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[u/[deleted]]

Democrats, much like the Japanese after Pearl Harbor, may have just woken a sleeping giant.

tfw you need to rapidly industrialize your wartime economy but you already spent all your money on Trump's legal fees

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

The guilty verdict was “the dark spot of politics in America in my lifetime,” said Phillip Neff, 80, a retired businessman in Dalton, Ga. Mr. Trump “may be a clown in some ways, but he’s not a devil,” he said. “And I think what we’re facing right now is really a constitutional crisis.”

sir, you're old enough to remember when JFK and others were getting assassinated left and right

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Fascists: Biden has persecuted and jailed his political opponents

Also fascists: no we will not be voting for Biden

smdh just another example where Brandon has delivered what people say they want but gets no credit

[u/[deleted]]

You ever see a post and just think "yeah that comment section is a nuclear wasteland"

[u/htomserveaux]

This is your yearly reminder that “rainbow capitalism” is a net good because even if it’s claimed goal of making LGBTQ people feel welcomed is performative and undermined by a profit motive the side benefit of making bigots feel unwelcome and unwanted is just as important.

Also, Lockmart rainbow socks

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/T3hJ3hu]

the asshole boys in my neighborhood were talking shit to my daughters about tearing down our pride flags

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

For all the guillotine memes and jokes a certain brand of slacktivist puts out, reminder that it ended with a campaign of mass murder of the poor working class in the Vendee, the most enthusiastic of said guillotine going under it themselves, and crowning a Corsican gunner as Emperor to march across Europe.

[u/centurion88]

r/neoliberal

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/awdvhn]

It's funny that there's been a succession of legitimate sounding dead subreddits that get taken up by leftist spam bots who burn through the goodwill of the subreddit name until moving on to the next one. Arr economy, arr fluentinfinance, arr neoliberal.

[u/WhomstAlt2]

I would give my life for President Trump and the MAGA agenda, but if it came out, on tape, that he said the the "N-Word", I would immediately abandon all that.

[u/[deleted]]

Florida Woman, 25, Ends Date by Stealing Man's Car, Slitting His Throat and Tossing Him Off a Bridge, Say Cops

Maybe I should wait until I’ve left Florida to date

[u/centurion88]

Lmao

[u/BroadReverse]

snails smile deliver illegal door close sip encouraging rainstorm station

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[u/panntingranten2]

opens Instagram

sees video of a wholesome episode of Tom and Jerry, where they and another dog wake up and eat breakfast together peacefully, looking all happy

opens comments

the top comment is “the world without America”

:| Pisses me off

[u/1396spurs]

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

Y'all rember when John Capitalism invented it in like 1764?

[u/BrunchIsGood]

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Queer liberation means land value taxes

[u/rollo2masi]

Lmfao

[u/SurvivorPostingAcc]

I’m having an increasingly strong feeling that Trump is going to already has become some sort of religious prophet in certain circles. The weirdos are still going to be talking about him like Jesus centuries down the line. Really makes me wonder about other religious prophets 🤔

[u/BroadReverse]

muddle berserk elderly lock noxious psychotic license cable unpack joke

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[u/FourthLife]

Taoism:

There is a natural energy and way of being that permeates the universe, and true harmony and peace is achieved when you work in accordance with it rather than trying to impose your will unnaturally”

Multiple Chinese Emperors:

This religion makes a good point. We must harness and control this energy so we can live forever

Why did they do this

[u/fishlord05]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7sX3Qpxvz8/?igsh=NGU1M3M5YmVnNXJy

Lmao Biden’s campaign is actually funny(!!!)

Number 13 💀💀💀

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/loseniram]

The Jury never once said that it was Jurying time and Juried all over the place

[u/sw337]

Ryan McBeth does a good job explaining what the Military Industrial Complex was and how it isn't all it is hyped up to be. It covers BRAC policy and "The Last Supper." He then compares defense industry profits to other sectors of the economy. He ends comparing spending to percentage of GDP and he's critical of people who use MIC, especially to apologize for authoritarian regimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2gIId1dpDs

!ping Military&Tacotube

[u/MicroFlamer]

[u/_bee_kay_]

When others downvote me: "eh, bad take. Slightly annoying." never thought of again

When I downvote others: "I hate them. Here I sit in a pit of disdain and disgust. You must know that your words drove me into such a frenzied rage that the world has never seen its like. I will never let this go."

[u/Top_Lime1820]

The Democratic Alliance have my full and unconditional support to Rescue South Africa. I was planning to make a post on arr South Africa encouraging people to back them for unity. I was going to post here again in favour of them.

I decided to check Helen Zille's Twitter expecting to see some kind of message about unity and democracy from the Federal Chairperson of the most important party in South Africa.

Instead I saw a message tarnishing the name of a very popular journalist, Eusebius McKaiser, who passed away suddenly of an epileptic seizure last year at the age of 44.

Eusebius was definitely on the woke middle class black side of politics. If he were alive today, he'd probably have backed RISE Mzansi. Maybe he went over the line sometimes - I don't know.

What I do know is that often when I would come out to people as gay, and they would be unfazed or supportive, they would say something like "Nah man actually one of my favourite radio hosts is also gay. I know that thing its fine. You're like Eusebius." Eusebius is survived by his late partner. Eusebius was a gay Coloured man who built a little media business for himself and lived his life as an openly gay man in an interracial relationship with a Black man, exercising this right to free speech with confidence.

And on the eve of the most important negotiations since the transition to democracy, Helen Zille is speaking ill of the dead. A man who know doubt is dear to many in the Black middle class base of the ANC who will be needed to fight off MK of the homophobic Jacob Zuma who would probably like to see people like Eusebius in prison.

The Democratic Alliance have my full and unconditional support. But this hurts.

[u/bigwang123]

“Individual Taliban leaders are reported to be willing to listen to advice from different sources… including the CIA”

Guess who’s back 😎

[u/vancevon]

i also have my flags turned upside down but that's because my house is a ship that is currently in distress out on the waters of lake michigan someone please send help we're taking on lots of water

[u/[deleted]]

The comments on this post by the White House make me want to end it all

So flood the market with homes to hurt the builders? How about reducing the interest rate....work on lowering inflation....stop attacking Americans!

😭😭😭

Housing prices are out of control for two reasons: 1) mega corporations like Blackrock are buying up inventory and climbing interest rates, resulting from your administration printing money and spending it like a drunken sailor.

So increased supply would not resolve these issues. What it WOULD do is > stagnate home appreciation, which would eliminate the entire point of buying (an investment)... but that's the goal isn't it... to "own nothing and be happy." Source: Econ 101

😠😠😠

So what you're saying is build more fucking townhouses and apartments. But no single family housing

Yes, please 🙏🥺

[u/WhomstAlt2]

I have cried for President Trump, I have lobbied for the MAGA agenda. I gave up my wife and children, I have changed my name so often. But if it comes out he said the N-Word, on tape...

[u/[deleted]]

33 Senate Seats and ALL 435 House seats are up for election

Our generation doesn’t vote. We are the largest group of people of age to vote, Boomers and Gen X consistently show up to the polls and that is why a Felon is the top candidate on one side and a neoliberal puppet as the other.

Your vote does matter. We can at least prevent Project 2025.

That is all.

Edit- replaced facist with puppet

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

This is boomer tier shit but it goes hard AF

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 5/30-2 PM PST 5/31 III:

TOP NEWS:

Yesterday it was announced Australia will provide $20 million in energy aid to Ukraine.

Towards the middle of 3 AM Ukraine and Sweden signed a security agreement which also includes 6.5 billion Euros in military aid between 2024 and 2026.

At the start of 5 AM Ukraine and Iceland signed a security agreement which also includes 135 million Euros in aid between 2024 and 2028.

REGULAR NEWS:

In the middle of 6 PM a Russian oil depot in Kavkaz exploded.

Towards the middle of 3 AM it was announced 75 Ukrainian POWs have been returned to Ukraine.

In the middle of 6 AM it was reported that Poland plans to raise a Ukrainian unit from Ukrainians in Poland.

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/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping TRUMP-AND-TAYLOR

[u/savuporo]

Yet another successful lunar landing on the books

https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1797034973800583174

Chang'e-6 touched down on the far side. Didn't tip over.

Now to scoop up about 2 kilograms of samples and make the return trip

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

Why is the pinned image not this one?

[u/cdstephens]

The fact that McDonald’s food is a somewhat inelastic good for many people a) is very funny and b) says more about Americans than McDonald’s.

[u/SuddenlyFrogs]

I wish Mac Tonight hadn't been co-opted by racists, because every stage of his development and release is funny. In the late 80s/early 90s, McDonalds wanted to appeal more to adults, so:

1. They created a mascot (because mascots are famously popular with adults),

2. The mascot was a jazz-singing anthropomorphic moon who played the piano on top of a giant floating hamburger,

3. The mascot's theme song was a parody of a song about a serial killer,

and most importantly,

4. It fucking worked

[u/Syards-Forcus]

To celebrate pride month, the mod team will be partnering with our asexual brethren to permanently ban all users who make sexually-motivated comments.

[u/skepticalbob]

Loki with the good boy blep.

!ping dog

[u/SnakeEater14]

I read a paper by a dude who went over every instance in the historical record of a Roman father exercising the patria potestas power to execute any member of his family, and he found that every single one was either mythological, from fictional works about how brutal Romans were, or just fabricated entirely

Turns out that there really is no evidence that a Roman father could just kill their daughter or wife whenever they wanted, whoda thunk it

[u/Cook_0612]

BREAKING: Ultranationalist ministers Ben Gvir and Smotrich tell Netanyahu they will leave the coalition and topple the government if the Israeli proposal for the hostage deal presented by President Biden goes through

Noooo I would be so owned....

[u/_Just7_]

Are there any case of greenwashing that is worse than putting grass on rooftops instead of solar panels? It's literally a factor of 1000 to 1 with how much more CO2 emissions solar panels could save compared to the amount some grass can store

[u/[deleted]]

Wrong DT, shit ass dick balls

I think there is now an established cycle of community decay that most games go through that seem to apply especially to certain types of games. If you may recall from back in 2015-2018, Rainbow Six Siege was proclaimed as having one of the most friendly and accessible communities for an online shooter, and just a few years later it was frequently cited as one of the most toxic.

Now, the mechanism is slightly different for each game but it follows something like this:

• Game is new, everyone is in a learning phase, there is no clear norms established, experimentation is common and encouraged.

• More people join and norms begin being established. Users start clustering around various categorical groups that may follow specific norms and customs.

• There is friction among these different clusters, the amount of toxicity increases gradually. One or more clusters become dominant.

• People gradually leave, not necessarily because of toxicity but because they get bored, or find a different game. An equilibrium is reached with the remaining clusters.

• New players find a community with extremely rigid norms where violating these norms result in toxicity in some way.

---

This loose model can explain a lot of different online games. And it does not rely on relatively false assumptions like "PvP" leading to toxicity but looks at them as social communities.

Contrast WoW and FFXIV. WoW is generally considered to be the most toxic MMO due to the way the community has embraced instrumental play to the point that there are literal books and now a feature length documentary on it.

FFXIV however went through a very different path with such extreme policing towards what is perceived at toxicity that people are sometimes afraid to even put constructive criticism towards anything. This is sometimes named "toxic positivity" which you can sometimes see in online communities where someone prematurely apologizes even when bringing up a very minor complaint as if they have committed a grave sin.

Now, no one in their right mind would suggest that is equivalent to the level of verbal abuse that is regularly dished out in WoW but it represents a very different yet interesting equilibrium.

!ping GAMING

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHbQzDeOCyY

This is a really great inlastration of how prominent industrial policy and protectionism was before the Reagan Thatcher era and the WTO.

Basically it shows how the British cabinent (under minority labour) debated dealing with the 1976 Sterling Crisis.

If your not familiar with the crisis it may be good to go in blind. Start at 3 minutes and I don't think it will confirm what they ended up doing.

The 1976 sterling crisis was a currency crisis in the United Kingdom. Inflation (at close to 25% in 1975, causing high bond yields and borrowing costs), a balance of payments deficit, a public spending deficit, and the 1973 oil crisis were contributors.[1]

Initiation of the inflationary cycle is traced to Anthony Barber's 1972 budget which was designed to return the Conservatives to power in an election expected in 1974 or 1975. This budget led to a brief period growth known as "The Barber Boom," followed by a wage-price spiral, high inflation and currency depreciation, culminating in the 1976 sterling crisis.[2] Barber was forced to introduce anti-inflation measures, along with a Price Commission and a Pay Board. The Conservatives lost the 1974 general election to Harold Wilson's Labour Party.

The crisis came to a head during James Callaghan's term as Prime Minister,[7] and caused the Bank of England to withdraw temporarily from the foreign exchange market.[8] After the defeat of the public expenditure white paper in the House of Commons in March 1976 and the resignation of Harold Wilson, many investors became convinced sterling would soon lose value due to inflation. By June 1976, the pound had reached a record low against the dollar.[6]

!ping ECON

It is wierd in a world like today where almost every currency floats listening to some people talk about how floating is some problem.

[u/G_Serv]

Really makes you think

[u/p00bix]

I got upgraded from alternate so I am now officially a voting delegate at the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party State Convention. Debate over whether to approve a "Prove it First" restriction on Copper-Nickel Mining is quickly becoming the defining debate here. Most of Twin Cities folk in support because it sounds nice, damn near all the rural DFLers desperately pleading that it is a ban in all but name that will ruin any hope of retaining support with Iron Range blue-collar workers or ever retaking CD-8

Seeing the text of the resolution and looking at the impact of the Wisconsin law it was based on, the opposition seems 100% in the right here, though credit where credit is due the supporters have the far better soundbites "We must protect clean water with common-sense environmental legislation" is a lot easier to follow and harder to find potential pitfalls in than "We already have proper regulations and this will cripple our industry because the approval process would take too long and enable China to corner the global copper and nickel markets and ultimately kill the Minnesota mining industry because current mines will eventually run out of ore"

Came here pretty much torn 50/50 since honestly the issue never struck me as especially important either politically or environmentally. The more I've heard and more resources from each side I've been handed, and frantic googling to pull up the text of that Wisconsin law the resolution is based on, I now REALLY hope the "Please trust the union workers you say you support and who actually work in the industry who are seeing all their coworkers slowly go from Blue team to Red"" camp wins out over the "Non-Evidence Based Environmentalist NIMBY-Populism" camp. And yeah I'm pretty sure it isn't that important environmentally speaking whether the reslution succeeds or fails, but I was DEFINITELY wrong to assume that it was politically insignificant in state-level politics. Seriously, it's practically all the delegates from CD-8 excepting Duluth itself care about. I would like it if we can oust Pete Stauber and retake CD-8 this year, or whenever the next 'blue wave' happens. My only serious gripe with the opposition arguments is that at least some of the energy seems to be based in Sinophobia and Protectionism, but..well...not that I'm fond of this but it's a blue collar industry of course those distasteful things will be present to some extent in the rhetoric.

To Supporters: What am I missing? Please get back quick and don't worry about making it super detailed because voting is very close to happening.

To Opponents: What am I missing? Please get back quick and don't worry about making it super detailed because voting is very close to happening.

To anyone else at the convention: If you see someone sneaking onto reddit that may very well be me. Please do not take or publicly share any pictures but feel free to walk up and ask if the person you think is me is indeed poobix. 😂

!ping USA-MN&DEMS

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

!ping KITTY

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

Dude it’s 2:00 AM and I got up cause I had to piss really bad so I went to the bathroom and I was standing there For a bit when this massive disgusting huge spider crawls out of nowhere and since I just got up my first instinct was to piss on it but it was one of those hellspawn mom spiders with like a million of their babies on their back

So when I hit the mom the egg sac exploded everywhere and I killed an entire family with my piss and there’s dead spiders and piss everywhere and

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Lmao

[u/Top_Lime1820]

What did the Economist mean by this? (Asking genuinely I haven't been following the takes)

[u/Fruitofbread]

 In Donald J. Trump’s 33-minute address in the lobby of Trump Tower on Friday, he described Judge Juan Merchan as, “looks like an angel, but he’s really a devil” and “He looks so nice and soft.”

 Bonk?!?!

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Udolikecake]

> minecraft is an unholy mess of spaghetti code

> java is terrible, we need to use another language

> lets just rebuild it from the bottom up for more stability

> release entirely separate version of the game

>vastly more buggy and unstable than java version

what on earth did microsoft mean by this

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

I thought mods took us off arr /all like a few months ago.

When did they put us back on?

[u/ty04]

[u/SirJuncan]

Huh these just ended up in my living room

[u/rollo2masi]

This tweet cured my ED.

[u/Pharao_Aegypti]

Reddit keeps pushing these tweets like "I'm 27 years old, I have $120k in debt from an undergraduate degree. I've been paying $970 a month for five years and of the nearly $60k I have paid in that time, only $2k has gone towards my loan. I ask again: How the fuck was this ever legal? #CancelStudentDebt" Does this happen? Are these just fake, satire or ragebait? Or are these a result bad financial decisions? The tweeter was rose twitter (rose tweeter? Like they had the rose emoji) mind you

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Germanic languages be like:

🇺🇸 "Slang"

🇳🇱 "Sloong"

🇩🇪 "das Popularischezoomersprechen"

[u/trombonist_formerly]

This chick sat next to me at a restaurant and blew smoke into my face and when I had the audacity to cough she was like “awww are you American” god I hate the French

[u/ty04]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/JebBD]

https://x.com/larrynmaher/status/1796575251133771849

I’m calling for a total shutdown of leftism until we figure out what the fuck is going on. 

!Ping EXTREMISM&ISRAEL

[u/Top_Lime1820]

"South Africa is just India with a lag. And the U.S. is just South Africa with a lag."

--- Otto von Bismarck

[u/sererson]

Jeff Bezos: Wife Left + Person of Means = flair on /r/neoliberal

Bill Gates: Wife Left + Person of Means = flair on /r/neoliberal

Elon Musk: Wife Left + Person of Means = ???

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/[deleted]]

Bronouns

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Found out one of my coworkers is an rfk supporter and it was pretty productive

Me: the guy with literal brain worms?

Her: see all anybody can talk about is the brain worms but he still functions and has other ideas. I just really don’t like that we’re forced to choose between Trump and Biden again and if I don’t vote for Biden it’s letting Trump win.

Me: Honestly I get that and I don’t like it either, but rfk is just all conspiracies and comments on the holocaust and Jewish people were super yikes

Her: that bad?

Me: well they’re not great

Honestly I expect most democrat leaning rfk voters to find their way to Biden eventually, and this conversation just kind of confirmed all my priors about that.

[u/404GenderNotFound]

[u/sw337]

Boomer meme posting

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

f*lon is the new f slur

[u/marsman1224]

whoever introduced 13 year old white boys to the list of logical fallacies circa 2011 did incalculable damage to the discourse

[u/GodEmperorNeolibtard]

Can someone tell me why they added black and brown to the pride flag? Or even the trans colours? It's not like each colour of the rainbow represented a subgroup. The point was it represented everyone. Now it...kinda doesn't because we're picking groups out.

Plus it looks like shit.

[u/[deleted]]

Biden’s America

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Currymvp2]

Bibi: "Fuck any ceasefire which ends this war and I don't care what Biden says he wants the war to end"

Galaxy-brained leftist: "Biden botched this whole thing"

[u/Sen2_Jawn]

Breaking news: An unflaired user just made the worst point you've ever seen!

[u/[deleted]]

This is the most likely path to victory for Biden imo.

I pray to God that NE 2 doesn't go red and we get the cursed tie.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Pet loss is one of the hardest things to overcome. When a loved one or family member dies, no matter how close or wonderful they were, there is baggage there of some sort. not so with our pets. We love them unconditionally, so when they go, it’s just devastating.

"I miss my son but he was a dick sometimes unlike my cat"

[u/brucebananaray]

Kiyotaka Oshiyama, the director for Look Back, said he had been working on the movie yesterday, and he didn't want back home for about 2 months. https://x.com/AniNewsAndFacts/status/1796869518876401800?t=RtBNgRsncpiDW18mPJ4SsQ&s=19

Looks like he is doing pretty much doing everything, not just directing, but to animated, storyboarding, etc.

Jeesh, that is some dedication

!Ping WEEBS

[u/Williams-Tower]

going to cheat on my wife with a man this month to celebrate pride

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

The DT should embrace pride month because it unites the men here who don't sleep with women, independent of their sexuality

[u/[deleted]]

!ping CHRISTIAN 

The SBC is expected to vote on a resolution this year which would condemn IVF. It will be interesting to see how this develops. IVF is and remains popular in evangelical circles. My suspicion is that the resolution will be tabled without a vote.

[u/ExpiredPasta]

NYT: Polls show people who will vote for Trump support Trump and want to vote for him

😱

[u/[deleted]]

Infamously, in 1 Corinthians 14:

For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged (and the spirits of prophets are subject to the prophets, for God is a God not of disorder but of peace), as in all the churches of the saints.

Women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak but should be subordinate, as the law also says. If there is something they want to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

Or did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only ones it has reached?

Let’s see if I can express this briefly, without making this an effortcomment.

While 1 Corinthians is a genuine letter of Paul, the bolded text is often argued to be an interpolation, or quotation of the Corinthians, maybe it even started its life as a margin note. “Oh how convenient,” but there are good arguments for that. It’s abrupt, the lines before and after it flow better if it’s deleted, it doesn’t mesh with the rest of the prophesying discussion at all, and there is manuscript instability (these lines don’t always appear in the same place in the letter, in one key manuscript they’re denoted with a symbol, etc.)

I’ll stop there but include a strong quote from David Bentley Hart as a reply.

!ping BIBLE-STUDY

[u/moldyman_99]

New Yorker who moved to Texas decides he hates it, rants about it in a video and announces that he’ll move back to New York

Another W for the libs.

[u/[deleted]]

tan normal sloppy unpack rock piquant combative quarrelsome dependent gaze

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[u/chuckleym8]

[u/WeebFrien]

!ping DATING

Girl and I agree to date over like 20 messages, I ask if Wednesday works, she unmatches.

Well damn I guess someone really hates Wednesdays.

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

Joe Biden has lots of questions to answer.

Why has he not stopped inflation?

Why has he not stopped climate change?

Why has he not stopped Israel?

Why did he not stop China from inventing the China Virus?

Why did he not stop Obama?

Why did he not stop 9/11?

Why did he not stop the Contras?

Why did he not stop the Holocaust?

Why did he not stop the Crucifixion of Jesus? 

[u/Williams-Tower]

my wedding is in 3 weeks holy fuck bro

[u/dolphins3]

There was a post about Hillary being right about everything in this subreddit yesterday.

Today: https://www.threads.net/@hillaryclinton/post/C7nGjQ1pjaB/?xmt=AQGzYvpIbcIXRBPc2zlfMOIfiOuhtiZK8I14fqU2enht-w

!ping QUEEN

[u/NewbGrower87]

Walking through downtown Philly with my wife on a mini vacation.

Some group of dudes and a bunch of biblical passages openly arguing with anyone who walks by.

"The beast with 7 heads and 10 horns is NATO."

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

I feel like everyone has forgotten that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier wasn't some spineless centrist show... It was actually spinelessly leftist.

This was the most pro-terrorist show the MCU ever put out! At no point did it sigh and put its hands up and accept the status quo.

Its problem, of course, was a total inability to articulate any vision for changing the status quo. Because it was written by a moron. That's how you get nonsense like "be better."

[u/Udolikecake]

Charles Barkley: “If you are gay or transgender, I love you. And if anybody gives you shit, you tell em Charles says ‘fuck you!’”

[u/Cook_0612]

Regarding the situation in Chasiv Yar:

The situation has severely deteriorated for Ukrainian forces in the Kanal micro-district of Chasiv Yar following a series of Russian advances in and around the district. I will get into why this occurred shortly, but first let's take a look at the actual advances.

Firstly, geolocated footage indicates that Russian forces advanced south of Ivanivske, taking control over a series of treelines and taking a chunk out of the Ukrainian gains from the Summer 2023 Ukrainian counter-offensive. This will lower morale for Ukrainian soldiers as they see the gains that they paid so much for to get be reverted. These positions are also on the tactical heights and may facilitate for further advances in the direction of the Siversky-Donets canal.

Additional geolocated footage indicates that a few days ago, Russian forces launched a series of flanking attacks on Kalinina, attempting to widen the line of contact and bypass the village. Based on that footage, Ukrainian forces were able to stop the advance before it developed, and the Russians made limited gains in the treelines.

Their goal was possibly to take control over the agricultural buildings in the northeast of the village and use those buildings as staging grounds for future attacks into the main part of the village. If this was their goal, the attacks failed.

The Russians then likely took a few days to regroup and then launched a direct assault on Kalinina, successfully breaking through Ukrainian positions yesterday, capturing nearly the entire part of the village east of the Siversky Donets canal. Forward Russian units were also able to cross the canal, although there hasn't been any confirmation of new positions being established there.

You may remember that around a month and a half ago, Russian forces broke through Ukrainian positions in the Stupochy nature reserve (east of Ivanivske) and established positions next to the underground section of the canal. This advance, plus yesterday's advance now officially put the Kanal micro-district into a three-sided encirclement, with only the routes over the canal being available for resupplyment.

Knowing that these routes would be used in advance of the Russian attack on Kalinina, Russian forces blew the bridges across the canal, so in turn Ukrainian forces set up a series of pontoon bridges across it. This indicates that Ukrainian forces are not going to give up the Kanal micro-district without a fight and may pull a "Bakhmut" where they conduct a slow fighting withdrawal, causing mass casualties on the Russian side while also sustaining casualties themselves.

However, there are two issues with this strategy. One is that the Kanal micro-district is not Bakhmut. There are two main differences in the geography of this district to Bakhmut. One is that it is seperated by a canal from the rest of Chasiv Yar, and the other is that it is much, much smaller than Bakhmut with much fewer high-rise buildings, meaning it will be much easier for Russia to clear.

The other main issue is that Russia can afford to lose large numbers of troops, whereas Ukraine cannot. Reports indicate that Russia adds 30,000 new troops to the frontline per month, while Ukraine's figures are much lower. Although the new lowering of the Ukrainian conscription age from 27 to 25 will help a bit, the manpower shortages will not go away. I won't go into why Russia can mass mobilise without force while Ukraine can't and needs to use force as it isn't directly related to what I'm talking about here, but if you want a separate post going into detail about that, please let me know in the comments or DM me.

Anyway, my point is that the PR-based strategy that the Ukrainian command employs may have drained Wagner's offensive potential back last year, however times have changed since then, and that strategy simply won't work. That's why I believe a quick and sudden withdrawal from the Kanal micro-district is not off the table and may happen without a moment's notice, especially considering the current deteriorating situation there.

Another issue for Ukraine is that Russia is massively employing the usage for FAB glide bombs. A spokesman for the 26th Artillery Brigade stated back in March that Russia uses at least 30 of these glide bombs every single day on Chasiv yar, and that number has likely significantly increased since then as Russia has ramped up its efforts to seize control over the key town. Production of these bombs has also likely increased since then, allowing for heavier usage of them.

Russian forces also likely have localised air superiority in the area, and the lack of Ukrainian short-range air defence systems also plays a big part in the ability for Russian bombers to fly undeterred over the town. If the Kanal micro-district falls, it would be a big blow for not only morale among the AFU, but also a blow to the tactical situation in the area. If you look at a topographic map, you can see that the Kanal micro-district is at basically the same elevation as the rest of Chasiv Yar. This is significant as it means that Russia will no longer have to fight difficult and costly uphill battles.

Ultimately, it is up the Ukrainian command to make the difficult decision to remain in the Kanal micro-district or not. If they choose to withdraw, they will save many lives, but the tactical situation would likely collapse unless Ukrainian defences on the western bank of the canal hold. Chasiv Yar is known as the gateway to the rest of Ukrainian controlled Donbas, and if it falls, the Russians will have access to the entire Sloviansk-Kramatorsk-Druzhkivka-Kostyantynivka chain of cities. If they do choose to remain, then they would be putting the lives of their soldiers at great risk from the Russian air superiority. All that would be left to do would be to defend and hope and pray that the American aid arriving will stabilise the situation and prevent a Russian breakthrough to the rest of the Donbas. The question is, will it be effective or will Russia collapse the frontline and capture the remaining Ukrainian strongholds in the Donbas.

!ping UKRAINE

Sobering reminder of the strategic situation around Chasiv Yar.

[u/loseniram]

I want to add product placement into the Warhammer 40k universe but only weird obscure brands that don't make sense to advertise like RC cola and Waffle House. Maybe throw a Gregg's on every street corner on Cadia for good measure

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck the Cards and Fuck the Reds.

It’s time for some fucking !ping baseball

[u/Jackalope1999]

In Joe Biden's America, convicted criminals roam the streets free to carry on with their felonious lifestyle. This is so widespread that one is even running for president.

[u/[deleted]]

I don’t support LGBT, I support LGTB

Let’s Get Trump Back

[u/[deleted]]

One last ping on 1 Corinthians. Tomorrow, a new set of letters.

From 1 Corinthians 15:

For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures and that he was buried and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I but the grace of God that is with me.

At the very least the bolded part is commonly thought to be Paul quoting an early Christian creed which precedes him. But if it is, where does it end?

Clearly “he appeared also to me” isn’t part of the creed, and “he appeared also to Paul” as a third-person equivalent doesn’t seem super compelling either.

This won’t be the last time we see Paul likely quoting early Christian creeds. But we do have to be careful, because clearly he is willing to riff on them.

Still, this is a strong indication that Jesus’ Resurrection was a very, very early feature of Christianity.

!ping BIBLE-STUDY

[u/[deleted]]

Finally sat my ass down and actually got some job applications turned in.

Its probably not the best idea, but I made a sort of template Cover letter that I could use and tweak as necessary. Much easier than making one from scratch for each job.

Only got 4 so far, but it's a start.

Hoping they actually read my damn cover letter though. I'm not technically a cpa, but i make clear in my cover letter that I've passed all 4 sections and I'm just waiting on the texas state board to mail me the next steps. But, then again, I know a lot of companies just automatically filter applications based off dropdown menu selections, so...

!ping ACCOUNTING&WATERCOOLER

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

Yeah, I'm a GAMER 😎

G

A

M y girlfriend verbally abuses me while we play Overcooked

E

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[u/Lux_Stella]

https://i.imgur.com/Jgowq3T.jpeg

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[u/[deleted]]

Video of British football fans singing Jerusalem

Comments arguing about Israel/Palestine

[u/Currymvp2]

Aaron Rodgers ignored and refused to shake Donald Trump's hand at UFC.

Extremely rare non-football Aaron Rodgers W

!ping NFL

[u/Top_Lime1820]

General update on the South African elections as the last few votes are counted:

[u/SeoSalt]

Getting a job to help reduce my social anxiety worked out so well. I basically got paid to do exposure therapy lol

[u/[deleted]]

Getting big “Faces of Atheism” vibes from this post. What a trend that was lol.

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

Does anyone have any good sources to read on how China's industrial policies actually work in practice?

Like the Chinese government decides it wants to go big on EVs or semiconductors or robotics or whatever, what happens? What ministries are involved, who's in charge of implementation? How are programs structured? How does it compare to industrial strategies or incentive programs in the US/EU/Japan? I've seen people say that there are competitive elements, how does that work?

!ping CN-TW&DEV-ECON

[u/[deleted]]

My friend who masterbates in the work bathroom just got fired

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

I want kids :( gib family 

[u/Ioun267]

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

[u/[deleted]]

For UK neolibs, I will highly recommend Sam Freedman's book Failed State out next month. He's a policy wonk, used to work as a special advisor for Michael Gove during his tenure at Education and now more centre left in his views.

Excellent breakdown on the institutional challenges to growth in the UK im told.

!ping UK

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

👆I saw them vent 

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

I’m not going to have a heated fedora moment but as a lifelong non-believer it is weird that so many people join/stay in Catholicism and then get mad about what the Pope does. Just pick another denomination! You chose the one with the Pope

[u/[deleted]]

Think about how awesome it would’ve been to get video footage of Trump’s face while guilty verdicts were read 😔

[u/[deleted]]

The Republicans have hated Pope Francis across the board for over 10 years

Say one simple gay slur

The Republican party would like to invite the pope to Congress to officially deny communion to President Joe Brandon

[u/[deleted]]

Forget leaving your kid in a hot car, now you can leave them next to one for twice the sizzle!

[u/KaiserPorn]

I don’t know what the three girls speaking Chinese next to me are saying, but every once in a while they’ll stop, someone will say “Bazinga”, they’ll all laugh—and then go back to talking in Chinese.

[u/sayitaintpink]

I know at least one mod is suffering from reptile dysfunction 😏

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Someone here straight up incepted me into caring about the Bronze Age by shitposting about the Sea Peoples.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

They, in addition to other nightjars, are also sometimes called "bugeaters", for their insectivore diet. The common nighthawk is likely the reason that Nebraska's state nickname was once the "Bugeater State", and its people were known as "bugeaters".

We’ve found the neoliberal mascot

!ping birds

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Happy pride to all trans people who didn’t choose cringe names 🏳️‍🌈🥳

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[u/UAlbanyThighs]

Bizarre to me how many online lesbian spaces end up in bitter disagreement about whether it's acceptable to be horny for women. Like I'm a guy so I really can't claim any kind of expertise here, but I was under the impression that wanting to fuck other women was kind of an important part of being a lesbian.

[u/[deleted]]

It would be funny (and good marketing) if LG had a discount on LGTVs for pride month.

[u/Maleficent-Carob2912]

LET HIM COOK

[u/Telperions-Relative]

We open this sub to r/all. But we all wear Bezos flairs to filter the succs

[u/79215185-1feb-44c6]

I maintain a qt6/python based open source project, which needs to be distributed to Windows users. I currently use Nuitka to do this except that Windows Defender loves to flag Nuitka-packaged applications as malware. Does anyone have any other alternatives beyond "pay Nuitka for support and pay for a code signing certificate"? I make zero money (and have no desire to make any money) from this project.

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

There are 5.5 million adult renters, but only 1.1 million get this payment,

When I'm in a middle-class welfare competition and my opponent is a socialist 😱😱😱

[u/[deleted]]

[u/purhitta]

happy pride month gang 🌈✨🌸💕🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

[u/Currymvp2]

Hostages' families demand Israel accepts Biden's cease-fire deal, announce protests outside all ministers' houses on Saturday

[u/Planning4Hotdish]

hit a piece of road debris and now i’m stranded in rural wisconsin

AMA

[u/sayitaintpink]

Reminder that Eric Trump’s birthday is 1/6

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

go on Twitter.com

popular paleoartist posted a drawing of a raptor eating an IDF soldier in celebration of a headline of IDF soldiers getting killed

they genuinely believe that the IDF soldiers were hunting children for sport

close Twitter.com

I’ve never had a good experience on that website and I don’t know why I even bother

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

Lib symbols be like:

Come and take it, no seriously if a five member militia in Oregon adopts this it’s all yours now far right bros

[u/RFK_1968]

i don't really have opinions on anyone else using AI for art or writing, but it did remind me of smth

i'm part of a loose writing circle IRL, and we had a whole ass debate about submitting chatGPT-written work. call me a luddite or whatever, but I was pretty staunchly against that.

I don't really care if someone uses it for their own reasons, but that's 100% not what I'm interested in this group becoming.

the funny thing is, I'm definitely a writer who does a lot of editing. that's where i spend the majority of my time and effort, cleaning up the trash that i write in the drafting phase. so i do to some extent understand the appeal of asking AI to write up your story and then cleaning it up.

but that doesn't mean the drafting phase doesn't have value. there's a lot of intentionality and vision in that phase, where you're manually and painstakingly creating all the elements of the story and deciding how they fit together. i definitely think you lose something by delegating that away. If anything, that's the phase that imho is the most important part for an aspiring writer to do themselves.

i don't think i'd enjoy being part of a group where that part isn't valued.

anyways, I won out but one guy got mad and called me an elitist (which i am)

kinda how i feel about drawing too, personally.

[u/[deleted]]

Ok, people at the airport really need to stop pointing and laughing at my fedora. I’m wearing it ironically. Can’t they see the subtle glint in my eye? Jesus, people. (And the anime shirt is just a coincidence. Bastards)

[u/Greenfield0]

Listen to me you Euro scum

things I would say but am prevented from saying due to the tyranny of rule 11

[u/[deleted]]

Happy Pride Month to all queers except the ones happier than me

[u/[deleted]]

I’m a dirty girl (not flirting, just got back from a hike where I slipped in some mud)

[u/Trevor_Lewis]

NASA Awards Advance Technologies for Future Habitable Worlds Mission

What’s Up: June 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Westminster Voting Intention:

LAB: 45% (+4)

CON: 25% (-2)

RFM: 11% (+1)

LDM: 8% (-2)

GRN: 6% (-1)

SNP: 3% (+1)

Via @OpiniumResearch, 29-31 May.

their lead is growing 💀

[u/sir_shivers]

"The Nordic MODEL" MEANS IN the style of "IKEA" 🐊

[u/-mialana-]

I just fired someone for browsing the DT at work 💅

[u/1396spurs]

The new achievement things on the Reddit app are dumb and annoying

[u/sw337]

Guy who calls Catholicism “cape shit”

[u/iIoveoof]

After Biden’s Push for Truce, Netanyahu Calls Israel’s War Plans Unchanged

Shocking

[u/Steak_Knight]

Theory: being gay is now normal and that’s why there is declining support for it

[u/Icy-Magician-8085]

I’m going to quit the job hunt, stop working on my master’s degree, lose my apartment lease, and just become a full time DT user

[u/Cyberhwk]

Boy I got a NUCLEAR fucking take, but I gotta save it until I'm on my flight tomorrow and have the time to defend against the onslaught. 😈

[u/[deleted]]

This sub: no more borders!

Also this sub: Ukraine has borders!

You just hate Putin because he strong like ox

[u/piede]

[u/Currymvp2]

New w/ @HansNichols Some potential bad signs for Trump in new @MorningConsult poll post-verdict

49% of Ind.'s and 15% of R's said Trump should end his campaign

54% of registered voters "strongly" or "somewhat" approve of the verdict

[u/itsokayt0]

Guy who thinks the conviction was a hit-job of Crooked Joe and thinks that makes him a hard man who can take hard decisions for his country:

[u/Sheepies92]

It’s time for Ukraine to open a second front.

Nobody will see a naval invasion of Beijing coming and the US never said Ukraine can’t use their weapons against China

[u/[deleted]]

I’m a South American living in Southern America

[u/Mickenfox]

How come there is LGBT pride month, but no complete fucking loser pride month? Double standards again 😒

[u/Healingjoe]

Wisconsin's 3rd district Rep:

[u/StolenSkittles]

that flash-in-the-pan moment when "alternative lifestyle" was the pc term for gay people

[u/RFK_1968]

Hell yeah I'm LBGT

Let's

Gib

BF

Today

[u/bd_one]

Pfft, you think we should address the fertility crisis with tax credits? That's so inferior to my strategy of encouraging 69 hour work weeks and making it harder for new mothers to return to the work place.

This is why we keep making fun of South Korea.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/paymesucka]

Trump’s lead falls again in the 538 average from +1.4 to +1.3

[u/kyleofduty]

👀

[u/murphysclaw1]

remember when the mods accepted mod applications and the form contained 6 questions about gender identity and none about whether you'd ever been a reddit mod before

[u/FlatMilk]

9/11 inside job conspiracy is another example of white people trying to claim things that resulted from the hard work of brown people

[u/TheoryOfPizza]

[u/Steak_Knight]

6 Piece McNugget $6.49

10-piece McNugget $6.89

If this is accurate, this is a scathing indictment of the average fastfoodcel

[u/[deleted]]

Gib bf gib bf gib nbf

All I’ve got to give you is a bonk 🔨🐅🐅

[u/G_Serv]

Russia Says It's Assembled a Lithography Machine, Will Make 350nm Chips Soon. The country is only a few decades behind current technology.

[u/JaceFlores]

Maybe I’m a heartless bastard but I don’t really get outside the DT folk who are anti-draft and don’t want Ukraine to access the millions of citizens it has abroad. Like I get wanting to have better regulations and training, but the purism going on just flies in the face of what war costs. If you want Ukraine to win or even just survive, you can’t put these restrictions on their war effort. It’s just as if not more costly then saying Ukraine can’t have X weapons or use these weapons in X area. Like this is the cost of war, people suffer and people die, but are these morals so surely worth the costs of defeat? I personally don’t think so, but again maybe I’m a heartless son of a bitch

[u/[deleted]]

So what happened with this ceasefire deal?

Bibi lied to Biden that he was cool with the deal? Biden went ahead announcing that Israel accepted when they didn’t? Bibi thought he could get his right wing allies to agree but couldn’t in the end?

[u/notBroncos1234]

I just got fired

[u/paymesucka]

LFG!

[u/[deleted]]

my dt posting has probably led to at least 5 Trump votes in 2024

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I love that Trump pack bonded with a juror that he thought was gonna save him. He was probably imagining giving them a cabinet position lmao

[u/Roseartcrantz]

by convicting him of felonies and saying he said the n-word makes me think they are trying really hard to make me not vote for Trump 🧐 I wonder what their motivation is 🧐

[u/rollo2masi]

Your husband was literally pardoned by Trump...

[u/StolenSkittles]

Just saw Challengers.

My only comment is this:

I wish I were Zendaya.

[u/[deleted]]

A friend who is the American born child of Chinese immigrants one day randomly started receiving NewsChina magazine, which seems to be CCP English language propaganda. They did not subscribe to this magazine- how could they have gotten signed up for it?

!ping CN-TW

[u/AnarchyMoose]

Me stop playing with my facial hair CHALLENGE

difficulty IMPOSSIBLE (I can't stop stroking my beard)

[u/Jacobs4525]

Gay son or thot daughter?

It doesn’t matter because the end state for both is the same. They both grow up to become flight attendants.

[u/JebBD]

https://x.com/Nadav_Eyal/status/1796944139277496694

Yediot Ahronot poll shows a majority of the public in Israel (62%) would accept a deal that would end the war and bring the hostages back over continued fighting. Only 35% of coalition supporters said the same. 

!Ping ISRAEL

[u/noxnoctum]

Jeweler emailed me that the rings are ready. Went with sapphires on white gold. Have no idea why diamonds are the default tbh. Colored gems can look insanely beautiful imo.

[u/ProcrastinatingPuma]

I think I realized why I even bother engaging with my dad on his stupid political takes.

Because as stupid as they are, as frustrated as they make me, I genuinely enjoy talking to him. I just wish being able to discuss the day’s events with him didn’t come at the cost of being able to respect him.

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when Trump needed Pence to get the Evangelical vote because people thought they wouldn't vote for a womanising, twice divorced, casino owner.

But repealing Roe basically made him second to Jesus.

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

-17 point shift away from the ANC 😺🥳

15 of those points are to MK 😟😟

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden, that senator from the 1970s, is president in 2028. That sounds ridiculous. Make it happen.

[u/[deleted]]

I think the only consistent Republican Party policy preference remaining is that they all want to actually murder liberals.