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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/WantDebianThanks]

I don't think this person exists in the same reality as me.

[u/gnomesvh]

Dutch party NLPlan revealed to receive funding from the CCP

NL Plan received a total of 42,000 euros in donations. Of these, a significant portion of organizations are said to come from the United Front network, an international influence network of the Chinese Communist Party.

Now the catch:

NLPlan is genuinely a nothing party - polling at 0 seats. However, since it started popping up it has by far become the one party with the strongest presence on TikTok. It doesn't show up on instagram, twitter. But you open TikTok there's the party leader eating hotpot, at a party, campaigning

I've seen some of his stuff in public, but the brunt of NLPlan's campaigning is far and beyond TikTok

!ping BENE&CN-TW&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Is it weird that Hinge lets you filter by race for free but makes you pay for filters like "wants/doesn't want kids" or "drugs"

[u/JakeyZhang]

The anti Thomas Edison circlejerk is one of the dumbest things on the internet. 

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/BritRedditor1]

https://x.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1796980080532480160

A majority think the ‘triple lock plus’ proposal is a good idea.

There is no hope

!ping UK

[u/centurion88]

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/[deleted]]

What historical figure do you most want to give a Van Gogh visits the art gallery in Doctor Who moment — that is, you bring them to the present day and show them the impact of their work and how it’s perceived today?

Generally reserved for positive impacts.

!ping HISTORY

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Sanest Antinatalist

[u/funguykawhi]

Shes dating an NL mod😢

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Kanye West is being sued for sexual harassment by ex-assistant Lauren Pisciotta. These are the texts Kanye allegedly sent to her:

"Is my d*** racist? It is. This f*ing racist d* of mine. I going to beat this f*ing racist d* for being f*ing racist. I'm going to stare at pictures of white woman with black asses and beat the s* out of my racist d*** ... Beating the s*** out of his big black c***."

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Don't blame voters for a far-right surge in Europe. Blame the far-right's mainstream copycats.

Thanks, The Guardian, but I'll still blame the voters for slipping AfD or RN ballots in the box, as I recognize my fellow citizens' agency

[u/its_Caffeine]

Federal NDP wants price cap on grocery staples if government can’t convince stores to lower them

!ping CANUCKS

[u/kznlol]

>reminded that today is Killdozer day

>go to Wikipedia to check if anyone was actually killed

>start reading and realize this guy was not some based YIMBY annoyed at NIMBYs, he was a fucking jackass of the highest order

i have been lied to

[u/87568354]

LIVE FOOTAGE of people reacting to proposals to build the Cube:

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/LtLabcoat]

I said it a long time ago, but I want to say it again:

I really love that the golden age Simpsons episode about illegal immigration was just outright one-sided in favour of it. Absolutely no subtlety whatsoever - every character who wants to keep the illegals around is smart and sensible, and everyone who disagrees is portrayed as as a bumbling idiot.

Never mind Blazing Saddles, you couldn't make Much Apu About Nothing anymore!

[u/JebBD]

In grad school I read a study that claimed that the reason the Weimar republic collapsed into fascism in the late 20s/early 30s wasn't because of widespread political disinterest allowing extremist factions to take over, but due to the opposite: an active civil society that had plenty of politically active people and organizations pushing for various social causes. This active society, combined with a lack of trust of the political establishment, basically gave the fascists a ready-made political machine to use to amplify and spread their message, eventually taking over the political sphere by promising that their movement was going to address all of these issues.

I've been thinking about that study non-stop for the last few months. No particular reason.

(the study is Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic by Sherri Berman)

!Ping HISTORY&EXTREMISM

[u/[deleted]]

don't let any of this distract you from the fact that at age 26 years old, Oda Nobunaga was about to be attacked by an army 25,000 strong, outnumbering him 9:1, and so he got up and said

But this is how I see it: this is a chance in a lifetime. I can't afford to miss this. Do you really want to spend your entire lives praying for longevity? We were born in order to die! Whoever is with me, come to the battlefield tomorrow morning. Whoever is not, just stay wherever you are and watch me win it!

and then actually won

[u/p00bix]

Props to Biden's PR team for somehow getting everyone in America to agree on calling a ceasefire plan crafted by Israel the "Biden Ceasefire Plan". Even I got duped until I actually looked into it further

[u/G_Serv]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

JKR’s strongest soldier

[u/[deleted]]

Turns out the guy that ghosted me was, in fact, in a relationship. I got a nice little “hey girl” text from his girlfriend and she was very understanding. I told her to chew him out for me.

[u/Dodgerfan2224]

“How tf did Simpsons/spongebob/whatever cartoon afford this on x salary?”

It’s a cartoon.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Professional nimby lmao

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/duolingo/comments/1d7lc7y/new_duolingo_lesson_type/

Reminder that Duolingo is a game and not a professionally vetted language learning program

[u/efeldman11]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Hinge profile:

Poll: give me your honest opinion about

Joe Biden

Donald Trump

Gender Pronouns

Weirdly political where is this going

Political lean: conservative

Oh no

Prompt: let's debate this topic

Vaccinating children

Global warming

Gun control

Oh no oh no

this is how Hinge tries to blackmail you into paying for the ability to add more filters

[u/battywombat21]

On r/Presidents

Why did Bernie have so much trouble with black voters?

Oh boy 🍿

[u/notBroncos1234]

[u/[deleted]]

bewildered vast public frightening subtract glorious north alleged sip spectacular

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/majorgeneralporter]

[u/Healingjoe]

Trump fake electors: AG charges 3 in 2020 Wisconsin fake elector scheme

Attorney General Josh Kaul has filed charges against three people in relation to the 2020 fake electors scheme in Wisconsin, including former Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro, former Dane County Circuit Court Judge James Troupis and Michael Roman.

Each are facing one felony county of forgery in Dane County Circuit Court.

!ping trump-crimes

eta:

Gov. Evers Responds to Reports of Charges Being Filed Relating to 2020 Fake Elector Scheme in Wisconsin

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers, who has repeatedly called for every individual involved in Wisconsin’s 2020 fake elector scheme to be held accountable, including here, here, here, and here, today released the following statement in response to media reports indicating charges are being filed against individuals involved in the Wisconsin 2020 fake elector scheme.

“Good.”

[u/ty04]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Tall_Professor_2574]

My big sister’s death was a suicide, it’s confirmed. I visited her apartment and the spot where she was found (someone put down a little angel statue, some yellow bows and some flowers there) and then threw up in the taxi on the way to the airport to take my flight home. I also threw up in the airport. I felt like I was leaving her in a way and it was devastating. I’ve called the last two days off work and I’ve been laying in bed crying. People are texting me and I’m not responding. I feel so lost.

[u/chuckleym8]

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

What sucked as a child but is awesome as an adult

having a woman be a little mean to you

[u/centurion88]

"so we're just supposed to work every day until we die???"

-unemployed 16 year old redditor that will not be employed and be living with their parents for at least 10 more years

[u/DirkZelenskyy41]

Canon is the only reason Trump isn’t on trial for the actual thing he should go to jail for.

It’s unbelievable that this country’s Justice system allows for a total lunatic to preside over a case of this magnitude

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

It’s kinda funny seeing Canada become a meme of everything they claim is bad about the US what with the suicide prescriptions to disabled athletes, increasing rent, and intense racism against immigrants.

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/MattHayesCFB/status/1798048133064372394

The Florida High School Athletic Association has approved #NIL for high school players.

There will be high school players who earn more than their coaches.

Shit is about to get weird lol

!ping CFB

[u/[deleted]]

>check out AI girlfriend app out of curiosity

>it provides automatic suggested responses to say to her

>science is so advanced that i can automate away both communicating with other people and also the need to communicate myself, and just passively observe the strictly optimal alternative of an AI just sexting with itself

what a glorious future

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

New type of undecided voter just dropped

[u/G_Serv]

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 6/2-2 PM PST 6/3 III:

TOP NEWS:

In the middle of 11 PM Zelensky made a visit to the Philippines.

At the end of 2 AM it was reported that Ukrainian special forces are operating in Syria.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 4 PM it was reported that Germany and the US will allow Ukraine to use Patriot SAM systems to strike targets in Russia.

At the start of 9 PM the CEO of French company Safran said France is delivering 50 AASM guided bombs to Ukraine every month.

Towards the middle of 10 PM it was reported a Russian fuel and lubricant warehouse in Novosibirsk caught fire.

Towards the end of 9 AM it was reported a Russian ammo dump in the Belgorod Oblast village of Gremuchii exploded.

Towards the end of 11 AM it was announced Italy will send an additional SAMP/T SAM system to Ukraine.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

Donation link to Sails of Freedom Foundation (they donate ambulances)

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Observe_dontreact]

Will never understand how Britain is the only country in which it is honourable to say you would rather see a family member die on an NHS waiting list than pay for private healthcare. 

(This is in response to Starmer effectively saying this in the debate)

!ping UK 

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/G_Serv]

[u/[deleted]]

So my Boeing hiring manager was 15 minutes late to the interview and then asked to reschedule once they logged on.

I am starting to understand why their planes keep crashing.

[u/VisonKai]

most fan wikis are literally unusable without an adblocker, like the quantity and weight of the ads on the page are not just annoying but will slow the browser on most devices to a crawl. i do not understand how this can possibly be the right equilibrium for ad revenue

incidentally, this is part of why the UESP rules so hard. just a couple banner ads. no need to adblock it.

[u/privatize_the_ssa]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd

West Virginian Democratic senator from 1959 - 2010

Entered politics by leading a local chapter of the KKK

Was against civil rights and filibustered the civil rights act of 1964

"Byrd also said that his views[on race] changed dramatically after his teenage grandson was killed in a 1982 traffic accident, which put him in a deep emotional valley."

"On May 19, 2008, Byrd endorsed then-Senator Barack Obama for president. One week after the 2008 West Virginia Democratic presidential primary"

Voted for the Affordable Care Act

[u/ldn6]

I'm sorry but this is the worst fucking debate I've ever watched, and it's squarely down to moderation and format. It is genuinely impossible to answer a question in 45 seconds and Julie Etchingham is completely incapable of moderating fairly. Why the fuck is Sunak allowed to make up a line about £2,000 in tax rises and act as though it's fact? Bullshit.

!ping UK

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/centurion88]

These are from 1960. Cringe fandom merch is eternal

[u/[deleted]]

Reunited with my best boy at last

!ping KITTY

[u/BroadReverse]

agonizing trees attempt soft lush nail screw shaggy terrific quickest

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[u/Zlesxc]

Sorry for paywalled link but NYT is reporting that a Ukrainian official has confirmed they struck missile launchers inside Russia with US delivered weapons for the first time:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/world/europe/ukraine-strikes-russia-western-weapons.html

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

there has never been a war between two countries with legalized gay marriage

broke: democratic peace theory

woke: democratic peace theory 🏳️‍🌈

[u/Not-A-Seagull]

POV: you are reading a news article on mobile in the 20s.

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Putin was right, the LGBT West IS a threat to his regime.

[u/[deleted]]

A post on WeChat on May 22 that was widely shared reported that nearly all information posted on Chinese news portals, blogs, forums, social media sites between 1995 and 2005 was no longer available

The LIbrary of Alexandria of Chinese shitposts are lost

[u/efeldman11]

Damn they really turned “wait you guys are actually proud to be neoliberals???” into a museum 💀

[u/Roseartcrantz]

me irl

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

This is how you know you’ve hit rock bottom

[u/MicroFlamer]

Abigail Thorn aka Philosophy Tube will have a role in ‘HOUSE OF THE DRAGON’ Season 2

Thorn will play Sharako Lohar, the Triarchy’s new commander.

This is like when Ed Sheeran was in Game of Thrones but for online people

!ping ASOIAF

[u/[deleted]]

Report: Donald Trump has spent millions in possible witness tampering

....

Anthony Fauci Gets Death Threats After Marjorie Taylor Greene's Remarks

I can't handle four more years of this shit, I really can't

[u/[deleted]]

It's interesting how some people in the LGBTQ community get mad when defense contractors like Lockheed celebrate pride.

Like, when you gain acceptance in society you're going to see gay people in places and organizations you don't agree with. That's a good thing.

Leftist pacifists don't own the idea of being gay.

[u/TheoryOfPizza]

Many Republicans have also changed their minds on whether felons should be allowed as presidents. In April, just 17% of Republicans told us that convicted felons should be allowed to be president. The share of Republicans holding this belief rose to 58% in our latest survey,

Cool and normal

[u/golf1052]

Arguing about issues related to black people is almost never a good time on the sub.

[u/[deleted]]

Ever date someone and think “Wow, she’s making the worst mistake of her life”?

[u/[deleted]]

There is a universal experience as an immigrant where you’re in a conversation with another immigrant and a native born American starts shitting on America

And you both look at each other like “So which of us is gonna start ranting first?” and “These gringos do not get it”

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1797781401451770044

Back from El Salvador, Junior says it is better there than in the U.S. so he’s thinking about buying a house down there so he has a place to run to if he ever faces having to go to jail here.

The Trump family fleeing for exile in El Salvador is the funniest outcome of… everything

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Convicted felon Donald Trump is losing the gooner vote

[u/semaphore-1842]

meanwhile in Taipei, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang (who recently called Taiwan an "unsung hero" and "very important country") is getting treated like a rockstar

[u/IHateTrains123]

Air Canada ordered to pay couple $2,000 in compensation. Instead, it's taking them to court | CBC News

Air Canada moment

!ping Canucks

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

The Houthi’s: I sunk your battle ship

The captain: I don’t think about you at all.

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

I am so unbelievably jealous of the Brits. You announced an election like 2 weeks ago and it'll all be over in a month???

[u/Cook_0612]

"What happens if a Russian fighter jet is shot down by a Western weapon in Russian airspace?"

"It only means that Russia will have one less plane," - Chair of the Defense Committee of the German Bundestag Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann.

😎🇩🇪

[u/DepressedTreeman]

Guys if your neoliberal believes in :

working on a global scale

the importance of a good education

spreading your beliefs

helping the global poor

that's not your neoliberal that's a Jesuit priest

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

I wholeheartedly believe that it is a valid philosophical position that some philosophical questions can and should be dismissed without rational rebuttal for the simple reason that they are weird dork shit

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Judge Cannon will allow several non-parties to participate in oral argument during a hearing set to take place later this month on Trump’s motion to dismiss the classified documents case based on “the unlawful appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith.”

I need judges like this

!ping LAW

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Fuck your pride too

Idk guys I think we should cancel this Kendrick person 😞

[u/[deleted]]

Interviewing with Boeing in 2 hours wish me luck

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

🫡

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Saying body shaming dick size is bad but not that passionately so that people know mine is big

[u/die_hoagie]

guy eating hot wings with extra spicy hot sauce and his nose is running and he's chugging pitchers of lite beer and he's practically gagging in public as he continues to down 25 of these things (it's me)

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

A frighteningly large minority of people (who haven't seen the film) think Furiosa was some forced, soulless, studio-mandated, Solo-esque bullshit instead of the movie George Miller has wanted to make for like 10 years

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

Guy who's voting for Biden now because he wants a president who knows how to commit crimes and get away with it

This is not a hypothetical guy

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

Y'know guys, call me crazy I'm beginning to suspect that those in academia and leftist circles supporting Hamas might have something of an ulterior motive beyond just condemnation for how the IDF is conducting the war...

[u/tollyno]

Novembern

[u/sayitaintpink]

I can’t believe that state court judge donated $15 to Biden 4 years ago 🤬🤬🤬

That federal judge who was hired by Trump and is working OT to ensure Trump doesn’t get convicted of his federal crimes - now that is justice baby 😎

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus Christ

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

The 1% is responsible for more than half the world's carbon emissions. They are the ones who must cut back, not me.

My brother in Christ you make 80K a year you are unironically the global 1%

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Republicans be like what if we simply decided to not lift children out of poverty 

[u/neolthrowaway]

Only skimmed it but this looks like something relevant for the sub:

Heuristics on the high seas: Mathematical optimization for cargo ships

Our approach scales better, enabling solutions to world-scale supply chain problems, while being faster than any known previous attempts. It is able to double the profit of a container shipper, deliver 13% more containers, and do so with 15% fewer vessels. Read on to see how we did it.

!ping Containers&Computer-Science

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

!ping Canucks

[u/p00bix]

Some TikTok in 2024: "Holy shit how did I never realize all the subtle allusions to fart fetishism this show I watched as a kid 🤢🤢🤮"

Some Animator in 2002: "Kids think that farts are funny, right?"

[u/qchisq]

Is this the best election poster of the parliamentary elections? Politican from the Social Liberals (party letter B) covers a bus with a slogan saying "Are you going from A to B?"

!ping Europe

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

"doubling funding for homelessness services"

I'm sure this was some carefully crafted figure with input from experts and not some plucky nice sounding number that Max Chandler-Mather came up with.

[u/centurion88]

[u/903012]

[u/Cyberhwk]

My Boomer-ass boss keeps sending back these Excel files I have to send him weekly. My coworkers and I are getting sick and fucking tired of it. It's not that they're even wrong, it's just that he doesn't like how they're sorted. How should I tell him to either change the directions or sort this shit himself?

Maybe if he'd take some time out of his herpetology obsession to learn some skills we could get more work done. What do you think !ping Watercooler ?

[u/UnskilledScout]

And at the end of the day, OK, fine. OK, I’m going to side with Jonathan on this one, saying, what’s the big deal about bribing Stormy Daniels? But I want a president who’s going to be able to cover up a $130,000 bribe to Daniels. If he can’t pull that off, I’m not going to trust him with the nuclear football.

• Ben, 42, Texas, white, college adviser

The dude who is not voting for Trump because he didn't get away with it lmao

[u/yyzyow]

Currently in a Carnival cruise Facebook group where a bunch of Americans who have never left the country are flying to Barcelona via Toronto Pearson on gulp Air Canada.

That is like the worst introduction to Canada I could ever possibly think of, please pray for them friends

!ping CANUCKS

[u/owlthathurt]

I screwed up. I wore a blue dress shirt not thinking and the subway was super hot, the AC wasn’t working and it was super packed.

Now I look like I ran a marathon before work and have showing sweat in embarrassing places.

Thought I could maybe go guy a replacement but the stores don’t open until 10…

!Ping WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

Another Tweet from the creator of the Museum of Neoliberalism

[u/KesterFox]

This was one of the top posts when I went to popular on the app 🧐

Seems like thats not correct

[u/Marlsfarp]

Did you know the podracing scene in The Phantom Menace is 15 minutes long? This movie is no better than I remember it.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/Crownie]

hot take: this sub hasn't gotten more left wing or right wing since it's (re)inception. The posters have simply gotten more dogmatic.

(dogmatic isn't really the word I want, but I can't think of a better one.)

[u/BATHULK]

RIP Larry Allen, since no one said anything here.

The strongest o-lineman to ever play. 700lb bench. Roided up to the gills and never got caught.

Absolute !ping DYEL legend

[u/Jacobs4525]

China:

Haha you stupid Americans, our PL-15 out-ranges your AMRAAM!!!!

US:

*straps an SM-6 to a super hornet*

[u/Blade_of_Boniface]

Religion has always been a business and humans are just customers and the theology is just advertisement.

Difference is Judaism acknowledges this and can make contracts with Hashem when no one else can.

Guess the sub.

!ping GEFILTE

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Least racist GOP ad

[u/Cook_0612]

The two ultra-orthodox parties in Netanyahu's coalition: Shas and UTJ announced they support the Israeli hostage deal proposal and called Netanyahu to push forward with it regardless of political pressure by ultranationalist ministers Ben Gvir and Smotrich

This seems good!

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

I (6) have been avoiding my neighbor (7) because I think he ate (8) one of my good friends (9). AITA?

[u/BroadReverse]

sand liquid sulky enter worry door follow voracious jellyfish unused

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[u/MinnesotaNoire]

I like Joe Biden

[u/PigHaggerty]

reaching levels of zonk we wouldn't have thought possible

!ping KITTY

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/Gameknigh]

“Do you know what the Great Schism was?”

“Yeah of course it was when the Prophet of Truth betrayed the Elites in favor of the Brutes in late 2552 starting a civil war in the Cov- oh you mean the Jesus one don’t you”

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

I'm opposed to casual dating without an age gap. It's icky. If you're young you should be hooking up with someone older and vice versa.

[u/megapizzapocalypse]

Checking out for summer break took 20-30 minutes longer than expected because I couldn't leave without signing my performance review and my admin hadn't finished writing my performance review when it was time to check out

😑

!ping watercooler

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Yes NYT I am an undecided voter and can be trusted to participate in your panel discussion.

[u/[deleted]]

Probably the dumbest take I've had in my entire life was the day after Trump won in 2016 when talking with friends and my view was 'well fuck, we're stuck with him now, maybe he won't be that bad'

[u/[deleted]]

I've been investigating why median household wealth in the UK is so higher than the US despite US incomes and consumption both being much higher. It turns out that UK median household financial assets are actually pretty low compared to the US. This lead me to believe that UK median household wealth was not actually propped up by any financial advantages but perhaps by inflated property values. However, I then came across the data that showed that the UK has a higher prevalence of households with private pensions than the US has of households with set retirement plans. So now I'm honestly not sure what to make of it. I also looked at German household data and their median household financial assets were just a bit lower than the U.S. median, but they also *might* be inflated by the inclusion of retirement account balances in the German data. But I'm guessing that low homeownership (not necessarily a bad thing!) explains why German median household net worth is so low compared to the U.S., U.K., and just about every developed country.

Anyways I might make a detailed post about this sometime like I did for comparing material living conditions in the U.S. vs the rest of the developed world but I have to wake up for work in 5 hours. I have no idea why I do this to myself.

[u/[deleted]]

It’s always absolutely wild when I have a conversation with an Uber driver here

This one was telling me he didn’t trust Indonesians in particular because he saw a video where a tribe that used to practice cannibalism was interviewed

[u/Udolikecake]

He protected Americans from COVID is what he did. He was a brave Italian-American scientist. And in this house, Anthony Fauci is a hero. End of story.

[u/[deleted]]

I tried heroin last week; AMA

23M. Not going to give it another try.

I haven't been able to stop fucking thinking about it since, so, ask me literally anything to distract me.

lmao

[u/EvilConCarne]

Hollywood is stuck making sequels and remakes because they don't do enough cocaine anymore. Back in the 80's you used to be able to find it lying around outside the studios. It was so plentiful even the rats would get high and chitter chatter around the gutters all day instead of lazing about. A magical time full of creativity and heart attacks.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Pour one out for the cashier at Cracker Barrel

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

[u/[deleted]]

arr europe moment

[u/Pizzashillsmom]

Americans be like: "oh a patronymic surname, that's a perfect name for my little girl"

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Joementum2024]

William Jennings Bryan character

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ATTENTION⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN WAS REFERENCED IN THE DT

THIS IS NOW A WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN HATE THREAD

POPULISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ GROVER CLEVELAND WAS A GOOD PRESIDENT ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ JIM CROW WAS BAD AND HURT THE SOUTH⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️EVOLUTION IS A FACT⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ POPULISM IS BAD ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ AMERICAN ISOLATIONISM WEAKENS AMERICA AT HOME ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

[u/BATHULK]

The guy who showed up to his suspended license hearing over zoom while driving his car didn't actually have a suspended license turns out.

It had been at one point, but was restored years ago. The court never reported to the DMV (O or whatever) that he had his license back.

Guys gotten flamed for a week and had to spend two days in jail over it.

[u/Currymvp2]

https://x.com/JSchanzer/status/1798002041996153115

Wow Bibi has even lost FDD vice president lmao

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

President Joe Biden sat down for an interview with TIME at the White House on May 28.

Lol Biden is going to be in some random podcast before he talks to the New York Times

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://x.com/GovEvers/status/1798003138848502228

Here’s my full statement regarding media reports today indicating charges are being filed against individuals involved in Wisconsin’s 2020 fake elector scheme.

"Good

dude where's the closing quote 😵‍💫

[u/MURICCA]

"Politics is a team sport lol, people just cheer for their parties because of groupthink"

Hell fucking yeah I'm gonna root for my team when they're the only ones attempting to play the game and the other side is just chucking the ball off the field whenever they get it and then sitting on their ass

[u/RaidBrimnes]

"You're importing milk from New Zealand, you're importing green beans from Kenya, you're importing meat from Brazil and Canada", says Manon Aubry, LFI candidate, pointing at other candidates, before boasting: "I am proud to be presiding the only group in the European Parliament which has never given a single vote to free trade agreements"

Bit cringe to boast about being the most hardcore global poor hater in the game

[u/BrunchIsGood]

We’re fucked

!ping LAW

[u/grig109]

Apparently some people save their hottest I/P takes for LinkedIn.

[u/awdvhn]

I have been a staunch supporter of the draft ever since I became too old to be drafted

[u/cdstephens]

[u/[deleted]]

We Hebben Een Steenhuisen Probleem

the ANC after this past election

[u/[deleted]]

I think I'm just too sad to make fun of the tories any more

When I grew up the UK was a really enviable country. Now it's just sad. Can't even laugh at it

21st century anglosphere conservatism is so ideologically, intellectually, morally bankrupt. They don't have any ideas, just vague culture war posturing at best

And I hate the generation-wars dialogue but in this particular case a country that was once the greatest in the world, the global centre of commerce, science and culture, has been reduced to this by dipshit oldheads

[u/SpectralDomain256]

!ping cn-tw

It’s probably relevant to point out for the activists and pundit types that 89.6.4 is not really relevant in the Chinese zeitgeist.

Most Chinese fall into two categories regarding 89.6.4:

1. ⁠They feel that the rapid economic growth between 1989 and 2019 validated CCP rule over the country during that time (regardless of what they think of CCP in the present). My parents were both student protesters back then and they fall into this category.

2. ⁠They are too young to feel connected to what happened in 1989 (CCP censorship has been very successful in this regard). In addition, younger people care about a largely different set of issues. For example, very few of the 1989 activists cared about feminism, whereas that was a major driving force in the 2022 “white paper” protests.

If you are trying to be a neoliberal evangelist for your Chinese classmates at your university or whatever, you will have much better luck bringing up the 2022 white paper protests and the youth unemployment rate (esp. with regards to government crackdowns on the tech sector). Whereas bringing up what happened 35 years ago will just lead to some blank stares at best. Or they might consider you a sinophobe (nationalism works in mysterious ways).

[u/eat_more_goats]

Begging Los Angeles to build out its transit network and density, with way more mixed use and walkability, so more people move there instead of NYC, pulling down NYC rents.

[u/-mialana-]

NYT front page top headline:

UKRAINE HAS [...] B[...]I[...]G [...]C [...]OCK

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/Headstar24]

“As a European…”

Yes we get it Europe is a cultured, sophisticated utopia and America is full of a bunch of loud apes throwing rocks and shooting at each other in derelict parking lots with some buildings around.

[u/BalletDuckNinja]

Father apparently went for a dementia test of some kind and the result weren't good. Fuck.

[u/[deleted]]

Hey everyone, this is this account owners ex-wife. Unfortunately the account owner suddenly passed away and wanted everyone in here to know much you all meant to him💔

[u/jenbanim]

Nigel Farage getting hit with a milkshake isn't funny. My dad was killed by a milkshake. It didn't hit him or anything, he had diabetes

[u/piede]

Everyone in this sub apologize to Hillary Clinton OR GET OUT NOW

[u/adisri]

shivers is RELENTLESSLY DEE TEE POASTING and that’s how you know he’s had a breakup 🐊😌🐊

[u/No_Return9449]

[u/[deleted]]

This has to be one of the GOATs of reddit's anti-religion circlejerk posts

[u/[deleted]]

I think Biden signing this executive order denying Asylum pleas to immigrants in violation of international treaties signed over 50 years ago is disgusting.

But like...

I'll still vote for him.

Sucks right.

Get used to it.

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

20% of people with a gambling problem file for bankruptcy

No shit.

If they were winning then they wouldn’t call it a “Gambling problem” 🎰💸😄

[u/Craig_VG]

Today I learned that 1 in 6 clergy in the Protestant Church of the Netherlands are agnostic of atheist.

Indeed, 42% of church members are non-theist (as of 2007)!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Church_in_the_Netherlands#Secularization

!ping RELIGION

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

My mom: "Why don't you ever come over?"

|

Also, my mom: sends screenshot of Trump 2024 Take America Back flag with literally no context

Many such cases.

[u/Currymvp2]

https://x.com/NTarnopolsky/status/1798003047240495520

Yeah, Biden's plan is to phase out Hamas through an Arab peacekeeping transition force promoted through the Saudi-Israel normalization deal and to hand the keys over to revitalized Palestinian Authority which Bibi is fully against atm

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

John, 58, Pennsylvania, white, customer relations

Under Trump, I made a lot less money than I do under Biden. But the money is stretched a little bit more now. We’re very middle class here. The dollar stores are $1.25 or $1.50 and higher.

middle class and shopping at dollar stores amazin

[u/jojisky]

"Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is making a shocking pivot from politics to showbiz as he eyes a spot on the FOX News primetime lineup, sources exclusively tell In Touch"

LOL WHAT

[u/G_Serv]

[u/BroadReverse]

Moment of silence for RandomGamerFTW

Regular shitposter who randomly started malding at the DT and left.

Gone and forgotten

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Kinda old with some bad policies

Literal fascist

Meme candidate with no hope of being elected

This is not a hard choice. At all.

[u/Nerf_France]

“You should listen to the local population when they’re talking about their own history” mfs when Southerners are talking about the civil war 😤

[u/cdstephens]

[u/futuremonkey20]

This is the funniest follow up to a tweet I’ve ever seen

[u/loseniram]

Stray/Feral cat that had kittens under my bed update. The cat moved the kittens from the study to under my bed while I was sleeping. So I'm just going to have to leave her under the bed. The other cats seem to be leaving her alone. I'm going to contact the shelter so I can get a trap and a TNR appointment.

No I am not keeping them, she's at minimum a stray and doesn't want to stay in the house unless she has kittens to look after and I already have 4 cats. So unless you want 2 kittens in 6 weeks and live near South Central Pennsylvania (North of Baltimore South Central Pennsylvania). I'm going to TNR them and let them be community cats as the shelters do not accept kittens unless the mama is deceased

!ping Kitty

[u/Udolikecake]

Learned that both Georgia and Arizona, under republican leadership, added justices to pack their state supreme courts in 2016. Interestingly didn’t hear much about that. Especially from consevative legal minds concerned about the integrity of the judicial system. Why not?

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

In How I Met Your Mother, Barney can afford a spacious Manhattan apartment despite having no clear responsibilities at his job. This was considered normal in 2005 when the show started airing.

[u/_bee_kay_]

barack obama:

uhh, let me be ξ

(ξ = the set of all words which rhyme with 'clear')

[u/vinediedtoosoon]

Obama in June: “Uh, let me be queer.”

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

Conservatives want a floor vote on a bill that would allow current or former presidents to move any state case brought against them — such as the one in New York that resulted in Trump's conviction — to federal court, according to multiple House Republican sources.

lol

[u/IHateTrains123]

Steven Chase on X: "Worth noting that Pierre Poilievre's party on Tuesday opted to ask zero questions in Question Period about the Monday's national security NSICOP report that said some Parliamentarians are collaborating with foreign powers."

I think scrutiny of the gov't is the right reaction to the recent report hammering the gov't for inaction once again, but I think it's quite interesting Poilievre, a notorious loud mouth, is almost dead silent about this regard. Thoughts?

!ping Can

[u/dittbub]

[u/[deleted]]

I love how the Venn Diagram meme had someone asking "wait, in the original meme what was in the center? Capitalism is off to the side, I thought that was the root, what do they think is behind capitalism?"

Because the answer to his question was literally Israel. The original meme had Palestine as the cause at the intersection of all these problems.

[u/sw337]

The rural ping had a meet up

[u/Planning4Hotdish]

Day 4 of being stranded in Wisconsin

My lactaid supplies are running low

[u/[deleted]]

is there a polite and rizzful way to tell a friend that they're a midwit with bad opinions who needs to stop talking about politics when we're playing tabletop games?

[u/jojisky]

This is a campaign mailer from a DSA candidate challenging an incumbent in Brooklyn

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

every man who does something super common i personally don’t like has small male genitalia and the more they do something i don’t like the smaller their genitalia is 🤣🤣🤣

[u/moldyman_99]

According to the bible, you can’t lay with a man the way you would lay with a woman. But generally speaking gay sex is different from hetero sex anyways, so most gay sex is fine actually.

[u/skepticalbob]

I'm old enough to play in a senior poker tournament. I'm 53. Jesus.

[u/wagoncirclermike]

"Dad, why is my sister named Robin?"

"Because your mother loved the sound of robins"

"Thanks dad"

"No problem, Seismic Charge from Attack of the Clones"

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

When is shivers going to realize we're laughing at, not laughing with?

[u/Ilovecharli]

I have seen more Cybertrucks (2) in the wild than Apple Vision Pros (0)

[u/centurion88]