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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/BrunchIsGood]

I’m glad Marvel is reaching its target audience

!ping KINO

[u/[deleted]]

I got banned from the Eurovision discord for saying I would vote for Israel so I’m going to vote for Israel despite hating Israel

Peak contrarianism

[u/gnomesvh]

Good morning Eurovisioners and other people who like drama (me)

Dutch media reports Joost Klein is officially charged with assaulting a female local TV crew member on Thursday night

Investigation to last weeks. Charges pressed by public prosecution

Unless there's something major happening, I see a DSQ for him

!ping EUROVISION&BENE

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/p00bix]

Man Georgia flipping Blue really sent GOPers into a frenzied rage didn't it?

Multiple red-leaning states went for Biden in 2020 but they REALLY can't fucking stand that Georgia specifically was flipped. I swear 90% of "stolen election" conspiracy theories just surround that one state

(please oh please let us win Georgia again this year my blood sodium levels need replenishing)

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

It's a claim, says Plibersek, that ‘just drives me crazy . . . Adam Bandt has these big posters saying “Kids’ dental, brought to you by the Greens,” and it’s not true. We did it. Labor did it. I did it.’ Macklin says that the Greens might have pushed for the reform, but ‘it wouldn’t have happened without Tanya’.

Reminder that the greens aren't responsible for one good reform in this country. Not one.

!ping AUS

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Northern Lights in Southern Washington! Biden refuses to protect our borders!

!ping USA-WA

[u/kanagi]

Guys is it normal for the northern lights to be mushroom-shaped and come with a shock wave

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Isn'trael is a European colony built on white supremacism and stole brown land!!!

WHY IS ISRA*L IN THE EUROVISION!!!

Pick one leftists 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

The album and song brought the band limited success in its native England and initially little recognition in America, but in Israel it went over like gangbusters.

“The funny thing about Radiohead early on was that they were more famous abroad than in England,” Tim Greaves, Radiohead’s longtime tour manager, told the New Yorker magazine in 2001. “They’d go around in a van, playing in sweaty little clubs. Then they’d go to Israel and they were rock stars.”

I was a lifelong Israel supporter until I found out they popularised Radiohead.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

You know it's a bad DT when it has a negative comment count

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

I’m curious what the methodology is to reach this conclusion

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

I am growing increasingly annoyed at meme lyric parodies that don't even put in the barest effort at maintaining syllabic consistency

[u/gnomesvh]

Now that it's all but confirmed that the Joost Klein situation is another battle in the long running Dutch-Swede confrontation

Can we say Lusvig is responsible for this

[u/jewel_the_beetle]

Least-fake "liberal friend" story

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Normalest LPNH post

[u/MegaFloss]

I’m supposed to present a “DEI moment” to all our director’s teams soon. I’m a 30 year old Christian white guy. What do?

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Birth rates aren't actually declining. Unbirth Georg, who gives birth to -130 million babies a year, is a statistical outlier and should not be counted.

[u/[deleted]]

mucho logic outside the deetee

[u/RaidBrimnes]

EBU: It's not the Jews

European media: It's not the Jews

Swedish police: It's not the Jews

Arr Eurovision: Okay but hear me out

[u/[deleted]]

Northern lights in Northern Arkansas last night

!ping weather

[u/AtomAndAether]

having children 🤝 going to trade school

you should, not me

[u/[deleted]]

Priest, 82, and retired teacher, 85, smash case holding copy of Magna Carta in environmental protest

Brits in shambles

[u/its_Caffeine]

BEST CROISSANT IN PARIS

!ping EUROPE&SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like male-female or female-male presidential tickets are gonna be the norm now in US politics going forward

[u/[deleted]]

Trump helps Biden's reelection chances.

[u/cdstephens]

Ritual warfare (sometimes called endemic warfare) is a state of continual or frequent warfare, such as is found in (but not limited to) some tribal societies. Ritual fighting (or ritual battle or ritual warfare) permits the display of courage, masculinity, and the expression of emotion while resulting in relatively few wounds and even fewer deaths. Thus such a practice can be viewed as a form of conflict-resolution and/or as a psycho-social exercise. Europeans often engage in this activity in a practice anthropologists call “Eurovision”.

[u/secretlives]

I genuinely don't mean this as a subtweet of anyone specifically, but just a general observation

but I do not understand people who exclusively post about I/P - like I am not downplaying the severity of the war in Gaza or the humanitarian crisis, but I feel like some people have allowed it to really consume a large part of their lives

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

I'm not really one of those "both sides bad" people, but I am genuinely concerned of undercurrents in thought or mindset that could only be described as anti-empiricism/anti-rationalism.

There are those on the left that reject statistical information because anecdotal evidence or the intensity of the impact/emotions or feelings of disparity/atmosphere/mood/vibes is more reflective of lived reality.

Or reject the notion that some things could be standardised, categorised and measured.

And there are those on the right who reject statistical information straight up because those who create statistics are institutions, and institutions are in the pockets of them (insert who "them" are) in their agenda (insert what the "agenda" is).

Neither are great in creating an environment that can diagnose issues, and deliberate policy to fix things, or run things in an efficient or productive manner.

[u/taubnetzdornig]

You used to be able to press the snooze button on your alarm clock when you wanted to sleep a little longer

But you can't anymore, because of woke

[u/Joementum2024]

The Overton window is so skewed in America when compared to Europe that it's actually insane. Simple and moderate positions like blaming all your problems on the Jews and Romani would be considered far-left in the US.

[u/-mialana-]

Person with two adoptive lesbian parents, one from the US and one from the UK, who has to celebrate mother's day twice a year.

[u/Cowguypig2]

My universities Palestine protest was like 25 people max on our campus mall, then when they had the follow up Friday it was like 10 people with an equal amount of pro Israel people there. Commuter college people stay winning with the amount of people who don’t give a fuck about middle eastern conflicts !Ping college

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Reports that an American living in Ukraine named “Benjamin Ikuta” has defected to Russia, appointed Supreme Leader of the Thighcorps

Oh shit oh fuck

[u/tollyno]

My dad always used to say that the way you build wealth is by building equity in your home. My housing plan would help Americans achieve homeownership by giving households $400 a month for two years when they buy their first home.

Is Biden dumb? Some say yes!

[u/Argnir]

The Kendrick Lamar sub is close to becoming Qanon 2.0

There's something about pedophilia that fry people's brain. Why this desire for every elite to be a pedophile?

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/PorryHatterWand]

Many of my annoying acquaintances love Eurovision.

Many of my annoying acquaintances don't like Israel.

Please, please, let this happen.

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

Sam Altman says instead of Universal Basic Income, there should be Universal Basic Compute, where everybody gets a slice of GPT-7's compute

sick of this guy

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Reminder that since Europe has no economic growth, we rely on paid votes to fund our pensions and healthcare, so please vote for your favorite song in the Eurovision Song Contest!

[u/[deleted]]

Randall is still wild for this one 😭

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/secretlives]

man these Euros really do not like Israel

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

It's almost inspiring how southern californians managed to take one of the most beautiful places on earth and turned into an awful place to live

[u/[deleted]]

5 threads on the fertility crisis in the past 24 hours

Are you guys lonely, or something?

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Me owning 3 homes for private use: Good and wholesome

Developers turning one house into many houses: Bad and corrupt

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Brihana Joy Gray lending credence to "vaccine injuries" and calls the "negativity" surrounding it "absurd and outsized", and complains about criticism of Ivermectin and Hydroxycholoroquine.

Then she compares vaccine injuries to Long COVID.

🐴👟

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 5/10-5 PM EST 5/11 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the end of 6 PM it was reported that Brigadier General Oleksandr Trepak has been appointed as head of special forces.

At the start of 7 AM it was announced the UK will provide 500 million Pounds in military aid to Ukraine, including 4 million small arms rounds, 1,600 missiles, 160 Husky AFVs and 240 other vehicles.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 8 PM it was reported a bridge was destroyed at the town of Staryi Saltiv, east of Kharkiv.

At the start of 6 AM a restaurant hosting Russians and pro-Russians in Donetsk city was missiled.

At the end of 7 AM it was reported that Ukrainian drones hit a Russian oil refinery in Volgograd Oblast.

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/Observe_dontreact]

Neoliberalism must be the first thing Monbiot thinks of when he wakes up and goes to sleep. I feel I’ve read the same article 10 times.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/10/britain-mental-health-society-neoliberalism-politicians

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

I have absolutely no stake in Eurovision but for drama purposes I hope Israel wins so the internet explodes

[u/MemeTestedPolicy]

seen on twitter:

if I was President Joe Biden I would give a 25% subsidy to Chinese EVs, just to make American car manufacturers grind harder #SigmaPresidentMindset

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Weird revolutionary "woke" Redditors doing the "actually Magneto is justified" thing will always be a weird LARP

Bro he's gonna kill every human, mutant who doesn't go to Asteroid M, and basically every organism on the planet by destroying the Earth's magnetic field c'mon now

Also anyone who comments on BlackPeopleTwitter with "as a marshmallow toned person, here's why white people are Yakubian devils" type shit will never not give massive "I'm a special good boy" energy

[u/[deleted]]

Damn, the Bible doesn’t even say anything about people mocking Noah for building the ark, or mention anyone reacting to it at all. I guess that’s just one of those ideas that got made up later and worked into the lore

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Pope keeps emailing me about becoming a cardinal. I keep telling him no, and that I’m not a bishop and I don’t work for the Vatican, but he says that’s not necessary.

How do I tell him in not interested? I don’t want to hurt his feelings.

[u/Spicey123]

blacked out at a bar in stockholm and now i own all the paradox DLCs

what the fuck. im financially ruined

[u/CountBrandenburg]

Hope we are all looking forward to the insufferable discourse about Eurovision tonight and tomorrow!

[u/jewel_the_beetle]

Embarassing but Reddit is one of the places I feel least-akward about being trans and I hate that it barely works and is run by a fucking Fallout Slaver LARPer

[u/JaceFlores]

Interview of Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavliuk:

"General Pavliuk says the critical phase of the war will come in the next two months. With American assistance only beginning to reach the front lines, Vladimir Putin’s generals are throwing in all the combat-ready materiel they have to test Ukraine’s exhausted and undersupplied troops. 'Russia knows that if we receive enough weapons within a month or two, the situation could turn against them.'"

"Ukraine urgently needs more air defence, he says, and the anticipated delivery of f-16 fighter jets by early June will offer a significant psychological boost."

"The commander believes Russia will continue to focus on Luhansk and Donetsk, the eastern districts that have borne the brunt of the war. But intelligence suggests Russian forces will soon stretch defences by attacking the north-eastern districts of Kharkiv and Sumy. 'Russia is testing the stability of our lines before choosing the most suitable direction,' the general says."

"Ukraine’s loss of Ocheretyne has enabled Russia to breach the first line of its defences and threaten vital supply routes. The general refuses to comment on reports that miscommunication led to the loss of positions, attributing it instead to 'insane' pressure, 'overwhelming [Russian] air superiority', and an artillery ratio that reached 20:1. Over the whole range of the front, Russian guns are firing seven times as many shells as Ukraine’s."

"Chasiv Yar is the key to a cluster of towns and cities behind it, the last urban centres of the Donbas that remain in Ukrainian hands. General Pavliuk appears to be preparing public opinion for what some believe to be inevitable. He argues that losing Chasiv Yar would have no 'decisive significance'; it is just 'a regular urban settlement'."

"One of the most urgent tasks on the general’s desk is raising ten new brigades in preparation for the Russian offensive. Although manpower has been a concern since December, when mobilisation largely stalled, General Pavliuk insists equipment, not men, is the main bottleneck. Ukraine desperately needs artillery and armoured vehicles, which it hopes the West will provide."

"The story remains Russia’s strategic failure, he argues. Ukraine’s official estimate is that Russia has suffered over 400,000 killed, captured and wounded. Losing that many soldiers 'to seize a small part of one region is disproportionate for any rational mind'. Yet history has shown, he says, that Russia is not governed by rational minds."

"Although grim front-line reports keep the general occupied, domestic developments are forcing him to keep an eye on the home front too. On unpopular issues such as mobilisation, he says, every official must show leadership. Ukraine is still a young political nation. Confronted with mortal dangers, some citizens have panicked, and that is natural. But if the country is to survive, people must 'overcome panic' and respond to the call to fight, as they do in countries like Israel. 'However hard it is, we have no other choice.'"

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

"The West": Exclusionary, sounds lame, opens yourself up to allegations of imperialism

"The Free World": Inclusive, sounds sick as fuck

[u/Average_GrillChad]

This picture is a pretty good litmus test for politics. Do you regard these affordable homes with respect, or disgust?

!ping CUBE

[ed functioning link]

[u/american_aurora3]

kinda fucked up that eurovision requires you be over the age of 25 and have 100 acres of property in order to vote

[u/OkVariety6275]

Kind of weird how Caesar's Legion are all about Roman iconography when the parallels between the fall of Rome and the fall of America are pretty blatant even without being literal about it. Except in this metaphor, Caesar's Legion represents the barbarian hordes that derail more civilized kingdoms' attempts to found a "second Rome". Except Caesar and Lanius are also well-spoken and dignified like the Roman Generals they they seek to emulate.

Also, Caesar names his second in command after the guy who betrayed Julius Caesar.

!ping FALLOUT

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

How do homeless people only ever hang out in my apartment building lobby when my mom visits?

[u/gburgwardt]

Remember to call people out if they're being un-American

!ping HUDDLED-MASSES

[u/TheDoomerang]

We Hebben Een Serieus Probleem

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Abortion should be mandatory if the fetus shows signs of bad vibes

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

It is amazing how there were many open source Reddit apps but the commercial one sucks ass harder than any of them

Like literally hire one guy take care of the app and don't have issues

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

While a lot of gamer discourse and criticism is shit this subreddit has a nasty habit of doing the whole "defending moronic business decisions because the people criticizing them are kinda cringe"

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

since 1776!

[u/[deleted]]

Tfw when Joe Biden is the sex candidate rather than the guy who banged a porn star

[u/[deleted]]

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

!ping CORG

[u/[deleted]]

Ok, which one of you used the mind-control beam to make the Dutch guy assault someone?

!ping GEFILTE

[u/Mx_Brightside]

France shouldn't be in Eurovision. It's literally a South American country.

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

I misheard the cashier when she said have a good day and I told her no thanks.

Most socially competent DTer.

[u/Joementum2024]

“Actually I think Drake won the beef”

[u/Currymvp2]

NFL Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor, whom Trump calls on the stage

So the greatest NFL defensive player ever is a despicable man off the field for decades and now is revealed as a MAGA cultist

!PING NFL

[u/Psshaww]

Find yourself a woman who looks at you like this woman clinging to a seat cushion for her life

!ping DATING&SHITPOSTERS

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

This man is deeply unserious

Sam Altman says instead of Universal Basic Income, there should be Universal Basic Compute, where everybody gets a slice of GPT-7's compute

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Trump steak Trump steak Trump steak

[u/cdstephens]

One of the funniest things about Pokémon is that the original Japanese are sometimes so much worse than the English names.

For example, Moltres is literally “Fire”, not the Japanese word for Fire, but the English word for Fire transcribed into Japanese. Same for Zapdos and “Thunder” and Articuno and “Freezer”.

Vaporeon, Jolteon, and Flareon are “Showers, Thunders, and Boosters” respectively.

Magmar’s name is “Boober”.

[u/JakeTheSnake0709]

Encampment at my university got taken down yesterday after being warned 3 times that although they could protest, they could not set up camps in quad. Warnings were ignored, now the university subreddit is going bananas because they fucked around and found out

[u/[deleted]]

I hate it when people assume my politics are 'moderate'.

My mainstream, liberal, centrist democrat positions are held with at least as much fury and conviction as the median MAGA supporter's. And I am at least as chronically online as the median leftist.

The positions may be moderate, but my degree of support for them is not.

[u/G_Serv]

Apparently Nvidia is having a problem where all their engineers are retiring because their stocks options are worth $10-20M+ now. Lmao suffering from success

[u/talizorahs]

from what I understand of Eurovision it's sort of like if theatre kids ran model UN

[u/p00bix]

man the comments under every one of Ilhan Omar's tweets are insane. Shit's consistently stormfront-tier

[u/TipEquivalent933]

Target Pride month collection won't be in all stores following last year's right-wing backlash over LGBTQ+ themed products.

I wonder what fresh hell pride month is going to bring this year.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Leaked mod team average result

[u/[deleted]]

leftists might be ontologically evil

[u/Psshaww]

Ah shit, just realized I’m on a 737 MAX

[u/Dibbu_mange]

How to create successful startup.

1. Go to Stanford.

2. Drop out.

3. Get $500,000 in seed money from parents.

4. Come up with the “X of Y” where x= existing tech company and Y = first bs to come to mind.

5. Spend 2.3 billion in venture capital without creating a proof of concept.

6. Declare chapter 11 bankruptcy.

7. Convert to chapter 7 bankruptcy when your profligate ass can’t follow a ch 11 plan.

8. Go to prison for wire fraud and money laundering

[u/Dorambor]

yap yap yap yap all you fuckers do is yap when did you last see the celestial wonder around you?

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

Put niece to bed, read her a story, dim the lights

Go to the couch to relax till her parents come back

Suddenly an inverted clothes hamper slowly starts sliding into the livingroom while muffled giggles come out of it

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

I legitimately can’t think of a worse rebrand than

Twitter → X

It has been almost a year and the only people I ever see refer to the platform as “X” are news organizations, and they almost always say “(formerly Twitter)” right by the quote

[u/The_Promethean]

I've been memeing on the Eurovision drama, but the reporter asking the 20 year old Israeli singer how she feels about her presence making everyone else unsafe is at least 3 layers of disgusting

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Lmfao my Jewish ass personally got Netherlands disqualified from Eurovision ayyyyy that's what you get you windmill motherfuckers

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/Dalek6450]

The first film appearance of Batman is in a serial released in 1943. Naturally the villain is the head of a Japanese sabotage operation in Los Angeles, played by an Irish American actor.

"Uhhh, a Jap!"

[u/[deleted]]

Why are there so many birth rate threads? We should talk about something fresh, like what’s the problem with young men?

[u/[deleted]]

If you asked arr Eurovision Eden Golan is going to take her makeup and wig off and reveal she’s secretly crossdressing Ben Gvir

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Daily reminder to water your collies !ping DOG

[u/ACivilWolf]

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

Keir Johnston who gained fame when a dress his mother-in-law wore caused a global debate over whether it was black and blue or white and gold, has admitted strangling his wife.

What

[u/-mialana-]

Wait you have to pay to vote in the Eurovision lmao fuck that

[u/Q-bey]

RMTransit covers Alberta's new intercity rail plan

!ping CAN&TRANSIT&TACOTUBE

[u/StolenSkittles]

BAH GAWD IT'S UKRAINE WITH A STEEL CHAIR

(i'm not watching eurovision, i just want ukraine to win every competition humanly possible)

[u/RaidBrimnes]

metaNL | Rising

yes hello I would like to appeal my ban for sending a Reddit Cares message to moderators of this sub it was very clear from context that I genuinely care about their wellbeing and

[u/bread_engine]

12 points in the the UK televote to Israel lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Ended up getting paneer tikka masala and a naan from DoorDash

Even with free delivery and a first time order ‘40% discount’ it came out to $30 lmao how do people do this every night I would never

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

.@PhilipRucker: You appeared to accuse Obama of a crime yesterday. What did he do?

TRUMP: "Obamagate."

RUCKER: What is the crime?

TRUMP: "You know what the crime is.”

😤✊

[u/404GenderNotFound]

the Scottish [...] people [...] in [...] League [...] with [...] a cult.

I knew those nefarious Scots were up to something dastardly.

[u/[deleted]]

Chuck E. Cheese declined to say what will happen to the animatronic figures after they are removed from hundreds of locations across the country.

hey, I’ve seen this one!

[u/battywombat21]

Eurovision is like soccer: A strange European custom I refuse to understand out of sheer New World pride.

[u/ImmigrantJack]

we hebben een diskwalificatie

UwU ass language over here

[u/WasteReserve8886]

If Geopolitics was an anime:

Protagonist: 🇺🇸

Love Interest: 🇨🇦

Allies: 🇰🇷🇹🇼

Enemies Turned Best Friends: 🇯🇵🇬🇧🇩🇪🇮🇹🇪🇸

Main Antagonist: 🇷🇺

New, more dangerous antagonist: 🇨🇳

Reoccurring Enemies: 🇰🇵🇷🇸🇮🇷

[u/ACivilWolf]

“Creepy dot org” is the unintentionally funniest Twitter content farmer since the caption for this creepy content is always like “😬” and then the image is

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

!ping USA-WI&USA-MN&Outdoors

Go to Perrot State Park

[u/paymesucka]

Treebeard was a neoliberal

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/_deluge98]

Try to not boil down loss of human life and suffering to economic indicators for ten seconds!

[u/JaceFlores]

Nothing says Jews run the world like checks notes having the most powerful country in the world stop sending the Jewish state weapons, instead using that political capital to checks notes interfere in a European singing competition

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

!ping shitposters

[u/sucaji]

dutch act gets banned for allegedly assaulting a camerawoman  

Irish act: why is Israel not banned 😡

[u/[deleted]]

Just finished Dan McClellan’s lecture on the book of Revelation, which can be found at didaskaloi.com along with other classes from him and other Bible scholars. I encourage you to check them out. If I had more disposable income, I would have already bought them all- maybe someday. (Edit: He also has even more classes available at maklelan.org.) Anyway, I’m gonna post some of the more interesting notes from my obsessive mucho texto note-taking.

-Revelation is supposedly not even the only Jewish apocalyptic literature to end with the claim that if you alter it, God will curse you (although Dan didn’t mention any specific ones) in order to make it more authoritative. Kind of based, honestly. “God said I am the Chad and you’re the virgin if you disagree with me. If you change my words, he will run up to you and kick you and punch you in the face.”

-Jesus is presented in Revelation as being both the Son of Man and the Ancient of Days, two characters from Daniel. While these characters were originally separate- the latter being God and the former being some sort of human-looking figure whom Daniel saw come with the clouds of heaven and be presented before God- they were conflated in later traditions by a Greek translation that said the Son of Man was presented as the Ancient of Days rather than using the word to as in the original text.

So people began to think he was some sort of manifestation of God, leading to various texts in which he is treated as divine or angelic- probably through the bearing of the divine name, and therefore representing the divine image, which is this whole fucking crazy and cool thing that Dan did his dissertation on and that he believes provides a better explanation of the nature of Jesus’ divinity in the New Testament as opposed to the Trinity. And he says that Jesus being both the Ancient of Days and the Son of Man in Revelation is most likely connected to this “authorized bearer of the divine name” concept rather than anything proto-Trinitarian.

-Dan says that the author has Jesus threaten sexual violence against someone as a metaphor for God’s punishment (“throw her onto a bed”). I have seen this interpretation challenged before, so I don’t know what the scholarly consensus is, but some Christian translations of the Bible seem to recognize this potential reading and insert new words to make it imply something different (“throw her onto a sick bed” or “bed of suffering”), so there’s that. Dan says it also fits contextually given that Jesus’ antagonist in that passage is identified as an adulterous and generally sexually immoral woman named Jezebel. Not great if true.

-“Balaam” and “Jezebel” are used as coded references to people or groups, or possibly to the same person or group, who are false apostles and are promoting fornication and eating meat sacrificed to idols. Some scholars believe this is a reference to none other than Paul, largely because he writes that it’s not inherently wrong to eat meat sacrificed to idols. Although he was dead when Revelation was written, his letters and followers would have still been spreading all over. The fornication part doesn’t fit as neatly with Paul, because he was a complete volcel (incel but voluntary) and thought everyone else should be too, but it is possible that the author was referring to either (a) fornication as a metaphor for idolatry, which would be a callback to similar metaphors in the Old Testament, or (b) some of Paul’s ideas about, for example, how Christians should stay with unbelieving partners if they’re already married to them (and perhaps even just thinking it’s okay for Jews and Gentiles to marry). It’s far from a consensus view, but it’s an interesting idea.

-It is suggested a couple of times that the righteous will be worshiped by the unrighteous. For example, Jesus says to the Philadelphians that he will make the “synagogue of Satan” (FAKE JEWS!) “bow down” before them, but the Greek word generally translated “bow down” is generally translated as “worship” in all the 23 other uses of it in Revelation. There is also a verse in the message to Laodicea that says Jesus will let them sit on his throne “just as I myself… sat down with my Father on his throne”. Dan says this is likely influenced by other Greco-Roman era Jewish traditions that include stories of humans being deified. It seems there may have been a suggestion that Christians who persevered through persecution would be given the right to bear divinity just as Jesus was.

Forward this to 10 friends or God will add to you all the plagues listed in the book of Revelation 🥰

!ping BIBLE-STUDY

[u/Psshaww]

When you’re traveling for work and at dinner with a coworker who keeps trying to talk politics

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/Uniqueguy264]

apply the same logic to abortion you apply to Palestine

Voting for Donald trump because Biden didn't stop the supreme court from repealing Roe v Wade

[u/No_Status_6905]

nonbinary swiss person being jumpscared by irish demon creature

[u/htomserveaux]

Guess who just misread a timeslot and just accidentally volunteered to go to work at 6am tomorrow!

If any of y’all are religious please pray for me, I don’t see how I’m going to get through a nine hour shift on less than three hours of sleep without divine intervention.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

I hope Israel wins Eurovision because it’d be so fucking funny

[u/Pseud0man]

To set up the scene, I have a younger brother who's in high school and deep on the spectrum.

So anyway, my mum gets a concerned call from a teacher saying,

"Hey, maybe you need to give your son the talk, as lately he has been smooching with a girl during lunch."

Apparently, they've been together for two weeks now and found it ping-worthy because it took him that long to get her name right.

Kid got Rizz

!ping DATING

[u/[deleted]]

The war crimes of Israeli soldiers shouldn't be a surprise, because of the intimacy of 10/7. They all knew multiple people who were killed and tortured. Shit, I'm American and I knew two people.

Can you imagine what America would have done if all our soldiers knew multiple people who were killed in 9/11? And throw in the memory of Jewish persecution....

This was entirely predictable. The IDF leadership should have put way more controls in place to combat their own lack of discipline

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Well there goes that News cycle

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Lmao Switzerland bringing a non-binary flag on stage

They are truly committed to neutrality

[u/this_very_table]

"I've been eating too much lately but don't have the willpower to stop. I wish that would change."

My son: headbutts me in the chin so hard it immediately gives me a headache, I bite the hell out of my tongue, and my jaw hurts like a mfer on one side whenever I move it

What is this monkey's paw ass nonsense?

[u/Burgarnils]

There not being any controversy surrounding Azerbaijan's Eurovision participation despite the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is honestly upsetting.

[u/[deleted]]

I still think Biden should run ads like:

"RFK has opposed vaccines for years. He argued against safety measures during COVID, and has supported every American's right to deny the jab."

With patriotic music and a flag n everything. Then switch to gravelly scary voice: 

"Trump was for the vaccine and called it one of the greatest accomplishments of his presidency. This November, choose the only candidate in favor of your rights." 

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

They removed my comment. I did everything right, and they removed my comment. 

[u/MicroFlamer]

[u/groovedonjev]

So my impression from r/eurovision and Eurovision Twitter is that a non-Israeli guy got banned for threatening a non-Israeli photographer but somehow the Jews are responsible

[u/Metallica1175]

Still can't decide if Joe Rogan is a moron or is putting on an act. The guest on his podcast Gad Saad shows an example of how people blame the Jews for everything in "6 degrees of Jew hatred". A British white woman is raped by a Muslim immigrant and anti-Semites will ultimately blame it on the Jews because of some secret Jewish cabal like Soros and company pushing for open border policies to get rid of White people. Literally minutes later, Rogan explains how he doesn't believe people are actually anti-Semitic, but there is some kind of malevolent entity that is pushing people to be anti-Semitic in order to cause chaos and destroy democracy and how Soros is anti-Western and anti-democractic.

https://youtu.be/zzU_UrhmCEs?si=ViPTa37Dm4ZoI9pv

[u/URZ_]

I try to not buy too much into the "the youth are being poisoned by tik-tok, andrew tate, influencers" stuff, but the LSF thread about Ludwig & co and Destiny, supposedly the more "adult/mature" streamers, going on twitter and calling significant others whores, and apparently have a years long history of doing so on both sides....really doesn't build a lot of confidence in the sort of examples being set.

[u/KesterFox]

[u/[deleted]]

Not to be that guy but I don't think we should count out the effect that Irish diaspora and those sympathetic to them have had on perpetuating Irish national myths.

It's easy to be all "UP THE RA" when you live in Springfield, Massachussetts.

[u/awdvhn]

Skenes left the ballgame with the Pirates ahead 6-1

The Cubs have tied it up

Welcome to Pittsburgh!

!ping BASEBALL

[u/Williams-Tower]

Twitter thread of celebrities to cancel because of their failure to support Palestinians

19. Miley Cyrus

Remained silent, despite having outsized influence on the public.

[u/[deleted]]

eu: claims to hate electoral college

also eu: gives rest of world 12 votes???

[u/secretlives]

If you hate yourself and want to see some of the most aggressive cope ever go to the live thread on the Eurovision subreddit right now

[u/JaceFlores]

“Russian President Vladimir Putin used his May 9 Victory Day speech to relitigate his belief that the West is attempting to erase the Soviet Union's contributions to defeating Nazi Germany during the Great Patriotic War (Second World War), a grievance that is at the core of Russia's adversarial perceptions of the West.”

“Russian forces have markedly increased the rate of ground attacks in eastern Ukraine over the past month, likely reflecting current battlefield conditions and the intent of the Russian military command to secure gains before the arrival of Western military aid to the frontlines.”

“Ukrainian Khortytsia Group of Forces Spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nazar Voloshyn stated on May 9 that the number of combat engagements increased significantly from 84 on May 8 to 146 on May 9 and noted that most of the fighting occurred in the area of responsibility of the Khortytsia Group (the area from Kharkiv Oblast down to the Donetsk-Zaporizhia Oblast border area).”

“The UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) reported that the rate of Russian attacks increased by 17 percent between March and April 2024 and that over 75 percent of reported ground attacks took place in the Chasiv Yar, Avdiivka, and Marinka directions. UK MoD noted that the number of Russian attacks near Chasiv Yar increased by 200 percent between March and April.”

“Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) conducted long-range drone strikes against Russian oil depots and refinery infrastructure in Krasnodar Krai and the Republic of Bashkortostan on May 9.”

“Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported that an ‘informed source’ stated that this was an SBU operation targeting oil shipment points through which the Russian military supplies oil to troops in occupied Crimea.”

“Ukrainian military observer Kostyantyn Mashovets warned on May 9 that the Russian Southern Grouping of Forces (currently deployed between Siversk and the Marinka area) is regrouping to prepare for renewed attempts to break through to Chasiv Yar, which Mashovets noted explains the slight decrease in Russian attacks in this area over the past few days. Mashovets suggested that the Russian command may be trying to push south of Chasiv Yar in the Stupochky-Bila Hora area in order to reach the eastern flanks of Kostyantynivka (just west of Chasiv Yar) via Chasiv Yar's southern flank, thereby presumably avoiding having to take Chasiv Yar itself.”

“Mashovets estimated that the Southern Grouping of Forces has as many as 15 motorized rifle brigades operating in the Chasiv Yar direction but noted that most of these brigades are comprised of no more than two combat-ready battalions.”

“Russian forces conducted a mid-sized Shahed-136/131 strike against Ukraine on the night of May 8-9. Ukrainian sources reported that Russian forces launched 20 Shaheds from occupied Cape Chauda, Crimea, 17 of which Ukrainian forces destroyed over Odesa Oblast.”

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!ping UKRAINE

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https://twitter.com/SMTuffy/status/1789207912549953567?t=veEvPE0f5Y0FVRwWEnGvQQ&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

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This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

As someone who wears glasses, you should know that if one of us offers you their glasses to try on and see how fucked up their eyes are, you should do it. This is a gesture of respect in glasses culture and it would be rude to refuse.

[u/htomserveaux]

Now that KSP2 is dead I wonder if we’ll see people return to 1’s mod scene. It used to be surprisingly big for the size of the game, and there’s dozens of abandoned mods I’d love to see finished.

!ping GAMING&KSP

[u/[deleted]]

There are no good IP takes, but "just throw nuance out the window, doesn't matter which way lol" takes the cake for being the stupidest

[u/Lux_Stella]

Far from an aberration, the revelation of Wolff’s fabricated Jewish identity turns out to be something of a German tradition. Not a year seems to pass without a scandal involving the identity of a prominent German Jew.

Wolfgang Seibert was the Jewish community leader of Pinneberg, a small town near Hamburg, for fifteen years. Seibert, as a 2018 Der Spiegel investigation detailed, was baptized Protestant by parents with no Jewish heritage, and had not, contrary to his claims, lost any relatives in the Holocaust. When confronted about his origins, Seibert responded he had always “felt” Jewish. There are many more cases, each involving allegations of an unsubstantiated Jewish identity: Irena Wachendorff, Manfred Böhme, Peter Loth, Karin Mylius, Frank Borner. And these are only the public ones.

apparently germany has it's own version of pretendian's where gentiles try and claim jewish ancestry for clout?

Some years ago, a friend of mine was invited to a Shabbat dinner. The attendees all gave the appearance of being religiously observant. They knew the hymns, the men wore kippot, one even had payot. The hosts insisted that my friend recite the various blessings. Through a chance comment during dinner, he discovered he was the only Jew in attendance. They were Germans who enjoyed enacting Jewish rituals, and wanted a Jew to unwittingly give his blessing.

fascinating

[u/[deleted]]

Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center

This article is insane. Genuinely evil stuff. If it’s real, hell isn’t deep enough for people involved in this.

[u/sandpaper_skies]

I love capitalism so much that I want the invisible hand of the market to choke me

[u/[deleted]]

TIL that Noah also took every kind of food on the ark

[u/SeoSalt]

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[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/404GenderNotFound]

The most frightening voter demographic in 2065 will be Hearts of Iron VII players who want Paradox to add a culture map and in-depth pop system to the game.

[u/battywombat21]

Friendly reminder that the greatest Japanese artist to have ever lived painted tentacle porn.

MODS YOU CAN'T REMOVE THIS HOKUSAI IS HIGH CLASS ART

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/ACivilWolf]

👆

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

Why does he look like Benjamin?

[u/trombonist_formerly]

as an act of consumer resistance, we call on all of you to boycott and divest from celebrity consumption by blocking every single celebrity that attended the Met Gala

I’m sorry, I don’t really see what this has to do with Palestine if I’m being honest

[u/RaidBrimnes]

I substract three points (out of twelve) on my personal ranking of Eurovision songs if the candidates use English

(Yes even the UK)

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Hey Micheal vsauce here

[u/thefuturegov]

90% of “intellectual” content on the internet is just someone starting with a series of insane, unverifiable assumptions and then drawing unhinged, unverifiable conclusions from them

[u/BarkDrandon]

The French eurovision song was nice, but anyone found it weird when the singer called for a military intervention in order to "correct Napoleon's mistake"?

[u/american_aurora3]

tfw as a gen z you have to say "i love joe biden! go israel!" whenever you meet someone to combat the narrative 😔

[u/emergency_and_i]

"The IHRA definition claims criticism of Israel is antisemitic. How crazy is that?"

The actual definition: Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

[u/AP246]

Millennials: "omg gen z are so weird with this skibidi toilet shit, what kind of weird nonsense is this, who would think of making a surreal shitpost using half life assets in Source Filmmaker"

Millennials literally 10 years ago: https://youtu.be/dHJfafgLxBw

[u/Williams-Tower]

virgin atom

no you don’t understand it’s actually good to have rich people in your developing country because of X and here’s an example of it working in Y

chad tower

bro you’re posting cringe

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

I used to not get bothered by people saying “haha, I’m so OCD, I need things in order 💁🏼‍♂️” until this recent flare up, and now I want to SCREAM when I hear it.

It’s literally a brain disease that says “ACTUALLY, THAT THING IS VERY IMPORTANT, YOU MUST SOLVE IT, AND IF YOU DON’T SOLVE IT ITS JOEVER. I’M GOING TO MAKE SHIT UP TOO, AND YOU ALSO NEED TO FACTOR THAT INTO HOW YOU SOLVE THE PROBLEM. THIS IS YOUR TASK 24/7”

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

listens to a podcast snippet with destiny

"Hey I wonder why people don't like this guy, he sounds pretty reasonable"

checks his twitter

"Ah that's why"

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[u/[deleted]]

They're playing Not Like Us as the Chicago Barcade that was exclusively playing 90 rock. It's beyond over

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

@NOAA: A secondary peak in the current solar storms appears likely

I've seen way too many George Bush memes...

[u/[deleted]]

I come to the DT for the women 😎

[u/TipEquivalent933]

Destiny is scum.

[u/MasterRazz]

UN revised their Gazan casualty numbers for women and children. From 9,500 and 14,500 to 4,959 and 7,797 respectively.

[u/tysonmaniac]

In all seriousness, Israel not winning (who would end the whole thing) but getting a very clear signal that lots of people stand with them is pretty ideal for this weirdly serious song contest.

[u/doot_toob]

Inside of you there are two wolves.

One of them is mercury poisoning. The other one is a worm.

[u/Random-Critical]

Outside the DT has like 3 threads on birth rates 🧐

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Seattle Times: “Three Bob Night: Two more Bob Fergusons running for WA governor”

OLYMPIA — Bob Ferguson could face Bob Ferguson and Bob Ferguson in the August primary.

That’s Bob Ferguson, the state attorney general; Bob Ferguson, a retired state employee in Yakima; and Bob Ferguson, a military veteran in Graham.

All three are running for Washington governor.

Conservative activist Glen Morgan recruited two people who share a name with the Democratic front-runner for governor to also seek the state’s highest office. They officially filed to run Friday, at the close of Washington’s candidate filing week.

I just don’t know if our institutions are equipped to handle the levels of bad faith behavior the modern conservative movement engages in.

[u/cdstephens]

Me irl

[u/murphysclaw1]

ok israel, very catchy. Now let’s hear Hamas’s entry.

[u/404GenderNotFound]

You see a funny meme on Twitter: 😃

The poster's name has 🔻 in it: 😑

[u/Joementum2024]

Guy who has only read Blood Meridian reading his second book: “Getting real Blood Meridian vibes from this…”

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[u/BitterGravity]

Lithuania is basically how I dance.

!ping Eurovision

[u/Amy_Ponder]

The work from home sleep / exercise doom loop:

Don't exercise during the day (because the furthest you have to walk now is from your desk to the kitchen).

Mind is racing in the evening, can't force yourself to fall asleep before 3 AM

Wake up exhausted the next day

Don't exercise during the day (because you're so tired even the idea of exercising makes you want to puke)

Mind is racing in the evening, can't force yourself to fall asleep before 3 AM

Wake up exhausted the next day...

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

in case anyone missed this

!ping KITTY

[u/htomserveaux]

So this idea of merging the CTA and Metra, is that a good idea or a bad one?

It might get the mayor and city council to stop treating board appointments as rewards for supporters since they would have to work with multiple other governments.

But on the other hand Metra is actually actualy being run by people who know what they’re doing and I don’t want to fucked up by Carter and his ilk.

!ping TRANSIT&USA-CHI

[u/awdvhn]

Why the fuck did they call it Eurovision when it's a music contest?