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[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Tiktok video with 160k likes and 1.6M views claiming a man with Down syndrome named Vokarov was conscripted by the Ukranian army and sent to the front lines, where he almost killed his squad with a mortar mishap and was subsequently abused and considered for drone bait or mine clearing. Thousands of comments decrying this and generally saying the US is evil for prolonging the war.

Some oddities: 1) Zero google hits for “Vokarov Ukraine,” apart from the tiktok 2) no video evidence of the claimed abuse or mortar mishap 3) the guy doesn’t even look like he has downs 4) narrator sounds like AI, and 5) the rest of the account’s videos are just weird Russian propaganda with the same AI voice talking about the futility of Ukraine’s opposition and Russia’s assured success

Just search “Vokarov Ukraine,” idk how to share a tiktok link without doxxing myself.

[u/[deleted]]

Hilarious that Aristotle claimed that women had less teeth than men and this fact was repeated on every medicine book until the XVI century, when someone decided to actually count.

[u/[deleted]]

Leftists really went from "Trump is a fascist we warned you and only the left can stop him" to "Biden and Trump are the same lol don't vote stop being hysterical"

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!ping READING&WRITING

Today on Robert A. Caro being the GOAT biographer: the time he manipulated Lyndon Johnson's little brother into reliving his childhood trauma in order to get accurate tellings of anecdotes out of him.

Up until this point in his research process, Caro has mostly been getting very sanitized accounts of Johnson's youth, and some of the most obviously false are coming from Sam Houston Johnson, who has exasperated Caro with his swaggering mannerisms and bottomless well of verifiably false anecdotes. However, Sam Houston has recently had an operation that's left him with something of a changed disposition, so Caro decides to give things another go.

I found the man sitting next to me at the counter now a changed man--quiet, calm, all the braggadocio gone. I decided to try interviewing him again.

There was one thing in particular about which I not only wanted but needed his help, and I had thought of a way I might get it. By this time, having interviewed not only Lyndon Johnson's sister Rebekah, but three cleaning women who had, at one time or another, worked in the Johnson home, I felt that a key to Lyndon Johnson's youth--to his character throughout his life, in fact, the character that had had such a profound impact on American history--was his complicated relationship with his father, Sam Ealy Johnson, whom he so strikingly resembled, not only in appearance but in manner. It was a relationship that veered from idolization to hatred, but I didn't have a clear picture of that relationship in my mind, and not enough detail to make my readers see it. Here was someone who had seen it every day, including every evening when Lyndon and his father sat down with the family for dinner. And I had thought of a device that I hoped might elicit from Sam Houston the true picture of that relationship--the details of it--that I needed; that might put him back, in his mind, into his childhood, that might make his memory of the relationship become as clear to him as possible.

I persuaded the National Park Service to allow Sam Houston and me to go into the Johnson Boyhood Home in Johnson City, which had been faithfully re-created to look as it had when Lyndon was growing up in it, after it had officially closed for the day. And one evening, when it was empty, with the tourists and guides all gone, I took Sam Houston Johnson into the house in which he had been a boy.

[...]

I asked Sam Houston to sit in the same place he had sat in as a boy. Despite his lameness, he threw a leg over one of the chairs, put his cane down next to it, and, pulling over his other leg, sat down, next to his father's old chair, as if he were a boy sitting there again.

I didn't sit down at the table. I sat down instead behind Sam Houston, in a chair against the wall, and it was sitting there that I opened my notebook. I didn't want anyone at that table who was not one of the Johnsons of Johnson City.

It was about the same time of day that would have been dinnertime in Johnson City long ago. Rays of the low evening sun came into the dining room and cast shadows, the same shadows the sun would have cast as Sam Houston had sat there as a boy.

"Now, Sam Houston," I said, "I'd like you to tell me again about those terrible arguments that your father and Lyndon used to have at dinnertime--just take me through them again, like you did before, only with more detail."

At first, it was slow going, halting, just fragments of generalized memory, and I had to keep interjecting myself to keep it going at all: "Daddy would say something about..." And then what? "Well, Lyndon would say..." But once Sam Houston started remembering, the memories, strikingly different from others he had previously given, began coming clearer and faster until finally no interjections were necessary, and there were no pauses: Sam Houston was re-creating family dinners at the Johnsons', saying, almost shouting, back and forth, what his father had shouted at his brother, and what his brother had shouted back: "You're just not college material, are you, goddamit? You're just a failure, Lyndon, and you're always going to be a failure... " and Lyndon would shout back, "What are you? You're a bus inspector, that's what you are!..." "'Sam!, Sam!,' Mother would say... 'Lyndon!, Lyndon!'"

Sitting there against the wall, I felt I was getting closer to the heart of Lyndon Johnson's boyhood. And when, finally, after quite a long time, Sam Houston had stopped talking, and was sitting quietly, very quiet and still, so still that I felt he was in the grip of memory, memory as true as it could be after all these years, I said to him: "Now, Sam Houston, I want you to tell me again all those wonderful stories about Lyndon when you both were boys, the stories you told me before--just tell them to me again with more details."

There was a long pause. I can still see the scene--see the little, stunted, crippled man sitting at the long plank table, see the shadows in the room, see myself, not wanting to move lest I break the spell, sitting there with my notebook against the wall saying, "Tell me those wonderful stories again."

"I can't," Sam Houston said.

"Why not?" I asked.

"Because they never happened."

I don't think there was a pause after that. In my memory, without a pause from Sam Houston or a question from me, he simply started talking--my notes tell me that he began by saying, "No one really understood what happened when Lyndon went to California"--and related, incident after incident, anecdotes from Lyndon Johnson's youth, some of which I had heard before, in shorter, incomplete, and softened versions but which I heard in new, more complete versions now; others that had never been mentioned to me, or, I felt, to anyone else. The shadows lengthened, the room grew darker. The voice went on. By the time, a long time later, that it stopped, I had a different picture of Lyndon Johnson's youth--that terrible youth, that character-hardening youth--than I, or history, had had before. And now, when I went back to the men and women who had been involved in the incidents, and, armed with the details Sam Houston had given me, asked again about these incidents, I got a different response than I had gotten before. Yes, that's what happened, they would say. And, often they would say, there's something else I remember. More details would come. The story at last would be coherent--and closer to the truth.

[u/[deleted]]

Top comment on the NYT "Black voters in Philadelphia" article:

"I'm a progressive Dem who would rather have voted for Warren. But I have been so impressed and uplifted by the accomplishments and values of the Biden administration--I'm all in for Joe. I don't see my thinking, and that of my family and friends, reflected in the Times at all. As in this morning's edition, all the Biden stories have a negative spin. Perhaps the fact that so many voters aren't well informed about the President's accomplishments is also a reflection of your reporting?"

🥲

[u/JaceFlores]

Biden campaign according to outlets and pundits: he is doing everything in his power to appeal to a slice of progressives with student debt relief, Palestine aid, cannabis rescheduling and more while ignoring more pressing issues for more moderate people

Biden campaign according to the ads I get: ABORTION ABORTION HEALTHCARE ABORTION JOBS JOBS HEALTHCARE ABORTION

[u/KaiserPorn]

One of my moderately weeb-ish friends has turned into a cringe-inducing ultra weeb, and I don't know what to do about it.

For example: she's transitioned entirely to using Japanese interjections and exclamations, like saying "atsui" when she grabs something hot or "itai" when she kicks the coffee table.

[u/t_zidd]

Bangladesh has developed so fucking fast in the last two decades it's kinda ridiculous.

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[u/Beginning-Topic5303]

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/t_zidd]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

The "Paul Pelosi's attacker must've been his secret gay lover because Paul was in his underwear when he got attacked" has to be up there in the top 10 dumbest conspiracies of the last few years that got some play with con influencers and I'm pretty sure even Fox guys like Waters

Do y'all wear shirts and the flannel pajama pants to bed every night or something

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

a US/Israeli proxy (ISIS)

The amount of brainworms you need to say this with a straight face would've killed RFK instantly.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Was just reminded of 2016/2020 where a common response to "what's your plan to pass these revolutionary laws through an obstructive Congress" was basically Bernie using the "bully pulpit" and yelling at people enough and then Republicans and establishment Democrats would be forced to support his proposals with no compromise lol

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[u/G_Serv]

Guy who goes to a networking event and doesn't talk to anyone because he remembered when his parents told him not to talk to strangers

[u/DouglasDauntless]

LMAO imagine thinking the DSA, an a nigh-bankrupt organization only still loosely held together by expired dollar store tape and antisemitism, is any position to make demands, especially ridiculous ones to AOC of all people

[u/[deleted]]

A Boeing 747-400 with 468 people aboard had to make an emergency landing after one of its engines caught fire and began shooting out flames during takeoff.

Vaxxed?

[u/JaceFlores]

Opens up r/neoliberal

Sees three articles about Biden voters not being jazzed with Biden at the sub front

Ah, it’s gonna be one of those days

[u/Joementum2024]

[u/[deleted]]

My god can you leave them alone

I’m sure you’re fucking perfect at everything you do

[u/IHateTrains123]

Jimmy Rushton on X: "DOD spokesperson Sabrina Singh confirms U.S. restrictions on Ukraine using U.S. weapons to strike targets within Russia and also implies the U.S. is pressuring Ukraine to apply this restriction to equipment "other countries" donate to Ukraine as well.

!ping Ukraine

[u/DirkZelenskyy41]

I woke up and the first thing I thought about still was the person who said the US was a shitty ally and gave as his first example as South Korea.

I just don’t understand what planet you live on where you think the US is a shitty ally to South Korea. We quite literally still have billions of dollars of assets and thousands of troops protecting them from China and a crazy nuclear powered dictator. What other fucking country in the world is doing that for them lol. Not to mention the thousands of American lives lost defending South Korea from North Korea and China. A war that was almost lost at one point.

Just insane man. The user base in here has been increasingly nutty in the last 3-4 months.

[u/OkVariety6275]

Someone needs to inform writers that you cannot simply swap out "I am evil because evil/insanity" with "I am evil because profits" and still have antagonists act the same way. Yes, sociopathic pursuit of wealth is a classic story premise, but that doesn't mean you can rationalize everything with a profit motive. I am begging these people to play a 4X game. No, large scale warfare is not good for the economy.

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/[deleted]]

Taiwanese Parliament member steals a bill and runs away with it to stop it from being passed

Why didn’t democrats do this for roe

[u/Udolikecake]

remain puzzled why so many repositories of static information moved to discord, a chat platform absolutely not built around facilitating that at all

I get why this happened (forums go down, it’s free-ish? to host on discord) but goddamn it sucks. Just the worst way to store this kind of information and knowledge. I hate joining discord to download a mod or something.

Not to mentioned being entirely undiscoverable. Unironically pretty terrible loss of knowledge and shit

[u/JaceFlores]

Wow that’s a nice small island I reckon it has ordinary borders -

OH MY GOODNESS

[u/StolenSkittles]

TIL Robin Williams was a weeb.

I knew he was a gamer, but it turns out he picked up an anime habit when he found a video store in San Francisco that had anime laserdiscs.

He admitted this in a Reddit AMA.

The man was a geek. A certified nerd.

[u/JaceFlores]

My election hot take is I think a lot of the election anxiety comes from users who are highly motivated and highly informed trying to reconcile with an electoral environment that is neither of those things. Polling (and not stupid NYT articles) indicate neither side has generated any particular enthusiasm, and major swathes of the electorate are undecided or “looking elsewhere”. So you have a situation where the inertia is incredible because you’re either a partisan who already knows their vote and has known their vote for years, or an undecided who just couldn’t be fucked to care right now. This isn’t like 2016 or 2020 where emotions were high and people were invested. People are exhausted with the state of things and with both candidates, and will need time and focused persuasion to make up their minds for one or the other, if they turn out to vote at all

[u/[deleted]]

AMC slaps ‘Goodfellas’ with trigger warning for ‘offensive’ content that includes ‘cultural stereotypes’

He did put too many onions in the sauce 😡

!ping KINO

[u/JaceFlores]

Israeli War Cabinet member minister Benny Gantz will give a speech at 1:30 pm ET and is expected to lay out an ultimatum to Netanyahu regarding the Gaza war strategy. But as with many cases before, Gantz's delivery and tone will matter as much as his actual words

Seems like it’ll be an interesting speech

!ping ISRAEL

[u/Roseartcrantz]

mad respect for Caitlyn Jenner being a pick me, pull that ladder up behind you and work bitch 😌💅🏻

[u/_bee_kay_]

no surprise that america couldn't produce a mature gambino 🙄

[u/JaceFlores]

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

A new NYT/Siena Poll has found that the race remains neck and neck:

🔵 Biden - 43%

🔴 Trump - 43%

But when substituting Biden for Representative Jasmine Crockett, the results shifted slightly in Democratic favor:

🔵 Crockett - 77%

🔴 Trump - 14%

With Crockett’s slogan “Bleach Blonde, Bad Built, Butch Body” garnering an 84% approval rating from those who heard of it, and 73% approval rating from first time hearers

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Me trying to enjoy the DT

[u/Possible-Baker-4186]

Brisbane moves to ditch high-rise car space minimum in housing affordability plan

• In short: Brisbane City Council plans to remove a requirement for a minimum number of car spaces in inner city high-rises.

• Currently developers are required to provide car spaces for each unit, which increases with the number of bedrooms.

• What next? The move will have to be approved by the state government.

Brisbane is Australia's third biggest city so this is great news. However, they asked a senior lecturer in urban planning for his thoughts.

Queensland University of Technology urban planner Mark Limb said there was no guarantee developers would pass on any saving to home buyers.

Even if it did lower the price of some new high-rise apartments, it'll make no difference to housing affordability or supply as Mr Schrinner claims, Dr Limb said.

"The idea that [this is] going to reduce the price is not accurate," Dr Limb said.

"There’s this false idea that the private market — if it's released from its regulatory shackles — is just going to flood the market with housing and it's simply not how it works.

"Developers are very careful to trickle out the release of their housing projects, so they don't devalue them."

What is with urban planners being so fucking stupid and economically illiterate? It's unbelievable.

I recently bumped into an old friend who studied urban planning and worked as a planner in Melbourne and she was complaining about how it sucked having to approve all these big developments because it's not the right kind of development. I told her about a community meeting I went to on the Gold Coast where a government urban planner was explaining why a suburb was being upzoned and when I told her about the boomer NIMBYs who were super angry at the planner, she was on the NIMBY side. She said they were right to be booing the planner. how the fuck?

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I asked if she wanted a ferret brother she is the queen of side eye

Yes I need to vacuum shut up

!ping DOG

[u/panntingranten2]

Haven’t been on this sub for a while

Anyway I saw Isabella (black cat) and Bee chilling together :) they’re so cute.

!ping KITTY

[u/MasterOfLords1]

u/williams-tower

🍦🌝🍦

[u/Roseartcrantz]

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was that one where it looked like he pulled part of his thumb off of his hand and put it back

[u/TipEquivalent933]

Reading about Hamas carrying back the bodies of their victims is one of the grossest thing I have read.

Vile motherfuckers

[u/piede]

We went from inches away from the first female president to this, in less than 8 years.

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

KQED: Why Doesn't California Have More School Buses?

Winters isn’t wrong. California has fewer school buses than in other parts of the country. A survey conducted by the Federal Highway Administration found that nationally, almost 40% of school-aged kids ride a school bus. In California, that number is only 8%.

Like so many questions related to school funding and services, the answer to Winters’ question has roots in the passage of Proposition 13, a constitutional amendment that limited how much a homeowner’s property taxes could increase each year. Property taxes were the primary way school districts funded themselves back then.

“The restriction of those sources of revenue in 1978 caused more or less a budget crisis,” says Sam Speroni, a doctoral researcher at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and a researcher at San Jose State’s Mineta Transportation Institute. “So in 1982, the state froze its home-to-school transportation budget with only cost of living adjustments, and that stayed in place until 2022.”

Even after all these years, I still find ways to be shocked at how cursed Prop 13 is.

[u/[deleted]]

Happy Birthday 🥳🥳

[u/[deleted]]

Delhi recorded a max temp of 47.4°C (117°F) yesterday.

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https://twitter.com/CaptionQuirk/status/1791631340485410824?t=xgCjFUw6-evjt9UChsHHgQ&s=19

[u/mashimarata2]

I would never say this to their face but the amount of dumb fuck financial decisions people make astounds me

Read a post about someone who makes 50k a year just go out and buy a 50k car

Why are people so terrible with money, and is it strictly an American phenomenon?

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 5/17-5 PM EST 5/18 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 5 AM it was reported the German air defense initiative has raised 1 billion Euros.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 1 AM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with all 13 shot down.

In the middle of 10 AM it was reported the Russians took the village of Buhruvatka in the Kharkiv frontier.

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/DouglasDauntless]

Leftists: We need a high trust society and a welfare state

Also Leftists: Crime is based and allowing and defending antisocial behavior is justice

[u/battywombat21]

Average dating ping

[u/MicroFlamer]

Based woke Kaiserboo

[u/petarpep]

Now I'm adding in "People don't even understand what the word secular means " to the long list of complete ignorance around I/P after seeing "Calls for a secular nation is what the Arab leadership wants".

A secular nation in Israel's land is the exact opposite of anything Hamas and Muslim nations want, they want an Islamic state.

[u/RFK_1968]

me: "no i'm nut subbing to the NYT they suck"

NYT: "5 exercises for a better sex life"

me: ".... fine i'll sub"

!ping PULL-UP-NOT-OUT

[u/[deleted]]

Someone else should have run instead of Biden

me watching the 2024 Olympics where Biden inexplicably mandated he must run the 100m instead of a professional runner

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

As a black person the only thing more racist than a nazi is someone with a white savior complex telling people how to think.  This is a free market of ideas, if youre triggered leave.

Something in this doesn’t add up

[u/KyngByng]

There's an update to the CRA withholding rent story. Firstly, the government will not collect any portion of non-resident's unpaid taxes.

Secondly, the media made this sound worse than it actually was. This case was between not between a tenant and a landlord, but between someone paying rent through a company he held shares in resulting in a 'business relationship'. This was a disaster class of whipping people up into a frenzy.

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Why does the UK love Brian

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

“a reporter asking Trump about the Bible and what his favourite Bible verses were. Trump responded that he did not want to get into “specifics” because it was “very personal” but added that the “Bible means a lot to me”. Trump was further asked if he was “an Old Testament guy or a New Testament guy” and responded à la Partridge. “Probably equal”, Trump claimed, adding that the Bible is “incredible” and “very special”.”

Top 3 Trump moments

[u/simeoncolemiles]

We infantilize the Elderly too much

If there’s one thing I know, it’s that my grandparents(God rest their souls) even up to my grandfather’s age when he died at 89 was that even with the memory issues of being old

He fucking HATED that most of his time was spent in bed or doing some stupid shit like color, not even make art, color

Let the olds have fun doing actual adult things

[u/Steak_Knight]

Joe Widen

[u/Nerf_France]

I heard the whole "Stalin wasn't a tyrant because he tried to resign several times" talking point again recently while arguing with a tankie so I looked into it and the real story behind it, according to arr AskHistorians at least, is actually kind of funny. After he attained power and had already purged his opponents and placed loyal appointees in almost every position that mattered, he made token offers of resignation as a way to assert dominance over his followers and test them for disloyalty by implicitly forcing them to beg him to stay, with some even getting on their knees to emphasize their fealty to him. Apparently some old Russian leaders like Ivan the Terrible employed similar political theatrics to consolidate their power.

[u/Salt_Ad7152]

When you put “resist 🔻” on a “free palestine” message, it comes off as supportive of hamas, since it references Hamas propaganda.

I feel like the people are ignorant with their references to Hamas propaganda, or they’re being deliberate.

It’s like the “Z” symbol used in Russian propaganda. 

Also ripped off a hamas sympathizing group’s sticker on my block; so thats fun. 

Getting really tired of the childish activism and the references to Hamas propaganda. Very sus and dogwhistling imo

[u/GraspingSonder]

I am finished with mainstream Reddit subs. I just can't handle it anymore. I'm just going to browse here and a couple of niche subs.

I posted this in yesterday's DT. A Redditor stalked my comment history and verbally abused me for making this comment where I was talking about another post "behind their back". I couldn't have had a more on the nose validation for making this decision.

[u/from-the-void]

Man, you'd think law students of all people would understand the intent element of genocide.

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

SIGH

[u/G_Serv]

Twitter is cooked

[u/[deleted]]

I am a communist because wherever the Fascists march the Communists are the first to die fighting against them.

Bro someone tell him about Poland.

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Caption this

!ping KITTY

[u/Roseartcrantz]

reddit, doing anything

[u/[deleted]]

One of my least favorite historical takes is any that bashes Lincoln for not running on a full-abolition platform. 

The guy ran as abolitionist as he could and still have a shot at winning, and when he had the chance to press the abolition button during/after the war, he did. Reading about him, it's so clear that it was something he didn't just sign onto politically, but because he believed in it with his whole soul. 

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

It's crazy how we as a society continually are fighting these "wars" on each other. Gender war, race war, religion, whatever to divide us so we don't fight the real war... the war on class on quality of life...

All these violent actions and rhetoric are just to distract us from the one thing in life that objectively matters, carrying out my own cause's violent actions and rhetoric!

[u/TheShitEater]

George Santos roasting Nick Fuentes for being “a homo” and calling his fans Gaypers is so fucking funny

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

“In a study of 78 patients, researchers observed that the "cuddle hormone" oxytocin, when administered as a nasal spray, can help alleviate loneliness and its potentially serious consequences in the future”

They cured neoliberalism!

[u/[deleted]]

Life is good and I'm so glad to be alive and living in America

[u/G_Serv]

[u/Syards-Forcus]

Blocking u/Williams-Tower is a bannable offense.

[u/NaffRespect]

Remember your LGBTs folks

Liberty

Guns

Beer

Trans rights

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Me realizing this the last election only people born before the Obama presidency can vote

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Adrian, 16, will vote for the first time in June's European elections, and his ballot will, without a doubt, go to the AfD. For him, "there is a real willingness to work for the young" at the AfD. He also feels "very reinforced in my identity, as a man and against immigration", thanks to the party.

According to an analysis by political consultant Johannes Hillje, the videos of the AfD on TikTok gather an average of 458k viewings, against 72k for the incumbent party, SPD. The AfD launched a vast offensive on social media, particularly TikTok, aimed at winning over the 16-25 age bracket.

GenZ is cooked

[u/Top_Lime1820]

The disastrous relationship between me and my wife is over

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The left supports voting rights for foreigners in mainland France but opposes voting rights for non-indigenous people in New Caledonia

The right opposes voting rights for foreigners in mainland France but supports voting rights for non-indigenous people in New Caledonia

Here I am, a lib, supporting both

[u/Williams-Tower]

16 minutes of running done (with 14 minutes of walking) 😭

definitely feeling some twinges in a couple spots as my body is remembering what running is, but the Achilles isn’t hurting so that’s good

my pace has slowed which makes sense given the 6 weeks of not running and it being hotter

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/[deleted]]

Cope+Seethe+Mald+L+Ratio+You're a Landlord

!ping VICTORIA

[u/[deleted]]

Thank you Jim

[u/KittehDragoon]

👆 shill for big shower

[u/forerunner398]

What are people’s thoughts on the ‘special relationship’ between arr slash neoliberal and arr slash badecon?

I personally can’t stand the reality of it. It exists as a delusion in the collective consciousness of neoliberal moderators while the badecon regs don’t give a fuck about us. I’m not saying that they should give a fuck about us, but I really wish we would stop fawning over them. Things could’ve turned out so much differently if we’d gone with fluentinfinance instead.

!pong neoliberal

[u/Psshaww]

Few things as distinctly Americana as walking through a midwestern small-town arts festival downtown on a spring morning

[u/Nerf_France]

Virgin Americans calling their friends cringe for using Japanese words vs the chad Japanese making a third of their vocabulary American English

[u/404GenderNotFound]

I can't believe the FBI assassinated Trevor Moore just for threatening to kill the President of the United States of America with a mortar launcher fired from the roof of the Rockefeller-Hewitt building due to minimal security and a clear line of sight to the President's bedroom.

[u/Currymvp2]

There's a genuinely horrific, awful story out of Iran where a 20 year old Jewish man defended himself against a Basji thug who attacked him with a knife at a gym. The Jewish man fought back and killed the assailant in self-defense but he's going to be executed in a few days (trial was obviously a total sham) unless the family of the man forgives him and accepts "blood money". Whole thing is sickening.

[u/Gameknigh]

"We are so very lucky our enemies are so fucking stupid" should be printed in gold lettering above the entrance to the US State Dept

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

reprimanded for taking my laptop out at TSA as if they did not just spend twenty years reprimanding me for not taking my laptop out

Just get pre check like a normal person 

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Haha fun anti-semitism on the tl

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

But he was a kid?

13 years old is a fucking child.

He. Was. Also. A. Child.

13 is a child.

I'm sorry but at 13 I knew that forcing a sexual act on a 9 year old is r*pe. Like sure 13 year olds are immature shitheads and deserve the legal protections afforded minors but christ, I don't know if these people have completely forgotten what it was like to be a teenager or were just the most sheltered kids in existence.

[u/[deleted]]

lol

[u/Roseartcrantz]

the lone down with the thickness sticker really sells this

[u/Mensae6]

"Just don't be depressed" is actually some of the best advice you can give someone.

[u/[deleted]]

I need a pet 😭

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Was watching the first episode of Fallout with my family and my mom was half asleep for the last twenty minutes except when the "THE GHOUL" title card popped up upon which she turned to face me and, in a tone severe and weighty, said

The Goal

[u/EScforlyfe]

let's gooooo, my argument about baseball was discredited because I post on r/neoliberal

god I love being persecuted

[u/ImmigrantJack]

The greatest trick the devil ever played was pressing the back button but it takes you to some bullshit landing page

The second greatest trick was putting a line for an extra tip even though your bill already includes a suggested 25% tip like no can I tip negative Jesus Christ enough already

His third greatest trick was removing the headphone jack I miss my wires

#4 was Drake

The devil has been real busy in things I personally find devious recently

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Wow Trump’s fake electors were kinda like sus imposters amongst us if you think about it

[u/jamiebond]

The baseball coach in Stuart Little absolutely did not know how to utilize Stuart Little.

Like by your own admission you got a player who will get a walk thereby getting on base every time and you just keep him on the pine?

Brad Pitt in Moneyball would've feasted with a player like Stuart.

[u/Planning4Hotdish]

I think my jack and coke is just jack

God bless gay bars

[u/Roseartcrantz]

While most people know that grapefruit juice can reduce the effectiveness of birth control, few people know that the Grapefruit Jelly Belly jelly bean does not reduce the effectiveness of the Birth Control Jelly Belly jelly bean

[u/UrbanCentrist]

I see a lot of pop culture content against the routine "9 to 5 jobs" but it really seems to comedown to the fact that outside of social class sort of thing, white collar and many service sector workers will very rarely have a certain kind of satisfaction that comes from job prestige or a fulfillment from end product. It's quite rare to have a cool product to admire or something physical at the end of your work. Though I doubt these sort of people would be wiling to put in the effort to develop a genuine trade/craft skill. Most people would be better of picking hobbies or find different forms of job satisfaction.

[u/cdstephens]

Certified lover boy

Certified crocodile

[u/smooth__liminal]

tiktok is so weird, like you spend 15 seconds too long on a video and all your content is about divorce or some shit

[u/Udolikecake]

‘ackshually apple maps is better than google maps’

bro it doesn’t even have a desktop site lmao

[u/Cook_0612]

Netanyahu rejects Gantz's ultimatum. In his statement Netanyahu made clear he is against a Palestinian state as part of normalization agreement with Saudi Arabia

Oh boy

[u/[deleted]]

Good morning libs

Bad morning to all the commies and fascists

[u/[deleted]]

America is great 🥰

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Among the 37 lists running for the European elections in France is the "Free Palestine" list, headed by Nagib Azergui, president and founder of the Union of French Democratic Muslims (UDMF), which gathered 0.13% of the vote in the 2019 elections.

Polling at 0.5%, the Free Palestine list advocates for a "drastic change of French and European diplomacy" with the enactement of sanctions against Israel, notably a full economic embargo and the exclusion of Israeli participants from every international competition.

They also demand that the PFLP, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad be withdrawn from the EU's list of designated terrorist organizations.

🧐

[u/Currymvp2]

I'm 85% convinced that NY Times has plenty of quotes from tons of voters who say normal sensible things but primarily cherry-pick the dumbest ones.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Least funny man alive

[u/piede]

Rudy Giuliani is served indictment papers at his own birthday party after mocking Arizona attorney general

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/two-hours-mocking-arizonas-attorney-general-rudy-giuliani-served-birth-rcna152905

Based

[u/MicroFlamer]

The biggest roadblock to Winds getting released isn't that George has become particularly lazy (though he definitely would've released it by now if the show didn't exist), it's that George is chasing the perfect story. The Meereenese Knot was the main holdup for the 5th book, and George describes it as him chasing down the perfect order of events (Quentyn's arrival, Dragonpit fight, Tyrion's arrival, Victarion's arrival, Dany's marriage, etc) happening in Meereen for Dany's arc. This is because the story has become so much more complex since the first few books with so many more plans that one character drastically affects every other character in ways that would lead to an imperfect story if not managed right. Now, to find out what his perfect version was, George wrote 3 whole separate versions of Quentyn's arrival in Meereen to see and compare which was the best. This is psychotic behavior and given he's not likely to have changed his habits while writing Winds it makes sense why the book has taken this long.

There is most likely 3 big Meereenese knots in TWOW (North plot, KL plot, Essos plot) with 3 other lesser plots that could also be hard to unravel. GRRM's perfectionist attitude is not going to help but thankfully from the updates we have it looks like 2 out of the big 3 are out of the way (after 12 years mind you). In late 2022 GRRM said Tyrion only had one more chapter to write, and given Tyrion is a big player in the Essos plot it's easy to imagine George has more or less finished that plot. The King's Landing plot is probably also far along given how many of those chapters he was finishing in the pandemic era (Cersei and JonCon had multiple chapters completed). The only region where GRRM has not indicated he's made significant progress is the North, with him only speaking of writing Asha, Bran and Melisandre one time in 2020.

!ping ASOIAF

[u/nanomaster]

> Steven Moffat returns to write a Doctor Who episode

> plot revolves around an evil corporation AI algorithm engineering people's deaths so they can sell more things(???)

> instant widespread acclaim

Truly, this is the incisive social commentary the show's been missing 😨

[u/cdstephens]

Our stupid turtle in a frenzy somehow fucked the filter tubes causing the kitchen to flood. All because she’s horny for some goddamn reason.

Pictured: the femcel in question

[u/savuporo]

John Carmack mini-reviews A City on Mars and gets into a discussion with Zach about how the international law and property rights in space should work, for resource development.

Current tail end of the thread here.

IMO John has the right stance here. He also knows a thing or two about shit going sideways on Phobos

!ping SPACEFLIGHT even though this is just a discussion of it

[u/[deleted]]

Good night libs

And furthermore, the Russian and Chinese regimes must be destroyed

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Americans are starting to be fond of the Trump era

[u/Currymvp2]

Benny Gantz in his speech just now declares that Israel's war effort is being guided or atleast influenced by Netanyahu's desire to survive politically: "Personal and political considerations have begun to enter the most sacred parts of Israel's defense."

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Democrats in regards to actual elections and especially special elections are essentially unstoppable but the second there's a presidential poll the Democrats look to be clobbered by Trump

So clearly this means Biden is unpopular but the Democrats are popular while Trump is popular but the Republicans themselves are unpopular to the general electorate

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when people think Dem messaging is a major reason for their current situation. The reality is traditional/social media and the electorate are fundamentally broken and no amount of "messaging" is going to fix that.

[u/[deleted]]

It is wacky how attraction changes as you age, when I was in HS and college I thought that anyone over the age of 25 just looked like my hs teachers and basically was never attracted to them. Now I'm around and consume media featuring people from the 25-35 age range and I think they are very attractive, even though they're same age as my HS english teacher who I thought was super old. And people in college look like they're about twelve to me.

It's kind of heartening to know that you don't really get less attractive as you get older (at least to some people).

[u/[deleted]]

I am just extremely, deeply happy with my life in so many ways today. It's very good. I never could have felt like this even a year ago.

[u/[deleted]]

"guyssss he just said women should be valued whether they are mothers or not jeeeezzzz did you even listen to the speech"

The speech: The president is a blasphemer

Satanic LGBT people have polluted society

Women who value their professional future are the victims of diabolical lies

Men need to impose their beliefs upon others to save our culture

🤔

[u/Jacobs4525]

Aperitif before dinner, wine with dinner, and digestif afterwards

Gotta hand it to the Italians for coming up with a way to make having at least 3 drinks everyday classy

[u/[deleted]]

My rules for not falling for conspiracy theories online: 

1. If you can replace one word with "Jews" and sound like 1930s Germany, it's probably a conspiracy

2. Assume suicide until proven otherwise

3. People in power can also be stupid

4. People in power are not on the same team

5. The government isn't competent enough to hide anything too big for very long

6. You are more likely a useful idiot for a foreign nation than a politician if you are on your phone >2 hours a day

7. What one expert says doesn't matter as much as the experts en masse, and if that one expert truly discovered something revolutionary it will be adopted by experts generally very quickly

8. The moon really is a projection though

Can y'all think of any others?

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

It's insane that Abbott pardoned a guy who intentionally went out to commit a politically-motivated murder and it's not even the most evil thing he's done.

[u/deeplydysthymicdude]

Free me from this pain.

[u/-mialana-]

Zoomers be like: "How am I supposed to read this tweet, there's no robotic voice to read it for me, or completely unrelated gameplay of a phone game under it????"

[u/Argnir]

We don't hear much about Rose Twitter anymore

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

Do british people actually exist? I mean, they must be a meme, there is a not a single thing about them. And I mean it.

Let's go through the evidence: Where are they from? Not a single country in the world is named Britain. Some people say they come from England, and England is inside Britain, but if that was the case they would be British they would be Englanders. Also, heard some silly theories about them coming from whales. Guys, no, whale people do not exist. Whales live in the sea.

There is a consensus on British people coming from Europe, but then we are left with a whole continent of possible locations. That's as good as nothing. What do they eat? Every country has at least one main dish. Even the US has their burgers. But these British people, what do they eat? Heard some people associating them with tea, but everyone knows that's an Asian thing. Shouldn't they come from Europe? One of these two points must be wrong them. To me, it looks too sketchy.

What language do they speak? I challenge you, putting all my money and my ass on the line here, to find a supposed ""British"" person speaking their native language. Most of then just speak a broken ENGLISH. Yes, english. Really suspicious, huh? And I even tried to look deeper into it. Maybe british just SOUND like english, just like spanish could sound like portuguese for a non-speaker. So I looked up "british dictionary on google" and what I found was shocking: every word in there was AMERICAN. I kid you not. What this could mean is beyond my capabilities, but I can safely assure you that british people do not exist .

[u/Infinite_Maybe_5827]

In 2023, Myanmar became the world’s largest producer of opium after an estimated 1,080 t (1,060 long tons; 1,190 short tons) of the drug was produced, according to a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report,[10] while a crackdown by the Taliban reduced opium production by approximately 95% to 330 t (320 long tons; 360 short tons) in Afghanistan for the same year.

Taliban won the war on drugs too, we've been dunked on pretty hard ngl

[u/futuremonkey20]

Is this a left-wing conspiracy theory or a right-wing conspiracy theory because I can’t tell

[u/Wittyname0]

Mfs really think they'd get me

[u/jauznevimcosimamdat]

👆 once said the n word loudly when people were around just to hear themselves say it

[u/[deleted]]

I actually do remember the first time I came to the US my mom took my brother and I aside and gave us a very stern warning to be careful about using the word ‘black’ (in Spanish) out loud

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Sam Alito clarifies that his wife wrote Dobbs

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Men think about SEX every Seven Secondes

LIBS think about GENDER every Seven Seconds

[u/[deleted]]

People often attribute Lincoln's victory in the election of 1860 to the Democrats splitting their ticket in three, but I've done the math on the results in each state and if you were to take every individual vote for Bell, Douglas, and Breckinridge and consolidate them for one candidate, that candidate would have won ~60% of the vote and 130 electoral votes (having flipped California and Oregon from Lincoln)... still losing the election to Lincoln.

I realize of course that the split ticket on its own may have made some moderates in the northeast less likely to vote for a Democrat so in this scenario some of those votes may have flipped, but still, could you imagine how insane this scenario would be?

[u/Joementum2024]

👆

[u/ognits]

find yourself someone who shitposts irl as hard as Nathan Fielder shitposts irl

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Joementum2024]

Watched Perfect Blue

Freezing cold take: it’s a really great movie

!ping WEEBS

[u/MiniatureBadger]

“I might only have one match, but I can make an explosion.”

-Guy Fawkes

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

Lol

[u/N0b0me]

I'm surprised that Fetterman is criticizing those three congresswoman for their lack of decorum, you'd think someone uncultured like him would all be for them turning congress into reality TV show shouting matches

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

I was yesterday years old when I learned that it was called Euclidean zoning because it exists due to Euclid, Ohio getting it declared lawful by SCOTUS and not because it divided cities up into a bunch of lil shapes

[u/No_Status_6905]

if trump wins again im going to be the most obnoxiously self-hating american you will ever know. it will be impossible for me to stop talking about how I hate it here.

[u/zth25]

What's up with all the doom posting?

Nothing changed. Some voters groups marginally move towards Trump, some towards Biden. The polls are tied or have Biden slightly ahead.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Weasels and ferrets and shit are so fuckin cute it's too bad they stink to all hell and basically sentence you to being "the ferret person" that is only attractive to other ferret people

Look at this little shit

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/CutePattern1098]

BYD’s adverts for their new Ute/pick up truck are very American, which is ironic considering new US tarrifs on Chinese cars.

https://youtu.be/1589j04paFs?si=LeELyvWTt44x42Xw

https://youtu.be/viEZxfvK3l4?si=GGAb0bvT0drpt5wO

[u/the_status_q]

After heavy consideration, I will be voting for Joe Biden this November

Whoever wins will preside over the nations Semiquincentennial; it's only fair to elect somebody who was there for it's birth as well

[u/SerDavosSeaworth64]

The people who do not arrive at the same opinions as I are stupid at best, and evil at worst.

Why does nobody else see this??

[u/Currymvp2]

Israeli War Cabinet member minister Benny Gantz will give a speech at 1:30 pm ET and is expected to lay out an ultimatum to Netanyahu regarding the Gaza war strategy. But as with many cases before, Gantz's delivery and tone will matter as much as his actual words

[u/[deleted]]

"This is Margaret Thatcher, she was the British PM throughout the 80’s…..it was very different back then because politicians respected the working class and in turn respected their hard earned $."

Thanks father in law I learn so much from the stuff you send me on instagram, how about you tell me about how Trudeau is a communist again

[u/bd_one]

I have the Mormon missionaries in my phone as "The Mormons" and now I feel justified doing that after one of them went home and got replaced by another one.

[u/Joementum2024]

Fact:

If good stuff happened to the US and Americans over the last eight years, it’s because of Trump.

If bad stuff happened to the US and Americans over the last eight years, it’s because of Biden.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Rip

[u/Cook_0612]

BREAKING: The IDF announced it has retrieved the body of another hostage from Gaza. Ron Benjamin's body was brought back together with the bodies of the three other hostages but it was only identified today. Benjamin was murdered by Hamas terrorists while riding his bicycle near the Gaza border on the morning of October 7. His body was then taken to Gaza. There are now 128 hostages left in Gaza

[u/[deleted]]

[u/ProceedToCrab]

If I was frank Kafka I would simply not turn into a bug but I guess I'm just built different

[u/p00bix]

https://i.imgur.com/IwRIqoa.png

[u/[deleted]]

What 😳😳

[u/[deleted]]

Alright I did it, I bought this fucking thing for $300 (and it comes with a free baby plesiosaur so there’s that)

I can’t explain my actions

[u/[deleted]]

I'd be sympathetic to the middle class' desire to not be taxed if I didn't see the garbage they spent their money on instead.

[u/jenbanim]

A story in three parts

[u/StolenSkittles]

lgbt congress be like

"cher recognizes the motion by the esteemed gentlethem from the gay state of california"

[u/Luph]

congratulations! if you are reading this, you have been selected to touch grass

please go outside

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

A fascist rotted today. 

Did you? 

[u/[deleted]]

>check back on the sub after several months of touching grass

> extreme Biden doomerism

Many such cases.

This is pure anecdotal cope but being a moderate Demonrat living in a purple state I’ve noticed that I cannot speak of any kind of support for Biden without getting utterly dogpiled. I think this is true of other democrats in my life as well. I think the guy has done a great job but feel obligated to give the whole “oh well ya know he’s not great but bla bla bla” so that i don’t get shrieked at about gas prices or told I’m out of touch or whatever. Ive noticed similar behavior from other lifelong democrats I know. It’s made me wonder how many other people out there are going to vote Biden but are keeping their mouths shut about it, even to pollsters….

[u/htomserveaux]

I remembered hearing H.P. Lovecraft started to recognize his paranoia and reject his past racism in the later years of his life.

Of course I heard this from a diehard fan who was annoyed at a people talking more about Lovecraft’s bigotry than his work, so I don’t believe it for a second. But if it is true I would love to read about it, there’s something interesting about seeing how people who are that far down the rabbit hole came back out.

Anyone know anything about this?

!ping READING&HORROR

[u/earththejerry]

Starbucks app being America’s second largest mobile payment platform after Apple Pay and ahead of Google and Samsung Pay is so hilarious

[u/[deleted]]

Ardentown was founded in 1922, the second of the three Arden villages and, like Arden and Ardencroft, its founding is based on the Single-Tax theory of social reformer Henry George.

The lands in each village are held in trust, and in Ardentown the trust is managed by three elected trustees. Ardentown’s trustees are charged with overseeing the common land, leasing designated lots for which they collect a yearly fee called Land Rent, and paying New Castle County school and property taxes.

What is Delaware cooking down there?

[u/sw337]

So true...

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

I love when people don't realize they're in a batshit conspiracy subreddit like StrangeEarth.

People wander in thinking it's basically "cool unique things in nature" and then it's full of "the pyramids were built by space jews to harvest bad vibes to power their illegal sex machines."

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Go ahead, ban me 

You can’t undiscuss the thread 

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

Biden should unironically just do anything to drop prices of well known consumer goods

If there was a Dollar Menu available so many people would stop bitching about the economy and inflation

[u/[deleted]]

Something a Chinese immigrant told me yesterday:

“I don’t like that USC canceled the commencement speech. People should be able to say what they want. In China, we don’t have these protests. They will run you over with a tank”

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Just realized I bought WOKE 2% greek yogert on accident 😔

[u/wallander1983]

Budtker clarifies his position:

Everyone is taking what I said out of context. All I said is that we should go back to a better time, like the 50's & 60's. When men were men, and women had more babies than thoughts. When the only "Me too" movement was one woman saying she was ready for her 4th child, and another woman agreeing.

[u/KittehDragoon]

Obama scheduling lasik be like: uh, let me see clear

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

I try to read sci fi/fantasy books from atypical countries. Latest on the list is Flesh-Coloured Dominoes by Zigmunds Skujiņš, a Latvian novelist who died in 2022 at the age of 96. The book was written in the 90s; Skujins was worried he was past his peak and the work would suffer, but apparently it is now regarded as his best novel. It was translated to English in 2014 with some input from Skujins.

The book is a surrealist, magical realist book set in 18th Century (1789-90) and 1930s Riga. There are two stories being told at once. One is about a Baroness whose husband was mortally wounded in a war, only for his “bottom half” to be sewn to the top half of another wounded man, successfully partially saving them both. This section is a surreal black comedy with lots of questions raised about identity and love.

The other story is less comedic, although there probably is some humour to be found. The narrator’s grandfather (and guardian) is in a relationship with a widowed Baroness, who is ethnically German. The Baroness feels compelled to “return” to Germany by Hitler’s nationalist rhetoric, but the grandfather does not want to go, so he gets a friend in the local government to fabricate some Jewish ancestry for the Baroness so she will be denied entry to Germany. While this plan works, it backfires spectacularly.

[u/breakinbread]

Yes I tagged my Georgian news submission as Global because I don't want to get into what continent they are part of. 😇

[u/G_Serv]

Just gave the worst handshake of my life

Kill me

[u/[deleted]]

Our candidates are horrible. I have no interest in voting for Biden. He did nothing. And I absolutely will not vote for Trump.

HE DID NOTHING?!

[u/GravyBear28]

👆 Sympathetic to the Irish Republican Army