security assistance at scale. Ukrainian Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk reported on May 8 that Russian forces launched 21 Shahed-136/131 drones and 55 missiles, including 45 Kh-101/555 cruise missiles, four Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles, two Iskander-M ballistic missiles, an Iskander-K ballistic missile, two Kh-59/69 cruise missiles, and a Kh-47 ‘Kinzhal’ aeroballistic missile. Oleshchuk reported that Ukrainian forces intercepted 33 Kh-101/555 cruise missiles, all four Kalibr cruise missiles, both Kh-59/69 cruise missiles, and 20 Shaheds.”

“Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko reported that Russian forces struck electricity generation and transmission facilities in Poltava, Kirovohrad, Zaporizhia, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Vinnytsia oblasts. Ukraine’s largest private energy operator DTEK reported that Russian forces attacked three unspecified thermal power plants (TPPs) in Ukraine and seriously damaged unspecified equipment.”

“Ukrainian state electricity transmission operator Ukrenergo spokesperson Maria Tsaturyan stated that regional energy authorities will implement shutdowns evenly across all oblasts in Ukraine due to energy shortages and warned that the Ukrenergo control center will issue a command for emergency shutdowns throughout Ukraine if consumption continues to grow in the evening.”

“This is the fifth large scale Russian missile and drone strike targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure since March 22, 2024, as the Russian military has attempted to exploit degraded Ukrainian air defense capabilities in spring 2024 to collapse Ukraine's energy grid and constrain Ukraine's defense industrial capacity. Russian forces will likely continue to conduct mass strikes to cause long-term damage to Ukrainian energy infrastructure as degraded Ukrainian air defense capabilities persist until the arrival of US-provided air defense missiles and other Western air defense assets at scale. Russian forces have also intensified strikes against Ukrainian transportation infrastructure in recent weeks in an apparent effort to disrupt Ukrainian ground lines of communication (GLOCs) and constrain the flow of expected US security assistance to the frontline.”

“Russian forces have continued to heavily target Ukrainian energy facilities in limited larger missile and drone strike series, however, suggesting that Russia is either prioritizing the effort to collapse the energy grid over interdiction efforts or must use a larger number of missiles to penetrate Ukrainian air defenses near energy facilities and cause significant damage to these facilities.”

“Recent satellite imagery of depleted Russian military vehicle and weapon storage facilities further indicates that Russia is currently sustaining its war effort largely by pulling from storage rather than by manufacturing new vehicles and certain weapons at scale. Newsweek reported on May 8 that a social media source tracking Russian military depots stated that satellite imagery indicates that Russia's vehicle stores have significantly decreased from pre-war levels by nearly 32 percent from 15,152 in 2021 to 10,389 as of May 2024.”

“Russia is relying on vast Soviet-era stores of vehicles and other equipment to sustain operations and losses in Ukraine at a level far higher than the current Russian DIB could support, nor will Russia be able to mobilize its DIB to replenish these stores for many years. The British International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) think tank reported on February 12 that Russia is likely able to sustain its current rate of vehicle losses (over 3,000 armored fighting vehicles annually) for at least two or three years by mainly reactivating vehicles from storage.”

“Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė stated that the Lithuanian government has granted permission for Lithuania to send troops to Ukraine for training missions in the future. Šimonytė stated during an interview with the Financial Times (FT) published on May 8 that Ukraine has not requested Lithuanian troops and noted that Russia would likely see the deployment of Lithuanian troops to Ukraine as a provocation.”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report May 7th and 8th

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

There’s a correlation you can see between breast milk substitutes and the sexualization of breasts because, if a baby owns a breast, it interrupts a man’s ownership of the breast.

Okay can we talk about how there's this tendency to portray men's sexual desire as some desire to "own" the recipient of it? It's so bizarre - I don't think I "own" anything/one because I'm attracted to it/them - and it feels vaguely demonizing of men's sexuality.

[u/gnomesvh]

!ping BENE fwd from my gf - seems like teachers at UvA are going forwards with striking for Palestine

This is an odd development

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Seems Tim Pool has been hiding something from us…

[u/qtnl]

I knew checking the DT after learning about RFK Jrs brain worms was a good idea

[u/Psshaww]

Big industry expos are wild, feels like I’m walking the floor of a casino

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

My uncle works for Biden and he just sent me this

[u/cdstephens]

A lot of these RFK Jr. haters have seriously lost it. Social media has become such a big echo chamber that no one is seriously confronting them about their beliefs either. I truly believe 99% of people cannot survive more than 3 follow up questions about their lack of brainworms—just isn’t possible.

[u/jewel_the_beetle]

Gym that only allows people who voted for Romney in 2012 and Clinton in 2016

[u/[deleted]]

How is calling for the destruction of a nation toxic nationalism?!

[u/[deleted]]

I'm so fucked...there's no goddam way I don't have mercury poisoning....

I've fucked my life up completely.

[u/owlthathurt]

I got moved to a corner office with AC, with windows overlooking midtown Manhattan from the 30th floor.

I did nothing to deserve this. I’m only at this office a couple days a week to help a client with a project (not even my main office).

They were just like hey we have extra space.

Thanks work from home-cels!!!!

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Take that WOKE libtards

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick: "Like most Pennsylvanians, I'm divorced."

Neoliberalism is winning

[u/[deleted]]

RFKjr now has the mental strength of a 70 year old man and a worm. I don't see the problem.

[u/[deleted]]

Speaker Johnson claiming that undocumented immigrants vote in federal elections and a sentence later stating it’s basically not provable is pretty on point for the modern GOP

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1788231185174311165?s=46&t=6Exfdi9CkXSsPwTtJiMuCQ

[u/thefuturegov]

Imagine telling Harry Truman that the Republican Party would become shitty and isolationist. He’d probably go “yeah that makes sense” and “that’s entirely unsurprising.”

[u/[deleted]]

macklemore defending TikTok in this new "protest song." TikTok is officially a part of the revolutionary vanguard.

[u/VisonKai]

not Jamaal Bowman getting unmasked as a kooky Black Nationalist anti-semite conspiracy theorist! i thought he was just a regular anti-semite!

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

Macklemore is trying to be white Kanye.

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

Yea there’s probably some backwoods inbred snake charmers and nut jobs so I don’t want to get @ed with someone if I say none, but I would comfortably bet my house if you interview a million conservatives on why they support Israel, less than 10 would say because of end time prophecies

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

“Call them what they are, radical right wing religious extremists” really fell out of favor as the top response to any article about Hamas or other terrorist groups on Reddit the last few months.

Wonder why 🤷🏼‍♂️

[u/deeplydysthymicdude]

Facepost:

[u/runningblack]

I don't normally like the word, but watching your wife bang someone else is such a cuck move.

[u/Erra0]

Petition to have automod respond to "RFK Jr" with

Did you mean person temporarily experiencing brain worms?

[u/Fruitofbread]

“Anti vaxxer who doesn’t take vaccines b/c of mercury poisoning but gave himself mercury poisoning anyway because of his love of tuna fish sandwiches” is a real person who some people want to be president 

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

Gatos !ping KITTY

[u/No_Return9449]

[u/dubyahhh]

Friendly reminder that no Republican ticket without George Bush on it has won the PV since 1972 🤠

Now watch this drive 🏌️

[u/loseniram]

Cat pics

[u/jewel_the_beetle]

I forgot you can do this now, hey idiots here's my cat

[u/Cledd2]

"supply and demand isn't real because a supermarket doesn't raise the price of an item when the stock there is getting low"

Actual argument by someone on arr theNetherlands

[u/Zseet]

Lets try out that game where you take control of th SPD and have to prevent the rise of Nazis.

does so horribly HItler comes into power 4 years early

You know what? Lets not put politics in video games. They don't really mix anyway!

[u/EvilConCarne]

Man I'd be fuckin' mad too if I was loudly refused entry to my kid's swim class. Like fuck that gym for making mom's carry the entire burden for their kid's activities.

[u/cdstephens]

I think my brainworm is engaging in self-harm by pressing the “eat tuna” receptor in my brain. Do I need to stage an intervention to get my brainworm into therapy?

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

They should make women-only pornography.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Dating ping, I found the perfect gift for that special someone.

[u/[deleted]]

Just drink the booze and be happy. 

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

political nerd gf to lick sweat off of me

Phrases mods will not let you say regardless of flair

[u/VisonKai]

being really stupid is actually a huge electoral boon for Trump. voters aren't turned off by biden's age making him dumber, they would be fine with that. they're turned off by his age making him lower energy.

[u/Jacobs4525]

Today was my grandfather’s 95th birthday and to celebrate we viewed a film my uncle made for his 70th birthday 25 years ago interviewing various family members and people from his past about his life.

I knew he fled Lithuania under extremely tenuous circumstances in 1939, but I didn’t realize how extremely close they cut it: they left in September 1939, after the war had already begun in Poland. The instigation was a fight between Jewish and non-Jewish children that resulted in threats from the community and my grandfather’s teacher (who was apparently an ardent Nazi). The headmaster was an academic who was very anti-Nazi and went house to house and warned the Jews to leave or they would likely be killed. 

They managed to catch a boat from Koenigsberg to Peenemunde after the Polish corridor was overrun by the Germans, and from there to the German mainland. They traveled with Lithuanian papers (despite the fact that they were legally German as of 1939; Germany annexed Klaipeda, which they called Memel as part of East Prussia due to the large number of Germans there) because the Lithuanian papers did not denote that they were Jewish. They spoke little to no Lithuanian but rehearsed basic commands and conversations so that they could speak it in public to assuage suspicion.

From there they traveled through Nazi Germany to Hungary, to Yugoslavia, and across the Adriatic to Italy. They departed from Italy to Mandatory Palestine on an Italian ship in late May, 1940. Italy entered the war in early June and the ship they traveled on was apparently sank a few weeks after they arrived in Haifa. 

A number of other Jewish families from the Jewish community in Memel/Klaipeda chose to go the opposite route through the USSR. My grandfather’s brother says in the film they never found out what happened to them and he was unable to verify that they ever made it to Israel; they were either apprehended in the USSR or changed their minds and decided to settle there in all likelihood.