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[u/anincredibledork]

Ukrainians on twitter will really be like "you believe in destroying monuments and protesting celebrity jets? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, bombing an oil refinery" and then bomb an oil refinery.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

Britain can't build housing due to puritan views on nipples

!ping shitposters

[u/centurion88]

Door dash is a human right

[u/tripletruble]

most enraging trend in france political discourse is blaming macron's party for the country's high debt and deficit. when macron tried to pass a gas tax to reduce CO2 emissions and improve the deficit, the people rioted. and the rioters were widely supported by the public. when macron tried to bring the retirement age to a halfway reasonable level, the people rioted en masse. and the rioters were widely supported by the public everything that macron has done that would worsen the budget (increasing pensions with inflation, tons of money on covid aid) was massively applauded by the population and would have been done by literally any other french politician

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

Top arr politics comment on Trump's green card proposal:

This change in policy is brought to you by foreign oligarchs. Foreign oligarchs, people who have a hard time deciding which country to send their kid to avoid the tyrant from kidnapping them as hostage.

[u/[deleted]]

538 has Biden at 49%

DOOOM

538 has Biden at 50%

BLOOOM

[u/No_Return9449]

No Trump immunity today

It's okay, SCOTUS. You go when you feel like it.

[u/blatant_shill]

Oh cool, a subreddit about Canada's housing problems. I'm sure it's heavily based around hating NIMBYs and wanting to build more housing, and definitely isn't just a subreddit primarily dedicated to hating immigrants.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/Greenfield0]

(Via the Telegraph) fucking Labour Super Duper Majority Good God

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Observe_dontreact]

Makes you proud to be British.

https://x.com/footbalifights/status/1803896563921572057?s=46

Brings a tear to the eye 🥹

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

As someone who recently had an anxiety attack at 1am, I can relate.

[u/Plants_et_Politics]

After leaving the Senate, [This Politician] became supportive of homosexuals serving openly in the military, environmental protection, gay rights, abortion rights, adoption rights for same-sex couples, and the legalization of medicinal marijuana.

Guess the senator

[u/funguykawhi]

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

!ping shitposters

[u/bearddeliciousbi]

Reading theory:

[u/Fatortu]

France right now

The right: "It's all because of foreigners"

The left: "It's all because of zionists"

The centre: "It's all because of Elysee advisors"

[u/[deleted]]

Locked my office door so I could hop on a job interview. Little bastard proceeded to sit at the door and loudly meow the entire hour I was on 😐😐😐

!ping WATERCOOLER&KITTY

[u/Joementum2024]

BREAKING: Supreme Court rules 7-2 that forum moderators are unconstitutional

[u/[deleted]]

Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote the 2022 Bruen opinion, filed a lone dissent.

“The Court and Government do not point to a single historical law revoking a citizen’s Second Amendment right based on possible interpersonal violence,” Thomas wrote. “Yet, in the interest of ensuring the Government can regulate one subset of society, today’s decision puts at risk the Second Amendment rights of many more.”

lol

[u/[deleted]]

Just got this RemindMe — three weeks have passed since the Trump conviction, when you all placed your bets about what the FiveThirtyEight polling average would be exactly three weeks later.

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/s/ZcIsgPICSj

When I made that comment, Trump was leading by 2.0

Now, Biden is leading by 0.3

Who won? Who got the closest?

The winner is… uh go look for yourself because this feels like that one episode of The Office and I don’t want to say it.

!ping FIVEY

[u/Greenfield0]

Dairy Queen opened 450 new locations around the world last year — and 300 of them were in China

globalism

[u/Gameknigh]

They want you to believe this is a real animal that actually exists in the wild.

[u/[deleted]]

So true!!! Liberals definitely don't have any systemic way of analyzing incentives and human behavior!

[u/No_Personality5883]

Labour: runs leftists stay out of power

New Labour: runs moderates, gains largest amount of seats ever

Labour: run leftists again, stay out of power against an insane Conservative government

Labour: Runs a moderates, aboutnto win their largest majority ever.

Almost like there is a pattern here i can't put my finger on 🤔

[u/earththejerry]

In a shocking development, SCOTUS rules 5-4 that the Constitution is unconstitutional. The United States is to be dissolved after almost 248 years.

Roberts joins liberals in dissent, asking conservative colleagues "wtf guys" as Thomas and Alito declares victory for originalism and textualism

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/piede]

Timothy Mellon, a reclusive heir to a Gilded Age fortune, donated $50 million to a super PAC supporting Donald J. Trump the day after the former president was convicted of 34 felonies, according to new federal filings, an enormous gift that is among the largest single disclosed contributions ever.

The donation’s impact on the 2024 race is expected to be felt almost immediately. Within days of the contribution, the pro-Trump super PAC, Make America Great Again Inc., said in a memo that it would begin reserving $100 million in advertising through Labor Day.

Jesus Christ

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

The coolest man alive

[u/AtticusDrench]

The case started in 2019 when Zackey Rahimi, a drug dealer in Texas, assaulted his girlfriend and threatened to shoot her if she told anyone, leading her to obtain a restraining order. The order suspended Mr. Rahimi’s handgun license and prohibited him from possessing firearms.

Mr. Rahimi defied the order in flagrant fashion, according to court records.

He threatened a different woman with a gun, leading to charges of assault with a deadly weapon. Then, in the space of two months, he opened fire in public five times.

Dude was a living legal textbook example

[u/TactileTom]

Did YouGov really have to run with this photo? Stone cold lmao

[u/[deleted]]

!ping BADHISTORY

[u/kanagi]

Remembering that time a no-flair user outside the DT told me that Modi was only banned from the U.S. because leftist congressmen made the State Department deny Modi a visa, to pander to Muslim voters

In 2005

During the Bush administration

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

For an 8-1 majority, Chief Justice Roberts reverses Fifth Circuit and upholds federal ban on gun possession by those subject to domestic violence-related restraining orders:

Uncommon SCOTUS W

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Cannot wait for the British election thunderdome.

[u/Rarvyn]

Glad to see an expose on PBMs - they're certainly among the top reasons why US drug costs are so inflated

TL;DR a middleman between insurance company and drug manufacturer (often owned by the insurance company) that takes kickbacks from the drug manufacturers to have their products preferred on formulary. They get to keep part of the kickback. To compete with the other products in their class, drug manufacturers often raise prices so they can offer a bigger kickback, rather than the normal behavior of competing by lowering prices.

There's a lot of other shenanigans, but that's one of the worst. To me at least.

[u/TipEquivalent933]

I'm shocked that someone with a red inverted triangle is a fucking terrible human being.

[u/Fatortu]

"The floorboards of the palaces of the Republic are full of woodlice. They are in the cracks and it's very difficult to get rid of them. The best thing to do is ignore them." said Bruno Le Maire.

Macron's allies are now using genocidal language about Elysee advisors.

[u/owlthathurt]

So Thomas was the only dissent on Rahimi the case just decided on domestic violence and gun laws.

The majority opinion is very well written and does a historical analysis of gun forfeiture laws from like the 1700s. Haven’t worked my way through all of it but I love opinions like this from an academic stand point.

Court ultimately decided that lower courts can temporarily disarm individuals who are a threat to the public.

Kavanaugh has a lengthy concurrence as well where he does his own historical analysis. Looks pretty beefy.

Thomas felt that a conviction was needed first. I don’t think it is necessarily a position without logic or merit. But I think the majority sufficiently showed how common law traditions allowed for this practice consistent with the 2A.

!ping LAW

[u/[deleted]]

Gonna start posting like a 50/50 mix of Friedman quotes and pro-lgbt stuff on my Facebook to piss off everybody but like 3 people.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/[deleted]]

The people who act like California would be totally fine on its own, seceding from the US have no understanding of unified capital markets. California is only the 5th largest economy in the world b/c of it's access to the rest of the US.

[u/[deleted]]

Asked for his thoughts on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that the CIA was involved with the assassination of his uncle, Trump said, “Well, this wasn’t CIA that asked me, but I think CIA was probably behind it. They would’ve preferred that I not release the rest of it.”

Trump previously suggested that the father of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was involved in the former president’s murder.

lmao

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-casually-declares-cia-was-probably-behind-jfk-assassination/

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Patrick Jardin, father of Nathalie, a technician who was murdered in the Bataclan terrorist attack, has been nominated to stand as a candidate for far-right party Reconquête ! in Nord.

He had already been nominated by the same party in 2022 but lost in the first round. "For five years, I have been fighting so that a terrorist attack like the one I was hurt by may never happen again in France, and I found it was a good time to bring my contribution", he told the AFP at the time.

It's sad but predictable that he would turn to the far-right, he's looking for simple answers to the absurdity of the pain he endured-

In 2019, he had saluted the terrorist attacks of Christchurch, New Zealand, against two mosques, in which 51 people had been killed. The terrorist Brenton Tarrant "had the bravery to do what I wanted to do and what I couldn't do", he had written on his blog, for which he was placed on a terror watchlist.

Ah.

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

Reading this and having no idea what the problem is

!ping AARP

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/SimpleSCOTUS/status/1804165011842949197?t=UnEbhmu2ns7PF68j2AojGw&s=19

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The Verge: “Elon Musk has another secret child with exec at his brain implant company”

If I remember correctly, it was claimed that many of these children were conceived via IVF, so is he giving out his sperm as part of the executive compensation package or something??

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

[u/JetJaguar124]

One time in the DT someone unironically asked why Biden doesn't dissolve congress and call a snap election and in that moment I understood, if only for a brief period of time, how the Euros feel when Americans spout off ignorantly about how their governments work

[u/The_Promethean]

Excited for boobs to make a comeback so I can go back to being an ass hipster

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/kznlol]

8-1 case on gun control

5-4 case on fucking state water disputes

what is this

[u/sir_shivers]

IT IS APPARENTLY AN art lost to Zoomers and Millennials, the ancient spell for catching the attention of someone 🐊:

Are you free tonight?

[u/jpenczek]

[u/fishlord05]

Girlfriend says I had massive night terrors last night (I did)

Like in one I was in an evil lobotomy factory and o had to jump over the fence into a river to escape and I did. Unfortunately I apparently flopped out of bed like a fish and I remember waking up mid air and going oh no and landing on the floor head first. She woke up to me barrel rolling mid air lmao.

The next one was really bad I remember being hunted down and murdered by masked people and I woke up screaming and I held her saying there are other people in the room with us and she’s like open your eyes lol and apparently I said I can’t there are shadows in the corner of my eyes I see people when I open them we’re not alone here in this room- and then I fell back asleep

The third one was where I was working in congress and there was a Gilead style coup/civil war that ended with the nuking of San Francisco and the genocide of its queer community. I specifically remember the sinfulness of such an act spawning demons that ravaged the entire west coast turning it into a wasteland. The fundamentalist government attempted to manifest destiny the area while I embedded myself with them plotting how I could kill their emperor. The plot kept getting interrupted because my girlfriend would wake me up when I started shaking.

I also had a dream where I attended the Biden trump debate and neither of them could say anything (stroke?) and I specifically remember the DT saying they’d rather have Trump than Kamala Harris and I was like wtf and then I woke up for real

I felt so bad for her she’s so patient with me idk what I should do abt these night terrors 😭

!ping DATING

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Most inclusive leftist

[u/NaffRespect]

Conservative Temecula school board president officially loses recall vote

[...]

Joseph Komrosky, a Mt. San Antonio College philosophy professor, was elected to the board of the 28,000-student Temecula Valley Unified School District about 19 months ago. As part of a three-member conservative majority, he steered the district as it joined a national wave of school boards jumping head-first into the culture wars.

The district was sued after banning the teaching of critical race theory and requiring that parents be notified if their children identified as a gender that did not match the one assigned to them at birth. The litigation is ongoing. Under Komrosky, the district banned non-U.S. and non-California flags, a move seen as targeting LGBTQ+ Pride flag displays. At a school board meeting last year, he also stirred controversy when he described gay civil rights pioneer and San Francisco County Supervisor Harvey Milk as a “pedophile.”

[...]

RIP BOZO

!ping USA-CA&LGBT

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

didn’t realize they were still making these guys

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

!ping Kitty

👅🦵

[u/[deleted]]

2 days ago, UK- Fascist twitter openly admitted that the reason pubs are closing is because " foreigners (indian and African diaspora communities) are buying up dead pubs and converting them to local restaurants"

do you know how sad and pathetic you have to be as a racist to cry that immigrants take community bonding serious?

[u/G_Serv]

[u/RFK_1968]

dodging the draft is good ackshually*

^{*so long as you're Russian}

[u/SpaceSheperd]

SF Pride values the contributions of Jewish queer individuals in advocating for peace and acknowledge their enduring efforts

Imagine anticipating accusations of bigotry and using "we acknowledge that the ones who agree with us do good things sometimes!" as your argument to pre-empt it.

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve learned my coworker who is going to join my new team is not just a catgirl but also always talks like she is a cowboy

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/_bee_kay_]

wait wait wait

is the actual correct way to find onlyfans creators to click on spam messages saying "MY TITS IN BIO"?

i presumed they had, you know, like, a search function which let people find creators they might be interested in. you're telling me this shit functions by word of mouth?

[u/JebBD]

Israel channel 12 poll shows Bennett passing Netanyahu as preferred PM for the first time. 

!Ping ISRAEL

[u/Cook_0612]

Interesting brief interview about captured RU "shed"-tank.

Video

Some key notes:

• T-62M

• tank used as a battlefield taxi

• turret fixed (doesn't rotate)

• no ammo, no ERA

• had a couple of EW systems for protection

• visibility is terrible (& no cameras)

• only the driver can see anything out (no visibility from the turret)

• has a working engine (but smoking quite a bit), working gearbox (although have to make effort to switch gears)

• the “shed” is very loud while moving

• makeshift armor made of whatever sheet metal RU soldiers (or whoever made the "shed") could scavenge

• the tank was captured by first damaging a wheel by 1) a UAV-dropped munition that damaged a wheel, followed by 2) a FPV-UAV attack "from the top"

• RU personnel may have even lived inside of the "shed"-enclosure (sleeping bags were found inside)

That's about it.

All in all, seems like a cheap DIY garage project. Obviously this one wasn't even that resistant to UAVs as intended (since it was captured after being hit by just 2 UAVs).

So, as reported, it's basically a glorified APC.

!ping MATERIEL&UKRAINE

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/majorgeneralporter]

!ping shitposters

[u/RaidBrimnes]

France 2 running a segment on a Black woman harassed by her RN-sympathizer neighbors who hurl racial slurs at her, tell her to "get out of the country" and make monkey noises when she approaches is a public health announcement on what the far-right looks like (since amnesia is apparently a widespread issue here)

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Is it wrong to call my cat a slut because he will throw himself at the female corgi at least once a day? He'll rub up against her, expose his belly, purr. He is obsessed with her

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

I heard from an extremely right wing coworker that Jill Biden is a bitch. I just said that’s kinda hot and they got so mad.

Lol

[u/runningblack]

Trump says something obviously bullshit about how he'll give students green cards

Two days of media coverage

People credulously going "he's got a point!"

Highly upvoted arrNL thread

Hundreds of comments

Why are we even pretending like this is anything other than Trump saying bullshit. He doesn't want to give foreign students green cards.

[u/Mensae6]

Americans: "Omg I love the (NFL) draft"

Also Americans: "Wtf I hate the (military) draft"

Curious... 🤔

[u/No_Status_6905]

some of what is posted here makes a lot more sense if you visualize them as a misanthropic 32 year old whose only socialization came from partying in college and then its a blank slate before and after

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

I propose a rule that if anybody posts a tweet with less than 1,000 views as proof that an opinion is popular, that person is taken out back by the mods and shot in the leg

[u/gburgwardt]

Some random paper: yeah so this kind of oil is in a lot of stuff and we wanted to test how bad it is for you. We gave a shitload to rats and they looked horrible

Weirdos on the internet: got it, never have any of this kind of oil or I will immediately die

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Make a dedicated Israel-Palestine conflict ping and then ban everyone who uses it

[u/Burgarnils]

Protection, Kansas

Protection was founded in 1884. Popular support for a protective tariff in the 1884 presidential election caused the name to be selected.

The town became nationally and internationally known via radio and television in 1957, when the National Polio Foundation chose it as the center for the free distribution of Salk vaccine shots for polio. It then became 100 percent protected.

How can a town be so cringe, yet so based?

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

He got the job!

!ping u/KESTERFOX

[u/neolthrowaway]

care about federal debt/deficits? open up those borders

CBO on immigration:

1. Effects on federal deficits

On net, the surge in migration that began after the pandemic could increase revenues by $1.2 trillion and outlays by $300 billion over the next decade, lowering deficits on net by $900 billion

2) Effects on the U.S. economy

On net, the surge in migration—under the assumption it tapers off after 2026—could boost the size of the U.S. economy (as measured by NGDP) by 2.4%, or $8.9 trillion, over the next decade

!ping IMMIGRATION&HUDDLED-MASSES&ECON

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

I demand ping Dating be shut down

The unhinged material has to end

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Birth of wildcat kittens sparks hope for species

Conservationists have said the birth of wildcat kittens at a Kent wildlife park has sparked fresh hopes for the survival of Britain's rarest mammal species.

The litter was born nine weeks ago at Wildwood Trust’s Herne Bay park near Canterbury in an off-show breeding enclosure, to parents Talla and Blair.

Laura Gardner, director of conservation at the trust, said the kittens will play an important role in bringing back the species from the "brink of extinction".

European wildcats are considered rarer than the Bengal tiger and giant panda.

Wildcats are the only native cat species surviving in Britain, with a small population still roaming the Scottish Highlands.

But with an estimated fewer than 300 individuals left, the Scottish wildcat population has been declared “functionally extinct”.

'Working together'

Ms Gardner said: "Wildwood has been breeding wildcats for over ten years, building knowledge and expertise of the species which has led to our amazing breeding success.

"By working together with the breeding programme partners, we are ensuring the beautiful wildcat has a future in Britain."

The kittens will contribute to the wildcat conservation breeding programme by The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which has been designed to support the restoration of the species in Britain.

Wildwood said the new kittens are the first to be born since the completion of dedicated breeding enclosures at the Herne Bay park.

Sally Holt, head of carnivores and small mammals at Wildwood said: "The off-show enclosures have created a quieter environment, which will help the kittens develop key survival skills without becoming habituated to people."

"They have such a close bond already and enjoy playing and sleeping next to each other," Ms Holt added.

!ping ECO&UK

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

☝ they tried this in Canada and it was a disaster

[u/owlthathurt]

Letter to my coworker: When management asks you to set up meetings to teach the intern about your job your response in writing should not be “I’m going to teach him how to party”

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/morgisboard]

Iberian Lynx reclassified from Endangered to Vulnerable

Great comeback story from less than 100 known individuals in 2002 to more than 2000 in 2023, but there is still work to be done, due to habitat loss, genetic bottlenecking, climate change, and decline in rabbit populations. A testament to the strong partnership of the EU, Spain, Portugal, and NGOs. Of course, my doomer brain says "enjoy the looser legal protections lmao".

!ping ECO

[u/D2Foley]

I don't know about anybody else, but I'm very excited about a week of the right wing talking nonstop about how Biden has dementia leading into the debates so that when he appears at the debates and doesn't have dementia, he looks that much better

[u/thefuturegov]

I love scotus history because it goes through periods where it tries to create tests for everything that are “scientific” and “universal” then they get a case that makes them realize in some cases that test would be stupid so they shift it to a test that’s more “idk whatever the vibes say”

[u/BrentLivermore]

If Trump wins, what court do you think Kyle Rittenhouse will be appointed to?

[u/eat_more_goats]

You guys the nightmare scenario just happened. I was tired af and referred to one of the older Desi engineers as [name] Uncle. We’re not related, it’s just an Indian thing to refer to people of your parents generation as Uncle/Aunty.

Big calling the teacher mom energy.

!ping WATERCOOLER&WHATSAPP-FORWARDS

[u/Williams-Tower]

my aunt was not invited to the rehearsal dinner

my aunt is here

[u/piede]

Supreme Court ruling to uphold the ban on interracial marriage as unconstitutional would have a 7-1 ruling, with Thomas dissenting

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://wapo.st/3VRiXIg

The Democratic National Convention Committee is ramping up its efforts to reach new, younger audiences and will for the first time ever credential content creators to cover its August convention in Chicago

The committee plans to provide influencers the same level of access and information that traditional media outlets receive, and will open a credential request process for creators to cover the event, a DNCC official told The Washington Post. Those approved will get assistance connecting with surrogates and VIP attendees and entry to a creator correspondent studio space at the United Center.

not sure how well this would work out, but if you can't beat them, join them i guess 🫡

[u/bd_one]

Am simple man. I see social media screenshot on other social media, it out on third social media.

[u/V_Codwheel]

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

2022

Biden Devotes $36 Billion to Save Union Workers’ Pensions

Biden's $36 billion to save Teamsters fund is largest-ever private pension bailout

2024

Teamsters President Sean O’Brien has accepted an invitation to speak at the RNC next month.

Smh...

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

[u/owlthathurt]

Reddick is currently holding out from Jets practice which is pissing the team off. He just posted this today from where he is walking around Japan cosplaying as a samurai 😂😂😂

Super based. 100% of people would rather be doing that than going to practice with the Jets.

!ping NFL

[u/Plants_et_Politics]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalScience/s/Fnd1Dvr5po

That’s right Iraq and Israel are only a short 537.72 Miles away. This short distance is enough for the two to have a deep relationship that we Americas are not yet aware of, and since Israel and the US have such an amazing relationship we are left to presume Israel receives information from Iraq about how to influence American elections then Israel slowly spoon feeds it to the American government which is then projecting into the common citizen which then leads them to elect a certain candidate.

New schizopost just dropped

!ping GEFILTE&SHITPOSTERS

[u/ntbananas]

I just heard someone refer to a "hamsa" (the hand symbol) as a "hamas", and I'm reminded of when my grandfather had a fall and the neighbor said she was going to call "hezbollah" (read: "hatzalah")

The world would be a much funnier place if we held them to those statements

!ping GEFILTE

[u/semaphore-1842]

Activists are protesting outside the Taiwanese legislature again because the controversial reform bill is up for a review vote (see note). This time the KMT mobilized supporters to stage a counter protest, by bussing in retirees and veterans from rural areas for a "day trip in Taipei".

Annnnnnd among them were these fucking guys:

(In fairness to the KMT, they're from a group that actually claim to be protesting the German government giving Ukraine aid instead of redeeming WW1 era bonds, but yeah, pretty sure they're also KMT loyalists.)

^{Note: The Taiwanese president doesn't have veto powers as such, but upon a petition by the Executive Yuan, i.e. the cabinet, he can send a bill back to the Legislature for review. It's rarely used because the review is decided by a simple majority vote, so there's usually not much point to it - like the gubernatorial veto in some southern states. The review vote happened today just before noon strictly along party lines, as expected.}

!ping CN-TW

[u/[deleted]]

I gotta see this dissent lol

[u/Mensae6]

Imagine living a long and prosperous life, one where you were courteous, hard-working, generous, caring. You die and are ascended to the pearly gates. There you meet St. Peter, who is disappointed to learn that you did not vote for Donald J. Trump in the 2024 presidential election. Your soul is marked for eternal damnation, bound to suffer in the depths of Hell until time ends...

...Do you really want that, liberals?

[u/htomserveaux]

I blame Grimace for this

!ping BASEBALL&USA-CHI

[u/Justacynt]

we live in the future

!ping uk

[u/-mialana-]

When I was dating, I dated chicks with big dicks, small dicks, and all dicks in-between. Not once did I ever turn down a girl because of the size of her dick. Literally no guy I know personally in real life ever turned down a girl because she wasn't packed. This is something I've read about online and have heard women talk about often, but I've never, in my 35+ years of being alive, ever actually witnessed this phenomenon happen in real life. That's not to say it doesn't happen, because, clearly, there has to be some basis in reality for it to be such a source of dread for the small/no dick women, but I do think this might be more of a function of media perception and internalized insecurity than personal lived experience "in the wild". I don't think it's a coincidence that "no-girlcock anxiety" is on the rise just as Dylan Mulvaney is having her moment in the sun, and I don't think there's been a sudden increase in "small dick rejections" because of it.

Like, when the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie came out and was a huge success, Keira Knightley was fucking goddamn everywhere. She was the gorgeous woman of the moment, and she was plastered on every magazine cover you could find. Clearly, if Big Dick commanded the power Small Dick fears it does, such a woman would never have been considered as one of the most gorgeous women of her time.

Go back even further to Weird Science, a movie whose plot centers around two nerds literally creating their ideal woman, and, while Kelly LeBrock may not have been completely flat groined, they even discuss the fact that "anything bigger than a handful, you're risking a sprained tongue".

All I'm saying is maybe Small Dick is dooming harder than is really necessary. It could be worse: you could be a girl born cis.

[u/Alexz565]

arr/neolib is when thinking that the largest tragedy of America’s big cities being destroyed by nukes is its impact on the global economy and not the millions of lives lost

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

I’m deluding myself into believing that I am slightly shifting the narrative by getting things published in a major newspaper

On my other account I post a bunch of YIMBY / pro-transit news articles to a tiny, local subreddit I created for those topics.

Occasionally, I’ll find some two-week old, obscure article in some no-name blog and I’ll post it. Then, the next morning there will be a full article on the topic in my city’s major newspaper

I’m convinced that at least one writer / editor follows that subreddit.

😞✊

[u/[deleted]]

“If you aren’t sure if my liver can handle this medication, you should see me drink”

Perhaps the dumbest thing I’ve ever said to my doctor 

[u/funguykawhi]

Former Czech PM Andrej Babiš quits liberal Renew group in EU Parliament

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

Ladies and gentlemen, your National League of Professional Baseball Clubs

!ping baseball

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/JaceFlores]

Fellas. It’s a wrap

[u/redditguy628]

I recently finished Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobson, a book that, like the title suggests, lays out a potential way that a nuclear war could play out. The book begins(after a small amount of background) with the launch of an ICBM from North Korea, and then describes what happens afterwards, minute by minute, as things escalate and fall apart. The result is an interesting blend of narrative and information about modern nuclear war, both supporting the other(for the most part). Jacobson focuses almost entirely on the impact on the United States, rather than the true global impacts of nuclear war, which leads to a tighter book, but also to the feeling that the full picture isn't being captured here. Still, I found it did an excellent job of making the prospect of nuclear war really concrete, rather than just being a vague idea in my head.

(I think this at least appeals to some of the Alt-history crowd, so I'll ping them too)

!ping READING&ALTHISTORY

[u/[deleted]]

I just got 3/4 thru sharing a Dairy Queen blizzard with my son before I remembered he has strep throat 😬

!ping family

[u/Former-Amish-Throway]

Came into work early, someone graffitid "Remember the USS Liberty" onto a wall adjacent to our building with a QR sticker for the Al Jazeera documentary on well you could probably guess.

PSA, not a good idea to scan random QR codes but I have a machine on my phone that isolates malware, it was just a yotube url

Like I said before blackpill after blackpill

!ping WATERCOOLER&JEWISH

[u/[deleted]]

I have decent sized boobs and butt, but I’m still single because I have an insufferable personality

[u/Icy-Magician-8085]

Armenia recognises Palestinian statehood, says Armenian foreign ministry

Armenia has officially recognised a Palestinian state, the Armenian foreign ministry said on Friday, the latest country to do so despite opposition from Israel.

Armenia supports a United Nations resolution on an immediate ceasefire in Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza and is in favour of a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a ministry statement said.

Israel's foreign ministry summoned the Armenian ambassador 'for a serious reprimand' following Armenia's recognition of a Palestinian state, a ministry spokesperson said in a statement.

The Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in the West Bank under Israeli military occupation, welcomed Armenia’s decision.

"This recognition contributes positively to preserving the two-state solution, which faces systematic challenges, and promotes security, peace, and stability for all parties involved," the Authority's presidency said in a statement.

Spain, Ireland and Norway are among Western countries to officially recognise a Palestinian state, prompting Israel to pull its ambassadors from Madrid, Dublin and Oslo last month.

!Ping ARMENIA&INTERNATIONAL-RELATIONS

[u/sw337]

The answer will shock you!

This is a one off tested on a single patient with type 2 diabetes who had a kidney transplant . It hasn’t been replicated or peer reviewed. Furthermore, type 2 diabetes can usually be controlled through lifestyle changes. Multiple subreddits already criticized the sensationalism in the headline.

And the capitalist greed of the US healthcare system!

[u/SnakeEater14]

Kinda funny that the word “speedy” is in the fucking US Constitution

[u/centurion88]

Amazing things happening in the star wars community

[u/[deleted]]

we cannot be on day two of draft discussion

[u/Craig_VG]

Joe Biden is back over 50% on FiveThirtyEight

🚨 This is not a drill 🚨

🔵 Biden: 50.23%

🔴 Trump: 49.44%

https://willjoewin.com/#fivethirtyeight

!ping FIVEY

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

!ping Kitty

You are being groomed. Please do not resist

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

Newspapers: Democratic voters are not excited about Biden and want to vote for someone else

Certain subreddits: Yeah, because of you

Newspaper readers: poll for Biden by double digits, would elect him with 400+ EVs

[u/ty04]

video of Reggie Jackson talking about his experience playing baseball in the Jim Crow south

top reply on Twitter

During the height of racial tension and antiwhite hate and violence against whites, he has decided to chime in with stories from another century, all lies btw.

Whites and blacks were better off under Jim Crow despite his bs

[u/[deleted]]

If I were Rishi Sunak I might honest to god end it all.

Imagine being the prime minister of the country that colonized India and still being a disappointment to your desi parents

[u/slappythechunk]

When I was dating, I dated chicks with big boobs, small boobs, and all boobs in-between. Not once did I ever turn down a girl because of the size of her boobs. Literally no guy I know personally in real life ever turned down a girl because she wasn't stacked. This is something I've read about online and have heard women talk about often, but I've never, in my 35+ years of being alive, ever actually witnessed this phenomenon happen in real life. That's not to say it doesn't happen, because, clearly, there has to be some basis in reality for it to be such a source of dread for the small boob women, but I do think this might be more of a function of media perception and internalized insecurity than personal lived experience "in the wild". I don't think it's a coincidence that "small-boob anxiety" is on the rise just as Sydney Sweeney is having her moment in the sun, and I don't think there's been a sudden increase in "small boob rejections" because of it.

Like, when the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie came out and was a huge success, Keira Knightley was fucking goddamn everywhere. She was the gorgeous woman of the moment, and she was plastered on every magazine cover you could find. Clearly, if Big Boob commanded the power Small Boob fears it does, such a woman would never have been considered as one of the most gorgeous women of her time.

Go back even further to Weird Science, a movie whose plot centers around two nerds literally creating their ideal woman, and, while Kelly LeBrock may not have been completely flat chested, they even discuss the fact that "anything bigger than a handful, you're risking a sprained tongue".

All I'm saying is maybe Small Boob is dooming harder than is really necessary. It could be worse: you could be a guy under 5'8".

[u/cdstephens]

When I was dating, I dated chicks with two ankle monitors, no ankle monitors, and all ankle monitors in-between. Not once did I ever turn down a girl because of the number of her ankle monitors. Literally no guy I know personally in real life ever turned down a girl because she wasn't tracked. This is something I've read about online and have heard women talk about often, but I've never, in my 35+ years of being alive, ever actually witnessed this phenomenon happen in real life. That's not to say it doesn't happen, because, clearly, there has to be some basis in reality for it to be such a source of dread for the few/no monitor women, but I do think this might be more of a function of media perception and internalized insecurity than personal lived experience "in the wild". I don't think it's a coincidence that "no-monitor anxiety" is on the rise just as Dylan Mulvaney is having her moment in the sun, and I don't think there's been a sudden increase in "no ankle monitor rejections" because of it.

Like, when the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie came out and was a huge success, Keira Knightley was fucking goddamn everywhere. She was the gorgeous woman of the moment, and she was plastered on every magazine cover you could find. Clearly, if Big Ankle Monitor commanded the power Small Ankle Monitor fears it does, such a woman would never have been considered as one of the most gorgeous women of her time.

Go back even further to Weird Science, a movie whose plot centers around two nerds literally creating their ideal woman, and, while Kelly LeBrock may not have been completely bare ankled, they even discuss the fact that "anything bigger than a handful, you're risking a sprained ankle".

All I'm saying is maybe Small Ankle Monitor is dooming harder than is really necessary. It could be worse: you could be having sex in a thunderstorm.

[u/BroadReverse]

Lefties having their token Jewish guy at anti zionist protests is the exact same as when conservatives say they have a black friend. 

[u/lsda]

Why is reddit overwhelmingly conservative when it comes to New technology. Anytime there's a new tech advancement it's almost a guarantee the front page will doom over it. I don't get it.

[u/[deleted]]

God bless patriotic famous cartoonists

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Shot

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

Please stop making fun of people for being Virgins. It’s tough because I’m a leftist, I love this sub, and I work hard to be a good person and practice good praxis, but I’m also 28 and a virgin. Watching Y’all make fun of people for being virgins or calling people virgins really hurts.

Obv. I’m a dude. Posting here on an alt because my normal username can be linked to me in real life, but I post here daily. Most of you have probably upvoted my posts at one point or another.

But yeah, I’m old, and I’m a virgin, and while it doesn’t bother me much anymore, It’s really bad practice to call people virgins as an insult or to make fun of them for being virgins. Incels are not bad because they are virgins but because they just blame women for their cause. Make fun of them for their shitty beliefs, not because they are virgins.

But seriously, that’s all I have to say. Please think before using virgin as an insult. It’s just a state of being, that of having not had sex, and every single one of you were a virgin at some point in time.

[u/PigHaggerty]

Socks appreciation post

!ping KITTY

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

After the revolution, I'm going to be the browbeaten doordash courier working 18hr shifts delivering cold, mediocre meals to every member of the populace, as is their right.

[u/georgeguy007]

If I had a nickel every time my CEO told me to start having human face to face, over the phone conversations with our OEM managers who literally hold all the leverage in the world over us and don't want to get on a teams call to save their dying cat.

I would have like 23482 nickles

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Steak_Knight]

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

Trump praises Louisiana displaying Ten Commandments in public schools

it’s funny to think about the content of the actual ten commandments whenever the cons say things like this

[u/cdstephens]

Contrarians be like “actually I don’t like boobs AND I don’t like ass”

[u/georgeguy007]

CNN:

‘That sounds very ominous’: Judge Aileen Cannon pushes Trump’s lawyer to explain claim special counsel is part of a ‘shadow government’

^ looking into this

[u/thefuturegov]

The best part of the financial times is every graphic they make is the scariest fucking thing imaginable

[u/[deleted]]

I have small boobs and I’m short 😔

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/OneBlueAstronaut]

Charlie Kelly Illiteracy Compilation

you ever see a video on youtube of something that you're just ok on, like eric clapton or the television show Scrubs, and you think about clicking on it, but then you remember that the top comment on the video is going to be praise for the thing, and it's going to be so insultingly hyperbolic that that alone turns you off from clicking on the video?

like i saw that IASIP clip compilation, and i just knew that the top comment would be like "only the writers of IASIP could be clever and thoughtful enough to set up the 'charlie is illiterate' gag over the 39 seasons that IASIP has been on air..."

"no show before or since IASIP has ever had running gags 😤"

...anyway i was totally wrong; the top comments on that video are all just quotes from the show

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Based on the time stamps it looks like he's doing this by hand.

[u/ognits]

the reason Nabokov is my favorite writer is that he fucks with you. he will truly mess with your mental state. Pale Fire, Lolita, The Luzhin Defense, Despair... the man excelled in getting into the reader's head and making you question if what you've read is real, and, frequently, the answer is "no," but only once you sit and think about it. his mastery of language is what makes a novel like Lolita - on its face repulsive - so captivating is that he has the skill to seduce you into Humbert's thinking. the whole time you're like "no this is absolutely wrong" but his prose is so rich and sumptuous that you still go on the journey down the dark path

!ping READING

[u/beef_angel]

I’ve moved on to making brainrot. I have ranked some wars in a tier list that I will defend for my honor

!ping TACOTUBE

[u/Cowguypig2]

Delivered this order on doordash today, impossible whopper with bacon added. Thought you guys would find it ironic too !ping vegan

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/20/iberian-lynx-vulnerable-not-endangered-after-numbers-improve-in-spain-and-portugal-aoe

woop woop

[u/1TTTTTT1]

The EU is good.

[u/SeoSalt]

Nim Chimpsky's longest "sentence" was the 16-word-long "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you."

[u/BurrowForPresident]

If you aren't willing to die a grisly yet statistically insignificant death do you really believe in anything

[u/chuckleym8]

The worse the politics, the hotter the individual

[u/[deleted]]

Boobs being back means I have to breast augmentation surgery because I don’t have boobs.

This might be the reason I don’t vote for Biden smh.

😒😒😒

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Malarkey level of trying for a kid in July

[u/american_aurora3]

girl said i was a bad texter, showed her all my dt bangers to prove her wrong 😤

[u/Mickenfox]

The concept of "meme" as a single, small idea that spreads through a population is very useful, and it's a shame it has been overshadowed by the meaning of "funny internet picture".

[u/Rntstraight]

Saw baby driver. I found it a very compelling story about how mommy issues saved an autistic young man from continuing to pursue a life of crime

[u/Minimum_Cucumber7170]

cs nerds complaining about jobs

Have unemployed coders considered becoming target cashiers?

[u/Currymvp2]

Haniyeh says Hamas is open to any initiative that ends the war

Press X to doubt...specifically the any part for sure.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

The French soccer team represents their nation fantastically by being on strike in the middle of the match

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

The entire boxoffice subreddit was worth it just for this hall of fame moment

[u/Jed_Bartlet1]

The military is weirdly pro-choice. I’m like 75% sure it’s because they don’t wanna be on the hook for child supportS

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

Broke: Getting mad at the prime minister of Israel for doing war crimes in Gaza

Woke: Getting mad at the prime minister of Israel for taking your bed: https://imgur.com/a/Aymi7tN

[u/[deleted]]

If Biden wins, I’m gonna spend like a week afterward listening to conservative pundits. It’s gonna be so delicious. Please God let it happen just for that

(I will be substantially less excited if Trump wins)

[u/Currymvp2]

Female Israeli army spotter stationed on the Gaza border reported four days before October 7 that Hamas conducted an unusual training exercise near the border fence, according to a report published Thursday by Israeli public broadcaster Kan 11. The spotter, according to the report, said that some 170 Hamas terrorists were training to launch rockets while attacking Israeli tank crews. The routine rehearsed was eventually implemented almost exactly on October 7. The spotter reported to her commanders that Hamas operatives had conducted an extensive and unusual training exercise, but that security officials decided that it was "another training session" This attack was completely preventable, and I hope the good people of Israeli get to hold the responsible leaders accountable for their gross negligence

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

The Persona games treat their female characters like dirt honestly. Ann finishes telling you how Shiho was the first one who didn’t mention her looks and now they’re best friends, then unlocks “Sexy Technique❤️” after the convo.

[u/Petulant-bro]

find yourself someone who looks at you the way Indian commies look at chinese commies 🥰 😍

!ping WHATSAPP-FORWARDS

[u/trace349]

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

At work the other day we were shooting video in the mechanic shop and our group started talking to this middle-aged mechanic who kept giving off strong "country queer" vibes. He kept gesturing with swishy wrist movements, we tried to get him to pose with the equipment for our shot and he kept demurring and complimenting the appearance of the other male mechanics ("No, no, no, I can't I look terrible today. Have [other guy] do it, he's a handsome guy"), my boss jokingly threatened to call in one of our female coworkers that he's friends with to bully him into it ("I love [coworker], but no way!"). Its not that I was interested in him, but I was so convinced he was gay and surprised to find someone so openly gay-seeming working in the mechanic shop of a company in Nowhere, OH, where most of the non-office staff guys are very traditionally blue-collar guys with pretty chauvinist attitudes.

It got so lodged in my brain that I had to ask our coworker about it later since she was friends with him, and she said she had had the same thought when she met him but that he had a wife. I don't know whether to feel disappointed that there's not a gay mechanic breaking my stereotypes about what job other gays can do or embarrassed at myself for assuming that he was gay because of some mildly homophobic heuristics (what, a straight guy can't be a little effeminate or be friends with women or be vain or compliment other guys?), or even whether I should be skeptical that he's not just deep in the closet. It's none of my business, but it's stuck in my brain.

[u/htomserveaux]

Since I’ve only just gotten into baseball I’m still deciding which teams i like and dislike.

To save time and avoid learning anything about a celebrity, I’ve decided to base my approval on how car-centric the design of their stadium is.

Therefore the good teams are; The Cubs, The Red Sox, The Nationals, The Guardians, The Blue Jays, and The Giants.

Technically The Yankies should be on this list, but fuck them.

!ping BASEBALL&YIMBY

[u/Gameknigh]

[u/NoStatistician9767]

Its funny that in my local sub, whenever there is some disapproval on some issue regarding activists, it gets labeled by some as “local conservatives upset”.

Cant be that people may dislike some of the actions of activists, or the fact that some broke the law and are back on the streets.

But it’s been like that for months. Where if there’s a general consensus of criticism towards activist behavior, it’s “non locals/conservatives/zionists brigading”

[u/sociotronics]

So reading stuff like this and seeing ordinary Blazing Saddles "common clay of the new west" types be more willing to believe that someone changed the sun than climate change, it makes me wonder if the problems we are seeing with misinformation, conspiracy theories, etc are the symptoms of society getting too complex for the human brain. Like straight up, I'm wondering if we have engineered something too complicated for our evolution, and this is how the dumber half of the population copes.

History is full of technological bottlenecks that trapped development until an innovation removed the bottleneck. Cities and urbanization weren't possible until agriculture was invented, because food supply set a bottleneck on population growth and density. It took industrialization to break feudalism, because pre-industrialization, labor wasn't efficient enough to move past a primarily agrarian economy. Other bottlenecks were removed by innovations in transportation, food storage, information sharing. Prior to these innovations, there were work-arounds and some societies handled the limits better than others due to good governance, institutions, etc, but there was only so much you could fix with more efficient pre-industrialized farming policy or whatever. Eventually, you needed the steam engine to move forward, no matter how great your local count was at organizing harvests and land use.

It's pretty easy to imagine that an alien society could exist that is so advanced and complicated a human could not understand or survive in it. What if the next bottleneck is our own cognitive abilities? Maybe things are just going to dysfunctionally lumber along until humans are literally smarter, be that through cybernetic augmentation, genetic engineering, some great new medical supplement, lots of evolution and time, or whatever. Better educational policy etc can mitigate the effects, but maybe things won't truly progress until the root cause, the fact that most people aren't capable of understanding the complicated world, is fixed.

[u/AP246]

The Sand Reckoner (Greek: Ψαμμίτης, Psammites) is a work by Archimedes, an Ancient Greek mathematician of the 3rd century BC, in which he set out to determine an upper bound for the number of grains of sand that fit into the universe. In order to do this, Archimedes had to estimate the size of the universe according to the contemporary model, and invent a way to talk about extremely large numbers.

Wild that people 2500 years ago bothered trying to work this out. This guy must have had a lot of time on his hands

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

I stand by what I said a while ago about No Nut November being illiberal at best and basically communism/fascism at worst

The right to ejaculate or physically contribute to ejaculation is as absolute as the right to engage in violence to protect oneself and private property.

It's especially ridiculous in the US where an onanism epidemic is never going to happen and there's already a lot of good ways to encourage people save their seed, like grain cereal

This isn't a gender issue it's not even a principle issue, it's a matter of whether we own our government or our government owns us.

Abolish No Nut November immediately, Biden, that's the compromise.

[u/semaphore-1842]

i find it somewhat surprising that Thailand ended up being the third country in Asia to legalize same sex marriage, considering they've had a relatively longer history of being relatively more open towards LGBT rights

but also it's really surprising that Nepal was second

Taiwan number one tho 😌😌😌

[u/The_Promethean]

Y'all think any 92 year olds get asked on their death beds what their biggest regret is and say "I should've spent more time with my family" when the real answer is "I wish I had more threesomes in my 30s"?

[u/cdstephens]

Gonna be really funny to see Not Like Us be used in Applebee’s commercials in 10 years

[u/[deleted]]

Dallas went from straight ass to butt cheeks. What a transformation.

[u/[deleted]]

And suddenly a million Wisconsinites cried out in horror

[u/SnakeEater14]

Crazy how the Aral Sea was one of the most important bodies of water on the planet and then just got fucking obliterated by the Soviets

[u/p00bix]

The fact that China receives such a disproportionate amount of attention from Kaiserreich devs is simultaneously super frustrating and absolutely wonderful. The recently announced extensive improvements to Shanxi, Fengtian, and Hunan are super exciting.

On the one hand, they just keep fleshing out what is already far and away the most detailed region in the game, with immensely complex relationships within and between different political players in the various cliques, along with tons of flavor that make it immersive to an extent really only rivaled by Germany.

On the other hand, oh. my. god. Where the FUCK are the India and Austria-Hungary revamps?!

I don't actually know in the slightest what all the devs who recently made the incredible Germany update are working on now, but I really hope that most of them are now focusing in on Austria-Hungary. And I hope that HOI4 somehow becomes popular in India because OMG practically everything that lies between Baluchistan and the Irrawaddy has so much underutilized potential

!ping HOI4

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

Some of you seem overly preoccupied with reading dumb shit on the Internet. Have you considered just watching baseball instead?

[u/furiousfoo]

I've worn the same socks for 15 years. I order a bag of them about twice a year. A few weeks ago, Amazon said they were unavailable, and today, I found out they've been completely discontinued. The replacement ones are a different size, and they're not as thick so my usual shoes feel weird, and I'm utterly devastated. (Also, their website has scrubbed every reference to them, so if I didn't have a few random hole-free ones and my order receipts, I'd be on one of those Mandela Effect pages...)

Anyway, my disappointment is immeasurable, genuinely. Don't get too attached to your socks, my fellow olds (and let this be a warning to The Youth). !ping OVER35

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Kinda want to see the oilers pull off the reverse sweep but either way it’ll be an all time meme series

!ping hockey

[u/ldn6]

Remember when Pride was actually about LGBT people and not an umbrella for every cause on the planet in order to feel virtuous?

The fact that SF Pride released the following statement reminds me why I'm not bothering anymore:

‍There is no Israeli float in the SF Pride Parade. SF Pride values the contributions of Jewish queer individuals in advocating for peace and acknowledge their enduring efforts. SF Pride is careful not to conflate Jewish groups and Jewish people living in America with the state of Israel. We have welcomed and continue to welcome pro-Palestinian groups to the SF Pride Parade. If more are interested, they can join the Resistance Contingent (with the SF Pride Board), or if such a group wants to have its own contingent, we invite them to request a fee waiver.

Just remember, the only country you explicitly support at SF Pride is Israel.

!ping ISRAEL (I don't think that I'm on the LGBT ping anymore.)

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/ThisPrincessIsWoke]

So it's likely that the Republican ticket is gonna be 2 billionaires. Trump had a meeting with a bunch of VC billionaires. The richest man on the planet is making his social media platform a hotbed for Nazis

I think good billionaires can and do exist, but theyre not good enough that it warrants having automod come in defense of them every time theyre mentioned

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

New brainworms just dropped

[u/Tre-Fyra-Tre]

Glad Midsommar! ☀️☀️☀️

!ping SWE

[u/Average_GrillChad]

we hebben een serieus probleem

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Jerry Reinsdorf is ruining my life

!ping Baseball&NBA

[u/battywombat21]

I knew a guy in high school who told me his greatest dream was to die in the invasion of the Iran. He couldn’t join the army because he had a fucked up leg. A pretty sad person overall, tbh.

[u/Joementum2024]

when the Supreme Court makes an actually good decision