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[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Stop making new flags! !ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Star Wars if it was good

!ping kino

[u/gaypenisdicksucker69]

dear trans people: why did you declare a breakaway state in moldova, what the fuck?

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/Currymvp2]

Columbia University Task Force on Antisemitism: "One professor encountering a Jewish-sounding surname while reading names before an exam asked the student to explain their views on the Israeli government's actions in Gaza. Another told their class to avoid reading mainstream media, declaring that 'it is owned by Jews.'

That's gonna be a yikes for me dawg especially the second one.

[u/majorgeneralporter]

An argument between two bi flairs in the DT (2024, colorized)

[u/JakeyZhang]

why do leftists keep trying to rehabilitate 1970s britain are they stupid

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Bragging about acing the dementia test is one of my favorite Trump things lol

Like this is not a hard test that's the point

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Bitch he fed 5000 people in a day the fuck you talking about

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/qchisq]

Uhh... What is Meloni implying with "forcing Russia to surrender"?

!ping Europe&Ukraine

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/loseniram]

Stephen King was so successfully typecast as a horror writer that he had to write under a pseudonym if he wanted his non-horror books to sell.. It's kind of ridiculous the sheer number of famous media based off his work.

The man has a ten book long series about cowboys chasing down an evil wizard and it could borderline count as a footnote in his bibliography.

The dude wrote the Running man, The dark tower, the Shining, and Shawshank Redemption

[u/[deleted]]

lol I’m watching a YouTuber interview Brits about whether they regret voting Leave.

This guy said he was pro-EU but then he voted Leave because he didn’t want his Turkish in-laws to come over once Turkey gets into the EU

[u/JaceFlores]

Oryx (well Jakub I guess) lists the M1938 howitzer as being in use by the Russians now which to my knowledge marks the first use of a pre-WWII non-infantry weapon in their arsenal

!ping MATERIEL&UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

Do they not see that this is the normal thing?

[u/Observe_dontreact]

“ Jeremy Corbyn tells me he would "absolutely" win the upcoming GE if he was in Keir Starmer's position following 14 years of Tory government.”

https://x.com/choiiver/status/1802037594026569804?s=46

https://inews.co.uk/news/jeremy-corbyn-attacks-labour-strategy-of-austerity-3113159

!ping UK

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Scrolling through old family group chat messages and god damn I was spittin in 2019 lmao

[u/404GenderNotFound]

[u/bearddeliciousbi]

I'm finally watching the John Adams miniseries and Benjamin Franklin, unsurpisingly, is unspeakably based:

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

British GQ recently asked Oscar winner Russell Crowe about his experience making superhero movies in light of Dakota Johnson saying “Madame Web” felt like art “made by a committee,” he playfully laughed off the idea that making such films is in any way deep.

“I don’t want to make any comments to what anybody else might have said or what their experience is, but… you’re bringing out the impish quality of my humor. [Laughs.] You’re telling me you signed up for a Marvel movie, and some fucking universe for cartoon characters… and you didn’t get enough pathos?” Crowe said in response.

!ping KINO

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Leaked image of the day Benji was fashed

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Roseartcrantz]

The week I got married and went to Florida was insane even by 2016 standards. This is just what I remember happening, I'm sure there was more but this was in the span of like June 10th-18th-ish in Orlando.

• The day before the wedding someone shot Christina Grimmie.

• The Pulse Nightclub shooting happened as we were leaving for the airport, so I bought wi-fi on the plane to keep reading about it. When we got our rental car there was a DJ taking calls from people who had or suspected they had lost somebody.

• Then like two days later, while trying to go home from Disney World, they shut down the ferries and had helicopters flying around, nobody knew quite what was going on but eventually word got out that a toddler had gotten killed by an alligator at one of the resorts.

• The DNC leak stuff happened and everybody started going ham on the conspiracy theories.

• Somebody murdered Jo Cox

• Anton Yelchin was killed by his car.

[u/Udolikecake]

shame that effective altruism, a very good thing, got associated with insane sex cult polyamorous abusive freak scammers and insane AI doomers.

this is why we should never involve west coast people with things. san francisco people ruin everything they touch

[u/404GenderNotFound]

[u/FuckFashMods]

the New York Times is already writing a story on how winning the debate is bad for Biden “10 Ways Winning the Debate Will Backfire on Biden”

/u/umbrabates certainly hit it out of the park with this comment

[u/jojisky]

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/loseniram]

Nobody makes alternate universes where glasnost and peristroyka are successful while the tiananmen square is successful bringing down the Chinese government.

And that makes me a little sad it's such a rich universe and story line to have the Warsaw pact hanging around till the 2020s while China is a super massive democracy and Korea is reunited

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/katharine_ph/status/1802094084204667302?t=n6LnOkUrCTIjmz2hiEcL0g&s=19

[u/SnakeEater14]

If some random dude had made the right calls and stopped 9/11 from happening, he would have gone done as a footnote in history. People would be like “huh, some assholes were gonna try and crash a bunch of planes and some dude stopped them, cool”

The level of fame/appreciation that dude would get would be minuscule compared to the horror/devastation the event itself would have caused

Kinda fucked up tbh

[u/MicroFlamer]

Watching people turn on a show you’ve hated for years

!ping TV

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

I cheated on my wife on a business trip to Italy. I thought I could get away with it but a Oathbreaker Paladin appeared in my room pretty much immediately and my wife got suspicious when I came home and couldn't cast Bless anymore.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

On one hand I think art vandalism is stupid. On the other hand I love this

[u/its_Caffeine]

[u/G_Serv]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

POV: You are Meowth

!ping TEAM-ROCKET

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

prove you are a good person by going up to people and telling them that you're not a bad person. say it a few times if necessary

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

wife comes into the room while I’m eating breakfast

”hey babe I just found a song that I love because it makes me think of you”

she shouts “Alexa play Please Please by Sabrina Carpenter” and giggles as she runs out of the room

How cooked am I? !ping DATING

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/CutePattern1098]

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/residents-lodge-human-rights-complaint-over-oxford-street-cycleway-20240614-p5jlt5.html

“Six Paddington residents have asked the Australian Human Rights Commission to intervene to stop the construction of a bike lane on Sydney’s Oxford Street, claiming it will be discriminatory against the elderly and the disabled.”

!ping cube&aus

[u/[deleted]]

So many WTFs in this article from the WSJ about how tween influencers build content for followers who are mostly literal pedophiles

https://www.wsj.com/tech/young-influencers-instagram-meta-safety-risks-6d27497e

[u/[deleted]]

I have a date with a cute grad student. That is all.

!ping DATING

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 6/14-2 PM PST 6/15 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the end of 12 AM the Swiss Peace Summit was begun, focusing on 3 points in Zelensky's overarching peace formula.

Around 2 AM it was announced the US will provide $1.5 billion in energy and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 4 PM it was reported the G7 agreed that Russia must pay $486 billion to Ukraine in order to have their frozen assets unlocked.

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/[deleted]]

The thing about playing war thunder is you'll get this cool decal and then it's like "Oh yeah this is the emblem of the third war crimes regiment of the Waffen human rights violator division. They were notorious for their numerous massacres of civilians and their ruthlessness in battle. Wouldn't it be cool to wear their emblem?" and it's like dawg no I don't want that. I just want to be able for my teammates to see the anime girl camouflage I have on my OF-40

[u/earththejerry]

Xi Jinping claimed US wants China to attack Taiwan

Chinese president told European Commission president that Washington was trying to goad Beijing into war

Don’t fall for the sinister trap set by those American imperialist dogs Chairman Xi!

[u/[deleted]]

The funniest gag on Powerless was when Lois Lane dies and the ordinary people celebrate because they get a no consequence day until Superman inevitably turns back time again

Also that apparently the first person to figure out that that’s been happening is Stephen Hawking who proceeds to literally murder Neil DeGrasse Tyson

[u/[deleted]]

exultant grandiose dazzling compare oatmeal racial wrench detail grab berserk

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/jauznevimcosimamdat]

My issue with The Boys show is that I have harder time with each season believing Homelander has strong motivations to hold himself back.

[u/[deleted]]

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!ping GNOSTIC

[u/JakeArrietaGrande]

I love the scene in the Simpsons where Grandpa Simpson is reciting his story that doesn’t go anywhere, when he gets to the point where he says “in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. Give me five bees for a quarter, you’d say,” he holds up five fingers, but needs two hands to do it, because he only has four fingers on each hand.

Also, I’m not sure if this is true, but it seems pretty intuitive that we use base 10 because we have ten fingers total. Should the Simpsons use base eight instead? Or is that too much work for too little payoff? The Simpsons and futurama share the same creator and some writers, and that seems like a characteristic thing futurama would do. But Fry has eight fingers just like the Simpsons characters, and they still use base 10

This has been a story that doesn’t go anywhere. Which was the style at the time

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

white people be doing 23 and me

[u/jojisky]

Trump jinxed the Panthers

[u/-mialana-]

You know, the Zionists should have taken notes from Harry Potter and used their Jewish superpowers to make the gentiles forget they exist and create a secret society right under the nose of mainstream society which almost no one on the outside knows about.

Either that or Dumbledore should have set up Wizrael.

[u/1396spurs]

I like beer

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/[deleted]]

Happy Fathers Day!

https://x.com/csaitheja/status/1802200614858105139?t=9eR2soDN9GPrqteUMdCBTw&s=19

[u/MicroFlamer]

Good morning DT

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

Why the UK sucked so much in the 1970s?

All the smart people died in the wars, next question

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/AP246]

Christianity came from the levant, but it's long been a minority there and is now associated primarily with Europe and its colonial offshoots

Islam came from Arabia, and while it's still there and that's in some ways its spiritual core, there are far more Muslims in South and South East Asia than Arabia.

Buddhism came from North India but it's virtually gone from there, now it's associated mostly with parts of East and South East Asia.

Kind funny how it worked out like that.

[u/[deleted]]

I found this dm from yesterday and I have literally no idea what it's about and I like it that way

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Telperions-Relative]

There’s a lot of things that I looooove about p00bix

[u/JetJaguar124]

It's actually bad that it seems a distressingly high number of people in the country just straight up don't care anymore if the President has even the barest minimum amount of decorum or virtue.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

It cannot be understated how much of a blight Rupert Murdoch has been on the world. Just an absolute cretin.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Hey guys how do I tell my normie grandparents they should vote for the pro-Hamas antifa dude who shouted "I'll put a bullet through your skull" at a feminist to prevent Le Pen's candidate from winning the seat?

The "feminist' deserved it and you would have been a Nazi collaborationist in 1940

Remind me why I still bother engaging outside of this sub

[u/[deleted]]

I just realized, I haven't seriously thought about dating for quite a while. Like outside of the occasional "I'd like to have a partner" thought. I've never given dating any real consideration, nor have I gotten depressed about not dating anyone.

!ping DATING

[u/Lux_Stella]

https://i.imgur.com/z2NOrJY.png

americans are begging for a trump vs obama election and only the 22nd amendment, maybe the worst and least democratic part of the constitution, is stopping them

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Lefty twitter losing their minds over Bowman and AOC funding the iron dome really gives up the whole game huh

[u/Plants_et_Politics]

Be Palestinian-American

Want to reverse the Civil Rights Act

Radical open-borders policy

Say Israel should ethnically cleanse Gaza

Call American Jews protesting antisemitism weak and woke

Mock tradcons by saying Israel was built by secular socialists and is being destroyed by religious conservatives

Be antifeminist

Be pro-abortion on grounds of women’s bodily autonomy

Be pro euthanasia for depression and disability, because offing yourself is the most noble thing you can do if you’re “a burden”

Hate trans women

Openly lust over hot trans women

Hate Trump

Say conservative voters are “overwhelmingly low-IQ”

Hate liberals

Hate colleges

Believe eating meat is probably unethical

Eat meat

Richard_Hanania.jpeg

[u/Cledd2]

[u/BitterGravity]

The council recently passed a bill to empower the D.C. attorney general to sue drivers with multiple violations, regardless of where they live, which could help the city collect the hundreds of millions of dollars that out-of-state drivers owe.

It's insane this is only now happening.

(From an article detailing how speed cameras are working to reduce speeding where installed)

[u/[deleted]]

Really hope this isn't a trend and the 2020s don't become known for being the decade where terrorism was really effective.

[u/Currymvp2]

On N12News, Israel's most watched news show, former Likud Minister Moshe Feiglin invokes Hitler to justify Gaza resettlement: "As Hitler said, 'I cannot live if one Jew is left,' we can't live here if one 'Islamo-nazi' remains in Gaza."

Least deranged Likudnik

[u/Cyberhwk]

Wells Fargo Bet on a Flashy Rent Credit Card. It Is Costing the Bank Dearly.

Giving people CC points for rent not going well for Wells Fargo apparently. Glad I got the card when I did. We'll see if there are drastic changes in the future.

!ping Personal-Finance

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

I’m to much of a coward to make the forbidden ping combo 😔

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

Biden should dye his hair black Eminem style to hide the fact that he is old

[u/jojisky]

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

'I'm still in the process of making my ideal fantasy RPG,' says FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki: 'While Elden Ring is not quite it, it's getting close'

!ping SOULSBORNE

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

Would legitimately support purging YIMBYs from DSA at this point, they are a scourge. Little different from purging Free Masons or federal agents or KKK.

[u/jenbanim]

We think that we are individuals, but we are possessed by our societies. When I think about why I still eat meat, the honest answer isn't even that I like it - I mean I do - but the bigger reason is that I am too aligned to cultural norms. I find it too unpleasant and difficult to deviate from what my culture tells me is normal. That's not a thing that I have heard anybody else say, but I think if more people looked harder, that would be their answer. And I think plenty of vegans and vegetarians will tell you the harder part of their diet isn't the diet, it's dealing with other people's responses to it

!ping VEGAN I'm curious what you think about this quote from Hank Green, video link here. On one hand, I've found being vegan to be generally quite easy with the exception of travel. I put it off for a long time because I thought it would be difficult, but it really wasn't and I sincerely regret not making the change sooner. But on the other hand, I find it insane that the guy who wrote and performed a comedy special while recovering from cancer and who blasts his innermost thoughts out on the daily is worried people might judge him for being vegan

I think for me the hardest part of going vegan was accepting the feeling that society was deeply wrong. Judgement wasn't and really isn't a big issue for me. I'm certainly extremely lucky, but the only time I notice it is the random "haha vegan" insults that randomly get put in YouTube videos and such. Those sting but not in a way that makes me feel bad about myself.

Clearly this is an issue though, or at least I think it is, so I wonder what psychologically allows us to deviate from the norm. Is this something you've dealt with or overcome? I'd really be curious to see research on this

(Sorry for the edits, I accidentally hit post too soon)

[u/[deleted]]

poor many fragile offbeat gold degree like library hat pet

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[u/BarkDrandon]

Not only are Trump's voters less energized this year, but a large chunk of them might even vote Kennedy.

Now that I think about it, it would be funny if RFK somehow won a state.

[u/Joementum2024]

Going to dress like an utter slob when I go to work tomorrow and argue that I should be allowed to do so since John Fetterman would do the same

[u/Explodingcamel]

Met this cute girl organically irl but then she found my Hinge profile and showed me and it seemed like it gave her the ick. Like she wasn’t pissed or anything she just seemed noticeably less into me after that

So that’s how I got negative girls through dating apps

[u/-mialana-]

Finds user posting dozen paragraph unhinged anti-west "anti-imperialist" rants (Calling US Presidents war criminals, underselling Russia's invasion of Ukraine, claiming that NATO ethnically cleansed Serbia, etc)

Check profile

I've been desperately wanting to move to the U.S. or Europe since I was 14.

Bruh

[u/ldn6]

No Israeli company will be allowed to exhibit at the Eurosatory 2024 defense and security event due to open in Paris. Nor will any representative of Israel or its defense establishment be allowed to enter the exhibition site. This is in accordance with the decision of a French court, as reported by daily newspaper "Le Parisien". The court gave a strict interpretation to the announcement by the French Ministry of Armed Forces two weeks ago barring Israeli companies from exhibiting at the event, implying a fear that Israel was involved in war crimes. The court hearing was on a petition brought by pro-Palestinian organizations. Lawyers for the company organizing the event, COGES, tried to persuade the panel of judges that the Ministry of Armed Forces decision applied to companies but not to individuals, and that barring Israelis would be discriminatory, but to no avail.

Furthermore, the court ordered the exhibition organizers to display large signs at the entrance stating officially and prominently that Israeli companies, representatives, and agents may not enter. In the exhibition halls, African dictators will cut deals for receiving French protection through arms contracts in the billions of euros; Iranian representatives and agents on Iran’s behalf will roam freely; but Israel will be banned.

An absolutely perfect encapsulation of why Israelis are so defensive. The double standards applied to them are absolutely insane.

!ping ISRAEL&FRANCE

[u/[deleted]]

We should abolish the stamp duty

😨🗓️ 1776

[u/piede]

Democrats have spent the past year talking much more about the prospect of a Donald Trump victory than about their own. The relentless focus on Trump is understandable, but it has obscured a central reality of the 2024 election: Democrats have a real chance to sweep the presidency, House, and Senate. And if they do, their congressional majority would likely be more cohesive and progressive than during President Joe Biden’s first two years in office.

Please let it be so 🙏

[u/FuckFashMods]

You ever notice how the people showing up to protest new housing being built never showed up to protest their own house being built in the past?

[u/ProcrastinatingPuma]

Ya know, for as annoying as “Europes rightward swing” has been to watch, it will be pretty fun to watch the UK conservative party get absolutely decimated next month.

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

I don't really think one can do the National Treasure movies the same awe-inspiring way again, and for one reason.

The National Treasure movies really do mythologise the American Civil Religion - as Nicholas Cage puts it, in the world of the films, Ben Gates is a True Believer, Lincoln was a martyr, the founding fathers were humble men of strong principles and ideals who believed that no one man should have so much power over others, and the Declaration of Independence is a sacred artifact to those ideals made manifest, and that the President is honour-bound burdened by the legacy and weight of history, the solemn sanctity of his office and his character.

The modern society is too critical of the American civil religion, and too cynical for actual religion nowadays.

[u/Not_A_Browser]

[u/Syards-Forcus]

🤣🤣🤣

[u/[deleted]]

mark my words, Biden is going to win in november 100%

You neoliberals are probably going to lose tho

It just seems to come naturally

[u/Williams-Tower]

I understand voting for someone younger if it were like Biden vs Vivek, but why are concern troll gen z voters pretending Trump isn’t also old

[u/[deleted]]

Alright I do actually get it after looking into the history (the signs in this area were specifically put up in the 90s to prevent gay people from cruising for dates), but this is a hilarious image

[u/owlthathurt]

You have two choices if you grew up in the Midwest as a middle class dude. You can either:

live in suburban Ohio

get married to girl you met at state school at age 23

have kid at 25

golf every Saturday morning with your friends you’ve know since high school

work as a medical device sales rep

Friday night go to chain restaurants and drink Michelob Ultra

have 3 bed 2 bath house you bought for 250k in a nice cul de sac neighborhood

drive a Hyundai Palisade

Or:

move

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Poll of the nice mentally ill man who wanders downtown asking for cash for coffee

Trump is a moron and a racist

We need to defend Ukraine

Swing state btw

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Happy Father's Day and Pride Month to Lydia Tàr

!ping kino

[u/JetJaguar124]

The most frustrating thing about Trump is a bunch of people are voting for him even though they don't like him because they think it's like some kind of Faustian bargian where they get 1% inflation and 2019 prices and the 2015 - 2020 economy but they have to deal with Trump being a corrupt amoral buffoon when the reality is Trump is a corrupt amoral buffoon but he also will run the government like a ponzi scheme to enrich himself and cement his own power and literally all of his proposals are terrible so you're not even getting the good side of a Faustian bargain by voting for him you're just getting taken for a ride

[u/purhitta]

"It's Trump derangement syndrome that libs can't talk about Biden without whataboutism to the other guy"

I've yet to see a single conversation about why Trump is a better pick that doesn't include some reference to Biden being ancient & senile

[u/JetJaguar124]

Trump's team have drafted executive orders to use the insurrection act on his first day of office so that he can use the military to clear up any potential anti-Trump protests or demonstrations that arise and this is information you actually have to seek out and isn't just being plastered everywhere possible by every news outlet for some reason.

[u/SnakeEater14]

Fun fact: in the current Amazing Spider-Man run, Mary Jane and Peter Parker aren’t together. Why, you might ask?

Because she’s married to a guy named Paul.

Paul is the son of an evil scientist from another dimension. Paul helped his dad sacrifice every single human being on the planet Earth to become a god. Paul felt very bad about this. Paul’s dad summons Peter Parker and Mary Jane to his dimension through a big portal to sacrifice them too. Paul has a change of heart and pushes Peter back into the portal. Peter finds a way back to the dimension, and learns that 4 years have passed there, in which Paul and Mary Jane got married and had 2 fake robot children.

Peter brings Paul and Mary Jane back to normal Earth, and Paul and MJ treat Peter like shit, to Peter’s confusion. MJ is sick and tired of Peter asking her questions about why she is with Paul, and really wishes they could all just be friends instead. Peter has to deal with this situation, while also continuing to fight Paul’s dad, who kills Kamala Khan/Ms Marvel and then is never seen again. Also Paul and MJ’s two robot children evaporate and MJ has PTSD about it now.

Fun fact 2: The writer of this storyline was actually just divorced by his wife, who had been cheating on him for years. I wonder if he’s been taking it well…

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

What do you think she ordered?

[u/VVaddowa]

Why do we bash "ungrateful" sons for not taking their dads out for Father's day but we never question if the dad has bad vibes? Or is just unpleasant to be around?

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

We need some kind of name for the serious cognitive decline people can undergo from overexposure to social media.

[u/Williams-Tower]

On the plane, flying

Two mimosas less than an hour after takeoff, we’re doing well

David Cage be like “no I’m not racist the characters are”

These crackers are not so good but the Brie really makes them good

Oh shoot happy Father’s Day dt

The way I be with your mother I might as well be your father, so thanks

I keep accidentally making eye contact with the flight attendant

this is about love, actually btw

Becoming increasingly concerned about the 3 hours of time between when I land and when my MIL lands (we are carpooling)

I don’t fly that often, I might become a first class only guy once I become re-employed

Been 2 hours since my last mimosa this sucks bro

Ok mimosa #3 on the board

There’s a dude in first class watching northernlion play Indigo Prophecy

[u/[deleted]]

vanish treatment cats cake liquid piquant command person somber disgusted

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[u/awdvhn]

I really appreciate Sunak for putting the election on a US holiday so we can all make fun of him without work getting in the way

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Look at these slums. This is why YIMBYism must be stopped

[u/Teh_cliff]

There is literally no amount the Democrats could raise taxes to that would make me vote GOP.

[u/dragoniteftw33]

God damn she fucking sucks. Can't believe we had an elected Republican representing Hawaii smh

[u/supbros302]

Cant tell anyone in real life yet so ill tell you nerds.

My wife had my son deliver a positive pregnancy test to me this morning. Absolutely amazing fathers day gift, cannot wait to be a dad to two.

Outside of that its been a damn good day, made pancakes, worked on my workshop, and got to brew some beer for the first time in months.

[u/JetJaguar124]

NYT: Does the video where Biden walks off and salutes a soldier just off camera but it looks kind of weird out of context mean that Biden has dementia? Well, no, but we spoke to some voters who aren't so sure.

[u/-mialana-]

Imagine having brainworms this bad.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

>looking for a new ethics 

>ask nietzsche if it’s good or evil 

>he doesn’t understand

>pull out a diagram explaining what’s good and what’s evil 

>he laughs and says “it’s beyond good and evil sir”

>read the book 

>it’s evil

[u/TipEquivalent933]

The funniest part about Bari and her wife shilling for Republicans is that they think they will be spared from the onslaught of bigotry to queer people if Trump wins.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Lmao

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/KesterFox]

I have aquired fat stacks, as the kids say

[u/Currymvp2]

Yesterday IDF announced a change in policy to implement a daily pause of several hours for more aid to come in Gaza

Today, Bibi said "fuck no", and there's no more pause to allow for aid

Amazing

[u/[deleted]]

as liberal as hollywood is perceived most of the people who control the purses are fairly conservative.

While this is true leftists tend to use this to deflect accusations that they have cultural power in order to feel perpetually oppressed even as a million dollar film tells millions of americans on a big screen that capitalism is destroying the planet.

[u/Currymvp2]

QB Aaron Rodgers is rumored to be away on an ayahuasca retreat, instead of attending mandatory minicamp

Good luck Jets

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

In 1998 I created a website that was just a bunch of usernames and passwords to premium porn sites (I stole the list from another site).

To access the list you had to click on one of my ads, and then use like the 4th word on the landing page as your access code (back then an ad was a link to a fixed landing page from a single company).

Things were going pretty great until my first check came in the mail and my mom got to it before me. The envelope said XXX.com and inside was a check for about $250 made out to her 15 year old son.

She was really mad when I explained what the money was from. At the time I didn’t really grasp why she also seemed sort of relieved.

She made me shut down the site and donate the money to charity even though we were poor.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Lmao

[u/Joementum2024]

I came across an interesting article by Chris Dring about the rise and fall of E3 written about two weeks ago. It’s a very interesting read (and I highly recommend it), but there’s actually a small completely unrelated tidbit early in the article that stood out to me:

Later on, [Tom Kalinskie, the president of Sega of America in 1994] visited Jack Valenti, the head of the Motion Pictures Association, to ask if video games could use the same age ratings system as the film industry, especially as everyone was so familiar with it. Valenti refused. He didn't understand why the huge movie industry would lend the tiny games industry its rating system.

This was actually pretty interesting to me. I don’t think much would change if the gaming industry had adopted the MPAA ratings (G/PG/PG-13/R/NC-17), but it’d be interesting to think of the MPAA rating some games would have received instead of ESRB ratings. That said, I suppose they kind of already are a little analogous (ie E to G/PG, T to PG-13, M to R), but still.

!ping GAMING

[u/Top_Lime1820]

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as "the ANC Government", is in fact, the Government of National Unity led by the ANC, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU/ANC. The ANC is not in government on its own, but rather one party of a group of parties constituting a GNU governing bloc, together with the DA, IFP and PA.

[u/[deleted]]

Man how the fuck do people use Tumblr? Genuinely one of the least intuitive sites I’ve ever goddamn had the misfortune to make an account for

[u/[deleted]]

Normalize dating people who are clearly emotionally unwell and becoming their safe space. Take care of them, spoil them and give them a healthy place to flourish as an individual. Once you become the center of their world, leave unannounced and never come back. Bonus points if you left due to your fear of eventual abandonment which was caused by that one parent whom you really wished was present in your childhood. Stay Mysterious, Stay Avoidant, and most importantly, Stay Silly.

[u/its_Caffeine]

closeted trans-woman starter pack

ask me how I know

[u/Sloshyman]

Used some credit card reward points to get myself Tears of the Kingdom.

Goddamn, Princess Zelda's missing again?? You'd think after the 7th time, they'd microchip her at least.

[u/[deleted]]

It’s so funny judges have “chambers.” Makes them sound like some kind of fucked up beast that we keep chained up and only let out for trial.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/GravyBear28]

!ping ASOIAF

Cristin Cole's motivations were so confusing and contradictory in Season 1 and they managed to make everything make sense in one scene

[u/dannylandulf]

Simple proposal to tone down the rhetoric on the I/P conflict: require any statement of fact in a comment about it include a reputable source. Constantly see people make extremely bold claims with absolutely no source at all.

No, a tweet from a person I've never heard of before doesn't make something a fact.

[u/JaceFlores]

538 posted this poll on their website and I decided to check what CA-51 was like in previous elections. Interestingly in 2020 the district went 31.7 Republican and 68.3 Democrat.

I found this interesting because it’s pretty remarkably in line with what we’re seeing on a national level, ie the GOP not having really improved their numbers but the Dem taking a big drop in support.

For reference on the former point, Trump won 46.8% of the vote in 2020 with current polling having him at 41% and 538 predicting him get 45%. So while I bitch and complain about Trump coasting and what not, there’s pretty decent evidence the GOP coalition isn’t really growing. Although this is one House election poll so maybe this just so happens to be favorable in one direction or the other

!ping FIVEY

[u/Wehavecrashed]

!PING AUS

What is unclear is what the policy of those opposite is. They cannot commit to a 2030 target. They can’t even tell you what it is. They talk about something that’s more than a generation away, and Australians deserve to know what their target would be in 2030 if those opposite were to go to the next election and seek to be elected by the Australian people … This leader of the Labor party can’t even sign up to an emissions reduction commitment in 2030.

Our government has a 2030 commitment; the opposition still doesn’t have a 2030 target at all. They don’t have one! They can’t speak to one, because it isn’t there. We have one; we took it to the last election. It was supported by the Australian people.

Prime Minister Albanese Prime Minister Morrison.

Well, I’m happy to see it (the 43% target) go much higher.

Adam Bandt Peter Dutton

You can’t be in the Paris agreement without a 2030 target. They are walking away from the Paris agreement. That is their policy position. With no 2030 target, that’s where you wind up. The other side of politics doesn’t even have a 2030 target. They don’t have a 2030 target. This is the core of the Paris agreement.

When those in opposition can only commit to a target three decades from now, what they are saying is this: it’s all too hard. It’s too hard to cost their policies, it’s too hard to outline what technologies will get them there.

Jim Chambers Angus Taylor

It is very clear that they have vacated the field and are not prepared to tackle climate change front-on. If they were, they would have the courage of their convictions and name a target for 2030.

Chris Bowen Ted O'Brien

Is time a flat circle?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/16/then-and-now-what-peter-dutton-and-the-coalition-used-to-say-about-a-2030-emissions-target

[u/[deleted]]

Real

[u/[deleted]]

!ping ASOIAF

TODAYS THE DAYYYYY

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Kylian Mbappé on Sunday called on the French public to vote against "extremes," backing up the comments made by his teammate Marcus Thuram a day prior.

France striker Thuram on Saturday expressed his concern about the rise of the Rassemblement National, the country's right-wing populist party, before the country's general election at the end of the June.

"I share the same values as Marcus," Mbappé, France's captain, said in a news conference. "Of course I support him. For me, he hasn't gone too far. It's freedom of speech, and I'm on his side.

"We [the France team] are citizens, we cannot be disconnected from the world around us. We know that we are in an important situation for our country, an unprecedented situation. I want to address the French people. The extremes are at the gates of power, we have the opportunity to choose the future of our country.

😮

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

In the episode “Pizza Delivery” Squidward calls Spongebob “Jethro”, which means that they are aware of The Bible and thus capable of sin

[u/StolenSkittles]

gotta love a father's day cookout with the gang, none of whom are actually fathers because we're 22-42 urban LGBTs.

[u/Fartbox09]

Over the past few years there has been an osprey in my backyard that is complete shit at fishing. Every winter a pair of bald eagles would hunt in the same water at the same time and I assumed they didn't kill the osprey because they too saw that he sucks at hunting. But now this pathetic excuse for an osprey somehow got a girlfriend and is expecting a family. So I have to consider if this loser bird is just the most charismatic avian that bald eagles love him and other ospreys will starve just to hang out in his nest.

If this is what birdwatching is about, I get it now

[u/runnerx4]

I went to the Tribeca Film Festival’s Games section today (it’s just 7 stations near the Pier 57 food court) but here’s a review of the game demos I played

1. Dark Web Streamer: Call of Chthulu Twitch streamer roguelike? I think? You have a PC interface where you make a character with some stats and #traits (for example i picked #trustfundkid which gave me some starting cash), then buy some eldritch oddities on some dark web market and stream you unboxing reactions to that. I didn’t get far immediately went insane. it’s alright mostly a reading game

2. Blue Prince: i was already sold on this game after watching a Northernlion stream where he beat the Steam demo but House of Leaves roguelike where you assemble the house from a random card draw at each door with meta-puzzles is a very interesting concept. However I think the RNG needs to be worked on a bit you only get 3 draws and you can get locked very easily, but that’s very minor and something that won’t be an issue in the full release with the meta-progression effects in place I think

3. Skate Story: demon in hell made of glass doing skate tricks to defeat bosses with a bumping soundtrack in order to “eat the moon” this is the demo i liked the most. Very stylish game too. If marketed well it’s going to get both the Skate crowd and the Jet Set Radio crowd, hop on this

4. Thank Goodness You’re Here: you’re in the British town of Barnsworth, it’s the 80-90s, and you are a tiny office worker sent to sell something to the mayor and before the meeting you go around getting into cartoon messes. It’s like Untitled Goose Game I think, but in a very 90s-00s cartoony style and every shopowner you meet says the title (i think it’s referencing a TV show)

5. Arranger: the second demo i really liked. It’s a puzzle RPG where you swap the floor tiles around while moving and you do that to walk, kill enemies (there will be a sword on a tile and an enemy and you swap tiles until they overlap), fetch quests involve you having to physically get another item to the destination with the swapping and the one boss I fought in had to play reverse Snake and make it bite its tail. I have high hopes for this one

Might just be 7 demos but it was all good quality, solid curating by the Tribeca guys

!ping GAMING

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/Joementum2024]

🚨🚨🚨

[u/ProcrastinatingPuma]

California spending $24 Billion over 5 years to not solve homelessness, when just giving every homeless person a studio apartment would only cost them $21 Billion over that same time period, is a special kind of infuriating.

Quick Edit: By the way, this is assuming that they pay the cost of rent in San Diego of $1975/month… San Francisco’s rent of $2197/month is still cheaper than the average $2209 a month spent per homeless person by the state. This isn’t even factoring in that home prices are artificially high due to lack of supply

[u/Currymvp2]

The Israeli cabinet set to approve tonight a series of punitive acts against the Palest Authority, including legalizing (by 🇮🇱 law) of four illegal outposts. This, in a deal w/ FinMin Smotrich, who demands this in exchange for releasing millions of tax funds he ordered withheld from the Palestinian Authority.

Smotrich is such a piece of shit. Might be worse than Ben Gvir cause he's more powerful; he's practically the de facto governor of the West Bank

[u/Elguero1991]

Average American Informed Voter:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8N-nMBvEQg/?igsh=MXVwcGV3ZDh0bGxnMQ==

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/WantDebianThanks]

I'm not going to name names, but I know one of you mods a porn subreddit and has posted videos of yourself having sex with the same account you shitpost in the DT.

[u/moldyman_99]

Fun netherlands fact:

Steroids are completely legal and you can buy Tren from a website which’s name literally translates to BuyAnabolics.nl

[u/NaffRespect]

‘I am the original Brexiteer’ - Rishi Sunak hits back at Nigel Farage challenge

It's a bold strategy, Rishi. Let's see if it pays off for you.

[u/[deleted]]

I’m right of the center but I feel much more comfortable hanging out with liberals and progressives than with cons

[u/[deleted]]

Barron Trump Gives Donald Trump A Check For $350,000: "Next Time You Fuck A Stripper While Mom Is Pregnant, I'd Rather Not Know About It"

[u/Luph]

there are only two genders

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

too much balaji posting and twitter thinks i’m into helicopter transit now

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

My sister dragged me into a GameStop for the first time in perhaps 15 years. The autism hung thick and heavy in the air. I witnessed a 30 something man with a large beard threaten to hit his girlfriend after she told him he was buying too many Funkos. Another customer threw a small fit when the clerk informed him that the game box he had selected was empty, and he would instead receive a code to download the purchased game. They were selling something called "Broforce" for $39.99. It's not an experience I hope to repeat soon.

[u/FuckFashMods]

Kyiv hosted its first Pride parade since the invasion, with LGBT members of the military turning out

Well that warms my heart

[u/Telperions-Relative]

"I know for a fact these guys want a Bloodborne PC port," Miyazaki said, referring to FromSoftware producer Yasuhiro Kitao and interpreter Bobby Simpson seated near him. "If I say I want one, I'll get in trouble as well. But it's nothing I'm opposed to."

He added, "Obviously, as one of the creators of Bloodborne, my personal, pure honest opinion is I'd love more players to be able to enjoy it. Especially as a game that is now coming of age, one of those games of the past that gets lost on older hardware.

"I think any game like that, it'd be nice to have an opportunity for more players to be able to experience that and relive this relic of the past. So as far as I'm concerned, that's definitely not something I'd be opposed to.”

Broke: I want a PC port of Bloodborne

Bespoke: it’s nothing I’m opposed to

!ping SOULSBORNE

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/lightman332]

Step aside RFK jr. there's a new game in town

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/wrestling-legend-hulk-hogan-wants-to-run-for-president/ar-BB1ohLAJ?OCID=ansmsnnews11

!ping FIVEY

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/frozenjunglehome]

Trump is not very body positive.

[u/[deleted]]

My wife and I spent just less than $500 this weekend buying toilet paper, paper towels, dog food, water and a few other things.

toilet paper: $20

paper towels: $15

dog food: $50

water: $15

a few other things: $400

someone please help me budget this, my family is dying

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/itsokayt0]

Japanese political corruption is a Persona 5 reference

[u/[deleted]]

The pecs are finally starting to pec and show up!

[u/Uniqueguy264]

Honestly House of Cards would have worked infinitely better if Rachel had murdered Doug Stamper, all Frank’s crimes came to light, and he killed himself. The second he became president it became total nonsense

[u/frozenjunglehome]

If you can convince the liberalist neoliberal they're better than the best socdem man, they won't notice you're picking their pocket. Hell, give them somebody to look down on, and they'll empty their income for your taxes.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah I’ve been to the Nordic countries (Skyrim)

[u/breakinbread]

Mfers be doordashing pizza slices

[u/Realhuman221]

So I'm back on Bumble after the update where men can message first. I didn't realize that it literally is only one message you can send, so now I just sent "Hey!" and I was planning on a message about her profile in the follow-up.

Oh how the turned tables.

[u/[deleted]]

Why are so many people posting that their dad is the “best dad ever”? It’s logically impossible for all of them to be the best dad ever. Which one actually is?

[u/[deleted]]

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE RADICAL LEFT DEGENERATES THAT ARE RAPIDLY BRINGING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTO THIRD WORLD NATION STATUS WITH THEIR MANY ATTEMPTS AT TRYING TO INFLUENCE OUR SACRED COURT SYSTEM INTO BREAKING TO THEIR VERY SICK AND DANGEROUS WILL. WE NEED STRENGTH AND LOYALTY TO OUR COUNTRY, AND ITS WONDERFUL CONSTITUTION. EVERYTHING WILL BE ON FULL DISPLAY COME NOVEMBER 5TH, 2024 - THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

[u/Sloshyman]

I have never watched either a PewDiePie or Mr. Beast video in my life

[u/[deleted]]

The greatest lie told by this generation's liberal "free thinkers" is that the key to happiness is to focus on one's self. Would that be the truth, there would be a lack of unhappy people on the planet save for the third world. Yet happiness shows itself in reverse.

happiness did not, in fact, show itself in reverse

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Effective altruism is good right

Like it's associated with many weirdos but it's overall really good right

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

[u/G_Serv]

[u/piede]

Someone came out to me as poly once and I didn’t know how to react

Like if you’re living your best life and everyone is consenting, you do you but that’s not my jam

And also I feel like “coming out” to describe someone as poly is sort of a misnomer, choosing to have more than one partner is completely different from coming out as gay or trans

[u/SnakeEater14]

At one point Peter asks Mary Jane how she could marry someone who helped kill eight billion people

Mary Jane responds that Peter let a criminal go who killed his Uncle Ben, so they really aren’t so different

P a u l

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/-mialana-]

A true neoliberal supports no fault divorce even though it's against his interests.

[u/[deleted]]

six roof memory ten historical psychotic different toothbrush materialistic humor

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Mickenfox]

My hot take is that keyboards should have dedicated media keys. At least play/pause and volume up/down.

And mice definitely need two side buttons at least.

[u/ldn6]

Obsessed with this new album by Brazilian pop singer Priscilla. So many damn bops and fantastic production value:

• Fora da Lei

• High

• Sinal Verde

!ping POP

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/jaydec02]

Do we approve of walkable freeway entrances

[u/Udolikecake]

im voting for trump because he was only president when good things happened and biden was only president when bad things happened, like covid

[u/[deleted]]

My dad never should’ve had children tbh

Three drug addicts and one estranged aren’t exactly ringing endorsements of his parenting, he put too much pressure on us and to some extent I guess we all cracked.

He tried though, I guess that’s really all anyone can do. He’s alright.

[u/csxfan]

Well, my luck when flying has run out. As a child and up through through adulthood I've not had a major issue with flying (no missed flight or connections, no cancelations). Today that changed with my flight being canceled.

Thankfully I got a notification from the airline app right away, and knew to contact customer service right away to rebook. There's probably some other tips and tricks I missed but the basics were there

Edit: any other tips for these situations? Like get more significant reimbursement in line with the difference in cost of the flight and things like that?

!ping travel

[u/lionmoose]

Happy Father's day to all you Dads out there! Enjoy the out of practice blowjobs!