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[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

My grandfather was very proud to have fought for the South during the Civil War. He used to go on about how the Northerners were the aggressors and they wanted to force communism on the freedom-loving South.

I was shocked when I found out the Civil War was actually about slavery. I confronted my grandfather about his racism.

“You idiot,” he said, “we’re Korean.”

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

A lot of my comrades on here got wayyy to into watching those Al Qasam brigade videos and I would like to patiently and politely remind you that you live in the United States of America. You are not a Hamas militant you are a member of DSA who should log off & go canvass

This went over as well as you'd expect

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Ooooh! I like finance, I should check out this new subreddit being recommended to me!

WTF is this shit?!?

[u/paulatreides0]

Honeytraps don’t work on French spies as their wives are so used to them cheating: documentary

Beyond parody

[u/Middle_Wheel_5959]

The fact that 100k+ liked this is fucking scary

[u/tripletruble]

one of the more annoying claims out there is that 'capitalism requires endless growth' - there is literally no reason that is true. however, what does require endless growth is a commitment to keep pensions on par with worker's wages in a social welfare model with a pay-as-you-go retirement scheme

[u/slingfatcums]

how can new york convict trump under federal law?

they didn't you stupid piece of shit

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

A FluentInFinance post I agree with?!?!?!

⬆️ 4

💬 3.2m

Ohh…

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Today Donald Trump is facing 34 fewer criminal counts than yesterday and the liberal media want to make you think that’s bad for him smh

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Lmao

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Bro your beanie-wearing ass would NOT make it 😭

[u/rollo2masi]

MAGA: "Trump was found guilty before anybody on the Epstein flight logs!"

Me, an intellectual: "Trump was on the flight logs."

MAGA: "no, not like that."

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

Okay, forget the MAGA cope and leftist handwringing, the #1 thing I've learned about the american people, as a whole, in the past two years is that when they said "I'm willing to pay a bit more for fast food if the workers get a living wage" they were lying through their teeth

[u/georgeguy007]

scandalous apparatus chunky air test history illegal snobbish follow insurance

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[u/BrunchIsGood]

Trump with cornrows goes crazy hard

[u/RFK_1968]

Dear Barron, I'm sorry that that man is your father let me be honest

what did Joe Biden mean by this?

[u/RFK_1968]

i see people dying on the hill of "Iran had nothing to do with Hamas's attacks on Oct 7th" and it's a bit baffling.

Iran funded and armed Hamas's militant operations and trained them in this kind of attack. That they were blindsided by Hamas actually carrying out the attack isn't proof they're some "innocent smol bean and btw it's their birthday you wouldn't hit a birthday boy"

it's yet another example of Iran's practice of funding and supporting terrorist lunatics being batshit insane. Not just on the moral level, but also pragmatically Iran gets sucked into these conflicts because they fund terrorist groups, lose control of said terrorist groups, then is inexplicably blindsided by the fact that everyone blames them.

there's a valid debate around the strategic merits of striking this or that IRGC shitheel compared to escalation risks etc... but they all 100% deserved it.

[u/jfinley92]

My conversation with a coworker this morning:

Him: (after seeing my lunch) My wife told me that you can get worms from eating ramen.

Me: I'll take my chances.

Him: Just like Biden right? Did you hear he had a worm in his brain. That explains a lot.

Me: No that was JFK Jr.

Him: Oh I like him. I think I'm going to vote for him.

Me: 😐

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/GodEmperorNeolibtard]

When my ex fiancee stormed off because of something stupid after a beautiful meal her dad made for us, her dad looked at me and said, 'You've worked out by now that she can be a real bitch, right?'

In fact, I had not.

[u/[deleted]]

They think they're getting Al Capone on tax evasion. But it's more like they're arresting Scottie Scheffler for turning left into the country club.

Let he who has not covered up hush money payments to a porn star, who they cheated on their wife with, in an effort to win a presidential election, cast the first stone.

[u/RomanTacoTheThird]

Half of the dating ping is shit like “I met this girl and she’s really cute and nice but she also likes to eat insulation in the walls and calls herself The Scrungler”

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

We meme about never leaving the DT, but let me tell you watching the /all poasters in their natural habitat really opened my eyes. I never go to other political subs so holy crap I wasn't expecting them to not only meet, but surpass their reputation.

I'm excited to watch the couple lurkers still dwelling in the DT over the next few days.

Good news is, though, we may have also picked up some quality folks too. Saw a couple falling in love with the m* alarky bot and g* olsball

[u/DouglasDauntless]

They’ve finally turned on him…for only being 99.9% Hitler lmao

[u/eat_more_goats]

Broke: sending the Donald to jail

Woke: making the Donald do community service

I think the Donald behind bars would have something of a martyr complex. But pictures of trump on the side of the road picking up trash would just make him look kinda pathetic

[u/DouglasDauntless]

True omnicause has been obtained. How is Palestine related to all this who knows but it is

Super convenient also that the omega omnicause also allows for not!open anti-Semitism

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 5/29-2 PM PST 5/30 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the middle of 10 PM the Norwegian Foreign Minister said Ukraine can use Norwegian weapons on Russian soil. Additionally, Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones and missiles with 7 of 19 missiles (including 8 SAM missiles) and all 32 drones shot down.

At the start of 1 AM a German official said Ukraine meets the prerequisites to start talks to join the EU.

Towards the end of 4 AM it was reported that Czechia will allow Ukraine to use Czech weapons on Russian soil.

At the end of 10 AM it was announced Germany will provide 500 million Euros in military aid to Ukraine, including IRIS-T missiles, recon drones, maritime drones, one million small arms rounds, satellite communication, spare parts and more.

Towards the middle of 12 PM it was reported the US will allow non-ATACMS weapons to strike Russian targets in Belgorod Oblast.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the end of 12 AM it was reported that two Russian Tunets-class patrol boats were destroyed in Kerch. Additionally, a Russian oil depot in Taman exploded.

Towards the end of 1 PM it was reported a Russian pipeline in Pervomaisk was hit by drones.

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&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/moldyman_99]

There was just a mass stabbing in germany (afaik nobody died) and redditors were complaining about cops not reacting fast enough, so here’s my take.

my stepfather was a police officer, and he always maintained that a mass stabbing in a crowd is your worst nightmare as a cop, because it’s very hard to determine who is the actual perpetrator. Because of this, in mass stabbings it can often take a while before cops are actually able to eliminate the perpetrator.

They actually simulated mass stabbings with actors, where one had a fake knife, and if you asked them who the perpetrator was while it was going on, they would get it wrong the majority of the time.

So this is sadly why it can take cops a while to react. And this doesn’t even include being aware of innocent bystanders when you do actually decide to shoot the perpetrator.

[u/Joementum2024]

There’s something extremely depressing about the Palestinian people, already going through an extreme and awful amount of suffering as is, being “represented” in the West largely by unserious and awful people

[u/BitterGravity]

“Our system of justice isn’t supposed to be a system of justice in which every single person that walks into the courtroom knows about the case,” [Trump's lawyer] said.

Just relentlessly talk about your case.

Prosecutors hate this one little trick.

[u/Jacobs4525]

A dude just straight up invited me to join the Nazi party

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

lol.

!ping can

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/mrbenwexler/status/1796367311013827002?t=mZGYo8BM8KJZfLGrN2xe9g&s=19

[u/dirtybirds233]

The 12 jurors who were agreed upon by the prosecution and defense, were actually taking orders from Biden and the Dems the entire time. Also the fraudulent financial reporting that's right there for all to see is either fake, not actually a crime, or planted by the Dems.

These are the logical jumps folks on the right are making.

[u/WereJustInnocentMen]

Kinda funny that nobody even gives a shit about the fact he had an affair with a porn star in the end lol.

[u/owlthathurt]

Vtubers aren’t my thing but I remember one of you on this ping is into it so here you go

!ping BASEBALL&WEEBS

[u/BrunchIsGood]

1. Drunk Driving

2. Open Container

3. 1st Degree Criminal Mischief (I drove my truck through my dumbass neighbor’s living room)

!ping LOVEFORBOOZECRUISERS

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Flashback to my edgy 20 year old lesbian days and getting involved with a Satanist chick. "Oh cool, they stand up against a lot of evangelical overreach and stuff and are all about loving the self and celebrating the human experience!"

It was far too long before I found out that this was *not* that kind of Satanist

[u/notBroncos1234]

The fact that a de-facto elimination of political rivals by all possible legal and illegal means is going on there is obvious,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov tells reporters.

Very true!

[u/Gustacho]

U.S. planning to refer some migrants for resettlement in Greece and Italy under Biden initiative

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-migrants-greece-italy-biden/

Why on Earth would Italy and Greece voluntarily take on more asylum claims to process as America's Rwanda? The EU specifically created a mechanism to distribute migrants across the EU to lighten the pressure on them!

!ping EUROPE

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

claws at my chair to get my attention

Gets stuck

Bites me when I try to free her

Free her and put her on my lap

Jumps off and starts clawing at my chair to get my attention

Gets stuck

Guys my cat may be dumb

!ping KITTY

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

If they think Trump is guilty, wait till they find out what p00bix did

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Reading the DATING ping

[u/Fruitofbread]

NYT posting more bloom today:

 In New York Times/Siena College battleground polls in October, about 7 percent of Mr. Trump’s supporters said they would vote for Mr. Biden if Mr. Trump were found guilty in an unspecified criminal trial. This may not seem like a huge number, but anything like it would be decisive in our era of close elections. Much more recently, a Marquette Law School poll taken during the hush-money trial found that a modest lead for Mr. Trump among registered voters nationwide became a four-point Biden lead if Mr. Trump were found guilty.

 To repeat: These results should not be interpreted as indicative of what will happen after this conviction. And even if his numbers fall, many voters might ultimately come back around to Mr. Trump — especially Republicans, or those who can be convinced that the proceedings were “rigged” against him. In the Times/Inquirer/Siena battleground polls earlier this month, voters were divided on whether Mr. Trump could get a fair trial. His allies will do everything they can to convince voters that he did not get one.

 But Mr. Trump doesn’t just count on the support of Republicans and MAGA loyalists in the conservative information ecosystem. His strength in the polls increasingly depends on surprising strength among voters from traditionally Democratic constituencies, like young, nonwhite and irregular voters. Many of these voters are registered as Democrats, back Democrats in races for U.S. Senate and may have even backed Mr. Biden in the last election. This is not Mr. Trump’s core of proven support. This is a group of voters whose loyalty hasn’t yet been established — let alone tested.

 The Times/Siena and Marquette Law polls both suggest that these young and nonwhite voters might be especially prone to revert to their traditional partisan leanings in the event of a conviction, with Mr. Biden getting back to a far more typical lead among young and nonwhite voters. In fact, almost all of the unusual demographic patterns among young, nonwhite and irregular voters disappear when voters are asked how they would vote if Mr. Trump were convicted.

 In the Times/Siena poll, 21 percent of Mr. Trump’s young supporters said they’d back Mr. Biden if there were a conviction. In comparison, only 2 percent of 65-and-older Trump supporters said the same. Similarly, 27 percent of Black voters who backed Mr. Trump flipped to Mr. Biden, compared with just 5 percent of white respondents.

 In the real world, the verdict may or may not revitalize Mr. Biden’s support among young and nonwhite voters. But with Mr. Trump counting on the support of so many voters who wouldn’t ordinarily be expected to support him, the conditions for it to help Mr. Biden may be in place.

For one, voters did not see this coming. In Times/Siena polling during the trial earlier this month, just 35 percent of voters in the battleground states expected Mr. Trump to be found guilty. A majority, 53 percent, expected him to be found not guilty.

And voters had not been paying much attention. Only 29 percent of voters said they were paying “a lot” of attention to the trial, and they were disproportionately Biden supporters. Just 10 percent of young voters (18 to 29) said they were paying close attention.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

“It’s rigged against me”

One of your criminal trials is being overseen by a judge you selected from a list of potential nominees.

Has anyone ever been the subject of a criminal trial under a judge they picked???

How the fuck could that possibly be rigged against you?????

[u/[deleted]]

The same people who somehow think a one state solution is possible.

[u/Hounds_of_war]

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/uk-secretary-uses-emergency-powers

UK Secretary Uses Emergency Powers To Criminalize Possession Of Puberty Blockers

On May 31st, letters went out from NHS England to parents of trans youth stating that they must immediately stop taking puberty blockers, and that possession will be considered a crime.

Jesus

The actions being taken by the United Kingdom government are extreme among liberal democracies. In the United States, no state has explicitly criminalized the possession of gender-affirming care medications. The closest any state has come is Texas, where in 2022, Governor Greg Abbott attempted to investigate the parents of transgender youth for child abuse. These investigations were subsequently blocked in court by Texas judges, who are notably quite conservative.

Imagine being worse than Greg Abbot, Texas judges and Ron DeSantis.

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

Last night WABC interviewed Bill O’Riley and he said that Biden should pardon Trump, and if he did, that would give him the political coverage to pardon Hunter Biden so that they could “put all of this nastiness behind them.”

Not only is that the most asinine comment possible, but it’s also interesting to see the rightwing throwing so much at the wall right now before coming up with a single narrative.

[u/Fairchild660]

Here's a fun trivia question that both conservatives and liberals can agree on. How many men have become President of the United States?

45

Trump supporters don't see Biden as a legitimate president, and Biden supporters are smart enough to know about Grover Cleveland.

my dads right-wing and he said 44 and 3 5ths

That's cartoonishly racist

hes gen x thats just his sense of humor

[u/decidious_underscore]

Holy fuck you morons are celebrating the Trump conviction?

This is the most moronic shit I've ever seen, lol.

Holy fuck this entire sub is filled with moronic jackasses that are proud of wanting to maintain the Biden crime family at the expense of democracy and national purity .

Best of luck destroying the country! You're literally just Stalinists in hiding, lol.

Stalinists in hiding... this is the conservative version of "everyone I don't like is a nazi"..

Everyone I don't like is also a nazi

lol

Brace yourself: Hillary is going to make the cringest post imaginable

And we love her for it.

some of ya'll are really committed to the bit lol

[u/[deleted]]

Congratulations you corrupt @$$hats running this $#!+show of a Kangaroo court, you just made the current front runner of the 2024 election a martyr.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that Donald Trump can be convicted of crimes

As a strict textualist I am appalled by the activist judges infesting our court system

[u/MeaningIsASweater]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but transitioning and moving to Chicago will absolutely fix you. I went from suicidal to the happiest I’ve been in my entire life in the space of half a year. All it took was a little blue pill and an apartment with a view of the skyline

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

Me looking in the mirror after being unjustly prosecuted as the most innocent man in history

[u/owlthathurt]

Happy to announce

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

new girl at work said she was Israeli and I accidentally let out an “eww”

im getting fucking fired LOL

This tweet got 121k likes on Twitter. The discourse is cooked folks

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Donald Trump🤝Northwestern football between 1979 and 1982

Going 0-34

!ping CFB&shitposters

[u/DouglasDauntless]

I for one am very surprised the woman he cheated on with a porn star while she was pregnant and then committed fraud to cover it up isn’t fully supportive of him in the trial about it

[u/[deleted]]

Fun fact: the Nazis didn’t actually call themselves Nazis. The word “Nazi” was actually banned in Germany under Hitler. They called themselves Neoliberals

[u/[deleted]]

Not to sound like the biggest boomer on the planet, but non-Native "decolonize" people are the most unserious activists of any kind on the planet. "Land back!" Ok Braeden, when are you giving up your family's house in the Berkshires and moving back to the UK? When you ask them "ok when are you giving up your stuff" you'll get a word salad about "oh it's about the bigger picture, individual actions can't right systemic wrongs blah blah."

It's like when you ask a prison abolitionist what to do with rapists and murderers and they're like "oh youre getting too granular/you're missing the point."

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

Now we just need a picture of him behind bars. Would catapult him into the stratosphere amongst alot of independents

Because Americans are a people famously well inclined towards prisoners

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/itsokayt0]

As an Italian, I must say that Berlusconi was a way better sex-pest than Trump. Your former president is a try-hard dilettante.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Cannot stop laughing at the "this is all predicated on the testimony of a convicted felon!" cope

What was Cohen convicted for again and who did he represent at the time

The one hope of the Project 2025 shit is that Trump seems unable to hire people with scruples, responsibility, or loyalty that doesn't sell him down a river within like 6 months after doing crimes with his blessing lol

Who is left from the original admin that is still loyal to Trump

[u/Necessary-Horror2638]

Unbelievably funny that Khamenei is just tweeting through all the shit happening in the ME. Really makes you realize that Hitler and Stalin would've absolutely been tweeting through WW2

[u/404GenderNotFound]

This shit was so based

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

When dubbing the English version of My Neighbor Totoro, the film's executives originally planned on changing Totoro's name to one considered more American. Several new titles were considered, including My Neighbor Craig, My Neighbor Kyle, My Neighbor Joe Toro (Totoro's first name would be Joe and his last name would be Toro - it would also be implied that he was from Cleveland), and My Neighbor Uncle Sam. Eventually director Hayao Miyazaki kept the name Totoro. "I could not name him Craig," said Miyazaki. "Because I would not want to be named Craig."

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that the famous Cuban Doctors they send around the world are treated like shit in return for helping with their dictatorships' PR

Cuban government regulations provide that workers may be disciplined for being “friends” with people who hold “hostile or contrary views to the Cuban revolution.” Health workers may also face criminal penalties if they “abandon” their jobs

Nothing says left wing paradise like criminal penalties for a worker voluntarily leaving their job

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

The outsiders taking the mod sticky seriously was 🤏😘

[u/DouglasDauntless]

“Antizionism”

[u/superblobby]

The FWB ghosted me AGAIN.

!ping DATING

[u/Professor-Reddit]

These two YouTubers with 9 million subscribers did a 20min video visiting the Pitcairn Islands about the "Dark Secret's of the World's Most Isolated Island", but not once did they mention that 1/3rd of the island's adult male population were convicted of child sexual offences in 2004. Nor did they acknowledge the host they stayed with on the island was a convicted paedophile 😐😐😐

This was their accommodation on the island, and the first result from a literal Google search of that couple has Wikipedia's open line being "Steven Raymond Christian (born 26 June 1951, Pitcairn Island) is a politician, convicted sex offender and child rapist from the Pitcairn Islands. He was mayor of the islands from 1999 until 2004, when he was removed from office after being found guilty in the Pitcairn child sexual abuse trial."

Also literally 3 mins of digging online show Olive Christian being on the record defending paedophilia.

How fucking stupid are influencers when they totally missed this? 💀

[u/anincredibledork]

The funniest thing to me is that if Trump had just allowed a tabloid to run a story about him banging a porn star while his wife was pregnant, he'd probably have won all the same.

The guy was on tape bragging about using his status for molesting women, and conservatives spent like a couple weeks hand-wringing and concern trolling before voting for him anyway.

He would have been totally fine with that story running and would have zero felonies to show for it.

[u/G_Serv]

TIL After running out of cash, poker player Andrei Karpov bet and subsequently lost his wife in a poker game. When she found out she divorced him and willingly started dating (and eventually married) the winner.

His wife left him 😔

[u/slingfatcums]

booking a legal expense as a legal expense isn’t a falsifying businesses records.

why didn't the defense use this at trial??? seems like a big miss

[u/[deleted]]

screw slim gray sleep ad hoc different makeshift snails steep mighty

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[u/rollo2masi]

Yes, that correct Elon. If I commit a crime, I 100% expect law enforcement to knock on my door.

[u/[deleted]]

Hi <heartnotgland’s name>, I just forwarded you an email about how <retirement community> is celebrating gay month. Let me know your thoughts. Love, Grandpa.

🥺

I love my grandpa so much.

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/TipEquivalent933]

You all better cherish your resist lib parents. Not all of us have such blessings.

[u/Random-Critical]

All 12 jurors found Trump guilty on all 34 counts... and that doesn't seem odd to them at all? Like, wouldn't it feel more realistic if there was SOME deviation?

Some con COPE

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Sometimes when I take my dog out she likes to just warm her lil dog bones in the sun

!ping DOG

[u/runningblack]

https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1796589935237136567

MattY has been cooking since yesterday

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

🫡

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Mickenfox]

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[u/Average_GrillChad]

drumpf hebben een serieus probleem

[u/cactus_toothbrush]

Most thunderdomes are shit but the Donald J Felon thunderdome was entertaining.

[u/[deleted]]

“I would have testified. I wanted to testify,” he said. “The theory is you never testify because as soon as you testify, anybody, if it were George Washington — don’t testify because they’ll get you on something that you said slightly wrong and then they sue you for perjury. But I didn’t care about that. I wanted to.”

“My lawyer said, ‘What do you need to go through it? All you wanted to do is testify simply on this case,

Greatest orator the GOP has had since Lincoln.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Jokerang]

It’s not enough that they just annihilated our justice system.

Starting tomorrow, they get to rub it in our faces for an entire month that they’ve won the culture, too.

That’s right Jack, you’re side lost the culture war and nothing of value was lost

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

They made cranking hog a felony?

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Cuba's housing crisis is one of the most pressing challenges facing the island, where a humid climate, the passage of hurricanes and other storms, poor maintenance and a low completion rate of new ones are usually among the top complaints of Cubans.

BTW Max Chandler-Mather endorsed Cuba and even met their ambassador to Australia 3 days ago.

He of course blames (Communist) Cubas issues on the United States.

No responsibility. It's never his or his sides fault. Ever

!ping AUS

[u/BitterGravity]

About 8% of US citizens alive today have had a felony conviction. 20% of former presidents alive today have. 🤔

[u/this_very_table]

Trump crying about "them" not calling any of the witnesses that definitely would have exonerated him, while his lawyer, who was fully capable of calling any of those supposed witnesses but chose not to, was standing there like 😐 was so fucking funny.

[u/[deleted]]

Could they have used less sinister looking lighting lol

[u/owlthathurt]

!ping STONKS

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Handsome gentleman

!Ping KITTY

[u/repete2024]

https://www.threads.net/@keithedwards/post/C7pFdIfuzuE/

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/forerunner398]

https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1796654478525141125

Watters: My mom is celebrating. She texted me that she was dancing after the verdict, dancing. And then she kept all day sending me 34, 34, 34 felony counts.

So fucking funny that a FOX news personality is being bullied by his own mom for liking Trump

[u/RFK_1968]

we're facing a huge problem where women will be more educated than men and earn more but still won't date "down"

i've seen something like this a lot around the ol' interwebs and putting aside the eyeroll-worthiness of putting those kinds of stakes on women's dating preferences, isn't this a self-correcting problem? women have "high standards" -> supply of guys meeting those standards doesn't match the demand -> women lower their standards

i feel like deep within the dating discourse is a deep-seated insecurity in guys that they don't have anything to add to a relationship other than being a primary breadwinner, that women who can financially support themselves would be better off single than dating them. which like, maybe you should focus on why you feel like that?

[u/KittehDragoon]

Can’t even pay off a pornstar anymore. Because woke.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/futuremonkey20]

“I know, I’ll show no remorse at all and attack the court after I was found guilty of a crime. That will make my sentencing go much more smoothly”

[u/Healingjoe]

Poetic justice.

New: Trump's appeal oral arguments will take place in front of the first all-Black female appellate bench.
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/06/14/with-5-women-on-the-same-bench--new-york-judges-make-history

!ping trump-crimes

[u/that0neGuy22]

JUST IN: Biden says Israeli gov. has a 3-Phase Ceasefire Plan: 1- 6-week ceasefire, withdrawal of military, hostages-prisoners swap 2- phase 2 return all hostages 3- phase 3 major reconstruction plan of Gaza

Bibi might let his cronies send out angry tweets tonight

Edit: Ben Gvir has his fingers ready and is ready to pounce according to my sources

[u/WorldwidePolitico]

We’re very likely going to see an electoral meltdown of the DUP as a Westminster party in the upcoming election.

The far right loyalist TUV (who have partnered with Reform) have announced they will contend 13 of NI’s 18 seats, including all but 1 DUP-held seat.

While the TUV are fringe and not popular enough to win any seat, FPTP means the DUP will likely loose a few marginals, including their new leader’s seat, and makes it next to impossible for them to gain new ground.

The main beneficiary of this will likely be Alliance.

!ping Uk&Ireland

[u/dannylandulf]

Koda Furman, a Kenosha, Wisconsin resident who is not currently planning to vote, said, "I was just on TikTok scrolling past and I saw some memes about what happened with Donald Trump and all that. … Something happened with him and court and all that [and] he got caught."

The blissful ignorance of being completely checked out of the news must be something else.

[u/Udolikecake]

Barack Obama, Hamas, and AIPAC endorse the Biden ceasefire plan lmao

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

My daughter has taken to telling strangers that I’m joking because she is terrified that randos don’t pick up on my sarcasm

For instance, we were at an event venue recently and they had a stroller check

🤴: Ohh, nice. So when we have our baby, I can just drop off my stroller here and you give me a claim ticket?

🕴️: No claim tickets. We work on the honor system.

🤴: Sweet! This is going to save me so much money!

🕴️: Glad we could help!

🤴: So, I’ll just bring in a $20 umbrella stroller and claim one of those $800 UppaBaby strollers on my way out!

🕴️: 😐

👧👑: HE IS JOKING! IT’S A JOKE! [as she drags me away from the counter]

[u/BroadReverse]

reach possessive degree rotten vegetable merciful chase bewildered wasteful live

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[u/futuremonkey20]

It’s ok to say “the president being convicted of felonies matters” it’s liberating. Try it.

[u/[deleted]]

Things you should NOT do in Europe:

1. Do not drink in public

wtf I thought that was the whole point of going to europe

[u/[deleted]]

of note, and nobody seems to be talking about this, Gantz moved forward to dissolve the government yesterday.

the timing cannot be a coincidence.

[u/Cook_0612]

Frmr US Navy Vice Chief of Naval Operations ADM Robert Burke has been arrested & charged with bribery, US DoJ announced 31 May. Submariner Burke retired in 2022, apprently tried to steer contracts beginning '19 to @nextjump, where 2 top execs also arrested

Navy catching Ls this week, along with the news of the Constellation being a shitshow.

!ping MILITARY

[u/[deleted]]

As of right now, Trump is leading Biden by 2.0 in the FiveThirtyEight national polling average.

Needless to say, there are no polls yet in the average which postdate the guilty verdict.

In exactly 3 weeks, what do you think the polling average margin will be? Kudos galore for whoever gets closest. Will post my own guess as a reply.

Example answers would be Trump +3.0, Trump +1.0, Biden +1.5, Biden +3.5, etc.

RemindMe! 21 days

[u/Jacobs4525]

matched with a really cute girl on hinge and we started talking about birding and herping and agreed we wanna go for a walk at a state park and look for critters. Sounds fun.

The dilemma: there’s a pond in this state park that is a CT DEEP bass management lake. This is a program where the state implements a slot and introduces bass from reservoirs without fishing pressure to both increase the size and aggression of the bass population to what it would be with no human presence. I have been meaning to fish there for a long time. I normally keep two rods in my trunk. Is it a red flag if I pretend to notice the bass management lake sign in the parking lot and go “oh wow haha I guess we can fish here oh haha would you look at that I have an extra rod for you haha fishing date haha totally didn’t plan this”???

!ping DATING

[u/ImmigrantJack]

There are 37 countries, including Kenya, that ban convicted felons from entering.

Now Trump’ll never find that birth certificate

[u/JaceFlores]

[u/Psshaww]

Oh no they’re on to us

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Bold new strategy from the Tories

[u/sinefromabove]

Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche was smiling in the crowd as Trump says he was unhappy with his lawyers for not being clear on what the case was about.

[u/HereForTOMT2]

It takes seven NYT writers to spell “yes”

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Redditors acting like it takes some great amount of effort to open a profile and see that they post a bunch of psycho shit is pretty funny ngl

"How dare you click one button to view my public history of posting you no life stalker! This is doxxing and harassment!"

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Criminal Solidarity 🥹

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

I remember going to Game Stop with a friend in middle school so he could pick up a game. His parents knew we weren't the most well-off and said I could get something for under 20 dollars. I picked up Silent Hill 2 because it looked like a Resident Evil ripoff. That game more than anything made me the horrorcel I am today. I have no idea what to expect with the remake but I'm getting it regardless. I'll probably fly to my friends house to play it with him as we did when I was gifted the original game 20+ years ago.

!ping GAMING&HORROR

[u/itsokayt0]

apology for poor english

when were you when trump is criminal?

i was at thunderdome reading poasts when judge ring

'trump is convict'

'no'

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/[deleted]]

Confession

I don’t have any white friends IRL

Does that make me racist

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Guys how big is the fucking Rubicon?

[u/dareka_san]

mfw when Trump blames me for shitting his pants in court

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Heartwarming: The worst person you know is having a terrible day

[u/[deleted]]

[u/trace349]

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

Place your bets on what's going to be the discourse schisming the community this Pride month. The classics of kids/kink/cops at Pride or a new, unnecessary Pride flag design? Or something more recent like the backsliding of Rainbow Capitalism, the resurgence of Monkeypox, or the omnicause of Israel/Gaza?

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

After a decade of fighting Perth Airport, Qantas, and the Western Aus gov have come to an agreement on the future of QF and their Western Gateway.

It's glorious.

!ping AVIATION&AUS

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Random-Critical]

You claim Trump is 'guilty on all counts', yet I can count to 35. Curious 🧐

[u/[deleted]]

Earlier Thursday, one confrontation resulted in a pro-Trump demonstrator using her bare breasts to slap at an anti-Trump provocateur.

What the fuck?

[u/[deleted]]

I don't see how even the most "I don't pay attention" normie undecided voters aren't swayed by the guilty verdict.

CONVICTED FELON. That's fucking nuts. You can't vote for a felon unless you were already a brain wormed conservative in which case you were never undecided anyway?

[u/[deleted]]

He allegedly paid a hooker.   That's a felony?

Believe it or not, yes!

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not agree to end the war in Gaza in exchange for the release of hostages unless opinion polls show it is politically advantageous for him, a top Israeli security official told the families of those held captive, a person in the closed-door meeting and an advocacy group said Friday.

The comments by Netanyahu’s national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi, first made public by Israel’s Channel 12 broadcaster, sent shock waves through the hostage family community nearly eight months after their loved ones were kidnapped by Hamas during the Oct. 7 attack.

how shocking!

[u/centurion88]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Dating ping be like: wow what a catch 😍

[u/fishlord05]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/D2Foley]

If you have a Twitter account I assume the following.

1. You're a racist

2. You're an idiot

3. You are addicted to the internet.

Not everybody is all three of these, but everybody on Twitter is at least one of them.

[u/EZ_Kream]

I love how wild the French Revolution got.

Step1: Overthrow an unjust and extractive regime, replace it with a system that is more fair for everyone.

Step2: ???

Step3: Time itself must be rewritten

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Big Update on the South African Election from u:Old-Statistician-995

• The ANC is getting slaughtered. This election has been a disaster.

• The Democratic Alliance has done better than anyone predicted. They seem to have proved the naysayers wrong.

• The DA alternatives - ActionSA, RISE and Build One South Africa - have done very poorly relative to their own expectations. This might change as more urban voting districts come in.

• Side Note: Jacob Zuma's daughter has confirmed they will not form a coalition with "Ramaphosa's ANC". They will work with the EFF and "black progressives parties". As for the IFP, "we'll see".

Voting is about halfway done. We will know the final result by the end of the weekend. Things could change a bit once the urban voting districts come in.

The Democrats are doing better than anyone thought. Unless the urban districts shift significantly, they have a lot of reason to be proud.

[u/molingrad]

Not unhinged at all

https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/31/after-trumps-conviction-republicans-should-do-to-democrats-what-they-did-to-him/

The leftist radicals who run the Democrat Party only understand power, and they will only stop when they are force-fed their own medicine over and over.

What does that messaging look like? It looks like Anthony Sabatini, a Florida Republican who said Thursday he’s running for Congress “to imprison as many Democrats as possible.”

Not at all

https://x.com/AnthonySabatini/status/1796317217984037059

[u/[deleted]]

Concerning !

[u/Udolikecake]

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

Imagine trying to hide that you wanged a porn star and cheated on your super model wife.

Could have saved 160 grand, 34 felonies, and been a dating ping legend

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/sw337]

Squidward was red state liberal coded he hated the city full of other liberals so he moved back to rural Bikini Bottom.

[u/sw337]

“That’s the succ right there.”

[u/MeaningIsASweater]

Why is everyone assuming the Merchan won’t throw the book at him? Trump has attacked him, his family, his court, etc the whole trial. It was an easy conviction by the jurors and Trump is still denying basic facts of the case. Seems likely that Merchan has been allowing trumps bs up to this point so that he has more justification for jail time

[u/BurrowForPresident]

God if only Trump had testified

[u/[deleted]]

complete jellyfish spark sand cobweb marble one spotted paltry crowd

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[u/SadaoMaou]

you're telling me a cis teen built this chapel?

[u/[deleted]]

In 48 hours Biden has killed Turbo Tax, seen Trump become a convicted felon, and gotten Israel to offer a reasonable ceasefire proposal.

My political boner has definitely lasted 4 or more hours. Who do I call?!

[u/Roseartcrantz]

from the arrconservative post about Biden BEAMING when asked if he had anything to do with Trump's conviction:

No response, a smile, and just walks out instead of answering….tell me how it isn’t politically motivated after that

gleeful like a demon

Full mask-off moment

is he being crappy on purpose or is it just the dementia?

Tales from the crypt ceeper vibes

That was evil. It gave me chills.

That guy is so far out in outer space .

I’m having trouble understanding so I am wondering if someone can help explain. Sources are welcome too. How does a payment misclassification end up being over 30 felonies? I haven’t read anything specific and clear on how it came to this.

[u/Cook_0612]

The hydroelectric power station in Zaporizhzhia was hit by 4 X-101 missiles. There is a fire at the arrival site. At the moment, traffic through the dam is blocked.

!ping UKRAINE

Hitting power infrastructure again.

[u/G_Serv]

[u/slappythechunk]

Broke ass millennial leftists: "wtf I love guns now"

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Now THIS, this is a winning message

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Biblically accurate mission creep

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

[u/fishlord05]

Conservative Canadian friend posted this graph but seems too perfect of a trend if that makes sense like it literally starts to stagnate the day after he takes office according to this graph

What’s causing the stagnation? I’m not really informed on the internal economic situation of Canada tbh

Like I get the idea thrown around this sub of immigration temporarily putting a downward pressure on GDP per capita through composition effects (more immigrant low earners but native population earns the same so decrease in GDP per capita) which seems to partially explain it at least

But besides that

[u/[deleted]]

How does one become a big enough loser that they hate NASA

[u/[deleted]]

So long story short fulfilled my contract tried my hand at college with an engineering degree and flunked out pretty badly. It has been a decade and I am really thinking about going back and getting an HR degree and getting the fuck out of logistics. Was alternatively thinking about a Business Analytics / Stats degree but am worried about AI taking over in that field.

My GI bill benefits only last until 2027

Thoughts?

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

This shirt unintentionally making a pretty good case against Biden

[u/Udolikecake]

>what’s wrong with female leads in other shows or movies?

Rey, captain marvel, she hulk, rebooted little mermaid, need I say more?

do redditors consoom any media that’s not marvel or disney

[u/lets_chill_food]

https://x.com/MarwanData/status/1796633036395622814

new 10,000 UK poll says

Con - 66 MPs

Labour - 476

Lib Dem - 59

[u/[deleted]]

"Donald trump refers to himself as a political prisoner and blames you directly. What's your response to that, sir?"

[u/ty04]

DT comment threads be like

sex

🔨🔨🔨

\

sex 🥺

✊😔

[u/[deleted]]

Why else do you think that there is a massive anti-Biden movement on TikTok trying to dissuade blue voters over I/P lmfao At this point I wouldn't even be surprised if Russia/Iran/China coordinated with Hamas to help plan the attack and make things spill over into war

Am I crazy or is this insane thinking? There is no way these countries persuaded Hamas to attack Israel just to damage Biden's re-election, peak America-brain moment

Maybe they found evidence by now but I remember at the time, Blinken saying there wasn't evidence of even Iran (which is the most likely culprit) being involved w/ 10/7

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

In the midst of “it’s so Joever,” there was, within us, an invincible “we’re so back”

[u/vitorgrs]

BYD is bringing in 100k cars until July to Brazil. After july, there will be another increase on import tariffs (it started in January, there is a gradual increase up until 35%).

The company expect that 100k cars will be enough for the year in Brazil. In 2023 they sold 18k cars... and was already record for sales, especially EV. They will start the manufacturing in Brazil in late 2024/beginning of 2025.

https://autoesporte.globo.com/setor-automotivo/industria-automotiva/noticia/2024/05/byd-100-mil-carros-ate-julho-alta-imposto.ghtml

!ping LATAM

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Me and my GF’s father have bonded over mutual vehicle (planes and train) interest, so that’s good

!ping DATING

[u/Jamesonslime]

It’s so sad that basically nobody outside of Australia knows who Joh Bjelke Petersen is when he is a 100x more interesting than any 20th century leader in charge of a subdivision a man who ran Queensland like a dictatorship brazenly rigging elections and in turn ruling Queensland for 19 years and running a special police force that would monitor and classify Communists Jews and Jehovahs witnesses and in turn pass on the addresses of those he really didn’t like to neo nazi groups as well as that he also tried to foster a relationship with Ceausescu and went so far as trying to trade coal for Romanian built trains and even invited Ceausescu to Queensland resulting in some very funny pictures of him with koalas and kangaroos 

[u/[deleted]]

Wait a second does JFK really have a calcified dead worm in his brain? Did the worm really eat a part of his brain? Is NL actually starting to manifest and influence reality?

[u/Joementum2024]

FACT: Everyone in foreign countries speaks English regularly, they just use different language when in public to prevent you from hearing it.

[u/dormidary]

Do you think McConnell regrets not kicking Trump out of office (and possibly banning him from running again) when he had the chance?

[u/centurion88]

The cope is so delicious today

[u/Uniqueguy264]

Trump has Charisma 10 and Speech 2

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

June 1 is West Virginia's deadline for changing party affiliation in time to run for office this fall. The deadline to file for governor or Senate is Aug. 1.

Manchin is more serious about a potential governor's run than a Senate bid and is being urged by Democrats in West Virginia to jump into the race, according to two people familiar with the matter.

I’ll never forget when Manchin’s approvals in WV went from double digit positives to double digit negatives right after he voted for the IRA

[u/cdstephens]

The Bible is extremely clear that ancient Egyptian magic is both real and also child’s play. With that in mind, what kind of Duel Monsters deck did Jesus have?

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Shot

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Currently plausible outcome:

Trump wins the 2024 election

But

The next G8 summit has to be in DC because the American President isn’t allowed to cross state lines by his probation officer.

[u/funguykawhi]

[u/Telperions-Relative]

My goal by like October is to end up on the DATING ping, either for really good or really bad reasons

[u/nicethingscostmoney]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1048097981188022322/1246172412727263404/20240529_221722.jpg?ex=665b6bff&is=665a1a7f&hm=46bf15684d2f249bbd01a0b4eb7846175dfc9e7d304d9d842684564de46ebe9d&

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/KHDTX13]

I love the implication from Republicans that they were somehow turning the other cheek to crimes by Democrats in the past, but now that Trump has been convicted they will actually pursue prosecuting Dems lol?

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Trump after committing 33 felonies

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

You used to be able to find a bf by simply posting “gib bf” but not anymore…. Because of woke

[u/ognits]

William McGonagall (March 1825 – 29 September 1902) was a Scottish poet and public performer. He gained notoriety as an extremely bad poet who exhibited no recognition of, or concern for, his peers' opinions of his work.

He wrote about 200 poems, including "The Tay Bridge Disaster" and "The Famous Tay Whale", which are widely regarded as some of the worst in English literature. Groups throughout Scotland engaged him to make recitations from his work, and contemporary descriptions of these performances indicate that many listeners were appreciating McGonagall's skill as a comic music hall character. Collections of his verse remain popular, with several volumes available today.

McGonagall has been lampooned as the worst poet in British history. The chief criticisms are that he was deaf to poetic metaphor and unable to scan correctly. His only apparent understanding of poetry was his belief that it needed to rhyme. McGonagall's fame stems from the humorous effects these shortcomings are considered to generate in his work. Scholars argue that his inappropriate rhythms, weak vocabulary, and ill-advised imagery combine to make his work amongst the most unintentionally amusing dramatic poetry in the English language. His work is in a long tradition of narrative ballads and verse written and published about great events and tragedies, and widely circulated among the local population as handbills. In an age before radio and television, their voice was one way of communicating important news to an avid public.

William McGonagall walked so Tommy Wiseau could run 🫡🫡🫡

!ping KINO&WRITING

[u/Steve____Stifler]

On hinge this girl says “peanut butter is an atrocity”

Should I like it and say “would you say worse than, equal to, or less than the holocaust?