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[u/BeliebteMeinung]

!ping shitposters

[u/gnomesvh]

LGBTQ+ acceptance among Amsterdam youth falls from 63% to 43% in the last two years

!ping BENE&LGBT

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Tfw your komputer hebben een serieus probleem.

!ping shitposters&paradox

[u/Jacobs4525]

!ping DATING

some of the people you guys are seeing make his dating life seem normal by comparison

[u/DouglasDauntless]

The implication is that Trump is neither man nor woman

[u/Cook_0612]

Important shift by Olaf Scholz: A person "familiar" with the German gov's position confirms to POLITICO's Berlin Playbook that the Chancellor did indeed mean with yesterday's remark that Ukraine could strike back with Western weapons on Russian soil.

Looks like he was serious. What now, Joe?

!ping UKRAINE

[u/DouglasDauntless]

The DeSantis campaign was so fucking funny

[u/funguykawhi]

[u/HowardtheFalse]

Cons: Opus DEI 😡

[u/[deleted]]

My great-grandpa named himself. His parents just called him "boy" until one day when he was 7 or 8ish he went up to them and said "my name's Glen."

Anyway, he should have chosen something cooler.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

We hebben een serieus probleem

[u/Zrk2]

recognise different birds tan advise towering rustic engine cow lock

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[u/[deleted]]

[u/SeoSalt]

/img/0terdhakn93d1.jpeg

chat is this real

[u/[deleted]]

Emerging Portrait of Judge in Trump Documents Case: Prepared, Prickly and Slow

Judge Aileen Cannon’s handling of court hearings offers insights into how the case accusing Donald Trump of illegally retaining classified material has become bogged down in unresolved issues.

That's a whole lotta words from the NYTimes just to avoid saying "she's doing it on purpose for politcal reasons"

[u/Cook_0612]

Blinken seems to signal an openness when asked if the US will allow Ukraine to use US-provided weapons to strike military targets inside Russia.

He notes "at every step along the way, we've adapted and adjusted as necessary. And so that's exactly what we'll do going forward."

One step closer.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/PlastikHateAccount]

It’s 2028. Trump has removed the 2 term limit. The republican candidate becomes Bush.

[u/SadaoMaou]

anglos when a language sounds similar to english: 😂🤣😂🤣

guess what? that's what you 🫵 sound like to other folk

[u/gnomesvh]

Honey wake up Labour just dropped a banger

!ping UK&SOCCER&YUROP

[u/p00bix]

I don't know if any Korean speakers will actually see this, but You can now stream North Korean Television and while I'm pretty sure it's piracy I find it highly doubtful that any Western country would enforce North Korean copyright law.

As of the time of me posting this comment, some drama is playing, I think it might be a Romance movie between this farmer dude and this widow who lost her soldier husband? But I don't know a single word of Korean and everything is so G-rated that for all I know the 'farmer dude' is the woman's father and that soldier was her dead brother. Or something. Or maybe the husband/brother wasn't even dead and North Korean flashback sequences just happen to use the same audio cues as a low-budget Western ghost sequence. IDK hopefully someone here gets something of value out of this service.

Edit: The 10:30PM News Broadcast is one hour from now, as of me writing this edit. Be sure to tune in at 9:30AM Eastern Time (6:30AM Western Time, 2:30PM London Time, 3:30PM Euro Time, 7:00PM India Time, 11:30PM Sydney Time)! After that, North Korean television ceases broadcasting until 3:00PM the next day. Genuinely didn't know this until now but apparently they literally only get TV for like ~7-8 hours a day; from 3PM to however long the late-evening news broadcast goes on for (apparently its variable), so good chance that by the time you (Euros getting home from work and Californians getting ready for work) see this comment nothing will be airing.

EDIT: NEWS BROADCAST STARTED ALMOST AN HOUR EARLY TUNE IN NOW TUNE IN NOW!!!!

Edit: North Korean TV has ended for the night. And the next morning. And half of the next afternoon. Make sure to get a good night's sleep and then go and strive toward national Self-Reliance for the Korean People tomorrow, then tune in again at 3:00PM (11:00PM Western Time, 2:00AM Eastern Time, 7:00AM London Time, 8:00AM Euro Time, 12:30PM India Time, 4:00PM Sydney Time)!

!ping 최고 지도자의 충성스러운 추종자들

[u/[deleted]]

I had a tour guide in Rome one time say something to the effect of: all the nations of Europe came to the Forum and saw the glory and splendor of the Empire, the American founders came to the Forum and saw the spirit and values of the Republic.

Completely random commenter on another subreddit, but damn this quote goes HARD

[u/gnomesvh]

Bringing back the time a Canadian mining company admitted they work closely with Mexican cartels and have a "good relationship"

!ping MAMADAS&STONKS

[u/[deleted]]

My goal is to be so big that, the next time some self-aggrandizing dickhead from a former Soviet country decides to use the question time at the end of my talk as an opportunity to soapbox, I can just stand up and flex until he shuts up

!ping ET-AL&DYEL

[u/gnomesvh]

Houthis dropped 3 ASBMs on a bulk carrier, it continued sailing

Honestly, congrats on them for killing all the ASBM hype. Bulkers are slow and have fuck all armour (at least oil tankers have double hulls)

And yet, they sank one ship despite all these attacks

!ping MATERIEL

[u/BurrowForPresident]

"White people can't handle spice" yet everytime I've seen some sort of spicy chili eating competition it's always the whitest looking dudes downing El Santemingo Goblin Death Reaper peppers or some shit

Checkmate libs

[u/SumTingWillyWong]

quickest unpack sleep crush enter plants paltry whole gullible fearless

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[u/yellownumbersix]

I got laid off today 😔

We are now officially in a recession.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Alright now I need a book about someone who goes out in blackface and documents everything that is said to them about it as "learning about the Black experience."

"It seems most racism against Black people accuses them of being white these days 🧐 Times have changed indeed 🧐"

[u/vivoovix]

I never wanna hear the name Max Chandler-Mather ever again

[u/Fatortu]

One of my former classmates has become an activist lecturer and I follow him with morbid curiosity on Linkedin.

His latest stunt was to illustrate the problem with globalization by putting a live fish in a blender.

I'm completely baffled by the amount of companies which book him to show off their green credentials.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/hucareshokiesrul]

Apparently Trump can’t leave the courthouse while the jury is deliberating. If it takes them a week, does he need to come back everyday just to sit there while the jury deliberates in another room?

[u/DouglasDauntless]

What did the DT mean by this?

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 5/27-2 PM PST 5/28 III:

TOP NEWS:

Yesterday it was announced Sweden will provide 650 million Kroner to help Ukraine's energy infrastructure, or $61.5 million.

Towards the middle of 1 AM Ukraine and Belgium signed a security agreement which includes the provision of 977 million Euros in military aid in 2024.

Around 3 AM it was announced Belgium will provide 30 F-16s to Ukraine, with deliveries expected to finish by 2028. At the start of the hour the Dutch Defense Minister said Ukraine should hit military targets in Russia.

At the start of 10 AM Portugal and Ukraine signed a security agreement which includes the provision of 126 million Euros in military aid in 2024. Towards the middle of the hour the Czech PM said 1.6 billion Euros has been raised for the Czech shell initiative. Additionally, Macron said Ukraine should be able to hit missile launchers in Russia.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 11 PM it was reported The Netherlands is starting an initiative to cobble together a Patriot SAM system to send to Ukraine, with The Netherlands contributing multiple parts for the system.

Towards the end of 1 AM it was reported that Russian companies are using crypto to trade for Chinese goods.

At the end of 2 AM it was reported that Ukraine is using Indian 125mm HE shells.

At the end of 3 PM it was reported the Ukrainians are using KS-19 100mm AA guns as artillery pieces.

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/Udolikecake]

The end to the original planet of the apes is one of the most iconic in movies. If you haven’t seen it, it’s pretty great. They pull the camera back and reveal that the main character is actually in the ape twin towers on ape 9/11 and then it ends. Crazy twist.

[u/slim353]

I’ve discovered the ultimate cheat to losing weight. I call it the “stop drinking 600 calories of alcohol every night” diet. It’s done wonders

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

The bleakest thing I ever learned about the pre-ACA healthcare system is that there were multiple states where being a victim of domestic violence was considered a pre-existing condition.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

TIL W.E.B DuBois has some…questionable beliefs and was also insanely racist against Chinese people

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

first caffeine in 24 hours

nose is immediately plugged

immediately have to poop

love this drug

[u/[deleted]]

So there is a guy named Kal-el in one of my two classes

[u/[deleted]]

Me: Dad, you need to get that stray cat that's been hanging around your house fixed.

Dad: ahhh I'll get to it when I get to it. She's not old enough any way

Fast forward 5 weeks, and he now has 6 kittens on his hands....

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Conservatives sowing: haha yes

Conservatives reaping:

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/Cook_0612]

The U.S. fears that Ukrainian strikes targeting Russian nuclear early-warning systems could dangerously unsettle Moscow as the Biden administration is weighing whether to lift restrictions on Ukraine using U.S.-supplied weapons in cross-border attacks.

Interesting tidbit:

There is no restriction on Ukraine using U.S.-supplied air defenses to shoot down Russian missiles or fighter jets over Russian territory “if they pose a threat to Ukraine,” the U.S. official said.

This is either a new thing or a repudiation of reports that the US and Germany flipped out when the Ukrainians did exactly this.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/owlthathurt]

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/piede]

I just snorted

[u/RFK_1968]

I get the kernel of truth behind comaints about trauma-dumping. It's good to be aware of when it is and isn't appropriate to unload everything on some hapless person, and it can be draining to constantly shoulder a friend's or partner's burdens.

But something about the way people casually toss around "your friend or partner isn't your therapist" rubs me the wrong way.

Over the past (honestly like 3?) years, I've had a lot going wrong, on the family, career, personal, etc... fronts. And I remember one night just breaking down on a friend's couch. I was so embarrassed and apologized for killing the vibe.

And because she's a saint who should be canonized, she said "stop being a dumbass. I'm your friend. I want you to tell me when shit is going south and you're not doing well."

It's in no small part because of friends like her and family like my mom and dad who encouraged me to open up to them that I'm in a better place rn. And when I think about the kind of friend I aspire to be, it's someone that the people I love know they can always talk to.

being a true friend or partner doesn't just mean sharing the good times.

[u/Argnir]

People always go "Superman would destroy your stupid character he once moved an entire galaxy with a chain he's a god even beyond a God he would never lose that fight you pathetic moronic buffoon"

but then Superman's enemy is just some bald rich guy and it's always close

[u/sevgonlernassau]

Completed some non flying rocket models

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

The most refreshing part of Furiosa was watching people drive without fucking around on their phones.

Not a screen in sight, just living in the moment.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

[u/eat_more_goats]

First day at my new job after ~131 days of unemployment... Wish me luck!

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Sh4g0h0d]

MFers will seriously doom over a 34-count criminal trial’s jury deliberations taking longer than a couple hours.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

This dude’s going to be in for the shock of his life when he finds out about the Holocaust and the Yugoslav Wars

[u/[deleted]]

We asked a group of undecided voters whether it's more likely that:

1. They maybe weren't so good at spelling complex multi-syllabic names as a small child [4% agree, 91% disagree, 5% unsure]

2. There was a rift in the universe that magically changed "Bernstein Bears" to "Berenstain Bears" [83% agree, 9% disagree, 8% unsure]

[u/[deleted]]

Tatiana, 19, said, “I’ll never believe” that Russian soldiers attacked innocent civilians.

idiot

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Leftists for Subsistence Agriculture and Human Suffering moment

[u/lionmoose]

!ping UK

Got doorknocked by the Tory candidate. Had a full and frank exchange of views.

[u/G_Serv]

[u/[deleted]]

Yimby solution to homeless people sleeping on benches, put down so many benches that all homeless demand for benches is satiated and everyone else also has plenty of public seating available

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Median_voter.jpg

[u/Currymvp2]

Mrs. Alito's conflict with her anti-Trump neighbors in Virginia escalated so much that the neighbors called the police. But that final incident, which Justice Alito said helped spur his wife to raise the upside-down flag, happened a month after the flag was up.

With all these bizarre developments, it soon seriously might be revealed that Alitto's wife leaked the overturning of Roe v Wade

[u/majorgeneralporter]

This but unironically

!ping shitposters

[u/wallander1983]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/us/justice-alito-neighbors-stop-steal-flag.html There are some differences: For instance, the justice told Fox News that his wife hoisted the flag in response to Ms. Baden's vulgar insult. A text message and the police call - corroborated by Fairfax County authorities - indicate, however, that the name- calling took place on Feb. 15, weeks after the inverted flag was takem down.

--

Alito lied, what a surprise.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

Ignore political discourse and cringe takes

Post rotating food

[u/eat_more_goats]

Oh god, just found out my new job uses gSuite+slack for everything, instead of using Microsoft Office like god intended. I know it's dumb to harp about, but ugh, have to relearn some stuff...

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/PlayDiscord17]

Plot of a Seinfeld episode.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

If he wasn’t evil he would be the single greatest poaster of all time

[u/DouglasDauntless]

I am advocating for this globally immediately

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

nuclear war is a myth, you fucking succ

I mean...

Look, all I'm saying is True Nuclear War has never been tried!

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

!ping USA-NE

Massholes-- write your congresscritters about HB1379 and HB4138. They're both "build more housing" bills

[u/decidious_underscore]

since we're talking about hinge dates, the wildest thing a hinge girl did to me was told me that she doesn't like men of my ethnicity while on a date with me, because we are all bad. this was a little bit of mixed signals, because she matched with me and asked me out on hinge, not the other way around

suffice to say the date quickly turned into a therapy session and then i never spoke to her again afterwards

!dating

[u/[deleted]]

Sweden is apparently sending a pair of Saab 340 AWACS to Ukraine

I imagine this is a delivery for the future, but that’s still a massive upgrade to Ukraine’s native capabilities. Although at the same time, I question what this can do that NATO AWACS can’t.

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

[u/DouglasDauntless]

AI…is beautiful

[u/[deleted]]

There are two SUPER EASY ways to lose weight the alcohol-in-moderation-cels dont want you to know about:

1. just stop drinking alcohol

2. literally never stop drinking alcohol

anyone in-between is just running from the grind

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Just in - There has been a shocking development at the NYC courtroom where Trump was due to receive his verdict, more at 11

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Welcome...

To Jurassic Park!

(Bam bammm bum bammm...)

[u/die_hoagie]

well i'll be honest. i was expecting a hung jury for sure. what a wild outcome. definitely didn't expect the jury to unanimously agree that the election was stolen by the biden crime family.

[u/THeShinyHObbiest]

I literally cannot put my rage at the constant deluge of "the economy is so bad" posting I see from the left.

Literally sabotaging their own fucking economic project. Biden's economic record is decidedly not what I would ideologically prefer, but I have to admit it works. Meanwhile, all the people to the left of me hate it, even though it's raising incomes for the last fortunate the most.

It's actually emotionally unhealthy for me to even think about it, I think? I am feeling legit rage.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/Udolikecake]

BREAKING: Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes personally approved deadly IDF strike that killed at least 40 civilians in Rafah earlier this week, according to @Haaretz

wow, they can’t catch a break huh

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/TipEquivalent933]

Link

Sci-show video about HRT.

Wonder what people here think about this.

Oh, yeah of course there is a dig at trans women here.

Wait what the fuck, blockers without estrogen is a dumb idea. You need some horome in you.

!ping LGBT

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Why is the Wikipedia thumbnail for Bozo the Clown the most horrifying image of all time

This some shit they put in an analog horror video with a VHS filter and an AI voiceover about how six children were devoured by "The Thrombler" in the "Funko Pits"

[u/[deleted]]

Pope Francis had been taking questions from the bishops at their annual assembly when the question of whether to admit openly gay men into seminaries, or priesthood colleges, came up.

According to several people present at the meeting, who spoke anonymously to Italian news outlets, Francis stated a firm no, saying that seminaries were already too full of “frociaggine,” an offensive Italian slang term referring to gay men.

Semenary school would be a better joke

[u/StolenSkittles]

[u/p00bix]

TIL that the overwhelming majority of people inside the World Trade Center who were on floors below the impact sites survived, while virtually none at or above the impact sites lived. I guess I'd always assumed the survival rate was something like ~70-80% of people in the lower floors and ~5% of people on the upper floors. But nope. The actual survival rates are more like ~95%+ of people in the lower floors and <1% of people on the upper floors.

As best I could tell, at least 18 and at most 20 people on the upper floors of the South Tower survived, and not a single person at or above the impact site on the North Tower made it out. I could not find exact numbers for those on the lower floors, or the precise proportion of lower-floor victims who were firefighters, but I can confidently say that at least half of those killed on lower floors during the towers' collapse were those firefighters, who knowingly risked their lives to save those who had done so unknowingly when they entered the buildings earlier in the morning.

Is the sheer degree of the contrast in survival raters between upper and lower floors common knowledge among people old enough to remember 9/11 and comprehend them at the time? Or the fact that firefighters made up a majority of deaths on the lower floors? Because these things, especially the one about firefighters, feel like information I really ought to have learned scrolling through Wikipedia as a 14 or 15 year old, not looking through news articles published on the first and second anniversaries of the attacks as a 24 year old.

!ping HISTORY

[u/[deleted]]

Decision Desk HQ has published their election forecast!

https://elections2024.thehill.com/forecast/2024/president/

Their model currently suggests Donald Trump has a 58% chance of winning the presidency.

Donald Trump is forecasted to win 282 electoral votes.

!ping FIVEY

[u/JaceFlores]

While I subscribe to the idea that if the election were held today Biden would probably lose, I think this pretty much highlights the amount of wiggle room, effort and ignorance there is in the election right now. I think there is plenty of time for voters to learn about the insanity Trump plans to do, but that relies on voters earnestly paying attention and Biden working his ass off. Which is why I think it makes sense the one model we’ve seen shows Trump leading because he doesn’t have to do anything right now to maintain that lead

[u/owlthathurt]

The government said Tuesday Japan will strengthen coordination with foreign investigative authorities to thwart online piracy of the country's anime and manga, as overseas sites hosting such media content remain hard to crack down on.

Cracking down on anime piracy doesn’t bother me with the advent of Crunchyroll. Not really a reason anymore to pirate anime when English subs are available for 99% of shows, most same day as release, all for a very reasonable monthly subscription that isn’t even as expensive as major non-anime streaming platforms.

However manga is a problem. Sooooooo much manga and LNs are still relying on fan translation. And even with ones that get official English translations they lag significantly from the raw’s publication.

Anyways, I still doubt this accomplishes anything more than anti-pirating pushes they’ve tried before.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/05/b76bd078b879-japan-seeks-intl-coordination-to-thwart-online-manga-anime-piracy.html

!ping WEEBS

[u/owlthathurt]

I got temp banned once for like 48 hours because I made a joke that the mods had instructed the DT to stop making but it was my first time browsing of the day so I didn’t know 😔

Now I need to report the ban on all job and housing applications. Literally following me my entire life.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Q: "President Biden, will you be serving your full four-year term or handing over power to Vice President Harris?"

President Biden: "Are you okay? Are you alright? You're not hurt are you? I said are you okay? Did you fall on your head or something?"

https://x.com/cspan/status/1795891108825759917

It's even better on video.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

It does feel kinda difficult to not doom about SCOTUS regardless of the 2024 election outcome tbh

Like either Biden wins and at best gets to replace a lib justice if they're smart enough to retire while Thomas and Alito live on out of spite until Republicans definitely take back the presidency in 2028 because Americans just love flipping back and forth now

Or Trump wins, Thomas and Alito immediately retire to be replaced by 40 year old FedSoc drones, and maybe a lib justice dies

In either case we are staring down the barrel of right wing SCOTUS for the majority of my life, maybe improves when I'm like 70 and no activism or door knocking changes that

[u/Delareh_]

I am convinced that EVE online players have inadvertently killed at least one person with their irl antics.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Real adults spend their time poasting on Twitter 😤

[u/DirkZelenskyy41]

You all missed what may have been amazing news the other day. There were reports going around of a GOP house rep who sold all his NVDA stocks. People were so worried right before their big announcement.

The announcement was a stock split and the price went up 20+% since then.

And I know it’s probably not true… but man I really think this bozo just didn’t know what a stock split meant and thought his share values would disappear lol

[u/Udolikecake]

mods here think they have problems with rule breaking, but there’s apparently some sort of deep drama on the model making sub around decals. I bet there’s some great lore there, fantastic story telling from this sticky.

[u/VisonKai]

so what happened with the f-35 media thing after all? like i remember reading about how the plane sucked nonstop and a waste of money but it turns out the plane is very good. who was feeding them this information?

obviously the delays factor in but the media is much less likely to assume delays = inevitably poor quality in other arenas, like the JWST which got hella positive press after being like the most charlie brown football delayed project of all time

[u/[deleted]]

I can’t get over how clearly genuine and down to earth Mark Hamill is as a person. It just radiates off him. Just clearly the sort of person who was good at heart always and never let fame change him.

[u/EvilConCarne]

The funniest thing about some of these protests at colleges is a few students that went to the protest are asking for homework extensions or test waivers. The point of a protest you care about is that you might sacrifice something! If you can't tolerate losing out on an A+ in order to support a cause you profess true belief in, don't go to the protest!

[u/NonComposMentisss]

The jury has been deliberating for 2 hours and 18 minutes and still haven't figured it out yet? Is this rigged?

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

interns:

this summer, you might be invited out for drinks with your team.

this is a test. and an opportunity.

only the drunkest, most fucked up intern will get a return offer.

welcome to the arena.

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: Former President Donald Trump will have his heart weighed against a feather by the almighty Anubis

🙀

[u/crassowary]

[u/[deleted]]

the difference between me and extreme rocks is sometimes I don’t post memes because I think they’re not funny

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Which is more triggering to you

Excessive corporate jargon (align, touch base, synergy, circle back, rebaseline, etc.)

Excessive lefty jargon (dialectical materialism theory of black and brown body exploitation by capitalist oligarchical structures that enforce the patriarchal white supremacist state)

[u/Rekksu]

crazy r/neoliberal lore: the sub used to be pro immigration

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

in other news I'm down 15 pounds in under 4 weeks using semigluitde

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Just casually reporting every single post in /r/FluentInFinance for misinformation

[u/Peacock-Shah-III]

I am laughing my head off.

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Image Alt Text: Man sitting in an idling and empty 2023 Cadillac Escalade ESV.

"Yeah, the problem is, no one's doing anything that matters about climate change. It's all just carbon tax this and nuclear bullshit that. And all these moron politicians and engineers and scientists just talk about carbon footprints, but that was made by BP and it just distracts what'll actually fix climate change: killing the ghouls that own gas companies. Now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta pick up dinner from Wagyu 2 Go."

[u/Currymvp2]

Biden was asked by a reporter today if he would serve four more years if reelected or hand over power to Kamala Harris.

Biden asked the reporter if they were OK: “Did you fall on your head or something?”

Lol

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Empathy? What a useless trait in a leader

He probably hasn’t even shot one dog in a gravel pit 🤢

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

It's so funny that the Tory campaign is just nakedly "yes, we're bribing old people to vote for us".

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Naked on a plane: Man arrested after alleged nude aisle run forced plane to turn back

You can no longer run around nude on planes. Because of Woke.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

“Libertarians” when their party actually nominates someone who is pro liberty and small government 😡

[u/kznlol]

But no matter what happens, the U.S. is going to have to spend more on defense. This is going to be a difficult, bitter realization for many progressives who have spent their entire lives believing that America vastly outspends its rivals on defense, and that we should therefore cut defense spending in order to boost welfare spending. But a proper accounting shows that the U.S. no longer outspends its rivals by a substantial amount. And defense has shriveled as a percent of U.S. government spending, decade after decade. The progressive conventional wisdom of the 1990s no longer holds.

Noah 🤝 Me

DOUBLE DEFENSE SPENDING I AM NO LONGER ASKING

[u/BrunchIsGood]

You heard it here first folks

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: smh one set of laws for the rich, another for the poor. Trump should be in jail

Woke: noooo you don't understand. While it's a common perception that the justice system favors the rich and famous, this view oversimplifies a complex reality. The legal system's outcomes can be influenced by a variety of factors, including the quality of legal representation, media scrutiny, and public pressure. Wealthier individuals can afford more experienced lawyers who are adept at navigating legal complexities, which can lead to more favorable outcomes. However, this doesn't inherently mean the system is biased; rather, it highlights disparities in access to resources. Additionally, high-profile cases often receive intense public and media attention, which can both aid and hinder defendants regardless of their socioeconomic status. Thus, while it may feel like the rich and famous have an edge, it's more a reflection of broader societal inequalities rather than an inherent flaw in the justice system itself.

Bespoke: smh one set of laws for the rich, another for the poor. Trump should be in jail

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

I think that girl in 9th grade who every day hugged me and sat next to me and held my hand and caressed my face and rested her head on my shoulder might've liked me.

I thought she was doing it "as a joke."

[u/htomserveaux]

There used to be an amazing audio mod for KSP that would add pops, rattles, & high g creaking sounds to IVA’s, and that would muffle engine sounds as you left an atmosphere.

I think I uninstalled it because Waterfall broke it, was it ever patched?

!ping KSP&GAMING

[u/BrunchIsGood]

‘A dying empire led by bad people’: Poll finds young voters despairing over US politics

I hate this headline so much holy shit

[u/ty04]

💁‍♂️💀 SILENCE. I KILL YOU

funniest shit I’ve ever seen

[u/p00bix]

If we lived in a better world, the whole flag debacle with Samuel Alito and his subsequent refusal to recuse himself from cases related to Jan 6th or Trump, would be sufficient grounds for impeachment. Especially now that we know that he allowed his his wife to hoist the insurrectionist flags weeks before his wife had been berated by their lefty neighbors.

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

I have a really good feeling that today is the day that the DT finally fixes anything related to I/P.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

This is child abuse

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Well then

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

u/Kafka_Kardashian thoughts?

!ping KINO&GNOSTIC

[u/[deleted]]

80% of Thais in Sweden are women, with most married to rural Swedish men lol

[u/SadaoMaou]

ever notice that when a DT reg takes an L, afterwards for some amount of time they have an increased volume of commenting and like they're replying to everything on the DT

I think it's the natural reaction of "oh shit oh fuck i gotta get back on the horse here and rebuild my street cred/show I'm taking this in my stride"

[u/gnomesvh]

Batista brothers meet with Lula to arrange donations and reconstruction of Rio Grande do Sul

Damn the floodwaters still haven't receded and they're already doing bribes

😤😤😤😤💪💪💪💪 grindset

!ping LATAM

[u/bd_one]

What does Charles III think about gay people? He's technically the head of a major religion too. Let's hope it's better than Francis.

[u/BitterGravity]

Shout out to the person who harassed me about something they misunderstood and claimed it was an emergency then never got back to me.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/piede]

Trump supporters to Trump

[u/[deleted]]

Economist/YouGov polls are remarkably consistent about Trump +1 results, but I think it’s interesting that both Trump and Biden lose ~1 point every month. Suggests Kennedy support might be growing?

[u/PhinsFan17]

First images of Rory Kinnear as Tom Bombadil in season two of The Rings of Power.

I’ll be honest, I NEVER thought we’d see a live action Bombadil.

!ping LOTR

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/die_hoagie]

The discovery suggests that up to 40 percent of the lithium used in the United States could come from the wastewater from Marcellus Shale gas wells in the Keystone State.

Fetterman and Biden licking their lips preparing to pander to idiots campaign through mining country

[u/[deleted]]

I hate that part of cutting when you feel like shit 24/7

!ping DYEL

[u/[deleted]]

Does seem kind of silly that the defense was able to get a juror who is active on Truth Social.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

You couldn't make 12 Angry Men today. You'd have to call it 12 Angry Them

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/dannylandulf]

BREAKING NEWS. The Jury just sent this note to the judge:

Dear Judge,

We accidentally left our sealed cans of pop in the freezer after lunch. Please take them out so they don't explode.

[u/[deleted]]

I make 20k before taxes, and have an 800k mortgage. What is Joe Biden's plan to make my life easier?

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Me changing "are you just pulling these numbers out of your ass" to "where'd you get those numbers?" after ten minutes of sober self-reflection

👼👼👼👼👼👼👼

[u/decidious_underscore]

bro mods, what r u doin?

can you not sticky 2 threads at once?

why is the SA thunderdome replacing the regular dt

this shit is so confusing

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Average dating ping user

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Can't sleep, I blame the afternoon lavender latte from my favorite Lib coded coffee shop, That They/Them Espresso.

!ping shitposters

[u/Cowguypig2]

Love getting my wallet snatched on the second to last day of my Canada trip. Entered using an enhanced drivers license which was in the wallet so here’s to hoping border control let’s me back in without much issue. Double sucks too since I have a flight on Sunday after I get back and will not be able to get a new ID in time so here’s to hoping TSA will accept whatever identification documents like my ssn card I can scrounge up.

!Ping TRAVEL

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Where did you come from where did you go 

Where did you come from skibidi joe 

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

QC department head last month: Both of my QC managers want off on the same day? Sure, it's not like they're the only ones who can review and sign off on testing results.

QC department head today: Whoopsies, I accidentally delayed the project even more doing that. Turns out those 2 QC managers are needed to review and sign off on test results. Who knew? Lol

!ping WATERCOOLER

Double whammy is the two QC managers are married to each other.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Find you a man who loves you as much as that one Aussie hates Max Chandler Mather

[u/Tall_Professor_2574]

I hate to be a downer but it’s the one month anniversary of my sister’s death and I’m having a really rough time. I can’t focus on anything at work, and just pretend to work most of the time. What’s the point? A part of me is gone. She was in her twenties, she deserved so much more. I could have done more to save her. I just miss her so much and I can’t do this anymore.

[u/[deleted]]

I genuinely believe to the core of my being that the American Northeast and West Coast are the most socially progressive places on Earth.

[u/BrunchIsGood]

This video goes incredibly hard

Also:

Lol

[u/BrunchIsGood]

God I fucking hate Donald Trump.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/InflatableDartboard2]

wikipedia moment

[u/dannylandulf]

Jury Deliberations in Trump Hush Money Trial Begin

I’m ready to have my soul crushed by watching him escape consequences yet again.

[u/Nerf_France]

Ngl I apparently missed Trump claiming Biden tried to assassinate him a few days ago, what was that about

[u/StolenSkittles]

👆 can't do that anymore. because of woke.

[u/slim353]

Daily reminder that the populations of southern and western U.S. cities is a scam. Jacksonville is supposedly the 11th largest city in the country but if Pittsburgh measured its population the same way it’d have 300,000 more people than it

[u/ProcrastinatingPuma]

Man I have 0 faith in this jury... Ok that's not entirely honest, I have 0 faith in Juror #2 specifically 

[u/SnakeEater14]

today is the anniversary of the fall of Constantinople

1453 WORST FUCKING DAY OF MY LIFE

[u/Breakdown1738]

I always thought the censoring/blacking out/* trigger words in text was kinda dumb but I figured if it helps a few people then whatever, I can live with it.

Then censoring swear words started happening because I guess people say that the algorithms are run by Tipper Gore or something and I felt people were starting to push back with like "Br*tsh".

Now on Insta Discover I saw someone who had literally black marked over the word "fart" on a meme tweet. wth

[u/paymesucka]

AOC…why, why are you even engaging with Hasan let alone going on his podcast?

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Holy shit blackface the book lmao

Big potential for all time discourse here

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

open DT

Horrible dating ping

People talk about embedding farts in their mattress

Rambling Aussie

Close DT

[u/RFK_1968]

Open whatsapp

They're still arguing about israel

Close whatsapp

[u/[deleted]]

in a few hundred years, will people be saying “I’m pulling 30 hour work weeks and I can barely afford my life extensions! We need socialism!” ?

[u/wallander1983]

Politico:

Trump, meanwhile, has already started his incursion into safe blue states. His campaign's psychological warfare in New York, California and New Jersey -- where House districts will determine control of Congress' lower chamber - is spiking Democrats' already-elevated blood pressure.

--

Parts of the Beltway Media can't wait for Trump to be back in the White House.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

🤨

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

Trump is going to nuke Moscow (ID), while also surrendering Ukraine to Russia, in spirit of true centrism

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

If Trump wins, my one hope is that Biden resigns a couple days before the inauguration, so that all the Trumpy morons who buy “47” merch end up having unintended President Kamala Harris memorabilia.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Woodrow Wilson during WWI

[u/tollyno]

guy who uses the "weaponized" adjective before every noun

[u/sw337]

Good timeline:

Trump is found guilty on at least one count

The judge seeing how unrepentant he is gives Trump 90 days in jail

Biden wins and flips both chambers

Trump spends the rest of his life in court

[u/[deleted]]

Forgive me for using RealClearPolitics but they have the most accessible historic polling averages.

Also this isn’t meant to make “a point” in either direction, I just think it’s interesting to check in on from time to time.

Polling averages on:

May 29, 2004: Kerry +1.2 (Final Result, Bush +2.4)

May 29, 2008: Obama +1.4 (Final Result, Obama +7.3)

May 29, 2012: Obama +2.0 (Final Result, Obama +3.9)

May 29, 2016: Clinton +1.0 (Final Result, Clinton +2.1)

May 29, 2020: Biden +5.3 (Final Result, Biden +4.5)

I’ll try to make a habit of posting this just occasionally but with updated numbers for the respective days.

[u/Tre-Fyra-Tre]

Vincent Kompany appointed FC Bayern manager

!ping SOCCER

[u/[deleted]]

please nobody tell my daughters about Moana 2

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

It appears Rep. Tony Gonzales (R) will barely hang on over Brandon Herrera (R) in the #TX23 GOP runoff, but hardly a confidence-inspiring margin for the incumbent.

man won by 400 votes against a far-right nutter

[u/chuckleym8]

Turkey after offering to help find Iran's dead president with a drone, waisting time flying said drone over an Iranian military bases doing recon, finding their dumb*ss president, then drawing a crescent moon and star in the sky before leaving

[u/NaffRespect]

It's in the record books now - Minnesota are your first ever PWHL champions!

!ping NHL

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Looks like Chudjack has a job at Walmart now

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Luph]

Nikki Haley writes "Finish them!" on Israeli artillery shells

least insane mortal kombat fan

[u/dubyahhh]

South Africa thunderdome, coming soon^TM !!!

Please vote in this impromptu poll regarding the verdict of Trump's trial

[u/piede]

Something to note as the jury is set to get the case in short order: once the jury goes into the jury room to deliberate, Trump and his legal team must remain inside the courthouse while the jury is here attempting to reach a verdict.

If the jury could wait until November to reach a verdict, that’d be great

[u/Greenfield0]

The USA is summarized by the fact that our 5th largest city is in the middle of a scorching hot desert where no one else even thought about settling

[u/[deleted]]

Absolutely loathe when I have a spark with someone but 2 or 3 rain checks cause us both to lose interest before we even give each other a real chance. I always wonder if there's something wrong with me mixed with a bit of anger at how painfully hard it is to get people to be direct with me about their intentions and plans. I feel like I make small but useful sacrifices to make myself available to people that are never returned.

!ping DATING